Egg Mend

Why should we be away from such a wonderful egg chicken biryani only if the egg is a little broken?? There must a solution to every problem here on earth.

Siva, a good friend suggested to get a feviquick and he would try to mend it somehow. Feviquick wasn't available at the hand, so needed another alternative. Bingo!! We can try cellotape. After all the manufacturers assure a lot about the adhesiveness. It was the time to test the manufacturers word, our intelligence and the eggs luck.  We cut a strip of cellotape and paste it above the hairline break of the shell. For our safety, we put another strip. The egg is set to boil and we wait for the result. Eureka!! Within a couple of minutes our egg is boiled without any disfigurement. Now its time to cook the biryani. 

I can never compromise my delightful lunch just for a simple hairline break. I am sure I won't have to run for the grocery shop again to get another egg after discovering a simple hairline break on one or two off the eggs.

Three Laureate's..

The first days in BIT seemed to go slow, with no new friends and none whom I could call as someone close. Surely destiny wasn't going to be cruel to me. I obviously had to meet a few special people here. As time passed by, I met Satyakam, Sarabjyot and Yashwant. We formed a nice group of four. While me and Sarabjyot always insisted on bunks, movies and house party, Satyakam and Yashwant could barely turn themselves from their motivated minds. Midst of all fun and few group studies our time started to flow great. While Satyakam and Yashwant aimed for distinctions, we both enjoyed passing semesters even with the lowest mark. 

The time came when the lecturers would now divide us and categorize us on the basis of marks. The time wasn't going to be good for Sarabjyot and me. The first internal of the first semester of engineering was ahead. Physics professor Mr. Rangappa had announced that it was must for everyone to get 15 out of 25 and if anyone got any less, things won't be good for him. The test went on and with every attempt to cheat we wrote our tests. After all possible attempts our test didn't go well. Mr. Rangappa announced the results within a day or two. The entire class of 60 made its way above the barrier of 15 except the three of us. Sarabjyot got stuck at 12, Yashwant at 13 and me at 11. Mr. Rangappa made us stand for a few minutes launchers of lectures regarding bright future and established career were fired at us. It was embarrassing just for the first few minutes but later we enjoyed the moment and felt like battle heroes. After all only a few dared to fail their first test of engineering. Later we came to know that Yashwant was not the one as he showed us on that first test, instead he is too good in studies.

This incident even after 40 months remains fresh as if it was just yesterday. Our first semester rocked!!

Doorie-Philia

The album Doorie by Atif Aslam was released in the end days of 2006. I remember it was a revolution on the last few seats of Bus No - 13 (the bus which carried me school for years). Everyone of us used to sing those songs on the way back to home. We appreciated the music and the lyrics. Each of those numbers spoke a thousand hidden words at a moment. Those few numbers somehow managed to build a bridge between our childhood and maturity and we spoke on topics of future, love and a lot more. Prasiddha was most attached with the track 'Yakeen'. I still remember this conversation once-

Prasiddha - Toi Doorie'r kuntu gaan besi bhal pau? (Which track you like the most of the album Doorie?)

Me - Hum Kis Galli jaa rahe hai.. aru tur? (Hum Kis galli Jaa rahe hai.. and yours?)

Prasiddha - Yakeen.. last'or line keita khunibi sun bhal lagibo.. bahut positive end eta diye. (Yakeen.. You must hear the last few lines of the track.. It gives a end on a positive note).

I returned home and heard the track again and again. Prasiddha wasn't wrong. The last few lines gave a positive end to the entire track.

Ab agar tum mile to,

itna yakeen hai,

haans denge hum to,

rona nahi hain..

अब अगर तुम मिले तो इतना यकीन हैं ,

हाँस देंगें हम तो रोना नही हैं । 

After hearing the track numerous times I asked Rakesh the same question.

Me - Oi tur kuntu track bhal lage? (Which track you like the most?)

Rakesh - Title Track tu (The Title track)

Me - Kio? (Why?)

