Facebook status updates and pics archive 2010

Smriti Vij
December 31, 2010
Dear 2011 - good, bad or ugly - i am taking over, plz adjust.
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Smriti Vij
December 31, 2010 via mobile
2011 - for new beginnings,new risks,new possibilities. Happy new year!
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Smriti Vij
December 30, 2010
Please watch panel discussion on contemporary theatre in India on Lok Sabha Channel - 31st Dec (Friday) 9am ; 1st Jan (Sat.) 4pm, 2nd Jan(Sun.) 10 am

Smriti Vij shared a link.
December 29, 2010
For those who might have followed the PFC blog, a final post.http://passionforcinema.com/being-audience/

Smriti Vij
December 28, 2010
delhi weather update - exit fog, enter rain.
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Smriti Vij
December 25, 2010 via mobile
Delhi and fog!
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Smriti Vij
December 25, 2010 via mobile
Dear 2010 - enough of sad news. Dear 2011 - please bring with you happier stories and reasons to smile for one and all.
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Smriti Vij
December 24, 2010 via mobile
Merry christmas and much happiness this year to all.
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Smriti Vij
December 23, 2010
A decade of experiments over! 2011 - Brand new year, brand new decade.
No experiments, only life
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Smriti Vij
December 20, 2010 via mobile
♫M♫ U♪ S♫ I♪ ♫C♪ : )
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Smriti Vij
December 15, 2010
i heart the matrix - and the good things its made of - music, poetry, communication, stories.
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Smriti Vij
December 12, 2010 via mobile
2010 - the year of stone pelting, soul searching,

Smriti Vij
December 4, 2010 via mobile
Next show - solo performance - Asmita's platform performances, Old World theatre festival, India Habitat Centre,Delhi,5th Dec, 6.30pm. Duration - 12 minutes, entry free.

Smriti Vij
December 3, 2010
Finally, the experiments and discussions within the Melbourne classroom are making perfect sense in my country too - the media gloating over its own self-importance, creating Tabloid Tv celebs, fakeness of 'reality' tv programming and other formats and of course.. the strength of the new media!
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Smriti Vij
November 28, 2010 via mobile
train rides n film shoots - delhi's becoming bombay! : )
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Smriti Vij
November 26, 2010 via mobile
Haven't seen so many cheerful faces in delhi public transport as I have in the delhi metro, maybe its the weather..or the comfort. A different Delhi.
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Smriti Vij
November 22, 2010
"....and ultimately you allow them the luxury to steal your thoughts, and enjoy their 'have a laugh' moment, because that's probably the most they can do with their limited lives."
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November 20, 2010
The closing piece of "Kashmir Solo"- preview.

Smriti Vij
November 19, 2010 via mobile
Happy that 'kashmir' went on stage to breathe free and not on some journalistic ferris wheel! Thank you Asmita theatre.
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Smriti Vij
November 17, 2010 via mobile
Dramatic monologue as follow up to the poetry about kashmir as part of the Short and sweet festival. 18th nov - Epicentre, gurgaon,7.30pm onwards. Plz be there friends if u can..
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Smriti Vij
November 17, 2010 via mobile
Lights,presence, audience : ) thank you.
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Smriti Vij
November 9, 2010
sometimes its best to leave the universe free to conspire...
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Smriti Vij
November 6, 2010
Delhi roads were made for driving around in this pleasant weather!
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Smriti Vij
November 5, 2010
may there be light...Happy diwali.
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Smriti Vij
November 2, 2010 via mobile
Wonder how many more decades it could take for our country, at least the concept of India, to accept self-determination as an individual's struggle to determine one's place in the world, rather than yet another term used for political mileage and press coverage.
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Smriti Vij
October 26, 2010
Good things about Delhi - the feeling of winter AND the enthusiasm of the Delhi University student brigade.
Day two of judging
The Biggest Ever INTER COLLEGE STREET PLAY FESTIVAL 26th- 28th Oct. at IHC
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October 2, 2010 via mobile
There's only so much that is fate,life is mostly a result of our own efforts and choices.
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Smriti Vij
September 22, 2010
Our wonderful country, some things never change here!!!!!!!!!!!! Aaaj bhi is desh mein 'pull' girte hain, bridges aur buildings collapse hoti hain aur draupadi ke sabhi shareholder ban-na chahte hain

Smriti Vij
September 10, 2010 via mobile
The road goes on ... eid mubarak.
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Smriti Vij
September 8, 2010
don't mess with souls - they are copyright protected by god.
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Smriti Vij shared a link.
September 8, 2010
Sufi Jazz by Tochi Raina

Smriti Vij
September 6, 2010 via mobile
♫♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫(coded tracklist to get by)
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Smriti Vij
September 5, 2010 via mobile
The sky be the limit,but its a limitless sky!
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Smriti Vij
September 5, 2010 via mobile
Today, for teachers - those rare souls that share their knowledge unconditionally for the sake of education.
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Smriti Vij
September 3, 2010 via mobile
Never question god's script, however much effort it takes to read it...
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Smriti Vij
September 2, 2010 via mobile
Films are after all, just that...films?
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Smriti Vij
September 2, 2010
after a point, who steals, and what they do with it just doesn't matter any more. May they progress for their own good.
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Smriti Vij
September 2, 2010 via mobile
''This world has lost its glory,lets start a brand new story...''
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Smriti Vij
August 28, 2010 via mobile
This matrix that weaves dreams together is spun through stories, expressed thru moments - sometimes in images and sound and sometimes felt in silence.. Matrix weavers are
then..storytellers.
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Smriti Vij
August 28, 2010 via mobile
Ok, puzzle for the day - something very important for survival that is slightly left,but always right. Guess,guess. : p
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Smriti Vij
August 26, 2010 via mobile
Puzzles were created to be solved..but we need to apply our mind...and heart...
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Smriti Vij

