Sunday 2 December 2012

FIR-Mahabharat Crossover (Dedicated to GOPI)


Kunti introduces her newly wed daughter-in-law Draupadi to Hastinapur. I am presenting the entire fight in FIR context. It starts with introducing the spicy-tongued Draupadi in the court of Dritrashtra as the newly wedded Daughter-in-law and then comes a big fight amongst everyone.

Kunti: Pranaam Jeshth shree Dritrashtra Maharaj is the….
She is my daughter-in-law from aaj is the…

Draupadi: Well, my pranaam to all is the,
 please don’t stare at the wall is the…..

Kunti: Is se pehhle sab dede koi reaction is the.
Let me give you har ek ka introduction is the……

Yeh hai Maata Gandhari is the,
Inke bĂȘte padenge tum pe bhaari is the…..

Gandhari: Putra vati bhava. Akhand Saubhagyawati bhava…….

Kunti: Yeh hai Duryodhan /Dushashan tumhare Devar is the,
Dyut kreeda bhavan mein dikhayenge asli tevar is the..…..

Draupadi: What are you saying is the,
I am not going to bear that pain is the……

Kunti: Yeh hai  Mahatma Vidur is the….
Jo nahi hote hai satya se kabhi door is the…..

Draupadi:
Tumhare satya ki main lungi kabhi na kabhi test is the…..
Please don’t take trouble, now go and rest is the….

Kunti: Aur yeh hai Bheeshma Pitamaah is the,
 inhe raaj karne ki nahi hai koi chaah is the……

Draupadi: Pranaam dadaji is the……
(Bheeshma gives a strange expression)

Draupadi (to kunti):
 Sasu maa, yeh kaala shaks kaun hai itna sad is the,
Is he retard or is he mad is the???

Kunti: Yeh hai Ang Raj Karna is the,
 Inko hua hai sun Burn is the……

Draupadi: Well dude Bheem is the,
 Ang-raj ke liye laao sun burn ka cream is the……


Karna: Mujhe pe mat karo upkaar, tum bhi ho Kaali is the….
Paach husbands wali tum ho Panchaali is the….

Draupadi: Well bro Soot Putra is the……
Kutte ko Gujarati mein kehte hain Kutra is the…..

Kunti: Yeh hai tumhaara Jeth toh mat karo fight is the,
Day ke baad aati hai night is the…..

Shakuni:  Well, Draupadi beta, you have not touched my feet is the,
Ab main karunga Gambling mein cheat is the……

Draupadi: Bread ke saath achcha lagta hai jam is the,
Tumhara bura hoga anjaam is the….


Kunti:
Tum sab ho mote-aur tagde is the…
Meri bahu se mat karo jhagde is the….
Mere saath chal Draupadi beta is the,
Yeh yug nahi hai Tretaa is the…



Duryodhan: Dafaa ho…..Ab milte hai in the game of Dice is the,
Pandavo ki life mein Draupadi banke aayi hai Spice is the….

Yudhishthir: Anuj Braata, mat karo mujhko challenge is the,
You are very wicked and also very strange is the….

(The next day they meet in the Druit Kreeda Bhavan, the Dice game hall)
Yudhishthir: Well bro, Don’t try to act smart is the,
Game khelna tum log karo start is the

Shakuni: Duryodhan ki ore se main fekunga Dice is the,
Antarctica main hoti hai bahot Ice is the…..

Duryodhan: Tum sab bhaai lag jaaoge on gamble is the,
Ladies ko respect karna is in Indian Preamble is the….

Arjun: Ladies ki respect ki tum toh naa hi karo baat is the…
Nahi toh uth jaayega tumpe mera haath is the….

Yudhishthir: Bheem mat karo gussa is the….
Waise bhi tere dimaag mein hai Bhoosa is the

Karna: Hum jaayenge jeet is the……
Aur lenge tum paanchon ko peet is the…
(They win the game and the Pandavas lose)

Dushashan: Ab lagenge 4 bhaai daav pe is the,
Lagana shuru karo davaa ghaav pe is the…

Yudhishthir: Kuch nahi keh raha hu kyunki tum ho mere braata priya is the,
Warna yaad rakho hum sab bhi hai Kshatriya is the….

Shakuni: Tum haar gaye ho game is the,
Don’t be wile, be tame is the….

Duryodhan: Ab kya hai tumhare paas is the?
Bhaaiyon k alawa bhi koi hai khaas is the….??

