Divide, make’em fool and sit back cool!!

Perhaps, that’s what "behen" mayawati ji is thinking, And if it is true.. then how’s is it? Let me dig into it a bit deeper… By seeing today’s political scenario, behen ji’s weight is not less than any other party’s, in fact she looks more heavier than her arch rivals SP and BJP… (As usual!!)… Congress doesn’t come into picture at all when it comes to UP… and now after their countless “good deeds” in this tenure, they are already declared as looser!! So, in spite of having on such a good position and control over UP politics, why is mayawati playing this card of division? Is she trying to distract people from Taj corridor case or medical and other scams?

Now if she still plays, let’s see what she has in her deck of cards? UP is having the largest population of dalits and they are equally spread in entire state and BSP being a dalit led/for party, it has equal chances of winning in all the regions of state. So, is this the reason behind behenji’s confidence? Only sri kansiram ji knows!!

And she has the tremendous support from local parties like Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) headed by Ajit Singh, who has been campaigning for small states like Harit Pradesh comprising the western region, Raja bundela campaigning for Bundelkhand. They have their own “reasons/interests” of supporting behenji’s “noble” cause.

 Now let's see how “noble” is this cause? We have already seen small states carved out of bigger states and doing well. Like Uttarakhand, earlier part of UP and now comes into the list of fastest growing and good states to live in. On the other hand we have chattisgarh, once a part of MP, now comes in the list of failed states. Why it failed? It failed, due to lack of resources, it always has to look for help from other states, whereas Uttarakhand had all the resources which helped it to become a successful independent state. So it is not necessary for a state to become prosperous by chopping it into smaller, helpless pieces.

The division of states should be based on its currently available resources, which will make it successful and independent.

100 and still counting!!

100 and still counting!! Is government really become deaf, blind and mute or waiting for it to become a political agenda on which they can do cheep politics and come up with it in the next elections? Yes, I am talking about Manipur economic blockade. The situation here is getting worse day by day and the only one, who is suffering due to this, is Manipur’s common man. It seems government has nothing to do with it and it is none of their business. Living for common man here has become hell, they are struggling really hard to get their basic necessities. Petrol and cooking gas cylinders are being sold at “unimaginable prices” like around Rs.200/ltr for petrol and around Rs.2000/cylinder for cooking gas. Even the prices of potatoes and tomatoes are touching sky. There is nothing to indicate that there is a mechanism to monitor the prices of goods being sold in the market, whether it is in whole sale or retail sale. Every seller is busy in making their own price list!! 

This economic blockade is due to the clash between two communities, Naga and Kuki. The Sadar Hills District Demand Committee (SHDDC) had launched the economic blockade Aug 1 on two national highways — Imphal-Dimapur-Guwahati (NH 39) and Imphal-Jiribam-Silchar (NH53) — to press their demand for conversion of the Kuki tribal majority Sadar Hills area into a full-fledged district. However, tribal Nagas inhabiting the area are opposed to the creation of a Sadar Hills district. The Nagas have since Aug 1 also launched a counter-blocakde on the two highways opposing the demand by the Kuki people for a separate district.

And I was more shocked when I came to know that recently Manipur received award for “the Best Improved State in Governance among Small States of India” by India today group. Now I wonder, Is this for the award has given? Forget state government, central is acting like step mother, Is Manipur not a state or part of India, these are the situations in which rebels born, lift guns, point it towards government and called Naxalite or Maoists!!       

People or Parliament?

During Anna’s movement against the corruption, entire country came for his support and gradually converted it into the biggest ever civil mass protest against corruption and later on made it ‘half’ successful. Earlier, Indian government tried its best to formulate this movement and declared it against ‘government or parliament’ in stead of against ‘corruption’ by always making last minute changes in their promises and by making unnecessary, irrelevant remarks or statements about Anna, his team and the movement so that they can overrule and finish it . However it didn’t happen… it did not happen because of the mass, because of more than a billion people who suddenly rose up in support of Anna’s will and stood up against those who are nothing but sitting ducks in parliament, do quack—quack (using 2G), eat bhussa-chara (fodder), play nothing but ‘commonwealth games’, do nothing but vote bank politics by  dividing people based on their cast, creed and religion, know nothing but how to make innocent people fool by making fake promises, hear nothing but false praises and flattery from their government executives and administrators, have nothing but bank accounts filled with billions of black money made by corruption. And they also stood up against every one who is involved in corruption in any way or in any manner from a corrupt office clerk to the Prime minister of India.

During this historical movement, in every debate, in every statement we heard them by saying parliament is supreme, no body is up beyond the power of parliament… By making this statement they thought they will crush people’s agitation and would make them go silent. However it didn’t happen… it did not happen because now we know that parliament is supreme but made by common people to serve common people not to rule over them. Rules are made to strengthen nation and its people not to strengthen ruling party’s corrupt politicians.  
By the success of this movement … I guess, now they must have a clear understanding of supremacy… and If still not!!… God bless Indian politicians.

The Reason for Pakistan's obsession with India

It all started with a separation, usually there are always two major reasons behind this kind of act, the first one (the very common one also) is based on mutual understanding or assertion between both the parties, those are getting separated. This is a very safe and much peaceful way of getting separated. By this way both the parties finally come at a common platform, have a common thinking and decide at one thing and that is, to get separated for the happiness and comfort to all.

