Kitney Sawaal They Kalia? Sarkar...Pachees

Tagged Again :D :D This time by the two S's - Sumit and Savy

Q.1 Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.
Chancery: 106, Jor Bagh,
It’s a directory of Foreign Diplomatic missions in India. The above is an address of Cyprus Embassy :D

Q.2 Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
In which direction am I supposed to stretch my arm??

Q.3 What is the last thing you watched on TV?
News report on the political situation in Nepal

Q.4 Without looking, guess what time it is?
Must be something around 11.30 A.M

Q.5 Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
It is 11.08 AM :O

Q.6 With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
A car alarm somewhere close by

Q.7 When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
I last stepped outside to come to office :(

Q.8 Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
I looked at the computer screen…obviously :D :D

Q.9 What are you wearing?
Clothes…. I have an aversion to leaves and body paint :D :D

Q.10 Did you dream last night?
Weirdly enough I remember yesterday night’s dream. I remember a job interview and the interviewer taking me to a big ground and asking me to shop for clothes in a HUGE market :D :D

Wow…if real life interviews were like that!!!

Q.11 When did you last laugh?
When I spoke to my friend on the phone today morning

Q.12 What is on the walls of the room you are in?
A calendar, lots of telephone numbers and post-it notes

Q.13 Seen anything weird lately?
Yeah…this question :D :D

Q.14 What do you think of this quiz?
Inane!!! And still I am answering it :D :D

Q.15 What is the last film you saw?
Some Brittany Murphy movie on Star Movies… Don’t remember the name

Q.16 If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?
Air tickets to travel across the country and the world, homes in many countries, a library, creature comforts for family, donate some, then save some and then invest some…phew I feel that the money wont be enough to fulfill all my wishes :D :D

Q.17 Tell me something about you that I dunno.
I have a split personality :D :D

Q.18 If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Intolerance

Q.19 Do you like to dance?
Like?? Love to dance :D

Q.20 George Bush.
How can someone be so dumb and yet become the president of USA?

Q.21 Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Iti or Itika

Q.22 Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Haven’t really thought as yet…

Q.23 Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yup!

Q.24 What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
Now that you are here, heaven’s a good place to live in ;) :D :D

Q.25 5 people who must also do this in their blog.
I don’t wanna torture just 5 people so its an open tag for anyone who visits my post and hasn’t been tagged as yet… This is especially for all the newbies on O3.

Originally posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:58 AM

Slice Of Life

Nepal Diaries

Like bloodhounds, 'they' are coming to Nepal. A whiff of news and they arrive in packs. The situation is tense as the people's movement is picking up. Suddenly at 8.00 PM curfew is announced in the ring road area. It starts at 3.00 AM. Big demonstrations are planned for the next day. Quick thinking and 'they' move out of the hotel which is inside the curfew area, in the dead of the night.

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And in that night, it is ironical that everything is so quiet. Because everyone is awake- the government machinery; the armed forces who are planning what action to take against the protestors; the rule breakers and the protestors who are planning how to defy the curfew and the rules; the scribes. It is the calm before the storm.

200 meters from the line of curfew, the army tanks assemble and so do the police.

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Next day thousands of demonstrators demand for a democracry. They raise their voice, their flag. Violence erupts. People clash with the police. Tension can be cut with a knife. Three people are killed. They become statistics. Smell of death hangs in the air.

Yet another time, police uses tear gas and a wave of demonstators run in the directon of a person called X but X stands there with the cameraperson. News has to be sent. The world needs to know what is happening here.

The snow clad white mountains are dotted with red - of communism, of blood.

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Every evening someone or the other (people belonging to X's tribe) comes back thinking today I was almost done in, almost knocking on heaven's door. It's a job fraught with risks.

Another time X is caught in the midst of protesters. A battery of arms and body parts hits X before X can run to safety. A few aching body parts, no broken bones, X is back in action.

Everyday is a new experience.

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Suddenly there are bullets flying around. X and team members have run in different directions to take cover. In 10 degree temperature, X sees beads of sweat on a colleague's face. A person watching everything from her home gives shelter to them. A few minuters later they are back on the job while an army helicopter hovers overhead.

There is news to send.

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X is a person, any journalist, who has worked/is working in a situation of turmoil. This is a small documentation of that person's slice of life.

And there is no time for emotions.

Originally posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 5:47 PM

I Dont Wanna Title This...

I got bored of seeing the same old wallpaper (read : post) and so this new post. Though there isin't much to write... More than paucity of time, it looks like this is a writer's block as well. Anyway, a few lines which came in my head @ this moment and there they are on my post :D :D

Like a river which flows, I am
Or am I the air which which you feel
There stands a mountain
Will I find a way?
Why do I question
Coz I know, once a fighter, always a fighter I shall be

Originally posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 5:37 PM