Sound Of Music by S J Mayank Srivastav

The Exact Difference Between Anna And Ramdev

2011-09-02T11:45:00.000-07:00

Corruption consorts in the blood of Indian Beauracracy. Regrettably in our country, youths prepare for IAS more to enjoy the power, money and the aura that confines this post rather than serving the nation. Nehru-Gandhi family had interminably been accused of corruption and, by and large, nothing comes as a revelation when some survey declares India to be one of the most corrupt nations, we all know this as we ourselves are a part of it

Essentially surprising was the sudden surfacing of Anna hazare at the horizon of "Breaking News" segment and the henceforth generated furore. Pretty confounded I was when I saw someone fighting for corruption or infact demanding for implementation of a particular bill; and the unfathomable attention that the media gave to it. More surprising was the way government succumb to his desires and authorized him to the path of glory

Mesmerized by the immense glamour that Anna received, Baba Ramdev followed suit. Raising a more sensitive issue like Black money in Swiss banks, could have made him the desirable leader but the story turned the other way round

Before I commence reaching out conclusions, let me enunciate that Indian masses have been a perpetual victim of being stabbed at the back. Right from Nehru to Rahul Gandhi, we were always made fool by some populist acts while our leaders were flying to Switzerland with sacks full of dollars. So neither I believed that Anna is Honesty personified nor do I sensed some ulterior motives in Ramdev fasting. I always supported the cause

While the public was exhilarated upon the avatar of Anna, everyone cried foul as Ramdev declared his anshan at the Ramlila Maidan. How can a sanyasi enter into politics were the questions being asked and Ramdev should better mind his Yoga business were the conjectures being offered. The very first discrepancy started from here itself. Despite a huge supporters base (that was responsible for making the Anna's movement a grand success), the common man alienated himself alleging him of being a dhongi and surrendering to the glamour or rather suspecting this to be his first step towards entry into politics

The second and the biggest difference was the staunch Hindu image that Ramdev delivers. Brinda Karat has taken pride in alleging Ramdev's medicines to be fraud and commissioning raids at his centres since long, just to woo CPI's muslim voters. Similar was the case here. 5000 policemen were sent at 3 am post midnight without any prior notice just to preclude the seasons of Anshans and thwart with terror the motives of all those who dare to do so. Pros and cons were punctiliously contemplated. Had Ramdev died that night, stories would have very well been concocted to prove that Ramdev died in stampede while eluding, thus defaming him as a fugitive and simultaneously cinching colossal felicity to its muslim vote bank. We are living in a country where Shakaracharya is arrested just on the day of Diwali and oblivious Hindus don't give a damn to it (Can you imagine some Imam being apprehended at Eid?) Why else would a force of 5000 policemen be sent to the Ramlila maidan? Since when peaceful anshans have become a threat to national security? Ramdev was well aware of this, perhaps this has been in his habit since Karat's days; So, the only option left open to him was to stay alive and fight rather than die in anonymity

Most imperative of all; Ramdev being a novice in politics, failed to reckon the epic popularity his arrest could have blessed him with. Upon seeing 5000 policemen surrounding you at post midnight, anyone could have panicked to this amount. The sweat on his face that was derided as that generated due to fear, was actually due to his valor that motivated him to jump at the centrestage over and over again. Does anyone of us dare to do so infront of 5000 policemen? I personally believe that he shouldn't have absconded in Salwar Kameez, but does that make him a coward? Was Shivaji a coward when he changed his appearance and reprieved from the prisons of Aurangzeb? Was Subhash Chandra bose a coward too? His dress may be a point of argument but his escape definitely shouldn't.

Lastly, Where Anna's acts are canvassed by an IPS, a Lawyer and an IITian , who was there with Ramdev? Giving something so volatile and that too to colubrine Kapil Sibal in writing, only shows Ramdev's immaturity and the government's deviousness.

All I say is that when a juggernaut of stranglers is behind a handful army of yours, waging guerilla war doesn't make you a candy-ass. Subash Chandra Bose contributed to this Nation's independence only by being alive and Shivaji borne conviction and audacity in the Marathas only by standing amongst them rather than dying in anonymity.

It's just that the government and the people gave Ramdev a step-treatment

The Wrong Cinema

2010-09-20T02:11:00.000-07:00

Perhaps a common man is preordained with paucity of originality and the grit to lead. Hence is why, history is congested with atrocious leaders and preachers of platitudes. An obsequious ordinary man, confounded over his own style statement, follows the celebrities; He tries spikes because his favorite star did so, smokes/drinks because the brave brat in his favorite movie tried so and sometimes observes passions like singing/dancing purely because by doing so a hero in a particular movie managed to bag a sexy mate; perplexed or perhaps ignorant of his original mandate, blindly asserts views expressed in widespread media as his own.

Precisely speaking, a common man is deaf and dumb when it comes to possessing proto voice of concern. Since eternal times, leaders and preachers have utilized this as a tool to propagate their self interests. Any thing that is common amongst the commoners inspires them to behave over issues they are oblivious of and if that common thing is pumped with strategy, it can go a long way in controlling the thoughts of masses. Cinema is one such thing and Bollywood in particular has warped the way we live over the past decades

Personally, I consider Bollywood as another piece of shit, responsible for almost all the bad things that are happening around us. I would be dealing with how the wrong cinema changed our emotional sanctity and behavior which should have otherwise been original

The hard truth is that there is nothing inventive in Bollywood cinema. Post Independence, when there was an opportunity to rise from the ashes, it created blunders instead. Starting with the predilection for west, western concept of love marriages is the predominated theme of almost 99% movie garbage that our Bollywood produces. Arranged marriages were made to believe to be an orthodox Indian practice and lovers were depicted as real heroes. Indian parenting saw an all time low in the movies per se when parents were almost always prevaricated as the enemies of the young buds.

Similarly, a swimsuit wearing actress was supposedly more modern and a Saree clad woman was typecast as Sati Savitri. English speaking hero is progressive and pure Hindi is, still, spoken in comedy scenes only; where we proud Indians mock our own culture. Childhood version of the actor or the son of the actor always went to a convent school where the Christian father had a larger than Buddha image. Raheem kaka and D’souza aunty are always religious and humble together, while a pundit is always dhongi and greedy. This all has been typecast to such an extent that even the truth that - Christian missionaries are involved heavily in conversions and be it a Mullah or a pundit, anyone can have any type of character, seems to be camouflaged by these images in a common man’s mind.

Larger than life depiction of sentiments and anticipations has made us emotionally and enthusiastically numb. It is sort of a crime when you show false dreams to a poor man about snowy Switzerland wherein his love interests dances in shiffon Sarees, larger than Buckingham palace like houses and the stories of those who live in them, black-belt actor who manages to tackle 20 goons at a time and a young child who goes against the system and finally seeks justice by killing the villain who raped his sister/killed his father. Rather than showing simple real stories of a down to earth protagonist, our Bollywood movies were just making protracted exaggerations. All Indian women are largely progressive but Bollywood is mainly responsible for typecasting them as pati-parmeshwar-dependent-sati-savitri. Movies like “Water” highlight issues which were existent only for a small period of time but project them as key features of Indian Culture.

Someone might ask, public is mature enough to look behind the scenes. I would say a big NO. We all look for inspirations around and in the absence of a purified ambience and responsible parenting, which is generally the case, we look for ideals in celebrities. So even if being scantily dressed is considered obscene even today, we look upon Mallika as an ideal and are eager to meet her at some point of life.

When I was a child and had limited toys and little chocolates to boast of and when I saw movies where the actor used to fill an entire room with toys for his yet to be born ward, I often used to think that my parents don’t love me. As I became mature, I realized that my parents loved me enormously in their own simple ways. Nonetheless, a larger than life image ruined my childhood predomination. Similar is the thinking of a girl when she sees the actor singing senti songs at Rakshabandhan for her sister and expects nothing less from her brother. This happens and it’s natural. Problem is the way in which we present the cinema. Incessant emotional overdose makes Bollywood movies clumsy, and hence despite the reality that an average Indian man is shy in expressing his love, Bollywood makes songs where a son sings in praise of her mother, a husband sings an emotional shayari for his wife. This all stokes expectations of the counterpart and the frustration of the protagonist. At some point we all were clouded with the thinking that we are not able to live the right relation forgetting the spirit of uniqueness the God has endowed in each and every individual

Cinema-making is an art and upon watching Hollywood movies, one can sense it. Mention of realistic and motivating classics that came up occasionally and exceptionally in Bollywood has been deliberately avoided

Comprehensing Marriages in Indian Context

2010-07-28T05:18:00.000-07:00

Marriages had substantiated merely to the status of an anachronistic petty experience in the occidental corners of globe but scouring for protracted relationships, a person in east is still inundated with trepidations of its fruition/failure and quests for elysian bonhomie in the gamut of marriage per se

Paucity of innovative influx in our Indian society has flummoxed our minds to such an extent that at present we are invigorated just being obdurately jingoistic for a scantily left culture. Unfortunately we assort to a similar act by blindly supporting arranged marriages. But that definitely is not what Indian culture is, we had emanated from a diversified panorama of ideas, a mélange of people from various castes and creeds but having individual freedom of thought as its preliminary tenets. We certainly need to revolutionize to elicit indigenous originality of adapting and assimilating the best

Firstly, let us know what our culture exactly says. As widely and wrongly propagated in west, Indian culture doesn’t endorse tying the knot of two unknown youths seeing each other for the first time only after marriage, at rosily-decorated-beds and that too at night (Suhaag raat as we say it). Peeping into the history, we find that womenfolk enjoyed utmost freedom while selecting bridegroom in the form of Swayamvar and there had been innumerable instances when a girl left her home if she felt that her choices were being suppressed. Infact, Lord Sri Krishna himself motivated her sister to go for Arjun. Similarly, marriage was more of a personal matter and at times, a family matter. Like, Lord Ram didn’t took permission of his parents while marrying Devi Sita and similar is the case with Lord Krishna

Much is said about caste based marriages. We need to ruminate over it as well. In Vedic times, castes were decided by profession. So, it is pretty natural that an intellectual would fall in love with a person of matching genius. Hence just like a Research scientist finds love in his/her fellow scholar who he/she meets every now and then, a pundit used to marry a pundit. Caste may have become obsolete but profession based selection of life partner is an undeniable reality. Can you imagine Aishwarya marrying a sweeper and Akshay marrying his son with a maid? (No matter how many movies they act in talking of open mindedness and that love is blind)

Arranged marriages have earned the wrath of youths in recent times, but the concept behind them isn’t that hard to decipher. In Indian context, marriage is not just an intercourse of two bodies, it’s a unification of two souls and two families/societies. Hence :

1. Decisions of marriage were not taken single handedly. They involved the entire family, and all those who live in a happy joint family, know pretty well what kind of joy a marriage brings in a family. Indian values can never allow you to sacrifice that joy for your lust.

2. Parents look for a good cultured family for marital association. Hence, no matter, whether a girl ever managed to see her future hubby, marriages were always 100% successful since it was like mating of two cultured youths having same values and sanskars and aspirations from life. In present scenario, this equilibrium has been disturbed since firstly, cultural values are at their all time low and parents themselves want their son/daughter to be mature/shrewd/smart/whatsoever in the walks of life and secondly, increased affinity for a sexually satisfied life has hyped the hopes from a marriage unlike previously where sex wasn’t the only thing one looked in his/her life partner. A cultured wife/husband almost always was able to satisfy needs other than sexual in a marriage by sure. (Guarantee of ample sex and overjoyed life wasn’t there though but that wasn’t the thing looked after as well in the fellow mate)

3. Indian parenting is phenomenal and I aver my views stated here pretty confidently. So much of love is there, that at later stages of life, parents expect to take the decision of marriage in their own hands, purely for the sake of welfare of their own child, then that is pretty natural and obvious. It is their love. They mind all Ps and Qs just not to get cheated. Please don’t compare our parents and family ambience with that in the west.

Above stated reasons also elucidate why love marriages are not attuned in Indian context. In west, they are OK since you don’t live with your family right from the time you attain control of yourself, but in India, you just can’t let go your parents who brought you up, for a newly developed love of yours. When you were unable to be of those with whom you lived till now, I doubt you would ever be so loyal to the one you currently date.

The unparalleled exuberance for love marriages incited by virtue of bollywood movies in 70s’ is now at a low once again and arrange marriages have once again captured their forte as I see in recent times. Reasons behind this need to be scrutinized. Indian parents were caring enough to patron love marriages and the son used to bring his newly married wife at home only to find out that his love is not at all compatible with his parents. Similar is the outcome of arranged marriages too. The prime reason behind this failure is the difference in cultures and loss in family values that has aroused. I would not go in details of the present scenario of wife/husband chemistry since it is more of a personal issue where even minutiae details matter the most. Son in law still lives with his own family and daughter in law leaves her family, still now, hence the holistic performance of family mostly rests upon how well daughter in law adjusts herself. The Indian concept of service (sewa) are seen with contempt or have deteriorated. Womenfolk prefer wearing the shoes of a working lady rather than being an ideal daughter in law who makes all ends meet just to serve her in laws, her children, her husband……

The image of ideal Indian mother and Bahu that we saw till 80s’ is in perils. Parents as well as the husband found themselves deceived. I have interacted with families who went for arranged as well as love marriages, very few are satisfied and few are able to look for an image of ideal Bahu in their in law. Young generation is perspicacious enough to scramble indifference under the veneer of spurious culture (sanskars), and you rumble the real mendacious nature of your in law/ beloved only after you live actually with her for a sufficient period of time.

