man, mother earth and father time

we are not their only children. arguably the most developed brain and an ability to build entire civilisations, provide rationale for expansion of geographic territory, conquer, disturb ecological balances (kill other children of our parents..err...whats the relation called?). Presumably the only children who have devised religions to communicate to our chosen gods.

children across mankind have a unique ability to provide distress to the expectations of the parents. our cousin species have transcended themselves beyond expectations, while most certainly displaying overt affections while experiencing life.

we are also the most hypocritical children. we fantasize, but need to control our profligate desires. we secretly bitch, but want to be respected in public. we want control, yet seek independence. we eat our cousin species. we pride on our religious identity, curse on a fellow human. we love our children, and kill for control. you can go on and on.

yet mother nature still provides us with everything we need - even as we find continually innovative ways of depleting our own treasure. we print money, call it credit, flow it around and then when it disappears call it a crunch. there is no alternative to the real treasure we so peacefully and intentionally ignorantly eat into.

that all the religions converge on at least one single aspect seems very sadly ironical. they all in unison agree on a doomsday. and also on the fact that a small subset of life carrying forms (with some very interesting stories and logic for the combination) will survive and lay the seeds of further life. Since this agreement is so rare, i would believe it would be the strongest theme among the religions and maybe the oldest - and it could in fact be a wonderful example of the ironic behaviour of nature. It just might be that the oldest story does survive in its unique form through time vis-a-vis events that unfold and are told by the population in time) and shall in spite of want of documentary or rational evidence, assume such a prophecy. because it is extremely simple to see that we are indeed doing that.

Any perishment of the human civilization will need to be an act of nature and the decision of time. Without the concurrence of the two, we are safe. problem is we are in a ferrari hurtling towards it, our own actions.

an act of nature is possible - we are working on the arctic and the antartica regions. are drilling oil wells through some many miles of ice in the north pole.

You know, if you carefully think about it. Catastrophes are catastrophes because they happen when you do not expect it. However, it will also be true in hindsight that there is something wrong that was building up all the time that you did not keep notice of, much worse as will happen in hindsight, you were not aware of such a concept. But they do happen, all the time. across all systems, nature rules across everything manmade. The beauty is when they happen - they are sudden, they are incomprehensible. A simple wall street crash, thats alright. Arctic and Antartica melting. 71% water already dudes + the melting on the 29% land = you do the math eh?

so now, why are we doing all this. simple reason mate. man likes to infight. man learns only through catastrophes inflicted on them to learn and accept a larger, and a more inclusive thought. we do not like to share unless we realise theres someone else eating all ours.

and we like to know we are smart. we analyse and create derivatives of derivatives. we create more and more reasons to infight.

we are differentiated along many parameters. race, colour, religion, country, caste, creed, sex. we are further differentiated on forwardness, backwardness, financial status, professions, etc.

while we belong to multiple sets, we also are capable of displaying multiple type of egos associated with the kind of differentiation we identify with, among the various types.

some as professors provide education, some as farmers provide food, some as some professional provides some professional product/service. you get pretty much the same attitude of these guys on a relative hierarchy across similar economies.

we have also created religion. dinosaurs did not have it, cromagnon i doubt. somewhere down the line they began. and then slowly the numbers grew. (now we have scientology too). but yeah, we created em no doubt. and we so love to fight about it.

we also, ladies and gentlemen, created an agent-de-consideration, MONEY. we really gotta be the most smartest in our complex machinations and simultaneously the stupidest. (again, has to be one of those ironical beauties of life). we really took some couple of thousand years to create our now prime-time passtime of making money. if you think of those exchanges in the really ancient days as financial exchanges. else, it is some few hundred years. in any case, compared to when the bacteria started (now thats reeeeeeeallly long back, but life started then, and while we think of doomsday, mate, we really have a long timeline yeah).(as an aside, we do tend to display many ways to create and shag on our own creations unmindful of our co-existence with external life forms)

money is this wonderful thing, most pleasing to the ego, I cant let go of the ring, like the devil in LOTR says. It brings man good things, comfort and reasonable happiness (imperative is a clean soul). Its a wonderful catalyst mind you, not the principal giver of happiness. But it has the most potent virus. and it is complete in its infection. It makes you want more.