The second one is a bit obscure; it is obscure because in this kind of separation only one decides to get separate from the other. It is his/her wish to get separated from other, based on his/her choice and the reason could be anything. The “any reason” makes it obscure, a quite vague situation for the one who is at the other end of this act, who is still finding the reason which caused the separation.  
And now the third one… an unusual one, this is the most harmful, painful and bloody kind. It is a violent separation, this separation is a bitter fruit laden on the branches of autocracy, fertilized with hate, terror, and loot and sprinkled with the blood of millions of innocents. And convicts are non-other than, the unhealthy interests and filthy intentions of the third party. Usually it is performed when third party seeks for some benefit out of it, it can be in any form financial, physical, a revenge or could be a social pillage. 
Let’s discuss a bit in depth on this third kind… will go about 70 years back in Indian sub continent history and try to dig up few graves.                  
It was the year of 1947; place British India, the two separation seeking or rather being forced to get separated parties were “India” and “to be- Pakistan(east and west)” on the interest of British rule. Actually this example is a mix of second and third both kinds of separation. The second kind is included because a set of Indians suddenly “woke up” and asked to get separation from the rest of India or more specifically from a particular set of people who belongs to the other religion than that of their. They dreamed of a country in which only those people are allowed to live who come from the same religion, faith or belief. And apparently British had cashed out of their dreams.
About 70 years back Pakistan got separated from India and it seems like they still couldn’t separate themselves from their roots, in fact they have been trying so much that it has become their habit. And the hard they try, the deeper they get screwed. There is a psychology working behind Pakistan’s unhealthy obsession with India, It can separate from India geographically but it is hard to avoid or disconnect from its culture or past that still lies in its core. You can separate body parts but when you try to separate soul you simply loose life, same is happening with Pakistan now.
After separation from India, Pakistan had to work hard on building itself as a nation. It had to build a completely new country, which had to have strictly nothing in common with India. In the absence of true national identity, Pakistan defined it self by its opposition to India in front of rest of the World. The more it condemns India by rejecting India’s culture, people’s belief and their ideology the more it is ending up by loosing its own people’s culture, belief and support. The birth of Pakistan was based on the belief of not including people other than Muslim religion. So Pakistan never liked India as a secular state who’s 80% of total population is Hindu.
Once being a part of India now portrays itself as a nuclear power enabled neighbor, who never fails any opportunity of making red circles or showing elevated doted lines over major cities on India’s map as a soft nuclear bomb blast targets and its Gauri missile’s long ranges. Pakistan has actually become nothing more than but a dangerous brand of Muslim extremists. And this is because the actual power lies in bloody hands of Pakistani Army; Pakistan government is just a hand-puppet. On every issue or crisis Pakistan’s government always tries to mislead their people and world by keeping its humble or cooperative face in front, whereas always actual decision and action is made by its army, which has the whiff of Taliban. And the truth of its dual face was unveiled on May 1st of this very year, when Osama was killed garrison town of Abbottabad by US Navy. Pakistan army is the beneficiary of vast amounts of American assistance and money— $11 billion since 9/11—the military has diverted a significant amount of these resources to arming itself against India. On their western side, it has sought neither security nor stability but rather a backyard, which—once the Americans leave.
The time and money Pakistan is spending over Kashmir border if even 1/3rd of it was invested in Swat valley (North-West Pakistan), the picture would have been different or much in favor of Pakistan today. The control over swat valley could have kept Taliban on their back foot and Pakistan would avoid their 80% of terrorist attacks and bombing. However if we talk about the real scenario, the Pakistani army deployed on Kashmir border is busy in doing brain wash of local people, train them and pushing them in India via PoK-kashmir border to kill innocent people in the name of jihad. There are hell lot of evidences pilled up in support to realize the fact that many officers of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and Army are working as a chief or mentor for several militant groups active in PoK like Lashker-e-Tayyba and their involvement in Mumbai attack in 2008. This army, whose might has always been justified by the imaginary threat from India, has been more harmful to Pakistan than to anybody else.   
Pakistan’s current situation could have been much better and peaceful if it was developed as a unique nation rather than being developed as an enemy or a counter part of India.

An urge in ROAR!!

She is dangerous yet so elegant; she is a predator yet so calm and she is not alone this time, walking with her cubs along with her herd of a dozen. I was reading Times of India yesterday and was amazed to see a column there, it was written on Sumatran tigers. Usually news related to the tigers always talks about tiger’s extinction, poaching or some saving campaign, but it was different. It was about a certainty that we could again hear the same loud and royal roar of this elegant creature in Sumatran jungles. And the proofs to support this news are nothing but few shots, however this time shots were not from the guns, they were from cameras installed in Sumatran jungles and they have captured few amazing images of tigers, which were assumed to be extinct before this day. It is been told that there are 12 tigers in Sumatran jungle, All are captured in images including a tigress with her cub. 

 

 

This is really great to see that Sumatran tigers are continuing to breed and has given a ray of hope that we haven’t lost them completely. All credit goes to tigers themselves otherwise we humans have tried our best to place them in our favorite list of extinct animals (which is growing with an enormous growth rate) with a place very close to Bali and Java tigers and have already reserved index for them in story books and placed jars of their sizes in museums… now they all will go in vain!!.

