hey!
Just thought of coming up with a poem this time. I wrote this a few months back, something, a book I read had a lasting effect on me and so I came up with this. Hope you appreciate the effort:)
There once was this lady and her son
And the two of them had lots of fun.
The child used to hide and run and run
And the mother used to find him calling him a bum.
Nothing used to stop their happy life rolling like a drum
And it never really mattered that they lived in a slum.
Test times were coming on the head
And the mother realised it when the child grew upto her forehead.
She was a lone parent, the child had no dad
And she could see that soon they would be struggling for bread.
These were the times that any mother would dread
And soon she took a path which very few dare to tread.
And as I said very few could dare think
But this lady did have something
The courage it took for her to do it was something only a mother could bring
She though of what society would say but then the eyes of her kid did make her have this fling.
People started talking when they did hear
That this lady had done nothing but bare
Yes bare she did but she didnt care
Because all was done for her son to prepare
To prepare to fight this ugly world you see
And so that one day he could be free
From the claws of this vicious circle in this world of Thee
But then if he was absolutely free, wont he become the Lord All Mighty!!!!!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Let Them Live!!!
Hi!Well the recent incidents in the city of Mangalore, I am sure everyone is aware of, have really moved me and should move anyone who saw video footage of whatever happened that day, and so I am witing down some of my views. You may tend to disagree with some of my points and any criticism and suggestions are welcome. Kindly bear with the length of the article, coouldnt stop the flow. I hope in the end you would be moves a little too.
India, the land of cultures, the land of unprecedented values, the land of mystic grandeur and the land with the ability to absorb any culture that comes its way, the land of the most intellectual people born on earth, the land of the most devout servers of humanity..well the list of adjectives any Indian can think of, for his holy motherland is endless, but one thing which really now does intrigue an individual is that does our country or rather its grand people, its leaders whom we have chosen to represent ourselves and to frame our homeland's future, really stand for and justify the superlatives just used.
Talking of the Indian culture and values, there has been a very pertinent question, which has hit the base of our social solidarity eevry now and then is the status of women in the society. The status of women, in the present era, unlike the ancient times, does not only include the economic and social capability and freedom of this section of the society but also the liberties they enjoy, the way they are accepted in the society and the way they are judged( though that is a very cliched phenomena) as beings who can and should consolidate our moral value based system.
The women in ancient times were highly respected individuals and the framers of our religion, those who wrote the Vedas, always saw them in the highest echelons and with utmost respect. Rigveda mentions, that a man's religious duties, his practise of "yajnas" and other activities were not considered complete, unless and until his wife was a part of the duties and in fact he wasnt allowed to perform the duties without the presence of his partner. The wife was truly the heart, soul and the sole pillar of a man's religious solidarity and social well being. Such was the might of a woman and they enjoyed a God-like acceptance in all spheres of the society(though there werent many spheres as yet).
Then came the Later Vedic age and the situation began to change. The respect was not lost but yet there was an inclination which now was towards a patriarchal society. The concept of "Ardhanhgini" came into existence though now performing of religious activities became an individual phenomena. The woman though still held the right to property and any indecency against the fairer sex was considered a social taboo.Slowly things changed and though all the great scholars of time, Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, Bhaskaracharya advocated high respect and care form women, and great women thinkers like Lopa, Mudra, Tara emerged, but certain sections of the society now, those which kept coming up with greater divisions in the society, had taken a downslide in terms of the ways the women were treated.
The Golden era for the women was now ending and with lesser people now able to read the Vedas and with the scholars following the flow of the society and calling it right to make this once most respected section of society as mere "objects of pleausre" and "servitude", the situation accelerated in the downward direction.It was a meteoritic fall for the society and while falling through the friction of the opposing sacred texts and the natural order, the once mythical and sacred Indian society shunned its protective sheath, which got burned away just before we hit the surface. What now remained of once glorious past was just reference in the texts, who most wont ever lay a hand on in later generations and a very patriarchal, maniacal society with all respect, rights and pleasures for just one half of the society.
All the great historians and scholars have always said that "it is the state of the women in a civilization that signifies how advanced it is" and well India has now lost the right of even being called a civilization. it is often said that India was once a Golden Bird and that the British took away all our wealth and grandeur, but as any sane person would suggest, physical wealth can never be enjoyed in a morally poor environment and what once used to be a country embedded with Diamond-like jewels of an equal, moral society had already turned it all into coal, through the acts of self destruction and with the atrocities committted against one half of the society by the other half.The British though took our wealth away, but they also gave us back that little moral element which was once lost, with anti-sati laws and other legislations, trying to uplift the situation of women in our country.
As already mentioned, we and our land is made up of such elements which absorb any culture and in fact create a potent environment for any culture to thrive upon, we could adopt the western system in terms of women upliftment and our society began the uphill task of reaching those days of basking in the lustre and glory of shining diamonds.The situation vastly improved and though discriminations remained lurking here and there but with the dawn of 21st century, it seemed that we have made a huge progress.
The state of Rajasthan put up a great example with all 3 major political posts of The Chief Minister, the governor and the Soeaker of the Legislative Assembly being women, something unprecedented inIndian history and clearly showing the rise in might and respect for the emotionally stronger section of the society. We appointed a lady President and one female politician won 3 consecutive state elections in the capital to become Chief Minister, again unheard of earlier. The women today are heading many organisations, they have become CEOs, Astronauts, have barged into the domain of other industries once considered a male dominion like extreme sports and mining industries and undoubtedly are doing extremely well and excelling.
Well if evertything is just so rosy then why am I writing this blog??Because its not all that rosy, some intelligentia of our society are still unable to come to terms with the status of equality and freedom, the women are trying to enjoy. Why call them intelligent? these retarded morons are unable to realise that the weight of social morality and national culture does not rest only on a woman's behaviour but when we talk of equality, its shared. Male sections is as mush responseible for whatever should be taken care of in the society as is the female section. And in fact when tehre is nothing wrong which is happening, why are we creating such an issue.
Alcohol has been an integral part of any era, be it "Somaras" for the Gods or Vodka for today's generation, what wrong is there in it as long as people remain sober and enjoy a few momnets of being with friends and dear ones and have a sip!! And if we rather our "intelligentia", the "political elite" think that alcohol is such bad a thing (which it certainly isnt if consumed sanely and hence it has never been banned completely), then why blame only women for mutilating our culture, when more males are taking to the habit. Why do our rules and regulations change under certain circumstances and still we keep referring to articles 12-25 of our Constitution which provide our rights, and more importantly Article 14, the right to equality, when there is no ****ing equal treatment of opposite sexes on even such a minor issue.
The members of one religious cult, calling itself the saviours of our culture, barge into a pub and inhumanly beat and molest women and the might of our media and police is such that these hooligans can then come out in open and claim the responsibility of carrying out such heinous acts of utter devil like instincts on those who cant defend themselves, what with 45 people coming and attcking 8-10 women and then they find an alliby in saying that it is aginst our culture for women to be in pubs and enjoying themselves. What shit are these people talking about, is it against our culture to live freely? Is it against our culture to enjoy remaining within the specifications of being sober in behaviour? Are these ***holes out of their mind to be saying that its only one half of the society that should look to preserve the culture and the other half carries out the act of utmost insincerity and irresponsibly illtreating and molesting women.Does a woman face so much for just being out with a friend to enjoy? Isnt she a human being, doesnt she enjoy the right to do what she wants and do what she aspires to??To add to the ignominy, the head of the state cabinet comes up with a statement that the pub's private security should prevent such acts. Doesnt he realise that maintaining law and order is a state responsibility and which private security can prevent 45 youths barging into ones territory and masquerading with the property. To think of it, a full force of a major metropolitan's police could not prevent 10 armed youths( though I know this should not be compared, but still...) from causing havoc openly in the city and still he comes up with such a statement. Is he suggesting that maintenance of law and order be privatised? I am sure many private players are licking their fingers on the prospect of getting such a contract!!!But is that a solution? No, as another high post minister states, the solution is not this, but closing down pubs and going back to the Stone Age by stopping all modes of modernising is a sure way.