Live in relationships are incomprehensible in Indian context as our values resent pre marital sex since sex isn’t the only thing we look in a marriage apart from its vulgar repercussions in a family atmosphere.

But love/arranged marriages are diminishingly fructifying these days as I have seen it in innumerable cases. Time is high where we espouse a new system of marriage where we consent both partners equally to know each other within the restraints of system. Here is where, I support Live in relationships. But this live in relationship won’t be of the type Saif – Kareena are currently living in (They have copied it though). We need to devise a enhanced modus operandi where our middle class families are compatible and the right and equality of both the genders is maintained as well.

The live in relationship of the type shown in the Telugu movie Bomarillu fits pretty well in our Indian culture and fulfills all requirements of Indian families/ bride/ bridegroom without any biasing. It is a much better window to know the future in laws as compared to the present system of arranged marriages

Marriages compose an integral part of Indian society since a happy marriage only confirms the foundation of a happy family. Family is one thing we won’t ever compromise in our Indian culture, so we need to change this current system of arranged marriages since it is no more viable today.

We Indians seriously need to formulate a better scheme of marriage, or the present system of arranged marriages is leaving everyone dissatisfied to such an extent that the western wind of Live in relationships would soon take its toll over entire society. (Enormous increase in pre marital sex and post marital affairs is an outcome of this frustration only).

We need to come out from the orthodoxy that has crept in our society. We require to transform for the sake of our culture. And fortunately our culture permits us to change for the better.

A Pernicious Trend

2010-07-13T23:59:00.000-07:00

Both in my school life and college life, I have been a witness to the fact that glamour sustains victory. When a teacher used to ask a question, the spontaneous (but knowing less) guys used to blabber whatsoever they can vomit while the shy (yet genius) always preferred to be reserved.

Similarly, when it came to wooing girls, the shy used to just talk formally with girls while the fundoo guys with glamorous accessories and impressive (modern) style used to throw jokes, do publicity stunts solely for the purpose of making fool of the girl. Being a batchmate and having good acquaintance with both the shy and the wag, I always found the results to be other way round. The shy one was more intense and pure in his feelings. But the girl always chose to go with the smart one who can always keep her smiling and offer her a ride at his (may be borrowed) bike.

I used to empathize with the fate of that girl for having lost a true friend and may be a life partner

Same was the case I found in the recent flick – I hate Luv Stories. Sonam fell in love with Imraan for no obvious reasons. He was a liar and was no virgin, but that made little difference to her. He just made her laugh, did some publicity stunts at the pub and all of a sudden she feels that the magic has come back. It was very unclear, Which quality allured her – if she just got wooed by his stunts, showy tricks, then I really feel pathetic for her. She was ready to leave a sober, successful and above all an honest beau who was not even curious to know about her horrible past and was ready to accept her in all her forms.
The analogy and contrast set by white and red flowers was once again unclear to me, may be in this case she never told her beau and to Imraan – she did.

Once again a cultured, shy and honest guy lost against a dishonest, not at all serious but humorous guy

Let me know, what do you feel

P.S. : I find a similar situation even in professional life. If you don’t entertain others with spicy jokes, they take no time in declaring you boring and somber. Contrast this with the prophecy in Ramayana by Goswami Tulsidas where he says that in Kalyug, wags would be preferred over serious work oriented persons. So true!!!!

Fed Up Of Moving On

2010-07-12T07:50:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time, just a year back, I was in Kahalgaon which is a remote village in Bihar with profoundly pandemic penury all over. The first impression you might derive by dint of this is pretty obvious but the story is other way round. That bout of stay in Kahalgaon, that arcadian life, was the golden phase of my life.

You cannot ostracize but face the vicissitudes that your job puts you into and farcical are all your efforts and prudence to circumvent any such change as they are indelible in one’s life. Their incumbency only prodded me to abort that place for a transfer to a new place which was a city, in fact.

Big smoke may sound alluring but so far there have been no such gestures. This post commemorates the completion of one full year since I first put my steps in Kahalgaon (Bihar in fact) and contrasts the drastic differences that I find in initial three months of stay at both the places

Where the friends out there were supple in nature having innocuous tenets and simple outlook, here I find the guys with widespread propensity to lambaste any damn thing that is in disagreement with them. Their rapacious affinity to schadenfreude has stultified me from exulting or relishing though I managed to bag a few good friends. Friendship is more of a quest - to search for allies rather than some genuine true-to-life cohorts. This preposterous state of theirs has stymied my scruple from befriending them. Hence, within three months of stay at both the places, I find I had grooved well in there with veritable friends and the sublime stupendous ambience vis-a-vis the sordid atmosphere here. I don’t know, may be their formidable incredulous portrayal has flummoxed my mind inundated with hang over of the past.

Last itinerary to home just a few days back also put me spell bounded but had to move on once again. Hiding the pain of these frequent moves under the veneer of spurious exuberance has made me jaded of the beauty that surrounds me. I am not able to appreciate it anymore. Why don’t the good days just linger?

Anyways, my condition is such that even if some one offers me that pathetic plant as a quid pro quo to this India’s first super critical plant, I won’t give a second thought, in tandem to the trepidation of this nemesis of mine.

Truly said - There may be 8 billion people on this earth, but sometimes you need just one!!!

A Very Special Poem

2010-05-02T22:53:00.000-07:00

Rarely it happens that you come across a person with which you develop a relation as compatible as your own siblings. During my stay at Kahalgaon, I came across a similar person – Naveen Kumar. Words fall short if I ever think of describing the support he gave to me during the worst of my times.

We all were destined to separate, and after we are miles apart, Naveen has written a poem dedicated to me and my importance in his life. It feels so nice when someone considers you this much important. I am delirious. Let the poem say everything:

Zindagi ne Aisa rang khilaya mujhe tumse milaya…
Ajnabiyon ke beech apna sa paya…
Logon ke beech par logon se alag sa nazar aaya….
Be-suri dunon ko tumne sur dilaya…

Meri nadaniyon ko bachpana bataya, aur miujhe jeene ka rasta samjhaya…
Khwabon mein aa ke bade bhai jaisa sneh barsaaya….
Iss duniyan ki kathnayiyon aur matlabipan se jujhana sikhaaya….
Raste to the kai, par sahi rasta to tumne hi bataaya…
Birthday pe tumhare hi idea ne surprise karaya..
Achi dosti kya thi ye tumko pa ke hi samajh mein aya..

Zindagi ne phir apna rang dikhlaya..
Iss aage badhati hui life ne alag hone ka time batlaya..
Jab tumse alag hua to inn akhon ne mess ki rahon me, club ki sadkon
mein, edc ki raste aur tumhare khali room mein tumhari talash ki…
Nahi mila to tumhari yadon se hi baat ki..

Maine bhi un galiyon, us ghar , us jagah ko chhora..
Kuch yadon se muh moda..
Nayi jagah pe fir se naya jivan sanwaara..

Office mein tumhe to nahi par tumhar hidayaton aur salah ko sath paya..
Unhi ko tumhara ansh samajh ke apne se himaat rakhne ko kehlaya..
Tumhari sneh, dosti, adaon, care ne hamesha yadon ko taja karaya..
Aur tumhe maine apne bagal mein hi baitha paya…

Suuni sadkon pe sath chahiye..
In andhere galiyon ko abhi bhi tumhari prakash chahiye..
Suraj nahi sahi, par chand jaisi roshni ki talash hai..
Iss jindagai mein kabhi-kabhi milte rehana yahi ek aas hai..

The Biggest Ethical Dilemma

2010-04-27T22:08:00.000-07:00

We live our lives with plethora of perceptions. We love someone, we hate others and we adore a whole lot of friends and this is what makes us human. We observe them, analyze them knowingly or unknowingly in our sub conscious mind, evaluate them and consequently approve for a future relationship. This is known as the art of Judgment and it is what enables us to differentiate between virtues and vices existent in our society. After all there is something that prompts us not to go with that particular stranger or not to incorporate that peculiar habit. It happens to everyone and no one is an exception to it.

Priorities vary in a practical life. Once again we admire or despise fellow cohorts. Things go smoothly and you come across all possible outcomes of these particular likings or dislikings. Collaborations/infidelities/loyalty/friendship/politics parturition from these two basic emotions.

Real test of one’s conscience and the greatest ethical question arises when there is a radical change in the ambience/scenario/situation. All of a sudden, you are in an atmosphere where your previous opponents are your recent colleagues or vice versa. Which side do you choose then?

When you are mature enough to weigh your future assets, you make judgments but do not aver them publicly and that is what happens mostly in a professional world. Neither you expressed your emotions earlier and nor are you going to express them now. Such persons rarely think of ethics.

But the question of ethics actually arises for two other kinds of people. One who are open hearted and embrace anyone they come across and second who are judgmental and find it difficult to shed previous opinions and collaborate with a previous opponent just because the situation has changed.

I too was a witness to this dilemma. Today I wish to express my feeling and approach for this ethical question. When I faced a tough situation like this, I simultaneously came across a person who kept motivating me to forget all previous infidelities and animosity and start a new life with an open heart forgiving for all previous misdeeds. Many a times it appeared as if I am being rigid and inhumane not to cooperate with those colleagues.

But that is definitely not the case. I respect all human beings and I like them all. I have never thought ill even about my enemies. The actual thing in question here is Truth. Truth must sustain in all circumstances. Previously my recent colleague used to be my opponent and I supported my cause (and abhorred his) because I did what I think was ethically correct. I stood for that cause because it was a manifestation of Truth and my self conscience motivated me to do so. Now in changed conditions, if I would forget what happened in the past, certainly I would gain professionally but Truth would suffer. It would severely amputate the status of Truth and the world will see to this as the loss of that ethical cause. If I would succumb to my greed/whims, who will carry the torch and let everyone know what lies beneath? Who will spread the light and let everyone see the Truth hidden underneath? Doers would pay for their sins in this world, only if someone is there to remind others of the past otherwise temporary detest to sins might let the sinners think that Truth and Justice are relative and they can be avoided after changing the native village or aborting the ambience or simply bribing. Someone has to be there to constantly keep reminding sinners of their past and the need of penance. I sincerely believe that one should not give up his hatred for sinners unless sinners show some repentance and willingness to change and if we would make this world a cake walk for them, who would motivate them to indulge in absolution and reparation

I would like to give you an example. No matter how much the world reckons Mahatma Gandhi and no matter how many award winning movies are made show casing his borrowed principles, it’s a fact that Indians detest him for what he did. I have seen that most of us are taught by our own parents about how he practiced pseudo secularism and played a crucial role in granting a colossal status to Jinnah. Past generation is the only torch bearer (Since all our text books and media were owned by Congress for a sufficiently long time) and because of them only we don’t exactly take him as Mahatma, though we may like some of his ideals.

Similarly if we will collaborate with our ethical opponents with whom we fought over an issue as great as the Truth itself, how can we blame politicians and political parties for their opportunistic allegiances? We are no better than them

Lastly I wish to say that standing for Truth may make you rigid in front of some silly colleagues who belittle ethics; nevertheless you would be satiated with your inner self. Giving up this rigidity might earn you easy accessibility in a professional life, but then it is a matter of choice – What kind of life you believe in and what have your parents taught you

Ego Clashes and Break ups

2010-04-24T23:16:00.000-07:00

Relations in life are like blood in body, akin to a breeze in the desert or a drop of rain in scorching heat. Immaterial of the fame and fortune we earn in our lives, we all need someone to laugh with us in blithe moments and support us at our failures. We often assert that we are independent or we don’t need anyone’s emotional support but the truth is that we all need someone to walk with us.

Not many of us are successful enough to carry a relation right till the end. Unfortunately, we all have to move on with life leaving behind some of our most beloved relations. Ego wins over love and we take pride in our false self respect but at the end we all crave for the love that we lost just because of our silly self-esteem which crippled all our courage to make a move

When we find love amongst peers and look for an image of life partner in them, we all experience the most beautiful feelings of this world – Love and Care. But this True love and jealousy go hand in hand. We love our partner to the point of death but the excellence of partner in some field and our own failure to rise to that level sows the seeds of jealousy. That point of time is the most crucial one. We pray for the failure of our own beloveds. Our own mate fails to understand our whims and comprehend that all that we want is his/her time and fear of losing him/her is killing us. This feeling alone is the mother of jealousy in True love. Life goes on and our partner chooses career/progress over bonding with us. Failing to form sync with the partner, we chose to stay quite or simply abort the relation. These relations fail even if we have just a little expectation. Small but unfulfilled expectations annul hopes and smash a caring heart.

Hurt a true heart as many times you want, it won’t stop loving you but if you ever cheat it, it won’t hurt or hate you, but it won’t dare to love you again.

A single most irony haunts these love unions. Both sides know how much they adore each other, but egos prevent both sides from showing flexibility and initiating the primary move. Either side know very well that the issue would resolve upon retrieval of dialogue and just letting the other person know that we all are alone without them. But this ego once again deters us, we assume that this is against our self respect and we finally let go. Hearts shatter and tears find their way out just because we were rigid enough not to go to him/her and tell him/her how much are we incomplete without him/her. May be we haven’t cheated but once again our ego dominates to go for clarification of misconceptions crept in. Just not to openly showcase our emotional weakness and dependency on the care and support of our partner, we dare to sacrifice something as indispensable as our own lives

Child like curiosity and poignant purity gets lost with the passage of time and we all become a victim of self imagined walls of self-worth. Why? Why do we become so rigid as we grow up?

