They gave him the Best Education. Son Graduated as an Engineer in the nearby City
Eventually He got Married to a Rich Girl.
Initially, They Lived with His Parents in the Village. Soon the Wife got Tired of Village Life & Persuaded Her Husband to Move to the City Leaving His Old Parents in the Village. As Time went,the Husband saw an Ad in the Newspaper about a Job Vacancy in U.S. He was Successful & Lived in U.S for 20 Years with His Wife.
Regularly, He used to Send Money to His Parents. Eventually with Time, He Stopped & Forgot about His Parents whether They ever Existed.
Every Day He Pray & Immediately after each Prayer He used to see Someone telling Him in a Dream that his Prayer is not Accepted.
One Day, He Related this Story to a ‘Pious Aalim’ who Advised Him to go Back to India to Visit His Parents.
The Man Flew to India & Reached the Boundary of His Village. Everything was Changed over there. He could not Find His House.
So He asked to the Head of the Village about the Whereabouts of His Parents. The Head of the Village directed Him to a House & said: “In this House, Lives an Old Blind Lady who Lost Her Husband a Few Months Ago. She has a Son who Migrated to US 20 Years back & Never came Back again. What an Unfortunate Man.”
Son enters that Home & Finds His Mother on the Bed. He Tip-Toed as He did not want to Wake Her up. He hears His Mother Whispering or Mumbling Something.
He gets Closer to Hear His Mothers Voice. And His Mother was Saying:
Election day in India is the only time when common man feels like king for five minutes before going back to being common man for next five years. But for many of us, this royal feeling is easily traded for a quiet afternoon on the sofa. We see holiday announcement and our first instinct is not to check the candidate list but to check hotel prices in Lonavala or Coorg. This is a strange tragedy. We spend every single day complaining about potholes that could double as swimming pools and electricity that plays hide-and-seek, yet when the day comes to actually do something, we decide that the most patriotic thing to do is to catch up on sleep or take a trip out of town.
Treating voting day as a paid holiday is like being given a free ticket to the multiplex and then sitting in parking lot staring at the wall. You are essentially telling government that your right to decide the future of the nation is worth exactly one plate of extra-spicy biryani and a long nap. It is the ultimate irony. We will stand in line for two hours to get a new SIM card or to buy tickets for a cricket match, but standing in the sun for twenty minutes to mark a ballot feels like a trek to the Himalayas. We have become experts at drawing-room politics, where we solve all the world’s problems over ginger tea, but the moment we have to walk to the local primary school to press a button, our legs suddenly stop working.
Think about that blue ink on the finger. It is not just a stain that refuses to go away for a week despite your best scrubbing. It is a badge of honor. It is a proof that you actually live in a democracy and not just in a giant WhatsApp group. When you skip the booth, you lose the right to grumble. If you spent the day watching a movie marathon instead of voting, you cannot get angry when the new flyover takes a decade to build. You chose the movie, the flyover was someone else’s problem.
India is a country where everyone has an opinion on everything. From the local grocer to the high-flying techie, we all know exactly how the country should be run. Voting day is the one day where the noise stops and the action begins. If we treat it as just another Sunday, we are letting the most important job in the country be filled by people chosen by someone else. Staying home doesn’t make you a rebel, it just makes you invisible. So, instead of planning a brunch or a quick getaway, put on your walking shoes, brave the heat, and go get that ink. The sofa will still be there tomorrow, but the chance to change the script only comes once in a blue moon.
Beyond the local complaints and the holiday mood, there is a much bigger picture we often forget while scrolling through travel apps. We take our trip to polling station for granted, forgetting that for millions of people across the globe, idea of choosing a leader is a distant dream or a dangerous risk. There are places where power changes hands through force rather than fingers pressing buttons and speaking up can land a person in deep trouble. In India, we are handed this massive power as a birthright, yet we treat it like a boring chore. Turning your back on the ballot box is like throwing away a gold coin just because you are too lazy to pick it up. While others are fighting, protesting, and even risking their lives for a single chance to be heard, the least we can do is walk down the street and exercise a right that half the world is still praying for. Giving up your vote isn’t just missing a holiday, it is ignoring a privilege that history worked very hard to give you.
