Yes, M* Gandhi!

We are a population who believe in kingdoms, dynasties and prince and princess… We have lived in this kind of setup for so long that we fail to come out of the thought process no matter what and even after generations.

So with this mind set we accept what Mrs. Gandhi or Mr. Gandhi tells us. We are so very happy when they speak and we feel proud that we have their presence amongst us.

Mr. Rahul Gandhi, who is being hailed as the next Prime Minister of this big and burly nation, have done nothing except making scapegoats out of his ministers and/or blame some one else for something. For an example, while he was campaigning for the first time in his constituency Amethi, he promised water, electricity to his voters, however once elected he just blamed the people and the state government with the statement “The state doesn't have a Congress government so I can not do anything!!”

I simply love this guy, who makes statements after statements for dalits but so far has not even tried to push a bill which can bring economic equilibrium in the country. Well, that may be too much to ask from him, so how about a simple thing of trying to help them learn and grow… Well again, I think that is too much to ask a man of only words!! I think he should be treated as an idiot and stupid…

Maybe, Mrs. Gandhi is the person to talk about… She allows the cabinet meetings(meetings which she either preside or she has her proxy on!!) to increase prices and then she declares a reduction. I mean if you have to decrease the price why do the drama of increasing it? Or increase it only by the amount which you feel is good… Amazing people I say…

I can go on and on and on… but can these guys start doing something worthwhile and stop all these politicking… I guess time will tell…

It’s Election time in India and the usual begins…

I have had enough!!

No Candidates to vote for!!

What does this mean to us??

Well, these are the thoughts that crop up when I think of elections… What should one do when elections come? There are myriad of options before us Indians:

1. Do not Vote
2. Vote for the same CASTE candidate
3. Vote for the same RELIGION candidate
4. Vote for a party which supports your RELIGION

and so on.. Isn't it funny that none of the above options are reasonable for a fruitful democracy. Well, that is what the worlds biggest democracy is all about.

We have a party which calls itself the most secular party of the nation, but keeps giving preference to one religion over the other and kills people of another religion per se, brings up religious issues to the fore, is highly dynastical and traditionally has been a no gooder for anything. Then we have the supposedly second largest party of the nation, which is also the most un-secular, has no leaders who can take up real issues, cannot take decisions, has the top brass full of corrupt greedy people who cannot even speak a single sentence correctly (in any language) without looking for help. Then there are the communists, who would agree to all inhuman practices of China but would kill someone who says America or UK and just on papers and manifesto talk about people, when they come to power they do zilch!!! After these come the regional parties, parties like BSP who kill and loot people and organizations to make their leader filthy rich, loot the people who they are supposed to represent… And then the other regional parties like MNS, Shiv Sena, AIDMK, DMK, PMK, RJD etc. etc. who thrive on vote banks built by goondas and rowdies …

So what should we do? How do we bring such people to power?

Well, that is a question we all need to answer….. So let the thinking begin…

After a Long Long Time... And ...

The last I wrote I was really angry, frustrated and wanted to thrash everyone.. And a year passed by... Things have changed, and not for good... I have so many thoughts, I am not sure one blog would be enough. So let us start.... This is going to be controversial, debatable and hurtful for some...

Happy New Year!! Hope we see the light at the end of this tunnel and more importantly we move towards it and not against it, as so far we have been moving.

Let me start with touching over the last few events which have touched, moved and hit us...

We have had a terrible year as a country and we are going through worse times. We have had certain so-called "leaders" of our nation killing the national spirit and certain other "Moral-Polices" beating down on innocent public, trying to live their life their way. Many of us have at one point or another supported such sections of our society (consciously or un-consciously) due to one or more selfish reasons. Maharasthrians have unconsciously/consciously supported the controversies by maintaining silence, for what I call hypocrisy. Are the Rajasthanis not related to Maratha clans through history and family? Aren't Scindia's and Tope's of the north not Marathas? Wasn't Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi (born in Kanpur and queen of Jhansi) a maratha, while Kanpur/Jhansi the heart of North India? Aren't we all Indians who have a right to live and do wherever and whenever we feel as guaranteed by the constitution. I would brand these leaders and thought followers as bigger terrorists than anyone, because such people sow the seed of terror into the minds of those who are living around them. Such people are worse than the terrorists which come to our country to kill people since they kill the spirit in the people for their benefit.

