God's favorite

She prayed to God that it should not rain. She was just able to hold her nerves with the big presentation due today. Nothing was going her way.
The white top she wanted to wear had a big stain at the center. Her car refused to start despite her numerous attempts and she had to walk a quarter mile in her high heels before she got a cab. There could not be a worse day in her life yet. And to add to it, the clouds were forming in the sky.
The clouds were forming in the sky. He prayed to God for it to rain. His kids would starve if his small farm did not get the required rain.
It did not rain. Seems like God also has favorites.

Newton simplified!

First of all, let me confess this. I am not a scientist nor an engineer; heck I did not understand most of physics when I needed to in high school too.

Having that out of our way now, let me explain to you about how I understand Newton's law of motion.

First law: When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest unless acted upon by an external force.

The object is me. On a Sunday. On my couch. I will remain in Inertia (constant state of rest) unless acted upon by an external force; which is my family ofcourse.
The external force can be verbal:
Get up and take a bath you Ogre
Go and get those chips yourself
No I am not going to pass the remote
Or Non-verbal:
Switching of the fan
Taking away the tv remote
Cleaning the fan in the room so that dust floats around like snowflakes on your head

Second law: F=ma. The vector sum of the forces F on an object is equal to the mass m of that object multiplied by the acceleration vector a of the object. (F/m=a)

A Maruti 800 has very less weight as compared to others; so does the 185 year old gentleman driving the car. Thus; the force required by him to gain the acceleration necessary in first lane is too much. Beyond capabalities of his car or him.
Yet he refuses to move out of the lane which requires a different experiment and law to understand.
Adding external Force to this by honking like a maniac from behind may increase the acceleration.

Third law: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.

This is precisely proven in a Mumbai local train. Every verbal abuse you give is met by an equal abuse by the opposite party. Similarly, every push you give, every nudge, will be met by equal and definitely opposite force.

That was a quick science lesson for you. Do let me know if you wish to learn any other complicated Science Voodoo stuff.

Tuesday Blues

My phone rang the fifth time. I answered it this time.
"Where the hell are you?", yelled my boss on the other side.
"At home", I said calmly.
"And why are you not in office?", he was at the verge of explosion.
"I'm boycotting Mondays", I said as assertively as possible.
"That's ridiculous", he snapped, "You can't do that".
"But I can and I am doing it!", I said half mockingly.
He disconnected the phone without further argument. The news spread in the office. People first joked, then thought and then agreed. The idea spread. People stayed home. In our small way, we succeeded in boycotting Mondays.
Now I feel bad for Monday. Today is Tuesday morning and I am having Tuesday blues. I realized it was never Monday's fault.

Superpower

There I was; tied; unable to breakfree. I could not rescue myself despite all the efforts. The pain was killing me, slowly but surely. I had absolutely no idea on how will I survive. The bondages were too strong; I was too weak.
Then a tear fell from my eye, followed by another and another and another. The ropes holding me down started burning. I cried, weeped, wailed. The ropes snapped and I was free.
I learned crying was my superpower, it could free me whenever I wanted.

Living with Hope

There she was, lying alone on the government hospital bed. The past few months flashed by in her memory like a movie show. The romance, the false promises, the moment of weakness, the denial and the loneliness. Some thought it was a very brave decision for her to go through this all on her own; others thought she was ruining her life. Her family did not have any opinion on this; nor did they want to have anything to do with her. Indifference, they say, is the worst form of rejection.
And he? He was just looking for some fun. "A baby? Are you out of your mind? You are not even my type", he said.
The emotional turmoil and mental depression was taking over her again. She felt as if the easiest way to get over this was to embrace death.
The voice suddenly broke her thoughts. "What will you name her?", said the nurse.
"Hope", she said.

Monday Blues

He crashed himself on the sofa in his shorts with his bowl of cereals. Without turning to his side; he let his hand fall on the remote to start the Tom & Jerry morning show.
Yes, it was a Monday and no, he was not going to take a bath right now. He was free to be lazy on his sofa or to sleep till noon or to watch tv the whole day or to loiter around the city as he pleased.
However; knowing that it was a Monday made him feel captive. All the friends he met on weekend would be back in their offices today. So, it would be no friends and no job again for the entire week. It was not all that appealing to be the only unemployed guy amongst all friends.
He was having Monday blues again.

The reason

She was torn between rationale and emotions; between the heart and the mind.
Maybe her friends were right. He was definitely not a greek god or a hollywood star. Calling him average looking may be a bit generous. And her family members were not wrong in their opinion too. She did earn a lot more than him.
Why did she want to be with him anyways? She could definitely find someone better; more suitable as they put it.
Her thoughts were disturbed by the buzzing sound of her cell phone vibration. She checked the message which had just come in. "I love you :)" - it said.
She smiled and kept the phone back in her purse. She knew exactly why she wanted to be with him.

