tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154158792024-03-13T16:42:19.914+06:30alcheraI am not in a run. These times settle me to rest.Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-59152578819371735432010-12-01T10:49:00.000+06:302010-12-01T10:49:37.478+06:30PracticeI had had this premonition quite often. Of waking up one day and forgetting to write. This is just one of those days. I made a count - 3 edited short stories, 1 rough, 12 incomplete and 6 story ideas.<br />
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I tried to return to them and remembered.<br />
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Strange Pilgrims.<br />
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Maybe I should also start a novel.<br />
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It has been irrelevant whether I complete the starts.Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-6826161079822924552010-02-02T13:39:00.002+06:302010-02-02T13:43:19.200+06:30लिखने की इच्छा इतनी तीव्र हो रही है कि जी करता है अभी इसी वक़्त नौकरी छोड़ कर लिखने लग जाऊं।<br />पर फिलहाल ऐसी संभावनाएं दीगर हैं।<br />बाकी कुछ भी नहीं है।<br /><br />विश्वास भी नहींSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-33561449923910583082009-12-16T18:14:00.001+06:302009-12-16T18:14:24.932+06:30<u><b>विदर्भ से तेलन्गाना तक<br /><br />एक<br /><br /></b></u>एक बार समुद्र लिखा था<br />दस मिनट तक<br />फिर रेत भर थकान<br />बस्तर, लोकतंत्र वगैरा<br /><br />इस बार<br />असंख्य कपड़ों की दूकानों के बीच<br />राह बनाती<br />महानगर की नंगी सड़क<br /><br />कपास के बियाबान में<br />बूँद भर बारिश की लिखत<br /><br />कौड़ियों से ज़िन्दगी बुनती<br />अपने मटमैलेपन में अदृश्य<br />पांच साल की बच्ची 'देऊ'<br /><br />इस बार<br />मेरा सफ़र बनती<br />बाबुल - गाँव से हैदराबाद तक<br /><br /><u><b>दो<br /></b></u><br />जैसे रेंगना सीख रही हो<br />जैसे तैरना<br />सड़क के बिलकुल बायें<br />जैसे साइकिल चलाना<br /><br />रेलगाड़ी के दरवाज़े टिकी<br />आँचल भर लकड़ी समेटे<br />वह अस्सी बरस तक कुछ नहीं देखती<br />जैसे विदर्भ भर फैला<br />गोबर का काला निर्वात<br /><br />सफ़ेद कपास के अबूझ विस्तार में<br />जैसे नदियों का खो जाना<br />और लापता बारिश<br /><br />अपनी तय सृष्टियों में मशगूल<br />मैं लगातार भूलता हूँ<br />तेलंगाना की बसाहट का स्वर<br /><br /><u><b>तीन<br /><br /></b></u>आत्रम कुसुम राव<br />चौपन-गुड़ा का किसान है<br />वह अपनी एकड़ भर ज़मीन में<br />कपास के बीज बोता है<br /><br />जून से दिसंबर तक<br />वह देना चाहता है<br />और नहीं दे पाता<br />बादलों को एक निश्चित आकार<br /><br />ज़मीन से आकाश<br />आकाश से बाज़ार<br />बाज़ार से देह<br />मैं उतारता हूँ कमीज़<br /><br />पीली दीवार में<br />बेरंग थकान की तरह<br />खूंटे पर टंगी है<br />कुसुम राव की ढेढ़ किलो ज़िन्दगी<br /><br /><br /><u><b>चार<br /><br /></b></u>यहाँ उसने खोले<br />अपनी किलक के सारे भेद<br />बताया हरे को हरा, नीला, पीला<br />बनाये अक्षरों के सैकड़ो जोड़े<br />और टांग दिया उन्हें<br />अंतरिक्ष की गलियों में<br /><br />पहाड़ की सबसे ऊंची चोटी पर<br />उसने बनाई बारिश<br />तलहटी में जमा दिए सागौन के पेड़<br />जिससे थोड़ी दूर बसा था उसका घर<br /><br />घर से आगे<br />माँ, बाप, भाई, बहन<br />जब खेत की मेंढ़ पर खड़े<br />अपनी फसल निहारते<br /><br />वह बनती ज़मीन<br />और खेलती<br />धान के साथ<br />हवा का आदिम खेल<br /><br /><br /><u><b>इन दिनों<br /><br />एक<br /><br /></b></u>घर के ऐन बाहर पान की दुकान थी<br />वहाँ भी<br />यहाँ भी<br /><br />वहाँ<br />बिना मात्राओं का नाम<br />पलटन<br /><br />यहाँ<br />ऑफिस जाते - आते<br />मिलती नज़रें<br /><br />पलटन के पान ठेले से<br />हैदराबाद के खोमचे तक<br />फैलती स्मृति<br /><br />इन दिनों<br />पता चला<br />दोनों लौट गए<br />मृत्यु में<br /><br /><u><b>दो<br /><br /></b></u>इन दिनों<br />दस्तखत किये<br />सुना<br />कहा<br />देखा<br /><br />पहले भोपाल से गाडरवारा<br />फिर भोपाल से शाजापुर<br /><br />कैमरे में कैद की<br />गोपी की फसल<br />तीरथ की कुम्हारी<br />खैरी और रयलावत की गलियां<br /><br />इस वक़्त शायद<br />europe की बाज़ारों में<br />बीत रही होंगी<br />ये तमाम जिंदगियां<br /><br />किसी विदेशी चैनल पर<br />इश्तहार की तरह<br />छप गया होगा मेरा सफ़र<br /><br /><u><b>तीन<br /><br /></b></u>इतना मैं पहले भी जानता था<br />कि पैसे बहुत कम हैं<br />गरीब की संज्ञा नहीं दी थी<br />हिम्मत नहीं थी<br /><br />इन दिनों मैंने देखा<br />इनकी मदद को खुलती अजीब दिशायें<br />विदेश से देश तक<br />पगडंडियों को सड़क बनाने के कारनामे<br />किसानो को खेती सिखाने की हैरत में<br />मैंने गुज़ारे पिछले तीन साल<br /><br />इस बीच, शायद नहीं देख पाया<br />रंगीन तकियों की ढेर से<br />चादर तान कर<br />अपने घर में<br />कहानियों को सुलाती<br />अपनी बच्ची का बड़ा होनाSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-37428278478756297252009-05-02T11:21:00.001+06:302009-05-02T11:27:31.042+06:30<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JwLNW_PKC1A5hnhwcsGYm8MIgwAtFKx9pWOK2fKMNcJVNXzJcMlUNvfPODcgv6cKQyQ2O4-Lr0Ibxm7PP5S2_LkqCIxVCU6DbDTnHnDS-h2HPux1CmnrJm_oBmi8gfA2_6cSUQ/s1600-h/IMG_2215.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JwLNW_PKC1A5hnhwcsGYm8MIgwAtFKx9pWOK2fKMNcJVNXzJcMlUNvfPODcgv6cKQyQ2O4-Lr0Ibxm7PP5S2_LkqCIxVCU6DbDTnHnDS-h2HPux1CmnrJm_oBmi8gfA2_6cSUQ/s400/IMG_2215.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331085198352303394" border="0" /></a><br />महजिद के सामने<br />बन्दूक दुकान के पेवठा ऊपर<br />माड़ी खजुआत मरबो राज<br />जम्मो रस्ता यहिंच्च ले जाथेSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-4612872517737838912009-04-27T18:54:00.002+06:302009-04-27T19:06:38.339+06:30Biceps, Nirala and etc<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzVtbh41zIRtEnjjuswVEg-r3KB07rpXLOl0x3x_txcmqI3z0H6rcc9Z2mOaIL1nS-kTiMomZq6wmrCPcdYDUEfW6D0asY4JXFqy6hHRuhIADp16pu4R8r7djIOOqayvmbn_kCw/s1600-h/file-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzVtbh41zIRtEnjjuswVEg-r3KB07rpXLOl0x3x_txcmqI3z0H6rcc9Z2mOaIL1nS-kTiMomZq6wmrCPcdYDUEfW6D0asY4JXFqy6hHRuhIADp16pu4R8r7djIOOqayvmbn_kCw/s320/file-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329346796139778962" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >I met this farmer in January. He touched my feet, as did many others, believing us to be people who help them.<br />We (I implicitly include myself with my organization) recently claim to have helped them by establishing an 'Ecocenter' at their village.<br />A demonstrative project, so to say, which emphasizes on optimum utilization of cow dung & urine for sustainable agriculture.<br />Thats another say whether I believed in this.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >But as I looked into his eyes<br />I could see</span><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size:180%;"> Pains and pleasure<br /> are not helped<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> He knew it, as his breaths<br /><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;">Worked on my leisure to remember him here<br /></div></div>Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-7595285811691258992009-02-19T10:52:00.000+06:302009-02-19T10:55:03.909+06:30और उसके बच्चे<br />माँ माँ कहते बिखर गए आकाश मेंSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-73018177506144205242009-02-19T10:41:00.003+06:302009-04-24T11:27:30.682+06:30TwoA little of yellow<br />As it melted from the sun<br />And a few brush-sticks<br /><br />She announced a dawn<br />To my still sleeping street<br /><br />For thousand years now<br />I can imagine<br />Her sounds<br /><br />Smudging me<br />In yellow streaks<br />Of wakefulness<br /><br />Old women<br />With brush sticks<br />Never cross my street anymore<br /><br />I resign<br />To nauseous machinery<br />Of rainless sleepsSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-27191210970383112102009-02-19T10:35:00.002+06:302009-02-19T10:39:20.921+06:30I am not in a runIn between<br />When she asked for more<br />I looked out<br />And there they were<br /><br />Thousand nights<br />With a single star<br /><br />The writing was clear<br />On the wall<br /><br />Black ants overtook the redSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-32711635602848655952009-02-18T23:25:00.002+06:302009-02-18T23:27:36.932+06:30DrunkAntagonizing is simple, at least in thoughts. As is listening before hearing.<br />Comrade,<br />when do we learn from the river<br />which flows<br />all the timeSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-64564438884128330892009-02-18T18:01:00.004+06:302009-02-18T23:23:21.404+06:30Less than a monthIts generally this time around a year when my stars shine. Alternatively, I assume them to shine. And its an assumption with years of conviction. Its the time when I approach Holi. Not the corollary. I approach Holi with such a premeditated redundancy that its almost like enacting a dejavu.<br />I see the sounds we smear ourselves with over those unbridled nights. Days are more like walking as shadows through a world which immediately seems so intimate and distant. <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Afternoons happen, evenings lean on it</span></span>, I remember I wrote years back on such a day.<br /><br />Its just not the imagery I indulge myself in that called me to write. In fact, I can escape myself for now by saying that this writing happened as a part of my approach. But apart from the euphoria, there's also something cathartic I create for myself around Holi.<br /><br />I keep telling myself - its almost a re-incarnation. I believe that most of my problems reach solutions around this time. Even if I have a bad stomach ache which reminds me of malignant tumors or an imminent economic crisis, I deify Holi to erase any forebodings.<br /><br />Not that all along the approach, I never get depressed. I do. But somewhere behind, I sense an unquestionable security. Its just a month away, I would say to keep myself happy.<br /><br />And does this work? Are my fears allayed?<br /><br />That would be the last thing I would bother about.<br />Comrade as we said then and now, they happen and I see them happening.Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-3063773684959928832009-02-16T12:43:00.002+06:302009-02-16T12:52:38.281+06:30Mac ProI managed to buy a Mac Book Pro. And I am happy for myself. Next on my cards is the 16 X manual lens for Canon XL series. And still later it has to be some portable lights & sound accessories.<br />Meanwhile I also need to have some registered NLEs for Mac.Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-19480406505899276072009-02-11T13:34:00.002+06:302009-02-11T13:46:34.209+06:30ReadingReading has been restricted to the Sports page on Hindu for half a year now. The last book I read was somewhere in last July -(dont remember the time exactly) - It was the Sea of Poppies by Amitabh Ghosh.