and the journey never ends...

                Standing in the middle of the Churchgate station of Platform No-3 accompanied by maternal uncle, I saw a girl standing between many men. Virar bound 6:22 PM local was about to arrive and I was staring her with a surprise. Obviously, I was thinking, “What is she doing?” As soon as the ladies compartment approached her, she jumps into it and catches a window seat. My mouth was opened and I was in no mood to express. This is the life of the busiest cities of the world, Mumbai. I dedicate this to the hard working women of Mumbai and I believe many of them are going through this condition. Salute to their strength and their desire to achieve dreams sacrificing themselves.

“My life starts before the sun rises and I wake up with a smile,

Mischievous cry of my baby refreshes my early morning,

I take it in my arms and kiss it with love,

My mom is truly a genius, who cares it well in my absence,

Even when I am not home,

She handles it very well,

I prepare myself to leave the home for office,

But I make sure everything is completed,

I have prepared my Tiffin,

Completed the worship,

 Took my cell phone,

 And took the charger,

Now making sure whether something is not missed…

Oh yes! I forgot the precious thing,

Bless of my day, the kiss from my beloved husband.

It gives me all day long energy,

So I never go down with a worry,

Running down to the auto stand,

I can see the long queue,

Moms are standing with children,

They are well prepared for school,

Old man waiting for his turn,

Hoping to get in earlier,

But possibility is pretty less,

When no single auto has been left,

It takes long time to reach station,

But I always feel happy with the situation,

At least I have won the first battle,

And I am ready for the next battle,

The local I catch has been missed,

Now I cannot board the next,

They will have occupied doors,

This won’t make me enter on its floor,

But I have to get in somehow,

Because I have to reach office on time anyhow,

Pushing, pushing & pushing the ladies,

I have got space enough for standing.

As the platforms arrived,

I was hardly being survived,

Few were getting down,

Many were coming inside

In a crowd I have been a paste,

I didn’t realize even when Dharavi came,

My perfumed clothes are stinking,

Towards the office I am running

Hard times of office make me forget my social life,

I forget I am neither a mother nor a loyal wife…

Like an executive I execute my work,

Always try to leave on time from work,

As soon as I prepare to leave,

My boss calls me and demand to sit,

So I leave my office quite late,

Again I run to catch the train.

No wonder Mumbai’s lifeline has been increased,

But other side, number of people has also increased.

I have to stand on the foot boards near the doors,

So that on my destination, I can easily get down & worry no more,

Here by struggling I get down to my destination,

Win the second last battle pretty easily without tension,

The biggest battle is yet to come,

As queue for auto is still to come,

There is no pity shown by auto men,

No wonder you’re pregnant or a handicapped,

I have my toughest times during the menstrual,

Waiting for an auto becomes even more dangerous.

A driver becomes a Godman when he agrees to come,

After begging for mercy, he allows me to come.

I reach home with a smile,

Thinking of my little angel in my mind,

The journey is not ended yet,

The domestic work is waiting for us,

From the executive I turn myself into a housewife,

Perform my duties and sit back for dinner on time.

It becomes the most peaceful moment of my day,

Being together, we spend the best time of my day.

My all day pain has been disappeared,

And I am ready to have sleep without any fear,

I know the next day is waiting,

I will be again preparing,

My life will start before the sun will rise,

And I will be waking up with a smile.

Here, when woman dreams, she dies... RIP Preeti.

               

Preeti Rathi died on June 1

 With lots of dreams, 24 year old medical student Preeti Rathi, a Delhite came to Mumbai in May 2013. She was very happy as she was selected in Colaba based NAVY Hospital where she was about to join the next day. No wonder that the dream city Mumbai has fulfilled Preeti’s dream to be a doctor. But her fate was different; Mumbai was standing with a surprise for her. Preeti was accompanied by her parents in Bandra bound train. Preeti’s parents alighted first. She was last to alight the train when it was in Bandra. Something happened in a blink of an eye and an unknown man covering his face with handkerchief tapped her. As soon as she looked back, the boy threw acid on her. Preeti’s entire face burnt including the chest. Preeti was a medical student and such strong woman. Like the Delhi medical student, Preeti showed recovery and doctors believed she could recover. As usual the bulletins were, “Stable yet critical”

                On June 1^st, Preeti succumbed to multiple organ failure in Bombay Hospital and her dreams died with her. So, its India and no wonder we lost another gem of our country. Another bright girl died. You can see the incident was happened in May 2013, it’s almost November end. The Railway Police is failed to nab the murderer. The Bombay High Court has finally transferred the case to the Crime Branch of India which has many facilities and latest equipments. The Railway police have confirmed that the man who threw acid on her, immediately caught the Jammu bound Swaraj Express which was standing on the adjoining platform and departed within 90 seconds after the incident. The railway police trace more than 60000 calls made between Mumbai and Surat but could not trace the criminal. Moreover, they arrested three people after the attack but they all were left innocent as nothing was showing that they were criminals who attacked Preeti Rathi.

