The economy slowed down and many got laid off. Salaries were cut to half and so did the budgets come crumbling down.Chain effect we may call,no money meant no purchasing power of course the inventories were looking so good on the shelf now with nobody to buy.
Last few months the trends changed.Salaries zoomed and so did the economy .The reverse happened and smiles flashed all around.
Having spent number of years in the corporate when I see them offering funtastic packages (of course to let them have all the fun now) its a rethink on where are we going.Excess money would always give rise to inflation and who else will suffer but the common man. Luxury word would continue to be used for now a necessity.Definitions would be misinterpreted anyway.
The teacher who produces a mind who starts with an earning of a surplus also deserves to have a beautiful home and so his aspirations grow and so begins the vicious cycle .Education becomes expensive.
Who suffers the most ,but the common man who in economic parlance can be called the middle class.
No I am no economist but a common man who thinks from a perception which may or may not improve my living but at least I can make a fervent plea. Have mercy on me or I will perish without a whimper.
This is just one aspect, think about many which may wake you up from the deep slumber you are in my friend.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Eerie
Like any other night,my mind and body slowly drifted into a slumber gently holding me in its arms.
Sleep is one phenomenon which keeps your body oblivious to the outside world and mind travels in various spheres exploring a world of its own.The two are not in sync if I can put it that way.
My fantasies took over and I was in a different world. It was in the middle of the night when I felt a spirit trying to push me down and making me speechless.
No it was when some spiritual chants came out and the grip loosened. However as I tried to get up it pushed me down again but the continuous chants won and I woke up with a jerk.
Looked at the clock which was showing 2 hands moving with an eerie silence and it was just around 3 am.
Quietly I lay down and let sleep engulf me again this time praying that nothing much should disturb me now.
Real or not Real I don't know but it has happened to me number of times with no answers forthcoming.
It was 7 years back when I checked into a decent hotel in Delhi. The navratras were being celebrated so no drinks for 9 days.
Switching off the lights and the lamps I quietly drifted into another world and surely it was.
My dreams were not really in line with the festive atmosphere and it gave me a vision of the dead moving around. It was a sms which rudely woke me up.
A double bed it was as my hands reached for the phone. My eyes widely open I looked around,the room was illuminated. The chandelier which was not even switched on,spread its light with full intensity. The bed lamp on both the sides were throwing their light on what, I failed to gather.
I got up putting up a brave front as my fingers touched all the switch points which had been put in the ON mode.Who the hell had done it,was anybody's guess.
The Durga Chalisa on the side table stared at me back. Maybe it had protected me from something.
Going back to sleep was not easy but then it did have the final say.
Morning rays woke me up and so did my mind which had experienced something which gave goose bumps all over.
It was a phenomenon which I could never forget and each time I think about it,I tend to believe that in the night we are not alone...
Somebody is there ..Koi hai.
Sleep is one phenomenon which keeps your body oblivious to the outside world and mind travels in various spheres exploring a world of its own.The two are not in sync if I can put it that way.
My fantasies took over and I was in a different world. It was in the middle of the night when I felt a spirit trying to push me down and making me speechless.
No it was when some spiritual chants came out and the grip loosened. However as I tried to get up it pushed me down again but the continuous chants won and I woke up with a jerk.
Looked at the clock which was showing 2 hands moving with an eerie silence and it was just around 3 am.
Quietly I lay down and let sleep engulf me again this time praying that nothing much should disturb me now.
Real or not Real I don't know but it has happened to me number of times with no answers forthcoming.
It was 7 years back when I checked into a decent hotel in Delhi. The navratras were being celebrated so no drinks for 9 days.
Switching off the lights and the lamps I quietly drifted into another world and surely it was.
My dreams were not really in line with the festive atmosphere and it gave me a vision of the dead moving around. It was a sms which rudely woke me up.
A double bed it was as my hands reached for the phone. My eyes widely open I looked around,the room was illuminated. The chandelier which was not even switched on,spread its light with full intensity. The bed lamp on both the sides were throwing their light on what, I failed to gather.
I got up putting up a brave front as my fingers touched all the switch points which had been put in the ON mode.Who the hell had done it,was anybody's guess.
The Durga Chalisa on the side table stared at me back. Maybe it had protected me from something.
Going back to sleep was not easy but then it did have the final say.
Morning rays woke me up and so did my mind which had experienced something which gave goose bumps all over.
It was a phenomenon which I could never forget and each time I think about it,I tend to believe that in the night we are not alone...
Somebody is there ..Koi hai.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Helpless
Days end fast and so does time but we still don't learn from the past and move on with life without caring for what crosses our path.
Every time I switch on the channel some kind of turmoil is on the air. My eyes blink for a while not able to fathom what exactly is happening.Where has all the peace gone or was it ever there.
Going back over the years there was a Bofors which had fired people's imagination and scam came into existence. Today ,the imagination has not ended in fact it triggers another one giving birth to a chain which looks like it never will .
Unsolved cases mount ,well none ever got solved earlier too but even when our know how has become more advanced it still has not really shown us the path to solutions.
The murder mysteries make Sherlock Holmes,Poirot etc really imaginative figures. Perhaps the authors who gave birth to them did not realize that we would have many of them coming in future which may remain unsolved forever.
Lust has paved way for the lusty and romance is no more the flavor. Ah the beautiful fountain which would spring its color of love every time it was let go now remains a mute spectator to a rape .
An era has dawned where we tag humans all in the name of justice and make them feel like animals and justify the inhuman act.
Where are we going.Do we even have a clue of it. No it doesn't look like.We are aimless now. The events of past few years has clogged our thinking and though we still want to shout out `Yes We Can' ,all of it sounds like a Big noise which gets shriller day by day.
I pray and bow to Him to show us the way and enlighten our dark minds which produce nothing but acid which threatens to destroy this beautiful place built with passion .
For once I don't have a religion and am just HELPLESS!
Every time I switch on the channel some kind of turmoil is on the air. My eyes blink for a while not able to fathom what exactly is happening.Where has all the peace gone or was it ever there.
Going back over the years there was a Bofors which had fired people's imagination and scam came into existence. Today ,the imagination has not ended in fact it triggers another one giving birth to a chain which looks like it never will .
Unsolved cases mount ,well none ever got solved earlier too but even when our know how has become more advanced it still has not really shown us the path to solutions.
The murder mysteries make Sherlock Holmes,Poirot etc really imaginative figures. Perhaps the authors who gave birth to them did not realize that we would have many of them coming in future which may remain unsolved forever.
Lust has paved way for the lusty and romance is no more the flavor. Ah the beautiful fountain which would spring its color of love every time it was let go now remains a mute spectator to a rape .
An era has dawned where we tag humans all in the name of justice and make them feel like animals and justify the inhuman act.
Where are we going.Do we even have a clue of it. No it doesn't look like.We are aimless now. The events of past few years has clogged our thinking and though we still want to shout out `Yes We Can' ,all of it sounds like a Big noise which gets shriller day by day.
I pray and bow to Him to show us the way and enlighten our dark minds which produce nothing but acid which threatens to destroy this beautiful place built with passion .
For once I don't have a religion and am just HELPLESS!
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