<br />I enjoyed reading it for the first time. But then I have this habit of immediately re-reading a thing I like. This book didnt allow me so.<br />The language with Amitabh Ghosh becomes too English. And though this book has a contextual relation to Britons, still I would have relished a different flavor. When I say - English - I do not intend to mean that the language is something like how writers from England would script - but rather as something of an Indian writer who overtly owes his allegiance to all that the word ENGLISH encompasses. Ghosh's affinity to the traditional English lingo (may be academic jargon terms it more Oxfordian) is apparent throughout the book despite using a much researched vocabulary on Indian colloquials on nautical terms.<br /><br />Having said that - I recommend it a 'should read' for all. Especially for the story telling and for some fortunates like me who have quite recently come out of opium addiction.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-80567086889472083522009-01-29T12:52:00.002+06:302009-01-29T12:55:45.653+06:30UNTITLED<span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Someday if I become a writer, whose writings get published and are read by others, I will write differently.<br /><br />I will have more money<br /><br />A new big house perhaps<br /><br />Lots of things to stuff in in that house<br /><br /><br />May be I will be a better human being than what I am now.<br /><br /><br />Till then I remain insensitive, self-centric, and perhaps criminal<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1dy">the other day nantu was telling that his co. might just take abhijeet</span><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1dz">hmm when?</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1e0">on sunday</span></div><div id=":1e1" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I mean he said that on sunday</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1e2">did he talk to someone?</span></div><div id=":1e3" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">Coz abhijit is loosing confidence now</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1dk">he said he was not getting the time - but got reminded by our talk that he is supposed to talk to someone</span></div><div id=":1dl" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">i told him that - losing confidence</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ds">ok</span></div><div id=":1c6" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">and what did he say then?</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1c4">he is waiting for a propitious time I guess</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1dn">who is waiting?</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1do">such things need a specific setting - time mood etc</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ej">meaning?</span></div><div id=":1ek" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I am not getting you</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1el">i mean he cant just go and talk to any related person for a reference - there must be some corporate protocol for it</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1em">oh ok </span></div><div id=":1en" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">like that</div><div id=":1eo" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">hmm may be</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ep">or else if its out of his way - that is it doesnt come under his scope than he will create such a space to deliver</span></div><div id=":1eq" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I dont know though</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1er">but how does nantu da know that convergys might take abhijit when he has not spoken to anyone yet?</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1es">i didnt say he hasnt s[oken to anyone</span></div><div id=":1et" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">he must have thats why he gave that feedback</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1eu">oh...I assumed</span></div><div id=":1ev" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">:O</div><div id=":1ew" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">hmm ok...so it is looking a little positive from convergys then?</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ex">i get three such calls per day - i will forward them to abs</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ey">hopefully it converts well soon. Poor abhijit.</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ez">all for tech writing</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1f0">yah do</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 10:19 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ho">I ate a valium ten today after years</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hp">good</span></div><div id=":1hq" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">how are you feeling?</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hr">elated</span></div><div id=":1hs" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">only cough</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ht">ok</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hu">But otherwise i & my family is getting tensed with this over-lengthened stay of guests home</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hv">but then bhabhi was the one who was all gungho about getting rekha bhabhi to come to your place</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hw">not really tensed but apparently my wife is getting driled</span></div><div id=":1hx" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">thats the irony with women</div><div id=":1hy" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">of her class</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hz">not with women</span></div><div id=":1gl" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">in general</div><div id=":1g6" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">haan right of her kind</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gk">i tend to correct</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1g3">who are not really clear as to wat they want and what they like</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1g4">exactly</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1g5">and just kill themselves trying to please everyone around</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gh">right</span></div><div id=":1g7" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">i wrote years back</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gi">what?</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1g8">Rasoi me umra banati aurat ka dharma hota avasaad</span></div><div id=":1g9" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">avsaad means pain</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ga">hmm</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ii">I had a series infact</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 10:25 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ij">and while I engaged in an acerbic exchange of comments regarding your blog on feminism, I cried helplessly for having got misunderstood</span></div><div id=":1ik" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">remembering so manhy of my such writings</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1il">when?</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1im">your feminism blogs - to all my male readers</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1in">hmm</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jf">lets talk over it at some other destined hour</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jg">haan</span></div><div id=":1jh" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">right now I am stuck with this time consuming, yet fruitless task</div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 10:28 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ji">the last statement (just in case you might forget) which I will take up in the next fracas-prone chemically catalyzed, partly-musical, partly-selfente<wbr>rtaining session would be a construction of yours in one of our last chats -</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jj">construction of me?</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jm">As I learnt of feminism - you commented - I would need clarifications on that - for my knowledge and information</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1kt">I am confused and it will eat my head</span></div><div id=":1kw" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">so you better ask right away</div><div id=":1jn" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">because in the past few occasions you seem to talk more nonsense when drunk than I do</div><div id=":1jo" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">so better you don't ask it then</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jl">no no its not anything important - atleast in comparision to earning money</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fa">hmm</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 10:32 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1js">the only nonsense I talked last time was about geographical distances</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gp">yah</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 10:38 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gq">I was hurt by a fact that your analytical acumen prevented you from feeling a simple point that you were speaking something to a person who was emotionally charged due to a hurt inflicted his father , and to add to you seemed to be rationalizing the hurt, by comparing it to similar and definitely more grave assaults that have happened to your family by the same inflictor,</span></div><div id=":1gr" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">my reaction was emotional</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gs">yah...true...so was mine</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gt">so why were you condemning my outburst</span></div><div id=":1gb" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">against raju mama</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gc">I was also not liking the fact that though raju mama is what he is....your whole family was trying to play under the tag "we are helpless save us..."