Death spares no one

He woke up early, jumped off his bed, switched off the night lamp and rushed to the kitchen in hurry with totally fucked up mood.

He switched the gas stove on and looked for the tea pan. He found it stuck among the other utensils on one of the shelves. He struggled to pull it out. Some of them fell on the ground and the kitchen filled with musical rhythm as if a kid was weeping monotonously after he got slapped by his mother.  He placed his feet on them - one by one to calm them down.

He threw tea pan on the flame and poured some water into it and then added milk into it. He didn’t wait for anything and added sugar and tea leaf into the liquid mixture. He scratched his head and ran to the balcony.

Dawn was about to break down. He looked into trees and scratched his head.

He had woken up irritated. Every second the thought of death was creeping over him from his toe to head.
I’ll die soon. The words echoed in his head.

He came back to the kitchen and found the tea overflowing the tea pan. The flame had died. He turned the switch off, separated tea from the wet leaf and drank whole in a go.

He ran back to the balcony, stopped at the waist length boundary wall, scratched his head and then suddenly he began to run and ran into the bed room and then to sitting room and then to bed room again. He had just visualized his death and all he could do was; running away as soon as possible.

‘Death spares no one.’ He said to himself and laughed.

He was a tough guy. He pulled his shorts up and tightened the lace of it, wore sports shoes without thinking of socks, picked the bunch of keys from the table and rushed downstairs towards the parking lot.
                                                           ****

He was riding his bike now thinking ‘I’ll die soon.’ And riding bike was his last wish before death.

On the way, he saw a pond on his right hand side. He stopped and made his bike stand on its stand and began to run towards the pond. He crossed the road without caring of the vehicles which were running down the road with great speed from both the sides. It was his one long jump and he sank into the dirty water.

‘You’ll die soon.’ He heard the words echoing from all sides of the water. His feet touched the soft mud at the bottom of the pond and got reflected. His body began to float up softy. A group of little fishes paused swimming before him and said ‘you’ll die soon.’ They laughed and swum away. He popped up to the surface of water and swum to the bank of the pond and ran to his bike.

His bike had touched the speed of one fifty. He was not driving the bike now. The bike was driving him. It stopped on its own. He jumped off and began to run into a roadside forest. He saw some men sitting crouched with some water bottles on the ground.

‘You, fucking assholes, you’re dirtying the environment.’ He said and grabbed one of them with his collars. He made the half naked man stand up and began to slap him on his face. The man looked confused. Others rose up with their water bottles and began to run away, leaving their shit behind to fertile the soil.

He chased them into the forest but they disappeared into tress. He had into another world. He saw trees speaking to each other. They had big face and big eyes of the shape of egg. They spotted him and stopped the conversation.

‘You’ll die soon.’ They said and laughed.

He scratched his head and ran towards unknown direction.

It was another world. It was a different place. He saw some groups of huts with their upside down. Men had four hands, one face and three eyes on their back. Ladies had huge breasts above their buttocks on their back and their feet were missing. Kids were playing, running on their heads and feet flying up towards the sky. When they saw him, they stopped. Men, women and kids surrounded him. And behind them the huts had walked little to encircle the crowd. He stood at the center of the forest, surrounded by them. Then they asked him to dance before them.

‘I don’t know dancing.’ He said.

‘No problem. We’ll teach you the art of dancing. Welcome to our world.’ They chanted together.

‘Who the fuck are you?’ He asked.
‘We’re spirits.’

‘What?’
‘Yes. And you’re the one as well.’

He fainted and collapsed on the ground which was shacking

A new book of incomplete love stories

Love Unsung by Shantanand Sharma is a collection of poetries that showcase the love stories which were left incomplete due to the differenes in their caste, religion and class.

Available soon on all online bookstores worldwide.

What am I looking for?

The days are growing painful. I had been working hard to get some good days and time has come to be happy but somewhere in the core of my heart I'm lacking peace and happiness. I had studied so much and cleared so many papers and finally got a god job with handsome salary.

For the moment I’ve everything.
A good house at a posh location.
Money to buy whatever I want to.
A natural atmosphere around my place to enjoy greenery in leisure period.
A big green park to jog and exercise in the morning.
A good work place where happiness and loud laughter echo in each corner.
A beautiful girl friend to love and get loved.
And what else.
To write stories and poems and read some novels, no other better place I could have gotten than the bunglow I live in.

Somewhere, I'm looking for some peace. My head in not stable and keeps on thinking where to get some peace. At times, I change dress and take my bike to the Lodi garden to read and write something. And it happens only on weekends. Though I’ve to go to teach kids on these holidays to get myself busy and to add some parts to the development of this poor country where good teachers are extremely needed.

And for the rest of the times, I keep myself busy in washing my cloths, cleaning my home and talking to neighbors. That all don’t work. I want something out of my life. I want a life that is full of happiness. I don’t know what kind of happiness it is. If I look at some years back, I was a student and if I remember carefully then I see my life was unrest at that time as well. I wanted something else out of my life. It might be a good job or a good house live in or a good city to put up or a good partner to live with or whatever.

And now I’ve gotten everything then I find life incomplete. I find myself trapped in some invisible which I'm unable to break. I would have broken it if I would have seen it. But it’s invisible and I’ve no tool to find it or see it.

Let's make a better India

Dear UPSC aspirants, congratulations to those who have cleared the prelims.
Get ready to stand in a line of donkeys.

And congratulations to them who didn't get through.
Get ready to get another chance to live your life like a human being!

Those who have qualified prelims will definitely study like donkeys for mains.

Those who haven't cleared the paper.
Please get some free trainings from big organizations like British Council and start teaching unprivileged kids.

Poor India needs good teacher.
Free education.
And not IAS officers!

Jise khane peene ki dikkat h, please contact.
I can do some arrangement.
I earn that much.
I can feed some ten or fifteen people everyday!

