HUMANITY vs SANITY

I have been travelling alone using Public Transport to Meerut, Ghaziabad and Delhi since 2007. I have perceived  the world and its people very closely. The things around me have changed frequently except one which no one can expect to have changed even after a millenium- "POSSESSION OF HUMAN MIND OVER THEIR HEARTS".


Everytime I travel by bus, it often happens that after having travelled a few miles an old person (be it a male or a female) or a mother with her l'il child boards the bus, he/she finds no vacant seat. Not even a single sitting soul is there to get up and offer the seat to either of them. No matter how old that standing person is...How precious the life of that l'il one on the lap of his/her caring but worrying mother is. She staggers....and is likely to fall hither and thither....but always keeps struggling to provide comfort to her l'il one.

• WHERE HAS THE HUMANITY GOT VANISHED ??
• WHY IS THE PURPOSE OF BEING BLESSED WITH THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING FORGOTTEN??

My wrathful yet pitiful eyes are accustomed to such almost daily happenings...The present youth has forgotten its responsibility which should rather have been shouldered for the welfare of the society.


"SEATS RESERVED FOR FEMALES" is visible to the present generation, but it soon forgets as to who is to be exactly involved under these "FEMALES"- the Girls or the Mothers carrying their children or the Old Women unable to counter the Inertia in Motion and at Rest. The young girls also try to bank upon it though they should not.


What should ita be called.....SANITY......?? that why should one leave his/her seat for the needy as every one on the seat has paid ticket to travel...!!!! OR should it be called the LACK OF HUMANITY / POSSESSION OF SANITY OVER HUMANITY......??


When I was a new traveller, first I did not understand these human beings and reacted nothing to such situations for a day or two. After that, I decided to initiate to solve this problem as I could not tolerate it having happened in front of my eyes. As soon as an old person or a mother carrying her l'il one boards the bus, my eyes are always stuck to him/her until he/she gets a seat. If no vacant seat is found, and I am sitting far from them, I move towards the next step, i.e., observing the nearby sitting people and waiting for them to leave their respective seats. If no one gets up, I move towards the FINAL STEP, i.e., leaving my own seat for the needy. After this, the whole atmosphere of bus gets changed. People start staring at me. Most often does it happen that soon a gentleman or a young lady leaves his/her seat for me either at the same moment or a few seconds before his/her final destination arrives. 
Then I feel that HUMANITY still exists in the hearts of people, but has  been possessed by SANITY....


The whole journey gets spent thinking about this only thing.....and soon comes to a halt.....But a question always remains there in my mind at last......."WHO WON finally......HUMANITY or SANITY..!!"

My PERSONAL INTERVIEW of IMT on 5th April 2011

PANEL-1 male and 2 female HR executives

FEMALE INTERVIEWER-You are from Modinagar....

MALE INTERVIEWER-Khushboo..Tell me 3 synonyms of your name

I-Fragrance............umm In English only or anyother language too?

MALE INTERVIEWER-Any language

I-MAHAK......umm umm Smell.."SWEET SMELL" 

(We all laughed together)

MALE INTERVIEWER-Very Good..Sweet Smell.hahahha...You are from Modinagar....Tell me the names of three big industries of Modinagar

I-Modi Sugar Mill...........Modi Revlon..........I know only two..these are the biggest one there....:)

MALE INTERVIEWER-But I need three

I- I don't know

MALE INTERVIEWER-What is unique about Modinagar?

I- Sir, It is a city where you can do shopping moving on a single road.There is no need to go here and there.

(We all laughed together)

MALE INTERVIEWER-Any thing else?

I- Its people...blah blah....Modi Mandir-the biggest landmark of modinagar....

MALE INTERVIEWER-Do you know D.K.Modi?

I-Yeah.The brother of U.K.Modi

MALE INTERVIEWER-Are you sure...brother?

I-Yes

MALE INTERVIEWER-Well, they are the cousin brothers.

I-Oh.Ok.

MALE INTERVIEWER-You have been Indian Oil Scholarship Achiever in 2005..What was that?

I- blah blah.....

MALE INTERVIEWER-You are pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science..What is computer?

I- blah blah..(I used technical terms)

MALE INTERVIEWER-You have delivered Computer Education in a Village through Computer Shiksha Camp in 2009, and you have been the Co-ordinator of a National Conference too...hmmm..So why Computer Science?

I- As Computer Science Engineering includes Programming in which we have to analyse the requirement, develop a logic, and then implement it..So it leads to the enhancement of Analytical Skills. It helps one stay touch with what is going on in IT sector blah blah,,as it creates immense interest in technology....blah blah

MALE INTERVIEWER-Your favourite subject?

I-Data Structures.

MALE INTERVIEWER-Tell me some types of data structures.