Child Labor

2010-03-16T20:35:00.000-07:00

Many a times we succumb to comprehend what we essentially crave for. Take for instance, Gorkha people are agitating for a different state, but is it really the issue they are obsessed with and would they actually be obliged after getting a new state? If that truly is the case, Sikkim would have been the Tokyo of India.

Similar is the case with Child Labor. I observe people emphasizing the significance of its abolition. Consequently the pertinent question is – what do they have to offer in return? Answer to this question is known to nobody. Let’s be specific. Various NGOs continually demand the abolition of child labor from microscopic/macrosopic levels. They want that no child below a certain age should do any sort of forced labor. Instead they all should go to schools and acquire education just like any other child born with a silver spoon in its mouth

Before raising protests to this proposition, let me make my stand very clear. I don’t support forced labor of any sort for any age group. I strongly abhor the ambience in which a poor child is being brought up in developing countries. I am an ardent supporter of endowment of equal prospects to every one irrespective of the financial inequalities existent in society. Giving a hale and hearty childhood to just-born-buds is crucially vital. I would let you know how. Consider 2 children, one properly nourished in a good environment and the other who lived a typical slum life; now at a later stage both are jobless due to illiteracy. Who do you think would resort more easily to social crimes to earn money? Considering this, our effort should be to give all slum children a life which is full of values and opportunities

Coming to my objections, first of all, I don’t think that doing some work is labor of any sort but its excess definitely is. In developing countries, children undertake work either to support their family or to act as substitute by virtue of the cheap labor they provide. A child if enforced to do a work which is totally devoid of learning like sweeping in trains, then that really is a case of child labor. But if a child is working as a mechanic/operator or even at a tea stall for that matter, then it is really adding some future value to it. He is learning either some skill or basics of business. Once the child is grown enough, at least he won’t be in the league of those well educated unemployed who are waiting endlessly for some firm to come and recruit them (They undertake entrepreneurship only after their job eligibility gets expired). He is standing on his own legs and has some genuine practical skill, more fructifying than the bookish knowledge that our institutes, in general, impart.

Secondly, believing that our present education system is even near to education is another blind absurd supposition. If a child attends 6 hours long boring bookish lectures and thereafter joins a 2 hour duration tedious tuition carrying a bag which is heavier than his aspirations from life, then that too is a type of child labor and all those who demand the poor children to go for schools leaving work should seriously reconsider their definitions. The way a child is forced to mug and memorize things he doesn’t like is a type of exploitation too. We should stop children from doing labor since they wish to go to school, but at the same time we should stop our children from going to those persecution centers (which we refer as schools) too as no child wishes to spend his 15 valuable years in the closed cubicles where creativity and originality is murdered by educated rich parents (Why to blame the poor always?) and fit-for-no-other-job teachers. Irony is that now neo social reformists ruminate that our education system lacks in expertise imparting. You drag a child to school compelling him to think bookish way and then in schools you ask him to think out of the box and develop proficiency giving no exposure to the outside world

Thirdly, ours is a developing country. So less are the opportunities that lacs of aspirants fight for a job opening of just few hundred. Are we willing to make those children a part of this crippled league? That would be like playing with the emotions of the child – at first you ask them to go for schools so that they get equal opportunities and later you turn your back when they look for a living. Seriously, that is the reason why a poor father still thinks that engaging his child in a family business is a much safer/reliable bet. A child well versed with any sort of skill would atleast not beg for job in front of MNCs and think innovatively of setting up a business of its own if provided support. He is the type of entrepreneur our country needs

Fourthly our Indian culture too believes that studies and work go hand in hand. In ancient gurukul system, apart from Vedic knowledge, a ward was imparted various skills such as archery/wrestling/business planning/politics along with basic skills like preparing one’s own food for which the disciples used to go to the woods to collect fuel for fire etc. A disciple wasting his entire day in forest doing hunting for his survival wasn’t looked upon as exploitation. In fact it made him stronger and exposed him to the outside world.

Since I firmly believe that we should be a part of solutions instead of merely being complaining dissatisfied brats. I propose a 3 faceted approach as a solution to this issue. I suppose if we focus on values, opportunities and skills, then we can go far beyond in getting sensible prodigies.

Firstly, our education system seriously lacks in its spirit of inculcating values in the souls of young India. Many of the good things are taught so bookish way that no surprises, we all today take them likewise and don’t dare to improvise them in our lives. The magnitude of ethics and team building is unfortunately taught in business schools and not while primary schooling. The stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata are taught to students in the backdrop of them being a myth, how can you expect anyone to learn anything from it. Extra load of useless subjects should be removed. No child should be devoid of toys to play and a Bat to bat in Cricket. Healthy childhood is what assures that no grudges against system are left in the sub conscious mind of the ward. Healthy childhood and skill learning can certainly go hand in hand

Secondly, equal opportunities should be there for everyone. No matter a child is born in a cot of gold or with a family of five to feed, our system should encourage everyone to be a part of it in the way they prefer. Financial discrepancies in the society can’t be removed overnight but definitely our education system shouldn’t be in the handcuffs of capitalists. Unfortunately, our government schools provide easy education but it seriously lacks in quality and couldn’t groom a ward for the outgrowing competition.

Thirdly and most importantly, we should be focused more upon inculcating skills in our education system. Basic Mathematics and basic Science only should be stressed at primary level. Rest all should be practical and realistic focusing more on identifying the true caliber of the ward. In this process if a child has to do some work, I found no problem with it. To all this, I put four restrictions:

1. The child’s age should be more than at least 12 years
2. The child shouldn’t be forced to do what he detests
3. His input in the form of work should only be for 2 – 4 hours
4. Work conditions should be ideal, not like the one you find in glass factories.

Anything more than that is exploitation.

Even the daughter of Bill Clinton use to sell newspapers to fetch more pocket money. That is not exploitation but a learning process where you discover to stand on your own and face the real world. One of the possible solutions could be making schools more inclined towards practical learning after abolishing child labor completely, but I would say the more a ward is exposed to the outside world, the better

Culture Still Not Lost

2010-02-20T01:31:00.001-08:00

“Mumbaikars hate Biharis, Assamese hate Biharis, South Indians hate North Indians and vice versa. The best way to conclude all this animosity is to read English, speak English and live English as I unearth no merit in saving an already lost, hybrid culture” – This is what I used to say after Raj Thackrey wrath.

Today I dare to disclose some indigenous yet ignored, long-forgotten practices which are manifestations of our great culture still emanating from the spirit of billions of Indians, in an attempt to arouse pride for the supposedly marvelous culture we inherit

We never refer a mother by her name. She is either referred as bhabhiji or chintu ki mummy, but never by her name. Even other mothers refer each other as bhabhiji, behanji etc. Uncles in neighborhood too call all such dignified mothers as bhabhiji but never by their name. This actually is a redolent of our culture where ladies were looked upon with utmost respect in a society. A westerner might say that this is due to identity crisis and Indian mothers have no self image at all. But if half naked, bed changing, lonely lady is having her own individuality then that is definitely a problem of perspectives.

Best quality ghee is referred as Desi ghee. Likewise finest quality chicken is referred as desi murga. This actually manifests the sagacity we used to have concerning our customs and native technology.

If AIDS spreads then let it spread but we won’t discuss sex related topics so openly with our own family members as we believe in dignity of ambience and inviolability of culture at home. Hence, when awareness campaigns urge us to discuss these things at home, they copy a west suited strategy. In west, couples kiss before their 4 year old son and cuddle as if shaking hands; so if they discuss about AIDS at dining table, it’s perfectly fine with their culture. In India, we need to follow the example of appropriate context and place. Sex was taught not at home, but since it is part and parcel of our life, our religious scripts are full of vivid descriptions of the process of sex. Favorite sex positions were taught through Khajuraho temple so that purity of mind is necessarily there. Can’t the knowledge of condoms be taught at schools through proper channels? Obviously our culture won’t permit to telecast it every now and then at a family show on TV

Only a sanctified mind can endeavor to deliver pure knowledge. Let me explain what I mean by this statement. Whenever we see any pundit carrying some modern accessory like mobile, pager, bike or even speaking English for that matter, we usually comment – “khaali kehne ko pundit hain” or “modern pundit hain bhai!!!” or “ab woh zamana kahan”. Obviously we don’t allege leaders of any other religion upon being seen likewise (Not even once any Christian priest or maulvi has been mocked off in any Bollywood movie). This habit actually is evocative of our age old culture where only exceedingly deserving person was considered eligible to deliver knowledge and carry out religious activities. Hence a pundit dealing with Vedic chants should not only follow celibacy or austerity, he/she should also be utmost proficient of being the only recipient. Not just anyone can become a pundit/teacher in our tradition and the concept being preached should be well riveted by the pundit/teacher himself/herself compulsorily. If unfortunately that religious leader decides to plunge into politics even for the sake of nationwide welfare, the very moment super enlightened educated society discards him/her forgetting his/her past philanthropic history.

Many of these attributes may sound awkward or unbelievable at the start, but do give these features a thought minutely, I am pretty sure you all would get what I am trying to say.

Vegetarian or Non-Vegetarian food?

2010-02-08T23:59:00.000-08:00

There is an issue which still dictates social allegiances, there is a subject which still inspires MBA aspirants to plunge into it and there is a question where people don’t mind forgetting the spirit of scientific inquiry and start blabbering absurd and concocting asinine. Today I wish to initiate, once again, the perennial apprehension since time immemorial over the burning issue – “Is having non-vegetarian food inhumane?”

If you are a non-vegetarian by chance and if you have ever come across community life as in hostels/townships, you are bound to face the intellectual posturing of the hate brigade comprising of “dharma ke thekedars” - servants of their natural propensity for taunting your choice of interest and jibing you for the supposedly insensible culture that your family chain inherits.

Since last year I was pondering to commence this burning issue prevalent in our society as many of my previous batchmates were having the impression that they are the new generation Avatar of Siddhartha (Lord Buddha) and all non-vegetarians are the next-to-be-tenants-of-Hell. Finally I succumbed to my long unfulfilled craving when few days before one of my friends alleged me that I can not talk of austerity as I myself am a non-vegetarian and arraigned me of hypocrisy.

So let’s start. Firstly the perspective of the Vegetarian brigade:

Killing any being for the sake of caprice of tongue is a crime unforgivable and unpardonable.

Non Vegetarian food is not fit for human digestion system. Vegetarian food is more nutritious

Our Jaw prints are similar to those of herbivores.

Spiritual concern attached with such matters

Now let us deal with all these logics put forth one by one:

First of all, the truth that we should all acknowledge is that this entire creation sustains an equilibrium where one form of life has to feed upon some other form of life for survival. No one on this Earth is an exception to this elementary veracity.

Secondly, it’s an accurately verified and scientifically established fact that trees, plants and herbs have life too. We cannot listen to cries of trees, though, because we can only listen to frequencies starting from 20 Hz till 20000 Hz. But just because we can not hear their whimper doesn’t mean that they are not losing their existence. Still believing that since there is no blood; plants don’t feel pain is an absolutely bizarre logic. Plants also feel ache, they also wail for life when we pluck them to feed our tongue and they are also the house of “Atman” like any other form of life

Those who claim that they are some harbinger of animal rights should concede the fact that we kill hundreds of insects while daily walking, thousands of germs while eating any sort of stuff and millions of bacteria while drinking just a glass full of water. All these insects, germs and bacteria are creations of God as well. Excess love for one creation and surfeit ignorance of millions of life forms is completely vacuous and out of sense.

Spiritually, God disseminated the bodily abodes to all spirits or the “Atman”. This “Atman” is the shapeless soul and is invariably alike in all creations. So either you kill a germ or an animal, the same “Atman” gets liberated from worldly boundaries and for God, definitely, all of His creations are alike. Why would a mother differentiate between her two children even if one of them is physically challenged? But visibly the humanitarian limit to this concept is that we should follow the Law of Nature and kill any creation just to sustain life. Definitely, we cannot kill any person merely to satiate our tongue following the above stated logic

Eating habits are a manifestation of the geological traits of a particular community/ region. In deserts, where it is difficult to grow crops and vegetation, humans are compelled to carry on with animal food. Similarly, in coastal sand one cannot grow wheat and rice and hence fish becomes the life line of such regions

Theology infers that Hinduism never restricted anyone from having Non-Veg food. Even in Ramayana, Mahabaharata and Puranas there are several mentions of Non-Veg food being consumed. Though Hinduism considers that Non-Veg food is full of “Rajatamas” and hence should be avoided by spiritual aspirants. Infact the concept of Non-Vegetarianism is attributed to the influence of Buddhism in general and Jainism in particular.

Now let us focus on some anthropological aspects. Early man’s first diet was Non-Veg stuff only. Hence it is preposterous to say that our digestive system is intended only for vegetarian food. A cow cannot digest flesh and a lion cannot digest grass, but a human can digest both simply because our system is premeditated for both types of food. Similarly, herbivores have a flat set of teeth while carnivores have pointed teeth. Humans have both types of teeth. This fact only implies that our body system is suited for both types of food.

Non-Veg food is essential for many of our body requirements. It is a tremendous source of protein and that is the reason why we won’t find any body builder/WWF fighter surviving only on vegetarian food. Non-Veg food is utmost vital for them.

If every person on Earth consumes only vegetarian food, then that would lead to food crisis in this world. Balance is required and mandatory. If we mull over continents like America or Europe, majority of the population consumes Non-Veg food. If we scrutinize the reasons behind, we would find that in developed countries, inclination for practicing agriculture as an occupation reduces and hence the easiest available type of food is Non-Veg. Thus, they have no other alternative but to go for Non-Veg stuff.

