This is my World

Many centuries for now, Astrology has led men in wrong directions, and simply men have kept faith on them and followed them, losing their way. It has been perceived and in fact, has become a kind of faith something similar to a religion, rather than being seen as a science. This has not happened overnight. If civilization dates back to 4500 B.C., so does astrology. It has been proved that Egyptians built their pyramids, only after taking into heads, the positions of the Sun, Moon, Planets, Stars , Constellations and all named, unnamed celestial bodies. It will not be centuries before our fellow men start designing their toilets based on the position of stars. It may well happen within our lifetimes. Today, we all wake up to read our daily fortunes in newspapers, televisions, and even on the web. Most of the social networking sites have started to feature them. One day, when i stepped into one of these sites, my fortune for the day read, "You will be slapped by a girl today. Better...

Sixty years ago, when my nation was starting to breathe free air, the leaders of the new-born nation had to fight untouchability , an evil spirit feeding on the Unity among the people. Nine out of ten literates were Brahmins . Ten out of ten government employees belonged to forward class. Backward class (including SC, ST) people were destined to third class jobs. They were rag pickers, shoe menders, undertakers, animal cleaners, laundry labours, house servants and worse, beggars. So, the leaders came up with a solution(0f course , a short term one) to help these people to top positions. Reservation. Be it Job, education and what not, reservation is in place, 63 years after Independence. Is it Good? Well, it is in fact , good in some sense. Village students, who are not exposed to brilliant training, rich schools and the outside world, get a chance to explore. Poor kids, who do not have money to undertake extensive coaching before an entrance, get a chance to see college. For a moment...

I started writing, long before i was into blogging. When i look back to see where it all started.... I can't see it. Maybe i need a telescope. Oh ! not that distant, then at least a small magnifying glass. I started writing in my school days. My first writing was for a skit. Since no one was willing to write, i stepped forward into the shoes of a script write. The skit didn't have much glamour or a good language. Somehow i managed a theme and related it to current events. the skit was written overnight and did not have a big reception either. But i was happy, and felt writing was easy. But that was it. I had to wait a year, for my brain, to put another word on paper. In college, I started writing poems in my mother tongue, Tamil. Each fifteen to thirty lines, requiring only a couple of hours of my day. I had only one guy, who was ready to listen to them or rather i was ready to recite to only him. I kept writing day in and day out. I hoped the time required to compile the same...

Everyone who can read/write/understand some language would have come across this story, where an ant works all summer to save something for the winter, whereas the grasshopper makes fun of the ant during summer and suffers all winter. I came across a modified version of the story, an Indian version, which was thought-provoking. The first half remains the same and it had a second half where, grasshoppers protest against the happy and the well-fed ants, while they were suffering. And all those Eagles (obviously, our wonderful politicians), marched behind these lazy hoppers, confiscating all belongings of the ants. These tired ants flee India to America, where they succeed by large, whereas India is still developing. On the first read, it seemed to be very true. The hardworking middle class brings in all incomes to the country, which are used to donate colour TVs and gas stoves to the "so-called" poor. A farmer, puts in all his 6 month effort to produce rice, which he has to sel...

Yes, you read it right. But, before you jump to any conclusions, let me make clear that, Galileo was right, when he said, "Sun is the centre of our Solar System". It is in fact true. But, only physically. But in another perspective, I am right. When it comes to the amount of activity going on, Earth is definitely the centre. Then, is the Sun for the Earth or the Earth for the Sun? A question that may come dashing into your mind. You may say, my class II geography teacher, told me Earth revolves around the sun. So the Earth is for Sun. But imagine, Sun without Earth. It will just be a giant ball of Helium and Hydrogen, foolishly spinning around itself. The planets would have looked even more foolish, revolving around a jobless sun, jobless themselves. But suddenly, introduce Earth into its orbit. The sun has job, 24 hours a day. It has to help plants with their photosynthesis, provide all living beings with heat and light(free of cost), has to help Earth in creating seasons b...

