DOST POST!

This post is a COMMENT on my previous post MISSED RECALLS (PART-2).
The following are the reasons which prompted me to POST the comment received from a friend.
1) I receive very less no. of comments. (It doesn't mean that all the comments would be posted by me. Special ones might have a mention.)
2) I liked the comment.
3) The comment comes from a dear friend.
4) People or the Reader(S) in this case does (do) not bother to read my posts, let alone the COMMENTS on it.
So, in order to make the readers read the comment as well, I have decided to post it separately.

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The mention of the great sacred wall was really a must...certain things take a place in our lives and become an integral part of the system unknowingly...we realize their importance only when we part from them...(Refer: Herzberg's 2 factor theory...I often used to give such references while sitting on the sacred wall and the next moment someone..Most of the times Iyer.. would push/pull me down)...The great wall of CRCE is one such example...watching the profs walking down the slope...Ameya imitating them within a fraction of sec, even before they got into a rick...seeing Sid and VK (Jack n jill coming down the hill)...BJD walking down slowly..like this ,_/ \_, with his hand bag too offset from his body...NMJ marching down like Thorle Bajiro Peshwa...MD, Munshi,Prabhu, Pandit like a bunch of sincere kids pretending that they were not watching us...sometimes shehenshah-e-NC...walking down like a Sultan sometimes waving his fans and then getting into a TAXI...that used to be a majestic thing to watch...(except for his acidity)...and a group of comps/elex ladies (kiti party gang...who used to have parties in the micro processor lab)...We can call this wall as a great observation point from which the most chilled out species of CRCE would observe their Predators who would screw them in Vivas (the description of which you would probably read in Ameya's articles)...and there was a medium sized tree in front of this wall which used to facilitate the observation and had another special significance (some guys in our class had seen this tree growing from a 2 ft shrub..also this tree was a home of a specie which symbolised a prof. and often gave Prashad on the heads of his fans)...I remember the last Euphoria night when all of us were sitting on this wall and recollecting all the memories of four years..that night was devine...We the PRODEVILS walked down BANDSTAND singing songs...venting out our (highest)spirit...the spirit of ONENESS...forgetting all over differences...singing our hearts out...somewhere knowing at the back of our minds that this would be the LAST night...the LAST time when WE were together...there was a joy on our faces but some tears rolling down...the work hardened spirits were experiencing the AIR n the aura of BAndstand knowing that these days would never come back...and we reach the wall finally...we sat there for the last time...I remember every moment...We lived that moment...and everyone of us wanted to live it...those final 4 hours were great...probably everyone wanted to have it till eternity.....I remember a shloka at this point...."yaThA kAshTam cha kAshTam cha samEyAtAm mahArNavE, samEthya cha vyapEyAtAm kAlamAsAdhya kanchana."

 -Pranav Gulavane.
   4511.
   B-Batch.
   Red Group.
   BE PRODUCTION.
   Fr.CRCE.

   And also a WALLture.

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The MISSED RECALLS (PART-3) coming up shortly.

LATER.

MISSED RECALLS! ( PART-2)

This post is the continuation of Missed recalls(Part 1). Before reading further, visit and read the following link so that you can relate the babble and do not feel lost. 

http://blessedbutbored.blogspot.com/2010/02/missed-recalls-part-1.html

Caution 1): The author wrote the following piece while in total control over his own mind & supreme concentration, with zero % alcohol in his blood. At least,he believes he did. The reader(s) may feel otherwise.

Caution 2): All characters  appearing in this work are real and alive. Just in case some one's already dead, the author can not be blamed for  the same. At the same time, the author states it clearly that the above "ALL PERSONS FICTITIOUS DISCLAIMER" as fictitious in itself.

Caution 3): Please do not kill or injure the author for his heinous act of unnecessarily stating the above two CAUTIONS.

Caution 4): The above caution is in itself a CAUTION taken by the author & the author assumes that not a single reader noticed it.

