Recipe for Disaster

Today we are going to completely change tracks and learn to "cook" a  recipe. A recipe of a completely different kind. Here it goes :-

Ingredients -

• One auto-rickshaw desired, but if not available then recipe can be prepared with some other motorized vehicle, 
• One extremely gutsy driver,
• One hapless passenger, preferably you, and
• One city which does not even have a semblance of traffic rules.

Directions -

• The passenger (you) need to travel from one point in the city to some other point. 
• The passenger decides to hire an auto-rickshaw (or any other motorized vehicle, as mentioned in the Ingredients section) for his/her commute.
• Bring the rickshaw close to the passenger.
• Mix the passenger and the rickshaw driver. The passenger thinks that he has got a good deal after a lot haggling regarding the auto fare. 
• Put the passenger inside the rickshaw.
• Let the rickshaw with the passenger inside somehow manage through the mind numbing traffic of Hyderabad for a duration of 10 minutes.
• The driver seems to have a strange penchant for green lights and the rickshaw is seamlessly passing through, leaving the other vehicles behind.
• Bake the passenger in the oven.
• The passenger starts to think that he is traveling way too fast than desired, but he/she keeps mum. Let this continue for about a couple of minutes.
• The passenger now realizes that something is wrong. The auto driver is stopping at nothing. He seems to be all set to mow down people crossing the road. A couple of times people somehow manages to save themselves.
• The passenger has started to roast and he/she shouts at the driver, who makes a grunt of a sound and carries on.
• The passenger contemplates to leave the auto and hire a different one, but gives this thought a miss and carries on with skepticism. Let this go on for a minute.
• Take the passenger out of the oven and put it on the grill.
• Bang! The auto has crashed into a truck which was standing at a red light. The passenger's "chariot" like the arrow of Arjun stops at nothing and takes on the might of a truck standing right in front of it.
• Let the passenger be numb for about 10 seconds so as to understand what the hell is going on.
• The passenger yells and shouts at the rickshaw driver ridiculing him by asking - "Are you sleeping?", to which the driver nonchalantly replies in the affirmative.
• Make the passenger again be numb for about 10 seconds trying to figure it out for certain whether it is reality or a dream.
• Now, the special ingredient of our recipe replies - "Sir, I haven't slept for about three days now. My wife hits me at home and she does not let me sleep these days. that is the reason why I slept off while I was driving. But still I know what I am doing"
• What the ****. First, he was sleeping all the while that he was driving. The passenger is amazed that he/she is still alive with just a pain in the right hand and no injuries. Secondly, the driver is sleeping and still he claims that he is control. 
• Now, this is the clincher and is the icing on the cake of our delicacy. The driver asks the passenger to give him Rs. 10/- on top of his meter fare so that he can go and have some tea. Now, how do you reply to that - @#R@##!*&#!%$
•  The dish is ready.

Simply amazing. !ncredible india.

!ncredulous India!

There is a saying - pictures say a thousand words. So, I will leave the snaps to do most of the talking.

This is the directive posted in front of a urinal in Mahabaleshwar's Mapro factory-

This is the hoarding of a store near my house. Note the words "M. T. Bottles" -

Water and Us!

Traveling in a cab currently on my way to the office and it is raining cats and dogs. Could not resist myself from writing this. In India, there are certain salient features which we generally associate with rains. We generally do not get the impression that it has rained until and unless the streets and lanes are waterlogged. Kids are making paper boats (from any piece of paper they can get their hands on) and trying to keep them afloat in the streams formed because of the rains. Men can be pictured with chappals or sandals in their hands and their trousers rolled up, wading through the waters. The whole world turns upside down.


Speaking on the topic of water, their is a more serious issue at hand. We need to conserve water and stop the incessant pollution of the remaining water resources at our disposal. We need to respond and respond strongly. Water pollution is a serious situation concerning each and every one of us. Our rivers and streams are getting contaminated with everyday waste and sewage which is posing a huge problem towards the long term sustainability of our race. In this regard, Greenpeace Foundation is running a mass campaign, across the world, to educate the people on this very sacrilege that is happening at our hands. They have installed mannequin's at various water locations across the world with the mannequin's having the sign - 水 MEN. "水" pronounced as "Shui" is the Chinese symbol for Water. More information about the campaign and how you can play a role can be found here. As a member of the Greenpeace Foundation, I urge each and everyone of you to support us in spreading the word. The world needs us! Or, should I say, that we need the world!

What part are you playing?

Bathroom Ideas

       It has happened quite frequently with me lately, that ideas or thoughts come to my mind when I am in the bathroom. I am in the bathroom pondering on something and suddenly a thought, a possible solution to the problem, meanders it's way to my mind. And wallah, this was what I was searching for, all this while. Now, this is not something that has only happened with me but is a phenomena experienced and reported by people across the world. Possibly, this is why they are now being referred to as restrooms. But the trend really amazes me.

      Why the bathroom? Why not some place else? For example, kitchen. Yeah, makes perfect sense, kitchen. Kitchen is the place where we get something to eat or cook, etc. to sustain ourselves. It might be the perfect alternate place for people to get random ideas. Moreover, kitchen is a more suitable and proper place to link the generation of ideas with. No offense to the bathroom, which is also a very significant place in our daily life-cycle - if kitchen is the place for input then bathroom is the one for output, and both are equally important. But, the "acts" which we do in the bathroom does not suit well with the conceptualization of ideas. Nevertheless, bathroom must have got some strange powers which a simpleton like me is not able to grasp. Probably, there is a need for scientific research to be done on this very topic to verify and pinpoint the reason behind such incidences and occurrences. A study to unravel this mystery which surrounds us and posit it as a fact. Yes, a fact.

      I would now like to dwell on the possible consequences of such a study. What could be the possible repercussions of such a study which establishes the statement as a fact? It can be quite hilarious. The findings are published over the world and each and every person knows about it. Imagine people spending most of their time in the bathroom, doing nothing, waiting for some divine solution to come to their mind. There will be bathrooms at regular intervals in the major cities, not to facilitate the "nature calls" but as pods where will get into whenever they feel the need to think about something. Last but not the least, people visiting bathrooms to get an answer to the problems rather then to pray in the temples, churches or mosques. Picture this! A student is not able to get the logic to apply to get an answer to a maths problem. The teacher tells the student to spend sometime in the bathroom and then come back. The possibilities are endless!

I am feeling a sudden need to go the bathroom ... errr restroom. Time to go. Bye.

Life .....

Some food for thought :

"If an egg is broken by an outside force, a life ends. If an egg is broken by an inside force a life begins. Great things always starts from within."

Roz shaam aati thi magar aisi na thi .....

Generally I don't like embedding videos in my post's , but this is one performance I was really swayed away. Really awesome.

Change is the new constant!

Life has changed
Change is inevitable
Inevitability is like the inflection point
Point that transforms the flow of things
Things that are perhaps new to you
You who thinks that it has only changed now
Now but also in the past, life and the ecosystem around you has changed constantly
Constantly, rather unknowingly, we also transform ourselves
Selflessly but also selfishly
Selfishly, but without hurting anyone
Anyone and everyone is also doing the same
Same in principle and in general terms
Terms of change are never similar
Similar and change are like that couple
A couple whose attributes and characters are completely different
Different as individuals, but whose lives are very much intertwined
Intertwined as this phrase completely describes it - Change is the new constant.