Abracadabra

Amongst the other adventures that a 'City Folk' has to endure is the 'daily gossip' in the public transport and during typical office break discussion. Being a true 'City Folk' who uses public transport extensively, I can vouch that this is the hottest topic these days. Everyone talks about how Indian culture has become corrupt and that we lack humanity in general. There are so many videos online where victims have been left to die on road and people keep passing them, with some even making videos while the victim is crying in agony. With each article/video/news about rape, murder, conflict, rioting, & genocide (somewhere in the world and not just in India) we indeed get to hear this phrase a lot these days. According to most 'City Folk'  humanity is dead  and we are in fact heading towards self-destruction. We've had the worst crimes against humanity committed in the past yet somehow we feel that this is the worst time of all. We've...

“There is a method to madness”, they say. While writing this I asked people for that one word that came to their mind when they thought about their life in a big bad city and answers were as follows. Some of the negative words chosen were;  Difficult, Irritation, Confusion, Insane, Frustration, Traffic, Robbery, Rape, Harassment, Rain, Indifference, Feeling-less so on and so forth. Some of the positive words chosen were; Opportunity, Money, Stability, Happiness, Advancement, Infrastructure, Roads, Technology, Education, Flyover, Metro, Connectivity, so on and so forth. It is evident by the words chosen by people to describe life in a big city that life of a 'City Folk' is indeed difficult. Amongst this insane and difficult life in the big city we all look for signs of ‘Method’ and 'Hope' and we all have our own way of finding what matters to us. A big city is an amalgamation of millions of lives and both positive and negative emotions are bound to exist. We...

‘City Folk’ is a contemporary city creature. He is your everyday big city dweller. Anybody can be a ‘City Folk’, doesn’t matter which age group, religion, caste, or gender one belongs to. But before I begin let me ask you this; which is the most cliched place associated with ‘adventure’ in India these days? You guessed it right, it’s of course ‘The Bulletisized land of Leh- Ladakh’, what else? In fact, it’s a dream of every new bullet owner to go on whirlwind adventures to distant places and by distant places, I actually mean ‘Leh Ladakh’. A journey to Leh-Ladakh is considered the ultimate adventure a pilgrimage of a sort for Bullet owners. It’s the ‘Alamo’ of a true adventure and thrill seeker. Without this, it seems, the adventure sprite remains troubled. How would you feel owning a Bullet Motorcycle for 10 years and not being able to go to Leh-Ladakh even once? Is the question my guy (I will refer to him as ‘always dreaming at home adventurer’ or ADHA which means ½ in ...