MISSED RECALLS (PART-2)

DATE: MAY, 2009.

LOCATION: BANDSTAND, BANDRA.

CHARACTERS: THAT’S A LOOOOOONG LIST. PUT 76 PEER PEOPLE (wrong to call them PEERS, they are more than just colleagues) & A FEW LECTURERS.

OTHER DETAILS: VIVA TIME. A TAPRI. A SAPLESS, DECREPIT WALL WITH A GARDEN BEHIND, AND THE INTERMINABLE ARABIAN SEA IN THE BACKGROUND ACCOMPANIED BY FRESH BREEZE.

AND. A LOT OF ANXIETY AND LACK OF SUBJECT PREPARATION. And whatever else the situation demands.

This is followed by a few more instructions. The VID’eyelids’ sense a few visuals. The system says it is ready for execution. And it begins. Back to 2008.

I can see myself. Much younger. Not much physically fit though.

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8:00 A.M.

ME:“Boss, when are you leaving? We’ll go by an AUTO. I am yet to finish the whole syllabus once, forget about revision. Of course,Bath.Brush.Breakfast pending.”

IYER: “ Such mein yaar. Just now I spoke to Pranav, he is coming with Bhide to the college at 9:15. We shall also reach by the time. Ok, toh Shoppers’ Stop pe at 8:45. OK? I’ll get ready in 10 mins…

ME: Tere 10 mins mujhe pata hai. Boss, we need to reach on time. I have a lot of DOUBTS to be cleared. Mallu has got some important notes. Nadar has some VIKRAM Notes too. We have to ‘Go Through’ them all.

IYER: I’ll be there at 8:45. OK. Even I am yet to take a bath & do breakfast.

I hung up the phone.

Although it was always me giving Iyer a dosage for his ‘usual’10 mins delay, it was his turn today to avenge, when I arrived at the decided place at 9:05 am.  10x2 mins late. I had to eat my own words. The Autowala had earlier confirmed that he knew the route up to the Bandra SV Road signal. REALLY BIG DEAL. I guess he & Mr. S.V. himself are the only people cognizant about the BRAHMAGYAN that is the mystic S.V.Road. TOO SIMPLY STRAIGHT PATH I GUESS.  To add insult to the injury were the many criss-crossed INDUS- VALLEY-CIVILISATION-inspired BANDRA LANES. Each time you visit Bandra, you come across a new LANE that had been unknown to you till date. Even the Bandra residents agree to this.

DIGRESSION 1.0

I got reminded of the time when one day I, Mallu & CR could not locate ‘JUST AROUND THE CORNER’. We had been to every CORNER of BANDRA, but JUST NOT AROUND THE CORNER. Pali Hill to Carter Road. National College to Andrews. Some B-Grade movie hall (PINKY I guess, bgrade movie hall always IS named as PINKY, should be named NEELY) to Bhabha hospital. This was repeated at least 4 times. A BONUS for the Rickshawala. And finally when we saw the hallowed JATC, we also noticed that the place was all broken apart and the NOTICE said “UNDER RENOVATION. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE”. KLPD. Actually BBPD. Bulging Belly Par Dhoka. More to this scrimmage with luck was the decision made by the aforementioned BBPDied people to watch JODHAA AKBAR. 4 Hr Movie. And on the very day the mid-terms got over. The frustration caused by the midterms can be enormous. While watching the movie, I remember how all the 3 of us went berserk, laughing uncontrollably, at the SLOW motion picture that is the JODHAA AKBAR. Even the supposing sensual scenes were shot at the slow pace. Few septuagenarians naturally got irritated by our behavior.

DIGRESSION 1.0 ENDS. REVERIE ENDS.

9:30 A.M. Bandstand.

