Indians - The Pioneers, India - Still Underdeveloped

Hello Folks,


First of all A Belated Happy Independence Day !! Hope you all celebrated it with a fervor equivalent to any Religious Festival or a Personal Achievement. 


In the words of Mark Twain, India is, the cradle of human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.


Our History, if we believe, is not a short summation of some 300 years, but dates and accounts for a few hundred thousands of years. All possible human emotions, traits, glories, tragedies have been witnessed by this land. The world has credited us for the most of the famous subjects that are of practical importance to us Indians. Be it Mathematics, to Aryabhatta or Surgery to Sushruta. Architecture to Vishwakarma and even Literature to many famous people like Vyasa, Kabir, Kalidasa, Rahim.  



Even in modern day world, Indian Brain is the most respected and sought out commodity. Sabeer Bhatia, Vikram Pandit, Deven Sharma, Ajit Jain, Kalpana Chawla are few names to suggest.


Still, very sadly our country is regarded as a third world country, we cannot claim to be a part of the developed community of the world. We cannot be blatantly proud and snob like the Brits, even though today we all know they are Penny Wise Pound Foolish. Americans outsource intellectual services to India and labor and manual job work to China, but still are a proud and a developed nation of dimwits.


Indians on the other hand, are pioneers, leaders, intellectuals, still have to be humble just because we are adaptable and adjustable. Powerful people in India are powerful in person but that power has not been transferred to the nation. The nation is still believed to be a land of snake charmers.


Now, with the world, where it stands, gives India the best opportunity. The youth today do not have to look to escape India, for better opportunities, the situation is in fact other way round. We stand on the brink from where economically we will be the most strongest country. All the hue and cry about the Lokpal Bill by youth assures of one fact that the youth isn't looking to escape, but clean our home and make it a better place to live.


I hope the awakening isn't a short lived one, and the resolute and commitment be strong to change things no matter the efforts and time. 


Cheers,
KS 

A Feeling Called LOVE !!

Hello Folks,

From the inception, I have always written on topics like Current Social Condition, our skills, the way we should better ourselves and always mentioned CRICKET somewhere or the other. This time I am attempting to write in the words of Gordon Gekko aka Michael Douglas in Wall Street on  "the longest running myth of the world, LOVE."

LOVE is a very strong word, used in a real apathy. Western culture has just made a mockery of the expression. Associated with tardy infatuations, unending lust of acquisition and the personal ego to land with the best, Love has just lost its divinity and real meaning.

Today, we love people and things which yearn and yield for us. We love people for their looks, way they talk and other aspects and if at all anything we love in them changes, our love just ends its course and we start finding another person to suit our requirements and fit the bill so we can love that person. This is purely Need to have the perfect things in life (Perfect to every Individual "IDEALISTIC"), and no LOVE. One fine day, we blurt out, you are no more the person I loved and it is all over.

LOVE is not this fickle and brittle. The only definition of LOVE is what each of our mother's have for us. That in true respect is LOVE. You may be a billionaire, successful, failure, fraudster, the best looker or probably the ugliest person on the face of the earth, for a mother's love all these are never the parameters. She loves to give not to want and demand. She doesn't expect an iota of even gratitude, even if you don't bother, she will never stop loving. Sadly, this is never given importance and respect in our Definition of Love, except on a Mother's Day when all hypocrites sing songs, glory to their mother just to show the world that Yes we care, the other 364 days when the world isn't bothered, they too are not bothered to show Love.

Love has no demands, no expectations and it just makes a way through all the bad qualities the person you love has. It is never found and never lost. If its there, it will be there ALWAYS.

Movies, some people who claim to be in love, some stories of true love are all the wrong PRO's of Love. They do not tell you the end but just end the drama when everything is rosy and nice. Whereas, a mother of a dreaded criminal or a bad man can show you what LOVE is. The feeling that doesn't change like seasons, with evolution of the person, success and failure or looks of the person is LOVE, rest everything is Opportunistic way of getting the Best and claiming love to it.

From a 2 year old kid to a 60 year old person, will always like, if he gets whatever he wanted and desired, because of an inherent need for the thing or person, but with time if it never changes, that is Love.

I made a small attempt to put in perspective, a feeling experienced by all of us, in many different ways for many different people and things. Everyone of us is right as Being Right is a matter of personal opinion and choice and no personal opinion can be wrong to the person having it.

I hope the change is refreshing and worth a thought !!

Cheers,
KS :)

Run of Ruthlessness

Hello Folks,

After a sabbatical of a month and a half, I am a changed man. Ideologies and Notions have changed like clothes in the wardrobe. The world has really gone to Dogs, and to get a part of it you need to become a Dog. 

