Discrepancy

In this world of differences , people always have to fight for  'state of being' or 'state of not being'.From the impact the world is experiencing, I have inferred that World = 2 State. If 1 State sings, another mourns. Might be there are many numbers in the world of Mathematics, but is just a mixture of 2  ( 1 and 0 ) and not to forget  Female and Male ( Two again ); Rich and The Poor. Even when we nod , it means yes or no but can't be somewhere in the middle.
Discrepancy always exists. I have been experiencing some sort of Differences lately.Might be it was from before but I never noticed.

If you are an employee , then you may agree with me that half of your life is been spend in your work life. The Life which you spend in your work is something much more different than the life of your own. Mostly, after my marriage, I am having a tendency of drifting to be on my personal life rather than my work, but ya to smooth sail your personal life, on this current generation, work is almost as important as anything Else and hence I too have become more corporate -oriented in my life. I don't know, how long this exists but this gives a happiness of Independence even when I am committed and hence I move ahead with it. But Lately i am experiencing discrepancy ; which sort of happening with everyone who can picture it in their life. Working in your company as a permanent employee and working as contractor , i never knew the difference. But Today even though I work as an permanent employee of a reputed Tata corporate., I am still a Contractor to some other company, lets name it Company 'X'. I choose to be a contractor since it is near to my place, but one the cost of fallen esteem of myself. I am not been treated badly but there is a difference. The vision the company 'X' protrudes to a contractor is not similar as  they visualise their own company employee and yes this is there everywhere, but it is a new experience for me which makes me sometime think that even thou you are meant to work and go, the mental state of a person have made me change and until I move back to where I was , I will be missing my workspace, TCS badly.

Secondly the Elders, I call. People who are elder than me. This is in general to whoever It co relates to. Their Advice, their so called ,"You know I am Elder than You" Thinking. I feel this is a new feeling which is emerging which is making me think. My Mind has changed from "I am Fresher" Mind to "I am 4yr Exp, corporate employee". When we are assigned some work, we need to use our experience and put forward an output which should be remarkably good and it is always pointed that when we commit a mistake than we need to answer "Why?, You are experienced ! How did this happen". But when we want to take a leave, we are treated still the same "You are suppose to ask 'all this sort / list of people' for approval".huh! This is one sort of example, but in my list I have many more. '

Much awaited Bellary Mining Act and its involvement has made Yediyurappa take a back seat from his CM  post and people now blame what a shame , Karnataka is facing ? OMG its a state of high corruption . God sake ,  Bangalore, capital city of Karnataka is filled with non-karnataka people in the highest rate anywhere in India; It is called the hub of Software; when such condition exists corruption is bound to occur. Its not to be blamed on the Kannadiaga's why karnataka is facing this way. It is bound to ask with others so, why are  they still staying here and talking as if they have come from the world of Non-corruption. When population increases and people are more involved in their own world, ignoring the others than there will be discrepancy. There will be increase in fare when govt. don't know what to do with the extra people entering. We are welcoming unlike our neighbours. I have no approbation to talk on difference in the state or language, but after being in Bangalore for almost 4 years , a response has emerged that there is no value for us Kanadiga or the value is diminishing.

Nelson Mandela Fought for Discrepancy of Black against White, and I am bound to fight for whatever I am going through and is happening in my Life. Might be I am not going to be enlighten with answers or answers which will help all, but I will make sure I get an answer to myself, which will be satisfactory to me but may or mayn't for all.

Discrepancy makes people a bit selfish and hence my thought ....

-Prathi

Mr.Courage

Cat kingdoms are known for their courage and you can’t accept them being innocent. Usually the charming face might depict that they are the most adorable creature in this world but not their action. Lion’s, Tiger’s, Cheetah’s  being involved in this massive group , even the domestic  Cat sometime, which is a mere pet in a house, can be furious and scary for few. But in this entire collection of mammals, there can be exceptions , no doubt, and can’t predict, whether it is fortunate or unfortunate that I have been in touch with one of those, having a rare behaviour, that is ‘being ‘Coward’’. I am indeed describing my dear pet cat/male, named (for namesake) “Mr. Courage”, the cowardly Cat. Of all the cats which has been to my house, spent their livelihood, this cat, to be precious its behaviour is cowardice of all. 

