Pyaar Ka Punchnaama

“Committed” and “Break up” are kind of becoming status symbols these days primarily because of significant intervention and influence of western life style and social media.  I mean to depict about profound notion of today’s trend of ”Love”.  People are so much interested in responding others for these queries rather being interested in the people on whom they have fortunately fallen in so called relationship. Almost all the relationships are turning like recharge coupons with very limited validity which has been a popular trend in the society.  Funniest part of this crappy culture is that those supposedly committed freaks are querying those single people about their status and cracking poorest possible joke over them. I would like to deliver my laughter for their prank with a managerial justification sticking to it.

I could recollect about what one of my professors has said few months back when we headed to a business school life that “Management” and “Business” are omnipresent entities which could be imbibed in almost every possible thing in both personal and social life apart from corporate. I was having a perplexed perception on his saying till recent past, but these days I could able to relate everything happening in my life with management sticking to it. This interpretation might be because of my grooming in managerially matured state of mind.  But, I do not completely agree with this fact because I believe more in human perceptions rather on inhuman contemplations.  But I do agree that in all prospects, we can think from an angle of business or management. Alright, my recent application of this interpretation is on human relationships.

Few days back, one of my fellow friends asked me the same question. “Are you committed man?”. My response was just a laughter to the query before answering it which made him to make a wild guess that I am still single. He replied in marketing perspective, “If you could not even able to sell yourself to someone, how could you be able to sell other things and you could become at least a mediocre marketer in the offing?”. He is someone who is quite frequent in changing his relationship status in social media. I was cornered to reply him with the same marketing angle, “Unless you focus the appropriate target audience with intense research, no matter whatever you do to market your product. You will undoubtedly end up in a break up before your breakeven. “. He tried debating but I never used to waste my time in pointless debate which would end up almost in a zippo.

Although you do not believe in both philosophy and science, the bare truth of life is that you are down to earth to live independently. “Infatuation” and “Crush” are mere words of fantasy and fun which are in fact depictions of emptied flavours of life.  They might seemingly make your life funny but not comprised. So, solitude is something which travels with us throughout our journey till the day of expiry. This lacuna could never be replaced unless you find someone who could really stuff it with intensely true love and care which is something harder to achieve in this mechanical world. Until you find someone like them in your life, your relationship status makes no sense to the outside world and in fact you are showcasing it to yourself with a cracked mirror. Better stop wasting time in loving insane people and start kindling yourself to love yourself first which would make more sense instead. If your relationship is fading with time, why the hell you want to fall into it rather you could jump out of it. For people especially like me who are extremely choosy in admitting people in the radius of our world, how come it would be a cake walk in focusing on our target market followed by better positioning? Using strategies in a bountiful market is something equivalent in par with writing your name on a shore where the waves are quite frequent. Try to figure out your niche market segment before becoming an entrepreneur.

Until then, dare to stay single rather depending on someone!

*This article is strictly not intentional and not targeted towards anyone. And, purely fun intended with fictitious characters in it.

~The Legendary Woman~

Music is the best medicine despite the kind of disease you are suffering from. I completely believe in the above saying cordially from my own experience in life. There is a constraint when it comes to music that it has to be undertaken longitudinally. The faith contributes more to this factoid rather rational thinking. I would like to prescribe the following medicine though I could not legally do that without a doctorate.

Whenever I happen to listen to “Vishnu saharanam” or “Baja Govindham” or “Kurai Ondrum illai” tracks on my playlist, my reflex remains the same. Simply Goosebumps! If I describe M.S.Subbhalakshmi as a legend, it would definitely be an understatement to such an extraordinary lady. I cannot ever imagine anyone in par with her vocal chords.  Such a matured, thick, stable, candied vox not only imbibes spirituality but also completely waters the soul and inducts the inner peace. I have come cross many anecdotes wherein many humans used to get boons from the supernatural power which I barely believe. But now, I am cornered to conceive this fact whenever I happen to listen to her collection of songs. Her voice has an inherent potent of even converting an atheist to a theist.  

She has been rightly honoured in getting the privilege of reverberating every morning with her "sahasranaam" chanting at Tirumala, the worldly renowned Hindu temple where Lord Venkateshwara is residing. All her tracks give us a mumsy experience that our own granny is singing to delight us. In no time, all my heavily weighing miseries become light and I end up in enthralling while listening to her tracks. I am not that much interested or crazy about the traditional Carnatic vocals. But, when it is a make of MS, my interest hardly matters.