so religion, money. do we have all the reasons why we always infight? while we infight, we ironically are producing milestones like creating nuclear energy, and simultaneously replicate such processes and use it for mutual destruction. not only this, we deplete rapidly the treasures that mother nature in her ever gracious benevolence gifted us.

we teach our children what we know. they will learn more and modify - and so the process will only grow. the changes will only multiply. eventually what was taught and what would be will be lost in purpose. we would do a lot of good to imbibe the presence of mother nature and accept that our nature are as varying as from sunshine to seastorms. to accept that there will always be someone who thinks your right is a complete wrong. tell him that you are mother nature and father time's son.

now, we are also in some sense being measured - in time. it took some billion years to dinosaur, to some millions of years of intermittent species to i guess max around 10,000 years of cognizant homo-sapiens, preferably a reasonably developed closer to the latest man species. you know, if we are the last to arrive, we might call it the final evolution of life according to biologists. then we must be close to the doomsday and worse, would positively have to carry the weight of the one to bring the curtains down. And all for living for this measly few thousand years.

It will be a pralaya when the waters occupy and displace us and all our fantasies.

But such is the beauty of the every dependably ironic life: It will survive and find a new beginning, chart similar, not exact in detail but very similar in pattern, trends through time, develop, shine and with a few wise decisions, spend longer, better and a happier life with nature and time.

Messengers of Gods - hear what the god says :)

the other day i had a thought provoking discussion among my friends on the malegaon blasts issue. and followed it with some days of introspection and have come up with a bundle of thoughts. in the interests of a structured discussion, i have also played both sides.

for sometime now, i have had a disquiet within my mind about the multitudes of discrimination incidents happening across the length breadth and distance of geography borders.

man has formed societies for ages.
man, like an advanced animal would, is fiercely protective of his kin.
man, being an intelligent being, first used his mind for survival, and later development.
not all men are born equal.
some darwinian logic does work in bringing out leaders of such human-groups .
initially these leaders were prophets (in the times when religions were formed) , then took many forms like military, economic, etc

imagine many societies springing up on different dots on the earth, each surviving and coming up with their own code, observations, inferences, superstitions about the way they have evolved.

imagine all this for many thousands of years.

Some of the many problems that we face as of 2008 - are problems that have been existing since many many years.

How many of us exactly reproduce the story that we have seen with our own eyes, heard clearly - exactly and the same way everytime, all the time? That number, would be less than a hundredth person of the number of people who really are asked this question.

Every belief is a involuntary acceptance of its omnipresence - especially if it comes from people who are revered, and have the capability to create a strong impression on an impressionable youth/audience. Stories have every chance of being transmogrified into a beast that deeproots itself within the very central constitution of the individual.

It might seem ironical, but thus is life. Man simultaneously being a focussed animal, and is developing indeed along every sphere of life, must also face the challenge of developing (without a choice) first in silos and then catalysing aggressive mix-ups across societies - there would be instances of an aggressive people meeting meek people (in the many cases of wars/ conquests by previous eras kings/ emperors/ invaders/ call them what you want - all are the same). there would also be instances of business being a facade for controlling an entire country( duh!). however all these are instances of superficial touchpoints of populations - which over time has developed strong egos, military powers, economic trump cards but each country in its individual nuclei - still belong strongly to a sense of faith - which is called by different names across different places.

It is imperative to quickly recognize and accept (at the individual nuclei level - and therefore at the source of spreading such faith).

Hinduism - clearly is one of the oldest religions in the world - if calculations are right, it might be the sum of all the remaining religions combined. The information, religious texts, and the pedagogy are largely reflective of the most peaceful way in which the hindu population has conducted itself over the many millenia.

every religion is a treasure house of information. It can only be an inbuilt feeling of shame that has can cause religions to hide malevents. It can only be a strong feeling of pride that can come from seeing a man live happily with another.

No matter what the naysayers tell, no nation in this world has been so transmogrified as India in terms of religion. Invaders, Rulers, and everyone who wanted some part of the Indian cake, had some and more - and everyone was pleased - primarily because the hindus while being very warm and friendly, also have that invisible force of internal distrust. They are more acknowledging of external information, even if the same information came from someone within (more at the nuclei level). And no one can argue the fact that this nation today has within itself external religions almost in equal proportion.

