Only once in a huge while we find such television shows , which teach you a lesson with no effort ,where the plots are not complex but they keep you mesmerized , Where you know in each episode the climax of the story is going to be good winning and evil losing the grounds , and even in few plots there won't be any antagonist at all, still the simple human feelings,and love and affection are so well depicted that you love it all. Malgudi, a perfect society, I sometimes used to believe that it really existed. When the world is full of mistrust , suspicion and competing for being more crafty and refined , small stories like these have inculcated the morals and simplicity in many and serials like Malgudi Days have shaped many younger minds.
R. K Narayan, the writer extraordinaire, puts a story so simply that I would even put him in the class of Prem chand and Tolstoy and Gorky. The icing on the cake was the title song/music - "Tana na na na na Tana na na na na" which is still a favourite of many of my generation .
I somehow feel myself very fortunate that I grew up in a time when television was really a source of education family entertainment(at least till I was in mid teens ) . I take pity on the kids who are growing up with cable and cartoon network and are missing up the real lessons of life .
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Necessity of all inventions
You can throw several reasons,varying from - human instinct to need for comfort, adaptation to survival of fittest, inquisitive mind to unrelenting insight, curiosity to desperate need of the moment. You can even ascribe it to the medieval revolutions and the tortures by churches, blame industrialization , may even have misgivings to Alfred noble for setting up the lucrative noble prize. I buy all your arguments you have a point. But here I dare to put forth the same theory yet another time, that the necessity for all inventions is woman! Believe it or not , reasons behind nine out of ten inventions can easily be traced to women! From the prehistoric times to this jet era women have been the reasons in one way or other. Had there not been Sita's tantrum to get the golden deer would Hanuman have ever invented the art of flying ? Had it not been Kunti would Sanjay have given the concept of television ? Okay , enough ; Let's look beyond India. Had it not been Mary Magdalne would there have been Monalisa(and of course Da Vinci !) ? Ok let's not not talk history ( it's always full of discombobulating mystical tales and confused mess that even a fool can prove his point !)
Do you think man was utterly stupid to go on a discovery stride to find new forests and deserts just to add more bucks(in those periods coins ) to his bank accounts(in those days his under earth treasury of gold!) putting his invaluable life at stake? Motivation, Compulsion - gold, may be yes, but did he ever use the gold for himself ? Had there been no women, the currency printed for the first time would have been sufficient for all our needs! Man would have been content with invention of iron and copper, and all the wars for gold and sinews of wars would have been only limited to fiction novels ! For all those who hold the notion that money is the ultimate impetus it should now come with no surprise that there are other stimuli driving instincts of mercenary desires.
Had Eve not eaten the fruit from the knowledge tree, had she not persuaded Adam to eat it as well and had Pandora not opened the box, there wouldn't have been any knowledge , nor there would have been any problems, and NO inventions would have taken place on this planet Earth!
Do you think man was utterly stupid to go on a discovery stride to find new forests and deserts just to add more bucks(in those periods coins ) to his bank accounts(in those days his under earth treasury of gold!) putting his invaluable life at stake? Motivation, Compulsion - gold, may be yes, but did he ever use the gold for himself ? Had there been no women, the currency printed for the first time would have been sufficient for all our needs! Man would have been content with invention of iron and copper, and all the wars for gold and sinews of wars would have been only limited to fiction novels ! For all those who hold the notion that money is the ultimate impetus it should now come with no surprise that there are other stimuli driving instincts of mercenary desires.
Had Eve not eaten the fruit from the knowledge tree, had she not persuaded Adam to eat it as well and had Pandora not opened the box, there wouldn't have been any knowledge , nor there would have been any problems, and NO inventions would have taken place on this planet Earth!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
No woman No cry contnd...
Came across this . Looks like people have their ways to give themselves solace !
A woman's heart is like a maze, very hard to get through.
A woman's heart is like a puzzle, not every piece fits true.
A woman's heart is like a game, not every time's a win.
A woman's heart's a locked door, only patience gets you in.
A woman's heart is like a flower, takes time for it to grow.
A woman's heart is like a child, help it and take things slow.
A woman's heart is like a pond, pure and very deep.
If ever you should capture it, forever should you keep.
However you have found your way, don't blow it from the start.
Just hold them close and remember: you hold the key to their heart.
by Richard Anthony Flores
A woman's heart is like a maze, very hard to get through.
