GETTING HIS JUST DESSERTS AND LOT'S MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR......

This is certainly as bizarre and outlandish as it can get by any stretch of the imagination.......
 Mumbai Police sleuths late on Tuesday evening took into custody a 70 year old resident of the nation's commercial capital late on Tuesday evening on the heinous and sinister charges of molesting and trying to outrage the modesty of his unwitting 7 year old intended victim........
 According to the senior inspector heading the investigation into this grotesque case; this shocking incident occurred at round 4 pm or so on the fateful afternoon when the accused one Siddhanand Chaurasia who had been residing in the city's Malad area for the last 35 odd years made a somewhat cumbersome and wanton attempt at outraging the modesty of his intended object of desire and passion.....
 Chaurasia was in the habit of sauntering onto the terrace of the very same high rise building unfailingly every single afternoon and enjoying a two odd hour long siesta according to fellow residents of the same building and this unsavoury and unholy episode occurred during the same time span........
 Alas for Chaurasia; his intended victim was made of sterner stuff than he expected and more than adroitly managed to extricate herself from his soiled tentacles and fled the spot loudly and imploringly calling out for help all the while.......
 Her alarmed mother; building's security guards and concerned fellow residents restrained and confined the accused for forty five odd minutes till the cops from the adjoining police station reached the crime scene recorded the statement of both the indomitable 7 year old and her irate and incensed mother before taking Siddhanand into their custody.......
 He was produced before a judicial magistrate at around 11 am or so on Wednesday morning and the legal functionary promptly remanded him to five days police custody in order to facilitate the concerned police sleuths further investigation into the reported crime........
 Booked under all the relevant and applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code as well as the POCSO Act; this 70 year old avaricious gent is looking at the unpleasant and unseemly possibility of spending the next seven years or so in a city jail if the alleged crime supposedly committed by him is proven or established beyond all reasonable doubt.......

"GREEN CARD" IS INDEED THE FLAVOUR OF THE SEASON.......

The world's most popular and widely followed game/sport football or soccer (whatever you may prefer to term it) has been synonymous with yellow and red cards for centuries but football and green cards are indeed somewhat of a rarity........
 In a first of it's kind enterprise/venture; match referee's/officials presiding over Italian Seria "B" (Italian Second Division League) matches have been urged/motivated to flash green cards whenever they come across an act of gentlemanly honesty/candour or sporting spirit that elevates the stature of the game and carries it to exalted and unprecedented heights of glory and stardom.......
 Match Referee Marco Mainardi became the first official to flash a green card in the history of the game when he extricated the very same from his pocket and doffed the same in the direction of Vicenza striker Cristian Galano who showed exemplary honesty and sportsmanship when questioned........
 Galano had made an attempt at the opposing team's citadel and the same narrowly missed the target as the attempt on goal had deflected off the foot of a defender and hence altered or then veered off from it's intended destination.......
 The defender in question hotly and somewhat imperiously questioned the officiating match official's decision to award a corner to the visiting Vicenza team and wanted him to verify whether or not the ball had indeed touched his foot and then deflected out of bounds as deemed by the referee in the midst of the on field action.......
Though perturbed and confounded by the defender's temerity and gall; Mainardi thought it prudent to check with Galano and was more than pleasantly surprised when Galano more than candidly admitted that the ball had gone out of bounds on it's own and not taken a deflection from the defenders foot as deemed by Mr. Mainardi.......
 Instantly recognising his all to rare candour and sportive spirit Mainardi digged deep into the pocket where he kept his red; yellow and green cards and held the green card aloft for more than a few seconds as a mark of respect for a player who had showed the rest of the sporting world how the game of football should be played every single time.........
 I for one do ardently hope and pray that other footballing leagues inundating the footballing world will similarly follow suit and start flashing more green than red and yellow cards thereby putting all expressed doubts about the game getting all the more acrimonious and less than honest with the dawning of each day of the burgeoning footballing calendar......

"SELFIE" OBSESSION CLAIMS IT'S LATEST VICTIM........

