Mumbai n Marathi

An old article..

https://m.rediff.com/news/2008/aug/28sai.htm

But it stands true today as well.
When some of my very good friends blame mumbai for lobbying should actually ask the marathi people living there how the real lobbying has affected them.
Non marathi lobby is a big truth that is plainly denied yet has been experienced by many of us.
Me and my family were not real mumbai kar/thanekar/ kalyankar. We  belonged to different parts of maharashtra yet mumbai made us get dissolved in it easily. We got educated in marathi medium yet we take a proud in telling that marathi and english goes very well together for us. Hats off to the schools and our teachers.

Well, coming to the actual point. It is true that people could easily live here without speaking or blowing a word if Marathi. Unlike other parts of maharashtra like pune kolhapur , mumbai welcomes all other languages. In fact more. It is so much and such true thay even we few  marathi friends also used to speak in Hindi and rarely used marathi during conversation.

And I realize now we were not allowed then by our friends to speak in marathi in the group and even today when we are residing in different states and when we rarely happen to meet any other marathi manus.. we are strictly told not to be using Marathi.

Thay was about the language.

And about lobbying

Me, my family members and many other marathi people have often become the victims of non marathi lobbying during college admissions and all. Thankfully schools were marathi only so we thrived there.. but during college days, even after having much better percentage and score getting admissions used to become a difficult task.
Moreover the management quota was never there for marathis.
Even at college libraries we used to take a help of our non marathi friend to get access to reference  books that they easily had access to.
Still we never spoke up...Because it hardly mattered for us. We were happy not speaking marathi..And none of us ever complained.

But when few of us  speak about "injustice" that happens to non marathi people in Mumbai... I have to remember all that stuff thay we had to go through yet never complained about or never gave it so much importance.

We today know only something that happens in past few years. When some political parties took extreme steps to revive "marathism". Which I had never supported.
Something that is not good.. is never good..
It was just a political thing, it was just a political.issue. Which is only remembered now.
But please know that .. that's not mumbai ...Mumbai never snatched or robbed you off your language. If you read  through this article you will probably understand :)

काश मैं एक कविता होती

कुछ देर तो तेरी सोंच में होती

सोच से अल्फाज़ में उतर जाती

और फिर कागज़ पे बिखर जाती

कितनी भी कविताएं लिख लेते तुम

पर हर उस कविता की तरह मैं भी तुम्हारी अपनी होती।

Upgrading a life, downgrading a phone?

Upgrading a life , do we need to downgrade our phones for that?

Its been last 3 months I am thinking of doing it , haven't done it so far, so thought to pen it first. 

How a phone and our life is connected? 

Does it make a difference? Well, yes, that green light on my phone attracts me towards it, 

my hands involuntarily draw the pattern and unlock my phone.. Just to see if I had notifications. 

I have kindle app, exercising app, water my body app, story app a movie app, but what I use the most is my facebook app, I am not whatsapp savvy though.. I atleast check my phone thrice in an hour   And gradually I think this is gonna be my addiction, thus I am thinking to downgrade my phone.. A dumb phone would be just fine!! :D 

Well but how would this upgrade my life .. 

Intentional Harm!

''I am Sorry, It just happened'' -Or common excuse on mistakes, isn't it? Yes there are things , which sometimes just happen , and we do not have control over it . Yesterday  my 3 year old went to play in a  backyard , and it started raining and she got drenched. She returned all wet. She thought she might get scolded, she explained, mumma , is just happened. And yes that's true, when things just happen , those are product of circumstances and you may not have control over them.But then there are things which we often term as 'Just happened' but they do not, they happened because you let them Happen!! Such things are planned or programmed. Things are planned when you have planned a date, an appointment, or a vacation. You have arranged dates for the same, decided the venue, such things cant be put in 'Happened' category. These are things you Let them happen, because you did them, and you wanted to do them.  Such things are not product of circumstances but are products of choice. If someone is doing something with the known outcome and if it is not in favor of others or in favor of the society is NOT JUSTFIED!! Its like the  well educated man turns a terrorist , plans all the bomb blasts and seeks the mercy. The planned things are worse as they are done with intentions and are purely against humanity. And such things do not deserve a mercy. I think I  am able to get that message correctly. It was just an example. This can happen to us at a personal level too  Our near and dear ones, friends, office mates  can do this to us. They might do something which is not in favor of our relationship with them, as a relative, as a friend, as a colleague or an employee, but if they plan all these things to happen, it means they always wanted to do it , whether those things are not in your favor, and might use the excuse 'it happened'.. I think we should not fall prey to their tactics. This way they go on , carrying out what they want , and make themselves feel so helpless, that we tend to forgive them  for the things those shouldn't have happened.  It's not just they, sometimes even we do this to our near dear ones. Point is , try to see the difference.. People deliberately do the things and pretend as they were not in their control, we have to be aware of such people, they are the real vampires, emotional vampires. Our society, our lives should be free of such anti-humanity elements, such emotional vampires!!! We should be aware to understand the intentions of people around us, things happening to us , were they really brought by circumstances or intentionally done. If we are good at analysing it , we can keep such toxic people out of our lives.

Lesson..

Do Not Flow With The Wind..
You Will Be Far From The Source ..
But Nowhere..

Don't even stick to your source, 
upgrade, explore.
But with a path , that has a direction..
And the voluntary force that comes within
that drives you.

Then don''t bother how far you have gone..

You are still connected to your source 
as you have direction in your life, a plan and a map to direct you ..

So follow that .. And you will achieve for sure ...
A Lesson Learned from a Life!! :)

When mind out there goes frenzyAnd agitation is amplifiedA cop in herself harasses the little oneUntil the rage is pacified ....

पावसाळा आणि आई

पहिला पाऊस पडला नं , की आईची खूप आठवण येते. काय बरं करत असेल ती. आधी पाऊस सुरु झाला कि आईच्या चिंतेची सुरुवात व्हायची. आमचे Rain Coats तयार करणं, पुस्तके भिजू नयेत म्हणूण दफ्तराला छानपैकी cover करणं, शाळेतून घरी आल्यावर पटकन towel ने डोकं पूसणं. मला पावसाळ्यात शिरा आवडायचा, तो करून खाऊ घालणं. आता काय बर करत असेल ती?. आमचे तर नविन पावसाळे सुरु झाले, पण तीच्या साठी तर तो तोच पावसाळा, तीच दारं , त्याच खिडक्या, आणि तीच balcony, फरक एवढाचं कि पाऊस बघत असताना ती तिथे आता एकटी उभी रहात असेल.....