'If you want to serve mankind, go and work among the poorest and most neglected' (Ruskin Bond) - This is one and only final truth and there is no alternative to it. Either you'll have a poor pathetic life in these filthy remote villages without electricity, water, lots of problems, and a great vision of uplifting mankind who actually need it or a nice rich life in a developed metro city, and big dreams of uplifting status.
I am no one to comment if either is great, but it's just a trade-off between comfort of our body or our soul and sadly both are mutually exclusive. The ball is always in our court, and we've to move.
Few out of millions dare to follow the soul, and when they use their hard-earned skills to serve millions instead of earn millions, they're called crazy people, as Sri Aurobindo rightly points out - "Perhaps you know what ordinary men say of an extraordinary view, an extraordinary endeavour, an extraordinary ambition. To them it is madness; only, if the madman is successful in his work then he is called no longer a madman, but a great genius. But how many are successful in their life's endeavour? Among a thousand men, there are five or six who are out of the ordinary and out of the five or six one perhaps successful. Not to speak of success, I have not yet even entirely entered my field of work. There is nothing then for you but to consider me mad."
Here are stories of few such mad people who always remained out of public glare and kept doing things that console their soul than comfort to their body.
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Dr Ravindra Koelhe, MD, lives and runs a clinic in Melghat, Maharashtra. His fee is Rs 2 for the first consultation and Rs 1 for the second.
Not only is he a doctor and social worker, Dr Koelhe has also taken the government to court for having failed in its duty to protect the Korku tribals of the region.After completing his MBBS, he worked in Melghat for a year-and-a-half only to realise that he needed more expertise to handle the problems of the tribals. So he went back to medical college for an MD in preventive and social medicine.
"I have now been here for 24 years. In those days there were two public health centres and no roads. Once a week, I used to walk 40 kms from Dharni to Bairagarh to reach my clinic. I used to see at least one tiger every month. Since the last three years I haven't seen a single one," he says remembering his early days as a young doctor. After completing his MBBS from Nagpur University, he decided to work in rural India. An ardent follower of Mahatma Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave, he was also influenced by Ruskin Bond who wrote, 'If you want to serve mankind, go and work among the poorest and most neglected.'He toured the rural areas of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and decided that Gadricholi in Maharashtra was the most backward amongst his travels and decided to work there. His mother discouraged him since it was a Naxalite affected area. She told him that Melghat was equally backward and that he should work here instead.Dr Koelhe has been in Melghat since then. It has been 24 years now.
Melghat means the place where mountains meet. It lies on the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border and is easily one of the most beautiful places in the country, its greenery only broken by the brightly coloured clothes of the Korku tribals who have made these mountains their home.But the region's beauty is overshadowed by its hostile terrain. Its infrastructure is deplorable. The roads are pathetic, the only way one can access its remote villages is in rugged four-wheel jeep.
Melghat's problems are far too many. There is no power for miles, new power lines are discouraged because this a designated tiger reserve. Though the tiger is rarely spotted here, the so-called presence of the tiger has contributed to the total neglect of this region.
The poor tribals live off the land. They cultivate their small patch of fields on the incline of the mountains. There is no irrigation system and no wells because there is no power to pump the water.In this wilderness, Dr Koelhe has stayed on to alleviate the misery of the tribals.
He feels Melghat is a socio-economic problem, which needs to be dealt with holistically. "We as doctors can look after them when they fall sick, but there are other shortcomings that have to be addressed like education, skill enhancement and assured economic activity through out the year.""When I came here the infant mortality rate was close to 200 per 1,000 babies. Now it is 60. In Kerala it is 8 and in rural India 9. We have to bring it down to the national level. That is why I have filed a public interest litigation in the Mumbai high court."Discussing the case, he says, "We have filed our affidavits. Now the government has to reply. They don't file a reply for months together. Who can do anything? We want to sit down and discuss the problem and solution, but they don't want to sit with us. We cannot force them."
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"What we need is awareness. There are 400 schemes to look after the tribals from the womb to the grave, but the tribals don't even know what these schemes are. And those who know are not interested in implementing them," says Dr Koelhe resignedly.The tribals have to be provided with safe drinking water and need well stocked ration shops in every village. "The agricultural board is closed. It has to start again. Irrigation facilities to store water are needed and tribals have to be taught the use of fertilizers and pesticides.""The best thing the government has done here is to open more than 300 schools. In those days there were no teachers. The even better thing that the government did was to introduce Korku text books in 1985. Now primary education is in the Korku language. This has gone a long way in making the tribals literate and given them confidence to attend school."
link : http://mobile.rediff.com/news/slide-show/news/20090817/slide-show-1-extraordinary-indians-ravindra-koelhe
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हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी पिघलनी चाहिए,
इस हिमालय से कोई गंगा निकलनी चाहिए।
आज यह दीवार, परदों की तरह हिलने लगी,
शर्त लेकिन थी कि ये बुनियाद हिलनी चाहिए।
हर सड़क पर, हर गली में, हर नगर, हर गाँव में,
हाथ लहराते हुए हर लाश चलनी चाहिए।
सिर्फ हंगामा खड़ा करना मेरा मकसद नहीं,
सारी कोशिश है कि ये सूरत बदलनी चाहिए।
मेरे सीने में नहीं तो तेरे सीने में सही,
हो कहीं भी आग, लेकिन आग जलनी चाहिए।
-- दुष्यंत कुमार
Monday, August 24, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Newsweek(USA) says "We Are All Hindus Now"
“We Are All Hindus Now” -headlines the article in the upcoming edition of prestigious newsmagazine “Newsweek”, saying “U.S. Views on God and Life Are Turning Hindu”. Written by its religion editor Lisa Miller, it says, “…recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity.”
Below is full article:
link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/212155
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Newsweek, launched in 1933, is published from New York City in four English language and 12 global editions and has a worldwide circulation of over four million. Jon Meacham is the editor. It is owned by The Washington Post Company with Donald E. Graham as chairman.
