bye bye 2008

2008-- the year unforgettable.
It is one more year, another 366 days!!!
it all started with a mail saying I have violated a company policy and made a criminal out of me. I took it very easily joking with my friends about it. That was a perfect indication of what was about to follow. Starting with the month-end of Jan, a lot happened all through the year. In Feb I went to Ashram in Chennai from where i had some unbelievable conversation with my mother. Later on things were looking settled slowly but steadily. In the same month my sister got married and all of my family were on cloud 9!! Then by the end of March things seem to have settled and my sister had left to USA. The month of march and April witnessed me working solely on a project and it was my first success in the professional career. On the personal front, these months were much better than Jan and Feb as there are no sensations. In the month of May, I started the similarity project which is a global project and which i didnt take seriously then. Apart from that I attended my convo function which is a dream come true for my family. I would give my life for the sake of glow I saw in my parents' eyes. My father was all praising me after that. My mom even now tells to the neighbors that her son made her travel in plane (which neither her dad nor her husband did!!!) as if it was a nobel prize.
then came the month of june carrying many moments which i wish to forget! I took a promise from some friends of mine not to disclose how i was doing then. On a professional front was very much comfortable with similarity and the new research initiative which we took. In the month of July I completed one year of corporate life and the following week made me to receive the star of the month award from the CEO. But i just dont want to look into how things were on my personal front, thank God!! I crossed them.
The month of August saw Rajnish sir leaving for Oz which opened a new Bangalore for me. Life along side a person like Rajnish sir was always enriching. on the professional side things was very much bizarre as i did some mistakes . I was very much frustrated as things were really bad on every side. that was really a testing time for me. I dont know how many times I thought of leaving the country but "Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitaha". I simply cant ignore my duty, karthik is not built to give up the fight, come what may!!
then the month of September and October were mainly accounted for the Acturial applying and preparing for the exams. I suffered some loses on the personal front as a close relative of mine had passed away. but by this time I became immune of what happened. So i wasnt hurt much.
then the month of November was completely dedicated to Similarity project which was very much on track. And again some old ghosts haunted me by making some unbearable deeds, nonetheless thats their nature I cant help it.
And the last one month gave a tough time as a professional with some mistakes made by me. some silly, some unexpected making a big list of issues for me.
overall, 2008 gave me another gud brother-in-law, another gud relation, an extended family in bangalore, a good bike to ride on (not a license though :) ) and on the flip side witnessed some people walking out of my life giving a tag of junk for me!!

Human Relations-2

almost 20months ago, in Feb 2007 i have written an article by name 'human relations' which consists of a story from chandamama. purposefully i didnt make any conclusion in that and left it to the readers. At that time I have seen incidents around me which just shattered me and those made me to think abt issues like personal relations, human relations etc. Before I realise time passed very fast and here I am thinking about same issues once again. The reason this time is the recent police shootout of three youngsters and mixed response which it got from the society.
what went wrong?? this is the million dollar question which everyone wants to find an answer. there are differences between that girl and that guy and it reuslted in a breakup which he could not bear so attacked her with acid, then police shot those three guys. Now, the whole story has to be seen in two compartments, one till pouring acid and the other is shooting of those guys.

In the first episode, I cant say whether the guys did a mistake or the gal because no one knew clearly what went wrong b/n them. As I understand the feeling of desertedness and the feeling of deceived by our own people is the one which hurts humans most. I observed in one of the "whisky Lovers" community that many drink just because, some one has deserted him/her. So the heartbreak of those guys is reasonable but every human in this world has a right to live their life in their own way. So you cant say the gal did the mistake. then who on the earth did the mistake??? and I opine its the mistake of the whole society. we reached a certain stage where ethical behaviour has become an "expectation" from others :( we encourage movies where a hero needs a fiancee irrespective of his financial/family/educational/social circumstances. our films cant show a loving father as a hero. We cant see a hero achieving a target unless the target is heroin. As a socitey we didnt grew up and these kind of things are the penalty we pay for our immaturity. Just to remind this is the nth incident happened since I started following the news regularly. No one bothered to think how the present generation is peceiving relations. I observed in one of the blogs where a gal says to a boy 'I asked whether you are ready to marry me or not, but never told that I will marry you'. thats a fantastic point logically but life doesnt always go by logic.

And the second incident, which i consider is more worrying. If the police itself starts behaving like mere mercinaries then wts the good of law and IPC? and even worse situation is that woman welfare organizations are in ecstasy after that. where are we going?? if the woman welfare organizations feel that woman needs to be treated in a better way there are many other ways of showing it. Our media is already baised towards woman and they made most out of this opportunity. A crime happend is only the climax of the story and we are masters at fixing the roles of hero and villan only with climax. Now these woman organizations are saying that police did the rihgt thing?? but who is responsible for the heartbreak which that guy went? and if police did the right thing then the acid thing should also be correct.

the crux of these two things lie in the increasing violence in our society. A clear indicator of this is the number of telugu films getting 'A' certificate is increasing year by year.
Just to remind: "POKIRI" the sensational hit in tollywood also got 'A'

Sarfarosh!!!

Hai liye hathiyaar dushman taak mein baitha udhar
Aur hum taiyyaar hain seena liye apna idhar
Khoon se khelenge holi gar vatan muskhil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Haath jin mein ho junoon katt te nahi talvaar se
Sar jo uth jaate hain voh jhukte nahi lalkaar se
Aur bhadkega jo shola-sa humaare dil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Hum to ghar se nikle hi the baandhkar sar pe kafan
Jaan hatheli par liye lo barh chale hain ye qadam
Zindagi to apni mehmaan maut ki mehfil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Yuun khadaa maqtal mein qaatil kah rahaa hai baar baar
Kya tamannaa-e-shahaadat bhi kisee ke dil mein hai
Dil mein tuufaanon ki toli aur nason mein inqilaab
Hosh dushman ke udaa denge humein roko na aaj
Duur reh paaye jo humse dam kahaan manzil mein hai

Wo jism bhi kya jism hai jismein na ho khoon-e-junoon
Toofaanon se kya lade jo kashti-e-saahil mein hai

Chup khade hain aaj saare bhai mere khaamosh hain
Na karo to kuchh kaho mazhab mera mushkil mein hai

Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai.
Dekhna hai zor kitna baazuay qaatil mein hai.