Hey Ram!

It is utterly disgraceful when Lord Ram name comes into a negative limelight as a prime story of mainstream media. The all hue and cry started with a petition by ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) questioning about the existence of Ram, the most sacred Hindu god venerate by millions. With obvious reasons ASI petition created a nationwide furore, fuelled by all the newspapers and 24 hours news channels. For them it was a scoop, which they couldn’t afford to miss, albeit of its grave backlash.

In India whenever boiling controversy erupts, politics has to play a part. Ram setu controversy is also not an exception from the immediate history. The Hindu fanatics suddenly got a job to execute after a long pause. Eventually, Hindus were feeling insecure (that miracle also credited to our media). The ruling party with the fear of loosing votes fabricated some defensive moves. To gain the last ground, government to convince the DMK over realigning the sea link in a manner that doesn’t breach Adam’s Bridge or “Ram Setu”.

The most amusing part of blistering dissonance is most of the people prefer to remain ignorant about the project. ‘Underwater shipping canal project’, ‘ecological imbalance’ are not the vocabulary of ordinary Indians but ‘religion’, ‘faith’ and ‘blasphemy’ are. Everybody aware about the Ram setu but remain wish to be ignorant about questions like why ASI suddenly forced to do this type of juvenile act? Why there is no debate over the ecological imbalance, which will suppose to happen if once underwater shipping canal would be materialised? Only debate boiling up is over the existence of Ram, which is beyond debate. In a country where regions fanaticism could cost thousands of life without repentance, shouldn't government and media move cautious about the aftermath. Undoubtedly, the petition derogates the religion to an extent but to make it an issue, do only harm, if not act as a religious balm. At the time of “Ram crisis” few lines from the film ‘swadesh’ only comes into mind.

Ram hi to karuna mein hai

shaanti mein ram hai

Ram hi hai ekta main

pragati mein ram hai

Ram bas bhakton nahin shatru

ke beech chintan hai

dekh taj ke paap ravan

Ram tere man mein hai

Ram to ghar ghar mein har

Ram har aangan mein hai

mann se ravan jo nikale

ram uske mann mein hai

Why We Are Negative ?

Everyone of ourselves cursed with negative energy that prevent us to do the productive things to build an effectual way of life. Negative energy is caused by by many factors; one of the prime accused is lack of confidence. Lack of confidence is caused by our childhood conditioning. Every baby born into the world arrives with a positive brain and during the first few months of its life, receives positive inputs from its parents and surroundings. As soon as child starts to move, the positive inputs increases the ‘yes’, ‘you can’, ‘you can do it’. The infants is soon able to stand the pride of parents increases and so do the positives. Eventually, the first step is taken, the baby can walk, friends and family are quite naturally invited to share in the pleasure and soon as the baby is really able to walk, the inputs turn dramatically from positive to negative. ‘Be careful’, ‘don’t touch it’ , ‘don’t do that’ and so on. And finally the positive brain starts to no no conditioning.

Failure is another aspect, which leads to lack of confidence and eventually, tons of negative energy infuse in our system. There is seldom anyone who haven’t experienced failure in life but how you deal with it depends on your guts and gumption. And that guts doesn’t comes from a vacuum but from your surrounding and circumstances. However, if you are in a place where your surrounding pitilessly prick your wound further and shatter your mental peace, this only affects on your positive thought process.

Motivation is also an important factor for upbring yourself in a positive environ. It is a human characteristics that when we truly see ourselves in whatever form that may be, we are definitely motivated. Some says, challenge does motivated. In my opinion failure can also motivate but again that depends on individual. Besides, a definite goal is must for motivation. There are obstacles in life that slower your pace, scant your motivation but if your goal is fixed, its impossible to get distracted.

If you encounter a successful experience , you gain confidence and ‘I CAN’ saturate in your mind. Opposite of it, failure leads to lack of confidence and ‘I CAN'T'. So, thrive for success in every possible horizon.

Note: - This story is not aimed to give any 'gyan'(lesson) to anyone, this is solely written by me, for me only.

Special Relationship

It’s been quite sometime since I have developed a special relationship with books. Sometimes I feel it’s quite amazing that a mere book can fetch me so much exhilaration, far more than any modern gadget or friendly acquaintance.
What is a book? It’s part matter, part spirit, part thing, part thought, however when I look back to it, it defies definition. What I believe is, by its nature a book is loftier than most of the common objects in this world.We all know change is inevitable, thus my change of choice also seems to be zeitgeist. Over the years my propensity changed from Famous Five to Sherlock Holmes, from Feluda to Byomkesh Bakshi, from John Grisham to Amit Chaudhari, from fiction to academic. But still it remains my favourite company and tranquilizes my soul. I feel sorry for those children who engage themselves with modern gadgets and have a strange inclination to despise books as an object of boredom.To me a book is a vehicle of learning and refinement, an open sesame to countless joys and sorrows. At touch I slip into a silent world- a world full of virtual treasures, a world that promises a permanent solution to melancholy. To me books are munificent of sky of life where I can find the essence of life.In today’s “tech savvy” world, books have shown considerable demagogy.Man’s devotion and dreams, his accomplishment and aspiration, his inspiration and insight, all are stored in books- wealth to be tapped by all so desire. All humanity has reason to be proud of books, for it shows us our very best. Long live books!