Yudhishthir: Well, bro…..Tum mujhe itna bhadkaaoge yadi is the,
Lagata hu main daav pe Draupadi is the…

(They lose Draupadi too)

Arjun: Brata shree, yeh aap nahi jaante ek aurat ki peeda is the….
You lost her in Dyut Kreeda is the…..

Nakul: Well bro, this is not good is the,
Bhaiyya Bheem is crazy for food is the.

Karna: Well Yudhishthir,  you have lost all is the…..
Call that arrogant Draupadi into the hall is the…..

The name of our continent is Asia is the,
Draupadi ko main kahunga Veshya is the…..

Arjun: Yaad rakho dusht, mera naam hai Arjun is the…..
Zyada bologe toh chus lunga tumhaara khoon is the…..

Duryodhan: Oye gadhe, idiot khacchar is the….
Now your status is less than a machchar is the….

Dushashan, please call that aurat is the,
Jiski hui mujhe andhaa bolne ki jurrat is the….

(Draupadi is dragged to the court by hair. She is struggling and Dushashan does not listen)
Dushashan: You are our daasi is the….
Bade bhaiyya ko hui hai Khaansi is the.

Karna: You are living in Asia is the,
I will call you Veshya is the…..


Draupadi: KARNA!!!!!  Mere gusse ki dabaaiye hai tumne chaanp is the,
Ab main tumhe deti hu shraap is the……

Duryodhan: Well bro, Dushashan is the,
Kar lo is Ghamandi aurat ka vastraharan is the…..

Chalaao yeh gaadi is the,
Kheench lo iski saadi is the….

Bheem: Tujhaaaaa…………………….

Yudhishthir: Shaant Bheem …….Shaant……Krodh….tum krodhit ho……

Bheem: Meri patni ka vastraharan ho raha hai…Kaise na hou Krodhit?

Nakul: Haan Bhaiyya…..Main yeh nahi hone de sakta…Meri bhi biwi hai…

Yudhishthir: Nakul…..Biwi nahi, Bhabhi….Tumhe kaun Pandav samajta hai…..

Arjun: Well, bro….Isko main jeet kar laaya tha…………

Yudhishthir: Toh kya hua? Haara toh maine hai na….


(The vastraharan process begins and he pulls her robes and the music starts….Zoobi Doobi)

Krishna Bhagwan appears

Krishna: Well Panchali, tumhare safety hai Pakki is the,
Because you are my best friend and Sakhi is the……

(Draupadi is saved and her honour is intact)

Draupadi: Why did you come so late is the,
Kya tum bhoot ho yaa pret is the?

Krishna: Whatever! But maine tumhe kiya hai save is the….
I am ultimately brave is the….

I am the best in this clan is the
Main hoon apne zamaane ka spiderman is the ……

Draupadi: Lekin iss saree ka ganda hai fall is the….
How can I smile after all is the???



Draupadi: (to Pandavas)  Khelo, tum sab khelo yeh ganda game of taash is the….
Ek din isi ki wajah se hoga Kuru vansh kaa naash is the…..

Bheem: Dushashan, tumne liya hai Draupadi se pangaa is the,
Yuddh mein todunga main teri Jhangaa is the….

Shakuni: Lekin haarne par tum sab jaaoge leke yeh traas is the,
13 varsh ka hoga tumhe van vaas is the…..

Draupadi: Well, Mamashree….. Jahaan hui hai meri izzat chakna choor is the,
Main chod ke jaa rahi hu Hastinapur is the….

Arjun: Panchali, odh lo saaree kar lo isko wrap is the….
These Kauravas are nothing but crap is the…

Duryodhan: Now you all get out is the,
My throat is sore I can’t shout is the….

(Thus, They all go for the Vanvaas and Agyaatvaas)



Saturday 17 November 2012

Abosheshey: Personal review

Reviews of movies are written by critics and intelligent people who can think. Perhaps I am not very intelligent. Cannot think at all......And criticism....hahahaa......Let me put that on an altogether new platform. If I said Abosheshey made me think, I'd be comparing myself to people who can intellectualize. However, the film made me do another think----quite distinct from thinking....I shall call it 'feeling'. It made me feel--not caring even if it did go on to win Roopa Ganguly's national award, success at London Film Festival and Keral Film Festival winner.

And I am so scared because the concept has stirred feelings in me that I never knew existed before. 

Ravi had told me that he was able to subscribe to Abosheshey, but it had been kept off for some or the other reason. I managed to watch it today and since past 5 hours, I haven't spoken a single word. 