He states that "when there are pubs, people drink, they get high and then can do anything and if a drunk male finds a girl, who is by herself ,he can do anything in his state of being high,cos heis not in his senses its the girl's mitake that she went in his vicinity." What bullshit!!! This is how our leaders, the once we chose to reperesent us think.Even more scary are the comments of Ms. Shiela Dikshit, ( I couldnt stop myself from using this name, what she said is truly gruesome esp. her being a woman herself), she tends to agree with the forementioned minister and well what more can one expect from a person who feigned away from taking any responsibility when one female journalist, Soumya Vaidyanathan, was killed in her city at 2 in the night and Ms. Dikshit very insanely suggested that women should not be out late in the night!!!!! What has happened to our politicians??? Have they heard that there is a thing called as police and that it is responsible to maintain law and order in the city??? Or are they too busy shoving up all the security up their own ***es, just in case a terrorist strikes??The situation has become really pathetic and when now there is such a hoopla around this topic, it should be interesting to see finally what our "representatives" do.
There is no way a woman deserves any from of disrespect. She is the source of our existence, she has been bestowed by God to be able to make human life continue on this earth, only she has the ability of bringing a new life into existence and certainly deserves gratitude and respect of the highest order from all sections of society and for those who still cant agree and say that a woman cant give birth without the involvement of a male (true, but for those who use this argument to show and support male dominance), at least treat this "should be" sacred section of our society on equal terms as you do your male counterparts.
India, the land of cultures, the land of unprecedented values, the land of mystic grandeur and the land with the ability to absorb any culture that comes its way, the land of the most intellectual people born on earth, the land of the most devout servers of humanity..well the list of adjectives any Indian can think of, for his holy motherland is endless, but one thing which really now does intrigue an individual is that does our country or rather its grand people, its leaders whom we have chosen to represent ourselves and to frame our homeland's future, really stand for and justify the superlatives just used.
Talking of the Indian culture and values, there has been a very pertinent question, which has hit the base of our social solidarity eevry now and then is the status of women in the society. The status of women, in the present era, unlike the ancient times, does not only include the economic and social capability and freedom of this section of the society but also the liberties they enjoy, the way they are accepted in the society and the way they are judged( though that is a very cliched phenomena) as beings who can and should consolidate our moral value based system.
The women in ancient times were highly respected individuals and the framers of our religion, those who wrote the Vedas, always saw them in the highest echelons and with utmost respect. Rigveda mentions, that a man's religious duties, his practise of "yajnas" and other activities were not considered complete, unless and until his wife was a part of the duties and in fact he wasnt allowed to perform the duties without the presence of his partner. The wife was truly the heart, soul and the sole pillar of a man's religious solidarity and social well being. Such was the might of a woman and they enjoyed a God-like acceptance in all spheres of the society(though there werent many spheres as yet).
Then came the Later Vedic age and the situation began to change. The respect was not lost but yet there was an inclination which now was towards a patriarchal society. The concept of "Ardhanhgini" came into existence though now performing of religious activities became an individual phenomena. The woman though still held the right to property and any indecency against the fairer sex was considered a social taboo.Slowly things changed and though all the great scholars of time, Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, Bhaskaracharya advocated high respect and care form women, and great women thinkers like Lopa, Mudra, Tara emerged, but certain sections of the society now, those which kept coming up with greater divisions in the society, had taken a downslide in terms of the ways the women were treated.
The Golden era for the women was now ending and with lesser people now able to read the Vedas and with the scholars following the flow of the society and calling it right to make this once most respected section of society as mere "objects of pleausre" and "servitude", the situation accelerated in the downward direction.It was a meteoritic fall for the society and while falling through the friction of the opposing sacred texts and the natural order, the once mythical and sacred Indian society shunned its protective sheath, which got burned away just before we hit the surface. What now remained of once glorious past was just reference in the texts, who most wont ever lay a hand on in later generations and a very patriarchal, maniacal society with all respect, rights and pleasures for just one half of the society.
All the great historians and scholars have always said that "it is the state of the women in a civilization that signifies how advanced it is" and well India has now lost the right of even being called a civilization. it is often said that India was once a Golden Bird and that the British took away all our wealth and grandeur, but as any sane person would suggest, physical wealth can never be enjoyed in a morally poor environment and what once used to be a country embedded with Diamond-like jewels of an equal, moral society had already turned it all into coal, through the acts of self destruction and with the atrocities committted against one half of the society by the other half.The British though took our wealth away, but they also gave us back that little moral element which was once lost, with anti-sati laws and other legislations, trying to uplift the situation of women in our country.
As already mentioned, we and our land is made up of such elements which absorb any culture and in fact create a potent environment for any culture to thrive upon, we could adopt the western system in terms of women upliftment and our society began the uphill task of reaching those days of basking in the lustre and glory of shining diamonds.The situation vastly improved and though discriminations remained lurking here and there but with the dawn of 21st century, it seemed that we have made a huge progress.
The state of Rajasthan put up a great example with all 3 major political posts of The Chief Minister, the governor and the Soeaker of the Legislative Assembly being women, something unprecedented inIndian history and clearly showing the rise in might and respect for the emotionally stronger section of the society. We appointed a lady President and one female politician won 3 consecutive state elections in the capital to become Chief Minister, again unheard of earlier. The women today are heading many organisations, they have become CEOs, Astronauts, have barged into the domain of other industries once considered a male dominion like extreme sports and mining industries and undoubtedly are doing extremely well and excelling.
Well if evertything is just so rosy then why am I writing this blog??Because its not all that rosy, some intelligentia of our society are still unable to come to terms with the status of equality and freedom, the women are trying to enjoy. Why call them intelligent? these retarded morons are unable to realise that the weight of social morality and national culture does not rest only on a woman's behaviour but when we talk of equality, its shared. Male sections is as mush responseible for whatever should be taken care of in the society as is the female section. And in fact when tehre is nothing wrong which is happening, why are we creating such an issue.
Alcohol has been an integral part of any era, be it "Somaras" for the Gods or Vodka for today's generation, what wrong is there in it as long as people remain sober and enjoy a few momnets of being with friends and dear ones and have a sip!! And if we rather our "intelligentia", the "political elite" think that alcohol is such bad a thing (which it certainly isnt if consumed sanely and hence it has never been banned completely), then why blame only women for mutilating our culture, when more males are taking to the habit. Why do our rules and regulations change under certain circumstances and still we keep referring to articles 12-25 of our Constitution which provide our rights, and more importantly Article 14, the right to equality, when there is no ****ing equal treatment of opposite sexes on even such a minor issue.