I- Linear and non-linear. Linear includes arrays.Non-linear includes Linked list,tree...blah blah

MALE INTERVIEWER-Since the inception of 2011, a number of events have taken place across the world.Name any three.

I- Egypt (Hosni Mubarak ..blah blah)......then Libya (Gaddafi...blah blah) These are the two Middle-east countries where the entire mob turned against these two in order to oust them from their so-called dictatorship, and proved that we all are living in a democratic world. blah blah 

3rd event..I would like to tell about India...ummm India won Cricket World Cup hahhaaha (Interviewer laughed and interrupted)

MALE INTERVIEWER- Ok..Leave it....tell me what happened yesterday?

I- Cricket trophy was supposed to be fake (We all laughed together)

MALE INTERVIEWER-Except this...something at 5pm

I- (I forgot that there had been earthquake in soma parts of north india)..I don't know

FEMALE INTERVIEWER-One of your hobbies is MIMICRY.....Can you do it right now?

I- I mimic my TEACHERS and FRIENDS.

(All were surprised, and said "TEACHERS"!!!)

FEMALE INTERVIEWER-You mimic your teachers too?

I-Yeah. I do in their presence, but not without their permission (We all laughed again).

FEMALE INTERVIEWER-Not any actor/actress?

I-No m'am. I can mimic the people's REAL WORLD activities...but not the REEL WORLD's  b'coz nothing is real on the Silver Screen.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER-Very Good.Very nice.Good.

MALE INTERVIEWER-You have won three AWARDS at INTER-STATE level. One of them is in English Poetry.So u write poems...!!

I-yeah..I do. I have even brought some of my poems here. Shall I ?

MALE INTERVIEWER-So would you like poetry here or an extempore?

I-Anything you like.

MALE INTERVIEWER-No.We are asking you.What are you more comfortable with? Anyways, we want to listen just first 2 lines of any of your poems.

I- Ohk..These are a few lines from one of my poems -AN ORDEAL OF ODYSSEY..

LIFE IS AN ODYSSEY,

THAT BRINGS ECSTASY AND AGONY,

STANDING IN THE MORASS OF EUPHORIA AND DISAPPOINTMENT,

I FACED MELANCHOLY SEEMING TO BE POIGNANT.

ALL INTERVIEWERS-Very nice.Excellent.Ohk.Thank you Khushboo.All the best.

I-Thank you.

SAYONARA 2010...!!!!!

Only a few moments are left.....What if one more year is all set to fade away from our lives..!! Some events leave an indelible impressions in our minds..... 


Heyyiii 2010..!!! The time has come to bid you a good-bye.... 


I enjoyed myself to the fullest on your cozy lap.....I tried to follow what I learnt from your Predecessor-2009....And the time has come to endeavor to develop a camaraderie with your successor, and enjoy the next 365 days with and within it....... 


Since I have opened my eyes, every day has been like a PEDAGOGUE to me.......Your Pedagogy has always been contributed by my family.....my mentors.....my comrades.....and the entire world...... I developed so many faces under your shadow..."The face of a Daughter....a Sister.....a Pupil.....a Friend....". And this is your pedagogy which has always enlightened a path for me to maintain all these relationships yet so far....


At times, I was thwarted by obstacles....I staggered...even I stumbled down.....But these obstacles always cleaved a way after sometime to let me move ahead...and choose the best road to be taken...........


2010....!!! You have been one of my most memorable years yet so far....In your 365 days, my life was confronted by some delightful, but saddest moments too......But the former one always followed the latter one......CHEERS...!!!!!
"IF WINTER COMES, SPRING CAN NEVER BE FAR BEHIND" has always been in my mind........


This year too, I experienced every color of life....Being at the Bottom, I thought of reaching the Zenith many a time......Then gradually came Horizon........and my goal to reach the Zenith got transformed into that of separating it with the Horizon..............


You had been so knowledgeable for me throughout your 365 parts that I got the insight of WHERE MY FUTURE EXACTLY LIES......................


Lying beneath your cozy shelter, I got more inclined towards spirituality....Infact, I applied it in several spheres of my on-going life......succeeded but, at times, failed too....This is what we exactly call "The DIFFERENCE between A HUMAN BEING and A GREAT"...............
But I promise you to put my best efforts in transforming myself from the former to the latter, guided by the teachings, I have been imparted, by yet...........


Last but not the least, I would like to express my gratitude to GOD for making you a part of my life, and thereby, making it so memorable and special too.....I always want to be showered with such blessings of God so that I can keep following the right path throughout my life...............

FOUR HOURS of BOREDOM...!!

PROLOGUE------->>>
THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO A GIRL (my former friend)  OF B.TECH-BIOTECH...............IT WAS THE LAST DAY OF OUR  1ST  INTERNAL EXAMS OF 2ND SEMESTER..................SO ALL HOSTLERS WERE ALL SET TO LEAVE FOR THEIR HOME....

