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Still groggy with the morning blues, I picked up a hot steamy cup of coffee. The steam in the coffee seemed to convey a message. I watched.
First it looked like a heart. Romance….I wondered. Then it shaped as X. I assumed it meant “wrong answer”.
Then it looked like a flight about to take off. Airport!! X again.
Then there the damnd flight was there again and it was taking off and moving at the same time. Runway!! There was a smiley 
Then I wondered if heart is linked to runway in anyway. Then it showed a ring, and then quickly a heart..
Marriage? X
Engagement? X-(
Lovers? X
Bride? Runway bride? Runaway bride? The steam smiled and disappeared Poof!
I stared into the “once upon a time hot” coffee..
Damn! Early morning dumb charades with the coffee was so pathetic .Worst part is the coffee goes cold ..before you can do the acting..
P.S. I woke up for the third day at 6 and came to office at 10 after keeping up till 1 the previous night and having worked my a$$ off till 9 pm.. I decided it was time to blog or I will go mad.
This is the sad effect..
P.P.S. Actually there is no excuse for such posts 
This is a topic I have been arguing both sides of. I am clearly aware of the two sides and I have been to a great extent balanced and fair about what I consider as my opinion in this matter.
This is about the so called Northie- Southie divide. One of my acquaintances in the social networking sites posted a message that goes something like this ” My name is not spelled A B S HU, S U BA, S H U BA.. I am spelled S H U BA. SOmething that southies cant understand”
I get very pissed off when someone misspells me purposefully and annoyed if it is by chance. I leave no opportunity to correct them . Yet I do not attribute race/ region/ colour as a reason for their mistake. Why would I? or Why would anyone do that?
This is not a personal attack against the person. I have no judgement on why (s)he decided to generalise and put a colour to this based on region.
But I see it in pan Indian crowds. Many people think whatever issues they have with North, West, East and South Indian people, in short with people of other regions, is because of the regional differences and not personal differences.
Everything goes like ” you Southies always this ; You Northies are always that.. “
I am neutral. I neither deny nor agree to any of this. But my question is – does it matter if Southies/Northies/ Gujjus/Maharashtrians/etc.. as a whole bunch are tuned in a particular manner, (whether that is a true generalisation or not is another thing altogether) ?
After all, we are dealing with individuals. What help is a negative bias towards a person, when you are trying to collaborate? At least I feel it doesn’t help at all. We all have our own rich heritage, culture and lineage to be proud of. And of course, we have to be proud of what we are and where we come from. When you take it to the level of thought that goes “Only my culture is so rich and superior. The other culture has nothing good to admire about and is full of ridiculousness”, you are probably pushing it too far to be called rational.
I have felt that lesser our preconceived notions on how things are going to be, better it is to work in that situation. You have gone to another city to work/study/tour.. How can we pre-decide “all south indians speak accented english? all north indians are dominating and noisy” and still think we will make friends with the other side?
I think it is time we realise we are all humans after all; later comes the Indo- Pak, North-South,Hindu-Muslim-Sikh-Christian-etc divides. It is rather sad to see that as civilisation progresses, we still regress on trivial matters as region of birth.
P.S. I have generalised at times and I felt like an idiot later reflecting on that. Just an honest acceptance of human weakness.