</span></div><div id=":1jt" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">which I find bullshit</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hn">so what alternative does my family have</span></div><div id=":1hm" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">give me one</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1hl">deal with it like adults of the family</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ju">and specifically what is that</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jv">like others have done</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fb">what have they done tell me point</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jw">Ignore it</span></div><div id=":1jk" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">Ignored</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jy">how many times</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jz">since we all know he does not mean it.</span></div><div id=":1k0" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">my father has done it for very many times</div><div id=":1f9" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">but then again, it is a choice. he ignored it coz he still loves him</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jx">right and my papa doesnt - is the corollary right</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gg">but there is def no love when it come to raju mama, suchi nani equation</span></div><div id=":1h8" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">no....bade papa had it been left alone to him...would have forgotten it</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1kx">at this point of time all have forgotten it</span></div><div id=":1kn" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I am not at all bothered abt it now</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ky">yah....</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ko">I am bothered only about your choice of analytical lines which become egocentric to the extent of being called insensitive at times</span></div><div id=":1kp" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">this will show up in the arrangement of words</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1kq">The thing is tukun da, for you all your behavior is to be excused on lines of emotion and blah...but sadly it does not come to be applied to us</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1f5">Bottom line - I fault</span></div><div id=":1f4" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">AGREED UNCONDITIONALLY</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1f3"><img framecount="123" style="background-image: url(im/emotisprites/smile3.png); background-position: 0px -336px;" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" onload="'_GM_EmoticonHandler(" onmouseover="'_GM_EmoticonHandler(" alt=":)" pattern="smile" createtime="1233206449641" iconset="goomoji" height="14" width="14" /></span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1f2">NEXT TIME YOUR FATHER IS HURT (GOD FORBID) I WILL SPEAK REAL VENOM AGAINST HIM</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1f1">hmm</span></div><div id=":1gf" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">do that if it helps you....</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ge">JUST TO CHECK YOUR RATIONAL JUDGEMENTS</span></div><div id=":1kr" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">NOTHING HELPS ME THAN ME</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ks">just for the record....I never spoke any venom against bade papa. All I said was pitched against you and others like suchi nani, mina nani</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1kz">AND MONEY FROM WHOMESOEVER I GET</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jq">To be sure, you can check with bulu and abhijit, if I ever said anything against bade papa. </span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 10:52 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jp">No need for that - i am an old dope so probability of distorted recollections are more with me</span></div><div id=":1ku" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">just happy to know that i am still a poet at heart ,</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1kv">yah be happy.</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1io">thats cyclical</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 10:54 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ip">i will let papa give you a call once</span></div><div id=":1iq" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">and let him narrate</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ir">It is....cause thing with you seen from my perspective is you always apply millions and zillions(exager<wbr>ating)of conditions for yourself to be understood and not misunderstood and we are supposed to understand that and work accordingly. But when it comes to me, you do not take anything into consideration, that may be I was drunk, may be I was hurt by suchi nani and mina nani's overprojected pain....</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1is">I agree to that</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1it">Let Bade papa react naa...why is the whole family reacting I do not get this. I understand you all love him and all....but then let him deal with it.</span></div><div id=":1gn" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">Now, if I have a fight with bubloo and he abuses me ....are you going to fight for me?</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1iv">at the first instance its not plain abuse</span></div><div id=":1iw" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">well lets not get along more</div><div id=":1ix" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I take your point - if papa has a problem - let him react</div><div id=":1iy" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I incarnate Indifference</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1iz">no...that is also not what I mean</span></div><div id=":1j0" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">All i mean is, complain crib, be angry everything is fair....</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1j1">How far did suchi nani & meena's cribbing reach -</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1j2">but in doing all this be a little careful to not make out the other person as a monster</span></div><div id=":1j3" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">Bania para, our families, </div><div id=":1j4" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">especially in a place like raigarh, it matters what x, y, z is hearing and thinking</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1j5">and how many such news do you have of raju mama's sledging towards suchi nani</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1j6">if it was a bigger city relations fade...</span></div><div id=":1j7" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">Did I ever say that if raju mama is doing it it is fine</div><div id=":1j8" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I am only telling you suchi nanis part, coz you empathized with them...and coz perhaps you could have a say there</div><div id=":1j9" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">when it comes to raju mama you or me have no say</div><div id=":1ja" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">and I do not have a person like you to whom I can let my venom (as you say) out</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1jb">but these are different weapons of outburst - raju does it in ganja chowk , at public meetings, even at family drinks with us, with papa's friends in isolation - suchi meena and their kind do it in baniya para\</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gv">yah which is publis enough</span></div><div id=":1go" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">public</div><div id=":1iu" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">and both of them are doing it in their capacities, in their circles</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gw">And who started it all</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gx">both</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gy">You mean to say suchi nani began speaking against raju mama some time in past to which raju mama reacted</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1gz">for me both of them look playing equally cheap shots</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1h0">Didnt I tell you the last time that - the line of we are helpless was coined by me</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1h1">thing is When it comes to Suchi nani side of story there are more irritating characters attached to that side of the story....liek mina nani, which makes it more dirty....</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1h2">Irritating to you</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1h3">Yah, I know....and that is why I reacted....othe<wbr>rwise I would have choosen to look down on it,,,like I do most times</span></div><div id=":1h4" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">but I found it disgusting that it was one of your emotional liners</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1h5">Ok fine - I took a practical decision - of snapping ties</span></div><div id=":1h6" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">cause there are better ways of living</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1h7">yes....