Slogans and realities

Choose to be happy
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भीड़ में अकेला आदमी
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लड़ो पढ़ाई करने को, पढ़ो लड़ाई करने को
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Life is unfair. Get used to it.
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तोड़ो कारा तोड़ो
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These, and god only knows what, many more slogans covered the walls in my room on the attic in Lucknow. That was some 16 years ago, I guess.

Those were the days of unhindered utopia and untiring optimism. I used to dream and write, sing and talk, plan and dream some more. Now.... now, I survive... I try to survive people, life, plans, and most of all, myself.

All those slogans and dreams and aspirations seem a distant hazy lost past. Jagjit Singh is singing Bashir Badr:

तुम तन्हा दुनिया से लड़ोगे
बच्चों सी बातें करते हो