I think we are slowly entering in the era of Spiritual Reniassance envisaged by great seers and sages, a few to name are - Shankaracharya, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Maharishi Raman, Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya and thousands more. An era, when religious tolerance will win over fanaticism, when Science and spirtualtiy will compliment each other, when rational thinking will beat religious dogmas and traditional beliefs, when religion will not be a tool to fight, proselytize and beat in numbers but to live a true life of being human, when east & west and hence the world unite.
At this moment, I remember few quotes by these great saints and rejoice the great thoughts which started shaping in the general human thinking.
Below is full article:
link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/
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America is not a Christian nation. We are, it is true, a nation founded by Christians, and according to a 2008 survey, 76 percent of us continue to identify as Christian (still, that's the lowest percentage in American history). Of course, we are not a Hindu—or Muslim, or Jewish, or Wiccan—nation, either. A million-plus Hindus live in the United States, a fraction of the billion who live on Earth. But recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity.
The Rig Veda, the most ancient Hindu scripture, says this: "Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names." A Hindu believes there are many paths to God. Jesus is one way, the Qur'an is another, yoga practice is a third. None is better than any other; all are equal. The most traditional, conservative Christians have not been taught to think like this. They learn in Sunday school that their religion is true, and others are false. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me."
Americans are no longer buying it. According to a 2008 Pew Forum survey, 65 percent of us believe that "many religions can lead to eternal life"—including 37 percent of white evangelicals, the group most likely to believe that salvation is theirs alone. Also, the number of people who seek spiritual truth outside church is growing. Thirty percent of Americans call themselves "spiritual, not religious," according to a 2009 NEWSWEEK Poll, up from 24 percent in 2005. Stephen Prothero, religion professor at Boston University, has long framed the American propensity for "the divine-deli-cafeteria religion" as "very much in the spirit of Hinduism. You're not picking and choosing from different religions, because they're all the same," he says. "It isn't about orthodoxy. It's about whatever works. If going to yoga works, great—and if going to Catholic mass works, great. And if going to Catholic mass plus the yoga plus the Buddhist retreat works, that's great, too."
Then there's the question of what happens when you die. Christians traditionally believe that bodies and souls are sacred, that together they comprise the "self," and that at the end of time they will be reunited in the Resurrection. You need both, in other words, and you need them forever. Hindus believe no such thing. At death, the body burns on a pyre, while the spirit—where identity resides—escapes. In reincarnation, central to Hinduism, selves come back to earth again and again in different bodies. So here is another way in which Americans are becoming more Hindu: 24 percent of Americans say they believe in reincarnation, according to a 2008 Harris poll. So agnostic are we about the ultimate fates of our bodies that we're burning them—like Hindus—after death. More than a third of Americans now choose cremation, according to the Cremation Association of North America, up from 6 percent in 1975. "I do think the more spiritual role of religion tends to deemphasize some of the more starkly literal interpretations of the Resurrection," agrees Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion at Harvard. So let us all say "om."
By Lisa Miller | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 15, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Aug 31, 2009
Newsweek, launched in 1933, is published from New York City in four English language and 12 global editions and has a worldwide circulation of over four million. Jon Meacham is the editor. It is owned by The Washington Post Company with Donald E. Graham as chairman.
I think we are slowly entering in the era of Spiritual Reniassance envisaged by great seers and sages, a few to name are - Shankaracharya, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Maharishi Raman, Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya and thousands more. An era, when religious tolerance will win over fanaticism, when Science and spirtualtiy will compliment each other, when rational thinking will beat religious dogmas and traditional beliefs, when religion will not be a tool to fight, proselytize and beat in numbers but to live a true life of being human, when east & west and hence the world unite.
At this moment, I remember few quotes by these great saints and rejoice the great thoughts which started shaping in the general human thinking.
"Very good. It is enough to have faith in either aspect. You believe in God without form; that is quite all right. But never for a moment think that this alone is true and all else false. Remember that God with form is just as true as God without form. But hold fast to your own conviction." - Ramakrishna Paramhansa, in conversation with 'M', The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
"The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth.
If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance: "Help and not fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension." " - Swami Vivekananda, CONCLUDING ADDRESS, World Parliament of Religions - Chicago, Sept 27, 1893
You say that you ask only for the Truth and yet you speak like a narrow and ignorant fanatic who refuses to believe in anything but the religion in which he was born. All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only,—those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders. Hindus and Confucians and Taoists and all others have as much right to enter into relation with God and find the Truth in their own way. All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish. - Sri Aurobindo, From a letter to a Muslim disciple who started making violent demands which he tried to justify on “religious” grounds.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
I wish I would: E. Sreedharan