आज़ाद शहर

इस शहर में भीड़ बहुत है।

इधर उधर घूमते फिरते जाने कितने लोग
यूँही मील जाते है, दौड़ते भागते,
मानो खुदसे ही आगे निकलने की कोशिश में हो
पर फिरभी कभी सुबह की दौड़ के लिए
कोई साथ चाहिए तो साथ नहीं मिलता

बड़ी बड़ी इमारतों में बसते लोग
मानो कई कसबे, कुछ ग़ाव, दो चार मोहल्ले
जोड़ दिए हो साथ में
मगर जाने क्यों यहाँ कोई वक़्त बेवक़्त
यूँही दरवाज़ा खटखटाकर चीनी नहीं मांगता

जब चलते हुए सड़क पर ठेस लग जाती है,
कोई यहाँ हाथ पकड़ कर सड़क किनारे
पेड़ की छाव में बिठाता नहीं
ना ही कोई थोड़ी सी हल्दी ला कर घाव पर
जोर से भीस के दबा देता है
लोग बस गुज़र जाते है पास से

वह चौराहे के पेड़ के नीचे बैठे ताऊ,
वह पड़ोस से चिल्ला कर आवाज़ लगाती मौसी,
वह नुक्कड़ की दूकान वाले चाचा,
वह सारे भैया; सब भौजाई;
यह सब कोई रिश्तो का बंधन नहीं यहाँ;
बड़ा आज़ाद है यह शहर;

कभी कभी अकेलापन लगता है यहाँ;
पर ज्यादातर इस शहर में भीड़ बहुत है।

- प्रियांक शाह

Five conversations on your birthday

If you are young (as young as me atleast :P) and in India, these are five conversations you are bound to come across on your birthday.

- Hi there! Happy Birthday
There will be forgotten friends and aunts and uncles who will ressurrect themselves on your birthday just to wish you. And rest back in oblivion again for the next one year.
Specially with advent of facebook; there would be people you don't know and who don't know you getting happy on your birthday.

- Have a Blast
That's the most common greeting now a days! And it is alright if you are anywhere else in the world but when you are in Mumbai and someone tells you to have a blast, you just imagine an unattended bag in the train going BOOM!!!!
Not a right greeting, is it?

- Where's the party?
This is a mandatory question.
Dude, your birthday was just two days back and there was no party!!! DOESN'T MATTER
Lady, you are somewhere in the iced igloo of Alaska and I am in the tropical desert in India! WHO CARES?
You are the loner who doesn't even like parties. You crib about cooties and too many people when there are 3 people having dinner... NOT VALID POINT
Crux of the matter -》Party to banti hai!!!

- What Plans??!!
That is the next question asked by everyone. And dare you say 'Nothing as such, usual day'...
Their eyes will pop out and they will get breathless; some weak-hearted might even faint. How can you not have special plans on your birthday? It's not like you can make plans on others days too; you can make them only on birthdays, right?

- Deciding your future
This is predominantly done by family members but some friends are also lame enough to be in this clan.
Oh! You are 24; now you should get married; it's about time...
Oh! 28, so planning for a child? It's about time...
If you have any such relatives, next time when it's their birthday, try this!
Oh! 58, have you made your will? It's about time...

Anyways, people are as they are! Can't help it... Waiting for all these conversations to happen once again with me!!

Wasting time

She opened the book with shine in her eyes and excitement in her heart. She chewed the words one by one, relishing their feel on her tongue and their taste in her heart. She plunged into the story and engulfed herself into each character as they came to life in her mind. She was the protagonist at times, fighting off the bandits or the villian plotting against the innocent. She felt the romance developing in the heart of the leading lady and the pain that the kid in the story felt on losing a beloved. She bit her nails on the suspense and a shiver ran down her spine on the cruel climax. She did not just read the book; she lived it.
He went for the movie that was inspired from the same book. Ingenious that he was, he completed the task in two hours as against the week that she took. "Reading is such a waste of time", he said. The taste of popcorn was what lingered in his mouth when he left the cinema hall.

Finding Peace

"Damn", he cursed as the ear-plugs dropped out of his ears. They don't fit too well in my ears, he thought.

The chirping of the birds in the garden he jogged filled the air. It was as if they were all summoning the morning and embracing the first rays with their voices. The sound of laughters of elderly who had gathered for their morning laughter club regime blended well into the affable sounds of the bells on the kids' cycles. There were various "Good Morning"s floating in the air from the other joggers.

He picked up the fallen earplug and thrust it back in his ear to stop the noise around and for some peace while jogging.

Gender Discrimination

"Dekh ke chalo naa, Idiot!!", he yelled at the girl who brushed her shoulder against his on the crowded railway platform. The girl was shocked, people around smirked, some put their finger on the side of their forehead to indicate that he had lost it; loose screw as they say.

Another lady confronted him and asked, "Kya problem hai? bheed me lag jaata hai".   To this he said, "Itni samajh tab kaha jaati hai jab aap kisi ladke ko yehi kehte ho"

A passerby went to the guy and said, "Chhod na bhai, hum ladko ki koi izzat nahi hoti; Izzat to sirf inki hi hoti hai."