I want the feel,
Feel of music of sea shore,
Feel of fresh air, caressing me all over.
I want the feel,
Feel of scale of masses,
Feel of being in lot, and shining out of lot.
I want the feel,
Feel of multi faces of life.
Feel of multi dimensions, conquering them all.
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This is one of a situation where in Need, Comfort and Pleasure are priced at same price in the country. Onion, tomato priced at 65 Rupees a kg., petrol priced @ 65 rupees a litre and beer priced @ 65 rupees a bottle. What a situation J .
Since the day government decided to decontrol the prices of petroleum products; Petrol is on fire ….. Since then It has been at least five incidents of marketing companies increasing the prices of petrol. Petrol becomes scapegoat every time the oil marketing companies shout on the losses incurred in selling the petro products. Diesel and other petro products hardly feel the brunt & escape the price hike as the government machinery wanted to tame the inflation.
Petrol prices have already surged, inflation moving at a faster pace, commodities on fire, Shouldn’t the citizen look out for a win-win situation in this case and seek certain relaxation to the common man.
I exactly don’t remember since when, but definitely from several years; every one of us is claiming 800 Rupees as a conveyance allowance. Which means “SARKAR” doesn’t account 800 as a part of salary, as "SARKAR" thinks that this is at least what everyone would be spending every month to reach his/her work place from the place of residence.
Do you think that 800 rupees as a conveyance allowance is sufficient in today’s scenario? Everyone at least spend 1-2 litre on a daily basis in commuting to the workplace, 20-25 working days in a month generates a bill of 1300-1800, this is what we are talking about small cities wherein the workplaces are not that far, but still traffic jams and bad road condition dent the petrol tank and in turn commuter pocket. In big cities the consumption is much higher and beyond speculations
I remember petrol being 20 rupees a litre in early 2000's, at that juncture this allowance was appropriate, but today petrol is tripled from that level, now shouldn’t the conveyance allowance tripled.
The income tax slabs can be also altered based on inflation and other indexes, for every individual there is a specific tax slab and tax liability assuming that the other factors, parameters and things remains constant. But as all the constant factors have changed drastically the tax liabilities for the individuals should come down. Logically Government should not ask for the same tax commitment seeing the high inflations.
With New Year set in there were many indicators to give us a glimpse of the future trends, indicating a not very promising and encouraging year ahead. Struggle for food, clothing and shelter will be there and common man will suffer in tug of war between the inflationary prices and affordability.
Indicator reflecting the affordability going down in the year 2011 being the high inflation figure; which is beyond anyone’s control. Globally prices of major commodities are surpassing all previous level indicating a tough time ahead.
Affordability for food, clothing and shelter is under pressure, Area under cultivation is falling rapidly on a yearly basis whereas cities areas are expanding exponentially. Housing societies are booming across; still affordable housing is far a sight.
Onion prices rising to an unprecedented level blame to crop failure or monsoon failure; days are not far away when you will find guests visiting you with 1 Kg of onion instead of sweets. Onion which was never as precious as today and if anyone finds an onion lying anywhere its money equivalent is 5 INR.
It is not Exaggeration if you find people exchanging onions instead of currency coins, if the prices of onion and other commodities continue to rise like this. Different types and sizes of onions and commodities will replace currency coins, Onion will be tagged for the prices and denomination depending on the size and quality and one can barter the purchase by exchanging commodities instead of real money
I never wished a New Year like this, better was 2007 where things were under control and affordability. Shouldn’t you wish for 2007 status quo and shouldn’t you wish for an Happy & affordable New Year
Don’t know why, but the New Year didn’t started on a very great note. Might be as I was in a small town and the atmosphere in the city was not that energizing and revealing which could make one feel the New Year dawn.
31st Night was like any normal winter night of a small town, though some young groups; who were charged up heavily were zooming across the city, screaming and enjoying. The charge and energy was because of but obvious reason "booze"!!! which anyone can easily recognize, for them also 31st night was unlike any other night except the factor "New Year" was on high, they were tipsy and were on there highs…!!!.
In small cities you hardly find families having gala time on such events, might be because the culture of small cities where partying hard and in public is not taken in a good spirit or families not finding environment very conducive. The Responsibility to make others feel like 31st Night and announcing the New Year click, resides with few party animals having all good reasons to booze and doll-toll and on such occasion they feel like “Nirvana”.
Life doesn’t changes at all; neither for the party animal and nor for the socials. Next morning social animal gets busy with the social commitments where as the party animals are under the hangover of 31st booze; trying to recover and gearing up for the New Year first day celebrations huchhhh…….
It has been almost 20 days since I last participated on my Blog, well the reasons being genuinely busy schedule, loads of work, apart from one important family marriage function. Though I had an earlier experience of managing big events like marriage all alone but that being my brothers’ marriage, was easy to manage.
I don’t know why but my experience says that it’s always easier to manage boys’ marriage as compared to girls. Blame it the society, culture or rituals; Grooms family is in less fuss-hussy as compared to brides’ family and so was I during my brother’s marriage, though there were lot of coordination, follow-ups, checks and execution involved but I could manage them with an ease.
This time I represented the bride’s side; as my sister in law was getting married, and I was in charge for the entire 2 days function. Huff…. Major responsibilities of making the things move smoothly, right from shopping, taking care of baratis comforts and completing all the marriage related process successfully (approximately 15).
Rigorous planning and lot of paper work helped me in putting the things in the proper sequence and place. Baratis satisfaction was not my aim; instead my aim was that the Baratis should feel Delighted. Everything was programmed properly and supported by backup plans and I could see series of event occurring one after the other which they were programmed for. Everybody from the other side was delighted and was congratulating me for the set of arrangements and hospitality.
Everything went as per plan and schedule; I could sense delightment and satisfaction everywhere and in the mean time I started gearing up for winding the outstanding things. Some glimpse of tears I could see in my mother in law and wife’s eye but those were genuinely blessings for the newlywed couple.