Facebook founder & Indian Farmers!

I am a farmer.
I'm poor.
I need some food.
Some water, little space to live with my wife and kids.
I want to get rid of all the loans.
I want to live like a human being.
I have muscular body and some plots.
I want to do farming.
To feed myself, my kids, my wife and rest of the Indian, if some of it is left.
I don't want cyber city.
I don't want cars and other useless things to live happily.

Now tell me, what the hell is to Facebook founder do with me and my soil and my crops.
If he meets with Narendra Modi?

Media wale mil Jaye to unke upar hal chala du. BC.

The Guy!

He was guy.
Like you guys.
But he was different in all aspects.
He was very naughty when he was a kid.
He was clever since took him out of his mother's womb.
He made fun of everybody around him.
He had tough relations with seniors.
He would beat anybody. He never minded the opposition whether he was smaller or bigger than the opposition.
Once he kicked the driver of his school bus when he was a kid of 8.
He friends would say, 'you should have been born in Sindhi family. Some would say, 'you should have taken born in bhumiyar family.' Others said like them!

He grew up and always had fight with teachers.
He has his own world.

But he always get scared; 'will the life play with me and with my future also if I take my life so lightly?'
Then he would laugh like a mad!

Roti, kapda aur Makaan!

When I was a kid I was always fascinated by the political rallies and sat on the ground into the dust before stage on which politicians stood up with mike and promised to get us electricity, water supply (though we have natural water supply, river Ganga, which flows from west to east, touching feet of our village) and good roads.

I'm of 26 now.
Promises are same.
But still we've the same kerosene lamps to light our nights, the same broken rickety brick padded roads and the same water supply!

Isn't it a bigger duration than that took us for mission on Mars?

Love story begins here!

He was a Hindu.
She was a Muslim.
He was a stud.
She was the most beautiful girl.
He believed in love.
But didn't know how to love.
She didn't believe in fairy tales.
But knew the art of love.

They met.
Somewhere on this earth.
He asked for a date.
She couldn't refuse.
They fell in love.

Story ends here!

Ladies; No more than Sexual object in India!

We respect women in India.
We have reservations for them everywhere.

We offer them seat in metro train, bus, and wherever they stand before us. We can't see them standing. Are they too weak to stand on their feet?
But with the corner of our eyes we check them, scanning their body, undressing and imagining what; only god knows!

We have reservations for ladies in government jobs as well.
When men take their interviews they keep their eyeballs moving from ladies' face to their breasts.

We don't look at short dress wearing ladies when they pass us as if we don't care what ladies are wearing. We simply stare at their theighs and bums from back.

In Bollywood, ladies get fame and make lots of money.
They know how many beds they'd to warm to get the first role!

Ladies ride scooties. We twist our accelerator to overtake them as if...

While driving cars and riding bikes we keep on checking autos and taxies if they contain some ladies. And if we see ladies wearing shorts we scan their legs.

Bra strips are very colorful.
Aren't they?
God knows what pleasure they give to us when we stare at them for long.

At workplace women are given more priorities. Is it true? Really?
They get quick promotions.
We, men say she is slut. She has just slept with the boss and got promotions!

We, men do all possible and impossible things to loose our virginities.
But we want a wife with sealed virginity!

We have maids in our houses.
When our ladies are out we simply have sex with them. No matter how bad they stink.

In the great Army and police force, we have ladies.
God knows how seniors exploit them.

Bollywood makes movies like Mardani and queen.
Ultimately it projects ladies as sexual objects!

When we get married.
On the first nights and the next night and other nights we switch off the light and have sex with our wives.
We don't even ask how is she feeling and is she ready to get intimate!

When a girl kisses us outside four walls she feels unsafe.

God knows when will this end on this earth and ladies will live like a human being.

God knows up to what depth we men are into such and other thoughts!

My First Literature Fest

It was second year of my writing and fourth year of my engineering graduation. Fourth year is also called final year in India.
I was an infant in the literature world but I wanted to be a part of this world since my Infancy.
I had seen the advertisement of the lit fest in The Hindu newspaper. Look at the newspaper I was getting those days. I admit I was choosy since I was a small kid. I used to buy fancy toothbrush, tooth paste, pen, pencil, notebooks whose sheets were extra smooth and so.
I never liked the newspapers whose starting pages contain so many advertisements. But The Hindu was quite different than other. Filtered news with least ads were the things that had precised me to the newspaper and the lit fest was being organized by the same and the awesomest thing was that it was help in the capital city where I was residing.
In college days I looked like a rock star though I didn't know the meaning of 'r' of a rock star. Long hair, athletic body, loud dresses, goaty beard were my identity.
I wore a red baggy T-shirt, faded blue jeans and shinning red Ferrari shoes and hung my college bag and left for metro station.

I had just finished writing my first novel and had sent to the leading publishers. Publishers had mailed me the rejection letters. I wanted to see what goes on in a literature festival.

I had reached to the Indian Habitat center before the show began. I was a time bound person. I asked the volunteers about the fest and they asked me enroll and go into the big hall.
Stage was empty and some seats were occupied. I walked down to the first row which was closest to the stage. It was little dark as only dim yellow light was focusing on the stage.
'Reserved' the boards which were standing next to the first two rows said. This was the first time I had such boards except in movies!

I walked back and took a seat in the last row. People came and sat. And soon I saw first two rows filling. I couldn't recognize any of them. None were a Bollywood star.
My neighbors discussed news of Bollywood, and among them one was discussing his next book which was based on bollywood. I listened to them. They spoke like big writers and they were big writers.
Writers came one by one on the stage and discussed things with the Hindu journalists. Audience asked them some questions. They answered. I understood everything. Everything began to cross over my head when foreign writers discussed things.