ROFLMAO! (First ever time I was able to start a blog this way) Thanks to AAPtards for endowing me with that capability and providing the substance.
Aam Aadmi Party‘s Dirty Tricks Department crashes to an EPIC Fail. As is the wont of their leader #ShooterOnScooter Arvind Kejriwal, they try to recycle a news from some other portal (without even giving a credit). And what! they make a hash of that job too (that is why Urban Dictionary has an entry called AAPtard). I have to agree, they have a visionary amidst them: They carry a piece on April 6th 2014 about something Art of Living is supposed to do on June 21st. Future event visualizing Visionaries. And the timing… which I will discuss later.
Wait Wait, don’t dish out an argument that it is 4 years ago – LOL! AAP was not even born then. So a piece on their Current affairs portal with a time lag of 4 years is great stuff for those setting out to transform the world 😉 And amazingly look at their source of information? Agni Sridhar – for all the rants during that time he was Silenced by the court. It is this guy who is AAP’s Herald and credible source of Information 🙂 An attempt to rob Peter to pay Paul backfired. But AAPTards over-reliance on such “Credible source of Information” doesn’t surprise me though! For a party with those who indulge in thuggery, scamming and spamming – Ashutosh Guptas or Somnath Bhartis ; or Racist Kumar Vishwas, Father abusing Shazia Ilmi or one who falsely Swears on his Children – Kejriwal himself. every one comes with their own such Powerful persona & traits 😉 So save those rants and dirty tricks for someone else (or atleast learn to do it well 😉
It is now well established and known fact to the world about Art of Living & His Holiness Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji acts of compassion, kindness and philanthropy. When Crores and Crores of Rupees is donated and spent for development of society, even assuming for argument’s sake it is true, Land need not be grabbed – it could have been bought twice over with the donations in kind during Ramlila (if you haven’t forgotten) With 70 National Council and Founding Members quitting #AAP, it surely must be getting jittery for the #BhagodaKejri and Co. The stage managed, Slapgate, InkGate and Punchgate not getting them any mileage, they had to resort to their time tested skulduggery of abusing a Spiritual Leader who in Kejriwal’s own language “luvs him a lot”
Forgotten this?
Remember Mr. #ShooterOnScooter, every inch of Ramlila had Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Art of Living imprints. Not impertinent to share an old picture of where you were seated – yes nowhere in the centrestage. This gives the world a clue of who “Made” you, what you are today. It is a bitter truth that none of them in this picture below is with Kejriwal anymore.
Just understand Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was extremely mild when he rebuked Arvind Kejriwal in the Hindustan Times piece. Had He decided to reveal the whole truth – #BhagodaKejri would have ran away to China or some other Commie Nation. Fake Sentiments of Arvind Kejriwal in full display here:
Signal for AAPtards to Abuse Sri Sri
What was this chest thumping all about! If “Guruji Luvs Me a Lot” was really meant, why wasn’t a constuctive criticsim given by Guruji not taken in right spirit and where was the need to launch on to a sentimental barrage as above and open invitation to AAPtards to abuse? Sri Sri on His part also responded to this in His trademark way
Wasn’t really required, but clarified nevertheless
With the benefit of hindsight, just wondering where India Against Corruption movement would have been had Arvind Kejriwal and his PCRF were they not part of the movement (or alteast make him remain on the sidelines, like in the pic above;). Had that happened, this Elections would have been fought on Corruption and Development. BTW! Have someone heard any #AAPTard or Arvind Kejriwal speaking about Perpetrators of so many Scams (Click the link for A-Z Scams of UPA). Their fight apparently was against Narendra Modi and BJP and “FOR” Congress.” Before the AAP Dirty Tricks Department tries something like this next time (apprenticed under CONgress Dirty Tricks Department) learn to do it well 😉
If we can build India Against Corruption with the power of Social Media, remember we can also rip AAP apart with the same power. Remember! We know too much, just too much for your comfort! Mr Kejriwal and Co! It doesn’t take much to demystify you and the is too mild.
Surajits, Binnys, Parulekars and Shivendras are just raring to go 🙂 Atleast for me (unlike AAP) , Congress is a bigger foe and danger for this Nation – Nothing to gain in immediate future cleaning up AAP. But Remember! More rare pictures, tapes and documents do exist.