And who are these Moral Polices? People among us having hypocrite view of things? Or we who beleive that relegion means that what clothing should be worn and how... These Moral Polices are worst kind of religion keepers who break all the laws and the rules of religion by doing everything immoral and yet are left free by the sick governments because of their vote bank politics and their wicked and criminal styles. (If beating people is not a crime, then what is? and if letting their own "janta" being tormented and tortured is not criminal then what is?)

The other important event which hit us was the terrorist attack on 26th November (I refuse to call it "India's 9/11" and you will see why.).... Firstly this is not the first event in the history of India where terrorists have sneaked in to our country and bled innocent blood. But, this is definitely the first time where in the "Who's Who" of India has been hit and found _insecure_ ... And we are angry, yes we are very very angry, because the big industrialist has been hit???
Whatever happened when the strings of blasts (which ironically took more lives and had a bigger potential of loss of live and property and National Integrity) hit us a few months back? We never said "enough is enough" then, in fact our "Intelligent, Sauve and Truth reporting" media never asked for "Action". Nor did such self-acclaimed journalists like Rajdeep Sardesai's and Barkha Datt's conducted public polls and debates. (Now what does these polls and debates help us is another set of debatable discussion, which i am bound to cover later in my other blogs).

Having said that, no my dear friends this is not the time to be angry, this is the time to be decisive. This is the time to decide what is the next step as a nation. Now is the time where we not only lay out our opinion but take strong action on it. I am surprised by the reaction on claiming Police as our ultimate heroes. I would rather blame them and other intelligence agencies for such debacles, where in they should have stopped some one from entering our beloved home land. I am more than surprised, I am worried and horrified that if it is so easy to sneak into the prime locality of the country, what is happening to the common man? This clearly shows that Police has been negligent and playing into the hands of criminals (including our Netas, which are nothing short than criminals) getting bribed at every step and not heeding to requests by the common man. Not only has it time and again cost us lives of our beloved family members, it has led us to beleive that any crime reported to police is actually calling for more trouble than solving it...

Why I refuse to call the incident as India's 26/11 is because of so many reasons.

1. First, we are not America (USA) who have only one such moment in their history. We have had tonnes of such events, that we have lost count.
2. Second, we have not learnt from this... We have shown our anger and gone back to the things we do best "Crib"
3. Third, We are not going to show the rest of the world that India will not take this lightly... We are going to learn to live with this...
4. Fourth, why should one gross incident which has contributed to lot of loss be made an example. It should be condemned to the fore and action should be taken against such incidents.

I think the time has come for all of us to realize our own position in the society. We are this nation, we are the people who define why a law should be there, why police is required and why leaders are required. Let us all stand up and take new resolve that we will evolve this nation into a beautiful place, we would fight against crime and bribery and criminals and we would be united above cast, creed, region, religion, colour or any other divide we have been offered by our so called leaders/pandits/etc...

Let us stand United, if not for us then for the very future of our country, for our beloved Motherland.

(Some of you may not agree with my comments and I welcome their thoughts!)

Progressive India and Common Man

I always read these articles and see these news channels across the nation talking about the progress of our country and the common man "आम आदमी" and I always find myself mesmerized, confused and dazed...

According to the news reports India is progressing at an unprecedented rate. And I agreeto a certain extent, but the only thing is that I actually don't see any progression in our civilization, thought processes, intellect, understanding... Either I have totally different sensibilities or the country is really regressing against progressing...

In any sector, area or place we can see examples of such regression. Maharashtra asking Mr. Bachchan to give more to the state, People asking for more reservations, crime going over and above any limits we have ever seen, Farmers commiting more suicide and the list goes on and on...

What troubles me are various factors. As I see it, there is a certain divide across the population of India; this divide I characterize on the basis of age factor (not necessarily the fact, but taken for simplicity of the argument), so the generation which is studying is the younger generation, their parents along with near retirement age people are the older generation and the middle sect which comprises of few year old college graduates to 10-15 years of experienced folks are the mid generation.

