Non-Smokers Predicament!!

It's been long time since I've written a blog, and here I'm back with a new one. If you are a non-smoker, then its time to raise our voice against the people who smoke to show off, or because of ennui or selfishness. Hey!! you..yes, the one standing smack in the middle of bus-stop and smoking...I'm speaking to you. Have you ever stuck an automobile exhaust into your mouth? I'm sure you haven't, so why don't you try that? I'll give you an idea, take the pipe from hookah and put it behind your vehicle and take a puff! Trust me, I won't even give warnings like "smoking is injurious to health". It will definitely relish your senses and you'll be in a whole new world, just like you wanted, an utopia. Let me tell you something, I don't care what others think, I can't stand you smoking. The old lady standing there dislikes it, this baby doesn't understand, but I'm sure it will be hating so much because of that choking gas. That beautiful girl over there loathes it, and that man is going back to home from his work, please give him a break! Everyone hates it, but its just that no one protests. I don't intend to let you kill me like this. Yes, its me! I'm a "non-smoker" or "smoke-hater" or maybe a weirdo in this "smoked" world.

It maybe a uber cool fashion or trend to you, but I can't withstand this nicotine gas/fog every time I want to drink a coffee, or catch a bus, or when I'll be near xerox shop. I don't understand, why are you digging your own grave? Why are you becoming such a filthy person? Yes, I know you don't smoke in Mc Donald's, or coffee day, or any other restaurant, but I don't live there. My life is quotidian just like others and I'm sure there are atleast few who agree with me. I walk in the crowded street, I have my breakfast in SLV coffee bar, and spend most of my time in bus-stand. It's my right to "live healthy" and no matter what happens I'll do anything to keep my alveoli and bronchus in pink of their health. You may be prodigal, but when you are in common place, try to maintain the decorum of it. So why do I have to sit like a POW with this virulent fumes trying to kill me?? Is this the mundane course of a "non-smoker"?? I've heard that government has banned smoking in public places, but still why people get so titillated to break the law? So suggest me, what can I/we do when such a situation arises again? just mutter "let him go to hell" or take a stand against that person?

ನಿನ್ನೊಲುಮೆ ಇಂದಲೆ!!

ಓ ಮೌನವೇ ನೀ ಮಾತಾಡು!

ಹೊಳಪು ತುಂಬಿದ ಕಣ್ಣಿನಲ್ಲೇ

ನನ್ನ ಕೊಲ್ಲುವುದ ಸಾಕು ಮಾಡು

ಓ ಮೌನವೇ ನೀ ಮಾತಾಡು!

ತೆರೆದು ನಿನ್ನ ತುಟಿಯಂಚು,

ಮಾತಾಗಲಿ ನಿನ್ನ ಮೌನ,

ಹಾಡಾಗಲಿ ನಿನ್ನ ಮಾತು,

ಆ ಹಾಡಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನೆದೆಗೆ ಒಲವಿನ ಭಾವ ಇರಲಿ,

ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಪ್ರಣಯದ ರಾಗವಿರಲಿ!

ಎಲ್ಲರೆದುರು ಆ ಹಾಡ ಗೆಳತಿ ಮನಬಿಚ್ಚಿ ನೀ ಹಾಡು
ಕೇಳಿ ಆ ನಿನ್ನ ಹಾಡು ಮೆಚ್ಚಲಿ ನಾಡು
ನನ್ನೆದೆಯ ಮರುಭೂಮಿಯಾಗಲಿ ಹಸಿರು ಕಾಡು
ನಿನ್ನೊಲುಮೆ ಇಂದಲೆ ನನಗೆ ಈ ಪಾಡು
ಓ ಮೌನವೇ ನೀ ಮಾತಾಡು!

ಓ ಗೆಳತಿ ಹೇಳು.. ಗುಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ನನಗೆ ಹೇಳು

ಎಂದು ತೊರೆಯುವೆ ಆ ನಿನ್ನ ಮೌನ?

ಎಂದು ಹಾಡಾಗುವುದು ಆ ನಿನ್ನ ಮಾತು?

ಇದನು ನೀ ಹೇಳುವವರೆಗೂ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಯಾಗಿ

ನಿದ್ರಿಸೆನು ನಾನಂತು..!!

Life as we know it and as we take it...

"Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear"

From past two months, weather condition in Bangalore is astoundingly stupefying and romantic. If you are tired and enervated, I suggest you to go for a stroll in Cubbon Park, Lal Bagh, or any other private park. Lush green leaves, vivid flowers, chirping of birds, dew drops falling on your cheek, light music coming from nowhere, etc., the feeling is just amazing. A month ago, in mid July I was walking on the street and there was a heavy shower of rain. (p.s.: Sometimes I become rain-maniac and love to get drenched or take a walk in heavy rain. I feel like eating Ice cream, especially my all time favorite hot chocolate fudge.) I saw a couple of kids playing football, and it was torn all around but nonetheless reasonably round. Ah!! What fun those two were having. For a moment I was petrified, as one kid baffled the other with his exceptional chicanery and his natural endowment of ball control. This thirteen or fourteen year old kid had the potential to give any defender serious nightmares.

