Life & Turbulence

It has been a long official outing. Work kept me occupied but to be fair, I kept myself occupied with work. The good thing about travelling is you come across various people. You get to know them, interact and who knows another good friend in the making. And especially when the place is N.Delhi, you can't complain. C'mon you are in the capital city ;City filled with lot of Dil's ;)

After all the work and fun, while I was returning back home by Spicejet Delhi-Bagdogra flight, everything was going well. I got the window seating. I just stared through the window and it was a splendid view as usual. Again the same feeling, let this flight fly and fly. I don't want to land . Let's keep on flying.

Lost in my thoughts, suddenly interrupted me in fact all of us..Please fasten your seat belts. The flight is about to face turbulence.Please donot panic. No sooner did she make this announcement, people started to panic :) It was like they were supposed to face Yama-The God of Death or like this was the end. I was hardly perturbed. After 10 min or so, heavy jolt and turbulence did greet us. A man in his 50's who was CEO of some big hotel group sitting beside me questioned - Mr.... what's wrong with you ? Are not you scared ? You can be hit badly. I remained silent. Then the turbulence started increasing. Women started screaming,Children crying. While some started praying God and offering prayers. With all this happening, I was laughing. That CEO could not control and said... look Gentlemen..you are weird or you have gone nuts. What makes you laugh? You never know this can be your last journey. You cannot trust these Indian planes. This can go down any moment.

I said, See its simple....I don't fear death. I have given up on everything. I have nothing to loose. Yes-a concern for my parents. It will hurt them badly. But this life and its turbulence, we are used to. Ironically, Death comes first to those who want to live badly and those who want to die , Death keeps them waiting. I recalled one of incidents, my elderly brother Sushil Rathi from Mumbai, He died of blood cancer. I recall the time I spent in Mumbai with him while I was kid. He was full of life. He wanted to live badly.I could see that in his eyes. I really loved him. One day I got the news that he passed away. So the rules of God are really harsh. To add some humor to cheer him, I said CEO sahab .... Aapke samne itna bada paapi bhetha hai....marenge nahi aap. And as I told this, the turbulence had come down - a sigh of relief for all.

Finally, the plane made a safe landing, as we could see the Himalayas.

U are the only one..

People ask me how are you so strong, unmoved and brave?
I say it is because of YOU...........
People ask me how do I move on?
I say it is your 'unscathed love' that inspires me.....
People ask me where do you get your strength?
I say through the lingering memories of you............
People ask me why do I still care for you?
I say it is because of the innocence that always shined through you...........
People ask me why can't I let you go off my mind?
...I say it is because you give me strength in my woeful days........
People ask me how do I continue on in life?
I say it is because of the determination that I saw running through you...........
People ask me where do I get the purity of my thoughts from?
I say it is because of the unblemished thoughtful love I saw in you..........
People ask me why do I still love you?
I say it is because 'YOU WEREN'T JUST ANOTHER ONE, YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE'...

and wish I had told this to you...........

Road not taken...

It’s Robert Frost again! This time the poem The Road not Taken which is basically about the decisions we take, the choices we make and their impact on our lives. And, no matter how hard you try to escape, you always have to make a choice!

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

A Inner view of Subash Ch.Bose..

All of us know the Netaji side of Subash Chandra Bose. Just sharing the inner person of Him. The romantic, deeply emotional side of Subhas Chandra Bose, and the kind of lyricism reflected in the letter that he was writing to the woman he loved, is a surprise for most of us.

It also underscored the personal sacrifice that both of them made because of Netaji's first love -- his country. He was constantly having to leave Emilie and go back to India in 1936 and then again in January 1938. And then, when you think of it, their daughter Anita was born on November 29, 1942 and on February 8 the next year, he was embarking on his submarine voyage.

After 1943, he never saw his wife or daughter again because he had gone to Southeast Asia to fight his final battle for India's freedom...............