Falak Se Chaand Tak ( Sky and Beyond)

Like a reverie one wakes up from, Baby Falak will vanish from our conscience and our lives will go on, the way they were.

I still quiver when I recollect the horrific images of dreadfully defaced and abused women and children, some of them hardly 2 or 3 years old. The deep shame and disgust I felt with the male of the species, the main perpetrators of such crimes, is yet to leave me.

When I woke up to the news of Baby Falak passing away, my instant response at the time, nonetheless, was fury. Antagonism - not just at the perpetrators capable of such malevolence, such wickedness, but also at the law structure which permits them to subsist. Regardless of laws and regulations against parents deserting young children, against child abuse, against sexual abuse, against kidnapping – yet such crimes happen right infront of us. I wonder if Baby Falak was infact born to just show us how dead we are as a society.

If there’s a sole thing that makes me advocate the capital punishment, it is this.

Rapists and child molesters have no right to live. They ought to have an agonizingly painful and public execution. Given that the damage that they cause cannot be expunged with just a death penalty.

My verdict: If we were to lengthen this further, shouldn’t all those who abuse, exploit and prey upon the frail, the infantile and the vulnerable—in whatever way – also witness a similar doom?

Hopefully, Baby Falak was fortunate enough to wake up from this nightmare to find her in a better world.

Rest in Peace.

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The Big 30

Okay. So this post has been delayed. I intended writing and posting this around my 30^th Birthday, so sooner or later, its here.

I have never feared turning 30. A few years back, I use to infact look forward to take a leap into the Third Tier, anxious to abandon the immaturity, self-distrust of the 20s.

As I mentioned earlier it’s been more than a month now that I turned 30. “I don't feel like an old duck. Infact, I don't even feel grown-up,” I said to myself on the morning of my 30th birthday when everyone wishing me was asking me “So how many years?” I don’t think I have arrived, still time to reach there. But I can see the target. It's still on a hill, and fortunately I no more look from the bottom of the valley any longer. I can shape a comprehensible trail if I stay focused.

So, in to celebrate a much awaited milestone in my life, I jotted down a few things women should be acquainted with by the time 30 comes knocking. This is the (half-done) list:

*Love is a verb. Love devoid of emotions, feelings etc means absolutely nothing and can stand null and void.

*Rage does not equate to being stronger, it equates to being angry. Loud does not mean right and wont set anything right.

*If he is The One, he will be The One. When you're being pushy and compelling him to be the one it, you’re not doing it right. Take a break and search for the Next One to be The One.

*Discover treating people with the same perceptive and understanding you would like to receive. You're cannot be perfect. Neither can anyone else be.

*Be a globetrotter. Go around exploring the untouched places, food, cultures etc. Learn how to greet in a native language, and especially learn to say “Thank You” with a smile in their language.

*Enjoy your company. If you don’t like your own company, how do you suppose anyone else will? Begin with a film at a theatre; then move on to lunch, then dinner, all by yourself. And then maybe someday graduate to going to a destination all by yourself.

*Begin trusting yourself. A billion people will narrate you a billion stories -- few factual, few fabricated. If it sounds like a lie, it more often than not is. If it sounds right, it could be. Give credence to your gutfeel.

*Mistakes are lessons in disguise. You’re allowed to make mistake, even blunders but if you learn from your mistakes, your mistake is not useless. Avoid saying sorry for the same thing more than once

*Welcome old age with open arms. There can be nothing worse for a woman who doesn’t age charmingly. If you’re envious of the youth, take comfort in that – By rule of life and God’s grace -- young people ultimately age too.

Most of the above mentioned things, I have accomplished. Some I need to.

What else do you feel should be on the list of what women need to know by 30? Share with me.

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Predictions for the Year 2012

So, the Mayans did run out of space on the wheel, to end the world in the year 2012, eh? Well, congratulations, the world’s not coming to an end this year – not yet. However I do have some prophecies for all of you for the year 2012. Read On!

It is astounding how short a day can be at times, yet the months dash by like a rollicking train. And the years? The years are simply on the run, man!

Today I have few very-precise New Year forecasts for you. In 2012, you will eventually earn that pedicure you have been meaning to get for a while now.

You will decelerate.

Eat a lot more cheese and cake. Devoid of the icing of course.

Take things less personally. Misinterpret less and understand more.

You will befriend your body. Begin now. Say, hi body, you are quite pleasant to embrace. Body craves and loves attention of that sort. It will shine. And wish to do more things along with you.

In the Year 2012, you will hear less and listen more and Listen better.

Do the similar chore in lesser time.

You will start to become the chief. Your own Boss. Afterall, that is what you were born to do in the first place?

Few years back, one of my good friend and I were strolling by. She inquired me about my love life.

“Is this the man you love – the One?” she inquired about my then boyfriend.

“Certainly yes, I am quite sure,” I retorted.

“How are you so sure?” she again asked.

“To be honest, I feel so contented and sheltered when he is around. And I actually feel dejected and so lost without him.”

“That doesn’t sound correct, Manasi?” said she. “Your relationship shouldn’t be bearing that burden. You should be contented and secure all by yourself.”

What she said made no sense to me back then. I was smitten deep down in love and she didn’t realize.

I did, however, stock up that discussion for potential reference, in my mind though. It must be 5 years later today. I’m still in love with the same man (now my husband) in the same way and he still makes me feel wanted, happy and secure but what my friend said to me that day makes perfect sense now. Just right.

Much more of this will take place in the year 2012. Old cherished and not so memorable tales will reappear, along with their straightforward memories and lessons. You will select them out of slender air and adorn them like a veil. Or a corona. Smile a sinful grin.

You will begin writing your own book. You will begin singing your own song out of your bathroom and perhaps even cut an album. You will begin walking your own path. You will select your own counter.

You will discover how to tell your own stories stories by letting your listener narrate you her own. You will have pleased listeners.

Carry on. Even your errors have their reasons. Leap over into a brand new year, singing your melody, leaving qualms behind.

Everyone who loves you will find you and everyone you love will find you all over again.

Happy New Year.

It shall turn out for you.

And for me.

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Metamorphosis

The ocean tumults to a powerful peak,

Glaciers render down into the sea,
All to egotism without a shadow.
All beneath the time's trial.

Clay won’t be cordial eternally,
Only until it turns stiff.
Sponge won’t soak up forever,
it drips them out afterward.

There is a bound restraining everything,
further than which it alters to nothing.
You don't stay the same,
forever.

I ain’t what I was.
I won’t be what I am.
I am under the unvarying
spell of transformation.

Forever is Never...

Here’s to a new beginnings in the year 2012

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