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The Faces [Chapter 4 ]

2011-10-27T06:16:00.000-07:00

"We don't provide tangible benefits. " -They (faces) Said

"What did you say? I think I don't know you." -She

"Well, we don't provide tangible benefits."

"Who are you all?"

"We thought you always have your answers."

"I am a seeker, a seeker seeks answer. "

"And seekers also trust us completely."

"Okay, so am talking to my memory."

"Right!"

"But in memories we see those whom we know but your faces are so unrecognisable. "

"Yes, because memories don't provide tangible benefits."

"I think you guys don't provide intangible either."

"Hmm, this is because we don't provide benefits....we provide experiences."

"What experiences... if they don't come up with benefits? "

"Why you looked for benefits with your experiences when there is none?"

"So what is it with them?"

"Just an End."

"End?"

"Yes, experiences help in decay."

"Decay of what?"

"The Benefits."

"Then What?"

"Then only the path ahead remains for you, where you can walk without benefits."

"This is so confusing."

"Okay! let us simplify. There is a path and there is you. Take whatever you get from it and give back what you took if your need is complete."

"But some people get more than what they need."

"Its because its in their life path, each path balances for other and if they don't it cause imbalance. Here we are discussing your path, you felt empty and you failed too."

"Yes."

"This failure assures that your path is somewhere else and you took over somebody's else path."

"I got it. My experiences are kind of a guide and they are a kind of help in turning my weakness into my strengths."

"Yes because in this world nobody is weak, everybody is a giver of one or the other thing.Your experiences are definitely going to tell you which giver your path wants you to be."

"That means there is no failure."

"That means your path was wrong not you.You failed yourself by this choice of a wrong path."

"What is then a right one for me?"

"We don't know but we only know that there is a territory for everyone which leads towards the right path. Search for that."

[Finding the path]
Next in line : Territory

Muni vashisht so pandit gyani, shodh ke lagan dhari.
Karamgati tare na tari.
-Ramayan

[Context: Ram and Sita were perfect couple, still they couldn't evade their fate]

Solitude [Chapter 3 of "Search"]

2011-09-04T00:40:00.000-07:00

“Waking with a dream is much easier than waking up after having a dream.” She thought

“There is always a doubt over carrying the imagery of it and what, if it shows us some of the skeletons.”

Such doubts are always culminated with pain but this time she only decided to gravitate away from pains, it will be more like releasing those big fears to find the real place of self. She is feeling it strongly with her intuitions at right place.

Usually her solitude defines those moments where she confronts her thoughts to make a vent for them to release somewhere. But this time, just after she closed her eyes some faces started making a queue, she felt as if she is sitting with a puzzle of incomplete faces to make one complete figure out of them but somewhere it is leading to fail.

There were hordes of indifferences among each one of those faces and they all are with no color. All were colorless with their ideas like a borrowed gift of others' pleasure. Their happiness is a burden of losing self which she so want to find out. Her mind just could not resist this puzzle of faces. She just could not solve it and it has become bigger than her thoughts.

After collecting her thoughts a little later made her more focused, and words become the sound of that lifeless dream of that night. She cried, “Why this hollowness? Why journey is getting encircled with dreams only, where the reality has gone? Why my dream pointed towards that incomplete behavior although I believed that I always worked with self."

She has to find the answer in those faces again to find that face of seer which can provide her with real answers. The determination to solve this puzzle for the search of self is necessary.

She is going to confront these faces, she decided. "My past is haunting me and the key of success is unfolding its mystery."

"Let me talk to all those faces either in dream or in reality." The determination of a strong mind is something to watch upon, it changes life's experience. She is on that path.. At least her solitude says so.

[Breaking the solitude]

Next in line: "The Faces"

Ram tum manav nahi ishwar ho kya

vishwa mein rame hue sabhi kahin ho kya,
tab mein nirishwar hun ishwar kshama kare
tum na ramo to man tumme rama kare.
-Maithili sharan Gupta
[Saket]

The Seer [Chapter 2 of "Search"]

2011-08-21T02:07:00.000-07:00

The whiteness in a vagabond disposition looks so different. She thought as if she is in her vague dreams again. In the past her dreams sketched so many lines but the face was never been so prominent as it was today but then she looked more into it and found there is no face either but a deep voice with an unrecognized figure.

The Voice: So you had a past. Was that difficult one?

She: Yes.

The Voice: Was it fortunate or unfortunate?

She: It is unfortunate.

The Voice: Surely it must be.

After such a long journey if your vision told you the differences, then it certainly becomes unfortunate.

She: What was it you thought should have been my reply?

The Voice: (laughs) Am I supposed to answer that. I thought that your life should have answered you by now.

She: No. No. No. So you want to say that my journey is still incomplete. Don’t want to believe that. But I don’t want to bear more. It hurts, it sinks…it it….

The Voice: What? We have not given you the hurdles to guarantee that your life ahead will be full of blossoms; you only thought that everything should end somewhere but you never thought there is no end.

She: Leave me. I can’t listen more, no not like that.

The Voice: You don’t want to hear us or you don’t want to hear the truth? But we will be always there to bear your burdens unlike you. (Smiles)

She: Who are you?

The Voice: This time a painted dream, who will be with you always when you require.

She: (Almost in tears) nobody can rectify that broken past. Nobody can…nobody can, not even you.

The Voice: Yes, nobody can but you.

(Clairvoyance ends for a while)

She woke up in haste and saw those tears over her face. She couldn’t believe that this time she was walking with a dream. The haste may have been the culprit. She could have known more, she could have talked to that voice in a big way. This time the voice has got a face and may be next time she can see that face. She wants to get back to sleep again but this time she decided differently. She was all awake that night to understand that Seer.

(Waiting for “The Seer” to get a face)

Note: Next in line "Solitude" and yes disclaimer for its being a fiction do apply.

From the Diary [Chapter 1 of "Search"]

2011-08-16T07:42:00.000-07:00

Date: August 16, 2011

They don’t want to see these ideas or feel these ideas as around them they see a little perfect world. They can't kill them either as they always do with their objects of desire.

If there is an injustice these gems are untouched by it, if there is height of misusing independence, they are again away from it.

If there is a definition of beauty it is adopted by them and if there are sinless people around, they work for them.

For their petty world these ideas sound like big, so big that with them they sometimes get out of the flow. Still they want to touch them to make them sinner as well.

What they feel is a sense of insecurity and threat by their presence; they don’t want to consider these ideas as big as that 'big worth' is actually a prayer to God in itself through the built of character.

The strength, the wit the sheer intelligence is a gift of focus but unbearable for the sense of it. And sensing them regularly is definitely going to burden everyone's soul and why then they (ideas) are mirror for breaking their characters.

Still these are so wanted upon that even solitude of inner being can’t bring them to halt. It hurts, it create death everyday for that wontedness. The day it began is the day it ended.

But it is not going to end with this moment. Am not going to make these pieces as the one to carry the burden of other’s woes and frustration...with hollowness and pain as the counterpart .

Am not doing that deliberately for the sake of making me more than human. Untouched as always be, am going to crush their frustrations by making these ideas more perfect, more righteous, more amazing, more self fulfilling and more gregarious.