So, finally we reach the LAND’S END. And as is the habit, I try to locate my friends at the garden or on the WALL while we both pay for the Auto. Aashiq is seen holding a ciggy & chai, standing on his wide spread stance. Pranav notices us. But, looks away into the notes he’s reading. This is the First step of the ragpatti ( always involving Iyer)to follow. Aayush (Of course, his hair disheveled) is there in the garden with Pappu & Bhaiya.  Pappu has a look on his face that says “Let me go,Aayush! Mhatre and Vilas are waiting for me in the Library”. Pranav & Iyer get busy with their RAGPATTI. CR’s there (unshaven blonde beard look), sporting a wide grin that makes me anticipate a situation-based, professor-subject directed PJ. His turn for the VIVA is scheduled second from the last i.e. at around 3 PM, but still he comes early. 6 hours early. Probably, for KNOWLEDGE SHARING. And the WALL & the garden behind it are the best places for it. There is Mallu, Rao& Nag, the Autorickshaw triad. They have a different subject VIVA. Bhumesh shows Iyer a writing pad with a SYNOPSIS of an entire engineering subject hand-written on it. Anoop is seen getting down from 211 & directing himself straight towards us with headset in his ears. Now one can expect a deafening laugh. And the sheer uselessness of the invention of a mike. And then, there is NADAR. With his legs crossed sitting peacefully on the WALL (I am joking! He cannot sit peacefully till the time Rao, Mallu & others are around him.), with VIKRAM notes in his hand, mouth wide open, a ciggy in the other hand, and occasionally uttering “MASTI MAT KAR!” (TAPLI EFFECT). The Xeroxed (love the word) notes in his hand are either completely blackened or completely blank. What can be expected from the Xeroxed from the Xeroxed from the Xeroxed….. (Exponentially Xeroxed in short) copies?

There’s lot of “Yeh sab mat padh re! Yeh nahi poochenge!” All, turn by turn, explain why they feel unlucky for the KIND of VIVA partner they have! Pranav imitates the automobile freak ” What’s your good name,Sir? What is your job profile?” The automobile freak doesn’t have the common sense of occasion & the queries to be asked on such occasions. Iyer, sandwiched between 2 more Iyers, is distressed by the FACT & the TRUTH that he is the most capable of the three Iyers. It can be a burden really. I explain how the GEEK & innocent looking bewkoof VIVA partner of mine can prove to be dangerous. How the guy shows the audacity to interrupt you while you try to answer the Professor during the VIVA. While I avow to run down cactus (of course, with red chilly powder on it) through his ass crack as soon as we both get out of the VIVA room. HAHA! While sometimes the partners do change, but it is the USUAL SUSPECTS grouped together mostly. Anoop, sweating like a pig, feels an intense urge to go upstairs; he being one of the SACRIFYING openers at the VIVA. Feel sorry for the people who are lined up among the first for the VIVA. Amidst all this embroil, there are a lot of jokes, abuses. Fun in short. Few of us enter the college, time to time, as our VIVA turn nears. I sit there, asphyxiated due to passive smoking.

The moment the first two finish their VIVA, they are inundated by 'others to follow'. “KYA POOCHA? COOL HAI NA SAB? EXTERNAL KAISA HAI? TOLERANCE CHART POOCHA KYA?”

(To Be Continued…)

MISSED RECALLS! ( PART-1)

Effrontery- Making a Presumption of an invention of a phone that would be located at the vocal chord of the  humans. And a headset embedded in the outer skin of the ear. Highly developed eye-lids.All by 2049.

8^th FEBRUARY, 2049. INDIA.

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers (3000 Light Years away): Hello! Am I hearable? Hello! Is it Reminiscenizers?? This is Ameya AB from The Surya-Srishti Solar System (I know this is too much optimism & an unprecedented assumption made on the belief that India WOULD be a SUPERDUPERpower & a tech-Hub. And it will have all the fucking right to give the solar system a BHARAT oriented name). I am from the Earth. Is any body there to answer?

