2012...Not quite the end...

2012, an action based disaster film, directed by Roland Emmerich, released this Friday... This much awaited film received a huge response from the audience, be it in mumbai or in India or in any other state... The mass devastation and destruction that we would be facing if the Mayan calender goes right, is what the whole story is about... And since India also plays an important role in the film, the movie gets more interesting and keeps us gripped to our seats for the entire two and a half hours... Its a really great and a must-watch movie... Some splendid scenes of 2012:

So, what exactly is a Mayan Calender... The Mayan Calendar is something profoundly different than just a system to mark off the passage of time. The Mayan Calendar is above all a prophetic calendar that may help us understand the past and foresee the future. It is a calendar of the Ages that describes how the progression of Heavens and Underworlds condition the human consciousness and thus the frames for our thoughts and actions within a given Age.
The Mayan Calender is not predicting the end of the world 2012, but the start of a new era.

Thus, the fact, or the belief that the world would end in 2012, is just an illusion, or in other words, misinterpretation of the Mayan Calender.... We all will live... and we would live long... yeah,definitely...

Good Bye Phyan !!!

The unusual occurrence of rain had definitely pleased the mumbaikars. The cloudy sky and sprinkling rain gave us the much awaited break from the scorching heat... Little did we know that this was just the silence before the storm.. the Phyan ...
Phyan derives its name from Myanmar, and the Burmese word means a cherry which has fallen off a tree. It seems, this time, it is a vicious fruit from the weather gods. After having brought a terrible destruction in Ratnagiri, when Phyan turned towards us... we finally thought that the Mahapralay of 2012 was to begin from Mumbai... Fear gripped our hearts !!!
The government got wise and immediately ordered all schools,colleges and offices to close down by 2.oo p.m. The unsuspected halfday was another add-on to the happiness of those who just love the way weather-gods play with us... Some of us returned home... many others crowded near Worli sea-face and other beaches to see the Cyclone themselves....
We waited.. and waited.. and waited a still more... and did manage to witness a few high-tides, but Phyan was not even in the distant visibility... Finally, the news was confirmed that Phyan had lost all its strength during its journey, and hence wont be appearing in Mumbai...
Hushhh... Thank God for that !!!
Well, those of us who look at things in a comical way kept saying... "Phyan was a good enough name.. But it was in Burmese... Hence it skipped mumbai.. fearing that some politicians might not allow a non-marathi cyclone to enter here... "
LOL !!!

Marathi Mantra...

The only big and breaking news that rocked the news channels yesterday was that of Abu Azmi being slapped by MNS leaders during the oath ceremony going on in the House... Reason being that, Azmi was taking the oath in Hindi, when all other leaders had taken the oath in Marathi... MNS chief Raj Thackeray had previously appealed to all legislators to take the oath of office in Marathi.The majority did, but not everyone obliged. The ones who took the oath in hindi included Congress's Rameshsingh Thakur and Amin Patel, as well as Baba Siddique..., who were spared by the MNS leaders...
This so called partiality, was not acceptable to leaders of the other parties, and they demanded strict action to be taken against the accused...
Finally, the ceremony ended, and as usual, all the leaders returned to their respective homes for a good night's sleep.
So, all this drama makes us think, have we chosen the wrong leaders yet this time again... Is language a bigger issue that the dying farmers or the crying civilians... Were the leaders truly justified in what they had done... We, the mumbaikars, are all waiting for these questions to be answered... but the most important question is... WHO will answer these questions ???