Alchemy Of Thoughts!!

Surprise Script

2009-12-14T09:52:00.001+05:30

Rarely do we come across situation in life, Where we think of our future and dream of walking it all Alone, and within a week do we realize that the event around your life have taken such a twist and turn, that the dream that I imagined of walking alone, may be shared by someone else, and you have a company to assist you till the very end of your journey.
Our personal ambitions are outcome of our skill and the environment we grow, & nothing better than the truth that you end up getting a company who will tend to share your dream as OUR own dream. No wonder someone correctly remarked, When your dream are no more thine or mine, but OUR’s, it’s the onset of a beautiful relation that is about to being scripted in your life. How often an individual goes through such a phase in life, where mere fraction of time have elapsed before eyes have met glances, thoughts shared, horoscope matched and have mutually agreed to have their life bound together in such a short span of time (guess mere 5 days).
Some days get etched in your memory forever, sometime for the significant/misfortunate event that occur then, But how about a day for which you always knew would surely come sometime, but comes in such instantaneous fraction which takes all people and nearby completely by surprise. Having gone through such an experience myself, I’m sure Rush you to have gone through the same thought process. No wonder the Friday 11, 09 is the beginning of new script for us, but the speed at the which the script was drafted have taken quite a community by surprise. Apart from the event it’s the surprise element of that day and the days before that will etch in my memory for long.

Going On & On

2009-09-22T17:00:00.000+05:30

Nothing taste sweeter than your own sweat after you achieve what you initially set for. No goals are ever remembered and cherished longer which is earned easily. Every individual once in his life time sets a goal which he dreams of achieving. The drive towards his goal is the motivation that keeps him GOING ON & ON till he reach his goal.

Setting goals are as easy as dreaming about achieving your goals, but reaching your goals is what separates boys from men.I have a dream is what Martin Luther King, Jr said during his Lincoln Memorial speech at Washington DC, He promised his people that they shall not walk alone, and as they walk they always marched ahead and never turn back. He never lived to see his dream come true, but his words ensured that the people worked for the dream he lived for and truly do we see a society that has overcome its apartheid policy.

Have we ever wondered when are own chips are down, what have propelled us to reach our goal. Many a times we come across famous song, poem, speech or words of wisdom from our elders. These are more than sufficient to overcome the hurdles we face on the way to our destination. Motivation is not a phase of life, that you need to go through, buts its just a mere instant that makes you realize that you are worth every ounce of the dream you dreamnt of.

Difficulties are bound to come on a treacherous path that promises of a beautiful destination at its end. Lack of resources and hurdles we face en route always will linger back of the mind questioning the very existence of the beautiful destination we set out for, In such a dire situation when every grey cells deny and muscle hesitate to cooperate for the journey, and we are left alone treading the path. The answer is just Go On & On, Motivation is the source of potential that you can tap when the confidence is low and confusion high. Nothing follows Success as Success, nor Success after Failure, for its easy to get motivated when you are at either end. But when you are in transition between them what keeps us motivated is simply the dream. The pace at which you lose to achieve your goal is the indicator of you losing your motivation. The moment you lose motivation, you compromise on your target. And anything less than achieving your dream, is failure after all.

Your dream exist as long as you keep yourself motivated and the day you lose the motivation, your dream comes crashing. The most important of all your motivation lies on the foundation of your skill and talent. Skilled individual might lack motivation to achieve his goal, but a motivated individual always poses skill to reach his goal. On a final note, motivation is like the ladder on which you climb to reach you goal, but always check that your ladder rest against the right wall, lest you reach wrong top.

Lessons on Losing

2009-08-25T21:30:00.003+05:30

The greatest lesson ever learned are on the fields and not in the closed doors on the classes are quite often heard statements. But what has really has prompted this view is an interesting lesson by itself.The list of interesting tale at the end of intriguing matches have often gone down in the annals of history not just because they entertained the crowds, but the lesson that they taught the crowd. List of such incident that strikes my mind are the Edgbaston Test match of 2005, where Freddie console Lee after losing the test. The 2008 finals between rafa and roger at the australian open, where rafa acknowledges that roger is still the best. The lesson of humility amidst wild celebrations are such cornerstones of such epic incidents that down the history these incidents will be referred for such heart rendering incidents rather than the winner of the match.
Each legendary sporting ground has a place dedicated to the greatest truth written by pioneering poets and author, such as the Wimbledon center court near the players entrance has a line mentioned from Rudyard Kipling, " If you can meet triumph and disaster and treat two impostors the same...". The sporting arena is the only place where the best awaits to ascend the surface, or the best sinks from the surface. No wonder one need to learn to treat both the incidents with same due regards.
Success and Failure on grounds are separated by mere fraction of time, space and energy in most of the events.The pain of losing from a whisker hurts deeper from the agony of body injuries in the game. Losing on the ground is lesson by itself, for it gives you an opportunity to reguard to prepare again for the glory next time. No wonder individuals who really lose the game but not the lesson come back to win emphatically the next time. Well no points for guessing the 5-0 whitewash in Ashes 2007, nor the Edberg-Becker Wimbledon final classics. The list of such games and matches are listless, where in the loser comes back to claim back his title. Such incident do keep the magic rivalry ensuring on and on. The winner always take the cup and the glory and rarely the motivation to keep going on next time, but the loser takes only the defeat to his advantage to win next time. If losing still gives you nothing it makes the next victory sweeter. So lets remember losing and winning are no doubt part and parcel of the games and sports( extensively used cliche), but the lessons learned from either of them are priceless.
We lose not when we lose the game, but lose to learn the lesson from the game. For the lessons once learnt, we know we rarely do we lose.The real champions are not the ones who have tasted success extensively, but the ones who have learnt the lesson from losing. Since for every failure one endures he gets an opportunity to get things right, and the champions keeps playing till he gets everything right. So next time when we face losing, remember to take your lesson back home.

LOVE or HATE.

2009-03-10T13:22:00.005+05:30

There were several instances that have spun over the wheel of time in the recent past that has my grey cell triggered into contemplative mood once again. "Over the years I came across several situation and decided to choose Love over Hate and that's why I'm here". This statement made by our own Allah Rakha Rahman at the Kodak theater while collecting his Second Oscar for his composition 'Jai Ho'. There is profound depth in the statement he made on the stage. The second instance that have occurred within a fortnight of such Joyous occasion is the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers while on their way to Gadaffi stadium to play the second test. While its difficult to see any analogy between 2 incident, I found an underlying current of collective human emotion that drives beneath the 2 incident, The word 'Love & Hate' as Rahman uttered says it All.
The most simplest and purest of Human emotion that's present in any individual irrespective of his age is Love. It's a feeling that Human is born with and gets reflected in every activity he/she pursues. It requires no training to Love someone whom you never know. It's the most spontaneous of the human emotion that erupts from within and encompasses all who are near. Love is the basis of all human emotion. In fact every positive human feeling has it origin in Love. Dedication, Devotion, Discipline and Determination owes its origin to the presence of Love in individual.
If an individual loves his work, it gets reflected in his determination and dedication to the work he does. If the individual loves people around and avoid hurting other by any mean, it get reflected in his disciplined attitude. If the individual loves the Almighty it get reflected in his devotion. So any good human trait that one can thinks has it foundation laid on Love. The purest, unsullied emotion of Love has woven intricate and simple incidents in Human history, that depicts its ability to achieve ones destiny against every odds. Love for one's brethren irrespective of the origin, which in fact is the need of the hour is Non-Violence is all about. Mahatma Gandhi stood for Non-Violence(Ahimsa) that was because he loved the people around him. You just can't hurt a person if you Love them. Loving as an emotion is not limited to the people we are aware or Know. In fact it spread beyond the realms of our relative, parents and friendship. The greatest Living example in the contemporary world Mankind had ever seen was Mother Teresa. Her Love for the weak, week after week was the living testimonial that Love for an individual outside your nearest neighborhood can make the greatest difference in the life of people. If Love is the Zenith of the Human emotion, then Nadir is Hate.
Hate is the basis of all the weak and negative trait that can be found in Human. If you hate others then you are jealous of his success, you become angry at there demeanor. But an aspect which surprisingly is so different between Hate and Love is, It's easy to Love people you never know, But its so hard to hate people you never knew. Revenge is the form of hate but its a repercussion of action against an individual who Hurt you. But to hurt other whom you never encountered in your life is the greatest danger Mankind is facing today.
My belief that Terrorism is outcome of revenge against some foreign occupation, Religious Intolerance,Governmental policies, Economic Disparity and list is endless, got thwarted when we see terrorist attack people indiscriminately, without FEAR and LOGIC. To Hate others you never know, you have to train them diligently ensuring that their thinking defies every norm of logic and reasoning. That's the reason the terrorist aren't emotional and trained only to kill, irrespective of the creed, nationality and religion. Fighting and killing your enemy(Only in War & Battle) at least make sense because of some demographic or economic disparity. Being Jealous, envying someone whom you know also make a bit sense, since you can't withstand their success. Being angry at someone is acceptable who haven't behaved well with you. In all the above cases you are aware of your so called enemy, But the way the Terrorist are trained to Hate, they know not their targets identity. Thus the possibility of feeling remorse after attack is remote, wherein in any other vengeance there is every chance the individual might seek pardon or request amnesty. But the future doesn't look bleak as the present may be, where every nook and corner of the world is infected with Hate resulting in Terrorist activities causing harm both the people and property. The remedial solution are endless, but permanent solution can only be replacing Hate with Love, If one is trained to Hate others; effort need to be put to teach people to love others so as to ensure a beautiful legacy of mankind has to survive into the future.
Thus Love and Hate as 2 emotion are a quite a powerful force that can drive mankind to achieve greatness or doom.

In Love

2009-02-11T11:48:00.002+05:30

When Separation agonizes the Mind,
You Know you are in Love.
When you compromise your Happiness for theirs happiness,
You know you are in Love.
When your dream are no more yours But Our's
You know you are in Love.
In solitude when you think of none, but only them,
you know you are in Love.
If you Lust not for gratification, but for Intimacy,
You know you are in Love.
When you trust None, But Only One,
You know you are in Love.
When pain and Fear dissolves in their Presence,
You know you are in Love.
When Heart takes precedence over Mind in making decisions,
You know you are in Love.
Now you Know you are in Love,
Not Because you choose, But it Chanced.

May Be It's Written

2009-01-22T18:44:00.003+05:30

So Jamal are you ready for the final question for 20 Million rupees. So you know the answer, No I dont, But i will still play, because it 'may be written'. This is how the final tense scene is shot in Slumdog Millionaire. Hmmm a sort of movie might be nominated for the Oscars and has won already 4 golden globe awards for best direction, best screen play, best motion picture and best original score by our own A.R. Rahman.
Did the movie strike the real cord of slum dwellers, could it capture the the hardship faced by inmates of the slum, or was it fairy tale journey of the Jamal written on a backdrop of destitute society. Well I have no intention of answering the question, nor as a serious film watcher could the quality of direction or music score really appall me. Movie making should be a culture, rather a business. It should portray a obvious message at the end of show and most important if it can ever get the grey cells working then the very purpose of movie making has reached it very goal. This movie might be classified as a good entertainer, while for the West it might end up showing India still as third world country and plethora of problem among which Poverty, Corruption & Malfeasance still dominates our daily routine. There is One aspect which strike mine grey matter for sure, is the dialogue which keep uttering through out the movie, "May Be it's Written".
How do you perceive this statement is very important, It has a very deep hidden message buried in it. There is a sanskrit sloka which goes as," Taena vina trunapi na chalathi" which means 'Not even the blade of grass moves without my will'. It's a gem of a statement which separates the Theists from Atheists. For the devotee of Almighty its a great truth that strengthens his belief. But a pessimist can view this as reason for not being active enough to carry out his duties and work, after all there is nothing in my hand, and simply utter 'sab kuch upar wale ke haath main hain'. But this missing logic which everyone misses is, 'Results are not in our Hand, But We are very much responsible for our Action'. Lord Krishna taught this greatest truth to Arjuna in his Universal message to mankind in Bhagvad Gita. We are bound by actions and cannot escape our duties and responsibility. The flaw in the reasoning if everything is Written why Bother?, The Answer to this fallacy is Our approach to work is not good performance but good outcome. The Theists approaches this statement as, Whatever happens is always for good, for it is willed by the God, But the greatest pitfall can be If good things are happening around him, He will always praise well wishers and thanks God. But the moment event around him turns ugly he curse his ally and accuse God of playing false with him. The statement,' It's the will of God' are or those who don't elate during happy times and get dejected during failure. The one who keeps his balanced composure both during Happy & Sad times is the One who really can say, "May Be It's Written".
After all Results are consequence of Action, but response to be Happy or Sad is our own Decision. And the one who keep the balanced state of Mind (Stithapragnya)during Joy & Sorrow never falters. Thereby winning his shot of 20 million rupees at the end.

Breached Wall: UNDER CONSTRUCTION

2008-12-27T13:32:00.003+05:30

Just out of the Blue, in a response to one of the earlier blog I had written about a breaching wall, I'm writing a epilogue to earlier article. As per say the article has no relevance to any real story, but just is a figment of my imagination.

