The parrot of love!

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries. I don't say this, though my friend Richie Rich says so. Smart, talented, good persona, charming, actually a cuisine that girls love to order. But he's among those that are served in 'dhabas'. Girls do go gaga over him, but yet no money gives him no honey. 

Yesterday I had a chat with him on his recent love market crash. He didn't seem much worried but was in a deep thought. "Hey Richie, are you fine?" 

"Yes Rathore, I am fine. Busy in figuring out something." On asking, I got back a boring yet emotional story of a lover boy who failed in his love life in spite of getting all the applauds. I came back home thinking and still trying to figure out the actual problem behind his break up. I'll just share his thoughts over his own love life. 

P.S.: Resemblance to any living or dead is purely coincidental. Generalising the event is on reader's discretion.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. Love is like a war, easy to start and difficult to end. According to Richie, love is a cuckoo's song. Soothing in morning and irritating for rest of the day. It's purely like Indian seasons, changes in no time. You search love throughout your life. If lucky, you get to hear the song. Bazzinga! You are entrapped. The love that seemed angel's gift to you was an enchantment. The charm works well and the cupid’s arrow finds its target. You see your incomplete world, complete.

"Poor prey, you are already dead. Because a mindless body is scientifically dead" as quoted by Albert Einstein. On the contrary, you don't die at once, as in tasting cyanide. But it’s something like you die running whole life behind love for love! This kiss of love is actually meant for 4 days, and rest, the side effects.

Soon love becomes an illusion and life a myth. And one day the cuckoo goes off just like that and poor parrot is left behind with no song. You spend your whole life behind the same genre of song and then one day you become old thinking of past glories. Who says Men are from Mars and women from Venus. Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it! 

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness." So that's love. Lovely yet complicated. 

Black Hawk Down

My friend's father wants to be with his family. It has been 16 months since he went home. Uncle's father is ill, a heart patient. I got to know that after a long time the commanding officer gave a 10 day leave. Finally, Major Yashwant Pratap Singh will be with his family for a short span. But will Air India fly him to his native? Apparently no. He's posted near Ladakh, defending the frontier for his fellow citizen. What he's getting? Perhaps, a long wait to meet his beloveds. But such facts are mere a piece of daily news for his countrymen!
It's the 10th day of Air India strike. About Rs. 120 crore of national loss has been done. The national carrier has been able to operate only 10 per cent domestic flights and has been losing Rs. 20 crore per day for the last three days. The airline, as a result of the strike, has curtailed 90 per cent of its domestic flights till May 6. Rs. 3.65 lakh per month, salary much higher than the pilots of other flights. But their appetite seems to be malfunctioning. They want JPC (Joint Parliamentary Committee) to probe in and unveil airline's mismanagement. Being entitled for such a luxury, they can certainly go for strikes like these. Can Major Yashwant? No. Because he's there for a cause like the pilots. Instead of rescuing the sinking ship, more punches are appearing on our once called nation's pride. I too support calls against corruption, but won’t support any idea that brings shame and loss to nation. 

The management is against all their demands. It's not ready to reappoint the 3 sacked pilots. All stern and rigid. Each fraternity has its own agenda. It's about, who winks first. With no breakthrough in sight, the High Court slammed the pilots and the airline's management for the continuing state of affairs. It admonished the pilots' association, saying, "How much loss are you going cause to the nation? Who will foot the bill? There's a court order telling you not to go on strike. You've taken the law into your own hands. I don't understand what you'll achieve." 
For JRD Tata, Air India was his baby. Nurtured with love, care and affection. It is not without reason when he was the chairman (took only Re 1 as salary) Air India was considered among the top 5 airlines of the world. In his times, Air India was the nation's pride. 
He always said, “I don't believe in ideas that gives personal benefits, but one that generates national benefits". 
I unlike other cabinet ministers don't agree with our civil aviation minister Vylar Ravi when he says the pilots are only 10+2 and crying for more when they earn at least 3.65 lakh a month. There is no question of qualification. Even an ill-literate person understands national pride. Being an Indian, how can I forgive those professionals who fly everyday across the city and world, knowing all the realities at ground zero and still behaving like rogues?     
After a long time our country is taking a stand together against corruption. Let's not spoil the party. Have a proper and transparent inquiry over the corrupt. Put them behind bars. Let the Black Hawk fly. Money will flow.

It must stop now!

Democracy, Freedom, Sovereignty. On the platforms of such agendas, social activist turned politicians have always managed to be in the limelight. Are these words meant to be a tool of hypocrite reformers? I write this draft not be in the limelight but to unveil the assassins

of humanity. 

The society is actually going through turbulences. Turbulences due to some untold truth. Each day, in and around the city, across the streets, outside the window, human right is violated. Modern human slavery, sex trafficking, child labour, forced labour; that's what our developed, urbanised and educated society comprises of!

Commercialisation of organised crime has formed an ugly face. Its not a worry only for India and it's subcontinents, but is a global concern. Huge amount of human consignments are exported everyday especially in Europe and Asia. In fact female trafficking is not illegal in countries like Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. 80% of transnational victims are women and girls. It is a lucrative industry where investment is too low as compared to the profit margin. Apparently, trade of arms and drugs has been combined to give more profit percentage. Generally, women and children are trafficked by giving them job offers in city. Poor goes to the city and falls as prey in the trafficker's hand. It's not that trafficking is done only for cheap labour but for commercial sex too. 

Small children are forced to work on cheap wages. They are either smuggled from orphanages or kidnapped. Even sold to military. The military use of children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers), or they can be used in support roles such as porters, spies, messengers, look outs, and sexual slaves; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda. Ironically, children are the future. 

Women are bought to work as slaves and the same are sexually exploited. The main types of work offered are in the catering and hotel industry, in bars and clubs or modelling contracts. Poor economic conditions and social problems create a climate which is favourable to trafficking. The sorrow of such women is way beyond imagination. Trafficking victims are also exposed to different psychological problems. They suffer social alienation. Due to the addiction of drugs, their comfort zone gets affected. Mentioning about the rescued victims; even they don't, most of the times, recover from the trauma. In many cases traffickers initially offer ‘legitimate’ work or the promise of an opportunity to study. 

Although the good and effective work done by the governments have shown results, but yet the commoners are still unaware of the wretched crime happening in the society. This is due to ignorance. How much blame shall we post on the government until we are not donating our part of action? They are solely not responsible for the sufferings. As a matter of fact, we play a larger role by staying immune to such atrocities. Perhaps, truth is stranger than fiction.

Lets join hands and raise together against the assassins of humanity. Put some effort to make this a better place for all. As quoted in Gita, "To bring the change, be the change".