AS SHE BELONGED TO GHAZIABAD, SHE OFFERED ME A LIFT IN HER TATA SUMO TO MODINAGAR.......................................BUT BEFORE THAT, SHE HAD A LITTLE PIECE OF WORK IN MEERUT...SO SHE ASKED ME TO WAIT IN COLLEGE FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR................................

I AGREED.......................IT WAS 12 NOON...

TIME WAS PASSING..........tick....tick......

1 O'CLOCK......:o :o

1.05......1.10......1.15......1.20......1.25.....1.26.....1.27....1.28.....1.29.....1.30 :o :o ENOUGH!!!!

I CALLED HER........THIS WAS "A MOMENT OF SHOCK".....HER SISTER RECEIVED HER PHONE (IN GHAZIABAD)....--"SHE IS AT HOME....CAME AT 1.10".....haaaawwww!!!! She ditched me..!!!!! :O :P

I WAS FEELING GIDDINESS THAT DAY..UNABLE TO GO BACK HOME ALONE.....TILL THEN, ALL OF MY COULLEAGUES, WHO ASKED ME TO JOIN THEM WHILE GOING BACK HOME, HAD ALREADY LEFT.....B'COZ I HAD DENIED FOR THE SAME :( .......THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER MADE:o:o..

NOW I WAS ALL ALONE IN THE COLLEGE...

My eyes were looking for a figure to accompany me in my hour of boredom...:O:O.........But could not find even a single one.......the ether was silent.....though seemed as if giggled on my fate....:O It was not only the ether,,,but also the flora...:( :(

Once again....An effort to catch someone...:O :O but where!!!!!!!!!!! :O :O mmm mmm...yess CANTEEN....!!

EMPTY.....:(

Now MY ANXIETY HAD CROSSED ITS ALARMING LEVEL.....but what could have been done now!!!!!!!!...I HAD TO SPEND THE REMAINING 4 HOURS IN COLLEGE......bu how!!!!! : O :O :O  :O

So..............................:) ;)

A quest for college bus.....!!!! mmm...mmmmm!! aahaaa...got it....

WHILE I WAS SITTING IN MY COLLEGE BUS, I PENNED A POEM DEDICATED TO WHAT SHE DID TO ME......

HERE IT IS.........

That day I felt as if,

All sorts of miseries of life had pervaded me.

An hour of waiting,

Followed by three hours spent in repenting.

I tried to come to limelight,

I endeavored to speak out my plight.

But I had become like a withered leaf,

For she had betrayed me that was the only grief.

My soul had been strangled in the bog of treacherous world,

The sole world seemed to be sanguinary of innocence,

This universal truth in my eyes was still blurred.

I had no time for repentance.

A sense of avenge had filled my sacred heart,

How profound the truth does hurt.

I promised myself to be as the whole world is,

The existing parsimony, meanness and silliness taunted me like honeybees.

I cursed myself for the moment,

When I suffered waiting in the scorching heat.

Still when I recall the moment,

The moment that occurred to me as a juncture of life,

Makes my soul vehement.

To defeat her heart with comment’s knife.

I had set my eyeballs at the door for her in anticipation,

And lastly succeeded in my innocence’s cremation.

Lulled by four hours of boredom,

Made my heart again humdrum.

A lesson to learn from it would be a bit hard,

Would I be able to evade from the innocence’s orchard!!

                                                                           

                                                                                                   KHUSHBOO KANSAL

                                                                                                   23^rd FEB,08 [AT 1400 HRS]

The ORIGIN of being MASTER IN MIMICRY..