[Dear Friends, It's difficult to answer when someone asks me, who is your ideal as it defines my thinking process, my character, my lifestyle, my likes and dislikes. Yet we're lucky to have chain of great sages & saints, thinkers, patriots, freedom-fighters, researchers, enterpreneurs, politicians(yes, I feel we've not lost Chanakya in mud of current list of politiicains) -- who or part of his work can contribute to our own ideal. In this series, I wish I would, --- few of them whom I feel observed closely and want to become like them in some or other sense. Hope you'll enjoy these characters, if not agree to like them as I. It would be good if people share their ideals too in this forum. The first of the series is - E. Sreedharan, the man behind Delhi Metro Railway Corporation. The stories will also be posted on my blog - My Experiments with Truth for future reference. You can leave your comments there. ]
Well, this is for those who feel that invoking Spirituality in Corporate Culture would be quite an impractical idea to think about or "Spirituality" and "Corporate Culture" are two opposite ends of a normal human life or group i.e. one cannot possess both.In this I would talk about a person, who invoked "Spirituality" in his corporate and achieved an unbelievable success through that.I am in a stage to talk about him, I personally met him in one of his talk at IISc, bangalore titled "Social Responsibility for Civil Engineers", in which I saw his magnanimous way of thinking.Well,you might of guessed who the person is?If not, let me give you some more clues.He is a 74 years young person, young because he still has energy to work for the corporate, a civil engineer by profession working for a government company.His current sallary is 39000-40000 per month (quite a low when think about corporate packages and his 40 years of experience in the same company), but his sallary cannot be an indication of his great personalityand his work, as he refused a job offer of 60 times of his current salary i.e. 24 lakhs per month from a private sector and still no complain about current low sallary........"But don't you think if the government paid its good people more ... I know that you have a more detached outlook to this, and you are a builder ...It is difficult for the government to pay such high salaries because it is a huge organisation ... You know, such a large number of people. And you retain such quality men. But temptation on your good people to go away must be great.Very much. Because people have children, they have families ...Very much. But one thing again is the job satisfaction they get here, the exposure to technologies, and the work ethics. These they are valuing very much. The other thing is that, you know, while wages may be less, I believe what you've done is, in a way, immunise them from other problems people working in the government have. Like corruption, inefficiency, politics, crossed-wires. Would you say that? Or would you just say that God's been kind?No, there have been attempts to interfere in our method of working and all that. But we have stood firm. We have not allowed any of these considerations to affect our work style or the progress of the work."Well, if it's still not clear or if it makes someone think that I am talking about a crazy person, let me talk about his work and his achievements....He is the person because we are talking about comfort of less trafffic in delhi and journey in a delhi metro.When the project of delhi Metro was proposed by Indian government, the entire world has laughed upon this idea because they thought it's is impossible to make a metro in such a crowdy area.And, he was the person who completed this project in 7 years ( 3 years ahead of target date and within budget, while it took more than 2 decades to build kolkata metro.He always has the habit to do impossible looking things, for example "Konkan Railway"............"The project was unique in many respects. It was the first major project in India to be undertaken on a BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) basis; the organisation structure was different from that of a typical Indian Railway set-up; the project had 93 tunnels along a length of 82 km and involved tunneling through soft soil. The total project covered 760 km and had over 150 bridges. That a public sector project could be completed without significant cost and time overruns was considered an achievement by many."In the current situtation,when we start of complaining of political troubles as soon as we start of good work, how did he managed it???"But do you do some of that by absorbing a few of the tensions yourself or do you just use the strength of your personality to keep the trouble-makers at bay?It is basically at my own level. But I had one advantage. When I came to this project, I had come with a reputation. And that reputation helped me. They knew that here's a man who means business, who's not interested in anything else except completion of the work. I suppose politicians now know, that at the end of the day, they can get somebody who will give them a showpiece project. They at least may be able to go to the elections with that, instead of trying to milk it to get their own people appointed or trying to give their own people contracts. Do you see a change in Indian politics?Very much, very much. In fact I have seen that in the initial stages I had this sort of problem, but today they appreciate it. They respect my style of working, the way I conduct business. And they find that results are showing, which is to their benefit. It gives them the credit."Well, due to his extra-ordinary works, government of France has awarded him the citizen award- Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) in 2005.(for refreshment, I would like to add the point that this is the same award for which Amitabh Bachchan was in hype in newspapers early this year(jan 2007) for getting it).He has also been awarded with one of the Asia's heroes by TIME in 2003, Padmashri by GOI in 2001, Man of the year by TOI in 2002, one of India's 50 most powerful people by India Today magazine and several others.Well, I feel I have talked a lot, quite a big mail ofcourse, now its time to announce his name with respect, He is none other than E. Sreedharan, the metro man.But how did he managed it-"Sreedharan took up the challenge and advanced the deadline by a month, making the task tougher. He made the bridge functional in 46 days. He achieved this by the application of some 'commonplace values'-discipline, punctuality and honesty-and the introduction of a new work culture. These traits continue. After the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was set up, one of the first things Sreedharan did as managing director was to instil a "sense of corporate culture". And, what is the force which constantly inspires him to take herculeon tasks and go ahead till completion-
"He thanks God for giving him success। "I am a religious person but religion does not mean going to temples. To me it means leading a virtuous life," he says. Success and virtue. A rare combination in today's world. But they run side by side in Sreedharan's life. Like rail tracks."