</span></div><div id=":1gu" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">do that if you think you can get even like that</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fr">I will give my try and effort</span></div><div id=":1ie" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">God has already blessed me - its for the world that the remaining blessings are left</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1id">yah if you think severing your ties with Raju mama and family is a good loss and help you personally then do it</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ic">Not with me</span></div><div id=":1ib" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I am emotionally attached to that person</div><div id=":1ia" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">but on practical ground I will request him to severe ties with my family like he did it with Delhi ma's</div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 11:09 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1i9">I might me wrong - But the crux of all this discussion brings me back to the feel of that day - you are defending a person who repeatedly threatened to hit my father with shoes</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1i5">hmm yah good idea....if nothing comes out of it, atleast this will happen ki people who love some people from both the families, would be releaved of the whole tension in future</span></div><div id=":1i4" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">I am not defending or offending anyone</div><div id=":1i3" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">for me I love both of them</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1i2">you are not intending to</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1i1">I repeatedly said that day and repeating it again today, I reacted only against Suchi nani, Mina nai</span></div><div id=":1i0" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">nani</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fq">but you never know the effect an utterance in words - meanings metamorphose the moment they form words</span></div><div id=":1fp" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">But all this while I wanted to gain some information on your learning feminism</div><div id=":1fo" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">just that you commented on my talking nonsense over drinks that i drifted to this topic</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fn">hmmm and then you say I get egoistic</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fm">yes i feel that</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fl"><img framecount="123" style="background-image: url(im/emotisprites/smile3.png); background-position: 0px -336px;" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif" onload="'_GM_EmoticonHandler(" onmouseover="'_GM_EmoticonHandler(" alt=":)" pattern="smile" createtime="1233207878403" iconset="goomoji" height="14" width="14" /></span></div><div id=":1fk" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">when you could not take one sentence well and started drifting</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fj">a day earlier when we still were having the same topic at your home and then at abs</span></div><div id=":1fi" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">your tone and constructions were different, and abhijeet uttered that he would have grown violent at such a situation while I didnt</div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 11:16 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fh">you did not?</span></div><div id=":1fg" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">oh not the day when we were drinking?</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ff">He was talking abt the incident betn raju and papa</span></div><div id=":1fe" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">no</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1fd">hmm yah yah</span></div><div id=":1fc" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">No, I am sorry if you got a hint ki I have problems with you reacting</div><div id=":1gd" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">going forward, I will keep mu mouth shut when it comes you, suchi nani, your wife, and your kid.</div><div id=":1f8" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">When it is about bade papa i will speak personally with him</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1f7">so when I was drunk, and the incident again started and I find someone who is trying to rationalize the hurt, I got hyper, and that perhaps made me talk all nonsense</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1f6">No it is alright. I should not comment on anyones reactions....ex<wbr>cept my own....it is foolish</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lc">may be</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ld">especially, when it is about your wife and suchi nani you do not take it well at all</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1le">until it stops enriching your experience,</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lf">and about bhabhi I speak never with malice but only with concern</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lg">so do i</span></div><div id=":1lh" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">i love her out of pity</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1li">but then I caan understand you reacting emotionally</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lj">my mistake was - i should have understood your drunkenness that day</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lk">but then....I am reacting no different today as well</span></div><div id=":1ll" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">right</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lm">thats why i am talking this way</span></div><div id=":1ln" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">we could have wound things up by calling it an alcoholic mayhem</div><div id=":1lo" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">and enjoyable too</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lp">i think....it would be intelligent of me not to comment on Suchi, Mina, and your wife....you get all mixed up and extremly emotional</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lq">but you accused me of talking nonsense - and for most parts of my introspection i find you right</span></div><div id=":1lr" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">i wanted to chalk down a plan for the next session of drinks - but maybe I dont qualify</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ls">why?</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lt">Wasting alcohol on talking sense is not my forte - anyday</span></div><div id=":1lu" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">at the end of the day - let the gods decide</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lv">it is no bodys just a clarification</span></div><div id=":1lw" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">hmm</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lx">will now post this conversation on my blog</span></div><div id=":1ly" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">good one</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1lz">hmm </span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 11:26 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1m0">At times I feel - being so self-centric (as suggested by your comments here) how have I managed to write - may be its all a fluke for the last 25 years</span></div><div id=":1m1" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">all writings without a soul</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1m2">You can really manage to piss me off.</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1m3">why</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1m4">because, you can use words against anyone(stressin<wbr>g on anyone) without any remorse, but for most of me...I cannot do that with you...</span></div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1m5">this again indicates another serious malfunctioning in my capacities - that of comprehension - I might have miscarried the element in your words here</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1m6">Talking about soul....yes you do have one....but you sure are very self focussed....whi<wbr>ch for me is not a bad thing</span></div><div id=":1mg" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">but coming back to how one can be many things in one lifetime</div><div id=":1mh" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">coming back to your words "everything is temporal."</div><div id=":1mi" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">You could be both...withouth really showing any personality disorders</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1mj">But underlining structures for others to understand me and evading all preconditions in understanding others is criminally authoritative of me</span></div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1mk">it is</span></div><div id=":1ml" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">so, what about it?</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1mm">An endless hibernation</span></div><div id=":1mn" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">may be bharat chacha knows more of it</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1mo">hmm</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 11:33 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1mp">I lost my already depleting confidence after this chat - not just out of self pity and remorse - but as an organic feeling - I resign to find myself a sinner against mankind</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 11:34 on Thursday</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1mq">very well</span></div><div id=":1mr" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">and I resign as one who is guilty of making a saint feel like a ghost</div></div><div dir="f" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">me: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1ms">ok</span></div><div id=":1mt" dir="ltr" class="h8iICe">different destinies</div></div><div dir="t" class="RNCQof" role="chatMessage" live="assertive"><div class="Q2bXSc"> <span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr">Runa: </span> <span dir="ltr" id=":1mu">saint feel like a sinner</span></div></div><div dir="" class="M5h10c" role="chatMessage" live="polite"><div class="fbd3v"> Sent at 11:37 on Thursday</div></div><div id=":1e9" class="tsqbec" live="polite"> </div><div class="Zd8p8d"><div class="nWa4S" role="alert">You are no longer signed in to chat.