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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Bhaang & BJP ( भांग और भाजपा )

I am not a big Bhaang (Hemp) Connoisseur. Truth be told, I have only tried it twice in my life. Once, many years ago, in a hostel in DU and the second time, this Holi, in JNU. You can appreciate my choice of venues. :D

Bhaang has its own ways of working. Initially all seems fine but after an hour or two, it hits you. In my case, it blurred my brains ability to make distinction between reality and illusion. For example, 10 minutes after talking with my friend over the phone, I wasn't sure whether I really talked with him. I had to pull out my phone and check the call-log to reassure myself that it wasn't a dream.

If Constitution were a person, I guess BJP is having a similar impact on him as Bhaang had on me!

The way this party is coming up with one gimmick after another, even Constitution must be thinking, "is this really happening with me or is it just a nightmare?"

Imagine, just 13 seats in pocket - 7 seats short of simple majority and 4 less than the single largest party - and they have formed the government in Goa! You can imagine what sort of 'negotiations' they must have indulged in with other MLAs to reach the magic number. Same story repeated in Manipur. True, who needs to have seats in pocket when you have Governors.

Before the recent trickeries in Goa and Manipur, they tried to dope the constitution last year in Uttrakhand and Arunachal Pradesh by imposing Presidents Rule on the pretext of some of the lousiest excuses. Thankfully, these attempts to 'stone' the Constitution were foiled by the Supreme Court of India.

But, Bakre ki ammi kab tak khair manayegi? Out of the frying pan of President's rule, into the fire of Money bill ! The constitution, sitting in the circular restaurant, categorically ordered 'ordinary' lassi but they tipped it with AADHAR - a very potent variety of Bhaang which enables the other person read everything in your mind.

On 8th November, they robbed the constitution and its family of 86% of its wealth in broad day light. Since the name was charming (although it started with 'demon') and most of the people were stoned, they didn't complain and the handful of those, who did, SC didn't listen.

With the constitution finally stoned, they are now after his family - the people of India. They are particularly after those who are not yet stoned. There is still not enough nationalism in their blood. They have been labelled as Anti-nationals. Since, they speak too much logic, logic has been renamed as 'Sedition'!

So successful they have been with this narrative, even the Supreme Court, the good old friend of the Constitution, has started doubting its family's patriotism. It now demands them to prove it by standing up motionless on 'Jan Gan Man'.

But I believe that Constitution is a strong guy. He won't remain stoned forever. But after recovering, maybe in a few years, he will certainly ask, "did it really happen?"

Monday, January 24, 2011

Goa Travel Diaries - Biking Expedition

After living all my life so far on land, I finally saw what covers ¾th of the Earth’s surface - Sea - in Goa. And also witnessed a very interesting phenomenon – Tides. Sometimes they are low and sometimes they are high. My Goa trip also happened in two phases- Awesome high tide n dramatic low tide.

The high tide phase was the “Goa Biking Expedition” days. Each day was a massive “wave” which hit me with its incredible force and drenched me completely. The low tide phase was the post biking days when I was on my own. But its low tide only in comparison to the biking days, otherwise it too had some amazing moments scattered in between.


Unlike most of my trips, which are impromptu, this one was well planned (??) and tickets were bought (not confirmed!) a month ahead. On the D-day I boarded my train at the 11th hour (do we have a better phrase than this cuz my train started moving 3 seconds after I boarded!). I was sleeping when my Station (Thivim) arrived. I wore my jacket, picked my bag and rushed to the door like a kid rushes out of the class when the recess bell goes off. The train started moving 3 seconds after!! I reached the base camp at Miramar, Panjim at 9:30 PM.
The biking group GB-5. (from left)- Lata, Vishnu, Dhruv, Suresh,
Archna, me, Somashekar, Dinesh, Asha, Kumudini & Pawan


Things started happening the next day when the group members got acquainted with each other.  11 Bikers – 4 from Mumbai, 3 from Bangalore, 2 from Hyderabad and 2 from Delhi – most of them riding geared bikes (Merida) for the first time!










Enough of flirting around..it’s time to take off the clothes….afterall the beach is calling and the Waves are coming!

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Next> wave 1: Into the blue

Wave 1: Into the Blue

(at the Base camp, Miramar)

Our camp was at the mouth of river Mandovi and the Miramar beach was just a kilometer from there. Though it’s one of the saddest beaches of Goa but if “virginity” meant “never been to a beach”, I lost my Virginity to Miramar beach and that’s why it’s special to me! It was literally a very bitter experience. The sea water kills all your taste buds the moment it goes in your mouth and for the next 10 minutes all you do is spit profusely n abuse yourself for drinking that poison in the first place.
Though I was in a Sea for the first time in my life; I went more than 500m into it. All the life guards, huddled together, were eagerly waiting for me to drown so that they can get into ‘action mode’ but alas; it wasn’t their day. Finally, the water level got too high and I started my return journey to the beach which seemed like an eternity.

at Miramar beach after i swam back those 500m.

Next> Wave 2: Beach, Bikes & Babes