The principles of Selflessness and Philanthropy are looked down upon as a mere joke and suspicion for the underlying profit of the person doing the noble act. Its all about Self and only Self. Relationships are just need based and upon the extraction of every single ounce the relation is left and rendered useless. Relationships are more like Condoms these days, use it till you can and satisfy your need and then use another one when you are in need again.

It is all about doing the right thing every single time. Mistakes are the biggest social taboo of the world. Once on a pedestal, committing a mistake is as good as committing suicide. The Indian Cricket Team is the best sought example, where the World Champions are compared to a School Team just in matter of two games. The room for error is demolished and you just pay the price instantly if you are found committing a mistake.

We are heading towards disasters in this Run of Ruthlessness. But the person who will not want to Run it will be villain, after all he is the one resisting CHANGE. Detrimental is not a parameter of change but not accepting something that is grossly wrong in the name of CHANGE is Resistance to Change.

After much contemplation and heavy verbal duels with many people I know in person, I have come to a conclusion that better or detrimental, there is no way you can stay away from Ruthlessness, if you have dreams and ambitions to pursue. Instead, joining the fray and leading it, is a more sought out answer.

Chuck family, friends, community its time to just look for I, ME and MYSELF. If you won't look after them, no one will, SAD but A COLD FACT.

Any views to be expressed are very welcome.

Cheers

 KS :)

   

Corruption Begins at Home

Hello Folks,

The word Corruption is not a new one nor has it been brought into public existence lately, everybody knew and knows about the most dangerous and rampantly practised social evil. But, who is responsible and why does it happen ??

The answer to this is not very easy and shallow. I am trying as an humble effort to give it an explanation. The answer lies in the Definition of the Science of Money ECONOMICS, to a part at our upbringing and habit cultivation at the best school THE HOME, and to a part in Bhagwad Gita.

As per Economics, Human Wants are Unlimited and the means to satisfy them are limited. This gives rise of the human going to any extent in fulfilling his wants. It is but natural that scarcity in resources will give rise to a cut throat level of competition and well, where there is competition, everything is fair and legal to survive and Achieve. In fact, Survival of the Fittest (jungle law) is applicable everywhere around us.

INCENTIVE !! The whole world works and functions on this word !! From a grade 2 kid to big corporate honchos. What is an INCENTIVE ?? The carrot attached to a stick to get desired level of output irrespective of your inherent feeling about doing the work. Even the TIP we pay to cab drivers, waiters, etc has a meaning To Insure Performance. Bribes and Corruption is just a Glorified Incentive which lures people to take up job irrespective of their willingness or love to perform a job. As a kid, I was always given an incentive to bring marks in my exams, which always made me work hard to get the gift rather than understanding the inherent importance of studies and scoring well as a big step of my life. From that small gifts, to big Payouts in the Financial Market, everybody works towards achieving it no matter how. Shady Deals, Frauds, Scams everything in the way of a ruthless pursuit to achieve the carrot of Incentive and after a point in time meet Personal Ego Demands.

Sacred scriptures, very well philosophised, in Bhagwad Gita tell us to work honestly, without actually expecting and attaching rewards to the work performed. But Incentive decided before hand of the task performed just makes us go crazy to get it and we fall into doing tacit stuff. It is perfectly natural, cause the seeds sown are itself faulty.

It is very deep rooted in us, Corruption and its a Demon which can be destroyed only by education and the right way of looking at stuff. Going on a hunger strike, or getting public support and agitations can tame the devil for the moment, but not destroy it completely. Its about morals of the individuals involved and not with the lax of governance and law. All laws are passed with the inherent existence of loopholes. With time, smarter individuals will find it and capitalize but the Devil will always raise its ugly head again and again.

Mahatma Phule, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Raja Ram Mohun Roy did not end evils like Sati, Child Mariages, Dowry, etc by going on an indefinite fast unto death but by leading with examples and education. Even Mahatma Gandhi did not sit on a Fast Unto Death till the British Leave India but took steps like Non Cooperation Moment, Civil Disobedience Moment and Quit India Moment. It is a process but we believe always to skip the process and come out with a result on ransom. We do not want to stop doing it at a smaller scale but want it to be stopped at the greater scale. Just because, we are not in that opportunity, the person there should be brought to book.

Stop doing stuff to get the incentive tagged to it and start doing it because you want to do it and lets inculcate the sacred value of doing things without thinking of the reward in us as well as the future generations.

As the good old saying, Charity Begins At Home !! or else lets stop whinning about it because then its Hypocrisy and no Concrete word against it.

Do offer your opinion, and we can have a dialogue about the most discussed topic of all for time being.

 KS :)