There was a tea break. I went out and walked to the other building where I guessed it was a canteen. When I came to know the price of a tea I forgot I needed a tea. I came to the same building and saw writers and journalists having tea and snacks in a small longue.
I asked one of the volunteers, is the tea free here?
She smiled and said, 'yes.'

I entered into the room and saw people who were getting tea and snacks on their own. It was a self service. I stood there and saw the method of making tea and the way they were picking plates and loading them with snacks.
I copied them.

One lady was very tall. She was in Saree. When I heard her conversation with others I came to know that she was Bollywood star, Raj kappor's sister. Her face was matching with the Bollywood star Karishma kapoor. I stood there, ate snacks bite by bite, sipped tea slowly and heard their conversations. They spoke a lot like kids do.

Then post break session began.
First guest Om Prakash Mehra, who had made the movie, Rang de basanti and he spoke about his next movie and why he chooses the movies which are different than others.

At last I learned nothing there. But the fest was very enjoyable though I neither ask any question sitting among audience nor I spoke a word throughout the whole fest.

Lo aa gai aapki Modi Sarkar!!

Lo aa gai aapki modi sarkar.
Zarurat thi bas AAP ki sarkar.

Khub rajnaitik dangal hua.
Logon ko bade pyar se banta;
Dharm, Jaat-paat, unch-neech Chhuachhut.
Lo aa gai apke baap ki sarkar.

Aaj khub laddoo baate ja rhe h,
kal kisi k ghar jalaye the,
Gharwalon ko jalaya, bache tak ko nhi chhoda,
Aaj yelo aa gai modi ki sarkar.

Hindu-muslim k naam p logon ne khub dabaye button,
Kehte the dharm badalna pad jaega,
agar nhi lagaye kamal p muhar.

Bachpan se log history padte h,
Ye b padte h ki bharat me muslim rajao ka kai sau saalo tak raaj raha.

Agar dharm parivrataran ki baat sach hoti,
To aaj bharat me ek hindu na hota!!

Chalo ab aa gai h hinduon ki sarkar!
Ab bachalo apna dharm,
Desh to pehle hi bech khaye!!

Bas darr iss baat ka lagta h,
Iss rajneeti k dangal me,
Insaniyat ki hatya firse na ho jaye!!

Batla House - 2

Food varieties range from Afghani to Mughlai to whatnot!
The price is lower here but that doesn't affect the quality. You get the best and fresh chicken and mutton meat here and those who eat big red meat are also welcomed here.

In evening, if you, by mistake drive into these streets, you're going to do blunder. In a five feet road, people walk. Pulling rickshaws are there. Autos are running, painting walkers with dust. Bike riding is awesome here. If you push into the crowd with your bike, you get the true and real lesson of driving here. Though you'll exercise your feet and fingers too much but you get something in return.

The place becomes most attracting during Look sabha and Rajya sabha election. Roofless jeeps, decorated with cloth posters of political parties stand on the divider of the road. Thanks to the MLA of this area who dared to get the divider to divide the road into two lanes. Party workers stand on the jeep. And they shout slogans throwing their hands in all directions. They put so much energy into it that their neck veins become visible. At a difference of 5 meters another jeep is standing with the posters and party workers of another political party. They are doing the same thing, throwing their arms and body to the other jeep.
It feels as if whole Indian political campaigns have gathered to this place only. We can see the party workers making election live here otherwise Indian election is becoming lifeless. When I see them I miss my childhood days.
They shout slogans with so much energy that force you to run away from the place if you're visiting it for the first time. It looks as if they would get down the jeeps and beat the opposition people any moment.

The voting date finally arrives. People gather to vote. And this the place which actually gives life to the election. Each single member of the area comes out to vote. Ladies, wearing burka show up.

Party workers are smart enough. They keep standing in a group of six or seven at each corner of the streets maintaining some distance of 3 meters. They stop each voter and convince him/her with some flying signals to vote for their party only. Cops keep standing outside the voting booths. Peaceful voting goes on.

The voting day makes Batla house a newly wedded bride.

I always wonder about them. Why don't they make their own Muslim party. Because all parties are fooling them and they have so much of energy to put into it then they shall look into making their own party.
Shouldn't they?

The government is trying to polish the area so road making work, JAL board work, drainage system making work, electricity works keep going on in this area.

All of the above work have a common this to start their work; digging the road.
They excavate the roads and put the mud on the roadside. The road is dug. Mud and malba are occupying the roadside area. From where you will come out into the market or goto office?

Where there is will, there is the way!

Like lines of small ants people walk down the heaps of mud and malba. Up and down. Left and right.
They become so comfortable that they don't fall in the ditch. If you are going there for the first time during excavation time then I'm sure you'll fall into the ditches.
People over here comfortable in every situation. They don't complaint. They adopt the things that are being given to them. Everybody lives happily here.

The worst thing about this place is that males stare at girl even when they are wearing burka. And if a girl come out in jeans then men rape her with their eyes. Most of them are educated but still they do it.

Will be back with more interesting stuffs about this place soon. Stay connected.

Batla House

Batla House is a place in South Delhi, India. It is situated on the bank of dying river, Yamuna.
Only Muslims live here. Like other Muslim dominated area, its also over crowded. Most of the population of this place comes from UP and Bihar.
Foolish Hindus call it Chhota Pakistan.

They come here and work in other parts of New Delhi. Ninety percent of the people come here as students. Like flood they come, get admission in Jamia Millia Islamia University, Jamia Hamdard University, and some other leading colleges of Delhi University, study hard there, get good jobs in India and outside and leave the place. The population of this area keeps on increasing because the number of residents who migrate to other place around the world is far lesser than the number of people who come here, adding to the population in search of jobs and as students.
They come not just to earn their livelihood but to settle permanently here.