We lived happily with a 'pakistan' within us and a pakistan outside of us. we lived with the pondicherry and goa churches.

It is a known fact - through years - that christianity and islam (certain sects) actively engage themselves in proselytizing, thus laying a foundation for a glorious after life.

We are indeed governed both politically and religious by a set of people who for various logistical problems are not able to sit together.

( we have anbumani ramadoss banning consumers from smoking while letting the cigarette makers make the money - and we have every religion proclaiming religious tolerance, but seem to be proselytizing )

The argument here obviously has to be - we do not initiate (i will ignore the multitudinal evidences, presumably against ALL religions including hinduism), however we are happy to have one more brother in our group.

However, with such an event, occurs an anti-event. you have caused one brother to leave his band of brothers.

religious tolerance is an anachronistic misnomer - we need religious friendships.

religion has given each and everyone of us a memory-laden childhood. some good and some bad. some really really bad. such cases happen in every religion.

it is our duty to respect all religions and those who practice it, should be looked upon as the revered ones among our own community. these people should be good people. and hence there should be good people in each religion guiding its boat of believers through the tough times of their faith.

if a family finds a kid of his neighbour thoroughly dissatisfied with his family for some arguably valid reasons, would the family be justified in adopting the kid without informing the neighbour?

I might have suggested a solution. Conversion of faith is an individual decision. However it is also imperative that there is no formal process for such an initiation. And any such initiation should first be intimated to the religious head of the previous faith. In such religious friendships shall we find effective religion immigration rules based on understandings and acceptances.

If we can have nations who would do every check on the immigrant, why not religion.

We as populations need to acknowledge the fact that something which is as deep to the society as religion - also happens to be subject to nature. It changes. Sometimes we immediately identify with the teachings of a particular sufi saint, and sometimes with the words of the qoran and also in no small measure - the philosophy of the hindu texts among theologists worldwide are an indication of the user-friendliness of the hindu religion - it is however not user-en"rich"ing.

We need to demonstrate to ourselves that we can do it. (some people are stopping these days at traffic signals in bangalore! - proof enough that widespread acceptance does occur).

Indian government would do a lot of good playing the facilitator (not judge, not influencer, just facilitator) is the place where practically every religion thrives. Logistical challenges will be the least to get them all together.

The objective of such an uniterrupted-till-consensus-achieved session would be to have a system in place, with complete co-operation with each religion to spread the good words of the consensus.

Using a small fraction of the worlds' multi-trillion-dollar reserves for this purpose can only help.

We have governments funding the development of its people. We now see various governments joining hands to prevent a global problem.

as an aside, i find it pertinent to bring to notice one major fuck-up of the human being. people like to have fights / disagreements until they are invaded by outsiders. we have various infighting sects among religions, have fights among constituent states, until a larger problem comes along. All indian rulers infighted till Gazni came, all chinese kings were happy until Genghiz khan arrived, all companies were invested by american and european conglomerates, all countries competed to grow and now are together when all fall down. (hear humpty dumpty somewhere in the background). Now it is also time for the person in the right place, dude this is most certainly the right time, for you to stand up and propose the mother of all deals. The need for an active, and diplomatic world religious forum.

Religious friendships begin with the media completely stopping to use terms like Islamic terrorists, hindu fundamentalists, zionists, etc which will club a set of people and create a certain impression.

Every country needs to have an imperative in the media - every dying person shall be identified only as the countryman. The media might argue its right to spread detailed information - but has no responsibility over the impressions its words create on the public - and besides, he is still a countryman. I am sick of hearing these nonstop incidents and then hundreds of uneducated, oft illogical politicians replying to unsurprisingly indicative and stupid questions of the news anchors.

We all change.

But life in its splendid beauty has an irony here too - we all long to have that one constant in our constitution to which we hold on to - for direction. this faith is self-congizant conscience to some and to many who have not had the opportunity to dwell along this line for a prolonged period of unadulterated, unbiased and unending debate. and to some it is what the purohit, imam, rabbi, etc says.