They want to touch them with their senses; they will be senseless everyday by seeing them.

[The page of a Diary which wilted that night]

If you make people perform a noble duty, it bores them. If you make them indulge themselves it shames them but combine the two and you have got them. Said Gail Wynand

-From "The Fountainhead"

Ayn Rand

Note: This is the first chapter of the "story" in continuation. The next chapter will be on clairvoyancy and a seer. May be a dream :D Check this space to move on with this story and yes not to forget the Disclaimer -this certainly is a work of fiction.

Being Online, what’s in store?

2011-07-24T07:00:00.000-07:00

In recent past Online was more or less considered to be just ‘it’ for the mode of operation or being a part of it. Focused on the last part of value chain, mere online presence makes the existence global and helps businesses to reach customers that are not only arm’s length distance but also to those who are continents apart. But now with online model the great businesses are in the making, not to say an effective online marketing plan with offline delivery can do wonders for business.

For the service industries online is such a boon as reaching customers is now not only easy but also more focused and can be fatal for competitors who if slips even from one part of their value chain can prove disastrous for them. Online is making the reach simple and with retention of customers which is getting lowered day by day due to higher competition, making new customers globally via online model is cost effective and easy. Online lead generation as this process is called, done through pursuing the people present in the real time. One can pitch them instantly and the customer formation is instant as well.

Previously in the industry due to less competition, there were few customers whose loyalty company vouched for. Organizations have their own databases and client records of such customers and that were enough for them but nowadays due to higher competition clientele changes every time. With growing customer awareness the focus is on higher quality with lower costs. Practical example of this is frequent cost cuts in the telecom sector by cashing on the frequent changes in the customers’ loyalty. This is going to become quite evident in every sector as well, because of growing population around the globe and so with increasing purchasing power. Hence in such cases Online also serves as a great database in itself for the customers around the globe.

Now moving to supply chain part where we are going to take the supply chain model of wholesalers. These wholesalers were kind of bulk breakers in supply chain, similarly it can be quite evident that managing an online globalized population is not easy and breaking the online bulk here is also a definite task. That is where the concept of communities comes into the picture that is present online on the basis of similar interests, similar locations and similar offline work etc. The organizations thus need to identify online community managers from these communities on the basis of online accounts (which can also serve as key accounts) who have an influence in community either as a decision maker or as an influencer. If these key accounts are used to cater personal goals or showcasing personal talents online it propagates the concept of online celebrities (case of Justin Bieber). And communities can also be used for team formation for achieving a similar goal (example of Groupon). Moreover a business model can develop where lining up of community wholesalers (more in case of B2B tie ups) for management of that community by giving online ads, by doing social media, SEO and SEM for that community.

Online Media: Presence of people online is definitely turning it into a media as where the reach is, the media works. But before the presence of social networking websites the online presence of individuals was quite scattered and there was a difficulty in locating the people but now with social networking sites individuals are more organized and thus it is easy to locate them geographically and otherwise (more with the integration of Foursquare, Google maps for geographical identification) and helps the brands creating a personal appeal for them in a different way in comparison to what the mass media do. Thus being social makes it definitely easy for personal selling.

Media and Brands: When Media is online, so is the reputation of organizations. Here any wrongdoing by brands can be talked by the customers online. A constant check over online community help brands to rectify their mistakes and can present them with the idea of moving further. A simple rectification online can do wonders for the organization by spreading strong word of mouth across the network in the online community.

Where the catch is: The virtual identity can get different with real identity if working online is not managed properly. A serious gap between both can cause harm in large extent by diluting the brand image to the minimum. For already established brands online works easily as it can provide extension to its image but for emerging brands not maintaining an offline marketing plan can make them suffer drastically. It is seen the organizations with mere online presence can do a drastic damage to their image by captivating themselves only virtually providing with little shades of reality but if they somehow collaborate effectively offline as well they can go miles with their online presence

Note: Am supposed to write an article on social system for some publication but somehow got fried with writer's block and it turned out to be like this (May be this time writer's block got directed towards work murder ;) for sure). This is my first attempt with writing a marketing article, please ignore the follies if you find some :)

Dharmatma (Short Story)

2011-06-26T06:41:00.000-07:00

Everybody likes to judge, it is considered as a first step being SOS in the world of Humans. Judgement is something which makes the decision - a little perfect. We judge, we decide and so on but who knows where is that path which says right and where is that path which says wrong. We live on probability and may be sometimes on the probable assumptions.

Everybody says about him, he has an aura of Saint and an aura which encircles him with Godliness. When the asumptions are collective, the probability becomes reality. This time people were right, the significant laughter that he put on people's faces, the way he solves the problems of others is amazing but what people escaped was the gestures which says "Hide Away".

The history says he was at some recognisable position and definitely has the talents to resolve organizational conflicts in a second. The organization said he cheated, for organization a person is not important but all good words are and the person who gets trapped & blamed for that ...is a cheater. He tried to run from that place to take a break, he was young and its always easy to run at that time. He stuck himself in a small place thinking its time being. But the popularity he was receiving is amazing, he never got such kind of popularity even in his organization. He is considered as somebody who is ruthless and politicking all those plans for whoever come in his way. Here in this place there are simple and ignorant people who thinks about every educated fellow as God and oh! God he is more than educated.One day he got frustrated with this lifestyle & those simple people were fools to him, easy to be manipulated, easy to be ruled, his ambition grew & so his ego. He wants to move again to the city to apply thi skills in some other big organization, its time to switch but then a newspaper on his table said " A Dharmatama of reason" he read it, the name was familiar to his, the town was familiar to the town he is living and what not was familiar...in fact everything was !

Today a lot of people came to him to make a visit. Some ministers, some CEO and his own organizational people who now think that their employee has changed on a spiritual level. So last time we heard that he was settled somewhere in "States" giving people some nice talks, sessions, therapies and there are edefinitely some choicest clients of his, all who's who types . By the way what about townspeople ? Well they are happy to see their glorified master's pictures in every paper, in every magazine & world runs on with the new name of "Dharmatma" .

[Written around January -2011]

Disclaimer: This story is purely a work of fiction and there is no attempt made to refer or to point a particular person. If any reference to some person is found it is merely a coincidence.

Shadows---(Short Story)

2010-05-19T07:52:00.000-07:00

She always captivate her, according to her she got that strength which she thinks she herself lacks.And in this strange city she was the one who lent the right help in the right time ...she got obliged. This obligation has so many ups and downs which is always reminded of and thus it has the quality of being a 'remainder somewhere' either in memory or in hurt.

And one day they both together were reading about shadows, shadows which accompany a person. This is when she innocently asked, "it is difficult to get rid of shadows!" but she disagreed on this and added "till light has its effect", Hey! see see "shadows change length also" "ha ! seems like you don't know mathematics its dependent on angles". She disagreed with her on so many things, actually disagreement is also a part of the 'effect' and any addition - just an enhancement.

She becomes amused on her intelligent remark but she had also read same mathematics lesson sometime in her life, she had also learnt elevation and angles but now she forgot, she never forgot anything but yes she didn't remember anything now. She is a shadow and lost that identity around her...whenever 'she' throws light 'she' fluctuates. She has become so one with her that her whole identity became an owed obligation.