Well no dismantled piece of edifice leaves a happy tale to finish,
and usually leaves the inmates with a sore heart of losing his
valuable possession. A wall that has been breached hoping someone will
come to reside there permanently has come as a serious intimidation to
me, not knowing that someone who came so soon is also leaving back
from the same breached door.

Heart as you know is a single seat room, where there is place only
for one to sit and drive the body. Until you are alone it's your
conscience who drives your decision and life. But then there someone
else later who takes that place and steadies your journey of life.
Well I guess I was confident that few months had really given
me the free pass to your life. Not knowing that the place has been
occupied by someone else some time ago. How could I claim for
a spot there, when the seat is already reserved for someone else.

Though I haven't come to terms with myself and I hope I might soon
be able to reconstruct the cracked walls. But as said by someone, "Failure is all about acknowledging that you have lost". I still believe Im in contention for the seat. For it's my firm belief that decision you have made is more of prejudice than bare reality. Well I hope when you leave the portals of my vision you really feel the
lacuna in your heart and realize that you have missed a major part of your heart back with me and left for your destination ahead in your life. And I pray that these wonderful memories just doesn't becomes stock of grey cell in your upper compartment.

Finally I would end with the fact that I'm starting to rebuild this wall, but leaving a small aperture open just for you which will ever wait for you to occupy the seat for whom I had initially kept it empty.

INDIA EXPOSED.

2008-12-22T19:07:00.004+05:30

Post 26/11 attack has exposed India's weakness & inability to anticipate terror strike of such an large scale conspired by the foreign elements on the Indian soil. Foreign elements has created havoc in the country time and again that has been completely forgotten or ignored. In fact over the last few years there was surprisingly attack in almost 15 major cities around the country. Amidst all the terror strike committed on Indian soil, the one that occurred at Mumbai was the most heinous and dreadful. It was an attack that had been well planned and people trained like combats for the maximum damage and casualty. But at this juncture the efforts of our Policemen, NSG commando's are worthy of praise for the courage taken in order to eliminate the terrorist from the Hotels ensuring that as minimum of hostages were lost.
The last several years has been a witness to the rise of Extremist terrorism seen in our soil for the very first time. Surprisingly the enemy we were tackling for the last few decades just at the borders are no more a threat than the ones seen attacking us at the heart of the country. The account of lost lives & damaged infrastructure has been monumental arising from terrorist strike across the country. But whats surprises me is the astronomical failure of the government in repeatedly avoiding occurrence of such a attacks on the society.
The Joker in the movie The Dark Knight comments, When citizens are hurt by criminals, there isn't much fear in the society, where in if a high profile individual is targeted the society is inflated with tension. Imagine the similar type of response if had been possible after any bomb attacks that had been carried out earlier I guessed there would have been every possibility the society & the government would have taken more proactive steps.
Apart from planned training, brainwashing, religious intolerance, unprofessional, non committed, careless and irresponsible bureaucrats & politicians are responsible for the messy situation the country has landed into. The immediate consequence could be soon seen by rolling heads in the government incapable of handling the position they represented. So were the long list of high profile ministers letting lose & cheap words unworthy of there caliber and position, invoking the wrath of people across the country. Colossal failure of the country was exposed when a bunch of 10 armed people took the country at ransom for more than 60 hours. The collective failure of every unit was easily witnessed during the horrendous event. The Media had it own share of blame to carry which covered the interviews of the elite suffered but neglected the poor traveling at the other heritage center CST. Aam Aadmi voice was lost in oblivion where in the elite were exclusively covered even at their homes. The news channel and its anchors were busy showing the charred tables & broken crockery at the Hotels. While others were showcasing the live actions taken by the NSG commandos, forgetting that the greatest disaster that occurred at Munich 1972 Olympics was primarily due to live telecast of armed action by snipers that were viewed by the terrorist and who in turn finally killed the 11 athletes.
The dastardly attack has completely exposed our country inability to take proactive decision on preventing of any such future possible attack. Desperate situation doesn't require desperate response. Polarized society will only end up weakening the momentum require to solve the crisis. One thing for sure for me is that series of such attack has clearly shown us all of that, We might be a Soft Individuals, But we have also become a Soft Target.

Religious Intolerance.

2008-09-22T21:53:00.003+05:30

I ever wondered whether being born as Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Jew ever took me closer to God. If this wasn't the case why is the world hell bent on converting someone from one religion to other, and again reconverting them back. If a conversion to a religion is the ticket to long lasting peace, then I think the converters are forgetting the major clue. It's not the religion but the practice of your religion will take you closer to GOD, and grant one self everlasting peace and Happiness.
As the saying goes, The door of the Heavens opens for you for eternal joy and Bliss. But everyone forgets the preface to the quote, being a righteous man will you the get your share of bliss and happiness. Of late religious conversion is on rampart in Indian society. The country being secular has given the rights to its citizen to choose the religion he like and practice his culture without hesitation. The oppressed lower caste Hindu who have been tormented by the rich upper caste for ages have chosen to change there religion when provided an opportunity by the christian missionary. I wonder just by changing your religion does one get rid of all the difficulties of his life, Then surely just one religion would have survived over the centuries. Nobody has realized that suppression in lower caste arises due to economic factors and low illiteracy. Thus any organization want to really provide succor to the oppressed they should have ensure by providing them with education and employment opportunities. As Lord Jesus said, if you give fish to hungry, you feed him for the day, but if you teach him to fish, then you feed him for his life. Thus for this reason the christian missionary should be praised that they have set up school in the remote corners of the country, where government has failed to reach its masses. But if they think that by bargaining education and resources with their religion, they are mistaking their work ethics. Conversion & Reconversion has off late resulted in series of violent attacks on the majority & minority citizens of the country. Hills of Kandhamal which would have hardly striked anyone's sight on the Indian Map is now making headlines around the world over the issue of communal fight between the 2 groups. Though the reason between animosity between the 2 group though both initially belonged to lower Hindu caste earlier, has been fueled by the fact one group after conversion has a better literacy and influential position. The killing of a holy seer which has led to escalation of violence in the entire state of Orissa and as a result has affected the minority living in the other state like Karnataka. The situation is more of a political issue rather than a mere religious matter.
The reality of religious conversion being hidden amidst rubble's of political & economic disparity is the fact people are not converted by force or will, but driven to despair by living in a discarded society with no self respect and financial constrain. The people apart from promised a place for themselves in heaven from following a certain religion are given a identity in the society. It's this condition that makes them convert to different religion. Though there are various governmental law that need to be abide while conversion takes place, ensuring that conversion in not forceful & against there will. But the matter still remain untouched whether conversion gives you the peace and happiness which remained elusive when you were someone else, or was it just a route taken to avoid the societies neglect, poverty and desperation.

IT's not NORMAL Anymore.

2008-09-15T18:01:00.004+05:30

Last evening as I called up my aunty to check out how she was, the moment I heard of Delhi serial blast. She told me, that she was fine and things were back to normal soon. People were in fact also flocking to the bomb sites near the 2 famous busy markets of Delhi, to know how the situation looked.
The media ensured that the entire nation was aware of the new disaster that striked the country once again by covering the entire incident immediately after the blast till late night including live press from the Home minister, Chief Minister and other important dignitaries. The live response of entire nation echoes just one sentiment that whatever the terrorist do to steal the peace and normalcy of the country, we shall not budge, get afraid, and we will be back to our routine. It looks the serial blast have become a weekly affair in the country. Thus the citizens feel there is not much to be scared of. If you are unlucky then you suffer at the hands of the cruel fate, else we just end up speaking few words, how incompetent the federal government has become, that it is unable to provide security to its citizen.
The silver lining of the entire cowardice incident carried out by the terrorist that it has failed to induce fear in the heart of the citizens of the country. Though the attack has been carried out by a group of individual, it doesn't really matter to which group they belong to, what I fail to understand is in such attack those who die do not belong to any peculiar group. So the very purpose of fighting such an insurgency really serves no purpose. On what ideology are these incidents carried out, result is just destruction.
The media is holding debate amidst top politicians, whether to implement stringent anti-terror laws to uphold safety of the citizens. Some group is interested in training specialist for post attack investigation to avoid future attacks. Few other claims that we need to improvise out intelligence bureau so as to track the terrorist and pass on the necessary information to others. Some request others not to blame a particular society/group while the investigation is going on, though the indication invisibly points towards them. All these measure will no doubt help to solve if not completely avoid any future terrorist attacks.
Amidst all this turmoil there is certain change that's happening in the mindset of the INDIANS. Though we claim we are brave to face any such attack by the insurgent on us, that they can break our resolve to lead a routine life with peace and happiness. Deep amidst these claims, fear has found its root and we try to hide it by living a routine layman life. Else we wouldn't have become so remorse, for we pity only when we are helpless. This feeling of helpless has arisen from the seeds of fear, which is covered by our feeling of superficial existence. Thus when we speak that despite the serial bombing in my town, our life has been unaffected, it’s because we are helpless not knowing what to do, and say life is just normal. But the truth remains; life is no longer NORMAL anymore.

Shamefull Exit

2008-05-22T14:39:00.004+05:30

To be shown a red card in football match purely indicates that the team has to play the remaining part of the game with 1 player short. It plays a detrimental role as the one of player remains unmarked gives the opponent a huge chance of scoring relatively easy. To be booked for yellow card or red card for misconduct or dangerous challenge was introduced in football in 1970 FIFA world cup, and became mandatory in all forms of domestic matches since 1982.
On screen most of the time details are missed when we see player being booked committing a foul, but the on field referee and linesmen help make a sensible decision at last.The point I noticed as I sat and watched late night the Champions league final between Manchester United and Chelsea. There were ugly scenes that occurred in extra time as Tevez was pushed around and finally Didier Drogba was handed red card for slapping Vidic. The greatest ignominy that a player feels is being handed a red card and that on a special occasion like final of great football tournament. The greatest(most shameful) of such exit was that of Zinedin Zidane for head butting Materazzi. The player rated twice as the Fifa world player and golden ball winner in the year 2006, before making a shame full exit from sports with his famously infamous headbutt against Materazzi. So with Beckham against Argentina in the 1998 world cup quarter finals.
Some decision could have been harsh others subdued, but the fact is the player leaves the ground in shame. For some it could have been the most shameful exit of their career, for other just a punishment for their bad tackle on the opponent. It took me by suprise that there were some player on whom the entire teams moral and strength rest, and they carry the team spirit till the dying moment of the great matches only to lose their cool in some untoward incident( they might have been provoked). This exit for many has caused the team to lose their trophies Zidane and Drogba are the 2 names that immediately strikes me as i remember watching the entire match only to realize that their misconduct resulted in losing the silverware for their team.
I just feel that heavy expectation from these players result in loosing their head in the most crucial moments of the game. But after all its these pressure that test every player and separates boys from men.

Blowing The Flame.

2008-05-14T15:18:00.009+05:30

Human right violation is not new to mankind, and has occurred ever since man has ruled his fellow men. The society with power and an eager thirst to conquer beyond its occupied territory has always resulted in clash between societies with and without power always resulting in destruction of life and property. The aftermath of such conquest is of more importance as it always result in extreme human right violation, resulting from the revolt of sufferers.
Most of the occasion, the suffering of the oppressed is slipped below the carpet in name of planned violence. But the present scenario, where Chinese government unleashed terror in Tibet resulting in large scale death of local citizens needs appropriate solution. The western world views it as complete death of democracy in Tibet, where as the Tibetans voiced there protest against the Chinese government by disrupting the Olympic flame throughout the world Olympic relay beginning from Athens, London, Paris, San Francisco and Delhi.The question that got highlighted was whether Tibetans were right in their attempt to disrupt the Olympic flame, did it get the required attention by the world in large of the growing atrocities of the Chinese government towards the Tibetans.
A certain part of me accepted the way the Tibetans voiced their protest, as its well known that their peace loving master Dalai Lama is completely against any form of violence, and he ensured that in any kind of protest that were carried out were completely non-violent. Disrupting a rally without hurting, or breaking any law is clearly a matured form of voicing concern. The most important point to notice is none of the protest resulted in any damage of any life or property. They ensured that by targeting the Olympic torch run which ran news in every corner of the world, the Tibetans could reach out to the entire world showing the atrocities suffered by them under the illegitimate Chinese rule.
But how right were they in targeting an event which plans to unite mankind under a single umbrella. Sports and games represented in Olympic brings out the best of an individual, It's a proud moment for any individual to represent his/her country and win accolades by competing with the best in the world. Chinese Olympic event has become a political target for everyone to voice their concern about Chinese inability to provide humanitarian succor to people in Darfur and Tibet. Even Steven Spielberg quit the Olympic artist director after mentioning that he felt the Chinese government did nothing to resolve the crisis at Darfur despite having such strong hold in Sudan national politics. Even the event got out of proportion in India when many top notched sports person decided not to involve themselves in the torch run. Even decision by great leaders to boycott the opening and closing Olympic ceremony as a mean to drive home the message that the Chinese government is wrong in there approach to handle the humanitarian crisis in Tibetan and Darfur.
It looks absurd to choose an occasion like sports to voice their concern about political crisis around the world. Sports is an event that should try to unite mankind in spite of all the differences that exist amidst us, but by we are missing the opportunity that we get what sport and games has to offer. My views are not against the voicing of the concern, but against the occasion used to voice the concern.

