I hate them

It was a hot afternoon.The sudden increase in the temperature reminds me of the predicted 2012 doomsday.May be it has been preponed. We were returning from the exam hall.In the way to our hostel a man approached us and asked for help.When i turned to my friend, i saw a sudden rage on his face. I thought he just wanted to escape the burning heat asap.But then he aggressively asked the man to tell us the problem,it was almost as if he knew what the poor man was going to say. The man told us that he has no money to return to his village and was asking for some money so that he can go home.He sounded true to me.I was about to take out my wallet and hand him some money.Meanwhile my friend kept staring at him with those angry red eyes of his.I wondered if he screwed up his exam or what. Then he shouted at the man accusing him for fooling people and taking advantage.I had no clue.Then my friend told me that few days back he asked for money from him giving the same reason.He gave him money to go home.But there he was again asking for money and again for the same reason.He told me that he felt offended by this.Why do people do things like this? No one is going to trust each other if some bastards like him take advantage of human values.My friend was angry.So was I.He then pushed the man and told him to get out of the campus and not to take advantage of other students.But he stood still.Our words were not bothering him at all.He looked away in search of some other emotional fool.

I hate them.They just kill the little trust people have in others.The little hope of a better tomorrow.What if someone actually needs help ? No one will believe him.Its sad.I hate them.

Voila .....God is here !

Here is a thought. If in the present times, the God himself comes to earth ! ...what would be the worlds reaction to it ? Interesting .....isn't it ?


Well, the first thing that strikes my mind is how will he look like ? Will he look like Morgan Freeman who played him in the movie? :P Or will it be a 'she' ?Let's not get involved in a gender bias ! Will it appear as Jesus or Buddha or Ram or Krishna or Bramha or like the numerous other forms which i didn't mention here ? And moreover, where exactly will it appear or will it be yet another reincarnation in a human form ? If that's the case, which religion will the god opt for for his reincarnation ? These questions will govern how the masses react to it.
When this question of God coming to earth struck me, i was all ....ummm...ammmm.... confused! Ergo i passed it on whenever i found my friends looking for a topic to gossip upon. But they took it rather uninterestingly. Maybe because its totally impractical and illogocal.But most of them had a common opinion assuming it happenes someday;WHO CARES ! Thats exactly what many of them said.

And then it made me ponder on what I think about God. When I was a kid, yeah I used to pray everyday with my mother before going to school. At that time, I just believed what my mom did.I have faith in her. And she had in God! But when I was all grown up and didn't find any answers to my questions about the almighty, I lost it there. And since thenI have seen so much of unfairness and dirt that I don't want to believe that there exists a power so superior and capable of changing the way things are and yet not doing anything. I don't pray anymore. If there exists such a power, it never asked us to pray, it never asked us to follow. Its probably the belief of people or rather the fear of it. Some people do it because they say it makes them happy and fearless. I just don't understand the need for a religion. It does unite a group of people but it also seperates them from thousands of other groups. Why don't we realize that we are all humans and all religions lead to the same. How is it any good if it makes poeple hate each other;kill each other.Why do we need a religion?

Getting back to the homecoming of God. I just can't stop imagining how the papparazi would react to it! God will be the new celebrity ! Newchannels, Interviews, Talkshows and of course Reality TV ! Every Brand would want God to be its ambassdor! Every religion will claim a connection! Lots to choose for the Lord. But unfortunately, only a few will give it a thought. Most of them would dismiss the idea by calling it a fake. People don't have time to discuss something unusual like this. People are so much involved with themselves now, they don't care how this world was created. They don't care if the lord himself shows up. They are just so used to what this world is like. They don't expect a change in the way things have been around.

If God does show up, maybe we will have answers to some questions which are still unanswered by science. Evolution! Heaven and Hell! Souls! Angels! So much still unconquered!
And boy I would love to know about all this before actually experiencing it !

Small Things

Many of us are very fortunate as we never faced a problem in our upbringing.Everything was there.Education,food,home and love.But why do we forget that there are million others who are not.Many of our actions appear small to us.Small things which aren't suppose to make a difference.Well apparently they do.

We are so casual with the way we use electricity.We never make an effort to save it.We have lots of money in our damn pockets to pay the bills for it.In government offices, institutes or hostels people waste resources to the fullest and then curse the way things are around them.Here at kgp, how many of us switch off our computers,lights and fans when we are not in our rooms ? The numbers are shockingly small.And when someone tries to make this point to someone else, the other just rejects the whole thing saying," Why do you care? You aren't the one paying bills around here ! ".Pathetic.People feel its to much for them to switch off the lights every time they go out, but they very much like to do that for the earth hour.Pretending to care.Disgusting.The government is unable to light up the rural areas as all the electrical resources are just enough to suffice the urban population.At least, save some for them.

