Woooooo…the flame colored malpuas stare at you from the mesh on the vessel tempting you to no end. Before you decide to order a portion, the aroma of kebabs and biryani from the adjacent shop makes you all insatiablely hungry again… The quawalli blaring from a loudspeaker fitted just above a green satin banner with an inscription in jazzy gold Urdu text hanging over a travel agency shop on the other side of the street completely in sync with the festive atmosphere...well, this isn’t a narration from Khaled Hosseini's forthcoming novel but a picturesque scene on our very own Mohammed Ali Rd when its time to break roja a day before Eid and the feast that continues till dawn… The holy month of roja, the five times namaaz's and the feast thereafter really fascinates me…actually the glutton in me is more fascinated by the evening feasts!!
It’s sometimes difficult to digest the fact that a few people of this same community could be party to the recent heinous terrorists attacks across the country. What prompts a mind to kill innocent wives and children? How can a well educated mind be brainwashed to engineer such dangerous crimes!!
Its no rocket science…a human mind can be best brainwashed when its low and vulnerable and the people who are instrumental in making them vulnerable are none other than “we” the society as a whole. Youth from lower middle class families who are unemployed and illiterate are made to believe that its their faith and religious origins that is responsible for their plight.
For me, the SIMI, Laskhar E Toiba or the Indian Mujahideen is in the same league as the Bajrang Dal or VHP….
The motive of all the above mentioned organizations is quite simple; direct vulnerable minds to fulfill their insane ideas for personal gains and use the poor and illiterate as puppets.
The whole idea of putting up this article is to request everyone around to be more receptive towards this beautiful and culturally rich community and without viewing them with a needle of suspicion and holding hands and investigating and solving problems like terrorists attacks in a more rational and scientific way.
Also, not many of us are aware that studies have shown about 60% of the worlds Muslim population, religiously contributes 2.4% of their annual wealth to charity. Is it sheer coincidence that the navratri week and the Eid festivities fall on the same dates this year or is it a divine intervention trying to convey a message…..your guess is as good as mine!!!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Introducing my bullshit...
Hey….so finally I have started blogging!!.....and couldn’t find a better way by putting it up on a day when its pouring and the weather is just apt for writing something sensible which is very rare in my case!!....For me, Sundays have always been weird, most of the day is spent in pulling myself from the bed and when I manage this great feat, I realize its time for us to go to “church”…The “us” in question is a bunch of great spiritual souls. Our spirituality today has reached another level altogether where we can actually run a parallel faith strong enough to give our local church a run for their money.
To begin with, our founder member Mr. Dylan!!
The man founded this great faith in on an auspicious day a decade ago (I was a little tipsy to remember the date then). Actually Dylan has always been the spiritual types, like he spends quality time below the tree and talks to someone whom we are yet to meet. Then, there have been instances where this same “someone” calls him and he goes to the outskirts of Orlem to answer this divine call!!
Going back to our holy faith, at first, it was just him and Bryan Aranha, the son of the illustrious Sir Aranha from St. Annes High, currently living happily ever after with a family in thane (forgive the soldier….that’s his status every weekend)…They lit small white candles (holy cigarettes) every weekend and since then, as they say there has been no looking back!!..Alex, Reuben, myself and a whole lot of inspired souls soon joined in and it just got bigger and bigger…
Mr. Reuben, the man from the royal East Indian Bent family, uses his East Indian masala with lethal effect!!...he actually juggles between the local church and us depending upon the schedule of the blessed angels…hehehehe…complete "babechor", please don’t ever introduce your women to him, you’ll soon be single again…has a famous past of kissing the wrong girl!!!...oops
Osborne...the only sane person as of today in our faith.....his one liners weakens the female species...witty, spontaneous and always running home to answer someones call at 9 pm every night....we'll find out whose the mysterious one soon.... The saying " Snake in the grass" defines him the best.
How can I forget Kristoff…..did god make Kristoff or did he make god…..the man carries the IIT and IIM degrees so easily as anyone whose just passes out of high school!!...hes our supernatural Hancock…”good job good job”
Alex is the reason behind Vodafone's sudden decision to cut all calls and message tariffs…the senior management thought it was wiser to cut call rates than waste a process fighting Alex on – line!!
As for me, I just love my drink..and yes i never get high..its just that I'm always tipsy!!
Well that’s a little about our holy faith which started out at “St. Bajrangs”, where the priory members of the faith meet often to get spiritually high in the chapel below Reuben’s apartment where you’ll find a keystone always stocked with the holy water!!
If none of the above is not making sense to you, don’t worry it’s quite normal because I rarely make sense.
Cheers to the royal stags!!
Bombii
To begin with, our founder member Mr. Dylan!!
The man founded this great faith in on an auspicious day a decade ago (I was a little tipsy to remember the date then). Actually Dylan has always been the spiritual types, like he spends quality time below the tree and talks to someone whom we are yet to meet. Then, there have been instances where this same “someone” calls him and he goes to the outskirts of Orlem to answer this divine call!!
Going back to our holy faith, at first, it was just him and Bryan Aranha, the son of the illustrious Sir Aranha from St. Annes High, currently living happily ever after with a family in thane (forgive the soldier….that’s his status every weekend)…They lit small white candles (holy cigarettes) every weekend and since then, as they say there has been no looking back!!..Alex, Reuben, myself and a whole lot of inspired souls soon joined in and it just got bigger and bigger…
Mr. Reuben, the man from the royal East Indian Bent family, uses his East Indian masala with lethal effect!!...he actually juggles between the local church and us depending upon the schedule of the blessed angels…hehehehe…complete "babechor", please don’t ever introduce your women to him, you’ll soon be single again…has a famous past of kissing the wrong girl!!!...oops
Osborne...the only sane person as of today in our faith.....his one liners weakens the female species...witty, spontaneous and always running home to answer someones call at 9 pm every night....we'll find out whose the mysterious one soon.... The saying " Snake in the grass" defines him the best.
How can I forget Kristoff…..did god make Kristoff or did he make god…..the man carries the IIT and IIM degrees so easily as anyone whose just passes out of high school!!...hes our supernatural Hancock…”good job good job”
Alex is the reason behind Vodafone's sudden decision to cut all calls and message tariffs…the senior management thought it was wiser to cut call rates than waste a process fighting Alex on – line!!
As for me, I just love my drink..and yes i never get high..its just that I'm always tipsy!!
Well that’s a little about our holy faith which started out at “St. Bajrangs”, where the priory members of the faith meet often to get spiritually high in the chapel below Reuben’s apartment where you’ll find a keystone always stocked with the holy water!!
If none of the above is not making sense to you, don’t worry it’s quite normal because I rarely make sense.
Cheers to the royal stags!!
Bombii
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