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Now the filmy world shall remember me by the name of Amrit Singh!

LOL – to think of it, Singh is King! Ha ha!

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To Kill a Mocking Bird

I wasn’t quite blown over but it was a cute and intelligent book nevertheless. The funny thing is that in spite of having bought the book for like 300 bucks, I read half of it on my comp on a PDF! There are certain codes of conduct that a consultant has to follow in office, irrespective of whether (s)he has work or not (like being clean shaven and smelling nice). One such code of conduct is to open your goddamn laptop the moment you seize your desk and then keep staring at the screen for the rest of the day. I guess that explains why I had to ditch the real book at times.

Sreejith

This guy is on my gtalk. I did couple of designs for him / his company last to last year. I saw his face on the cover of Businessworld two days ago (along with three other faces) and I went like – wow! Here is the story link – worth checking out. Congrats Sreejith for being recognized as a successful social entrepreneur and in an indirect way for making IIT Madras proud.

The concept of enemy

Just like we need friends, we need enemies – that’s the latest thing that has hit me. The more I think about it, the more interesting this theory gets. I guess it is this very nature of a human being that many have exploited and shall continue to exploit. There is always something ( or someone) who you don’t like (or you are not too sure if you like it / him). There you go – that’s your enemy and you need it (him). Sometimes you fear such a thing (or person) and sometimes you simply want to finish it (him) off – forever – by fighting it (him). Even Gandhi had an enemy – curb on freedom. So he fought for it all his life. Anyway, leaving Gandhi to Vijay Mallaya and moving aside to the usage of this everyone-needs-an-enemy concept, let me get into question-asking mode.

How would you use this basic human flaw ( that is – this despness for an enemy) if you were contesting an election? Yes, you guessed it right – you would go around telling everyone what (or who) their enemy is and then telling them  how easily you would render all such enemies harmless – if only you come to power. Sweet enough. But. But, but but – tell me what would you do if you just didn’t have the balls to actually finish of any such real enemy and you still wanted to contest and more than that, to win? Yes you guessed it right again (too good) – you would create artificial enemies that you know you can handle in your perverted ways!

So for example you could address a group of Hindus and convince them that Muslims are their enemies (even when the fact could be that a bigger enemy might be something else, like may be unavailability of  water or power or some serious shit like that). You just need to be smart enough and there you go – you get all the votes.

By the way, if you think about it, love might unite two or three people but if you want a large group (group of 10 to 10,000 to infinity – anything man, just anything) to be united, then the only thing that can work for you is – yes you guessed it right once again (man, stop guessing it right all the time for God’s sake) – enemy! Recall all those stories about bees killing a poor tiger which were supposed to teach you about the power of unity (ekta me bal hai)? But you see, the story-writer had to create an enemy in the form of tiger to prove his point!

Business Plan

I don’t really have like a plan plan but what I have is a speck of an idea – you may call it a dirty beginning or something if it pleases you. Let me begin with a question: do you think that there are millions of books lying around – just like that – totally idle kissing dust – in millions of houses all across India (and possibly the world)?

I definitely think so – I see an enormous volume of useful capital resource that’s rotting away just because nobody is doing anything about this issue. I mean it’s not like just absolutely nobody in this universe is not doing nothing but what is being done is probably not good enough, or if I may say, not smart enough. Let’s begin with second-hand book-stores.

Let me tell you why it’s not the smartest way to get books out of the black hidden corners of  so many homes by way of second-hand book-stores. Many people don’t sell their books to second hand bookstores simply because the ‘money’ that they would get from selling their books is hardly anything compared to what they earn. I mean poor people don’t read books anyway and the rich don’t need change – small cash doesn’t motivate them enough to let their books pass to new readers. Sometimes these (rich) people do sell off books simply because their homes start getting too crowded  and they believe that it’s not a good thing to throw away books generally you know. So, then they do sell books to second-hand books stores. Not very smart is the bottomline.

Second hand book-stores are not the only ways to solve this issue. There is this concept of book-exchange of course. If you Google, you will see that there are several of these book-exchange sites that exist (I could find few even in India). But, book-exchange doesn’t really sound that smart an idea again. I mean, why would I exchange my 1000 rupee book (that I have finished reading) with a 300 bucks book even if like the 300 bucks book very much and I want to read it? I can always exchange my book with a book of an equivalent value but usually what I would want to read might simply be of a different value and I can’t read some crappy book just because it costs 1000k. I am sure you got my point and hence the obvious problem of book-exchange.

So I am thinking that if I could somehow make these unutilized books flow – from one hand to another by using some other way to motivate these book owners, wouldn’t it be nice? I think I need to promote the idea that it’s a BAD thing to let your books rot away unless you really have a good library of your own – that’s pretty much my plan as of now. How exactly I would execute this is a secret (LOL – even to me, if you ask me).