( I have purposely put off certain points and logics, just to acclimatize readers to think in that particular direction. Vegetarian food can still be proven as more appropriate, I only wish to see who can think so far. Just curiosity!!!! )

3 Idiots: A Critical Review

2010-01-15T23:53:00.000-08:00

“3 Idiots” has hit the screens and is rocking all across the globe. Aamir has done the miracle once again and the movie is bound to break all preceding records. So far so good. The movie has been widely applauded by audience and even by the critics and managed to bag 5 stars in its cart. Most of my friends watched it and acknowledged it as “ultimate”

As far as I am concerned, I think the movie had all the prerequisite masala of a hit movie. It was humorous, it was emotional and above all the message of the movie was loud and clear – “Focus on inculcating and improvising skills rather than following success blindly” and Aamir emphasized this burning issue over and over again.

Unfortunately, I had the pre set image of “5 Point someone” in my mind and perhaps because of that, I found the movie rather disappointing. Let me entail them all in brief:

Movie was more about an extra ordinary, Nobel Prize winning material Rancho rather than the story of 3 usual guys with down to earth possessions. Just like Shahrukh projects himself as God in nearly all his movies and hence is rarely considered a great actor by male audience; Aamir khan too did the same and followed suit. Rancho was humorous (while other 2 weren’t), he was a rare prodigy with tech genius (while other 2 weren’t), he was clear in his goals and approach and expert in wooing (while other 2 weren’t) and the list is long

Friendship is all about equality where there is no need to say sorry or thank you. But here I found that Farhan and Raju were so obliged that they even went to the extent of going naked to express gratitude. We all have seen what happens in engineering colleges and how close friends come with each other, but have we ever gone naked just to say thank you to some of our friend? That scene is a blemish on the definition of friendship. Who sings a song like “udti patang sa tha who, kahan gaya use dhundho”. Each line of this song will make you realize as if Rancho wasn’t Farhan’s friend but Godfather.

The feel of young, innocent, and in this case naughty, romance was missing. Rancho was never interested in love while in original novel he was. So the purity of fresh love that was there in the novel wasn’t there in the movie. Infact the romance depicted in the novel is so realistic.

Novel’s novelty is its inherent rush, rush of a young student studying in IIT. The story in novel never gets lethargic and keeps your mind at toes. While the movie was so much focused on highlighting the God Aamir that that rush was missing and to me, movie was a bit sluggish

Greatest flaw of the movie was that it was too predictable. I knew that the newly born infant would kick and hence breathe only after someone says “All iz well”. I could envisage that Phunsukh Wangdu is Rancho himself. Similarly, Lobo will commit suicide was quite apparent. For all those who have read the novel, perhaps every scene was palpable.
Alterations from the original novel were super boring. Rancho being a fraud and hence once again highlighting Rancho as “poor yet great” was a sort of overdose. The relic-Kalash-being-flushed was another predictable scene. Ladakh school concept was good, but where is the story of engineering life, lives of 3 friends together? Projecting ViruS as a strict teacher is well and good but out of the way eccentric was difficult to digest, hence I failed to co-relate though I hail from the most notorious faculty of this country –Mechanical, ITBHU

The feel of a typical hostel life was missing. How assignments are copied at last night, how students fail to co operate but then collage to share, how a student feels raw and fresh after he leaves his home for the first time and how boys spend days and nights talking over same things over and over again – Girls and Professors. That touch was missing, just by portraying extreme cases of ragging and pissing you cannot aver of having showcased the hostel life. “5 point someone” is definitely better in this regard

I would overlook other flaws like 45 year old playing the role of 18 year old engineering student just by the virtue of makeup. In fact to me, it appeared as if the direction is not up to the mark, finishing touch and polishing was only 80% in spite of expected 100%.

Though I must confess that these views are totally personal and observations made above are my personal right.

Shameless Smokers

2009-12-09T11:40:00.000-08:00

For a better comprehension of the post ahead, readers need to acknowledge the fact that I neither smoke nor drink. In this post, I would be talking about smokers in particular and drinkers in general.

Gone are the days when one used to value the importance of austerity in life and even thought of being a teetotaler. When I entered my first year in college, I too recognized the fact that youths love enjoying life without feeling any ethical reservations. But, anyways, respect of individuality is what I appreciate and follow. Infact many a times, I myself encourage my friends to drink/smoke to enjoy the limited valuable years of bachelor life and bust the sullen ambience surrounding one’s aura

But anyways, appropriate reciprocating response is always absent as is expected by persons similar to me. Just mentioning them in brief:

Smokers never give a damn to the fact that their smoking is passive smoking for others. Many a times they pretend as if they care but that is mostly due to the market value of the person concerned and in long run, the real face gets often revealed. Worst scenario arises when the smoker is your roomie’s friend. In this particular case, he won’t even inquire regarding your personal choices and inconveniences.

Greatest emotional attyachar is when you go to some place and they offer to have some sweet/paan/soft drink etc together which you deny due to various reasons. Instantly they would also say no their whim. This solidarity pledge often sounds ridiculous. When you had to drink/smoke, you left us all and did merry making/partying with your similar friends and didn’t give a shit to the fact that I am alone, but now all of a sudden, this momentary expression of love sounds confusing.

Smokers/drinkers would always pretend that they have finally got some elixir and now they are having best of their time in some self imagined heaven and treat the non-smokers as sullen beings fed up with their lives. God knows why the hell they feel that they are the only gifted and the happy lads.

Personally I have also seen that smokers have a restricted gamut while selecting friends, they always look for friends with similar interests. While a non- smoker is always open to friends of any type. Hence, I have experienced that smoking habits block you from getting fresh friends and ideas

I hope my friends with similar interests would be having pretty similar experiences

My head bows for them and all the resident respect in my heart emanates for those only who manage to keep the values taught by their parents alive, in this naked professional world. They are the real fighters of adversities in life

P.S. This is my first unedited post

Patna: The 25th City

2009-12-07T04:40:00.000-08:00

I consider myself to be extremely lucky that tons of opportunities always approached me without hesitation when it comes to Having India Tour and roving some of the great Indian cities. This weekend, I would be having a visit to Patna, the 25^th city that I managed to stopover till now, out of which, almost 22-23 cities were visited in last 4 years alone

Just to commemorate this supposedly big achievement of mine, I have tried coming up with a list of all the 25 cities that I have witnessed so far.

Lucknow: My hometown

Varanasi: Lived for 4 years as my alma mater ITBHU is an integral part of this world’s oldest city.

New Delhi: Visited Lotus temple, Palika Bazar, Badarpur, Metro stations etc

Noida and Ghaziabad: Visited malls just

Surat: Visited ONGC plant along with beaches, malls

Ahmedabad: Visited IIM Ahmedabad, Satellite centre

Mumbai: Visited Elephanta caves, Fashion street, Siddhi vinayak temple, mahalaxmi temple, Hazi ali dargah, Marine drive, Juhu, chaupati, Gateway of India, BARC

Pune: Visited Central Mall, Tata Motors, Thermax

Bangalore: Visited Garuda Mall, National Science Museum, HAL

Goa: Visited Kalingute beach, Anjuna beach and other similar beaches, St Xavier’s church

Lonavala and Khandala

Jammu: Visited Vaishno Devi

Chandigarh and Ambala: Visited Mansa Devi temple, Bhakhra Dam, Naina Devi temple

Agra: Do I need to disclose?

Gorakhpur and Kushinagar: Grandma’s home, Visited shrines of Kushinagar related to Lord Buddha

Bhagalpur: My parent EDC in NTPC. Still staying at this place

Kolkata: Visited Victoria memorial, Dakshineshwar Kali temple and various malls

Vindhyachal: Visited the temple as well as Viddham waterfall

Renukoot: Visited Hindalco, Birla Temple

Kanpur: Visited IIT Kanpur

Allahabad: Visited Sangam, Hanging Bridge

Guwahati: Visited IIT Guwahati and Kamakhya Temple

Rudrapur: Visited Honda Siel plant

Nainital: Visited all picturesque places

Patna: To give my CAT paper

2 Birthdays Together and The Real Good News!!!!

2009-11-30T21:57:00.001-08:00

For past many days, I had been putting the status of “2 birthdays together” at GTalk and other such places. Everyone kept asking the story behind it, today is high time that I should reveal the mystery behind it.

31^st October is my birth date and very fortunately my nephew got born on the same day itself. Not only was the day same, but other factors such as time in hours are also same as we both were born at 8 o’ clock in the morning. So very luckily, we share the same Sunshine and Kundali as well. So it’s like mayank getting reborn again, as everyone says.

So far we have named him as Jhatpat lal, as he came in this world a month before the scheduled date. Here I would like to mention that though doctors had given the date of 25^th November, I was having this intuition that perhaps the lucky date would be my birth date only, and by God’s grace, he got born on the same day.

Aaj Rahul Ne Kya Kiya ???

2009-10-25T22:29:00.000-07:00

Indian politics has perennially been obsessed with the term Gandhi. Gandhiian dynasty post independence has predominantly ruled India as their own cultivation, forced ill-treated Indian junta to fallaciously fantasize a fancy that Kashmir borders stretch as shown in 50 paisa maps while conceding to continual threats of China/Pakistan, defying self only acknowledged theory of Panchsheel, under the pretext of non violence and hence projecting India as big girl’s blouse. The purportedly prescient Congress, that always opposed birth based casteism, prophesied century’s greatest precognition by introducing portentous reservations – new discrepancy to end old disparity. Indian junta - Habitual of pursuing a leader, was brainwashed to believe that Nehru (Father of POK) and Indira (Mother of emergency) took India to world’s centre stage. Remarkably none of them was chosen because of his/her leadership abilities. Nehru was biased against Sardar Vallabh as he was the most favorite disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. Indira Gandhi wasn’t the best party worker available to Congress. Obviously when one is born in a family as royal as hers, she would get plenty of opportunities to convince general public and henceforth prove that her candidature is the mandate of Indian public. This entire drama is played with the help of media. Next to join this league of extra ordinary politicians is Mr. Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi was a born introvert and the early deaths of his grandmother and father made his life traumatic at a premature age. He was very shy in his college as well and was talented enough to graduate from Trinity College (he failed in one of the subjects though). He wasn’t interested in joining politics but always had dreams of a developed India. How he decided to join politics is still a debatable issue but perhaps the plight of Indian politics or the mandate of congress party workers, made him change his mind. We know all this either by calculation or by virtue of media coverage. Once Rahul decided to join and decided to put forth his candidature, this coverage saw exponential increase. If one looks at past editions of any newspaper, one can easily tell when Rahul ate sweet at a dalit’s residence, when he spoke first in public or Lok Sabha, when he decided to step down as minister and when he decided to give himself some more time. Many a times it came to my mind that instead of scripting small columns speckled here and there at newspaper’s visage, newspaper should commence a devoted column titled “Aaj Rahul ne kya kiya”.

Surprisingly, I don’t know any of such detail about the daughters of Advani or Pawar. I admire media for the way it gave public a chance to look into the tragic lives of Rahul and Priyanka. But I know many persons who lost their parents in childhood and henceforth fought not only with fate but with poverty as well while Rahul remained under the aegis of his royal family. So who is more of a leader and more educated? Is it Rahul or the common middle class man? Here media instead of looking for unique abilities, put forth Rahul as a cultured educated youth based on most prevalent virtues. If these facts alone make him eligible for PM candidature then 99 % of the Indian masses deserve to be PM. A common man fights with the hardships to give proper education/food to his family. Who is tougher? I feel Middle class youths should take pride in hardships they face every other moment; they are no less than Mr Rahul.

Rahul’s coyness and vision has always been highlighted. It sounds astonishing that at a point where the media should have condemned him for the lack of leadership aptitude, it always treated him as if he is in some ‘How to be a PM’ classroom and would improve in next to no time. Rahul was always the undeclared PM of media. No wonders why they gave so much coverage to his first speech in Lok Sabha as if Indian politics was waiting for his speech alone. Several other MPs give their first speech every other day, then why this preferential treatment? Introversion should have made him an ideal husband but definitely not the PM of India, but alas! Our media didn’t learn a bit from the blunder that our shy PM made at recent balochistan issue. No reporter points out the need of a good debater in Indian politics and no channel mentioned that when Rahul appreciated Nitish, it was pure politics and nothing more than that. Even today media found praise in the fact that Rahul did trekking; however was worried about results of state assembly elections (But why he took a cameraman there?)

After 2009 general elections, congress got the clear verdict. Rahul Gandhi was once again extolled for his sacrifice as he repudiated the post of minister and preferred working as a party worker. Had Sachin pilot made such sacrifice, I would have appreciated it because as long as Rahul captures the center stage, he can only imagine becoming a minister at most. But if Rahul makes such sacrifice, that is more of a premeditated move. Congress is ordained to be in power for next 5 years and hence instead of making hasty moves, projecting rahul as a “Tyaag ki murti” is a much safer bet. Had congress failed to get majority, Rahul would have been the next PM without delay after a pre-intended drama of party workers demanding youth participation blah blah.

If Rahul Gandhi, destined to be the PM of dumb headed Indian junta, sacrifices his ambitions of becoming a PM and prefers to stay at ground level, I would be the first person to vote for him. If he really is what he showcases during his India tour (in which he is always accompanied by a reporter), I challenge him to step down from PM in waiting.

