A friend

It has been almost three months now and everything seems to change, especially your life after passing college. I sometime feel that how much the four-hour journey makes one tired. But metro seems to be the escape from the busy roads in the monsoon season. Metro has incredibly doing well and everyday I see the crowd brimming up. I have seen people getting flexible in adjusting themselves in the minimal of the space. I was standing on my toes because the female fraternity was all around me. I held the handles with both of my hands so that I don’t bump into any one. In this crooked situation, I met a girl once. She was just standing quite near to me. A fat lady struggled herself between the crowd and almost pushed us while walking out. I made an irritated face, so did the girl. We both looked at each other and exchanged the looks of disgust. And then the conversation began. I looked at her closely while talking because I found her quite interesting. I noticed this girl in the metro for the past one week, but never thought I’ll ever talk to her because there were so many seen faces around metro whom I never befriended. So as we started talking, about the crowd, about female compartment, then peculiar females and then we didn’t stopped till today. I would have probably hated myself now, if I were the kind of a girl three weeks ago. All of this would have happened because of the amount of chitchat I have started off with her. She works in a fashion firm and has graduated from NIFT. And she is a straightforward personality. The first day itself this female made me realize that I need to reduce my weight. Well her comments did encourage me to start exercising daily. She told me about her family which comprised of about six siblings including her. As she mentioned this she had a big smile, as she knew how I would react. And thank God she smiled, because I was totally shocked. So now both of us have started going together and find an amusing time in Metro, sharing jokes, making more friends and yes being sarcastic to some irritating fellows. (I' m still learning being that) Sometimes I wonder making friend when you are twenty-one has great benefits. One is that you have almost reached maturity and the other is that you have more experiences to share. I hope this friendship become better as the journey goes on.

Life, Anna, Metro

The Anna movement is all over the nation. Everyday in Delhi is like living a patriotic movie. The Ramlila Maidan or India Gate, I can picture every bit of it in the History books that will come in the following years. Everyone is affected by the corruption in India, but this man Anna, has the balls to question the Government on its face. The Jan Lokpal Bill and Anna’s team are fighting for months for this Bill eradicate corruption completely. I often hear people talking about the movement in the Metro, giving opinions about his hunger strike and the Bill.

Recently, I read some news on China’s warfare building a huge army of 2.25 million people and causing worries for us. But on the other hand Team Anna is no less in support. It has reached upto four million! The former was scary for everyone, but latter is causing quite a big amount of pain in Government ass.

If it is in Delhi then it is in metro also. I see people with Anna topis everyday shouting ‘Inquilab Zindabaad’ and ‘Vande Maatrm’ in the Metro premises. Well the new generation is no less in giving interesting slogans. For instance, twinkle twinkle little star, Anna s a superstar and something like Na na na naare, Anna Hazaare! One can imagine the number of people going crazy on winning the Cricket world cup but against corruption the number is crossing all records.

The smell of sweat, the fragrance of nationalism has filled the Metro completely.

I always used to sit with my grandpa and talk about the scene during Independence. He used to tell me various stories about the movement at that time. How different people came in the picture to lead the movement. Though Gandhi was the biggest leader, there were others much stronger than him playing their roles silently. Imagine the moment then and see the upsurge now. With so many inventions and makeover of technology and the media, Anna’s movement has gained maximum momentum. It is the biggest unification moment India has ever observed.

Anna’s topic has over shadowed the conversations in the Metro. Now people talk sensible stuff. Instead of dirty talking over the phone or talk about the episodes they missed of the stupid saas bahu sagas, the people in the Metro talk about corruption and how Anna is handling the movement.

I remember the day I went to see him. It was his last day of fast and the amounts of people participating were humungous. I saw people in white dhoti kurta, young ones with painted tattoos on their skins of Indian flag. It was a time to remember, everyone participating with so much agitation gathered so much confidence inside me, made me proud being an Indian. Balls to energy drinks, imagine the amount of enthusiasm, one gets when there are thousands of people around you with one motive in their heads.

Well the fast ended well achieving it’s purpose or half of the purpose as quoted by Anna. Someone has said nothing is constant and nowadays I see these words turning into reality. Within a few days, things have changed.

It’s either the busy schedule or the weather I don't know why I have stopped hearing about Anna on board.