Hi all,
It has been a long time, since I have written anything. To be really honest, I was not getting any motivation or subject to write on....specially with global financial meltdown and other things like election in India and all the Gundas, Chors and Thugs associated with that ...I mean all these politicians trying to squeeze out the life from our India and its needy citizens.
Well, you must have got the picture, what I am on about ........all these political thugs trying to cling to the power so that they could continue to milk Bharat Maata and Bharatvasi. All these issues were really making me sad and than all of sudden this news happens ...............
"Susan Boyle" a sweet singing sensation from Scotland as people describe came from nowhere but, I would say definitely God send....took the world by storm and touched the heart of old, young, modern, old fashioned, nerds, snotty....I mean all types of people from all walks of the life. She is inspiring the whole world and the message is clear for everyone never give up. We all have this beast deep inside us known as X-Factor .......find it and share with the world in order to live a meaningful and satisfied life.
So, my friends I believe Susan came as a ray of sunshine in our life to cheer all of us in order to move forward and keep enjoying the life.
Watch Susan Rock the world....click the link below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Time to celebrate - Festival of Holi
Best wishes to everyone for the Holi Festival filled with sweet moments and memories to cherish for long..... Happy Holi!
To all wonderful readers those who are not aware about holi, below is a brief description of the festival......
Left: My Family (Brother, Ma & Pitaji) in happy Holi mood.....
Holi, also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu Spring Festival observed in India and around the world, it is known as Dolyatra (Doljatra) or Boshonto Utsav ("spring festival").
The main day, Holi, also known as Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi, is celebrated by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Bonfires are lit the day before, also known as Holika Dahan (death of Holika) or Chhoti Holi (little Holi).
The bonfires are lit in memory of the miraculous escape that young Prahlad had when Demoness Holika, sister of Hiranyakashipu, carried him into the fire. Holika was burnt but Prahlad, a staunch devotee of Lord Vishnu, escaped without any injuries due to his unshakable devotion.
Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalugna or Falguna (Phalgun Purnima), which usually falls in the later part of February or March. This year, Holi (Dhulandi) is on
11th March and Holika Dahan is on 10th March.
Rangapanchami occurs a few days later on a Panchami (fifth day of the full moon), marking the end of festivities involving colours.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Our duties as a global citizen - "stop the blame game"
In light of a heinous terrorist act yesterday in Pakistan, one should stop and think of individual duties towards the society rather embarking on blame game. All what blaming others achieves is fuelling the hatred further into today’s Global Society and continuation of conflicts all around the globe.
I am an Indian born global citizen, and am ashamed of how hypocritical our people are, including me. We wear the most expensive clothes and give hardly anything to charity; we have the most lavish parties, while the poor can’t even afford a day’s meal; we love making our homes as western as possible, while people don’t even have a roof on their head! We are running around drunkard wanting things(being materialistic) rather being content with our needs.
The fundamental question I ask is what we really expect from the system! The only difference between us and our politicians are that we do not have access to the presidential palace nor do we have billions in our Swiss accounts but at the end of the day our political masters are a multifold reflection of us. It is only us who are to blame to start with.
Without further generalizing, as an Indian (or in this instance whole subcontinental thinking) one tends to think majority of us have developed a strange habit of never putting our hands up to help others rather just complain. Having said so, let me be clear that I am one of you, I don’t help as much I should or could, when it comes to giving my 100%, I have conveniently adjusted to the feeling of helplessness, infect revel in it, and in order to always shift the blame further commentate on our system by stating after all what could you do with a government/ bureaucrats like that?......this is what we call passing the buck.
We are so-called largest functioning democracy; shouldn’t we be able to do something more than what we are actually doing, and when it comes to blaming the government, I believe we are the one who chose these leaders by voting for them, and because they are from within us, so infect they are us!
Hence, my recommendation is, first look deep down within ourselves and try to locate the weakness in us, before we go and attack the system and its masters. Because, they are laughing at all of us – and saying that look at those idiots, they are the one who voted for us.
"Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Naa Milya KoyeJo Munn Khoja Apnaa, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye" St. Kabir
Translation
I searched for the crooked, met not a single onewhen searched myself, "I" found the crooked one
I am an Indian born global citizen, and am ashamed of how hypocritical our people are, including me. We wear the most expensive clothes and give hardly anything to charity; we have the most lavish parties, while the poor can’t even afford a day’s meal; we love making our homes as western as possible, while people don’t even have a roof on their head! We are running around drunkard wanting things(being materialistic) rather being content with our needs.
The fundamental question I ask is what we really expect from the system! The only difference between us and our politicians are that we do not have access to the presidential palace nor do we have billions in our Swiss accounts but at the end of the day our political masters are a multifold reflection of us. It is only us who are to blame to start with.
Without further generalizing, as an Indian (or in this instance whole subcontinental thinking) one tends to think majority of us have developed a strange habit of never putting our hands up to help others rather just complain. Having said so, let me be clear that I am one of you, I don’t help as much I should or could, when it comes to giving my 100%, I have conveniently adjusted to the feeling of helplessness, infect revel in it, and in order to always shift the blame further commentate on our system by stating after all what could you do with a government/ bureaucrats like that?......this is what we call passing the buck.
We are so-called largest functioning democracy; shouldn’t we be able to do something more than what we are actually doing, and when it comes to blaming the government, I believe we are the one who chose these leaders by voting for them, and because they are from within us, so infect they are us!
Hence, my recommendation is, first look deep down within ourselves and try to locate the weakness in us, before we go and attack the system and its masters. Because, they are laughing at all of us – and saying that look at those idiots, they are the one who voted for us.
"Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Naa Milya KoyeJo Munn Khoja Apnaa, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye" St. Kabir
Translation
I searched for the crooked, met not a single onewhen searched myself, "I" found the crooked one
Monday, March 2, 2009
“Karma is not our past but everything to do with the present”
I believe "Karma" actually should have been every persons' work in this life rather than mysterious early life work!!!
Why the religions were created at all when no one has actually seen God or had a lunch with him or her ? Why were religions imposed on man so ruthlessly especially the muslims and catholics?
Why were 1,2,3....created when they are abstract?? Why is time hours, minutes, seconds invented when they happen everyday???
Fortunately or Unfortunately, Human is blessed with brainpower relatively superior to other animals on this planet by .let us say we call it GOD!
As we all know, man being the most intelligent species is able to think in abstract terms and come up with solutions!! So, 10 apples are ten in number and so are other items on your desk like pens or oranges..... so, man began counting them and derived abstract stuff like Mathematics etc.,
Now, he expanded it with multiplactions or substractions, additions....and thinking went on and built on top of it.
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION!!
So, if you are a tribal chief and your son has reached age 16, biological needs made him court a girl. Now, he brought her home but confusion prevails on relationships as other brothers also have competition in a primitive life. So, customs form. But, favouritism etc., come up..so, intellegentsia like old people in the neighbourhood play a priest or chief like role... so, a contract occurs named 'marriage' and this middleman is invited and the customs grow out to name him as 'priest' and a job is assigned as man's intelligent mind begins to ORGANIZE society....
Now, greed strikes society and they want to feel superior over a drinking party and they decide to show off their superiority by attacking next village.
See, like the way amoeba turned into species.... religion, philosophies, grew out from nowhere due to necessity.
But when 10000 years ago when a tribal boy in India gave away 10 grams of salt to somebody and so he has nothing and a person gets an idea that now he has nothing and so gives a term ZERO!! Fine, we invented ZERO in INDIA when no one came up with the idea but WE STILL HAVE TO MOVE esp. when computers are pushing counting almost at infinite levels at infinite faster speeds.
So, spirituality, religion etc., have to MODERNIZE and AMEND with TIMES!!!
Catholicism has become a FARCE due to institutionalizing by popes, elites and every corrupt you can conceive of... so is Islam or Hinduism or Judaism.................