The members of one religious cult, calling itself the saviours of our culture, barge into a pub and inhumanly beat and molest women and the might of our media and police is such that these hooligans can then come out in open and claim the responsibility of carrying out such heinous acts of utter devil like instincts on those who cant defend themselves, what with 45 people coming and attcking 8-10 women and then they find an alliby in saying that it is aginst our culture for women to be in pubs and enjoying themselves. What shit are these people talking about, is it against our culture to live freely? Is it against our culture to enjoy remaining within the specifications of being sober in behaviour? Are these ***holes out of their mind to be saying that its only one half of the society that should look to preserve the culture and the other half carries out the act of utmost insincerity and irresponsibly illtreating and molesting women.Does a woman face so much for just being out with a friend to enjoy? Isnt she a human being, doesnt she enjoy the right to do what she wants and do what she aspires to??To add to the ignominy, the head of the state cabinet comes up with a statement that the pub's private security should prevent such acts. Doesnt he realise that maintaining law and order is a state responsibility and which private security can prevent 45 youths barging into ones territory and masquerading with the property. To think of it, a full force of a major metropolitan's police could not prevent 10 armed youths( though I know this should not be compared, but still...) from causing havoc openly in the city and still he comes up with such a statement. Is he suggesting that maintenance of law and order be privatised? I am sure many private players are licking their fingers on the prospect of getting such a contract!!!But is that a solution? No, as another high post minister states, the solution is not this, but closing down pubs and going back to the Stone Age by stopping all modes of modernising is a sure way.
He states that "when there are pubs, people drink, they get high and then can do anything and if a drunk male finds a girl, who is by herself ,he can do anything in his state of being high,cos heis not in his senses its the girl's mitake that she went in his vicinity." What bullshit!!! This is how our leaders, the once we chose to reperesent us think.Even more scary are the comments of Ms. Shiela Dikshit, ( I couldnt stop myself from using this name, what she said is truly gruesome esp. her being a woman herself), she tends to agree with the forementioned minister and well what more can one expect from a person who feigned away from taking any responsibility when one female journalist, Soumya Vaidyanathan, was killed in her city at 2 in the night and Ms. Dikshit very insanely suggested that women should not be out late in the night!!!!! What has happened to our politicians??? Have they heard that there is a thing called as police and that it is responsible to maintain law and order in the city??? Or are they too busy shoving up all the security up their own ***es, just in case a terrorist strikes??The situation has become really pathetic and when now there is such a hoopla around this topic, it should be interesting to see finally what our "representatives" do.
There is no way a woman deserves any from of disrespect. She is the source of our existence, she has been bestowed by God to be able to make human life continue on this earth, only she has the ability of bringing a new life into existence and certainly deserves gratitude and respect of the highest order from all sections of society and for those who still cant agree and say that a woman cant give birth without the involvement of a male (true, but for those who use this argument to show and support male dominance), at least treat this "should be" sacred section of our society on equal terms as you do your male counterparts.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
SAFE......are we??
Hey Everyone!
Been a long wait and this blog took some 6 months coming after the last one........I have missed this part of the life, the blogging and thinking of taking in a plunge again.....
INTERNAL SECURITY AND SOCIAL HARMONY ARE THE PREREQUISITES FOR A COUNTRY’S OVERALL AND FAST DEVELOPMENT
“Non violence is the foremost duty of an individual.”
Lord Mahavira
Imagine a scenario where you are one of the few survivors on a very big territory, on a place which used to be lively with sounds of children crying and chuckling, of parents shouting on their kids, of words of wisdom by the elders, and of chants of hymns and prayers in mornings and evenings and of buzzing activity all around. Be present in a hypothetical situation like Will Smith in the movie I Am Legend, what kind of feelings do you conjure? One of ultimate disgrace, of helplessness, of being dead rather than facing such a situation, well do not feel something is wrong with you, any normal human being will be responding exactly similarly. Why am I making you think of such a dreadful situation? Well believe me, we actually are heading towards one and the factors which make me think in such a depressing manner are the two major curses the Indian nation is facing today, terrorism and intra-nation social disharmony.
Terrorism has been a major problem ever since the partition of Hindustan in 1947 and for those who say that India is not facing any social hatred, kindly explain me what would you call the killings of Christians in Orissa and Karnataka (a massacre in words of the French President), the rage being portrayed in Jammu and Kashmir, the riots in Assam and the very long existing and now growing even more threatening problem of the Maoists and the Naxalites. What have the recent terror attacks in Jaipur, Bangaluru, Ahmedabad and Delhi contributed to our nation’s growth? Well any sane person will agree to the fact that whatever they have given is in negative, its only a loss of human and materialistic capital coupled with a loss in the feeling of security that one individual feels in being a part of a nation state. Similarly, the mass killing of Christians, riots in Kashmir and the actions of ever growing groups like the Naxals and the Maoists have led to a feeling of hatred, dread and fear from fellow human beings.
All these factors have affected our growth physically, as we can all see in terms of life and property loss and even more emotionally, if I can use that word, by killing the feeling of security, harmony, love and comradeship among the inmates of the country, which are quintessential for peaceful existence and hence planned overall growth of the nation. If one doesn’t feel safe and secure in his surroundings, he cannot contribute constructively to whatever he does because he can only think of being insecure and also no proper economic activity, like commutation, transportation and value addition can possibly take place. When person isn’t sure if he would be dead or alive in the next instant, how can he not be overprotective for himself and his family and
do something which may be against the law and hence it forms a vicious circle of hatred leading to hatred and that leading to the downfall of a nation as a whole. It is said that only a healthy mind can be innovative and what these attacks on fellow beings are doing is to demoralize people and are now becoming an epidemic, hindering the constructive growth of a person’s mind individually and the society’s soul as a whole.
Statistics reveal that almost 1000 people have died and many more injured in the terror attacks since Mumbai blasts in 1993 and the data for recent years are even scarier with at least 607 people dead in the past 8 years, as reported by the Defence and Security of India magazine. The editor of the magazine, Sonia Shukla writes that with the threat of terrorist strikes now a chronic condition in India, the demand has never been greater for a coherent institutional response across the state’s jurisdiction that empowers local first responders. To quote Ajay Sahni, the Director, Institute for Conflict Management, he says, “The bogey of intelligence failure masks the deeper infirmities of India’s counter terrorism apparatus. There is a complete absence of strategic vision, of the capacity to assess and prepare for challenges at all levels.” Given the manpower deficit in India with only 126 policemen per lakh population, whereas the major powers have a ratio of 250 -500 for the same number of people, and with only 3,500 professionals in the Intelligence Bureau for this country of 1.2 billion people, it can rightly be put that for all her great power pretensions, her rampaging multinationals and her seven to nine percent growth rates, India is a tremendously fragile state, deeply vulnerable to threats of subversion, terrorism and conventional warfare.
It is not only the cross border or now the more territorial terrorism with groups like Indian Mujahedeen coming up which form our cause of concern but also the inherent situation of communal tensions within the regions of our country. The land of Heaven, Jammu and Kashmir was cut off from the rest of the country for almost two months due to the land transfer deal to the Amarnath Yatra Shrine Board and the ensuing violence portrayed by the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti and the Separatists in Kashmir later. Scores of people died, many got injured and due to the cutoff, the economy of whole state went in a slumber. Similarly, the killings of Christians in the villages of Orissa and Karnataka, by the Bajrang Dal, under the pretext of killing of the Hindu leader, Swami Laksmananda, and conversion, which in all probabilities is wrong, wherein according to All India Christian Council, 4,400 Houses burnt, 50,000 people were rendered homeless, 59 People killed including at least 2 pastors, 10 Priests/Pastors/Nuns injured, 18,000 Men, women, children injured, 2 women gang-raped including a nun, 151 Churches destroyed and 13 Schools and colleges damaged, point to a morally week social system. The violence targeted Christians in 310 villages, with 4,104 homes torched. More than 18,000 were injured and 50,000 displaced and homes continued to burn in many villages. There have also been also been riots in the North eastern parts of the country, between the local residents, the Bodos and the illegal migrants from Bangladesh, regarding their rights towards the territory and supply of work, with as many as 23 villages torched, scores of people killed and thousands rendered homeless.