The film has some great highlights which I'd like to talk about:

1. Good films make you think, best films make you feel


It has been years: I don't remember myself being into 'emotions'. Every week my colleague Tony McAvoy and I re-visit the same sentence ''We don't do emotions at all''. But today, I would beg to differ from the rest of the world because I have been put to silence.

I was under the impression, that I am a very strong person because I have fought and lived through harsh times. Nothing can ever weaken me. I could never have bothered because there was nothing worth living for..........Never once had it crossed my mind that there are existing relationships and probable ones that are worth living for. The character Suchismita's life (ironically death) spoke volumes about what I am trying to state here.
Attaboy!!! Movie making in progress.....Men & women at work!

2. Great acting needs no drama

Indian movies are well-known for using melo-drama to express emotions. It has infact become a trade-mark. In a way, over the years we have learnt to appreciate it and consider it ''cute''.

However, there are actors of a cadre who put the word ''acting'' to great shame because whatever they do comes out absolutely natural. How effortlessly their performance can make you gape with mouths wide open!

Many people and even media have said that Roopa Ganguly is a great actress. I'd always use the word artiste for her. The reason is that natural glimpses from personality make their way to screen. In all the performances, Roopa Ganguly has only portrayed, performed and displayed and established.....which proves that we are proud to own as a nation, one of the finest and highly celebrated performers of our times. 


May Maa Saraswati bless such eminent talents of our country.

Artistes in the quieter canopies



3. In good films: The term 'Romance' is much beyond valentine-hood!


In films, romance has been a very narrowly used term. Romance means love, longing, attraction and maybe courtship. Suchismita's character planted romance into life.....and even more so, into death.

Another aspect for which I must give a standing ovation to Roopa Ganguly is for choosing the film with a great concept. Even though, directors and people behind the screen have created a magical character, Suchismita, Roopa Ganguly has justified it on screen. It is what an artiste brings to the screen......something that is a part of her soul.

Nandini, portrayed by Raima Sen and Soumyo by Ankur Khanna have played  very atypical roles. What possibly could be the relationship between you and your deceased neighbour's son --all but based on pure humanity and lending a helping hand at soul-searching.

Suchismita romanced life----A very great reminder to me of my grandpapa who I lost 11 years back. Life has gone on since then, but Suchismita's interest in everything ranging from painting to singing and rallying reminds me so much of Grandpapa with whom I explored India, learnt how to enjoy good music, read stories from Ukraine to China and from Japan to Indonesia.......Since he died, I have done nothing.......Not even touched a game of chess till 2 days back, never touched an old German camera or learnt about plants......It just made me realise that someone's death has shut all doors of life for me, but life moves on......not negatively, but positively.




4. Excellent rendering 


A very interesting event.......After comming to know about the two National Award winning songs, I was determined to listen to them. Unfortunately, they weren't available till recently. However, it was Rabindra Sangeet, so I thought, let me just fish out the old man's songs and make some meaning out of them.

Out of both the songs, I liked the lyrics of ''Aaji bijan ghore'' because I stay in a ''Bijan'' (lonely) house myself. However, when I saw the renderation on screen, I laughed at myself.......almost so mockingly, because it made me realise that nights are as such very difficult to spend if you do stay in a ''bijan''' house!!!

''Dure kothaaye'' was great as well. Both these songs deserved a National Award, because performance hadn't limited itself only to on-screen performance. Only a performer and a good singer knows which emotions to put in to garnish her songs! Well done!!

If anyone wants to visit my ''Bijan'' house tonight to give me company in coffee drinking, I'd be very happy. Monday to Friday pass very quickly. The ''Bijan-ness'' comes every weekend when there's no University work! But the song has captured me as of now......!!


5. Surprise!!!!!

How many will actually believe me if I say I was able to notice the fluency of relationship between an artiste and the director. I almost feel it must have gone like an easy game of chess where you have director Aditi Roy as a game director making the first move, and artiste Roopa Ganguly quickly catching on to the subtleties of the clues and bringing an amalgamation point where Roopa Ganguly blends into Suchismita and Suchismita blends into Roopa Ganguly.

Ankur Khanna, Raima Sen and the rest of the team have caught onto the clues in the same way. Team work is not just a group of heads coming together----it is the group of heads with brains inside them!!! Pardon my sarcastic statements, but this sarcasm wasn't meant to project bitterness. It's funny how one can be sarcastic in one of the most satisfying moments

Strategists in action


6. My mother

The first person who came to my mind while thinking about Suchismita's character was my own mother. I have been away from her so long.......The only advantage being she has seen me quite often in these many years.

