Are you an Indian? enough?!

I was really hurt today when i saw saw my fellow INDIANS not standing upto the National Anthem.
Spending my last few days of internship in Nepal and then it's a good bye forever & so have been doing some crazy stuff lately. No, i won't go into the details ;)
So i went to this early morning show on saturday of the latest relese "MARRY KOM" which is an amazing movie by the way and you should probably go and see it.
At the end of this movie they play the Indian National Anthem and an onscreen message appears that 'Please stand to respect the National Anthem', and so i did which comes so naturally if you come from India, isn't it? For me it's like sugar to my ears (since i'm a sweet crazy) i will even stand if someone whistles or hums the National Anthem. But there inside the movie hall i was really surprised to see that other than me and my friend no one else stood during the anthem. OK fine i was in Nepal and i don't expect them to stand but where is the National spirit of the Indians present inside that hall, my fellow interns, college students none rose to pay respect, and thats really saad. What is happening to our country?! Has the education level become so low that they are not even able  to teach the students to stand up during the National Anthem, pay some respect to mother INDIA. For we have been taught and brought up in such a manner that we'll even stand to honour if some other country's national anthem is being played. That's how it should be, that's how you pay respect, that's how you make relationships and not by being selfish jerk. C'mon have some respect for your beautiful country which is RICH in every possible way, you just need to have eyes to see that. This is INDIA and i'm proud of it's rich heritage.

I love my country.
That's all i had to say.... this place has thought me a lot and this was one of the biggest lessons that i got is, if you can't respect your country your country will not respect you. People like you deserve to stand i line, people like you deserve to be drained out by corruption and people like you should end up having a poor and miserable life because the riches of our land was not inherited for you. Jai Hind!

A small day

Waking up at 8 already shortened up my day by an hour that day. I knew i only had a small number of cases in the ward, 1 to be exact. As the day progressed the sun came out of the foggy sky shining in our medicine opd. "I'll be back soon, till then you stay in the OPD" my supervising Doctor said. And after a short interval he was back with a tall, fair athletic built man with blonde hair and golden beard and next to him was a lady matching his height and built. He was wearing a sea weed green cargo with a royal blue T-shirt and she was in casuals. Both of them having typical features of englishmen were in fact really from U.K.
"They are from 'The Discovery channel' to shoot my interview about the smallest man in the World" sir tried to answer my question marked face.

World's Smallest man

Followed them the SMALLEST man in the world in a wheel chair driven by his brothers. This was a man with height of not more than a feet and  a age of 72 years. He couldn't walk around attributing to his extra fragile bones since his childhood.

Discovery Crew

I tried to make conversation with the Discovery people and came to know they are shooting 10 different & unique stories around the world and each will be shown as a 1 hour show in the near future on air. I was assigned to help them around and meet their requirements of background people and different locations for the shoot. Small did i know then that this will turn out to be something outstanding. Once the interview of my supervising doctor was over he left and next shoot was done at another location about how investigations were performed on the smallest person alive.
After all this one of crew member walks up to me and starts talking in a very casual mode "Yeah, almost every thing is over, we have all that we needed. We got his checked, got all the investigations done. Now we are just left with the last part which is we gifting him a hearing aid and we need you to put it on him while we shoot it."

Discovery crew

"WHAT!" - they took me in by a huge surprise, i continued "No i can't do it, i'm not even a audiometrist. I'm nervous" But alas they didn't listen and 5 mins later i was being pictured putting a hearing aid in the smallest man in the worlds ear. He was very happy after that and was listening very clearly. Then with a warm friendly handshake they all left thanking me for all the help and company.
The day was small indeed, a small stay with a small man and a small role made it Large, Xtra Large i'd rather say. I played a part in a show which is soon to be aired on the international television around the world was all i needed to know for a sound sleep that night without worrying about it to be small or big. I don't know if they will keep me or edit me out but i have lived that day that moment - no matter how small it was, the memory of that feeling makes it immortal.

Close to Nature

Adventurous New year begins with our last minute plan to "CHITWAN National Park Reserve". On the eve of new year a spontaneous decision making ends up with 7 of us in a van to Chitwan on the very 1st day of the year.

The sky was clear and river was calm when we reached for boating after having a mouthful at the local restaurant. Unknown of what was about to come we sat in the low, single rowed canoe. 10 of  us and a boatman. So slowly we start off having a adventurous beginning of the new year into the deeps and very soon we were frozen below the sun with the sight of a 8 feet alligator at not more than a distance of 30 feet from us. It laid there like a statue at the shore warming it's cold blood under the sun. We could tell it was real and not a statue when it snapped its mouth with us crossing by.

That ecstatic view automatically made us reach our cameras and seal down the moment for ever. Ans then for the next 30 minutes it kept on coming... first 8, then 9, 10 and so on. Largest we would have ever seen so closely, it's a different issue on the TV. And then there were the small ones also, it was a croc pit. On one hand we were shit scared that why no one warned us beforehand and on the other the Adrenaline rush made it quite a fun trip. Maybe reaching the land was the best part of the trip but then again we couldn't wait to go back in again.
From there we reached our next tour point - 'Elephant Ride' in the jungle. 4 of us on the back of a girl elephant (i know girl for the mahavat told me) and then through the jungle ducking our heads at branches and seeing no more than the common jungle deer and the spotted deer but it was equally fun. Not lucky enough to see the famous "One horned Rhino" has surely planned out a next trip of the jungle very soon. The hot summer when the Rhino comes to drink at the pond. It will be a night well spend at the mid jungle tree house also a good treat for the bird spotters.

Chitwan was truly remarkable a day and tired of all day's journey we had a quite time on our way back in the van but all of us were glad that we made this plan. Looking forward to a adventure filled year ahead.

A Happy Day 1st Jan 2014