These guys have been at it for years and have made it a rule book. It should have been consulting. It has become a commodity - sometimes it manifests itself as a crude incident. you never know the religious maturity (a truly relgiously learned scholar) of the person you are confessing to, or asking about the fortunes. I certainly cannot believe that all the imams, sadhus, bishops, etc are capable of providing true religious light to the followers. Many (and i suspect the proportion is nearly 100% in present day and age) are simply existing with the sole purpose of furthering the reach - thus defeating the entire view of this blog.

All religions must accept that it is incredibly attractive to have a religion changed and for a soul to dispense off all his sins. Changing religion should not let you off the punishments done practically to another human. Sheltering such individuals is a dangerous double whammy - not only is it maligning/dangerous to the image of the sheltering religion, it can create a force to cut into the brother religion.

Man is a diabolical hypocrite who lives with the darkest of feelings in the broad daylight of respectability.

Hmm, now what! later.

Mr. Pramod Mahajan - Will you want a reserved Doc now?

What can i tell you arjun singh. i have lost respect for your lost hair or your crippled walk.

the brave students of delhi have asked you a question. if you cannot answer them, what can you answer your conscience?

But when you do face your conscience, do not use your age or wisdom as a crutch to validate your actions. Do not ever tell that these students are young and brash.

Mr. Mahajan - or his family - why did you go to Hinduja? why treat yourself with those gem of doctors? Got the balls to go to a doctor who would proclaim himself as a beneficiary of an ST/SC/OBC seat? or would you go to the best doctor?

My dear dumbass of an old minister - make all indian kids go to school. let their schooling be subsidised. get them a seat there.

not to make them economically feasible.

Students entering any professional college has to pass through the criteria set according to the status of the college. else the professionals passing out of the college will not meet the standards.

isnt this obvious you dumbfuck?

its surprising - i like the media now. heck even though it is shitty as always, i hope it is as vehement and takes the message across to everyone.

or at least there must be a subtle agreement in the oaths that budding doctors take - OBC patients and politicians shall be treated only by reserved doctors.

why am i getting so profane. coz i cannot see the young student doctors venting out their problems peacefully on the roads and the police trying to shoo them away with some really powerful water sprays.

India - you will suffer for this. this is the curse of the students for having allowed such politicians.

Arjun Singh - may you never live in peace. you just dont deserve to.

Mr. Mahajan - i hope you wake up fine and let arjun singh realise that you need good doctors who became a doctor out of his sheer determination to be one - India needs such professionals.

We do not need Arjun Singh. put him in a lunatic asylum.

media and the search for truth :)))))))

salman khan - take a bow. your fans have made you the demi god. and obviously for no mistake of his. i guess sallu's next movie will be a hit. junta will flock to see if he has taken a hit on his performance abilities ( debatable - but i will let it pass ). bookies - is there a bet on this?

amidst all such forward looking dreams, i want to think about the day he shot the chinkara. blackbuck. ( there were some in my institute too ). he had a shotgun. and he shot it. he had a local driver. rich fucks. have money. taking a break from acting for that horrible movie. arguably, he would have wanted to release the frustration of acting for money. but then everyone does act for money.

so he goes on this princely ride with another prince on a jeep. now do princes think, oh shit now that animal is endangered. do u want some time to think? take it. but for expedited purposes, the answer is a no.

he shot the animal. man all that thing about working for a movie about n brothers and weeping wives and mothers and fathers, now this felt good. back to real life.

would he have known a shit between a deer and a blackbuck while hunting?

that gets us to another point. hunting endangered animals is banned, but hunting as a concept is allowed? fuckin double standards.

the other thing that disturbs me is the way rule makers use popular persons as scapegoats by meting out harsher punishments just in the hope that such a precedent will set in a fear among the masses. most of the times it is sick.

one such thing happened in my institute where a person was given a very harsh punishment just to set in a precedent example. sick.

and now with sallu. five years fore killing a chinkara. :)) gawd i laughed.

these rule makers cant find the fuck among the killers and the murdererd, heck there are murderers in our parliament, and the judicial system has the nerve to set a precedent like this.

feel like telling, dude dont fuckin hog the limelight, you are so inefficient that next time a not-so-popular kills five chinkaras, you would never realise. and if someone kills five people, he will sit over you in the parliament. outrageous decision.

i sincerely hope all wannabe-chinkara killers take a cue and stop killing the chinkaras. dude, there are no returns on that. try something else.

all such stories again point to the simple and obvious truth : media rocks. it can make a god out of an actor and chinkara killer.

it can do what it wants with anyone. make u a god, a page 3 celeb. it can down companies. it can spread rumours. and then apologize in one two-by-two-inch box. it can state the truth. and then publicize in an entire full page report about how just that news agency made the discovery.

many people think the world has double standards. that just might be because the very lens that we see thru, is blissfully hypocritical. and then they say the media has a responsibility. makes me laugh and then puke.

sallu my man, you got your two days in the spotlight, take a bow, act like a lunatic, the people will lap it up. just stand up there and tell i want to join politics, people will vote for you.