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Good Evening Sir! Hello! This is Neha speaking. I am a service executive at The Reminiscenizers. 3000 Light Years away from the Earth. Tell me Sir, how can I help you?

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers: Ohhooohoho! Hi! Really? Neha Really? I thought you guys were limited to English! Neha! Awesome! Do you know other ‘Earthly’ languages like Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam??

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: The other languages are being decoded, Sir. The work will be done soon! How can I help you, Sir?

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers: OK! Back to the purpose of the call! You people are so focused. I have heard a lot about your Organization from a few fellow fumans…uhh humans. What kind of services do you provide? Brief me about it!

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Yes! Mr. Ameya AB! We have a wide range of products and services to offer. Our Top Dog is ‘The Reminiscence Channel’. That’s how we have zeroed in the name of our company, The Reminiscenizers. If you happen to use the service, you will be the first one to do so.

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers:

You mean ‘The Reminiscence Channel’? Sounds interesting! What kind of reminiscence? What about the other products?

 Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Yes! Mr. Ameya AB! The range is great. But, our system shows that your mind, at this point of time specifically, is in an outstanding need of ‘The Reminiscence Channel’. And…. ( interrupted)

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers:

How can you say that? I mean, are you reading what’s on my mind? And how can you be so sure of that?

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Yes! Mr. Ameya AB! Our system is highly sophisticated. To explain it all to you will kill a lot of your valuable time, Sir!

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers: OK! And you CAN stop repeatedly calling me Mr.Ameya AB! Simply say Ameya. Tell me how this newly developed product will help its ‘First Time’ user. And of course, its safety features.

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Yes! Mr. Ameya AB!  (IRRITATED I listen!)The product is safe to use. It provides you with an opportunity to flash back your mind and concentrate on to a particular day, event, time duration of your life as per your choice, Sir!

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers: I go back a few years and re-live the past moments! Is it?

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: You shall see those moments again. But, the re-living facility is non-existent. Only the ALMIGHTY and the TRIMURTI can do it. ..(interrupted)

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers: You know about the TRIMURTI? AMAZING! You guys there are so ahead of time. Actually, ASTONISHINGLY ADVANCED TO GO BACK AND REWIND THE TIME. I am too excited to keep on talking. I want to use this re-living tool. But, before that, fix the deal.

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Yes! Mr. Ameya AB! (Again! Phew! I bang my fist on the table! Causing 8.3 Richter scale Shakiness.)Our methodology is different from that which works best back on your Earth. We first provide you with the product and then go about its trading and dealing stuff. So, do you want to use our product, Sir?

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers: I am looking forward to use it. But, I hope it won’t cost me a fortune. I need an assurance that I won’t be deceived.

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Of Course not, Sir! We aren’t humans!

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers: Put a check on your comments!!!! OK! Leave it! Let’s start.

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Yes, Sir! The product will be loaded on your system and through your VID’eyelids’, the past event will be played. This will require a processing time of 2 mins. I am loading it on your system. Are you Ready, Sir?

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers:

Sure! I am eagerly waiting.

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: But before that Sir, we want you to give us some important features of the time period you wish to RE-LIVE. Some important details like the year or the specific date to go to, characters,location,etc.

Ameya AB with Hands-free, Handset-free, Vocal chord chip-phone connecting to Reminiscenizers:  Do not remember the exact date. But I can specify the year. OK?

Input to Ameya AB Audiledermo: Yes Sir! Mention the details when told to do so by our product.

The program loads onto my system.  

A brief of ‘The Reminiscence Channel’ is being played. 

 It was as boring as any Self-Help Manual. And it BEGINS.  

 I start giving all the details they ask for.

DATE: MAY, 2009.

 

LOCATION: BANDSTAND, BANDRA.

CHARACTERS: THAT’S A LOOOOOONG LIST. PUT 76 PEER (wrong to call them PEER, they are more than just colleagues) PEOPLE, A FEW LECTURERS.