All these factors, not to mention the Naxals and the Maoists, indicate towards a highly fragile and week security system which is now being exposed completely and been found excruciatingly short of meeting the least requirement of safety of life and property of the habitants and citizens of the state.
We need to deal with this threat and now its high time that our efforts be agile and more directed towards curbing the problem rather than bereft with the problem and take our hands away from it, blaming the venality in the system as the cause for everything that happens. We need a whole set of concentrated efforts from politicians, in terms of policies, laws and incumbency and from the public, in terms of attention, awareness and fearlessness in dealing with the problem. An IIM-B professor, Trilochan Shastry, insists on removal of criminals from politics, Bhikhu Parekh, professor at University of Westminster and a Labour Member of the House of Lords, suggests lampooning erring politicians, and many more give other actions which will help our development in the long term, but what we need now is to deal with the threat of violence and that requires immediate steps. As Ajay Sahni suggests, we not only need more number of policing officials but also better technology, more concerted communication patterns and better detective services to be able to gather the actual amount of force and manpower we are fighting against today, because as of now our intelligence is unaware of whether it is fighting the IM or the ISI or some other new terror group and all our major proceeds have been on the basis of assumptions. The decisions by the government should be fair and free, like if one bans SIMI as a terrorist outfit, Bajrang Dal after its villainous acts in Orissa and Karnataka deserves much more.
We also need better centre state relation to deal with federal problems, imposing Governor’s rule in any state under crisis is not a solution to its woes, and local political parties must understand that. Also, people should now show the feeling of nationality rather than fighting on communal lines. The states should consider themselves as a part of federal structure and we should all stand united against this threat of terrorism and if the setting up of a Federal Police Base hits on the autonomy of states then the politicians and officials should be ready to compromise if it helps the nation throw out the evil of foreign terror on our soil, guaranteeing the freedom to roam about freely and to work in a healthy environment for our citizens.
A country’s major resource is the human resource, because of its ability to think, feel and innovate but that resource needs a peaceful environment and a surrounding of nature like harmony, a sense of being ultimately secured against any threat and only then, our country, which has an abundance of this resource can progress on the path to becoming the supreme power both in terms of economy as well as in terms of morality.
Been a long wait and this blog took some 6 months coming after the last one........I have missed this part of the life, the blogging and thinking of taking in a plunge again.....
This article I wrote for some assignment and was written before the 26/11 attack, came out pretty well so thought should post it here.....
Hope this wont bug you much, more and better and humour is in the line after this probably....rest assured
.INTERNAL SECURITY AND SOCIAL HARMONY ARE THE PREREQUISITES FOR A COUNTRY’S OVERALL AND FAST DEVELOPMENT
“Non violence is the foremost duty of an individual.”
Lord Mahavira
Imagine a scenario where you are one of the few survivors on a very big territory, on a place which used to be lively with sounds of children crying and chuckling, of parents shouting on their kids, of words of wisdom by the elders, and of chants of hymns and prayers in mornings and evenings and of buzzing activity all around. Be present in a hypothetical situation like Will Smith in the movie I Am Legend, what kind of feelings do you conjure? One of ultimate disgrace, of helplessness, of being dead rather than facing such a situation, well do not feel something is wrong with you, any normal human being will be responding exactly similarly. Why am I making you think of such a dreadful situation? Well believe me, we actually are heading towards one and the factors which make me think in such a depressing manner are the two major curses the Indian nation is facing today, terrorism and intra-nation social disharmony.
Terrorism has been a major problem ever since the partition of Hindustan in 1947 and for those who say that India is not facing any social hatred, kindly explain me what would you call the killings of Christians in Orissa and Karnataka (a massacre in words of the French President), the rage being portrayed in Jammu and Kashmir, the riots in Assam and the very long existing and now growing even more threatening problem of the Maoists and the Naxalites. What have the recent terror attacks in Jaipur, Bangaluru, Ahmedabad and Delhi contributed to our nation’s growth? Well any sane person will agree to the fact that whatever they have given is in negative, its only a loss of human and materialistic capital coupled with a loss in the feeling of security that one individual feels in being a part of a nation state. Similarly, the mass killing of Christians, riots in Kashmir and the actions of ever growing groups like the Naxals and the Maoists have led to a feeling of hatred, dread and fear from fellow human beings.
All these factors have affected our growth physically, as we can all see in terms of life and property loss and even more emotionally, if I can use that word, by killing the feeling of security, harmony, love and comradeship among the inmates of the country, which are quintessential for peaceful existence and hence planned overall growth of the nation. If one doesn’t feel safe and secure in his surroundings, he cannot contribute constructively to whatever he does because he can only think of being insecure and also no proper economic activity, like commutation, transportation and value addition can possibly take place. When person isn’t sure if he would be dead or alive in the next instant, how can he not be overprotective for himself and his family and
do something which may be against the law and hence it forms a vicious circle of hatred leading to hatred and that leading to the downfall of a nation as a whole. It is said that only a healthy mind can be innovative and what these attacks on fellow beings are doing is to demoralize people and are now becoming an epidemic, hindering the constructive growth of a person’s mind individually and the society’s soul as a whole.
Statistics reveal that almost 1000 people have died and many more injured in the terror attacks since Mumbai blasts in 1993 and the data for recent years are even scarier with at least 607 people dead in the past 8 years, as reported by the Defence and Security of India magazine. The editor of the magazine, Sonia Shukla writes that with the threat of terrorist strikes now a chronic condition in India, the demand has never been greater for a coherent institutional response across the state’s jurisdiction that empowers local first responders. To quote Ajay Sahni, the Director, Institute for Conflict Management, he says, “The bogey of intelligence failure masks the deeper infirmities of India’s counter terrorism apparatus. There is a complete absence of strategic vision, of the capacity to assess and prepare for challenges at all levels.” Given the manpower deficit in India with only 126 policemen per lakh population, whereas the major powers have a ratio of 250 -500 for the same number of people, and with only 3,500 professionals in the Intelligence Bureau for this country of 1.2 billion people, it can rightly be put that for all her great power pretensions, her rampaging multinationals and her seven to nine percent growth rates, India is a tremendously fragile state, deeply vulnerable to threats of subversion, terrorism and conventional warfare.
It is not only the cross border or now the more territorial terrorism with groups like Indian Mujahedeen coming up which form our cause of concern but also the inherent situation of communal tensions within the regions of our country. The land of Heaven, Jammu and Kashmir was cut off from the rest of the country for almost two months due to the land transfer deal to the Amarnath Yatra Shrine Board and the ensuing violence portrayed by the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti and the Separatists in Kashmir later. Scores of people died, many got injured and due to the cutoff, the economy of whole state went in a slumber. Similarly, the killings of Christians in the villages of Orissa and Karnataka, by the Bajrang Dal, under the pretext of killing of the Hindu leader, Swami Laksmananda, and conversion, which in all probabilities is wrong, wherein according to All India Christian Council, 4,400 Houses burnt, 50,000 people were rendered homeless, 59 People killed including at least 2 pastors, 10 Priests/Pastors/Nuns injured, 18,000 Men, women, children injured, 2 women gang-raped including a nun, 151 Churches destroyed and 13 Schools and colleges damaged, point to a morally week social system. The violence targeted Christians in 310 villages, with 4,104 homes torched. More than 18,000 were injured and 50,000 displaced and homes continued to burn in many villages. There have also been also been riots in the North eastern parts of the country, between the local residents, the Bodos and the illegal migrants from Bangladesh, regarding their rights towards the territory and supply of work, with as many as 23 villages torched, scores of people killed and thousands rendered homeless.
