Koi Mil Gaya

Every time a movie channel is showing Koi Mil Gaya, my wife looks at me! Why not, she has married an IITan. We are expected to be technologically superman and woman. Getting inspiration from Hrithik and trying to impress my wife, I tried my Communication and Signal Processing skills. I was trying to send signals so that some ‘Jadoo’ will respond to me. I tried and waited till late night thinking there might be time difference and ‘Jadoos’ may not have woken up. After all we always believe the mightier, richer, western world are in a different time zone, they wake up later and sleep later than us. I also wanted to keep trying as it is the only way I can pass my time when my wife was sleeping. All TV channels show terrorist or politics in one way or the other. These days even shows on discovery also seem like politics, after all survival of fittest is the biggest political theory we have. Just when I was losing hope and about to sleep I received a response..

Me: Hello, Hello.. Anybody getting this message?

{I hear some noise like the mis-tuned radio signal, grrrrr.. grrrhhh and then a mute}

Me: Hello, Anyone there?

 Just then I received a signal, on my screen it says ‘From Mars’

 Mars: Hi

 {I got a reply from aliens, and amazing, they talk in English!}

Me: Hi, I am speaking from planet Earth. Who are you? Where are you?

Mars: I am from a planet not far from yours, won’t tell you exactly.

{May be these guys are afraid if they tell me then humans will invade them. What we have left anyways}

Me: How are you? I am too eager to be friends with you.

Mars: Ya, I know. Now a days we are getting so many messages from your planet. Why are there so many people looking for friends outside planet.

Me: May be because here people like each other less.

Mars: How?

{How?, I was thinking he might ask Why? But he asked How? As if disliking is not a possibility at all}

Me: Yes, because people are from different religion so they follow different ideology.

Mars: What is religion?

Me: Following God

Mars: So why do people follow different God

{May be because they follow different ideology, but isn’t it circular then that we have different ideology because we follow different religion and we follow different religion because we follow different ideology…what should I answer, isn’t it hen-egg situation}

Me: Do you have only one God

Mars: We haven’t thought actually.. We just pray to Light when its day and darkness when its night

Me: So don’t you have separate groups who pray light more and other who pray dark more

{God! I am acting like a politician..shi…}

Mars:……

Me: Anyways, how many countries you have?

Mars: Now what is that?

Me: Countries, piece of land separated by boundary

Mars: You really sound interesting; we do have pieces of Land and seas of Lava. But we don’t have boundaries. But tell me in how many different ways you people are divided?

Me: Only religion and boundary, and yes colour as well in some countries

Mars: What? Colour of what?

Me: Skin

Mars: ha? You guys are crazy

Me: Yes, I know.. that’s why people dislike each other here.. ehh.. That now answers your question that we dislike each other..

{Pause}

Me: Hello? Tell me how you guys are distinguishing each other if you don’t have different religion, country, and skin colour?

{what has happened to my thinking? Is dividing in terms of this parameters necessary in first place?}

Mars: Each one is different in his thoughts, emotions and intelligence. Are you all same on these parameters?

Me: No, here also each one is different in his ways. But we haven’t actually found it that important to classify.

{Really pathetic, we hardly care for human emotions, ideas and intellectual these days}

Me: So do you have families? Do you have money? What do you eat?

Mars: We have small groups staying together that we call family. But we don’t mind adding people of other families to come and join us if everyone wants a bigger family. What is money?

Me: To buy something, to buy food, clothes, house? To get these things you must be giving something?

Mars: We don’t need to give something to get these things. We grow what we eat.

Me: That’s interesting {actually sounds impossible to me}

Me (Now coming to the point): Hey, Can you come to our planet to meet me? I want you to meet my wife and friends.

{To prove that I talked to an Alien}

Mars: We can’t come there. Our elders say that if we go to Earth then we’ll get impure. But it is good to know that you have ‘friends’.

Me: Ohh!!           

(Pause)

(Pause)

Me: Hello..Hello…

(Pause)

{It seems connection broke}

 It was already quite late. Its better I go to sleep now. I anyways have record of this conversation to prove I talked to my Jadoo. On my way to bed, I was thinking of only one thing: It was so difficult to talk to a naïve. It’s so difficult to explain a pure person by heart why there are boundaries, why there are differences, why there is hatred and why human hate human. Why countries war? Why one army kills other. When is this going to end? What if every demand is met? If we make Kashmir independent state, Israel gives Palestine its piece of land, China gives Tibet a status of free nation, LTTE is given part of Sri Lanka they are demanding. Will that end the woes? Will that put an end to Talibans, LeTs, Al-Qaedas, and LTTE? Will that put an end to terror, hatred, fears?

Is there an end?