ART - A Short Story...

30 Dec 2007 Sunday, 0600 hrs

The alarm sound from Vikram's watch broke the silence of the room and stops his long thought which was going on in his mind for the past 1 1/2 hrs. He realised that its 6 in the morning. He got up from his bed, had a look at Ramya's face. He made sure that he would not change his mind. He started brushing with the same thought in his mind. By the time he finished brushing, Ramya kept his juice on the dining table. He finished it within a second and started wearing his jogging kit. Ramya asked him to come back soon and not to keep thinking about it. He replied " Sure dear, I would mind my steps "

Though he took his iPod with him, he did not want to listen to any music that morning. He kept jogging and did exactly what Ramya asked not to. He thought,
he should make a decision before he returns home. He was much slower than his usual speed. He thought he should sit and think about it. Also, he did not want to sit in his usual place. He did not want any of his jogging friends to be with him. He saw the right place to be alone and to make a decision. He knew, he had decided already. He just wants to think about the consequences of his decision. He thought his popularity might get affect cos of his decision both ways. Either, his fans would go wild or just praise him for a great piece of work. He also had Ramya in his mind. Ramya had always been with his decision so far. This was the first time she actually hesitated to say yes. She in fact, convinced him not to go for it. But he kept explaining his thoughts. He remembered that She finally agreed by saying " As you wish ".Those 3 words gave him the confidence. He started jogging back. He reached home in less than half the time he took to reach that point. Ramya was happy that
he came back fast. One of the things that she loved in him. He always wanted to be fit and healthy. However, she thought he was not going to make a healthy
decision in his life. She started the conversation again. "Looks like some one has taken a decision". He did not hesitate to reply "YES".
He said that two more times. With such a response, Ramya could understand that he has taken the decision in his favour. She had to go with him. She has never been against him all these years. She simply wanted to support him in whatever he does. Photography has given him all the fame. But he has never tried anything like this one before. He has a good name and has his own fan following. There are lots of people who respects him as a human being. Ramya is afraid that he would lose all of them once he gives such a bad show. However, She knew the reason behind it. She was little proud of it as well.


While in showers, he revised all other alternatives that were helpless. By the time, there was a reminder knock from Ramya at the door. He remembered that he got to be out soon. While having break fast he really confirmed his decision and went on to implement all his plans. He called up to book the usual hall where he launches all his gallery. This time its special, its controversial. He called up his own printing studio and told them he would be coming with the CDs. Then he told himself " First time, I am spending no money on film rolls and only on printing them "

He had some animation work to be done on all the photos that he downloaded from the web site last night. He did not want to show the faces of those people.
Yes, last night he downloaded all the nude pics that he found from that popular social networking website. All he had to do in the studio was to morph the faces of those nude models. He did not want to reveal them. He did not take any foreigners pics. He wanted to show people that all stuffs are done in India and by Indian models as well. He felt bad that none of the pictures were of his style, technically. All the morphing were done in less than a hour.

Now its his time to print them. As he did that, he also printed some hundreds of entry forms and feed back forms. He knew that the feed back form would really be annoying for the visitors. But he made sure that there should be one and did not mind about any kind of feed back. He picked all the pieces and drove all the way to the usual community hall. At the entrance, he got the usual salute from the security guard. Everyone reminded him that how much of respect he has earned in the society. At least in photography circle. He was gonna try something weird now. He had to explain a lot and all his ideas to the chief secratary. He looked little convinced and more confused. He did not want to take risk. He said "I suggest you not to do this as well. Not anywhere. I'm scared that you would lose all the goodwill you had earned all these days. There are lots to achieve. You have got the skill, do not wash away that by doing this."

He simply got up and said "thanks for the suggestion, and yeah, thanks for those caring words" He left with a smile on his face. He decided that he would do this in his own studio. He drove back to his studio. He had to clear a lot of things to give space to all pieces. In the end, he had to reject few odd pieces from the list, so that there would be enough space for the people to roam around. He wondered whether people would be roaming around on seeing all these nonsense pieces. He had to finish off all these things before 1500 hours. So that he would start spreading the message. One of his employees went around places to start spreading the news about his upcoming New year special Gallery. In fact, this time it was much hyped than any other of his shows. Usually his show never required any such hype. However, people did not bother about the hype. They were simply scheduling themselves for his show as they did for his any other show.