Uniting the Nation

2008-03-06T17:17:00.002+05:30

With Raj Thackeray politically trying to create divide amidst Maharashtrian by accusing north Indian migrant of swamping state financial situation, blaming them for lack of opportunity for the fellow Maharastrian. Along with which few big bollywood names lending support to his cause, it look surprising, instead of going ahead, we are creating plans and vision for the nation to lead it backward. There are contentious issues, sporadic event occurring throughout that scares the uniting fabric of the nation.
But what surprised me completely as I watched the second finals between young Indian blue and Oz down under, with the Team India defeated the world champ by 9 runs to claim there first tri-series series against Australia in Australia. It was a great cricketing achievement for the nation to be proud of its young sportstars. The nation goes frenzy and start to throw abuse on every possible cricketer, captain and coach when the team loses, but then praises lavishly on team members for there victory. Every news channel have at least a hour of news daily about cricket, though it might have no relation to any on-field event. Cricket news sell more hotter than the news regarding Darfur Crisis, US presidential election or may be even recently concluded Indian budget.
What really bind the nation amidst the geographical boundaries is the spirit of cricket, it unites the old and young, rich and poor, illiterate and literate. No wonder the game of cricket is aptly called the 'Religion of the developing India.' With Sachin, Yuvraj, Dhoni or even Dravid raised to the status of demigod. It's no doubt that they have become a sort of ideal personality for youngsters to cheer about. Every Indian has a variety of suggestion, comment and advice for the players, (God knows how many ever played on ground with full guard) but yet each have a comment to share on everyone of them.
Nation being cricket crazy brings upon itself an unique way of bringing it citizen dwell on some common interest they share among themselves. Cricket gives the citizen a platform to express themselves, which otherwise people have really nothing to share or comment with others. For many it looks the game has taken priority over many other relevant issues and other forms of game. But what is more important is it has brought under itself variety of people with all possible background to share a common agenda. If cricket can be used as a medium to impart some message to the nation, its bound to reach the corners of the boundary.
Rarely does an country can boast of some issue that can bring it entire clan to be proactive, but here in India, cricket has achieved the status which no other agenda, issue or event can bring the entire nation on the edge of it chair. If utilized properly as a right medium, cricket has the ability to unite the nation, beyond the realm of any social, religious or political framework.

For SALE, For SALE........

2008-01-08T22:10:00.004+05:30

Well this is an article that is the outcome of a debate competition held back in my campus amidst PhD graduates, where we discussed the ensuring legality of human sale was beneficial. Well i did take stance for favoring the motion and what follow below is my perspective of the topic. It's for not creating any controversial stir as the topic is highly sensitive and has to be handled with utmost care and logical viewpoint.
The excerpt are as follow.....
Ladies and Gentleman of Elite Intellectual society
I'm not here to sensationalize, the issue but want every individual look at the matter from a pragmatic perspective. Over the last few weeks every newspaper has carried the news of immigrant workers being exploited of there body organs specially Kidney without there CONSENT. Such news are sufficient to stir human right activist, and in turn every news channel and in general entire public.
Well let me portray some statistics, people say numbers can be misleading, but most of the time they do are informative. Just in the state of Delhi and Harayana, there were 2000 patients who received kidney transplant, where is just 30 were from relatives, by the way its illegal to receive any sort of human organ apart from eyes from your relatives. This implies the remaining 1970 were illegal transplant!!!!. Apart from this there are 6700 still awaiting transplant and there are 6000 who die annually, just because there are no donors available. I ask of the audience have you heard of such issues ever making news or any human activist organization supporting this cause.
I want to highlight the fact that people die every year, not because there are no immediate relative donors available, thus you have no way to approach anyone else to donate human organs by any legal procedure, and as a result what thrive amidst is a huge illegal black market of organ sales running across the length and breadth of the world.
Organ sale is viewed as manifestation of poverty and desperation from the lower strata of the society. We view it as breach of human rights, but the life being saved is never scaled on the same MORAL BALANCE. Well what will legalizing organ sale result in, looking at in a humorous note
1)It will reduce the burden of maintaining criminal in the jail.
2)It will abolish, if not surely minimize the crime of illegal sale.
3)It will help to regulate and monitor such an event, which will help in long run to minimize risk, find novel route to help emergency patients and will avoid surely exploitation of poor people.
Organ Sale-Organ transplant can be viewed as win-win situation, rather than mere exploitation of poor people. If the donor is from the weaker section and the recipient from richer section, ensuring right legal law we can ensure right monetary benefit to the poor and right health benefit to the rich. The same can be said of even opposite situation. Every individual has right to healthy living.
By legalizing you are not only creating win-win situation in every transplant, but also ensure in the illegal trade, the poor will never be exploited. Legalizing ensure the whole process is scanned under right conditions, and it will help database where the knowledge will be useful in long run.
Finally its m firm belief, Legal framework is like a mesh, which collect dirt, when dirty water flows through it. Finer the mesh(i.e better the legal framework) the cleaner the water you get at the other end.
Man needs conscience to drive himself ahead, where else society requires law to progress.

It ain't over 'til it's over

2007-12-19T22:05:00.000+05:30

The above tag line shouldn't come as surprise for Hollywood buffs, for the moment they read it,Rocky Balboa should manifest front of them. Sylvester Stallone has immortalized the machoist character Rocky Balboa to the entire world. The movie was inspired by Muhammad Ali- Chuck Wepner heavy weight boxing fight held in 1975. The 6 part movie revolves around the heavy weight boxing champion Rocky Balboa, whose challenged by different contenders during different phases of his life.
The movie apart from highlighting boxing has shed light on various aspect of human personality which is essential for survival. I enjoyed seeing the entire series in one go, just to not let go continuity and appreciate the nuances of story line in the movie. The spirit of 'never give up' despite enduring pain flows as the bottom line of the movie. Rigorous training and hard work are essential for any successful career, but when it applies to physical training, its so easy to quit, after all when body endures pain mind hesitates to accompany. Pain is a human quality that everyone tries to avoid, but not realizing its importance that without pain one cannot enjoy pleasure.
Pain has its own relevance in human life, it moves one's heart seeing other in pain.
It provokes your grey cells, for rarely do you bother when people are happy around you, but when they are in pain{sad} do you feel like knowing about them, thus get people closer. But Pain can do more magic than just hurt us around, the more you face pain, the more you can handle them later. Pain can widen our circle of exhaustions. Pain might wear your muscles and strengthens your mind. Enduring pain toughens the will power of man, after all the building subjected to harshest test survives along the annals of history.
Sports and Games are one place where man is ready to accept pain gleefully, after all its while playing man enjoys despite being pain, exercising his ability to his limits and beyond. Sportsman speaks of mental toughness that lead them to glory, the stepping stone to this glory is pain and pain alone. Pain that teaches not to quit when going get tough, but to become more tough. After all ITS NOT OVER TILL ITS ALL OVER.

Recipe for Disaster.

2007-12-18T10:25:00.000+05:30

Imagine fertile land all around you is not used to feed the growing population of the world, rather for filling up the tanks of the motors driven around us. Biofuels can no way supplement the growing demand of automation and aviation industry for replaceable fuel, rather will stress the increasing demand for food for increasing population in the world.
Biofuels firstly need appropriate definition for itself, It's a fuel made from living part or waste they produce. The list include wood, straw, animal excreta, ethanol made from processing plant material. But of late, its derived mostly from crops like sugarcane and corn. Ethanol is used along with petrol as fuel in most of the advanced hybrid vehicle. The advantage of using biofuels is it will reduce greenhouse gas emission, and in turn reduce the catastrophe of global warming.This advantage has been highlighted extensively for increasing the production of biofuels around the world. In fact countries like Brazil, US have doubled there ethanol production in last 4-5 years. European Union also have set target that vehicle running should have around 5% of fuel coming from biological sources. Setting targets like this will put more pressure on government to put aside more land for devoting it for cultivation of biofuels, rather for food grains. The picture looks so clear from the fact that the moment the land for cultivating biofuels is diverted to fuel your vehicles, instantly there is more pressure to feed the growing population of the world. There are already civil unrest that has occurred in several developing nations such as Mexico over food versus fuel conflict.
Society seems to have disregarded the fact that there is population explosion, and half the population in most of the developing and underdeveloped nations still sleeps with empty stomach every night. The priority needs to be set right, is is to fuel the rich people vehicle in developed nations, or feed the malnourished people of the world. And as far as use of biofuels as greener technology for the future, the simple solution lies in reducing energy consumption, rather than trying to meet the increasing energy demands of growing population.

Breaching the WALL

2007-10-22T18:47:00.000+05:30

It's just a fairy tale, and has no connection to the real world. It's an expression of feeling, which I hope will come out true someday................

This probably 1 of the very few occasion, where I have preceded heart
over logic. And what follows down is an expression of an individual
who now feel his wall has been breached for the first time in his
life. Well here it goes......................

you know what they say..."if god has brought you to this...he will
take you through it"

I have tried real hard to pick lessons by observing. And its been
my attempt to live by them...and may be improvise on...So , I build
virtual walls, barricades about me hoping that NOTHING/NOBODY can ever
penetrate them. I am being impervious to any emotion, feeling or fear.
I know I cant get hurt, and it will require stupendous amount of work
to really TOUCH me. Guess I am playing the stakes of life at a lower
risk. And why shouldn't I????? I am not in business here. I have a
life to be well lived , every moment to be cherished, every dream to
be realized....to laugh every laughter to its fullest...to give every
breath its due....to love myself.

I had always scoffed at romance/love. In my opinion love was dumb. I
would not entrust my heart to another. I refused to get myself
betrayed. I was just too tough for love. Who has the time for an
eluding love anyway???its just an abstract mystery....and i had no
inclination in solving it....much less think of it.

I have seen people walk out of each others live's. And most times
they are not walking away empty handed. They take away with them a
huge chunk of each other. resulting in a colossal hollow. This hollow
WILL surely be filled by time. Slow...but not necessarily
steady.History proves this to be predominant almost like an epidemic.
Why the hell then any sane person would ever want to get inflicted and
smitten??????? dosent it only seem wise and intelligent to stay out of
any relationship????? why get diseased???

I was immensely sane. Life got a little mathematical. Perfectly
fine...no hassles. I never swayed. I made sure every part of my heart
remained sealed inside. I was steady .I was happy.I was everything I
wanted to be.

But just as you think you have seen it all...there comes a new
surprise - trick or treat.I dont know what happened next, probably
anesthetized. There is some new virus in me. Someone breached my
security. Whatever happened to my barricades?????The wall???? How
could anyone possibly walk through it all...and touch me????? All my
dearest and most precious ideas/opinions started to fall apart. I
fought in vain to put it all back together. I started questioning my
own mores...i had held them so dear. I see them all slipping away.I
see myself falling.

I gladly gave away from the deepest parts of my heart. There i was
setting myself up to another. Deep down there was a mild resistance
trying to surface....but it waned. Someone had now settled down in my
forbidden territory. It seemingly defied all the rules and laws I had
ever known.

I got introduced to true caring, sharing and unselfishness( remember
the night you felt bad at my outright boldness, truth pained me hard
the entire night). YOU have entered my life and turned everything
upside down. Love IS still a mystery but then i started to
investigate...I'm STILL looking for well defined solutions.

Life is not mathematical anymore. And it seems a harder nut to crack
with such imposing feeling never encountered before.

Love just happens, it waits for unprepared MIND, to get there HEARTS CLOSER.

Well scientist speaks the language of logic and reasoning, but here
human is speaking the language of heart. Sometime you have no idea
which is right, though I still feel logic defy everything I believed
and stood for, hoping my wall were impregnable.

But now I stand amidst the ruins of my belief and ego, with the
thought MANU'S DOMAIN has been infiltrated by you.............................................

Is Law serving it's purpose.

2007-08-01T14:52:00.000+05:30

Of late 2 incidents that occurred within a short span caught the attention of the entire nation. One being Munnabhai alias Sanju baba awarded rigorous imprisonment for 6 years for illegal purchase and possession of arms and bombs from the terrorist prior to Mumbai 1993 bomb blast. While other being Dr Haneef who returned at the weekend after the Australian government dropped a charge against him that he had recklessly provided support to a terrorist organization by having given his mobile phone SIM card to a relative linked to the foiled UK terror plot.
These 2 incidents have evoked strong emotions,rather sympathy towards the 2 individuals. Sanjay Dutt has conquered the hearts of bollywood fans by providing them with 2 fabulous hits enacting as Munnabhai. As a result over the years, the case pending against him has been postponed many a times and also been provided anticipatory bail on couple of occasion. But after 14 years the court has handed all the accused 100 people with rigorous punishment, though the master mind Dawood Ibrahim sill enjoy his freedom in Pakistan/Dubai. So is Tiger Memom whose personal revenge resulted in such a dastardly act.
On the other hand Dr Haneef was accused of supporting terrorism after his SIM card was found in the burning car that crashed at the glasgow airport. Though later it was proved that was innocent of any crime as it was his cousin who had taken his SIM and was responsible for the act. The Australian government was accused of laboring charge s against him for which he wasn't responsible. The government faced the wrath of legal and civil right group for there anti-terror laws. And the australian prime minister John Howard defended his government decision of detaining Dr Haneef, mentioning that "It's better to play safe, than being Sorry, when you are dealing with terrorism." Later as it was found that his SIM card was not found in the burning car near Glasgow airport rather at Liverpool.
Well both situation put the law under dark light. One where law decides to punish the criminal for his act, but after such a late period during which individual takes effort to come into the mainstream of life and try to improve himself. After all Law punishes the individual so that he can improve in his life, what if he has already shown conscious effort to improve himself. Where else in haneef situation if law detains somebody who isn't really a criminal the mental torture and defame he and his family go through is more offensive than the punishment that one might end up if he is found guilty of charges.
Law works like, punishing the individual as if, 'Revenge is sweet if served cold.'