A woman's heart is like a puzzle, not every piece fits true.
A woman's heart is like a game, not every time's a win.
A woman's heart's a locked door, only patience gets you in.
A woman's heart is like a flower, takes time for it to grow.
A woman's heart is like a child, help it and take things slow.
A woman's heart is like a pond, pure and very deep.
If ever you should capture it, forever should you keep.
However you have found your way, don't blow it from the start.
Just hold them close and remember: you hold the key to their heart.
by Richard Anthony Flores
Monday, November 24, 2008
Tribute to jokers !
Sounds strange, isn't it? But I was seriously touched by the movie 'Mera Naam Joker' .This Raj Kapoor movie is one of the very few movies which can startle an unsentimental like me from within. By and large we all assume, may be unconsciously , that we are immune enough to such penetrations(and at times we even feel proud for such callousness! ), but sometimes few things do penetrate us and leave us retrospecting and pensive.
We do know that all pain and troubles are part and parcel of life and one doomed with the greatest share should bear it all alone and if we get an opportunity to get few of our minor threadbare problems solved by burdening someone with a Saragossa sea of problems , we as a perfect human being should leverage it out. It may sound all crazy but we all do this, we all invent plots to pull others down and move up the ladder , live in disguise , move on after relations cease to be profitable anymore. "Use and throw" and "move on" are the only rules we seem to follow. But yeah where lies the problem?If everyone is is playing the same game why should one complain ? Reasons- we aren't that much civilized yet and there are people like joker who do care for others, who do take pains to come back the whole path leaving everything behind just to give you a helping hand! Who don't mind waiting for ages for you to catch them up and still pray for your success if you move on afterward leaving them in lurch. Look around you there are many jokers , and much to our surprise they are more civilized. They may not be successful but certainly are better human beings . They may not have many things to boast of , but are never short of love and affection. And to be very honest these jokers have kept the humanity and civilization alive and intact sometimes in form of a mother , sometimes in form of a father, sometime in form of a friend , or even at times in form of a complete stranger, and we owe all our success to them !
We do know that all pain and troubles are part and parcel of life and one doomed with the greatest share should bear it all alone and if we get an opportunity to get few of our minor threadbare problems solved by burdening someone with a Saragossa sea of problems , we as a perfect human being should leverage it out. It may sound all crazy but we all do this, we all invent plots to pull others down and move up the ladder , live in disguise , move on after relations cease to be profitable anymore. "Use and throw" and "move on" are the only rules we seem to follow. But yeah where lies the problem?If everyone is is playing the same game why should one complain ? Reasons- we aren't that much civilized yet and there are people like joker who do care for others, who do take pains to come back the whole path leaving everything behind just to give you a helping hand! Who don't mind waiting for ages for you to catch them up and still pray for your success if you move on afterward leaving them in lurch. Look around you there are many jokers , and much to our surprise they are more civilized. They may not be successful but certainly are better human beings . They may not have many things to boast of , but are never short of love and affection. And to be very honest these jokers have kept the humanity and civilization alive and intact sometimes in form of a mother , sometimes in form of a father, sometime in form of a friend , or even at times in form of a complete stranger, and we owe all our success to them !
Monday, September 8, 2008
No woman , No Cry
If you have gone by the title, you have got it right :). How many times we all say behind every successful man there is a woman, but how many are successful is the central question ! And behind every unsuccessful man there are many ! And to aggravate the problem how many of those handful of successful people are happy!!
I have a girlfriend but she is still a friend, I have a girlfriend but she is more than a girlfriend ! , I do have a girlfriend but I do need another, I do have a girlfriend but there is also another ! , I don't have a girlfriend ! , I had a girlfriend ! , I no longer need a girlfriend ... These are few reasons which have made us shed lots of tears without glycerin that too in real life ! Problem Woman ,Solution may be Woman.
( To digress a bit all the problems listed above are only of very select problems of select youth , the list is bound to get endless if I were to write even 10 percent of all the problems and anguish of mankind owing to women )
The mere existence of this saying in a male dominated patriarchal societies( Which I seriously doubt) , does underline the power of feminine and the helplessness of man (No need to elaborate all our ancient myths are full of war stories which were conceptualized by ladies that too by the legal uneducated spouses of the kings and in the days when words like girlfriends weren't even conceived ! The days when women were not aware of all their ways they had been endowed with !). You may disagree with the former (Power of feminine) but you too are helpless .
