The Beginning

It is with many insights gained over the past few months that I write once again. With some personal and few worldly insights of what has happened in the past from time to time and what is happening now,

I was born in Dholkawala Hospital, Mohamed Ali Road, Mumbai on 7th October 1962. I was born with weak eyes / imperfect eyesight. No one knew why. At that time medical practices were not so advanced to diagnose my eyesight problems. So I spent the first formative years of my childhood looking at the world in hazy, undefined images, as in a dream sequence in a Bollywood film.

So it was natural for me to rely, use my my ears / hearing sense more, which is probably why I came to be fond of music and honed my listening skills acutely, right since an early age. Good listening skills eventually led to greater and accurate skills of speech and learning languages. I came to learn English, Hindi and Marathi with a fair degree of fluency. Later when I travelled in my first work assignment, this skill helped me to pick up the local lingo quite fast. But more about that later.

When I had learned how to count and the alphabet, my number could be ascertained by an optometrist. I do not remember my numbers but they were minus - high myopia. Later I do remember them being -13 at one point. Despite this I was an average, then a good student.

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FINDING SYDNEY IN MUMBAI!

Thursday, February 11, 2016

By Asif Rizvi

Friends for 35 years, leave no stone unturned to locate their missing friend
A 35 year old friendship amongst 5 college time friends suddenly faced its toughest moment when one of the five thick friends, Sydney Miranda (56), a freelance teacher by profession went missing from Churchgate station on October 14, 2015.

Months have passed and there has been no leads or luck for his friends who have ingrained their search for Sydney into the core of their daily lives....  Sydney Miranda (56) went missing in October of 2015. He was last known to be at Churchgate station. On learning of his disappearance his friends including Shakir Virpurwala, an educator by profession and advocates Zulfikar Zariwala and Harsh Desai and others have been trying everything to trace their friend. “It was October 14 last year when Sydney, a resident of Thane had visited Churchgate to meet a friend after which he has been missing and we, his friends have been running from pillar to post to find him. It sounds really sad for us all that Sydney mysteriously went missing, we have been in touch since college days and however busy schedule it may be we managed to stay in touch. On learning that Sydney has gone missing we lodged a missing persons complaint in the Marine Drive police station but it has been over four months now and he has not been traced,” said Shakir Virpurwala. When ADC contacted the Marine Drive police station regarding Sydney's missing complaint, the police officials said, “Prior and after the missing complaint of Sydney there has been over 15 missing cases and all have been detected. In Sydney's case we are yet to find a concrete clue to locate him, the investigations and process for tracing him are going on.”

SYDNEY’s SEARCH
Not only Marine Drive police station but Sydney's friends have also lodged complaints about him going missing in Thane and the Crime Branch and when this seemed not enough to locate their close friend they have started campaigns on the social media including Facebook, Twitter and have a dedicated  Whatsapp group for updates on finding Sydney. “We have made a whatsapp group, 'Sydney Search', where all our friends are active and also dedicate their time each day to be updated on fresh inputs on Sydney, if any. Among the friends in the Whatsapp group there are Sydney's college friends, professional friends and relatives who regularly update regarding what they did each day to locate him and updates from the police stations are also shared in the group. The talks also turn emotion often discussing the good old college days,” added Shakir.   

POSTERS ON BIKES  
“I ride a bike and thought that it was a best way to get at least some information on Sydney, hence I decided to stick posters of Sydney mentioning his last seen spot, age, height, clothes he was wearing and the contact numbers. We, his friends wish someday someone who has seen him could give us a clue and our friend would return,” said Shakir.

FACEBOOK SYDNEY
Shakir said, “Today the social media is popular in the country and most of the people are active on the social media, When there were complaints being filed with the authorities and days passed with no  success in finding Sydney, we friends decided to search him and seek help of the masses through social media. A Facebook page, 'Sydney search update' was created and we update the page with Sydney's photographs, those include the latest ones and the old ones. We post messages and appeals to people to help us in finding Sydney.”

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Mitali Saran: #MakeInIndia week

Mitali Saran

As everyone knows, India is business heaven. We don’t rest on piffling perfection, however, and invite you to invest your money in the many more booming opportunities we are determined to think up. Do stop mumbling about Vodafone and check out this very cool lion!

