Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Are Indians united?

here it begins....35 girls with one of our sir whom we called kabir khan and ourselves as chak de india!journey began at srisiim boading the colg bus then then landing at New Delhi statn to board k k express which goes via konkan railways going to udupi statn from where the journey was further to continue......i travel every year down south being an iyer to chennai or coimbatore where my maternal and paternal relatives stay!however the konkan route was never taken by us....n my father before i was leaving said it will be very nice journey going via mountains and tunnels.....a friend of mine had made sure that i have wada paav at bombay where i have never been too......as i have been only to northern(thanks to yearly school trips) and southern part of india!i was already scared of this journey as my supressed extrovert behaviour didnt know what to do!i was going to a place where i know everyone yet dont know any one!but as always my mom says take everything as a challenge and i had no choice but to go for this trip.......the first day in train was something different than i had expected ....the so called friends or the people whom i knew still unknown to me sat with in that 6 seater of sleeper!or rather i should thanks them to have accomadated me there.......the first day went off well.....came night of that day!wassem sir was in our compartment as all the 35 girls were seated in two adjacent compartments!sir was here with us at night and we 12 girls of our compartment sang at the pitch of our voices disturbing all our co passenger as there is no rule book to say you cant sing!we indians have right to express ourselves....and wassem sir had put loud music in the laptop unlike the expected behaviour of a proffessor who is supposed to stop students frm disturbing others......the discussions along started.....sir's poems were the best part where he had described about the some war on the name of religion, though i remeber the passion with which sir expressed dont remeber exactly the words!sir being a muslim had written which meant some what like" it hurts to see humans fighting in the name of religion" taking up some issue of either gujrat riots or something.......probably it rang in my mind the night but got vaporised later in music and other discusiions of we the students ranging from stragies and boy friends and girl friends and much more......! when a co passenger complained that we were disturbing we all became nervous and sat quietly staring at sir!meanwhile a young person sleeping in the birth opposite to 6 seater got up and sat who was quite till now!we all became further nervous that he too is going to shout and he said " chup kyun ho gaye, continue singing and doing masti!hum humare colg trips me itna karte the and i am missing that seeing you all!" we all clapped and started again!that night went off!next day was spent nothing but eating eating and eating and most of the people reading the book " 2 states" of chetan bhagat and all would come near me and say " seri seri" or " illai" and we would all laugh at that and continue doing what we actually were!and no doubt we were to feel sleepy at night but our destination was to get down at Udupi which was to arrive around 12.30 acoording to train scedule!we all decided to sleep till 11.30 then get up and pack up our luggages and went to bed at 10!at 11 a bhaiya who had been with us from colg came running and shouting sir is calling you all to the other compartment!we left few to take care of our luggages and went to other compartment!we could see all the girls or rather entire compartmnet was awake and standing and shouting!we all managed to get in the crwod and reach the rest students of our college!and got to know that few guys of that compartment were behaving indecently to our college girls as the guys were from some football or hockey team they were huge around 20 in num......so to scare them off and prove we are also many in num sir had called us!it actually did work....they were taken aback......and things setteld.....we all returned back to our compartment.....and then!comments which i got was" all south indians are like this" and people commenting were none other than those with whom i study! and the discussions continued agar yeh dilli ke pass hota to chodte nahi s**lon ko!n blah blah!i sat near window seat and had no option than to hear people cusring south indians!meanwhile sir came and glanced to them to all to keep their mouth shut!i dont know if he could realise that i felt bad or that he didnt want any argumensts between we the students on that isue!we spoke about religions the day before!we celebrate holi diwali together....n we often say i am Indian?are south indians and north indians diffrent?at sringeri where we had been staying my friends will often ask me " are you able to understand what they are speaking?" people at sringeri spoke kannada and i was tamilian!we indians dont know about states of india as the southern part have four with four different languages and so are their cultures diffent which is why we say unity in diversity in india!but i cant see unity....could observe only diversity!and unity in different parts of indian viz south north propbably have more which i am not aware of! and still we all claim " I AM PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN" .... what are we proud of ?northern india or southern india?eastren or western?and dream of india to become a developed nation!i still wonder are Indians united???????

2 comments:

  1. As far as ur blog is concerned, u wrote dis pretty much in emotions... Nd being a south indian myself is provoking me here after reading ur blog... Apart frm dis, u alwayz possessed gud wiriting skills nd u hv shown up here... Gud job!

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  2. Nice post :)

    Its true...Indians keep talking about aussies or british as racist but they ignore the fact that they themselves have a heart thats black to the core...

    Guys look down upon gals...white skin looks down upon dark...rich stomp the poor...

    Thats why I say, "I am proud to be an Indian but in Isolation!"

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