JUST WONDERING!

Do embellished words glorify the purpose? 

Are solutions sought by creating a ruckus? 

When convolution of thoughts reaches the peak, 

I WONDER why simplicity is the most difficult to seek! 

How a book ten inches apart, 

Can instantaneously put some to sleep, 

But music playing four blocks away, 

I WONDER, why compels us to tap our feet! 

Why can't logic,sense,rationality, 

Resist a gush of emotions? 

Why do heart and brain fail, 

Miserably,I WONDER,at their negotiations! 

How each one by default gets trained to tackle, 

Anxiety,Stress and Competition shackles? 

Yet cannot explain how all those just vanish, 

In Mother's lap ,I WONDER,how ultimate solace is achieved!

Yeh hain MUMBAI meri jaan!

What is Mumbai? 

A city of dreams,economic hub,home to around 14 milion people,cosmopolitan!In a split second you could garner hundred answers.As precisely stated by one of my favourite legendary writer and artist Lt.Pu.La.Deshpande,"Mumbaikaraancha nasheeb he ghadyalyachya katyala bandhalele aste." 

However as a matter of fact Mumbai is also a city where resilience has become a habbit,people are impervious to politicians who act like flibbertigibbets,a city which has Asia's largest slum! 

Since I consider the last one as the greatest hindrance in city's progress I would like to elaborate on the same. There are certain facts that baffled me. 

1]Almost 54% of Mumbaikars live in slums. 

2] Another 25% to 30% live in chawls and on footpaths. 

3] It is estimated that 100-300 new families come to city everyday and subsequently land up in a slum colony or erect a shack wherever possible. 

4] According to World Bank's estimate of the city reaching 2.25 crore mark by 2025 ,would be the time when there would be slums practically everywhere. 

The expanse is widening day by day,characterized by filth, diseases, poverty and crime too. One of the recent TOI articles stated that it takes two years on the whole for the postmen to get accustomed to the lanes, routes and houses in Dharavi slums. Moreover even the Intelligence agencies have no option but to take their help in tracking down the criminals.It is no less than a deja vu reckoning that everything looks just the same. 

Another major drawback is city's extremely poor urban planning.It is one of the reasons for the horrendous catastrophe of 26th July,2005. 

So I was wondering, for a city which has allowed us to exercise our freedom to a great extent, what is it that we can do?It all boils down to power,electing an Amol Arte from Paa would probably help but my question is, "Does he exist"? For all those who promised to make Mumbai as beautiful as Shanghai,we can only retort by saying,"tumhala Shanghaila jatay kai?"

Dedicated to all Bio Students!

Enamoured by Science of Life, 

Are me and my clan, 

Inexplicable are certain mechanisms, 

Be it micro-organism or man! 

Did you know your hereditary material, 

Or DNA when unwound, 

Can cover the circumference of earth, 

Twice in two rounds? 

Or that we humans so complex, 

Are actually graveyards of stars, 

Did u know the tounges of chameleons, 

And fighter jets work at par? 

For all chauvinistic males, 

With patronizing attitude, 

Nature is definitely biased in our favour, 

Y chromosome shortening explains it all! ;) 

If a bio-student falls in love, 

He would wonder, 

If its due to an overexpression of gene, 

If he dozes off in a lecture , 

He would explain, "What do I do? 

Excess secretion of serotonin!" 

Nearing is the time when 

Sympathetic nervous system will get active, 

"Examss!!!"The word is enough,

To send shudders down the spine! 

 I wish everyone all the best. Hope biology doesn't fail us :)