1. The younger generation has little understanding of our culture, traditions, outlook and the society we know now as India. They love music, movies etc. love to emulate them without thinking about the consequences, have no responsibility towards most of the important things in life, think money is really a part of all the money-plants which their parents have at home...
2. The older generation has lost the battle with all the odds of life and have de-coupled themselves from the thought process of developing India. In the instances of politicians or leaders, they only sow bad seeds and I have really started believing in "Kalyug" as they actually reap rich rewards of these bad seeds...
3. The mid generation is busy in making lots and lots of moolah. Now these guys (unfortunately I am also the part of this generationa dn might very well fit into the category I am describing) they just want to leave India to dogs and earn money on selling these dogs as a faithful animal to any western/eastern country.

At the receiving end is the future of this country which might actually end up going backwards rather than forward. Some of the fellows who try to work against the generic flow are either "neutralised" or they never acheive their objective or they get confused with the right direction...

I have seen (and was very shocked) so many educated people writing across various blogs, without any respect towards others' freedom (of speech, of rights, of values, of religion...).

The irony of it all is that we still call ourselves the epitome of civilizations, claiming that Bharat is the oldest civilizations on this earth. But we dont behave like a civilization at all.... we emulate the other countries in what-so-ever extent possible and consider ourselves to be their equivalent. We forget the fact that our identity is our individuality, our ability to think progressive, our ability to find simpler solutions to complex problems and not copying from other region, religion, area, country or civilization.

Getting Philosophical... Decisions and Life

Everytime I start with something I start getting into the haves and nots of the issue on hand... this goes overboard sometimes and then I think back philosophically. Now, having said that, the question is: do I have any regrets about anything? and the straight forward answer is: No.

But to get to the real intellection of all what has happened leads to lot of debates. It is very very important that we undestand what we are trying to do and how, whether it suits us in every aspect or not? Now that aspect might be something personal or professional; long-term or short-term... Before coming to a conclusion or a solution all of these ave to be considered. But the bitter irony is that "LIFE" as such doesnt give so much time and consideration to anyone. If it does in one situation it makes up for it at the next opportunity, thus averaging it out all across. So, what should then be done?? That is the question I have asked myself so many times....

At first it was difficult for me to come to terms with this even-odd cycles of Life and I presume it is for everyone else. But, time (which is life in another philosophical terms) has taught many a lesson to all of us and I was not left out of it. So, now, I have taken to the flow of life and allow decisions, where I do not have any control, to be taken by time and opportunity. This has helped me in more than one way. It gives me acceptance of my being, my fallies, strengths...It has given me patience (you have no other choice here...) It has given me a different perspective to things and so on...

At last what I am saying is that for the things under our control we should take decisions favorably and for the things which are not under our control let Time/Life decide...

Long time no posts

It has been really really long time since I posted something... Nothing to do with creativity, philosophy or anything else, then Why? Well, because my personal PC broke down and I lost my favorite blog software (Live Writer) that is why and then there was no time to fix that up...

Anyways I am back now and active (still without my blog software) and will be posting on tonnes of things now... so have fun!!

Education, means or end...

 

So many times I am surprised by the reaction of the educated lot in my social circle and so many times I get disgusted with the same...

In our society and so many others which I have read about, education has now comes to be an end to earn more... yes, I too believe that education is essential to good earning but I seriously don't believe in the fact that it is an end... I believe that education is a means to achieve so many more things in life (of-course, the earnings is just a small part...)

Education in our society is so much concentrated on the earnings aspect that the basic essentials are forgotten easily... No matter people earn these higher degrees to show that they are more educated than the few others, but they don't show the attitude or mental state of a more educated person... So much so that it has forced me to go back and ask myself that is is the same kind of education I would allow myself, my family members or my next generation to go through...

But alas, world is not governed by what is right or wrong (infarct, as the saying goes there is no right or wrong), but what is public perception... If this remains to be the course which our society or the others take in future, the human civilization would come to a standstill in terms of understanding, mental growth and will only grow in population...

