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A 21 Grand Slam old Champion…

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It was the summer of 2005. Life was at a tumultuous turn at twenty years and was rebelliously seeking newer avenues of expression and something intensely deep. It was at that time I had first noticed him; a ferociously competitive teenager from Spain who had defeated the then No. 1 Roger Federer in Semis at Rolland Garros. At First, it didn’t seem that Rafael Nadal belonged to the same sport which Sampras and Federer played. Clad in White capri pants and a sleeveless shirt with a warrior like muscular build, he didn’t look like a professional tennis player at all. He appeared almost fanatic with his shirt-tug, hair-tuck pre-serve rituals, making symmetrical placement of his bottles and towels, but couple of games into a match, one would have realized, he meant only business. And the kind of fierce tennis he played; he could have put courts on fire! I had liked him instantly that summer. So much that I sported black denim capri pants almost the whole of following year. The passion, the ...
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This part of my life...

Jan 2007 Its 5am.The alarm rings...tough luck. Cant help wanting to do justice to lingering sleep. Snooze continues. I have to get up though. It’s a long day ahead. Well, that can be an understatement. These days, it’s just like that. It’s not a chilly winter this year. Weather looks just fine for Mid-Jan period. I like winter the best. If it was to have a colour, it would be white with brownish red sprinkled all along. In my mind, it’s the colour of snow. And the colour of maple leaves during the Fall. Very British. I love the thought. But reality is such a spoilsport, I feel. With a hot steaming tea, I start reading 'On the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B'.I have a Mulla class quiz tomorrow, evidently so. Hmm. It was a good read. An Insightful one. Got to get ready fast, have to catch up 6.40 am train.got a seat.I hide behind the pink paper. India story is on a roll. PM looks positive. FM is happy about buoyancy. RBI Governor can’t agree more. I understand why they ca...
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Placements...

Following are some of the important observations and outcomes from the about-to-end placement season... I came to know the exact strength of students and Number of courses run in the college. Psychometrics was the most favourite subject in PG-HR batch, even when we controlled for Gender, and individual differences :) There were so many faces on campus whom i didnt know at all..not by look niether by names...oval shaped, disgruntled, confident, round, sparkling, intelligent, extremely pissed at life, thoughtful, careless, worried, and reflecting sooo many emotions at a time... Due to huge time wastages in a day long process, my acquiantances increased exponentially as a result of variuos discussions with so many diff people to use those idle time slots.. God knows why but there were so many of those known and unknown ones who wished, counselled, supported and prayed for each other ...and the collective reassurance was really soothing for me in down times. Frankly speaking, I dont know w...
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A Poem...

'शोध' तू ओंजळ भरल्या सुवासाचा पारिजातकी स्पर्श... तू निरागस मनमधील अननुभूत हर्ष.... तू तप्त, त्रस्त जीवासाठी भरल्या मायेचा हात... कुट्ट काळोखाच्या गर्भातही कधीच न सुटणारी साथ... तू प्रेमाची पाखर धरणारी त्या आईची कूस... आणि त्या कुशीत मन मोकळ करणारा माझ्या डोळ्यातील पाऊस.... तू कधी अजिंक्य हृदयातील विजयाचा उन्माद... आणि कधीतरी काळीज हेलावून टाकणारी आर्त आर्त साद.... तू अंतरंग उलगडून सांगणार्‍या अपार मिठीचा आभास.... जीव उधळून द्यावा अशा उत्तुंग प्रेमाचा अभिध्यास.... तू सर्वस्व हरवून बसलेल्या मीरेच्या मनाचा गाभारा.... कोण्या अनामिक मनःपूर्तीसाठी दूरवर निखळलेला तारा..... तू विठुरयाच्या सावळया वात्सल्याची परिसीमा.... आणि येशूच्या गाहिर्‍या नजरेतील अथांग गरिमा..... तू ज्ञान...तू भक्ती.... तू सामर्थ्य....अन् मुक्ती..... तू माझ्यामधेच सामावलेल्या सृजनाचा ओघ..... आणि तरीही.....कधीच न संपणारा तुझा अतर्क्य वेडा शोध..! -- वेदवती जोशी
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Goof-Ups!!

All those who are looking forward to another dose of a philosophical anecdote, please return to your respective works..(of course if you have anything worth doing :) for i m in no mood to ponder over so called " the very being" phenomenon and certainly not over "the search within".... I have just returned from a very memorable trip to Marine Drive (wow, how awesome that was!!) and i m in mood of top gear Masti :) so i have this urge to pen down some lighter moments... I m sure, everybody has his share of Goof-Ups in life; but God seems to be too generous with me in this area, for me to be gifted with too many, too frequent, and too impossible of such moments..i m still amazed by the amusement and discomfiture striking in equal amount on such happenstances....there are few of them really unforgettable... One of the first memories is obviously from schooldays.in my 5th standard class, being the class monitor, i had the responsibility of supervising the smooth distribu...
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A Rendezvous much needed...

err...umm..ok let me speak now... Last Eleven months or so have deprived me of the joy of being able to strike a cord and have a meaningful conversation with my own self. i fail to communicate and therefore explain too what do i mean exactly by having a conversation with myself. it is as vague as it can get. i dunno whether i talk to the mind, the conscience or just the psychological "me" for that matter, or i just try to think to myself, but whatever it may be, you cannot deny the powerful energy which oozes out of the entire process to make you stand firm...and the point is..i have been missing all that... when i try to dig deeper for finding out the cause behind this phenomenon,i am left muddled and perplexed all the more. if i say, the sheer number of interactions which i have been through in the last year has gone up improportionately which has specifically disturbed the aforesaid conversation, then that would not be a wise arguement, for i am not the kind of person who ...
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