second innings , first night

The title is definitely influenced by cricket, but this post has nothing to do with cricket(hey we are T20 champs). Its just an first person account of my second visit to the city.It started with a bumpy landing ,name of airline held back due to some security reasons(???), then I was welcomed with heavy downpour. Last time when I left the city, enjoyed the rain, with no umbrella. This time I gave rain a miss, instead waited to let the rain stop.
It was not just the rain, which went overboard. A couple was not able to hold themselves, much to the disbelief of of a middle aged woman, who was a curious onlooker for some time. Couple left in sometime giving the woman a sense of relief.I too got little bit relieved , with rain relenting a bit.
I left the sitting area in search of auto.Rain relented but not the auto waalas . Knowing the public has no other option , they demand and get what they desire. After paying the unjustified fare , reached my friends home.
Auto waalas make you realize; you are still in India. whether Delhi or Bangalore auto persons behave in similar fashion, wonder what happens to non auto persons. What I mean by this will be talked about in next post , till then bye.

Not so long ago

"कोई किल्हा पथानिया जोर लडा

कोई बीटा बज्ज़ीर द ख़ूब लडा"

Meaning alone fighter Pathania, son of bazir fought with bravery.

In these lyrics of folk tales the legend of Ram Singh Pathania's is remembered as hero of first Rising against the British Empire. This 24 old brave young man along with his fistful of colleagues shook the British empire in 1846.Ram Singh Pathania's was born to Shayam Singh bazir of Nurpur state ( in himachal Pradesh) on 10 April 1824.

Because of English-Sikh treaty in 1846 most of himachals states came under direct control of English. During this time Nurpurs king Vir Singh died leaving his 10 year old son as the new king; taking advantage of this British in return of five thousand took away all the rights of king.

Ram Singh Pathania's could not take this turn of events in his stride so he secretly formed a small but efficient army. When the second english-sikh war broke out Pathania's along with his small troops looted mammon cant on the eve of 15 August 1846 and then attacked shahakundi fort. Because of this unexpected attack British ran away. On the morning of 15 august Pathania's called for the uprooting of British from Nurpur and declared 10 year old Jasvant as king and himself the bazir of the state. Seeing this many hill states declared their independence. Stirred by this British attacked but brave Pathania's fought with British at "Dalle ki dhar". After many days of fierce battle British had to retreat.

One of the relatives, leftituent Jhon peel of Queen Victoria hoping of good words from Queen attacked Pathania's only to be killed along with his body guards. Grave of John peel at “dalle ki dhar" is evidence of Pathannia’s Bravery. But one day Pathania was captured when Pathania was busy in his prayers, because of one traitor and thereafter sent to Rangoon. In Rangoon on 17 August of 1849 after the tortures of British he left this world for his motherland outside his motherland.

The question here does not arise who was the first freedom fighter of India but do we care about our independence or not. Watching RDB in multiplexes is surely not going to help anybody especially those we encounter daily at traffic lights. Everybody can do something how and when depends on the person.

Colors from past

A fresh breeze which was started with the release of colored Mugle-E-Azam is about to be transformed in to cool storm, thanks to the technology, with the process of colorization going on some good old’ films. With in few days a classic by B.R.chopra “Naya Daur” starring Dilip kumar, Vajayanti Mala, Pran and all others is going to be released in colors. So called new generation will be lucky to see the stars again. Everything especially in entertainment is driven my money the success of Mugle-E-Azam has prompted the other film makers of yester years to do the same. Like Devanand saab announcing the coloring of HUM DONO starring himself and beautiful Sadhna.In the rushes of colored film sadhna looks stunning, wonder present day glamour girls how will react to the competition, which they are doomed to lose. A hair cut involving her name still popular puts any speculations to rest if you had any.

What a question arises what is the future of these old wines in bottles rather colored bottles. Do we need them at all? The answer is just YES, why, the reasons are

1. It is not just colorization going it is also the restoration work going on, which needs money which is generated by releasing it again.

2. Other reason is our present day film makers who are keen on producing trash or just replicas of Hollywood flicks, one is just out and other is coming out in few days.Dont you want to know their names. Yes we all do. A country whose literature consists of vast amount stories of epic proportion which when converted in celluloid’s will put Lord of rings series to some serious one-sided competion.But no for them copies are much better than originals .Why don’t they Dub those English flicks and release them,deffinately will save a lot of time.