No worries people we still have chance to get them in the list, I have read somewhere that some Indonesian paper producing company is setting up their plant on the very same place, where this herd of tigers have got noticed. If the company has got clearance from government to setup their plant there then nobody can protect them from extinction… Are we hearing an urge in their roar? If not then consider it to be the last roar from Sumatra...

Day Dreamer !

Had a dream of taking a walk with you,

A walk in the woods,

Talking about beautiful flowers, colorful butterflies

And a bit of about my childhood.  

Had a dream of taking a walk with you,

A walk in the rain,

Talking about grey cotton clouds, chilly breeze

And a bit of about my rising pain.

Had a dream of taking a walk with you,

A walk on the sea shore,

Talking about curled seashells, saffron horizon

And a bit of about my thrilling core.  

Had a dream of taking a walk with you,

A walk in the desert,

Talking about golden sand, uneven patterns

And a bit of about my failing effort.  

Felt a sudden thrust and found my dream broken, collected all scattered pieces; few were with sharp edges so they made me bleeding.  I buried them in a nearby graveyard. I often visit to this place. On my last visit, saw few things growing up on top of it, took a closer look and was amazed to see that those are nothing but memories, now they are in the shape of beautiful flowers and tiny plants. Now I daily sprinkle them with tears to keep them fresh and alive.

We often forget talks, we often forget stories

But we always remember our sweet, little, old memories.

So whenever you get any, just grab it, hold it tight and preserve it as if you are not going to have similar one again in your life.    

Expectations

The moment I type this word in MS word... I look for its synonyms… and the most familiar word I find is ‘Hope’… I always have unconvinced explanation for this word… I always hear people saying… “Never keep expectations, they hurt” … and unfortunately, sometimes it comes out true… logically!

Take this case… One lucky day you meet someone… and as every good relationship starts with a good and healthy friendship, so it does… luckily, you start meeting her everyday… and very slowly you find that you actually love to be with her... in her presence you forget all of your pains… whose chattering soothe you… whose smile makes your day and you find it world’s the most beautiful!!… you sleep at night in hope to meet her in morning… you lend your ears on her every small – small sayings… you love looking into her eyes… you find all of your answers there… you do not hesitate in making the most stupidest and obvious excuse just to listen her voice even if it is just… hmm/yes/ok!!... you feel her pain… you try your best to solve all of her problems… you find your happiness in her happiness… you know her likes/dislikes… you try doing everything which makes her happy and comfortable… you notice every little thing of her… in fact you start taking care of everything which is directly/indirectly related to her... you never knew but you actually feel great in doing that!

When you are busy in service… there is one more thing growing parallel to this… unnoticed… unintended… and that is Hope… hope of being treated in the same manner you treat her… if not all, at least for few!!... and when you don’t find it to be happen, you start feeling blue… whenever you look into her eyes you feel unanswered… you find yourself in such a conversation in which all you listen is just your echo…

I don’t find it wrong in keeping a little hope that can give you immense happiness or satisfaction… after all whole world is relying on hope!! If you have got hope for something you start act accordingly… I mean, if you are looking for something you will make all possible effort to get that… so keeping hope can make you act in a direction which will take you to your desired destination… the most important part in this, is to have clear idea for what you are keeping hope… you have put your heart in and she doesn’t even get a taste of it!! So always keep expectation, but from the right person… ironically, in most of the cases expectations are right but they fail because they are expected from a wrong person… sometimes everything is right but situations or circumstances aren’t fair enough… huh… and when expectations aren’t met, you broke down.

Are expectations one’s assumptions? Yes that’s absolutely right… assumptions are always made where there is a chance it to be true… if you are in any kind of relationship (Family, friend or love) and assuming everything is perfect, then somewhere you are expecting similar from your companion… because it can’t be perfect and stay for long if only one part is involved… the other half also have to contribute somewhat similar to make it absolutely perfect… good and long lasting relationships are made only when both contribute equally… and to check whether it is balanced… requires testing… a little testing is necessary to be assured of a good relationship… but it should be really little… testing brings expectation and vice-versa… expect only when it is really needed… when you really feel that something is missing… expecting a lot and expecting unnecessary can really make the statement “Never keep expectations, they hurt” true!!

Remember, Expectation always comes from the one who loves you… who really cares about you… the one who really needs you… your doodhwala... or your dhobi can’t expect anything from you except their payment!!

That’s it for now! You would say why ending it so abruptly… see, you are now expecting more from me  … no, it is just because things in my life which I like are ending up abruptly, without even notifying me… and unfortunately I like writing too!!

At last, a nice phrase from Leo Buscaglia, a prominent author, “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Untitled !

It was blurred, it was all bleary,
Full of darkness, it was shadowy,
Could have wiped it, but took it all casually,
I never thought of sailing before,
I wish it was all easy and rest for sure.

                           It was lashing heavily, but took it all gladly,
                           Couldn’t feel that breeze, while it was so windy,
                           I made a wish, perhaps it wasn’t from the core,
                           I wish it was all easy and rest for sure.

It was into a big swirl, it was all broken badly
Tried my best, but now it wasn’t so lively,
I crossed all over but it happened on the shore,
I wish it was all easy and rest for sure.

