One Year Later.. in the City of Dreamz

Date: July 11, 2006. Around 6.20 pm.
Place: 2nd class compartment of a Borivali-bound local, Jogeshwari Railway Station.

Sitting near the window.. Tuned into my Ipod… I was drowsy and tired after all the office commotion … waiting for my destination… the train had just left the station and was slowly picking up speed…I noticed a man standing on the platform (middle aged, a sikh) … and then I saw the most horrific scene I had ever been witness to.. the train shook.. and I saw the sardarji's lower half slump to the ground… while the upper half just blew apart.. the train stopped.. and then it dawned on me.. THERE WAS A BONB BLAST.. the jam-packed local was all empty within ten seconds… I jumped out of the train and ran.. ran until I crossed the 5 ft. wall adjacent to the platform ( something I thought and still think that I can never do… its amazing what adrenaline can do to you…).. and took a cab out of the station and rushed home I didn’t have the courage to even look back and see…. pandemonium ruled that day.. which changed the lives of thousands … and made this never stopping city to a grinding halt…

The Mumbai Bomb Blast ripped apart the first class bogies of 6-7 local trains… claiming lives of innocent people returning home after a hard day at work… subsequently.. the usual happened… stories of victims… and of survivors… who made it against all odds… staring death .. cheating death … the media went all over the place… saying this was the test of the spirit of Mumbai…

And how did Mumbai react to this… by getting back on track (quite literally, the railways worked through the night to ensure that the local trains—the lifeline of Mumbai.. was on track the very next day) … as if to say… " you hit us… and we will come back at you… Braver… Stronger… and Fearless.."

Its one year since that day… and tomorrow its 7/11 again… but only this time.. Mumbai is chugging fast .. there will be more 7/11's .. there will be more times when "the spirit of the people of Mumbai" will save the day… but what I want to know is… till when…

In the meantime… Things are the way they should be… loving life… living life .. in the city of dreamz…

Love...

Coming from a guy.. this has to be a absurd topic to talk about... but remember.. i am a piscean... we are supposed to be the most passionate and romantic guys around... :)

i just came across this worderful piece of poetry somewhere... and i just had to share it with the world.. I wonder that if love is excatly what is written here... how many of us are privileged to get this love...

here it goes...


If you love some one because you think that
he or she is really gorgeous ...
then it's not love ..
it's ~* Infatuation *~......

If you love some one because you think that you shouldn't
leave him because others think that you shouldn't
then it's not love..
it's ~* compromise *~.......

If you love some one because you think that you
cannot live with out his touch ....
then it's not love ..
it's ~*lust*~......

If you love some one because you have been kissed
by him ...then it's not love..
it's ~* inferiority complex*~......

If you love some one because you cannot leave him
thinking that it would hurt his feelings ..
then it's not love ..
it's ~*charity*~....

If you love some one because you share every thing
with him ...
then it's not love...
it's ~*friendship*~...


but if you feel the pain ofthe other person more
than
him even when he is stable and you cry for him ...
that's ~*LOVE*~ =

if you get attracted to ther people but stay with
him without any regrets...
that's ~*LOVE*~

If you let him go knowing that he has to go but he
doesn't want to ...
that's ~*LOVE*~


Think abt this guys....