Hung up on the walls of hotels, clubs and pubs, 70 years back, in the same Indian soil, was a sign board containing this very message. The British East India Company ruled India. It plundered all wealth this nation had and packed them home. Indians were considered inferior to dogs and were massacred across the whole nation. Dogs were prosecuted better. We, Indians fought 90 years for a single cause, The Indian Dream. Is that dream being realized. In the field of education, India has had an increasing literacy rate every year since independence. Thousands of students fly abroad, every year, for their higher studies. The universities in many countries depend on Indians for their regular operation. India, by itself produces more number of doctors and engineers, every year, than the population of many countries. In the field of science, we are equipped to launch indigenous ships into space and observe moon. We have our own nuclear technology, biological labs, software solutions and what n...

Our Family used to travel to a town called Kanya kumari, the southern tip of India, once in two years, when i was a kid. It was one of those trips. A five hour journey. I was about 8 and the instincts of a man started showing up in me. We were travelling in a day train, with 4+2 seater compartments . We(our family of four) occupied a whole compartment. This is where i saw her. The next compartment in our coach was occupied by a North Indian Family(well, it looked like one for my eyes). A big fat father and a fatter mother were seated on one side. On the opposite were their three children. Two boys, one about my age and the other a couple of years younger. There she was. Seated diagonally opposite to her parents, clearly visible to me, holding a piece of sweet in her hand. She was wearing a horizontal-striped T-shirt and a blue jean. She had a boy cut or her hair has grown only that much, which i couldn't find out. She was taller than me and that was how i guessed her age to be 10. ...

Men, at least over the last century, have become great flesh lovers. This is evident from the fact that, Internet traffic records highest for sites having pornographic content, Somewhere in the world, a women is raped every ten seconds, even as I write. In reality, women are more affected than men. Intercourse has become more lust oriented, rather than love. Its no more considered just a reproducing mechanism, but a pleasure house. Why is it so??? The basic reason behind this is Gender Differentiation. In most of the countries, women play a second class citizen. They are never treated equally to men and are made dependent on this men, every stage of their life. In certain countries the situation is worse. they play slaves to men. If a husband sees her talk to another man, he will even kill her. Men has too much freedom in every aspect of life compared to a women, be it clothes, the way of life or name it. In a certain faith, she is expected to dress, head to toe. whereas men can roam n...

There are three incidents that prompted me to write on this topic. Let me share them with you. One. I had met a girl, who was about 15. She was in class X. I was asking her, about her future plans. Little tears started running down her face. She told me that her parents had arranged for her marriage. Two. I was in a small village for a festival, my first visit there. I had to find my directions. I went to a guy, who looked 18, carrying a child (maybe 3). I found my direction, thanked him and was about to leave. I heard the child call him ' appa ' (Dad). When did he marry??? and what is the age of his wife??? Third. I walk my way to office. On my way,I had seen a girl going to school. Close observation of her, revealed the fact that, she was wearing a ' thali '(a small chain worn by married Hindu women). I was thinking about the third incident. I really felt sorry for the girl. What all must she be doing in her daily life. Wake up early, prepare food for her family, get...

What do you do when you see a filthy naked kid, coming close to asking for something, a man with unoiled uncombed hair, scratching his body with his hands, goes past you, an old beggar eating some one's left-overs? Well. what do you do, when you see someone walking without slippers on a dirty road, eating in an unhygienic place, playing with uneducated kids? You tend to jump away as far as possible to make sure they don't touch you. This is the case, not only with you, but with most of the educated mass of India (include me). When you own a car, you look down upon some one who only owns a cycle. You forget to realize that, once upon a time, your father used the same cycle to take you to school. When you are a software engineer, you look down upon a farmer, who produces your food or the teacher who made you, who you are today, and anyone and everyone, whom you consider are inferior to you. Why do we do this?? The answer is pretty simple.... Man has been and is a social animal. H...

Well, If you are a technician or an engineering graduate, the two terms that will jump into your mind are Personal Digital Assistant and People Distribution List. You may be wondering, what have these two guys got between themselves. Of course, they don't have anything between them. In fact this blog is absolutely non-technical and the title goes like, "Public Display of Affection" Versus "Public Display of Lust". The first term is common and is debated everywhere. The second term is my own. For sometime now, our interpretation of affection has changed. Exchanging kisses, having intercourse and love for flesh have been misunderstood as affection. I perceive this as lust, because affection is much more simpler and ecstatic. It's to take care, be protective, Love and be-loved from heart and be there for the other when necessary. Humans have gradually become flesh lovers. It goes for both men and women, one craving for the other. But what they have failed to r...