Would my mother have missed me so much because I was far away from her?

My mother's friends told me about how lonely and teary she was ever since she left me here....all by myself.

She lives on memories.....

But to her advantage and mine, we both are very much alive......I am comming over to see her and have decided to be with her for a very very long time......As long as she wants me to be there because a mother's love exceeds a child's longing. Children say they miss their mother's food, their mother's talks, their mother's scoldings--but when a mother misses her child, she misses all of him/her....not just parts. A mother is never conditioned to be limited in her love. 

I might not give a crap to anyone else's caring, but when I got an insight into a mother's world, I was shattered---so shattered that even tears wouldn't come out. Thanks a lot for bringing to angle that part of life which I needed to know about the MOST.
Can never fathom a mother's love......And that's my God over the years. One and only, my mom


7. Abosheshey......At the end of it all

At the end of it all, I would only say that I have only briefly written about the complex association of Abosheshey with my own understanding. I cannot expect that much of intelligence from my stupid self. 

Need to enter my world as you did Suchismita's world. But the difference between my world and Suchismita's world is that, there are chances of developing a basic comprehension into Suchismita's world.........because she maintains her sanity and goodness despite everything.

At the end of it all, we are all humans, I am as much human as anyone else. Why should my stupidity refrain me from understanding the movie? I never needed to understand the movie, all I needed to do was feel it.......!!!!

ACTION!!! Already performed!





Tuesday 27 March 2012


People understand Mahabharat as an epic story of war....But the truth is each one of us is fighting a war every single second...We are fighting a war with our own selves....Have we never recognized the wrong within us? Mahabharat is nothing but the war of external factors versus the conscience. If conscience is the pure manifestation of God himself, then Mahabharat is occuring within ourselves.And let us not think that our ''Good'' morals and principles makes things easy for us....


  • In fact our principles, be they good or bad, create big obstacles in our path and the courage to abide by these is what renders us our spirit. Did you think Duryodhan had no principles??? He had his own principles of being adamant and he stuck to them.....Kaal or Samay decides where the result leads us.
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  •  There is a Dhritrashtra within every one of us: The blind side which we have never been exposed to,
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  • There is a Gandhari within everyone of us (Which is worse): The side we are exposed to, but we choose to ignore.
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  • There is an urge to stick to our own principles which is represented by Pitamaah Bheeshma.
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  • The Yudhishthir within us stands for justice morals and tolerance, but when the same aspect is manipulated till the extent of being tortured, the inner war, which in Krishna's language is inevitable, breaks out.
  • We have the urge to stand for our own selves, support logic, knowledge, intelliegence and improvement on the path of humility which is represented by Draupadi.
  • All these characters within us battle amongst each other to reach something called Krishna....The Ultimate.....(Which is not God, in plain language: It is much beyond that). We are all undergoing evolution at each step......It does not matter whether you are Yudhisthir, Arjun, Duryodhan or Draupadi, the fact is when your goal is moving towards the ultimate which is within, around and all over you, you just need to define who you are.


  • I'll just narrate my life incident:''Tuesday, Mar 6, 2012: I receive an email stating that I need to write an urgent essay for which I am being paid and this happens exactly at the time when i am researching for my PhD proposal and collecting previous researches before an important meeting. I could have delayed the meeting and written for money; The HRR did not contact me for one month for obvious reasons pertaining to disappointment. It was a difficult month :He had written to me about the increase in payment and I still refused. There came a point when I had written about a research work in 3 flat hours and yet my pay was cut down.....The only character to rise within me was Draupadi who could not stand injustice. I wrote them back that my own principles and committment was more important than anything else....
  • ''I do not know what would have happened after that, but today I am able to walk with a raised head and full self-dignity. I may stammer, I may get nervous in social situations, but my spirit has never learnt to support or stand by the wrong thing........At the same time, the adamant attitude has to be controlled when you are raising your head against what you think is right and what you think is wrong....My purpose of writing this note is not to propagate a moral, spiritual or a religious discussion: The purpose is to realise the broader message behind an obvious story....I guess, that is all for today's note writing!!
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  • Love and regards,
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  • Phoram Trivedi



Monday 12 March 2012

......Incomplete is Okay (To: Roopa Ma'am & Tanima di)

This post is dedicated to two people: Tanima di and Roopa Ma'am..........


