… AND SO WE FORGET! – THE 26/11 TRAGEDY (18th Nov 2009, 1350 Hrs)

Just after a week, rich & famous, celebrities & socialites and most of the senseless Mumbaikars will go all out to celebrate the dreaded terrorist attack on 26/11. That is right folks because for them, any event, horrible or non-happening, is an excuse to hog the limelight in Dailies Page 3 celebrating to the hilt even though hundreds of innocent lives were lost showing how incapable our government has been to secure our country and safeguard us. Well, the celebration, which has been planned by many celebrities just to hog those columns in dailies to show how much they care about their countrymen’s lives, families who have lost their family heads or relatives, are in fact, planning to resurrect their already dead existence from the party circuit. How callous they can be to celebrate over other’s dead bodies? Do we really care folks?...

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IT’S AMAZING, REALLY, TO BE AN INDIAN! (17^th Nov 2009, 1255 Hrs)

We Indians are really amazing bunch of people, who realise the importance of being Indian, only when we are overseas and not otherwise. When we are at home, we fight among ourselves over trivial issues like language, religion, caste, creed and states… thereby creating chaos and mayhem in the society. However, isn’t it funny that when we are in any foreign countries, we search for Indians, irrespective of what language he may speak, which caste and creed he belongs to or else which religion he follows… if he is an Indian, we feel a sense of safety, comfort and sense of pride. The bonding is almost instantaneous and we don’t even hesitate to reminisce all those beautiful moments of growing up years in India, sharing with joy and pride to be an Indian....

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CHANGE

Six different alphabets
Remained unchanged
From time immemorial
Just like human’s thinking

The word, now a cliché
Shaped the modern world, yet
The thinking
Remained unchanged like the word

The world presumed
All the changes to be wonderful
Increased comforts for a few
Inventions, discoveries alike

KHUSHI KI TALASH MEIN

Milti nahin hai woh khushi
Jiski talash hai
Dard magar mil jata hai
Jiski na chah hai
Hai zindagi bhi ajeeb yaaron
Samjha na jise koi ab talak
Mar rahe hain sabhi
Phir bhi jeene ki ek chah hai
Tadap rahein hain har ek pal
Khushi ki phir bhi talash hai
Khushi ki phir bhi talash hai…

Johnny D
6th November 2009
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AN INDIAN IS NOT AN INDIAN IN INDIA BECAUSE… (9^th Nov 2009, 1555 Hrs)

He cannot and is not allowed to speak in Hindi in India.

He cannot and will not be allowed to work in any part of India, he wishes.

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