In morning, streets look deserted like that of Afghanistan and as day rises up with the Sun the scene keeps on changing. And when the Sun falls behind the tall buildings, the place becomes really beautiful.

It becomes so beautiful that even an ant has to think million times to creep down the streets.

Every evening is looks like its a Diwali evening. Ladies, wearing burka do shopping as if the next day is Eid. They break into shops. They buy clothe pieces of suits, kurta. Pajama, stoles, dupatta, burka and other wearable dresses except western dresses.

Shopping doesn't stop here. They rush into household things shops and do buying lots of stuffs.
Shopkeepers are smart enough here. They treat ladies as if they are their sisters and mothers. They welcome ladies and show them everything that they have on their shelves. I always wonder about the factories who make such clothes. Because the fabrics are just awesome and colors beat the stuffs that are kept in HiFi showrooms and malls of Delhi. The shopkeepers give discounts as well as if the shopping is being done for their own houses.

Every second shop is of either kapde ki dukaan or eating outlets. The street roadsides are over loaded with the heaps of cloths and that of chicken and mutton.
At times, I forget that Muslims eat vegetables also. When I see vegetable venders, laying their vegetables thelas on roadsides I ask myself, 'do these people eat vegetables also?'

Eating outlets are decorated with big glass covers which display chickens chopped in different shapes or some big biryani handis. And when you enter in any of these outlets you will have to wait for sometime to grab a seat. The food is extra delicious. And price is too low. These outlets force me to think over the difference between price of veg food and nonveg food. I just can't believe that the non veg food are cheaper than the veg here.

The variety of chicken and mutton ranges from Afghani to Mughlai to whatnot.

To be cont...with the spirit of the people who live here and the time of election campaigns down these overcrowded streets!!

Why Sisters are Special!

It all began.
And it all began.

I rose up and watched TV.
She rose up began to broom the house.
I went to kitchen and made tea for her.

'Don't eat before I tie rakhi.' she said.
When she went for bath, I ate as much as I could have because this was a fast day till the right time. Like every year.

She asked me to take shower and to wait till one thirty in after noon as per bloody pundits was the holy time to tie rakhi.

I went out and bought some gifts for her.
She took three hours to design a plate to put rakhi, sweets and another stuffs.
I arrived home.
She didn't open the gift packet.
She was busy with making my favorite food.

The right time arrived and rain began.
I chose to take bath in rain.
It rained and rained.
I took off my clothes and stood on the roof.
Raindrops hit me hard.
I stood still like a tree.
Motionless.
Rain tapped everywhere on me.
She stood under shade and shouted at me.
I would become unwell if I stand under rain for long.

The designed plate sat on the table. Vermilion was placed. Then curd mixed with rice grains was placed next to the vermilion. A ghee dia was put at the center of the plate. Next to it was the transparent bowl which was full of barfi, moti chur ka laddoo, and white rasogullas.

My mouth began to water.
I was becoming restless.
I wanted her to get the rakhi tied and start eating sweets.

Fan was switched off.
Dia was lit.
I was made to sit on sofa still.

She pasted some curd mixed with rice grains on my forehead between my eyebrows.
She applied vermilion above that.
I took one rasogulla and moved it my mouth.
She slapped on my hand and snatched the sweets.

Finally rakhi was tied.
The plated moved all around my face before me.
As if I was an idol of God.
Then the sweets was brought.
I wanted to take a bite.
She pushed whole into my mouth.

Story ends here.

UPSC Aspirants!

Seventy percent of the UPSC aspirants don't study history, civics, geography, economics and other arts subjects till their graduation.
They start these subjects only when they start preparing for UPSC.

Then why the hell you useless creatures on earth are after English?

Does this subject look too dull?
Is tough mathematical calculations are there in it?
Do you need to mug up all the dates and years and names of the people who had died some hundred years ago?
Do you need to have command over all the weather, changing seasons, mountains, winds, oceans, and all the craps which are not going to be used in your life further?
Does it deal with your blood vessels, tissues, human reproductive system that are not easy to learn?
Do you gulp up the books of economics, foreign policies and other useless things?

English is just a language, like bloody Hindi.
Unfortunately, you don't know Hindi as well!
Sanskrit n Urdu ka to pta nhi!

Shame.
No?

If you want to go for the road shows then fight with the government to build up the base of basic education system.
Sit in Ramleela Maidan or Jantar mantar or wherever you want to.

I heard people saying students who come from villages don't understand English much.
I ask them, don't they understand what's porn?

The Workers!

I always wonder when I see tall hi-tech buildings, hotels getting build up.

About the workers,
Who are adding their blood and sweat,
To build such beautiful buildings.

Will they be allowed to enter into the premises,
Of the these buildings,
Once they get completed,
To see their art and labor?

They still live in jhuggis with tin roofs,
They still make thier food on woods,
They still eat cheap foods,
They still suffer and can't fulfill the wish of thier wives and children.

Though they make apartments,
laced with hitech equipment,
Beautiful gardens,
Beautiful kitchens,
big blue swimming pools,
Fulfilling the dreams of rich!

Tajmahal was build in twenty years.
And hands of the workers and artists were chopped off.
They knew it and left a loophole in it,
Which can't be repaired today!

Fear in the Dream!

‘What the fuck?’ I said to my friend.

‘Yes, what the fuck.’ He said.

We ran across a ploughed fiend and reached to the railway track within seconds. The transportation was faster than that of light.

I was sitting in my room. I don’t know how it looked like. It was just a room at the first floor of a building which was situated in the middle of the field. The farmer had ploughed the field and a fresh rain had showered the mud grains. The grains were dry. May be the rain had arrived few days ago and sun had dried the mud powder which is suitable for farming.

