"Comon Dhruv... get over it."

31st night was quite spectacular! I was in my room praying before
going to bed and within a few minutes was woken up by what sounded
to me like gun shots(these days I do not seem to see but tragedy),
it was fire crackers. Noisy and colorful. The already bright Mumbai
sky at midnight was even brighter and glittering. Cheeks glisten
when tears roll down. Times of India, that day had a headline on the
front page that went 'Celebration: a sweet sorrow' or something
something like that. It basically justified new year celebrations.
It talked about getting over what has happened in the past. Fuck,
how can something like the Tsunami be over and be regarded as past?
We are in the middle of the whole thing. 150,000 people dead and
counting!

A lot of my friends were partying that night. Nothing agianst that.
(This is not moral policing. Not a Shiv Sainik.) But most of them
were: "C'mon Dhruv, get over it". "Even we observed a minute's
silence at 12", said one. Anyway...

When Cars fly:
So today my mom and aunt returned from their tour of north India. We
were going to my aunt's, when we drove past slums of Kurla. The
slums are on the sides of an elevated road. There is no railing, or
side wall or any sort of protection! On the edge of the road were
children shitting (in the mornings, even adult men do it). If any
rich drunk lost control of his expensive SUV(remember Salman?), at
least a few people would die, not too many... Of course the drunk
will pay the families off. If a heavy duty lorry would, The driver
would lose his feet, because he couldn't apply the brakes; hands,
because he couldn't control the wheel; and eyes, because he couldn't
see(This is a true incident in Kolkata). Of course, the roads are so
beautiful that a tyre burst in the truck is inevitable. May be the
SUV had a trye burst though. Oh I saw a speeding red ferrari there.
It just needed wings.

We sure have a lot of respect for humanity and life! Shiv Sena of
course is one of the best example by wanting to drive out non
Maharashtrians out of Mumbai to decrease the congestion and
increasing the quality of life here!!!

"C'mon Dhruv, get over it."

Will we ever have another reason but Cricket that will unite the
nation? Another Sourav to lead? Another Irfan?

C'mon Dhruv, get over it...