Multitasking…


At 22, I am institutionalized.

I have rules, an agenda, a meeting and a team of people to work with.

The older I become the lesser my autonomy.

But most of it is self-inflicted.

The list of things for me to do on a daily basis include:

1. Read eco times
2. Read TOI
3. Work on the paper
4. Meet professors for discussion
5. Read a book (currently reading Blue Ocean)
6. College work (placement, alumni etc)
7. Presentations (Variable)
8. CSR projects
9. the inevitable studying. (Highly variable)
10. and a list of things I do for other people purely out of guilt.

Such kind of Multitasking is actually considered to be a good thing in management.

I could be viewed as someone with high energy levels, very active etc. (flaws of HR?)

To me I am just doing stuff…

I have the time and I have the resources, I mite as well make full use..

Don’t misunderstand. I do have a life…my occasional visits to Leo’s never stop, I still walk around fort and I still go shopping.

Now the real thing to wonder is…

Does doing so many things, which you believe is worthwhile always good?

I dunoo…

But I remember reading somewhere:

“Doing stuff is overrated. Like Hitler. Wouldn’t we all wish he would have just stayed at home and gotten stoned.”

Point is: Its okay to be lazy, its okay to sleep extra one day and reach a little late for work.

And if you get a brilliant Idea at 3 in morning...please go back to sleep... nothing is as important as it first seems.

Need to be Opinionated.

After, giving nine consecutive papers, having three arguments, meeting four really good friends and some several bad jokes later …I headed back home.

On my way I encountered the usual mumbai traffic, bad roads, broken signals with no traffic police. I was a victim to this wretchedness for a good 2 hours.

During that journey I wondered,

Why are the roads always bad?
Why aren’t the signals working?
Where are the traffic police?

…poor sanitation, drainage problems, poor healthcare

Who is responsible for all this?


…I have the ‘Right’ to know this information. It is one of my Fundamental rights!!

The problem is we don’t exercise it enough. Because we are not opinionated!!

When we leave the house we assume we get traffic, we know the roads will be awful, we know littering is bad and no one to hold us responsible, we know there will be floods and so we prepare our selves for it

Why do we always work backwards??…or are we really this complacent?

Throughout history there have been many examples where people have reacted against injustice, rigid mindsets and unfair ideologies ,however its not just their emotions that have made them change the course of actions but it’s the number.

Mass revolutions.

The British who were sent back home from India, the U.S troops who withdrew from Vietnam, The women who won their right to vote, are all examples for what public opnions can do.

Recently the protests across the country led the government to withdraw the amendment to Right to Information.

A victory to those who were opinionated.

As for those who still aren’t:

be intolerant, be insensitive, lack patience... because we need to reach that point in time where we say ‘enough is enough’


As for me…. I shall file my first Right to Information!

Walking down Causeway

....Churchill…Picadelly….Leopold’s and the familiar smokes from Henry road….

Since college has gotten over I haven’t been to causeway… and I really miss it.

Far away from home, it takes me a good hour to get there…but it seems all worth it

My liking of that place has to do with many reasons…. friends…dates…drinks …movies good food…but most importantly the familiarity I share…I could walk blindfolded and yet navigate myself perfectly from mondeys to golden yolk. (Conditions apply)

I have met some interesting people on that street...a bunch of friendly Delhiites overwhelmed with mumbai’s fast life …a few ‘firangs’ who almost always fell prey to the our desi beggar tactics,a split personality cabbie who called him self “Joe something ”.


Causeway to me is not just a street…it seems to convey a lot more than that… …it still has that old Bombay feel to it… The Gateway of India, the art deco style Regal theatre, the cafes (Mondegar, Royal and Leopold) all add to it.

Don’t get me wrong…this is not a guide to the best places in mumbai…

I just believe that everyone has a favorite place in their much loved city…a place that u customarily find reasons to go to ….a place where you’d always want to buy your things from, everything else from anywhere else seems inferior…a place which you would unquestionably miss when u leave the city.

Now think….If you were in your favorite city where would you go?