A day has come when shadow became irritating and dumping it a necessity, somebody's strength laden ego just finished her slowly slowly. And one day after that deep hurt discovering once again for that 'one life' she realized her 'own shadow effect' only difference this time is : 'some shadows accompany behind while some shadows march ahead.' This time she has no time to follow anybody so she marched ahead in order to search that same shadow which should be like her as she was before.

Note: It will be worthwhile that one read this story in 'two persons' and after that please do discover the oneness of story. The story can be related to 'a single individual' or 'to two persons' and thus there is this deliberate attempt of writing the full story in one pronoun.
This story depicts the change that happens in a person with experience, how experience ruins everything and how unlearning is innocence and learning a 'clone'. The real process of learning unfolds with unlearning the learning and then learning which is equally applicable to society, technology, literature and all.

"Friends" (short story)

2010-05-15T01:34:00.000-07:00

We grew up together and we together thought in this process of growing up it is that friends forever tag working behind. I paved into this city life otherwise things were always small for me. She was already into this place and came to meet me that too after lot of nagging. Unlike before... this time everything looked unusual, she even did not respond to my several of questions and gasped, hummed or in some cases preferred silence instead.

Meanwhile she raised her brows and took her part, "Actually I came here because I need you for some work." Need is the word...she could have said anyways, how does it matter in friendship and without even my realization she started, "Well! things are different in cities....you don't know this place, everything is like so different.....

And there is this message in my mobile which said, "Want to make friends call us at this number
"09X09Y34Z0"
A seconds away realized the - Need ! "Hey!! sorry now tell me what's that you come for ? "

Note : Well lot of readers thought that this story needs a little elaboration, a kind of furtherance to know the intention but am not adding anything to it instead linking it to one of @ideasmithy 's post so that people can relate but its surely not about blaming digital media but how people under this constant pressure of survival are taking convenient steps.
[May be in that case LSD (movie) also try to grip us with such a message (Three things worked in this movie 1) Peer pressure 2) Constant attention 3) that interconnectedness), nothing is bad in this convenient world....after all world is becoming small and flat , that interconnect between people only makes one wonder "Are you on facebook or on twitter...so in that way I know you." or may be am just convenient while working out connections through these sites, there is no actual digital menace but we are actually turning it out to be as that old human touch is lost somewhere with friendships available everywhere while within individual there is loneliness depressed through insecurities - "This is a story of survival in this fast paced world" ]

Childhood Pains !!

2010-05-01T06:46:00.000-07:00

Before anybody read this post, want to say-this was going to be the part of my travelogue that I was supposed to write after one of my recent travel but the issue is already raised so dropped the idea. :D

The link above is an article written by Vaibhav for Reader's Quotient telling what actually 'a child labour' is all about in India.

During one of my conversations with a close friend I lazily discussed my childhood days and basked myself in 'those days were days' glory but she pointed out that during those days we had our own share of problems. And she added its just that now we think those problems were nowhere as compared with our so called adult life, we tend to ignore them. Here belies the probable answer of the question mentioned in the article i.e. working upon child's problems by seeing it through child's psychology and not giving an adult's treatment to it. We need to understand that children have a limited view of life though they may have good insight, intuition or in or curiosity but the ability to think rationally is less developed just because they imitate and they understand only through their immediate environment.

Here what Gerald should think that her problem is not about she being uneducated as she in her age doesn't understand the difference between an educated and uneducated person so widely as we do but she do understand that she will not be attended by her parents if she will not earn (deprived affections) or may be that her parents will resort to violence in order to make her earn. If NGO provides the same kind of affection which is so amiss and give support by offering close associations through circle of friends of same age group.... it can be the way out to lead a different way of thinking which may get ingrained in the child's mind deeply and thus saving oneself from pursuing parents!

And how I missed making documentary about my case dealing with the similar kind of problem, if just had video depicting that.... :(
Well !! after giving so much gyan do believe that adults created an adultered society :P (culprit- rational thinking in ample !)

BTW...Barcamp Punjab - "tomorrow" ---- ----"2nd of May" !! :))

In and Out of Memory !

2010-04-29T23:58:00.000-07:00

Was reading an article on C.K. Prahlad, kind of memoirs from one of his friend. Somehow,this article remind me about George Fernandes, the ex-defence minister and his friends who have launched a signature campaign in order to locate him....yes, he is missing.

At some point, during BJP rule, used to like his presence and he was senior leader worked during emergency days and now he has gone amiss. Amazing isn't that! google about it and you dig how his estranged wife and son are asking for his property and possesions and he himself suffering from Alzheimer. His wife constantly alleging his friends and brothers for seeking a share in his property and lot of drama up there in the court.

A person who has been constantly into media and now out of it is not new, part of uncertainities in life and when the chosen profession is like one, such things are common and the rise of "phoenix" can be the option. But such a sudden exit when everybody came up wondering, is something very 'not so obvious'. The property and money spats are so like it but still such fate of a leader...! Hope people (friends-wellwishers) and media other than looking for every if and then breaking news should volunteer in order to dig more otherwise it also become that one of unknown everyday story which happens at every nook and corner of this country and this should not be the fate of that person who was in defence ministry serving as defence minister but then ...?

This case also made me think about the recent Madhuri Gupta's trial in which she showed no signs of remorse for her deeds and deemed them right. Both the cases are the saga of loneliness and cases of high officials 'as if' trapped within bad karma (no supersition involved :D !) When we as a society, don't even have time to brush our memories and leave people on their own individual mercy, things like these will be more often and not like once in a while. We as a society give bruises to individual people and instill them with more insecurities and fears just because it acts as a healer towards our own. But somewhere we forget that in those short term gains we have paved a long term pain and this will again act in lieu with "Newton's third law"..every action has equal and opposite reaction and signs are showing..... !

Meanwhile updates on "Barcamp Punjab" : New speakers are round there... chk them out!

Barcamp Punjab !!

2010-04-27T06:07:00.000-07:00

Barcamp Punjab is up for another season! One of my close friend (@themonsoonkid) and associate (@danishwadhwa) just came up with something very interesting, although these things are not new for him and once upon a time :D he was part of Ludhiana tweetup and thus this Barcamp Punjab. So, here I am…being a Barcamp watcher and attendee (oohoo! Barcamper in short) this one takes a piece and space and it doesn’t matter to me where it is going to be held but exception so lies anything outside India (Damn it!) :P

Where and When?
Lovely professional University, Jalandhar
02 May 2010
Time: 9am-5pm

What’s the Fee ?

Well unassumingly and for that shock value, kept this event for free, but please register yourself at the appropriate place as our guys have to be fast and furious with the arrangements and so !

How to be sure…you are attending?

But just in case you have forgotten to register (Oh! for that simple blues you hold and have that unreceptive memory) the guys will still heed you but be sure you inform them right just a day before. So think fair and contact them

1) Via twitter (@themonsoonkid @danishwadhwa)

2) Mob them

Harjinder Singh : +91 9988866878

Danish Wadhwa : +91 94630 68880

3) Mail them at- barcamppunjab@gmail.com

What’s in store for you?

