{"id":171,"date":"2009-04-29T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T03:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-04-29T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T03:57:26","slug":"i-dint-vote-i-am-a-cipher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/2009\/04\/29\/i-dint-vote-i-am-a-cipher\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dint VOTE! I Am A Cipher!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Vote for Change!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Get Out And Vote!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Be The Change, Go Vote!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Remember 30th April!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Realizing sincerely and early that one has to <strong>be the CHANGE rather than just asking for one, <\/strong> I have been trying to become an above average citizen by doing my bit for the CHANGE that we are all craving so much for. The dhobi list of things that I have been getting myself into in context with the ELECTIONS 2009,  since the past few weeks has been endless&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went to  &#8220;Know Your Candidate&#8221; Sessions<\/li>\n<li>Attended the JAAGO RE Session in Dadar<\/li>\n<li>Made a full research of the 23\/24 candidates of our Mumbai South Constituency. Even went to the level of understanding the kind of Criminal Records that some of our candidates had.<\/li>\n<li>Added Myself into almost every community related to Chembur on ORKUT , trying to force regular Election News and induce the  &#8220;VOTE for a Change&#8221; mood  into the members!<\/li>\n<li>Blogged my way into everything that just mentioned the &#8220;E&#8221; word. <\/li>\n<li>Preached to friends and relatives about importance of Voting. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as I said &#8230; It is a dhobi List .. It is end less!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Captions Log , Star date: 30 04 2009 , 06:00 hours , VOTING DAY:- <\/strong><br \/>\nFinally!!! The V-Day. It was almost like an endless rush of adrenalin in me.  I nearly felt like a proud Indian who was finally going to get to serve his country.   Got up at the first ring of my alarm clock ( which has never happened before) , Fresh and  <strong>equipped with my &#8220;VOTERS ID&#8221;<\/strong>,  I walked out, with pumped up chest, running the list of candidates through my head for final check, before I could press that crucial button on the Ballot Machine, believing that &#8221; My Vote&#8221; was the deciding vote for our COUNRTY .<br \/>\n I flashed my &#8220;Voters ID&#8221; at the Booth Level Officer , almost as if it was a pass conferring, my diplomatic immunity to enter any port of this world,  let alone a polling booth outside my society   I had lived for life. The bubble burst&#8230;&#8221;Tumcha Nav Nahin Aahe!!!&#8221;. These four words just sucked the life out of me.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>NO NAME ON VOTERS LIST ! How is that possible &#8230; &#8221; I HAVE A VOTERS ID !!!! &#8221; <\/strong> I frantically searched for my identity in the entire list, both English and Hindi lists, and of other  Poll Booths too  \ud83d\ude42 ,   hoping that it would have been jumbled around or may be I might have been assigned to a different Father\/Family or something (Jokes apart &#8230;. My Father&#8217;s , fathers name, on his list is some weird name having no relation what-so-ever)&#8230;  I was like &#8220;Jason Bourne&#8221; trying to find &#8220;WHO I WAS , WHERE I WAS&#8221; . The tragic ending to my story was that there was NO HOPE for me. I gave up almost after an hour +  later &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Completely Embarrassed and Los<\/strong>t. On my walk back home, I was  totally deflated,  I felt like people were looking through me &#8230; <strong>I WAS A CIPHER&#8230; A NOBODY!!!! <\/strong>(I never wanted to believe, when my wife used to tell me that  \ud83d\ude42 &#8230; NOW it is officially proved)<\/p>\n<p>PS.  I have a VOTERS ID for sale&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NO NAME ON VOTERS LIST ! How is that possible &#8230; &#8221; I HAVE A VOTERS ID !!!! &#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}