One Laptop Per Child.

2007-07-16T11:33:00.000+05:30

Imagine a world, where the classrooms are filled with under-nourished and undressed children's but yet attending the classrooms with personal laptop. The scene can create turmoil in your thoughts making you wonder whether such a huge investment on such project is worth, when the basic essentials are still a distant dreams for many.
The idea of One laptop per child 'OLPC' was conceived by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of MIT media laboratory. The mission of the group being. "It's a educational project, not a laptop project." The idea was conceived even before computers had known to exist way back in 1967, when 'Logo' the first programming language was written for children's. And today after 4 decades even the project seems to be going strong though no strong results have achieved, but even major companies like Intel has joined hand into the project.
Looking into the fact that behold in front of us, we see that most of the underdeveloped countries and developing countries have plethora of problems confronting them. One among the many lies lack of child education or inadequate literacy. The greatest threat this problem poses to the society and individual at large can be devastating. Child labor, Child abuse, induction to terrorism, child slavery and list can be dug as required. This can lead to chronic global problems, unless the problems can be solved from the grass root level. The mission of this program is to realize and make aware each child who lives in desolation and poverty that light of learning can dissolve the dark forces that elude the society from progress. After all any nations most precious natural resource are there children's on whose shoulders the responsibility of running the country will slowly be passed down.
No doubt this program tries it level best to provide the best of technological gadgets to the children, so they can tap the innate potential latent in them. OLPC is a non profit organization providing a mean to an end. The end that hopes that each child sitting even in the remotest part of the world has the technical requirement to tap the inner potential and get exposed to the reality of the whole world of ideas, so as to grow and contribute themselves over a period of time.
The authenticity of the mission and vision is not worth questioning. But the group seem to be overriding the reality that they are trying to implement these ideas in African countries and other South-Asian developing countries where malnutrition is a major problem that need to be solved before trying to implement these programs. The priorities need to be set right, before trying to solve the problem. The blue-print of any development program needs to prioritize pressing problems before investing time and money, else it can lead to backlash resulting in wastage of huge investment as well as sprouting new problems.
As far as normal far sightedness is concerned any sane individual will see this mission being futile unless other major child related problems are not solved. No doubt this program can run hand in hand with other development programs run by many other non profit organization.
More details about this program can be viewed at this website:
http://laptop.org/en/index.shtml

Need for Speed.

2007-06-21T11:15:00.000+05:30

The whooping sound that crashes through your ear as the formula one car zooms through the high speed corner, is enough to send adrenalin up your head. The thrill the sport has carried and awed the people all around the world is amazing.
Speed thrill and formula one racing championship is all about the thrill of watching the racers drive through the circuit through high speed corners at a whooping speed of 300 kmp/h and more, or maneuver the chicane to overtake their opponent. Watching the team decide upon pit stop strategy with either 2 or 3 stop strategy, starting with less or more fuel are part of team preparation of racing in the circuit. The dexterity of team mechanics as they changes the tyres from intermediate, compound or hard tyres or refuel the car or change front nose cone(if damaged during the race) during the pit stop is a crucial factor deciding the fate of the race.The cream of the race being the overtakes by the driver that is based on his skill to pick on braking points or cornering lines. A great overtake move represent the formula one at its very best, since it bring the best drivers close to each other on the track at high speed still avoiding contact with each other. Not to mention the physical endurance the driver go through during the race experiencing a g-force of 3-4 during deceleration's near the chicane and the weight loss of 3-4 kg through fluid loss after 60-70 laps of focussed driving.
Racing to get championship or constructor point occur only on the selected 17-18 circuits spread throughout the world by the 2 team driver and the team mechanics sitting in the pits. But the real analysis and homework is done by the team engineers in the wind tunnels optimizing the aerodynamics of the car affiliating to the norms set up by the FIA. The optimum design of car engine along with gear box remains the most intense battle fought by the team like Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, BWM, Toyota and Honda. Exuberant amount about 1 million dollar is spent on gaining 4 millisecond every lap and about 20 millisecond for optimizing on aerodynamics. Though large amount of technical effort in producing a car engine with optimum aerodynamic design, the fuel used is still similar in composition to the one used in normal cars. Large quantity up to 200,000 liters of fuel is used by every team for testing and racing during the championship year.
Well this amount to huge amount of money being invested on this sport trying to extract thrill of pushing the automotive technology to its very limit. No doubt the research, money and time invested on this sport is worth every penny, after all the today's formula one technology has opened up new doors for technological advances in the road car industry.

Sensuality for Sale.

2007-05-29T13:40:00.000+05:30

Recently as I was strolling the potholes filled dreaded roads of Bangalore, my eyes caught attention of the one of the billboards that had been placed along the roadsides. Such a thin line separating obscenity and creativity this is what all I could figure out from staring and analysing the billboard.
The media barons will come heavily on my line of reasoning, thinking of me as fundamentalist who has no flexibility to appreciate creativity. But the point I would like to make, how much will we stretch our freedom of creativity into orbit of obscenity. Fair skin has great demand on screen, and no doubt that most of the companies try to sell their product anchoring them in their ads. Reality strikes hard when we compare so many of the ads coming on the idiot box, that even products related to electronic gadgets and vehicles rely heavily on skimpy dressed fair skin to sell them. It wouldn't be a great issue if sensuality could be used for products related to apparels, cosmetics or lingerie. After all it's here where sensuality in ads would make a huge difference in products sale. Classic example from Indian scenario would be the increase in Liril soaps after the famous ads involving karen lunel drenching in the waterfall splashing water singing 'la lala la'.
Off late as I was browsing through the kingfisher calendar website, which has literally borrowed its idea from the famous Italian company (unable to recollect the name) that uses the famous models for there desktop calendars. Wow nice product to be kept in your room even if you aren't interested in knowing whats the date and day today, still the calendar will probe you to have a look at it many a times daily.
Advertisement is a huge playground where every player want to excel with utmost creative design and concepts. And none hesitate to use the fair skin to outclass their opponents. Well I would like to end with famous quote from H.G.Wells "Advertisement is legalized lying".

Attacking Artistic Freedom.

2007-05-15T13:49:00.000+05:30

Once again the state run by a communal party comes up with issues, that sends the entire nation into strife. This time its the arrest and attack of student and the dean of department of fine arts of M.S university Baroda. The communal wing campaigners have taken to vandalism in many places on many occasion, citing that effect of foreign influences on Indian culture.
Off late moral policing by such right wing members have been taken in bad taste by the citizens of the country. Many feel moral policing and taking to vandalism is intrusion into individual's right to freedom of expression. Vandalism is an expression of the group's inability to convince upon their's idea and belief and create fear in the society of their existence. The group member claims that their moral policing is to ensure that foreign influences don't malign Indian culture. My personal opinion is, no act can degrade a culture, be it INDIAN or Foreign. It's only practise that upholds a culture. And by resorting to violence, these right wing members are no way upholding the Indian culture, to which they pledge their alliance.
The moral policing by such right wing members seems to be reaching a crescendo, and long before their presence amidst us will only ensure that our existence will lead us to backward in times. The way the presence of Taliban had on the effect on the people of Afghanistan. Instead of leading the countrymen to a bright future, the leaders lead them to dark ages. These calamity befalls only when fail to inculate human values and implement them in daily lives. Adopting modernization into daily lives doesn't degrade ones culture and society.
It's high time we make our voices be heard to such people that, we don't need their existence amidst to tell us that whats right or wrong. Else we will enslaves ourselves to someone's mindless whims and fancies.

WARMING: watch out its a WARNING.

2007-05-07T22:16:00.000+05:30

Off late every newspaper, research journals( Nature, Science), Websites are carrying news article about the growing concern of global warming. Never before the scientific community has shown greater concern on a issue that has/will matter human civilization. In fact the issue has been taken so seriously around the world that even UN Security council held a debate on global warming. As it considered the issue of global warming as a matter of global security concern {though it's against man's own mindless subjugation of nature}
Though I have already blogged on the subject of global warming in my earlier posts. But I couldn't resist writing on the article once again, as it caught the attention of even entire political society. Otherwise till yesteryear, global warming was just the consideration of environmental activist. Since global warming is going to cause a large scale devastation in terms of lives and economy. Politician are forced to reflect on the issue of global warming. Since last year already there has been 3 meets of Intergovernmental panel on climate change(IPCC), where majority of discussion and debate kick started on global warming and consensus have been reached on majority of news means and method of controlling the effect of global warming. It's a choice to be made by the developing countries to stick to large scale industrialization for it's growth or perish.
Industrialize AND Perish : Industrialize OR Perish seems to be the buzzword of every developing nation. In fact all nations seems to have caught up at the cross roads of effect of global warming. The developed nations though are the one responsible for the mankind standing on the brink of disaster. It will developing nations pursuit towards industrialization that might lead mankind to extinction tomorrow. Technology such a renewable energy seems to be promising future. But at an individual level entire human society has to look for changes in it consumption patterns.

Campus Carnage

2007-04-29T14:44:00.000+05:30

Though the event has occur ed almost 2 weeks ago, I was tempted to express my concern for the students who lost there lives in one of the often occurring dastardly act in American universities.
Well this is not the first time such incident has occur ed in American universities, in term of damage(human life) this one will be remembered for the toll Cho had taken. People might argue that life's could be saved if after the initial shooting had occur ed at West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory, then after 2 hours the second attack occur ed at Norris Hall engine ring building. If the authorities had warned the student after the initial incident. But the authorities replied they had no reason the believe another incident could occur and even guessed that incident to be isolated and the gunman would have left by then.
The previous incident that blotted American history with such killing in school have occur ed even way back in 1966 at University of TEXAS, then in 1999 at Columbine High School at Colorado. Though the background of the people involved in shoot outs had different background and suffered Psychological breakdown. But the key Point that is easily overlooked is the fact that it's easiest to purchase an arms in US for anyone who is above the legal age of 21. In fact the state of California has even more absurd law stating that any individual above the age of 21 can purchase to a maximum of 1 handgun per month only. Though the purchaser is subjected to background checks( recently included law). Here is the nation in the world that beliefs that owning an arm is matter of civil liberty. And there is on going debate in the country not on banning the rule to own a gun, but just to impose stricter restriction on arm posses ions. In a recently concluded survey by United Nations brought out shocking statistics that in US population of 300 million there were 200 million guns(Legalised) being circulated. And death by firearm per year stand to 0.3% per year.
What surprises me, is the fact that here are we a nation of 1 billion with more than 60% population in there prime age. Yet how many of us have seen a real gun forget owning them. Please don't include the government officials and Armed officers. Where else in US in fact more than half the population posses legalized arm. In fact there should be no doubt that such incident at universities do still keep occurring every once in a while. In fact until you have access to arms such incident can never be completely ruled from the society. No amount of metal detectors at School and University gates or stricter security can avoid such mishap occurring often.
I would like to end with small observation that its the Same country that has attacked other nations for posse sing WMD( Weapons of mass destruction), where else in there own backyard arms are being legally sold. US should realise the greatest threat they are incurring not from WMD present in Middle east countries or some Eurasian countries but from there own population by allowing them to arm themselves at their free will.

Digital Divide

2007-04-11T19:19:00.000+05:30

Just as the state of Uttar Pradesh goes into voting to decide onto the fate of it future politics, the saffron oriented party has caused a turmoil in the state by bringing out a Compact Disk(CD) containing inflammatory and offensive remarks on the minority group.
In fact the Hindu edition carried out detail description of the content of the CD in its Thursday issue. The details were shocking and horrifying, well I just couldn't imagine the national party would stoop to such low mean of propaganding it's ideology by throwing the other community in such a bad light. It's well known that such religious oriented party are in power in some state where they have lured the society based on communal vote bank.
They seem to be trying the same policy of winning votes in UP by outclassing the other community, and nations seem to have realize the parties policy as a result the Election Commission is trying to take a tough stance against such a propaganda during the election rally. Though some other parties are requesting that since the BJP's top brass agreed that it was aware of the CD content, they should be banned from contesting the election.
Rather the best solution I view is that the people of the state should go for voting and shouldn't cast even a single vote to this party and causing a shame full defeat for
it.
Though not an implicit follower of Indian politics, I would like to learn about it's horrid way of working, after all they decide our future. Though the views I have expressed is so stale, this incident occur ed 2 weeks ago and literally rocked the nation. But our country with such large diversity throws up new sensational situation every new morning to ponder over. I would like to end with a note, with the world largest democracy, best known constitution( there are laws for every situation that one can think of: courtesy T N Seshan, in his autobiography). We still languish in development for the simple fact that nation is still ruled by people with short sightedness and interested in personal gain rather nation development.

