Greetings!
Diwali is here again.. The festival of lights and sounds and more illuminating and blinding lights and more deafening and clamourous sounds.. Diwali is celebrated on the momentous occasion of the return of Lord Ram back to Ayodhya. That was when people of Ayodhya lit lamps to welcome him back home... One wonders who got the nasty idea of bursting crackers as part of celebrations, but that tradition seems to have been followed till date.. Lord Ram's credibility which is clouded and under scrutiny thanks to the Government dint seem to hamper the Diwali celebrations.. The government says that Lord Ram does not exist or he is a drunkard and many more.. but the government says many things..
Whenever asked about how one celebrated diwali, yours truly fabricates a ready-made reply.. 'I dont really appreciate the idea of bursting crackers and adding to the alarming levels of noise pollution. I simply dont encourage such childish ways of celebrations!!' leaving an impression of an environmentalist or something close to that, but the concealed truth always remains that one has never been in good terms with the crackers or rather say is a little frightened about them!!
One is wary of only the red coloured loose crackers which are wild, reckless and dont have a time sense to burst unlike the other bigger and better versions which tend to pop out in a timely and orderly fashion albeit a thunderous noise renting the air.
Rockets are the most graceful among the firecrackers as they get air borne and paint the moonless night sky with dazzling display of colours. But a slight human fallacy could even bring these graceful ones to shame. There was an instance when one misfired a rocket and it went chasing one's brave and ferocious dog all over the house and straight into its kennel shutting the poor thing inside for two days..
Diwali is the most awaited festival of the year and its fun with brilliantly illuminating diyas, sparkling fireworks, showering flower pots and sparkles, the bombs are rather deafening (part social concern and part fear) and can be downplayed. Let this diwali bring happiness and prosperity to you and your family and everything that is generally said in greeting cards, mails, notice boards..
Happy and a Safe Diwali..!!

Greetings
The festival season is round the corner, compatriots especially the married ones are out for vacations, bachelors partying every night and of all this when one encounters a monday morning, the last place one would wish to be is amidst the computer monitors burping out a beep sound now and often and the chilling spikes of the office AC, which is cooler in the winter and hot in summer (thank God it doesnt drip during the rains!!) Vis-a-vis the weather.. But as fate goes yours truly was sitting right there staring at the monitor wondering why is that we dont have an earth quake or a bomb threat and told to get out of the office or atleast an alien invasion in hyderabad city and suddenly an idea clicks followed by the beep sound giving it a shot of affirmation..

Why not go for the movie Transformers playing on the big screen in prasads!! The show is at 2:15, and one can be back by 5:30 and feel like one has never been away... And by 6, the 9 to 6 working routine is complete and one can call it a day!! How good it would be if we had time system like that of the schools. A serious issue is tackled with the onsite managers in a meeting...
'this is a high prority call we cannot meet the deadlines with the current estimate and effort, we need to put in more effort and....'
tringggggggggg
people start packing the laptops and everyone's running, some towards the lift some taking the stairs.. not a speck of life is visible in the work premises
tringgggggggg
The entire building is devoid of any breathing life, the lights are switched off and the security guard does a final check up to shoo away those lousy souls who do not wish to go home and are hiding beneath the cubicles.. Wish we had something like this.... but that could also bring a morning bell after which we get to see the latecomers kneeling infront of the reception and one would often end up being a part of the kneeling practice than mere standing witness... Everything comes in a package, good along with bad...
The package theory had more to say in the theatre when good was happening on the big screen and the bad was lingering next to one in the form of a bickering couple. The made-for-each-other couple pointing the index fingers at one another and cussing a stream of 'gammunundu's (ironically a telengana telugu word to shut up) and one only kept guessing why they were here?
Was it like 'lets get two tickets for transformers on the big screen and quarrel' or 'i wanted to go somewhere and you brought me here to this sick movie'
One feigned a look of disgust and immediately felt like trash for the feeble attempt in vain thereby seeking the attention of the pointed index fingers and scornful faces... One finally had to remain contended with the nonchalant bickering and give up the painstaking attempt to concentrate on the movie and started wondering about life...
Blessed are those who have a clear mandate about what they want in life and go all out chasing it!! And there are lot others who just keep moving about in life, who are here because they dint fit somewhere else, who are chosen but not choose to, who are inspired but seldom prosper, who live their lives the way its always lived... Chasing for jobs one or the other doesnt matter if not foreign education and dollar dreams if not management education and plenty of money and so on so forth... Success stories are like icebergs, we only know the best and visible part of it unaware of the zillion failures crushed and trampled beneath.. And then the cube is destroyed.. Goodness triumphs and once again the earth is saved... It only happens in movies.. The couple might need more tickets to continue.. or may be they have it .. Life is still moving on..!!