I thought, ‘not being able to survive in this world’ means ‘death’. But my cat shines outstandingly even when it is surviving on the tip of the death. I can say, there is more than 1 cat in each neighbouring houses and this little precious has been an enemy with most of them. Not sure why others attack it, but they do and for the rescue, it’s always my mom. I get thoughts of ‘not able to see the world’ where as ‘might be’ my cat gets the thought “what can be on the other side of our neighbourhood houses”. Its rivals are so many, as contrary as it has its own friend lists. Only my mom, dad and bro are his life. If mom is not available for its rescue, dad comes into picture. The other day, dad had to chase other cats far away from our house so that it doesn’t attack our precious. Unfortunate, it used to be scared of me because I used to turn up occasionally. But now fortunately it has settle down about me being a frequent visitor and does no harm to it. To make things worse, it is sort of half blind, having 1 eye: defected: P

As I was mentioning there has been many cats which has made a mark in our memories and one of them is Mr. Grey Bell. Now-a-days it comes to house like Halftha vasili Gunda , once in a week visit, and without any word eats the food in its tray ( we have a special tray reserved for these cats ) and goes off and this Mr. Courage keeps encouraging Mr. Grey Bell to play with it and lands up in disappointment. Mr. Courage is 2 and half year old, but it still appears and thinks itself as a kid. After losing its Bro (Mr. Cutie), it has not got any one to be as a ‘play buddy’ :-(.

Of all the cats mentioned in our neighbourhood, I forgot to mention the famous one, the lady, Mrs. Cunning, which tricks Mr. Courage and eats up all his food. I am sure Mr. Courage falls for her charm :-) , All thou I don’t see what charm she has, when especially she is older than him. Any way my little Cowardly cat is just like a geek which is always inside its book or like a frog inside its own well or a kid under his mom’s pallu.

Ah, also forgot to mention about Mr. Courage’s current enemy Mr. J, because I don’t understand why it is so jealous with Mr. Courage, keeps fighting over and over again for no reasons ( at least I can’t find out )

Sometime I feel pity for Mr. Courage, not able to face these cats, and hence not even able to cross a neighbourhood block because of its scariness. But even then it is so scared; it has some feeling of being part of our family. If any one of us didn’t notice it or avoid it during some occasion, it comes near us and hits in his palm indicating “Please do give me importance, I am just below you”.

It do give more importance to non-vegetarian (like cockroach, lizards etc., than vegetarian, but eats rice with oil (oil is must) everyday. Even thou it eats, it is still the thinnest of all. Likes my mom to the core, and follows her everywhere. The other day when my mom was away from house for 1 week, it didn’t have its food for at least a day. It is obedient and knows that it shouldn’t enter puja room and kitchen slabs in search of food. And because of its long interaction of a day with we humans or of less interaction with other cats, it understands kannada very quickly. Understanding local language is seen with all cats, in and around our neighbourhood; might be because of human body language and everyday interaction; but according to me our cat understands more quickly than others. It has very peculiar sleeping style, of holding the hind legs with the front ones, in a stretch full manner. So overall you can say these are some (few) of its brave deeds ;-)

Of all the regrets that it is not so brave as Grey Bell and also hope to see one day it out coming some other cats; like chasing someone else, we still love our ‘Mr. Courage’ so much

 

Mr.Courage

-Prathi

What a game!!

Uff,....Ever guessed whether  a girl can write about cricket!!  To make things more impropriate, it’s me who’s writing about it. Don’t hope to much expectation thou but I criss-cross my finger to make it better and I bet, the contents are much better than mandira bedi’s so called saree/s  :-)

24-03-2011 , India Vs  Australia something which woke every one up ( aaah ‘most of them’ because I heard Volvo driver and conductor discussing that it seems Indian won against Australia after 2 days from the date where in the driver replies “Is It!!” ...ya I know ‘what a shame’ people were unaware) ; But as an Indian, I feel the tip toe kneeling experience can be seen only in India for cricket and especially when it’s opponent be someone so ‘legend’ and ‘the all time rivals’. I keep wondering and feeling ashamed ( ?? yes ashamed ) when the stadium growls, sings, dances with lightning rods ( I mean the fire crackers ) or by the hindi bolywood maska chaska songs , how will the other country people feel, wouldn’t they say “oh so much of gawar” ?; But when I think further I say “chalo dikadhe India”, gawar or no gawar, When India plays the Indian within the heart just dance and sings as a true Indian should :-) and yes even I was not able to resist when such a battle occurs ...chalo yer not always do we see gabar aur thakor ka thakrar ;-)

The temperature of the environment was something similar to me; it was the same heat which I felt, when I sat in an exam hall and wait for the Question paper to be in my hand. “What will be the Questions?”, “Will I know the answers?”, “Will I be able to answer it well?” etc & etc. It’s like 50 different Questions our batsman has to face and 50 different bowling styles has to be thrown at the opponent in such a way that they will not be able to answer them in any circumstances and for the first time I felt that, yes our bowlers had tried their level best, of all combination of Questions (in the pattern of bowling) at the Ausis. I am not an expert in this, but might be because of the pitch or our new faces (esp. Ashwin) Ausis (except Pointing, 104) had a tough time.