I wish It was all that easy...

I find it very difficult… really very difficult … the transformation of feelings into the words… and bring those words to the tongue… poor words have to travel all the way from crimson red cage(heart) to the trebuchet(tongue)… a steep climbing (down to up)… and that too carrying the load of feelings, emotions, desires, sentiments, hopes, fear and other hell lot of ‘U’ things… on the bet of dignity, honor, pride, self respect and other hell lot of ‘I’ things with it… try its the best… defying the law of gravity… but it fails… it will fail again and again… until it gets a tiny push from the person for which it is trying to come up… push can be in any form … but it should have some expression…  expression which leads words to just slip out of tongue… without putting any effort into it… expression could be either encouraging or discouraging(obviously, likely to be avoided!)… but it will take words to their launch pad!!… that’s for sure…

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

                                                       By- Robert Frost

Confusion over Conclusion

It was Friday and I was returning to home from office in my office bus... It was a windy, cloudy and stormy evening… but it was picturesque, especially the horizon; it had being painted in golden orange color ... And I really loved it! then suddenly it started raining... Rather it was pouring so heavily as if cloud burst… Rain drops were end up thrashing so hard on the window pane… as if they wanted to break it;  and I wish it could had happened because I wanted rain to come down around my face… btw it didn’t happen… however the pane was shivering out of fear with making some annoying sound! And I really felt pity on pane! After countless strikes… the rain finally stopped. I again saw at window pane… now it was much quiet than before... and the rain which were striking it few minutes back now scattered in making millions of drops on it.. Whenever a headlight flashes on the pane, the closely stick drops were glittering like side of a dupatta worn by woman which is flooded with countless stars … it looked so pretty that I wanted to capture it… but couldn’t! While I was busy in watching this beautiful scene... something deviated me... and the cause was this tiny little drop which was sliding down slowly on the window pane from top of it to the down... and few centimeter below of it I could see one more little drop which was stick so tightly to the pane as if it is waiting for the earlier one and doesn’t want to slide down… suddenly the first drop which was sliding down struck the other one waiting down… and because of this course of action two things happened at a same time.. Two drops merged with each other and created a new big drop… this is what makes me confused… I am not able to conclude this event because I am not sure what happened exactly, I should end up it saying whether both the drops lost their selves or a new drop got life… which one should be given more highlight? To those who have given their sacrifices or to the one who receives a new life? Someone’s pain is another’s gain? Hope some day I’ll get answer to this but for now what I understood is… “Destruction of one’s identity is somewhere related to the construction of an entity”... this is what a life is all about….  

Googol.. making fun of India’s Bhoogol( Geography)!!

I had written one post about Chinese intrusion in India, you can find it in my previous post list. This post is just continuation of that post and is not on China vs India, but on Google, the company that is having a row with the Chinese over censorship and allegations that the dragon nation used gmail to hack into important networks outside China. And no, I am not defending Google in its fight against the Chinese censorship. As long as it is not my nation, I am not bothered by how another nation handles its censorship issues. 

Ohh… I am going off-track!! Let me bring my focus back on Google. China, with the largest internet users' base, is an important market for any Internet company. Google is no exception. And in its business interests, the company does all that is necessary to be good to the country it operates in. Hence, Google, bluntly put, makes a fool of both Indians and Chinese… And how is being done? Just take a look at the maps shown below and watch carefully the red color circled area… compare all three maps… and I am quite sure you won’t need any explanation!  

If you open the Google maps' China edition available at http://ditu.google.com, Arunachal would show itself as an undisputed part of China, the whole of Arunachal Pradesh on Google maps.

The point ‘A’ shown here inside the circle is ‘Arunachal Pradesh’!!… and it is clearly visible that it is in Chinese territory!! 
For the uninitiated, Arunachal is a disputed territory between the two nations, with both laying claim to its territory, notwithstanding India's greater claim to it given the fact that it has a democratically elected government in place for years now.
And if you open Google India on http://maps.google.co.in, is politically correct and our fellow citizens from Arunachal Pradesh can, thankfully, still call themselves Indians.

The real fun begins when it comes to opening the map available on the international edition at http://maps.google.com.

You can see the dotted lines above Arunachal Pradesh… The dotted lines are symbol of showing disputed areas... Huh!! Jai ho Google Devtaa ki!!... Everybody is happy now!!
 I think we have a right to demand that Google, since it operates from India and has considerable business interests here, make changes and not try to pretend to keep everyone happy when in reality is making a fool of everyone.
It doesn’t end up here… the same story is with Indo-Pak border… and guess what… narrated  again by our very own Google!!!!

Resemblance with Happiness...

While I truly believe that fighting for someone that you love is noble, sometimes you end up wondering why you even tried fighting so hard... Things seem to get lost in all of the pride that you swallow and there is no happiness left in what you do. As for now, I am ready to take that new road and do what I want for me...
I admit that I have not been the perfect lover... but mostly because I couldn't even be me anymore... I was unable to express what I had become, and that caused me to make plenty of mistakes... I wish I could say that I regret everything that I ever did since, but I have started to feel that what happened has made it more clear as to why things didn't work... All in all, I need to stop being scared of being alone and settling for something that isn't good enough... I am in no way saying that you aren't a good person, you just aren't for me... I think the worst mistake I made was giving a second chance.

