Monday, June 19, 2006

Mere Pitaji is too good

.....why I think my dad is greatest.....


Yesterday radio was all gang-ho about fathers, some crappy date like father's day or something. All the radio frequencies had that stupid callup shows running. Each kid had a reason to brand his/her dad as greatest, or among the greats, right in that league. It made me ponder. I pondered with Dr. Dorian (Scrubs fame) expression on my face. I came up with following reasons:

1) When most kids were promised bicycles for performing well in exams. My dad promised me a "Riksha" for not performing.

2) These days I'm trying to establish a business setup, it's not easy. If I had a dependent wife and two kids and had I came to new town(Delhi) with Rs. 5000, I guess it wouldn't have made things easier. I guess they were not for him either, I never got to know.

3) About 13 years ago, he was informed by a friend's dad about photogrpahs of some ladies in compromising position were supplied to his son by me. I kept waiting for an uncomfortable speech from him but he comfortably forgot the incident.

4) He is even more forgetful than me. I keep losing keys, he keep losing cars.

5) He brought me a bottle of Black Label from his eurpoe trip, while 'officially' I havent still tasted liqour.

While a lot of kids adore their fathers for doing this or doing that, I simply love him for just not doing anything and let me find my own life (As I'm reading last line again, it is somehow looking sarcastic. I must clear however there is absolutely no sarcasm intended). I think he had given me just one career advice so far, that was when I had screwed up my 12th exams, to join some course at safdarjung airport for being a pilot. I think he was just kidding or perhaps indicating to me how wierd I am allowed to get. I chose a more conventional route, but that was my choice.

I think I got my two most defining traits of my personality from him. One obviously is forgetfullness and other is wit. I learned from him that there is only one right perspective to look at this world and life in general and that is the witty perspective.<< ..... at this point I broke my Dr. Dorian thinking posture and asked myself. Really? Am I really witty? Or so I would like to think of myself? Then I again went in to Dr. Dorian thinking posture, this time with my face on other side. Following incident popped in my head......>> In my car..... bombs was driving. It was fourth day of some test match in which India had scored some 600 odd runs in first inning and then australia had scored some another 700 in reply. We were having discussion about the match, Bomb Vardhan in his usual analytic and optimistic approach explained to me that India can still win this match. It just takes one good over. Proabability to hai. While I was literally furious on how can he think like that, he kept saying Proabability to hai. Since we were stuck in traffic and car's A/C was not working, it became more irritating and discussion just continued. Then he went on explaining how infact australia can also win. Proabability to hai!!. He could see I was running out of arguments for a draw, to change the topic he said, "this seat belt rule should be relaxed in such thick traffic. Come on, what is going to happen? Will the driver bang his head on steering for a very painful death?" I thought over his rather insightful observation and replied "Proabability to hai" . :) <<.......Oh cummon that was witty, perhaps not as good as when hathi once asked my dad "Aap kaun?" and he replied "Rishte main to hum shishir ke baap lagte hain" . But perhaps in a league close by, So get back to your original thinking posture....... >>


One thing that I haven't inherited from him is his altruism. I think he is closest to Gandhi in present times. This might look like an overstatement, but trust me I know him for last twenty years. He really is. He really makes me wonder how can anybody dissolve boundaries between self and non-self to such an extent. To me it just looks crazy. Perhaps someday I will grow up to understand.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

My God!... I think this one is too too cute...this is the best blog u have written till now...amazing man..tere dad to too good hain..no wonder u are what u are....:)

Shishir said...

Yes dear you can safely blame it on my upbringing :).

Thanks for your compliments, I guess I'm maturing as a blogger and getting over my inhibitions.

Phoenix said...

if u promise not to ask too much, i dare say i am jealous of u.

Shishir said...

[Phoenix]
That's daring, I sure hope your dad doesn't drops by here. :)
Thanx for dropping by.

Anonymous said...

man, i had totally forgotten abt that incident....i could not helping laughing for almost an hour when ur dad said that...." Rishten main to hum shishir ke baap lagte hai" ....too goood

Varun Agrawal said...

awesome...and that comment by your dad either would have made me blast by laughter or totally dumbstruck!!! anyways I couldn't figure out who is Dr. Dorian

Anonymous said...

oyyyeee..
saw ur blog after a while.
now dont tell me after ROSS u've taken to JD ?!?!?!?!?!? lol

(ur peejay was kinda JD-ish )
naaa-eece blaag !! :-)

shweta said...

ahem ...
well thnks for commenting ...
nd inbtwn ..nice blog ...
proper comments wld be posted in the next blog ...hihi.. ;)
hoping to find u soon ...wth another blog ...
tke care ..
byee
shwets

Shishir said...

Yeshu >> He might be good but not as good as you are. Basically you are too good :)

Amorous>>Dr. Dorian is the protogonist of this TV series, Scrubs. Dekhiyo, mast hai.

Madhura>> I'm sure you think JD is also yuckk.... just like Ross. I think JD is like the childhood of ross :)

Shwets>> Thanx for dropping by. Will soon post next blog for getting your meaningful comments :)

Shashank said...

...." Rishten main to hum shishir ke baap lagte hai"

mast hai!!!!

Anonymous said...

Its really good....I never realised ki u feel so for papa...really feel great to read.I wish papa may read it some day.

waise why dont u think to blog for yr sister also.sister's day might also be approaching soon..haha just jokin

Anonymous said...

Quite true actually... He's THE person I truly respect, adore and love for what he is!!! The one i really look upto..I cud never understand how can a person maintain his calm and can still crack a joke at "difficult" times. And I can see some traits of him in u also.. ;-)
I also wish to be somewhat like him one day..
Waise I liked the idea of shweta di of writing a blog on ur sisters.. ;-) he he he...

Shishir said...

Shashank >>> :)

Shweta & Aditi >> ho gayee tumhari bakwaas? There is no day like sister's day. Rakshabandhan aur bhai dooj wagrah kaafi nahi hai kya jo tum log yeh sisters day bhee bana do. :>

Anonymous said...

Excellent!! mast likha hai :)

I really liked your i keep forgetting keys, and he cars :D !!

Abhishek Shukla .

Aru said...

You have put this in such a lovely way, amazing...can't be better than this. An awesome tribute to your dad!!

Preeti Dhingra said...

i liked it...n u'r witty ;)

Shishir said...

Shukla Jee >> Dhanyavad...Waise aapkee novel ka humein bahut intezaar hai, Jaldi chapo use.

Arunthia >> Thanks alot.

Preeti >> Thanks. I try to be serious, but can't help it :(