So what do we do? Is there any savior? NONE, for all spirits in the heavens are afraid of feminine power(Apsaras to be very precise ! ). All sedulous yet abortive efforts and maneuvers of ancient sages of imposing penance to overcome woman factor were made futile again by women (Apsaras) make the story even worse,sympathetic and pitiful. And not much to our surprise women who claim themselves to be of epitomes of Pity , sympathy, affection, seem to be enjoying the whole episode !!
PS: Why on this earth this afternoon again a guy(sincerely yours) has turned a rebel, simply because he too now feel the pain deep in the heart. But he does know this again will be a toast for their rejoice ! ! Heavens save HELPLESS us ! Oh sorry ,Women save the helpless us (No direct confrontation :()
I have a girlfriend but she is still a friend, I have a girlfriend but she is more than a girlfriend ! , I do have a girlfriend but I do need another, I do have a girlfriend but there is also another ! , I don't have a girlfriend ! , I had a girlfriend ! , I no longer need a girlfriend ... These are few reasons which have made us shed lots of tears without glycerin that too in real life ! Problem Woman ,Solution may be Woman.
( To digress a bit all the problems listed above are only of very select problems of select youth , the list is bound to get endless if I were to write even 10 percent of all the problems and anguish of mankind owing to women )
The mere existence of this saying in a male dominated patriarchal societies( Which I seriously doubt) , does underline the power of feminine and the helplessness of man (No need to elaborate all our ancient myths are full of war stories which were conceptualized by ladies that too by the legal uneducated spouses of the kings and in the days when words like girlfriends weren't even conceived ! The days when women were not aware of all their ways they had been endowed with !). You may disagree with the former (Power of feminine) but you too are helpless .
So what do we do? Is there any savior? NONE, for all spirits in the heavens are afraid of feminine power(Apsaras to be very precise ! ). All sedulous yet abortive efforts and maneuvers of ancient sages of imposing penance to overcome woman factor were made futile again by women (Apsaras) make the story even worse,sympathetic and pitiful. And not much to our surprise women who claim themselves to be of epitomes of Pity , sympathy, affection, seem to be enjoying the whole episode !!
PS: Why on this earth this afternoon again a guy(sincerely yours) has turned a rebel, simply because he too now feel the pain deep in the heart. But he does know this again will be a toast for their rejoice ! ! Heavens save HELPLESS us ! Oh sorry ,Women save the helpless us (No direct confrontation :()
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
You and I in this beautiful world
Don't know but feeling good after so long. Much because listening to this hutch commercial for the 10 time in a row. Seriously creativity at its best , and also because just finished an intriguing and a grueling debug(For those who don't have much background in chip design or software ; debug is a process to find out silliest of the errors of humans or soft wares) after a week for which I had been working almost everyday for more that 12 hours . But now feel this sheer momentary joy was worth all that drudging. Everything looks so beautiful when I have nothing else occupying my mind.
The pug running with kid reminisce me of those carefree child hood days when there was nothing to worry about ( However even today there aren't many ! ) Running down the road with friends , getting drenched in the rain, splashing that dirty water on others and what not , are all those days now bygones ? May be, I can have some of that fun again but the intensity cannot be the same for sure. I even wonder how I went into such retrospective or pensive mode, probably sometime even the sudden respite from work or exhaustion is good enough to unwind. In fact of late only few things can make me think and reminisce ,and even on the fewer occasions I think for a while, otherwise in this fast paced life which full of dirty debugs things simply come and go without any notice. But this commercial some how has become an exception.
I am forced to think that these landscapes in the video are not a very alien setting and in fact one can find such blissful panoramic views in most part of India and that too very close around him , in his very every day's life and place ! , but alas we all have become kind of blind to the beauty which is naturally present, the appreciation for blue skies , green grass, rising and falling sun which we happen to see many times in a day never comes. We are too bogged down in our own problems that things which used to fascinate us not very long back , no longer have any appeal , it's not that we have become more matured or grown up but it's that we no longer have time to appreciate such things. We do appreciate these things when we pay hefty amounts to go on a wild excursion, when we are basking on a beach totally cutoff from the work , but I wonder why to miss the everyday's occasion when we see the sun rising , when we come across some small stray puppy or kitten ? Why to turn a blind eye at that time ?After all you and I have such a beautiful world !