</div></div><div class="ARo0ge"><div style="overflow: auto;" class="XoqCub"><textarea dir="ltr" class="Gr0sfc" ignoreesc="true" style="height: 36px; overflow-y: hidden;"></textarea></div></div>Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-47370460561647765992009-01-12T11:29:00.001+06:302009-01-12T11:29:39.335+06:30Revisiting Democracy<br /><br />There are various definitions of democracy I learned over my years as a student. I never paid much attention to any of them. Conversely they remained rather boring and ignored texts in my school books. On some occasions, I heard my friends debate over it and managed to discern some definitive features to the word. At another time, another day, I became helplessly forgetful. With worlds of beautiful things happening to my age then, it would have been foolish to attach more time to the understanding and defining of democracy. I wasted luxuriously in the company of women, music and dreams.<br />Fifteen years hence, at this age today, I learn of Barack Obama winning the US presidential elections. ‘Change has come to America’ one of the headlines flashes on a browser before me. My office buzzes with the breaking news as does the world, or so it seems. We start exchanging views, engage in speculations, get back to work. I think of ‘change’ and remember the word democracy.<br /><br />Although a universally acceptable definition for the word is still contentious (and rightly so to be in the democratic spirit), there are a couple of principles inclusive to all its allied concepts. First that all members of the society have equal access to opportunities and second that all members enjoy universally accepted freedom and liberties. Fair enough, one must say because what’s more valid than a free society. That is to speak of a society where Mangal a sweeper sips his tea in the same hotel as Raghav a brahmin. Or Kaneez a girl studies in the same ranks as Omar a boy. Or in the same sense, Barrack Obama, a black becomes the president of America.<br /><br />The change has certainly come in, I think before I write. My thoughts take me home, to that serpentine alley in Ganja Chowk, Raigarh. In the room facing the street, my daughter plays with her friends. Aged between 3-5 most of them belong to the same neighborhood. A heap of toys gathers at the center with children weaving their lives around it. At a distance, near the threshold stands Ria, our maidservant’s granddaughter. She reluctantly makes it to the swarm of children and manages to touch a plastic locomotive from the heap. A little later when all the kids are made to sit in a row to share the Puja Prasad, she involuntarily takes an obscure corner.<br />Born to a lower caste and relatively poorer family, Ria explains a different childhood to me. Once again I think of democratic rights.<br /><br />This time the image is that of my student days. Back then in college, we generally noticed the scheduled tribe and scheduled caste students, making groups among themselves. It was noticeably rare that one of them shared time or space with us. Though theoretically we did possess the equality, but it usually felt as if we belonged to different worlds. I clearly remember the dementia of those times when during the anti-Mandal commission uproar, faces from the other world bore an expression of utter fear. Once when my girlfriend asked me about the Mandal commission and the entailing disturbance, I jokingly said – ‘it’s preventing that lovely black girl from snatching me from you’.<br /><br />My girlfriend might just have supported the anti-reservation antics but coming back to my joke, I find it all the more serious. It remains a fact that for centuries the dominant class has fringed its binary, being both grossly exploitative in its intent and shrewdly manipulative in its approach. The past few decades of laissez faire have served well to widen the divide. Today in India we have fourth highest number of dollar billionaires in the planet and simultaneously we rank 126th in the Human Development Indicators which means its better to be a poor person in Bolivia (the poorest nation in South America). CEO salaries recorded an all time high last year while we have 836 million people living on less than Rs 20 a day. A new restaurant opens everyday in some city of the country, while in the last five years we added more newly hungry millions than the rest of the world. Our economic growth rate is said to attain envious proportions and yet farmer indebtedness has doubled in the last decade, from 26.2% in 1991 to 46.3% in 2001. Inequalities are bound to rise with unbridled capitalism and lack of a firm political will. <br />It’s as a result of this long-term uni-polarity of power that my maidservant’s granddaughter understands life from a window my daughter perhaps would never choose to peep through. Or in that case black girls would never ever snatch me from my girlfriends.<br /><br />With Obama’s historic victory, the promise for a change has been agreed upon by many to arrive. My limited resources of intellectual capital prevent me to analyze the magnitude and nature of this deemed change. Secure within the laziness of a careless writer, I barely get to understand that he stops the misadventures like restoring democracy in Iraq and Afganistan and attends to rather urgent calls like re-structuring the American farm bill, where a reduction in subsidies to the cotton farmers alone could feed a million children more in Africa. Off late, sledging America on various grounds has been an order of the day in the developing world. May be the president takes account of such voices, and explores why in the first place did they arise? In short, he could re-visit the word democracy, and apply it with honesty.<br /><br />As far as India is concerned, we have so many Americas within us; need to sort those out first. We need to ascertain that across the country in our homes, children like Ria have a stake, we need to gather that eyes of black women have dreams too.Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-50120090009073197342008-08-22T12:48:00.001+06:302008-08-22T12:50:23.085+06:30<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZq0YE-hFWj08vO02ig4X16PSf1pPiVuXoAvk46o8px5vsoe1boGOGohJ4nN1LJXowiZgRNUTuoyEq0FnKsMIK8I9bWIYm13SZF_32ms4ZMu80RMm6UAEy4maBnP0jLtKZBNh7Q/s1600-h/pati.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZq0YE-hFWj08vO02ig4X16PSf1pPiVuXoAvk46o8px5vsoe1boGOGohJ4nN1LJXowiZgRNUTuoyEq0FnKsMIK8I9bWIYm13SZF_32ms4ZMu80RMm6UAEy4maBnP0jLtKZBNh7Q/s320/pati.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237222809872100226" border="0" /></a>Will write tomorrow or day after, that is to say, I will not write nowSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-31214410542083475892008-02-05T17:28:00.000+06:302008-02-05T17:30:09.120+06:30Khamosh Adaalat Jaari Hai<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">comrade free?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">k<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bzhistoryinfo"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sent at 16:52 on Tuesday</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">hai...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">had a meeting with students...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">now free...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">how much income tax do i pay when i get a consultancy of 38000 per month<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">approx fig<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">aprox. income is 4.5Lakhs per annum right?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4.2<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">do you have any saving in LIC, PF, PPF, ELSS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no chance narang saheb<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">or NSC or five yer fixed deposit in bank?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no darling<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bzhistoryinfo"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sent at 17:44 on Tuesday</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5k+20k+35k= about 60k<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">but...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">saath hazaar<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">consultancy income has lot of loopholes...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you can show quite a bit as expenditure....<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">like<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">house rent can i shownt be<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">all telephone expenses, travel expenses...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">food and lodging...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">but how did u calculate?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">buying computer or internet or laptop...(depriciation about 50% of the cost of comp or laptop)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">upto 1.1 lakh no tax<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">k<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.1 to 1.5 (10%)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.5 to 2.5(20%)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2.5 and above 30%<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so out of my 4.2<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">only 3.2 is getting taxed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">even you can deduct your house rent...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and if i invest 50000 then?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">how much rent do you pay?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4500pm<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">do all the calculation for the financial year...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">don't give me monthly picture..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">when did you join this job?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">June<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that means you have 9 months income this year..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">right..