The fast and The furious

No,This is not at all any thing about the racing movie series or the latest edition of the races. So don’t expect I’d be writing about Vin Diesel’s or Dwyane Jhonson’s acting skills. Before a month World cup and was the buzzword and an IN fashion statement,but as the seasons comes and goes the style statement has changed. The next big thing in india is Fasting.Everyone is doing it let’s zoom into the picture and have a look whos fasting and who are the furious ones.

The Fast

In the month of may a social activist Anna Hazare started an indefinite fast to protest the corruption and make a better structured Lok Pal Bill for anti-corruption. He held the Indian Gvot. By its toes. Thousands joined the fight,but there was a large question looming. Did they knew fulley what are they fighting for. No doubt they were following a clean leader but still for they future they always had to know that what is going around. In the end gvot. Had to bow down.

As in 1947 english people left India to be an independent country, they left some trends. Same way round as Anna Hazare built a road many constructors and followers were born out of it. Suddenly fasts popped out from every where.A guy in MP who is an gvot. Officer started a fast against corruption.In Mumbai an activist Medha Patkar Started hunger strike against the slum removal in Mumbai.Thats all the state and national level,even in my city there a whole street having tents of different fasts for the different causes that widens from street repairing to support baba ramdev to what not .Recently Baba Ramdev has threatened to go on fast if his demands of removing corrutption,recovering black money etc will not be satisfied.

The Furious

The main villan in all the plays of the fast is government structures of various levels.They are as furious as Sholey’s Veeru and in a way their hands are tied too. As the tendency of media they give these fasts and huge boost by photoshopping the real picture and making it a masala movie form a documentary film. The effect of this is on general public and they start to blame the gvot. And think that the fast is valid and some might go and join the fast too.

Against the public demand and fear that if something might happen to one of the personnel who are carrying the fast gvot. Has to give in. At some extent they are at fault too,igoring these issues and getting the solutions delayed. At one corner of their mind they might have had a scare that bubble might burst one day.And the shirty public might hover over them.

There is a class too in public that belives that fast might be a very expressive and if the cause is not properly defined it might just be the blackmailing tool.Anna Hazare’s fast was very justified one. But imagine people going on fast for road repairs. And recently on TV I saw in a very popular comedy soap kids going on to the fast for cricket kit. Now what will happend if everyone goes on to fast. And for reasons like getting food,getting the first android. Some might even turn to professional protesters. They might not be knowing the cause and just joinig for money. And some might be going for fun too. Medha Patkar said that ,

” Baba Ramdev's agitation was "expensive". "Such expensive agitations show a different face of protest. We are also against corruption, but such an expensive agitation by spending crores is inacceptable”

So till now Fast,which was a weapon against bad has been manipulated and converted into an weapon of blackmailing to some extent. As the Fight against the bad should continue with fast, People and Govornment should deal with the fasts which are unnecessary and inspired by political means.

Magical Mumbai

“City of Dreams”, thats what the word they use when people like to mention Mumbai. Everyday thousands get dazzled even to the sight of it. Thousands of writers have written praises, some have shooted bad words about it. But Mumbai is a thing “You make love it ,you may hate it but its a drug ,you have to take it.”

I had my first trip to Mumbai when I was a li’l kid.But Still Mumbai magic bit me since that day I first saw the beauty. I don’t remember the exact films of memories down the lane of my first visit. But It seem deep inside that I bonded with the city like a fast friend. I always cherished the line “I am in Mumbai and I’m waiting for a miracle” from Raghu Dixit’s song. Yes! Miracles happens there. Believe it or not if you have visited the city and havn’t felt like being a mumbaikar,consider that you havn’t visited the city yet.I had very few visits in 90s.But I remember the 96’ visit the most.

The Cricket world cup was going on and by chance on of my papa’s uncle was working in coca-cola. As a kid you always fancy things that are even remotely connected to the cricket field. As I had to leave the city early I didn’t get the chance to see any matches ,but at that time a huge cricket ball,the mascot of the world cup was used as a drinks trolley on the ground . I got to see that in person and inside too,for a six year chap it was a worth telling story making his friends jealous.

Mumbai was the city of many firsts for me. Seeing celebs to doing thing a small town boy would have never imagined to do. Food was one of the main attractions to go to Mumbai. In the 90s when there are less No. Of food chains were in existence, frankies,softies and some specialties in desserts were gold coins in the bank. I had my first vanilla with chocolate sauce there and tibbs frankies has always been my favourites.As my relative’s home where I used to stay was in dadar, I had a 5 minutes distance from a holy ground where Sachin Tendulkar started his career.And still many of the cricketers that make the scene do take the first step of the sport on the vary ground.I bet if you can correctly find out which fielder is playing which match and placed where. Swarms of matches are played and its not just the cricket its football and volleyball included too.The area has seen heaps of changes over the years making it more classical and beautiful only.

By the time the early trips ended Mumbai had cemented the place of the favourite city in my heart! The Mumbai bug had bit me.