The Dream

The single guy is such a demeaning proposition. Unless someone has a “Single now” status a single status especially for a guy is such a troubling state of being. Single as a relationship status means a guy who is currently not involved with anyone from the opposite or his own sex. It pretty much means the same to a girl and the argument may not be largely different but let us concentrate on the trauma of the guy here. Generally guys do not seek a single status. Everybody is born with this status and depending on the age at which the guy becomes cognizant of this fact that he is actually relationshipless he starts bracing up to move away from this status. But here is the trouble. The “what” of the trouble is known, the “why of the issue is also pretty much understood but the “how” of the trouble is a perplexing one because there is not one technique that leads to a relationship. Let’s examine the very natural way of getting into a relationship, love. This is probably defined as the firs...

Yesterday we finished celebrating my dad's Sashtipoorthi. In other words it is the 60th b'day of my father according to the hindu calendar. it becomes significant because the cycle of life is said to have beome complete when a person touches the 60 year mark as he has gone through all stages of life such as bramhacharya, grihastha etc. So it is a commemorate achievement for the individual and I found out that not everybody gets the honor of a celebration of this stature. It is typical of a social gathering where your near and dear, your loved and not so loved ones gather under one roof for about 2 to 3 days and attend numerous pujas and abhishekams amongst continual chanting of the vedas. The event is not short of a wedding and hence it is also called the 60th marriage. These are events that assert our rich tradition, its roots and like some people rave about, our "culture". I am supposed to have co-hosted the event along with my younger brother and got showere...

This can be the best tag line of the second season of the Indian Premier League. The league promises to be an absolute cracker with more teams eyeing the top 4 spots this time round. It is exciting to watch every match where all odds go for a toss and the team standing 6 in the table suddenly jumps to No. 4 by virtue of winning one match. Barring one team every team has come up with a better performance making the league a spectacle where each match whether you are playing it or not becomes important for the teams. Now, my “expert opinions” on the teams. Kolkata Knight Riders: I don’t care if the name was changed. They are still very much Bengali. The trouble is that the coach and his entire fanfare of associate staff don’t seem to realize this. They are a fantastic team on paper ripped apart by politics, overindulgence of the franchise owner and a complete clueless approach to Cricket. The team seems to be struggling on all fronts. The stars with the form, some senior players with...

Dear terrorist, I am a very harmless guy who works in a Company that has its HQ in the UK (not the US). I am a hindu by birth and believe me I had no control over that. Had I known what future had in store for me I would have definitely requested God to send me to a ‘religionless’ home. If you are wondering what I mean by that, then it means I would have requested God to have me born as a tribal in a remote place in Amazon or somewhere in Greenland. Trust me I still have your good interests in my mind. I won’t be a part of any prospering country or a citizen of the country owing much to its history and diversity exercises some amount of tolerance to these activities. Since the innocence in my birth is settled, I would like to clarify another very important aspect. I admire your religion very much. I totally believe in all that is said in the Quran and am ready to agree that it is the greatest religion ever. I am not sure you want people converted into that religion. Because when you...

Every one of us is a painter. Some of us can paint many faces but all of us can definitely paint at least one picture. All of us can most certainly paint one picture. This one picture is of someone stuck in our hearts. Stuck for life. Haven’t all of us been through this moment where we feel life would be perfect if it was with that person? Some of us achieve living a life with them while some of us are left with the picture. God has a plan for all of us, so it is said. While some get what they deserve and some get something equivalent to what they deserve. What if equivalent to what we deserve is not what we want, what we deserve? Even God can’t answer this question. Life indeed is a mockery of many things where simple pursuits require ample efforts and sometimes yield no results. In life I painted too. A picture so beautiful and stuck to it. I stuck so much to it that I got lost in it. I believed in it and forgot that the world outside existed. The seemingly endless joys it bestowed w...

It is important to dream big to achieve something big. I heard this line in a recent interview of Sachin Tendulkar. There is so much power in this statement. That particular dream gave him all the will power to become the most respected sports icon of the country. It’s the dream, a vision that fosters us with a certain scene and people like Sachin dedicate their lives to see that moment become a reality. If you are wondering why am I boring you with such an obvious testimony of a personality that every second Indian adulates, then things are just about to get interesting. I am writing to this to address a certain set of people who don’t have a dream, a la me. I don’t want to be the VP of my Co. 30 yrs down the line. Infact I don’t want to be the VP of any company. I don’t believe in what I am doing. Hence I don’t know what I want. I don’t have any vision of what my future should be like. I don’t aspire to be any one. I would love to see myself being interviewed on TV. But in that progr...