Forbidden Knowledge.

2007-04-02T16:40:00.000+05:30

Over the last few weeks, the state government of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Delhi are having facing a stiff opposition from religious group of introducing sex education in the school syllabi.
In order to introduce such subjects in the school, the educational department had resorted to meeting religious peer head in the state. And after discussion with them, decide to implement the course in the school. Well pragmatically looking its fine to discuss such issues with religious head, but what would have been more appropriate would be discussion with parents on a large scale.
But on the contrary they faced stiff opposition from saffron and Islamic groups, voicing theirs concern that this will lead to deterioration of moral values in the society. The need of the day is to make just not adult, but also youth realize the implication of sex problems, that has resulted in India being second in the world having HIV positive patients.
Issue that has to be discussed is not that whet er this education should be implemented in the curriculum. May be people opposing think, this will be implemented in very early class. But when we are taught basic reproduction in mammals in our 9th class, there seems to be no opposition to this. So why not have the sex education implicit part of our biology textbook chapters.
It's important to be clear what exactly going to define sex education. This will surely have nothing to do with love making, but maybe safe methods to approach them. Reasons for spread of sexually transmitted diseases and misconception about there spread.
I personally against the view that use of contraceptives for safe sex is advisable, but we forget this is like giving passport doing all hanky-panky and still get away. Nevertheless sex is an integral part of human survival, and has to be handled carefully. Well this shouldn't be viewed with moral vision, but rational look that humans can be emotionally carried away and indulge in unhealthy sex, which can lead to disastrous consequence. Cons of such action should be made aware of in such curriculum.
All sexual information that all have gathered is usually from there peer, so there is always scope of wrong ideas being circulated. Only if we are taught from a authoritative sources, not only we get rid of shyness in knowing them, but also learning the right notes.
So finally I hope that that the fundamentalist quickly cool down their ire and think sensibly, that there is not going to be moral degradation when you are being taught about sexuality in life, under scientific light.
"Modesty is never hurt through scientific approach."

Two Hands or One Mouth.

2007-03-26T20:52:00.000+05:30

Just a few days ago, I happened to see program on CNN where a debate was being held with elite members on it panel, though the discussion ran from Indian politics to dismal cricket performance. The program set up my mind into non-scientific motion. The members kept comparing Indian status and performance in economics, science, politics and sports. Statistics revealed a gloomy picture of present Indian scenario.
Are we nation with largest democracy, second largest population, high ratio of female infanticide, low literacy rate and mismatch between male and female literacy rate, high corruption among the developing nations {we are rated as developing nations:CLICHE}, poor medical and sanitation facilities. A detailed statistical overview of India's status can be found in the world bank website at www.worldbank.org.in
This picture by no mean is to make our self feel dejected at the state of affairs that we live in. We are used to hear that its almost 60 years since independence, and progress looks stagnant. What have the politicians done for the people other than just filling there pockets, We complain so much about the bureaucracy,the pain of official work being done. Bribery rampant in all walks of life. Even taking your time out to ponder over the fact and grim situation surrounding it sends a shiver down the spine. Is this a future we are being handed down by our predecessor. Aren't we entitled to a better future. Is this a nation been given to us to take care of.
But as the saying goes, every dark cloud has a silver lining. We can be proud of the fact of the of the 1 billion population that exist today, more than 35% constitute a youth group between 20-35 years of age. This can be considered as the biggest boon of population explosion that we usually speak. The grim situation of over population can be looked more pragmatically as, why consider shortage of food resources for each stomach,rather you have 2 hands for each mouth to be fed. It's no doubt a big challenge in the long run to find enough resources to handle growing population, but as a matter of fact, India is the most under-utilised nation in terms of its resources. So we will in reality never be shortage on the resources, but no doubt effort has to be put to ensure people are aware of family planning.
The present scenario is to utilise the 2 hands of each individual to build up the nation, which lies in the shattered state handed down by our elders, rather turn down the beautiful opportunity that lies ahead of us in resurrecting the nation. It's time to realize the power of the youth and take up the responsibility of nation building. Even if Utopia ever existed, it wouldn't have been a genesis, it would have been built from scratch. Similarly if we want a beautiful 'INDIA' with perfection in every domain. It's time to build such a one.
"You see, not whats there, but what you Build."

Truth alone Prevails.

2007-03-03T14:31:00.000+05:30

Every PhD Graduates have their share of enjoyment and entertainment while being confined in there lab. And watching movies on your desktop, while experiments is running is one among them. So I took the pleasure of watching Lage raho munnabhai recently though I had already watched it in the theater( 1 day, Night show). All Indians will be aware this movie is about ruffian munna and circuit trying to retrieve the 2 inning house from the illegal occupation of Lucky Singh using Gandhigiri. The movie has its own share of funny and touching scenes.
Well what took me for a ride, after watching the movie was new definition given to what ought to be practice in daily life. Gandhigiri term was just used to lure interest of the people in the movie. But as a matter of fact what was correctly portrayed in the movie worth mentioning was the practice of truth and non-violence can achieve what might seem impossible for mere mortals. There is on going debate whet er what mahatma preached is still of any importance is this modern day, where violence and corruption has become colossal and moreover tool for daily sustenance. It seems that majority of people have accepted the fact that falsehood is the way of life, there is no harm in case we benefit from its practice. Truth seems to have been sidelined from our daily life.
But as a matter of fact truth is most noble virtue that should be practiced in our daily life. But how easy is it to put into daily practice, In fact it's the most easiest path to be followed. One never has to account for any misfortune for uttering the truth but uttering lies can bring unlimited grief. Though the effect may not seem obvious and quick, buts it's truth that alone prevails till the very end. I'm not here to preach values, but want to point out that history is full of incidents wherein individual siding with truth has always come out successful in his life. The hardship one faces is the only testimonial to the fact that siding with truth you get the inner strength to face the tribulation of life.
Non-violence doesn't mean physical violence alone, it has to do more even with thought process also. Thinking is an activity, and it non-violence in our thoughts is also as important as in our action. After all action are created twice once in our mind and then in reality. So its very important not to think to hurt anybody. Though its only we who are aware of what we can think. The liability increases even more for there is no one even to correct and point out our mistakes.
Nevertheless Gandhiji became Mahatma not because of his oratory skill, nor because he went to jail umpteen times, he leader ed countries independence struggle. But he practiced truth and non-violence till his very last breath. The problems of the world are the problems of the man. All the quick fix solution that we think of for solving today's crisis, will serve no long lasting solution. Rather self adherence to truth and non-violence alone will solve today's crisis.

The BLAME-GAME

2007-02-20T22:10:00.000+05:30

Well its just even 36 hours since the extremist who set the Samjhauta express on fire, resulting in immediate death of 66 passenger. The media from from both the communities already have posted on there individual newspaper saying its the handiwork of Islamic jehadis, and there our Pakistani media members are quoting that its the hand of Hindu extremist naming Shivsena as the one among the group which always wanted to avoid the railway service between Atari and Delhi. Well it just wasn't only the editorial section that slinged blame on each other's extremist outfit that was responsible for the blast. But its also the minister people of position and power are blaming irresponsibly each other. The role of media is only to report the incident, rather than quote people who just use media for there own benefit so as to hog the limelight.
But what has been observed during this incident is unlike previous year mumbai railways blast, where the blame game was very high. There has been lot of restrain shown by both the party from across the border by not unnecessarily putting blame on each other. This in fact is a clear indication of the resolve of the two nations to go ahead with peace process. Its as easy as sleeping to sit and condemn the activity of the terrorist, and this is what the media does and tries to glorify rather abhor the terrorist. Always during such crisis situation the media should take extra care not to pour abuse as this will always instigate avalanche of blame from people across the borders. Well as the the two nation tries to forget it dreadful past and walk towards path of normalization. The Politicians presently have issued very mature statement not blaming each other and thereby showing greater resolve towards peace process. Because its very important to realize that such incidents and misappropriate statement made by politicians highlighted by media sour the existing peace process cause mistrust and suspicion between nations.
So I hope the media and Politicians across the borders avoid the usual blame-game and work for the betterment of cordial relationship between the 2 neighbours.

Change is Inevitable, But Which way ?

2007-02-13T21:22:00.000+05:30

As years rolls, and the dates on the calendar approaches 14 feb, the moral policing by national political parties througout the countries reaches new zenith with every passing years.It seems that our few political acitivist become hyperactive only during the valentine day. By the way the effect of western culture in seeping into daily life needs no justification, which by large is the effect of globalization and communication. The cause of celebration of valentine day in India needs its own justification to those youth who are bitten by love-bugs and finds means to express there love on a day dedicated for the same.
As history suggest this day is celebrated so that lovers express there love to each other, the name arises after 2 christian martyrs named valentine. Well this information should suffice the critics that this not a frivolous event, rather has rich history associated with it. But as the critics points out that its not with the event, rather the way its celebrated in the country that they object to. Well I'm not intersted in highlighting the ways our youth sometime overshoot the normalcy limit. But Im trying to see the changes that gets into the society over a long period of time. It was not long before not many knew what valentine day was, the reason for its celebration. But slowly society became aware of it accepted in its fold. This exactly is the way the society runs, ideals and practice unknown to it before becomes easily accepted by the society. The Society is most vulnerable to any new idea and belief. And this being its strength, is also its weakest link. Well this poses a different threat altogether, because it doesn't judge the consequence of the action of accepting the new trend, which might be popular in some different society, due to its cultural and geographical status. Blindly accepting any thing that comes as offering is like wearing others spectacles, just because it looks good on him. Infact Change is the only thing that is constant, but the society should always weigh the good and bad effect it might bring with it, before accepting new ideals and practise.
Finally I would like to end on a note, that what I wrote had nothing to do with Valentine day celebration in India, I just used as a case study to highlight the how CHANGES creep into the society. But the change that brings lewdness openly is worth condemning and introspecting. Is this what we opt when we want to celebrate Valentine day in the country.

Mobocracy Rules.......

2007-02-05T19:50:00.000+05:30

"Men are Cruel, but Man is KIND."--------Rabrindranath Tagore.

Over last few days there were few incidents that have caught the attention of the entire nation. Foremost was the Nithari incident, where the mob mostly consisting of lawyers(Justice provider) attacked mercilessly the main accused Mohinder singh and Satish Kohli. The nation argued over the point was it justifiable to take law into its hand when law takes into own sweet time to decide the fate of criminals. But what struck me more after analysing other situation that struck bangalore recently was the mini communal riot that triggered and shut the city virtually, luckily not much damaged was done, unlike the last riot that triggered during Rajkumar funeral, Cauvery dispute and many more which are bit vague in my mind.
Man behaves so differently when in a mob, compared to an indivdual indentity he is. Any sane person will always shun violence and advocate it to be parcel belonging to
the uncivilized clan. But it seems his phiolosophy takes a hammering the moment he becomes a part of a mob, where he loses his sanity and let forth his instinct that shames the entire mankind. The moment we are a part of a crowd, man loses his individual identity, and becomes a part of the mob phiolosophy, and every action that he does is decided by the environment around the mob and instinct running the crowd.
There are so many cases where most of the heinous crime have been not by an individual instinct but by the mob instinct. Gujrat riots had multiple such stories to tell, and let me not open the pandora's box. Have we ever asked ourselves, what happens to an individual when he becomes the part of the mob? It seem there is a coherent thought process that flows amidst the mob members which stimulates the animal instinct within us. Afterall its animals that lives in herd, not humans. This animal instinct which trigger ourself to act in most inhuman we can never imagine of.
Is there no ways can we resctrict the mob to act inhumanely, well im searching an answer for my self, and though the fact its the same sane individual man that makes up the mob. But the statement made by Tagore which I have quoted says it all, though as an individual identity we may be kind, but group of us turn cruel. Doesnt it look a bit controversial for the fact that even swelling up of good men in mob, leads to devilish consequence.

WHO AM I

2007-01-20T11:47:00.000+05:30

A simple question that bemuses every individual that irrespective of his nation, creed, position and gender, Who really he/she Is? Not many a time will you confront such a circumstance where you question your own self Who really you are. The reason being so obvious that caught up in between two plates of gristmill of social resposibility and family responsibility, that individual rarely has time and energy that to look out for an answer for WHO REALLY HE/SHE IS.
This by no mean is an abstract philosophy that tend to have NO bearing on individual life. A right answer to this question will eventually lead to self rectification of many vices that have crept into ones personal life. Are we just a bundle of bones, flesh and intellect that we are composed of. Infact amidst entire living species, its only human who have the ability to think and act. Where else all the remaining living species are directed by there instinct. Its only man who can discriminate and act.
We just aren't 1, but we are 3. This is by no mean is joke or trivial statement, but a hard core pervasive truth that's impregnated into our existence. One we think we are, One others think we are and One which we really are. Its just no playing with words, but entire lots of truth hidden in the above statement.
One we think we are: This corresponds to the self we are that we decide to make of our self based on our ability, our dream and the effort we put in to achieve it.
One Others think We are: This is what society perceive an individual as, its the outcome of environment in which individual is nurtured.
One we Really are: This is the hidden nature latent in every individual which has been shielded, for the fear that man posses to stick to the principles in his entire life run. The moral principles of TRUTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, LOVE and NON-VIOLENCE which every religion preaches, but yet man fears to follow them for the lack of courage within them. Many a time we confront situation where we witness wrong happening in our very front. There are 3 response to those which comes from our 3 personality trait that we garb on ourselves. 'The one we are' responds our senses to take action that we see. 'The other think we are' this personality trait just like the audience around us makes our senses and intellect numb to situation front of us. 'The One you think U are' the response from this trait depends on the conviction that has individual whet er what he see is right/wrong and will it matter to him if he takes any prudential action. Same situation, but yet different response coming from ones intellect. This incoherency in our 3 traits is all responsible all the vices and weakness that have crept into our life.
So what really is the solution that we have, its so simple that we see learn to listen to your inner voice. Don't ever ignore the inner urge arising from your conscience. Have the strength to stick to them and implement them in your life. Else Conscience will stop speaking to you. They are like the mechanical instrument we use in our daily life the more you use them longer will they run, stop using them they will rust soon.