( as an aside, just some days back i saw. govinda going to sallu bhai's jail - i wonder what they would have talked )

sallu: abey politisian hoke bhi mein jail ke andar hoon.

virar-ka-chokra: abey do din ruk janeka. monday to tu release ho rahelahe.

but the media reports it as - sallu bhai gets a fiver.

hail the new gods! and now there are so many of them. and some invade your privacy and tell its a sting operation. there really is nothing that the media guys cant do. all in the name of right to information.

everything good has a bad. and the more good it is, its bad is more darker. shit. i am gettin philosophical :))

Arjun Singh - Were you ever a bright student???

There are some cornerstones around which i shall attempt to build my argument against the raging 'reservation' hullaballoo that has gripped India.

a. democracy - while is good for an entire mass of people - is the apparently an inefficient system to deliver results

b. people in power - will use media to justify any ends to remain in power.

c. any cause will have supporting arguments - but people hide what they dont want to be told.

d. my personal imagination of arjun singh - unbelievably stupid.


lets take it one by one.

india was ruled by just and unjust kings. who had a very efficient court and a strong military to deliver justice and 'ramrajya' to the people.
the kings used to take total interest in the populace. they were wise and realised that 'rath yatras' will not let them to the truth that the people think about them. (just saw advani's rath yatra and how the same fifty odd sycophants were throwing flowers all around him - advani might be justified in feeling that he is really revered - but i am sure he did not see the millions standing far away and watching the procession - just watching.)
the wise kings attended to every problem by caring about every section of the society - brahmins, vaishyas, kayasthas and the kshudras. btw. these four manu classicifications are for the type of work that the populace used to do.
it does not imply any superiority or inferiority in any sense.

but of course man inherently is a bastard. the moment he likes an experience, he does not want to share it. and if he does not like it, he wants to put it on others' heads.

therefore, through the zillion years where some brahmins fought valiantly for the country along with the rest, there were the some of the rest who thought that brahmins are not good.

i am a brahmin. i am proud of what my ancestors did. they learnt the sacred texts. they wrote science. they discovered mathematics, wrote arthashastra, they fought the mahabharatas too, and yes they cleaned their own shit.

there are other brahmins who turned opportunistic and gave this race a bad name, however i will discount that. as i will discount the ill doings of everyone.

coming back to this reservation shit.

my father retired. earns 6000 bucks a month.

my friends father owns a mercedes benz. father is a rich doctor in dubai. owns a palace in hyd.
he pays 2000 as fees. i pay 42000.

Mr. Arjun Singh, you are a blind man. you are not just blind, you are stupid. i guess all your brains have rotted down.

if you want everyone in this country to have a good education, how about building more schools?

my teacher way back, about 15 years , used to get 700 rs. per month.

how about building a genuine teacher base in india. why dont you let every student learn properly?

i just met a whole bunch of israelis in andamans. back from a military training and going around the world.

why dont we get compulsory military training? we will be fit. we will be strong. sound mind in a sound body.

i am sure arjun singh, you never had such. or even if you did, you forgot. else you cannot come up with such a decision at the bell of the assembly polls. rotten eggs. i can smell that. not your head.