               

Preeti's aunt crying after her death

Father of Preeti was in such pain and he was asking for the CBI inquiry after the incident. But there was no clue left for Railway police. Even the CCTV footage is not showing the face of the criminal. Moreover, people were looking after Preeti including her parents that helped the acid thrower escape easily from the place. He has fled somewhere in North India, may be Delhi or Haryana. Mumbai has seen cruelty. Today, when I am obtaining fast for the woman who succumbed to her injuries after heinous gang rape on 16^th December 2012, my eyes filled with tears seeing the conditions of a poor father of Preeti. Can he win the battle and able to give justice to her daughter? Or like the others, he will have to wait for long time…

God bless Preeti’s soul and I request you if you’re my true friend, please pray for her…

29th

साल हो गया पर यादे अभी ताज़ा है,
घाव भर गया फिर भी जख्म जैसे ताज़ा है,

आप गये हमे ऐसे छोड़कर क़ी हमे यकीन नही होता,
अब भी हमे यह विश्वास नही होता,

आपकी यादे हमारे दिल मे बस गयी है,
आपकी तस्वीर जैसे कहीं छुप सी गयी है

हज़ारो सपने आपके ऐसे टूट गये,
बस कूछ ही देर मे वे चकनाचूर हो गये,

मौत के सामने आप जीत नही पाए,
उसे आप धोका ना दे पाए

कई दुआएँ, कई प्रार्थनाए काम नही आई,
आपकी साँसे आपका साथ नही दे पाई

बस यह दिन जैसे हमारे लिए एक सबक बन गया है
आपने कई लड़कियों को जीने का जसबा दिया है

मुश्किलो मे डटकर आपने सामना किया,
हिम्मत का आपने गजब का उदाहरण दिया

हमे पता था आप जीना चाहते थे,
मुजरिमो को आप सज़ा देना चाहते थे

पर उपरवाले को यह मंजूर नही था,
वो भी शायद आपका दर्द देख नही पा रहा था

इसीलिए उन्होने आपको अपने पास बुला लिया,
आपको सभी दर्द से छुटकारा दिला दिया

हम आपके लिए हर महीने दुआ करेंगे
चाहे कुछ भी हो हम आप के लिए प्रार्थना करेंगे

आप जहाँ कहीं भी रहो आप खुश रहेना,
अपने गुनेगारो को सज़ा ज़रूर देना

मूज़े यकीन है उपरवाला ज़रूर इंसाफ़ करेगा,
एक को तो मार दिया, बाकी पाँच को भी ख़त्म करेगा....

We are just failing.

                If you have remembered that few days ago I posted something about a woman in the KEM Hospital who denied accepting her new born baby girl delivered after caesarian. It was pretty short. Actually the thing happened like this…

               

On 22^nd October 2013, 28 year old Jogeshwari residing Bindu Yadav delivered a baby girl early morning in the KEM Hospital. It was the only caesarian delivery done on that morning by hospital doctors. But when the baby girl was handed over to Bindu after the operation, she didn’t accept it saying that she delivered the baby boy instead of a baby girl. She was not even ready to touch the child and she was blaming one of the most reputed hospitals of Mumbai for child swapping. She told media that when she was in semi conscious condition after her delivery, she listened to the male doctor and nurses’ discussing it was baby boy. The hospital personals told that she was already having two daughters and she was expecting baby boy. And so she had lost her mental balance. The doctors immediately sent the case to Kalina Forensic lab where DNAs of both were to be inspected. As the lab had already many cases were pending, this was gonna take time. Meanwhile Jaiprakash, Bindu’s husband who is an accountant professional, filed case against the KEM Hospital for baby swapping.