Word of the wise: do what makes you happy.
......... Some random feeling, thought of sharing :) ...........

Are you really Connected?

wow! one more social networking website.. chance to make more online friends!.. this is what most of us think, whenever we hear about a new launch.. we all enjoy adding friends.. we all enjoy uploading pics.. we all enjoy playing FarmVille, mafiawars and all.. these so called social networking sites make our life real cool and happening.. 3 cheers for them!!.. huh!.. sharing your flat with 3 other friends.. knock-knock!!.. somebody is at door.. he is your roommate's friend.. roommate introduces him to you.. you say hi.. and you continue staring at your monitor instead of talking to him.. you are busy in adding new "eFriends" in your friends list.. something is happening new in your life but you are unaware.. or say intentionally avoiding it to be happen.. because you are busy in your virtual world.. all isn't well in your life these days.. you are searching for job.. the guy just walked in your room, working in a reputed software company.. he could have recommended your name for a vacancy in his current project.. it only could have happened if you had started a conversation with him.. but you were busy in harvesting your crop in FarmVille.. or updating your status message in Orkut!.. huh!!

I don’t say that Social Networking sites are bad but one has to use it keeping the difference in mind between the "Real connectivity" and "Virtual connectivity"... and to whom should be given the priority!

Android Platform

Recently, when I was reading an article about "Adam"- a tablet built by Notion Ink(a Hyderabad based company), started by a group of dedicated Indians from IIT Delhi and Kharagpur, came to know about Android Platform.

"Adam" is proving itself a worthy competitor of "Apple's iPad". Adam is ready to be launch in US and Notion Ink will make it available in June/July and will charge between range of $327-$800 (Rs. 15,700-Rs. 38,400 approx.) depending on the configuration. While iPad's starting price is $499 (Rs. 24,000 approx.).

The Adam tablet runs dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPUs bearing Nvidia Tegra 2 System-on-a-Chip while Apple iPad uses company's own A4 SoC silicon. Both SoC chips have capability of running at 1GHz clock speed.

Well that is all about Adam and Apple! Now i'll talk about only "Android" the platform on which these two players are playing their games!

The Android platform is the product of the "Open Handset Alliance", a group of organizations collaborating to build a better mobile phone. The group, led by Google, includes mobile operators, device handset manufacturers, component manufacturers, software solution and platform providers, and marketing companies. From a software development standpoint, Android sits smack in the middle of the open source world.

There are very few Android developers in India. Android environment is built upon Linux Kernel. Its UI subsystem includes,

• Windows
• Views
• Widgets

Android provides all connectivity options including WiFi, Bluetooth, and wireless data over a cellular connection (for example, GPRS, EDGE, and 3G). A popular technique in Android applications is to link to Google Maps to display an address directly within an application. Support for location-based services (such as GPS) and accelerometers is also available in the Android software stack, though not all Android devices are equipped with the required hardware. There is also camera support.

Android promises to be a market-moving open source platform that will be useful well beyond cell phones.

For more http://www.android.com/index.html

Save Indian Wildlife..

India is growing day by day in the name of Economy but on the other hand loosing its Natural resources, Wildlife and Environment. This is due to lack of awareness in people here or rather I should say the carelessness of Indian Government towards the importance of wildlife and healthy environment. Natural habitats for the wild animals are shrinking or being demolished, no place left here for wild animals and the existing ones are fighting for their existence. Sanctuaries and National Reserved Parks are under the threat of poachers and land mafias. Those who are really working to protect the tiger and other wild lives are being threatened by the poachers and even by some government officials and politicians. Few NGO and private wildlife welfare societies run campaigns to save the Indian National Animal Tiger, but are not successful to create that much impact because people here do not bother at all and if they do then this situation would not have occurred. We all always talk about numbers and figures, no one here wants to come out and shout in the name of protection of wildlife and environment or better I should say to protect our own life. If we can remember A-Z and know its importance then why do we cant remember Life Chain chapter and its importance in our life, which we all must have read during our primary education. Every living thing present in the world today is connected with each other and creating a chain of life, if any link is broken the whole chain will get disturbed. So we should protect each and every link in order to maintain the cycle or chain of life.

Please spread awareness among the people and help in protecting Indian wildlife. It is time to take action.. so stop talking and start doing....
.. just a click.. http://www.saveourtigers.com/ .. and you might save a graceful, fearless creature.. or else b ready to hear its last ROAR!!

Tabla.. an amazing musical instrument!

I have been listening to the beats of this amazing, tremendous and magical musical instrument since my childhood... just listened to it.. never tried my hands on.. that is because of my father.. he plays so well ki i just love listening to it.. i always feared of playing tabla in his presence, i couldn't ever dare to do so.. so whenever he wasn't there.. i did some dham-dham!! dhad-dhad!!.. i don't know what stopped me learning tabla from him.. perhaps the fear of failure!.. well that's a different thing.. let's talk about tabla.. ya i just love the sound of "Thaap"(the beat).. there are lots of "Taals" in tabla.. like "do taal", "teen taal"... love specially "tirkit", "na-dhin-dhin-na".. amazing stuff!

you can get some more info about tabla and its taal from here...
http://chandrakantha.com/tablasite/bsicbols.htm


whenever someone talks about tabla, a very familiar face comes into our mind.. very curly, dense black hair.. shaking his head.. as if he is born to beat the leather!..waah ustaad waah!!.. yes I am talking Ustad Zaakir Hussain... son of great tabla player ustad allarakha khan.. watch this.. father-son duo, playing together..

