Write it when you feel it!

Every day is a special day if you apprehend the fact that we have lived to see another day in our life. We seldom worry about this as the saying goes “As long as it runs, let it run”. Now this applies to electronic devices including our daily partner cell phones, trusted time keeper – the wrist watch and similar beings. Are we living the moment? Are we living life to the fullest? Have we really thought what we have to do with this gift of our parents called, life which at times are incidental? As with other things, we might have had hundred different plans which occur to be obsolete when we retrospect. I thought of discussing the feeling of nakedness when we are away from these time keepers and connecting partners. Ease of the most difficult thing when we actually do it would be another point to ponder. As quoted by one of my close friend over email, it is unlike me when I forgot my mobile at home. It is unlike anybody we could find in current world. Whatever happens, most of us ten...

I happen to read a book which had the collection of letters which Swami Vivekananda wrote during his days in India and abroad. There were many takings from these chronicles. It is very true that the letters a man writes depicts the actual picture than any books or biographies could ever do. This book gave me a peep into Swami's life and his lifestyle. By the way, this is not written in hysteria. To those who believe Swami Vivekananda was just another religious leader, please have a second thought would be my recommendation. For a person like me who after all these years of following his life and teachings in many aspects this book changed the way I think and now am at a stage of self-ridiculing from what I see that I once thought. I am not judging a great person like Swami but sharing my thoughts on a worldwide subject. More than a religious soul he was a reformer that India could never actually benefit from. He was not a person who advocated only religious/spiritual aspect...

This train ride in Rajdhani express speaks volumes about the state of Hyderabad outskirts. I had been to many cities via train but never found these many examples of water scarcity and unhygienic sanitation.  Every other guy was carrying a plastic bottle filled with water from nearby evaporated water sources which only contained contaminated concentration of water. People where all over the place sitting bare from waist and attending to their natures call.  I could notice that very many lakes and canals which should have boasted of clear, fresh water at its prime now contains full of plastic and thermo-col dumps. The water doesn't remain good for any use. Still people with few choices ahead, rush to these and carry what all they could get for their needs. Don't know about the health conditions at these area but I am sure, the citizens of this great country deserves more which if for definite.  From the outset, I have a feeling this place looks to be concentrating only o...

Time was such that parents often decides to leave their little ones with grandparents. My childhood was no different during my school vacations. I was often left to accompany my grandparents on my mom's end at her family home. Grandparents symbolizes both of them but the influence and impact that they left in my live, forces me to separate them in my thoughts based on the areas they worked magic on. Even though the habit of spending my life there during vacations started long back than what I could recollect. I wanted to write down what all I could recollect. It would be second year at school, I was very fond of my grandfather's bicycle. I always wanted to take a long ride on it all alone which somehow materialized when I was 14years old. My grandfather used to conduct typewriting and shorthand classes in an institute which he founded after his retirement. This kept him busy whole day and my grandmother used to take care of me during those times. Day starts with routine e...

Often I have heard some of my friends saying the issue with India are related Patriarchal policies. Yes, but why is India still practicing this Patriarchy? What is this dowry that most people are against, including me? Have we ever thought how it still exists in this country after all these laws? I am sure one among you have seen or heard of how people negotiate to get higher dowry and drop from marriages which doesn't fill their purse? Is it because there are no laws in India? Dowry is mentioned as a natural gift in Dictionary.com which makes it interesting to start with. Dowry, I would imagine might have started with a good cause few millenniums back. It could also be seen from an angle where the men of India wanted their daughters or women folk to be settled first before their sons start settling in life. Often we see that Indian brides are offered huge sets of Gold, money, land etc during their marriage as a natural gift or by force at times without public knowledge. For fe...

With the whole world moving to find alternate energy solutions with highly increasing operating cost and availability of energy from known sources, we are really looking for a darker world in coming decades. There are in-numerous mode that we can think of. From our school days we keep hearing about solar energy, wind energy, hydro projects, this energy and that very projects. We even witnessed that states could go on war over water. The days are not far when people would kill each other demanding more air and use  man made technologies to get wind flowing their way. Maybe this state-wide bandh in Karnataka made me think more about water, power and people as there is nothing much you can enjoy on a bandh day here in Bangalore. I have noticed that some of the states in India needs water from other states whereas the other states cannot afford to share as they believe they themselves don't have enough. As we all know water is a source of power in some places and it is no...

Would like to start with a real life incident...Once a child was born for a govt servant who seeked the advice of great astrologers to write his horoscope. It was interesting for them to read that her baby would do great things some day...work abroad(the common Indian success feeling) and also earn lots of money...but the only thing that haunted them was the statement which always brushed their minds...the haunting sentence was that "baby would work for non-govt organization"...this was written about 30yrs ago and during those days in India, working for a private company was not something people would like to dream of...everyone wanted to be a govt. servant...secure and prestigious job...and what this guy will earn in a private sector...something that worried that parents all those early stages of their child's life... Gone are those days now when people craved to be a govt servant, from last few decades something that has rocked the world apart from tsunami and other...