Though physically distant from us, celestially she is living with us. I never feel like she has moved far away from the earthly things.  I am warmly privileged to listen to my granny’s songs in my playlist everyday!! A boon basically has two flips. I am on the other side of it J

Many medicines to follow J  

Who the hell am I?

Even after an ample period of brainstorming from the day one when I have started thinking on my own in my life, I couldn’t figure out my societal status when it comes to deity. Yes. I couldn’t uncover or frame my own principle in discovering my destiny towards someone who has created me. Still, my conscience is yet to unriddle the myth which keeps me going in my so called life. I could not stringently conclude myself whether I am a theist or agnostic or eventually atheist human.   

     Orthodox ambience, traditional practices, vedic chantings, spiritual tours comprise most of my lifestyle being brought up in a typical Hindu Brahmin Family.  Retrospectively, I haven’t left out to think beyond what I have been supposed to do which has never kindled me to contemplate towards any rational realization. Introspectively, after the exposure of multitudes of personalities, books, happenings in my recent life, my mind has inducted to traverse towards a rational track of thoughts and ideas.

     Now, whenever I happen to go to any temple, happen to worship, happen to chant spiritually or happen to pray even unknowingly, I am able to contemplate with a big query “WHY am I doing it?” followed by many trivial but intense queries running through my neurons. Has lord Brahma really created me? Lord Vishnu is safeguarding me? Lord Shiva is awaiting me? Allah and Jesus are there to care for the worldly people? If that is not the case, on whom are we incidentally relying on? Who is monitoring us throughout our existence here?  If there exists something called second world, where is it? Who heads it? Does God is an inherent form of fear? Relentlessly, I am in a hunt to discover answers for these seemingly rhetoric queries.

     I could sensitively feel some transformation within me which pushes me towards a dark room with no candle in my hands. It actually makes me to think rationally because of which I am becoming an agnostic human with a baffled state of mind in searching for the almighty of every amazed creation in a place where I was thrown in to live an ambiguous phase so called life. So, a typical theist is grooming as an agnostic with a forecast of emptiness towards the horizon.  I have started intuitively feeling that there is only one religion called “Love” actually exists and all the notional religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and all the survivals are preaching towards the same objective in channelizing the humans towards this universal or infinite love.  Empathy of this universal fruition would groom only if people stop bothering much on inconspicuous omnipresent or omnipotent almighty and start involving themselves in caring and loving their fellow creatures beyond the religious fences. This is the only weapon to dissolve hatred and grief in evolving into its superlative shape in destroying the humanity.

     I am pretty unclear whether I will end up as an atheist or will remain agnostic throughout my life but an intimate realization has started lingering in my mind which would emphatically steer me towards the motive of self-motivation  in living for humanity rather wasting my golden lifetime to live for myself !! 

End of an Era!

     Apart from politics, there are only two things on which most of the Indians are crazy about. One is ‘Bollywood’ and the other is of course ‘Cricket’. Cricket in India has more followers than any religion has. Interestingly, unity grooms in every Indian heart when it comes to cricket. Though the craze exists from few decades ago in the country, the intensity of furore has got its superlative shape purely because of the supernatural human named “Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar” on the field.  He inspired almost every cricket fan in the country from six to sixties. In fact, I believe in the popularly known factoid about him “Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord will be watching”.

     Ironically, his recent announcement on retirement from ODI has been the emotional shocker not only to Indian but to world cricket despite the petty talks from useless critics. Nobody on earth is deserved enough to postulate this legend to move out of cricket field but seemingly the contemporary happenings forced him to take this decision. Anyways, he has created an unmatchable history of records in world cricket in all forms which no other human could get ahead in the near future.   

     He has been the most complete batsman of his time and has literally been worshipped by many including me. His experience is almost equivalent to my age and though being a diehard fan of Dada, I always used to agree that I am a deep follower of this little master. He has inspired me in almost all possible ways in cricket and I still remember in my childhood how me and my pals used to imitate all of his shots and tried to adapt his style of game like a mad. We hardly bothered any exams when Sachin was on the field the previous day. Even today, all commitments and engagements used to get deferred when Sachin is on the crease. His inspiration has potently persuaded across many generations.

