Tuesday, November 23, 2010

My colours, my canvas

20th November, 2010

Many would have seen paintings; some of you might be the creators of one. I fall in the second category. Yes, I paint. i love playing with colours. Bright, dark and some really shiny. You mix and get more types of them .the canvas is vast and a good painter always tries to put his whole lot of imagination into it. He doesn’t exactly know about the outcome, because he’s busy playing. All his energy is focused on a limited area, within which he projects his then current state of mind. But the challenge of mind is to create within some restrictions .when you can’t go with all your imagination.

Once your mind is portrayed on the canvas, erasing it and preparing a new one isn’t possible. You need a different canvas for maintaining the stream line flow of thoughts and colours. Sometimes your thoughts and imagination goes beyond limits and you need more space, a bigger canvas that accumulates all your thoughts and then you play with them,

The “SKY” is then your new canvas with clouds as your brushes, available In all shapes and sizes. All you have to do is , sit down and relax and let your imagination fill up the sky. You have the rainbow as your ultimate source of colours, everlasting so you can never stop painting and it is always erasable. You don’t need a new one .in this modern age, this is the only thing in nature available for plenty , is free and always at your service.
But like everything in this world, the sky has some limits.

It was late in the night as I returned from my bashing evening. Never in my life I had so much of fun and so it is expected that I had to share all of my feeling and positive vibrations I held within me , with someone who wouldn’t let this happiness go in vain. I messaged her
“Had a blast full evening, have lots tories to tell”

It’s started raining. I was now busy arranging my room and sudden message tone broke the silence. I was expecting her reply. This was it.it read;

“call asap”

To which I politely replied….

“M low on balance, is it possible for you to call??”

It was too late and I wasn’t expecting her call but the caller ringtone reached my ears, breaking the silence again and then I left my room, giving my roommate some space with his books and I made some for myself. I roamed through the whole corridor, never alone. Her voice was as beautiful as she herself, yet she never trusted me when I complimented her.
she was unique. I haven’t seen any other girl who’s more beautiful than her and with such purity of heart, very innocent, cute , lovable , joyful and sweet. Words seem less to describe her. All these I thought while she was enquiring about my “stories” to which I replied very enthusiastically.
By this time I had descended down one level and was standing devant a broken window which we called the gateway to heaven. In front of me was a huge valley with distant white spots. It was already past 12am. The next day had begun. The dark bluish sky with white spills and minute polka dots and varying shades of violet combined.so calm and silent indicating the coming up of a new time...

My eyes were admiring the scenic beauty, when I asked her
“so how was the day??”
To which she silently in low voice….
“Nothing much, just another day of college and studies, had some fun and then back home tired”
(some conversations later….)
“haven’t you ever thought of doing something special in life”?

Then I got to know, she always wanted to be a model. She was so dedicated to this dream that she left chocolates.(her favori) went off on dieting to get the perfect shape. she knew within her heart that she will make it. I could see her very well through the clouds. i was painting her as she continued speaking imagining her clothes , her smile and surroundings. The painting also included her as a supermodel. a smile came on my face. i painted her through the dark sky with colours from my mind box.i said her “I vote for you”…

But suddenly, the painting was wet. The colours started fading. Image was becoming blurred. My canvas was getting wet. I felt, I was losing her. She was crying. her voice was like water that spilt over my canvas .i was terrified was getting confused. Why , Why this sudden flickering of emotions?? i had tears in my eyes as she continued speaking, about her dreams crushed by the society’s grinding stone. She collapsed (that’s what I felt).

You don’t know how much I wanted to be there with her, to talk and make her feel light. Not to share but to take her burden, to wipe her tears….to tell her that I am always by your side. To tell her, how much I loved her…..

That night was unusual .the sky was my canvas. the mind played with all its accesable colours…all ot mixed and created some unforgettable moments .i hoped that she would have also seen the same sky, so that she knows some people want her in their life, that she should always be happy and never stop searching for opportunities and make a new start with every given one. life is a rocky terrain. i wished that she saw my painting.i didn’t sleep well and made a promise to myself that I wont let her potential get drained and will make her aware of it asap..i looked through the window,I could see her again on the “canvas”. she was happy. Then I was comfortable.

..if you read this, just know…you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. your heart is clearer than the morning dew and people like you are very few… your such a “shona” .always keep smiling because a smile looks good when its on you and in future if you feel low,

meri shakal yaad karlena…hassi apne aap aajayegi

I ‘ll be the most happiest person on this earth.
Amicalement
ABC….