Power that Speaks & Hurts.

2007-01-17T12:44:00.000+05:30

It's an age old dictum that has been passed down the generation through the word of mouth that, "Silence is Golden, and Speech is Silver." This applies to all society and entire strata of position which an individual holds. But of late there seems to be mockery of the above statement.
Every word an individual utters bears a consequence based on the position which the individual holds. The consequence can be immediate if its uttered by a Man of position with power. Else the word uttered by the simple/ common man is always lost in oblivion. The reason i make such a statement is based on my observation over the past few years, where men holding prestigious position and power just utter statement that in many cases have no speck of truth embedded in it. As a result it has hurt the sentiments of large section of society and causing a furore over nations. Just to quote a few such examples which comes immediately to my mind from the incidents that occurred over the past few months, the most notable being the statement made by the Pope Benedict XVI on the concept of holy war in the Islamic society. Also the unnecessary projection of prophet cartoon in the danish newspaper 'jylland-posten'. Though both this incidents were targeted on a single society. But I'm using this incidents as a case study to point out the fact, that an unnecessary remark by men of respectable position. Just uttering few words have resulted in large scale unrest between nations and faith. Where else when such words would have been uttered by a common man, it wouldn't have caused such large calamitic consequence.
Is it words that weighs more consequence based on the individual person background, or is it power that speaks for itself. Incidents occurring around us gives a clear indication that power speaks and results in immediate consequence. But lets remember only when harsh words uttered by someone in position of power that hurts societies sentiment has resulted in uproar in the society. Clearly validating the fact that physical injury might always heal, but harsh words when uttered leaves an ugly scar behind.
But the point i would like to make is that society has today accepted falsehood and wrong utterance as a way of life. Practice of truth has become a commodity of past, and today it seems to have found shelter not in humans life rather blissfully sleeping in our moral and spiritual textbooks. Man has to realize that he has to account for every falsehood he speaks, and be calm whenever he utters truth. The point I would like to drive here is with Power comes a sense of responsibility that bears an immediate consequence for the fact that people in such position are looked upon for every act they perform and every word they utter. Its not the media to be blamed for this, but its price for being on top. Thus every casual act has to be considered with utmost care. But the general trend being that all of us have lost our sense of restrain on our speech, which has resulted in todays chaotic and hostile environment. Its not just about speaking but also speaking the truth. The society has to accept the fact that its acceptance of falsehood and non restrain on speech is the cause of todays grievous situation.

What Define Obscenity?

2006-12-14T19:08:00.000+05:30

Couple of days ago, as I was reading through the newspaper a news-headline caught my attention which mentioned government has decided not to impose blanket ban on nudity which it say as, 'nudity per say is not obscene'. The government feels placing a ban on such matter would hinder the freedom of speech/expression. Moreover they feel it would be like moral policing on the society.
Question were raised what really define obscene, does nudity really amounts to publicising obscenity. What really took me by surprise was the comparison between the western society and that of our, which really have a different opinion of obscenity. Since they have a society where this is completely accepted. Above this the government raised the issue that by placing a ban on such material in news, they would be stealing the adult of there share of entertainment.
As this thoughts were slowly wading of from my mind, I suddenly recollected the President talk to the nation where he mentioned the role of media in disseminating right information to the society. And I realized the folly of government of failing to impose such a ban on media. At the onset let me highlight the concern is just not regarding moral issue when we fail to impose such a ban in media, but has a larger role to play in the development of the society.
"We get to live in a society, that we make around us." If the definition of obscenity is western countries is normal to them, to which we aren't yet comfortable living with. Why not take our time going back in history at least a century back in this countries. And try to realize when they were exposed to such idea of obscenity as we know it today it would have been not a normal situation. But the media like TV which started there earlier than in our country had it share of slowly exposing the entire society to such definition of obscenity. Slowly as the society get exposed to such ideas, it becomes an integral part of the society. Its not that Obscenity/Nudity is acceptable to any society, its just that they are so used to see/hear it on the media which they feel has become a normal situation there. If an Idea/Opinion is readily available in media, then its not alien to them, its a part of them. And that's what media had done to the Westerners by exposing them to Nudity in form of art/movies that it became an integral part of the society.
Not all citizen view Nudity from Picasso/Michelangelo eyes. Its so obvious nudity in any form when marketed in media has no other role than disintegrating moral fabric of the society. Its not that nudity is an alien concept to anyone of us, but cheap marketing it in media, will only ensure people tomorrow demand for more and get immune to obscenity. A day might in slowly come in nearby future BARING will be so accepted in the society, will be viewed just as an expression of being comfortable. And the whole event are just fuelled by the role of media by simply publicizing such cheap materials.
Its not that society seek nudity in any form as a source of entertainment, its just that since its available it doesn't mind going for it. Therein lies the entire essence. If society is happily fed with such inputs, its grows and thrives on it. Imagine if wasn't available, the society wouldn't have craved for it and I'm sure would have still lived without Nudity as se.

Child Labour: Nations Ignominy

2006-12-12T11:04:00.000+05:30

The future of any country lies in the hands and minds of growing childrens. But wherein countries like that of ours if the childs hand is involved in menial jobs fighting a race for the survival and mind engrossed in dutifully doing the job so as to avoid the wrath of the owner. Then what future beholds for the country is a question that is equally posed in front of every Indian citizen. Out of 1 billion population around 12.6 million childrens are engaged in child labour. Most of them working in the food and hospitality service sector. Most of the childrens are forced to work for long hours and unhealthy environment that breeds high possibility of infecting themselves with diseases and moreover most terrible being the issue of physical abuse especially for the female child.
Despite being actively involved in UNICEF and other international organization in order to protect the childs right, Our country still is a home for the largest child labour in the entire world. Though its very obvious thats its the poverty that drives the parent to send there childrens to unhealthy and long working condition to make there daily meets end. Though there are plethora of laws and regulation passed by the government citing cases under which environ are child allowed to work. They have classified it as Hazardous and Non-hazardous, which require skill operation obtained after proper training like that of Rock breaking in mines, packaging at Fire Crackers Industry, Glass polishing and manufacturing and many more of even which im not aware of. But the Owner mindlessly recruit them for its a cheap investment in terms of wages they will be have to be paid.
Infact untill proverty breeds in the country, there is no way we can avoid such stigma blotting the country image. But the only solution that beholds such a situation in the enforcement of COMPULSORY and FREE primary education. This will ensure that the child has more oppurtunity to spend times in confined four walls learning to build his/her future, rather picking up rags and ruin the country future. A clear example being the state Kerala which has 100% literacy rate has only 1 in 100 children involved in child labour compared to 8 in 100 with the rest of country child labour distribution. Schemes like mid-day meal will also act as a bait to ensure that the child will attend schools. Though the law has been already enforced by the government quite a year ago. But the way it has to be implemented by each state government has really been the real bottleneck as it involves a huge investment. No doubt this mammoth project can never be single handedly run by the government. And its here in this context that the Non-Government organization plays an important role by bridging the gap that government fails to cash in. There are multitudes of such organization running across the length the breadth of the country. And its my earnest request to readers of this page in case you come across any such an organization please make a sincere effort in contributing any possible way that you can.
Lets remember the best we can do for the future of the mankind is leaving a society that is free of many such ignomious traits, that haunts the world. And if that involves contributing a mere fraction of our resources and our time. I hope thats the best that we can do for a bright future.
Dil Se.

Men in Blue: Thrashed Black and Blue

2006-12-06T21:37:00.000+05:30

Well if every Indian consider himself to be a Cricket Pundit, how can people like me atleast who play cricket, should have a say on the game that symbolises countries major religion, with sachin as there demigod.
Even before the tournament had begun there were several theories running that India has a meagre chance of even winning a single match on pitches where it find itself very vulnereable to pace attack coupled to unexpected bounce. Every batsman had a wrecked time in this tournament except for Dhoni who played unconventional shots and thus survived. With heavy blame being poured out on Chappel and the Captain Dravid for such a miserable performance (0-4), The last time we performed so miserably was against srilanka(0-3). I myself feel there is no use in blaming the captain and coach for the poor team performance. Cricket is a team game, where contribution from entire 11 players finally end to team' victory. Coach-Captain discuss strategies based on every players performance, so if all player play miserably who is to be blamed. So the question is who is to blamed. The answer is more deep-rooted if we analyse the situation more correctly. Players weren't exposed to such bouncy pitches before thus struggled. So why doesnt the BCCI, spend it large share revenues in making such bouncy pitches like the one in Perth & Durban.
Next the local cricket tournament should be more vigorous, only when players have performed consitently should they selected for the national team. eg M. Hussey scored 15,000 runs at domestic level before joining the national team, and no doubt his test and cricket averages are best to date. Even Australian key players when axed from national team have to proof themself in domestic cricket before they join the national team. Even McGrath was not exempted from such rule before he joined the team for the Ashes. We might argue if players more at domestic level, by the time they join national team they might tend to be in late 20 and ealy 30, which is also close age of reteriment for many cricketers. The question to answer is wheter we want quality players, or mediocre young players. Thats the reason we might observe over the last few years there are just few players who have retained there place in the national team. Young players might have played well in national tournament, and when they play in International matches they lose to peer pressure, and finally whiter out to another young player awaiting his chance.
The solution lies in the fact that our national cricket matches should be made more competitively, how about making foreign cricketers join the national team, Like English county cricket. Unless these issues are addresed we cant hope sachin, dravid lead the team india to glory in every match they play, with there peak performance closing in as they approach there mid 30. So untill we really change our national cricket matches to that of english and australian domestic standard. We cant rely the big guns to perform and win matches for the country.

Tryst with Bright Future.

2006-11-29T12:00:00.000+05:30

Recalling what Our Prime Minister Nehru had said on the midnight of our Independence celebration. 'Tryst with Destiny', "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." The present scenario in Indian BPO seems to be riding this point clear and hard to the entire world economy. Initially i was aghast as i found many of Indians student finding there way to call centre jobs, which paid them substantial revenue, worth there educational qualification. But as I tried to understand in depth the working of call centre jobs, and a bright future it holds to us, in terms of global exposure to our work environment. I immediately threw away the negative image of BPO which I initially had constructed.
As I was just reading through some articles that cropped in BBC recently, where Indian educated housewives woke up early in the morning( Its the usual case in most of the middle class family), but rather to attending to morning home chores switch on her computer, puts on her head phone and start taking Geometry tuition to american kids. Well this earns her enough for her family sustenance. Weekly 3 classes for 1 hour per kid fetches her in excess of 150 dollars per month.
This just seems to be tip of iceberg in the Outsourcing business, where majority of the middle section job in US are lost to Indian and other South Asian nations. Its just not about the menial jobs like attending to americans lost baggage at the airport terminal, nor help the morons fix there computer passwords. Or help them with there credit accounts. More sophisticated and challenging jobs are outsourced like reading medical transcription but medical practitioners, verifying clients accounts, even law firms outsource there jobs to benign law practitioners here back in India. Clearly the type of jobs that can be outsourced is limited only by the ideas germinating in the individual mind. We might argue obviously you cant outsource my requirement for the stew, but surely when you place order for your pizza, the entire order, cash transaction yours feedback which in turn will improve quality of the product can be outsourced. The power of outsourcing is derived from the easy connectivity between the continents using high bandwidth fibre optic cables, cheaply available computers and custom built software application, and moreover most important increasing English speaking Computer graduates from the country.
Is increasing BPO job opportunity a good sign for our economy, I do really feel the same. Take for example, our specialist get an opportunity to study and exercise there expertise on application which are global in there perspective, without even the need for travelling to this countries. After all what's required is the data at your finger tips, which Ur Internet provides at high speed. Rather it's a loss for the american countries, which try to outsource there job, to other part of the globe, just in order to save penny to pay there employee and time. But this in the long run will surely dent there economy as majority of the service industry related jobs are outsourced, leaving only menial supply related jobs.But no doubt the managerial position will be owned still by them. As a result the entire middle class economy for the americans will surely have run for there income. On the other hand this will help us improve upon our own middle class economy. Understanding the economical fabrics running in the BPO industry is still elementary for Physicist like me. Nevertheless I'm sure BPO do have a bright future for growing Indian graduates.
I'm not taking into account the risk related factor, such as security involvement as you come to know about Individual credits realted information. Or a Firms internal working, as this problem can be overcome with better tracking mechanism.
But for sure our TRYST with Bright Future surely seems to be at a close junction.