Look, we’ve had a bad few months in the anti-national paid media. There was a bit of bad business with beef. We tanked in Bihar. The Delhi chief minister took our raid badly. There was a slight national security cockup at an air base. Then a student called Rohith Vemula offed himself in Hyderabad, and everyone jumped down our throat. The stock market has been feeling poorly, and the rupee… Look, please just give us your money?Just promise to, so that we can put a bit of good news in the papers. Thank you!
We just concluded our huge investment-attracting #MakeInIndia week in Mumbai, and boy, was it a big impressive jamboree. Here’s how it went.
February 13: Inaugural day! The newspapers were filled with Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s tweet from the previous day, saying that we wouldn’t tolerate anyone who chants anti-India slogans and challenges the nation’s sovereignty and integrity. This was after some Jawaharlal Nehru University students held a meeting to discuss capital punishment, and a student leader called Kanhaiya Kumar made a heinous speech calling for freedom. Go, Rajnath.
February 14: Day two! Worship Your Parents day was celebrated all over India in the traditional way, with couples dodging policemen to feed each other chocolate and kiss behind bushes, and patriots dragging them out and trying to frogmarch them to the altar. In the evening a huge embarrassing fire broke out on a #MakeInIndia stage. Funny coincidence (funny peculiar, not funny ha ha), a huge embarrassing fire also broke out in Delhi over how we charged Kanhaiya Kumar with sedition, on the basis of …  we’ll get back to you on that, still working on it. Also Rajnath Singh said that Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed was behind the JNU meeting. It sounded good at the time.
February 15: Sigh, day three. Turned out the Hafiz Saeed tweet about JNU was from a fake account. How was Commissioner of Police Bassi to know? Still, the anti-national-if-not-terrorist Kanhaiya Kumar was taken to court, where some patriotic lawyers beat up JNU students and staff, and pro-Porkistan media. Our MLA, O P Sharma, also beat up someone, good for him. What about Hanumanthappa? The media went bananas — the selfish libtards always make everything about them. God, loving your country is politically exhausting.
February 16: Noisy, noisy television debates. Bassi reminded everyone that we can’t just toss O P Sharma in jail just because of a camera lens, we have to look at it from a legal lens. Amazing that we have to point these things out. We’re passing a hat around the office to gift Bassi a spa coupon after he retires.
February 17: Um, so the journos got beaten up again today, and the Supreme Court is pissed off, and we’ve managed to get Rs 5,000 lakh crore investment in articles, editorials, petitions, and televised screaming matches about JNU and it turns out the videos were doctored and everyone is marching everywhere and everything is a mess and nobody’s paying attention to #MakeInIndia. Now we’re thinking Go, Rajnath, but in a different way.
February 18: Concluding day! We’ve fixed everything — we’re making all central universities put a giant flag on their campuses. That’s Phase 1. In Phase 2, we will make it mandatory for all Indians to surgically implant a Tricolour on the top of their heads.
Jai Hind.

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Mitali Saran is a Delhi-based writer mitali.saran@gmail.com

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FINDING SYDNEY IN MUMBAI!

Thursday, February 11, 2016

By Asif Rizvi

Friends for 35 years, leave no stone unturned to locate their missing friend

A 35 year old friendship amongst 5 college time friends suddenly faced its toughest moment when one of the five thick friends, Sydney Miranda (56), a freelance teacher by profession went missing from Churchgate station on October 14, 2015.

Months have passed and there has been no leads or luck for his friends who have ingrained their search for Sydney into the core of their daily lives....  Sydney Miranda (56) went missing in October of 2015. He was last known to be at Churchgate station. On learning of his disappearance his friends including Shakir Virpurwala, an educator by profession and advocates Zulfikar Zariwala and Harsh Desai and others have been trying everything to trace their friend. “It was October 14 last year when Sydney, a resident of Thane had visited Churchgate to meet a friend after which he has been missing and we, his friends have been running from pillar to post to find him. It sounds really sad for us all that Sydney mysteriously went missing, we have been in touch since college days and however busy schedule it may be we managed to stay in touch. On learning that Sydney has gone missing we lodged a missing persons complaint in the Marine Drive police station but it has been over four months now and he has not been traced,” said Shakir Virpurwala. When ADC contacted the Marine Drive police station regarding Sydney's missing complaint, the police officials said, “Prior and after the missing complaint of Sydney there has been over 15 missing cases and all have been detected. In Sydney's case we are yet to find a concrete clue to locate him, the investigations and process for tracing him are going on.”

SYDNEY’s SEARCH
Not only Marine Drive police station but Sydney's friends have also lodged complaints about him going missing in Thane and the Crime Branch and when this seemed not enough to locate their close friend they have started campaigns on the social media including Facebook, Twitter and have a dedicated  Whatsapp group for updates on finding Sydney. “We have made a whatsapp group, 'Sydney Search', where all our friends are active and also dedicate their time each day to be updated on fresh inputs on Sydney, if any. Among the friends in the Whatsapp group there are Sydney's college friends, professional friends and relatives who regularly update regarding what they did each day to locate him and updates from the police stations are also shared in the group. The talks also turn emotion often discussing the good old college days,” added Shakir.     

POSTERS ON BIKES  
“I ride a bike and thought that it was a best way to get at least some information on Sydney, hence I decided to stick posters of Sydney mentioning his last seen spot, age, height, clothes he was wearing and the contact numbers. We, his friends wish someday someone who has seen him could give us a clue and our friend would return,” said Shakir.  

FACEBOOK SYDNEY
Shakir said, “Today the social media is popular in the country and most of the people are active on the social media, When there were complaints being filed with the authorities and days passed with no  success in finding Sydney, we friends decided to search him and seek help of the masses through social media. A Facebook page, 'Sydney search update' was created and we update the page with Sydney's photographs, those include the latest ones and the old ones. We post messages and appeals to people to help us in finding Sydney.”

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