References-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Sreedharan http://www.muraleedharan.com/legends_sreedharan.html http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/mar/13binter.htm http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/mar/10minter.htm http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/full_story.php?content_id=35536
Talk at IISc, bangalore on "Social Responsiblity for Civil Engineers"
Well, this is for those who feel that invoking Spirituality in Corporate Culture would be quite an impractical idea to think about or "Spirituality" and "Corporate Culture" are two opposite ends of a normal human life or group i.e. one cannot possess both.In this I would talk about a person, who invoked "Spirituality" in his corporate and achieved an unbelievable success through that.I am in a stage to talk about him, I personally met him in one of his talk at IISc, bangalore titled "Social Responsibility for Civil Engineers", in which I saw his magnanimous way of thinking.Well,you might of guessed who the person is?If not, let me give you some more clues.He is a 74 years young person, young because he still has energy to work for the corporate, a civil engineer by profession working for a government company.His current sallary is 39000-40000 per month (quite a low when think about corporate packages and his 40 years of experience in the same company), but his sallary cannot be an indication of his great personalityand his work, as he refused a job offer of 60 times of his current salary i.e. 24 lakhs per month from a private sector and still no complain about current low sallary........"But don't you think if the government paid its good people more ... I know that you have a more detached outlook to this, and you are a builder ...It is difficult for the government to pay such high salaries because it is a huge organisation ... You know, such a large number of people. And you retain such quality men. But temptation on your good people to go away must be great.Very much. Because people have children, they have families ...Very much. But one thing again is the job satisfaction they get here, the exposure to technologies, and the work ethics. These they are valuing very much. The other thing is that, you know, while wages may be less, I believe what you've done is, in a way, immunise them from other problems people working in the government have. Like corruption, inefficiency, politics, crossed-wires. Would you say that? Or would you just say that God's been kind?No, there have been attempts to interfere in our method of working and all that. But we have stood firm. We have not allowed any of these considerations to affect our work style or the progress of the work."Well, if it's still not clear or if it makes someone think that I am talking about a crazy person, let me talk about his work and his achievements....He is the person because we are talking about comfort of less trafffic in delhi and journey in a delhi metro.When the project of delhi Metro was proposed by Indian government, the entire world has laughed upon this idea because they thought it's is impossible to make a metro in such a crowdy area.And, he was the person who completed this project in 7 years ( 3 years ahead of target date and within budget, while it took more than 2 decades to build kolkata metro.He always has the habit to do impossible looking things, for example "Konkan Railway"............"The project was unique in many respects. It was the first major project in India to be undertaken on a BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) basis; the organisation structure was different from that of a typical Indian Railway set-up; the project had 93 tunnels along a length of 82 km and involved tunneling through soft soil. The total project covered 760 km and had over 150 bridges. That a public sector project could be completed without significant cost and time overruns was considered an achievement by many."In the current situtation,when we start of complaining of political troubles as soon as we start of good work, how did he managed it???"But do you do some of that by absorbing a few of the tensions yourself or do you just use the strength of your personality to keep the trouble-makers at bay?It is basically at my own level. But I had one advantage. When I came to this project, I had come with a reputation. And that reputation helped me. They knew that here's a man who means business, who's not interested in anything else except completion of the work. I suppose politicians now know, that at the end of the day, they can get somebody who will give them a showpiece project. They at least may be able to go to the elections with that, instead of trying to milk it to get their own people appointed or trying to give their own people contracts. Do you see a change in Indian politics?Very much, very much. In fact I have seen that in the initial stages I had this sort of problem, but today they appreciate it. They respect my style of working, the way I conduct business. And they find that results are showing, which is to their benefit. It gives them the credit."Well, due to his extra-ordinary works, government of France has awarded him the citizen award- Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) in 2005.(for refreshment, I would like to add the point that this is the same award for which Amitabh Bachchan was in hype in newspapers early this year(jan 2007) for getting it).He has also been awarded with one of the Asia's heroes by TIME in 2003, Padmashri by GOI in 2001, Man of the year by TOI in 2002, one of India's 50 most powerful people by India Today magazine and several others.Well, I feel I have talked a lot, quite a big mail ofcourse, now its time to announce his name with respect, He is none other than E. Sreedharan, the metro man.But how did he managed it-"Sreedharan took up the challenge and advanced the deadline by a month, making the task tougher. He made the bridge functional in 46 days. He achieved this by the application of some 'commonplace values'-discipline, punctuality and honesty-and the introduction of a new work culture. These traits continue. After the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was set up, one of the first things Sreedharan did as managing director was to instil a "sense of corporate culture". And, what is the force which constantly inspires him to take herculeon tasks and go ahead till completion-
"He thanks God for giving him success। "I am a religious person but religion does not mean going to temples. To me it means leading a virtuous life," he says. Success and virtue. A rare combination in today's world. But they run side by side in Sreedharan's life. Like rail tracks."
References-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Sreedharan http://www.muraleedharan.com/legends_sreedharan.html http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/mar/13binter.htm http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/mar/10minter.htm http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/full_story.php?content_id=35536
Talk at IISc, bangalore on "Social Responsiblity for Civil Engineers"
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Slum is in the aire
Slum is in the aire
Ecstasy all over ! Indians are proud ! Slumdog Millionaire has won 8 oscars out of 10 nominations. The same joy as it were among the Indians when Aishwarya Rai and Susmita Sen bagged two major beauty pageants in the same year(1994) and the entire world became a fan of Indian beauty.
Lagaan and then, Taare Zameen Par despite of a well deserved story line and direction , and huge campaigning couldn't make a single one but SG has made it 8. What does one feel - is it just a coincidence or the omens are good for India?? Being a follower of scientific spirituality, I don't believe on good or bad omens. And I am always skeptic to series of good events happening around me. So i feel there is a certain reason for every coincidence. What it could be here??
Well perhaps there was large decrease in profits of cosmetics and fashion market and then a brilliant idea came in their mind. What about a large woman population in India, can they be attracted to it. Someone says- "No, they've a strong bonding to their Indian culture, which already defined them what to wear and what to not."
"So what, the same culture taught them what and how to read but look at the intelligent Macaulay, entire India reads what we want them to read."
and they suddenly started seeing beauty in Indian girls and then a series of indian names in top beauty paegents competition after 1994 and hence a big market of expensive cosmetics brands and fashion wears in India. Now a girl in India(at least in metros) will be called uncivilized if doesn't use these products and doesn't at least dream to get exposed in such beauty competitions.
Now come to Oscars. Lagaan didn't deserve it, why?? because it represented bad british and poor Hindus/Muslims united against whites, while SM deserved it because it represents nice americans and bad indians(remember the dialogue - Jamal says to an American tourist couple, when he rolls on the ground after a brutal beating by the police, 'You want to see the real India? Here it is!') and more here it shows a riot among hindus and muslims and so Rehman who was giving bad music till today and now he is giving good?
Why we are so obsessed with White color? with oscar. Tell me one single advantage India has got. Even the child actors’ parents have accused the hit film’s producers of exploiting and underpaying the eight-year-olds . They have received less than what many Indian domestic servants get, the newspaper said. As Aamir khan rightly points out, it's not an Indian movie and Amitabh bachchan says - "If 'Slumdog Millionaire' projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,...Its just that the 'Slumdog Millioanire' idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a westerner, gets creative global recognition". Even
To give you a flavor of how to create uproar, controversy and hence get entries in oscars - The film is christened from the novel by Vikas Swarup named 'Q & A' but the protagonist character name is changed from Ram Mohammad Thomas, who was a representation of religious unity to Jamal, just a section and then torture by Indian police and then filthy portray and then riots and so on.
