aftermath of watching Firaaq

Just watched this movie called Firaaq about the after effects of the gujrat riots in 2002.. the movie makes you sick and depressed as to how humans can stoop down to levels of being savages.. the movie gives you an insight into the lives of the muslims after the riots.. 

after i watched the movie i was swayed in the direction of thinking that the hindus ONLY  were wrong... but after some research i realized that there is no right in this picture.. the hindu and muslim extremists ARE THE ONLY WRONG... people like us.. be it hindu or muslim suffer for no reason and have to face wrath because of the wrongdoings of these extremists... 

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" 

im quite sure every language has some saying that is similar to this one.. i dont understand why people still cant use their judgement... having opinions is ok... not liking someone or liking someone because of their caste, color, race,religion is ethically wrong but OK as long as you keep it to yourself.. opinions are a personal issue... but when you start acting on those opinions thats where u go wrong... 

as you keep thinking about such riots and who are the people involved.. youll notice that they are the ones who are not satisfied with their own lives.. they have not achieved anything or havent even tried and are trying to make a mark in society through these means... everyone wants to be be successful... and peoples'  definitions of success are different.. a person involved in such acts thinks that doing this will make people remember him as the saviour of hinduism or islam... they are blinded by their own selfish desires that they lose sight of right and wrong... 

it is also largely the fault of the politics that these people are influenced into thinking that fighting for their so called religion is their calling.. politicians are using the godhra riots as a political tool while campaigning and i guess thats how they win... im quite sure there would have been those low lying congress guys who would be beaming as the riots took place.. knowing that the next time elections come around.. there is no chance BJP will win... and this is the same the other way around.. the 26/11 attacks... instead of trying to reach a consensus as to what action is to be taken... the BJP attacks congress.. congress says BJP didnt do anything in Kandhahar hijacking.. and in this process of attacking each other the 26/11 attacks have taken a back seat.. and we as citizens are also caught up in the "tu tu main main"

i would like to believe that politicians are humans too.. and they too have a conscience.. but looking at the actions taken by people... i dont think they are... there are very few people who grow up wanting to really help and make a difference in society... and we might as well realize that the people going into politics are not the protectors of humanity but are just looking at it as a career option... the people who i do think deserve to be politicians are the ones who have made a career for them selves and then joined politics.. so thats why the top brass of most political parties are ok.. but not the grass-root level politicians who join politics in order to continue their "father's business"!!

bomb blasts in india...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Patil_says_maintain_calm_as_64_blasts_rock_India_in_six_months/articleshow/3655776.cms


ok.. so do read the link that i have posted above.. our great home minister is telling us how to maintain calm when every cycle around the corner is a potential bomb... thanks a lot.. i didnt know tis but there have been 64 blasts in the last six months.. i mean wtf is going on.. there is utter lawlessness in india.. one the one hand we have MNS causing a raucus and on the other hand we have bomb blasts left right and center.. where is the o so great secular and peaceful india that we hear about... you cant trust your own people.. you cant trust other religions... there is noone to trust other than yourself.. and considering the kidns of people who have been involved in these bomb blasts(read: software engineer from bombay or whereever) i guess u cant trust yourself too.. maybe u will go tomorrow and beat up a person for speaking in a funyn accent or bomb a place for having too many muslims or hindus or whatever.. its utterly disgusting and the politicians are just playing with the people.. they do nothing.. they just talk through their asses and then attack each other... if the bomb blasts happen when congress in power, the BJP will forget the bomb blasts but focus on how the congress is a fuk up and how they have supreme powers to avoid all such incidents.. well you dont need to be in power to give your gyaan now do you!!
but no!! we are held at ransom.. vote for bjp then youll get the solution to save peoples lives... its absolutely abominable that all of us indians are just silent spectators in this horrible scene thats taking place in india.. rang de basanti, a wednesday et all are really good movies to inspire people when such occurances are not happeneing.. but when they do.. its really tough.. personally speaking.. i was immensely impressed by rang de basanti... i said.. " thats right.. youcant take this bull shit!! " but now.. when the country really needs someone to take a stand...( not that im thinking im so great to change a nation) but the thought itself of giving up everything that i have in life, my goals, aspirations, dreams.. for a country that i belong to... well... i cnat do it! call me a coward if you may.. buy my cynicism holds me back.. can I, one person change the destiny of india? can i by myself change people? can I by myself change rules, laws and regulations? well my obvious asnwer, is NO!! and im quite sure many people reach the same conclusion...

