i go with time... or time goes with me...
i wait for so long... and take a deep breath...
seen many things many things are yet to be seen...
dreamt many dreams... many dreams are yet to be dreamed..
with every change i have changed a bit...
and all my changed bits have changed everything in me..
the soul is still the same, the thought is still the same
my wants are still the same.. my needs have changed again...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Thursday, December 2, 2010
AFTER A LOOOOONG TIME....
hello.... is there anyone listening.... oopsssss is anyone reading.... perhaps this is the right question..... i have been away for a very long time.... well was very busy with my studies... and whenever i was not.... i still was reluctant to write....
Too many thoughts... too less time to write.... and much lesser stamina to arrange the thoughts in some order.... that is what i was going through....
I was in Kochi last week, kochi.... My birth place.... spent much of my life there.... the greenery, the rains (God i was missing the rains the most... as if im in sahara), the sea.... everything over there has its own charm.... my granny.... i think she is the first women in my life... i have spent so much of my time with her.... and i was her favourite grandchild..... but now... she hardly remembers me.... oldage, memory loss, poor health..... all rolled into one has made my beautiful granny a fragile bundle of ailing bones.... but then it was very good to sit beside her.... to go into HER WORLD - WHICH IS WHAT SHE IS LIVING IN.... "HER PAST"
Sometimes bad memory plays a very positive role... i dont know if i have written this earlier... "Memory is the root cause of all our sorrows... rather than having a good memory it is always better to have a selective memory" things will surely change positively.....
Too many thoughts... too less time to write.... and much lesser stamina to arrange the thoughts in some order.... that is what i was going through....
I was in Kochi last week, kochi.... My birth place.... spent much of my life there.... the greenery, the rains (God i was missing the rains the most... as if im in sahara), the sea.... everything over there has its own charm.... my granny.... i think she is the first women in my life... i have spent so much of my time with her.... and i was her favourite grandchild..... but now... she hardly remembers me.... oldage, memory loss, poor health..... all rolled into one has made my beautiful granny a fragile bundle of ailing bones.... but then it was very good to sit beside her.... to go into HER WORLD - WHICH IS WHAT SHE IS LIVING IN.... "HER PAST"
Sometimes bad memory plays a very positive role... i dont know if i have written this earlier... "Memory is the root cause of all our sorrows... rather than having a good memory it is always better to have a selective memory" things will surely change positively.....
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Well the past few days have been really different.... I happened to be in touch with a childhood friend of mine after 12yrs... बारह साल बाद.... :) His name is Parag..... was searching him on Orkut was sumtime nw..... but it was he who found me out..... n if he had not addressed me by my pet name..... perhaps i wud hav even denied the request..... he is mumbai nw n running a photography business...... just a day before i spoke to him i was thinking that photgraphy too is a good career option..... was reminded about professional photography wen i saw the promos of WAKE UP SID.....
There are many career options about which students are still unaware..... as one of my friend Rakesh has said we do not have a proper counselling programme post 10th n 12th standard to help us find out what we really want to do.... and to a large extent i do agree with him..... i think along with the students their parents too should be counselled.... after all they are the ones who will bear the expenses :) well apart from bearing expenses i think such things will also help them know the potentials of their children..... Most of the times students and parents prefer for the conventional courses thinking that its a safe choice....
On the other hand my studies is moving on..... coming back to Parag.... As far as i remember he is my First Friend and i suppose he too thinks the same :) ..... we studied together till 8th standard.... being my neighbour we spent good time together and also have had our share of fights.... Parag's elder sister was my elder sister's friend..... they too were in the same class an school.... Writing these things seem very funny to me... yet it is very very good to get in touch with old friends.... when i called him i spoke to his mother too.... aunty had been very kind and caring to both me and my elder sister.... infact my first ghagra choli was from her..... i still remeber it was pink in colour.... :) I wore that for one of my cultural programmes in school.... i think i was in 4th standard then.... :) Parag was good at studies as well as a BIG NUISANCE of my class.... but there was never any kind of competition between us..... we infact helped each other out.... Today things have changed in his life a lot.... I just hope now the problems which he faces will have some easy solutions...... My sister and family back in Kochi will be very happy to know about Parag...