31 Dec 2007 Monday, 0600 hrs

Again the alarm broke the silence in the room. This time, He was sleeping without worries. He woke up and left for his morning jog. As soon as he came back,he called up and made sure everything was set at his studios. He was so busy with this, that he did not spend much time with Ramya. He thought he would go for a long trip once everything goes well. He knew that the trip would please her. He needs one break as well. While he was thinking about it, He got the first WISHES through an SMS. One of his friends had seen the ad in a web site and responded immediately. His fans are excited and are completely surprised as this was an unexpected show. There were no talk about his gallery as he had put up one just few months ago. He started receiving calls in his studios, close fans were unhappy that he did not tell them about this surprise. He could not answer them. He simply said sorry.

1st Jan 2008 Tuesday , 0900 hrs

People were very curious about two things. One, Why he did not put up in his usual Hall, and the next, why no sample pieces are put up outside his studio also in none of his Ads. There were many other professional photographers who had arrived as usual. They were surprised to see the feed back form this time. He had never done that. Except for his first public gallery show.

Once the hall was open, people started getting in. And they were shocked to see each and everything they had seen. Some wise fans could understand that he has a point this time. Still they were disappointed that they had this kind of show at the beginning of a new year. There were lots of elder fans for him. They were all totally ashamed. In fact, he had many aged people as fans. They thought they had been following a bad guy's art so far. He was not in the hall till now. He started getting calls in his office already. Some people had called up press, to witness such a nonsense. They were so eager to fill the feed back form. One 78 yrs old lady had filled it saying "I had travelled 250 Kms just to see all this. I have nothing else to say. I will never come out to any such show." She was supposed to be the best fan he has ever had. He always said that. Because, she had travelled every time he had put up his show.

Press people wants all the model to be called and to be sued along with Vikram. Finally he came out of the office and told the press people to have a
conference along with his fans in his own studio.

There were lots of obvious questions from all sorts of people. He did not answer any Of them.
Then he started explaining everyone one ...

" I would like to apologize everyone for such a beginning of this new year. I know many people must be angry and I would like to tell you all that none of the photographs were taken by me. I was really terrified like you all, when I saw these things in my own PC. Yeah, I could see these things in one of the famous social network website.


I saw one of the feed back forms, I have always respected her. She is the eldest fan. She said she had to travel around 250 Kms to see these nonsense things. I will tell you one thing respected madam, You grandson and granddaughter need not travel all the way to see all these things. They are just one click away from this nonsense. I tried a lot of way to protest against this in the same website. This website is one of the best of its kind in bringing old friends in touch and bringing lots of alumni meets in schools and colleges. One of the successful network websites of its kind. So I thought of bringing many people to my side by sending lots of messages. I did not get any response at all. I emailed many of my friends, they were all too busy for this. They were not bothered about this at all. I could understand their busy schedule. But I was unable to leave it like this. So I decided to bring people to my own studio. I know none of my fans will leave this easily. I know no followers of any art would take this easily. That's when I decided and had taken a high risk. I am very sorry
once again. Now, I know, whom all of you would target at. I hope everyone would show the same anger to the other powerful i Media. You all can definitely make some difference. I request you all to forgive me once again for using all of you and your valuable time. Thanks for being kind to me so far. I expected a lot of violence than a formal press conference. I love you all. Thanks and don't let your anger go away so easily. "

After his speech, there was absolute silence. Then it broke when that old respected woman fan applauded with her soft and old hands.


20Th Jan 2008 Sunday , 0600 hrs


This morning, there was no alarm sound to break the silence. Vikrams were getting ready for a trip to Goa. :)

Why dont we???

Another hot and sunny day today. In fact, the whole summer was the same in chennai. Lucky enough to be a SW engr, and to be spending most of the day time at work place. Still, we do feel the heat when we go out for lunch. We try to avoid our food court lunch to explore other restaurants' food. Having explored most of the eat outs near our work place, sometimes we try our own canteen food. But today, I asked my colleague WHY DONT WE have our lunch at ANDHRA MESS, that we did not go for a long time. For which he immediately agreed and we started to walk. We both know that the food there will be really good than our canteen's. And we usually avoid the MESS, thinking we would eat a lot over there and that affects our diet. :P Somehow, today I managed to convince him. We both had lots of expectations as we usually do. To surprise us, the lunch was not good at all. We did not have much to enoy over there. We paid for the lunch, which was not expensive at all and walked back to work place.