Happy Hour

Sometimes i ponder what we actually want from our life? Does all of us have a definite goal? Or just we’re flowing with time, not destined, not specific. However, after much scratching and brainstorming, i got to know that all of us actually want to be happy, and rest of it is just a mirage. We often says about ambition, career and above all chasing money like a mad dog but does all those hard work bring little calm to our soul? Perhaps no, but the irony is that we are all enlightened from our heart but not elucidate our wisdom through our practice.

So what is actually a happiness? Nobody can define happiness. Different people find the essence of happiness in different things. Some think that money can buy all the happiness, but are proved wrong. Others find happiness in the company of people. Some among them seek happiness in the company of a particular person. They think love is the root of all happiness. The jury is still out on that. Given the rates of divorce, marriage, if not love, is often found to be the source of great misery. A pertinent question is how important is happiness in human life? Wouldn’t we become complacent and lazy if we were happy? Also, can one be happy in our country, where people are starving, fighting diseases, illiteracy and corruption? Perhaps, NO. I read that people living in Norway are the happiest because of the rate of growth of GDP and literacy coupled with low birth rate. Happiness eludes easy comprehension. It lies within us and yet, depends on our circumstances. One thing is sure, for most of us, happiness is the ultimate goal. I can only recall one appropriate quote to close my “frenzy” discussion.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s garden.

Chak De: A Fine Didactic Story

Jo Jeeta wahi Sikander, Lagaan and now Chak De. The similarity between all the three movies is that it spellbinds the spectators through neat portrayal of struggle concealed within the victory in some sort of sports. The first; Jo Jeeta…, do it through cycle racing; the second, Lagaan, do it through cricket; and now the third, Chak De, recently released and yet to be celebrated, do it through hockey, the national game of India.

Among all these three movies based on sports in our contemporary Indian cinema, Chak De Celebrates a different victory. Unlike the other two, this movie is not remarkable for running romance and melodious songs in parallel with the game, which is core of all the three films. This film, Chak De, belongs to its core. And the core as well as key elements of the film are Hockey and women.

The most scathing manner in which Chak De differs from the other two is its inclusion of women playing the game. The movie is significant for the much-needed fact to accept that it celebrates a victory – victory against all those male chauvinist pigs, who believe that women in our contemporary Indian society are meant merely to be pregnant, to breed babies, handle kitchen, and to knead legs of men.

Talking in nutshell, story of the film is straight. As predicted, the victory comes and befits the laps of a dozen girls playing for their country. The win appears to be larger than life for their mentor and coach, who, after gulping seven years of contempt and disgust of his own fellow citizens, is back on a mission. The mission, sought to be impossible one by everyone, is to train the dozen of girl hockey player, and make them win the Hockey world cup.

When you are motivated by strong emotions to win, no task seems to be impossible. The journey, from toe to tip, they stride gets a good portrayal in the movie, which is worth making one’s lip shiver and fist closed tightly under the influence of emotional win running on the screen. Two things make this movie to celebrate a fine triumph over the other two movies discussed earlier, Jo Jeeta… and Lagaan. The first, depiction of woman appearing as an ultimate warrior and winner, though their mentor, a man, plays the pivotal role in their victory. The second, some didactic lessons quoted by the mentor on various occasions evoke some worth musing moral science lectures.

Some inspirational quotations should be in need here to be mentioned. “Team banaane ke liye taakat nahi neeyat ki jarurat hoti hai” (to build a team you do not need power, but a good intention), “Dushman pe hamla tab tak karte raho jab tak ya to wo toot jaye yaa fir tum toot jao” (keep fighting till the time either you or your enemies are succumbed completely), “tej matlab aur tej…sabse tej…” (Fast means faster…fastest), “Pandava ki terah jubaan mat dijiye, cheerharan ho jayega” (do not offers words too easily. Otherwise, you will meet the same doom as Pandavas did).

The best scene-sequel, to me, is when a girl, senior most player of the team, is ready to bare and offer herself to the coach to be captain of the team, while thinking that gifting woman’s flesh is the easiest way to lure a man. It does not work, but the incidence as well as words of coach (the one-woman’s man in real life) changes the girl completely. So much changed and purged that the girl while talking over phone to her cook blurts out with breast shivering and sighing, and eyes gleaming with hunger to win, “yaa to mar ayungi yaa fir jeet ke” (I shall return after either winning or dying). The girl finally shoots the goal giving her team a victory; and her coach a unique dejavu – a moment to stand tall holding his chest high and glistening tears of joy while beholding the tri-colour national flag.

Much acclaimed by The New York Times in plain words “Good show!” I do not think that I need to mention that “Chak De” is another wonderful rendezvous of two of the “powerful objects” of Bollywood, the Shah Rukh Khan and the Yashraj Films.