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Nothing Transformed

As Vishnu always say to me :observe the patterns,sometimes I take it seriously. Since last 3 to 4 months I have been reading books on contemporary topics of my father’s age and have been talking,roaming with people who are much younger than me. I have my life in between to connect the dots or draw patterns between 3 generations. What I observed is pretty startling. Generations and Generations are passed by but the pretty nature of life has not transformed much. My observations are as follows: ·           Each Generation was faced with confusion ,agony and turmoil and done nothing to resolve it or address it but passed them to next generation creating even more confusion ,agony and turmoil.             Technology has made life comfortable but the nature of the life has deteriorated. ·           There is absolutely no tolerance for conflicts and indifferences ·     ...

I Can Count the Stars

In my childhood during the night I used to sleep on terrace of my house .Lying on my bed, I used to count the stars to get sleep. My count never crossed 100 as I would have slept by then. After 15 years, When I am sleeping on the terrace of my house and tried to count the stars, I am actually able to count them. Shocked!!! Do not think I am genius. If I can, you can too provided you should be living in Cities. What it has to do with cities?  Everything. The reason I am able to count the stars is that I am able to see a few of them. Due to the air pollution the light coming from most of the stars in not reaching the earth and thus they are not seen. Initially I thought all stars are dead and World is on the verge of ending soon. When I am talking to my friend T about the same, T pointed the root cause of the issue and said that if I could go to the villages I could able to see the stars. The same night after I had the discussion with T, I was watching the SKY and cannot b...

Becoming a little Lighter

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Philosophy is in my blood. If you chat with me for 30 min I will atleast refer it 7 to 9 times or perhaps more. People  were puzzled, and even considered  me foolish /stupid and if the person was woman /gal she would go mad. Some people thought I would become sanaysi at one point of time. It has reached a point where for even I do not get a cup of tea I started referring philosophy which made people even more mad and this in turn made me mad. I tried to control it but I could not. As George Bernard had put it more eloquently “ Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman but believing what he read made him mad.” I guess I am Don Quixote in making. I was brought up in a lower middle class Brahim family. Philosophy is everything for us. To get motivation I referred philosophy, to calm myself I referred philosophy, to get answered questions I referred philosophy, if my dad sends my brother out of the house since he did not make it into top 3 of the class I referred philosophy,  wh...

Change Version 2.0

Everybody resists change and feels uncomfortable when encountered one. Then when do the change starts or who starts change. If everybody resists change how can we recognize one. A Quote from the Sarkar Movie goes on similar lines between Sarkar and his wife. Sarkar’s wife: U need to change as per the time Sarkar: If we change as per time how do we recognize the change at the first place. When you go through different books on change , each and every book quotes that u need to start changing within oneself first in order to see a change outside.That does not mean ur driving a change outside or things will change outside but it just means that the way you look the things will change. That is a total discussion altogether. Coming back to the topic on change :who / when would the change start. Each and everybody likes a bit change from their daily routines every now and then. But if you ask them to change the routine itself they will definitely resists. In life at one poi...

No Travel in Summer

I do not know what happened suddenly some of my friends called for going to vacation in Summer and some are asking for suggestions. I simply said them that to take rest at home. There is no point to going on summer vacation in India until and unless u r some unconventional adventurist or a trekker. Here are my reasons for suggesting my friends to take rest at home: ·       First of fall wherever you go you fill find lots and lots of people which leads to long waiting list wherever you go and finally you do not even find enough space for your own self. ·       Prices of hotels / restaurants / taxis for that matter any vehicles will be exuberantly high. ·       Traffic congestion due to huge inflow of vehicles on to the towns / cities which are in capable of handling the congestion. ·       Finally scorching hot weather. You wont feel like coming out during the day and th...

Women’s Day Special

On March 8 th as usual I was getting all the women’s day SMS /FWD messages / email chains. Sitting at my cubicle in the office I was thinking about the all the women I talked   in my last 25 yrs of existence. All the nice conversations, Kodak moments, funny incidents rolled like a reel in front of my mind. The following 3 people’s life I adore the most not because of who they are ? or what they have done in their life but because of how they are leading their lives. The commonality among them is all are good fighters in their life. UDAY’s MOTHER :                  She is my childhood frined’s mother but became one of my best friends during the course of my life. She is always there for me during my low times of life.She used to tell stories to make my low times bearable.She had struggled through out her life in one way or another.Fighting in life has become routine for her.Sometimes she...

Astrology

Last two to three weeks I am hearing about astrology from every 2nd person I have called. One friend was scolding astrologers for making his life a little discomfort by bluffing his parents; another friend’s parents were worried due to a comment made by one astrologer on their daughter’s marriage; my brother was against my family astrologer’s forecast and I myself was in utter shock due to various forecast made various astrologers on various things for various people and ultimately all turned out to utter non-sense. What people say about astrology is it predicts our future on the basic assumption that our life is predestined. Is life predestined? If yes what is the point of doing hard work or for that matter do something / anything in life? We can just sit at one place and wait for the things to happen. I guess the only thing that can happen is DEATH at one point or another and I guess only DEATH is predestined. Destiny, u r destined to sth, etc., are used just to motivate people t...