We Indians are used to look at the Western World with awe and gaze. I was wondering what makes us do so? We have a growing GDP, good presence on the World stage, Kind hearted people,a better culture, Beautiful landscape and monuments, and so on. Even with all these, why do we look upon the western world with our mouths wide open?Ah! Cleanliness. Their cities look clean and beautiful, roads look like newly polished shoes, buildings as if they were built yesterday. Clearly, it is this, that divides the Western world and us. I was thinking, As an individual, how can we help this cause, of making India a cleaner country. I have come up with ten points, an individual can do to keep his surroundings and himself clean. 1) NEVER SPIT on the road. The country's roads deserve more than your saliva 2) Always keep your vehicle in good condition. AVOID FUEL SPILLS, which have a destructive effect on roads. 3) DO NOT SMOKE in public. You not only pollute air, but aid Cancer. 4) NEVER PEE in pub...

For ages now, atheism means to stand up against God and hate and abuse him. A atheist is believed to be one who doesn't believe in super powers. I cross referenced these two terms in the dictionary and came with "The doctrine or belief that there is no God.A lack of belief in the existence of God or gods." and "Someone who denies the existence of god." But i would like to see atheism in a different perspective. To me, Atheism means to love fellow Humans over God. Well, you may ask this question, "What's the big difference man? In both the cases, God is given no importance!" I partly agree with you. In both the cases god is given less importance. But in the second one Men are given importance. I would like to classify theism and atheism, not based on faith in God, but based on the faith in men. I see no point in being an Atheist, when you don't love your fellow citizens, when you don't treat them as friends, when you don't take part in t...

What would most of us(includes me), remember about our childhood? Caring Parents, Delicious food, Beautiful clothes, warm house, good friends, English education, chocolates, toys and a lot others. Have you ever dreamt of having a childhood like this?? Empty stomachs, bare bodies, a polluted platform, loneliness, illiteracy, mosquitoes, worms, where you are worse than a beggar. Horrifying, Isn't it? But, It's the exact same, a parent less child will endure, even before he knows who he is. The worst situation, you can ever be in your life is, stand with your mouth shut, when someone asks about your mother/father. Its an Identity crisis, where you don't know who you are. A situation, these children experience, even before they understand anything about life. Love and affection are not a part of their daily life. Education, nowhere in their life radars. The only way they can survive is by begging, not for money, but for their life. They get kicked by perfect strangers, thrown i...

Every morning, we wake up to read the newspapers delivered by an illiterate, who knows not to spell his name. We get ready to office and come out of your house, only to see a beggar, an unemployed(rather self-employed) for several years now. On our way, we come across a small refugee camp, full of malnutritioned and unhealthy children, living in unhygienic conditions. For many people in this world, three meals a day, washed clothes every morning, and a warm house are not basic needs, not comforts but luxuries which simply cannot afford to. They dwell in streets, eating some one's left-overs. At office, we face the horrible bosses treating you as slaves. We get back home, only to find a soldier's wife, weeping his death, fighting some one's war. Unoiled hair, dust settled faces, and bullet ridden bodies, haunt us in our dreams. Next morning, we wake up among rubbles, only to find that, all people we saw yesterday are no more, because a religious man fighting for an invisible...

My country has been on the World's stage, even before it came into existence. No one can forget the 200 years of British atrocities and 90 years of freedom movement. But this blog speaks about something else. The early years of our free nation saw a boom in Agriculture. Seventy percent of our population was dependent on this Agriculture. either directly or indirectly. Even though we were considered a third world nation, we were respected for our culture and there was no major inequalities in terms of income, status, and rank. Our GDP was low and we weren't used to skyscrapers, fast foods and cell phones. But, in the early nineties, we liberalised trade. We opened our markets to foreign goods and our goods flooded foreign markets. With liberalised global trade mechanism and availability of skilled labour at low cost, we were barking out loud for industries to be set up. So did they. A lot of Industries(not to mention IT) flocked into our country. Our GDP started growing and our ...