The Crap That is Bollywood

2009-10-02T00:16:00.000-07:00

The worst, horrendously lethal lie that I have ever come across in my life is “our movies reflect the Indian society”, as claimed by heaps of bollywood directors. Quite shamelessly they have been declaring so since decades and still continue to do so. Here I would be averring that this so called bollywood is nothing more than a crap meant to fool the Indian public and has nothing indigenous or original in it

The lack of originality starts with the name itself. The term bollywood is a copied version of Hollywood. Since ages this name was very fondly used till bollywood spread its business overseas. Bollywood personalities were mocked at the copied name and hence the new generation started calling it ‘The Hindi film industry’. But the amount of Hindi that is spoken in any award function would seriously compel you to consider the feasibility of this name. Very few actors in bollywood have a Hindi background nowadays and they are often found jibing classical Hindi and taking pride in inserting English words/phrases in their dialogues, songs and what not.

Now coming to the basic question - do our movies really reflect our society in general? Innumerable examples may be quoted. Let’s start with the basic composition of any bollywood movie – family and relations. Hot issues like rape, premarital sex, abortion etc have been dealt with such havoc in bollywood that every Indian learns this adult things right in childhood. I can bet many of us haven’t come across any such incident in reality and only face embarrassment while watching these so called family movies with family. Almost every movie in 70s’ depicted rapes under the pretext that we are showing what is happening in the society, but they only helped causing more rapes in the society. Shame on such movies and movie industry.

Most of the family movies sound more like an overdose of emotions and the irony is that the role of sati savitri is given to the most famous who** , meaning to say that actors are considered more for their face value and less for their fitness in the role. That is why you will find the great over actors like Sharukh Khan as King Khan in this great bollywood and actors like Irfan Khan, Nana Patekar, Om puri doing monotonous roles. Even good actor like Ajay devgan is rarely considered for some Yashraj banner pure romantic movie, since he is not chocolaty and wheatish people seldom love!!!

The only thing that they cannot show is some western trend of nudity or incestuous relationship due to society constraints Not astonishingly, even these have been attempted but could not create a success brigade as they got financially crippled. But thanks to Bhatt camp, one can find them again in our movies under the pretext of modern society/ young trends and other such bullshit. What about this one – even actor as old as Dilip Kumar has acted in a movie on wife swapping which is a completely borrowed subject. Hmmm, bollywood has been copying and presenting damn anything right from start.

To Be continued.........

( A very typical scenario found in every bollywood movie is the one in which young children of main lead actor or the childhood version of main lead actor is always shown being educated in some convent school under the aegis of a holy father. This scene manifests two blind assumptions at a time. Firstly, all missionaries give comparatively good character education and secondly, all aspiring youths go for English medium convents rather than some sort of Hindi medium vidya mandir. At this place, I would like that all readers should themselves probe into these blind, far away from reality depictions. One can take help of my previous posts to find out the truth behind mission of holy missionaries. So one can see how clearly our directors have been brain washing our minds to believe that whatsoever comes from west is better, no wonders why the middle class takes pride in mentioning their convent related background. Angrez chale gaye par apne kutte yahin chhod gaye. )

The Best Doctrine

2009-09-15T07:23:00.001-07:00

I was really compelled to express my gratitude towards a doctrine which changed my life forever, a doctrine which holds its existence from the time immemorial and still defines each and every of our actions, immaterial of our faith in it. The doctrine of Karma is a theory which controls this entire universe and as per me it is the best spiritual material a consistent mind can ever come across. Loads of material is there at internet and I could have cut/paste them here, but here I would try to explain this theory within the realms of my perception.

Starting from movies like Matrix to serials like Lost and till the speech of Steve Jobs at Stanford, innumerable times I have come across the term Karma being used in English society. Curiosity arose to know, what at all is there in this doctrine that westerners keep chanting it every now and then? This was the time when I first became interested in theology and did a comparative study

Rational minds often don’t believe in the existence of God. At a time, I too was unable to explain as to why someone dies of hunger while someone is wasting food just to satisfy his tongue. At one side a girl is torturously raped and on the other side a child dies of illness in front of its own mother. Why at all God is so partial and just to explain this thing, atheists take the name of chance/luck/nature.

So the basic question that bothers everyone is that if at all there is God, then why is he so partial/blind. Now let us leave this spiritual plane and enter the material plane. Material plane is governed by Newton’s third law which states that for each and every action, we are bound to get an equal and opposite reaction. If a ball strikes the ground then ground will also strike the ball. Tit for tat. This law holds universally, so further examples are not required

Now let us enter the reference frame of this world. If this world will create pollution then the world will have to suffer from global warming. If this world engages in world war, world only will suffer. Definitely, no one else would.

Consider the reference frame of society. If the society will not deal with crimes, crimes will increase and society only will suffer in the future. Once again, tit for tat.

At personal level, we can say that if you not take care of your health you only would suffer, no one else. If you would not study, you will fail. Here too, tit for tat.

So at all levels and frames, one has to reap what he sows and this exactly is the gist of Bhagwad Gita where Lord Krishna defines that one has to pay for its actions. Spiritual plane considers Karma at a much larger scale. Some of our actions are immediate in reciprocation. Many worldly actions are dealt in this world alone and we taste the results in our present life only. But spiritually good/bad Karma gets counted even after this life. If one helps a poor by giving him food/water/shelter, he would not get any help from that poor now as a reaction. His spiritually good action would for the time being give him satisfaction of self, but in later life he would be rewarded in a fashion so as to be more focused on attaining Moksha. A murderous dictator may die as a king but he would be penalized either in this life or the next. Here is why some persons are born handicapped, mentally challenged or utterly poor. They were destined to be born like this only, can anyone offer any other explanation?

But still what is the fault of a child if he dies of hunger, what is the fault of an innocent girl if she gets raped? Here is the answer. We have to consider the society frame now. We allowed corruption, loss of values, loss of order and did not raise a voice. We followed the policy that prevention is better than cure and hence restricted girls from going outside instead of dealing with perverts. So who would pay for all this? Obviously society and since that girl is a part of society, she had to bear the consequences. If society follows order, no one would die of hunger and no one would get persecuted. Short span of life of the child may be a result of many of his past actions or the present actions of society.

Gist is the same, sow good to reap good and do this at all levels. We have seen societies where no one died of hunger or no one got raped, it’s a matter of choice what kind of society we build in.

Newton’s third law of motion is the extension of Doctrine of Karma at material plane and since the third law is scientifically verified, why should a rational mind defy its application at all levels? The most interesting theory is yet to come and that is the theory of reincarnation which is a direct corollary of the Doctrine of Karma. This theory is unique to Hinduism alone and no other religion believes in terms like past life or the life after death. Not only in India, but even in the world, there have occurred innumerable instances where a person manages to remember his/her past life. I remember seeing one such case in a TV serial which even scientists failed to explain. So these continual occurrences all around the world further add to the credibility of this theory

Best Poem for 4th yearites by a 4th yearite

2009-04-12T10:37:00.000-07:00

This Saturday, we had KU farewell party where one of our friends from Electrical, Neeraj Tripathi came out with an exceptionally sentimental poem mentioning the lives of BHU dwellers. I hope you all would like it too

Raah dekhi thi is din ki kabse
aage ke sapne saja rakhe thhey naajane kab se
bade utavle the yahaan se jaane ko
zindagi ka agla padaav paane ko

par naa jane kyon ..dil mein aaj kuch aur aata hai
waqt ko rokne ka jee chahta hai

jin baton ko lekar rote the
aaj un par hansi aati hai
na jaane kyon aaj un palon ki yaad bahut aati hai

kaha karte the ..badi mushkil se char saal seh gaya
par aaj kyon lagta hai ki kuch peeche reh gaya

na bhoolne wali kuch yaadein reh gayi
wapas na kar paane wali baatein reh gayi,

meri taang ab kaun kheencha karega
sirf mera sir khane kaun mera peecha karega

jahaan 2000 ka hisaab nahin wahaan 2 rupay ke liye kaun ladega
kaun raat bhar saath jag kar padhega

KAUN MERI gaadi mujse pooche bina lejayega
kaun mere naye naye naam banayega
kaun sem ke ek raat pehle padhayega,
kaun girlfriend ka naam le leke chidhyega...

kaun kam number aane pe dilasa dilayega
kaun galti se number aane par gaaliyaan sunayega

VT par cold coffee kis ke saath piyoonga
wo haseen pal ab kis ke saath jiyoonga

mere class mein rehte hue meri proxy kaun lagayega....
cold drink ki shart pe ladkiyon ke tyre ki hawa kaun nikalwayega...
number aane par maar kaun lagayega....
girl friend ke samne neecha kaun dikhayega...

party party karke jaan kaun khayega...
aur cafe lejakar khali purse kaun dikhayega....

lan par games kiske saath khelunga....
aur jisne maara usko pakad kar kaise pelunga...

ghar waalon ko fanti ke baare mein kaun batayega...
aur apne saamne dant padwakar kaun daant dikhayega....

ji bhaiya kehkar meri baat kaun maanega....
itne respect se aur kaun pehchanega....

kisko mein apni aisi pakau poems sunaunga....
basti jakar un bachhon ko kaise padhaunga,...
aur gussa hue vishwakarma ko kaise manaunga...
pata nahi kisse itna pyaar paaunga...

aise dost kahaan milenge
jo khai mein bhi dhakka de aayein
par fir tumhein bachane khud bhi kood jayein

mere gaano se pareshaan kaun hoga
kabhi muje class mein sote dekh hairaan kaun hoga

kaun kahega saale tere joke pe hansi nahin aai
kaun peeche se bula ke kahega..aage dekh bhai

movies mein kiske saath dekhhonga
kis ke saath boring lectures jheloonga

mere farzee certificates ko raddi kehne ki himmat kaun karega
bina dare sachi rai dene ki himmat kaun karega

achanak bin matlab ke kisi ko bhi dekh kar paglon ki tarah hansna
na jaane ye fir kab hoga
keh do doston ye dobaara sab hoga

doston ke liye professor se kab lad payenge
kya hum ye sab fir kar payenge

raat ko 2 baje kuch khane lanka kaun jayega
tez gaadi chalane ki shart kaun lagayega

kaun muje mere kabiliyat par bharosa dilayega
aur jyada hawa mein udne par zameen pe layega

meri khushi mein sach mein khush kaun hoga
mere gam mein muj se jyada dukhi kaun hoga......

Good News?

2009-04-10T09:32:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I received a mail from Mr. Madison from Wu Travels saying that they are interested to put up advertisements at my blog (and obviously pay me for that). At first it appeared to me as an attempt to hack my ID through some foul play. I enquired about the firm and mailed them regarding my curiosity. So far the tone of mails has been professional and appears to be genuine.

Not actually I am delighted to get any such offer but the thing that thrilled me is that they found me suitable for this; God knows what parameters I fulfilled that I got selected for this

So if any of you has any sort of experience in this field, kindly let me know

Media: Blind or Hypocrite?

2009-04-02T00:11:00.001-07:00

These days whenever I talk to any of my friends over the situation in India, I always get the same repetitive replies. When I talk to them of communalism, they know only one name, that of Modi as if he is the first person who failed to give security to its fellow citizens. When I talk of suppression of the right to express, everyone has the same much propagated news of protests by VHP, Bajrang Dal etc as if no other religious group has acted in an extremist fashion

Considering this is a nation where people imitate west and bollywood blindly, no wonders if they got victim to the partial truth exposed by the media. Being a youth and a person living with youths, I can say that the younger generation is least concerned to investigate the truth. They swallow whatsoever is offered to them and not to mention the fact that that many of the youths read newspapers just to crack some competitive exam. Hence in any of the debate, they vomit what they have swallowed.

In this post, I would try to come up with facts that were not covered by media at all ; the media was either blind or hypocrite over those issues

1. Whenever I have read the term ‘Vandalize’ in the newspaper Hindu, it has always been used to describe some nuisance by Hindu religious extremists like protests by VHP over M F Hussain etc. Surprisingly media has never talked of protests against Taslima Nasreen and Salman Rushdie to this extent. But today I would reveal a case where Police vandalized an art exhibition just because it was showcasing what kind of ruler Aurangzeb was. After reading all this things, the questions that come to mind are-what kind of people could have problem in truths about Aurangzeb being showcased, what kind of governments do we have that can go to any extent to appease minorities? Are we living in Pakistan? Media was too eager to blame VHP that even during Amarnath issue furor, no channel mentioned the growing extremism and reducing hindu rights

2. Media is often seen protesting against Hindu religious extremists alleging them for having zero spirit of tolerance and condoning violence. Here I would bring to light an incident in Kolkata where the editor of the newspaper Statesman simply translated a text and published it. Soon there was a furore accompanied with subsequent violence. The question is – why wasn’t this issue raised with equal weightage and no debate done like they do every other day over Hindu religious issues?

3. Whenever it comes to riot, my friends have been brain washed to believe that Gujarat, Orissa and Karnataka are the only states where riots have occurred. I would let you all know of a riot which happened in my own hometown Mau. Several Temple Idols were vandalized and shown disrespect, many died with the possible involvement of Don Mukhtar Ansari . At the time when Barkha was busy covering the Gujarat riots, atrocity upon Hindus occurred once again in Kerala, but our secular media was least interested. Very unfortunately, riots/clashes happened in Rabodi, Jintur or Nanded didn’t get any place in media at all. Root causes were never brought to knowledge of a common man. What kind of secularism is this? This is not at all an extremism and vote bank politics for media. Wasn’t this a riot ?

