Black Wax

This is Platform, I live here, i eat , sleep drinkn sometime even smoke, and may be i will die on the same bench, where the man is sitting right now and whoes boots i am polishing. I charge mere 5 five rupees that comes out to be about 0.02 dollar. Nothing has changed since i was borne, i didn't make any asset other than A brush, A can of polish and a gunny bag. I put my best efforts to atleast have three customers, to meet my need of three VADA PAVS, five rupees each three times a day. breakfast, lunch and diner. I live a lavish life style.


Every morning i try to get up early in the morning, to find some one in dire need to get his boot polished, As the sun rises the chances get slim as the other competitors get up and steal away the chances. Though they are my friends and i share the same platform, for me "business is business". I work very hard till 1.00 am i mostly enter the empty bogies and check for lost valuables/mobiles, purse, even the water bottles. Statistically change is 1/1000 though i try, may be the change i take is one i need.

Money is some thing i like. It smells good, feels good, looks good, and taste good (once in blue moon i go for chicken rice 15 rupess plate). People say my eyes sparkle as diamonds when i see money. I fast once a week. I dont believe in god, or any ritual. I fast when the booth polish runs out and i am suppose to buy a new can. It scared a hell out of me. It costs me Rs 20 for the cheapest one. (More than the cost of 3 vada pavs.).

I do dream big, VERY BIG, to have a lavish lunch, A full chicken and a rice plate. I never had in my life, It costs Rs. 60)(cost of 12 vada pavs, my three days meal). May be i will have some time.
Problem is as i am growing in arthematic progression my hunger is increasing with geometric progression.

RTI - RIGHT TO IGNITE

Thursday 22, June

It was a nice evening, sun setting towards the Arabian Sea, flock of birds returning to their nest against back drop of crimson sun. Every image was nothing but a silhouette. These were the few scenes that we, group of 6 people witnessed while our car rushed towards the office located very close to government building which was on fire. It was reported that fire has engulfed entire 4^th , 5^th and 6^th floor of the building. As we drove across the curved lane of marine drive,  I guess every one was thinking of things that were already burnt down, things that were burning, things that are waiting their turn, and things which would stand against the ravaging fire,

There were people, young couples, old couples totally pretending to be unaware of the surroundings, and completely ignoring the reason the people in police vehicles, fire fighters zipping past the marine drive. While the car was flying, heated discussion and argument began the circumstances that led to fire, was it intentional or accidental. What it was intended to burn to save what. 

Any way for us it was all very clear that even we considered the intensity of the fire as half of the, the intensity of news and rumours that were coming through nothing would have been left to save except pure carbon, Still there were lot of questions that remained unanswered. 

How it all start, what could be saved, assuming that the process of data recovery was initiated and few of the HDD were found intact what kind of data would be available. Would it be some thing classified that Mr Julian Assange would be interested in, or it would be songs, movies, spread sheets or financial  figures that would be of interest of shri. Anna Hazare or his movement against corruption , we were not sure. 

May be CBI would be interested in the those data. We never know. If we find every thing could be put online for the people of this country, for the people of Maharashtra. The information  can be put new dedicated website similar to to Wiki Leaks

The next question comes in mind is, what would be the domain name of the website?  Some one suggested….

www.bach-gaya-data.org , www.Jal-gaya-data.org, www.kya.bacha-kya.gaya.com

Some one too emotional said, hey think of the people who are dead!! Because there was fire, Some one interrupted him and said..LOOK u think of how many people would hanged and die if there wasn’t any fire.

Next day, most of the news paper reported that one of the factor that made difficult for fire fighters to control the fire was gas cylinders. If that was the case at least some where would have heard the blast of gas cylinders but no one did. So this scenario is improbable.

 “Right of information” was killed by “Right to Ignite”