FAT??

A very dear friend has started the battle against the bulge. That reminded me of the New year Resolution that I had taken at teh beginning of 2007. Though NYR's are meant to be
broken but this one i wanted to stick to... not because suddenly i have become virtuous and i fulfill every promise I make, but because of all those stylish and sexy clothes that hang from the shop shelves... inciting, provoking, egging me on to buy them and wear them...Those cute tops... short skirts... hot pairs of jeans... and so one and so forth.

So coming back to the topic, I have decided to join the battle too... Strange how NYR's are forgotten woth every passing day of the year.... Goes on to show how we all start a new year afresh with lotsa hopes and desires to change things for the better... to make the world a better place to live in, in our own small ways... but everything falls into the great churning
machine... all hopes are squashed under its great weight, and all that is left is the residue, but not without a little hope that the next year will be a better one and more productive. Its
the hope that keeps us going...

Heres saying bye bye to the layers and layers of fat... Welcome a SLIM ME!!

Red is after all not a very appealing color... Not always

In my previous post I talked about how our Hon’ble Chief Minister is a very literary minded person with very delicate tastes in art and culture. His adda venue is Nandan where he drops by to enjoy the environment and discuss literature and politics… Blah blah blah.
And the very day, in the afternoon, we receive horrifying news of villagers falling victims to piercing bullets that were shot through their bodies like rag dolls being torn apart. And this incident, too, very unfortunately happened under the rule of the same CM. The police “needed to restore law and order” in Nandigram, the next venue for the SEZ.
Industrialization is an important step for every economy and its people and is not always a very welcome change, as we have seen in the recent times. No change is ever accepted with arms wide open and without apprehension, but there are ways of easing it into a people. And flexing of muscles surely can’t be one of them. How can you justify the use of force when you are encroaching on one’s own property to evict the person? The bloodbath that Nandigram witnessed two days ago has no excuse. Using rubber bullets and tear gas shells is one thing, to disperse an angry mob, but to use live ammunition and dismiss them completely from the drudgery of life is completely another. These poor people were only trying to save the only known source of their livelihood. Were there any open talks with the Government regarding the kind of benefit that they would receive once the SEZ has been set up and work started on the plot? It is a rhetorical question that I ask.
A government cannot boast of modernization and a successful economy if its hands are stained with the blood of innocent people. Our ruling party seems to take its official color a tad bit seriously. Where is the people friendly image that your Government has been posing all this time Mr. CM? Has the sense of power made you heady with success? Or is it that after three decades of your rule you have decided to take your own people for granted? Just because we have voted for you and brought you into power time and again, does not mean that we have become dependent on you and lost our voice of protest.
I have believed in the ruling party for as long as I can remember, but do not test our patience Budhha babu. We have known you as a sensitive and sensible person, and have left the ruling power in the Left hands… and this was done by choice and not by force. And though it has been long since we had eyes for only the sickle and the hammer, don’t you for once think that we have lost the power to look elsewhere.
After the horrifying incident, a minimum that was expected from the Government was a deep and profound apology at the loss of so many innocent lives, and so brutally indeed. But ego has been known to bring down many a Heracles, and such seems to be the case with the ruling party. Today the situation has such arisen that even the most ardent fan of the red club is seeing red at its actions.
Common Budhha Babu, show us some of the sensitiveness that makes you a cut above the rest of those hard hearted politicians who speak on a public forum only to gain votes, and see campaigning in the burning sun as a means to their selfish ends. We never knew you to be like that. Bring on that charm, play it all over… To err is human, Mr. CM… give us the wise old man, white haired, and clad in white traditional clothes. We do not want the callous politician that is trying to raise its ugly head within you. Make us believe in you all over again. The state needs you to hold its hand and bring it forward from darkness unto light, and not vice versa. Go on apologize for the atrocities committed by your men in uniform, and start all over again.
We still have eyes only for the sickle and hammer.

Hey am really excited today... Am meeting my dear friend Scooby after a long long time... we both have been busy, though she wont admit that she was too busy to meet up, and says its the lazy me that has been delaying our regular meetings over a bhaar of tea and a shared cigarette at our fav meeting place: Nandan. The cultural hub of The city of joy; though the great history and the cultural n political importance of the place has got nothing to do with us stupid mortals. Though the CM himself drops in whenever he can, at Nandan; it being his fav hangout too, we go there for the sheer sprawling grounds and the independence of being able to hang around the place without anyone coming over to ask if we want to order something else (poliltely and sometimes very blatantly asking us to leave) !!
It’s been our favorite place since our college days when we bunked classes and went and lazed around the Nandan grounds. This place holds a lot of memories, and going back there always brings back the happy ones.
Today I am going to create some more. So that when life sweeps us away in its unexpected tides, I can always look back and smile fondly at all the memories that we have made over the years.