Rakesh - Video tut suwali joni dhunia (The girl in the video is beautiful).

I dared not to ask anymore. His answer was obvious. After all, we can never expect him to change. Our bus and those days of flashback seriously rocked our childhood.

Walk Away..

She rides her journey,

towards orthodox and family,

and he walks away,

towards paradise of solitary..

Stayfree day & night..

Those few nights won't be the same,

crying and curtailing down to pain,

discorded and frustrated alone in the house,

and isolated to stray away in misery,

Will someday these downpours of Orthodox surcease,

and our mother's be granted peace..

Menstruation marks the birth of womanhood in a girl and is called for some abrupt social and physical changes. The characteristics being devastating and  full of pain. The ancient Orthodox Indian culture made these few days of pain even more tiresome by isolating the lady to a corner in the house and with some superstitious belief that she turns to a untouchable withing this period. Today our society may laugh at such rubbish thought's but perhaps this was the phase our grand-mother's had to pass through. 

On a hand we are expecting the feminine society to stand at the same zenith with the masculine society in every sphere and on the other there is still an orthodox society that belief's in such thoughts.

Stayfree now builds this platform to let every woman stand on the same height as that of man. Stayfree let's every girl compete with the rest of the world. And why not? We belong to a land of brave women like Rani Laxmi Bai, Sarojini Naidu and Durga Bhabi. Don't we see that same Sarojini Naidu inside ever girl born in this era? Yes we do.

Even during those day's of discomfort there's Stayfree that allows her to sleep in peace and wake up to stand brave in the rat race. Why should a girl postpone her success because of her menstrual cycle? 

Today she know,

that she won't be alone,

sad and stabbed to solitary,

and no mood offs or any tear,

when today she has a Stayfree,

to keep her forever happy..

I feel that there must be no restriction on expressing my view on this topic, just because I belong to the opposite gender. If I can desire for a woman to understand me, I can also step ahead and understand a woman.

Submitted for the Stayfree Blog Contest.

I express my gratitude to every fellow blogger who did stand up for such a noble cause. Happy Blogging Mates!!

Seeing Modi Ji

Seeing Vajpayee Ji

Modi Ji's Rally was scheduled to be at National Ground, Bengaluru on 28th April 2013. The same day I had a college trip to Mangalore. We were scheduled to leave at 9 PM and Modi Ji's rally was scheduled at 7 PM. I always wanted to see him once and hear him speak. I had already heard him several times over the National TV channel's but never saw him stand in front of my eyes and deliver his speech. I came to know from several friend's and associate's that he was a very determined orator. If needed, I was also ready to debar myself from the Mangalore trip.

I asked Syamanta, a good friend and a determined BJP youth whether he would accompany me to National Ground's. His answer was very obvious. We reached National Basvanagudi (1 KM from National ground) by 7 PM. The traffic jam from there didn't allow any vehicle to rush in towards National Ground. We left the auto and decided to march till National Ground. We had walked only a minute or two, that we heard his voice. We ran that whole road and saw thousand's of Banglorean's walking eagerly to see the national hero. We reached the ground and managed to stand just in front of his dice. I also had a few college friend's there who were also eager to hear his speech. I was astonished to see so many old men and women in their eighties, who were also there among the crowd to see the national leader. He must have something in his action, which attract's such a huge crowd.

It was a moment of lifetime for me to see him once. He was delivering his speech with full pace. He didn't need to boast anything about himself as the entire country knew what he had done till date and that every promise he makes, won't go in vain. I never saw any man with clarity of thought's. I also attended Vajpayee Ji's speech as a kid. Both men are dynamic and aimed towards society welfare with the clear motto of doing something good for our nation. I was flowed by his word's and motivated too. I never saw anyone more deliberate.

Vajpayee Ji had already attracted me towards BJP. After hearing Modi Ji I was sure, to live with BJP and to follow their call of 'COUNTRY FIRST, PARTY NEXT, SELF LAST'. India has only a handful of good leader's now, Modi Ji being on top of them.