Brand culture vs Common man

Recently I visited a mall in Noida and felt quite relaxed in cool aura and thanked the mall culture a million times for this liberty but as soon as I left the mall, reality struck me harder and I came to realize how hallucinated and vacuous the mall culture is when I saw the thousands of common man working in extreme heat..

Some time back I saw my friend wearing a goggle of Rs. 2400/-(only...lol) of a prestigious foreign brand and thought how worthless and selfish it is to behave in this manner in a country where our basic requirements are still not accomplished and millions of people are living  below poverty line..

Now days we have a tendency of going to the mall, buying expensive foreign brands and giving them our hard earned money as a gift while we bargain with local shopkeeper even for a rupee who toils hard in extreme heat...go for the lunch in Mcdee worth Rs.200 and fight with rikshawalah for Rs.5 to get there...

One thing I can assure you that this mall and brand culture is nothing more than a mirage created by some highly selfish industrialists and our govt to wrap the poor reality in rich and glazed enfold...  I can guarantee you that our country not going to progress and even our standard of life not going to lift unless and until our money will not reach to the pocket of common men..This money will help them to educate their children, to get adequate nutrition, to get a safe and comfortable place to live, to make them more satisfied and less frustrated with themselves and that will definitely serve our cause...

Whenever u feel urge of cold drink, go for lemon juice, lassi, mango shake etc. Instead of coke, pepsi...just go to local market to buy anything that suits you...go for Indian products as much as possible...and the least we can do is to treat our common men “the unsung hero of our country” which includes farmers, workers, rikshawallahs, dhabawallahs, local shopkeeper, smaller scale industrialists well, to make them feel that they are also the part of the process and they are playing a part in this society which is far more important than it seems..

Although it’s tough to abandon the foreign and expensive brands at once but at least we should make a choice where domestic alternative is available and for God’s sake they are just brands they are not God, we can live without them or we can create some of our own(after all India is the country of entrepreneurs) and we(the youth) should find ways to create more jobs and every possible way to make their life better...after all they are the ones providing base to this country and no county can stand tall until its foundation is strong and trustworthy... 

So, next time you’ll meet any one of these, treat them nicely...and take my words they’ll remember you as “special customer” for lifetime...

I’ve been able to write this blog just because of my very true friend Vivek...most genuine and patriotic of all my friend...always talks and think about country and it’s truly a privilege to have someone like him around me...

friends forever

I have read a lot in books and seen in movies about friends and I really had some good ones right from the beginning in form of Avinash, Saurabh, Anurag, Vivek and Nitin but what I experienced in 6 last month or so is surreal and am not been able to control this urge to write down something about friends..

Whenever the chips are down and going seems to get tougher, they are the force who helps you to keep going, when the world seems standing against you it feels really great to have them by your side all the time and whenever your self belief seems to be shaking they are the ones who helps you  to get it again in the right place ...

In this crappy world where people always forget your good work and remember you always by your last mistake, they are the ones who hold their trust in you and identify you by “what you are” and not by the “circumstances you are in”..When everybody else just looks at “what you did”, they are the ones who dare to think “why you did it” and that’s what justifies their faith in you.... Now I can understand why Socrates and Jesus sacrificed themselves...from where they derived the courage to die for their beliefs... it’s all because they were surrounded by the people who believed in them and when someone believes in you this strongly, it gives you the courage to stand tall and talk straight... 

Being with friends is the only time during which you can afford to become what you are...their sheer presence gives you the sense of comfort and sets you free from all the doubts you had about yourself and suddenly u begin to understand the meaning of “living in the present”..

In every person’s life love and friendship are two most desirable aspects...I haven’t experienced the love which I have seen in movies or read in novels yet but I can say with great surety that I have experienced friendship to its peak, I had never thought that someday somebody will back me so strongly, stand for me in every situation, believe in me and will make me feel special for what I am...I’ve got that somebody in the form of Toshu, Vineet, Prasahant, Sumit and Piyush..I’ll never forget the time I shared with these guys, how we used to come to coll. just to go to vineet’s room where all worries and problems  seem to disappear, how our group of 6 used to convert into of 10 with inclusion of Ajay, Anuj, Alok and Arun (vineet’s room mates) and how nobody wanted to leave, shared thoughts that nobody could have shared with anyone else, partying whole night and then those talks just before sleep and how can I forget those fights for getting their place to sleep....

College life is about to end but I don’t believe that I’ll get separated from these guys, they will always remain in my heart, I’ll see them in my each and every dream and would thank them for providing me such a great time, for providing me the days of my life, for making me believe that all those fairy tales about friends are not an exaggeration and most importantly for providing me my “ENTOURAGE”...

Mom-all my lovings 4 u..

I never needed a mother’s day to show my care, affection and love to her, I never miss a chance to show her how special she is to me...but today i’v got this special opportunity to show that how extra special she is to me....

 I born in churu (Rajasthan).At the time of birth I was weak and during 1^st 6 months I had more than my share of fevers and diseases...daddy and grandpaa were working in Noida at that time...so it was my grandmaa and my mom who took me to various child specialists but it was my mom who struggled a lot during that period..As I came to know later that during that period each of my uncles and aunties and even my grandparents were not sure whether it was worth struggling or not...but she  bear endless sufferings to make sure that I would not lose the life which she had given to me after so much of struggle and labor..Finally her faith and hard work paid off and now me living a healthy life all coz of her...

If someone needs some inspiration then he /she can draw inspiration from the simple fact that someone has gone through a lot of pain to bring them to this world so they should make this pain worth and make their life a success or at least think a million times before throwing it away..

I thank her for being there for me on all parents-teacher meetings when daddy was busy, for those tea that she made for me at midnight to help me awake, for taking care of all my stuff, thank her for being my first teacher, for listening to my stupid  stories carefully about how the day went in school, for being there in front of school with umbrella on rainy day,  for those infinite no. of sleeps I’ve got in her lap,  for making me believe that I m the most special boy in the world,  for praying for me all the time, for being such a support to daddy which helped him to keep going for so long, for giving me such a beautiful and caring sister and finally thanks to mom and dad to make home the safest and most comfortable place in the world.

On this esteem occasion I also want to thank my sister who has loved me like my mother, she has always bestowed me with all of her care and affection...even now when she has her own child, it’s not making any difference to her and she always showers her unconditional love on me...

love you mom,forever and ever...