Rains - as told by Raina !

As the sun is spreading his anger all over the country in the form of scorching heat, we all can do nothing but, request rains to shower its cold blessings on us. And as soon as there are some showers we feel like someone has given us some more oxygen to breathe. We welcome this rain as our ‘Atithi’ and never think of saying ‘Atithi tum kab jaoge’ ? We enjoy it to the fullest and thank god that he has sent some respite for us. But as the time passes and we reach the month of July ,when it is the actual rainy season , it sometimes becomes very hard to not to say "Yaar ab toh barsaat bandh ho" .In these heavy rains , the life comes to a standstill as the water starts accumulating on the roads , near your homes and sometimes in your rooms .You feel like not to leave your homes and enjoy having some pakodas n garam chai, but once the electricity shuts down , you start feeling uneasy , and if this continues for days , life becomes miserable.

But now we know the climate has changed since past few years and these kinds of things keep happening. I guess now we are also well prepared to handle any mishap due to heavy rains unlike what happened around 5 years back in Mumbai. I was in the final year of BE and was stuck up in college like several other Mumbaikars on 26/7.With my few friends , I left the college when the water levels were reaching up to 3 feet mark ,and slowly headed towards home. On that day many of my friends got stuck in trains, auto rickshaws, in their own vehicle, IN the bus and On the bus. Luckily we were the few to reach home that night but the journey from college to home was never as difficult as it had become that day. We all know those heavy rains resulted in flooding of many parts of Maharashtra in which many people lost their homes, loved ones and their lives. After that I had written this piece titled 'Mumbai Ki Barsaat' dedicated to 26/7, and tried to cover all the aspects of that tragedy in a light manner. Just sharing this with you guys and hoping these kinds of heavy rains never comes again.

 

मुंबई  की  बरसात  !

बरसात  का  मौसम  संग  अपने  खुशियाँ  लाता  है  , मुरझाये  हुए  फूलों  को  फिर  से  खिलाता  है  !

बादलों  से  जब हलकी  हलकी  सी  गिरे  बूँदें  , सर  उठाये  आकाश  में  रहे  हम  पलकें  मूंदें  !

बारिश का  पानी  ज़मीन  पर  उतरे  कुछ  ऐसे  , तरसी  आँखों  से  ख़ुशी  के  आंसू  छलक  जायें  जैसे  !

ऐसी  ही  बरसात   के  लिय  हर  साल  हम  तरसते  हैं  , पर  आजकल  ये आवारा  बदल  कुछ  जम  के  बरसते  हैं  !

 

मुंबई  की  बरसात  में  मज़ा  तो  खूब  आता  है  , तकलीफ  तो  तब  होती  है  जब  अपना  ही  घर  डूब  जाता  है  !

यहाँ  पानी  , वहां  पानी  , जहाँ  देखो  , तहां  पानी , यह  बरसात  तो  है  आनी-जानी  ,इसने  कब  हमारी  है  मानी  ?

दादर  से  लेकर  विरार  तक  पानी  , कुर्ला  में  पड़ी  इमरजेंसी  लगानी  , 

कलिना  में  अभी  बिजली  है  लानी  , अँधेरी  है  डूबा  और  डूबा  कमानी  !

BMC   के  झूठे  दावों  की  पोल खुल  गयी  , बड़े  बड़े  खड्डों में  जाने कितनी  गाड़ियां  फिसल  गयी  ,

वक़्त  रहते  कुछ  काम  न  किया  और  बस  आपके  सेलफोन  पे  एक  sms  भेज  दिया   ,

की  अगले  अडतालीस   घंटों  में  वर्षा  बहुत  भारी  है  ,घर  से  बहार  न  निकलें  अगर  अपनी  जान  प्यारी  है  !

यह  देख  हम  भी  कोशिश  करके  किसी  सुरक्षित  स्थान  पर  रुक  गए  ,

और  देखते  ही  देखते  बड़े  बड़े  वृक्ष  इन्द्रदेव  के  आगे  झुक  गए  !