I was lying in bed or doing something. I don’t know what I was doing actually. My friend was also doing something. Don’t know what. But he was talking of some magazines. He was in a cheap half sleeve shirt and a pair of shorts. I was wearing the same dress. Mine was little dark because of dust that had layered on my shirt and shorts because I was habitual of wiping my sweating face with the sleeves of my shirt and some games in the dust had left my shorts dirty as well.

We saw a huge train which had just jumped off its track. It was red in color and was bigger in height but smaller in length than the trains that we have here in India. I signaled him to help me to save the people. But we couldn’t see anybody looking out through windows of the train.

‘W-h-a-t t-h-e f-u-c-k?’ He said.

‘Yes, what the fuck.’ I said, running towards the tail of the train. The engine had left the compartment behind and it only had slipped off the track. We saw a gap between the two increasing.

‘Look,’ He said to me. I turned to him and began to run like a madman. He ran to somewhere and went invisible. I don’t know where he had disappeared. I ran with all my might. Within seconds I had covered miles. I had seen the engine running in my direction. I got it. It was about to run over me. I escaped. It ran behind me off the track. I couldn’t understand how it became possible for the engine to run down the ploughed field. But it ran. And it ran comfortably.

Now, I had reached to my village and didn’t look behind because engine was still running towards me as if it had decided to kill me. And I knew the reason why it wanted to kill me. It looked like a man with big head and without body. The engine was occupied by a human head.

I slipped into the first home which was at the outskirt of my village. Village started from only there and ended to the bank of river Ganga. My home was somewhere at the other end near the bank. And there was a solid road from the outskirt to my home. And I thought if I run down a solid road then it won’t take the engine much time to catch me and trash me under its wheels.

On the way, I had understood why it wanted to kill me. I had been speaking lots of bad things about the organization in which I was working. I dint like it because of partiality and many other things that were discouraging me. I was getting less focused on the work just because the organization was not giving me what I deserved. And it had sent the train to kill me. It followed me like a dinosaur.

I found my cousin at the entrance of the house and didn’t tell him why I was running away. Generally I don’t visit his place though he and his family like me and my family.

‘Let’s go to your home.’ He said.

‘No.’

‘Why?’

‘I don’t want to.’

‘Oh, don’t fool me. Let’s go. I know you spend most of your time at your place whenever you visit village.’

He forced me and I couldn’t say no. But smartly, I chose the way which was very narrow. It was not actually a road. It was the boarder of the banana gardens which formed a narrow way on which only one person could walk. We rode bicycles down this narrow lane when we were kids to prove we were good bicycle riders.

The engine stood at the main solid road and looked confused as it couldn't run down across the banana gardens.

On the way home, he had asked me to say hi-hello to other village people whose houses were coming on our way, among banana gardens! But still I din't feel safe.

But I was in hurry and I wanted to reach to my place where my mother was waiting for me. I didn’t understand how she came to know that I was going to visit village though it all happened in seconds. She had made rice, daal, aaloo fry, chutney and achar for me.

I kept meeting people and moving on but my cousin had also disappeared on the way. Don’t know where!

Now, my place was one kilometer away and I had to walk full one kilometer and it was turning dark. I moved with a fear in my mind that anytime, the engine could run over me!

Before I could reach my home, something else happened.

I opened my eyes and found myself sleeping in my bed. I removed the sheet away, switched off the AC and looked to the wall clock and found it was forty five past six. I was late. I'm habitual of waking up between five and six. But it was Sunday so it was ok. I went to kitchen and switched gas stove and put a tea pan on it. I poured milk into and added water, sugar and tea leaves into it, slowed the flame and moved out to balcony. I stood there and looked to the trees and visualized my dream twice.

Debut novel

My debut is coming soon.
Book cover with title will be uploaded here soon.

Leni Deni & India!

Jise dekho vahi duniya ki lene p laga pada h!
Or aap?

Modiji ko dekho,
Lagta h jaise ek budha bandar h,
Jo kafi saalo se maun vrat p h.
Army k jawan mare,
Ya china inki keh k lele.

Use dekho,
Ise dekho,
sab h pareshan h.

Sonia ko dekho,
kabi laloo to kabi nitish,
ek se kaam nhi chalta iska!
Saare choro ko ikattha kar rhi h,
Jaise kisi sabse bade ghotale ki tyari kar rhi ho.

UPSC aspirants ko dekhlo,
Dhang se padh nhi paye,
to road p tamsha kar rhe h,
Jisne sahi preparations kar rakhi h,
Unki ye dhang se le rhe h.

Khud ko mirror me dekho,
To aisa feel hota h jaise,
sabse bada be was insaan saamne khada ho.

Log padh padh kar h pareshan,
Kisko job chahiye,
to kisiko paise,
To kisiko.....!

Commonwealth me golds ki le rakhi h,
Indian athletes ne.
AAj ye gold jeete ja rhe h,
Kal ye yhi kisi road k side p,
Paan cigarette bechte nazar aayenge.
Dhanya h hamari bharat mata!

Isi beech me,
Kejriwal ko dekho,
Lagta h jaise saare auto wale iske jiju h.
Inhi se iska ghar chalta h,
Or autowalo se hi ye desh chalayega!
Hights of chutiyapa!

Gaza me dekho,
Kya ho rha h?
Kuch seekho unse!

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Accident Happen down the Roads, because Road is always Hungry!

Exactly by 5:30PM, I leave my office,
Then starts a bike race,
Race with the auto rickshaws,
With buses,
With cars and bikes.
And cycles as well!

It was raining,
Road was wet,
Like a plate has been sprayed with water,
Before filling it with food.

I ride,
Slow and fast,
Fast and slow,
With horn, blowing with little break,

I move on,
tearing through the crowded city roads.
The car moved on right,
And an old man on the left.
Quite relaxed.

I blow horn.
Once, twice, thrice.
The old man walks,
And walks like a deaf.