Will some resident of planet earth provide me with a plausible; logical and reasonable explanation for our penchant of becoming slaves/serfs of the latest "Mobile" technology and our never ending obsession with selfies and the likes.......
 In the latest mishap/incident/accident caused by this inexplicable and revolting "selfie" obsession a 16 year old teenaged resident of Uttar Pradesh's Baraut Village (some 65 odd kilometers away from the national capital) lost all her hair and a major portion of her scalp when she inadvertently ventured a little too close to a Ferris or then Giant Wheel as the same contraption has come to be better known........
 According to horrified bystanders who rushed to her help on hearing her piteous and heart rending entreaties for help; the horrific incident occurred when the 16 year old ventured too close for comfort for the giant wheel that was making it's journey at top speed at the time on the fateful Monday afternoon.......
 Her obsession or predilection with grabbing the so called "perfect" selfie that would make her the envy of her friends and peers ended up causing the 16 year old untold harm and a dismemberment/disfigurement that will take years to repair/heal.....
 As she got a little close for comfort to the afore mentioned object of rapturous delight her mane of hair got inextricably entangled in the same and caused the same to be yanked out and more than half her scalp to be ripped off in the most barbaric and grievous manner possible.......
 Good hearted and gallant souls rushed the profusely bleeding teenager to the state government run district hospital where the doctors on duty at the time performed a minor surgery in order to close the wounds on her scalp and head and have decided to shift her to a Lucknow super speciality hospital within the next 3-4 days for specialised care and treatment.......
One only hopes and prays that all similarly inclined folks will learn their long overdue lesson/s at long last and start taking selfies without endangering either their very own safety and security as well as other's in the vicinity.......

THANK YOU MOHAMMAD KAIF.......

You certainly cannot keep a good samaritan or then noble and caring soul down for too long........
 It may certainly be a case of out of sight out of mind in the case of erstwhile Indian middle order Batsman turned politico Mohammad Kaif's ranks of fans who must have buried him more than six feet under by now as he has been off the cricketing firmament for some time now........
 Cometh the hour; cometh the man and this largely anonymous and laid back lazily elegant batsman par excellence who did not do complete justice to his enormous potential certainly more than rose to the occasion and more than enjoyed his proverbial "fifteen minutes of fame" and more with series of tweets pertaining to the Uri martyrs (army men who gallantly laid down their lives in the cause of the nation) and every other indomitable soul who dons the khakhi uniform out of his own free will......
 Imploring and exhorting fellow Indians to loosen their purse strings and lighten their bank balances in an effort to stand by the suffering and grieving families in their hour of need and showed the rest of the nation how it's done by starting this seeming revolution with a personal offering of Rupees Five lakh to the Army Men's Welfare Fund........
 Kaif certainly did not stop with this but continued in the same vein by imploring his fellow countrymen and women to offer their train bus or then seats occupied by them to the soldiers who guaranteed their safety and well being every single time and raise their hand in humble salute and tribute every single time they spotted them in their midst or immediate surroundings........
 Thank you for rekindling or reawakening our patriotic fervour and largely moribund spirit Mr. Kaif as we certainly needed this wake up call to awaken us from our self imposed slumber and lethargy........

AKSHAY KUMAR DOES IT YET AGAIN........

Here indeed is a matinee or then marquee idol who stays rooted to his lower middle class roots and prefers to let his humanitarian side rule the roost........
 The entire world and it's cousin is more than aware of Akshay (Khiladi) Kumar's utterly modest and nondescript origins and upbringing and he on his part certainly continues to wow his legions of fawning fans and showing them how it's done as often as he can.......
 Though he was buried more than neck deep in the ultimate or then climatic shooting schedule of his much awaited legal caper "Jolly LLB 2" in the sylvan; serene; tranquil and salubrious locales of Manali; Akshay more than made it a point to take the time out to spend quality time with both the overwhelmed locals and gushing hotel staffers thereby wowing or sweeping them off their collective feet with his down to earth demeanour and endearing/captivating mannerisms.......
 A gathering of twenty odd Indo Tibetan Border Police Force jawans and Junior Officers who thronged the sets of the afore mentioned flick on an archetypal Manali evening were literally wonder or then should I say dumbstruck with their jaws literally falling at their feet when their favourite tinsel town star more than sportingly conceded or then graciously acceded to more than enthusiastically participate in an impromptu volleyball match that was organised on the sets in a tearing hurry.......
This one of it's kind volleyball match lasted all of one hour or so and unravelled between two teams of ten players each with one team being captained by Akshay and the other being helmed by a lieutenant who could not believe his luck and overwhelming or burgeoning burst of good fortune........
 As if sticking to a pre-ordained script; the three set or game match of volleyball was more than handily won by Rajiv Hariom Bhatia's merry bunch by two sets to one and as a parting gesture that every one who was a part of which will remember till eternity and beyond; Akshay capped it all by treating the ITBP personnel to a sumptuous and lip smacking dinner/repast that more than left a lingering or then near heavenly after taste on their palates and every pore of their entire beings.......
 Notch one more up to the Khiladi Kumar and his utterly flattering and humanistic tendencies........