My General Studies classes are going on.... and by God's Grace i'm BLESSED with a bunch of BHUDI JEEVI'S in my class.... the rapidity and precision with which they ask questions is so amazing.... i feel like almost disappearing from that place itself.... :P I have class today too.... though i do not want to go..... when you are not in mood classes become more boring.... But i think i must not let my mood play so much with my studies.... so i will go to class..... reach their before time.... stand in a queue to get inside the class.... one's in will roll my eyes in all directions to see where can i accommodate myself..... as far as possible in some corner seat near the wall..... that place makes me very comfortable.... of late one change has come in me.... I donot like interacting much with people around me.... i donno why..... i feel the less i talk the better for me... may be im not absolutely right when i think like this yet i feel its better to keep away...... :) CONTEMPLATION has taken a major place in my life :) :) :)
This much for now.... got to go to class... of late few friends told me they liked my blog.... where as i think a few are still guessing why on earth is she doing this.... well if was not for blog i would have been writing on a piece of paper.... but then that has its own limitations.... moreover... i have been thinking of writing since few years now.... atleast writing blogs will, i guess help me open up my writing skills.... and polish my writing.... i just hope it does this.....
until next....
TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF
LOVE
SAYONARA.....
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Its been a few days since i blogged last.... was a little busy with my studies.... im happy that atleast now things are progressing in some direction..... and i think its in the right direction....
I donno how things and relations change so soon.... some of them mature towards a better bonding and a few do not.... while there is a category of people to whom you relate in the same manner as u did years before.... nothing less nothing more.....
In the past few years i have come across many people who have impacted my life in a way or another.... may be they too feel the same about me.... yet there comes a time when you just do not wish to resolve anything that has gone wrong or celebrate something which has made that relation speacil... after leaving Kochi, I realised that i really lived a very protected life.... the dynamics and so called politics of relations was a little less ventured area.... as time passed and more people i met.... i gradually understood it.....
I some how now strongly believe that very few relations are worth the pain they give... and perhaps the importance of family, parents, siblings have really increased for me now.... i think when i was in school and college my immediate focus was not my family.... no not exactly... perhaps i did take them for granted.... but i don't think im so casual about my family n siblings now.... Long back when i was in Kochi one of my friend had said that family is really important.... at the end of the day it is they who are with us..... i seem to understand the gravity of those words now.....
Apart from this what i have understood is that at the end of the day... its ME AND ME ALONE.... Who has to face things around me.... family friends are there in their very own special way... but then it is for us to do and face everything.... at least this way we take our lives on our own.... May be today im a little more upset than i usually 'm.... But this thought of being on my own always knocks on me whenever something goes wrong quite unexpectedly ..... Its nice to have people around you with whom you can share things.... but how much can one share..... and to what extent.... many times it so happens that people with whom we share things turn out to be so close that they will be more upset with what we are going through.....
This is what i learned when i left Kochi..... and it was perhaps it is then that i understood that enough of being dependent on anyone for relieving your feelings (not that now im totally self dependent.... but then i try to be as much as i can)...... May be i can take some one's advice.... but then most often we ourselves are our own best advisers.....
Perhaps this blog of mine has brought a yet another aspect of my self..... and i some how feel this part of my self needs some very good quality time and perhaps few other things (about which i do not have any idea)... in order to come out of this gloomy perspective.....
But yes one thing that i have learned.... and that too in a HARD WAY is to give importance only to those relations which are really worth it.... and yes very few people should be given the POWER OF ATTORNEY on your self..... This life is for us.... for us to realize our aspirations, wishes, dreams.... and very few people are really worth of changing or finishing our dreams..... BEING PRACTICALLY EMOTIONAL IS PERHAPS THE MANTRA..... AND AT THE MOMENT I REALLY FEEL BAD FOR MYSELF.... AS YET AGAIN A VERY STUPID THING HAS GOT OVER MY MIND AND HAS VERY SUCCESSFULLY RUINED MY MOOD........ AS LONG AS MY FRAGILITY TO FEW THINGS REMAIN.... SO LONG WILL REMAIN THIS FRAGILE AND NAUSEATING MOOD SWING......
anywaz.... of late i have begun knitting .... im just a beginner now..... took it just because creating anything really makes me happy and im very satisfied when i do anything creative.... or is that CREATIVITY IS JUST A STATE OF MIND.... WHAT IS CREATIVE FOR ME... CAN BE A CRAP FOR SOME ONE ELSE :)........... WHO KNOWS BUT IM HAPPY WITH WHAT IM DOING...
