Anecdotes from 2009-- Prabhat Saxena at its best.

Time: around 0200 hrs.

Venue: Bade Miyan, Colaba.

Status: Drunk and Hungry.

Situation: Me ,Tullu,Prabhat, Fauj after an eyeful Saturday night in Hard Rock Cafe and off course after a session of binge drinking were struggling to find a seat in Bade Miyan and waiting for another eyeful burst of Chick(en) feast.

Prab: "Dekh rahe ho kitni maramari hai khane ke liye "TOWN" mein." TOWN is the word he refers to South Mumbai. A word he picked from one of his ex. Sala college mein ek baar bolte the to plate ka plate room mein bicchh jata tha.

Stage: A group of college going boys were sitting next to us apparently thinking them selves to be cool dudes.

One Guy from that Group (trying to initiate a conversation): Which college are you people from?

Prab: Hum log college mein nahi padhte.

I generally take it as compliment when some one asks that question given that I passed out almost 30 months ago.

Same Guy: Still, which college did u attend?

Prab: IIT Kanpur.

CONVERSATION ENDED

Me: Tune Kanpur kyun bola.

Here comes the punch line
Prab: Ab raat ke 2 baje itni daru peene ke baad in laundon ko ISM ke baare mein samjhan bahut muskil kaam hai.
FYI
ISM= Indian School of Mines.
You have to live it to feel it and not just attend it.

Love Peace Empathy
Harsh

Reservation-Quota

Long time ago or rather not so long time ago, when I was a student. And when I say student I don’t mean ISMU days primarily because I did not do any act from which any one can envisage me as a student expect that I had an erstwhile ISMU I-Card and I used to sit for exams in the Penman Auditorium,

Cutting the crap and coming back to the student thing, when I was in XI and XII. Preparing for JEE or I will put it as “Engineering Entrance Examinations” to be humble and to have reverence for the lesser mortals.

Cutting the crap yet again and coming back to the student thing. With two digit Premier Colleges and Four digit seats, any news about reservation or quota generated a furor among us. With any alteration in the nos. (% reserved) or rather increase in the nos. it was mathematics time for most of us. Calculate or Back-calculate, Take your pick, the no. of seats available for you.

I personally use to curse the order, more so because my sister was preparing for medicals and no. of seats are woefully less. “Why is Reservation there even after 50+ years of independence?” “Why don’t open a separate college for them and spare us?” In short I was never comfortable with the noble idea of reservations.

There also came a hilarious Women Reservation Bill, (I guess basically for Assembly and Lok Sabha etc) in the backdrop of Women-Men equality notions. LoL. Hello, did I say equality, but I hear “reservation” as the Echo. Thankfully it’s not passed it, (not so astonishingly) not for Reservation free Legislature but for other complex vote-cast combination. I used to keep an eye especially on this bill, because it can hamper my all time fantasy. Politics to mere khoon mein hai. India can do with some more good looking Netas. What say?

Coming out of my student days. I hardly care about Reservations/Quotas any more. Even though much of the mathematics changed in this time period ,when Arjun Bhai( I call him Bhai for other obvious reasons, which can be a anti-climax ) burst into scene in 2004 or rather wheel chaired into the scene. I don’t know the reason. May be it doesn’t affects it any more. May be I was lucky enough; it did not affect me anytime? May be being in Oil and Gas you have other things to worry for? May be being in a US MNC, it’s not my concern any more.

Or it is the sense, that I can’t change it in any ways (At this point of time). Or it is the sense that we don’t cast our vote we vote our cast. Or it is the same with everybody because I haven’t had any brain-storming sessions on this topic for a long long time.

OR I am more confident now.

OR I am selfish.

I don’t know. But it should bother me as it did before. I am still waiting for a PM who can be confident enough brushing aside the vote-bank algebra. And who, from the ramparts of the Red Fort can explain why India’s tryst with Schedules and Quoatas has been so disappointing.

Love Peace Empathy

Harsh V
General

Mumbai Indians

They call them selves "Mumbai Indians" and that too after some politician brought Mumbai's name to shame.
Post Raj Thackeray's antics, the IPL team has no right to associate the name Indian with them. Because India is too large and great than the narrow lanes of the minds of the leaders they support. Mumbai Marathi or Jai Maharashtra would have been an apt name given their so called love for their home state.

I wonder where Mr. Raj is ? May be he will suggest some names for the next version of IPL?


Love Peace Empathy

Harsh

welcome

I , welcome my self to the world of blogs...
These days i am free and as dearest Radhe Bhayia puts it "bade fursat se hoon" so i thought....and as a matter of fact i tend t o think many things. In these "golden" three years of my stay in ISM my all plans and thoughts have gone awry so may be its time not to think and just do the things as they come.
So its my first piece of work so i am keeping it short and simple. But folks i do wanna write a book on my my life....but i know its too early coz "its not fair to sit down and write when you have not stood up and lived". But to be modest i have done some wot of standing and living here but d real thing is about to come.And about modesty i would like to say a thing dat "modesty is a strange thing,the moment you thing you have got it...you have lost it "

C ya
HARSH