२ दिन  बाद  बरसात  रुकी  और  इन्द्रदेव  का  क्रोध  कुछ  नरमा  गया  , 

लेकिन  ज़मीन  पर  इतना  पानी  देख  खुद  अरब  सागर  भी  शर्मा  गया  !

बरसात  से  उस  रात  हुई  तबाही  का  मंज़र  शायद  ही  कोई  भूल  पाया  होगा  ,

न जाने  कितनी  मायूस  आँखों  ने  रो  कर , फिर  सैलाब  लाया  होगा 

बरसात  का  लुत्फ़  उठाने  की  जगह  , अब  हर  कोई  इससे  डरता  है  ,

 १० -१०  फीट  पानी  जमा  हो  जाने  से  बेचारा  आम  आदमी  ही  मरता  है !

 

तो  कौन  कहता  है  कि  हमारे  देश   में  पानी  कम  है  , अपनों  सी  बिछड़ी  कितनी  आँखें  आज  भी  ग़म  से  नम  हैं  ,

कौन  यह  आंसू  पोछेगा  , आखिर  किस्में  इतना  दम  है  ,इन  आंसुओं  कि  बहती  धारा के  गुनेहगार  तो   खुद  हम  हैं !

क्यूंकि  अपनी  गलती  सुधारना  हमे  नहीं  आता  है  , आर्थिक  सुधार  का  खर्च  , सही  जगह  खर्च  नहीं  हो  पाता  है  ,

और  देश  का  हर  ठेकेदार  येहीं  रविय्या  अपनाता  है , जब  तक  अपना  घर  न  डूबे  हमारा  क्या  जाता  है  !  

हमारा  क्या  जाता  है !

Happenings !

What’s going on? What's happening? Everyone seems really busy with the fact that there is a lot, happening in their lives. Most of my classmates are getting adjusted to the new work environment, including me, and are trying to put their best in the next three months of this summer. As far as I am concerned, the rocket science of sales seems quite interesting and worth effort putting like our own Rocket Singh did, it's just the end result should be something different than what happened in the movie. Anyways the point here is that most of us are getting busy and back to our work life after enjoying the past few IPLised weeks. Yeah IPL had become a part of our life for the past 1 n half month, and now people are looking for its replacement, easily ignoring the fact that IPL entertainment has become irreplacable.So what can be done? What is there to look forward to??

I just thought of few options, see if these help:

1. WC T20? I guess NO, I have been following few matches but I would say it definitely lacks the punch, excitement, thrill which IPL had. A time has come where a Word Cup has become less interesting than a local premiere league and these matches just seem like an overdose of T20 cricket. May be the race to the final four would make it interesting but unlike IPL, the inaugural matches of the WC did not attract much attention.

2. A very promising bollywood masala flick which was torn apart by the film critics. It is believed that the audiences didn't go to watch this movie because whichever cinema hall they went, they found a board of HOUSEFULL.However I haven't seen this movie but having heard the reviews 'I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO'. Being on an expensive Bengaluru stay, I thought that there is no need to waste money on it kyunki APNI TOH JAISE TAISE KAT RAHI HAI :)

3. Recently the GOD became tech savvy and provided his disciples an opportunity to follow him on the internet; fortunately I was already a bit active on twitter so it wasn't difficult for me to get in the long long queue immediately. But being so new to twitter, the strike rate of his tweets is not as good as his batting. We will definitely get to know him more here, but slowly.

4. The news of awarding a death sentence after around 550 days to someone who finished the lives of 72 people in less than 550 seconds. What an irony of Indian judiciary which allows this accused to still appeal for his life and cry for mercy. Even though the sentence has been given, the execution might even take few more years. So even if you have missed the whole coverage, don’t worry, whole media would be back with this news after few years.

Anyways, I guess these few happenings can help you get a bit engaged for a week or so, I would like to take leave here as I am running out of time and my eyes are forcing me to shut down. So before I do some unforced typo errors, it’s a good good night to you all.