An interest is worthless unless one goes crazy about it, and it becomes a TALENT...
The story revolves around those golden days of my ALMA-MATER....I was a student of class-9....It is the time when a child learns how to make relationships so smooth not only with his/her mates, but also with the elders (teachers)...The taciturn behavior with the teachers seems to come to an end at this age....One starts feeling nostalgia while heeding to next class....So did it happen to me (during the last days of february 2004)....Our annual exams were approaching...It was my second last day in class-9....Our Physical Health Education lecture was in its full swing....The only thing that used to allure the students of our class the most was the KILLING BEAUTY of our teacher-Mrs.Reema Sethi....That day, no one seemed to be in the mood of studying any more....M'am, showing her empathic attitude :P :P, took the initiative that should have been taken from our side very earlier of closing the books.....keeping them aside....starting to crack jokes.....Till then, I had been famous for CRACKING THE BESTest ;) JOKES in the school....Even I was not acquainted with what was all set to happen in the class because of my activities....as I was unknown of my ability to mimic someone......who cares if one mimics his/her family members at home!!!!....:P :P
I liked the way M'AM used to teach us.....Students began shouting-----"KHUSHBOO..GET UP..N START CRACKING THE JOKES....U R THE BEST"......So did I....After cracking around 10 jokes...A prank stroke to my mind...was unaware of its consequences....:P I said-"M'am ..I like the way you teach us..Shall I do the mimicry of your way of teaching!! (formally) :P"...She nodded to it positively...Nobody had ever expected that even a topper student can do this way....I began my work..:P On the one hand, I was busy in concentrating over my activity....And turning my pale face with eye-balls towards M'am on the other :P :P...
But the things went smoothly...The whole lecture cleaved its way to let me go through my activity..:P
Everybody enjoyed a lot.....Next day (the last day of class-9), as expected, this news got spread throughout the department...."SOMEONE MIMICS THE TEACHERS VERY WELL"...:P :P
Now everything began to happen unexpectedly......All teachers asked me to mimic them in their respective lectures.....I had got a new way of amusing the entire class besides myself......"Cracking the jokes" was soon forbidden....because performing something LIVE in front of a person (teacher),who soon used to become a taciturn,was a new experience.....:) ;)
In this way, my unknown talent got a zealous path to move on.....:) This continued till class-12....The students had got a new way to jettison the boring Substitute Lectures.....;) I never practised before the performanceof the same....It was just a game of "the ability to observe".....though never observed anyone in order to mimic him/her...:O :O
The same story continued in COLLEGE LIFE too.....During my first year days, our chemistry teacher "HIMANSHU SIR/MADAM".... the latter label would be more appropriate..:P :P lolz.....So how could I lose this chance!!! It has been the best part ever of my MIMICRY PASSION....:P :P
I got deja-vu....when it became a daily routine for the students and me to demand  and supply for MIMICRY respectivily..:P
Things went on the way they should have been till 3rd year....Then came the "CAREER LAUNCHER, GHAZIABAD".....Now no one (the readers) can expect as to what would have happened there.....As doing the mimicry of my teachers(only) had now become a CAKE-WALK for me, after spending a few days there...experiencing the way our teachers taught.......a longing invoked within me to start my "NOBLE WORK" of MIMICRY...Thanks to our QUANT/DI mentor-JAI SIR..who planned for "3 HOURS OF EXTRA-ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS" in CL(Gzb) BOOTCAMP--"A CAMP WHERE AROUND 120 STUDENTS STUDIED TOGETHER UNDER THE SAME ROOF FOR 8 HOURS WITH FULTOO MASTI"...
No one would have ever imagined that such things can ever go in a coaching centre...Sir divided the students in different groups with their respective group leaders....He announced the day prior to that "ACTIVITY SESSION"----"EVERY GROUP HAS TO PERFORM A GROUP ACTIVITY..N SOME SOLO ACTIVITIES TOO"....This was the moment I had been waiting for a long time (MIMICRY...yummiiie)....I informed my group leader about it....The day passed very fast....Next day, evreyone was indulged in asking others about the activity they were likely to perform...Answers came like-"Singing...Skit...blah blah"..I told everyone about my plan...Everyone was astonished to know about it, and was excited too to see "HOW A GIRL CAN MIMIC HER TEACHERS IN THEIR PRESENCE"..Several challenges were made after getting to know about my famous mimicry through my college mates--"LETS SEE..HOW WELL U MIMIC THEM".....The first half of BOOTCAMP passed very slowly..:P :P...Then came the next half..-------

DESCRIPTION--
Fortunately, Jai Sir called my TEAM LEADER-APARNA GOEL first to perform....What he had brought with him was a HANDYCAM and a CYBERSHOT....Aparna di told him about the activities to be performed by her group..."A GIRL WILL DO MIMICRY AND  PLAY A MEMORY GAME"..I was very excited for the same....
Now some excerpts from the conversation between Jai Sir and me prior to my performance..----
SIR : Do well...bcoz i will record all the performances and upload the video and photos on CL Gzb's website..OKAY!!!

ME : Yeas sir...But what to do first??...MIMICRY or MEMORY GAME memorizing around 20 words spoken randomly by a volunteer which I will repeat in sequence...,And also the calender of 2010...!!

SIR : First MIMICRY...then MEMORY GAME after the performance of all other students..

ME : Sir...Pehle kiski MIMICRY KARUN???

SIR : As you wish...(It seemed as if he thought that I would do the mimicry of some Actors :P :P lolzzz)

Then I made the announcement....

ME : Okay..Jai sir ki mimicry hone waali h...So plz be quiet..:P :P

(After that.....the viewers can explain about that MIMICRY...Then came the fate of SWETA MAM ..n then VAANI MAM at stake..:P :P lozzz....I did their mimicry too)...:P :P
But the statement made my Sir to upload the video and the photos on the CL website never came to an existence..Perhaps, the video recording of his Mimicry had been the reason for the same..lolz

This is how I got my wish of MIMICRY in CL (GZB) too fulfilled......:P :P

In the END.....This was how my PASSION FOR MIMICRY originated.....:) :)