WRONG NUMBER

hey frnds i took this story from some source...not my original....

It was the day of her son's XII results and she was so tensed. She sat beside him while he logged on the website with his registration no. "Ma", he screamed in excitement," I scored 1191, with centum in 4 subjects.

I cant believe it. " She kinda became numb in my excitement. Her eyes became wet. She kissed him on his forehead and smiled.

Soon they realized that he stood first in the state. Oh, her joy knew no bounds when Reporters and media persons soon swamped her house for interviews and photos. She was so honored to join him in the snaps.

She wanted to call her "wrong-number- friend" to tell him the news......She was so excited. He was someone whom she has known for more than 20 years.

She still did not remember when they became friends, but certainly cannot forget the first day he called her when she blasted him for giving her so many wrong calls.....after that he had called up a week later asking apology, for he had now got the right no of his friend whom he wanted to talk to . They spoke for an hour that day...even without knowing each other's names.

Though he kept pestering her to reveal her name she never did and so he kept a name...Sweety. She used to get so shy whenever he called her 'Sweety'. She was doing first year of BSc. Maths then, and he was a Computer Engineering

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From then he used to call her very often . They almost discussed everything ..

By the final year of her college, they probably were in love, but she had been cautious. She was in a dilemma whether to tell him. But what if he was of a different religion? Does she have the courage to talk to her parents about it? ........all these questions ran through her mind.

She decided tat she'll not talk to him thereafter. When he called next time she lied to him that she was going to Delhi for her post graduation. He gave her his office number and asked her to ring him up once she reach there.

She never called .......

A couple of months later her marriage got fixed with a guy of her parent's choice. She was not happy but she did not complain; rather accepted it as an obedient daughter. At times she felt she missed her wrong- number- friend...... .

Her hubby was a moody person; she has hardly spent any good time with him- but he was genuine indeed and never bothered her personal space. After 2 years they had a boy... Yet,she was not very happy with her married life... One day she happened to browse through her diary and found that she still had her old friend's office phone no that he had given her. she dialed it and spoke with him. He said he was married and got a kid too. She was happy for him though in the bottom of the heart she felt bad that she could not marry him.

From then she used to occasionally call him on that number. She never gave him hers as I felt that would put her in trouble.. And till today she almost shared everything with him including her relationship with her hubby..... today she was so happy and wanted to call him.

Just then she got a call. "Your husband met with an accident and died on the spot"

She banged the phone down. She broke. She did not call her friend.....She somehow started feeling guilty. She has never tried to talk to him properly when he was alive or moved close with him.... She felt that she had been a bad wife........

A couple of years passed and one day her son brought home a Bengali girl and said they wanted to get married. She got them married as she did not want her son to go through what she did.

She decided to give her son his father's room and started clearing it. There was a phone book. She gently opened it to find, "Wrong No Sweety -26579785"

"God always puts the right numbers together. Its we who interpret it wrong!!!!!"

Nano problem......

I recently heard that Mr. Ratan Tata’s most awaited car is going to hit the road at the end of February 2009 after so many blocks: courtesy to West Bengal & their associates comprising of our learned leaders & politicians who claims as savior of citizens……..finally.... after such hard fought battle, Nano is going to be on road from Uttaranchal as makeshift arrangement and later from Gujarat…..The vision to empower Indian middle class through car is very great idea, after all ye to sapna hota hai middle class ka. But even if you call me spoilsport, I wonder where I am going to drive my car, when bikes are also shuttling hard to get some space on road. Let’s look into some facts which are significant for such ambitious work….

 Even if our prosperous growth is hit by recession India has potential to become world’s 2^nd largest car maker from current position of third. It is expected to have 2 billion passenger car market by 2010 and it will grow to 1.5 times i.e. 3 million in 2015. By 2009 India will account for 8% of global motor industry growth. 40 million people can afford car and 7.5 million Indians right now possess…..

