Some Fab Bong GenX Songs - We may have many faults...But when it comes to music...nobody can beat bongs!

To my prized collection

Life has a strange way of teaching us lessons in friendship and trust. People who you never thought you could get along with, turn out to be the ones with the golden hearts. Then of course, you go ahead and make serious judgmental errors. It is hard to accept failure. But when you look back at all the writings on the wall, you are just glad to have learnt your lesson in time. That is when you remember your true friends and family who accept all your weirdness, put up with your crankiness, share the madness and love you nevertheless.

In our increasingly hectic lives, we often forget to thank and say "I love you" to those who really matter. This post is dedicated to all my real buddies for always being there for me when I needed you most. For somehow saying just the right words when I was at my lowest. For all the fights and making-ups. For calling me names that got my feet back on the ground! For discounting all my mistakes and harsh words. For never allowing me to mince words :). Celebrating the essence of our friendship cannot be just an annual event. Just a few words from you guys, light up my entire day. Your friendships make everyday of my life special. Thank you guys and gals - for just being you.

Love from 'yours truly'.

Enlightening

To dream or to do?

An unfortunate legacy imposed on every Indian and more so a bong ever since one is born. Why does it always have to be a choice between Gandhi or Subhash? The fight for ideologies totally defeats the purpose. It isn't about respective success or failure either.

Both men had a dream and had the courage to follow through on it in whichever fashion they saw fit. That was all it was. The hype needs to be cut out at some point. So why not now?

Ideological justifications are for the lazy and weak-hearted. It is easiest to hide behind the excuse of ideology.

Our generation can do better. Our actions and not choices make us who we are. It is up to us therefore, to move out of this tragic situation and commit to doing rather than resting on past laurels.

India's Royal Jeopardy

Considering the spate of foolhardy statements by Rahul Gandhi over the years now, one can safely assume that he is on a rampage to compete against himself when it comes to stupidity. Perhaps his party high command bases his performance appraisal on an yearly quota of silly and immature statements made in public and a year on year hike on the number of such.

While being groomed for the PMO perhaps, he has been assigned on a blunder-fest fastrack. His success is perhaps measured as a function of the number of gravely-misinformed statements versus corresponding public outcries. As India's government sponsored royal family eagerly awaits the coronation of its heir apparent, we citizens are forced to bear a nail biting agony.

In keeping with the legacy of our political prince, perhaps one day Rahul Gandhi's autobiography will read - My Experiments with STUPIDITY.