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and in my consultancy fee its written that its against 18 days every month<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats ok..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you dont have anyother income right?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats not accounted i mean<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so your this financial years income is 3.4lakhs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">deduct house rent from that<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">40K<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">just tell me if i invest 50k somewhere what happens is it deducted<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">for 9 months<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">remaining is 3 lakhs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">deduct some expenses in travel say 20K<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2.8<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">remaining 2.8 Lakhs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">deduct telephne expenses say 10K<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2.7 lakhs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">do you have a comp or laptop?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">office laptop<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">but i can show a computer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and cameras<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">what is the aprox. price of both?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2k<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2lakh<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">take only one thing this time may be comp not camera...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">use camera for next year IT calculation...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats only 40000<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so 20K is depriciation of Comp<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2.5 bacha<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so remaining 2.5K<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2.5 L<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">do you have distance travel like air travel train expenses?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and lodging...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that was borne by office<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">did you spend anything from your pocket...like your wife and child travelling?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">not much<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">how much aprox?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in the financial year...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">very little two trips to raigarh and back<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2000<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you dont have to produce bills./////<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats so human<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">take 3A fair and make it about 5 or 10K<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">remaining 2.4L<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">now from this upto 1.1 L<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no tax<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.1 to 1.5 10% i.e. 4K tax<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.5 to 2.4 20% i.e. 18K tax<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">total 22K tax<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and now if i do a LIC of 50000 then<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">now if you invest in section 80 ie. pf, ppf etc<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">say 50K<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">k<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">your tax liability will be 4k+8k = 12k<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would suggest invest in tax saving mutual funds<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will do that<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">DSP ML tax saver or SBI Magnum tax gain<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will do with SBI<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">lock in period is 3 years and growth is better...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you should also buy mediclaim policy for your family<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">how much does that cost<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">being in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">hyderabad</st1:place></st1:City> it may be useful<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">because my cash is so sporadic in nature<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">spend 2k you will get for about 1 lakh for the family<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">this is for the year<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2k means 2 lakhs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2000<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2000<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">buy from Natiaonal Insurance <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so initially how much money does this mediclaim needs to be put in<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">govt. one<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no just 2000 aprox for 1L<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fine<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you can put 4k for 2L<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">this is nonrefundabale<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and does it mean recurring at some intervals<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">every year you have to renew it...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">if there is no claim in previous year you get some bonous<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">it is like car insurance<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and SBI mutual funds whom or where do they sell that<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">but necessary when you are away from your home in a big city and with a small child<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">any agent will do that<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">just ask your office a/c he will help you<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya just did that and she is calling a person<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">am I sounding like a proper finacial advisor?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes very enlightening<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">be one u will earn more<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">still I dont file my own return...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">OK<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I take help of an agent...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">FINAL QUESTION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">WHAT IF I DONT FILE RETURN THIS YEAR<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">agent takes about 300 rupees and does everything for you<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">HOW MUCH AM I FINED LATER<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">how much TDS your organisation deducts from you?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">10%<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I TAKE HOME 34K<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which means you have already paid more than 30K tax right?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">YA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you have to file the return to claim the refund...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats first thing...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">YA THATS WHAT MY BOSS TOLD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">second and most important thing is if your are travelling abroad...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3 years IT return works very positivly for your visa<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">OK<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">do you have PAN?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">YES<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">got it in June<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will this be your first IT return?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes boss<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">great welcome to Govt. of India<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thanks I am honoured<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so now i am buying this sbi mutual fund<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">how much does this cost<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">are you planning to invest 50K?<br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">if get a salary this month or else 25<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">whatever is the amount divide it between two<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would suggest some good part in DSP ML Tax saver<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the NAV of it is about 15<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">per unit<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and SBI Magnum Tax gain NAV is about 60 per unit<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">what is DSP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">go for 60% in DSP and and 40% in SBI<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">DSP Maryll Lynch <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">a company<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES">fir wo bazaar me mera paisa laga denge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you can check daily NAV in business news paper<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">or <a href="http://myiris.com/mutual/" target="_blank">http://myiris.com/mutual/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so i will do this coz my ac says we are getting salaries<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">long time back I bought Reliance Diversified power sector growth at 23 rupees<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">now it is 75<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">i pumped in 50000 last month when the market crashed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">after or before crash?