The pug running with kid reminisce me of those carefree child hood days when there was nothing to worry about ( However even today there aren't many ! ) Running down the road with friends , getting drenched in the rain, splashing that dirty water on others and what not , are all those days now bygones ? May be, I can have some of that fun again but the intensity cannot be the same for sure. I even wonder how I went into such retrospective or pensive mode, probably sometime even the sudden respite from work or exhaustion is good enough to unwind. In fact of late only few things can make me think and reminisce ,and even on the fewer occasions I think for a while, otherwise in this fast paced life which full of dirty debugs things simply come and go without any notice. But this commercial some how has become an exception.
I am forced to think that these landscapes in the video are not a very alien setting and in fact one can find such blissful panoramic views in most part of India and that too very close around him , in his very every day's life and place ! , but alas we all have become kind of blind to the beauty which is naturally present, the appreciation for blue skies , green grass, rising and falling sun which we happen to see many times in a day never comes. We are too bogged down in our own problems that things which used to fascinate us not very long back , no longer have any appeal , it's not that we have become more matured or grown up but it's that we no longer have time to appreciate such things. We do appreciate these things when we pay hefty amounts to go on a wild excursion, when we are basking on a beach totally cutoff from the work , but I wonder why to miss the everyday's occasion when we see the sun rising , when we come across some small stray puppy or kitten ? Why to turn a blind eye at that time ?After all you and I have such a beautiful world !
Friday, June 13, 2008
Long intertia
Back to blogger after a long time. The last few weeks had been really tough and and hectic loads of work in office. Got to know lots of intricacies of professional life. Beware I am more professional now a days! The tedium which used to grip me for any repetitive work was bit lenient. But of late it has become very peremptory and I give in and some time give up too easily. Yeah in the mean time the things which kept me working were few good books ( Apart from Manager's yelling !) . Found few books by my school time favorite - Kanahaiya lal prabhakar Mishra. They are simply spell bounding . The lessons , the depth, the style everything is really entrancing. Will try to drop in few posts on same.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Flooded and faded
Forgot to close the kitchen tap, and it happened! the flat got flooded! All neighbors were waiting outside our flat and were gaping at us with a killing look. As soon as we opened the main gate water started running out !10 inch Water everywhere inside ! Thesuarus and all other books floating in water, my favorite pair of shoes , clothes all wet and damaged :( . I prayed all the GODS . . . These are times when we miss our families and have to repent for the LONELY living . Five hours of hard work to restore the house in somewhat livable situation. Even after that no beds , no current (as had to remove the fuse to prevent shocks from common earthing) and mosquitoes singing the best music and working diligently to suck us after water had flooded us !! And to add to our miseries we hadn't taken dinner on that day. We offering a scene of flood to the neighbors, the night was a complete mess. Hope you learn a lesson and close the taps before you leave the house, otherwise you too will add an unnecessary post to blogger! Oh yeah forgot to tell that day also was a complete mess I had to get a DD of some amount and filled the amount incorrectly :( and not over while fixing a bug added two more :( in the office( Thanks to UNIX filters could trace them very easily ) !!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Hosting !
Could you believe I hosted three families ( to be precise 3 couples ) this weekend . I myself couldn't have imagined doing this a year back but lately I am getting used to all socialites and doing my bits(of course in a garbled fashion ! ) To host someone in our country is altogether a tough task. And especially when you got to host a family. It's very likely that you will botch up the relations altogether than strengthening your kinships. In as much as guests are humans , they come in all flavors ranging from unpalatable , exploding, imposing In -laws to your close friends and you have to adjust yourself. I find these extreme cases easiest to handle mostly because I don't have any In-laws and partly because my friends find me somewhat amicable! (Hope they keep this even after reading this blog ! ) and a headstrong pacifist ( Ahem, I have to take that role y when I realize that they all can go nuts if not stopped then ) Yeah so the difficult ones are those who fall somewhere in middle of theses extremes. I simply get badly befuddled at the thought of finding the appropriate limits - How much to cater ?How much hospitality would do? which restaurant to take them ? Should I take off from office and be around with them ?and a fear starts looming over. This time I was hell bent on making decisions on the spur of the moment and defying all the management lessons which I had studied in college. This approach of less premeditation worked quite well, at least you don't feel fatigued if you take this approach. So here's the lesson -
Don't be much premeditated be spontaneous !
Don't be much premeditated be spontaneous !
