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When it is time to write about civic sense, most Indians don’t even know where to start or should we even start? I am also hit with the same dilemma. Did we invent poor civic sense? Did we always have poor civic sense? Did we inherit it? By the way, what really is the civic sense because of which whole Indian civilians are presently mocked by the world? A good place to start would be the definition of civic sense as per our AI friend.  “In simpler terms, civic sense means being mindful of how one’s actions affect others and the shared environment, such as disposing of garbage properly, not smoking in public places, respecting elders and minorities, and participating in public welfare activities. It also includes obeying laws and contributing positively to collective social order.” Life in ancient India as we know it, should have been closely linked to cleanliness considering the importance of the Sanskrit word Swachhatha in old vedic texts, which meant clean or pure. The link that ...

  All of us are lucky to be born into the latest generation and but few of us survive to be labelled the oldest generation before we give away our current body and return to our favourite abode with our favourite people. The story that happens between these two events are often categorised as life of a person. For a colony like India many things were reset from the colonial era often wiping out our history before British as mere fantasy. When new country was formed, our priorities would have been on nation building. After being looted for few generations & trained to be a good disciplined Victorian labourer, we fancied a British life and Anglo goals as a motivation to work towards. India continued it’s Babu culture and government servants(if am allowed to say), took the role of the Britishers in all facets of Indian life. We being poor and agriculture dependant country; people often had a choice to be a good farmer and face the uncertainties of life devoted to natural calamitie...

Pursuit of perfection is the beautiful journey that we embark from the time of our birth. We are often reminded by the world around us on how imperfect we are. This starts with parents and adults reminding us as children on how we are the only laggards they had ever met. Every facet of life is often compared to other successful men and women who adorns the crown of perfection in their trade. A boy who dreams of being a soccer player is often compared with Messi or Ronaldo. A cricket aspirant with Kohli or Bumrah. A musician with Mozart and so the list goes on and on as you can imagine. We grow up becoming a self critic who sees the imperfections in us like a painted canvas. We reflect harshly on ourself succumbing to the peer pressure and constant comparisons of this world.  Sadly there is a big chunk of people who are so upset with their looks that they tend to overlook the fact that they lost a genetic lottery and it is nothing that they can do about it. Fortunately so the world ...

It is Year 2050, while we are at an advanced state of colonizing Mars and conquering universe once more. First time after the extinction of ancient civilizations which left various shastras for our scrutiny as technology texts, made the earthians dream bigger forever. We have continued to milk every drop of energy sources in planet Earth and had reached a time when we had to sadly accept other planets as home. As usual the average citizen was racing with rats, while our sun continued to glow with vengeance seeing what humans did in spite of all his hard work to keep the perfect living conditions in Earth. As much as a cliche it would sound but somewhere in Japan, Mio Hana had dreamed of starting her own power company seeing the potential we humans had to harvest and harness the green energy. Mio's vision materialized in the form of RunSys, the very same year when man had planted the first paddy field in Mars after paying a fortune to start a new life. The only aide of RunSys was su...

India is a developing country and the ambition in our youth to have a crore in their bank is also developing in same pace. Wealth of India and Indians is a well-known phenomenon in this world. We were once considered the richest land. Even now we have few wealthy people who can give tough competition to other rich men around the planet. Indians grow up understanding and tagging wealth to gold and property. Most of the current generation had seen a struggling prior generation and/or heard of previous generations working hard to earn wealth. Most of the Indians didn't have housing in earlier generations and the ones who had been the landlords often lending money and renting property to the larger masses. This practice had led to our ancestors often linking richness to having property for rent.  Our rich dad poor dad preaches us to have assets which are earning bucks for us versus sitting idle and shut which links to having rented property. We often overlook the fact that when is buyi...

  “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” - Voltaire The simple answer to who needs God is “everyone”. Why we need God could be different.   As many scholars and philosophers had taught us over last few generations. Religion and belief had played a key role in creating societies and civilisations. Without religion or a common thread of belief system or culture for that matter, we humans cannot be organised and disciplined. I do agree there will be always those outliers who could manage without a system. What happens without a system is well understood assuming most of my readers are living in countries which has an order. Theories on how it all started could be that alien as aliens themselves would feel less alien. Is it a culture that we often label as religion? Is it common practices? Is it a doctrine and set of rules that makes up a religion? Is it God’s words translated by other humans before us that constitutes a religion? It could be all of these and ...