ooppsss Moment on a Foreign Land

'Next time when you look at these posters on road-side, your lips will surely arc upwards into a naughty smile'

 

I parked my car on the road-side near MGF Mall. I don't do it regularly, most of the times I use parking lot of the malls, but that day being a Sunday the parking's were full. So, I parked the car and was moving towards MGF Mall, to get a trouser from Shoppers Stop which I left there a day before for alteration.

Busy on my phone, I was moving fast with my head down.

'Excuse me' A soft voice approached me from behind. A middle-aged man, may be about forty or forty five called me with soft words. From his accent and looks I guessed he belongs to somewhere from middle-east. And there are lot many people who visit Gurgaon for their medical needs, specially to Medanta Medi-city hospital. He might also be one of those.

'Yes please' I turned towards him attentively. Eager to help him in a foreign land, It's really needed, I can tell that from my own experiences.

'err... What is err... this?' He asked even more politely in his broken English. And I looked towards his hand movement.

'It's an advertisement for a PG' I replied on seeing the colored posters pasted on the concrete electric pole.

 

'err... And what is that?'

'Paying Guest' I thought he must have not understood the short form so I elaborated it. But he seems even more confused on my reply.

'Paying guest, If you want to get a room on rent' I told him what a Paying Guest facility means.

'But this err..' He didn't have words to ask, so again he pointed his finger towards the posters.

'Ohhhh, this PG is for girls only. You have to look for some other place for you' I explained him on seeing the 'FOR GIRLS' mark on the poster.

'NO NO NO...' And he shied away.

I asked him what happened, if I can help him in anyway.

'err... That's not err... what I thought' He gave that naughty smile and I was looking at him and then at the advertisement. It took me few seconds to get what he meant and I was like 'Oh Shit....'

I never looked at those advertisements in that way. But now, when I looked at it from his perspective; Those flashy bright color posters marked with mobile numbers and 'GIRLS' in bold letters can imply that only to the foreigners.

After getting his point of interest I explained that poor-fellow that its not legal in India but still you can get it. And you have to either visit GB Road in Delhi or on a safer side you can get that in some of the night clubs here in Gurgaon.

He moved ahead with a thanking nod and a shy smile on his face and I kept standing there staring at those flashy advertisements. 

 

2014 Elections - The Countdown Begins

NaMo NaMo NaMo…. AAP AAP AAP…. Rahul Rahul Rahul…. From last few days during our lunch or Tea Break or Daru party whenever we start a group chat it involuntarily shifts to Politics. Whether a person have ever voted or not, whether he knows the P of politics or not, but he will definitely give his verdict on Next month’s LS elections.

There are NaMo Fans, who don’t want to hear anything against him. Doesn’t matter if they have never been to Gujarat, they never checked the development status of different states, they never checked the secular status of their favorite leader but they definitely want to see him as the next Prime minister of India by just believing on the media hype and the FaceBook presence.

There are people who love Congress for whatever reasons they may have, their secularism funda, countries development in last ten years of UPA government. Those people don’t want to discuss CoalGate, 2G, CWG; they believe corruption is a part of development. They have a valid point, in our country almost everybody is corrupt; everybody is playing its part in making this country the most corrupt country in the world and one day surely they will succeed.

And not to forget, the new kid on the block, the only honest party (as they call themselves). People were crazy for them before the Delhi elections, but the disaster we had in Delhi after just 49 days. People had dreams and hopes on them, they expected a lot from them but it was just a soap bubble.

My dear voters, one person can’t change the country No Modi, No Kejriwal, No Rahul. Don’t vote for the Prime Ministerial Candidate and also not on the name of an individual or on the name of the party. Vote for an honest and hardworking person doesn’t matter to which party he belongs to, doesn’t matter his party gets the majority or not, doesn’t matter he makes a government or sits in opposition. The only thing that matter is the number of honest persons in the parliament. As their number grew, so will the true democracy. We had seen it, as they say Manmohan Singh is honest but can’t do anything because his party men are all corrupt. Same will happen to the development man NaMo and to the only honest man Kejriwal, if rest of the team will not be good. So flush out the criminals, the corrupts, the opportunists (party jumpers); vote for the loyalty, vote for patriotism, vote for integrity, vote to fill the parliament with honest people.