I visualize his right hand,
Getting hit by my bike.
And I simply press brakes.
Bike jumps into the car,
And me on the road,
Wet road.

I rise up.
Collect my bag.
Some people run to pick my bike up.
'Are you alright?'
Somebody asks.
'Yeah, Thank you.' I say.
And jump back on my bike.
Lovely parrot bike.

A man approaches,
And says,
What were you doing?
I got confused.
Then he grabs me with my collar.
And drags me down the bike.
Then I realize what I had done.
I have already got hit in my legs and hands,
That pain badly.

Within seconds,
The car owner is lying on the ground.
I am on riding on another bike now.
And fuks the bloody bastard.

That's the humanity in New Delhi.
People love their cars,
More than their mothers and sisters.
I shower heavy punches on the sisterfucker.
And ride back on my lovely bike,
And fly to my place!

Eid Mubarkbad

Day looks new,

Refreshing, green and clean.

Streets are empty,

Offices are closed,

Schools shut,

Parks are full,

Full of kids.

Sky is clear,

But sun is invisible,

But lights are there.

May be he is busy,

Busy in some preparations,

Preparations to welcome Moon.

Trees are looking green

And extra clean.

Guavas are ripening,

And some had turned white.

Yellows are falling on the ground,

And the seeds are spread,

All around the fruit.

Small colorful birds are jumping,

Jumping in the happiness,

And excitements,

From one branch to the other.

Mynahs are gathering,

As if today is their holiday.

The crows are speaking,

But in lower tone today.

They are on leave,

Off teasing other birds.

The wind is absent,

As if it’s helping the Sun,

In the preparations,

Preparations to welcome Moon.

Mosques are full,

Full of kids,

Full of white kurta and pajamas,

And round caps,

Caps are carved with many designs.

A wind takes a break,

And come down to the Earth.

To shook the trees,

To feed us some fresh oxygen.

Everybody and everything on earth,

Are preparing to end Ramzan.

Netaon se, hamari hai darkhwast,

Karde hame Azad.

Eid Mubarkbad!

Hindu Muslim

Hindu Muslim ladte h.
Ek dusre ko jalate h.
Kaat b dete h.
Ek baar b nhi sochte jinhe unhone vote kiya h wahi ye sab karwate h.

On ground level they have to live together.
Truth is that they can't live without each other.
They are born together.
On the same mitti.
They've grown up together.
On the same mitti.
To grow old together.
Love each other.
Otherwise these politicians will gulp all of you. someday!

Behind the Broken tall walls of Tughlaqawad Fort

Right in the morning, at fifteen past seven, the guard had unlocked the huge iron gate of the Tughlaqawad fort. I walked in and found a map carved on steel board on my right hand side. I tried to study it but failed. I stood there for some time, thinking; shall I go to left or straight?

I chose to move straight as I could see the parts on the left side while returning. My eyes fell on the top of the tallest broken wall. I saw a small girl, sitting at the top.
'What the hell?' I said to myself.
I walked close to the wall and found the girl, doing something with her hands. At first, I couldn't notice but later on I guessed that she was collecting manjha of some kites. But it was strange, finding a small girl sitting on the top of a wall even when the main gate was locked from outside. She was wearing a government school uniform. I got scared first but dared to talk to her, standing before the wall.
'She is probably a spirit.' I guessed.

'From where?' I dared to ask her, completing the question with some signs that I made, using my hands.
He pointed to her back. I moved on.

Wherever I went I found the small girl trailing behind me or playing with the rock around me. I chitchatted with her. At the same time I was fearing that the girl may plot some attempt to rape story and would let me put behind the bars.

I found many good and bad things hidden behind the tall broken walls of Tughlaqawad fort.
The worst part was the kal kothris. Foolish people are filling them with wastage, wrapper of chocolates and chips, empty water bottles and many other thing. I asked the security to look after them and take of them as those are very rarely left with our heritage.

One of the good things was a small plinth, which is made by putting bricks one on the other from three sides and a piece of rock forms its roof. I saw some scented sticks, smoking.

I stood there for some time and watched people and the dog who kept changing its sitting postures.
A man came with a lota, probably full of water. He slipped out of his chappals and moved to the plinth and stood with his eyes closed, then, he showered the plinth foot with the water. He crouched down and touched his head to the base, rose up, turned back, moved to chappals and them slipped his feet into them and walked away.
Dog kept staring at him till he disappeared behind the broken tall walls.

This time a lady came to the plinth. She was in black burqa. She was beautiful as her eyes could say to me. She looked at me and unwrapped the part of burqa from her face. She looked like an angle. I wished I could marry her! I visualized her a bride, getting married with me. I looked good as a bridegroom.

She cupped her palms and touched one with the other, closed her eyes and did some pray. I watched her, standing on one of the roofs. She also crouched down and spread a sheet on the ground before the plinth and did her namaz.

I got confused.
Was it a temple?
Or a mosque?
Or both?

Before the Rain comes!

The wooden window touch its frame,

With a small tuck.

Crows start cowing,

One by one.

Like disciplined soldiers,

Who fire bullet on a terrorist tied with chain.

One by one.

Then I hear a bang,

And find my door shut,

Perfectly fit into its frame.

Though I apply extra force,

To pull and fit it into the frame.

I peep out through window,

And find guava and mango branches.

The shook and shook,

Forward and backward,

Left and right.

They dance like a young lady,

Who has just started going to dance class.

A hissing sound comes,

And its volume increases.

I look at the tall branches,

They are shaking more at some distance.

They dance like a trained dancer.

Smaller once, copying the bigger once.

Then I hear a patting sound,

And lean to see to the ground.

Ripe fruits are falling,

One after the other.

Like crows are talking,

One after the other.

A bang, louder this time,

The Main gate does it sometimes,

When the wind blows faster.