India has 54% population below 25 years. the world thinks we will be the best.

what do we need to be the best? brains. in a sound body. cut one. lose both.

we are a country led (fortunately) by an economist, have a super finance minister, and a president who makes all other presidents feel low.

but we have a political system that stinks. from sonia gandhi ( madame, you may be the wife of our leader, but still, blood is blood. as the germans, israelis, french(mittal?), anyone in the world ). please get out of our political system.

congress - dont you guys have anything better than to talk about families? you still behave like the dewans of yore. please. wake up. india is more than two families. agreed and greatly appreciated their sacrifices. but yet, lets look to making india what it should be.

actually our entire political system represents the age group of our parents. and how many of us actually align totally with their idealogies? none.

i believe 54% of our population must have its own representation. otherwise we will see more of this bullshit.

let me get back to reservation. even if the news channels scream 92% dnt want reservation, 8% do, our man arjun singh is still gung ho about it.

i am an iitian and also from an iim. and trust me those are not places which need reservation.

they need people with gumption to lead, with brains to think. you do not learn thinking or gumption. they have developed both of these through the schools.

arjun singh, please build more schools and teachers, make everybody learn. science, mathematics. at least.

i dont want you to bias them with the shit history that you teach. most of what you teach in history is bullshit anyways.

make them feel how good competing in academics is. make them interested in finding out what it is to experience the thrill of solving problems.

i assure you then, you will not need reservations in these best institutes.

IITs and IIMs are what produce the best. dont make them produce less than that with your sick ideas. it doesnt even make good sense.

how about opening up schools for the obc/st/sc classes? primary,secondary, engineering, medical? if it is education they want, give it to them.

but if they want quality education, let them go through the grill of the exams. dont make it easier for them.

because the truth of the matter is : these reserved candidates that i have seen from iit till iim, everyone has enough money to go through the coaching classes ( Rs.80,000 fees). but they pay insanely less fees.

i have seen general candidates, who work outside simply because they dont have money.

it is very unfair to students who come to these hallowed institutes with dreams of making it big.

there is still time for you to go through these institutes, see who all are the reserved candidates - go to their homes and see how much good have you done? or to put it bluntly : are 25% ( the quota now ) people really so backward that they cannot afford it?

l et me tell you. you will not find more than 3 to 4 people from backward classes who would have benefitted. but there will be 300 to 400 general people who were harmed.

and best - none of these will vote for you!

this gets me to point b. you will do anything to be in power.

and then c. you will never tell the people what i just told. your decision doesnt help anyone.

but again, i want to know how will you take this decision - let all ministries have 50% reservations. let the ias too have 50% reservations.

i want 50% ministers to be from Sc/St/OBC. why should they not be given the chance to lead our country?

i want our prime minister to be from the backward class!!!!!!!!!!!!

now mr.arjun singh, if i can only see your face :)

and therefore my fourth point!

fighting fate - when u know its fighting you

what is fate - it is simply a manifestation of what you either have been paranoid about or what you just did not have an inkling about. so you see it is something like the sigma algebra of your conscious and subonscious and their complements.

for eg. i was extremely paranoid about working in bombay. and i get a job in bombay. i never wanted to be in bombay. but i was inclined towards numbers and finance. and wheres the place to be for finance. bombay.

i wonder how many investment bankers actually like to be in new york. most of them have been brilliant students through their lives and if i were to take any liberty in being associated with the type, i think there must be a sizeable chunk of them who want a peaceful existence with a lovely wife and playful kids in a beachhouse away from the buzz of the metros and the jet flights.

but their life in reality : metros and jet flights and living on the 90th floor of a building from where you could sip on 50 year old wine bottle and wondering about how much should you value the work of an honest mans company - and then you decide, fuck him soon else i wont get to my beach house sooner.

thats fate ma cherie. ones good has to be anothers bad. a simple zero sum game. or how sin city puts it. the young girl lives the old man dies. fair deal.

while on the topic of investment bankers, or people who by virtue of having been brilliant think that they can modify their paths to their ambitions, or people who want a peaceful and much-above-poverty-level existence, the root of all problems - rupaiya. thats the only one song these days which caught my ear - the whole thing is that ki bhaiyya - sabse bada rupaiya.

whats the rupaiya - man used to make clothes, grow crops, make wine, have lots of women. until someone realised that i want some of everything. so he made rupaiya. he was singularly acclaimed as the greatest soul alive - because he thought that now everything will have a value in a common denomination - chooth! he murdered the lives of everyone. from the wheel to oil-laced-waves in the andaman, if money wasnt there, we still would have lived like ignorant souls, fought innocent wars - at least not run through metros and thought oh-my-fuckin-gawd i still have eight more promotions to go.