 Looking into road facilities of our great India where actually these small cars have to run. When we think about best roads, our reflex picks NH….right…National Highway. They account for 2% of total roads but contribution to road fatalities is very significant around 33%...pardon me if figures are incorrect due to some accidents occurred while I was writing this blog……financial losses due to road traffic injuries in 2005 was Rs. 550 billion , almost 3%  of GDP….great India!!!! Since 1990’s India’s average rate of road growth has been 8-10% and growth of automobile is surpassing it…..NO_x and SO₂ are fighting successfully to be on upper limit, Kudos to our so strict norms created by some bureaucrats to make it possible.

 If our benevolent Tata and likes of them has checked out this figure then he must be knowing that there is need of fit road for those cute small cars which we saw in last year Auto Expo to actually run on road else Darwin’s theory of ‘Survival of fittest” will come into play. Consequences are not hard to predict friends: more accident than selling of Nanos. I know its not in hand of them to make road fit for cars but is in hand of us, we taxpayers, to ask question to elected person who are our shubhchintak. I have nothing against Nano but with such abysmal road safety records in India, there will be more congestion and attrition if more motorable roads are not built. I know I am spoiling the ‘nano’ seconds of enthusiasm of middle class but I believe this might give ‘nano’ hours of smile if our government and architects of India understands and implement it…..

What’s in the name…errr…surname…

Juliet:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

 

You must be wondering why I have chosen such thing to write when Shakespeare already talked about its insignificance…….actually our very own Munna Bhai a.k.a Sanjay Dutt…is inspiration behind such value addition….I mean sequel to Shakespeare Play… 

He already explained name has no role in love and but I am forced to ponder why he didn’t thought about surname also. I got instant answer, he didn’t faced Sanju baba naaa…. Sanjay Dutt is someone who uses his father’s surname and has problem if his sister does…“Girls must assume their new surname and all the responsibilities that come with it” that’s what Munna Bhai specifically said recently…..

How does it look like Hema Deol, Moon Moon Verma or Shabana Akhtar? Now revert Malini to Hema, Maiden name to Moon Moon , Azmi to sabana and things fall back into place. Marriage is a coming of together of equals. It’s not like buying a cow and then branding it with a iron rod just to show your ownership over it or branding the product with you name esp. to show you are more branded. Fairer sex are also independent people and they have their own identities and of-course history. 

If you go down to history the trend of assuming men’s last name is more in North rather than South India. In fact not only Surname, wife is given new name also in new family as a ritual for their new life which is not only ridiculous but also playing with feeling that now go hell with your previous life, we don’t care what your earlier life, we are concerned only to life after this new name…real mockery of feeling…

 

When columnist Swaminathan decided to marry, he went all the way by taking on his wife’s name as his middle name, as part of equal ownership. Now what sanjay and likes of his will say that Swami should assume all responsibility of Wife’s family!!!!Well I am not citing examples like this to tell that we need to do things like this to show our solidarity but thing is that all have equal right to don with their name or surname what they want to. Any name is not going to decide any responsibility or abstaining of any role related to it. It’s a woman’s right to decide her surname and fortunately, both partner’s are equal before the constitution. A change of surname also calls for mountain of paperwork, particularly now when woman marry after they’re settled in their career or having setup business…

 

The our very own male dominated society always want woman not to excel and all these were excised to make them feel they are not at par and they have no identity of own…now when Priya Dutt questioned integrity of her brother, how can brother tolerate and so he replied in true male way thinking he is supreme. Let people like sanjay should understand that everybody has right to take name. After marriage they can retain any name, they wished for…I mean surname also!!!!!!!! So next time when you people come across Aishwarya Rai Bachhan, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Madhuri Dixit or Parle’s Shauna chauhan, remember it’s all about personal choice as well as hard-won-earned personal identity and they are not going to change to please some or more whatever Male’s who can’t digest they have better say then males…

 

Now Juliet must be saying

"What's in a *name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet but why should it change"

 

* name also include surname