Dunno what to do at 4 in the morning ??

Its almost four in the morning, and sleep has no plans to bless my eyes tonight ! Tonight???ahh..**correction** it will be dawn in a couple of hours..I don't knw what exactly i have been upto for past couple of hours. Few months back Orkutting was my favorite pass time. Things haven't changed much. Edulixing has taken over the previous passion. I check this space more than 24 times in 24 hours. So imagine the frequency of my visits at this forum. I started as a newbie here putting up the most silliest of doubts and then learnt the way to work around with things here. Since then have been arnd helping out the late appers..Trust me the addiction has had such great impact that not only my folks back home know about EDULIX, but you could ask my servant where I would be and zap she would say - didi toh apne computer par baithi EDULIX pe kuch kar rahi hogi !! Read "LFA and EvenStars posts in the yeh meri kahani.." thread.Amazing work this duo has done there.It helps me forget all my frustrations and laugh my heart out..Before I am accused of the edulix publicity I'll change the topic of my non-sensical blog to something else...

Lemme move on from personal gains / motives to some public issues !! ok so the biggest headline on NDTV today??The decision on Jessica lal's case that came out after 7 and a half year long battle.The accused were convicted,Sabrina Lal had a sigh of relief after the victory, Bina Ramani came out as a STAR witness(praised by all PAGE 3 socialites), Shyaan munshi and other hostile witnesses rebuked, Jethmalani the veteran criminal lawyer seems to have reacted very quitely to the post judgement scenario and blah blah.... When all of us had just taken the adage "Justice delayed is justice denied" to be the gospel truth, the judgement in this case proved everyone wrong !! It came like a ray of hope in the most- oft accused Indian judicial System. I have always felt that media is responsible for creating more-than-required hype over non-issue matters. BUT, in this case I would give full credit to various news channels like NDTV, CNN-iBN etc who played a crucial role in re-opening of Jessica's case. The online petitions, the sms polls created the much required awareness among the masses at the correct time and space.

Time helps you grow. I had thought that this was just another cliched statement until I saw Sabrina's interview on NDTV. I had seen the angry & fuming Sabrina, seething with fury, seeking(rather shouting for) justice few months back. Her frustration was attributed to her helplessness. Loosing almost entire family during this struggle was good enough reason to justify her behavior then. The Sabrina I saw on NDTV, today, was totally different. She was happy,satisfied,calm, composed - all in one. When asked her views on the capital punishment for the accused, she replied - "I am totally against death sentence because that would be the most easiest escape for the guilty and would be a very harsh punishment for his family. I want the accused to be punished and not his family" For a moment I was taken aback with her answer,was i hearing the same Sabrina?? Things change and so do people...all of us learn..and time is the best teacher !!

ok..I guess its time to hit the bed now..I should be ending this post here. May be i have better topics to write about tomorrow.I am still learning to blog..so hope my posts get better with each passing day.

Changing times , Changing relationships???

I had been trying real hard to get into the blogging mood since ages. Work, commitments, family, friends and all other reasons were nothing more than mere excuses which I had been using to procastinate this much awaited activity. This might not be the best topic to start off with, but this is something which touched my heart to a great extent.

Couple of weeks back, I had to attend an infosession by some US univ. program director.Post session plans were scrapped off,all thanks to some riots in the city. Statue of a renowned leader was damaged in one part of the country and the brunt of that fued had consequences in Mumbai. It does not surprise me any more, it has become more like a trend. This is the most agonizing thing in this country !! Anyhow, so i could not go anywhere that day and was asked to join my aunt at her work place(which happens to be a court, coz she is a Lawyer). That day she was at the Family Court in Bandra. Divorce cases of the entire city are heard here. Now this is one place I have always hated to be at. A 5-6 floors building at BKC, having a court room on each floor ; it stands erect witnessing each day, the broken homes, severed relationships, innocent kids churned in the ego clashes !! It seemed to me, that the concrete building has also transformed the hearts of the ones sitting in this building (who pass judgements day in day out) into stone as well. Well, thats their job so they can't be blamed for separating the fighting couples. But the sight in the courtroom waiting lounge is one of its kind. It is bound to move any heart made of muscles & arteries. My aunt was still busy settling some issues between her client and her beau, so I decided to wait in that lounge. I noticed a gujju family. The entire affair was like a celebration for the family members of that couple. They were all decked up in bright colored attire and were discussing where they should be taking their lunch !! I was dumbfounded to overhear this kinda of very *important* discussion!!!! I mean..for god sake people, a house(can't call it home anymore) is gonna be broken in few minutes, lives of two people is gonna take a 360 degree turn, a relationship would be coming to an end and here we have nothing better to discuss than the hygine levels of the food served @ the court canteen. Another suggestion which struck my eardrum was to celebrate after the hearing at some place in bandra. **Flabbergasted** I was hardly over this shock when I saw another female bribing her 6 year old with choclates, so that he utters the same words against his dad in the courtroom which he has been taught all this while. Another dude, completely unaffected by his own case was busy reading some novel on Atharva Ved to keep himself busy with things around. There were few others arguing endlessly on some God forbidden matters. They made it sound so BIG that they needed help from some third person to settle their personal scores.

In midst of all this hoopla i was praying every second that my aunt's work gets over soon so that I can get out of this living **HELL** where the innocent toddlers are punished for the mistakes of their parents, the place where individuals part ways never to meet again, the place where dreams are brutally murdered...**sigh**

From the age of the couples I could gauge that most of these marriages could not even last for 4-5 years. I was forced to ponder, if the meaning of this sacred institution was actually changing??? We may have become computer literates, we might claim to be earning 4 times our previous generation , may boast of becoming ultra modern guys living in the 21st century, but our generation certainly needs to LEARN basics of sincerity, committment, trust and forgiveness from our ancestors.