Squirrels begin singing.

More birds join them.

A parrot flies past my window shouting.

Like a warrior lady,

Who always fight with others in her streets.

I'm sitting in my chair,

With my legs resting on the bed,

In pain.

Two wounds have popped out.

One after another.

First, on the foot finger, was still healing,

Another pooped out of right buttock.

They want me to suffer,

As if I've hurt many good people.

Bed sheet swings,

Touch my leg with the healing wound.

It gives a velvety touch,

Pain dies for the moment.

I rise up,

Look around,

In great pain,

Switch off the ceiling fan,

To feel the cold wind.

The wind dies,

And humidity rejoins,

With its partner,

Heat.

Then I hear pat-pat-patting,

On the window shade.

Crows stop.

Squirrels run away.

No more noise comes from the doors,

And windows.

The rain comes,

Like a newly wedded bride,

Who enters into her husband’s home,

For the first time.

Proudly.   

A simple Love Story

He had fallen in love with her at first sight. This was natural in him. He would start loving a girl at first sight! Since he was a boy of thirteen!

It was a Sunday evening. Weather was fresh as a rain had just stopped after showering Delhi for continuous six hours. A white BMW stopped at the parking area of the Metro Walk Mall. One of the back doors opened and a pair of black boots landed on the ground. Other gates also got opened and some cool dudes got down. A beautiful girl emerged out of the car. She was wearing short cloths.

He was parking his old Yamaha RX 100 at the same parking though the area was reserved for the cars only. His eyes, hid under half broken helmet, rolled to the car and he kept staring at it with curiosity for some time. The car was shining more. He was confused; to look at the girl or at the car!

 
His eyes were fixed on the black boot girl. She came out, stretched her arms, removed her big sunglasses and brushed her long open hair. Her hair was almost touching her waist. Three boys, who had come out of the same car, walked to her and discussed something. She nodded, adjusting her sunglasses on the top of her head.

They began to walk down the decorated clean cemented lane, which was the only way to the entrance of the mall.

He threw his broken helmet on the ground next to his bike and followed them. Before that, their eyes had met once. She giggled when she found him looking at her as if it was normal to her.

After getting their bodies scanned with the metal detectors, they were inside the compound of the mall. They guy was so much into hurry that he jumped over the scanner and paced his walking towards the group.

‘Sir,’ the metal detector man said to him from behind.

‘I'm not your sir.’ The guy said in hurry and walked without a pause.

The metal detector man grabbed his wrist and pulled him near entrance and scanned his body. The guy had starched his arms without looking at the metal detector man as his eyes were moving where the group moved.

‘Are you mad or what?’ the man said to the guy.

‘I'm sorry. I don’t have time to deal with you. I’ll speak to you later.’ The boy said and ran towards the group but the group had disappeared somewhere.

He ran to the spot where he had seen the girl while getting his entrance business done.

He ran his eyes to his left and right but the girl was nowhere, nor the boys who were accompanying her.

He then looked up to the sky to curse the God but dint as his eyes felt on the girl who was walking towards Pizza hut on the first floor area.

Three steps jumping at a time and he was on the first floor now. They checked into Pizza hut. He rushed behind them and grabbed a seat in a corner. They discussed for next ten minutes and but result was still awaited so the girl ordered the waiter to get a good chicken pizza for four along with any four mock tails.

‘Sir, any order?’

‘Hmmhhh..’ the boy said, vaguely.

‘Any order, sir.’ The waiter repeated his question, standing before the guy.

‘Oh, I'm sorry.’ The boy said, taking out his wallet.

He scanned and found four old ten rupee notes. He looked back to the waiter who was checking out the girl. The boy hid his wallet and said, ‘Bhenchod, meri wali ko dekh rha h.’

‘Yes sir. You said something.’ The waiter said.

‘Nothing. I'm saying I’ll call you when I'm done with this long menu.’

‘No problem, sir. But here is the upgraded menu. You can take Mexican pizza with which a chocolate truffle and a cold drink free.’ Waiter said, handing a new menu to the boy.

In return, the boy showed his twenty four shining teeth to the waiter.

Her friends had been noticing the boy was following the girl and when they found him sitting there, they showed their eyes to him. He smiled in return and mumbled, ‘Chutiye.’

The girl first looked at her friends and then to the boy, who had already said cheese.

She smiled and rubbed one of the boys’ shoulders to calm him down.

He checked out the menu and found it very expensive as price of one good chicken pizza cost his monthly pocket money. He then shifted quietly from table to sofa where some newspapers were kept. He took out the one and made a small invisible hole into it and saw the girl through the tiny hole. She was sure the boy would be seeing her despite seeing her male friends threatening him with their eyes.

She toasted first bite to the three boys and began to eat. His mouth watered. He leaked all over his lips with his tongue and enjoyed the spicy virtual pizza, closing his eyes. At the other side, the girl was physically eating pizza but mentally she was visualizing the boy looking at her.

They were done with the bills and tip and walked out but somehow the boy had lost into an article in the newspaper so he dint notice them leaving pizza hut. The girl flashed a look at the boy and found him busy, looking into the paper. He was no more looking at her through hole.

At some part, she wanted to the boy to notice her leaving.

She checked it for last time, standing outside the transparent glass wall of the pizza hut where the boys were discussing to enjoy some rides in the adventure island.

‘Asshole.’ The girl murmured to herself.

‘What?’ the three boys asked together.

‘Nothing.’ She said with a sad face.

‘Are you okay?’

‘Yes. I'm.’

‘Sir, any order please?’ the boy heard it and lost focus over the article which was related to some NGOs which were working for the development of the healthcare system for homeless people of Delhi.

‘Oh, I'm sorry.’ I don’t have so much money.’

‘Sir, we’ve a pizza of just ninety nine for the people like you.’

