When Salman Rushdie decided to pull out of the Jaipur Literary festival, seems like it shattered many hearts with people calling the action cowardly (even calling him a coward) and many telling that it is sad and it should not have happened. But is that really true? While it is true that the Government did not have the balls to tell the damn extremists to go to hell and guard the freedom of a visitor, it is also true that [...]
You might have heard a thousand times that “you can be anything that you really put your mind into”. This is a cliché usage in motivation talks world over. If you have read the book “the secret” and pondered further to how people relate to what is written in the book to elements in quantum physics you will start believing a lot of that. As the world gives new perceptions and interpretations about matter and consciousness and how one could [...]
When do we say we are human or being human? May be it is tough to answer that in one sentence. But if you were to ask when are we being inhuman? people will give answers citing recent examples. That is the tragedy of our world. It is ironic that we remember examples of inhumanity than humanity in a world over populated by humans. The recent video of a two year old in china being run over by vehicles and [...]
Around the world when there is a scarcity for anything the value for it increases. Whole industries spring up surrounding this scarce resource and anonimity and privacy are slowly becoming scarce commodities in the world of Social media and Google searches. The question is will ‘being private’ be a scarce state of existence in the near future when everyone shares everything online. If that happens will ‘Being Private” be a state of tremendous value by any means? As the world [...]
Our multifarious life is filled with tears, laughter, warnings, loss and gain. The beauty is that it gives us many second chances to correct, change and live. The tragedy is we don’t always realize and recognize these second times. If we live today as it is our second chance; we will see it through a new set of eyes :)
In turmoil everyone scrambles for a space of their own, to be themselves, to survive. Reacting different to life we try to escape, protect; snatch & even beg. Sales of self help books sky rocket; messiahs & healers emerge overnight & many start believing that there exists a magic wand somewhere, a spell, a secret that will remove miseries & bring normalcy. But the truth is always hidden in the everyday sunrise “everything that sets will rise in a while, [...]
Life moves at a natural pace when born. Then someone decides you are not fast enough and they set a new speed for you. You either give up or move on. You start believing that your speed is your control. You move faster, set new limits, overtake others; you dash through the world like a winner. Somewhere you slow down to look around and you see images of life that you wish you never missed. First don’t set someone else’s [...]
Are problems of the world the child of its own solutions? When we solve problems as citizens of a nation or belonging to a race, religion or gender will the solutions be problems in itself? Problems never cause conflict but their proposed or implemented solutions do. Climate, population, war, economy, social injustice all invariably effect us adversely in varied degrees, yet our solutions are not always impartial. The moral check of a solution should also be on the problems it [...]
Some build their relationships on mistrust while some do it on pure trust. The former build their life with control systems and check points to not fall prey and name it being cautious. The latter believes that people are inherently trust worthy and there are times when they are wrong and bite the loss. Both have their sides of the argument but the question is “Is life better lived by losing a few to trust or winning all with mistrust?”
Though I would love to believe it is thin, I think it is more like a vast space where each and every one of us falls in at various instances in life. There are things, situations and people we love and there are those that we love to hate, but in between there are also a lot many items to which we are quite indifferent. A while ago I wrote a post saying that we should never try to be [...]
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
