Facts n Fiction

All characters in this story may appear to be fictitious.  Any resemblance to real persons, living, dead, or missing could be surprisingly coincidental. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Virar station, 7pm, Andu (pronounced as UNDO) and Bandu (as BUNDO) were waiting for some other friends to arrive. They all were to go for a picnic near Arnala beach. Amidst the entire crowd, a not-so-beautiful-but-fair girl passed by. Andu, a guy with short stature craned his neck to get her glimpse and then turned to Bandu to check if he saw his act. Bandu too, taking advantage of his height, had taken darshan of that beauty. And they both smiled, rather laughed at each other. “Men will be men,” roared Bandu and they burst out into a thunderous laughter again. Andu and Bandu both are 30 something shaadi-shuda guys, not to each other ofcourse – happily married, not gay-ly . Like the scene at the Virar station, there are many coincidences of them liking th...

They rejoiced Killing many, and Leaving others lame With guns held high in air They shouted loud All praise in His name With trembling legs And fiery eyes I walked down the road All worried only about self No one really cared About the blood that flowed Those cries still scare The gun shots still haunt Unity disrupted, peace torn Lost is the glory Which this land Once used to adorn With a blank mind I stood, Staring into the infinity Struck between the differences Of what is sacred And what is unholy

I had loved Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone . Though many consider him a sadak-chap writer, he is a bestseller today – we need to appreciate and respect that, at least I do, for I am a writer too. I loved 3 Idiots even more. None could have a better job than the Aamir-Raju-Chopra trio, all masters of perfection. Though many consider the movie to be absolutely idiotic and exaggerated (fabricating the principles of engineering), it is a thorough entertainer, total paisa vasool – that’s what movies are for. However, what I least expected from such great men, was the push-pull for credits and publicity. Eventually, I got bored going through their ignominy, for my common sense of ad-man & marketeer told me this could well be a publicity gimmick. And indeed it was, sales of Five Point Someone were towering, and ditto was happening with 3 Idiots . The masters (Chetan-Aamir-Raju-Chopra) might have used a simple principle – “bad publicity is next to good publicity” , they explo...

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