For the past year or so, the five words that have dominated the pages of all newspapers... CHANGE, HOPE, BLACK, BARACK. OBAMA. I'm no exception for bowing to a man who rose from the hell to reach the heavens.... So i decided to take him as a model for a politician and would like to declassify his characteristics that won the top most job on earth only next to God....ofcourse we have not seen God and i would consider it as the top most... Obama declassified... 1) Charisma---->"A skinny lad with a funny name" . The phrase he had used to describe himself, shows him as one more man on this planet. But he had a lot more in store to attract everyone towards him....Colour did not affect his handsomeness.... Even a republican would love him for the magnetic power he had. 2) Eloquent speaches ----> A man without a mouth, is a bird without a wing. He not only used languages to speak, but also his feelings. This i understood when i saw in his first campaign speach (i dont reme...

Some of you may know me and some others may not. So, i thought to explain myself to you, so that we understand each other better. But before i do that, I had to ask myself, "WHO AM I"? In the venture, to find myself, i queried my heart and brain a several times, to know exactly who i am. To my surprise, I found out that the topic, i gave this blog, went wrong. I had made a mistake in naming my blog because i found out that i had to answer a different question, "WHO WERE WE?". I realized that i had two personalities, on eon the outside and the other, inside. To this outside World, I look like one fun loving guy, who has a very big laugh for everything, simply meaning he doesn't care about the World or the under-privileged. He enjoys himself because he was privileged. He isn't ashamed for his mistakes, but takes credits for his achievements. A guy who is very opportunistic and is a kinda betrayer. A guy who is childish and selfish. But in the inside, He is a m...

What is a brain? Well, in my own simple terms, its a part of the body, made of flesh, which tells you who you are. Then, what is a mind? Again, its a part of the body, inside your brain, which tells you who you wanna be. Sounds a bit tricky, Isn't it? Well in computer analogy, you can imagine your brain as the combination of ALU and MU, whereas your mind is the CU. When some of your input organs, detect an external change, they inform you mind, which redirects it to your brain to process it and react accordingly. The Brain( ALU + MU) stores the stimuli and the reaction in the MU part of it for future reference. When a similar stimuli comes in the future, the ALU part queries the MU part and picks the proper response. Well, what does the mind do here and what is a beautiful mind? Lets suppose, you fall in love with a girl/guy for the first time in your life. Who does tell you that, you are in love?? Its obvious that, its the mind which responds to first time experiences, when yo...

Well, I am into my early twenties and i say the most valuable moment in my LIFE, which may look a bit insane. But, I am sure it will be one. When i was this seven year old kid, i used to walk to my school. Also, i used to fight with my mom for some small pocket money, Rs 5(Indian currency, equals 10 cents). And one day, on my way to my school, I found a kid, pulling me by the collar of my shirt. He was about the same age, but had filthy clothes, unclean body and uncombed hair. He also had a small bowl in his hand. He requested me to give him some money, so that he can have a meal. I saw the torn 5 rupee note in my pocket, Gandhi was smiling at me. My brain urged me to save it for a chocolate. But my Heart did not do so. I took the note from my pocket and gave it to him without hesitation and i was about to leave, when i saw him for one final time. And there was this satisfied, grateful smile on his face, the best ever chocolate, i ever had in my life. I was a bit proud and a couple of ...

Nuclear Weapons, Weapons of mass destruction, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Unmanned drones, Spy satellites, AK 47, Fighter Jets, Torpedoes, Grenades, and Landmines. If you are to google for the most famous scientific inventions of the past century, I am pretty sure, you'll find all these. Men have always feared hell after death. But today, he is in the process of creating one right down here, under our knees. Sarcastically saying, he prepares for his future. Ever since he came into existence, Men have been violent and blood thirsty, or at least his weapons have been. But, I am doubtful, whether he was this violent, against his own kins, at anytime of his evolution. He has cut himself into pieces in the name of god, religion, caste, colour, race, rank, ethnicity, and so on. The only thing he needs to wage a war on someone is to hate him and of course, his chances of winning the war. But has he ever thought, what he would achieve , fighting this war? Unfortunately, the answer...

