CAR fight

Before 3 years I was an L board struggling to drive. Today- thanks to my home which is in the outskirts of the city- I had to drive 30-40 per day in heavy traffic which substantially improved my driving skills. Having had to spend atleast 2 hours on road every day, I slowly sensed the silent conversation going on between vehicle and people on road. It might be just my imagination or feeling, but it keeps me entertained all through my long driving hours! There’re emotions involved – mocking, friendliness, anger, sadness, joy… a little bit of everything.And below, is the list of things I/my car feel(s) almost every day!

-Frustrated when FAST TRACK call taxis drive either too slow [without making for you as well] or too rash

-Mockery when the vehicle you overtook a long time back stands next to you when you get stuck in a signal [especially when you happen to be the last car/vehicle the traffic police stops at the signal]

-Anger when bigger cars try to overtake you from left and get aggressively close to intimidate you into making way[and…automatically makes me think that they feel its easy to sidetrack a woman driver- in truth they may not have even looked inside the car to see who’s driving, but who cares? that’s the exact thought I get in my head]

-Anger when a vehicle right behind you/ in front of youuses high beam even in well-lit roads [don’t they know the side mirrors and rear view mirrors reflect these lights and that they can safely turn off these high beams when their vehicle stands in a traffic jam??!]

-Irritation when a vehicle honks from behind during red signal and when the scowls at you for not violating the signal

-Satisfaction & pride when you don’t budge for such honks and stand in the signal, making other cars & vehicles which otheriwse might have skipped the signal, to stop as well.

-Mischievous happiness when a vehicle which had tried to overtake you for a long time, crosses you when you deliberately slowed down the vehicle- well, you travel by that road everyday and know that there’s a big pit on the right-hee hee! and he/she overtook you without even realising that’s why you slowed down! 😀

-Sad glances at eachother when all vehicles get trapped in traffic jam and your foot craves for a break [how long more should I brake-clutch-accelerate??!]

-Fight when racing for the same parking lot

-Happy when you make way for ambulance or other vehicles which have been trying to overtake without irritating honks

-Wonder when you see bikes & cars trying to tail behind an ambulance!!! – is it becuase they could get through the traffic easily? They should be called the AMBULANCE CHASERS

-Joy when you all get to drive in harmony on a free road and in good weather!

Symptoms anyone?

I have often wondered if I am the only personon earth who classifies certain things as symptoms [don’t ask me what these symptoms are for, I myself don’t know] and feel like am SUFFERING from them…Thats when I decided to put them down  on my blog and check if anyone feels likewise…

Even my car is weird!

I don’t like to call myself a superstitious person yet at times I believe in luck when I choose to.  Recently I gave my car for a regular service and was glad to receive it after couple of days smelling fresh!

Next day… oops! Was it a crack i see on my car’s front glass? How did it happen? I have no clue…

Marriage —— A tug of war

Don’t let my title fool you. I am not going to profess how terrible a marriage can be and lament on the fights between husband and wife. I did call it a tug of war- but that which helps sustain the married life.

Tara Books- People behind this name

I am one such a silly person who writes but forgets to put it up on a blog. This is one such an article I wrote in June,2009 when I joined Tara Books. 🙂 It has been a year since and I have added my view as on date as well.

It has been two months exactly since I nudged my way into the small team of Tara Books. I’m a talkative brat who writes just like she talks… I work 3 days a week at Tara and am in charge of book advocacy- keeping in direct contact with our customers.

I thought it’d be good to write about my colleagues- the way I see them as of today!

Is my peacock gond?

Just had to try imitating gond when I am surrounded by such great gond artworks at my work place [Tara Books]

P.S. It is just a doodle…  Hence I’d like to request art lovers not to get agitated! 🙂

Long live the characters!

Being so interested in other person’s life may not sound morally correct! But then when it comes to books, I have often experienced this inquisitiveness. It is like as though I have disoriented myself from this part of the world I’m living in and watching the characters live out their life by being there right next to them yet invisible.

Discrimination & Reading Habit!

When we hear the words “reading habit” most of them disengage themselves thinking that it is something they don’t have. This is because often “reading” has been connected to non-fiction that has won numerous awards or thick novels written by famous authors.

All that she did was to be born a woman

What should a woman do when she is raped?
Answer:
1. She has to scream.
2. Scratch the rapist’s face, struggle and try to escape.
3. Should pledge her life and fight even when he points a gun.
4. When he has finished rampaging her body, she should go to a cliff top to die as she has lost her modesty and virginity, which she has preserved only for her husband.
[or]
5. Go to police, file a complaint, take the culprit to court and fight for justice.

Traffic Rules – Jammed!

Road is nothing but a simile to life. In both, the powerful dominate the weak and rules are crushed by the former. Bribes and impunity may be looked at as the prime factors corrupting the system. But when looked beyond, it would be revealed that the roots are even deeper. It is the system itself which has to be checked.