Okay ! did expect this question...so, if you are an entrepreneur looking for networking or you have just started your venture and looking for venture capitalists while venture capitalists looking for prospects can definitely head for this event and guess what media attention !!! Even if you are a student, technical guy, arty stuff and just came here to regain your that lost phase of life, don’t worry this is that 'it' place to look for.

Speakers and Sponsors?

Speakers:

1) Sameer Guglani and Nandini Hirianniah from Morpheus

Morpheus provides a support and that base work which is so needed in startups during initial phases, it also provides support by offering your venture with some investment though its not what they intend to do. (more)

2) Mohit Bansal from lpad.in

Lpad acts as mentor for all those starters who could not locate what’s the execution point of their idea and when tails and heads become hard to differentiate lpad provides the learning in just a fun way. (more)

3) Ankur Singla from Wasiyat.com

Wills are not to be ignored and that is what Ankur says. Nedd a kind of expert advice on legal issues and matters, moreover everything you want to know about wills, this is the place.(more)

4) Anshul Goyal from mrpaisa .com

Information providing commodity essentials and giving you high in the market ! (more)

And Sponsors…..

1) 1) Lovely Professional University 2) Digimantra.com

3) dhostings.com 4) Profit.biz

So..now Who can come?

1) Whosoever resides in Delhi and thinks Punjab is actually the place to look out for, hire a taxi/cab take a bus, might be train and we will wish you a fun ride.

2) People who are already in Punjab and still think Jalandhar is what they are unknown of!

3) People who are unaware what this camp is all about but still ready to kick their boots…

4) Meaningful persons who are just ready for insights…

5) And also those who can’t resist their taste buds--definitely going to offer you “Thandi Lassi” (Ah! the right Punjabi beverage for the season) :D

Chill out! Anybody or Everybody can be a part of Barcamp Punjab (place doesn’t matter) but for

that you have to be there and the guys are here to help you out and assist you to be a part…they are all

ears and happy to see you on 2^nd of May.

Meanwhile…What you can Do?

Talk about it to your friends, friends of friends or simply place this post or the one linked below in your blog.You can also discuss about it here and still subscribe to feeds! And for those serious kinda people who thinks writing fun things about serious efforts are crime can dig here. Updates about Barcamp Punjab will be available in this blog and in the blog section of Barcamp Punjab.

WELCOMING ALL WITH AN OPEN HEART!!

Update

2010-04-10T07:36:00.000-07:00

Read this article - on Reader's quotient.

This article talks about Changing times :D

http://bit.ly/cGB6fO

- Pragya

Special thanks to Mihir Jha, Sangeeta Goswami and Akhila for helping me in and out :)

Collage in peace../..piece :D

2010-03-18T11:08:00.000-07:00

Underlying Spirit of "A Table"

Draping windows via light !

काँच

2010-02-26T21:06:00.000-08:00

कितनी बार सम्पूर्णता को निहारकर देखा

हाव-भाव से, गंभीरता से

अक्स को संभलते देखा

अक्स क्यों सत्य भ्रमित कर देते हैं ?

यह अक्स जितनी बार दिखा पूर्ण दिखा

न विखंडित, न खंडित

परन्तु एक अप्रमाणित सत्य !!

वही दिखा जो देखना चाहा

पर आलौकिक नहीं था कुछ भी

था सिर्फ अनवलोकित सत्य !!

बिखराव के बाद अनेक अक्सों की शख्सियत से

कुछ तिकोने, कुछ सिर्फ कोने

और कुछ में विकृत रंगों के होने से

उस विभ्रमित सत्य का पहली बार आईना दिखा

वह दिखा जो कभी नहीं देखना चाहा

एक संपूर्ण सत्य !!

टूटे हुए व्यक्तित्व की कोई राह नहीं होती

पर फिर भी टूटन होती है कई बार शुभ

काँच जो टूटा आज वह रु-ब-रु था

काँच का टूटना माना फिर क्यों जाता है शुभ ?

----प्रज्ञा

[This image is solely an act of insanity - by me , so its obviously under copyright :) ]

मंद बारिश

2010-02-10T11:29:00.000-08:00

बारिश सर्द गर्म होती है
नर्म धूप की हमजोली होकर
वह कैसी मद्धम मद्धम होती है
बारिश क्या कभी सर्द गर्म भी होती है ?
भीनी सी माटी की गंध में
रौंध्ती हुई छ्प सी बूँद सवाल नहीं पूछती
और बस यूंही आसरे में जूझती
बारिश की सर्द सी चादर को
छोडती गर्म करवट में छिपती सी बूँद
उत्तर दे जाती है
कि बारिश तो होती ही रहती है पर ...
बूँद का अस्तित्व तो शायद......... गर्म
और फिर एक और अंतहीन किरणों का झुण्ड
टकराता है और बिफरता है दायरों के पार
एक बड़े से रंगीन पैमाने में
उसके अस्तित्व पर शायद
बादलों, विहगों का संसार चलता होगा
पर कितने क्षणभंगुर स्वाभिमान को
लेकर इतराता वह शायद .......सर्द
बारिश तो सर्द गर्म होती है
और मद्धम मद्धम होती है
बारिश भी.................सर्द गर्म ...
----प्रज्ञा

यूंही कभी

2009-10-15T04:47:00.000-07:00

यूंही किसी ख्वाब पर परदा पड़ा था

हमने उठा दिया तो गुनाह किया

यूंही कहीं पर अंगार बिछा था

हमने बुझा दिया तो गुनाह किया

यूंही कहीं दूर से अवाज़ आयी

हमने दस्तक दी तो गुनाह किया

यूंही किसी कबर पर आंसू गिरे थे

पोंछ दिये तो फिर एक और गुनाह किया

ऐसे ही कितने ज़ज्बात बाज़ारों में बिके

हर ज़ज्बात का सौदा किया तो शायद अच्छा किया

सोच को मुकम्मल होते अरसा लगा

तो हमने कश्ती किनारे पर लगा दी

मज़धारों में कश्ती गरत थी

आज शायद उसे हमने आबाद किया

यह दस्तूर बरसों का

जो सही था वह गलत किया

जो गलत था वह सही किया

और यूंही बीता दी एक उमर हमने मृतकों को पार लगाने में

रहा लेकिन वही शराबी, इस चाक चौबंद ज़माने में!

--Pragya

Party and more!

2009-08-24T08:09:00.000-07:00

Ok! I was looking for a better BJP show. BJP as of now suffering from leadership crisis & now it even has lost that basic instinct of respect. The way Jaswant Singh has been shown door is quite undignified on account of BJP. I was following NDA from its power days and have seen myriad shades and somehow couldnot forget the famous quote of A.B. Vajpayee "neither tired, nor retired" and the second day it was all over media regarding rifts in the party. At that time this party was in power, may be that was a remark by Vajpayee to keep the party intact which has just began to show signs of rifts but when somebody is in power, the mantra is to "Enjoy the flavour" !! But somehow this party quotes in a very non-responsible fashion, what it says just circled around an individual and individualistic notion and during its defeat it is showing up in party. This individualistic stance is a defensive policy and not a gut to take decision on account of others. This shadows others and make them more insecure with leadership getting lost somewhere. Jaswant's decision of launching a book on Jinnah for already suffering party is sinner but more sin when this party bid goodbye to 30 yrs of service in such a fashion. May be Jaswant singh seeking publicity for his insecure soul, may be party thinks Jaswant's action are untolerable but all can be solved under the shade, under the roof rather than creating a movement in front of public eyes which is seeing a tethered opposition and afraid of gaining power of a single party. But can you expect from a bunch of insecure people, taking decisions in favour of country ???? I can expect only such kind of media shows rather than balanced decisions!!