August 26, 2010 via mobile
I love film,cinema,movies - all put together, whether I live in them,with them or without.
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Smriti Vij
August 25, 2010 via mobile
Dear god, even if I asked for so much of rain this year,plz be careful with floods..
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Smriti Vij
August 25, 2010
dear stolen backup drive, even if they found you dont let them terrorise you, i am graduating from that classroom anyway.
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Smriti Vij
August 24, 2010 via mobile
The only way to defeat those who kill, is to live!
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Smriti Vij
August 24, 2010 via mobile
i believe in angels..... ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ : )
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Smriti Vij
August 23, 2010 via mobile
is hoping @100 years 'bollywood' would finally change its name to something more dignified.
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Smriti Vij
August 22, 2010 via mobile
♫♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ : )
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Smriti Vij
August 22, 2010
deepest thought - 2010 is turning out like 2001. In my mind i am at a place where the road leads to the same mountains - i could choose a private car, public transport, a flight or another long walk.
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Smriti Vij
August 20, 2010
music&lyrics have always been the alternative religion. it's not strange that most other religion too propagated through poetry.
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Smriti Vij
August 20, 2010
it is usual for strange things to happen to strange people.
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Smriti Vij
August 19, 2010
God has no answers only signboards!
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Smriti Vij
August 17, 2010 via mobile
Maybe time to turn on the music!
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Smriti Vij
August 16, 2010 via mobile
Poetry writing takes a break, early early mornings to begin. Plz adjust.
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Smriti Vij
August 15, 2010 via mobile
Baarish,barsaat,rain..
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Smriti Vij
August 15, 2010 via mobile
After growing up through what now seems like an idealistic childhood, India @63 seems to have just reached adolescence with its multiple identity crises out in the open. Hopefully @ 100 India will find its real place in the world as a mature adult.
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Smriti Vij
August 14, 2010 via mobile
Jinke hisse ki hai jitni aazadi woh usme aabaad hon, jinko chahiye aur aazadi unke khayal bhi aazad hon.
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Smriti Vij
August 13, 2010 via mobile
Peepli [live] - real,rooted,indian and very effective storytelling!
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Smriti Vij
August 12, 2010 via mobile
...(contd.)those who depend only on demeaning others to attract attention - and all their associates and groupies. And I promise never to type a status like this again!
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Smriti Vij
August 11, 2010 via mobile
♫♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫
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Smriti Vij
August 11, 2010 via mobile
The worth of a favour is in when its needed,not 6 months later,not a year later and not 15th of aug.
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Smriti Vij
August 9, 2010 via mobile
Life 101 - if you step out on a sunny day,without an umbrella...it will rain.
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Smriti Vij
August 6, 2010 via mobile
''If am a traveller, I hv the right to be lost, because i'l always look for places no ones ever gone before. So,whos directing the way from here?''
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Smriti Vij
August 6, 2010 via mobile
Some new music plz...
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Smriti Vij
August 5, 2010 via mobile
It's amazing how a moment in life can repeat itself so perfectly as if nothing ever changed.
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Smriti Vij
August 4, 2010 via mobile
Kya kiya jaye? Bina choice ki duniya achchi thi shayad.
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Smriti Vij
August 3, 2010 via mobile
Jo jaage hain, woh jaage kyun hain!
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Smriti Vij
August 3, 2010 via mobile
Feels like a day for a very long walk...
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Smriti Vij
August 3, 2010 via mobile
Ok, happy status message of the day, may the pursuit of happiness never go out of fashion.
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Smriti Vij
August 3, 2010 via mobile
The bad thing about being silent when someone flings unwarranted sarcasm at you - if they are spineless they are free to use it as an opportunity to their own selfish advantage and create assumptions in the mind of others. The good thing is,there will be poetic justice and they will meet their own justified end!!
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Smriti Vij
August 2, 2010 via mobile
India likes to wake up after people die and sometimes not even then.
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Smriti Vij
August 1, 2010
hope to put down my thoughts about kashmir and India by morning- hoping
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Smriti Vij
July 31, 2010 via mobile
Happy friendship day..and especially to all friends from and of kshmr.
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Smriti Vij
July 31, 2010 via mobile
Dear Indian army - high time you learnt too much of force chokes life. Happy friendship day to Kashmir, if you still say Go India Go, iam never travelling to kashmir.
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Smriti Vij
July 30, 2010 via mobile
At the end of the day it's just a small planet we're part of - we share the same sun and moon and sometimes even clouds - raining in delhi,raining in mumbai.
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Smriti Vij
July 30, 2010 via mobile
I mean what I say and I say what I mean,otherwise I prefer to preserve my vocal chords. Huh!
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Smriti Vij
July 28, 2010 via mobile
Take from outsiders,give to your family and friends.
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Smriti Vij
July 26, 2010 via mobile
What is this,i step out it starts raining,am indoors,it stops,dear nature you know I get annoyed by game-playing!!
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Smriti Vij
July 26, 2010 via mobile
Dear kashmir, please solve yourself,tumhara past,mere present mein,mera future barbaad kar raha hai.
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Smriti Vij
July 23, 2010 via mobile
Dear god, if for a day u cd shower happiness alongwith rain, prosperity alongwith sunlight, progress along with a rainbow.. But, you've given so much already, the rest is packaged within us. Thankfully,yours : )
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Smriti Vij
July 23, 2010 via mobile
Lamhaa - watched Lamhaa without expecting that the film would solve kashmir while i munch on popcorn. So, am thankful that it makes an effort to put together a few pieces of the puzzle. I just hope in time kashmir gets to live as a place, and not an issue.
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                                                                       Smriti Vij
July 22, 2010 via mobile
Gham ko apne saath mein lele,dard bhi tere kaam ayega. : ) and enjoy the rain.
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Smriti Vij
July 21, 2010 via mobile
is over and done with all backstories! No flashbacks or rewinds.
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Smriti Vij
July 21, 2010
is hoping they release some happy films now, till then mr. tere bin laden provides the laughs.
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Smriti Vij
July 19, 2010 via mobile
Still believes in the romantic view that honest cinema,storytelling,poetry, music can work like cold water to cool down a burning,simmering culture...
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Smriti Vij
July 19, 2010 via mobile
When multiple dreams have become multiple realities,its time to choose a totem...
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Smriti Vij
July 18, 2010 via mobile
Is it a maze? Is it a dream? Oh,gosh,then it must be inception.
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Smriti Vij
July 15, 2010 via mobile
the indian 'Rs' gets its symbol, now how to type it here, keyboards and softwares plz
update ur symbols asap!
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Smriti Vij
July 15, 2010 via mobile
Mumbai - delhi, delhi - mumbai - Mumbai! 

