"Sir... he is in ICCU... his face is bleeding... broken glasses pierced his face... cut everywhere...", I could hear grief, worry, nervousness everything in Mrs. Sharma's voice. Why not, her only son Swagat was fighting with death at that moment inside that AC cooled sophisticated ICCU at a gorgeous nursing home in Dibrugarh.
"Who drove the car ?" , I asked.
"... the boy studies in Bangalore. They were on the Tinsukia - Digboi highway." She answered with a sodden voice.
I did not ask anything more than just asking for her son's speedy recovery.
Another dreadful road accident. Swagat's friend told me, he along with his friends were drunk at that time along with his other three friends, who did not receive much of the damage!
At class 12... isn't it too early for a boy.. may be girl, like them to own a high cc bike or four wheeler driving license ? Or, .. have the wine glass or a cigarette in their hand. This is the age when they become eager to experiment with their physical changes as well! Police ?? Oh... they create problems rather than solving them. One of my students told me that getting fake birth certificate to obtain the driving license is much easier in the town.
Somebody would say.. "mothers should be careful". Why spare the 'father' ? It is rightly said, "Dad is the first super hero of a boy and first love of a girl child".
Now being the father of a male child, I am literally worried to see the nature of the "current generation." (can anyone define it ?)
Through out the ages the so called "current generation" is misled, hoodwinked, confused, baffled a bit. They are in search of something, which they themselves are unaware of. They want themselves to be seen as 'someone' special... and with this intention in mind they do not hesitate to push themselves too far... ! They put themselves in the face of danger, shame, embarrassment and humiliation to fulfill their untold desires. HEY, MY DEAR CHILDREN, please do not waste and destroy your youthfulness; the energy, vigour, liveliness of teenage. Rather, you use it as the ladder to make smooth transition to your adulthood. You will face a more vicious, competitive, repulsive world ahead... it is sure. So go forward with a strong mind and body. Be happy and make everyone around you even happier.
And for me.. Yes, I am worried... for you, for your parents, for the nation and at last for my little son.
(Based on true incident. Name of person's have been changed. The boy had accident yesterday. By now he is out of danger.)
I never asked you…
"You do not help me at all... ", yeahh! That is a common complaint of all the wives on the earth. I quietly followed all her instructions to clean up the room. My guitar, has become adult this year in the previous month. It was covered all over by dust. Cobwebs were hung there like garlands on the statue of a great leader! I still remember crying for it to my mother after passing out my class twelve examination. As I touched it with my pinky, some good memories of my college days ran through my spine! I performed on many stages with this and received applause! With it, I passed many happy and, obviously, certain tragic moments as well. It was my best friend once upon a time till I got hold of my first desktop. I changed my friend.. and since last four to five years it has been lying there in a corner of my room like an unwanted guest. I was becoming so mechanical!! The sounds of DO RE ME PA... was tinkling somewhere in my ears, .. slowly diminishing.. going away from my reach. 
When I entered the studio my watch showed me 10 pm. Some recording was still going on. My music composer, Rajib, his brother and I had to wait for another 1 hour or 2 in the lobby of the studio. Finally we got the time at around 12 at mid night. I had been dozing a bit and a bit nervous too... However, my voice dubbing was over in a single take. The sound engineer was surprised as he told me that he never saw a new artist completing voice dubbing in a single take. Those were quite encouraging words at that time for a new comer like me. Audio track mixing and editing took another one hour. and finally by 2 am it was over.