Environmental Suicide: Global Warming.

2006-11-04T12:44:00.000+05:30

As the world north and south leaders prepare to meet at nairobi for a next round of environmental meet. Where the impeding important issue of global warming will be seriously taken up. Despite the Kyoto protocol that was duly obliged by most of the developed and developing nation in order to cut down on green house gas emission. It was the culprit US and Australia that didn't abide the rules and norms that were accepted in the meet.
The famous economist Sir Nicholas Stern has recently published a review article suggesting global warming could have adverse effect by shrinking the world economy by 20%. But report suggest by taking appropriate action NOW we could be spending only 1% of worlds GDP. The 700 pages report shows scientific evidence of global warming and the disastrous consequence. In this line even the US vice president Al Gore came out with a documentary entitled "An Inconvenient Truth" warning regarding global warming which became a huge hit ever since was it was released on may 2006.
What has to accepted presently is that its the ruthless exploitation by the developed nations that has landed the entire mankind at the door of serious matter of global warming.Even though there are claims by few geoscientist that climate change can be attributed to cosmic radiation fluctuation coming from sun. Though no substantial proof is available from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change(IPCC).
A bit of scientific evidence to strengthen these claims. The planet temperature is constantly changing, but the natural fluctuation is temperature is preceded with man intervention in nature's activity by large scale deforestation and increase green-house gas emission such as Carbon dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide from industries. The very fact that CO2 concentration in atmosphere has increased by 30% in just 200 years. This sole is responsible for increase in earth temp by 2 degree. And with same rate of gas emission temp might increase by 6 degree by end of 2100, as a result there is going to be severe melting of ice caps in artic and Antarctic regions causing to increase sea level by 7 meters. This is sufficient to submerge most of the coastal region of most nations as well as many islands.
Most of the developed nations might have the infrastructure to handle such devastation impact, but the visibly suffered nations will be developing and the Third world countries. There are several programs initiated world-wide to drastically cut down green-house gas emission by large scale industries. But what is important to know is these industries are running engines, any attempt to disrupt there working will adversely affect global economy. But at the grass root level its important that at each individual make sincere effort to minimize the usage of electricity consumption. There was interesting activity taken by Britishers in the last month wherein by they monitored the electricity consumption over entire week, and could take remedial step to cut down on electricity that wasn't required. Well though it looks a minimal effort, its drop that fills up the entire ocean. Similar exercise could be initiated in the small offices and industries, which will go a long way in saving many units electricity, thereby reduce the need for large scale energy production.
This problem needs a lot of attention not only concerned scientist but by politician to reinforce the need the take remedial action by the respective government to take every possible action to cut down on gas emission and make it better place for us to live.
I cant resist quoting famous lines from Miachel Jackson songs, "
Make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race........"

Advertising Gimmicks.

2006-10-26T17:33:00.000+05:30

Just as I was glued to television for the last few days, as ICC champion trophy unfurled itself with many surprises during the tournament, Not a single team has completed 50 overs. The pitch for every matches seems to be under prepared. The team entering semifinals now depends on other performance in the last matches. Bluntly speaking the tournament seems to be lacking competitiveness as well as excitement, which previous ICC tournament held.
But what really caught my attention was, Now with every company coming out with new products in the competitive market, in order to gain upperhand most of the ads they broadcasted were garnished with scientific terms. Bike company proclaims they have Quantum Core Engine. Referigerators highlights they have Green Ion technology. Air-Conditioners have Nanopore for purification, wherelse some other claim they have DNA technology embeddded in there product.
For the buyer these claims really appeals the product, with every possible chance of there sell-out. Should I say these methodology of introducing scientific vagaries in ads is like really misleading the audience. Such scientific claims looks absurd, for individual like me, who are from scientific background. Take for example, this is by no mean is to target a company. Few years ago, a well known reputed fan company came out with fan with PSPO technology, which became a buzz words in commercial ads. Any electrical engineer will tell you, PSPO stands for Peak Speed Performance Output. This is judging criteria for most of the electrical devices, and nothing more. But the comapany seems to have cashed heavily on these term and claimed heavy profit over there product.
The question is not wheter you can use such scientific claims for your product, as it's well known most of the huge companies invest in R&D for there new products, trying to churn out new gadgets and products, better compared to there previous and opponent product. But by highlighting such technical details in ads for your product, without complete information to the audience, just using such technical terms in order to lure customers buying your product. Well these company are very much within the boundaries of commercial laws. So they arent really to framed to be culprit if you end up buying there product in case you get lured by such claims.
Its left to the customers to get themselves acquianted with all the scientific claims, rather than get carried away with such claims, and end up buying up product which not match upto the claim it carried.

Nobel for a NOBLE cause.

2006-10-16T17:48:00.000+05:30

Just as Nobel commitee announced its decision to award M Yunus and his organization Grameen Bank, "for their effort to create economic and social development from below." the nobel peace award for the year 2006. The statement says it all.The significance of the award is just not the fact its the first Bangladeshi Economist to be rewarded with the most coveted award one can dream of. But acknowledge the fact that Nobel committee has recognised that lasting Peace cannot be acheived and sustained without completely eradicating and handling Poverty from the grass root level. With no background from economics I really cant judge the impact that his pioneering idea of microcredit , translated into action from his Grameen Bank that has given millions of bangladeshi poor people a hope for better survival.
But what is well known is the idea of microcredit the brain child of Yunus was an unknown concept 3 decades ago. But today its operating succesfully in more than 100 countries. Although Yunus concept of microcredit has won him many acclaims worldover. But by providing Nobel Award its a befitting award to an individual and his institution that has worked incessesantly day in day out at the grass root level trying to eradicate poverty not by giving charity but JUST by lending money to the poor. In comparision to last year prize that was awarded to IAEA for making every effort to use Nuclear energy for peacefull purpose. Or even the earlier awards that were awarded to certain individuals who during there tenure tried to diffuse tension between hostile nations.
Its clear that sustainable peace lies in that region where poverty has no place for itself. Every other effort to bring in peace in region without addressing the issue of poverty can never claim success for itself. Just a week ago there was an article in the BBC website that punters had listed out possible contestant for the peace awards. Many of them were diplomats involved in peace mission. Some were musicians who campaigned worldover to eradicate poverty. Others were human right campaigner. While one of them were religious leader. But By providing the award to an organization that work at root level in order to bring about sustainable peace by eradicating poverty. I feel the Nobel committee has made a right decision by awarding M Yunus and Grameen Bank this year Nobel Prize for peace.
More information about the working of grameen bank can be found at http://www.grameen-info.org/.

Clemency OR Capital Punishment.

2006-10-14T09:59:00.000+05:30

The country seem to have caught up in one more controversial issues, with people from President to victim being caught up in the ruffle. With Afzal being one of accused in taking part in dastardly act of bombing the very seat of indian democracy, which resulted in loss of nine of our soldiers trying to protect the parliament. Well this is just one of the situation where court has come up with death sentence to the accused. We had many more such victims before like Dhananjay accused for rape, then Dara singh for burning Graham staines to death.
The situation has taken up more of emotional appeal rather than logical view, for the fact that many familar social activist are taking stand in favour of Afzal to be granted clemency, for the various reason such as trial wasn't fair. On other hand people seems to be asking him to be given death punishment, this will ensure message is reached to criminal that we aren't a soft nation.
Now it took lot of my grey cell to really analyse the situation, before i could express my say. When someone accused is convicted of crime that takes a huge toll of human life. The activities that are well planned and executed by these hard hearted criminals. It's important that the state provide the harshest of punishment to these criminal, for they have no value for human life. Thus they should not be spared as they might involve themselves in many more dastardly act, taking more human lives. Look at it with different viewpoint, it cost the state to maintain them at the prisons. In my opinion i feel the criminal involved in crime such as Mass murders, Rape and Terrorism should never be spared. As they are living threat to entire mankind.
Is capital punishment the only solution to get rid of these hard hearted criminals.
Its important to confirm, wheter capital punishment is a solution to handle crime and criminals, is it a deterrent to commit an crime. Does an individual taking up crime thinks about his end, while commiting or indulging in such activities. Then how can presence of capital punishment in the law book deter him from commiting the crime. However cold hearted an individual is, that forces him to take up crime under some pressurizing situation. For one thing is for sure no one like to commit crime for he might take pleasure in commiting it. Its only environment one is bred that shapes his motives. So when an individual is accused of crime, by providing him an chance to regret his/her decision we can ensure he might come back to normal life stream. Thereby we can be sure we not only lose a life, but MAY BE get back a reformed individual. Well it seem i might be painting a bright picture hoping that all criminal accused to change, leading a normal life thereafter. But the fact is with enforcing capital punishment we highlight the fact even we have no value for human life too. Human life is precious, every effort to preserve them is a noble cause by itself.
I would like to end on the note that by providing clemency to the accused criminals doesnt suggest we are a soft nation, But by providing death penalty we showcase the fact even we are such stone hearted that we dont value a life.

Watering the Leaves doesn't sustain the plant

2006-09-25T21:14:00.000+05:30

On September 23 Shri Kapil Sibal, union minister for science and technology came to JNCASR to inaugrate the Nano-Lab, during which he promised large funds to set up premiere institutes in the country to enhance science learning in the country. As a matter of fact it's well known a country is said to well developed if Science and Technology is given a higher priority in it agenda. Well along with education, medical health, water supply, i personally feel that any country should also give more importance to R&D as it will strengthen nation's intellectual wealth. No doubt defence should be never be sidelined, but the amount of countries GDP that is invested back in defence seems ridiculous, despite knowing that we live in highly insecure environment. But this attitude seems to have taken prosperity out of countries vision, as the income invested in defence overlooking important issues in the countries has taken it toll, by compromising on nation's development.
Well coming back to the point, i believe the reason we lacked in science and research for such a long time ever since we became independent was lack of infrastructure, which became quite accessible only after we allowed globalization to hit the indian market. As a result we see clearly good increase in countries contribution to science. Because of the ease at which we have access to good equipment, chemical and other infrastructure after globalization. Prior to globalization india contribution to science came only from Atomic Science, Nuclear Science and Space science, but this again arouse because of the need to develop means to generate electricity, thus the dept of atomic energy became the mother institute for space technology and missile technology.
Now we have major share and contribution to Software technology around the world due to large number of graduates coming from this background, moreover the job oppurtunities in this field being highly rewarding there's large student pursuing this course. The threat looming large over indian science is the fact that there are large number of student going abroad to pursue there higher studies (MS, PhD) in US and European countries. This is no doubt a matter of pride as we are the largest expat communities in most of the foreign universities along with chinese. But lets not feel this is a BRAIN DRAIN, but lets look it as BRAIN GAIN, the foreign exchange that we earn from our NRI working abroad. The problem is when we set up more good research institutes and lab in the country, what gurantee can we have that we will be able to attract the brightest of mind into these lab, when we are losing them to foreign universities. Most of the student do return to the country after completing Phd and Post Doctral felolowship. Buts its important to really to find out how many have really turned back to pursue science back in the country. The solution to improve scienctific research in the country is just not increasing the number of research institutes and lab with state of arts, but the fact try to retain our student back in our own country to pursue there research here itself by having better wages for them, less we lose them to better pay scale jobs, or foreign universities. The other problem that need to be simultaneously tackled is enhancing the science curriculm at our school and college level, so as to ignite more mind pursuing science.
Well the problem that striking the roots of countries science and technology just does not solve with allowing better infrastructures in the country, but also has to be dealt by finacially improving the stipend of research seekers. Thus water has to really reach the roots to ensure we grow scientifically, less we lose our ignited and bright minds to foreign universities.

Challenging Societies Dictum.

2006-09-19T15:38:00.000+05:30

It was late in the night when i happened to hear the song " nachati hain duniya nachane wala chaiye, aasman ko dharti pain lane wala chaiye." I was almost half way asleep, so really not aware of the lyrics sequence. But the picture i would like to paint, with this background information is society hates change. And it require the courage of an individual to break the shackles the society imposes on him. Well lets not confuse that this permit him to commit crime which society opposes.
The society is always reluctant to change, in terms of physicst speaking i would comment we all like to always stay at the position of miminum entropy ie ( least disorder). Because i always feel we hate the things changing around us, for the very fact that evolution of entire living species was so slow that every moment it looks stationary. But if were succumb to such belief, mankind would have never progressed in life. But we have made substantial progress because there was an individual who dared to break the shackles around him, not worrying about the implication about his action.
well i always believe that society first REJECT, then RESPECT and finally ACCEPT. So it's important in life to have perseverance, coz thats what pays in the long run. Coming to the topic i feel we all lack courage to do something different and are always comfortable with environment around us. But amidst us lies one individual who sees things differently and takes up the initiative to do things differently, to which we all initially disapprove, but like the sheep finally follow the sheperd. And when things go all fine, we heap praises on the individual for his extraordinary vision and action. But if he fails we criticize the individual for leading astray and not following the rules and dictum laid by the society, since rules and dictum laid by the society are for betterment for one and all. The failure is what i feel presses every individual dream into his mind, and not letting it translate into action.
But if one were to just follow his conscience( his inner voice) , which speaks the truth in every situation one confront, he will not only lead the world, but also the lead the world rightly. Chase your DREAM, even though it meant facing the rejection, criticism or maybe breaking the rules. Else be ready to follow and appreciate someones else DREAM.
Jhukti hain duniya jhukane wala chaiye, nachite hain duniya nachane wala chaiye, so choice is yours either bend,dance else make others dance.

