Oh! Income...axed for Tax!

Ever since I got my first job few yrs back and I’ve started earning, the word ‘Income’ has got the real and significant meaning in my dictionary….the word gets me high…a feeling of self independence and self esteem surges when I could fulfill my earthly pleasures – Roti, Kapda aur Makan with the help of my hard earned income (Whereas after looking at the total sum of my income, how I restricts myself and regulates an unattainable plan of acquiring long- wished material delights into different phased goals – is another part of story which attempts at solacing myself).

But then a word ‘Tax’ which creeps along with ‘Income’ makes me :( since I’ve to prepare myself to cough up a tax to Govt for toiling hard to earn my bread n butter…I checks the sum to be paid n I eyes at my wallet which, as usual is flatter than a starving stomach of a malnourished child.This always leave me perplexed as I fails to find that kind of amount anywhere to shell out for paying the tax… …But when it comes to pay Income tax, I left with no options but to forfeit the burdened tax from my fistful pay … (since I can’t think any of these options- beg, borrow and steal…albeit I wonder who would lend the money to a good- for- nothing asset like me)..

For a moment, I fed up of all these irksome moping about taxes and I think of giving away all my derisory earnings...but I can’t. Because to give it away, you may have to pay Gift Tax. I think of a movie break..& I leaves the thought, I’d have to pay Entertainment Tax then. How about visiting food joint & having some delicious snacks but then whereupon, I’d be definitely end up paying Luxury Tax for the privilege…phew!

Central Sales Tax, VAT, Octroi, Property Tax, Corporate Tax, Excise Tax, Ad Valorem duties, blah, blah…..list is endless… Oh GOD, save us dutiful people on this planet! Some other day, we may have to pay tax just for greeting people, for that matter, even your neighbor…since saying ‘Hi’ or ‘Good Morning’ could be deemed as doing some service & therefore taxable. Oh yeah, Service tax for extending your services ;-D

But why do we need to pay all these taxes to Govt.??.....Simple! To aid our Govt to provide Sadak, Pani & Bijli to its aam junta..for which all Regular Government are expected to work hard, but not ours for sure… never for a single time. So be it, …Keep working!

Rang Barse..

Standing by the window of my room, I was mesmerized to see blooming Gulmohar whose branches were adorned with vibrant blood red coloured flowers…The King of Kings has decked himself in beauty which was captivating my heart… Through its thick web of leaves Sun embroidered green tapestry…It’s flowers were all merry by roadside…Dancing and whirling around, its withered leaves brought me a fresh, gentle breeze of air… flock of birds were singing together…and there came a tiny little butterfly to play around pleasantly, to colour flowers with its ever-changing hues…Oh! it has just reached my hand and tenderly left a colourful tiny tad on my hand…the speck of the colour drove me fly casting away barren lines of dullness…

Colourful, charming nature, full of life beaming in its glory, barring gloomy dullness & colourlessness aside. I could realize – the same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day, runs through the world and dances in a rhythmic measures….n al’f sudden my brain cell woke up, unveiling the secret of all things which miraculously exists – Why there’s a play of colors on the canvas of clouds and on the screen of water? Why flowers are painted in tints? Why Mother Nature is festooned with spectrum of colours??

Colours signifies the real appearance, real aspect…it manifests clear and lucid portrait of everything, which is meant to convey a momentous message to the Universe. Colours affect people, triggering all kinds of feelings, moods and associations…It nurtures bonding and affiliation. It brings vibrancy and spark to the life.

Yeah, it does express a meaning…else we could not relate Spring with vivacious Green scenic surrounding, when flora set to flourish…Fall with colourful gladness of foliage for fruits and blend of melancholic Gray linked to the imminent arrival of harsh weather…Winter with White snow and Summer with elements of bright Yellow, Orange, Gold Bronze and weary Brown….How difficult it is to figure out the exact essence without colours, isn’t it?

Here’s coming a pageant of colors…So, this Holi let colors flow and get your scarf drenched..

Live the colours!