Friday, October 15, 2010

INCREDIBLE INDIA..





Travel is what most people do and have been doing .Since past, nomads travelled in search of better facilities, civilisations later did to find suitable shelter, even I did, but unlike them, I did for fun of exploring. South India, though in India, is very different from rest of the nation, in what sense erupts the next question..?? Well, it’s the only place where people get up at 5am and shops close down by 8pm, a place where people talk in a complete different language which appears funny, you can’t make out whether they are chatting or abusing, anger management is taught to every child in his mother’s womb, very innocent people.

When I put my big head outside the plane, all came to a hault.My hands went into the pocket and next few minutes till I reached the arrivals I was wiping off the sweat. Its was scorching heat !!!..Driver was waiting, I waved at him, he took my luggage to the car and waited pateintly.On asking he mentioned that he awaited the arrival of “Mr Maheshwari”.For a moment I almost forgot that, Maheshwari is also a first name here. See,that is what it makes it special. After having a quarter north and rest south northern dish I went for sleep.Tomorow was going to be a big day.
A jerky flight to Madurai due to bad weather and the huge quantities of sambar vada and dosa made me feel vomit. I was admiring down the window, a green blanket that covered beautiful protrusions of the Eastern Ghats, dressed with blue strips. A  small city near the sea,amazing,what a beauty but all my impressions  about the city got vanished as it reminded me of Delhi;pollution,crowd and bikers .The huge church, Madurai palace, zoo and railway bridge accompanied me to my hotel. Hotel Germinus was huge ,clean and luxurious. Like a bullet ,I checked in fast and reached my room Switched on the tv and was again rajnikanth creating tornado by shaking his leg.seriuosly south Indians are living in a fascinating world and believe all the “STUNTS” shown.curtains raised and wow!!!! What a view.behind me were the ghats which seem to call me.so I politely accepted their call and went on for a day trip to koidaikanal.The golden quadrilateral seems to be so smooth that the cm’s car ran so fast,I wondered about all those traffic regulation taught to us in school.my river gave way for them,as a mark of respect.a small though chilly hill station and those who have back problems are advised not to take the road,though its  a different case you will have no other way to go.but you will spin round n round on the roads. It’s just too “hilly”

The botanical garden smelled so fresh, plants so green, milk white clouds hiding the green mountains,a silent blanket of chilled winds and me freezing here because I forgot mi sweater.ears were coverd with “woollen caps” unique ones,which later were seen in other parts of the nation.truly,they are innovative.cycling around the lake should have been fun until I realised that the endless track was 5km long.now the cold was getting unbarable for me,I had lunch and was leaving when I met an unknown still known friend, the cm’s “khafilla”.again the car stopped.after he also needs a break,but unlike me he had sweaters.
The huge trees, deep valleys, noisy waterfalls,”desi tea bags”  were what I witnessed again. Awesome is the word. Monkeys on road and it was getting dark. The milestone said 185km.wow!! I didn’t realise that, funny it seemed to me.

Next came a small, religious, coastal and once again hot place 200km from Madurai by road. What the hell???? By road. Again the same story :running coconut trees, merry children and plastic pots. I looked and smiled. Then with astonishment turned back again “plastic water pots??? blue, red yellow ,never seen them before “.peninsular soil is not suitable to make them, and hence “pilashtic” ones. Smelly trucks (fish), loads of tourist buses, beach sand, naval bases, anna-akka in kanjiwaram saarees and wearing jewellery heavier than “bappi da”, uttering chants-prayers and Anna in white “lungis”.welcome to Rameshwaram

 Only lungis were allowed in the 54acre temple. Making my way through the crowd with most of them shorter than me in height and  their hair smelling of coconut oil and ‘gajras of mogre’   I bathed  in all the 22 freshwater wells and later finished the ‘pooja’.Marvellous architecture, painting and statues of men with women clothes, just bought a smile on my face. Lunch was nice.bala finds out a nice one.I didn’t realise that I am taking back ‘memories’ that made me laugh and sometimes irritated  when they didn’t  understood my words, stomach full of idlis and vada,camera full of colours of life, eyes with visions of nature’s beauty and how man applied a face pack to it.
Will miss: polite people, temples on every 20m, kaanjivaram saaris, lungis,heat,idlis –vada,obese policemen,boys having fat thighs and wearing shorts munching bananas,desi tea bags and plastic pots

Keep exploring!!! You will enjoy
Vote for me now!