OTHER DETAILS: VIVA TIME. A TAPRI. A SAPLESS, DECREPIT WALL WITH A GARDEN, AND THE INTERMINABLE ARABIAN SEA IN THE BACKGROUND ACCOMPANIED BY FRESH BREEZE.

AND. A LOT OF ANXIETY AND LACK OF SUBJECT PREPARATION. And whatever else the situation demands.

This is followed by a few more instructions. The VID’eyelids’ sense a few visuals. The system says it is ready for execution. And it begins. Back to 2008.

OhohHohh! 

I can see myself. Much younger. Not much physically fit though.

( To Be Continued...) 

THE GREAT INDIAN TAMASHA!

  

That Mumbai belongs to Marathas or the Shiv-Sena is a sheer non-sense. Mumbai can not be a personal property or estate. That Section *** is ubiquitous within the Indian borders is obvious. Then, why is it that the TOPIWALAs get so much of press coverage for stating, re-stating, again re-stating, and also emphasizing on it in the State nearing another State election (Bihar)? Why saying it only in Bihar?  Uddhav’s statement that “Taali Ek haath se nahi bajti!” is so hackneyed, yet true and Rahul Gandhi gave a nice justification to it today.** I agree with Uddhav’s statement, do not agree with him.

 Why was the train NAUTANKI done? What for? To defy Shiv-Sena/MNS? And if so, were the ends met? Is the JUNTA a fool? Why doesn’t every TOPIWALA travel by the common man’s vehicle everyday?

I haven’t seen the media coverage on the TV. But, I anticipate Kripa Shankar Singh’s presence near the TAMASHA stage. How famous is Kripa for his being a FLIGHT RECEIVER! He is always present at the airport to receive other fellow TOPIWALAs with bouquets, flowers and other paraphernalia.

INDIA cannot remain indifferent to (or about) PAK. And R Gandhi made silly statements about his views on PAK. Another silly statement made was about the participation of NSG (and that too from Bihar) during the 26/11 crises. And I thought the NSG i.e. NATIONAL Security Guard was over and above any regional limitations. I think what Rahul meant was that it was BIHAR NATIONAL Security Guard that, almost on its own, got Mumbai out of the cataclysm. Isn’t this behavior parochial, expedient and advantageous? Why blame and accuse only the Shiv Sena/MNS? Or is it more like a “SECULAR” TAMASHA as against the “DIVISIVE” TAMASHA that we the people, the Indians are overlooking at?

What was sensed to be an OASIS is turning out to be a MIRAGE! *SIGN*

He visits a place comprising of low caste people in majority. He calls them DALIT. Shares a meal with them. Of course, the NAUTANKI is on every NEWS channel. My question is: Why call them DALITS in the first place? *SIGN*

In all the mussiness, the primary or the core problem is often unanswered, un-looked-upon! That very problem about Mumbai’s capacity to accommodate more people. Is there a need for amendment of Section *** for this particular Mumbai case? All this WORK to be done is often forgotten about. The practicability of the issue is never discussed. Only NAUTANKI and TAMASHA is shown to the media influenced public.

Why only SRK has to express lament over the PAK players’ omission from IPL? Why not PZ, Shetty girl or Ambani, Mallya ? And how is it helping SRK in promoting his film!  Well timed stunt, isn’t it? Last year, he made a silly comment on Sunil Gavaskar’s cricketing acumen! No wonder how the act instigated the emergence of fakeiplplayer blog. His opinions about other contemporary actors ( on various TV Shows) show his insecurity even after being in the film industry all these years. MNIK will get a grand opening. The film will earn a lot of moolah overseas. KJo getting richer by 200 crores is again, obvious.

I don’t intend to support anybody in particular. Because I don’t actually. My post is not meant to make an argument stand on its head.

AND.*SIGN* I am not a media-influenced, emotional fool. Are you? If not, COMMENT!

LATER.