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Smriti Vij
July 13, 2010
in this country unfortunately, it seems people are more comfortable seeing other people die than they are to see them live.
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Smriti Vij
July 8, 2010 via mobile
There's somethng abt packing backpacks - you can just toss in stuff and there's separate place fr everythng.
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Smriti Vij
July 5, 2010 via mobile
...Khamoshi ne toot kar hi apni baat sunayi hai
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Smriti Vij
July 3, 2010 via mobile
''ameeron ko aizaaz o iqbal do. Gareebon ko firdaus par taal to'' / award the rich with respect and glory, ward off the poor with promises of paradise - Abdul hameed
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Smriti Vij
June 30, 2010 via mobile
Whats with indian men and spitting!!
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Smriti Vij
June 30, 2010
Is not obliged, obligated to any one in this city and is happy, very, very happy about that.
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Smriti Vij
June 26, 2010 via mobile
Life is too short, and we take too much,too much for granted..
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Smriti Vij
June 23, 2010 via mobile
'' shama har rang mein jaltee hai sahar honey tak'' - a candle flickers in different hues till it is dawn of the morrow.
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Smriti Vij
June 23, 2010
"i believe in angels, something good in everything i see"
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Smriti Vij 

June 18, 2010 via mobile
One day at a time in the rain swept city.
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Smriti Vij
June 17, 2010 via mobile
Snippets of life, recorded in sound - frm 15 years back....priceless.
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Smriti Vij
June 16, 2010 via mobile
Rare pearl of wisdom- when u can't afford the right clothes to wear, wear the usual with the right attitude and ur best smile.
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Smriti Vij
June 3, 2010 via mobile
no status,no thoughts, just happiness n cheers.
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Smriti Vij
June 2, 2010
"those who claim to care for you, leave them where they are for a while. If they change their tune behind your back, they never deserved you any way." lol
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Smriti Vij
June 1, 2010 via mobile
Seems rain is on its way this week,but then who trusted clouds anyway!
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Smriti Vij
June 1, 2010 via mobile
Boxes,packing, dhool and mitti..and just another 2 days hopefully.
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Smriti Vij
May 30, 2010 via mobile
Kahin dhoop khile, kahin chhanv mile,lambi si dagar na khale...
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Smriti Vij
May 29, 2010 via mobile
Those who assume, don't matter. Those who matter, won't assume.
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Smriti Vij
May 29, 2010
is at peace with God and his weather control mechanism for now. Summer is a fine season. Happy?
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Smriti Vij
May 27, 2010 via mobile
Getting addicted to walking after long, hope to get addictd to running soon enough...
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Smriti Vij
May 27, 2010
status - thirstday, thursday.
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Smriti Vij
May 26, 2010 via mobile
Dear god, high time u had a centralised air conditioning system for your planet, so that ur people remain cool,calm and comfortable at all times of their lives.
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Smriti Vij
May 25, 2010 via mobile
... but mumbai has the sea : )
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Smriti Vij

May 25, 2010
is hoping a little bit of nationalism, a little bit of patriotism might just find its place in our global lives.
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Smriti Vij
May 24, 2010
doesn't want to apply the mind anymore, wants to give the mind a rest, dear mind please go on a vacation somewhere.
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Smriti Vij
May 23, 2010 via mobile
is hoping to read happy and cheerful status messages this monday morning...
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Smriti Vij
May 23, 2010 via mobile
Every unforseen calamity teaches the same- live life a day at a time and don't waste time on hate.
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Smriti Vij
May 21, 2010
is looking forward to Rajneeti, Udaan, and some simple and honest film with good music.
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Smriti Vij
May 19, 2010 via mobile
Am real and I welcome chance and change and that's all that matters.
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Smriti Vij
May 16, 2010
There was a time for savage garden, boyzone and the theme song from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. lol
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Smriti Vij
May 15, 2010 via mobile
We need films,coz in life the best lines are never said and the best moments are never photographed...
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Smriti Vij
May 14, 2010 via mobile
Dear God thoda AC on karo na.
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Smriti Vij
May 13, 2010 via mobile
Life's about living your own script....
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Smriti Vij
May 13, 2010

There's too much of purrpple out in the stores now, huh! am shifting to blues and sea greens.
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Smriti Vij 

