Worth a (tarot) Read!

The one thing that I really expect people a lot of people to agree upon is that knowing about the future fascinates them the most, isn’t it? Knowing about his own life, what’s going to happen is one knowledge hardly can anyone resist. Me too!

Sitting with a friend who reads Tarot cards and asking questions to him put me in to write something I noticed. The most questions that I came across were things related to money, love & showing someone down. As a teenager or as a person who’s still building up his life, these are the questions that really matter. Even though money matters the most and that’s the most tempting thing to ask, the more interesting things are the questions about love and showing someone down.

“Will I get her back?”
“Would I marry her or is she the one?”
“I really want to prove it to him & show him this & that”
“I want to make him/her regret.”

Well, these are the questions where the tarot card reader actually sells in making you ask more? (Salesmanship is always appreciated. Kudos). For e.g. the freaking gal has gone and she’s never going to come back. You know that so well. The card shows some devil thing but the card reader says, “Dude look, difficult but then there isn’t a no anywhere in the card. If you be the king and seek her, the major card will overpower the minor card.”

“Yeah okay, there’s this person who’s really pissed off me and my parents. I want to give it back to him”

The answers to these questions keep spinning your mind more than any other. You really then don’t think about the answers to whether you would be a MBA or no, whether your next academic year be nice or no, whether your ailing(complaining as well) would do fine or no?
Why is the latter not so important? Perhaps, these are the real kicks of life. The feeling of saying, “Fuck you man, here I’m above you. This is in return of what you did to us.” You know there’s this great feeling in even thinking about the scenario happening. I am already pumping my fist when I imagine that happening. It brings a devil smile on my face. (I can see you pumping it too)

The thing that I really now don’t expect you to agree upon is that these questions didn’t really make me feel good about myself. I mean I don’t want to live my life to show someone down. I don’t want to wait my life so that I would want to have her back or make her regret. I wanted myself to ask questions about living life. Life, me and a Higher power – its our battle. Its not even about money, its beyond that - beyond people, beyond clashing egos. My life should be to explore lands, explore people, explore nature, explore the world, explore myself.
I’ve come, I’ll go & then I’ll reincarnate. My soul would fuck some other body’s mind with the same fucking questions about money, love and showing someone down. Nah, I can’t make that mistake. Fascinating would be the cards telling me and I making sure I live to the fullest and experience a new thing God has created. Be it as miniscule as how someone in Nigeria manages to live despite the falling economy.
I think you always take something when you die. Lots of things you experienced & the content of making a difference in the world. The satisfaction is much higher than showing the bastard that you were superior or that girl that you were never wrong.


God would be too pleased to reincarnate you to another life so that you make it worth living like the way you did the last time. Get back to living life for your own self & ask the tarot card reader,
“Tell me if I would live my life the way I’d love to?”
The card has to be a YES & he wouldn’t be able to sell you any further (lol).


- Bhavesh Dodi(y)a

Election Frenzy - Govern & Not Rule!

The financial backbone of the country, the most written about state – Maharashtra is having its elections. Being such an important state of the country with cities like Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Nagpur etc., the political parties are trying their best to get the power in hand. Imagine the most looked upon land in the country, thousands of people from all over the world pouring in everyday so that they could make a living, and you having the authority to function it the way you want it. What fortune if that happens?
As of now, there are a few strong contenders vouching for that fortune:
- the Congress – NCP
- BJP – Shiv Sena
- And the new revelation MNS

As a mumbaikar, young voter and a futuristic citizen, I don’t know if anyone would be able to fulfill the needs of people or any party has the courage to stand up and deliver good infrastructure, resources, education & standard of living for the common man. Spiderman says, “With great power, comes greater responsibility”. Politics synonyms power more than responsibility in India.
The dictionary meaning of the word ‘politic’ says showing good judgment & thus politics is the art & science of governing & influencing people or a country in the right way. What good judgment has any party shown?


Congress-NCP - Well, the 26/11 attacks on heritage hotel like the Taj; open firing on innocent people at a crowded railway station is itself a showcase of their poor security for the people. Things like poor transport, inflation of daily commodities, farmer suicides is the height of tolerance with a party carved under the likes of Gandhiji & Nehru.


BJP-Shiv Sena - Initially, the BJP showed which showed some promising future is just crumbling day by day. With the high command of the BJP undecided upon their main leader, Shiv Sena shows no signs of a great leader as well. The times of Balasaheb Thackeray, AB Vajpayee, Pramod Mahajan, Manohar Joshi etc. have gone. It’s time for Uddhav Thackeray, now is it really time? Well….???A leader who is famous amongst the media and the minds of the people for not being able to imply that he has the potential of functioning an organization as influential as the Sena, don’t know how much the vote banks would help him?


The Sena had someone influential with them who parted ways to form his own league – Raj Thackeray with his MNS. A party with its vision bound by just Maharashtra was some hope for the striving human resource of the state. But even these high expectations are crumbling as miniscule things are made to be national issues.
So what if someone is a north Indian and selling pani puris or driving taxis, you can’t ridicule them. So what if some film-maker used Bombay instead of Mumbai in his film. The MNS has no right to decide if it hurt mine or anyone’s sentiments. So what if the biggest artist family in the country – the Bachchans wish to speak in Hindi, you have no right to tear their posters and make them apologize. Raj Thackeray and his men are talent, skill, leadership gone the wrong way.

As a Maharashtrian, I’m confused about whom to vote and upon a larger view whom should the public bring in to power? Some politician who had 10Crores in 2005 now has 20-30Crores with him. I never knew politics as a business had such a turnover. For god’s sake, we want someone to take care of our farmers, someone who cares that the street lights in my lane has not been working since the past three months. Please lighten the lamp, enlighten our lives. Don’t Rule, Govern.
A request from a disheartened, grieving public of the most promising province of the world – we want you. We need your management to help us be happy for the coming 5 years at least. We all are well-versed with your tricks & techniques of being good in politics; just add an emotional quotient of goodwill in it for the people of Maharashtra. I believe, the person standing next to me in the bus for a seat believes, the illegal hawker on the road believes that Maharashtra is a land of opportunities. The opportunities are craving fulfillment just short of a good government.

To the next government who comes in power – We trust in you & have voted for you this time, let’s make this work together. I want myself to say loudly,

And this time not because am born here but with something to show off as well.
Jai Hind, Jai Maharashtra!
May the true hearted deserving win!

- BHAVESH DODI(Y)A