After all the eternal question of what is life? still remains answers and we have billions of years to go before we find an answer...

मैं अपनी मात्रू भाषा में लिखना फिर से सीख रह हूँ ...

सालों पहले मैंने हिंदी में लिखना पड़ना छोड़ दिया था! पर अब गूगल की मदद से मैं फिर से सीख रहा हूँ...
Isn't this amazing??

Remembering Someone Special...

Not easy to forget...

Human Mind is a complex system, more compex than any supercomputer man ever designed. And this will remain so, for all the ages to come. Among many of its qualities, which scientists, doctors, may or may not know about is the uncanny ability to remember each and every nitty-gritty details of the past but also weave them in the dreams to make a new dream which is as close to reality as we are to it.

It does hurt when someone special, someone close and someone dear leaves you for a journey far beyond. But what hurts more is the fact that you dont knwo whether you will be able to catch up with that special person when youstart your journey...

I was always a special kid, loved by my parents, grandparents and so many others... Now, parents are always special, but grandparents are more so (this is truly vice-versa). The love from my grandparents to me, infact it still does... hardly has there been a day when I don't remember those old sweet times and those old sweet memories. I have never been able to forget those wonderful wonderful times and still long for them.

I have no answer to the perennial quetion of life and death, but what makes it harder is the fact that Life and Death does do loved ones apart...

I hope in the coming life or journey beyond life or death I would be able to meet these special persons and show my gratitude for the love they showered on me all my life.

I have always been an athiest (atleast from the tiime I remember) but for their sake and mine and the love between us I do hope God does exist and he is taking care of them now and will do that forever...

Let their souls find peace...

Of old friends and Old times...

It is indeed surprising how time flies off... it only seemed yesterday when we were all together, innocent in a way, unholding thougts, fighting over trivial things, going through unserious stuff seriously and the list goes on and on...

Now that we have come a long way, it is pleasantly amazing how my mind can recollect all those things and re-live the past... What is more surprising is that we have been distanced not only in time but also in locations and yet we connect at the same level, at the same plane even now.

I consider myself (and of-course my dear friends) to be lucky to still have friends like these. I have seen friendships disintegrate fatser with distance than any titanic, but ours have stood beyond time and I hope it does for another age to come...

This blog is in sincere dedication to all my friends...

Decisions

Decision making is always the bone of contention for lot of folks; it definitely is for me...
When we start to look at the number of decisions which we make in our day to day life it really outnumbers everything else. The irony of this is that we dont have time enough to actually stop and ponder on each of these decisions. The essential character of a person, for the most part, is synonymous with decision making, however very few people give decisions/calls the credence they deserve.

It is when we get up, what we wear, where we go and so on and so forth kind of decisions which define our day, week, month, year and essentially our life. Although the number of decisions which we take is daunting most of the decisions are etched in our understanding because of long training, understanding and that is why we dont notice them. I would classify these decisions as easy ones, with no importance attached.

Then there are those which we take rarely, like whom should I invite to the party?, wher eshould we go for the year end vacation?, etc. etc. These are decisions which we take on a regular basis, give some importance to and thus I classify them as medium difficult.

Then there the toughest ones which we brood over for long and are still unsure of what to do... These are the ones which decide what course our life takes and it is really difficult to comprehend.

We usually shy away from taking big, difficult decisions; but this only adds up to the problem and does not solve anything. Moreover, as much as we delay our difficult decisions we actually end up in not making decisions and leaving things to circumstances/destiny/God/life whatever you want to call it. In effect, we lose control over our own life. (This is what I hate most)


I usually break down the toughest decision into the small parts and only look at things which are in my control. It doesnt make sense to me that we spend our good time over things which are beyond our control, so i just try to evaluate and take decisions on stuff which is still under my control. The good or bad aspect of this is (depending on the view point) that the things under my control for any given decision changes with time.

Faislon se likhi jaati hai kahani zindagi ki, faislon se peeche mat bhago...

Friends...

Wow, what a topic to start another blog!! I am really amazed at what the word does to our day to day life. It brings out a smile on each of our face when we remember the best moments of our life and it is really pleasant that in most of these we find our friends.

