If enjoyed by heart

When seen from far
They say, things appear more
beautiful than they actually are.
If enjoyed by heart, when found
and observed by eyes which ain't
eying anything else afar
You will find them blissful
and more beautiful than they actually are!!

Excusively of Me

They say how terrible
the day of your death would be
People will keep on talking and
you won't be able to argue back ?
I am happy that at least people
will talk exclusively of me.

Alone we

I asked the Big Banyan tree
standing tall at the end of the road
You know, you may be very great, I said
but you cannot stand against the mightier winds
You would one day be uprooted by the winds
Your dignity and majesty will all be gone!
May be one day, he said ,
I may be no more,
Nor will be there my rich branches ,
Nor will be there any flowers and birds
But all other trees, I do know for sure ,
Will be moaning with me ,
many would even fall with me ,
Birds would weep and pray long for me
I will be rooted out ; but by an Outsider !
I will finally sleep; but in perfect peace
with my loved ones around and sharing the plight!

Had you ?

All exhausted, perspiring heavily
with knees buckling down
I angrily asked the long dark road
Don't you think you are simply
Too long to be walked?
Too horrific to feel any safe,
Too lonely to be any enjoyable
Tell me now, aren't you ?
He just said -
You wouldn't have taken this path at all
Had I been even slightly otherwise,
O dear traveler, Had you ?

Changing notion of patritosim

Who lives if India dies? Who dies if India lives ? Prime minister Pundit Nehru had quoted once. The whole sentence epitomize the deepest patriotic feelings specially the second half. But don't you think there has been a lot of change in the notion of patriotism since then ? Well it may be owing to globalization, lesser moral uprightness (You can debate on this ! ), terrorism , liberalization, vested interest of various countries in other nations and various other things. In fact today patriotism has to defend itself and rather has to assert itself against chauvinism , extremism , separatism and even terrorism .
Over the years don't you feel we have started taking a more liberal stand may be only outwardly, and terms like true patriotic have got a kind of slight derogatory connotations, as you never know when someone will start portraying you as a separatist or chauvinist. The other development which has happened mostly after post liberalization in developing countries is the vested interest of nations in trade and economic policies of other countries , which has led to more and more globalization and this in one way or other has unclenched the once rigid patriotic feeling (though truly justified , Come on we won freedom only because of all those ! ) but as a downstream consequence we somehow have become a blind eye for the mother land and patriotic. And nationalist feelings sometimes even are portrayed as ridiculous.
Though the intentions weren't any sinister behind these developments but increased individuality and chances of success (and survival !) as compared to the time of colonialism when there was a prevailing notion of country first , have somehow shunned us from patriotism. On the other hand the other development which has happened very recently is that a feeling of patriotism is again getting instilled and people are realizing that -to tackle terrorism they have to forgo self interests of theirs and have to do away with aloofness. However it's still more like seeking your interest and good in welfare of country than thinking of country's good first and foremost sacrificing yours even ! Who dies if India (or any country ) lives still has very few takers (very very few in fact )and it seems to be only a golden past now.

Taanaa na taananaa naa

Only once in a while we find such television shows , which teach you a lesson with no effort ,where the plot is not complex but keeps you mesmerized , Where you know in each episode the climax of the story is going to be that good will win ultimately and even in few plots there won't be any antagonist at all, still the simple human feelings,and love and affection are so well depicted that you love it all. Malgudi, a perfect society I sometimes used to believe that such a place really existed . When the world is full of mistrust , suspicion and competing for being more crafty and refined , small stories like these have inculcated the morals and simplicity in many.
R. K Narayan, the writer extraordinaire, puts a story so simply that I would even put him in the class of Prem chand and Tolstoy and Gorky. The major treat and the delight surely was the title song/music . Tana na na na na Tana na na na na which is still a favourite of many of my generation . I somehow feel myself very fortunate that I grew up in a time when television was really a source of education family entertainment(atleast till I was in mid teens ) . I take pity on the kids who are growing up with cable and cartoon network and are missing up the real lessons of life for animation .

Necessity of all inventions

You can cite several reasons,varying from - human instinct to need for comfort, adaptation to survival of fittest, inquisitive mind to unrelenting insight, curiosity to desperate need of the moment. You can even ascribe it to the medieval revolutions and the tortures by churches, blame industrialization , may even have misgivings to Alfred noble for setting up the noble prize. I buy all your arguments you have a point. But here I dare to put forth the same theory yet another time, that the necessity for all inventions is woman! Believe it or not , reasons behind nine out of ten inventions can be easily traced to women! From the prehistoric times to this jet era women have been the reasons in one way or other. Had it not been Sita's tantrum to get the golden deer would Hanuman have ever invented the art of flying ? Had it not been kunti would sanjay have given the concept of television ? Okay , enough ; Let's look beyond India. Had it not been Mary Magdalne would there have been Monalisa(and of course Da Vinci !) ? Ok let's not not talk history ( it's always full of discombobulating mystical tales and confused mess that even a fool can prove his point !)

Do you think man was utterly stupid to go on a discovery stride to find new forests and deserts just to add more bucks(in those periods coins ) to his bank accounts(in those days his under earth treasury of gold!) putting his invaluable life to stake? Motivation, Compulsion - gold may be yes, but did he ever use the gold for himself ? Had there been no women the currency printed for the first time would have been sufficient for all our needs! Man would have been content with invention of iron and copper, and all the wars for gold and sinews of wars would have been only in fiction ! For all those who hold the notion that money is the ultimate impetus it should come with no surprise that there are other stimuli driving instincts of mercenary desires.


Had Eve not eaten the fruit from the knowledge tree, had she not persuaded Adam to eat it as well and had Pandora not opened the box, there wouldn't have been any knowledge , nor there would have been any problems, and NO inventions would have taken place on this planet Earth!