INDIA- Slowly becoming NDIA?

I used to draw very good in my childhood. Many a times I enjoyed drawing the map of India, which I knew by heart. I've always thought that even the map of India looked humane, like a man wearing a hat with his right hand on his hip and an extended left arm that offered something(benevolence?) to other nations. Imagine my shock when I came across picture no.3! I felt as if the head I loved had been hacked away! History of India shows that  from a much larger area, India is now reduced to this.

My question is, if other countries (our friendly neighbourhood?!) can break rules and shift LOCs, why does India have to maintain its Ahimsa image and lose itself part by part? What if, even if we don't conquer other countries, regain places which were rightfully ours? Please enlighten me.

The Doorbell (Drabble)

(A drabble is a story with exactly 100 words)

The bell rang. Lazily, I got up from my bed. Covering myself with my nightgown, I went to the door and looked through the peephole. It was Jake, my boyfriend. Strange, I never knew he got up so early. Instinctively, my eyes reached for the mirror. Making sure(?) I was presentable, I opened the door.

"Hey! What a surprise! Come in!"

He didn't. Instead, He stared hard at me. Before I could ask him what was wrong, he brought a knife out of his pocket and slashed my throat!

I woke up from the nightmare, sweating profusely.

The bell rang.

My Ramblings on being a Super Hero!

If I were a superhero... now thats an interesting idea. I've always
wished I'd be a super hero. The one with superpowers like incredible
speed, ability to open any lock, incredible strength(i know, why would
I need an ability to open locks when I have an incredible strength to
break them? silly, yet,thats what I want), flying if you permit,or at
least wall crawling. No webbing though. In my part of the world there
aren't many sky scrapers. Enough of my powers.



I've always wondered how superheroes fight crime. I mean, only if you
know when and where a crime happens, can you fight it. So what am I
supposed to do? Prowl the streets all day and night looking for crime?
And I haven't been in a crime scene. Not even once. If telepathy or
some kind of 'spider sense' helps in finding crime scenes, what will be
the area of coverage? Not to large I suppose, or my head will explode
with an overflow of distress calls. What am I talking? I don't even
know how a crime scene will look like and yet suppose that my quiet
neighborhood is full of crime scenes?! Gotta get real.



So anyways, even if I do find a crime scene by someway or other, how am
I supposed to know what's going on there? I mean, just because a man
gets beaten doesn't mean he's the good guy. For all I know he might
even have killed the attacker's child. What am I supposed to do? Stop
the fight and let the criminal go unpunished? This bothers me always
when I see a superhero movie. Why does a superhero always fight
robberies? Does he do only that or has he had any bitter or rather
embarrassing experiences? I may never know. Unless, I myself become a
super hero. Or rather, if you know me as well as I do, I may,very
likely, turn to a super villain. I don't know what my passions are as a
super villain. I'm yet to decide what crime I might involve myself in.
More training required.



Now about the partner part. Mmmmm, nice to imagine. One gorgeous
looking brainy babe(not as clever as I'm, I mean), coming up! Now if
she's really gorgeous and as brainy I expect her to be, then chances
are, she might not want to become my partner. In that case, I'm sure I
may see what one of my criminal passions is..



Well! Back to reality. Me! Super Hero? Knock it off!

I am wrong, fortunately!!!

I am happy to announce that I am proved wrong regarding the performance of India in olympics. Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar wins the second medal for India. He beat Kazakhstan's Leonid Spiridonov in the men's freestyle wrestling 66kg class in Beijing to clinch the bronze medal.
Though I did not see this match, I did see the boxing match between Jitender Kumar vs Georgy Balakshin. Jitendar lost 11-15 in this well fought match. I was sitting at the edge of the chair watching a boxing game for the first time.
I understand one thing from this. Though one may say that India under performs in Olympics, most of the players give their ultimate for the match they play and one cannot help supporting them during the match and feeling for them if they lose the match. This is very much like cricket, only less, i mean very less, publicised. May be that's the reason they don't perform well. May be we are the reason they're not performing well.

One Gold Medal to fool them all!!!

The country with the largest population with respect to its size has not even a handful of skilled athletes. While losing a medal becomes news in China and USA and many other countries, winning a medal comes as a delight to many and certainly a surprise to all in India. Why is this situation present in India? I truly don't understand. Is Abinav Bhindra's feat one to be proud of or ashamed of? Isn't it shameful to proudly say that India has won a gold medal for the first time in an individual event? Who is to be blamed and what can be done to improve this situation?

SCARY MOVIE 5

This is not a movie... but it is scary alright... Recently, i mean today, i read an article in Aval Vikatan, a tamil weekly, about campus interviews and letters from the company.

According to it, colleges which are not as powerful as anna univ or nit try to suck in students(horse) by showing them the promise of campus placement(carrot.. and a really big one at that), and in order to keep their promises they spend a huge sum of money to bring the companies to the colleges. The companies, though they take handfulls(big hands at that too) of students, prioritize them very below the top colleges. Only wen all the students of the above said (and some unsaid) colleges are recruited do they consider recruiting these lesser beings.
Even when they consider recruiting, the situation at that time plays an important role in cooperation with fate for or against the students.

I just hope we are not one of those lesser beings. Thats y i say,
" Never be happy for getting a letter from the Company unless it is the Call Letter."

Am I back or what.....

Almost a year after the last post... I had to search all my email accounts to find the login info for this blog... Yet.. i'm back... may be for another few weeks... still, i'm back... i'l try to post things daily... since im just chillin out, or trying to.