SCREAM....India's gone deaf!

Sitting 1000miles with ‚f***ed up internet connection hard been able to keep in touch with the happenings around the world. Especially what’s been happening in India? I had to read one of the forwards to realise the true pain of the situation going on with the students in India. I still haven’t got the whole essence of the problem. But I just can’t believe that our Government is so screwed up to lead our ‘future of the nations’ to this hell hole.
I am talking about the protests that are going around India because of the reservations system. I am thinking this started off with the AIIM’s (a Medical College in New Delhi). Unbelievable, how we are treated as animals and not as humans anymore. I guess the time to destroy oneself has finally come. We need no ‘Alien attack’ like the one in Independence Day. Has the world lost its sanity? I am really disappointed and equally frustrated coz sitting thousands of miles away all I can do is watch and grind my teeth. I think we are all more than comfortable here to even think about issues like this. Well I don’t blame myself but what could we do, if the ‘screwed up’ Government of ours is not going to wake up to all the protest and insanity going around. But I am really happy that we finally opened our eyes to the unjust going around. Students be it, I am glad that somebody stood up. To give you all better insight into what’s going on I am pasting a letter written by a junior doctor who’s around looking and protesting to what’s been happening. Just have the patience to read it and do something if you can. Let it spreading the news or writing a letter to the President in India. (Which I am writing for sure)… our voice must be heard although yelling from Germany or Timbuktu. Every tone that hits those ‘partially deaf ears’ of our Indian Government matters, so SCREAM.

Here’s the letter……


Friends,

Dear friends please spend some time to read this. U can make a
difference.

As u all guys know that there have been lot of protests going on
against the raise in reservations. All of us struggle for months and
years to make our dreams come true; No body in the government is bothered
about that. This new policy of govt will be a major road block in the
development of our nation and creation of a caste free society. I want to
share some developments occurring here with respect to this issue.

Abt 2 weeks back the Students Union ( SU ) of AIIMS ( UGs and
Interns ) started the protests. they held peaceful march. Their main demand
was to meet Honbl. Arjun Singh and to express their concern regarding
the hike in reservations. What they got in return. Water canons, tear
gas shells and Lathis. Some of the interns who were beaten were my
friends and I could see their injury marks. Worse, some were girls. Sad isn’t
it ? Well next few days due to their constant struggle they could get
to meet Dr Arjun Singh. No positive response was obtained. He however
promised that before sending the bill to cabinet, he would inform the SU.
The students continued to boycott their classes. Other medical colleges
of Delhi also joined. We Resident Doctors of AIIMS however were not
actively participating. We wore black badges and attended few rallies.

12 th May saw a new beginning. Our medical students were brutally
assaulted by Delhi police. Injured were brought to AIIMS. Fracture hand
bone, head injury, blunt trauma abdomen with intra-abdominal bleed; >
300 students were manhandled including girls, stuffed in buses and taken
to police station. I remember the dialogue from RDB. This incident will
prove to be a final nail in coffin for our Congress Govt. At around 3
pm the Resident Doctors Association ( RDA ) of AIIMS announced an
indefinite strike. All Junior Residents ( Acad or Non-acad ) & Senior
Residents boycotted. Protest rally was organized that day.

13 th may was the worst day in the history of our Indian
Independence and so called Democracy. Medical Students of Mumbai were beaten like
animals. Infect animals also are never treated like this. Every body
would have witness the brutality of the Mumbai Police.17 - 18 year old
medical students were beaten up. Future of our country treated like this?
And these are the same Police Men who come to our OPD and ask for
preferential treatment. Shame on them. And listen to what Bhujbal said on TV.
I thought we need a real RDB now. This incident triggered the
suppressed fire in each and every individual. We at AIIMS went on INDEFINITE
HUNGER STRIKE from 14 th morning joined by medical students from MAMC
Delhi, Lady Harding, RML Hosp, Rohtak Medical College . Slowly the fire
spread to different states of our country. You know what happened in Blore.
Calcutta, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Gujrat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala boiled
in protests. Students of Delhi University ( BSc BCom...) also joined
the strike

The hunger strike in AIIMS continues. More than 100 students and
residents are sitting in the heat since 14 th mornings just on plain
water. Believe me we slept in the open last night empty stomach. Its only
when rain started pouring we had go inside the auditorium and slept there.

The IMA has announced complete medical bandh today ( 15 th may ).
Doctors from all over Delhi have come to AIIMS and are holding protests.
IITs and IIMs have joined the strike. Even patients and their attendees
were of full support towards this cause. One man said," My father is
admitted in NS department and is fighting for his life and death, but I
declare that I have no objection with ur strike. I support ur movement
and the cause for which u re fighting. Our country needed this."