It is a naked truth that Western countries has always portrayed India as a open toilet and garbage, they are never interested in the other side of the shining India. If westerners have the innovation and courage, why don't they concentrate on pedophiles(I'll rather say pedopigs), racial abuses, homeless people, exploitation of African people for medical drug testings, uninsured people dying because of high medical bills, fanatic killing by students, Americans war against Iraq, Divorces and breaking family bondings, mad experiments in the name of science(Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory) and I am many interesting topics prevalent in their countries.
Wake up Indians. Come out of slave minds. Don't let exploit yourself in the name of entertainment and awards. Unwear the colored western glass and then you'll be able to realize the truth. Remember as T P Sreenivasan( former ambassador of India to the United Nations) says - "..the film is exploitation of the novel, of Dharavi, of poverty, of Rahman, of India itself to titillate foreign audiences. It is the exploitation of the new curiosity about India's success."
Relevant links:
Slumdog- A poverty Porn
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2009/feb/16-slumdog-poverty-porn-at-its-worst.htm
Why Slumdog won
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20090224/1241/top-it-shouldn-t-have-won.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Slumdog-sparks-artistic-freedom-debate-in-China/articleshow/4213610.cms
Happy India: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6ovr2KGwu64&refer=muse
Hemamilini:
http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/0978E25C1665FC1265257562005A0C43?OpenDocument
Amitabh:
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1782607
Aamir Khan:
http://music.ndtv.com/music_story.aspx?id=ENTEN20090084475&type=musicindia
Child Exploitation:
http://www.zimbio.com/Slumdog+Millionaire/articles/201/Slumdog+Millionaire+Child+Exploitation
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1225206
http://in.news.yahoo.com/241/20090128/1271/ten-parents-say-children-exploited-in-sl.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/4347472/Poor-parents-of-Slumdog-millionaire-stars-say-children-were-exploited.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/30/slumdog-millionaire-accused-of-exploiting-actors
What Indians feel:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fg-india-slumdog24-2009jan24,0,1162547.story
To play with Hindu Sentiments:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/152164/Slumdog-is-about-defaming-Hindus.html
http://islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/anti-hindu-film-slumdog-millionaire-wins-8-oscar/
The views expressed above are my own and doesn't represent view of any particular organization or group.
Ecstasy all over ! Indians are proud ! Slumdog Millionaire has won 8 oscars out of 10 nominations. The same joy as it were among the Indians when Aishwarya Rai and Susmita Sen bagged two major beauty pageants in the same year(1994) and the entire world became a fan of Indian beauty.
Lagaan and then, Taare Zameen Par despite of a well deserved story line and direction , and huge campaigning couldn't make a single one but SG has made it 8. What does one feel - is it just a coincidence or the omens are good for India?? Being a follower of scientific spirituality, I don't believe on good or bad omens. And I am always skeptic to series of good events happening around me. So i feel there is a certain reason for every coincidence. What it could be here??
Well perhaps there was large decrease in profits of cosmetics and fashion market and then a brilliant idea came in their mind. What about a large woman population in India, can they be attracted to it. Someone says- "No, they've a strong bonding to their Indian culture, which already defined them what to wear and what to not."
"So what, the same culture taught them what and how to read but look at the intelligent Macaulay, entire India reads what we want them to read."
and they suddenly started seeing beauty in Indian girls and then a series of indian names in top beauty paegents competition after 1994 and hence a big market of expensive cosmetics brands and fashion wears in India. Now a girl in India(at least in metros) will be called uncivilized if doesn't use these products and doesn't at least dream to get exposed in such beauty competitions.
Now come to Oscars. Lagaan didn't deserve it, why?? because it represented bad british and poor Hindus/Muslims united against whites, while SM deserved it because it represents nice americans and bad indians(remember the dialogue - Jamal says to an American tourist couple, when he rolls on the ground after a brutal beating by the police, 'You want to see the real India? Here it is!') and more here it shows a riot among hindus and muslims and so Rehman who was giving bad music till today and now he is giving good?
Why we are so obsessed with White color? with oscar. Tell me one single advantage India has got. Even the child actors’ parents have accused the hit film’s producers of exploiting and underpaying the eight-year-olds . They have received less than what many Indian domestic servants get, the newspaper said. As Aamir khan rightly points out, it's not an Indian movie and Amitabh bachchan says - "If 'Slumdog Millionaire' projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,...Its just that the 'Slumdog Millioanire' idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a westerner, gets creative global recognition". Even
To give you a flavor of how to create uproar, controversy and hence get entries in oscars - The film is christened from the novel by Vikas Swarup named 'Q & A' but the protagonist character name is changed from Ram Mohammad Thomas, who was a representation of religious unity to Jamal, just a section and then torture by Indian police and then filthy portray and then riots and so on.
It is a naked truth that Western countries has always portrayed India as a open toilet and garbage, they are never interested in the other side of the shining India. If westerners have the innovation and courage, why don't they concentrate on pedophiles(I'll rather say pedopigs), racial abuses, homeless people, exploitation of African people for medical drug testings, uninsured people dying because of high medical bills, fanatic killing by students, Americans war against Iraq, Divorces and breaking family bondings, mad experiments in the name of science(Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory) and I am many interesting topics prevalent in their countries.
Wake up Indians. Come out of slave minds. Don't let exploit yourself in the name of entertainment and awards. Unwear the colored western glass and then you'll be able to realize the truth. Remember as T P Sreenivasan( former ambassador of India to the United Nations) says - "..the film is exploitation of the novel, of Dharavi, of poverty, of Rahman, of India itself to titillate foreign audiences. It is the exploitation of the new curiosity about India's success."