May 10, 2010
has moved on from the unreliable Nokia handset to a better Sony! Hopefully, fewer phone troubles now..thanks for bearing!
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Smriti Vij
May 9, 2010 via mobile
Seeking challenge number next ....
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Smriti Vij
May 9, 2010
a decade of Silence and hopefully a decade of action and speech.
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Smriti Vij
May 8, 2010 via mobile
Can't say abt the rest of the world, but India belongs to her mothers. Wishing happiness to all of them.
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Smriti Vij
May 7, 2010 via mobile
is Indian, made in India and very proud of that fact.
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Smriti Vij
May 6, 2010 via mobile
The benefits of being invisible are - all the world's a stage, all roads are meant for running, and every floor's a dancefloor.
Smriti Vij ...and u can walk up 2 any noble soul without introducing yourself...and talk..ths is the best part : )
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Smriti Vij
May 6, 2010
the outsider is the outsider is the outsider!
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Smriti Vij
May 4, 2010 via mobile
Those who believe that 'Good' doesn't exist, are the ones who killed it - they started with themselves!
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Smriti Vij
May 3, 2010
A thought to Begin with - "Art is the heart of Kashmir"

Smriti Vij
April 30, 2010 via mobile
Jan for joy, feb for fitness, march for money, april for ambition and May : ) May dreamers see dreams fulfilled in May.
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Smriti Vij
April 30, 2010 via mobile
Rehearsal helps mostly : )
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Smriti Vij
April 28, 2010 via mobile
Just today and then every day a new day.. I like this year : )
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Smriti Vij
April 25, 2010 via mobile
Wake up at 5 and thrive day. : )
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Smriti Vij
April 25, 2010 via mobile
Another prithvi evening.
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Smriti Vij
April 24, 2010 via mobile
May the 'unconditional' never go out of fashion.
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Smriti Vij
April 22, 2010 via mobile
Listen to everyone, follow your own conviction.
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Smriti Vij
April 21, 2010
the more they say things have changed, the more they must be..just the same!
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Smriti Vij
April 20, 2010
thinking of new risks
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Smriti Vij
April 17, 2010 via mobile
This shall be lived through. : )
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Smriti Vij
April 12, 2010 via mobile
The hurt locker - 'war is a drug' and everythng else is Game Playing! Life = death!
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Smriti Vij
April 11, 2010
no obligations,no expectations!
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Smriti Vij
April 11, 2010
music, stories, god(faith - not idols or rituals) unconditionally for the individual always. Fashionably atheistic welcome to spam with hate!
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Smriti Vij
April 8, 2010 via mobile
Xtreme lives one day at a time.

Smriti Vij
April 6, 2010 via mobile
Aur bhi gum hain....market main fevicol ke siva.
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Smriti Vij
April 5, 2010 via mobile
Nothing changes in fake myth city, its always the same people all over again, regardless!
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Smriti Vij
April 4, 2010 via mobile
to care about the opinion and advice of people who have known you from the beginning and not on some random highway...
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Smriti Vij
April 1, 2010 via mobile
Likes the feel of this year so far... : ) touch wood! One day at a time and no expectations seems to work sometimes.....
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Smriti Vij
April 1, 2010 via mobile
One can either work and live or spend life losing weight,gaining weight. This isn't a joke but laughter is permissible. : )
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Smriti Vij
March 28, 2010 via mobile
Feels happy after meeting happy, soulful,musical people. Jus happy. : )
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Smriti Vij
March 26, 2010
bas karo ladai jhagda yaar poetry se seekho, years and generations of poetry and yet there is new poetry with original thought! amazing isn't it ?
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Smriti Vij
March 25, 2010
sometimes life should be like the B&W hindi films
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Smriti Vij
March 24, 2010
...now i feel all the world's a stage...
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Smriti Vij
March 23, 2010 via mobile
Pulled by 'Gods' and other puppeteers : )
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Smriti Vij
March 23, 2010
I love travelling on local buses especially when a sweet natured aunty sitting next to me gifts me a box of fresh strawberries for no reason at all.
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Smriti Vij
March 23, 2010 via mobile
All roads lead to the same destination.....hence proved. : )
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Smriti Vij
March 20, 2010 via mobile
1.am b.hel on the mumbai - pune highway!
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Smriti Vij
March 20, 2010
All roads lead to the same destination..........
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Smriti Vij
March 19, 2010 via mobile
Dear Gods, don't do Mazaak this time! Lol
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Smriti Vij
March 19, 2010 via mobile
April 3rd and ahead - only happiness for a while, regardless of reactions and the state of the world!
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Smriti Vij
March 19, 2010
wants to break a rule - any rule; wants to pick up a fight with someone - anyone
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Smriti Vij
March 18, 2010 via mobile
Thankful to music and poetry,this fake planet wd've been dead by now.
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March 16, 2010 via mobile
Challenge number next? : )
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Smriti Vij
March 15, 2010 via mobile
In our lucky country India, new year's day keeps coming back. In some cultures the year begins today. So once again, Happy New Year.
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Smriti Vij
March 15, 2010 via mobile
Happy when good things happen, sad when bad things happens. When nothing happens- very restless! Lol
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Smriti Vij
March 14, 2010 via mobile
Calenders,watches, races and alarms : )
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Smriti Vij
March 13, 2010
doesn't end. now lahore...
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Smriti Vij
March 12, 2010 via mobile
I believe in the Universe. : )
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Smriti Vij
March 12, 2010 via mobile
Alice in Wonderland at IMAX 3D, not cinema or film, this must be the Movies! : )
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Smriti Vij
March 11, 2010
practicing the art of being imperfect
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Smriti Vij
March 10, 2010
"Do you mean to tell me Katie Scarlett O'Hara that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts." really?
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Smriti Vij
March 9, 2010 via mobile
I went looking for one person, just one person who has faith in me. Today I am sure who that person is. That person is ..... Me.
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Smriti Vij
March 8, 2010 via mobile
Dear God, give me as much criticism from the wise, just save me from the advice of the ignorant.
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Smriti Vij
March 7, 2010 via mobile
Restlessness and insomnia back after a decade : ) welcome
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Smriti Vij
March 7, 2010 via mobile
If nature wanted us to walk backwards our eyes would have been placed differently! The road is always ahead!
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Smriti Vij
March 7, 2010 via mobile
Ab to dus rupye ka bhi coin hota hai, ise kya kahenge?
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Smriti Vij
March 5, 2010 via mobile
May this year too bring good,good music.
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Smriti Vij
March 5, 2010
phool hi phool zindagi bahaaar hai....so why are you on the computer ok? (wise-cracked fr the day!)
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Smriti Vij shared a link.
March 5, 2010
http://passionforcinema.com/thanks-maa-finally-releases-do-watch/