‘What?’

‘Where is that girl?’

‘Who?’

‘That girl.’

‘Who?’

‘Fuck off.’ The boy said and began to rush out. The waiter followed him to gate.

‘Sir, they were talking of Adventure Island.’

‘Oh. Thank you so much.’ The boy said and kissed his hand.

‘Welcome sir.’ The waiter smiled as he could see the boy’s curiosity for the girl.

Within a minute he was at the entrance of the Adventure Island.

‘What’s the ticket price, sir?’ He asked a security guard.

‘Three ninety nine, sir.’

‘Shit. I wish I was a rich guy, like those assholes.’

He walked slowly to the railing which was next to the gate of Adventure Island and leaned on it and looked into the lake which was artificially made to give a beautiful look to the adventure island and the purpose was boating.

He was tired by now as he had worked whole night at a publishing house as a helper and had distributed newspapers down the streets of Rohini in the early morning so soon he was asleep, leaning on the smooth cold metallic railings.

The boy was born in a poor family and had lost his mother during his birth process so he was seen a sign of evil by his father, his only family member. His name was Rajib. As he grew up he wanted to go to school but his father, a hardcore drinker had forced him to work day and night and whatever Rajib was earning he had to hand it to his father who would slice three hundred rupees notes out and would give them to the boy and would keep the rest which he would spend on his wine bottles.

To be cont..

Why it happened?

I had come out of the old deserted washroom which was only the way out of my house.
I knew I was going fo attend a ceremony. I din't know what it was for. I ran and within seconds I had reached to the spot.
Everything was well decorated qith colorful pieces of cloth. The smell of food was coming out of everyehere.
I walked down straight to the fixed seat. I don't know who fixed it.

He was in silk kurta and white dhoti. Neck of the kurta was decorated with gold zarri work. He was sitting on the floor and was eating his food. He was like a common man. But he was not.
I went near him and crouched. He ate. I saw him and expected he won't allow me to sit with him but he was hardly caring for anything except the food.
people eyed me as I sat in the right side of his plate and began to speak about poor, poverty, the worst healthcare syatem, their death, their education system.
He listened and ate. After sometime he took one chicken piece out of his plate and put on my empty plate then he put another. I kept speaking of poor people and their poor kids.
He lost intetest into my words when another man came with an empty plate. He put one chiken piece into his plate. The man smiled, bowed, folded plate and disappeared behind me.

Then he didn't listen to me and ate food with great concentration.
I rose up and left with two chiken pieces.

He was Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India!

The Culture of Contractual jobs in India

Chapter: 1

We wake up in the morning, go to washroom to get fresh, wear sportswear and walk out of gate of our house to go to the park for jogging or morning walk. We see some men and women sweeping streets with broom. If we’re rich enough we see one or more than one security guards, standing at our gate.

They keep out city clean and our houses safe. They are believed to be poor people who have hailed to the city from village in search of some work and are found working for us. Most of them are always seen in some particular uniform that they get from the agencies which are government approved agencies. As far as security guards at our gate or at the gate of malls, ATM, shops and any commercial and domestic building are concerned, they are the people who are generally village guys who are supplied to the town and city by some agents. They get such small jobs here in the city and stay alone, away from their kids, wife, husband, parents and their love.

Who are these guys?

They are the contractual employees of the government municipality or some private agencies.

After morning walk, we take shower, wear dress, eat our breakfast, take our bike or car keys and get ready to go to our office. On the way we come across many traffic lights which are run by automatic controller. We, the gentlemen and ladies follow traffic rules and some of us are smart enough to jump the red lights after checking if any traffic police in white and blue uniform are standing on either side of the traffic light or not.

On the way we come across many men and women who wear almost same uniform as the traffic cops who stand at the road sides, waving their hands to give direction to our vehicles according to the weight of the vehicles. Modern urban developments which have been done by the respected PWD and road transport department have been playing a leading role in making road traffic smooth. They have made many dividers to divide the road so that light and heavy vehicles can run in their respective lanes so that the traffic may run easily.

On the divider again we see many men and women in blue and white uniform, waving their hands to give directions to our vehicles. They look like the traffic police but they are not. Who are they then?

They are again the village people who have come to the city or have been supplied by the labor agents to the agency who have been given contract by our government for maintenance of the roads and smooth traffic. They are the contractual employees who take charge of traffic police, keeping their life in danger.

If any traffic jam happens on these roads they are the people who work to clear the roads. No doubt some of the government traffic cops come but two or three in number and they are helped by ten to twelve contractual people to smooth the traffic. Many people in the city are irritated or frustrated so they fight and they beat the men in blue and white uniform. It happens only in our motherland, India. You can fight anywhere, with anybody and can do anything like beating with them.

If we’re intelligent enough we have government or permanent job in our hands so we’ve to reach office by time to work. Over there in office we have again contractual employees in government and non government offices. The number of contractual employees is far more than the government officials or CTC (company role) employees everywhere in India.

The government officials do only supervision work and rest works are done by these contractual guys. According to their educational qualifications they are hired by the agencies or contractors for the same work. Their work ranges from municipality sweeping to the engineering and managing. Even in government schools and colleges teachers, lab assistants and many other staffs are recruited on contract basis.

What I want to say is that; we’ve contractual employees on each walk of our life. They range from banks to schools to college to engineering firms or hospitals or software companies to public welfare departments to power generation, transmission, distribution to police to advertising agencies to hotels to everywhere.

They’re lucky among billions.

Why?

They’ve a job in hand so that they can run their family.

Population is a thing which has not been kept under control by any government of India and is that only the sole reason for this misfortune with Indians.

Well, they’ve a job, they earn money to eat and feed their family and do shopping occasionally, if possible and enjoy their life.

Why do we work?

To earn money.

That’s what we call salary.

To be cont….