One of the nature's creature which makes me jealous. When the winds breached the cloud prisons, naughty, cute, little prisoners rocketed down from the skies to the Earth. They saw this infertile mass of rocks and sacrificed themselves to give us a life. And i can't resist myself, from describing their entry into the Earth. With a colourful entry arch by Miss.Rainbow, rock music by nature's own band of thunders and lightning, and the loud prays(more like cries) of millions of farmers. Wow!!! I love that. I came into this world in a dark hospital room, with only small cries of my mother. Sweet, But not enough. And his character. He treats everyone the same. I am no different from a dead grass. I would love to have this nature. And he always bring merry with him. All the flowers, trees, and grasses spring into life and smile on his arrival. A very sweet guy in fact. I wonder whether he is broken piece of the moon or some star. But these things doesn't make me jealous of...

By birth, I am an Hindu. But by choice, i am an atheist. I have been one since college and i hope, i will be one till death. However my belief on God hasn't vanished. I still believe in god. But not the Gods that are portrayed in Mythologies and histories, a different kind of God. A god who knows to answer my prayers, even before i pray. A god who forgives me for all my mistakes well within my lifetime (not asking me to go to hell or heaven). The god who taught me the a,b,c,d's of English as well Life. A god who fasts for my well being. A god who bent down, so i can stand up. A god who was very happy to eat my left-overs. A god who let me live in her body and feast on her blood. A god who showered me with love and affection. A god who lived for me and still lives for me. A god whom i can see, hear, feel, and love. She carried me in her womb, My first Black and beautiful tomb! She fed me with her blood, I don't know, how am i gonna pay that debt!!! I lay asleep in her shoul...

I can say with a lot of audacity that nothing is impossible for me in here. I can be rich, when i am poor. I can be a philosopher, when i am a fool. I can be God, when i don't believe in him. All this, at no cost. I can live a life i intend to and i hate to. And I can become the most powerful human on Earth, when i am swelling in my slums. And I can sing, dance, fight, love, be loved, cry, laugh, eat, beat, run, ride, drive, rise, fall, hear, cheer, feel, fly lift, drift, as well i can't do them. The only barrier i have here, is my limitations in imagining. Yes, I am in a Dream, the only place where i have no obstacles to be what i wanna be. Only if i dream today, can i live tomorrow. Dream to stay Human!!! When the curtains on your eyes drop down, A secret play is staged on your own, All your loved ones play a role, Just for you, when you're alone!!!

Back here in India, the most common phrase used by all politicians, irrespective of party, religion and everything else is "COMMON MAN". In the local language, we call it "AAM AADMI". Each and every political party, promises to keep up the hopes of this so called common man, in their election manifestations. But, who really is this common man??? Is he the one who read newspapers in the mornings, spends his day hugging his computer monitor and his cellphone, and have burgers and pizzas for dinner or Is he the one who lives in the platforms and eat yesterday's left over. Unfortunately, both have nothing in common, except that they are humans. Well, the politicians have their own ideas. A man who doesn't vote, who doesn't pay his taxes, who doesn't open his mouth, when he is being fooled, who doesn't care to think about his fellow citizens. In short, the one who neither perform his duties nor fight for his rights. All who are ignorant of what a comm...

The state in which, you have nothing more to lose but your life. Well, to begin with there are two states of poverty, A state of mind and A state of physical existence. The former is far more worse than the latter. For You, which situation seems to be more horrible, to be in? Recycled urine for water, Clothes with a hundred Ventilation, of course in different shapes, that Geometry would find it difficult to name, and a house with the biggest roof on the Earth, the sky or Lack of courage to support your back, altering confidence that keeps you faltering, and a directionless mind. We would(including me), would probably choose the former, because noone will know whether we are a victim of latter or not. But when you answer it to yourself, you will fear the latter. When you suffer from physical poverty, maybe, maybe others don't respect you. But when you suffer from mental poverty, you wont respect yourself. So muster you courage and confidence, to fight your battle against physical po...