Got to go now.... im a bit hungry.... and have to finish few articles from some magazine.... im very happy and thankful to God and my Father for letting me pursue what i want to.... I feel Lucky....
this much for now....
Until next.....
Take Care of yourself.... because.... each one here is worth it..... and the best person to care for you is yourself....
Bye
PHIR MILENGE.... :)
I donno how things and relations change so soon.... some of them mature towards a better bonding and a few do not.... while there is a category of people to whom you relate in the same manner as u did years before.... nothing less nothing more.....
In the past few years i have come across many people who have impacted my life in a way or another.... may be they too feel the same about me.... yet there comes a time when you just do not wish to resolve anything that has gone wrong or celebrate something which has made that relation speacil... after leaving Kochi, I realised that i really lived a very protected life.... the dynamics and so called politics of relations was a little less ventured area.... as time passed and more people i met.... i gradually understood it.....
I some how now strongly believe that very few relations are worth the pain they give... and perhaps the importance of family, parents, siblings have really increased for me now.... i think when i was in school and college my immediate focus was not my family.... no not exactly... perhaps i did take them for granted.... but i don't think im so casual about my family n siblings now.... Long back when i was in Kochi one of my friend had said that family is really important.... at the end of the day it is they who are with us..... i seem to understand the gravity of those words now.....
Apart from this what i have understood is that at the end of the day... its ME AND ME ALONE.... Who has to face things around me.... family friends are there in their very own special way... but then it is for us to do and face everything.... at least this way we take our lives on our own.... May be today im a little more upset than i usually 'm.... But this thought of being on my own always knocks on me whenever something goes wrong quite unexpectedly ..... Its nice to have people around you with whom you can share things.... but how much can one share..... and to what extent.... many times it so happens that people with whom we share things turn out to be so close that they will be more upset with what we are going through.....
This is what i learned when i left Kochi..... and it was perhaps it is then that i understood that enough of being dependent on anyone for relieving your feelings (not that now im totally self dependent.... but then i try to be as much as i can)...... May be i can take some one's advice.... but then most often we ourselves are our own best advisers.....
Perhaps this blog of mine has brought a yet another aspect of my self..... and i some how feel this part of my self needs some very good quality time and perhaps few other things (about which i do not have any idea)... in order to come out of this gloomy perspective.....
But yes one thing that i have learned.... and that too in a HARD WAY is to give importance only to those relations which are really worth it.... and yes very few people should be given the POWER OF ATTORNEY on your self..... This life is for us.... for us to realize our aspirations, wishes, dreams.... and very few people are really worth of changing or finishing our dreams..... BEING PRACTICALLY EMOTIONAL IS PERHAPS THE MANTRA..... AND AT THE MOMENT I REALLY FEEL BAD FOR MYSELF.... AS YET AGAIN A VERY STUPID THING HAS GOT OVER MY MIND AND HAS VERY SUCCESSFULLY RUINED MY MOOD........ AS LONG AS MY FRAGILITY TO FEW THINGS REMAIN.... SO LONG WILL REMAIN THIS FRAGILE AND NAUSEATING MOOD SWING......
anywaz.... of late i have begun knitting .... im just a beginner now..... took it just because creating anything really makes me happy and im very satisfied when i do anything creative.... or is that CREATIVITY IS JUST A STATE OF MIND.... WHAT IS CREATIVE FOR ME... CAN BE A CRAP FOR SOME ONE ELSE :)........... WHO KNOWS BUT IM HAPPY WITH WHAT IM DOING...
Got to go now.... im a bit hungry.... and have to finish few articles from some magazine.... im very happy and thankful to God and my Father for letting me pursue what i want to.... I feel Lucky....
this much for now....
Until next.....
Take Care of yourself.... because.... each one here is worth it..... and the best person to care for you is yourself....