                The DNA reports have been arrived to KEM Hospital last day from Kalina. The DNA of mother and baby has been matched. It has been proved that the baby was delivered by Bindu only. Bindu has been neglecting the child since her birth. While the nurses of the KEM Hospital were taking care of the little one as their most special guest by the help of Breast Milk Bank. The baby was survived by both nurses and Breast Milk Bank. The hospital has now asked Bindu to take the child and if she doesn’t wish to take her, the nurses of KEM will take care of her. Remember the KEM nurses are taking care of Aruna Shanbaug over 39 years in their hospital premises after she was sexually assaulted by a ward boy and went in comma. This is the honesty of KEM Hopital nurses that has made it the most reputed hospitals amongst all and they still want the baby girl into the safest hands. Bindu has accepted the baby girl and assured the doctors that she will be feeding her breast milk to baby.

                It is good news or bad. But I am not sure about the future of the baby girl how she will be treated while growing up. Nurses of the KEM Hospital will definitely miss their little Angel guest hoping Bindu will take care of her very well.

The other side of Master. Respect

             

He's neither Rahul Gandhi nor Modi. He's a true human being

  It’s Exclusive! The people who actually think Sachin Tendulkar doesn’t take interest in the Charities but this will definitely change your ways of thinking about Sachin Tendulkar. Actually many people are jealous after the UPA govt. has announced Bharat Ratna honor to Sachin Tendulkar. But Sachin is a hidden hero who never wants to be revealed his name for his charity work. After lots of searches, I have found something about his huge heart and his interests in various charities. Here, I am presenting some facts about him…

·         Dr APJ Abdul Kalam suggested his name in the in the board members of CARE Hospitals in Hyderabad where Sachin has been taking care of all the expenses of poor sportspersons treatment of all states. That includes minor surgeries to by-pass surgeries.

·         Sachin Tendulkar has been taking care of 250 children in Tardeo involved with “Apnalaya”. He has been providing their expenses of their education, clothes, books, notebooks, shoes and school uniforms for the last 11 years. Leena Joshi, the director of Apnalaya says, “It was great help at a time when we needed it. Sachin graciously accepted our proposal to help in educating children. Our institute has benefited in many ways including getting sponsorship through Sachin for our projects, besides his financial assistance in helping the children, especially in our priorities for girls.”

·         Sachin has been involved with Dr Agrawal Eye hospital situated in Chennai since 2004. Sachin has helped over 300 eye patients to get their cataract and eye grafting operations done. Every time an operation is done, the hospital sends him the photograph of the patient with his sign and thumb impression.

·         He is also involved with “Make Wish Foundation” over a decade.

·         His very close friend has revealed that recently he has donated 7 crores Rs to an NGO and after retirement, Sachin will be concentrating completely in charity work.

                Sachin doesn’t want to get himself highlighted in these charities work; people haven’t seen his better side which is even better than a human being. His inspiration has been her little daughter Sara when she once insisted to celebrate her birthday with poor children instead of a high profile party and Sachin realized the true values of other lives.

Heroes of my life.

                It was a day in Delhi when I closed my office door and started crying. I promised myself that those were the last tears I had and would never cry again. Even today, I got my finger cut somehow while washing a bike; still I didn’t cry (Lol!). But I cannot stop myself from crying after the retirement of my real life hero. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He has made many people cried a lot but I am crying because I cannot imagine cricket without him. Wherever he’ll stay, he’ll obviously miss cricket. In my eyes, he becomes even greater after his farewell speech. Listening to his speech I have learnt the most important things of life and so the reason why he has been an idol in many lives.

·         We all know he was not belonging to the richest family. Four years of his life he spent with his uncle and aunt due to the long distance of school. He was not even able to buy a bat as he was gifted his first bat by his sister. He could not even be able to complete his studies and selected for the game. He never made his ‘poverty’ or ‘education’, a weak point in his life. He kept concentrated and stepped up the stairs of success. God! 24 years! It’s hard for us to work out the same thing every day. But he did…

Sachin, pretty relaxed on a holiday after retirement with Anjali.

·         He hoped on the scooter of Achrekarsir and played practice games on various locations of Mumbai. These were the moments when he built up the strongest foundations of his career. He told that during 29 years of cricket life he (Achrekarsir) never told him “Well played”. Well if we have such teacher nowadays, we would definitely be a rebellion. Even when he lost his wicket in his last game, he was scolded and explained to take care about it. Even though, it was his last inning of his career.

·         He told when Anjali came into his life, the most beautiful thing happened. It was the year 1991 when he was slowly stepping up the ladder. Hardly was he known by people except the thing he had started career at the age of 16. Being elder than Sachin, Anjali left her career of a doctor and took his entire responsibility. We cannot say this was“lady luck” of Sachin Tendulkar but actually Sachin was getting what he wanted in his life quite easily. Because this was his will power which gave him everything he wanted. What more can you learn???