All of us know what is right and what is wrong. Having said that I
feel that each one of us should follow our conscience. I ve written this
message because I felt there are many of who might not be aware of the
exact situation. I request each one of u to please forward this to all
ur friends, Medicos or Non-medicos. Every common man needs to be aware
of the injustice and should be involved in this effort.

This Movement will be a revolution in our independent country and
will be the most significant event after the British Rule. It will be the
cause for the rewriting of Indian Constitution where just and
meritorious people are not singled out and put to taste the adversities and
someone else enjoys the benefit.

The government cannot hide its inadequacies in providing equal
opportunities to the under privileged in rural areas by increasing the
reservations. They have ruled the country for so many decades and if in this
time they are not able to provide equality in primary and secondary
education for Indian citizens they cannot mask their failure by
providing reservations at each and every level. It’s ridiculous. The whole issue
of reservations was a political gimmick of the present govt to garner
votes.

Its time that things are not taken for granted by any one. Let it be
a senior minister police or anyone else. Whole of our nation needs to
get aware of the amount of hard work and sacrifice we put to achieve our
dreams. We should not allow anyone to make a mockery of our struggle in
future.

Thank U Friends.

Dr Kiran,

Junior Resident,

Internal Medicine,

All India Institute Of Medical Sciences,

New Delhi

Grief overtakes beauty

Was in Hamburg last week for a week and what an awesome breath taking place. I loved the city so much. The beauty of hamburg just seemed to vanish where a church reminded me of the aweful things that took place there during the second world war. This was the place where around 45,000 people apparently died in Nazi's camps. Just posting in the picture of something that touched me. It was carved on the foot of a man statue who was sitting in looking very very sad. Just enough of the misery and wrath that the world puts us through.

Big, booty and the beautiful...who the hell said that?!?

It’s me again what did you expect? Angelina Jolie(satisfy yourself with the picture), wait for the ladies ‘Johnny Depp’ not a bad idea isn’t it. Hmm…this makes me question again as always. I look at the one healthy low calorie apple on my table and also look at the juicy candy bar lying exactly 10 cm away from it. The juicy candy satisfies the craving of the tongue, the senses but adds another inch to my waist, which I happened to reduce by stretching my body into impossible knots with the help of yoga. (I just wish here that the ‘man in the box’ doesn’t pop up and deny this)….for the people scratching their scalps out, I say you can stop, it’s referred to a friend of mine. Well back to the point, now the innocent apple ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’, heard of that right. Well it would make my body healthier but it would taste like crap thank you very much. So I go for the temporary pleasure and choose the candy. Well, I do say out loud to myself ‘who gives a crap to my curves?’ but my mind is shouting out totally something else. Lets see, for example we immediately tend to like someone who looks close to Brad Pitt the mister perfect smile, body and smell but when it comes to a short, fat man with geeky glasses we always give it a second thought. It doesn’t actually matter if the mister perfect is crap. We kinda force ourselves to like him although he might be a pig. For our geeky man we can only say that take a walk. Sure he would have the best of humour and thoughts to stimulate your mind but no….our bodily cravings are always much more important. We Homo sapiens settle fro temporary pleasure, yeah one way I agree why not who’s sure of tomorrow, today? With movies like ‘Day after tomorrow’, scare the crap out of people. Well, coming back to the point now, your looks and bodily appearance plays such a important role today. No wonder we spend more that 30€ per month on shopping only for clothes. Not to forget the hair cuts, colouring, fitness centre, Botox treatment and what not, thanks to people like us all possible beauty related industry is cashing in. Did you know that if you’re cute enough, you can end up with your dream job? Just have a nice arse and the young geeky store clerk will give you ‘unknown super discounts’. Nice life isn’t it, and all this for what my skin looks better than the others. The point is that "Have we lost ourselves so much in this materialistic world that thoughts and idea don’t stimulate us no more but great arse does"?. Yes!it is indeed a difficult situation going up to a stranger and talking about topics that might stimulate your minds. You might either get easily ignored or that person might go off to the toilet never to come back to your stimulation saga or you might actually end being lucky and find someone who you really connect with. We have always known the fact that ‘beauty is only skin deep’ then why do we always quote the skin with layers to make it prettier? Probably is very easy to say but I am sure I would wake up tomorrow morning and coat my skin as well with some cream. Easy to write in but practicality is indeed hard, c’mon me a homo sapien as well. If you’re the one now nodding your head and saying no way I don’t give a damn to looks, I am sure a part of you which bought you to read this article till here was the picture to start with. See, we are unconsciously built into this world around with the notion that ‘Naomi Campbell, Heidi Clum, Josh Hartnett, Will Smith are the definitions of beauty. What if our earlier geeky man was crowned the ‘sexiest man alive’ and we would have been bought in a society where everyone thought, fat arse, bald head and huge nose was sexy. When you think about it, we never inquired ourselves what beauty actually is but we grew up on the preconceived notion on it. This is probably one of the topics where our opinions didn’t matter at all, one day somebody told us ‘hey boy this is what beauty is about’ and we simply agreed.
Hmm…like Murphy said ‘beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes to the bones’. Makes sense, isn’t it? Well does this mean we are supposed to quit flirting with the ‘gorgeous Spanish hunks’, coz they are well..."not beautiful", cant say that since it’s a preconceived notion but whatever they are should we stop? No of course not!!! Well as I always say my articles are always foods for the thought. Just think about it and party on.
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is still a big mystery
Today is all we have, so rock it!