Today, man has ability to acquire infinite wisdom by having a computer and internet connect infront of him!! So, man has powers of God and he has choice and freedom to be what he wanted to be... But even then, certain rules and regulations are forming on Internet too due to certain odd behaviour of people and this will be the new RELIGION of Internet on how a man must behave in society!!
Earlier, Cyber laws were not strong but now they are getting stricter as people are abusing....
Religion is important; Otherwise, a stallion will go and take over all the mares in the ranch at the cost of suffering of other horses :))))))))
Human by nature is God when left alone but could become a devil in a anarchaic society!!!!
Why the religions were created at all when no one has actually seen God or had a lunch with him or her ? Why were religions imposed on man so ruthlessly especially the muslims and catholics?
Why were 1,2,3....created when they are abstract?? Why is time hours, minutes, seconds invented when they happen everyday???
Fortunately or Unfortunately, Human is blessed with brainpower relatively superior to other animals on this planet by .let us say we call it GOD!
As we all know, man being the most intelligent species is able to think in abstract terms and come up with solutions!! So, 10 apples are ten in number and so are other items on your desk like pens or oranges..... so, man began counting them and derived abstract stuff like Mathematics etc.,
Now, he expanded it with multiplactions or substractions, additions....and thinking went on and built on top of it.
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION!!
So, if you are a tribal chief and your son has reached age 16, biological needs made him court a girl. Now, he brought her home but confusion prevails on relationships as other brothers also have competition in a primitive life. So, customs form. But, favouritism etc., come up..so, intellegentsia like old people in the neighbourhood play a priest or chief like role... so, a contract occurs named 'marriage' and this middleman is invited and the customs grow out to name him as 'priest' and a job is assigned as man's intelligent mind begins to ORGANIZE society....
Now, greed strikes society and they want to feel superior over a drinking party and they decide to show off their superiority by attacking next village.
See, like the way amoeba turned into species.... religion, philosophies, grew out from nowhere due to necessity.
But when 10000 years ago when a tribal boy in India gave away 10 grams of salt to somebody and so he has nothing and a person gets an idea that now he has nothing and so gives a term ZERO!! Fine, we invented ZERO in INDIA when no one came up with the idea but WE STILL HAVE TO MOVE esp. when computers are pushing counting almost at infinite levels at infinite faster speeds.
So, spirituality, religion etc., have to MODERNIZE and AMEND with TIMES!!!
Catholicism has become a FARCE due to institutionalizing by popes, elites and every corrupt you can conceive of... so is Islam or Hinduism or Judaism.................
Today, man has ability to acquire infinite wisdom by having a computer and internet connect infront of him!! So, man has powers of God and he has choice and freedom to be what he wanted to be... But even then, certain rules and regulations are forming on Internet too due to certain odd behaviour of people and this will be the new RELIGION of Internet on how a man must behave in society!!
Earlier, Cyber laws were not strong but now they are getting stricter as people are abusing....
Religion is important; Otherwise, a stallion will go and take over all the mares in the ranch at the cost of suffering of other horses :))))))))
Human by nature is God when left alone but could become a devil in a anarchaic society!!!!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
It is all about what you need ......not want!
Australians who live on slumdog millionaires' row - and love it
Matt Wade In New Delhi
February 28, 2009
Consumer detox ... in their bedroom-sized home. Photo: Brendan Esposito
MARK and Cathy Delaney don't need to see the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. The Brisbane couple experience slum life in India every day.
For 13 years they have lived in the shanty towns of the Indian capital, New Delhi, raising their children and sharing their lives with the locals. Their two sons, Tom, 12, and Oscar, 7, were born in India and have lived most of their lives in slums.
The family home, in a neighbourhood called Janta Mazdoor Colony, is about the size of a typical Australian bedroom. They have no running water, no TV, no fridge and no washing machine. Two mattresses, used to sleep on at night, double as a "lounge" during the day. Meals are eaten sitting on the floor and they share with neighbours a squat toilet in a small bathroom.
But the Delaneys are not complaining. For them, living in a slum has been deeply enriching.
