Taking global warming head on!

I have been very fascinated by global warming for a long time. Nope, I'm not trying to scare you here. Just that I felt its time to give my hard researched & experienced take on the subject. I have always experienced global warming at different stages of my life. During school days it was more pronounced during the P.T. period and the time I didn't do my homework. But, I actually knew for certain, it's effects, only during my 12th exams & subsequently when the results were out. Diwali and christmas is the perfect time during which 'Ice age' returns & one is back to the halycon days of slumber and extended hibernation; we know as vacation. I remember that during march-april exam season I suddenly felt the harsh effects of climate change where I literally saw the ozone layer shrink after my geometry paper. The economic effects were also felt when my pocket money was substantially diminished. Now that you are convinced of my ability to detect weather changes, let me give you some facts. Although I haven't been after penguins to locate habitat shifts; I have most certainly tracked similar patterns in the dogs of my locality. I have traced their increased population & discrepancies in barking habits to some of the above mentioned climatic changes. Even though our society watchman is also responsible for making their life diffucult, most certainly its the increase in earth's temperature that has brought about shifts in their eating habits from non-veg to marie/glucose biscuits. I have even come to the conclusion that our society tank overflows because of global activities working in sync with local ones. But secretly, I was never able to put a kite into the sky. Now I know to whom should I blame it on.

LIFE AS IT IS

Remember the time, as a kid, you struggled to jump an inch higher so that you could ring that door bell. Struggle is an inevitable part of life. One struggles to climb six floors of an office building but then the lift travel is also about cramping fifteen people inside a small space. We all struggle to find an identity in this world with I believe, consisting of six billion people on this planet. But remember, even Amitabh Bacchhan can't travel to the nearby shop to buy bread or watch a movie show! But the greatest struggle were those school days. Every day is so long. You have to literally count the time spent doing homework, P.T., classes, art, craft, music, drama, sports...Each period goes so slowly. I almost thought that I would never get out of school and that college was for very old young people. One day at school equals one week spent at college. Thats because we get freedom. But all that free time is spent wondering as to how that time has to be spent. Then suddenly you realise its time to start working. College days are over at a faster rate than school days. I devised this version of relativity much before Einstein managed his!Work is bonded labour kinda struggle where you slog all day to get something called as salary & something I call as electronic transfer of 'peanut butter money' or simply pocketmoney.

INSIDE MEN'S BATHROOM................!

Bathrooms have a personality of their own. They signify the character of their owner but more importantly they are the best of places to spend quality time. In most restaurants they are called as washrooms and hence people more than wash their hands and feet there. In most railway stations they work partly as waiting lounges and inside trains they are a place for accommodation. But its in schools & colleges that their true colour emerges. Students display their artwork. Here you’ll find modern art as well as literature running alongside eachother. Students smoke their first fumes,bunk their first lectures and settle several other scores. The place is so radical that most modern day headmasters wouldn’t install a camera in a men’s bathroom. Most men work in perfect harmony, co-ordination inside a bathroom. Lot of them would comb their hair, gel it, shine their shoes, adjust their clothes……in an unsettling camaderie of people coming in & going out. Actually, it is the very place where brotherhood, peace is practiced and further I believe that all of mankind’s famous and not so famous plots have been devised in here. Although a corporate bathroom is an altogether different juggernaut, in essence, it’s the same. Corporate bathrooms will have people mostly ranting about their jobs, their salaries and their work. I’m always of the opinion that video-conferences should be held in such places. And also people should be able to surf the net, watch T.V., read papers and hold thought provoking meetings in the bathroom. Bill Gates has a toilet seat which gives him a massage, has a ‘notebook’ attached(with ‘Windows’ ofcourse)! But for me a bathroom tinkers memories. Most of the world changed while I was wondering inside the bathroom………but most ideas came while I was peacefully dreaming…………Further 'He who wishes to wash his sins,glorify his self and live tranquily should cometh in da bathroom'.........