     Having Sachin on strike has been a nightmare to all the bowlers of the world. He has blasted the deliveries of all the famous bowlers of world cricket throughout his career. No matter whether the game is of test, ODI or T20 form, he has been the king of all records ever made. His strokes, drives, hooks, scoops could never been effaced from our memories. He is really more than Bradman of our time.

Following are few quotes about Master blaster which portrays how he has been conceived by people across the globe.

"During our team meetings, we often speak about the importance of the first 12 balls to Tendulkar. If you get him then you can thank your stars, otherwise it could mean that tough times lie ahead." – Allan Donald

"I have delayed my shoots many times to watch Sachin bat" – Amitab Bachan

“There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others. “– Andy Flower

“I am fortunate that I've to bowl at him only in the nets.” – Anil Kumble

"You get him out and half the battle is won" – Arjuna Ranatunga

“You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind mid wicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick. He is genius but I am a mere mortal. “ – Bret Lee

“He has been in form longer than some of our guys have been alive.” – Daniel Vettori

“The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.” – Glen McGrath

"The way he has taken on the role of India's greatest sporting ambassador... He has, among other things, inspired a generation and more to play cricket." – Kapil Dev

“The pressure on me is nothing compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it is too much pressure on him. But, he rarely disappoints them.” – Mark Waugh

“I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India” – Mathew Hayden

"There will never be another Sachin Tendulkar." – Muthaiah Muralidharan

“Sachin made 9 centuries in one year but many cricketer did not make 9 centuries in their whole career.” – Saurav Ganguly

“I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing us to breathe the same air as you do.” – Sharukh Khan

“It was one of the greatest innings I have ever seen. There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don.” – Steve Waugh after losing with India in Coca-Cola Cup in Sharjah

“Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders.” – Virat Kohli stated after winning the world cup

“I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that’s going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he’s 99.5% perfect.” – Vivian Richards

 “Certainly the best I’ve seen... People talk of (Sir Don) Bradman, but our generation and the ones immediately before us didn’t get to see him... Sure, he has an astounding average (99.94), but of the cricketers I’ve watched, Sachin’s the best. He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.”

-Waqar Younis

“I dont know what to bowl at him. I bowled an inswinger and he drove me through covers of the front foot. Then I bowled an outswinger and he again punched through covers of the backfoot. He is the toughest batsmen I've bowled to. He should live long and score lots of runs, but not against Pakistan.”

– Wasim Akram

World cricket is definitely going to miss this gentleman and the replacement is quite unimaginable in the offing. Both congratulations and thanks are emphatically understatements in depicting his contributions to Indian team. Eventually, the span of boon to Indian cricket has got over and we are going to experience a huge vacuum in the team which would ultimately be a herculean task for the rest players to fill up.  

Miss you badly Little Master…!  

Murphy.....Barfi...!!

  

Relationships are increasingly becoming like mobile phone recharge plans these days. People hardly stay connected to loved pals beyond small misunderstandings and wrangles. Validity and diplomacy seek into existence in everyone whey they happen to connect to people. Detachments are frequently prevalent in all human emotions and end them up in freaking outs all the time.

No matter whether the culture is western or Indian, emotional connect is something which keeps everyone to stay alive. Psychologically, humans need more of love to live rather than a breath. Some vacuum needs to be stuffed with charming flavors in everyone's life to keep them moving. 

Words are no more the actual modes of communication to your loved pals. So, your text messages, Chat history, lasting phone calls, skype conversations hardly make any difference to people if you really love. There is something more than a word which kindles you to get your best partner in your life. This is the motif of the story of the movie "Barfi" which has patched up close to my heart after watching it. Such an emotional play it is comprising sensational story in it. I would rather describe it a poem..!

The story revolves around three aberrant characters Barfi, Jhilmul and Shruthi. Barfi, a deaf and dumb gentleman who keeps the people in his world blissful and excited throughout. He used to enjoy even smaller things in life and make others to realize their happiness. Shruti, a typical perplexed bengali girl who has fallen in love with Barfi when she has come to darjeeling for a trip with her family. Jhilmul, a mentally disabled girl who happened to fall in love with Barfi when she has found him as the best companion. The way Barfi proposes to Shruthi and his realisation of importance of Shruthi and Jhilmul in his life are the best captures of the movie. It is indeed a celestial triangular love story between these three which bollywood has never depicted before. 

