It's time for some charming politics

Can Bollywood enlighten the politics with its glamour?

Writing about it a little late but a very important topic that needs to be discussed.

Taking a handsome margin Kirron kher, the well-known Bollywood celebrity, swept away   

Crown of the city beautiful along with her.

Chandigarh, the pride of India, the city with the most planned architecture and with the highest per capita income is now in the hands of a Bollywood star for the next 5 years rather than being in any of the veteran political leader. Keeping involved herself in many social and nonprofit movements from long, Mrs. Kher has made it in her first time fray of the LOK Sabha elections. My sincere felicitations for the victory.

But the question arises here, is the city in safer hands now?

If we look upon the developments and build out of Chandigarh in recent years, it was only because of the continuous efforts of the noteworthy and influential Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal that Chandigarh has become today the most preferred and cherished place to live in. The dense plantations, beautiful architecture, and the planned enactment of every law has made the city to be reported the cleanest city in India in 2010. The man behind all this furtherance, although suffering from a lot of bribery implications, has done much for the city till the end of his tenure. Moreover, according to some senior analyst, conditions would have been completely divergent if these scams were not implicated on Mr. Bansal. 

And now, discussing third side of the picture, an eminent actor and also a social activist, Gul Panag gave a tough fight in the polls but lost ultimately. The broom power lost here too. May be the main reason was the inapt decision taken by AAP in Delhi which opened a pandora's box for itself, but the actor even after various rallies and efforts failed to blow away the hearts of the city's people. There is possibly a changeover happening and that too after a long time, so the people of Chandigarh must be in an overwrought condition.

Can Bollywood (which has not shown till now any remarkable achievement in the field of politics) this time change the history? Talking about Chandigarh and other majority constituencies together, which have now the Lotus flag waving on their walls today, some facts say that it was more of the Modi wave and not the individual performances of the candidates which gave them the triumph in these Lok Sabha elections. Kirron Kher also in her first time leads to an unbelievable victory mainly due to this widespread, striking wave led by NaMo.

The powerful tirades given by Modi, has benefited all the BJP candidates eventually.

But at last, the topic to worry about is the future of Chandigarh people who have longly addicted to congress customs. May be the glamour has vanquished the elite of Congress, but we have to foresee that if these cute looking dimples can win over the hearts of the "city beautiful's" people.

Vaibhav Sharma

Modern cafes ain’t be better than our "Shekhar".

Modern cafes ain’t be better than our "Shekhar"

First of all no offence to any specific coffee chain or restaurant, because it's all about those days when there were no established coffee chains, no cafes, no foreign chain restaurants.

Last Friday in a friendly meet with my old college pal at Barista what I figured out that it was a more of a flashy kind of thing rather than being a truly social place to hang out. Analyzing the young generation, what we found that there was no kind of true recreation or excitement in their chit chats. May be all of them were just allured by its modern foreign architecture and enticing ambience. All the juveniles were trying their best to communicate in English whether they like it or not. Some were occupied by their laptops and many eyes and ears were trapped by the fancy mobile phones and their owners brushing off the fact that their friends are sitting in front of them.

My eyes were scrutinizing for a posse who would be engaged in real enjoyment forgetting the other entire world and from where I could re live my old memories. But hardly had they got anything. The only thing I noticed that could also be counted as an irony was that after such a lacklustre meet, they had to pay heavy cheques. What is the use of spending so much of money when you can’t get the full out of yourself? I think in that age with friends, the level of your foolishness and craziness must be higher than aristocratism.

Talking about our times, during late 80's when we used to go our college, we were totally devoid and unheard of all of these expensive restaurants or cafes, but that doesn't mean we hadn’t had our fun. I still remember those days when after a tedious lecture of mathematics there was an enthusiastic call from one of my friend for hot “samosas (a fried or baked pastry)” at "Shekhar's corner". As the name signifies, it was just a basic kiosk at the corner of the road. All of our friends used to gather over there and would start the endless tattles. There were no formal sittings or expensive furniture, no gadgets but the immense delight and excitement we used to get was totally fathomless. There was no conversation without patting each other with joy and laughter. Humor, bullying were the primary focused tasks. Sometimes our lecturers and professors would also join us in our gossips and there were limitless fun mixed with a proportionate amount of humor.

 I don't know if we can compare the taste and hygiene of those “samosas” with today's healthy viands but the contentment we used to get in that 2 or 3 rupee samosa was totally inimitable.