Why is KASAB still alive?

I can never forget that fateful day two years ago on 26/11/2008. I was staying at a calm and peaceful place AIT. I was busy making my future bright in an engineering college, when these bastards were busy planning the bloodiest massacre in Indian history. I heard something from somewhere, and I immediately ran to my server, paused torrents, stopped CC Proxy and sat down to watch the live dance of death. It was shocking. All of my flank mates had their eyes fixed on the screen. We couldn't believe our eyes and ears. Is it a nightmare? It can't be true. Some of us were hooked onto the news channels and internet news sites for days together. Others didn’t, not because they weren’t worried, but because they had no idea that it would continue for 72 hours.

I can't explain the hatred I developed for Kasab and whoever the masterminds of the Mumbai attacks might be. For the first time in my life I wanted someone to suffer... someone to be brutally tortured. Little did I know that today, two years from then, I would still be wanting him to be punished. Kasab - why is he the one to survive the 26/11 attacks?  The person (no, he can't be a human) who walked peacefully after mercilessly killing many is still at peace!!! Why are we not setting an example by punishing him severely? Why are we not sending a strong message to all the terrorists out in the world - DON'T MESS WITH OUR NATION OR ELSE...

Recently TOI reported, “I’m reaping what I sowed : Kasab”. People don’t believe it to be his words, and doubt it to be TOI’s, another one of their many crappy articles. Kasab should be made familiar with the fact that, death is probably the easiest way for him to escape the materialistic world. I wish he be fed to our dogs, the people associated with “Nithari Killings” I mean the culprits, the pure non-vegetarians. I am not boasting of  "Nithari killings" culprits, but I am trying to tell the world that we Indians’ have a wide range of personalities here in our country. We can provide you with the fastest Indian (Milkha Singh) and slowest Indian (Suresh Kalmadi) too. But we keep our dogs in kennel and don’t let them stray around like Pakistanis. He doesn’t have an idea of the hatred that people have in them for him, and it multiplies day after day. It is better if he hangs himself, or he is hanged as soon as possible.

I wonder if I am in Love

When can you confirm, that you are in love

When you see her face in your book

Or when you repeatedly check facebook

When you fall in love with the sound of her voice

Or when she seems to be the ultimate choice

When you smile remembering the good old days

Or when you think, you are left with nothing to chase

When you have to gather courage to say the "word"

Or when talking to her, you forget the world

When you start sharing everything with her

Or when you forget to call your brother but not her

When an extrovert guy starts feeling shy

Or when slightest idea of her parting away can make you cry

When you take care of everything you speak

Or when you can’t find anything more sweet

When she talks to you in a shy-low voice
Or when she ignores her friends for you, by choice

Or when you turn into a poet, the most daunting task

Someone rightly said about poem, it’s the feel that brings line

And probably today I set them fine

I wonder if these are the symptoms

I wonder if I am in love?
I wonder if I am in love?

Why D?

If you are reading this, then you know me. If you're reading this, then we're friends -- though some are better friends than others. One of you helped me recently by making me aware of the bitter fact that I suck at choosing title for my blog posts. And probably, he was right. Sometimes I do injustice to the title of the post. Like, talking of the the previous post, there was hardly anything there pertaining to LOVE. But for those who accuse me of writing long posts, I am sorry guys, I can’t help it. I know, after reading the title of this post, you must be thinking that probably I failed again, but not to worry, I’ll prove you wrong. I know it sounds absurd, "Why D?". But, I know that this title is quite fearsome, for AITans at least. For others, let me introduce to this term YD (Why D), which stands for year down or its generally known as year back in other colleges, when you have to sit back home and take a drop for one year to clear your subjects. People in AIT don’t like to face results, 66% of my batch is below 60% and hence gives enough reason to why people don’t like facing the D-day. Last year, I was standing at the gateway of this so called YD. Eleven theory exam in a span of 21 days and three practical examinations is hell of a reason to get a YD. But somehow, I made it through and cleared all of them. These are the words of a man, who didn’t see a single sunset in AIT last semester, not because he was busy studying in room, but because he didn’t want a reason for a YD afterwards and regret. Believe me, it was height of pessimism, I spent half of my time thinking period aftermath YD. My parents still don’t know about my critical stage, but their blessings were always with me, and now I don’t care, even if they come to know of it.

I was not the only one who was on the verge of getting year down. There were others too. Most of us were fortunate enough to make it through, some could not. Some people played a great role in each of our's success. Apart from parents and relatives, there is a third kind of relationship that I can’t stop praising since they helped a lot by providing me with moral support throughout the semester. There were people around me providing me with all sort of help, and I call this category of people, “friend”. Believe me, getting out of such a situation (YD) requires a lot of mental balance, and I bet you can’t accumulate that all alone. I have seen people getting ripped off with mere six theories. I remember people coming to me regularly and asking me to study. Some of them, came drunk some sober, but all of them were worried for me undoubtedly. It’s not just about clearing exams, that make me say that, but there are many more reasons to support the call.