Also talking about all complexities with this issue one by one :

Jaswant Singh : When the party is already asking for solid leadership, is this the time to launch a book which will raise such hype and hoopla and knowing that still...moreover what, he said he remained chup-chap over Advani during Kandahar case and now launching book at this time so necessary!!

Party: Actually this already been done in past by Advani and now you had asked a person to leave that too in such a fashion who has given his 30 yrs of service....this is so unnerving when people don't quote reasons for exit and that too for such a senior leader by such a party....unbelievable at first place.

Advani: Started all the drama in Pakistan..knowing how badly senstivities are connected and how they are reflected in both the countries and making the phoenix rise !! What kind of popularity he was expecting ?

RSS: This is toh particularly amazing. Like who is the kid and who is the father, this is certainly mystery. When BJP was in power RSS supported it with whatever and when it gets chance also complained of sidelining them (power days) but as of now status is that BJP has lost both vision and mission and in searching for reasons of its defeat, its just looking at Hindutva/RSS...Brilliant!

Shashi Tharoor Book and Congress: In Hindu an article mentioned regarding Shashi Tharoor book and depicted how congress is being liberal in giving him ticket even though Shashi Tharoor has written about the whole Gandhi Parivar in a different light. Congress has a different vision in hand that is, portraying Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka gandhi as leaders of tomorrow....so for this congress needs a stable power for more years and Shashi Tharoor is just being that 'It' face. And to accomplish its vision what congress has done was must be in rulebook.

Hindutva: Hindutva is defined by this party in such an unreasonable way. Show me where hindutva talks about being rigid, being non-secular and being so mean!! They certainly have got chance now to project Hindutva in a broad way through Jaswant's book by being liberal, by accepting different viewpoints, by giving just a right message but poor they adopted a different route. The same old way..they don't want to change so how hindutva can be changed and they are talking about change!

Icons: I don't care whether who has done this two nation thing, I only care that it's affecting me now and people of our country!! I am not concerned who has done what as an individual but on a whole its being done and this theory of two-nation proved wrong...I think theory not individual matters and yes I also think thought process and speaking out mind matters so what Jaswnat Singh has to say through his book he has got full right

Arun Shourie: This is a recent development, so "No comments" following his talks and dunno what to say...

This drama may extend longer with may be Vajpayee involvement and one can also expect the unexpected like going and coming back is no different..let's see what's more in kitty!

Random Talking: Gujarat

2009-07-12T05:30:00.000-07:00

Recently in Ahmedabad, news of riots floating up because of that adulterated liquor case. It just made me remember those days when Godhra riots started, I was there in Ahmedabad and startled by those solitary roads which in my 14 years span I have never witnessed. The days were quite unwell with not a single person seen on roads and the condition seems like never ending. Rumors and bad news were constant companion, ruminants of burnt shop with news of thefts and burglary were on high. Somehow, things started changing and riots got over but then we had tales of our muslim friends sharing their woes. Gujarat as a state is a different mechanism altogether. We have segregated lands in Ahmedabad city itself , there are separate places where Hindu resides and different place where SC/ST lives and Kalupur, lal darwaja area was for muslims. Ahmedabad has its own definite boundaries and they are defined strictly, I also remember how a Realtor has strictly mentioned that its buildings are open for Hindu society and after a lot of media hulla-gulla its been removed.
In Gujarat these things are normal and people prefer it this way only. When you go for rent they ask for whether Hindu and which Hindu (read caste) if you doesn't belong to their community you will be shown door. The community matters there and Hinduism more so, there Brahmans and Baniyas are big play master. They decide upon the ruling parties and decide their stay and I have also seen people from SC/ST constantly striving to be a part of this upper cult, a kind of inferiority has prevailed them and thus they become more secluded from other communities and confined within theirs. Now they are resorting to their own political games in competition with upper castes, they play their own rules with no preferences to right or wrong but what matters is whether they succeed in giving the right answers to these upper castes. Ahmedabad with its segregations, is making a society of rift, where everybody is competing with other Amdavadi. Though I like the place and its serenity gives me those kicks but what is unexplored is this segregation and yes if you called Narendra Modi a devil or culprit, you are so wrong. Its in Ahmedabad's culture and people prefer it this way only, regarding Narendra Modi, he only satisfied consumer “emotional(EQ)” demand which is a required political wisdom , only difference is that in previous era it was positively inclined but now how does it matter as the governing line is, “to be a winner”.

P.S. : This case also represents how leadership definition got changed in recent years, its not about bringing change in people's mindset but getting into their mindset. But it is also justified if after achieving short term goals one look in development issues and big (read: long term) goals. I don't know what Gujarat CM is achieving now for the people there as I already left the place for long. Change in attitude speaks a lot which I am not witnessing. Comments are welcome to help in building insight.

We "the" society

2009-07-08T05:14:00.000-07:00

Some bloggers just highlighted the safe and saviour points of our society in these recessionary times! Their arguments are : we have parents and family members to back us up to provide support. I have my own conservative thoughts and tough doubts on this issue. As an Indian are we really happy as a society, how much backlashing we do to our western counterparts, we as a society do fail somewhere and where do we fail is by giving our complex emotional absurdities a national fame. Indians are emotional just go beyond my head and these are the reasons why it is so :
As a parent one spend immense amount on child's education for that tough dream of kid to go and study and earn a reputation when this reputation is just being balanced in our society through money. As a parent they will never say their kid that your decision of doing something (high “investment” studies or some unsought venture) is wrong but the pain of the kid siting idly and the parents contraception of their own dreams through their kids is just a high pinch. As both the parties not accepting the fact that there are some balances as well in their relationship as ideological love comes into picture with various responsibilities.
Marriage trends are are another thing getting altered in this recession. Both working girl and guy is considered to be safest option for marriage as demands of metro life is like that. Recession and losing jobs is also another story with ladies getting unqualified for marriages which only exposes how things are brazenly secretive in Indian society. Selfishness is never proclaimed, as being Indian you are supposed to be not the one. How such indignant activities are taking toll just because everything is under the garb in India. Nobody talks in open but as an Indian we suffer from so many complexities which are quietly accepted as an inherited trait in Indian society. As an Indian I really think of “A human emotional fulfillment NGO” which just take care of those heeding which are mutely accepted as family matters in India.

P.S. : This article only want to highlight an individual satisfaction in a family and out. An individual hopes and dreams are not being taken into order in the name of compromise and when as an individual, people carry a baggage of human regrets..shown in a big way in our society as these individuals are a sharer of our society. The cause of society has to be taken care of as social concerns can only cultivates to prosperity of nation.