"It baffles us that more people in Australia who say they are sick of their lives don't do something like we have," says Cathy Delaney, who holds a masters' degree in pure mathematics.
"The longer we have stayed here the more we can see the positive effect it has had on us as people. I feel much freer of money and possessions - these things don't define my life."
Mark Delaney, a 42-year old lawyer, says more than a decade in Delhi's squatter settlements has been a "radical detox" from consumer society.
"For the first couple of years I thought, 'We'll do this for a while and then we'll go back to Australia, get a deposit and build a house', and so on, but I've let go of all that now," he said.
Mark works part-time for a Delhi-based medical organisation but the family's main focus is on their slum. They are strongly motivated by their Christian faith, believing that life is more about caring for others than comfort and success.
"Our main purpose is simply to experience what life is like here, to live with and learn from the poor and contribute something positive to people's lives," says Mark.
The Delaneys moved into their current neighbourhood on the eastern outskirts of Delhi in 2003. About 60,000 people are packed into the illegal settlement which is less than half a square kilometre. It is one of an estimated 1500 squatter settlements scattered across Delhi that house at least 3 million people.
The settlement started 30 years ago as a cluster of makeshift humpies in an open field but as time went by, people gradually upgraded. Flimsy walls were replaced with bricks, slab roofs were added in place of black plastic. Even so, open drains still run along the slum's maze of narrow alley ways and empty into a putrid canal not far from the Delaneys' front door.
Properties are bought and sold in the slum and there are even informal titles exchanged to prove ownership. Although these documents would not hold up in court they give those purchasing a slum hut a sense of security. A three-level slum house in the area recently changed hands for 190,000 rupees (about $6000).
The Delaneys pay 1800 rupees ($56) a month in rent, although many small rooms in the slum are half that. Each day the family witnesses some of the vulnerability and powerlessness of the characters portrayed in the film.
Witnessing this has nurtured a strong sense of social justice in the boys.
"I have realised that the most important thing is to help other people," says Tom.
"But I have also realised that I have limits."
There is hot debate in the household about how simply they should live.
"Cathy is a bit harder line than me," says Mark
"Sometimes she says 'let's move down a bit' but I'm usually a bit resistant. Most people think we are pretty stupid already."
Once Tom asked how much income his neighbours had to live on and insisted their family do the same.
So for the experience, they cut their monthly budget from 10,000 rupees ($310) to 5000 rupees.
"First we ran out of cornflakes and then we ran out of jam. Our diet got much simpler," says Cathy. "It was a hard experience but a really good one. It gave us so much more respect for the people who live here."
Mark has been pleasantly surprised by how much their boys have benefited from the experience of living in a poor neighbourhood. Oscar is in year 2 at a local school and Tom has recently switched to home schooling.
When the boys were asked if they wanted to move back to Australia later this year or stay in the slum, they chose to stay.
"I used to think that, with the kids, we would just endure living here for a while and then go," said Mark.
"But now I'm thinking this is a good thing for them and I want to stay not for my sake, but for the sake of my kids."
Things that most families take for granted bring the Delaneys great satisfaction.
Such as electricity. The power goes off in the neighbourhood several hours each day.
To help the family cope, Cathy got a small solar panel worth about $100 for her 40th birthday that powers a lamp during the blackouts.
A striking feature of the Delaneys' lifestyle is their small environmental footprint. They use very little electricity, create only a small amount of waste and rely exclusively on public transport.
Matt Wade In New Delhi
February 28, 2009
Consumer detox ... in their bedroom-sized home. Photo: Brendan Esposito
MARK and Cathy Delaney don't need to see the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. The Brisbane couple experience slum life in India every day.
For 13 years they have lived in the shanty towns of the Indian capital, New Delhi, raising their children and sharing their lives with the locals. Their two sons, Tom, 12, and Oscar, 7, were born in India and have lived most of their lives in slums.
The family home, in a neighbourhood called Janta Mazdoor Colony, is about the size of a typical Australian bedroom. They have no running water, no TV, no fridge and no washing machine. Two mattresses, used to sleep on at night, double as a "lounge" during the day. Meals are eaten sitting on the floor and they share with neighbours a squat toilet in a small bathroom.