which again gets me to the direction which man is taking to answer the existential question - who am i? and why am i here? so here is the answer - i am three crores and i am here to make fifteen crores.

or in my case - i am penniless and to become a billionaire.

the whole thing is that ki bhaiyya???? hehe!

come to think of it - technology - the one thing that money simply adores buying. better the tech more the manni.

what has every known prophet / god advised? karmanye wadhi karaste - its karma that counts.

but what does technology do? its created witn one single purpose in mind - to make the population rest easy. remote controls, cars, lifts, shoes, what not. sofas (aah!), cozy beds (time is eight? well.. let it go on)... man is becoming lazier - our ancestors though monkeys, i guess they were far more fitter than any of us. and i know for a fact that most developed countries inhabitants are obese.

make people lazier, they will give you more money - you will get your beach house.

hmm - sounds good. so where are my billions? i mean who wants to be lazy :p

day? night? (!)

one of the perils of living outside of home, and in between hundreds of guys, is that the line between day and night disappears.

u wake up, its the same sun over the same lake , tranquil and serene. There is no tubelight glaring into your eyes. music playing in the background. perfect way to slip back into the oblivion. suddenly you realise. wheres the class. u see the time. 6:00pm. i wanted to get up at 9:45am and then go to class.

okay, thats ambitious, atleast the 3:45class in the afternoon. but not 6 when all the classes are over!..

the same ole saga. party, morning, sleep. get up evening. party. now thats an evil circle. there is no element that is not logically connected to the previous, and somehow this circle seems to perfectly describe most mortal lives in the campus.

however as always, there must be those, whose viciousness seems to pale out everybody else's. get up at 8:00 for dinner and off to sleep at breakfast.

the only one way to break out of this is, of course to miss sleep. but then the party element before the sleep, overrules it. and parties cannot be overruled, can they? hmm... the vicissitudes of life!

but then of course we do realise that the problem is not the problem, the problem is i. and there it stops. it develops into one of the most profound questions of all time. why am i here and do i want this.

again, the problemo of choice. why does everything have to come down to the same question. do u want to do it? if yes, then dont crib. if no, then why are you here. pretty damaging questions to ask oneself eh?

where is the road i follow

the concept of peaceful co-existence coupled with harmony does not seem to bother the human race, at least those who live in cities like Mumbai. while it does function as a critical node in many functions for the country, it makes the people there insensitive to so many things, which collectively form a part of any human's need for inner equilibrium.

scene : a crowded local rail system. with the existing population of n crores, the system is a damn fine example of operational excellence, yet who does it carry. people sweating out to reach the office in time. who work almost every other day, travel-time is one sixth of that day. you return home. this is the life of the average mumbaikar. of course there are people who have a much balanced daily scheduled, but if you are working and have to earn by travelling large distances, chances are you are definitely one in at least half the population.

yes there are instances of public shows of harmonious existence, but there are places where people do not know each other. there is so much of tension in their lives to accomodate the various schedules and the emotional part of life, that the live-and-let-live feeling feels more insensitive. its like.. this is my life, so stay put. not hey mate, hows life doing. get what i mean?

but then, as a person in the twenties, earning, i wonder why would anyone want to travel for those hours. a much better option would be to be able to stay closer to office and get out to party early. or do whatsoever pleases you. not think of how do you get back across to where i can rest. the road is still there to cover.

this is just the early morning thought when you see those millions running across to their work. whats better is a new newspaper i happened to observe in bbay. dna. thats what it is called. daily news and analysis. the paper is okay. with the various sections. but it crosses all perceptible limits of shock, which is of course what the section - page3 or in this case after hours or something, is all about. lots of quizzes like which character says what about whose breasts in sex and the city. or what do they think about having sex with multiple men at the same period of time. of course, the volume of the newspaper does suggest that the page3 kinds, occupy a huge space of time among those who read newspapers. lots of such crap in there. which gets me to why should page3 have any written stuff. does it matter. whether ria sen has attended some party or some ramani's neckline is going lower or why is xyz shacking up with someone else's girl at an unknown place where he was recognized by just the reporters of TOI? i would suggest, these papers can print a lot more photographs, that way, they would not be subject to diatribes and everyone would love them for doing away with the unnecessary. everyone likes to see those snaps anyways. and they have a better morning.