Gandhi v/s Hitler

They call him Mahatma, they call him Father of the nation; but I deny.

They call him Cruel, they call him a monster; but I deny.

Why??? Read on...

Hitler’s political birth was on 9^th Nov 1918 when he was re-born as a leader of the masses in a process to unite the German empire and to save it from being torn into pieces when French tried to establish a new estate Rhenada by separating Rhineland from the German Republic. On the other hand our so called Mahatma has divided its own country into pieces, with his own hands.

While Hitler wanted and eventually fought for the union of Catholic German-Austria; Gandhi begged a dominion status for India, which would retain the Monarch of the Britain as the constitutional head of state of India. It was Bhagat Singh who asked for sampoorn swaraj (Total Independence); Subhash Chandra Bose and Jawahar Lal Nehru got influenced and incorporated it in Congress’s agenda, which was strongly objected by Gandhi; but eventually with the growing popularity of Bhagat Singh and Swaraj movement Gandhi has to say yes for Total Independence.

to be continued...

Book Review - I Love the way you Love me

‘I Love the way you love me', debut novel by Lovely Goyal, a tale about teenage romance and its consequences ;)

Lovely Goyal, is a good friend of mine. His name suits him and his love story is like his name only. This is the first book I finished reading within twenty four hours.

It’s a light love story the layers of the characters and the story do not make the book heavy or pseudo intellectual. On the contrary, the language is simple and it starts flowing after the first few pages.

Harshit, the main character of the book; everyone can easily connect to him. As all of us has been through this age and whatever has happens with this character in the book has happened to me and you also. Parent’s pressure for studies, Entrance exams, your first crush ‘that cute girl in your class’ and those nerves of excitement when you fall in love for the first time. What Harshit has done with his IIT-JEE, I had done with my GATE examL; and the whole plot set-up is in my city Patiala so for me it was so easy to correlate with every scene and place of the story.

Lovishka, I loved this name. Moreover, I loved the tender age sweetness of the character. One more character I don’t want to miss here is ‘Sahiba’. Tell me one thing - who didn’t had that bitchy girl in his life ;)

I am totally in love with the book, may be it’s because of Patiala or because of the similarity of the events with my life or may be because Lovely is a lovely friend of mine. But I will say, it’s an easy read, well-planned, nicely narrated, good-paced piece of work which would go down well with the teen-agers of any gender.

INDIA Shinning

This post is not about AAP victory in Delhi or BJP’s victorious run in other state elections. Perhaps it’s about the changing mind set of Indian youth, which I believe is the only mainstay of shining India; neither the Aam Aadmi party nor Narendra Modi. In last twenty four hours I witnessed two such young Indians.

 Today morning, while coming to office, I stopped at traffic signal. Knock at the pillion window glass cut short my revelry of thoughts about my book promotions and marketing strategies. ‘Lift up to Iffcco chowk’ that’s what that young boy about sixteen has asked. And those eight minutes of chit-chat forced me to write this post, which was pending since yesterday’s meeting with another shining youth which I will explain later.

‘Going to College?’ As of my habit I began conversation.

‘No, Job’ too short answer by him. But then he understood my quizzical gaze and went on explaining.

‘My pre-boards has just finished, so I am working as a sales person to earn some pocket money’

I was happily surprised with his answer so quizzed him more. He was regularly working as a salesperson in MGF mall; after school on working days and full day on weekends.

‘My school is teaching only subjects but I am learning the real lessons of life in my job, by mingling with this actual world of work and money’ His inspiring answer to one of my questions. I genuinely admired his hard-work. He stepped out on Ifcco chowk but his thoughts and talks traveled with me till my office.