Update : Gay rights by HC court is countered by this argument "what people want to do they can do it secretly(under garbs), why making it open as it will ruin our culture" and this argument is again a coffin for individual liberation.

Silence Beholds

2009-02-11T10:55:00.000-08:00

I just realized how undisciplined I can be, not written anything for so long...
was traveling a lot and having some rants of ifs, whats and whys, got angry with God, feeling a lot alone and idle...list is sound enough for human reasons!!
Meanwhile elections happened with UPA victory as if something very extraordinary happened, come on it was a known fact.
So, sensex roared again and it was all over media..Prabhakaran dead , I must say Sonia has got lucky "2009" with large number of votes from UP and now Mayawati support uhun uhun!!
But if they are counting on youngsters vote, they should not as the search of that impeccabble personality is still on...

Tweets and EGO!!

2009-01-22T03:55:00.000-08:00

So are you twittering today and about what?? Your daily notes of eating, sleeping, drinking and what is happening at your end are just satisfying your own ego. By seeing your followers list, increment in comments make your ordinary go vanished by something to be celebrated or being in the first lead.Now, that is what I call arrival of social media, it fascinates you of being special in an ordinary right...
Marketeers are using this for ego-marketing purpose, they satisfy your ego with a customized solution, use permission marketing as a tool and you might become an another consumer on internet medium rather than being a self-acclaimed protagonist.
So, following herd can be bitter if not using using your own brains for social-media sea intelligently.
After all how much Maya you create by being in a digitized world, you have to be real!! Their can be extraordinary love stories for ordinary people but at the end people love the Suris more than the RAJ even though the RAJ are more entertaining ;)

AAP KI KACHEHRI

2009-01-16T11:59:00.000-08:00

Just couldn't understand what this sitcom presents, Kiran Bedi and stuff!!
The people who come on this tv show are from below middle class society whose credibility is a big question mark to me. To me they are as ignorant as anything moreover, these people don't have enough know how about social norms could they really understand Laws and Legal norms....
These people either have came for media flair and media persons are making enough money for nonsense heads, moreover rather than judging about who is culprit in these household spats what these people need is increased awareness which can be done through personal counseling more appropriately rather than fashionably showing it on prime-time.
What people may get from this sitcom is another saas-bahu or any other relationship gossips but with different characters everytime and with a reality twist, though the show is popular but on motive part don't they really need to define themselves clearly...!!?

Micro-post!!

2009-01-13T11:49:00.000-08:00

People are talking about micro blogging and laziness gave me enough excuse of not signing in to my twitter account and develop a concept of micro-post (google can take a cue :p)!!
so this micro post is all about...

Loved lohri celebrations today with official bon-fire and guitar by a group...
today was great day, happy lohri to all :)

........Big post but can qualify for micro-post..after all small is beautiful...

PURSUIT of Changing dimensions...

2008-12-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

I always thought how presence of saintly beings changes everything, even for not so good characters.... like Buddha presence changed the way of Angulimaal, so on...
Then I found the theory of "dimensions", its about seeing, its about viewing the world with different angle, people having negative dimensions perceived the world in the same way with respect to their thoughts. But the world being wide and it may or may not exists in alignment with perception of different beings. So, whom we have given the denomination of GOD just change the dimensions of viewing, the perceptions and they do it so patiently that people become shocked of their own narrow views!!
Leaderships theories are also based on changing dimensions, changing views of people and getting them to different planes and this dimension theory is well propounded in our "vedas" as "maya"!!
I think every human being should look beyond their dimension, might be some "OUT-OF-BOX" thinking comes out from this change :)

the LUCKY streak

2008-12-21T22:49:00.000-08:00

Thinking about luck some days ago, as these days luck has taken its tolls!!!
Got on the conclusion that Luck must be a point estimate, so to avoid pointless wanderings we have to integrate points and stretch it as long as possible atleast in a range....
I think ranges are predictable...probabilities are high..
Just think over that.

Snippets!!!

2008-12-14T05:19:00.000-08:00

1) Saw an immense change in NCERT books, they are talking about Sustainable development, Earth summit which is so hip in management institutes now a days. This change is welcome and it should have implemented ways before. They have become creative as well with coloured books and some photographs which really looked not so mature to me.If anybody has got different opinion she/he is welcome.One more thing NCERT books went online, anybody interested in going through these books again please click this link.

2) Watched lot of classics this week, Antarmahal, Chokher Bali (Bong movies) . What else watched Chanakya series once again. In Antarmahal loved climax like anything, climax couldn't be better and Chokher Bali was a story telling...a story based on era which has quite a significance. I loved waise bhi writers of those ages Bankim Chandra, Rabindranath Tagore..these films anyhow going to lure me. Regarding Chanakya, I am in love with this song "Hum Kare Rashtra Aradhan" the lyrics are by Jayshankar prasad. This song is too inspiring,check that out!!

3) Watched Rab ne Bana di Jodi in theatre wasted my 125 bucks and in the whole film which is although funny but could not appeal me I liked only these lines "TUJHME RAB DIKHTA HAI, YAARA MEIN KYA KAROON "

Funny thing is that I have written few lines long back...

Tujhme mujhe bhagwan dikhte hain,

ek nahi saikdon insaan dikhte hain

tu jita hai toh lagta hai sab kho du main

mar jana bhi tere liye tera ehsaan lagta hai

Kashish teri, sukh mera

Paas rehne ka tere sang junoon mera

Saath tera, safar mera

ab sab kuchh kitna aasan lagta hai

hmm, it was written in bout of spirituality that every human being is a GOD inside.....and loving them is just next to loving GOD and praying him.So what does it depicts...ideas get chorofy if you don't make it public soon [;)]

Dhatt teri ki, pehle pata hona tha na [ :P]

AAJ...

2008-09-26T12:21:00.001-07:00

Yup today feels that there is no day tomorrow and each and every moment is the pain ahead...

Ghetto,and then there will be magic today which says the next day
and it really happens that the wishy-washy day comes.....

Pains must be dead by today itself for seeing tomorrow and am waiting for KAL to end AAJ....

i-Thoughts!!

2008-09-22T00:40:00.001-07:00

1)Quotes are relative, moreover people use them according to their convenience!!

2)Praises and relationships are bombs, they actually explode at the site of righteousness.

3)Relationships are bondages which makes pain come true.

4)Thinking has got incorrigibility 0^infinity

5)Keeping quiet may be a veil which may lift at right moment!

6)There is no justification of truth, either you accept it or you do not.

---Pragya

Absolute quotes:

"All for purpose and none for love"
(sakhi, sab koi apne matlab ka, bolo mein preet karun kisse)
---unknown

"Be the change that you want to see in the world"
----Gandhi

i-Think!!

2008-08-27T13:04:00.000-07:00

You are nobody but still you are closer to heart...
Relationships unauthentic when I think you are what you are...
Unspoken words hurled down fast as no words seems distant as you are..
Love has no boundaries and it is when I thought loving you, forever YOU ARE....

---Pragya

HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!

