Dazzler !!!!


Recently Dazzler came up to me… and said you have dedicated no blog to me…… The quick response mechanism in me said but I have given you a nick name which no has (I think at least) …..

So this is a blog dedicated to her….!!!!!!!!!

A friendship which began almost 3 years ago….. Never thought I would be close to someone as I am to her…… Throughout childhood for every year I had one good friend ……. And with every year the friend was new….. So I can safely assume that I am still not bored with the relationship I share with her…… Why this has happened???? I cannot tell but am glad that I have a friend and a friendship I truly cherish….

Over the 3 years I have had many and many conversations and incidents with Dazzler……
The tea conversations at Lemon Tree Pune would be something I remember most of the time as after graduating from college…….. The conversations varied from college life and her emotional problems…… I think problems is the wrong word… Lets say situations...Emotional Situations…. Most of the times I would land up cheering her up and defending men ……. Most of the times I would land trying to figure her mind out….…… She has a complex side to her….which I must admit am still figuring out till date… Probably why I am still friends with her…. But our conversations were never complex… Our freedom to say whatever we want is the spark in our conversations…. Honesty is something I really appreciate and I see it her eyes….

Coming to some of the funny moments………. I remember outside sweetie stores….. She was having a packet of Tiger biscuits …. While having the biscuits the crumbs she would get rid of just like ash from a cigarette…...Yes I do enjoy pulling her leg….!!!!!

December 18th 2006 will be a day I will not forget for a very long time……. I was in mumbai on a college assignment and she was in mumbai to meet her future boy friend…...And we spend the day together…….. I spoilt my phone as a chocolate melted in my pocket ….. We enjoyed good wine at Taj Lands End…. A walk near the Arabian Sea …… and a candid question if not the one you like do I have a chance…??? I have that answer now…….

We did have our share of mis-understandings ….. 2007 was a rough year….for her as well as for me….. I did stop talking to her at one point….. But she had the courage to talk to me about why I was avoiding her……...I had become a loner for a while….. So was keeping to myself…… I was watching a game of basket ball from the college steps and had been avoiding her call since morning…….It was around 9:30 in the evening when she called again….I said let me pick up …..and say that I do not wanna talk to you…..But I never did….Instead I told her my location….She came and sat next to me…. And asked me what was wrong…..I just had a lump in my throat…..And I said what I had to say about how she had behaved and how some other people who I really liked had behaved….She heard me out and I still remember the words clearly…. ‘I do not deserve your friendship’. This struck me and hit me hard……. Should I let bygones be bygones….. I am a much happier man today…….

Thank you for walking into my life!!!!!!!

An Election

Recently on a family lunch my parents, my brother and I got in a debate regarding the 2009 election. On how mud flinging and name calling had become the order of the day. I do not know about previous elections as I would have been a witness to only a handful out of which some I would have been to small to remember anything…...I personally feel this election is the worst name calling exercise ever...Including the two people running for the top post of the country`

During the course of the conversation I remembered another election in the year 2003 of a club in Mumbai…….Where members of the club were in the process of electing their committee……. What surprised me those days was the name calling and the fliers which would be distributed amongst members…… Recalling one such flier which I had the opportunity to get my hands on …. The flier had photographs and names of the current committee members with a small brief/description on them….. On reading I was shocked to read the description of few members…… The flier was claiming that one person had taken his pants off in the club. Another was a wife beater and one of the members was
raising a child which was not his own but a neighbors and a fellow member……

Election 2009 is nothing short of the 2003 club election I had witnesses….. The leader of opposition has claimed that the PM is a ‘Nikama PM’ …. We have had candidates calling other candidates pimps ……… Another leader promising to cut off arms of people of the minorities…….. In the club election my cousin and were given passes to a belly dance show basically a bribe for us to vote for a particular section of members…..So what is wrong in distributing money??? At least politicians are not inviting the people to watch obscene shows…..Or are they and we just do not know about it……….

My view is that there is no difference in way elections are conducted in our country whether it is at the micro level or the macro level….

Would love to know your thoughts….!!!!!!