Chinna chinna asai.......My little big dreams...

22 wishes of mine.list will keep increasing as my age goes....few of which i've tried...rest are on the track... :):)

to go on a long drive in an open jeep..........short travel in a tractor..........to stand in the last compartment of a goods train.....to fly in an air balloon.......to take a snap infront of great pyramid........attend rahman's concert.....to sing a song loudly on top of a hill.......to wear a pink cotton saree....to eat icecream in heavy pouring rain.....to eat bajji & drink hot cup of coffee in a roadside shop when its drizzling.....to have a buddha's head statue on my table....to teach once in a rural school....to touch a pug.....to dance with full swing for a folk song in public........stand on top of a light house........to build a sand house in a beach...to visit a painting exhibition.....to wet my legs in a lonely island...........to stay for a few days in a hut in forest.......to celebrate 1 b'day in an orphanage...........to sleep in terrace one dark night.........to sit around a campfire in freezing cold weather.......to dip face in water bowl full of ice cubes.....to blow & hold soap bubbles in hand.........

Transgenders,the third sex

Transgenders are some one whom i have always thought of writing about.Initially and even now sometimes i am scared when i see them.i used to see them as people from different planet.i used to even make fun of them sometimes.it was a sunday when i was returning home from my 2nd pu tutions in an auto.i was struck in a signal,when suddenly a transgender came and asked for money.i did not know that she was a transgender,she just looked like a normal women.
i had only a 100 rupee note with me due to which i could not give her money.She was so angry on me that she started scolding me.Thank god i dint understand her language.She clapped so loudly putting her hand inside the auto just infront my face.that one minute i really was not in this world.i got shocked and dint know what is happening around me.the sound was so intense that i couldnt bare it.i moment i reached home tears started flowing from my eyes.i did not cry because she scolded me but for the sudden shock and the sound.it was not my mistake nor hers to have behaved in that way.
Afer 2 years from that incidence,i watched a reality show in which the anchor was a person from the third ----and the guests of the show where also the same.She was the first anchor in india who belonged to that---.she was so perfect in her anchoring,her dressing,her english and her style of addressing the issue,upto the point topic discussion and lots more about her that really impressed me.one of the guests told that it was a worst experience when she first begged on roads as a trangender.she was well-educated but still she had to face such a tragic situation.i was totally broken after watching the show.i read a beautiful article in TOI after that about the acheivers of their community and the path of thorns and stones which they had crossed.i then decided not to hurt them nor tease them as they just normal human beings like us.it was not their mistake to have become so.it was a natural happening even without their knowledge.i felt ashamed of myself for having behaved so badly.Recently again in a traffic signal,even without my knowledge i closed my car window when a transgender came to ask for money.i did not do it intentially and i searched for that women for a week so that i can ask her sorry for my bad behavior that day in the same spot,but couldnt find her.it would have hurt her so badly that day.i vowe not to do such thing or behave like that in the future.it's a promise i have made to myself and will surely help them in every possible way i can for their well-being.

My first article for The Times of India

The Topic was "NEW YEAR WISHLIST".I just wanted to give a try and I was very lucky enough that my article was published in TOI on 2nd jan 2007,page no 4 under the section TOI @ CAMPUS.

Though it wasn't that apt to the topic given,i had tried my level best to atleast keep up the standards of my favorite newspaper.
Here goes my article...
            Wanting is the slanting wave in each and everyone's mind.The new year 2007 has more than 2007 hopes,aims,surprises,happiness,values,dreams and occasions.I wish it would be a year filled with all the love,laughter and good fortune.Success is what i wish 2007 would and will shower on me,with heart-felt hugs from family,cheerful company of good friends,love of special people,endless smiles on my face with lots of The Times of India reading.