Bye
PHIR MILENGE.... :)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Today I met Ronak... Its after a month that i met her... with these classes and studies at times its difficult even to meet close friends especially if they live in a different part of Delhi.... The converstaion was very light... its very difficult to find people with whom you can stike a light conversation... a kind of conversation which is light yet interesting, where you can just vent out your thoughts, and the person too does the same.... i have been lucky in this case to have a few frens with whom i can do this.... they are not with me at the moment... but thanks to Alexander Graham Bell... they are ACTUALLY JUST A CALL AWAY... :P
Next month my cousin will get married.... Marriage i think world over is such an occassion which brings with it a lot of happiness, satisfaction for parents(especially if they are Indian parents and are "so called lucky" that even in TODAY'S TIME THEIR CHILDREN ARE MARRYING SOME ONE OF THEIR CHOICE).... dreams, expectations, excitement and anxiety for both the families and more importantly for those who are getting married....
What really attracts me is the way in which things are done.... the old trunks are opened and few precious hand woven sarees... o sarees which was passed through several generations is passed over to the next.... When it comes to the bride's family... its exciting to see them shop not only for their daughter but also for her in - laws and other members of her future family.... Today i came to know a very interesting thing.... the gal's parents gift a suitcase full of sarees to her mother in law..... along with sarees matching bindis and sindoor case few toys are also kept in her suitcase..... it seems this was done in the past when child marriage took place, so that the child bride could be entertained with it one's she starts crying in her new house(of course grown ups like us will cry forget about the poor childbride...).......... child marriages have largely declined yet this tradition continues.... i guess who will use those toys... of course my cousin's mother in law has better ways of appeasing my sister one's she feels home sick....
Marriage also brings a fair amount of sadness in a bride's family.... yet the satisfaction of getting your daughter wed to the best available boy overshadows this vacuum...
hmmmmmmmmmmm with marriage in the air... this was what revolved in my mind when i sat down to blog today..... got to get back to studies which is yet to catch the speed which i want..... that too will happen in a day or two.... i did not study much since morning so my books are calling me.....
Until next
Take care ... Stay Happy
SAYOONAARA........ :)
Next month my cousin will get married.... Marriage i think world over is such an occassion which brings with it a lot of happiness, satisfaction for parents(especially if they are Indian parents and are "so called lucky" that even in TODAY'S TIME THEIR CHILDREN ARE MARRYING SOME ONE OF THEIR CHOICE).... dreams, expectations, excitement and anxiety for both the families and more importantly for those who are getting married....
What really attracts me is the way in which things are done.... the old trunks are opened and few precious hand woven sarees... o sarees which was passed through several generations is passed over to the next.... When it comes to the bride's family... its exciting to see them shop not only for their daughter but also for her in - laws and other members of her future family.... Today i came to know a very interesting thing.... the gal's parents gift a suitcase full of sarees to her mother in law..... along with sarees matching bindis and sindoor case few toys are also kept in her suitcase..... it seems this was done in the past when child marriage took place, so that the child bride could be entertained with it one's she starts crying in her new house(of course grown ups like us will cry forget about the poor childbride...).......... child marriages have largely declined yet this tradition continues.... i guess who will use those toys... of course my cousin's mother in law has better ways of appeasing my sister one's she feels home sick....
Marriage also brings a fair amount of sadness in a bride's family.... yet the satisfaction of getting your daughter wed to the best available boy overshadows this vacuum...
hmmmmmmmmmmm with marriage in the air... this was what revolved in my mind when i sat down to blog today..... got to get back to studies which is yet to catch the speed which i want..... that too will happen in a day or two.... i did not study much since morning so my books are calling me.....