How screwed up are we?

Heard of something called "mood swings"....that’s happening quiet a lot to me now a days. Did you ever sit and wonder how smallest things can influence your mind? However hard you try to keep it under control like a tamed puppy but it still wanders off and sets its own rules.

Meditation is actually the daily part of my routine and I take time out to sit down for 10 minutes and ask myself “how are you today?” Before I even complete that question, the mind wonders off to thinking about what’s happening this weekend? or did I finish my Protocol? It is indeed saddening that we have lost in touch with ourselves. We have lost the patience we had. Believe me, we had all the patience in the world, the problem is we don’t remember it anymore.
The transport system here in Germany is indeed the best. When I say best I mean excellent. We have buses coming at 12:59 or 22:14. Every minute counts here. Today morning the bus came in at 14:00 instead of 13:57. The first reactions around at 13:58 looking at the watch for 5 times in the last 10 seconds, half a minute later walking around showing impatience, then at 13:59 start bitching about the system. It wasn’t any German but the reactions coming out were from me. I guess I have the guts at least to admit this fact, so now don’t think of me as some over pricey chick. Well, i still remember my dad used to refuse to send me to college with the car or with my driver. I had to take the bus like everybody else. There I waited for the bus for nearly half an hour or sometimes even more. I had no complains then. Life was indeed simpler in ways undefined. I did indeed complain but who gives a damn. I could never change the whole system with my two tiny hands. Interesting was to know that then I had the patience to with stand the pressure. But now not only me but everybody’s loosing it. Tell me how many times you sit in front of your laptop and open a website and that pages opens up after say 3minutes. Oh god…have you sat beside people who are waiting for that page to open up in 3 minutes. 3minutes now a day looks like 3 hours. We have just lost being patient and being satisfied with what we have. Very sad indeed but we always have something or the other to do, somewhere to run, some bus to catch. Running, running but for what? Now this is indeed a very philosophical question. Lemme not get into this now.

Last week my friend asked me what plans I had for the weekend. I said nothing. All of a sudden he felt sorry for me. Strangely, coz I had nothing to do, when he would be somewhere in a dumpster or with his head in the toilet totally wasted. Now people somehow call that life. I have nothing against it, I do party way too much sometimes but I always sit down and draw my line. At least I sit down to draw something; most of us don’t even have the time to do that. Seems like we have lost the true understanding of just ‘being with oneself’. Remember the last time you just went on a walk just by yourself. Without any iPOD, friends or a dog. I am sure you would laugh at me and ask why would anyone do that? In someway we all have a fear of getting lost on our own and don’t want to exihibit to the world. Lost in this messed up world, where simplicity has lost its appeal. So we always hold on to something, just to stay clear that we are alright and normal. If u just wonder around and smile at the trees changing colours at this time of the year, people might turn around and say ‘awwwww’!!! Define that ‘awww’ the way you want to. I know my definition already. Now a days it’s totally normal to be selfish, kill someone and say sorry, back stab your best friend and say you actually didn’t mean it that way. The more the impatient we get, the more we tend to walk into this messed up world, the further we walk on… more we realise ‘how fucked up, it is?’ but probably we would be sooo lost then that we cant find our way back.
I am sad that we are running so fast and determined that we are all missing out on the small diamonds on the way. Time for oneself is today some unknown ‘x’ to the power ‘y’ factor. After running all this way and at some point we stop, right!! But do we realise that we forgot to pick those ‘precious stones’ on the way. Just coz we were chasing some truck loaded with just STONES!!!