All these factors, not to mention the Naxals and the Maoists, indicate towards a highly fragile and week security system which is now being exposed completely and been found excruciatingly short of meeting the least requirement of safety of life and property of the habitants and citizens of the state.
We need to deal with this threat and now its high time that our efforts be agile and more directed towards curbing the problem rather than bereft with the problem and take our hands away from it, blaming the venality in the system as the cause for everything that happens. We need a whole set of concentrated efforts from politicians, in terms of policies, laws and incumbency and from the public, in terms of attention, awareness and fearlessness in dealing with the problem. An IIM-B professor, Trilochan Shastry, insists on removal of criminals from politics, Bhikhu Parekh, professor at University of Westminster and a Labour Member of the House of Lords, suggests lampooning erring politicians, and many more give other actions which will help our development in the long term, but what we need now is to deal with the threat of violence and that requires immediate steps. As Ajay Sahni suggests, we not only need more number of policing officials but also better technology, more concerted communication patterns and better detective services to be able to gather the actual amount of force and manpower we are fighting against today, because as of now our intelligence is unaware of whether it is fighting the IM or the ISI or some other new terror group and all our major proceeds have been on the basis of assumptions. The decisions by the government should be fair and free, like if one bans SIMI as a terrorist outfit, Bajrang Dal after its villainous acts in Orissa and Karnataka deserves much more.
We also need better centre state relation to deal with federal problems, imposing Governor’s rule in any state under crisis is not a solution to its woes, and local political parties must understand that. Also, people should now show the feeling of nationality rather than fighting on communal lines. The states should consider themselves as a part of federal structure and we should all stand united against this threat of terrorism and if the setting up of a Federal Police Base hits on the autonomy of states then the politicians and officials should be ready to compromise if it helps the nation throw out the evil of foreign terror on our soil, guaranteeing the freedom to roam about freely and to work in a healthy environment for our citizens.
A country’s major resource is the human resource, because of its ability to think, feel and innovate but that resource needs a peaceful environment and a surrounding of nature like harmony, a sense of being ultimately secured against any threat and only then, our country, which has an abundance of this resource can progress on the path to becoming the supreme power both in terms of economy as well as in terms of morality.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
LONELINESS, ALONENESS and SOLITUDE
Hello Everyone!
I am just digressing a little from the stories of yore and writing this blog about the three words most of us , I believe comprehend to mean the same but actually that is not the case. i was quite intrigued to read about them and would like to write down what I learned and what I could understand about these 3 very often used words, specially in the lives of teenagers and those who are new to the world of adulthood.
I would like to write this blog a little metaphorically and my prop for comparison is water, the elixir of our existence. U take ice, water and steam and show them to a person, who isn't much aware of things and perceives things as they appear physically, a rarity to be found these days (such beings lacking in common knowledge), still they do exist and they do form a very large chunk of the ignorant part of our society. Now when he observes the three things, he is unable to link the three and according to him ice is ice, water is water and steam is steam, ignoring the fact that they are the same thing, just in different states. Whereas, when a well informed or even a person having just enough knowledge of states of matter is shown these and asked to relate, he can easily say that they are just the three forms of same thing, water, boil it and u get steam, freeze it and u get ice.
Now, we as readers and visitors of these sites online are not like the former person but in some way or the other either like or even better than the latter one and hence as readers of language, we must be aware and be able to relate the 3 words, loneliness, aloneness and solitude. As most of us till now believe that they more or less give the same meaning of a condition or situation of being alone, friendless and probably a negative phase of life. But as technocrats, we are bound to get to the roots of anything dicey and when we do that with these three words, the situation is very different. Aloneness is actually a neutral state of being alone with neither positive nor negative energy related to it, whereas loneliness is the state of being alone when not wanting to be and hence is actually the negative state and most ill-conceived by us all is solitude, which actually is using the absence of people around you to ones advantage, and doing or thinking something constructive.
My analogy with water says that if one adds some positive energy(like heating) to water (the neutral) state, it gets into a highly vigorous state, workable, steam, which has a lot of energy and can then be used for various purposes, on the contrary if u take out some energy from water(again the neutral state) you get,a very rigid, cold and highly energy consuming, ice, which physically though has its uses but thinking a little abstract, esp in terms of energy, it is a waste. This is exactly the case with aloneness, u add negative energy, that is in form of negative thoughts, ideas and actions and what you get is a spoilt, cold, emotionless individual who if not attended to properly can become a threat to his well-wishers and on a bigger scale to the society. This state is what is "loneliness".
Now u add positive thoughts, work force, and ideology to aloneness and then u enter the phase of solitude, which actually is highly effective and efficient way of doing positive work. Aren't all the great scientists and inventors of the past considered as being insane for being alone and lonely always? But the fact is that Archimedes, Einstein, Edison were all anything but lonely, they were serving themselves and the society in their solitude.
So next time u see a person fiddling with only himself around, don't think him to be lonely and be sympathetic or think him to be insane and neglect him because who knows the next day he is ready with one of the greatest mood-elevating inventions the very next day.!!!!:):)
"The greatest of achievements are made in solitude, the crowd just gathers to be a part of history being made!!!"
I am just digressing a little from the stories of yore and writing this blog about the three words most of us , I believe comprehend to mean the same but actually that is not the case. i was quite intrigued to read about them and would like to write down what I learned and what I could understand about these 3 very often used words, specially in the lives of teenagers and those who are new to the world of adulthood.
I would like to write this blog a little metaphorically and my prop for comparison is water, the elixir of our existence. U take ice, water and steam and show them to a person, who isn't much aware of things and perceives things as they appear physically, a rarity to be found these days (such beings lacking in common knowledge), still they do exist and they do form a very large chunk of the ignorant part of our society. Now when he observes the three things, he is unable to link the three and according to him ice is ice, water is water and steam is steam, ignoring the fact that they are the same thing, just in different states. Whereas, when a well informed or even a person having just enough knowledge of states of matter is shown these and asked to relate, he can easily say that they are just the three forms of same thing, water, boil it and u get steam, freeze it and u get ice.
Now, we as readers and visitors of these sites online are not like the former person but in some way or the other either like or even better than the latter one and hence as readers of language, we must be aware and be able to relate the 3 words, loneliness, aloneness and solitude. As most of us till now believe that they more or less give the same meaning of a condition or situation of being alone, friendless and probably a negative phase of life. But as technocrats, we are bound to get to the roots of anything dicey and when we do that with these three words, the situation is very different. Aloneness is actually a neutral state of being alone with neither positive nor negative energy related to it, whereas loneliness is the state of being alone when not wanting to be and hence is actually the negative state and most ill-conceived by us all is solitude, which actually is using the absence of people around you to ones advantage, and doing or thinking something constructive.
My analogy with water says that if one adds some positive energy(like heating) to water (the neutral) state, it gets into a highly vigorous state, workable, steam, which has a lot of energy and can then be used for various purposes, on the contrary if u take out some energy from water(again the neutral state) you get,a very rigid, cold and highly energy consuming, ice, which physically though has its uses but thinking a little abstract, esp in terms of energy, it is a waste. This is exactly the case with aloneness, u add negative energy, that is in form of negative thoughts, ideas and actions and what you get is a spoilt, cold, emotionless individual who if not attended to properly can become a threat to his well-wishers and on a bigger scale to the society. This state is what is "loneliness".
