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Showing posts with label Insight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insight. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The tale of 'V' becoming 'B'

It seemed to be very funny to me initially and I used to think that it is just one or two persons inability and laziness to make proper use of their lip muscles and in the process just pronouncing it as "bhee" instead of 'V'.
Slowly I started identifying patterns and came to a conclusion that it was only with the uneducated class or the pan and gutka eating ones or with the ones who are not properly exposed to good grammar and proper English concepts.

But the more time I spent here the more confused I have got, I still try to find patterns but I feel I should just give up now , coz it is everywhere. I talk about this with my wife and she thinks I am just exaggerating, although I know that she knows I am right.

Been here for more than two months now and I have found so many names change their pronunciation , over such long periods of time that today nobody would believe that it has been changed at all.

Let's see some examples
I write this from the city of Bhubaneswar which ideally should be Bhuvaneshwar, Vasant rutu has a festival called Vasant Panchami which is now gladly called Basant Panchami.
Vikram became Bikram and Vishal is now Bishal,  Dhruv is now known as Dhrub.
The list can go onn

Its as if you can observe Evolution in one lifespan. Initially one could only hear people mispronounce V as B and it was only in the spoken form but as time passed it became so prominent that today people even write it as B.
Its like people here want to phase out the usage of letter V.
I am still not able to figure out why ,but the closest reason I feel it could be is because to say V you need to use a couple of more muscles in your lip.

Its like people here are so lazy moving a muscle in the lip is also a pain. Although I could be wrong and there could be a explanatory reason but I am yet to find that.
Also I am still trying to find a word in the English language where this change has actually changed the meaning of the word so as to support my argument

The best example so far ,Biwi has now become Bibi and I think Punjabi's have a different meaning to that word they use it to refer to a lady.

P.S.: I could have been a lawyer
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Mumbai- Seems strange


The city that never sleeps but what if I wanted to sleep
The life is so fast paced but what if I wanted it to go slow
A great career and professional life but what about personal life
A real challenge for the beginners and what then
A life full of commitments to others and no time for oneself
The trains the rush the crowd the madness the rains it’s all relentless
But I need time..i need to slow down..i want to feel..i want to enjoy
I want to live again

So little did I know it back then when I had left Mumbai 2 years ago for my high profile MBA at a premier college, I had always thought of it as going from Mumbai “the city” to Pune “the not so city” and also felt that I come from a better city with better life, now 2 years hence I find myself back in my Big City and yet somehow everything seems so out of place..
2 months since I am back here and the initial façade of being back has died down so now when I sit down and think about it I somehow miss pune. Soo I am thinking of paying it a visit soon
I want to live those memories again some time soon, Pune i am coming soon


P.S.: The Job seems to be taking it’s toll .. I feel insane 

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Missing my Loneliness...

Once there was a time when i used to have a lot of time for myself and for all my
creativity(as if there was any)
But anyways i used to think i am giving myself a lot to do and a lot of my mind seemed to be utilised..
and this was not a lot of time ago..just about a year ago...
My loneliness always gave me greater insight into myself  : "me time" i called it..

It always gave me time to think...and develop greater skills like writing for example...
My blogs are purely a creation of my loneliness

But today again i seem to be very occupied and very busy to do anything that i ever wanted to do...
it's like i have again come back a full circle...
From nothing-to-do TO no-time-to-do.....
My question is how did this happen....where did all the time go...and given that college runs for lesser hours now...
They say "An empty mind is a devil's workshop"
so has the devil started working in my mind...??


Point is i will never know and i will never try to find...
but then i will always complain..

but then given my nature i will try to fuse in my loneliness within my busy schedule...
Will it work or not i do not know...

but then after so many days i have again comeback to write...have i not..?
So i guess thats how it's gonna be...
So staying lonely is the need of the hour..!!
for me atleast..


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P.S.: How can i miss loneliness..??....strange is my mind..!!