Until next
Take care ... Stay Happy
SAYOONAARA........ :)
Monday, November 2, 2009
So the last day I wrote about the Tulsi Vivaah.... n was a lil confused about the bride groom.... well it seems on that day Tulsi was Married to Lord Jagganath..... The name of Jaganath brings to my mind a poem which i had studied during my M. A. days.... high chances that my friends with during this course remember it.... Sis Rosline had taken that poem...... Wow M.A. days were really wonderful.... usually schooldays are regarded as the best in my case along with it my M. A. days too were very very good... :) The moment i write this i feel as ii im doing some kind of injustice to my degree and pre - degree days....
any waz.... from the past few days i dream regularly of my home in Kochi.... nothing special about those dreams.... just the usual stuff except that few of my friends too are present.... these friends have not seen my house yet :)
next month i will be having my U.P. Prelims.... i began my preparations today.... hmmmmm... these days im not keeping very well.... i think from the past one month or more there's hardly been two weeks when i was absolutely fine..... if any one of you is wondering that why didn't i consult i dr. then my dear i did.... but actually im really a lazy person when it comes to visiting a dr. i find the whole thing really stupid (this thing applies on me alone... when it's some one else i see to it that they do visit the doc...)
last few months had been a little difficult.... perhaps not clearing the prelims is the major cause for it.... .the problem is one happy moment does bring to the mind many happy moments of the past..... but sadness has the potency of bringing back to the mind all the past failures... pains and god alone knows what not..... may be it is my fault that i let things go out of my hand whenever something unpleasant takes place..... but this time i have gradually learned of just focussing on the present... as much as possible.....
The Harder the Moment the Tougher it is to get over it.... you feel as if time has stopped and this moment is longer than ever.... May be it is the attitude which has to be changed... its like travelling in a Metro... The more desperate you are to reach your destination, the more longer the journey seems.... The moment you stop to think how long it will take to reach your place... the quicker the journey ends... Perhaps journeys are meant to be enjoyed. Once you stop enjoying it, it becomes a burden.... and instead of waiting for the moment to PASS... one should PASS THROUGH THE MOMENT AND NOT JUST WAIT....
Any ways back to some lighter things.... today my cousin came back with his son.... His name is Abhay.... :)... donno why the moment i think about him it brings a lot of happiness within me.... i think kids are necessary part of the household.... i kind of strongly believe in the concept of भरा पूरा परिवार.... its nice to have kids around... though at times they are a real headache, a big responsibility... yet very few things satisfy me as they do..... at times i feel like working in a play school or doing something related to kids.... i know it will be a cacophony.... yet.... any ways thats just a thought.... i want to do many things... i think what's more important is to do what i'm doing now properly.... :P juggling between many things will take me no where.... but there is a very good project by some NGO (i think its a NGO itself... ) named TEACH INDIA.... ONE IS SUPPOSED TO REGISTER ONESELF WITH THIS NGO.... THEY WILL SEND US TO SOME REMOTE AREA SOME WHERE CLOSE TO OUR PLACE.... AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TEACH THE KIDS OVER THERE :) IT WOULD BE FOR ONE YEAR OR SO.... AND THEY WILL PAY SOME KIND OF RENUMERATION.... MORE OF A SOCIAL SERVICE THAN THE USUAL KIND OF TEACHING.... AND MORE OVER THE METHOD OF TEACHING TOO WILL NOT BE THE USUAL KIND.... IT WILL BE MORE OF AN INFORMAL KIND OF THING... JUST A SMALL WAY TO MAKE A LITTLE BIG DIFFERENCE FOR THOSE KIDS....
Now i got to go back to my studies... writing this blog has been a very good break.... i will begin Geography today.... when i began my prepartions i really did not like this subject much.... but now i do not dislike it as much as i used to... rather now im pretty comfortable with it... may be b'cos one of my friends suggested me a book named Geography through Maps... this book made geography really interesting and easy for me (now that does not mean that u can ask me geography based qts.... SUCH QTS WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED.... )
THIS MUCH FOR NOW....
untill next
sayonaara............
any waz.... from the past few days i dream regularly of my home in Kochi.... nothing special about those dreams.... just the usual stuff except that few of my friends too are present.... these friends have not seen my house yet :)
next month i will be having my U.P. Prelims.... i began my preparations today.... hmmmmm... these days im not keeping very well.... i think from the past one month or more there's hardly been two weeks when i was absolutely fine..... if any one of you is wondering that why didn't i consult i dr. then my dear i did.... but actually im really a lazy person when it comes to visiting a dr. i find the whole thing really stupid (this thing applies on me alone... when it's some one else i see to it that they do visit the doc...)
last few months had been a little difficult.... perhaps not clearing the prelims is the major cause for it.... .the problem is one happy moment does bring to the mind many happy moments of the past..... but sadness has the potency of bringing back to the mind all the past failures... pains and god alone knows what not..... may be it is my fault that i let things go out of my hand whenever something unpleasant takes place..... but this time i have gradually learned of just focussing on the present... as much as possible.....