Relevant links:
Slumdog- A poverty Porn
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2009/feb/16-slumdog-poverty-porn-at-its-worst.htm
Why Slumdog won
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20090224/1241/top-it-shouldn-t-have-won.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Slumdog-sparks-artistic-freedom-debate-in-China/articleshow/4213610.cms
Happy India: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6ovr2KGwu64&refer=muse
Hemamilini:
http://www.ptinews.com/pti%
Amitabh:
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1782607
Aamir Khan:
http://music.ndtv.com/music_story.aspx?id=ENTEN20090084475&type=musicindia
Child Exploitation:
http://www.zimbio.com/Slumdog+Millionaire/articles/201/Slumdog+Millionaire+Child+Exploitation
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1225206
http://in.news.yahoo.com/241/20090128/1271/ten-parents-say-children-exploited-in-sl.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/4347472/Poor-parents-of-Slumdog-millionaire-stars-say-children-were-exploited.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/30/slumdog-millionaire-accused-of-exploiting-actors
What Indians feel:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fg-india-slumdog24-2009jan24,0,1162547.story
To play with Hindu Sentiments:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/152164/Slumdog-is-about-defaming-Hindus.html
http://islamicterrorism.
The views expressed above are my own and doesn't represent view of any particular organization or group.
Monday, December 29, 2008
New Year : New Resolutions
Let me start with wishing everybody a very happy new year 2009 in advance. I've got a competition at my office - One has to take a new resolution for the new year and the best resolution will be get awarded. I start to think what best resolution I can take so that I can get awarded and then get drifted away to many thoughts which keep revolving in my mind to divert me from research.
The world and the fate till now is very fair with me and my family. I've got a very caring parents, an elder sister - married and living happily, an elder brother - highly qualified but (perhaps) voluntarily not accepting small jobs with the sole intention to get placed in a high-profile job(and I am sure he'll make it). I've got a very good job- handsome salary, security, flexible working hours, profile of my interest(interest), many caring friends (No, I don't have gf or gfs if you suspect as I don't like 'oxford' meaning of it. Yes if you ask I do have many female friends) and many marriage proposals. So, what else I need. I really couldn't think up any resolution I should take.
And then I get a challenge me if I can prove if I can anyway differentiate myself from an animal - " Some tears can be wiped, some blood can be washed and life restarted. Indians are attuned to this routine for centuries, overcoming waves of invasion and carnages. Animals are better healed by time than medicine. Dawa se dua kabhi kabhi accha hota hain, as they say in Urdu-sometimes prayer is better than medicine. These clichés are parts of our lulling process, which we recite and go to sleep. After all, the animal must live and continue to survive. "(ref: http://maloykrishnadhar.com/do-not-wash-this-blood-do-not-wipe-this-tear-get-angry).
It badly hurts my ego of being successful figure, my self-dignity of being a respected civilised citizen, my proudness of being an Indian and last but not the least my chauvinistic view of being a 'male'. It takes away my sleep and I start searching for a single quality that can make me superior to animals except that I can be a part of fashion show as I've the choice to choose a cloth to wear.
What I did till now?? What we as Indians did till now?? Yes we've shouted slogans - we're descendents of great aryas and rishis, our culture is the best... blah blah but ever we tried to protect the values of those established by them? Did we ever tried live or even understand the culture, the spirituality, the religion whom we've often found talking? We followed and worshiped Rama, Krishna, Buddha etc by different-different names but never cared to imbibe a single quality of them. We never understood the basic philosophy of Indian religion that one can reach the status of God if one starts adopting Godly qualities though we worshiped Gyaneshwar, Tukaram, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Vivekanand, Sai baba, Samarth Guru Ramdas etc.
We often went in front of God idols with new demands every time (mostly by bribing him). What if the God demands something from us - Our courage, our examples, our actions to prove that greatness of God?
'Action speaks louder than words' and it has been repeated loudly many times through many verses, in many versions, by many examples but still it is practised in words only. May be I've got a good point to take resolution. I'll try to understand the core values of spirituality to the limit of my mind and boost the inner-self, with self-confidence so that it I can stand against undesired in whatever way. I'll conquer 'lust and gold' to the extent possible without renouncing the world, and prove the greatness of my God, my Guru, whom I belief through example of mine. I'll make awake the God inside me.
I also pray my God to punish me if I ever deviate from my resolution.
The world and the fate till now is very fair with me and my family. I've got a very caring parents, an elder sister - married and living happily, an elder brother - highly qualified but (perhaps) voluntarily not accepting small jobs with the sole intention to get placed in a high-profile job(and I am sure he'll make it). I've got a very good job- handsome salary, security, flexible working hours, profile of my interest(interest), many caring friends (No, I don't have gf or gfs if you suspect as I don't like 'oxford' meaning of it. Yes if you ask I do have many female friends) and many marriage proposals. So, what else I need. I really couldn't think up any resolution I should take.
And then I get a challenge me if I can prove if I can anyway differentiate myself from an animal - " Some tears can be wiped, some blood can be washed and life restarted. Indians are attuned to this routine for centuries, overcoming waves of invasion and carnages. Animals are better healed by time than medicine. Dawa se dua kabhi kabhi accha hota hain, as they say in Urdu-sometimes prayer is better than medicine. These clichés are parts of our lulling process, which we recite and go to sleep. After all, the animal must live and continue to survive. "(ref: http://maloykrishnadhar.com/do-not-wash-this-blood-do-not-wipe-this-tear-get-angry).
It badly hurts my ego of being successful figure, my self-dignity of being a respected civilised citizen, my proudness of being an Indian and last but not the least my chauvinistic view of being a 'male'. It takes away my sleep and I start searching for a single quality that can make me superior to animals except that I can be a part of fashion show as I've the choice to choose a cloth to wear.
