A day on train .....from south to north

People say lifei s a journey and on these faithful journey, we got to see and observe lot and lot of things that were worth to mention, observe and reflect on .

I want to quote Stevenson's 'those woods are lovely but I still have miles to go ....' indeed it was an experience of my lifetime when i boarded these faithful ' Sampark Kranti Express ' from Banglore to Delhi, this week. I got to feel the real taste of India .. There was these Aunty( we call her dadi but she says she is not old enough to be dadi...so she is called aunty )from Punjab settled in Banglore, and there was Arindam from secunderabd ( bengali babu) , Hitesh ( marwari from hyderabad), Ardik ( nagpur) studying in bangalore, zeenat ( from aligarh now settled in dubai),kishore ( bangalorean )then myself and lisa .Any way, there at this faithful journey that God had bestowed on us, we discussed , talked, chat, gossip everything, anything that comes from our mouth.. and believe you me , the two nights that we spend on the train were worrth, right from insurgency in north east states to the cultures there, we talked about food habits in south india, how it is different from north india , the night life in dubai to the ttype of lifestyle in nagpur ,how the roads were in bangalore to how the girls are trated in dubai , how the newly wedded woman cope up with new life to how a saas behave with her bahu to how a cross culture relationship survives or is going to survive, by the way we all comprise of different age groups ( 15 - 70) an we all gel well, except that on the first night we have had to face some bullying from punjabi aunty, yes we were made to standstll for hours coz she doesn't allow us to occupy her sit, finally on the next morning ,we were saved from her wretch by one mulla uncle( oops i forget to mention him, by the way there were an old aged couple from bangalore to nagpur)who dares to stop her, but still being very vocal as you know old women ( i didn't mean these to women folks ,ok) she was adamant ..."kyu haat lagaya , mere saman ko , apni ma baap ne shikhaya nahi... oh! all those bhasans she gave , that she nwarly killed ardik from her vocal tratment coz poor ardik didn't have anything ,so she started tormenting her like are you on budget? are you on diet? you should have told me ,i could have share my food with you ? did you inform your parents to cook food for you / all these nonsense make him nauseated. And on first night to you should have seen the fun of chit chating , me with ardik, lisa with arindam, zeenat with the marwari guy...all of us grossed with nonsense and sensible talk till the wee hours ( sorry for my co passengers who had to bear our talks .)of early morning , and by four o clock our mulla uncle offer his namaz ,by five o clock punjabi aunty started her kirtan ..guess how the other people might have suffer on our bogey, my heartiest apologies to all of them. And, that was the first night , but the second night was of more fun , zeenat was frusrated with her marriage and poor me, as i am a late sleeper had to face her frustrations , whole night i was listening to her woes or her so called stories ....But nevertheless , it was a journey of lifetime . For the first time, i came across cross culture in person from south, east ,west and north.. sharing our foods ,thoughts ideas and many other things,, it just occurs to me that India is indeed unity in diversity, irrespective of taunts that we use to get from those third class or uncderclass citizens , there are still sections of people whom we can interact and continue our dialogues.
Finally, and not the least , I want to end these by saying that we always try to marginalise people when in real its not like that. We should be more forward and open to others so that we can communicate others well , gel well with them.

LOVE ...21ST CENTURY

One fine day, out of nowhere , a thought just arises out of my mind. Now I don’t know whether its my curiosity or my insecureness, but whatever I just asked my friend ( one of my best friend) that HOW DOES ONE FIND ITSELF IN LOVE ? I was expecting many romantic kind of answers , very touchy lyrical sort of answers, coz I myself was just wandering in these phase, but his answers stumped me . His answer was very simple , Love according to him was when a boy meets a girl and it ends when they had sex. It ends when they had sex....what an uncanny answer ,I nearly vomit myself. Ever in my world did I ever thought of these , I mean my friend has just corrupted these powerful word LOVE into some kind of infatuation. The bible clearly indicates that Love is from God ( 1 John 4:8) .With due course, if we opened our Bible ,the book of Genesis clearly mentioned “ created in the image of God”.
Now ,circa 21st century I wondered where these thoughts has vapourised. Yes ,clearly and statistically I want to be in love, by the way I have been in Love, in relationship, but these thought never come to my mind “ sex”. By the way, I want to remind again that by expressing such things, I am not trying to be over spiritual nor religious , every person has his/her own rights to express love , but not to these level of sexual love. Come fall in love, be in love , but don’t think of just sex.. please refrain yourself, can’t you just wait for that ultimate day!