Yesterday also I met a shinning young Indian when I & Neiha took an auto-rickshaw from sector fourteen to my home. I asked him, if he knows the way to South city-1.

‘I know every place in and around Gurgaon as this is my native place’ and then he continued talking. He told us that he was not good in studies so there were routine arguments between him and his father. And once after fighting with his father he went out and took auto-rickshaw on rent to earn some money for him-self. That day and today, he didn’t look back. Today he owned five autos; four he rented out and one he drive himself, whenever he gets time. He completed his part-time graduation last year and is working with Electricity Board. We were so engrossed in talks that even after reaching our home we waited for long minutes & heard him complete and then went in to our house.

I know there must be many more such people in India, but encountering them on daily basis definitely improves our moral towards life. INDIA keep shinning, keep growing. Cheers to shinning youth…

No country for Gays

WTF!!! Are you kidding? That’s my first reaction to the news.

Today, Supreme Court turns the clock back and added one more feather to our hypocrisy. A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi, upheld the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and put the ball in Parliament’s court. Being a guy in India is a crime.

 It can be un-natural, it can be un-ethical, it can be against a religion, but it can’t be illegal, it can’t be a crime. What is forbidden in religion need not be prohibited in law. Morality cannot be a ground to restrict the fundamental rights of the citizens.

It’s a 21^st century world; so we need to think like that. If they love differently, you can’t steal away their pleasure of loving some-one. It’s their personal decision; they can do whatever they want to do with their body, their life as long as they are not hurting anybody else.

On one side we are basking about our Mars mission and on the other side we are behaving like an old class regressive society. I was not expecting this from our well educated honorable judges of Supreme Court. I would like to read your justification for this poor decision. Please don’t bind people with such stupid laws, let them live their life on their own terms. It’s a free country.

As a democratic country India should be a pluralistic society but we are not. As Indians, we have all lost today. It is a day of shame for independent India.

RAINBOW - The shades of LOVE (In market Now)

Love = Sex?  Love+Sex=?  Love-Sex=???  Sex-Love=????

Welcome to Rainbow – The Shades of love. This is not a book to teach you about love or how to get a beautiful girl to bed, rather it reveals how bad things can get if you don’t set your priorities right.

Rainbow – The Shades of love is a contemporary story of a boy next door and his experiments with love. It’s a story about the most explored life aspect ‘Love’  ‘Sex’. YUVI is a pleasure seeking boy who loves to drink, party with friends and have time-pass girlfriends. But he fall victim to the same notorious life facet called love. SIMRAN’s beauty sweeps him off from his feet and he leaves no stone unturned to seek her special attention.

But their love story was filled with sour and salted flavors of life; they get caught by Simran’s brother on the very first date. For his second date Yuvi has to miss his entrance exam for his dream ‘Masters Degree’ and after that he had to spend a night in lockup for a brawl with Simran’s brothers. And when all this got over and they conquered this ‘Zaalim Zamana’; as of his basic nature Yuvi couldn’t stop himself from fiddling with other girls. He spent a night with his boss’s wife and had a sexy merger with his friend’s girlfriend.

As he fell in love, slept around with all the erroneous girls and when his fate threatens to take his love down, he promises himself to stop all that and come out of the wreckage……….But then, his deeds come back to his present and that tears his life apart.

What follows is an uneasy course of getting his love back on board. The story reveals the life of today’s youth, their friendship, feelings, priorities, and ineptitude to handle relationships and not to forget their turmoil between the two critical facets of life:  love & Sex.

The story reels around Yuvi and Simran with his P.G. Life and office in the backdrop. Night outs with friends, All night drinking binge, Dream date with girlfriend, steamy one night stands…………… All this makes RAINBOW a spicy fun filled non stop story.

Love makes the world go round……… Or is it Sex?

Based on real life experiences and tea time gossips

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