Now u add positive thoughts, work force, and ideology to aloneness and then u enter the phase of solitude, which actually is highly effective and efficient way of doing positive work. Aren't all the great scientists and inventors of the past considered as being insane for being alone and lonely always? But the fact is that Archimedes, Einstein, Edison were all anything but lonely, they were serving themselves and the society in their solitude.
So next time u see a person fiddling with only himself around, don't think him to be lonely and be sympathetic or think him to be insane and neglect him because who knows the next day he is ready with one of the greatest mood-elevating inventions the very next day.!!!!:):)
"The greatest of achievements are made in solitude, the crowd just gathers to be a part of history being made!!!"
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The Story of Sacrifices ;);)
Hello Everyone!
In the last story about an inseparable, unconventional couple, it was mentioned that it was a story of unprecedented sacrifices. I am sorry those sacrifices were not brought to your notice n the story, but it had a reason. The sacrifices were not made by the heroes of our story but by someone else. I will call this someone else as RA2. Well no guesses required as again the coincidence undertaking holds.
The story begins in one of the most beautiful, extremely scenic and abundantly sought after, the city of dreams, the city of rivers, the city of gardens, everything to the extent of virtually being the Capital of INDIA, the Punjabi city whose vivacity made a whole group of ultra-talented musicians name their band on the name of the city. Yes this was the kind of image RA2 had about his native place and no wonder he was as possessive, as awed by its existence, as is a mother for her child. Any notions u spoke about against this city and RA2 was silently cursing you, that is how he was, silent, polite, soft and amiable. Peace loving guy, he never got involved in any brawls and was always to be found among a chick group of friends enjoying himself in the old city. He was a born sportsman, a virtuous cricketer and a very passionate footballer, whose heroics on the field were unmatched, in school, in colony and in college where he was soon going to be. RA2 was a very responsible guy, very friendly, always keeping away from trouble (remember Imran Khan of Jaane Tu fame?) and was never involved in any acts of abusing, abusing people or his rights as an individual. There was no deeds which would make his parents think that they need to keep an eye on him. Such was the aura, the image and the respect of this sagacious being.
This almost perfect example of living had just one short coming and that was his hesitation in starting a new conversation with a stranger and his reserved nature, which though won him many silent admirers,specially in the female fraternity (what with his ultra cool looks and radiating personality), but he couldn't get that someone special in his life, though many craved to take that spot.
It was then that after completing his schooling, he was to move the new house, the new place, the place where he was to spend the last few years of his teenage, the place boasting of producing one of the most intelligent and hardworking technocrats ever, the institute famous both with the locales of Rajasthan and Haryana, the same college where RA and BA also enrolled along with RA2. Put again in this world of hostility, what would have our very reserved, very timid and extremely gentle RA2 done to overcome his inner fears . But, as is said "the one who is virtuous never laments" and RA2 got a perfect roommate in RA, two people vastly varying in their visible nature, like poles of a magnet but yet connected by that thin veil of similar inner soul and by that profound fondness for making friends specially with one you have to stay for one full year. They became excellent friends, RA at his best as he always was at making his male friends feel comfortable in his company and RA2 slowly coming out of the shackles of self control he had put on himself.
RA probably for the first time didn't have any indecent intentions, what with his eyes already saying oodles about his affection for BA but he couldn't avoid being gentle with his roommate and RA2 probably fell in for this, as never before had he experienced such affection, care, advice and love from a friend. Unknowingly, RA2 started to take RA for granted and would always go back to him with any of his queries about life and the various tests it puts it into. They were both enjoying themselves and RA2 now changed into a very different person, enjoying himself to the fullest, making friends easily and he was loving the change and probably in the hindsight the person who brought the changes as well.
It was then that one day, their neighbour, JT came and slept between them, probably on RA's insistence and thats when RA2 realized what he should not long for. He soon tried to get back to his normal self, trying rid himself of the special feeling he had harnessed for RA and it was then that he made his first sacrifice of keeping distance from the person he liked the most on campus. The shock was not yet over, a few days later RA2 learned of the feelings RA had for BA and that is when he was shattered. But again, being a fighter, he made naother sacifice and encouraged both RA and BA to get on with it.
RA2 then, being as thoughtful as he always was, made his life turn a little bit and fell for a girl, most of the campus admired for anything but looks. RA2 was too depressed to go in for the looks and though he didn't come out with it, but his friends observed that shine in his eyes whenever her name propped up in any conversation and it was then that RA2 was renamed to P.RA.
P.RA was not ready to mingle yet and hence in order to keep himself occupied and keep his friends from nagging him, he started getting close to another friend, two great friends put together again, P.RA and RSS.
RSS we will get to know in the next blog to come. I hope my readers are waiting for it to come, kindly let me know.
PS: Pls take this all in good humour and if anyone finds it offending, kindly let me know.
In the last story about an inseparable, unconventional couple, it was mentioned that it was a story of unprecedented sacrifices. I am sorry those sacrifices were not brought to your notice n the story, but it had a reason. The sacrifices were not made by the heroes of our story but by someone else. I will call this someone else as RA2. Well no guesses required as again the coincidence undertaking holds.
The story begins in one of the most beautiful, extremely scenic and abundantly sought after, the city of dreams, the city of rivers, the city of gardens, everything to the extent of virtually being the Capital of INDIA, the Punjabi city whose vivacity made a whole group of ultra-talented musicians name their band on the name of the city. Yes this was the kind of image RA2 had about his native place and no wonder he was as possessive, as awed by its existence, as is a mother for her child. Any notions u spoke about against this city and RA2 was silently cursing you, that is how he was, silent, polite, soft and amiable. Peace loving guy, he never got involved in any brawls and was always to be found among a chick group of friends enjoying himself in the old city. He was a born sportsman, a virtuous cricketer and a very passionate footballer, whose heroics on the field were unmatched, in school, in colony and in college where he was soon going to be. RA2 was a very responsible guy, very friendly, always keeping away from trouble (remember Imran Khan of Jaane Tu fame?) and was never involved in any acts of abusing, abusing people or his rights as an individual. There was no deeds which would make his parents think that they need to keep an eye on him. Such was the aura, the image and the respect of this sagacious being.
This almost perfect example of living had just one short coming and that was his hesitation in starting a new conversation with a stranger and his reserved nature, which though won him many silent admirers,specially in the female fraternity (what with his ultra cool looks and radiating personality), but he couldn't get that someone special in his life, though many craved to take that spot.
It was then that after completing his schooling, he was to move the new house, the new place, the place where he was to spend the last few years of his teenage, the place boasting of producing one of the most intelligent and hardworking technocrats ever, the institute famous both with the locales of Rajasthan and Haryana, the same college where RA and BA also enrolled along with RA2. Put again in this world of hostility, what would have our very reserved, very timid and extremely gentle RA2 done to overcome his inner fears . But, as is said "the one who is virtuous never laments" and RA2 got a perfect roommate in RA, two people vastly varying in their visible nature, like poles of a magnet but yet connected by that thin veil of similar inner soul and by that profound fondness for making friends specially with one you have to stay for one full year. They became excellent friends, RA at his best as he always was at making his male friends feel comfortable in his company and RA2 slowly coming out of the shackles of self control he had put on himself.
RA probably for the first time didn't have any indecent intentions, what with his eyes already saying oodles about his affection for BA but he couldn't avoid being gentle with his roommate and RA2 probably fell in for this, as never before had he experienced such affection, care, advice and love from a friend. Unknowingly, RA2 started to take RA for granted and would always go back to him with any of his queries about life and the various tests it puts it into. They were both enjoying themselves and RA2 now changed into a very different person, enjoying himself to the fullest, making friends easily and he was loving the change and probably in the hindsight the person who brought the changes as well.