Age Poses No Restriction

2006-09-12T15:34:00.000+05:30

Sports is a field, that test an individual endurance that only the victorious people poses in abundance. This week was quite eventfull, and will go down the annals of history for the fact that we had few individual who creates a niche for themselves in sports, where they outclasses there's oppponent who were not only competitive but also half there age.
Being an ardent fan of Formula One races, this is the last time Michael Schumacher will be racing after announcing his retirement at Monza (Italian) track. So is Martina Navratilova after claiming her mixed doubles titles at US open just as she near her 50 birthday. On the other hand here was stylish and tough Andre Agassi who also announced his retirement after losing to Benjamin Becker at the US open. Forgot to mention french midfield-striker Zinedine Zidane who retired after the world cup.
What reflect amidst these sporting personalities that they had there share of victory and loss just like any other sportsman, but it was there endurance, determination and sheer grit that made them last so long at the age where most of the sporting professionalist just enjoyed the fame and money they had previously earned. Take for example Schumi at the age of 38, still to maintain his fitness goes to gym early at 6 so as to maintain his fitness, by the way formula driving really requires great fitness to last for entire 50-60 laps during the race.
Sports & Games are the test for an individual's mental strength for his skill develop during the course of his sportinf period. But its his determination that takes him through the tough period of his game with his opponent. All the players i mentioned below are just not great players when they were young, but even at this age where there games showed no wrinkling of there performance.
Players will not be remembered for there scores, trophies, medals or record they achieved, but for those unique moments they outclassed there opponent due to the presence of sheer mental strength and grit. And playing such competitive sport at such age is just a reminder of these players mental strength and endurance.

How Safe Are We?

2006-09-02T19:27:00.000+05:30

Well i have to be very carefull, as im expressing this sentiment of mine, for im walking over the double edge sword as i see whats happening all around us. The issue i like to raise is for the Mohammedan community of our country. I start to feel how safe do they really are in our country. For just immediate after the mumbai local train blast. Our close ally(really) US president call our's PM expressing his condolence over the incident and questions what gurantee do we have for a nation consisting of more than 130 million muslims not one is linked to Al-Qaeda. For the fact the the terrorism in whole world today is slowly linked with Islamic Fundamentalism, so called Axis of Evil also lies in the region, where this community dominates. And slowly for every untoward incident occuring in our country, this community is being looked up as the cause for the entire incident. Slowly the western outlook of terrorism being associated with this community is slowly being imprinted into our psyche. Though we are aware Islamic terrorist was always linked to only kashmir valley, where the reason was political conflict and not religious conflict. But every where around the country, there are not enough evidence to point out that violence carried out is associated with islamic community, say in Assam(ULFA), Andhra pradesh(Naxalites). But it looks the view point of every average hindu indian suggest that when ever violence is inflicted onto the society, we try to search for islamic link behind them. This clearly becomes evident during police investigation this community that is targeted the most. War against terror is war against the mind. Terorism can grow only in that soil that is being under-watered and under-nourished. Lets look at the statistic of how many muslims are there in arm force, police, bureacracy, and there are also religiously backward in terms of national literacy( 5 % below national literacy). And when government tries to make a commitee to study there constitution in main frame of our society, we all accuse them of creating communalism.
So if indian muslim is not absorbed into the society, with no bias, no feeling of outsider. Then he will surely remain in the periphery of development. Allowing for no room to breed terror. So its very important that care been taken, that the western thought process of associating terrorism with islamic fundamentalism, should not be allowed to enter our psyche. So next time we see a bearded man with cap, lets not look at them with suspicious look, rather allow them to enter the main frame of our society wholeheartedly.

Life at Mercy.

2006-08-22T22:49:00.000+05:30

"The greatest wonder of living species is ability to Copulate and carry the generation On."

Euthanasia today in west has become a debatable issue, where laws are added to the constitution either in favour or against it. Its quite a controversial issue because it involves conflicting human rights as well as religious belief. The word is greek originated Eu: Good/Happy Thanatos: death, thus implying happy death.
The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs defines Euthanasia as act of bringing death to a hopelessly ill and suffering person in relative quick and painless way for reason of mercy. They are again classified as Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia.
In Voluntary, the person gives the content for him being killed, where the consent is given in writing or verbal dictum. In involuntary euthanasia basically involves physician assisted suicide.
In age of modern scientific revolution, our thinking has undergone such radical change, we feel we have mastered things around us, and in things where we fail, we justify our stand by having rules and law in favour of our ego enhancement. And clearly i sense euthanasia is one such issue that has to be tackled more efficiently.
Euthanasia will destroy the societal respect for life. With advancement in medicine the society will become insensitive to death, and LIFE will no longer be valued. This will surely degrade the social fabric and lead to various other socital ills. Euthanasia becoming legal will surely result in misuse and abuse at the hands of life sustainers. Once the society accepts life can be terminated because of its diminshed quality, it will be biggest setback to human thought process. As this will surely bring out the animal traits that we have carried out during our evolution. There might be many rational answer favouring euthanasia, like suffering faced by patients, cost of life support system to which patient is adminstered, etc etc....
I would like to bring out my personal experience, it was my grandmother who was paralytic suffered stroke and went into coma, and was put into life support system, with no gurantee of life recovery. We decided to get her back to home, where she lived like a living corpse amidst us for entire week, with no sign of life except breathing. Never did we feel that she should be euthanised(by the way in India euthanasia is crime). We all feel the moment an individual is born his death to is decided. And it will always be good if we avoid being instrumental in other death.
My personal opinion is against the practice of euthanasia. I feel this issues has to be morally dealt rather than logical and scientifically.

War leading to Peace?

2006-08-02T09:42:00.000+05:30

In War no one is Correct.
In Love no one is Wrong.
Well so strange it is, the heart which is the seat of compassion, which melts seeing the suffering of others, takes a backseat, when man indulge in war. We human's are quite funny i suppose. We are ready to die both for WAR and LOVE. Time and again history has shown and we all have believed, war has bought nothing more than misery and devastation to mankind.
Even Operation ROLLING THUNDER (1965-68), US attack on north vietnam, as part of Cold War did no good, nor did american achieve there mission, but had to withdraw there entire army as it suffered heavy losses. So is even the second gulf war. Attack by american on iraq in order to overthrow the iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But what have they achieved is nothing but emergence of Iraqi insurgency and major Sectarian violence. And now it's Israel mindlessly attacking Lebanon, claiming its to wipe out the Hezabollah militants who are a threat to there existence. History has shown however the mighty the nation be, it hasn't succeded in overpowering a small nation, in order to acomplish it mean needs.
"History repeat itself, but the cost mankind has to pay is heavier everytime."
I'm really suprised despite the fact the war has continued for last 21 days till now, The pressure the international community is putting on Israel, doesn't seem to look that the ceasefire is possible in nearby future. Above this the Iranian president claims he is ready to support Hezabollah in order to completely annihilate Zionism(Israelis) and US from the world map.
Lets remember WAR( this three lettered word) has brought more misery and suffering than anything in the entire history of mankind. How can peace be exchanged with something that results in suffering. Let remember that the darwin theory of existence ( The mightiest survives) is true for animals but not HUMANS. And on this eve of this friendship day( never knew something like this existed before, untill i received forwards and E greeting about this day), Lets remember friendship, loving and sharing alone is way for peacefull existence on this planet Earth and not WAR.

Joy Of Pursuing Science

2006-07-30T10:00:00.000+05:30

It' s the eternal quest of man and will always be, ie search for permanent happiness. Well the nature is so balanced, it permits happiness only as an interval in between pain. Nevertheless the ways in which man achieve happiness, i would like to classify them as sensuary, intellectual and subtle.
We turn happy when we eat good food, have nice nap or indulge in sensuary pleasure, i rate them as sensory, for they last till the moment we indulge in them and are transient in behaviour. A bit above this lies happiness that we get when we involve ourselves in playing games/sports or any adventurous activites. For this involves challenging the physical limits set by our body. Quite high above this activity lies the long lasting happiness, which one gets when one involve in creating out of his intellectual ability, which are pursuing Music, Art and Science. For there's greater happiness when we turn our mind onto this activities, for it will help us unleash vast potential hidden in human to flow out at his creative best. The highest state of the mind which experience just not happiness but bliss, is through spiritual experience. But its a path thats tough for the rewards are unlimited and permanent.
Well here i would like to dwell on the fact pursuing my carrier in Science, i would like to mention those incidents that have rewarded me those moments of happiness, which i would like treasure forever. Pursuing Science gives us the oppurtunity to create something nonexistent before, see things come alive before us. There are many occasion that come prior to the situation when things you plan, execute and try to then analyse your result, you realize the very first step in your experiment or sometime may be the last was a mistake forcing you to repeat the whole process once again. This surely test your forberance and patience and those with strong will always began once again with full enthusisasm as if we are testing this for the first time. Failure will always haunt us, till the very limit of our patience. But the happiness when one derive after finally getting the result you expected or something very startling you werent prepared for gives us immense happiness and peace within. This is that moment we all researcher look out for in our lab, while pursuing science our dream.

Bar On bar

2006-07-25T11:55:00.000+05:30

Well before committing to any statement, i would like to quote, " The yardstick of countries
development is measured in RESPECT that it has for its womenfolk." When the so call moral
policemen of the country tried to enforce bar on bardancers, accusing them of degrading the
social fabric of the country. They call it vulgar, when they wear skimpy and body-revealing
outfits or suggestive moments while singing. Singing at bars is often perceived as sister of
prostitution by the society at large. Im not intersted here in mentioning the revenues the
government generates from this bar by levying large taxes on these. As money doesnt seem to
be criteria for me. I visualize this as a social stigma staining the morality of the
society. Its for sure that the women dont like to join such profession out of there liking,
buts its the socio-economic background from which they come, force them into occupation. And
if its give them avenues to earn bread for all who are dependent on them. What right does
the government have now of banning them from performing. After the constitution has provided everyone the right to living. If the society is concerned about such issues why not stop
situation that give rise to condition that forces the women into such profession.

CAULDRON OF TERROR

2006-07-21T11:13:00.000+05:30

In the past few weeks, mankind is seeing terrorism again raising it ugly head and causing largescale devastation both in terms of lifes and property. Firstly it was Mumbai, where misguided people have tried to derail the running fabric of the city, the local trains itself. Here its noteworthy of the fact despite being hurled away, the mumbaikars have bounced back to there daily schedule. This is morally depressing down the attackers, who might have succeded in damaging few trains and loads of life, but failed entirely to bring the people to there knees.
But what is more important to realize is terorism will again and again rise to occasion, and take mankind by suprise by causing large causalties. How do we really counter this situation? Its long since we have taken a soft stand in this issues, and brought the people to the books. We need to eliminate them from the very roots.
Here i feel are few of my views, which i feel are long term solution to the problem, rather than short term:
1) The misguided youth basically are unemployed, so its very important that we create large avenues for job market.
2) Education has to be provided to one and all, its when people are educated they will have larger view of society, and then will be difficult them to inculcate hatred in them against humanity.
3) The hatred is bred in places where there is ongoing violence in the society, the growing child is fed with violent response all around him. Thus its neccessary to have rehabilation program for the younger generation in such violent stricken places.
I might be giving a solution which no doubt is going to take long course before it achieve its end. But im sure its quite better than the draconian way of solving problem by taking eye for eye and leaving the mankind half blind.

IF I..........

2006-05-04T21:31:00.000+05:30

here i would like to highlight the poem written by Rudyard Kipling, Its quite inspiring and can you take you out from any depths of ........

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

Is Reservation Neccessary?

2006-04-21T09:18:00.000+05:30

Well when Dr B R Ambedar, had made reservation neccessary, his intention was to uplift the down trodden society of those day INDIA, true to his dream i believe we are able to uplift the down trodden to a well position today. But yet there is a very long way to go till we completely terminate the disparity that is existing in the society. But today reservation ie the MANDAL commission set up by the govt is no more used as a tool for uplifting the society, rather is used as a political gimmick just to quander more votes from the meagre section of the society.
In favour of reservation, i would like to comment reservation should be made on the basis of economic status of the individual, rather than his caste, else it might even create more furore in the existing situation. When reservation was implemented way back, the existing scenario had upper caste dominating every fabric of life and so called the backward section of the society were left behind, with no hope of improving there life as they had no avenues for quality education nor good jobs, but after decades of reservation policy that has helped many of the section to come up in life. It will not be appropriate to increase the reservation quota as it will create unneccesary competition among the youth.
Well the point i like to make is reservation should be not be intoduced in those paltform where proffesionalism comes, and there are hundreds competing for the same position, afterall here ones performance should be considered not his background, else we will be churning out mediocre engineers, doctors and managers institutes that boast of international recognition.
well this being my 1 public opinion on such a critical issues i would apologise for any wrong fact s that i may presented.