You must have heard about a film Fool n Final if not seen it. Don’t see it if you have seen “Snatch” remember Brad Pitt.earlier film from the same producer was again the great replica. It is not that Sahid does this copies even Badshah Sharukh also did few years back named “Badshah” a frame to frame copy of “nick of time” watch it to enjoy the originality.

In Indian sport movies a Rahul Bose starring (starring????????) film “chain khuli ki main khuli” is on the verge of releasing. Film is about a child who plays cricket with a special bat which he thinks was used by kapil ji in 1983 WC. The child is also orphan living in orphanage. Now just replace cricket with basket ball, kapil ji with Michael Jordan and bat with shoes you will get the original film, is films name matter.

So instead watching these copies why not watch our old classics in colors. So please save your money just surf your TV you will find the original movies. But if even Sanjay leela could not resist himself from shooting some scenes of Black just like the original the “miracle worker” how can others can resist the temptation.infact the list is too long to write here it was just a glance of ugly face.

Lathi-charged

Some things never change despite repeated efforts; some images on TV in last few days have confirmed the above statement. Police lathi charged men, women and even harmless old man, even kicking them. People on receiving end of the stick were obviously poor some where protesting to get their FIR lodged, some where asking for reservations .what those people did that police have to fire at them. I think these farmers are not trained in Iraq and having weapons with them. In Dausa till now 20 people have lost their lives.

But what is disturbing if we look at the actions of police on B/W TV with mute on, “WE" will find these images pretty similar to some images of our freedom struggle. Just the uniforms have changed but the Ravana in side remains the same.

Let’s consider two instances of slaved India

1) April 13, 1919 a black day in the Indian history but also a day which was vital for the freedom struggle. Day on which 400 innocent people including children and women were slaughtered in broad day light by 50 soldiers on the order of General Dyer. General had positioned himself on the lone exit point of the bagh (Garden) which resulted in the no escape for those peoples. Around 1650 round were unloaded on unarmed people in Jallianwala Bagh. People had come there to attend the protest meeting. being Batsakis peasants from other villages also came to Amritsar .many got bullets and many were trampled and many dived into the sole well in the bagh to save their lives only to get die there. later General said had he not ran out of ammunition he would have continued with the firing which left 1200 people seriously wounded with no medical help. Later on he was declared “savior of Punjab” by British Raj, just like our present day encounter specialists get honored.

2) Lahore, 1928 Lala Lajpat Rai was leading a peaceful procession, but that was not to the liking of captain sanders who ordered Lathi charge, just like our modern day police, which resulted in the death of noted leader Lala ji as he was popularly known.

Whether we live in slaved India or independent one the men in khaki behave to some extent same. As for them nothing changed on 15 august 1947 instead of Queen and Mountbatten the pictures of Gandhi and important ones filled in the wall spaces. But the people like Kiran bedi do give hint of fresh air but in this polluted world we definitely need lots of fresh air not in higher ranks but also in lower ranks.

60 th birthday of india

On fifteen of this august we are going to celebrate 60^th year of Indian independence। As usual lots of promises will be made by some respectable peoples, and definitely will be broken, but it is not that only these people break their promises but we too break our annual resolutions. Let’s forget this for now. For these years

India has seen great changes, made some big strides and somewhere nothing has changed remember kaalihaandi, if yes then you know and if not then still it shows how much we care. As president Kalam said that we tend to talk about our negativities than positive one, so I thought about putting some Ups and downs of India at the same place and look and find where we stand and what needs to be done
I will try not to weigh India in terms of facts as they are misleading. I will try in terms of change in people’s behavior, cultural changes, needs etc. As I am not old as our independence I will use different resources to help me out and focus will be on the last decade or so, which also happens to be most vibrant one also, the decade which has given birth to terms like Bloggers.

This is what in name

The name color generally is not associated with truth as for us truth is generally black, white or sometimes gray. But don’t you think that these are also colors. Color need not to be bright always so this name. I will try to look at those aspects of life which we tend to forget ignorantly or some times intentionally. As Charlie Chaplin said he want to shed his tears in rain so no body can see him in tears, great pain in the heart of great comedian of all times, even he wanted to hide his tears. What we see need not to be true all times. Let’s put on colored glasses to see all the colors.