a good sign...

Sky-gazing has been a childhood fascination. Thankfully, it still remains...

The earlier nite cast a rainy forecast for the next day, leaving only clouds in the sky... it carefully embraced the stars and blinded them from me...

But, last nite, before I left home, I went up to my haven of stars.
And what i saw was what I was feeling:

The sky was clear with all its twinkling stars- bright n shiny, the way I love it, the way they bring a happy smile to my face, the way I lose my way... gazing...
But there were clouds wandering and they would just not clear fast!! I was getting late to catch my bus... and there i saw something happen- the clouds started to clear slowly n steadily ( behind them the stars giving me a sneak-peak ;) )

( My dreams are in front of my eyes, but the clouds of confusion are hovering, but they will move, slowly and steadily, just like the way the sky told me the nite when i was leaving home.)

Stars in the sky...

My childhood fascination for it remains... and grows.

Shallow Sea...

Look back at the Bombay floods and you will see the numerous issues raked by the merciless waters invading every home it could..
But this is what it revealed to me:

The apathy of those in power to deliver to the public: well. this is an issue in debate for decades. We forever blame them conscience-less beings. We pay taxes. They gobble it all up fat asses.
Slums, poverty, pathetic infrastructure remain....

And funny how, we: CITIZENS ( amuses me we call ourselves that!! that we are only by the virtue of inhabiting this country) suffer in silence and dont rage in protest of sinners. We dont express our strife in any form, which is what gives those in power all the leeway to rape us of a DECENT publiv life.

We need a VOICE to scream that you better do your job, like we do ours!
We need a conscientous community of politicians and citizens...
We need to UNDERSTAND what we are doing to our country and to ourselves

I sometimes wonder what we all can stand up for as a nation today? Half a centure ago, our forefathers valued and respected what we today take for granted - FREEDOM.
Can we stand for issues that grapple the bleak future of a country with diverse and versatile culture like ours?
We cant look beyond ourselves, today. We are drowning in a shallow sea of the SELF.