4. When a dilapidated mosque was demolished in India, what followed is history but surprisingly when the 300 year old and still active rehman mosque was demolished in Pakistan, media remained silent. Taliban demolished that mosque since music was practiced there and as per them music is forbidden in their religion. We all have seen how our fellow brothers protest over US attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq but once again there was no hue and cry by them over this demolition? Why this silence? (Issue raised in Dainik Jagran’s editorial, printed edition)

5. When Sethu Samudram issue got raised, impotent central government filed an affidavit saying that Lord Rama has no proof of existence and hence the project must carry on. Can this very same central government ever file an affidavit saying that since Jesus has no proof, let us demolish churches. Similarly NDTV even went to an extent to say that Ramayana is a myth and hence in modern times, Lord Rama should be depicted with modern accessories. Can this channel say the same thing about prophets in other religions? Definitely no, we all have seen the furor over Denmark issue. Then why these double standards by our Indian media?

6. When media discussed Varun’s statement issue with so enthusiasm, then how come they neglect this issue. Surprisingly, no reporter ever tried to find out if the people in Pilibhit are really being persecuted? (Click here for more)

7. Why media never discusses the anomalies in NCERT books?

8. Why this partiality ? simply because of vote bank politics, is it too difficult for media to decipher

These were the issues showing the hypocrisy of Media, Let us have a look at facts showing how much is our media blind

1. Media failed to capture the Bangladeshi infiltration to an appropriate extent. No alarming bells were raised; perhaps it wasn’t sensational news for them?

2. Not only national but international media is blind to the atrocities towards Kashmiri Pundits. Click here for more. No slots for growing extremism in the valley

3. Why at all media has never focused on the local supports used by terrorists while planning any terror attack. It is an open secret that no bomb can ever be planted successfully unless there is a local support. Are they not terrorists too?

4. Media has never tried to bring the real face of missionaries to the general public. Missionaries are involved in mass conversions is a widely acknowledged fact, then why is common man debarred to know all this?

5. Religious terrorism has devastated entire North- east (click here) but our media never cared to bring this issue to the notice of a common man. Kandhmal violence was discussed but no one even talked about these issues.

6. Is only one community responsible for riots in India? Definitely not, then why is this difficult for media to figure out that our filmmakers are more interested in getting Oscars than showing both sides of the coin

7. BJP is communal, but when other parties ask for minority votes, aren’t they communal ? What kind of definition do our media follow? Why Congress was not penalized for unable to hang Afzal . Click here for more. Congress and similar other parties are still not communal for them

8. Are Christian missionaries really being persecuted in India? Why only one face of coin is showed to the common masses?

9. Is this not growing extremism ? Just like they found Ram sene as a sign of growing extremism.

I don’t support any extremist group but yes, I expect my fellow citizens to have open eyes, they should hate violence in any form. Cover all news, why to leave the half and present the rest half news? I am not here to support any damn Indian party or religious group, but media should never focus and siege only one community, they should only reveal the facts and let the public decide the root causes

Now let us have a look at who controls our media.

1. Times of India is run by Bennet and Coleman

2. NDTV: Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India . His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan

3. Star TV: Run by an Australian Robert Mudroch

4. The Hindu: English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland . Chairman N. Ram's wife is a Swiss national.

P. S. - To further support the facts mentioned in points 1 and 5, I have the videos with me. All those who are interested to see them can mail me.

So That There Is No Guilt Feeling

2009-03-26T07:56:00.000-07:00

“Khana nahi kahaya babuji, paisa de do”, “Bhookh lag rahi hai babuji, subah se nahi khaya”. These are the recent chants which bang my ears everytime I come out of any mall/multiplex. Thanks to Bangladeshi infiltration, the problem of Beggary has aggravated only in these recent years. Earlier the usual hub of these beggars used to be religious places of worship. Compelling urges also have seen dramatic changes and serious mind boggling sessions must have been done by these beggars. Earlier they used to just sit by the roadside with their “katora” and look hauntingly at all the visitors. Then realizing that almost everyone abuses them of their healthy physique, they started the trend of asking a share in the “prasad” being carried by the devotees. It was a type of emotional atyachar since Prasad is ideally meant for sharing and hence everyone had no other option but to give them a share. But as mall culture has grown, the recent touching attack adopted by beggars is related to hunger and death.

Even this senti might be trivial for quite a few; I am always deeply moved and quite certain that this sight haunts others as well. Last time when I was at outskirts of a mall after having delicious pizzas at Pizza Hut that cost us around Rs. 600, a young girl came to us and started her usual ringtone. Since she was hungry, my brother offered to give her some food but denied giving her alms. The issue that disturbed me then was that we are spending hundreds of rupee just to satisfy our tongue’s whim and could not spend a single penny to fill the stomachs of hungry people across world. What kind of society we are living in nowadays?

Here I won’t ask my friends to eradicate poverty, but something really needs to be done. Every time we see such sight, the question that arises is that when would we give something back to our own society? Being youths, finding solution of these problems is much easier. Once a person gets married, he is generally occupied with long term plans of future requiring huge investments, so he generally gives the excuse to himself- “I am already feeding a family of five, hence God would forgive me”.

To avoid this guilt feeling, to come across these overwhelming sentiments, I propose all dear youth readers to at least get involved in some good social activity. This would give us a backing and hence help us overcome from such arousing assaults. Being pragmatic is most necessary as it gives the maximum satisfaction. Here I have tried coming up with few ideas:

1. In case you are a student, there certainly must be any student body working in this direction such as educating poor children.

2. Even if there is a huge shortage of time, we can cut our expenditure in branded clothes and junk food and donate at least some amount of money to any such honest organization

3. Minimum effort we all can do is to educate at least one child. It sounds hypothetical but is as easy as a cakewalk. Personally I can say whenever I have tried to chat with any of mess worker/ child labor, they were always enthusiastic to study

4. Giving a healthy childhood to everyone is very necessary. I would let you know how. Consider 2 children, one properly brought up in a good environment and the other who lived a typical slum life, now at a later stage both are jobless due to illiteracy. Who do you think would resort more easily to social crimes to earn money? Considering this, our effort should be to give all slum children a life which is full of values and opportunities. Let us start a trend of interacting with young children. Let us talk with them, let us give them a worthy glimpse of this world. We can let them know of this country’s glorious past and make them aware of social challenges. At least we can play with them and help in demolition of these social barriers.

We hate Extremism in RSS, VHP and Modi

2009-01-27T08:06:00.000-08:00

Enough of the recriminations following every blast and riot, enough of this malaise feel and hence generated paranoia. Multicultural composition of India is threatening its image like never before. Every other day we come across heinous crimes like this or see some of the criminals getting acquitted like this

Every community has its own interpretation of the riotsand like this too This one fact shows the hypocrisy of our media
We came across some moderate leaders as well but their efforts getting fructified are yet to be seen but we welcome them. But the most hated campaigns have been that of RSS, VHP and bajrang Dal. The way they supported the riots in Kandhmal, Gujarat is a matter of shame

In all these voices, a more general voice is still unheard. Voice of a Hindu who is proud of its cultural rich heritage, who is well aware of the vote bank politics where Mayawati opposes Nuclear Deal just because it is against Muslims and he finds it difficult to figure out how is it so? He gets impatient when he hears Ram Vilas Paswan saying that all Bangladeshi should be given Indian citizenship since they comprise his vote bank. He gets even more enraged to see unprecedented amount of media concerns over Gujarat riot but no concerns at all for the Kashmiri Pandits. Unfortunately having no voice in media and politics this section has to unwillingly look for RSS, VHP to raise Hindu concerns

But how is this lobby different from these extremist sections. Talking of similarities:

1. We both hate proselytizing poor and backward sections of Hindu society by Christian missionaries and thereby get them converted. Gandhiji wrote: "If I had the power and could legislate, I should stop all proselytizing. It is the deadliest poison that ever sapped the fountain of truth." . Swami Vivekananda during his historic visit to the U.S., a hundred years earlier, wrote: "Part of the Sunday School education for children here consists in teaching them to hate everybody who is not a Christian, and the Hindus especially, so that, from their very childhood they may subscribe their pennies to the missions” . We both agree that conversions should not happen surreptitiously and Christian missionaries should be brought to book as well for this crime. ( All those who don’t know about the missionaries need to read ‘Missionaries in India’ by Arun shourie). If here Karan Thapar believes that he is above Swami vivekanand to say this then we feel ashamed only

2. We both are fed up with vote bank politics. We equally hate Bangladeshi infiltration. We believe that if India was one of the first countries to ban Satanic Verses, then it should ban M F Hussain as well. Any other act raises suspicion.

3. We both hate tolerance towards terrorism. At some point we both believe that some religions need to re consider their fundamental beliefs and nation should always come first and not religion. We both hate the absence of Uniform Civil code where only few communities are expected to go for family planning, society can never uplift if some sections are still orthodox and running on rigid principles created centuries before. Let us all behave equally if we really wish to be called equal. If we are ready to abide by a uniform civil code then others should as well. (Noticeable thing is that rigidity is there in all religions but the degrees differ)

But still there is a drastic difference:
1. We sincerely hate the brutal acts of killing. No matter whatsoever be the issue and plot, killing of every Indian is crime. If they burn trains and force conversion, then we need not resort to violence in any case. VHP, RSS and BJP have sound base, they can raise their voice through various channels. Let the judiciary act and if it fails, nation would itself decide who is more secular in the next elections. This is a democracy and we need to believe in it. If we will also follow the policy of spreading terror, then we are no better than terrorists.

2. Ephemeral, absurd strategies like moral policing sound more like a publicity stunt. A culture which has sustained 5000 years of heritage and came out successfully from 1000 years of so called slavery need not be worried by onslaughts of west. We need to spread our culture just like swami Ramdev brought down the net sales of soft drinks by virtue of Yoga power. Something which is good would always come out victorious in the end

3. Most important of all, why not to renovate ourselves and spend our energy there. Why not to give love to the oppressed ones and give them entry to Jagannath temple where still Dalits are not allowed to enter. Why not to give more rights and freedom to our women and hence grow with virtues. May be some religions are very rigid, but if we are renovating our own self with our rich cultural heritage, may be we can see incidents like this happening in bulk in near future.

4. VHP protest over the illegal occupation of land of Amarnath shrine board was one of those acts which forces us to believe that Hindu right s are being seized. I don’t think that the present unconcerned Hindu population would have come out of their homes to protest. But once again aggression and burning public property isn’t the way in democracy. Though other parties are no better in this regard, but that doesn’t mean that nuisance should be tolerated. What is wrong is wrong

A common trend has grown these days where you talk of your religion and speak truth even, you are looked upon as communal. This is just a media hype and vote bank politics. We Hindus believe in living with peace, living equally and fighting with unjust onslaughts. But if Narendra Modi comes up with carnage, we are never going to support it but at the same time expect from media to investigate into godhra carnage with equal vigor.

We hate extremism to the maximum possible extent but at the same time we wish to preserve our values as well just like any other community

True Legends on this 26th January

2009-01-24T10:14:00.000-08:00

Our heroes and freedom fighters have repeatedly set examples of the right attitude towards caste. I give here one particularly moving instance of this. When the most celebrated martyr of them all- Sardar Bhagat Singh – was to be hanged he asked to touch his mother’s feet before he was killed. The British government, it may be recalled, was hanging him a day earlier than scheduled and so did not permit this. Bhagat Singh then said that he would like to go to the gallows after touching the feet of the lady who cleaned the prison toilets for she was like a mother to him. His mother used to clean him up when he was a child because she considered him her own. But the cleaning lady was no worldly relation of Bhagat Singh but yet cleaned his toilet and hence was as venerable as his mother. He was allowed this wish of his. Such is the example that the torch bearers of our freedom struggle have left for us and if we ignore it, We do so at our own peril.

THEORY OF PROFESSIONALISM

2009-01-14T06:08:00.000-08:00

Disclaimer

Theory of Professionalism puts forth the culture in corporate life avoiding excoriations, blame game or demonizing pertinent modus operandi employed. Neither it is an attempt to outrage the sanctity of whatsoever measures one employs to taste success and nor it is an effort to testify someone’s innocence. Theory of Professionalism is a lurking approach for those only who didn’t know the art of management (they might have learned it afterwards), and prodigies with in-built talent won’t find it a real revelation at all, unfathomable. It has not been written under a paranoiac state of mind. Views discussed here have been echoed many a times by most of my acquaintances. None has ever denied its existence. But once again it depends on the discretion of an individual, how much truthful he wishes to be in his emotions. The solutions intend to salvage naïve novices who waste their professional associations just because of their background which taught them of a Utopia; got sentimental, demoralized and jeopardize their valuable limited years of career making while the outside world was always ruthless enough not to get apprehensive of pure emotions.

Theory of Professionalism endeavors to behold the life of a professional and expose the existent code of practice in a professional life. It quests for it’s chasms with personal life. Personal life implies day-to-day homely life of an individual where true feelings are nurtured at any cost. When a simple person leaves his family (but not his values) and enters a life where associations are defined as per hierarchy of occupation, he confoundedly witnesses an anomie. Ideally there shouldn’t be any such cognizance. (since humans are involved in either of the cases and humanity demands some core human values to be present in everyone every time).