Recently i came to know about one more tabla player.. while searching for tabla video on youtube.. i saw this man playing tabla.. i felt amazed!! then i googled to know more about him.. and i found that he is a British Indian.. he worked with A R Rehman.. and played tabla for great musicians.. he is Talvin Singh.. he played tabla for the famous "Buddha Bar" album..

and my favorite one is.. i just love this beat..

here he played the spirit of mumbai..

and here it goes the very famous "Bombay Theme", he played with A. R. Rehman..

Spot! the Not..

some times it happens to me.. it is quite personal.. but i think that i should share it.. k.. so it all starts with 'Shunya'[lang: Sanskrit] 'the Zero'.. my mind goes all blank.. absolute absence of thought.. and i start gaining some pleasure!.. but i get irritated as well.. because i am not able to find the source of pleasure.. so i start searching for same.. In the process i see some dark, blurred, hazy kinda spot!.. i start concentrating on the center to see what is it exactly... suddenly a ring around it, starts building up.. and as i try to concentrate more on the center, the ring shines more and more.. it gives me immense pleasure.. but again i feel unanswered.. this is bizarre!.. it is all happening with my eyes closed... suddenly i start visualizing my recent activities and reviewing my conversations with people, whom i met recently... i see a lot of people around me.. doing all crap they could! like chattering, poking me!.. i see myself as a sick.. suffering from an unknown disease... some faces around me try to console me..preach me.. they look a bit familiar to me.. but i am not looking at them at all... i am seeing something else.. yes.. @ the spot!! the same bit dark, hazy spot!! mentioned few lines above.. due to my ignorance.. people start leaving me behind.. my concentration gets disturbed as i heard some murmuring about the Spot! from someone... he says to someone, there is no existence of such spot!... how dare he?.. i said to myself.. i have seen it so many times.. even i felt it inside me.. who the hell is he to say so?.. somebody beside me, said.. he is the one who made a research on the spot! for more than 2 years.. he had a team of scholars and he even organized a worldwide survey to find out the existence of the spot!.. so did he find anything?.. what was the result of that worldwide survey? i asked.. nothing! he and his team of scholars didn't find any spot! so they have declared there is no such spot! exists.. he said.. what the hell are you talking.. cut the crap! you fool.. after 2 years of a crap research.. and a shitty survey.. he concluded that there is no such spot!.. let me tell you.. i am 25 now, and i see as well as feel that spot! inside me from the past 10 years.. no one can say rubbish to this.. and those who raise question about the existence of the spot!.. are senseless dysfunctional!!.. one can't define pleasure based on some shitty report.. "the pleasure is true while the origin is always a mystery!!".. i guess, i have said it all.. but still if it is not enough.. take a look at here..
PS: This post is just an individual's opinion and the scenario is no where related to its author.. :)

China intrusions: Does "Elephant" fear of "Dragon"?

It seems the Dragon is again tightening its tail around the Elephant's neck. And perhaps, this time dragon will become successful in making barbecue of its prey. This will become definite if the Indian government continues taking this serious issue so lightly.

India's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said these incidents were not a "cause of concern" and these will be "taken care of". "Certainly it is not a cause of concern. I would like to reassure everyone concerned that our boundaries are intact and we will certainly take care of such incidents," Krishna told reporters when asked if the incursions by Chinese were a cause of concern for India. Describing as "most peaceful" the boundary with China, he said "with China, I think the boundary has been one of the most peaceful. So, there is no issue on that. There is no problem on that. These incursions will be certainly sorted out".

Indian Army Chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor said there was "nothing unusual" about the Chinese Army incursion into Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir and added it has registered a protest at the Border Personnel meeting.

Only due to these kind of statements and reactions on such an important issues, India always falls back and leaves an impression of a coward country on world community level.

The fresh incursion occurred in Ladakh, where the Chinese army intruded 1.5 km near Mount Gya and painted 'China' in Cantonese on boulders and rocks with red spray paint. According to an official list, the Chinese soldiers left items such as Cantonese magazines, empty paint buckets, pre-packed food items, canned food, tyres with Chinese markings, automobile spares, cutlery and artificial flowers/plants. The 22,420-ft Mount Gya is located at the tri-junction of Ladakh, Spiti in Himachal Pradesh and Tibet. Its boundary was marked during the British era and regarded as international border by the two countries.

Whereas China categorically rejected the media reports that its army violated the International Border in Ladakh region and painted boulders red in the area. In a statement, Chinese external affairs ministry has said that the reports of army incursion are baseless. "No incursion happened in Indian territory," the statement said. The statement further said China seeks friendly solution to the issue.

Now the dirty and cheap game of politics has started in India on this issue. In spite of pressuring Chinese government, Indian politicians has started blaming each other. The BJP criticized Krishna's remarks and demanded that India lodge a protest through the Chinese ambassador.