But the Delaneys are not complaining. For them, living in a slum has been deeply enriching.
"It baffles us that more people in Australia who say they are sick of their lives don't do something like we have," says Cathy Delaney, who holds a masters' degree in pure mathematics.
"The longer we have stayed here the more we can see the positive effect it has had on us as people. I feel much freer of money and possessions - these things don't define my life."
Mark Delaney, a 42-year old lawyer, says more than a decade in Delhi's squatter settlements has been a "radical detox" from consumer society.
"For the first couple of years I thought, 'We'll do this for a while and then we'll go back to Australia, get a deposit and build a house', and so on, but I've let go of all that now," he said.
Mark works part-time for a Delhi-based medical organisation but the family's main focus is on their slum. They are strongly motivated by their Christian faith, believing that life is more about caring for others than comfort and success.
"Our main purpose is simply to experience what life is like here, to live with and learn from the poor and contribute something positive to people's lives," says Mark.
The Delaneys moved into their current neighbourhood on the eastern outskirts of Delhi in 2003. About 60,000 people are packed into the illegal settlement which is less than half a square kilometre. It is one of an estimated 1500 squatter settlements scattered across Delhi that house at least 3 million people.
The settlement started 30 years ago as a cluster of makeshift humpies in an open field but as time went by, people gradually upgraded. Flimsy walls were replaced with bricks, slab roofs were added in place of black plastic. Even so, open drains still run along the slum's maze of narrow alley ways and empty into a putrid canal not far from the Delaneys' front door.
Properties are bought and sold in the slum and there are even informal titles exchanged to prove ownership. Although these documents would not hold up in court they give those purchasing a slum hut a sense of security. A three-level slum house in the area recently changed hands for 190,000 rupees (about $6000).
The Delaneys pay 1800 rupees ($56) a month in rent, although many small rooms in the slum are half that. Each day the family witnesses some of the vulnerability and powerlessness of the characters portrayed in the film.
Witnessing this has nurtured a strong sense of social justice in the boys.
"I have realised that the most important thing is to help other people," says Tom.
"But I have also realised that I have limits."
There is hot debate in the household about how simply they should live.
"Cathy is a bit harder line than me," says Mark
"Sometimes she says 'let's move down a bit' but I'm usually a bit resistant. Most people think we are pretty stupid already."
Once Tom asked how much income his neighbours had to live on and insisted their family do the same.
So for the experience, they cut their monthly budget from 10,000 rupees ($310) to 5000 rupees.
"First we ran out of cornflakes and then we ran out of jam. Our diet got much simpler," says Cathy. "It was a hard experience but a really good one. It gave us so much more respect for the people who live here."
Mark has been pleasantly surprised by how much their boys have benefited from the experience of living in a poor neighbourhood. Oscar is in year 2 at a local school and Tom has recently switched to home schooling.
When the boys were asked if they wanted to move back to Australia later this year or stay in the slum, they chose to stay.
"I used to think that, with the kids, we would just endure living here for a while and then go," said Mark.
"But now I'm thinking this is a good thing for them and I want to stay not for my sake, but for the sake of my kids."
Things that most families take for granted bring the Delaneys great satisfaction.
Such as electricity. The power goes off in the neighbourhood several hours each day.
To help the family cope, Cathy got a small solar panel worth about $100 for her 40th birthday that powers a lamp during the blackouts.
A striking feature of the Delaneys' lifestyle is their small environmental footprint. They use very little electricity, create only a small amount of waste and rely exclusively on public transport.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
"BITTER TRUTH....A TOOL FOR REVOLUTION"
Yes, Truth is always a bitter medicine but one needs it for reality check. Otherwise, we all would live under illusion that everything is hunkydory while a big wave storms through our lives and civilizations!
But the truth is that there are those who believe that MIGHT IS RIGHT and those who believe that God is ultimate truth! The real truth in my opinion is halfway between the both as one needs strength or energy to do anything while one needs a fierce moral conviction too!
