A letter from pyaasi aatma

Dear Indradevta aka Rain god,

Hi Indra. Wassup buddy? how u doing? Accha listen listen it's mid-june now and as per what my geography teacher said, june-sept is monsoon time for us. But then, it's mid-june now and all that we are witnessing here is chubti, jalti garmi. Kya huva god? Why this sudden delay? Kya aapke idhar bhi cost-cutting chalu hain? yaa kya aapka megha rani ke saath break off ho gaya? Anyways I do not know what's the matter, just wanted to convey to you that we poor creatures on earth are melting like molten cadbury choclates. We sweat as though we have taken bath in salt water and our clothes stink as though it has not been washed for 1 whole year. And no we are not even ready to buy the nth dabba of Nycil and Dermicool powder. So god if you want us to give a good feedback about you during your appraisal time, you will have to patch up with megha rani soon and bless us with rains. And if megha rani is not getting pataoed, then fikar not god, all you need to do is:



1. go to www.youtube.com and search for Raj Kapoor's Pyaar huva ikraar huva song,

2. watch the video with rapt attention, by heart the tune and andaaz of Raj Kapoor,

3. arrange for an orchestra,

4. stand below megha rani's balcony with flowers and choclates and sing this song.



Dekhna megha rani maan jayegi...this is a tried and tested formula, hence you can use this method bindaas. Bas kuch bhi karo, we need some respite from this chubti jalti garmi. As for me, you know like every monsoon...I am waiting for that moment when I can sit on the grills with a cup of hot masala chai and onion pakodas, inhale the mitti kii kushboo and enjoy rains. I know you will not let us down like the MET department. I trust you completely :)

Awaiting your reply in Actions...

Your's truly,
Pyasi Aatma

Some Mahaan Vichaars from gaya3

Ok I need to admit this, the idea of writing this post came from vinnie's posts on ATM and Date laws. So impressed was I, that I decided to write some laws in my own ishytle.

I am in my office sipping tea (that has pahaad jaisa sugar) and am typing this post as my boss is nowhere to be seen today :)

So here we go, given below are my mahaan vichaars on 'BOSS' . Like him or hate him, but you just cannot ignore him. This is my way of paying respects to all those bosses under whom I have worked for two years.

My vichaars on Bosses

1. All bosses are hari sadus*, but all hari sadus are not bosses

2. Your boss is ON time when you are slightly beyond time

3. Your boss will be late the day when you are ON time

4. You invariably get caught up with extra work on the day you want to leave early (moulin thanks for this.)

5. Your boss will compulsorily suffer from amnesia or short-term memory loss just before the appraisal period

6. The company/boss decides on cost-cutting policies only during the pay hike season

7. Your Facebook page is always open only when your boss comes to your workstation to discuss some top priority work issues

8. Higher the rate of treating your boss with RESPECT, higher are your chances of promotion

9. Higher the rate of arguing, lower are your chances of promotion

10. Your boss always calls for meetings when its 3.30 PM and when you are in a mood for afternoon siesta.

11. Your boss is equally a frustrated soul as you.

*-If you have seen the Naukri.com ad, you will know who Hari Sadu is. For those who have not seen it, Hari Sadu is a kadoos boss who loves to iltreat his employees. Later on, the employee gets back at him by calling him hitler, arrogant, rascal and idiot under the pretext of spelling his name.

P.S: I need to admit, my current boss is nothing like what I have mentioned above. He is one of those rare bosses who treat their employees with respect. If you have any inputs to add, do feel free to do so.

Koi bhi desh perfect nahi hotha, use perfect banana padta hain...

Do you remember this dialogue from Rang De Basanti?? This movie was one of my all-time favorites. No, not because I am a die-hard fan of Aamir Khan or AR Rahman. It's just that the movie and especially this dialogue reminded me of what my daddy said years ago. He said: "beta, society is bad not because of the actions of bad people, it is bad because of the inactions of the good people'. I agree with him completely.

We often have this habit of cribbing. Yeh accha nahi hain...woh accha nahi hain....politicians are like this, bureaucrats are like that. I remember this incident...one of my aunt had come from UK to visit us, as she cribbed endlessly about how filthy our country is and how neat UK is; I noticed that the aunty was throwing choclate and biscuit wrapper on the roads. When I pointed out that she was dirtying the road, she casually said "arre, what's the big deal. Everyone does it naa". I just could not digest those words, I turned red, blue, green, yellow and all the primary and secondary colours available in the colour pallette and ran away from the spot. On one hand these people crib about how filthy and dirty our country is and on the other hand, these same people contribute towards making the place untidy.

Forget cleanliness, people do not even follow the traffic rules. Ab if you cross the road when the vehicles are moving, accident nahi hoga toh kya hoga. Above that, when the traffic police catches you, you get away by bribing him. Woh bhi happy, tum bhi happy.

Now whenever I take this topic, people try to hush me and tell me that I am ranting hopeless things and that we Indians can never improve. But I wish to disagree with them. Everybody has the scope for improvement. Valmiki the great was a rogue before he became a sage. You have to initiate the change. At the cost of sounding pompous, I wish to tell you something. I never throw wrappers and other stuffs on the road. Either I find a dustbin or if I find none in the vicinity, I carry it home and throw it in the dustbin. My friends used to tease me over this until one day, one of my friend got so accustomed to this weird habit of mine that she unconsciously started throwing things in the dustbin instead of throwing it on the road. That was the day when I really felt like a true winner.

So, the moral of the kahani is that if you wish to see a change in the society, initiate it. Don't wait for others to do something for you...desh will be perfect only if you make it perfect. And if you cannot do anything, then please stop cribbing.

Ok...aaj kaa lecture yahin khatam hota hain...Again will leave you with one of my most favorite songs from RDB. The RDB effect was so enormous that the public woke up from its slumber and saw to it that the Jessica Lall case gets solved soon.