Phew! Loooong post! Before I end, “India After Gandhi” is the studdest history books that I have ever read – it’s like the most interesting way one could have written a book on all that happened in India after independence. Alrighty, shall leave you all on that – cyao.

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‘First you say you won’t marry for another five years and now you say that you won’t marry to anyone from our caste! What is this drama? If you have already found someone then let us know about her than trying to fool around withe me’, so said the mom. She had called up yesterday evening to inquire about the reality of whatever bro had done in Goa that had invited a fine as high as 20k. I told her that if she really wanted to know the reality then she should rather call up his college than expect me to act as my parent’s inquiry commission. She only knew that such a fine had been imposed because bro had freaked out some time back, had called parents up and informed them. After I was over telling her that till she got any official letter from his college  there was no point worrying, I gave her fresh reasons to worry – her plans for my marriage of course.

I told her that I was only making her job easier because earlier she had a small group at her disposal while now she had the entire world minus this small group where she could go hunting for a bride for her son. ‘At least in my case, you still have the option to choose. Look at bro or for that matter look at sis – they have already chosen their partners’, I said in an attempt to make it clear to dear mummy that things could have been bleaker, that it was good enough I wasn’t seeing anyone currently unlike my siblings. ‘But why such a decision at all? We all have been marrying people from within our caste for so long – so do others’, she had her genuine concerns but her if-everyone-does-it-we-should-do-it-too logic was too weak to sustain my social-reformist blows.

To be frank, mom’s not a hurdle at all – it’s him – daddy dear. What I did yesterday was, move the first step in the right direction. I was not even arguing with mom. I never have to argue with her – she is too sweet to argue and too easy to get on to your side. I was simply trying to get her on my side before she passes on my crazy plans to dad. It’s him who is going to be a hurdle, a Mount Everest to conquest. He sometimes even doesn’t listen to you. It would be interesting getting him on my side. But since I already have God on my side – I know I shall succeed, if not in five years,  then may be in ten years or may be fifty. When you are doing the right thing, you don’t even have to win – you are already a winner, right from the beginning. Only the rest of the world needs some time to acknowledge you as one.

Ah so yeah, I am not marrying nobody from my caste AND I am definitely not marrying nobody who says he would get converted to a female for me (even with a shaved ass-hole ).

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I really don’t care about a person’s caste. Most of us – you and me, young people who use internet to read and write blogs don’t care about a person’s caste. We are fans of hindu marrying muslims like Shahrukh Khans or muslim marrying hindus like Hrithik Roshans. But when it comes to ourselves, we so easily give in to our dogmatic parents and their caste-gripped wishes. I so wish that this caste system goes away – and in my time. I don’t know about others but I am going to do something about it in my own way. I have decided today that if and when I marry a girl, she won’t be from my caste. It’s as simple as that. Any non-brahmin would do or better still – a muslim.

I already know I will have a tough time explaining this decision to my parents. If they don’t agree, I will probably never get married, that’s fine – I anyway don’t plan to get married because I don’t see why would anyone marry me when I don’t plan to give birth to a child! Yeah, you read it correct and I say so not because I am impotent but because I find it illogical to reproduce when there motherless babies struggling to survive everywhere. At the same time, every time I think of adopting kids, I realize that I do need a partner who can raise them. So may be, if I find someone like that – a good looking girl who is fit and who runs and who doesn’t want to reproduce and who is as crazy for an inter-caste marriage as I am, I might marry. Anyone would marry such a girl – won’t he?

I think the age has come when we should promote inter-caste marriages, marriages between hindus and muslims, south Indians and north Indians, and all sorts of different people. Imagine the variety of minds that would breed then (assuming others shall indeed give birth to children, unlike me ) , the kind of mix the new generation will have! And imagine how difficult it would become for our politicians to communalize the society, to instigate riots. Of course people like Raj Thackery would pick up other ways to divide people – if not on caste, then on state (as he has been doing since quite some time) and if not on state then on something else. Thus, I don’t think that even the complete abolition of the caste system is really going to help citizens from being divided. It however would definitely take us one step forward  towards being a stronger and a united nation – one India.

Jai Hind.

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It feels sweet to have run so much that the sturdy Reebok shoes purchased in May last year have  finally worn out. The sole of the right shoe is dying to get free from rest of the body. I picked up new shoes today – feet are happy and running shall be delightful.

It also feels sweet when you finish reading thick books (remember Nehru?). Any book which has more than 500 pages is thick for me. ‘Brisingr’ was one of them – I am done with it finally. – phew!  While reading ‘Brisingr’, I also picked up The White Tiger one fine day in Kolkata and wrapped it up in one go, on my way to Bhubaneswar. I found it to be an average book. ‘Between the Assassinations’ by Adiga had cuter stories. Anyway, that apart, since my stock of unread books got over with Brisingr today, I picked up two new books.

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