Also when bowling, there was an confusion in the minds of Ausis esp. Shaun Tait when shewag/sachin hit a 4 for the first over , it just conveys and says  in his reaction “Now what did I do”. I have seen 2003 world cup match where India reached the final, There is something different today and that’s the Confidence of the team and the same was missing in Ausis especially when there was 4 run hit by shewag in Brett Lee’s over, pointing was shuddered and heard the commentator suggesting the thought of pointing “What can I do”

I like Ausis team frankly especially when Mcgrath, Gilchrist with Breet Lee and Pointing, they were the best but as per the saying “What goes up has to come down” there has to be an end for the legend otherwise they are not called ‘the legend’ ;-) and seriously, on an happy note, these legends were defeated by us “INDIAN’S”

30-03-2011 India Defeated Pakistan. It was a moment where in all Indian watched, unlike Australia match I watched this one completely without any break ;-).  Everyone had a mindset that India will win, because never has India lost against Pakistan in World cup and as all Indian says “It’s ‘Prestige’ more important than the ‘Game’, Hence we will win”. 

In both the matches 260 was something lucky for us... We targeted 260 and I hoped to see the same score appear in the Finals (Nearly!! 275 was our target in Finals).

But the best part of this match was the group which sat to watch. It was my last World cup match watched in Pg with all we girls, we had a very good time. Making Strategy to make our self calm down and watch the match with happy –fun thoughts made the evening/night very interesting. Each bowl was something like ‘one heart stroke’, eagerly waiting for their wicket. Yes our score (Indian’s) was 260 and it was by hard work indeed.  To be frank, I wasn’t much satisfied with our score but my Pg girls did not give up, they encouraged me, to think in the winning stroke direction. Predicting that a wicket would fall now and it did happen at the very next moment made us say “waw we are so lucky to the Indian team”.  We were superstitious; with the position of each of us sitting when the wicket fell, with the TV volume level, and soon. Can’t imagine the moment the last wicket was taken, all girls just jumped to cry with happiness. Ha what a night :-)  

And then It was India vs. Srilanka on 2^nd April 2011. For sure no one would forget the day the history was repeated after 1983, after 28 years I suppose we won the World cup and it’s something captivating. ‘Never expected!!’, this is what I express my thought on it. But dad has said during the match, that if Indian Team won that cup, then they are truly the champions of the champions, because the hard pain work is recognized.

With Srilanka, Pakistan and Australia; I feel Indian team has emerged from the muddy pond. And to the decorative royal castle, I suppose, because the very next moment when the Team India won the cup, there was a rush of money being followed with crore’s, awards and no idea what else.

Team India with the World cup - 2nd April 2011

@Team India: Congrats for bringing that cup, All the best and keep going... de ghuma ke

-Prathi

Dhobi Ghat

We are always not sure why some movie's attracts you on a first sight, leaving you traces of what might be; creating curiosity but at the end, an unfortunate titanic sinking effect with just the sweet tit-bites. It's just so not happening. This would be what I summarize my on-going variation of mood's during the pre- and pro- effects of Dhobi Ghat.

If you just visualize the approach of the way to shot a film, i.e. cinematography, then I would give it 100/100 for it. But in a film, a story, a concept is also needed which it just doesn't fulfils. It was like a 1 30 hours trailer of what mumbai has and feels, nothing much of story or a concept, with a reaction Not bad, but not good too

@Dhobi Ghat : The story as such is about 4 people whose life cross each other in amchi mumbai. All 4 are connected with each other, with relationship undefined or  is abrupt. Arun ( Aamir ) is a  very painful painter, and he hardly talks throughout the film. Yamini (Kirti Malhotra) character is pleasing and very surprisal since she is always been engulfed in her own video taken by herself from a handy cam, an amateur video with a meaningful approach which Arun grabs it in his painting and also in his life. Shie (Monica Dogra the NRI) is uncertain in herself with deep affection on Arun and care to munna. Only munna (Prateik Babbar) seems to be the one appearing working throughout, for his daily wages. He is the one whom the title fits, as he is a Dhobhi indeed. Ending is up to us viewer's to predict, because the way kiran wants to depict from the movie is not fully understood by all. Yes, Dhobi Ghat is a documentary movie with overall concept unclear. It lacks the story which a person search's for. There might be a distinct connection between the 4 life, but why was this film done, what was the purpose is missing for elaboration. Especially for a non-mumbaian it is difficult to interrelate, as compare to other mumbai related stories/films, it definitely misses some beats.

@what's interesting: Artistic side has been portrayed very gorgeously, with Aamir being a painter, Monica Dogra, a photography freak. Painting and the photograph's reflects an eye-pleasing site which brings some sort of happiness if you are an artistic person. The way the film is directed can be applauded for, especially when she is in her debut role. Also it highlights the mumbai in and around which is interesting to watch about. Since mumbai is a theme here, this has been elaborated freshly, neatly no doubt. It covers all the nature as well as deep down expectation of mumbaian. All the 4 actors (yes no doubt on Aamir though) played there character role with utmost efficiency.

At the end yes Kiran can be the best director with A but, that let someone else write a story.

- Prathi