Dear Mr. Hazare,

Dear Mr. Hazare,

C’mon be a good boy now and eat. Or don’t, just stop creating a scene out there in the public. You do know the bill you’re proposing isn’t practical. Why this tamasha  ?  Stop behaving like a 5 year old adamant kid crying on the road, blackmailing the parents to get what he needs. This isn’t a good way to get the candy, is it? I mean,  fasting for the nation and making India corruption free and stuff is all fine, but you do know the bill isn’t the solution. Don’t you ?  I know the issue needs to be addressed but this isn’t the way. Tomorrow, any x y z will come out on the road and start blackmailing the government, the way you are. How do you expect the Jan Lokpal bill to pass the parliament? This isn’t an oligarchy, this is a government we chose. The people of India, its 1.2 billion masses chose. India remains the largest democracy in the world today. And you want a group of people to police everybody including the Prime Minister, ministers, judiciary, everyone? You want to give them powers of investigation and prosecution? Seriously?  You want a bureaucracy above a bureaucracy? How does that solve the issue? How do you know the Lokpal itself isn’t corrupt? You are giving tremendous powers to a group of people who can screw our prime minister too? Also, the lokpal essentially emphasizes on the fact that everybody is evil, the constitution, the democracy, the government, the PM, the house of ministers, the judiciary. I mean, give it a break. Indian masses are hyper active and emotional, they’d support anything that ends with a ‘Jai Hind’ or a ‘Vande Matram’ , we have had a glorious freedom struggle of over 150 years and we have grown up hearing stories of our struggle for independence, I don’t care how many people support you, they are there to contribute whatever they can to the country and over 70% do not know what Jan Lokpal is all about. So stop giving me the figures. You defy democracy and yet taking aid of democracy to sustain .And talking about corruption. Who isn’t corrupt? Aren’t the patriotic masses sitting there at Ramlila Maidaan corrupt? Have you never paid money to get your work done? Everybody is corrupt. The one who pays and the one who gets. You want to start a movement? Tell the people to stop bribing, whatever it takes. Get your work done in 20 days, but do not bribe. You do not need to wave the flags and cry Vande matram everytime to prove your patriotism. You do not need a Tamasha to contribute your bit to the nation and society at large. It’s high time, we stop blaming and tread the right path.

To every woman in the world,

I’m writing this for every woman in the world, for the ones who have been taken advantage of, who are the victims of eve-teasing, molestation or have been raped,  who still haven’t moved on or the ones who feel guilty of something they haven’t done. I write this as a woman who knows how it is like to be one of those. To begin with, the movies where they keep saying, woman’s body is a temple and once raped, she bears a stigma on her soul forever, she loses her chastity, her purity, they go on showing that the rapist must marry her for social acceptance. In many movies, the girl getting raped/ molested commits suicide. These movies are sick. Do not form any opinion based on such vice dogmatic narrow-minded bigotic male-centric shit, that they showcase. This is the saddest way of dealing this issue. We have been talking about women empowerment for years now, but no one knows how to go about it. No one can take initiatives but the women itself. Before a man or a woman, you are a human being with a life bestowed upon you, you are one of those million cells who could make it to life,winning the battle of the survival of the fittest. No one, absolutely no one can take that back. Not even you. You have the right to life. You have the right to live your life with dignity and honour, you are an individual who has his own identity. Things happen, shit-heads exist, if you cannot forgive, forget and move on. But do not let it happen again. No one can touch you without your will. You are no toy that any Tom Dick or Harry will come, play and fucking leave. They’d have to pay back, they must bear the consequences. Draw a line, the boundary, there are instances when people tend to cross that line, tell them to back off, don’t think twice. Stand by it. Gather strength, hold on to yourself, it’s all within you. Do something for yourself, respect your personal space and communicate this to others very clearly. It’s your life and you know whats right and whats not. For a woman, right from the time she attains her puberty or even before that, she has to protect herself, she has to protect her self-respect , she has to balance her changing physical, biological self with the way society looks at her. Maybe because she has a great responsibility of creating life, of giving  birth, of taking the human race ahead and protecting it from getting extinct. But before that, she must know the world and understand all the evils. She must stand up for herself,for her basic human rights and have the courage to tell the bastard that he will be punished for what he did. Trust no body, not even your brother, you’re safe nowhere. Don’t look vulnerable, pretend to be strong, if required. Don’t let people cross that line, no body. Respect your personal space. And clearly understand, whatever you do not want, should not happen. No human being can touch you if you do not want them to.  Don’t be guilty of something you haven’t done, stop suffocating yourself and start standing by your morals, gather courage to fight back. Don’t be a mute victim, that’s our biggest failure as a society. Tell those barbarians that they are wrong and you’ll not be quiet anymore. Always be circumspect, ignorance, as I always say, isn’t bliss. Escaping isn’t the solution. Fighting back isn’t easy,but in life, there will always be choices between what you know to be right, and what is easy.The right may seem tough when you face it, but in a few years time you will realize that taking the right path has made your life easier. Nothing is ugly or dirty, nothing is black, leave the dark behind and you’ll see a 
world waiting for you with open arms and the respect that you deserve .Life is precious. Life is beautiful.