The director has beautifully portrayed their life journey with purely emotions more than words. Applause to him when Barfi proposes Shruthi and when he leaves her for her betterment of life. Also, the tandem of relationship between Barfi and Jhilmul is breezy and touches everybody's heart. Kudos to Ranbir and Priyanka for their extreme enactment of characters and we could foresee many awards and accolades on their way for this amazing performance. We could feel like we had a short trip to Darjeeling and Kolkata post the movie which ensures the excellence in the camera lens. Background score throughout the movie adds fantabulous flavor with instrumental breeze.   

Overall, I have got an intense contentment of watching a beautiful movie after a very long time. Hope this Barfi could make the contemporary generation to rethink on their way of commitments in life. 

Voicing for a "Capital" Punishment !!

It is way beyond the talk of the nation and has taken its shape of agitation throughout our geography. Yep, I would like to pitch up on the protest on the incident which literally shocked, scared and shamed the whole country. Digesting this national issue would definitely take a longer time to almost everyone. This really makes every citizen of the country to get into intense grief and conscience of hangdog. 

The reason behind such a brutality is undoubtedly the existence of  imbalance in the consideration of womanhood  in the society.    Despite the empowerment and the encouragement of femininity in various fields, the habit of valuation of woman is still an accomplished goal in Indian minds. Perceiving mom as a cook and wife as a servant is still an imbibed attitude of India men even today. There is still a discrimination among the Indian parents in ascertaining their kids based on sex. Rationally, the blame should be placed on Indian tradition and culture for this criterion. Though the transformation has been inducted in Indian culture, the realization is still unreachable to many. This is the major source behind these kinds of savage activities in our motherland. Still Indian culture and customs not yet nurtured enough to value woman rather respecting them. Also, westernization and modernization are completely routing the culture to ultimately a wronger altitude. No matter wherever woman go or grow, unless men know how to value them, no point in debating about equalization in the society. There should be a complete change of attitude needs to be groomed in the minds of not only Indian men but also women. Despite the physical fragility, it is the duty of Indian men to safeguard and strengthen our women mentally so as to make them  moralizing the actual freedom in the country which is still a precarious expectation for them. This should be achieved with no compromise. 

Now, the query is not about the "gang rape". The reason behind the exaggeration. I would like to mean "Exaggeration" here as the sudden deep care and conscience of Indian people towards a social atrocity as if they used to care for everything. These kinds of rapes are remorsefully frequent happenings in many rural parts of the country specially in Bihar, Orissa and Andhra. In fact, last week similar cruel criminality  has been filed in a southern village in Tamil Nadu. So, thankfully, this incident has happened in our capital region which actually kindled the crowd to force the Government on imposing Capital Punishment on the criminals. (I apologize for using the word "Thankfully"). Fortunately,the place of criminality has become the cause for this revolutionary social congnizance. Hard truth is that these kinds of activities used to come to light only if they happen in cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai etc. Rural women are still surviving with huge sexual perturbations in their lives in villages and tier two regions. No one is involved in voicing for their serious causal effects. 

Anyways, this awareness at least would shake up the prospective bestial humans to stay rid of these kinds of apish activities in the offing. From streets to social media, the agitating referendum has been becoming viral.  Common man to celebrities voicing for the conviction. "Capital" region has been the cause for this lasting reachability of the protest. 

Serious condolence on that woman, in fact on the entire "womanhood" and I feel ashamed on myself that I have born  in the same country where such a brutality has happened!! Hoping for the severe conviction on those merciless beasts. 

DEVELOPED INDIA IN 2020?!

     Indian history cites only a very few people as celestial Gentlemen who have dedicated themselves holistically for the welfare of our motherland. They are appraised being more than humans for their selfless contributions throughout their lifetime. One of such living legendary human who was the first citizen of the country and always inspires the young India is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. He is undoubtedly the most optimistic fellow of the century who foresees the developed India in 2020. His vision is crystalline if everyone happens to stand in his shoes.  But, the biggest query rises in our minds is “How far is this construction of roadway towards this mammoth goal despite all the contemporary complex happenings of the country?  What could be the possibility or in fact the probability rate in accomplishing it in the offing?” We could hardly find the resolutions to these rhetoric queries. 