It is quite clear that China is pursuing a deep rooted strategy to encircle India, from the North, East and West with collaboration from Pakistan, in a lightening speed and take India by surprise. If they succeed, then entire North East will be in danger, as we have not prepared ourselves for such a challenge. We are more concerned with appeasement, reservation, etc. Further, India is busy developing Peace. With all its inefficiencies and corruptive attitude still India holds the key for world peace.

What is Hinduism?

This question has disturbed me a lot from past few years. Actually this is not just a question for me, this is a kind of force which pushed me in the depth of real thinking; a thinking which consists of a search; a search for enlightenment; an enlightenment, which can reveal the mystery; a mystery of being me. In order to search myself, I had put this question in a very popular community website and found responses which I would like to share here;

me: What is Hinduism?

reply: It's a way of life and the first way of life and that is why its Esha Dharmah Sanatanah?
me: "way of life" itself arises a hell lot of questions in my mind. Does it tell somebody to follow a particular way(shown by someone like mahatma, priests or ABC) or it says to choose whatever you wish but the way should be right?

Then someone tried to explain it through the essence of "Christianity"...

He said, Maybe it would be great if this topic could be opened for other religions. I speak about the Christianity. If you allow me ...

I believe just few people around here are able to define their religion or at least to say what's more important in it. Certainly, many of them would say to believe in God is the most important!; but I don't know a single case of martyr accused of saying or not I believe in God .
The Christianity is revolutionary, otherwise it's so hard to be a Christian that people in general is [still] very far from this proposal. Let's admit it's really hard to live without hypocrisy. Don't matter who you are, don't matter where you live and your position, we are the same towards the hypocrisy. See this good example from the Holy Bible: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." John 8:7.

Last week, an important leader of our congress was accused of many unethical procedures in favor or his family. He simply used the institute of secret acts to take personal advantages for hiring relatives and friends [high positions, of course].

Then, a TV reporter was interviewing ordinary people about this matter and all of them seemed very outraged, so the reporter ordered to cameraman to turn off cam and mic for a personal talk to the interviewers, so the reporter said to them we suppose to pay you $ 20 to make a nice comment about him, because we need popular testimonials for his Press Agent . [Of course, cam and mic were on]. Well, all we watched on TV 90% of people changed their comments for a nice one. Poor people? no just ordinary one.

me: Well tried..

Then I got explanation from my close friend Bheeshma.

he said: Hinduism is one of the oldest Religion. As All religion teaches a good way to live,the Hinduism also do without any exception. The very basic nature of a human being is same across the world. So All religion including Hinduism defines what it should be to make a happy,growing,and balance world.

The Humans are not yet matured enough to understand the religion as whole(I am no exception),Any religion in the Human age can not be said Completed.Because it is a process of refinement.As we grow our religion will grow and finally there will be no religion at all.I mean religion like Hindu , Muslim....etc. Actually There is no Antagonism and no separation even among Religions,Ways are different; They Teaches the same thing , exactly same thing..so there should be no violence no hatred because of religions.
They are being insulted because of such act of a human......................

me: "is a process of refinement; As we grow our religion will grow and finally there will be no religion at all". Philosophically, it is a quite well remarked. But in a context of my question, could not quench my thirst.

more explanation: Other major religions have had a founding member. the scriptures of Hinduism - ved, upanishad, and vedant are all debates among scholars. it is always interesting to note the different perspectives on a topic! hence, all sorts of paths to reach god, right from bhakti (devotion) to gnyaan (starting from a hypothesis that 'god does not exist', and then knowing the one thing that you can call god) exist here. which ever path/paths suit you best, take it. The scriptures are logical, and do not ask you to believe them on face value.
"whichever seems logical, even if it comes from a boy or a parrot, accept it,

whatever seems illogical, even if it comes from a wise old man, or from great sages, reject it" - one of the shlokas.

"I am the way"
"Its a way of life"

No one made this way for the first time except God, howsoever you define Him, whatever language you address Him in, whatever name or names you give Him. Since God made this way, it is the oldest. There have been different packaging, reissues, if you will, over time, to fit the needs of time, just as He said that He will be back whenever "Dharma" was in peril, and Evil arises, to save the righteous and destroy evil and those who would do evil, He will be back in each age. So I guess its all the same. God fulfills Himself in many ways lest one good custom should corrupt. Seen that way, Hinduism is still the way of life even in this, the third millennium!

me: In spite of being aware of all the facts what you generous people have mentioned above...Why do we always let some bunch of scoundrels to speak about Hinduism? Why do we always let them make a decision on "what is right?what is wrong?what says Hinduism?what is not allowed in Hinduism?".....when we had already heard "Ahem Brahmasmi", hundreds of years ago from Adi Shankaracharya and allowed it to get "Atmasaat" in our soul! If a person talks about some other religion or taking favor of a person who doesn't belong to majority..why we always give a negative response..in spite of being aware of "Ahem Brahmasmi"!!
It is said "Zarra-Zarra hai khuda ke nuur se roshan" in an Islamic Philosophy. It means "Each and every particle is full with the blessings of god, and are same"... well known by everybody, who follows Islam..but the same time, why a woman get abused and harassed when she talks about people from minority?