The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

That itch

Today as I write this,I am not at peace, I have no idea what would follow.I have chosen a world for myself where I don't fit in, I feel like an early man stuck in the world of technological advancements and revolutions. I need to step back, hold on and surrender myself in the arms of nature. I wish I had all the time in the world, the way Charles Darwin had and found the love of his life and the courage to escape the worldly webs and societal norms and do what I desire.I want to travel to far off places, to distant lands, to ward off this air of shallow existence , to understand what is real, what is beautiful, to that old light-house, I want to watch the oceanic waves dance, I want to live on the beach. I want to drive for miles and feel the wind slapping my face and taste true freedom.All, I ask for is a camera, pen and a paper and well, a million dollars to travel the world.I want to get lost in the woods and capture a volcanic eruption, or a hurricane. There are very few instants when nature allows man to experience and observe the forces that shape our earth, I want to be a witness to such a magnificent event.I want to be a storm chaser ! I want to find peace in worshiping nature,the destroyer and preserver of human race, I want to tell the world that we, as a species stand no-where in this infinite universe.We are like microscopic creatures, which'd fade away like an ant dies an uncertain death.And still, nothing will change. Ours will remain a thoughtless meaningless existence. So 10 things I'd want to do before I die would be

• Serve our nation in whatever way possible.I donno how. Yet.
• Travel the world, as I keep saying, with a camera, pen and a paper
• Study Earth Sciences and chase a storm
• To be able to meditate. Multiple attempts, failed. Has to happen in very near future.
• Live near a water body, river, lake , pond , away from everything and everyone else.
• Learn to use the reverse gear in a car. Yes.Also, learn urdu, violen 
• Tell people to shut up, the masses.
• I want to play the Anil kapoor of Nayak, the movie in real ! sigh

And so on, It's not 10 yet.. is it ? Anyway I'd update the list, maybe some other day. What would you like to do before resting in your sarcophagus ?

I leave you with a poem of Sahir Ludhianvi,

Ye mehelon, ye takhton, ye Taajon ki Duniya

Ye Insaan ke dushman samaajon ki duniya

Ye daulat ke bhooke riwaazon ki duniya

ye duniya mil bhi jaaye toh kya hai ?

Har ek jism ghayal, har ek rooh pyaasi,

nigaahon mein uljhan, dilon mein udaasi,

ye duniya hai ya aalam-e-badhawaasi

ye duniya mil bhi jaye toh kya hai?

Yahan ek khilona hai insaan ki hasti

ye basti hai murda praston ki basti

yahan par toh jeevan se hai maut sasti

Ye duniya mil bhi jaye toh kya hai?

I don't know how, I don't know why,

It doesn't even matter how hard you try