Smriti Vij
March 4, 2010
on my mind - April 3rd. hahahahahhaahahaha.
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Smriti Vij
March 2, 2010 via mobile
is a happy child : )
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Smriti Vij
February 28, 2010 via mobile
To invisibles and visibles, variables and invariables, replacables and irreplacables,those who read the message and those who don't and dear phone,computer,camera - happy holi.
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Smriti Vij
February 28, 2010
So far the year has been about people, am glad - hopefully, the rest of the year will also be about connecting with people..finally
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Smriti Vij
February 24, 2010 via mobile
Life is - : )
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Smriti Vij
February 24, 2010
it's time the universe conspired!
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Smriti Vij
February 24, 2010 via mobile
There shall be holi this year, not so much for celebration but really just to participate n live
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Smriti Vij
February 21, 2010
dear fellow arians - 2010 will be the year of life. live it.
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Smriti Vij
February 17, 2010
is tired of india-pakistan-kashmir-death-peace-terrorism factories and related keywords ........ sorry.
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Smriti Vij
February 16, 2010 via mobile
Stay ignorant,stay happy!
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Smriti Vij
February 14, 2010 via mobile
the new millennium and a 1001 ways to die! Lol
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Smriti Vij
February 14, 2010
no expectations, no obligations, lol!
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Smriti Vij
February 14, 2010
Few relationships that can beat this - "between a work and it's audience" still happy day to all
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Smriti Vij
February 13, 2010 via mobile
Mobs vs bombs and the story goes on...
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Smriti Vij
February 10, 2010
Cynicism comes free of cost, tolerance takes effort - anonymous!
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Smriti Vij
February 8, 2010 via mobile
'' i like looking lost- it keeps me away from the evil, the conniving, the vain and the jealous' - anonymous!
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Smriti Vij
February 8, 2010 via mobile
is still thinking of the song of sparrows/the world is a lie : )
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Smriti Vij
February 6, 2010 via mobile
Come to think of it, it's a nice feeling to not belong to anywhere specific!
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Smriti Vij
February 5, 2010 via mobile
In delusion-wood as well as in pollytics everyone seems the same- players change, the game remains the same!
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Smriti Vij
February 4, 2010 via mobile
Why does Srinagar,Melbourne and now Mumbai, have to be on the same page of the newspaper? Lol. Why?
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Smriti Vij
February 4, 2010
Manages to update the blog magically http://smritimuse.blogspot.com/
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Smriti Vij
February 4, 2010 via mobile
Now im getting sms msgs frm age 5 and below. Soon,buddy wl get his own phone wit paw-pads it seems! Tech. Lol.
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Smriti Vij
February 1, 2010 via mobile
Life feels so much better even if u speak only to 4 people who genuinely care,and to animals and children age 5 and below! Lol.
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Smriti Vij
January 29, 2010 via mobile
local transport roadways travel rules!
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Smriti Vij
January 23, 2010 via mobile
But iam going to leave the status line with one last free thought, ''all difficult problems usually have simple solutions'' g'bye. : )
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Smriti Vij
January 23, 2010 via mobile
Sorry fb, ur nt going to be reading my mind frm nw on, gues by now u'd b bored too. : )
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Smriti Vij
January 23, 2010 via mobile
probably is going to spend all of 2day walking abt the city.
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Smriti Vij
January 18, 2010 via mobile
What starts wit a note of doubt, negativity, cynicism and sarcasm, ends like that too! Sad, or whatever but True!!
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Smriti Vij
January 17, 2010
Mind it - i respect and acknowledge the past, i dont' live there!
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Smriti Vij
January 15, 2010
the stranger the life, the lovelier it is!
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Smriti Vij
January 15, 2010 via mobile
is Aries!
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Smriti Vij
January 14, 2010 via mobile
Wants to go to hr room in del, go out, see the fog, take buddy fr a walk and cme bk 2 mumbai in 5 mins
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Smriti Vij
January 14, 2010 via mobile
Bored! Lol
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Smriti Vij
January 14, 2010 via mobile
is happy being herself - straightforward and to the point! No stories please...for sometime!
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Smriti Vij
January 13, 2010 via mobile
i love life when its crazy!! Lolz
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Smriti Vij
January 12, 2010
shd start the mrng with a visit to the sea, definetely the outdoors! fingers crossed!
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Smriti Vij
January 12, 2010 via mobile
Dhool-mitti,dhool mitti...
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Smriti Vij
January 11, 2010 via mobile
is not able to understand something .....
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Smriti Vij
January 11, 2010 via mobile
People - life is all about people.
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Smriti Vij
January 10, 2010 via mobile
is listening to songs of Don and Amar Akbar Anthony! Jus generaly.
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Smriti Vij
January 10, 2010 via mobile
Dear Indian filmmakers, esp those whose films released in the last 4 yrs, thanks fr bringing my parents back to the movies and in touch wit the times! - urs truly, audience.
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Smriti Vij
January 7, 2010 via mobile
Soul and emotion unavailable for theft. Work available..
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Smriti Vij
January 6, 2010 via mobile
6.30 am. Yayyy! : )
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Smriti Vij
January 6, 2010 via mobile
is happy and peaceful : )
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Smriti Vij
January 6, 2010
sometimes i don't like a few people, sometimes i don't like them who take their culture for granted.
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Smriti Vij
January 6, 2010
one of the best feelings in life is to realise that the world is after all just a small planet!
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Smriti Vij
January 5, 2010 via mobile
This is going to be quite a year! : )
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Smriti Vij
January 5, 2010
damn this colld!! cough, cough!
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Smriti Vij shared a link.
January 4, 2010
a few words everyday on the blog, for whatever it is worth -http://smritimuse.blogspot.com/2010/01/melbourne-for-whatever-effort-is-worth.html

