Existential Absurd

The broken heart and the broken watch the broken souls in a swimming pool swimming round and round with the brain of tools and the clock is stuck at 12 o'clock and I am having a mental block The rusted heart and the rusted watch the black becomes grey of the watch and cigarettes and matches with the loving doll the shirts and pants and shoes and all the belts and books and the shopping malls Gifts and dates and the blue nights of the hall the trips and tours and the bike rides in rains the pain and pains and pain and pains What have I become, my sweetest friend and you could have it all, my best friend my empire of dirt; till the end

*This is just an informative post. Two different views are compiled and no opinion whatsoever is given.* Let us get straight to the facts (sorry for not having many figures, but I do believe in the saying "statistics don't bleed") which have been causing a lot of debate over the past one month -  1. GDP growth rate of India for the Jan-March quarter 2016 - 7.9% 2. GDP growth rate of India for 2015-16 - 7.6% 3. Export growth for 2015-16 - (15.8)%  3. WPI has been negative for the past 17 months. More than 50% of the items in the WPI basket have seen a steady decline for that period. Mostly it is driven by imports (crude and steel) 4. Discrepancy in the GDP  - 1 lakh 40 thousand crore. An exponential 300% growth of 1 lakh 13 thousand crore INR 5. Employment is down and agricultural wages have been falling Analysts PoV: Almost every analyst who has been working on the Indian sector has criticised the GDP growth numbers. The number crunching tells us t...

Even the Leave campaign supporters woke up to the shock that they had won. Brexit was finally here. It was so crude that the National Democratic Party of Britain had to admit the fact, within hours, that the 350m Pound it had promised to bring back into the National Health System was a lie. Another point they admitted was that migration would not be stopped. The remain campaign also had their fair share of lies. But sadly, they did not get a chance to admit them. But everyone loves a big fat lie. It is so juicy and unmistakably truthless that you have to believe the sheer (dis)honesty it is mentioned with. The Brexit campaign was a social experiment of lying and an opportunity to create phantom stories, to be tested in this 24x7 technology and media world. The result? No matter how much free information you have, nobody questions a lie if told with utter confidence. Left and the Right can be ideologically divided, but in this campaign they came together, albeit with different rea...

They bought him one hot afternoon. July 2010 He wasn't supposed to be bought. Thrice already our previous parrots had died. Sometimes by overeating. Sometimes by fighting with one another ( we bought two once, kept them in the same cage). My parents tell me that they had taken the car ahead of the street side vendor, who had caged plenty of parrots in ridiculously small cages. Apart from one. He was small, sitting on the shoulder of the vendor. So small that he looked a part of his abnormal shoulders. It was my mom, who asked to turn back the car and have a look at this one. The caged parrots were adults. Red colors around their neck, beaks perfectly formed and a long feather-ful tail. The free bird was small, round, with a deformed tail and almost no eyes. My parents asked what was the price of that one. 150 Rs for that one and 100 rs for the caged ones except the cage. You might think that I was a stupid deal, but in all reality, it was a perfect deal. The parrot sitting ...

aaj itni bhi mayassar nahi maikhane main.. jitni hum chodh diya karte they paimane main.. aaj itni bhi haisiyat nahi mere armaano main.. jitni log bata diya karte they humare farmano main.. aaj itna bhi ishq nahi meri rooh main.. jitna hum baant diya karte the laacharo main.. yuhn to hai ghum bohot dil ke kisi kone main.. par aaj itni muskaan hai mere chehre pe.. jitni muskurahat hume milti thi aawaron se.. aaj itne bhi musalsal nahi tapish in shamaon main.. jitne ye ashq hai meri aakhon main..

And I look and look but find nothing, It's like staring into a clear blue sky, You see the vast indefinite space, Wonder what's behind that, Wonder if it is just a veil hiding some secrets behind, You wait and wait for the shield to lift, But it's just a clear blue sky. But you keep looking up above the world so high , Hold her hands and try to fly, The grass is green below, and slippers by the side, Feel the breeze and the Chords hit the tide, Lie till the sun sets down, and the stars occupy, It's not just a clear blue sky. -SJ

Lists have always fascinated me. They provide clear rankings and represent a strong opinion. Any list at a particular time gives a clear idea on what the people are thinking. And they have been around for years now. My Facebook feed is filled up with top 10s, top 15s of random things.  Lists also are also a good source of data analysis. If you can compare it over the years, it tells the rate of change. One fine day, a gentleman came and talked about a few companies about which no one had heard of. Those companies were once in the top 500 Forbes list. He talked about change and how you have to keep growing and blah blah blah.  Sitting there, as usually is the case, I was lost in my own  fantasy  world.  But the important point was not missed. I wanted to get a better understanding about comparison of films. Comparison of films is very often done by critics. One can spot a lot of Reddit or Quora posts about DC vs Marvel or even LOTR vs HP. But ...

Pre Budget commentary FY 2016-2017 This article was a part of an article writing competition at my college. It lost out on the number of likes on facebook, but came 2nd in comments from judges. Current Fiscal Health of India India’s public debt to GDP ratio in FY2015 was at 67%. It is the highest amongst the developing economies of the world. The figure is still away from a sustainable level so as to make available precious public resources for developmental purposes. India’s fiscal deficit is also on a downward trend, but is expected to miss the target of FY2015 of 3.9% of the GDP With the tax revenue target of Rs 14.49 lakh crore likely to me met and 2.21 lakh crore received in the form of non tax revenue (90% of the target), India is expected to meet the overall revenue targets for the previous budget. (Source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com ), www.financialexpress.com ) Failure/...

If you have been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you are really lucky. If not, and you follow mass media (digital, print and social) like myself, you must have formed some opinion regarding the current affairs in polity, economics or entertainment. Taking a stand is always associated with un-quantifiable and absurd virtues like courage, strong leadership and some other skills which you think can help you clear an interview. But when it comes to media today, rather than being opinionated, one should question the veracity of what is being shown. This post, focuses on the news provided by the digital media; Basically just TV plus the numerous videos of the TV shows on social media. At this point, it is important for the reader to understand Plato's Allegory of the cave . But before that, some important points to remember about Plato are that: 1. His ideas pertain 2400 years before this post. 2. He lived in a society where oligarchy and democracy were fighting for ...

Some tiny tales I had written. 1. He knew how to enter. To break the circles from the left.     He battled hard. None a match.     But how to get out?     His father had left before telling the exit strategy.    Context: Abhimanyu and the Chakrayuvh 2. 'Hang him', the crowd shouted as the mother cried.      The boy stood motionless.      Hardly they realized that the boy went into prison, had died a long way back        Context: Juvenile imprisonment 3.He: I want to get back with my ex    He cried a lot. He told her that the pain of separation was too much.    Little did he know about the graver pain in the room.    The pain of your love crying for someone else on your shoulder.    Context: 4. The didn't know how to say what they felt.      They were from different nations.      Neither did their eyes speak, nor...