Yes, I have moved to Pune Hyderabad Seattle Hyderabad to work for Aztecsoft. And I've moved my blog too...to http://mithunkotian.wordpress.com. See u there...not hyderabad...at the blog :P. Maybe I'll get time to update this blog as well, but i guess its too much redundancy...we'll see...

It has been quite some while that i haven't blogged on this space. Has it been due to some problem encountered with blogger or something to do with my extraordinary talent for laziness, I shall never know! In the mean time, I've maintained a blog at wordpress called Mithun's Memoirs. Which brings me to the point, that this blog will be simultaneously updated from now, with the same posts as those on the other, and maybe some other too. Unless of course, my laziness gets to me! :D

Yet another attack and yet another fightback. Not a violennt fightback, mind you. A fightback the best way the Mumbai knows how to. A return to normalcy. Quick and Efficient. Just as Mumbai has always been. It seems that this city can take anything thrown at it. Be it terrorists, greedy politicians, money hungry builders or Mother Nature herself. It doesn't know another way to live, other than to go about life as if nothing has happened. It seems sad to many, even pathetic. Mumbai appears heartless and without conscience. A city with a dead soul.

But its not. It has shown its heart, time and again.During blasts, riots or natural calamity, people have helped each other with determination and courage. The city has shown a resolute strength in such times. A strength that can be as destructive as it is constructive. People in Mumbai want peace, nay they crave for peace. But they do not get that peace.

The citizens of Mumbai have a lot to be angry about - the pathetic roads, slack drainage, slack administration, nicompoop leaders, corruption, transportation facilities that are stretched and so on. Every day, a Mumbaikar has to face the brunt of these problems, yet he keeps quiet, the discontent boiling within. The city itself is like a boiling inferno, a summation of this discontent. This inferno is kept in check just because of the attitude of the Mumbaikar. But how long will this last? Each attack, each insult, each dumbass politician just adds to the discontent, weakeaning the spirit of Mumbai- driving up the inferno. Just how long the people can hold their nerve cannot be said. But everything has a limit, as does this. Unless something is done urgently about the prevailing situation in the city, discontent will pour out. maybe against the Government, maybe against the politicians or even against the perceived attackers or their community (I hope not).

This I feared the most the day 7/11 happened and there was a prayer on my lips throughout the night. Now every time such things happens, there is fear- Fear that something really bad will happen-that the city's spirit will fail. If things continue as they are, Mumbai will explode one day, and believe me, I wouldn't want to be here when that happens. All one can do is pray.

And pray hard.

As of writing this, I'm involved in a hundred different things. Here are a few samples:
1) Creating a website for my college CSI chapter
2) Downloading a 693 Mb(!) File of the knoppix distro
3) Petting the cat sitting on my lap (for some reason he likes to stare at the screen)
4) Listening to music
5) Trying to catch on to what's happening on the Television.
6) Mental thoughts on how tommorrow is going to be...
And in between all of this, I find time to write this. What can I say? I amaze even myself. Seems only yesterday that I was fiddling around the net for almost the whole day, but that was my vacation and that was 1.5 months ago. Now-a-days, its back to the same old routine of going to college, goofing off, coming back and goofing off. But that's life and that's how its for me and so many others in the enggineering stream.
Started off today by starting to build the sites main page, there are a thousand ideas in my head - ideas that seem to float, which seem absurd at times and at times interesting - with each progression in the site format , another idea takes root. The ideas mix, swirl and intwine into a great ball of nothingness which hurts my headmeat (brain). So I decided to take a break and write this. Anyways, got to get back to work... Adios...

Mithun Kotian, India