Friday, February 1, 2008
Flowing river
I asked the small river
Doesn't your heart sink, when you see
stones blocking your way?
How do you cross the huge mountains
which come in your way?
Aren't you afraid of the scorching sun?
How do you keep moving
without stopping for a while?
The river just smiled and said -
You will cross mountains after mountains,
roll away all the rocks and beat the sun
If only you dream of Oceans.
Doesn't your heart sink, when you see
stones blocking your way?
How do you cross the huge mountains
which come in your way?
Aren't you afraid of the scorching sun?
How do you keep moving
without stopping for a while?
The river just smiled and said -
You will cross mountains after mountains,
roll away all the rocks and beat the sun
If only you dream of Oceans.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Little Lamp
Undeterred by the stormy winds
in the darkest night
fought hard The little lamp
alone with the winds.
Was blown off very soon
yet serves as a light house.
No more lit but still ignites many.
No more alive but fills life in many.
and Winds now have to fight million such lamps.
in the darkest night
fought hard The little lamp
alone with the winds.
Was blown off very soon
yet serves as a light house.
No more lit but still ignites many.
No more alive but fills life in many.
and Winds now have to fight million such lamps.
Yeah I did mean that! (something not very useful!)
Yeah it happens to many people! this time to me! You would like to behave or rather you have behaved contrary to what you do usually.. wholly intentional... you meant that. it was in outburst of strong emotions but still you meant that ! But the people will think that it was just an burst of emotion but really you didn't meant it (and even more painful if they understand, but want you remain burdened with those emotions!).. they will condone it when you wanted them to take it serious!! I find the situation when my innocent deeds are interpreted wrongly less pissing off .. but in this situation when I really wanted to fight and they wanted a cold war. They simply ignore as if I am kid talking nonsense!.. I did mean it..I've got the courage. Come on do fight !So I at last find myself in peace, May even as a loser But I cannot keep myself planning to fight and do all this nonsense and obviously haven't got the big heart as yours(which can disguise what you think and what you do) I again say I am not that a tough opponent man ! I don't give a strong fight to anyone!
Alok
Alok
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Nostalgic
Just after I got placed or rather after the third year itself there was a strange fear.. the change fright gripped me. An fear for end of the Bitsian Life .The yo life near towards an end and my heart all afraid throughout the fourth year 1st semester. But I found that many ppl share the same feeling and so I got relaxed(We people get sort of relaxation if we find even a single other individual with the same feelings!) The semester passed, and we guyz really enjoyed the psenti sem. The day I left BITS , I was about to cry .. Leaving this beautiful place Pilani ,the more beautiful BITS,the hostel life..the laccha sessions .. the hippling , hippling ppl around me and many things..
After joining the job I miss out those old good days! If the GOD bestow a boon may I will get all those things yet again . Cannot write more the Nastolgia is killing me!
After joining the job I miss out those old good days! If the GOD bestow a boon may I will get all those things yet again . Cannot write more the Nastolgia is killing me!
Life
When winds had robbed him ,
I asked him then
Don't you have any complains with the winds ?
I had seen, when flowers were falling
and the leaves defoliating
You were silent and looked unmoved
When the birds were changing their nests
Weren't you silent even then ?
He replied slowly , it's not that ,
I don't feel like asking them
not to leave me ever
But the love in their eyes
leaves me wordless,
I don't cry that I don't overshadow the warbling
coming from the far.
And thus I keep alive the memories
of singing and dancing and laughing aloud
For me Autumn is not the end of life
It's just the preparation for the coming spring.
I asked him then
Don't you have any complains with the winds ?
I had seen, when flowers were falling
and the leaves defoliating
You were silent and looked unmoved
When the birds were changing their nests
Weren't you silent even then ?
He replied slowly , it's not that ,
I don't feel like asking them
not to leave me ever
But the love in their eyes
leaves me wordless,
I don't cry that I don't overshadow the warbling
coming from the far.
And thus I keep alive the memories
of singing and dancing and laughing aloud
For me Autumn is not the end of life
It's just the preparation for the coming spring.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Yesterday is dead and over
Belief in this I believe is what has kept moving. It's this which has made us succeed despite the hurdles we have faced. We start afresh and try do good in present then moaning over the past and being worrying about the future. Here is a song from Switch foot called ' This is your life ' . Delivers the message effortlessly.
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you've got now
Yeah, and today is all you�ll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you've got now
Yeah, and today is all you�ll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
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