Tanima di

Tanima di does not even know me......has never met me, has never interacted with me except for some conversations on facebook & the fanpage. Despite that, I must say it is very magnanimous on her part to consider me, a total stranger to get my most basic of messages across to Roopa Ma'am. I might not have been able to explain in words the weird connection I have been living with since the past 18 years of my life, I am only 23.....which means the time I started living with this was when I was 5 years old; a very small kid. My words shall never even come out because I cannot explain it. Even the people I talked to waived off the topic because it sounded strange. One person who put trust in me then was my non-blood related brother Ravi and the second person was Tanima Di. I may not get my answer to the question I have been pursuing since the past 18 years, but Tanima di's acceptance has made me feel good about myself and the experience in itself. Tanima di always tells me not to say thanks because it might not have been a great thing, but if it pertains to a circumstance that has been dominant since past 18 years in my life and the moment for which I had been waiting to grow up to a considerably mature age came because of Tanima di. 

Maybe I would have seen Roopa Ma'am even if she had not been into acting......And you had the goodness to believe in me despite not knowing me at all. I promise you all my goodwill and my Grandpa's blessings for you.... :) :) :)

Roopa Ma'am
Wasn't it a different moment altogether  when I realised that I was on the phone with someone on the other end whose existence had been following me since past 18 years without any specific reason????? 
It was more than everything I could compile because it was then I realised how long I had been waiting and it was a bloody long period of 18 years. Now that I was on the phone, I also realised the reasons behind leading an introverted life: just filled by my work, studies and research: Nothing else. I knew because of me staying mostly all alone since my grapndpa's death and grandma's declining mental health. I hardly spoke to a soul except some few people here and there. I told my story to Ravi, my lovely brother and he asked me to be brave for once. I tried, I called, I tried to be brave but it was the gravity of the experience that had shaken me up from head to toe. Roopa ma'am is such a magnanimous personality. I wouldn't even want to write words of appreciation here because there are millions who can express her goodness better than me.......I could not even speak, leave alone writing. But, to see that Roopa ma'am spent her precious time to talk to me for 25 long minutes was more than a flood of overwhelming feeling for me. 

I have never ever spoken to anyone like this and nor has anyone understood my inner picture like Roopa ma'am did. I remember people still considering me a bit off the track because I usually cannot express well, or I cannot talk about how I feel, but Roopa ma'am gave a new meaning to my introverted behaviour in a positive direction. Could anyone else have done that??? I am such a dumb person that I could not even narrate this incident properly to my own mother......Just the superficial parts depicted well.....The core of the conversation was all I can encompass as the meaning of my re-discovery of life. Maybe no one would know it but God does...(Although he just gives the experiences, quite refusing to explain them).

Knowing that Roopa Ma'am and I are on plateaus that are as different as cloud and an ocean, I can thank my God for giving me one experience that partly made me feel good about myself and feel a lot good about God being the constant force and source of inspiration in my lonely existence. Today, I do not want any answers from God like I have been asking him since past 18 years......There might be something pertaining to a level of spirituality that is beyond my intellect....Whatever will happen now will only be God's wish.

It has strengthened my resolve to be a good human first and true to myself before I can ask anyone for anything....


Wednesday 22 February 2012


Two of us have always been the best of friends.......God and myself.....He is with me from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. Do I need to provide any substantial evidence when my profile picture itself speaks a lot about our friendship and companionship?

Today I am writing to God because he sent me great help in form of a technician called 'David'---an absolute epitome of ''a helpful guy''...... :) :)

Even as I am writing this ''note'', He has shown me a view of His divine presence. All I know is even if I shed tears during the day, He will never let me go to bed in tears.....By the end of the day, something or the other does happen in which I can sense his presence.

He has taught me the most important thing of human life i.e ''To be a good human being and to bear the best of will towards loved ones''. I cannot guarentee that I have been a success as a student, a professional, a worker or a volunteer at NHS....All I can guarentee is that God has helped me become a good human and whenever I go wrong in the minorest of my being, He takes the liberty to punish me and show me that I have gone wrong here. Each punishment given by him is severe.....but each punishment has made me more refined as a human being....

He has given me the best parents, great brother, good family and a nice handful of caring and loving friends......What more can I ask for?
(PS: Facebook and facebook apps are not the gift of God, as entertaining as they may sound)

I am living my life as any other normal 22 year old research specializing student, but I know I have an X-Factor and that X factor is God.....When I have this big factor to assure me everytime, I do not need to worry about anything....

I will keep walking on a road of endless destination.......