The Harder the Moment the Tougher it is to get over it.... you feel as if time has stopped and this moment is longer than ever.... May be it is the attitude which has to be changed... its like travelling in a Metro... The more desperate you are to reach your destination, the more longer the journey seems.... The moment you stop to think how long it will take to reach your place... the quicker the journey ends... Perhaps journeys are meant to be enjoyed. Once you stop enjoying it, it becomes a burden.... and instead of waiting for the moment to PASS... one should PASS THROUGH THE MOMENT AND NOT JUST WAIT....
Any ways back to some lighter things.... today my cousin came back with his son.... His name is Abhay.... :)... donno why the moment i think about him it brings a lot of happiness within me.... i think kids are necessary part of the household.... i kind of strongly believe in the concept of भरा पूरा परिवार.... its nice to have kids around... though at times they are a real headache, a big responsibility... yet very few things satisfy me as they do..... at times i feel like working in a play school or doing something related to kids.... i know it will be a cacophony.... yet.... any ways thats just a thought.... i want to do many things... i think what's more important is to do what i'm doing now properly.... :P juggling between many things will take me no where.... but there is a very good project by some NGO (i think its a NGO itself... ) named TEACH INDIA.... ONE IS SUPPOSED TO REGISTER ONESELF WITH THIS NGO.... THEY WILL SEND US TO SOME REMOTE AREA SOME WHERE CLOSE TO OUR PLACE.... AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TEACH THE KIDS OVER THERE :) IT WOULD BE FOR ONE YEAR OR SO.... AND THEY WILL PAY SOME KIND OF RENUMERATION.... MORE OF A SOCIAL SERVICE THAN THE USUAL KIND OF TEACHING.... AND MORE OVER THE METHOD OF TEACHING TOO WILL NOT BE THE USUAL KIND.... IT WILL BE MORE OF AN INFORMAL KIND OF THING... JUST A SMALL WAY TO MAKE A LITTLE BIG DIFFERENCE FOR THOSE KIDS....
Now i got to go back to my studies... writing this blog has been a very good break.... i will begin Geography today.... when i began my prepartions i really did not like this subject much.... but now i do not dislike it as much as i used to... rather now im pretty comfortable with it... may be b'cos one of my friends suggested me a book named Geography through Maps... this book made geography really interesting and easy for me (now that does not mean that u can ask me geography based qts.... SUCH QTS WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED.... )
THIS MUCH FOR NOW....
untill next
sayonaara............
Saturday, October 31, 2009
SATURDAY.. AT HOME
Today there is Tulsi Vivaah in our colony..... I have never seen this thing before.... its like a miniature marriage itself.... u have the Baraat... women are dancing on the beats of the drum.... it seems dowry too would be given in the form of some gifts to the Pundit..... the whole thing will take place like a marriage... but without a bridegroom.... o wait a minute.. i must find out if there is any groom....
I have some how had the oppotunity of spending some time in 2 - 3 cities in India.... What I find common is the way in which people participate in their cultural and religious functions.... there is music... loads of music, which at first attracts you to see what is goin on??? Then after spending few minutes watching the whole thing.... the same music becomes a HEADACHE..... this is what's happening over here now.....
Other common things ... which i think can be found allover India without the North- South, urban- rural divide is the Civic Sense of the people... Delhi above all has a very good number of people who are very obssessed with the way they luk.... the way they carry themselves...... they should always look good, its almost MANDATORY (being good is optional though.. u will find them too yet....) so whether u board a Bus, Metro, Rickshaw..... u get to see a good number of people who present themselves in the best possible way..... But then having good BEAUTY SENSE has nothing to do with the Civic Sense.... So yesterday i saw this self proclaimed hunk..... dressed in formals.... right shirt with right trousers and of course right tie..... shoes not only matching but also shining..... He walks as if on the whole congested,, sound packed road he stood as an epitome of cleanliness... n baba CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS........ but the moment u thought that, he sqeezes his cheeks and out comes the SALIVA...... AHAHA IN A WATER SCARCE DELHI.... WHAT A RELIEF.......