I’m feeling very sad to state, he never WILL. He lives in a slum and soon he’ll be helping his father and start earning for his living. For 10hrs of arduous labor work, he’ll take home a paltry sum of 40 or 50 bucks. Some of us don’t know the value of money. Some of us, just for few minutes of enjoyment and fun, we spend hell lot of money without battling an eyelash. Suppose he works in a restaurant, we try to avoid him or make faces when he comes to clean our table. I believe it is unsound way of giving an alibi just to escape from reality. Some of us will be waiting to find guilt in him and we’ll become masters in ignoring our guilt. Few questions may arouse in your soul, like How can I help? What can I do? But the only question to the answer will be how many can we help? There are too many…….

Indeed there are too many, but we have to understand the basic fact that it’s LIFE. We just have to deal with it. I cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel for that boy. He is destined to get inured with his bucolic and penurious life. At a later stage of his life, his exceptional football skills languish and will never even bother to think about it. He gets acclimated to the poverty life.

Sometimes I feel that I’m wasting too much of time thinking about all these matters. If I could be more like other guys, enjoy time of my life in rain and dance as if no one sees me. Perhaps I need to learn the true and genuine meaning of Contentment. As the saying goes, “to get what you've never had, you have to do what you've never done”.

Thindi Beedi..(Burp!)

“VIVAHA BHOJANAVIDU HAHAHAHAHA” do you remember this song? Well I’m not writing this post to describe that song, but to introduce a place which is a paradise for food-o-holics! If you’ve already scrolled my blog, you must have got to know what I’m describing about. Its none other than the very famous, centrally located, THINDI BEEDI alias FOOD STREET alias BAKASURANA BEEDI. If you have already been there then you might have already started thinking about Dosas, bonda, bajji, vada pav, etc, control yourself, there’s lot more to come.

To begin with, this place lies parallel to V.V Puram Jain College road, or reach Sajjan Rao Circle and ask anyone, they’ll guide you. I’ve been frequent visitor of this place for 2yrs now, and let me guide you properly so that you can have best time or memorable evening over there(6.30pm to 10pm). Go in a gang of 5 or 6, make sure others aren’t in a diet and pass comments when you hog. If I’m not wrong, this street stretches for about 500m and the stalls are located adjacent to each other and aroma of different kind of food might drag you to the respective stall.

The golden rule is that, never give order for more than 2 or 3 plates for each dish. Share it among yourselves. This starts from VB bakery and ends at the corn shop. If you ask Connoisseur, i.e. Me, start off with Bisi Bisi masala Dosa. Walk down the street and find a stall which will be crowded ordering for Dosas. You can watch the person who is making dosas, he spreads out the batter in concentric circles and takes a packet of ghee and spreads it around. You’ll be delighted when you see the dosa turning into red which indicates its crispness. Once you bite into it, the ghee oozes out from every pore of this delicacy but tastes so heavenly, that you instantly pardon all the evil that this humble dish has been cursed with.

If you walk down further you can see BAJJI and BONDA stall. I bet you don’t want to miss that. It aint any ordinary Bonda, its made with Dodda Mensinkayi(capsicum) and Balekayi which makes its taste splendid. He cuts into 3 or 4 pieces and puts masala (onion, coriander leaves, sev, lemon, etc) so enjoy sharing this with your friends.

Now it’s time to have some desserts. I’m referring to Jamoon and Jilebies, without which your adventure here in Food Street is never complete. It doesn’t cost more than 5 or 6 bucks. It’s better to spend here rather than giving Rs.15 for parking in forum that to with time constraints.****, sorry for that. Many of my friends don’t try this amazing entremets like Obbattu. It’s fantabulous and I strongly advice you to taste it. It’s made on the spot itself, with lot of ghee on it and when he gives you, it will be hot just like the slag taken out of the furnace.

If you aren’t still filled, then try few Pav Bhaajis and Vada Pav. Believe me, its much much better than you find in some hotel where he charges you 30bucks.

Once you’re through with this, walk towards the corn cart. Close to that you will find your finale point. The last shop on your left. Order for a ‘Butter Gulkand Fruit Salad with Ice Cream’. And finish it all with a Masala Pepsi, a jaljeera of sorts, and probably the only new age offering on this side of the planet. If you are a Foodie, then go you wouldn't be in front of your comp by now. :P

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