We like to keep our houses clean.We like our things systematically arranged.But when we go out, we leave our sense of cleanliness and decorum at home.We are messy.We just don't bother anymore."There are people to clean the roads, why should we care? ".Again, pathetic.A typical scene at a railway station; people eating packeted food and throwing away the non-biodegradable polythene bags on the floor when there is a big container just besides them provided by our government stating USE ME ! But all in vain.Its just too much of an effort for people.They are unable to see the bigger picture.They are unable to access the intensity with which these little acts of negligence will hit us back.And that too, very soon.Planet Earth is our home too.Do care about it.

People nowadays are fashion conscious.They believe in brands. They flaunt it. They are willing to spend huge bucks for anything which is made by NIKE or GUCCI or zillion other ones.Just imagine the amount of money spent by the upper and middle class on clothing.Compare it with the money required to provide cloths to the poor who don't even have something to cover their clad bodies.I am not judging.Just making a point.We buy and soon we throw them away so that we can buy them again.And again.And the same goes for many other things.It would do a lot actually if you just throw it at the right place where the one in need can have them.There are many NGO's which do this for us.Is it really too much for you to contact them?

I feel that the culprit is ignorance.It's the root of all this.So if we educated ones can help those in darkness understand, it would surely change they way things are.These are really small things for us.But they do make a difference .And it will surely make this world a better place.

Kal Aaj aur Kal

This one is for our Hall Magazine - ARPIAN 2009


Kal.I can never forget that day.The long wait to know where I was to spend the next three years of my kgp life.The permutations and combination.And there it was.The list.And suddenly it was surrounded by hundreds of anxious and innocent faces.Some already celebrating;some already panicking.It seemed impossible to reach the holy list.But when i did, i was shaking.Eyes so desperate to find those two golden letters besides my name.And there it was.RP.Ecstasy.Soon came to know that none of my friends were going to be with me.Agony.I pulled myself up.Then came the Tea-party.I still can't figure it out why i thought of it as a formal introduction with the loving seniors over a cup of tea.And Oh my god ! I was so wrong.We were made to sit on the footer ground and were faltering to give our amateurish intro's.And out of no where came a huge splash of water that took us all by surprise.We were targeted by a bunch of bucketeers mocking us as if we were lambs.The massacre continued till dusk.

The summer following this seemed short.I came back to our new home.Scared and puzzled seeing a notice asking all the freshers to report in the common room.And there they were.They had a distinct thing in them which separated them from us.The confidence and the composer.They encouraged us to try out in every possible event they were to conduct so that we know ourselves better.I somehow believed every word they said.And today I am glad that I did.And then I did everything, went everywhere and had the best time of my stay in kgp.I learned a lot from them.I came to know what I was good at.They became more than friends to me.We used to hang out with them all the time.Had loads of fun and learned a lot from them.And then came Illumination. joy of being a part of something so amazingly beautiful and so wonderfully golden, created by the combined work of four generations of the hall was just out of the world. And that too , twice ! Although it meant a lot of physical work but doing it together with so many people made it fun.That united the hall in every respect.It was followed by numerous other occasions when we celebrated and cheered together.Aah ! nostalgia.

Aaj.Things have certainly changed. Although the change is not in the way its done;but sadly the way in which the new ones interpret it.People like to pursue affairs which have apparent and immediate benefits. They don't want to socialize when there is nothing at stake for them. The so called hall has become a hostel where our rooms just happened to be next to each other.The joy of living together has become a lost cause.People have other ways now to learn and spend their precious time.And by other ways i mean the zillion new societies and groups.The Socult GC has suffered most, as the hard work behind the performances goes in vain without the support of a hall junta.In sports, the teams will play anyway.In Tech, a group of 10 seems over crowded.It was always the Socult GC which united the hall and thus the other GCs were also encouraged.It brought us all closer.Not anymore.I never thought it would end like this.It's hard to figure out what went wrong or if something went wrong.May be this was destined.May be its the beginning of the end.Damn mortality !

Aur Kal. The future seems so not what i imagined it to be.When we go through a culture and fall in love with it, we wish that it always stays there to touch the lives of others as it did for us.We wish if only others can feel what we felt.If only.I am not complaining about the way things will be in the future. It's just that, it won't be like the good old days.Sadly it may become, just another hostel.I wish things go back to the way they used to be.I wish the spirit resurrects.