Contributing to the much said and followed word in our lives I want to add my thoughts to the topic.

Well, friends are definitely the people I look for when I feel depressed, out, happy, want to have fun and what not. I enjoy having their company in whatever times.

Then there is friendship, the ship which takes you across the biggest of oceans and flies you across biggest and highest of mountains. Friendship also helps you anchor in storms, twisters and what not.

Okay, so enough of praise for both friends and friendship, now to some of the realities. We may want to believe in “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR!!” but that doesn’t always translate into our life. In our everyday life not every person we interact with are not our friends, and not everyone who calls us a friend is our friend.

I have a certain standard and definition of Friendship/Friend, which is:

1. A friend should accept me as I am, and I should accept him/her as such.
2. It is very essential that we respect each other for our beliefs, standards etc.
3. I or he/she should be genuinely interested in others happiness and not jealous.
4. We should be able to share more than good times and also as much as the bad times and this should be true for both the parties.
5. Openness and frankness and trust are three other essential pillars.

Well, these are just the basic standard I have for friends. I don’t expect anything more; neither do I expect anything less.

Sometimes, we expect too much from our so-called friends. Spending only good-times together do not qualify as being friends; neither does using people for their own needs; neither being in the same room or same place does.

Well, I am sometimes surprised, that some so-called friends who believe that I cannot see beyond the façade. I don’t believe in having or continuing relationship for nothing. There should at least be something on stake for me to try to save a one-sided friendship.

So, to say more clearly, I don’t believe in these so-called friendships. All said and done, I do believe a lot in friendship and friends.

Some of my friends are separated over time as well as distances, but when we meet, no matter for what little time and wherever, we enjoy being with each other and share a lot of stuff. I seriously believe that friends are for more than a life time period.

All of my friends can listen to my rantings forever, empathise/sympathise with me on issues without agreeing to them, takes me as I am and is always there for me to fall back on.

There are a select few whom we term as BEST FRIENDS, but the definition of these friends blur over a period of time and all of the other friends start falling in the same category, but then there are certain others who can never recede from the status of being the best of friends.

I have one very very special bestest friends with whom I share my soul; I am very possessive about this friend and that may be one major reason why I married her.

To give a conclusion to this topic is really difficult as friendship goes on and on forever…

P.S. But here is a request for some people reading this, please don’t try to fool people around yourself to believe that you are their friends when you are not, because it hurts more than a heartbreak when people find out the truth. You can always recover from heartbreak but not from a friend’s treachery. After all it is believed that CEASAR died when he saw BRUTUS among his murderers and not because of the stabs from others.

Life & 4-Dimensions

Hmmm, being philosophical is not really easy and when many people have spoken on the subject of LIFE it is really easy to digress...

Let me take a different view and path on the subject. I have been fond of physics and mathematics from the time i don't even remember. I remember the story one mathematician used, to stress on why it is difficult to realize and visualize more dimensions. The gist of that story is :

A single-dimension object wouldn't the be able to visualise a two-object as such; it will visualise the two-dimension object as a collection of single-dimension objects; similarly a two-dimension object will visualise the three-dimension object as a collection of two-dimension objects and so-on and so-forth. This is why a three-dimension object (as us) cannot really comprehend the concept of 4-dimensions and more dimensions.

Now, why this story is important to us? Because it not only shows that there is more to life than the eyes see and the brain comprehend, but it also shows, that it really depends on us what we want to see...

I have learnt that TIME is not only a dimension but it is much more. It provides more dimensions to life than we could imagine or comprehend. With time wounds heal, with time we learn to live, with time we learn to grow, we learn to enjoy, we learn to love. This learning increases with time and grows with life.

Life, without time, alone is as meaningless as time without life. It is irreverent to talk about one without referencing other. The whole concept of time is so much part of life that we cannot really think of it. Now, let us come back to the point, rather to dimensions.

Life shows us more dimensions than we could imagine, it moves us through different phases from place to place and what not! Dimensions, phew, it is really a very small space to talk about these!! Dimensions grow as we grow, as time grows and as life grows.