·         Sachin Tendulkar has been the best friend of all related to his life, even with his opposition. The controversial player Shahid Afridi has confessed Sachin is the best player amongst all in the entire world. Even he reacts positively even after sledging. He has always taught me to live simple life with true spirit of achieve dreams.

·         Sachin Tendulkar has been a best son, a best brother, a best friend, a best husband, a best son in law, a best father and above all, he has been the best human being who inspires me when I think any negative thought & actually the same I want to be…

               There is no wonder he has been a Hero, there is also another ‘Hero’ in my life that inspires me at every stage of life. She is a female yet I am calling a ‘hero’ because she is the strongest person I have ever met, even stronger than a man. Well as earlier said she is no one but Mrs. Muskaan. Oh! Now please do not ask me who Mrs Muskaan is! Haven’t you read my blog dedicated to her? Here it is if you haven’t read, click the following link...

Mrs Muskaan. A tribute to the strongest woman I ever met.

Happy days are here again for Mrs Muskaan.

               As earlier said, Mrs. Muskaan, being a social network friend has the highest position in a CBSE Board School situated in Kota. If someone who is more inspirational person in my life after Sachin Tendulkar, she will obviously be Mrs. Muskaan. Just like Sachin, Mrs. Muskaan has taught me several lessons of life which no one has ever taught.

·         As you can see in a picture she is back on track of her life. While Sachin Tendulkar has taken retirement from all formats of the game, Mrs. Muskaan is having her second blessed life after successfully beating the incurable disease of cancer. Her smile makes me forget everything just like when I am worried about my future and I think about Sachin Tendulkar.

·         I didn’t want to share something of my life which is hidden from the world is that I haven’t got large group of friends, I have been roaming around different cities for the last 5 years, Surat, Delhi, Gurgaon & now in Mumbai, moreover I haven’t been in a relationship. My parents suffer through illness and I cannot even share my problems to them as they might feel uneasiness. My hobby to write blogs is developed because I just wanted to express myself. I can write anything I want & tell the world. In such conditions Mrs. Muskaan asks me whether I want to share whatever I feel. This is the reason why I really respect her deep from my heart. I believe her “trust” for me is the greatest gift to me. That was enough for me and I would never like to disturb the “Superwomen” who is actually busy with her profession, beloved husband Mr. Anil & cute child Vikhyat. She remained absent from Facebook when she was under treatment and I was wrong about my assumption of her busy schedule. I didn’t even ask her how she was during her immensely painful days. Even though she came back strongly and developed wonderful friendship with me which is the most precious thing of my life and I am proud to be the part of her life.

·         Now I am following her statuses, pictures and comments. They are full of fun and stress free. When I read them, they are always making me feel happy and inspire me to be positive in life. I believe Mrs. Muskaan has special powers to spread happiness. If you’re connected to Mrs. Muskaan anyhow, and still you are not inspired by her than you have achieved nothing in life. Because the real meaning of living life is happiness which she defines in own way. I just suggest you to do a simple exercise once in a week. “Live one day of the week thinking that you are Vartika Sapra.” If your life won’t change, I will change my name because soon you will live your each day like her after exercise.

·         No wonder my love for Sachin Tendulkar is endless even after his retirement. For me he’s even more than God. It is sure that when I will have my dream home, I will have faces of God & Goddesses in my temple. Sachin & Mrs. Muskaan will both have their places in it. Because they both have inspired me with their respective powers & positions. I broke a promise with myself as I am still crying for little master. If something had happened to Mrs. Muskaan, I would have never ever forgiven myself and never stopped crying. But nothing can happen to heroes because they neither retire not die. They remain alive forever…ever & ever…

Thank You Sachin

In case you missed the lyrics of the song dedicated to Sachin...

Humne toh nahi socha tha
Kabhi ye pal bhi aayega
Honge juda hum
Honge juda hum

Har dil boodha ya baccha
Ik sur mein hi gaayega
Aankhein liye num
Aankhein liye num

Jeena sikhaya
Tune ladna sikhaya
Ooncha ooncha sar rakh ke
Har dil ka khuda tu
Tu hi hai bharosa
Rehta apni rag rag mein
Thank You Sachin..