What I did till now?? What we as Indians did till now?? Yes we've shouted slogans - we're descendents of great aryas and rishis, our culture is the best... blah blah but ever we tried to protect the values of those established by them? Did we ever tried live or even understand the culture, the spirituality, the religion whom we've often found talking? We followed and worshiped Rama, Krishna, Buddha etc by different-different names but never cared to imbibe a single quality of them. We never understood the basic philosophy of Indian religion that one can reach the status of God if one starts adopting Godly qualities though we worshiped Gyaneshwar, Tukaram, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Vivekanand, Sai baba, Samarth Guru Ramdas etc.
We often went in front of God idols with new demands every time (mostly by bribing him). What if the God demands something from us - Our courage, our examples, our actions to prove that greatness of God?
'Action speaks louder than words' and it has been repeated loudly many times through many verses, in many versions, by many examples but still it is practised in words only. May be I've got a good point to take resolution. I'll try to understand the core values of spirituality to the limit of my mind and boost the inner-self, with self-confidence so that it I can stand against undesired in whatever way. I'll conquer 'lust and gold' to the extent possible without renouncing the world, and prove the greatness of my God, my Guru, whom I belief through example of mine. I'll make awake the God inside me.
I also pray my God to punish me if I ever deviate from my resolution.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
after a long time...
I feel it's a long time since I've made any entry to my blog. Well, perhaps I am more busy than Amitabh Bachchan or Aamir khan, so not able to maintain my blog very frequently. By the way, during these four months, lots of important events passed through my life, which .
To make a note of few, I appeared in GRE and comfortably screwed it, I visited home, witnessed Indians turning Maharashtrians and vice-versa, Read lots of hues and crys over so-called Digvijay Singh's Hindu Terrorism, and then also faced what could be the real face of terrorism. Let me also recollect, what were the important events during these days, when I actually thought to express my voice in the blog but couldn't - perhaps when i saw Jesus Christ being worshipped like a Hindu God with flowers and akshat in a temple-kind of structure somewhere in Jharkhand, when I need to write an essay and arguement for GRE exam(I thought it could be a good platform, where other's comments will evaluate my skill), when I visited Vanchit-vikas neehar, an institution of rehabilitation of children of commercial sex workers, during Deewali, when I visited and closely watched the life of people from red-light area, When I saw Indians dying, being beaten up on their soil in the fire of regionalism, when I saw people changing their faith and religion so that they can lawfully embrace their spouse, when I saw Tata's coming out of Singur, when I saw Taj burning, when my damped eyes became unusually red over the reactions of politicians on Mumbai terror attack, when I recently visited Akola to attend a youth camp by Gayatri Pariwar.............and how many more times.
Well I think I am missing something, there are many events, mush more important than this - India got first gold in olympics and Abhinav Bindra got award of more than 5 crores, Indian cricket team proudly beated Australia and england - in one-day as well as test, Rakhi Sawant bagged many controversies, Rahul Mahajan broke the rules of big-boss, Pravathy Omanakuttan just missed one step to became 3rd miss world of India............
You know the problem with the country - Movies don't mimic citizen lifes but citizens copy the screens, sports donot reflect patriotism - patriotism burst out of game, - people have became habituated to live in illusion and forget the truth. Somewhere I read a good quote - "Reality is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency" - I feel India has became the country of drunkards, where they keep living in imaginary world, most of the times the world created by fancy people, till they die. For example, I don't know how many people not affected by recent terror attack at mumbai, could feel the pain of motherland India, but they'll definitely cry when they see Ritesh Deshmukh dying by a bullet of a terrorist in Ram Gopal Verma's movie with a background score.
If the citizens of a country are like, I couldn't perceive what'll be future of my country. Infact my future too - Will I able to reach a natural death or become a victim of terror attack or a riot due to regional, religional, lingual differences, die in an accident by falling from a highly crowded local or come under a truck due to undisciplined traffic, die of a heart attack or diseases like cancer, aids etc, die of a natural disaster, which perhaps shouldn't be termed as natural but these are actually caused by human exploitation of nature. Probably that is story of each & every citizen living particularly in metropolitans. They die everyday before death, when going out, with the fear that they don't know that will they be able to see the face of wife or children or family again. Still if we can't think up any revolution, I feel we're so habituated to the 'drink' that it has failed our nervous system to think or stand or arise against what is undesired.
To make a note of few, I appeared in GRE and comfortably screwed it, I visited home, witnessed Indians turning Maharashtrians and vice-versa, Read lots of hues and crys over so-called Digvijay Singh's Hindu Terrorism, and then also faced what could be the real face of terrorism. Let me also recollect, what were the important events during these days, when I actually thought to express my voice in the blog but couldn't - perhaps when i saw Jesus Christ being worshipped like a Hindu God with flowers and akshat in a temple-kind of structure somewhere in Jharkhand, when I need to write an essay and arguement for GRE exam(I thought it could be a good platform, where other's comments will evaluate my skill), when I visited Vanchit-vikas neehar, an institution of rehabilitation of children of commercial sex workers, during Deewali, when I visited and closely watched the life of people from red-light area, When I saw Indians dying, being beaten up on their soil in the fire of regionalism, when I saw people changing their faith and religion so that they can lawfully embrace their spouse, when I saw Tata's coming out of Singur, when I saw Taj burning, when my damped eyes became unusually red over the reactions of politicians on Mumbai terror attack, when I recently visited Akola to attend a youth camp by Gayatri Pariwar.............and how many more times.
Well I think I am missing something, there are many events, mush more important than this - India got first gold in olympics and Abhinav Bindra got award of more than 5 crores, Indian cricket team proudly beated Australia and england - in one-day as well as test, Rakhi Sawant bagged many controversies, Rahul Mahajan broke the rules of big-boss, Pravathy Omanakuttan just missed one step to became 3rd miss world of India............
You know the problem with the country - Movies don't mimic citizen lifes but citizens copy the screens, sports donot reflect patriotism - patriotism burst out of game, - people have became habituated to live in illusion and forget the truth. Somewhere I read a good quote - "Reality is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency" - I feel India has became the country of drunkards, where they keep living in imaginary world, most of the times the world created by fancy people, till they die. For example, I don't know how many people not affected by recent terror attack at mumbai, could feel the pain of motherland India, but they'll definitely cry when they see Ritesh Deshmukh dying by a bullet of a terrorist in Ram Gopal Verma's movie with a background score.