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">at the time of crash<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">now its gaining<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">nice...which companies?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">dont know ---its a desi mutual fund concept where u have a friend whom u trust<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he invests<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he had been my asst in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Bombay</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is he a Gujarati?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jatin Popat<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">good....<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">dont worry...they are trust worthy in money matter...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya he is a raigarhiya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and no one can better time this market than those...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats all the more untrustworthy though<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In 2001 I lost 1 lac in this shares business just due to trust<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">for me also a guy advises...from Ahmedabad...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">my shares are from reliance<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">for long term banking sector seems to be good...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no idea<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">particularly in 2009 and 10 you can get the return if you invest today...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats my analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">i just spend so much that nothing is left to invest<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">propensity to save is conspicuously absent<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and I have not invested a single rupee directly in stock market...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">GOI should subsidize liquour<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and people who admire women should get tax waivers<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">match called off<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">bad<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">do I post this chat on my blog<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">there are so many confused souls<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the other day i was reading abt taimur lane - the mongol<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">haan...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he was a strange character - somebody with that much violence is extraordinary<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">true...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">gyanesh was online yesterday<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and he sent me a film<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which one?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">soft core pornography<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I ate his head with hardcore messages<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ha...ha...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">my wife is coming on the 8th<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">we will plan a visit feb end<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes.. that would be nice...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">bcoz tini's kid will be one year old on march 1<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so that can also be attended to<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">april 11 or 13 we are planning Aadi's mundan...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in Subramanya temple...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">children look beautiful with tonsured heads<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that temple in puttur<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">as such he has very less hair...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">like me<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">haha<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">blore<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">it is near deepika's village a famous Kartikeya temple...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">even Sachin Tendulkar visited that...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">then its good<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">its 40 km from Puttur<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">i remember that temple with a fish pond<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and ashwini<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">i.e. Mahalingeswara in Puttur...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ashwini is in TISS Mumbai...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya she scrapped around august<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats long time...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">really<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">people should be more sensitive<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">all social sciences are based on that<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">sensitivity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">sensitivity?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and did u learn driving<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which part of your body is most sensitive?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">NO<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thighs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">because they are weak<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">all social sciences are based on thighs....<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In fact<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">this seems to be logic...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">foundation of philosophy...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ha..ha..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">bunny had written a wonderful paper on right to philosophy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will send you that<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">send...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">went<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">next month onwards i start studying fo r my MA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">they have a week long gap between each paper<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so thats enough to read five questions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">but will you travel every week?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Did you read anything by this years Eco nobel laureate couple<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">one of them never had formal training in economics<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so also many past laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thats good<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">did u see sashi on saturday<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and beers<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he was asking about you a<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">here in our Academy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">we had a Research Advisory Committe meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he is one of the members<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">one of my optional papers is Research methodology<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he asked whats your plan about that documentary...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I am finishing the website of my org and then i take a plunge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I told him about your sending a mail to Sainath...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he is interested in short films...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thinking of getting it funded by stakeholders and approaching somebody like raghubir yadav for the role<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he was telling that that there lenses available where you can get the depth of film in video camera...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he wants to buy those and make short films<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the camera format he has only one camera comes with that film look<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he has started appreciating film from the depth of photography angel....<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This technology is called progressive scan<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amalendu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">me: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He has to shoot with artificial lights once to get the real film effect<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bzhistoryinfo"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sent at 18:46 on Tuesday</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="bzpostitwarning">Amalendu is busy. You may be interrupting.