so i end with my salute to people who take a stand... believe passionately in a cause... even though they may go against the system... the passsion is the starting point...my salute to rahul raj.. who got killed just for his act of venting out his anger against the MNS.. what else would you do? if i was bihari, i would htink of doing the same... if people attack us, i feel like killing all the attackers.. and this anger is there everywhere amongst people like me.. but finally it filters down to one man.. and so HATS OF TO HIM!!

hope we have more selfless people like these who should be immortalized rather than useless monuments of bal thakarey and other such politicians...

A wednesday vs mumbai meri jaan

Ok... i recently watched two movies that released... one was "A wednesday"... a really well made fast paced film by Neeraj Pandey and the other was "mumbai meri jaan" by apla marathi maanus Nishikant kamat...

I was thinking about both of the movies and realized of different they were in their treatment as well as their subject.. even though they talk about the same thing...not exactly.. but about 'bomb blasts' in general... both of them have mumbai as the city...

well other than the filmmaking differences.. i wanted to talk about the story and the perceptions of these filmmakers... for those who have seen both the movies.. one of them ends in a one minute silence by all the characters(which are common people) of the film and the other is of a common man taking a drastic step and blowing up few terrorists.. his point being that common people cant take this anymore and if the government/police wont take nay action, the common has to do so...

the two films even though they talk of the same subject, have absolutely contradicting endings.. in one.. it shows people living in harmony and accepting other people of different color,religion, race and the other shows a man taking a drastic step... so what is it that we live by.. do somethig or just sit and say"chalta hai"... hum sab bhai bhai... what is it that most of us live by??... after such an incident takes place.. we all live in fear and discuss such important issues( some of us dont eve n do that_) for the next few days... and then forget it... we like to believe( atleast I do) someone amongst us will do something to improve the predicament of our city/state/country... i like to believe that" i believe that i will be the one doing so"..this evidently is not true.. but it atleast makes me happy.. and then again get bakc to your life and forget all these issues... but its better off if someone else does the dirty work...

anwyay... let me end it at... if noone else there to criticise.. the best are the politicians...

thsoe damn fools dont do anything!!! :P


and i can sleep peacefully.... its not my fault....

first attempt...spare me the insults....

Ok... here goes.... my first attempt at blogging.. have been toying with the idea for a long time now... say maybe 2 years... well was looking for something to write about..Alas, I just realized..thats what my blog is... looking to write about something... anythiing.... everything.... no clue how long this endevour of mine will sustain but... here goes...

last week... on the great networking site "orkut"... i was cleaning up my scrapbook... in other words.. deleting anything and everything that had been written...while doing so.. i just realized.. in absolute filmy terms.. how my life flashed by me as i deleted the 2000 odd scraps... 30 at a time...its quite crazy i think.. how as i glanced over what all had been written to me over hte past one n a half years... i got mental images of myself in these different phases of my life...

now i dont want any of you 30 year olds telling me hwo one and a half year cant mcomprise of multiple stages..well for me it did.. it started off last to last december...you see many scraps from people who have quit orkut... and figuring out who it is quite wistful too... its shows up as a scrap written by "the user does not exist".. and there i sat wondering who spoke to me in what manner in that phase of my life... that in itself is a puzzle... fun i must say...

well getting back... the story goes on from december 06 to october 08... so its quite ggood to read all your messages from people who for all you know.. dont even remember you now...( just to check that i have messaged a few of them...I HAVENT GOTTEN A REPLY AS YET...GRRRR)... well as i went along.. i read and noticed how my close relationships have changd... my friends circles have changed.. and how people have changed... me most of all... in day to day life i would never realize this.. but jus doing this simple delete delete delete... it showed me how my life.. along with others has changed..some peoples' drastically and others subtly... but PEOPLE DONT REALIZE MAYBE....


i guess i end with the ever so cliched line.... ce la vie.....