But dimensions are not limited to the PHYSICS or MATHEMATICS aspect of it. They go beyond, way way beyond the science of it... let us explore the different dimensions of life itself :)

Life, means different things to different people and it has different values to different stature of people. Some, perceive life as a gift, some perceive life as a result of bad deeds done in past life. The perceptions and their respective understandings keep on differing. But, what i find more interesting is that these keep on changing even for a person over a period of time.

As i go more and more into the topic, i find it interesting that how different things get linked from one another without looking similar. On a 1000Ft level we may find things as different as possible but when we move closer to the subject, it becomes increasingly woven into a pattern.

We find ourselves as much a part of that woven pattern, as any trivial animal or any tree or any thing which is part of our life. Some may call this divine, some may call this science, I don't categorise it anywhere. I take things (or rather these dimensions) as life itself.

I beleive time is life and life is time; and the way we spend our time is how our life shapes up.

Phew, that is it for now!! WILL DEFINITLEY BE BACK WITH MORE!!

Me, Myself & Life...

Introduction: This is my first blog and what I am writing here will able you to understand and identify with me in better terms. So, here we go...

A Thought and a Second: ... I always thought that it would be cool if I got everything I wanted for myself easily. But, life had other ideas for me! I mean, it's not that I am struggling a lot and there is much I should get which I am not getting and not even that I expect a lot from life. But, there is always this little hope that someday, some fine day I will get what I wanted and more without much effort. Well guess what "EASIER SAID THAN DONE!"
Well, when I give this thought a thought, I find it hilarious that the line of thinking is no different than that of a man who lies on a bed and thinks that he will get whatever he wants without effort. But, nevertheless, as we say in Hindi/Urdu "kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khayal aata hai..."

Among some other thoughts is one where I am the king of my own world and others just follow what I say or do. Oh, I wish this one comes true earlier than any other. But again to give a second thought to this, what fun the world be if everyone does what I say or do? None, right...!!

There is always this second thinking process in my mind which keeps going on, no matter how much engrossed I am in one thought or activity. People working in the current Software/Hardware environment may term it as "second thread" in my brain processing system. And this "second thread" keeps questioning me about the first thread; questions like - Why, this way? What if...? and How...? etc. I sometime think this is my conscience, but then is conscience negative too? Because I keep getting this negative second thoughts too!!

I really don't know, right now my second thread is asking me "Why this line of questioning?" so, let me leave it at that...

Philosophy: Well, I always follow my own philosophy, so I generally don't end up having philosophical discussions with people...

Present: Having said that, I have come a long way in this short lifespan and seen a life which I never imagined. From a world which is encompassed only by parents/grandparents and family friends to a world full of friends to the present day cut-throat competitive corporate environment, I have experienced and met people from different walks of life.

The most amazing aspect I find is that each time I see a person I analyze him/her in a new way and each time I analyze him/her I know that there is much to learn.

Good or Bad: Ma always says that when we look at others we should try to imbibe the good qualities in them and just forget about the bad qualities (even not to criticize those!). But to do that it is necessary to know "What is Good and What is Bad?"

Well, that is a controversial/debatable question which I don't have an answer to. My take on people and the good and bad part of them is that they are what they are, they are so because their surroundings, their social network, their family, their education, their friends are like that. It is really difficult to change any of these, which makes it difficult to change ourselves for better or worse. We are definitely the product of our thought process and our thought process is governed by all of the above. Again, the definition of good or bad then is derived from the present day scenario and circumstances and the thought process combined together. So, what is good for one might not be good for other, and again what is bad for one might be good for another.

So why does society and we differentiate and judge people on the basis of good or bad? Why not segregate people on the basis of our preferences rather that good or bad?

Enough is enough... So, this brings me to the end of this blog! Often it is not the language or the passage which conveys its meaning but the thought which goes in it. So I leave you with another of my thought (which may be fairly common among people!!):

"Shabdon ki ek zubaan hoti hai,
khayalon ki ek alag duniyan hoti hai!
Donon jab mil jaate hain to,
ek alag hi daastan bayan hoti hai...!"

which translates to:

"Words have their own language,
Thoughts/Dreams have their own world;
When both of them meet,
A new tale is written!"