RAIN!!!
For the umpteenth time this year there was rain in Hyderabad and yet there was this unbearable humidity and I was wondering why??. Was it the global warming and the artic icecap melting mentioned by a TV channel that was the cause.We've heard of tsunami's, hurricanes, typhoons, every water related disaster over the past few years
As usual Dad was planning for the next travel segment.
Mom suggested i go and get some vegetables for tommorow and some eats for dad's journey.. I should have complained , cribbed but somehow the pouring rain and the intense humidity made me decide to go out. I was planning to take the car and was opening the gates when I saw an old thaatha walking with an unmbrella.The pouring rain was slight drizzle infact and I decided to get an umbrella (If a thaatha (grandpa) could do it so could I reasoned my inane brain)
I walked over to the neighbourhood Trinethra and gave some business to Haldiram.No Indianness here just didnt find Kurkure abs Indian in taste, but owned by an MNC.
Just as I was payin the bill entered a young couple with a baby running into the supermarket along with their kid. The mother holding her baby now just put her for a moment into the cart at the supermarket.Whatever be the reason, whether it was the spokes of the cart or the lack of a comfort from its mother the baby let out a wail and startled most of us inside.I walked out immediately into the now pouring rain thx to the baby's wail.
A bulb from a bandi's (vendor-cart) seemed to throw its light on the raindrops reflected of the road to create the amazing set of diamonds. The bandi was selling hot mirchi's and aloo bondas. The rain and the heavy wind gave me a sufficent excuse to grab a bite of both. As I walked back towards home I saw another family sharing a single umbrella father , mother and son of abt 12 years and walking oblivious to the rain.
The newly formed rivulets and streams flowed as i walked down the slope of the road which leads to my house. I did wish that I could then immediately make those paper boats( the fav pasttime in rainy days during my childhood) and let them navigate along these.
All that was missing in this romantic moment was a gal of my dreams to suddenly appear a la bollywood style.
Well as the romantic in me popped up and the cynic took a backseat ireached tha gate and got drenched a bit b4 i got in.The smell of hot paranthas cooked by mom made me want to eat again but I and the mirchi bajji's in my stomach decided that I would capture this in my blog b4 i am back to my fav pasttime- eating !!
Well here is the post and I hope to hear from some frnds on the comment section on this part of my blog atleast. Lastly thanx for the rain ,I just hope ther is more:-)
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
Lage raho(continue) ya badal dalo(change it)!!
Life is all bout change, its always at a constant state of flux.Thats what makes change so important... Yet somehow the very word change makes one feel nervous. A new place, new person, a new job, a new environment all this at first sounds very uncomfortable.But change is important for growth!!!
Thats y it is always interestin to meet or to read about the harbingers of change. These ppl are internally driven and can motivate a lot of ppl for thier own good. One of my fav books is the biography of Jack Welch also nicknamed Neuton Jack. The man as CEO of GE brought so many changes including axing of ppl which meant they never liked him. Yet 20 years later he is seen as one of the most influential corporate leaders of modern America and now is as famous as the MNC that he once was an employee of.
Two things made me write abt this word in my blog. Personally I might soon move on to something better (hopefully) & two watched a movie called Lage Raho Munnabhai.
Bapu was always an interestin personality to me . I remember an Einstein quote which says that "people centuries later will never blv that a person such as Gandhi could have walked the earth." Respected internationally it is in India that we seem not to like him. Infact for a long time in child hood I would blv that he was the cause of partition...and the cause of our present troubles something which many of my friends continue 2 blv. But this movie and much b4 that a book called Freedom at Midnight made me realize the power of this naked fakir. A man who used just two words satya + agraha to move the colonial empire on which the sun cld never set. Something which most of us blv are just words and not weapons by any cost.Yet these are the words which changed the destiny of half the world and inspired future leaders of today such as Dalai Lama, Nelson MAndela and Desmond Tutu. These are the words which have also drafted the lives of all post- Independent India which includes the you and the me. Change was the last thing he feared and the first thing he wanted.
Today as i encounter my own nervousness and personal demons when there is fear caused by change or ... ,I always say to myself "Dont fear, Lage raho aur badal dalo..." and it has worked from workin in a company in a enviroment where fear pervaded . here am I wanting to change myself not out of fear or by anxiety but so that I cld grow.
As the movie says "Tension nahi lenaka"...
"Lage raho suri bhai ..."
Life is all bout change, its always at a constant state of flux.Thats what makes change so important... Yet somehow the very word change makes one feel nervous. A new place, new person, a new job, a new environment all this at first sounds very uncomfortable.But change is important for growth!!!
Thats y it is always interestin to meet or to read about the harbingers of change. These ppl are internally driven and can motivate a lot of ppl for thier own good. One of my fav books is the biography of Jack Welch also nicknamed Neuton Jack. The man as CEO of GE brought so many changes including axing of ppl which meant they never liked him. Yet 20 years later he is seen as one of the most influential corporate leaders of modern America and now is as famous as the MNC that he once was an employee of.
Two things made me write abt this word in my blog. Personally I might soon move on to something better (hopefully) & two watched a movie called Lage Raho Munnabhai.
Bapu was always an interestin personality to me . I remember an Einstein quote which says that "people centuries later will never blv that a person such as Gandhi could have walked the earth." Respected internationally it is in India that we seem not to like him. Infact for a long time in child hood I would blv that he was the cause of partition...and the cause of our present troubles something which many of my friends continue 2 blv. But this movie and much b4 that a book called Freedom at Midnight made me realize the power of this naked fakir. A man who used just two words satya + agraha to move the colonial empire on which the sun cld never set. Something which most of us blv are just words and not weapons by any cost.Yet these are the words which changed the destiny of half the world and inspired future leaders of today such as Dalai Lama, Nelson MAndela and Desmond Tutu. These are the words which have also drafted the lives of all post- Independent India which includes the you and the me. Change was the last thing he feared and the first thing he wanted.
Today as i encounter my own nervousness and personal demons when there is fear caused by change or ... ,I always say to myself "Dont fear, Lage raho aur badal dalo..." and it has worked from workin in a company in a enviroment where fear pervaded . here am I wanting to change myself not out of fear or by anxiety but so that I cld grow.
As the movie says "Tension nahi lenaka"...
"Lage raho suri bhai ..."
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