Death....

Well what with the terrorist attack on Mumbai and the results of my end semester examination due, it seemed that the world couldn't get any bleaker. But you know what? Fate has a cruel way of dealing with stuff... Just a few hours ago I got the news that an old schoolmate of mine passed away yesterday. Apparently he had a tumor that spread to the lungs... It just feels weird you know.. someone you know is gone.. just like that... I mean what happened to all the advances in medical science ?? Why couldn't they stop the bloody thing from spreading ??
Anyway while I'm cribbing, can someone tell me why oh WHY do our security forces still have to go into battle wearing World War II memorabilia ?? I salute the brave people.. the real heroes of the nation... the NSG, the ATS and the police squads which took the terrorists head on while still wielding 303 rifles and bulletproof vests that date back 1965. We are not a small and impoverished country... and we can definitely arm our troops with the best weapons available. Where was our intelligence when this happened ? How could they not know any of this ? This attack was planned way in advance as is apparent in the way that it was orchestrated... Maybe a revamp is needed of the whole system. Hopefully this will open the eyes of the USA and they'll stop helping Pakistan the way they are doing now. Maybe the Pakistan Govt is not directly linked to these attacks but we all know that vested interests in the ISI, the Pakistani army and the government are responsible for the flourishing of the terrorists camps in that country. Something needs to be done.. and its us, the common people, who need to step up and make sure our voices are heard. Look at all the lives that were lost. Its horrendous how anyone can commit such a dastardly act.. and the worst part is that all the terrorists were aged 18-28 !!
Now the future is in our hands... the youth of this nation... but the most terrifying thing is that these terrorists are of our age too. Agreed that there is a lot of ignorance prevailing in the previous generations but then you would expect our generation to know better wouldn't you? Why cant these people see that no matter what you believe in, no matter why you are angry, no matter what you need to say... killing innocent people is just not the way to go about it.
Anyway
Signing off with a heavy heart

In Memory of all the lives lost in Mumbai
and in memory of Kavan...
May your souls rest in peace....

Rewind >> more than a year ago...

You know what... a few days ago I remembered that I used to have another blog... so I thought why not check it out, see what i'd written earlier... Well this is what I'd written just after my JEE results were out, school was over (OVER!!) , and I was really really confused about a lot of stuff... seems such a long time ago... [sigh]

well.. its off to college for me. im off to this place called kharagpur..which is really famous for two things.. firstly, the iit and secondly for having the longest platform in the world... in a nutshell, quite a boring place by the looks of it... but hey, who knows? i may come to like it.. havent got much choice though considering ill be spending the next four years of my life there....

anyways this is the time when all ur friends go off to different places and you sorta lose touch with most of them ... so there is this partying and hanging out together sort of thing... (which is why im spending most of my time in the club)  who knows what the future holds in store..?? a lot of people tell you a lot of different things about this graduation... guess what you can do is listen to them and then promptly forget most of it... some guys are like "why dont you go to bombay", while others are "kharagpur is the best".. so basically noones of much help.. uve got to form ur own opinions..

this is the time when you are most confused about what awaits you and what decisions you should take.... but the most amazing thing seems to be the way the past two years just flew past.. man...you blink and its over kinda thing. it seems like yesterday when i first went to my coaching class..not to mention school.. hmm a lot of memories persist..gets sorta nostalgic remembering those times..

there was this guy, who along with me bunked every single economics period we had in the eleventh.... we got caught a lot but always managed to wriggle out with a good excuse.. then there was the time when along with two other guys i was pulled up for bunking assembly.... and thats just standard 11..... then quizzes debates and other activities that always provide you the opportunity of not going to class.. god im gonna miss loyola...

u know.. our school gets a lot of adverse publicity but we've always managed to pull through such rough phases and emerge stronger than before and no matter how much people try to malign the reputation of loyola.. no one ever succeeds.. thats what the strength of loyola is... no matter what people say they still want their wards to study in loyola... the fact of the matter is that loyoleans always carve out a place for themselves wherever they go... u can always recognise the loyolean in the crowd... i dunno how that is but thats the way it is...

Well its been almost two more years and reading this stuff made me go back to those days again and you know, those WERE the times I'll never forget... everything we were up to in school... 

And then I realised, almost two years have past since I've come to this place, KGP!!! Well I guess thats how time flies... before you know it most of life has just passed you by...

And thats when I realised what the most important part of life is, the thing I've been doing all these years, the thing I plan to do for the forseeable future :: MAARO PEACE... :)