It shows only one thing that, we just had heard the word "Ahem Brahmasmi"..we didn't listen to it..we couldn't understand the meaning...forget about getting it "Atmasaat"!

some more: The various scriptures and teachings of Hinduism are the best and damn interesting moral stories that talk about every aspects of life. Also, there are many different interpretations to it as rightly pointed out. The key aspect of Hinduism must be to learn and adopt these doctrines in life. You dont need to worship or show extreme devotion in life. All you need to do is be honest, truthful, humble, etc., and you will attain moksha. Lord Basavanna preached that "work is worship". If you are hard working and honest, then it is as good as worshiping the lord and you will definitely attain moksha.

Then someone said in between- "Hinduism - NO SUCH WORD EXIST! so there is no question as What is Hinduism?"

reply: Here, always religion was used as an instrument of domination and it doesn't further the people's union [just in the group themselves]. There's a competition for audience among them. But why these things happen? Maybe because despite the word Christianity be found in any dictionary its original meaning is lost in time. Wars and domination made this job.
The religion is teleological, we don't need to drink that spoiled water above. But we have first to find the starting point and then to drink from the fountainhead to be able to realize its proposal. It'll be easy to see [for example] that the Kingdom of Heaven is just a great fraternity [a true brotherhood of men]. What more could we wish beyond this real Paradise? Why would we need an other one, so? There's something wrong! [You might think.]

Then,

The topic has traced us to another question: Absolutely, what is not my religion? Or rather, what could be against my religion?

reply: I was wondering if someone asked Christ what is Christianity, would He not have said, "There is no such thing as Christianity, but there is only one God, and I bring you a Message that He Loves you, and observe the laws, but temper the law with Love, because it is only Love that brings you Salvation?"

Then some one asked me: "Himanshu tell me please, do you believe that your question is now answered? Or it's a just a question itself? "

me: We are living in a country, where religion is nothing, but it is everything! Whenever a partition occurs, a monument gets destroyed, two families living together from many years but suddenly tries to quench their thirst for blood of each others without any reason, innocent people get killed in the name of religion/god...this question will always arise!!

reply: The sacrifice of the innocents is nothing new bro!!! Even the Old Testament, particularly the Masoretic text has instances where prophets have admonished in the name of God, that children devoted to YHWH should not be ransomed but killed, and when sacking cities in Canaan that were being attacked by Israelites (God's Chosen people) not even to spare women with child who were to be ripped open, if they had been "devoted" to YHWH. Later texts of the apocrypha, and the pseudoepigraphies clearly show that the slaughter of the innocents was trite in those days in the Levant and accompanied every large scale victory of one army over another defending a city. The Mahabharata is replete with stories of massacre of the innocent. What did Dhristyadumna, Aswathama and Kripacharya do after the Bharata battle, when the Kauravas had been defeated and the victorious Pandavas were occupying the Kaurava camp? They sneaked into a sleeping camp, and entered the tent where they thought the Pandava brothers were sleeping, but instead got into the tent where the sons of the Pandavas were sleeping, and despite recognizing the children/barely mature adults they still killed these innocents, not heeding the cries of the innocents to at least let them arm themselves before the blows fell. So what is new about the innocents dying?

In fact the greatest and most potent sacrifice has been held to be that of the innocent human, and the reason why Christianity did not need human sacrifices was because Jesus died for all our sins (as the Christian theology in its simplest form goes). We can discuss this at greater length if you want, the theory behind sacrifice and we would not have to limit ourselves only to the Agnus Dei.

Again a question arises- So, what is the need of sacrifice? I mean, why do we need it as a ritual?

reply: My dear brother, is it a somber perspective about God's creatures?
Not really a somber perspective but I'd rather say a sad commentary on Free Will. The human condition degenerates into sympathetic magic and superstition and we keep on trying to find mortal causes for natural phenomena. No rain? All right, sacrifice the most precious thing you have (your first born). No wind to sail to Troy? All right, sacrifice your Iphigenia! The walls may not last? All right, sacrifice your first born and bury him under the foundations of the city wall (Jericho). If YHWH was once a tribal God who like other deities of the Levant accepted blood sacrifices even of human beings, but ultimately was rationalized after the Babylonian exile into a more remote, non anthropomorphic deity (remember, in Genesis, God walked) Deuteronomy has God disapprove of human sacrifices. So a rationalized God is against sacrifice but His Creations always fall back on it.

RA: I'd refer you to an excellent book on this, Bruce Chilton, Abraham's Curse which would tell you the opposing views about human sacrifice, and why it was practiced. You can also read the slightly longer and a little more archaic "The Golden Bough", by Frazer. You can try to find them on Scribed or Google it.

Unfortunately, the men's god is in favor of Sacrifices. People have to suffer to get something better; after the death. That's our ideology. [At least Christians'].

Hinduism was a combination of religion , culture, History , commerce , science & vedic knowledge existed in the ancient India before the Muslim warriors & Britishers infiltrated the the Indus Valley.
I strongly see that today's Hinduism consists of the majority of ignorant Hindus of the society, who have bend the practice according to their own greed and I think every other religion is a very blurred version of the original practice, Its like the pirated copy of windows full of bugs.

what we see now:
Sharma's selling meat and eating beef.
Jain's burning the daughter in laws for dowry.
Pundits molesting their disciples.
Gupta ji adding the pooh of the horse in tea leaves to get extra money.
and so on.....

search continues.....