Be The Change You Want To See.....

All you hip-hop, hep n happening people out there this is the in thing. Night clubs, Elite social gatherings, expensive designer dresses, posh discos, wearing really loose low waist jeans with your jocks sticking out of them, hanging out with a cool looking gang with loads of gorgeous chicks in them, everything is out because voting is in....

As you can see on my beautiful, good looking and artistic finger(sorry don't have many adjectives to describe a finger, may be you could help) that unlike the celebrities my ink mark is not a dot rather its smeared all over. Also they marked me on the index finger and not on the middle finger (Not that big a deal, just that it would had been more fun flaunting my middle finger to people).

Still, I am feeling very proud of myself for finally deciding and giving my very first vote (last time I didn't have a voter i-card and before that I was not 18)....


Got up at 6.30 in the morning all excited and ready to vote, feeling like a small kid who has just been handed over a small goldfish and has been told to take care of it. Felt responsible for once.

So, now in a very Lead India Campaign like manner I can say, "I voted. Did you?" If not then think again and thank god that he gives us second chances. Sooner or later you will have that chance again to change, to evolve because come to think of it evolution began with a small change.

Btw, what I was surprised to see was that it is so damn easy to vote. It really doesn't even take two minutes and the people are so very helpful. I think I had some pretty stupid misconceptions about the whole thing.

A lot of people whom I knew were there. So, it became more like one of those morning walks in the societies where everyone passing by raises his/her arm to say hello.

While I was just standing there with a friend, a lady (she must have been around 65 at least) passed by and asked us, " Your first time??" I guess she was able to make that out from our happy faces. We both at once gave her a big nod and she replied, "Congratulations to you, its my first time as well."

We congratulated her right back because she deserves it more. She must have had a belief system due to which she didn't vote for so many years and then giving it all up and coming to vote is a big thing.
I write this with a proud smile.....

At that very point I realized that I saw a change. Even though it was a very small one....

The Political Downturn.........

To vote or not to vote, that my dear friends is the question............

Me: What's your plan for tomorrow??
My friend: I am planning to go and vote.
Me: What?? Really?? Why??
My friend: Because we should all vote. It is our right. You should do it too.
Me: Nahhhh... You go ahead. I will enjoy my holiday. What's the use anyways??
My friend: Well you go there and tell them that you don't want to vote for anyone. That way your vote cannot be misused.
Me: Really?? It still does not make a difference buddy. I do not want to vote for any existing candidate. Even if I go and tell them that I don't want to vote for anyone, who cares. Then if I vote for a person and that person wins because of my one vote, who cares really. To me it does not make a difference, cause it does not change my life one bit.

So, here is the problem......

You are a socially responsible person, you are way past the age limit of voting, you know you should start exercising your right to vote but...............

Every time there are elections you don't go to vote, you feel really bad about it but still you didn't vote in the previous elections and still you don't feel like doing it this time......

You would love to go out there to the polling booth and vote, really you would but if and only if there was a single party which actually led by example and if there was a single politician who made a difference to India and the people who live here. As of now our political system is going through a big break down with the political parties trying to gather awareness and votes through television ads, short films and even songs written on them, may be they have just accepted the fact that their actions don't speak loud enough or may be there have been no actions what so ever to talk about. It is something like watching a really awesome, thrilling, glorified trailer of a really bogus movie........

I hope the few good men left in the political scenario are put up at the right places in our political system.....

For now our political system is weak and the politicians are just too human. I say too human because they are still very selfish and to be a leader of a great country like India they need to have a bit of a streak of selflessness, they need to have a greater vision and more importantly they need to take actions....

In the end I would only like to say this.....

Some where down the line, right at the bottom, this is all our fault............. If we had reacted a little earlier, if we were more aware then, if we had stopped these "good for nothing" politicians before they contaminated the whole system, may be this problem would have ceased to exist.....

May be even our future generations will think the same about us...

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So, for all of you who think that U.S.A. is a super power and the most weirdest and the most bestest (I think I made that word up) things happen there.... Well, I have only one thing to say to you.....

U.S. we are no less (hey that rhymes, lousy but still)...

Anyways, If you people didn't hear let me tell you one of the Journalists today threw a shoe on our Home Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram and he missed of course.....

Now this is what I call Westernization......

I suppose this is where Ram Sena (Pronounced- "Raam Say-na") people should come in and fight with the journalist for doing things the western way. Oh! Ya for all of you who do not know what Ram Sena is, well, they are the self proclaimed moral police of India who fight against Westernization and things like "The Pub Culture" and having girlfriends and boyfriends but mind you these people are not against Alcohol just against "The Pub Culture" (Going to the pubs and drinking- Specially Girls). I some how feel there is a political agenda behind it.....

Back to the shoe incident.....
Now, I will tell you what happens next. In all probability, the opposition will make an issue out of it. They will say that this is a shameful act but none the less they are happy that finally we are waking up and now we know which party to vote for....

Now, to the reason of the problem.......

Its election time in India. Elections in India are like reality television like big brother and big boss (Indian version of big brother) etc. The politicians are like contestants who try and degrade the other contestants and try to publicize themselves in every possible way. The latest example being the hate speech by Mr. Varun Gandhi a member of the opposition. I don't want to get into the details but I will say that the opposition and the ruling party both cashed in on it. The winner has to be Varun Gandhi as he got the publicity and came out, for many, as a fearless hero who is now fighting elections from jail.....

Its all a publicity stunt.... Isn't it?????

Lovely drama and amazing suspense. The best reality show......

Before ending this post I would like to say this to:

The Politicians: May be this applies to you- "लातों के भूत बातों से नहीं मानते " (Sense is beaten into those who don't listen to words)...

The Ram Sena- Get a life people...

The Journalist- Practice harder and Aim better the next time...