Smriti Vij
January 1, 2010 via mobile
Happy i chose today to finally meet the idiots, perfect timing i'd say... and proud to be one. and everyone whos being sayng the filmaker is repetitive, the script is not whatever,sorry grill the 35crore turkeys let this one live!
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Smriti Vij
January 1, 2010 via mobile
May 20/10 be about acknowledging the past,valueing the present and embracing the future. Love to all, smriti.
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Fb updates archive 2009

FACEBOOK 2010

Kashmir Again

I don’t find Kashmir beautiful. How can a place that stifles life ever be beautiful? If it is time for anything real, it is time to break down the stereotypes of the valley and it’s physical beauty. True, the land maybe blessed with a pleasing landscape, but what good is that landscape on its own – uncared. What good is that land in which you tread with fear! If there was any beauty in that place, it must have been in peaceful survival, which by now is dead.

The oft quoted and now forgotten ‘kashmiriyat’, if it ever existed could have been a beautiful way of life if it indeed was a value system that respected diversity. Ironically, the land of multiple faiths that could have been a vibrant example of co-existence within this country, now, comes across not much more than a glorious prison.

Hopefully, a value system doesn’t need land to preserve itself, it needs intention and feeling - which on its own could be beautiful.

Home and Beyond

Home and Beyond
For Wiscomp – Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace
(August 2007)

Home and Beyond

I grew up in government owned houses in Delhi. The houses kept changing, but they were always in Delhi. The world was ‘the house’ and vice versa. In this house my parents and their three daughters, out of who I am the youngest survived rather amicably until we grew up and yearned to step out and search for our place in the world. Around this time in the late eighties, our father chose to retire from the Army to be with us in Delhi where our mother served as a government medical doctor.

What followed were years of constant friction between a couple struggling to raise their three daughters and the three of us who had each other for company. We are another middle income family living out of Delhi.

We lived with the common identity of being an Army officer’s children and that our mother was a doctor. We knew that our parents had their ‘roots in Kashmir’ and that most of our relatives lived in Jammu who often visited and who we would visit on some special occasion, the parents willing but us children, out of compulsion. Photo albums would keep us acquainted with our father’s experiences of serving the Army, our only trip to the Kashmir valley as a family of five in 1987 and our mother’s memories of the Srinagar of snow, strawberries and family relationships, where she grew up in the 1950s and 60s.

As I turned 15 or maybe when radio and television sneaked in comfortably, the world within the house grew uncomfortable. I wanted more than rich Kashmiri food and nostalgic photographs. I grew more ambitious about what lay beyond, something felt amiss, and it was definite that I had to look for a voice to help me communicate with the world beyond the ‘house’ ; little did I know this would become my life’s calling to wade through the chaos that lay deep within. By the time I reached college I became conscious of this ambition but wondered whether it had some purpose or was it for the sake of itself. This dilemma got stronger in the years that followed when I joined the journalism programme at Lady Shriram College and finally stepped out of the routine of the Army school and the house.

College gave me different eyes and was perhaps the first time that I began communicating with my parents about what their journey in life had been and how it might have affected our growing up.

I tried to understand our father’s reasons for the insistence on security and the desperation to educate his daughters. I observed that each of us children felt a need to develop our artistic talents in some form. I realized I had received greater opportunity in following my ambition being the youngest member of my generation amongst my father’s entire family that was displaced from Muzzafarabad (now in Pakistan administered Kashmir) following the violent external aggression on the region in 1947.

Until, then, all I knew of 1947 was what they taught in text books – the partition of India into India and Pakistan. The contentious history of the 1947 attack that led to the first war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is a history that is not often cited while discussing the puzzle called Kashmir.

All through October in 1947, when India was independent and Kashmir was not yet a part of India or Pakistan, Muzzafarabad was amongst the villages that were plundered by Pakistani state sponsored tribal raiders’ in the first war over Kashmir.

My father’s ten year old eyes matured with unwelcome sights of the horror that was.

Serving as a communications engineer in the wars between India and Pakistan that would follow in 1965 and 1971, the most troublesome memory that would cloud his mind every time he felt alone was perhaps, seeing his own father being shot dead during the 1947 raid.

Young eyes in Kashmir still grow up with their own share of horror and the trauma of conflict and displacement persists.

When college was ending a series of rare opportunities emerged that broke the ice between my parents and me and a barrage of questions that had never scratched my mind left it brimming with restlessness. I was chosen to visit Lahore along with the student delegation from Lady Shriram College. Apart from the naiveté of visiting abroad to an unreachable country, I didn’t know what was in store and how it would impact me. My parents were glad at what they felt was a rare opportunity. It was the first time I lived away from home, even if for just a week.