Otherwise, we live in a time where nations like America (USA)........
1)--Killed millions of Native Americans and taken over lands and yet hypocritically celebrates
'Thanksgiving' as a sort of thanking gesture for the Natives who offered Turkey, Corn,....when Europeans arrived! So, the response is......Offer us food and we will offer you death!
2)--Many Africans were brought in as slaves and so many untold rapes, lynching, brutal oppression, denial of education etc., etc., have been enforced on them!
3)--Even last week, President Barack Obama was characterized as a Chimpanzee in NewYork Post and it has insensitively apologized to only those who got "offended"!
4)-- A nation that kills 1million Iraqis without a proof that Saddam was building Weapons of Mass Destruction reveals the agressive mindset!
5)--A Nation that preaches Globalization, WTO etc., etc. but yet goes for protectionism as its Financial sector is frought with corruption, looting etc.,
6)--A Nation that opposes Communism but befriends China for trade!
7)-- A Nation that gives $10bn to Pakistan while knowing that Pakistan is the reason for Taliban and indirectly Al Qaeda!!
8)-- A civilization that has no regard to marriage, 50% divorce rate, drugs, prostitution, no moral conviction but everything based on political opportunities...
9)-- Look at the positive side of Western civilization with its outstanding scientific progress but yet Two World Wars, conflicts everywhere, wars, famine, ethinic cleansing, Holocaust, slavery etc., etc., and every soulless devilish action you could not even imagine in your wildest dreams!!
If this is not moral cannibalism, what do you call it???
So, Truth like a freshly minted coin is on two sides of the same coin!!
But, how do we proceed from here when the mighty is stuck in his own mindset while the weak nation like India is dead to even think to come out of their stagnant mindset????!!!!
Who needs to do soul searching??
Only west or India and Africa or both!!
That is why we need a comprehensive revolution...
But the truth is that there are those who believe that MIGHT IS RIGHT and those who believe that God is ultimate truth! The real truth in my opinion is halfway between the both as one needs strength or energy to do anything while one needs a fierce moral conviction too!
Otherwise, we live in a time where nations like America (USA)........
1)--Killed millions of Native Americans and taken over lands and yet hypocritically celebrates
'Thanksgiving' as a sort of thanking gesture for the Natives who offered Turkey, Corn,....when Europeans arrived! So, the response is......Offer us food and we will offer you death!
2)--Many Africans were brought in as slaves and so many untold rapes, lynching, brutal oppression, denial of education etc., etc., have been enforced on them!
3)--Even last week, President Barack Obama was characterized as a Chimpanzee in NewYork Post and it has insensitively apologized to only those who got "offended"!
4)-- A nation that kills 1million Iraqis without a proof that Saddam was building Weapons of Mass Destruction reveals the agressive mindset!
5)--A Nation that preaches Globalization, WTO etc., etc. but yet goes for protectionism as its Financial sector is frought with corruption, looting etc.,
6)--A Nation that opposes Communism but befriends China for trade!
7)-- A Nation that gives $10bn to Pakistan while knowing that Pakistan is the reason for Taliban and indirectly Al Qaeda!!
8)-- A civilization that has no regard to marriage, 50% divorce rate, drugs, prostitution, no moral conviction but everything based on political opportunities...
9)-- Look at the positive side of Western civilization with its outstanding scientific progress but yet Two World Wars, conflicts everywhere, wars, famine, ethinic cleansing, Holocaust, slavery etc., etc., and every soulless devilish action you could not even imagine in your wildest dreams!!
If this is not moral cannibalism, what do you call it???
So, Truth like a freshly minted coin is on two sides of the same coin!!
But, how do we proceed from here when the mighty is stuck in his own mindset while the weak nation like India is dead to even think to come out of their stagnant mindset????!!!!
Who needs to do soul searching??
Only west or India and Africa or both!!
That is why we need a comprehensive revolution...
Three Musketier
"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted."
Here is the picture of love, joy & sense of happiness in my life. Believe you me, this is what life is all about......
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