U don't have to be blessed to see these things in India...... but the thing which really takes on me is how these so called educated people carry themselves in public..... our former president Mr. Kalam had once remarked that we Indians are very good when it comes to respecting our elders AT HOME, keepeing OUR HOMES clean, following the unwritten rule of OUR FAMILY..... but once we are out of OUR LOVELY HOMES we DO NOT CARE.....In the West its just the opposite... they do not care a damn about their parents, their dirty homes.... but once in public they know how to do what we Indians do within the walls of our HOME... SWEET HOME....
Whether its vacating seat for an weak elderly(rather u hear "why on earth do they use public transport"), an exhausted women.... or alittle child... and if the above mentioned people seem to represent the poverty of our country(yes buddy we still are poor, inspite of our OLYMPIC GOLD).. the expression is that com'on they are used to travelling without seats....
though we learn these things in school... we often do not follow them.... i donot know why..... i think not only at the school level but at the family level too these kind of VALUES should be imbibed....
this much for now.... the mantras of the TULSI VIVAH have begun.... let me see how things turn around... When i told Koyal about the tulsi marriage there was amusement whereas she too belongs to a hindi speakin state where these things are very common...
LETS SEE WHAT DO I GET TO EAT IN THE MARRIAGE....
UNTIL THEN
SAYONAARA.... AND PLEASE IF POSSIBLE ALONG WITH COMMON SENSE LETS SHOW SOME CIVIC SENSE TOO :)
I have some how had the oppotunity of spending some time in 2 - 3 cities in India.... What I find common is the way in which people participate in their cultural and religious functions.... there is music... loads of music, which at first attracts you to see what is goin on??? Then after spending few minutes watching the whole thing.... the same music becomes a HEADACHE..... this is what's happening over here now.....
Other common things ... which i think can be found allover India without the North- South, urban- rural divide is the Civic Sense of the people... Delhi above all has a very good number of people who are very obssessed with the way they luk.... the way they carry themselves...... they should always look good, its almost MANDATORY (being good is optional though.. u will find them too yet....) so whether u board a Bus, Metro, Rickshaw..... u get to see a good number of people who present themselves in the best possible way..... But then having good BEAUTY SENSE has nothing to do with the Civic Sense.... So yesterday i saw this self proclaimed hunk..... dressed in formals.... right shirt with right trousers and of course right tie..... shoes not only matching but also shining..... He walks as if on the whole congested,, sound packed road he stood as an epitome of cleanliness... n baba CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS........ but the moment u thought that, he sqeezes his cheeks and out comes the SALIVA...... AHAHA IN A WATER SCARCE DELHI.... WHAT A RELIEF.......
U don't have to be blessed to see these things in India...... but the thing which really takes on me is how these so called educated people carry themselves in public..... our former president Mr. Kalam had once remarked that we Indians are very good when it comes to respecting our elders AT HOME, keepeing OUR HOMES clean, following the unwritten rule of OUR FAMILY..... but once we are out of OUR LOVELY HOMES we DO NOT CARE.....In the West its just the opposite... they do not care a damn about their parents, their dirty homes.... but once in public they know how to do what we Indians do within the walls of our HOME... SWEET HOME....
Whether its vacating seat for an weak elderly(rather u hear "why on earth do they use public transport"), an exhausted women.... or alittle child... and if the above mentioned people seem to represent the poverty of our country(yes buddy we still are poor, inspite of our OLYMPIC GOLD).. the expression is that com'on they are used to travelling without seats....
though we learn these things in school... we often do not follow them.... i donot know why..... i think not only at the school level but at the family level too these kind of VALUES should be imbibed....
this much for now.... the mantras of the TULSI VIVAH have begun.... let me see how things turn around... When i told Koyal about the tulsi marriage there was amusement whereas she too belongs to a hindi speakin state where these things are very common...
LETS SEE WHAT DO I GET TO EAT IN THE MARRIAGE....
UNTIL THEN
SAYONAARA.... AND PLEASE IF POSSIBLE ALONG WITH COMMON SENSE LETS SHOW SOME CIVIC SENSE TOO :)
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