How actually an individual lives and behaves in his family; conducts with all those who are not directly competing with him? In personal relations, most of us follow (at least) some ideals. Most of us hate lies, over-acting, over-smartness, bad habits (drinking, smoking blah blah) and reprimand our own sibling if found guilty. Driven by self respect, we don’t mind entering into a neutral relation if natures don’t match and usually don’t patch up unless an official regret is made; prefer those relatives who believe in living with love and peace and detest arrogant ones even if they are extravagantly rich; Never support any wrong idea of our uncle just because he earns/spends a lot. Appreciate all friends having a strong character and will power and strive getting their emotional support. Any wrong cause is opposed primarily on ethical grounds. (Even these attributes may sound antediluvian; such is the order of encroachment)

Surprisingly, upon entering the professional world, either one finds it difficult to adapt or changes his very root beliefs. Perfectly contrasting things happen in a professional life

1. In personal relations, everyone who opposes us over a right cause earns our wrath. Exactly divergent is the observation in a professional life. Here openly disagreeing antagonist is the most reliable one. At least, he had the guts to protest against what he thought was wrong. Others generally remain under cover; never completely disagree with you in public so that business with you is not hampered. Run as soon as they can to a leader; cajole him to wage the war. Or if voting is being done, they would never let you know which side they are going to take. So quite astonishingly, the most truthful/reliable person in a professional life is the one who openly contests and differs.

2. Ephemeral, opportunistic allegiances are the most visible characteristic of a professional life. The same two persons who were unknowns to each other just a few days before may become the most talked about duo within no time once they find each other mutually beneficial. Many a times you are surprised to think-“What happened to that old friend of his? Have they both underwent any break up” Very soon you find out that no official break up has occurred, it is just that both of the old friends have find new associates and are perfectly OK in their new lives, neither they do miss each other the way they used to just a few days/weeks/months before.

3. Your real friends would consider your powerful enemy as their own enemy while your professional friends would consider your disputes as your personal affair and would never sacrifice their professional interests. Even if it is a war of ethics and truth, the approach would be-“When he (the powerful) is still good to me, why should I put an end to my relations with him, I support you my friend but I see no point in fighting”.

4. Self Respect may be an extinct attribute. People forget or tend to forget past insults/ignorance claiming open mindedness or may be they don’t have any self respect at all, decadents who don’t feel things.

5. No desire is left to befriend a person with good habits/strong character. Interestingly the name given is Freedom of Choice or No Interference in Personal Life Policy. “You smoke then it is your personal choice and my hatred for smoking would not come in between our relation” – that is a general approach to hide lack of concern for others and bag prodigal brats.

6. Behemoths don’t have to hunt for allies or support. Once you are influential, all middle class friends will hobnob around you. They will laugh voraciously at your PJs and would never react at your outbursts. The theory given is –“I don’t take these things seriously, you are my friend after all”. To make an influential colleague realize that I am the coolest friend to hang out with (therefore please select me as your friend), spicy jokes are nicely innovated, magnificently calibrated and recited to them in a presentable format

7. Highly skilled professionals don’t wail at lack of compatriots either. If you are an old hand in common field of interest, aspirants would themselves come running to you. Like, if you are a top ranker, your room would always be occupied the night before examinations (Mostly by guys making tall claims-“I study just the night before”). These cluster bees might have entered into some sort of tussle with you once, they might have abhorred your attitude. But every time these issues were overlooked saying-“These things are common in a relation, I have forgotten all those disputes”. It is not more than a future investment.

8. Poor (not necessarily by wealth) and devoid has to look for support even while raising a sensible question. If unfortunately that question is against some rich powerful lobby, people won’t even care calling lie a lie. As long as their interests are firm and unscathed, they would follow the policy-“Why to put my ass into?”

9. Stagnant and devoid- the most horrible combination to have in a professional life. May be you would have to die to see some friends around you then. As long as there is ready to sell middle class, ready to spend rich won’t die alone in seclusion, no matter whatsoever is their nature/character/habit. Poor would have to strive. For him, a simple fight may even lead to life term loss of a friend and there is little probability of him coming back as there is nothing to attract him (forget about realizations and accepting one’s fault in a relation).

10. A widely spread tendency is to show off. Just to prove superiority, many show that I listen only to English songs, show that I am pretty rich. These exertions attain perfect resonance in a group. Many groups strive continuously to let others realize of their coolness. Everything is normal beside your room and just before 12 o’ clock; you come to realize that some group is celebrating someone’s birthday with great zeal and hard rock. To get nice photos to be shared on internet and thereby prove that our group enjoys a lot, all sort of poses and tricks are tried. All these activities are not a natural effort in most of the cases; there are many happening groups in existence though. But when they would drink and celebrate, others might not even be able to track what’s happening. They also put cakes at others’ faces, but don’t care for a camera to be there.

11. The most prominent character in a professional life is an open minded wag. He would have jokes to crack every other moment, would forget and forgive easily and would have a healthy vibrant relation with everyone. But very soon everyone realizes that that effervescent relation was just to embezzle every entity possible and the jokes were never meant to be recited in front of powerless batch mates

12. In a highly developed environment, by and large all acts of altruism are a future investment and done mostly to impress/oblige the powerful ones.

13. Professional life is all about fulfilling ambitions at any cost. Direct confrontations are avoided but proxy war through covert slandering is a usual practice. People don’t mind making fun of personal lifestyle once the person concerned is a real threat to their position. The same personal choice in the life of some influential friend may not draw any attention at all in case he is truly valuable.

14. Mandates become so stereotyped that even if cause is infallible, you would find people making their stances based totally on their future benefits and current politics. Very few listen to a call from heart and step ahead to encourage others. Soon you are expert enough to make out who would support you and who won’t, no matter whatsoever is the issue

15. That’s too rude but unfortunately it happens. Some look for bad omens in others’ life. People keep falling ill and small accidents keep happening and this is the time when wicked politicians leave no stone unturned to revive a dead relation.

16. People forget and they do that willingly. If expunging is removing obstacles, spurting accessibility, then it is a worth to possess characteristic. Friends forget infidelity and collaborations. Truly speaking, no one wishes to have a conquering professional career; everyone aspires to have a smooth flow for which one has to learn the art of forgetting.

These are general characteristics. Exceptions do exist. In fact the venom of professional life is a function of ambiance and composition

Gems are always there who openly reject to serve others on cost of self respect. They are perfectly OK even if others find them boring or a person with nothing to loot. They are focused enough on their career goal. If you are a person of ethics then you are bound to face controversies and altercations. What really helps in bad times is the faith upon yourself and God, faith that whatsoever you are doing is correct and your previous history of being ethically strong. The best thing about professional life is that no one is your enemy; you can bag any person once you sound efficacious and commercially beneficial to him. The worst thing about professional life is that no one is your friend, anyone can leave you once you become static and stagnant.
But for all those who wish to live a happening professional life at any cost, I have tried coming up with certain solutions:

1. Keep burgeoning. Stagnancy might be the death blow to your professional life. Keep networking; keep learning the new methods of survival in your field of expertise. Once you owe a quality which others don’t have, you can be two steps ahead of them. Stay away from pessimism and look for optimistic friends

2. At the very start of professional life, choosing partners purely on the basis of their assets is a worth to take risk. If at start, one gets involved in some ethical reservations like-“I would not abort his friendship, so what if he is poor and cannot celebrate (and thereby spend) every other day”, then you would repent over it for your entire span. In fact, looking for best possible combination is the safest bet. You would never be looked upon with suspicion at interior levels, since the powerful ones require coordinators and admirers and you can easily occupy that place. If you are looked with suspicion at exterior levels by your own old friends(saying-“achha beta, ab woh jyaada achha lagne laga, humein bhool gaye”), then first of all, you need not care of it as you have your new friends firmly in place. Life is big and perhaps at some time in future, your miserable old friends would themselves come to you to have a share of your happening life and increased powers. People forget and intermediate regular acts of philanthropy would give you the safest position in your professional life. Later be altruistic and people will forget that you were originally materialistic.

3. Avoid being a leader in profession. Never dare to come out in public to serve your ambitions. Look for a cover and better incite others rather than doing everything by your own self. Power is dynamic, multifaceted; it keeps on changing its owner and dimensions. If you tried to be a leader in past, the new leaders will deliberately disregard you. While if you fought under cover, the new leaders would assimilate you in their group to embarrass your previous leader. In this way, despite of the fact that you were more desperate and involved equally in politics, you would be the person most benefited.

4. There is another comfort in this evasiveness. Your avoidance of leadership but having same ambitions and good blueprints would promote you as a comrade. Now in order to find out what’s happening in your group, spies of other groups would fraternize making regular visits to you. Your market value would overshoot. Enemy groups do this to extricate whatsoever tactics they can and annoy your leader as well. While despite of the fact that all strategies were made by you only, you would enjoy a high worth.

5. The best way to lead a successful professional life is to keep all groups employed in guessing which side you belong to, thereby having a share in every plate

6. As Kiran Bedi has herself admitted that most of the professional deals are made offline at page 3 parties and over cocktails. To be at the top, one perhaps need to have a strong presence at all such mighty events.

7. Avoid being ideological/rational/original in your views or doing anything which depicts your uniqueness in public, better be modest. People are in the habit of mocking any damn thing they find dissimilar from themselves and jibing all those who are more original/rational by any stretch of imagination, forgetting spirit of tolerance, respect of individuality and love for one’s own culture. Listening to them would only end up in the loss of your distinctiveness and novelty

8. Being a person of self respect, many a times it is difficult to talk to a person who previously tried to be smart or insulted us. This nature is of no use in professional life. One has to learn how to forget everything even if the person being accused hasn’t regretted. Keep smiling, throwing jokes and asking others how they are doing. Flattering is a panacea which sedates even enemies. Regular small dialogues keep a neutral/dead relation alive and might be deployed in future. Keep all options open, you never know who might be your next partner

9. Never publicly express your ill-feelings towards (or underestimate) others. It’s natural to dislike/underestimate others but never let them know. Elections keep happening, may be the same person casts his vote in your favor in future, you never know what turn fate would take.

10. There is no point in following some age old animosity. Always be ready to patch up.

11. If the person in question is really influential, then there is no harm fighting for his ambitions in public. This act of yours would make you loyal before him and perhaps turn out to be the safest investment

12. Unless you are a leader, your personal life would never be dragged for smearing. So just follow the policy of remaining under cover and conversing with everyone, people won’t find time to see into your personal selections.

13. Everyone has soft feelings for his indigenous culture. Formation of clandestine groups based on common origin/alma mater helps getting reliable cohorts. For example, Bihari sentiments are continually employed by aspiring leaders.

14. Most important of all, never ever fail to recognize your true strengths. It could be your family or any of your interest. Never let it go from your hands. Only your family would readily accept you even after all your misdeeds and make you feel like a human being with true emotions. Sacrificing one’s penchant choices and interests in professional would only make life more horrible

With this I come to an end. My only desire is that this theory helps innocent minds in the squall of opportunistic society and ultimately embellishes them to walk pace to pace with the capricious life ahead

(Minor nuance with Chanakya Neeti, as claimed by my close friend, is purely co-incidental)

Are We Emotionally Numb?

2009-01-02T09:34:00.000-08:00

How would a moderate Muslim feel upon being distrustfully referred as a terrorist? This happened and they came out in media to protest against it. How would a Hindu feel upon wary accusations of buoying post Godhra riots? This happened and once again we saw many similar acts. We all hate generalizations. But how would a community feel if someone actually alleges them of being duffer, utterly imprudent? Wouldn’t they glare indignantly and contort the person’s visage?

But unfortunately we so called iconoclastic youths have been perennially mocking a community whose rich cultural heritage most of our bollywood movies boast of. We have jibed a community which is known for its verve, valor and vigor. So much is this community pumped with self respect that they would love to die rather than begging. Not even a single national team is deprived of members from this community, be it cricket, hockey and yeah the most important of all- our Indian Army. Most horrible part is that this community got its popular nickname “Sardar” purely because its courageous devout leaders reprieved Hindu women from Muslim vanquishers in medieval history and even then, even then we ungrateful Hindus make fun of our sardar colleagues. But this peace loving community never got publicly riled; never threw any bomb to stop this persecution. It’s high time when we really need to be deeply discerned about removing this silly practice of deriding the “Sikh” community which has taken our entire society under its siege.

Since childhood, I see everyone cracking jokes on sardars. I wasn’t an exception, but was always inquisitive to know the precise reason why we do so. Someone told me that the story goes back to 1984 when a Sikh bodyguard killed Indira Gandhi, our beloved prime minister. That was the most stupid reply one can think of. What about Tamils then, we should make fun of them as well as they were involved in killing of Rajiv Gandhi. I consulted my friends; none was so deeply hurt by the murder of our prime minister to an extent to impose the mistake of an individual upon an entire community. And if we laugh at some of their customs, we have no right of inheriting the Indian culture which assimilates nearly all religions. It’s just an unwitting trend which one gets accustomed to in an Indian society and the regrettable part is that we never gave concern to its repercussions. Our so called enlightened modern youths eschewed to go in the details just like they never thought of Indian culture, they didn’t even consider its ramification just like they overlooked root problems of India. Talking of its insidious impact on Indian society, this practice reveals how much emotionally numb we are. Ruefully, it has alienated us from this community and defeated the concept of united society. Incessant onslaughts have infuriated the youths of this community and somehow aggravated the issue of Khalistaan. I am pretty sure that only few of us might be knowing that Hinduism and Sikhism are so deeply intertwined that even the secular Indian Constitution has considered both the religions identical at many substantial issues though it could have given a special status to Sikhism just like it gave to Islam.

We both go for Vaishno Devi, we both celebrate Diwali. But thanks to our malign maliciousness and vote bank politics, I have never heard even a single politician/religious leader regarding treatment of Sikhism as a branch of its mother Hinduism. I firmly believe that Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism are branches of Hinduism and this fact can be verified by any pious devout intellectual. Efforts of Buddha, Guru Nanak and Mahaveer were more to remove the orthodox practices in Hinduism. Was there really any concept of separate religions at that time? All these religions basically talk of a way of living.