If the citizens of a country are like, I couldn't perceive what'll be future of my country. Infact my future too - Will I able to reach a natural death or become a victim of terror attack or a riot due to regional, religional, lingual differences, die in an accident by falling from a highly crowded local or come under a truck due to undisciplined traffic, die of a heart attack or diseases like cancer, aids etc, die of a natural disaster, which perhaps shouldn't be termed as natural but these are actually caused by human exploitation of nature. Probably that is story of each & every citizen living particularly in metropolitans. They die everyday before death, when going out, with the fear that they don't know that will they be able to see the face of wife or children or family again. Still if we can't think up any revolution, I feel we're so habituated to the 'drink' that it has failed our nervous system to think or stand or arise against what is undesired.
Friday, August 8, 2008
The erratic in me ...?
One day I get a good morning mail reading - "A good relation doesn't depend on how good understandings we've but how better we can avoid misunderstandings." and my memories goes back to the days when I lost(perhaps??) many good relations, which I could've cherished much better due to my uncompromising behavior when an misunderstanding came in the way and most recently the compassion, love and care of our very good sisters(For whom I care too much!). Did I really loose the good relations?- I don't feel so, I only changed the way how I was cherishing it. May I became a bit matured! May be I don't need lap of Mamma any more to feel her love for me. Does this any diminish my love and care to any one?
When the misunderstanding arose and so called the erratic in me started appearing in me, I've been wished with many sorries and explanations but in spite of getting convinced that everything is now smooth, the erratic in refused to disappear(I may look for why?). And the obvious questions that was frequently asked by the sisters to me that did I get hurt due to any their act? Did I? Did anyone? A simple answer can be - did Papa get hurt when I couldn't fulfill his expectations at any moment of time?
Ultimately everything boils down to expectations. Exceptions here means, expectation that our relations have reached up to the level to be compared with any blood-relation, that they can fight, quarrel or even beat me if they don't agree with me at some point, expectation that I'll never hurt them.
BTW, how to get rid of these expectations? and I choose the way, which may called the escapist way. Perhaps, this is the best way for the kind of persons as me. Let your emotions give a different direction - the direction which every enlightened person including our Gurudev suggests- get rid of Moha as you break the thread! Well, it doesn't mean to abandon every relationship but to come out of relational complexity, doesn't get attached to one particular face or body but to get attached to beautiful conciousness which is equally present in every creature, doesn't let anybody cry including you due to various expectations but take a path going through min expectations and can make most of them smile, to make all the relations smooth rather than zig-zag, to learn the way to accept people in their way and if possible learn and teach better ways to live. But Is it so simple? - perhaps no, perhaps very difficult, perhaps next to impossible - my mann says.
And, then my soul interrupts - 'did u born to do only simple things? You cry when you find you can't meet the expectations of your sisters or say, vice versa? Doesn't your eyes gets wet, when you see thousands of your brothers and sisters are crying with much difficult problems? Didn't they expect anything from you?'
And, hence I find why my erratic refuse to disappear. Once a relation gets taste of complexities- the cries, the sorries, the formalities - come out of it easily without hurting anyone or else you'll be trapped. But In the way, you loose the many opportunities to have experience and learn learn from these souls, you loose to see your friends to their emotional best, you make an image to have a personality with erratic behavior and quite unemotional, you loose the love and care you would've been if you continued to go on the same way with few tears and smiles but that is the price you pay right when you decide that that you've to play a role , which may need sacrifice at every step. Perhaps here I begin to understand..........
When the misunderstanding arose and so called the erratic in me started appearing in me, I've been wished with many sorries and explanations but in spite of getting convinced that everything is now smooth, the erratic in refused to disappear(I may look for why?). And the obvious questions that was frequently asked by the sisters to me that did I get hurt due to any their act? Did I? Did anyone? A simple answer can be - did Papa get hurt when I couldn't fulfill his expectations at any moment of time?
Ultimately everything boils down to expectations. Exceptions here means, expectation that our relations have reached up to the level to be compared with any blood-relation, that they can fight, quarrel or even beat me if they don't agree with me at some point, expectation that I'll never hurt them.
BTW, how to get rid of these expectations? and I choose the way, which may called the escapist way. Perhaps, this is the best way for the kind of persons as me. Let your emotions give a different direction - the direction which every enlightened person including our Gurudev suggests- get rid of Moha as you break the thread! Well, it doesn't mean to abandon every relationship but to come out of relational complexity, doesn't get attached to one particular face or body but to get attached to beautiful conciousness which is equally present in every creature, doesn't let anybody cry including you due to various expectations but take a path going through min expectations and can make most of them smile, to make all the relations smooth rather than zig-zag, to learn the way to accept people in their way and if possible learn and teach better ways to live. But Is it so simple? - perhaps no, perhaps very difficult, perhaps next to impossible - my mann says.
And, then my soul interrupts - 'did u born to do only simple things? You cry when you find you can't meet the expectations of your sisters or say, vice versa? Doesn't your eyes gets wet, when you see thousands of your brothers and sisters are crying with much difficult problems? Didn't they expect anything from you?'
And, hence I find why my erratic refuse to disappear. Once a relation gets taste of complexities- the cries, the sorries, the formalities - come out of it easily without hurting anyone or else you'll be trapped. But In the way, you loose the many opportunities to have experience and learn learn from these souls, you loose to see your friends to their emotional best, you make an image to have a personality with erratic behavior and quite unemotional, you loose the love and care you would've been if you continued to go on the same way with few tears and smiles but that is the price you pay right when you decide that that you've to play a role , which may need sacrifice at every step. Perhaps here I begin to understand..........
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