It was a week that surprised me. What had felt like an unreachable land felt like ‘home’ instead.

In the months that followed, university students from Pakistan traveled to India and we sat together for the first ever conflict transformation workshop organized by Wiscomp. I now realise how the experience impacted me personally while I was trying to assimilate the perceptions of peace and conflict I grew up with, conditioned by news reports, my parent’s experiences and an Army background.

Following the conference, when I spent a year abroad for study, away from the comfort zone of home, the thought process had begun. The angst of finding answers had set in. I knew it would take me somewhere that would make me more knowledgeable about the conflict within. Internal Conflict, I now feel is both a consequence of a larger conflict - in our case the burden of displacement as well as the cause for another conflict - in my case, that between me and my parents.

When I got back to India, I was invited to the second conflict transformation workshop that now invited peace practitioners and media professionals from South Asia.

By now, I realized that more than anything that my ambition wanted from me, I wanted to spend time with my parents and with the thoughts that had now surfaced from my core.

In this deep tunnel, I have spent the last five years groping, perhaps what I was going through was also a tug of war between emotion and the intellect which was slowly being scratched and of understanding my place in the world before stepping into it with some purpose.

This tunnel led me to seek skills that weren’t part of my ambition in my growing up years - reading, writing and storytelling. I was more a product of the image oriented generation until then.
It made me feel a need for a culture that I could call my own.

It’s taken me on trips to Jammu on my own and with my parents to meet with our relatives, to record experiences of an eyewitness of the 1947 attack as well as of a relative who traveled across the line of control from Srinagar to Muzzafarabad when the bus of peace connected the two cities for the first time in more than fifty years in October 2006. Ironically during their visit across, nature played truant and a massive earthquake tore through the region. According to the eyes of this relative who survived the calamity, the region suffered massive physical damage yet again, even greater than the raid itself.

Could this be nature’s indication to leave past events behind and secure the present and future instead?

Most importantly, the journey within has given me a sense of belonging to something beyond ‘home’ and to a great extent, calmed the conflict within.

This awareness has opened a channel of communication between my parents and me and while my thought and action may not be sufficient yet to change some deep rooted perceptions and experiences about conflict their generation lives with, we have grown to communicate peacefully and that I feel is success.

Occasionally, I continue to face the wrath of the ‘other’ that resides within our own psyche, in my case – ambition. But, the truth that contains it is that there is no greater feeling of contentment than the experience of a personal transformation towards peace.

This transformation for me took place mostly through the Wiscomp experience. All I can share for now is this beginning of my story. My political opinions are still being shaped but I am better aware and prepared to take on external journeys towards peace, now that I have physically stepped out of ‘home’ even though ironically, I feel more homeward bound than ever. I hope in the next few years what has changed within will be communicated through my life or work and that I will be able to participate in our collective journey towards peace.

The WISCOMP website - http://www.wiscomp.org/

routines interrupted.

This is how routine is broken..we walk our chosen path and life gets interrupted. Why should one get affected. What is the need to stop...to think...or to feel...one should just keep walking with blinkers on, till whenever, till wherever. But, yet there must be something that connects, fear for our own lives maybe? fear that it could happen to someone whose life is connected to ours. Or the need to know why do people kill others, why do they communicate by killing, why not any other way?

And yet the story goes on...

Is it that we have become immune to death, that now what matters only is the cause of death and numbers dead. death by a blast or a shoot-out or a natural calamity, accidental or natural.

Statistics apart, what is then left is perhaps just the vagueness of feeling! What can be helped, can be done, saving a person's life at a time of a crisis, but what of the worst kind of helplessness - in not being able to find answers. Why would someone do this? And what would it take for them to stop?

mobs, bombs and noises

Mumbai '10

And the chaos which is now makes its presence felt yet again - today...Pune...another blast...outside the popular German Bakery, the tourists' haunt,  - overall a more upmarket, urbane part of the city.

While Mumbai is currently taken over by a noisy evil- the moral brigade out to take their own law unto their own hands - this evil that is unseen, unheard and then suddenly makes its presence felt taking away lives is a recurrent event on television screens round the world by now.

In the past decade Indian television news has created its own vocabulary for reporting blasts and shootouts and the like.

Much noises in India currently. A film release. A mob at work. A blast. And the television commotion.....only if you are watching the news -- switch the channels and there is enough choice of "Amusing ourselves to death"...(refer Neil Postman :)

Right Now in Mumbai '10 …

Right Now in Mumbai '10 …

Even though I meant to write about events from 2001, how can I not react to the present, it is after all the present which compels me to write here and after quite a few days of thought, I am now compelled to interrupt the Melbourne journal with an incoherent rant!

“The times…” they change but who changes them if not people themselves, people change and with them their ‘times’; theatres of conflict may change but conflict itself remains continuous!

There’s always someone with an issue against someone else. Someone who wants the power of authority to Live and let die.

‘The world’ – if at all there exists a general term for the people of this planet – gives an impression that it’s getting together to talk, and when there is nothing specific to talk about, the point of conversation generally is … the Weather. The World discusses the ‘weather’ a lot these days! Coincidental?

A feeling of governments’ reaching out while the people they govern choose to huddle searching for comfort and ‘peace’.

And ‘Peace’ itself, ready for sale.

I am typing these words from Mumbai, the Indian city otherwise known for it’s cosmopolitan nature is proving to be just the contrary. Issues of ‘where are you from?’ abound. ‘outsiders’ threaten a certain section of self appointed moralists and cultural crusaders it seems!