It was then that one day, their neighbour, JT came and slept between them, probably on RA's insistence and thats when RA2 realized what he should not long for. He soon tried to get back to his normal self, trying rid himself of the special feeling he had harnessed for RA and it was then that he made his first sacrifice of keeping distance from the person he liked the most on campus. The shock was not yet over, a few days later RA2 learned of the feelings RA had for BA and that is when he was shattered. But again, being a fighter, he made naother sacifice and encouraged both RA and BA to get on with it.
RA2 then, being as thoughtful as he always was, made his life turn a little bit and fell for a girl, most of the campus admired for anything but looks. RA2 was too depressed to go in for the looks and though he didn't come out with it, but his friends observed that shine in his eyes whenever her name propped up in any conversation and it was then that RA2 was renamed to P.RA.
P.RA was not ready to mingle yet and hence in order to keep himself occupied and keep his friends from nagging him, he started getting close to another friend, two great friends put together again, P.RA and RSS.
RSS we will get to know in the next blog to come. I hope my readers are waiting for it to come, kindly let me know.
PS: Pls take this all in good humour and if anyone finds it offending, kindly let me know.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
After All Its Love of "A MAN FOR A MAN"
Before I write this blog I would definitely like all the readers to note that "All the Characters and Sequences in this piece of writing are purely fictitious and bear no resemblance to anyone dead or alive and if any resemblance found, it is Coincidental."
It were the hot summers of the Land of Desert, in one of its most intellectual town, a gem in the crown of Shekhawati region that this fantasy yet so real love story of love stories, a story of unprecedented sacrifices, of nerve cracking drama, began some three years ago. You must have heard of all the epic love stories of Romeo and Juliet, Laila-Majnu, Heer-Ranjha, Rekha-Amitabh but this one counts them all out. Its different in two major aspects:-
First, This love story unlike all others has a happy ending.
Second, this does not involve a XX and a XY chromosome, but two XY chromosomes.
When they came to this town of famous "pedas", knowing not much more about it then the fact that they would be spending next four years of their lives, learning in this new place they have never heard of, before its admission test details appeared in the newspapers. But yet these two epitome of success had no qualms, no worries about this new place because they were sure that people like them, though less and though not encouraged much, did exist in the lands of grandeur. Let me introduce you to them first. The first one, was a tall, healthy, way too strong BA who hails from the city of planning, a land divided between two states, a city boasting a lot about its modernity though factually it has just one shopping centre, celebrates Valmiki Jayanti as a holiday, a clear dominance of Scheduled castes and tribes, but yet he was proud of the place he belonged to.
The other guy, RA, was equally proud of his city of Sunrise, the city famous for its white coloured, mouth watering, sweet delicacy but yet the city of most dense human population also boasting of one of the largest "red light" areas ever known. But yet, these people find solace in their highly modernized, very social party which is highly appreciative and possessive about its comrades.
So we already see that they had this one thing of eternal love for their places of origin which ws to remain forever in the hearts of these juveniles, who really werent aware of the territory they would be venturing into very soon.
BA was a smart guy, with girls hovering around him in his native place and his Priya automotive encouraging him to not be going around with more than one of them at a time. RA was the stud in his days, all the school staff and students drooling even on the mention of his name, but again he had his own tastes and preferences and kept most of the droolers, be it of any chromosomal configuration, at bay.
One thing was common again, they were not completely satisfied with what they had and always craved for that something more, something stronger and ... It is said that "Bhagwan ke ghar mein der hai, andher nahin" and this so aptly came true for the two of our heroes, when they were alotted adjacent rooms in what was to be their first step into the hostel life, into the world of solitary existence, into the realm of self sustenance. So what that no one cared to observe that BA was always staring into nothingness, so what no one ever observed what kind of lights he read under, RA was always there to note even the minutest of details and put it in front of his friends so tactfully that everyone just laughed at the joke, not knowing what was cooking under the mask of unforeseen innocence and unprecedented cunningness was never unmasked.
We know "Birds of same feather flock together" and no wonder, RA soon recognised who his bird is going to be. Hostel life is never easy, you are suddenly put into the real world, coming out of the shackles of parental guidance and breaking the invisible bars of rules and regulations. It is then that your heart craves to be free, to roam under the sun, to fall for anything that comes your way, of the opposite sex for sure. But then, here comes the irony of engineers all over the country, there is no opposite sex, its just that there are people not of same sex. This travesty of life took its toll on BA and finding no pastures to graze on, he was lured into the act of loosing self control and in the end the tactics of RA worked and it was then that what was to be another epic was constructed and though probably, the fire did burn out after some 2 years but still u can see flares coming up at times and though BA feels cheated but he should not be disheartened yet because "yeh toh woh koyala hai jo jal kar raakh ka roop le chuka hai, is raakh ko hatkkar dekh manushya tu aag ki lapton mein sama jayega". ;);)
It were the hot summers of the Land of Desert, in one of its most intellectual town, a gem in the crown of Shekhawati region that this fantasy yet so real love story of love stories, a story of unprecedented sacrifices, of nerve cracking drama, began some three years ago. You must have heard of all the epic love stories of Romeo and Juliet, Laila-Majnu, Heer-Ranjha, Rekha-Amitabh but this one counts them all out. Its different in two major aspects:-
First, This love story unlike all others has a happy ending.
Second, this does not involve a XX and a XY chromosome, but two XY chromosomes.
When they came to this town of famous "pedas", knowing not much more about it then the fact that they would be spending next four years of their lives, learning in this new place they have never heard of, before its admission test details appeared in the newspapers. But yet these two epitome of success had no qualms, no worries about this new place because they were sure that people like them, though less and though not encouraged much, did exist in the lands of grandeur. Let me introduce you to them first. The first one, was a tall, healthy, way too strong BA who hails from the city of planning, a land divided between two states, a city boasting a lot about its modernity though factually it has just one shopping centre, celebrates Valmiki Jayanti as a holiday, a clear dominance of Scheduled castes and tribes, but yet he was proud of the place he belonged to.
The other guy, RA, was equally proud of his city of Sunrise, the city famous for its white coloured, mouth watering, sweet delicacy but yet the city of most dense human population also boasting of one of the largest "red light" areas ever known. But yet, these people find solace in their highly modernized, very social party which is highly appreciative and possessive about its comrades.
So we already see that they had this one thing of eternal love for their places of origin which ws to remain forever in the hearts of these juveniles, who really werent aware of the territory they would be venturing into very soon.
BA was a smart guy, with girls hovering around him in his native place and his Priya automotive encouraging him to not be going around with more than one of them at a time. RA was the stud in his days, all the school staff and students drooling even on the mention of his name, but again he had his own tastes and preferences and kept most of the droolers, be it of any chromosomal configuration, at bay.
One thing was common again, they were not completely satisfied with what they had and always craved for that something more, something stronger and ... It is said that "Bhagwan ke ghar mein der hai, andher nahin" and this so aptly came true for the two of our heroes, when they were alotted adjacent rooms in what was to be their first step into the hostel life, into the world of solitary existence, into the realm of self sustenance. So what that no one cared to observe that BA was always staring into nothingness, so what no one ever observed what kind of lights he read under, RA was always there to note even the minutest of details and put it in front of his friends so tactfully that everyone just laughed at the joke, not knowing what was cooking under the mask of unforeseen innocence and unprecedented cunningness was never unmasked.