AN EVENING WORTH DYING FOR........

Their masterly; poetic; mesmerising; mellifluous; intoxicating; euphoric and uplifting creative collaborations have indeed been the stuff of legend and a lot more besides and this piece of information/news concerning these two legends is certainly music to the ears of an avowed fan like moi.......
 If the Hindi film or then should I say music industry grapevine is to be taken at face value; the nation's "eternal" and arguably finest bard Sampooran Singh Kalra (or then Gulzar Sahab) as he is better known may finally end up penning a few verses dedicated the everlasting and immortal memory of his dear departed comrade in arms ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh........
 According to sources intimately or closely connected with the proposed event slated to be held at a celebrated venue in the nation's commercial capital (Mumbai) later this evening and will see the official launch of the late Jagjit Singh's incomparable rendition of "Koi Fariyaad" as the reprised and revamped "Teri Fariyaad"........
 This once in a lifetime event more than adroitly planned; envisaged; envisioned and meticulously executed by the much envied Bhushan Kumar; Anubhav Sinha duo to coincide with the ghazal maestros fifth death anniversary will also herald the launching of the latest musical track of the much awaited "Tum Bin 2"............
 A strictly exclusive and cloistered strictly by invitation event only meant for the who's who of the Hindi film and music industry; this unforgettable evening more than appropriately titled "Tum Bin Jagjit Singh" will see an assembly of proven; tried and tested musical talents like Anup Jalota; Rekha Bhardwaj; Hariharan; Ankit Tewari; and last but not the least Talat Aziz gracing the occasion and paying their respectful and heartfelt homage to their predecessor in their own inimitable manner........
 Now here is certainly one evening that any and every two bit or then die hard ghazal afficionado would happily die and go to heaven and even much beyond for more than willingly.......

THE LAST FEW DAYS/WEEKS........

Life has more or lees been a roller coaster ride or then coasting between the sublime and ridiculous off late.......
 Yours truly arrived back in faithful old Bengaluru a little past midnight some two odd days back after having spent around eleven fateful; introspective; fretfully sweaty and mostly sleepless nights in the swelteringly hot and utterly dehydrating climes of one of my most despised cities (Chennai)........
 Yes; you did certainly read it right the first time around; I did well and truly spend the afore mentioned eleven odd days in Chennai almost solely ensconced within a typically modest and nondescript suburb of Kolathur in a seemingly furtive and increasingly desperate quest to put wheels beneath my long stagnant and largely moribund professional career.......
The typical hoity; toity; utterly repugnant; repulsive; medieval; conservative and seemingly racist attitude that pervades most if not all of Chennai got my goat this time around too and forced me to make my way back to the city of my birth/nativity for an enforced three week or so long break/hiatus just when things at long last promised to get moving in the right direction professionally........
 What is it with us native Indians and our age old predilection/infatuation with minding other people's business rather than their very own and poking their vicariously ugly and repulsive noses in affairs that are not even remotely connected with them by any yardstick of the imagination........
 Frankly; how is it anybody's business as to who saunters into their neighbour's house irrespective of their marital or then domestic status and the perceived or then existing relationship between the two of them as that well and truly is their and only their business (period) and should definitely not be an area of interest for either the fellow residents of your neighbourhood and especially a decrepit and decadent landlord who chooses to lend credence to utterly meaningless; fictitious and fanciful concocted figments of over fertile imaginations that have nothing better to do anyways and ask you to vacate your rental accommodation as a result of these nosey parkers utterly disdainful and meddlesome wranglings.........
Well; so much for me and my travails; the fact of the matter is that I am still on the lookout for that elusive professional opening that has eluded my sincerest and most earnest efforts in this regard for close to seven weeks now and once again appeal to your rational senses to send me a few pointers that would set me off in the right direction..........
 As regards my varied professional experiences; work history and so on and so forth; I humbly beseech you to refer to my previous more than eloquent and descriptive posts in this regard.........