Very simply put, their refrain, “this is ‘my’ home, go away!” Seems out of a kindergarten class fight? But add to it the possibility of violent reactions and weapons and there’s no comparison left with the innocence of the class-fight anymore, only a stage set for bloodied chaos.

Whether on this blog, I write of Srinagar, Melbourne or Mumbai, the conflicts might be different but stemming of a similar substance generated through a combination of insecurity, ignorance, intolerance and ‘hate’ of course.

Should this spirit of intolerance within ‘the world’ then be attributed towards the ‘times’. Intolerant, insecure, uncertain times? Times of fear? Times that seem to be racing against ‘time’ itself....

It should be back to the Melbourne journal after this, straight to an event that conveyed this feeling of insecurity, the need to huddle...

M15, The Sound of Music

M15 The Sound of Music

I could also title this the 'routine of reading' but that puts me off, so can't imagine what the reader would go through.

Mine is mostly a noisy country, alive, active, hyper active! There are spaces that are quiet too of course, for that one needs to travel, but mostly we live surrounded with sounds, voices, the radio or television shouting itself hoarse!

So, although looking out for silence was at first a challenge, the space of that room where all there is for communication is the page that needs to be read, was a bit painful to begin with.

So, i invested in a music player/radio set for company. More choice - too many frequencies - tuned to various styles of music - cotemporary, classical, talk based programs, the news - all available right there.

Music playing in the background can sometimes distract as well, the classical usually doesn't. Not a big fan of the western classical, I wondered what gives the music it's special status. But there's something about it that gives it great replay value, play it over and over again and after a point it blends into the surrounding itself. No wonder 'elevator music' takes a lot from here to blend into the surroundings - for elevators and malls et al. Of course our malls are noisy too.

Of course,Melbourne is a cultural city and there are musical performances, street side musicians as well.

But what I missed most was hindi film music, cannot help it, growing up on popular music that helps narrate film stories, preserves poetry and gives great company, and i'd say usually does a good job of it. So another reason for the radio spot was also to play along the collection of hindi film music and prod friends - mostly south asian to listen on.

To this i'd add, not everyone Indian who walks along with an iPod playing is showing off their iPod, they're trying to break the silence with the sound of music they are so familiar with. personal opinion. actually all of this blog is personal opinion.

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Mumbai and thankful to music

In Mumbai finally I took all the time out I wanted to finally consume music and poetry that study time had never allowed me earlier.

I was thankful to music most because for 3 decades the internal I. t system was trying to indianise my face by force and they were still forcing all kinds of known unknown faces on my face while destroying and wasting my life and career that I sang instead to my hearts content songs that came from Pakistan or anywhere in the world so even with a destroyed face that was still being played with I found freedom with my voice. I wasnt singing to market singing skills or set up a music shop but it helped me breathe with the burden of other people's faces forced on mine for 3 decades.

M2 Travellers and Tourists

M2 Travellers and Tourists

I am trying to figure out, what this blog should be like - an Indian student's guide to Melbourne city? Choosing Universities, Filing papers, choosing subjects .No way, don't expect that, for I didn't live through that process. Maybe I'll put in pointers towards that too wherever required.


Year 2001, the third and final year at the Journalism Programme at Lady Shriram College comes to a close and I am offered a chance to spend a year at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia as an exchange student.


Wow. This is something new and different and so I chose to go, although I had no dreams of living in a country other than my own, didn't apply to foreign universities but I was curious to see ‘the world’. And this wasn’t going to be The United States of America or the U.K that were more familiar in my knowledge. This was Australia. What did I know of the Continent other than the cricket team. Nothing! Precisely the reason to take it up!

This would be an adventure that i secretly dreamt of. Of course there would be ‘responsibility’ representing college and my country. Now, even that would be a challenge and something to look forward to.


But, I had other reasons that I shared with none, I would get a chance to be so far away from the much protected and disciplined home that I was brought up in. Now would be this be a good thing – I didn’t know but that’s what I wanted.

I would also get the chance to choose what to study. Choice – something I had to constantly fight for in our kind of upbringing and education system where you are expected to live as per system or rebel.


And finally, it was a scholarship so it would be paid for and the parents would be happy :)

So the second tryst with choice was (the first was choosing to go..remember) to choose my subjects. I chose to further my interest in media and communications with subjects from the 'Media Studies' course, that included Compulsory media theory and subjects of my interest - The New Media and Radio.

And of course, most importantly as i mentioned earlier, I would have a room of my own – now this I couldn’t give up at any cost. In modest middle class Indian lives one learns to share room at home and in colleges and not complain about it. But I was being offered space of my own and this I couldn't give up :)

Since this was meant to be an adventure, I didn’t want to overload my mind with too much of information that would remain just facts and figures at that stage, but some details that I read would make sense later, for instance when you hail a taxi you take the seat in the front next to the driver – there’s no feudalistic class system of being chaperoned where the driver drives while you take up the backseat. Why would this be, i wondered. I'd find out as i get on with the TRAVEL.


So, finally coming to the Heading of this post. "Travelling' - the idea of "travelling", I must acknowledge is something i discovered through this experience.


I was familiar with tourism, you travel to places (other than for work)- it's a pre-planned experience, you know where you will stay, for how long and the places you will visit. so a 100 people visit the same city, stay in the same hotels, see the same pre-determined tourist spots, often bring back the same souvenirs and often a picture of them clicked in front of the tourist spot in the same pose...now this wouldn't, couldn't happen to me...


I had to 'travel' and I am glad i did......


PS:

the fonts are playing up, i hope this post shows up alright and ...the cybercafe is shutting down..10pm IST...good night!