We know "Birds of same feather flock together" and no wonder, RA soon recognised who his bird is going to be. Hostel life is never easy, you are suddenly put into the real world, coming out of the shackles of parental guidance and breaking the invisible bars of rules and regulations. It is then that your heart craves to be free, to roam under the sun, to fall for anything that comes your way, of the opposite sex for sure. But then, here comes the irony of engineers all over the country, there is no opposite sex, its just that there are people not of same sex. This travesty of life took its toll on BA and finding no pastures to graze on, he was lured into the act of loosing self control and in the end the tactics of RA worked and it was then that what was to be another epic was constructed and though probably, the fire did burn out after some 2 years but still u can see flares coming up at times and though BA feels cheated but he should not be disheartened yet because "yeh toh woh koyala hai jo jal kar raakh ka roop le chuka hai, is raakh ko hatkkar dekh manushya tu aag ki lapton mein sama jayega". ;);)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
It Continues
Hello Everyone!
Now that everyone is commenting about the kind of language used in the previous blog specially the comment by Hardeep (loved it ;)), I would just like to pay a tribute to him through the next few lines
"ab jab aapne hamein hidayat di hai,
ki hamne angrezi ko chodd kar
kisi aur bhasha mein likhne ki himakat ki hai
toh hum yeh bhi aapko batana chahenge ki
hum jaante hain aapne is himakat mein chupi
shararat ki nazakat ko samajhne ki bhi koshish ki hai
jismein humne apna dil khol kar
vicharon ki dhara ko bhagirathi ke samaan bahane ki zarurat samjhi hai"
Well sorry guys if its getting too heavy but I am just writing the way its coming to my mind. In the end of my last blog I said that I chose to be independent in a dependent way. The days when I began my engineering at the campus were not that easy for me. I have always loved my friends and group and parting from them was not easy for me when I stepped into this new world and hence had a tendency of choosing the safer option of being with people I already knew. No wonder I was seldom found in the wing and well all the inquisitiveness about me being a nerd, with my specs, a huge bag at my back (though only the bag was huge,there was seldom anything inside it) and my not being much talkative or rather being reserved from people I didnt know much ,was surely inevitable.
It wasnt until about the end of the semester that I was much known amongst my wingmates ,though I was well known in Sankalp's wing as the major part of my first semester had been with him being schoolmates for years. The factor which played the barrier-breaker was cricket again,something I can talk about to anyone anywhere. I just happened to overhear Bharat talking about the match next day against the Alpha-Qs and came up with the idea of playing the next day. I had to give a kind of an ability test towards the field to people of the team and to my surprise, even with my mediocre abilities (thats why I was nicked Gulli), i got through in the team.......speaks a lot about the team...hehe. It was a great experience for me playing that first match with this group of people and by the time we won the second match after being comprehensively beaten in the first, we had already thought of a name for ourselves. Many ideas did come up like The Titans(a movie all my wingies had just seen) and what not but what was finally decided was "The Jinxd" (hum unke liye manhoos hain jo hamare against khelne wale hain) and then began one of the most memorable journeys of my and in fact undoubtedly of our lives. The founding members of the group became Karan,Ritesh,Nikhil,Raghav,Bharat,Harshit,Ishan,Manav,Arjun,Ranjot , Chintan,Hardeep and though the last member of the group but yet a founding member of the Jinxd me that is Chinmaya.
It was then that I was accepted in the group like a light hearted, die hard cricket freak but yet a nerdish person and the icing on the cake was the first semester Workshop exam where I could stop Karan from cross questioning others because he had no answer to my questions,,,,hehe...that was on a very lighter side and well everyone knows that it was the last time that I studied in my first year. After that all was like a dream come true, once we realised it wasnt much worth scoring big in the exams,we were all out into enjoying ourselves. So what that I wasnt a part of all the amazing things which happened in the first semester but as second semester came,all of us came as a group and it was then that the picture took its full colour. Then it were the endless hours of volleyball,movies,talking,leg-pulling and what not and most importantly for me, I was apart of it all.
As is true "the darkest hour of the night comes just before the Dawn" ,the day I became a part of this group the darkness of a solitary existence went away from my life and it was all bright for me and I am sure for everyone who came around us :)
There is a lot more to come bhaiyon....philosophy gets over here...........ab masti karenge;);)
Now that everyone is commenting about the kind of language used in the previous blog specially the comment by Hardeep (loved it ;)), I would just like to pay a tribute to him through the next few lines
"ab jab aapne hamein hidayat di hai,
ki hamne angrezi ko chodd kar
kisi aur bhasha mein likhne ki himakat ki hai
toh hum yeh bhi aapko batana chahenge ki
hum jaante hain aapne is himakat mein chupi
shararat ki nazakat ko samajhne ki bhi koshish ki hai
jismein humne apna dil khol kar
vicharon ki dhara ko bhagirathi ke samaan bahane ki zarurat samjhi hai"
Well sorry guys if its getting too heavy but I am just writing the way its coming to my mind. In the end of my last blog I said that I chose to be independent in a dependent way. The days when I began my engineering at the campus were not that easy for me. I have always loved my friends and group and parting from them was not easy for me when I stepped into this new world and hence had a tendency of choosing the safer option of being with people I already knew. No wonder I was seldom found in the wing and well all the inquisitiveness about me being a nerd, with my specs, a huge bag at my back (though only the bag was huge,there was seldom anything inside it) and my not being much talkative or rather being reserved from people I didnt know much ,was surely inevitable.
It wasnt until about the end of the semester that I was much known amongst my wingmates ,though I was well known in Sankalp's wing as the major part of my first semester had been with him being schoolmates for years. The factor which played the barrier-breaker was cricket again,something I can talk about to anyone anywhere. I just happened to overhear Bharat talking about the match next day against the Alpha-Qs and came up with the idea of playing the next day. I had to give a kind of an ability test towards the field to people of the team and to my surprise, even with my mediocre abilities (thats why I was nicked Gulli), i got through in the team.......speaks a lot about the team...hehe. It was a great experience for me playing that first match with this group of people and by the time we won the second match after being comprehensively beaten in the first, we had already thought of a name for ourselves. Many ideas did come up like The Titans(a movie all my wingies had just seen) and what not but what was finally decided was "The Jinxd" (hum unke liye manhoos hain jo hamare against khelne wale hain) and then began one of the most memorable journeys of my and in fact undoubtedly of our lives. The founding members of the group became Karan,Ritesh,Nikhil,Raghav,Bharat,Harshit,Ishan,Manav,Arjun,Ranjot , Chintan,Hardeep and though the last member of the group but yet a founding member of the Jinxd me that is Chinmaya.
It was then that I was accepted in the group like a light hearted, die hard cricket freak but yet a nerdish person and the icing on the cake was the first semester Workshop exam where I could stop Karan from cross questioning others because he had no answer to my questions,,,,hehe...that was on a very lighter side and well everyone knows that it was the last time that I studied in my first year. After that all was like a dream come true, once we realised it wasnt much worth scoring big in the exams,we were all out into enjoying ourselves. So what that I wasnt a part of all the amazing things which happened in the first semester but as second semester came,all of us came as a group and it was then that the picture took its full colour. Then it were the endless hours of volleyball,movies,talking,leg-pulling and what not and most importantly for me, I was apart of it all.
As is true "the darkest hour of the night comes just before the Dawn" ,the day I became a part of this group the darkness of a solitary existence went away from my life and it was all bright for me and I am sure for everyone who came around us :)
There is a lot more to come bhaiyon....philosophy gets over here...........ab masti karenge;);)
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