</span></p>Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-11736443899636766502007-09-06T15:48:00.001+06:302007-09-06T15:48:39.223+06:30Mujhe Jhakjhorti smritiyon me<br />abki baar<br />thakaan ke alaawa<br />bastar aur loktantra<br /><br />jaan kar maan nahi paane ka dukh<br />jaise dopahar do ki deewar<br />aur samudra ki kaid<br /><br />kapde utaarte eeshwar<br />nange nakshatro ke alawa<br />yaad waali aurat ka jooda<br /><br />harqat ko bazaar banate<br />vishwa ka anant<br />syah-safed<br />lal cheentiyon ki ankahi<br /><br /><br /><em>translations welcome</em>Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-51748646233499701462007-09-03T13:11:00.000+06:302007-09-03T13:23:36.761+06:30On the terrace opposite<br />she skipped ropes in time<br /><br />as clouds made shapes of her going away<br />we tried<br /><br />to assign<br />smells to touches<br />and colors to tastes<br /><br />for years now<br />the streets flood<br />in stories of her children<br /><br />one of them<br />as i remember<br />crawls to my bed<br /><br />underneath pillows of stones<br />where are the tiny fish<br />that once tickled her underfeet<br /><br />dried to a drop<br />is that my kelo<br /><br />are these the stories now<br />that i tender<br />for times after her going awaySiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-24206770350076430512007-08-16T12:13:00.000+06:302007-08-16T12:14:25.024+06:30a butterfly lost its way through an evening crowd of returning people on and along their vehiclesSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-35365595775220477822007-08-07T13:03:00.000+06:302007-08-07T13:15:11.541+06:306-numberChote pahad ki dhalan utaro to H block<br />kuch aur aage P&T colony<br />fir C-Block ki pehli Kataar<br /><br />Ek aam, dedh aakash ke neeche<br />Rajan Arora ka gharSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-48565167387176714112007-07-11T14:29:00.000+06:302007-07-16T10:31:08.446+06:30Her smells were ten thousand afternoons away from me<br />I remembered that I can forget<br />it s so easySiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-21899117813617949082007-06-29T15:05:00.000+06:302007-06-29T15:06:26.417+06:30Rear view----Scribble-----------------------------<br /><br />This is not an arrangement for winters to fall in love with women wearing red undergarments, neither is it a report on the infant mortality rates in Dantewada- SouthBastar.<br /><br />Not to be precise, it has nothing to do with what Savitri’s father left for her before leaving for his seventh pilgrimage in the mid of a soaked rainy day; her mother was irrevocably sad.<br />In between, they were those same rogues from the Kaser Para who stole in to the courtyard before it just got dark enough to tell the roses from chrysanthemums. They were seven of them, about the same height and stature and even voices. Savitri for that matter had never been to differentiate anyone’s voice on the phone.<br /><br />(Grandfather detested the phone just for this vice to it. On the days when he still had the strength to find his way into the street and knock Munshi’s door for an orgasmic vent of nostalgia, he laid out an elaborate plan for a rebellion against the Department of Telecommunications in the country. Munshi is believed to have perished under the burden of quoting the cost of the movement which by any chance had to be raised at the mercy of their sons and daughters)<br /><br />“She is in” first voice<br />“He out” Second<br />“Pluck it”First<br />“Why was he called the father of the nation when its more like he’s the grandfather”Third<br />“Shut Up Tamboli”Second<br /><br />Did Tamboli shut his mouth or not is a question of infinite importance for the story to continue. But for the time being readers have to console with a rather cryptic piece of information that 26 years later when Prof.Jambalendu Khotishi was to deliver a lecture on alternative agricultural practices at the University of Budapest, the student who repeatedly looked out of the window and winked his eyes 61 times a minute gestured him for a private talk.<br /><br />“I need to talk to you”<br />“Talk” said the professor<br />“Not here…come with me”<br /><br />“He actually had not kept his mouth shut” the nervous boy told after they journeyed to the other part of the city, far from the calm of a university, into a mesh of shops and lights.<br /><br />“And why do you tell me that” the professor pretended not to look quizzed.<br />“Because Savitri had wanted it “<br />Professor knew that it was important to know about Savitri., but the students were waiting at the University, and the officials even, how embarrassed they must be feeling at the guests queries, after all those bespectacled oldies on the first row had managed to be there for his speech…But even hearing of Savitri was more important than other things…leave aside getting a path breaking information of her whereabouts…what does it matter that all this boy churns up here is trash…he seems to be uttering SAVITRI…what a solace in all these 26 years when he had been used to hear this word only in his voice…<br /><br />“Savitri had wanted to undress Tamboli that night..Mishra Ji misunderstood the offer and then even the roses didn’t smell like roses, you know these hybrid types…the boy continued for exactly 3 hours 28 minutes.<br />Later that evening when Professor recounted the incident of meeting Savitri’s mitochondrial boy, he wept.Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-42208612985279161942007-06-28T17:50:00.000+06:302007-06-28T17:53:09.227+06:30ZOBROED<span style="font-size:78%;">I</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;">It has been a couple of years that I died there. Nevertheless, the place continues to be the same .<br />Its even true for me.<br />Death didnt change much of my apetitie even. I am still a small-eater.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:78%;"></span>II<br /><br /><br />BOOKS<br /><br />FILMS<br /><br />SMELLS<br /><br />TOUCHES<br /><br />HOURS<br /><br />MY RIVER<br /><br />HER PAINSSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-16334260308725423392007-06-28T13:54:00.000+06:302007-06-28T14:06:03.060+06:30Maaya in Marquez - I<span style="color:#ccffff;">Its time that I write about Gabriel Garcia Marquez again.(Or do I write because of him.)<br /><br />‘Memories of my melancholy whores’ is Marguez’s first work of fiction in the last ten years…That’s what the introductory blurb to the book says. The previous book by him had been ‘Living to tell the tale’. Orthodox literary reviews suggest concrete autobiographical attributes to that book. In fact it has been accepted as an autobiography.<br /><br />I have read them both, proudly enough within a month of their publication. The result has always been the same, an irresistible urge to fall in love. May be with words, or with that old woman announcing her presence at five in the morning through my deserted alley.<br /><br />I have been seeing her for the last thirty years or so, with a basket atop her head carrying bundled sticks to brush our teeth that she barters for a handful of rice. Her skin seems far to meager to contain her body and the wrinkles identify with dunes of a great desert. Every so often I think what sounds would wake my alley up after she dies. But isn't she more than dead, walking twenty kilometers for almost a century, challenging the MNC’s like Colgate, HLL, etc. with her brush-sticks she collects in the jungle to earn a little rice; or is it life?<br /><br />Garcia Marquez and the old lady raise certain simple questions. In this writing, I want to put up few points regarding the much structured definitions of Fiction and Non-fiction as two distinct genres, specifically in the case of Marquez.<br /><br />Before I get into my thesis, here are a few humble and honest confessions.<br />This writing is purely non-academic, drawing from an organic point that it pens from someone holed up in an obscure place in semi-urban India without a scholarly attitude but a genuine interest to read and get inspired to write.<br />This is not a book review either.<br />Finally I would like to title this piece as ‘Maya in Marquez’<br /><br />On his ninetieth birthday, a man decides to gift himself with a night full of wild passion with an adolescent virgin. The encounter spurs his nostalgia. He recounts and relives his past libertine excesses, only to console himself with an unavoidable truth that sex is a helpless substitute for love. This agony guides him to his solitary escape as a writer. He writes about his love in his weekly newspaper column and in turn becomes the most famous man in the town. That’s the story for us. Fiction; one may call it.<br /><br />To the earlier book now- ‘Living to tell the tale’. In the first page itself, Marquez receives his mother who wants him to accompany her to sell their ancestral house. Subsequently we learn about their bizarre journey to Aracataca. Re-unions with bygone familiarities. We get informed of the author’s passion to become a writer despite considerable domestic resistance. His education. His politics. Women. Life. Music. And success. The narrative is nonlinear and is structured in concentric spirals of tense. Non-fiction; one may term it.<br /><br />After reading ‘Living to tell the tale’ I realised that almost all I have read of him have had their embryos in his real life. In a sense, his writings do have a strong autobiographical basis. But the point is, whatever the case may be, autobiographical resources contrived with imagery or pure fancy interweaved with factual events, it makes a little difference. Because what ends up are printed pages bound in a book, and the grind of creating it is a different realm. It can never be comprehended by structured conceptions of the real an unreal. Just the way, one cant comprehend life in conceptions.<br /><br />Art and only art has this power to transcend reality in order to comprehend it. Marquez does it by telling tales and the old lady by selling her stcks.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">To be contd.</span></em></span>Siddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15415879.post-24459249586178973162007-06-28T13:02:00.000+06:302007-06-28T13:09:51.748+06:30For desires I would like to harness, a poem after long.<br /><br /><br />A lesser gray agianst a dark gray against the black<br />Hills and nights<br /><br />Intimate murmurs against a silence against the wind<br />Rivers and nights<br /><br />Old smells against her salty back against a desire<br />Nights and nightsSiddharth Tripathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795352883997807604noreply@blogger.com0