You know 24th December is special when..........(40 Top reasons)


1. The living room actually becomes a (Living room: The place to live). Spending 20/24 hours on the sofa set

2. You realise that miracles and hazards happen simultaneously: (PS: Beginning with the inner door getting locked from inside on the Christmas day)

3. Winter with snow results in eating over spiced food which makes you sit with windows open even when the temperature outside is -2 degrees

4. You are obsessed with the idea of having ''Undhiyu'' on Uttarayan and a sweet-cum-bitter person makes it a point to accompany you to purchase a tin of Undhiyu from the market

5. Someone scares you to death while you are watching Madhuri Dixit's 100 days....

6. You begin ''exploring life'' with Jai Jharkhandi and Nagpuri songs (Starring ''Jaan de dega Manoj), Spider man and Rickshawala.

7. You realise that 2 of you can combat harsh winter by utilising one single purple coat! (LMAO)

8. You have to literally bring sleep to your eyes: Rather than sleep comming naturally.

9. Sheila ki Jawani, Munni Badnaam hui become the hot item numbers you want to see almost every day

10. Your day actually starts after having dinner (LMAO)

11. The entry of Punjabi songs (beginning with Amplifier) ruins your peaceful life.

12. You slowly start adopting different choices of songs and need to carry headphones to avoid the Punjabi songs torture (PS: The headphones eventually get snatched away from you).

13. You get to realise each other's true colours and laugh at the fact that you thought of each other as ''sophisticated, studious and quiet'' individuals initially

14. Gujarat-Maharashtra campaigns in India help in generating some super-duper politically motivated conversations.

15. You realise that you can make fun of each other now: And that too as openly as you want: Taking liberty with each other becomes a RIGHT!

16. You are forced to watch Pumbeeri dance at 1 pm....

17. You suddenly realise that you take your landlord as a living joke and a live bait...(Not allowing him to enter the house: And lying openly)
PS: Still you get to hear remarks like ''You bring illegal immigrants to the house''

18. More people become members of the house and you realise that a 5-member house, becomes a 6 member house and then gradually ends up with 10 people in the house....Over-crowded literally

19. Bin checks and dealing with black bin bags becomes a hard responsibility and headache....

20. You are christined with the name 'Ghussa' by someone in honour of the super cool black bin bags that you place at the backyard and because they don't get picked up, you bring them upstairs one by one......

21. Despite you performing work beyond your responsibilities, you get badly scolded by  neighbours and your closest friend does not know what to do (laugh at you or support u)

22. The kitchen is the worst place for your sight to behold each morning....And at night, you realise, you cannot go to sleep without wiping off the utensils

23. The washing machine runs literally 24X7 and you often wonder how many garments each member of the house posesses.

24. You end up getting accustomed to dinner prepared by someone......Literally getting served into the plate.....

25. Mangoes, puran polis, Khakras and Dhoklas become the special varieties of life

26. You being a Gujarati realise that the Gujarati Amplifier is better sung by someone who is a non-Gujarati.

27. You reach the Indian Mela when the last performance is just about to end.....Yet clicking pictures individually and in a group becomes mandatory.

28. You get into the habit of naming each and every thing (Ducks in the park, utensils and house hold appliances).

29. You get locked outside the house and are allowed to enter only after listening to and singing back the ever horrid ''Door ni Khulni''

30. You sing at the top of your voice (despite your friend telling you not to). A third party comes rushing downstairs to see whether someone was crying or not....

31. You record songs on your birthday eve and that end up being the best birthday eve ever......

32. You are motivated to write Gujarati-marathi lyrics for Raj Thackeray and Narendra Modi's union campaign....

33. Your use of complicated english words is laughed at by someone.....and yet that ends up in adapting to ''Word of the day'' phenomenon.

34. Your birthday card reads ''Kuukeeeee kukeeee'' (One more together-stuff on the block)

35. You makee coffee for someone and it is 'APPRECIATED' (One of the rare things)

36. You spend half your life explaining to someone the differences between 'Naal' and 'Vichch'

37. Your two trusted friends back in Ahmedabad start supporting Punjabi campaigns

38. Lebara to lebara free calls are made the best use of: U message each other despite beiing in the same house:
(PS: It helps when u need to turn on the heater, that really doesn't work for more than 2 minutes because a ''hated-party'' turns it off)

39. You share a 'Boyish type' of friendship where hurling insults, fighting and snatching becomes highly prominent...You have to kick your friend at least once a day.

40. There is no end to madness.....and co-incidences too....(PS: yeah, co-incidences too)