how can this be?

Is this crazy?Just heard from Joy, how he has been harassed while coming back from California to New York. This is so crazy. We never believe it , i guess , till we are a part of it.

I could not belive that such things do happen...still. Quoting from his blog.........

"End of a long summer internship at California. Myself and my friend Dhyanesh were all looking forward to the cozy life back in school. AA flight 16 at SFO airport, to depart at 12 noon for JFK. Both of us were unwinding at the isle seats and preparing for the next 5 hours 30 minutes of boredom.
The whole flight seemed full, but the window seat beside me was still vacant. I was waiting for someone to turn up at the last minute before I would buckle-up my seat belt. 10 minutes before departure, a middle aged lady showed up but instead of seating, went back to the front. 5 minutes before departure, an AA stuff came directly to me and ushered me to take my bags and follow her. To my bewilderment she took me just outside the aircraft and asked me to wait. Because Dhyanesh was with me, she called him out too. "

For more of the incident, refer to the link below.


http://joydutta.com/blog/index.php/2005/08/28/american-airlines-what-the-hell/

SYLVIA PLATH

I would have been not so worth if it had not been literature. i still don't know if i did take the right decision in taking mass communications for my course. English literature is my first love. It will always remain so.

I hate the mundane things, so insensitive , so not me. It is like going crazy trying to learna nd understand the things which does not have anything to think about. It is so superficial. i like the challenge though, like how i get scared and slowly emerge a victor.

Sylvia Plath still makes me thing. It is where pschology meets literature, a variety very rare. Saw the movie today called SYLVIA, absolutely wonderful.

I still fall back on peoms and novels for my sanity, to make me realise what I am. It just soaks up everything.

May be i will do my thesis again in EnglIsh. That is what I like to do, what i like to read. where reading or pursuing is of tremendous interest, not mere worldly reality.

I loved the movie, perhaps it is insane to like Sylvia plath, not many I have heard like her, But i do. It was not her fault, never hers.

Watching the movie, made me go back to where I belong. Perhaps that is what I should do.

I am the editor of the multicultural students association, and I love to write to see people write, to be expressed. It is lot of work , but i enjoy doing it. Don't know is it because if I like English or mass communication?

I have feelings i can do, do things which some dnt even think exists. i can do it. I have alwsy been a fighter, fought for my rights, fought for my power. I dont seize but I do not allow to be seized also.

I should write again, go back to my dreams of writing novels or peoms , that i have not written for a year I guess. A strange feeling that i get everytime I read a poem or a good writing. Some day, some day it will happen, where I can rise.........above the rest!

INDEPENDENCE DAY, CHICAGO

Here i am , back to university. Back to deadlines, rush and the list of exams that keep on growing.

Summer was good. i finally did cover the Indian independence day as well. It was fun and nice. To see the Indian flag hoisting in downtown Chicago is a different experience altogether. will put the pics on the blog.

As of now, looking for an incampus job and planning for my hectic days ahead. I finally got the internet connection in my apartment. God, how i hate to stay without one.

While i rush in and out of my schedules, will be editing the multicultural stuent associations newsletters and create the web page. lots of work, hope I got paid for it. But it is just voluntary. I like doing it though and given the similar blog that i am already doing on international students in USA, guess I am the one chosen.

Still alone in the apartment , waiting for my rrom mate to join me on sunday. Was boring till yesterday, till i got the internet, will live my life now.

paki day

I have never seen a Pakistani Independence Day!!! Have you?

Reality- I saw it today in Chicago!!! There are too many things to experience, things I never thought i would be part of.

It is a big rally taking place........with floaters( the kind of things u see in the republic day parade in tv....the huge car like thigs with various motives). They have it al here and along procession. The road has been blocked specifically for the rally, notified for the last seven days.
While they shout "pakistan zindabad" and swirl their flag, everyone is a part of it. Indians who have come to see, localities who see it with strange surprise.....

I couldnt take a pic, that is what I missed. Wish I was out before with the camera.

Amazing is it not. And tomorrow with our independence day.....its a long days of events. Tomorow is the flag hoisting.......in downtown chicago, which I will be covering for my newspaper. The rest of the events will take place in the following days in Navy Pier and warren park. I am going it miss it, since am going back to oklahoma on 16.