On the way back, though it was so hot and sunny, My lunch partner had a crazy imagination. He said WHAT IF THE WHOLE WORLD ENDS IN A FEW DAYS? He went on adding, if thats the case he would love to live for some extra hours and look how does it look when everyone is dead and all the things are just gone. As I was with him, :P he added on saying, it would be nice if few known people are with him. LOL... He started worrying, what will we do for other stuffs. We gotto re invent stuffs like electronics, electricals and he was worried about all other day to day things that we gotto go and search for. He said, we gotto keep sharing information that we know, share our talents and discoveries that we make in the dead world. So that, the next generation would take it from us. He said, a lot has to be taught to the new generation. He also made a honest point. "Being a triple E student, I have no idea about any electrical and electronic stuffs nowadays" . I thought, thats what software has done to us. We dont know what we learnt, we know what we gotto learn next for the next project we gonna get in. :D

And it was a very short walk, and we reached our work place and felt great with the change in temperature inside the work place. I simply could not stop my imagination though my friend had stopped his. This guy wanted to give transition to the next generation so that the world would be a better place. However, I wanted a list of things that I would not educate them about so that the world would be a much better place...

I would not teach how to bribe and how to ask for bribe. I cant help if they learn themselves. But, atleast the place would be a better one until they learn themselves.

I would not teach how to cheat others for food.

I would not teach how to earn ones' bread without working hard.

I would not tell them that there was something called BEGGING in India and other so called developing countries.

I would not teach them to say NO when someone really seeks help. I would not make any one feel jealous of others as well. And the list goes on like a politician's promise while campaigning.

I know, You reading minds would be thinking that I have gone crazy... I know, there were few stereo type dialogues in the above mentioned list. But my question is, why do we think about what can be done to make that new generation to have a better world. WHY DONT WE realise that there are a lot more to be added in NOT - TO - TEACH list, than that of WHAT - TO - TEACH list. I guess, the new world would be a better place if we dont teach anything. New world would not know many evil things that we knew and excelled during our lives.

What ya guys say??? Am I not correct?

Just to increase the count...

Yah, its almost a year since I made an entry here. Though I have come and visited my page to see if there are any special comments for those 1st and 2nd post I made here. ;) LOL.

However, I was never out of ideas on what to write. There were 2 new stuffs in my mind at the beginning of the year. One of them was rejected as I lost one of the main sources I had in my cousin's handset. I still wanna keep it as a secret, cos I still believe I would get that one day and make an entry here about that nasty incident.
And the other got rejected as well, which I thought that was not so funny as it was when I began. So I tried hard to come up with something that I could write here. Finally decided I should write one short story. That short story is definitely on the way, but never mind if it is gonna be too long and boring also. For me, thats the first story, so would love that however it comes out. Probably this entry could also be a kinda announcement that there would be a short story released here shortly. :P I know, I was totally senseless in the last line. What to do? Just came in flow. And feel lazy to go back and think of a better line to impress the readers.

And again, Months ago there were few more incidents on which I wanted to write, but I had to write a lot of emails at my work. That kept me busy for some days. Later, I would forget what I wanted to write. Then began this 3 magic letters season. I P L. I was totally lost in that for many weeks. Ofcourse, I was writing emails at work for many days, missing Chennai matches.

When I created this account, I thought whatever I write here should be meaningful. However, I changed that stupid idea once I saw many stupid blogs. :D Just kidding. Thanks to those blogs which did not have many meaningful stuffs, but just something written. So, I thought I shall write as well. But to remind you about my short story??
That will not be stupid and senseless. Yeah, I am waiting for I P L to get over, to write my views on it as well. And how I enjoyed the season. I have given 2 upcoming blogs from me. Keep waiting.. (As if, 1000s of visitors are waiting for the release) :D

So, its time for me to shut this damn crap. I seriously dont know what I wanted to write. But ended up promoting few upcoming products of my own. :P I think I am good at marketing, than writing queries. :D Many would agree on that. Those "many" would be my own peers. LOL again. Sorry for those people who expected something better and sensible than this. I guess atleast few people would have had a nice time pass.