Mere desh ki hai shaan tu
Thank You Sachin
Mera dil hai meri jaan hai tu
Thank You Sachin
Mere desh ki hai shaan tu
Thank You Sachin
We gonna miss you so..

Har maa ka tu beta hai
Har dadi ka tu pota hai
Hero humaara
Tu hero humaara
Bedaag tera daaman hai
Tu sach ka ek darpan hai
Saccha sitaara
Saccha sitaara..
Shaanti ka samandar
Bheetar se bavandar
Chaukke chhake de rakh rakh ke
Le apni gulaami
Le sacchi salaami
Kehte Good Bye tujhe has has ke

Thank You Sachin…
Mere desh ki hai shaan tu
Thank You Sachin
Mera dil hai meri jaan hai tu
Thank You Sachin
Mere desh ki hai shaan tu
Thank You Sachin
We gonna miss you so..

Amul paying tribute to the Little Master

Its all about Sachin.

                Even when Sachin was playing, I could not miss to see single dream of him while sleeping. It was good and he made me refreshed with a hope that he was still playing. Like Anjali said that Sachin’s life cannot be imagined without cricket and so now the cricket has been a huge nightmare of my life. It’s hard to believe as he has left all formats of cricket. Ever since I knew about cricket, I dreamed of him only. Sachin has ruled the world cricket with such honesty and never trapped himself in to any controversy. You know the kids selling the Indian flag outside the Wankhede stadium, each one of those sold more than 300 flags on last day of his retirement, including the people who could not even make themselves to the Wankhede bought flags and waited outside for Sachin to come after grand Farewell. This wasn’t a movie or a fairy tale…. It was real.

                Sachin deserves everything. Bharat Ratna even is a smaller thing to him in front of his greatest personality. Today when I reach Bhayander station, I saw large poster of MSD on a wine shop saying, “To be successful, you have to be different” (which means, to be successful, you have to consume wines). This is actually stupid thing when people of all ages are following you including kids, you should maintain your limits. Sachin did. At the time when he was the highest paying star in sports, Sachin never crossed his limits. I have been seeing him in the ad of an energy drink “BOOST” which is the secret of his energy till now. And all those remarkable ads which Sachin made have been carefully saved in my mind. One of my favorite ads of Sachin Tendulkar was made when he was endorsed by Pepsi co. Some kids around 10 to 15 years were playing in hot summer with the mask of Sachin Tendulkar made of paper. Another guy brings bottles of Pepsi who gives all those kids. The kids turn very happy seeing real Sachin Tendulkar under the mask and exclaim,

                “AAAILA SACHIN!!!!”

And Sachin whistles. This is the best ever ad of Sachin Tendulkar I have seen in my life. I always keep it in my cell phone and remember the days when he was at his best form of cricket. Sachin always kept himself away from all controversies. He also broke friendship with his controversial friend Vinod Kambli who cried in the studio of ABP news on the day of his retirement. He has already told that the most beautiful thing happened in his life when he met Anjali

Moment that changed his life.

and she has given him the best partnership of his life sacrificing her career of doctor. So we believe she is even more important than Bharat Ratna in his life. Sachin Tendulkar cried whole night when he declared retirement from ODI after immense pressure. He didn’t talk to anybody and went for holiday with Anjali, Sara & Arjun. Few people are blaming Sachin Tendulkar a lot but they don’t know if Sachin was not playing cricket, we could never have seen,

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Virat Kohli

Rohit Sharma

Yuvraj Singh and the other players for whom Sachin Tendulkar is still an idol. Sachin’s presence was even doing the job for team India many times. Whether he played or not, he supported and guided many victories to Team India. No matter Sachin is the most honest personality who has dedicated his award to all moms of India. If he will see more controversies regarding this honor, he may even reject Bharat Ratna. The decision of giving this honor is yet acceptable when you see Shahrukh Khan’s Chennai Express when his grandfather dies after seeing Sachin Tendulkar getting out on 99 runs. This is the craze for Sachin in the entire nation, from a little kid to the grandfather or a grandmother lying in bed for whom India’s victory might not important but asks,

“Arre Sachin ne kitne run banaye???”

                This is what Sachin has given to us which neither scientist Rao, Vishwanathan Anand, Atal Bihari Vajpeyee and Milkha Singh were able to give nor anyone else will be able to give. The man who came on TV and country obtained BANDHS; the man who got out and all TVs were switched off, the man who retired and all eyes filled with tears. That’s no one can do except Sachin Tendulkar, not even a real GOD.