Anyways, enough is enough. There should be an end to our ruthlessness and callousness. If we would still make fun of sardars then we definitely have no right to allege politicians, we are no better than them. Let’s talk of a united society only then can we talk of a united India. Let’s do something which shows that we are educated. To start the process, I have deleted all jokes in my inbox which talk of sardars.

Lets work in the direction of becoming a part of the solutions

Being Pragmatic

2008-12-22T05:38:00.000-08:00

India is the worst affected nation when it comes to terrorism and awfully appalling repercussions are unprecedented. It is more than 2 decades since the apocalyptic curse reverberated in our motherland. We have always been peace lovers, but this time we were more of impotent and unconcerned. India has always been generous in helping neighbors. Pakistan is no less than a tumor for this world, how could it have been better for India. We were always breached and daggered right at back. Likewise, we only liberated Bangladesh from the shackles of persecution, only to crumble any future hopes of getting a reliable ally. Latest to join the league is Nepal. Anti India sentiment in Nepal is an open secret and we can only see it shaking hands with China

Recent Mumbai terror attacks shattered all tall claims of security. When we are unable to provide security to our guests how can we think of protecting a common man? Problems in India can never be compared with any other nation because of its multi cultural composition. There have been continual analyses over this crisis. Some claimed that it is because of Jihad theory in Islam and some asserted that it is because of miserable socio economic of various sections. Some affirmed that all terrorists have same religion and some emphasized that terrorism has no religion at all. These debates are never going to end as neither side is willing to scrutinize root problems and accept to change and thanks to politics as well for aggravating these issues.

As responsible educated youths we need to emerge with cogent solutions. Politics is destroying this nation and we need to end the inherent insipidity. I am not here to motivate my friends to join politics or army. These days I came across a few concerned nationalists(on TV) who shared some pragmatic solutions to overcome this problem of terrorism without any communal bias. These solutions intend to ignite a voice to an extent that it becomes a popular mandate.

1. Be it Naxalites, separatists or militants; politicians have surreptitiously buoyed them. Dividing the Indian masses on religious/caste/regional/cultural lines is no longer a facile approach, fecund political parties are a threat and none has considerations with the interest of nation. Time has reaped when we should raise our voice for a Dual party system. When a party would have to contest on national basis, regional biases would terminate. No longer would there be Raj thackrey and no longer there would be trifurcated mandates and consequential purchase of representatives. We should all pledge and strive to bring this issue to the notice of everyone, raise it through proper channels and in future if any party promises to come up with similar agenda, we would all vote for this cause.

2. As it has been proved that terrorism has got no religion, why not to go for this one. We all are aware of the fidayeen attacks where the suicide bombers explode themselves. Our warriors our brave enough to apprehend some terror elements as well. Let’s go for a law which talks of burial of killed terrorists by any ritual other than Islamic. Be it Buddhist, Sikh or Hindu way of cremation, it doesn’t matter. What we have to make sure is that all terrorists coming from Pakistan who claim that they are going to get jannat by such heinous act should not be buried as described in Islam. This act would deter all those who defame Islam and would also defy all so called religious efforts to get jannat. Fanatically devout terrorists would be forced to think of some noble way to get jannat. Once again this issue requires proper mobilization through appropriate channels.

Kashmir Problem Solved

2008-11-04T23:51:00.000-08:00

Kashmir Problem Solved
An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the
United Nations Assembly that made the world community
smile........................

A representative from India began: 'Before beginning my talk I want to
tell you something about Rishi Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is
named.

"When he struck a rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a
good opportunity to have a bath.'

He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the
water.

When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. A
Pakistani had stolen them."

The Pakistani representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are
you talking about? The Pakistanis weren't there then.'

The Indian representative smiled and said, 'And now that we have made
that clear, I will begin my speech.'

And they say Kashmir belongs to
them...............................................!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this something really new happening

2008-11-01T19:45:00.000-07:00

These days there is lot of chaos, these days there is lot of unrest. These days I find my fellow batch mates expressing grieve concerns over the intensely miserable political scenario of our nation and these days I find the great Indian middle class having bunch of discussions over the integrity and unity of their motherland. Thank God, finally they have thought beyond their age old realm of roti, kapda and makaan (and girls, bollywood and cricket). Credit goes to Raj Thackrey

I have come across many editorials wailing at the lack of young blood in Indian politics and now when their wish has become alive, everyone is crying foul. I was long willing to express my views over this recent crisis in our nation. Is this something new happening? To start with, I don’t think Raj Thackrey puts forth some out and out exceptional propaganda. Indians have a glorious such past since time immemorial. We have always been a victim of some self defined racial superiority. We represent a breed which is intellectually arrogant. NarayanaMurthy quotes from his recent lecture:
Our intellectual arrogance has also not helped our society.
I have traveled extensively, and in my experience, have not come across another society where people are as contemptuous of better societies as we are, with as little progress as we have achieved. Remember that arrogance breeds hypocrisy.
No other society gloats so much about the past as we do, with as little current accomplishment.

Friends, this is not a new phenomenon, but at least a thousand years old. For instance, Al Barouni, the famous Arabic logician and traveler of the 10th century, who spent about 30 years in India from 997 AD to around 1027 AD, referred to this trait of Indians.
According to him, during his visit, most Indian pundits considered it below their dignity
even to hold arguments with him. In fact, on a few occasions when a pundit was willing to listen to him, and found his arguments to be very sound, he invariably asked Barouni:
which Indian pundit taught these smart things!

That perfectly illustrates our great Indian trait of Intellectual arrogance. We have actually made both the ends of the world meet just to prove that the person living beside us hails from lower strata of intelligence and divinity. We don’t have castes only; we have sub castes and sub of that sub caste too, once again to propose some similar agenda.
I don’t find a war where we concentrated only on war, we always had some turncoat, and we always had groups in bulk that regularly dared to join hands with invaders just to get their things straight. Our so called upper caste served a big aid to British rulers in pre independence era without any thought over integrity or unity.

What the foolish middle class is doing here and expressing some idiotic concerns over India divided. Where were they when Kashmiri pundits were thrown out of their own land? Where were they when Hindi speakers were being killed in Assam? Where were they while our lower strata converted just because the arrogant upper caste never accepted them? Was our nation not being fragmented then? India doesn’t want such media driven intellectuals who all of a sudden protested in unison purely because they were being thrown out of their land of dreams – Mumbai. Hindi lovers are regularly being thrown out of their own lands in North East, a vast population has been surreptitiously converted and did we ever bother? There are innumerable pockets known as Mini Dubai where Hindus dare don't go even in this so called secular and free nation. Wasn’t India being divided then? Why are we raising concerns (and protesting) only now over India divided?

What Young blood! Young blood! We keep shouting. Would our new leaders wont follow the policy of appeasement and politics of vote bank? Won’t they divide us over reservations? Would they ever bring the most logical policy of common civil code keeping aside their vote banks and thinking only of united India?

Raj Thackrey intentions are political and he is least concerned with the proposed racial superiority of Marathi, that is quite visible else he definitely would have followed the silent coveted strategy of Christian missionaries. But I only wish to urge my fellow friends to protest but protest in a rational way, look with open eyes around and don’t raise concerns over issues which you found while watching TV. Think in totality and protest in totality. Mother India doesn’t require parasites which work only with visible spectrum
(I suppose I am relatively simpler in language this time and a bit short)

THEORY OF RELATIVITY

2008-10-11T07:04:00.000-07:00

Theory of relativity incorporates, rather represses the universe of human emotions; their victories, triumphs, outmaneuvers and defeats, annihilations, shellacking; their blithe moments, euphoria, exults and cravings, cupidity, vaulting ambitions; the stature of apogee and the depth of impasse are all an outcome of this theory’s parturition; the way human live in society, comport, interact and work for the sustainability of society.

The theory of relativity basically talks about lack of absoluteness. Nothing is absolute, what is acceptable from one side may be detestable from the other side. We make our own definitions and become chuffed if it is fulfilled and reject the very same description once it fails to satiate our interests

Hurtles in life throw myriads of salvo upon us, we have no other option but to face them and here is where we carve a niche of disquisitions around us. We set a goal satisfying our capabilities and compulsions; we extrude a path to reach that objective as per our own convenience and even work to attain it according to our own capacities. Fortunately if that ephemeral mission is accomplished, we become elated for the said completion of that pre-defined objective. Even if we fail to accomplish, we still have many self made expositions in our depository, whys and wherefores at why where we our self decide whether or not to become depressed by the said clobber. We give various excuses to vindicate ourselves or scold our own self, once again as we like it. Some of us don’t get obliged even after getting 90% score in some examination and while some of us might feel gratified by just crossing the 60% barrier and quite surprisingly that 6 pointer is an envied happy lad. Bhojpuri might sound bucolic and derogatory at an age when you were busy embezzling English to shape your career but at the end of the road, you might miss the ethnicity and nazakat of the very same mother tongue in which your parents used to converse with you. It depends entirely upon us how we take any situation and become blissed or depressed by our own annotations

Stipulating further, this relativity concept indomitably motivates the world. It is the mother of diversity in this entire creation. Different regions developed their own cultures, traditions, languages and lifestyle. Had not nationalism, patriotism or even chauvinism for that matter been there, this diversity would have lost (and we actually see it happening in this present age of globalization). Mother loves her child because her child is the best as per her perception. We love our family and nation and remain bounded with them because we find them the best in our spheres of intelligence, although we are aware that veracity proposes that best means one and only one, not all things can stood as best. The best example to clear this concept is our affection for our own mother. Every child declares its mother to be the best mother, which is nothing but a blunt relative belief under its aegis of understanding. Basic human emotions are emanated from this very concept of relativity where we consider our assets as the best and reject the rest. We buoy a cause only when we find it to be self-serving and we countervail an agenda only because we find it to be debilitating some of our future benefit, but very cunningly, every time we try to show that whatsoever we are doing is ethical and thereby prove that we are some harbinger and try to construct a generalized manifesto comprising disguised greed but officially proposing some universal scruples of social conscience. Just like, Why Indians prefer arrange marriages still now can never be understood by westerners who don’t even know what is a joint family, but still then they are found excoriating this practice (and eunuch Indians feel ignoble at their apprehension). Similarly Live In relationship is an institution which suits their culture, which perhaps ethnic Indians find awkwardly irreconcilable. The only truth is Relativity; get absorbed in a system to comprehend it better, rather than criticizing superficially. One can appreciate music, art only within the realms of his understanding but even then very foolishly he tries to form a stance that his choice represents the superlative degree of art, just to get the credit of being a better recognizer of aesthetics than his mate.

We are always blessed in our own world if our explications are away from the gamut of society, but once society and the fright of society gets involved, elucidations become complex but still demystification has the same degree of relativity and eloquently justifies our own acts. If our perception of relish encroaches the laws of society, once again it depends totally upon us how we take it. Love/fear of society sometimes forces us to sacrifice our personal desires and we have the excuse that it was necessary for the stability of society or family in particular. Sometimes we just don’t go with the society and once again as penance or to justify our act, we accuse blinkered society of prudishness, insularity and of being parochial; or think that that particular act was necessary to retain my personal identity. Whatever may be the case, every time our definitions, created in our own minds, are ready to inspire us in the direction we wish to go. Not to forget, society is nothing but a superset of relative definitions. Fight with society is a fight of two relative approaches, what is unacceptable to the society right now may become palatable to the society if relative outlooks come up at bulk and collect the courage to outrage the previous relative conventions.

Everything is relative to such a great extent that the very same act which was authoritative a few moments before may draw abhorrence if the reasons get alternated or the perspective is transmuted (once again in relative sense).Just like girls were never encouraged to enter the glamour world a few decades before but now parents proudly boast of their daughter once she wins some sexiest figure competition in some Miss World parade. Dispute between two groups can end either way since each group has his own set of explanations to prove that they are accurate, the very same tussle is right by one clarification and wrong by other illustration. M. F. Hussain is a rational artist for some and hyper publicized celebrity for others, in either of the cases there are plenty of logics to prove so. Choices made by an individual are immaculate by his philosophy and eccentric by several other perspectives. No one can decide what is discrepant or consummate and perhaps that is the truth and beauty of this creation. But for sustainability of the society, sometimes it becomes necessary to take a particular outlook and support a particular perspective and that is where the importance of religion/constitution is felt by the society itself. Religion is not more than a standard set of relative definitions having its input from millions of experiences of the society accumulated over thousand of years, confined in a region. Based upon those experiences certain laws are enacted for better flow of ideas and sustainability of society. In the absence of Constitution/Religion, entire creation would not cease to exist but definitely once again it’s a matter of choice that what kind of society we wish to have around us.

Gist is just that nothing is right or wrong and neither can one decide what is aberrant and what is flawless, everything is relative (and that’s what gives birth to interconnectivity).We should always do what our heart says, egocentric society will endorse or boycott us only within its sphere of pretension. Society can never decide what is erroneous or infallible in absolute sense. Exuberance is such a rare thing that if we think that our acts, choices or perspective is exhilarating our core, we should always nurture them. If we would sacrifice our choices and ardour for the sake of society, we would be the most foolish to do so since the same society would support our choices in future if some better extenuation comes up suppressing previous outlook, either by power or a new relative conviction.

Do things as per your conscience as it only can make you perennially gloating, as per your definition, and true complacency is the most difficult thing to earn in this world, as per my article of faith. Whatever panoramas you earn in life, if any damn choice earns immediacy in your life, just have the guts to prove them impeccable and irrespective of the nature of your choice; you can always earn verisimilitude, make the person in competition feel inferior just because of the ultimate reality that everything is relative.