Monday, August 27, 2007

Thanks to indifferent Orkutians, Adnan Patrawala won't come back!

Hello friends! How are you all doings? I am writing this in tributes to our Orkut friend hu made fraandships with us- Adnan Patrawala. My name is Hoopesh (how's my pic?). The following write-up has being transplanteds from Hinghlish to English. Here the write-up is:

Adnan Patrawala-the personification of ‘Innocence’, a 16-year old who drove Skoda, and most importantly, a person who dedicated his tender age in services of Orkut- has indeed become immortal, regardless of whether he comes back alive from death or not!

One would have expected the whole of Orkut community to join hands, pay their homage to their fellow, passionate Orkutian, and wish for his return, after the news of his being murdered brutally was confirmed. But instead what did we see? Just a few random chaps professing their ‘love’, ‘their best regards’ to Adnan? Just a few handfuls! An insignificant minority, which was/is as good as ZILCH!

The whole point is this: If only enough Orkutians- at least a majority- would have come forward, posted messages on Adnan’s scrapbook, started umpteen communities along the lines of “Pay Homage to Adnan”, “We are Adnan fans”, Adnan would have definitely resurrected, come alive and returned to this world so that we would have had a chance to savor his face, his angelic looks for some more time.

As a fellow Orkutian, I can only shrug my shoulders looking at the following facts:

Only 27 communities have been started paying tribute, homage etc to Adnan.
Only 11,xxx k scraps have been posted on Adnan’s original profile in 7 days.

Further, the max members in any one of these communities were just 2,196. What happened to other Orkutians? Sure, the number of Orkutians in these community far exceeds the number that’s seen in useless communities which discuss farmer suicides/drunk-driving etc.. But then, the number is much less than compared to the ones we witness in communities which discuss equally important issues that confront us- for example “Abhishekh-Aisharya fans unite” community, “Meri C***h Men Tera L**d” community, etc.

But still, there’s a little solace to be derived, for one-time-but-no-longer passionate Orkutians like me. A lot many people who scrapped Adnan on Orkut genuinely looked like people who desperately wanted Adnan back, and who seem to acknowledge what a great contributor he was to the larger cause of Orkutting. Out of more than 11k scraps posted on Adnan’s scrapbook in 7 days, some are indeed inspirational and worth-mentioning here:

may god treat you well???can you use a comp.in heaven than reply me if you can....

good morning bro!!!

waiting 4 u 2 accept my friend request.......brother.......god bless you dear....

hey dew'd....
may god bless you nd may u return back safe!!!!!

Even if you all promote da Community for juss 5 mins then also it will make a difference…just copy and paste da links in ADNAN and ANGEL’s profile or scrap your frends ask them to join…..This is a global issue and its high time v put our foot down and ensure dat innocent lives are not lost…!!

may god bless you dear...........and hope u r fine whereever you are.........

I also think media didn’t do enough justice to Adnan-story. Sure they ran headlines- “A 16 year old kidnapped” for full 3 days and also discussed shades of personal life of Adnan- his habits, his love for cars, how rich he was, etc. Some of them conducted special panel discussions too. And the coverage given, surely, was greater as compared to the coverage any useless, irrelevant story- such as flood that had occurred in Gujarat a few months back- has ever received. But was the coverage even remotely comparable to “who’s gathered outside Salman’s house?”, after he was sentenced, or “what did Sanjay Dutt eat on his first day after he got bail?”, or “Why was Reshamiya wearing a burkha when he visited Ajmer shrine?” Not at all!

Whether Adnan comes back or not remains to be seen. As I have pointed out in my earlier statements, if only more people would have started Communities and scrapped in Adnan’s scrapbook, with some aid from the media, Adnan would have returned for sure. Alas, that wasn’t the case!

Allow me to speculate a bit.Let’s say, he returns. In that case, I don’t think he should make a comeback on Orkut. Quite frankly, Orkut doesn’t deserve Adnan! Let us all read his profile and express our condolences.

about me: wrds cant describe me but i m always coool wht more?

passions: driving all da way & cricket..

sports: i jas like playing cricket.....nuin els

activities: only drumming

books: i dont read dem much ......

music: hmm..there are load's and load's of them

tv shows: the amazing race, pimp ma ride,discovery ,nat geo and all...

I am compelled to say, he should-if he comes back- shun Orkut & join Facebook! I have already initiated a community, whose name is “Adnan, come back and join Facebook”. I shall put up its Orkut link here soon.

Also, in future, unless the Orkutains get up from their lazy, slothful arses and actually go out and press the button for joining a community started for member who’s dead, or preferably start one by themselves, and put up an Herculean effort in scrapping the departed member at least once in every 10 minutes; let me tell you what will be the dreadful consequences: The kidnapping, murder of the members will continue unabated, if not increase. Further, there will be no justice for the dead-person’s family members and most importantly, dead person won’t even feel like coming back to this world and Orkut after seeing such a lousy, indifferent, base & blasé reaction of Orkutians to his/her death.

7 comments:

Subodh said...

Good One - but Multiple Themes - and people actually might not be able to capture all of them.

Anonymous said...

Thts a brilliant write-up dude.

I dint know u were so handsome and good-looking

M said...

Well, Adnan's incident surely should make everyone beware of the strangers on social networking sites like orkut.After all we are the ones who should take care of ourselves!

SockMock said...

Subodh:I thought this was one of the more simpler ones from my side...

ah well...do keep the comments flowing!

anon: Thanks, and you actually think Hopesh is handsome?

mayur: agreed

Anonymous said...

You underestimate 'people', Eric.

And Plumber, a great post once again. Good to see someone turn the insanity around the Adnan murder on its head.

Let the poor guy rest in peace and let's all get on with our good-for-nothing existences.

P.S. You a Goojarati ? Ref. Hoopesh :D

Anonymous said...

The only thing synonymous with Internet is now Orkut. Social networking websites have sprung out like mushrooms and they even advertise them on television! As if, we already didn't have choices. Man is a social being, and such insistence on socialising is the cause for all these networking sites. The point is, that these sites can never improve the quality of users though, who have personalities that range from weird to unthinkable. As demonstrated perfectly, on this occasion

P said...

An attention capturing post that compels one to THINK