2008-08-27T12:57:00.000-07:00

A scene from enchanted
(imdb rating)

Watched "Enchanted" long time ago but why am talking about it right now???
Hmmm...(read the heading) so...if you are a lover of cartoons you might have understood it, but for those who don't know-- in fairy-tales cartoons "happily ever after" kitna use hota hai re!! But in enchanted the whole focus was happily ever after and point is I LIKED THE MOVIE so said about it...
When I go nostalgic I think of my childhood perceptions and... "Happily ever after" was so much ingrained in it!! Yup in childhood days I used to think after the movies end (mainly hindi).... so they might be living happily ever after (Who??-- Hero-Heroine) ab toh wo khush honge naa ..I know that!!
But the thing is that in real life, with seeing so many break-ups, the girl's search for mysterious right one and when you see your friends losing conscience over unwarranted boy friends a treacherous feeling do come under!!! I really think where is that magic potion so that after drinking it, their lives get straightened up....
Even magic wand will do.
Now even when we search for that dream job, that dreamy salary and that dreamy stuff..the dream word in itself let us down..why dream word is intacted why not the world of achievements come down under.
With such things come pains and tumultous philosophy of "jo hota hai na achhe ke liye hota hai" humne kab kaha nahi hai aisa, par dukh toh hoga na..sabhi ko hota hai.Seeing pains of somebody else give so much pains...
So, no happily ever after but I will certainly do research in this area and do come up with potion hmmmm toh bhaiyon or deviyon am certainly coming with happily ever after!! Now please bear me for this one ;)
Hey!! one minute wait I just recalled an incident from my class..a banda is supposed to speak for extempore and had to speak on three crucial wishes of his life and he spoke:
1)He would love to dance with Katrina Kaif
2)He want to work with Tom cruise
3)He want to be hero of some movie....

This is called bollywood hollywood fever..no cure for this and "HPA" forget it......

For all ye!! beautiful girls....

Attire...

2008-08-23T06:45:00.000-07:00

Ms. Alice

Whenever you are surrounded by girls its so difficult not to get assaulted by the remarks of the attire they love....kurti,skirts, minis, off-shoulders, sleeveless,megasleeviii....kuchh jyada ho gaya na?? Point is that almost everybody came up with their dream attire and usually among them I remain clueless.Its not that ki I have never given a thought but I never fancied these typii...
Now thanks to Resident evil..yeah this movie gave me my attire..I really liked it.What Alice wore, I will call it trendy,smart and kung-fu types.
Sporty me, I always thought to have a kind of kung fu looks, just dhain dhain types.Hey listen!! to have an inclination for this kind of attire the protagonist in the film Ms. Alice played a great role I drooled over her action fire...Whoooooa.
So thanks Ms.Alice for you have just kicked my imagination for giving my typii things and now amongst my friends (female friends) I just can boast off my attire.And here I am, in naming spree for my attire..I will call it kung-fu attire..ok nahi...what about gamer attire (as resident evil is a recreation of video game biohazard..famous in japan and wardrobe is just so similar to that ) come up with some nice names please..it is going to help me fundoo :)

DISCRIMINATION...??

2008-08-12T22:02:00.000-07:00

I faced it,I faced it,I faced it....!!!
Before you all give an expression of an alien
lemme explain...hows and whys behind.......
When I was in A'bad their local buses are proudly called "AMTS" now in those buses we have reserved seats for women but tragedy is that if some woman came up and ask for a seat there, nobody gives it so we as a woman took a chill pill and never asked for it. Now destination changed , in Delhi local buses changed name and become "Blueline" and here too we have got special seats besides seats for old persons and physically disabled but nice thing is that when women ask for their reserved seats people quickly vacate it but there is a what-if condition!!Suppose in one of the reserved for woman seat an old person is seating and woman asking for seat is young lady then!!??
So, I faced it..I asked for seat, after getting seated conscience played a role vacate the seat and given it to that old fellow.(Obviously my experience in A'bad was a plus point with my decision)
I dunno which city is best, where the seats don't get vacated when reserved category ask or where such kind of condition arises!!!
THIS IS DISCRIMINATION!!RIGHT??

Mrityu

2008-05-19T04:49:00.000-07:00

Sookhe patte, sookhi ret par padte koi nishaan nahi
dekho door se to ab unka bhi koi naam nahi
aaj dil dukhta hai kyun, kya jeeven mein pana tha
chod chala jag agar yunhi, toh yehi jeevan ka thikana tha
nahi palkon ko uthaya,na hi koi aah bhari
aasman ke neeche bas yunhi raakh dhari.

---pragya

controversial money!!

2008-05-17T11:34:00.000-07:00

With reference to my previous post which emphasized on "wits mixed with cacophony"
Recently got to know this about Amitabh Bachchan's blog.
So, blogging for money...acceptable.Now, creating controversies for money too!!
Aisa ho sakta hai kya....kyun nahi jab cricket TV soap ho sakta hai...toh???
If you read blog properly,mamla seems to be fishy only....
To make the matter worse,comments on SRK's show in his blog is what seems to me... a DARing act, when you know that how media is going to take it(aur hua bhi wahi jiska darr tha).Now,take a look at another post in the same blog where media is almost GOD!!
Now we the poor MBAites who collects data on TRPs and sometimes think furiously about media matrix day in and day out,should need to ask Mr. Bachchan a lot of whys??Like why media showed Khali mahabali each and everytime you change the channel,about media's journey from prince to every second child falling in some naala,about soaps who always make a sob story for you ,about why I became a reality hater when each and everytime one of the shows ask for smses ........
GOSH!! I don't know whether AB has turned to a daring old man or is it particularly something between the lines.

p.s :-Read this one too.

egoism v/s anything..

2008-05-14T09:56:00.000-07:00

I was celebrating national problem's day today (after all there are so many bullshit days around,if i created one you guyz call it crap..huh), so thought of this piece ;-0

egoism v/s advice:
This planet is seem to full of advisors, if you don't listen they will absurdly call you fool and if you do then you call it what??(wastage of time)
egoism bullfight 1:listener v/s speaker

egoism v/s religion:
India has undoubtedly got an edge over it, an undisputed king where the gentleladies and gentlemen give alms to anybody and everybody.Did I hear GOD? And if business of crores seemingly justified with it than beggars become bosses.
egoism bullfight 2: swarg v/s money

egoism v/s "uh so hot":
universal, if you are born to be king or queen and not a got a moment of fame today, damn it the day wasted.My time is precious then it is so obvious that junta think their time is precious too..ohh!!that is why this new phenomenon of middle class is created!!
egoism bullfight 3:I am celebrity v/s I am junta

egoism v/s perception:
If you sound sane,look sane, think sane..oh my god you are sane otherwise what's the opposite of sane??haaaw!! you don't know it!!English made everything a high class otherwise hindi bolnewaalon ko angrezi bolnewaale idiots nahi dikhte!!
egoism bullfight 4:My class v/s your class

egoism v/s generations:
dada dadi told a story,mammi paapa tell another story and we think we are the story.Why the hell we care if dada dadi,mammi papa was there in story and preach that me to be in the story is actually never mattered!!
egoism bullfight 5: Generation gaps

Undoubtedly I belong to fifth waala and if you think non-egoism just mattered to me then it is a big bullshit..i never ever mind to take garb of fifth one....me young too!!

