Go Watch Slumdog Millionaire!

The whole world is talking about Slumdog Millionaire and I have been dying to watch it.......so when the movie FINALLY got released in India,me and my hubby went to watch it yesterday
The movie is beautifully directed...I don't understand why was the movie criticized in India? Why are we running away from reality....what was shown in the movie was bare facts, there was no exaggeration...there are thousands of slums flourishing in Mumbai and other parts of India...why don't we do something about it...to be honest,it was through this movie I realized that so many amongst us are so badly deprived of basic needs...even I watch beggars in the traffic signal and I wonder to myself what kind of life do they live....thanks to Danny Boyle, he showed us their life...I felt very very sad.....No-one wants to beg in streets and I am sure no-one takes it by choice, we look at beggars and if some-one pays them we criticize them and say,"you should not encourage such stuff".'Never did I realize that there are people controlling even beggars.....whats the solution for this?I wonder how many NGOs are genuine in India?!!!
Hats off to Danny Boyle,he has done a great part of research on the life inside slums....unlike us,how many of us have actually gone inside a slum.....I have not!
I am a simple middle class person but I feel that instead of saying things that why are slums being promoted through media in western world,why don't we accept what is real India and do something about it. No point blaming the government, after all its we who choose the government and then we itself blame. High time we stop this blame game...
I feel Education is the solution......I have already started working on it, I have sponsored education for a child I know....because I don't want him to be another Jamal/Salim/Latika/Kasab.......I am sure if Kasab was educated, he would have never taken such a wrong step, I sincerely feel if every middle and upper class family in India sponsors education for one child it will make a difference....but the difference will be made by not paying to some x,y,z NGO/institution but we should personally know the child and sponsor him/her
We waste so much money in Mc Donalds,Coffee Day...I am not saying not to,but those who have a good life, please shell out a small percent of your package for one child outside your family and I am sure India would shine some day.....To be honest I do not see India shining now

Welcome to Aamchi Mumbai

As I sit in my balcony sipping green tea, I look around mesmerised….mesmerised of this city, a city which never sleeps…yes I am talking about Mumbai…same Mumbai which is the hub of entertainment industry and various other industries, a city home to all kind of people,right from the poorest of poor to the richest of rich…there are so many buildings in and around me….they all seems so mystifying….

It wonders to me as in how many houses does love exist….I see a hill towards my right…the hill is full of slums, maybe love exists there…Why not? Why do we look over there and pity them??? Maybe they are quite contended there…
I look at the road at a stretch opposite me and see that vehicles never stop here and I ponder where are all of them travelling at 2:30 AM…..the road remains a mystery to me
I see the buildings around and they all look as though no life exists there…but when I stare for sometime, I do see people moving around
I can here music somewhere faraway, some shaadi ke gaane, I hear bhajans when I try hard, I even hear dogs barking, all this are happening at the sometime…
But even though there are so many noises around, so many people around…I suddenly feel lonely, wish this city passes on some of its hustle bustle to me
But as time passes I fall in love with this loneliness as I am completely in peace with myself…this is the space I long for, in a day……………and I thank everyone who has made my life special and special thanks to Mumbai for accepting me amongst zillions of others and accepting us, as we are!!!