     Though his anticipations are out of the purview of the possibilities, we could still ascertain the impediments which negate his vision “Developed India in 2020”. According to this gentleman, professionals, businessmen, leaders and researchers need to stick to innovative ideas which would likely to buttress our country’s stand aloud in the global arena. In that case, he could able to foretell the following ten pillars of development which would happen on one fine day. I would like to discourse the current antecedents and corollaries of his each perspectives towards the developed India.

·         A nation where the rural and urban divide has reduced to a thin line – With the unconventional distribution of money flow and the trend of rich getting richer and poor getting poorer, the scale of vacuum is getting magnified. So, damping the line between the rural and urban India is quite unachievable.

·         A nation where there is equitable distribution and adequate access to energy and quality water - Torpid state in interlinking of national rivers is diminishing the availability of quality water and scale up the scarcity throughout the country.  With the growing population, the energy requirements also extravagantly booming up which need numerous sources to be established which is barely happening here. 

·         A nation where agriculture, industry and the service sector work together in symphony-  Although agriculture is the backbone of our economy which comprises almost 60% of our GDP, rapid grooming of urbanization and industrial sectors deteriorates the development in the field of agriculture. So, harmony is completely lacking in the Indian economy with unbalanced contrasting outgrowths.

·         A nation where education with the value system is not denied to any meritorious candidates because of societal or economic discrimination – Unless the education in India is centralized with knowledge mining, no values could be purveyed to this forthcoming generations. Also, biased pseudo discriminations curtail the nourishment of deserved students which would result in discouragement of actual talents in the country.  

·         A nation which is the best destination for the most talented scholars, scientists and investors – Obliviously, our nation serves as the best destination for corruption, dirty politics, false reservation and much more brutal stuffs which obviously never ever encourage the talents in any dimensions.

·         A nation where the best healthcare is available to all – Unless all the parliamentarians and bureaucrats are strictly constrained to have their medical treatments only in Government hospitals, we could not imagine any improvement in the conditions of healthcare in the near future.

·         A nation where the governance is responsive, transparent and corruption free – The Government is free from responsiveness and transparency but not from corruption. Scams and scandals would likely to be prescribed as the policies of a democracy. Corruption is deep rooted in all centrings of the country which should be obliterated holistically which needs a longer span of reaping.

·         A nation where the poverty has been totally eradicated, illiteracy removed and crimes against women and children are absent and none in the society feels alienated – Poverty and illiteracy are literally the tumours of our national development and the culmination of which needs a huge exacting efforts from the Governments side in widening the opportunities for employment and quality education. Not only women and children, also the actually dejected communities in the society should be ensured for their safety livelihoods and also their status should be economically and socially promoted. These forethoughts need our political parties to relinquish vote bank politics.

·         A nation that is prosperous, healthy, secure, peaceful and happy and allows a sustainable growth path – With the habitual prevalence of ambivalent national conditions, it is hard to promise Kalam sir that we would mould our country with these fictitious adjectives like prosperous, healthy, secured, peaceful and happy.

·         A nation that is one of the best places to live in and is proud of its leadership – From pre independent era to even today, prominent leaders of our motherland can be easily numbered which would never give the superlative privilege of being proud of our national leaders. Besides, intrinsically, India is more than a best place to live. But, we have a long way to groom our country synonymous to the saying “Heaven to live”. May be like Asian “Denmark” or “Norway” in the future.     

     These are the prognostications of developed India in 2020 which is just eight years ahead. This predicament situation of the country needs many reiterative reforms in all dimensions to make it immaculate in all means. Contemporary phase of reforms and lucrative policy making would render the above developments may be in 2050 but not in 2020. So, in order to transform Kalam sir’s pipe dream to a real one in 2020, I could ponder only one possible solution. Yes, it is “Revolution”. It is high time to refrain the nation from being devastated further more.

     Greatest boon of the time is that more than 50% of the Indian population is below the age of 25 and more than 65% are below 35 which is indeed the marvellous potential. So, India is pretty younger enough to chuck out all the existing quondam systems of the country. Youth power can literally make anything to happen on earth.

     Now comes the responsibility of the Leaders, writers, scientists and all influential identities to start kindling the need of the renaissance in our country to the young minds. By fuelling the youth power in a productive phase, we could taste the Developed India in the offing with no much encumbrances on the track.

      If it is likely to happen, we can do wonders before 2020 and live the dream of this extraordinary gentleman. Awaiting my country to become aloud in the global podium!

Reference

Vision of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam has been taken from his recent biographical book “Turning Points – A Journey through Challenges”.