This picture was clicked by a friend at New Friends Colony market around 2 months back at a friend’s birthday party…
Do make somebody smile today!!!
Recently, i picked up a popular book called “Freedom at midnight” by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre from my grandfather’s huge collection. The pages had already turned yellow but it somehow gave me a more zest to go through the book. Going through the book was quite an eye opener. Most of us think/have been taught at high school that Lord Mountbatten was sent to divide our nation. Though this book says that he was actually sent to put up a solid plan to help India from dividing!!!
Lord Mountbatten also had proposed the day of India’s freedom in a haste and that actually had created huge controversy back home. Although this post throws light on the controversy it created in India.
i surely suggest you to read the book as it covers so much from the Indian politics, Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru and of course a few things we never knew. here is one of them. This happens to be my favourite.
Chapter number 8, “A DAY CURSED BY STARS”.
“Nowhere, however, did his choice of the date of 15th august for India’s independence cause as much surprise and consternation as it did in the ranks of a corporation which ruled the lives of millions of Hindus with a tyranny more oppressive than that of English, congress, and maharajas combined. Mountbatten had commited the unpardonable fault of announcing his choice without first having consulted representatives of the most powerful occult body in India, the jyotishis , the astrologers.”
“As soon as the radio announced Mountbatten’s date, Astrologers all over India began to consult their charts. Those in the holy city of Benaras and several others in the south immediately proclaimed 15 August a date so inauspicious that India ‘would better advised to tolerate the British one day longer than risk eternal damnation’.
in Calcutta, Swami Madananand on listening to the date rushed to his celestial charts and started making calculations
“…….”from midnight, 14th August throughout 15 August, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus would lie in the most accursed site of the heavens, the ninth house of Karamstahn.”
“What have they done? What have they done?” he shouted to the heavens whose machinations were interpreted for man.
“Despite the discipline acquired in years of yoga, meditation and tantric studies in a temple in the hills of Assam the astrologer lost control lost control of himself. Seizing a piece of paper he sat down and wrote an urgent appeal to the man inadvertently responsible for this celestial catastrophe.”
” ‘For the love of God,’ he wrote to Louis Mountbatten, ‘do not give India her independence on 15 August. If floods, drought, famine and massacres follow, it will be because free India was born on a day cursed by the stars.’ “
As i read ahead, it also stated that the Indians were ready to give up freedom for another year just because of a date….
With due respect to the Indian traditions, cultures and astrology, i some how feel weird when i read such things. Just reminded me of the 1st test match between India and south Africa at Chennai. on the second day evening almost every national news channel had astrologers sitting with charts/ cards/ insight… and everyone, yes all of them said Sehwag would go up the next day and hit the world record maximum score ever(some 400 something… don’t even remember).oh you know the result don’t you? We are so much entangled in these things that we actually force our thinking, our action. Last when did your family(or your neighbor’s for name sake) went up to a local pundit with a ‘janampatri’?, or when was it last that some famous astrologer said that the World was coming to an end?.
“Create Life!!!”
Tickle your funny bone:
Just a few of my favourites:
“The maharaja of Alwar was a man of such charm and culture that he had been able to seduce a succession of Viceroys into tolerating his activities. he happened to believe he was a reincarnation of the God Rama. As a result he constantly wore black silk gloves to protect his divine fingers from contaminating touch of mortal flesh…..”
No offences again!!! 
The first SAARC band festival was organised in Delhi back in December (30th November -2nd December). The festival included performances of around 14 bands spread over these three days!!!
i was on my way back home from the north campus when i actually saw lots of people running over to the central park located in Connought place, Delhi. At first sight it looked to me that some artist would be performing tonight right there and so the crowd!!!
Out of sheer excitement i went up to the constable guarding the entry and asked him what had to take place… ” kayi desho ke bands yahan show karenge” was his reply!!! “ticket kitna lagega?” was what i threw back at him as i could see no counter around!!!
“itne log ghus rahe hai toh free hi hoga” was his polite reply.
As this conversation came to an end good music suddenly came up and it was the Advaita band(well known among university guys opened the show!!! they really sounded pretty good so i decided to give the show around 10 minutes or so!!!
And they actually were good!!! i decided to stay on. Suddenly Nikhil CHinnapa, the Mtv vj popped up and really entertained everyone in the crowd with his really humorous jokes (specially for the young couples cooing the park).
I didn’t have much work back home so I decided I’m gonna stay here for quite some time!!!
i plan to study from tonight itself and that forced me to make a ‘to do’ list for myself. The worst part is that its the end of the year and i still don’t have half the notes. Would go to college in the morning and get them photocopied!!! and i don’t have the books either!!!!
Just waiting for Isha (my best friend) , who’s been teaching me for exams since the 1st year to come over and teach for the final exams too!!!
i will study!!!
i will study!!!
i will study!!! (repeated over a thousand times)
Yawning… lets start it from tomorrow!!! all fresh!!!
p.s. I’ll surely stop procrastinating from tomorrow
Alright so i am back to blogging after a pretty long time… and i’m kinda finding wordpress better… looks much more professional i guess!!! and i say this after switching over from one blog to another… to another… and another!!!
Still around a couple of weeks left before the final exams begin… this wait has made me a ‘very’ lazy guy… compared to the already lazy chap i’ve been throughout the year!!!
a bit senti too over the fact that college ended… and straight after exams i got to rush to kolkata for my mba at ibs!!!
i think i made some very good friends here at andc, n ill really miss everything… friends ofcourse, don’t ask about the college…. i’m really hating a couple of profs in there too who made life hell lately!!
I’ll kill you guys once i pass out!!!
I’m getting to know new people joining the same place i am these days!!! i hope i make a great circle out there too!!!
i also hope i continue writing this time!!!
miss ya friends!!!
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