Ethical business!

2008-05-11T11:41:00.000-07:00

Recently heard about a book...
Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are
Book talks about cooperation to be seen in a business sense. Fair enough and explanation for this!!??
Well explanation is rather more interesting as it lies in game theory.."Prisoner's dilemma".
This whole book reminds me of talks with my professor(Mr. R.J. Masilamani) from whom I asked about management games and he told me to find games in game theory.A win-win strategy which sees a long term profit.
I think this book also talks about the same, if the author talks about the cooperation I see to it as a long term benefit if the examples of the book is to be quoted:
(if applied in sociology)
When I jump a queue or a red light, or throw that garbage on the sidewalk, I am taking a rational 'squeal' decision, since it seems to get me ahead of others or make life easier for me. Here I am being privately smart.

But then, as others are no less rational, intelligent and smart, they too start squealing for the same reason and before we know it, we have unruly traffic, filthy streets and stinking urinals. So collectively we are all worse off, just as the two prisoners in the dilemma.
source: (youthcurry)

or take a different example:
(if applied in business)
farmer whose corn won top awards year after year. When a reporter asked about the secret of his success, the farmer attributed it to the fact that he shared his corn with his neighbors. Why, the reporter wondered, would the farmer want to share his seed when those neighbors also competed with him for the prize? The farmer’s reply was, “The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grew inferior corn, cross-pollination would steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors do the same.”

source: (youthcurry)

Both examples round about the long term perspective, with ethics taken as a long term practicality.
And this was the conclusion of our talks too!!

P.S. :The author of the book is Mr. V Raghunathan, previous IIM-A professor.

The Dialogue

2008-05-10T13:16:00.000-07:00

Says:
strangers land and strangers man
what do you hold in thee
rights are dead with breaking mind
you lost to me

lost your courage into the desire
lost your chance in burning fire
lost your dreams in needs
you lost to me.

Tell:
I hold none with silence
when love beholds my none unfolds
strangers become fascinators
so,I lost for me.

My desires burnt to ashes
my chances are their options
my dreams are their sight
given everything in hope and laughter
and thus I lost for me!!

---pragya

Kundalini Shakti Ka Prarambh!!

2008-05-08T07:21:00.000-07:00

uhaaan,uhumm...!!Yeah am being overlaoded with stuffs of inner individuality few years back when I started a search for "WHO AM I". Cliche, please don't blame me if each and every person in your nook and corner talk such kind of crap , due to this a serious learner have to jhellofy these kind of allegations ;)
Now, this time I am serious...
So, started my kundalini work few years back..and GAWD what a kundalini..my third eyes turn to my inner eye and my two eyes saw only beautiful things and then my distant dreams and past lifes started coming one after another.
Hey!!u believed it..then I think u r the person who are prospering these babas business who come on Asthaa one or the other day.
Even being a youth don't even get trapped with kundalini and some fake words of religion.
If you are learning spirituality two things matter.
1)you should be emotional.
2)you should have a kind heart.
All these things submerged with lots n lots of love and this love will give you the joy.
The joy will let u see beauty even in the fakest of the ornaments.
Love transforms everything and bigger the love is, the satisfied person you are!!
So, I got kundalified when I discovered love...love for my surroundings,love for my people..love for everybody.
Now this is my spirituality,what is yours??

Blogged and Deblogged

2008-05-07T13:41:00.000-07:00

Well!! something surprisingly came up in the news.
guess what..??Amitabh bachchan blogs....!!??
Now I never ever think that this banda will blog,thought he is oldie-goldie and definitely not a net-bee.So, caught you!!he is not.
Thought his blog will be full of some extra histories of sets,coolie drama and such kinda stuff only but no this banda speaks his mind too now see this stuff against health minister or this on media.
Great now blogs are giving a kinda voice to celebrities too..(check Aamir khan's blog too) .
But anyhow Bachchan surprised me with his wits mixed with cacophony .(against media kowtowing)

And now, something for UAE (against orthodox and dogmatic behaviour) government, please watch "Khuda kay liye" for khuda ke liye.

P.S.:- some funny stuff on AB's blog (In comment section)
AB Uncle plz wish me luck for my exams.i m final year physiotherapy student,i had an exam today.now i have a tiugh one on 9th….waiting for ur wishes…..And one beautiful phrase from Madhushala….plz uncle….waiting for ur mail…..

Now this is what u call "A Godly treatment of a celebrated human being."(From both sides)

Abrupt

2008-05-03T10:49:00.000-07:00

NET!!

and

W.I.T.H.O.U.T NET!!!

conspiracy inspired me this time, to write...
two days without net can you survive....my take is NOoooo.
Like food,water and stuffs of materialism I need NET.
My orkut,my twitter,my flickr,my blog,my time,my globe and my world
enough of egocentricity...
your profile (I do sneak-peeking in Orkut)
your blog(I do read your stuffs if they sound sane)
your time(chattin and blah-blahing is equivalent to eating your time)
your globe(Did I mean hacking,naah.....)
your world..........( fill in the blanks)

conclusion:- NET is an important constituent of symbiotic relationship and mutual beneficiency.

Random again!!

2008-04-26T08:21:00.000-07:00

so not being here for a long time....
I was away from everything spaces,randomization,thoughts, melancholy,sound,hopes and what not..
but was there in the market searching talks assembling them finding ways out in confused people and making them misfit for other criteria.
People want to talk too much,they want to be listened and sometimes they hold the righteousness so tightly that difficulties come around faster!!
I got stuck between righteousness and difficulties, not safe though but will find my way out :)
NONE hold me this time and zero philosophy worked hard for me...hmmm
so what next..
1)Will give my blog a different attire.
2)Will blog frequently.

random diary...

2008-02-24T00:44:00.000-08:00

1)I am missing twittering.
culprit: "techno-savvy" word is missing from my dictionary now.
2) No flickring photos for me.
culprit:I broke my digi cam last nite in my dream :(
3)Getting lazier day by day.
culprit:In my profile getting a gud time nap is a simple passion.
4)Anger-control management.
culprit:I got angry 5th time in a row, on bloody system.
5)Search of sanity.
culprit:There is no documentary proof that I m sane.
enuf for a week.....I suppose!!

Mahanta

2008-02-23T00:45:00.000-08:00

Sometimes debate topics put u off.There are 100s of topics for which u can die for but see topics like these.......
1)Western women v/s indian women
2)Wetern values v/s eastern values(p.s.- In India east means only India)
3)Bhartiya sanskriti is associated with kindness.
Heck!! these are only samples more are still to come. West & East and more probably they want to show that America v/s India in a big picture.
A true picture of credit starved nation who just want to show how bhartiyta is a proud phenomenon and how culture in west least or best derogatory.Never know when we grow up but points are there to ponder if liberation of women here is seriously to be considered:
1)saniya mirza can't wear short skirts
and she again targeted for putting her feet in some nonsense pic whose credibility is certainly a question mark??
2)New year case...last/this year as well
3)Reshma case in south
4)Ahmedabad gandhi ashram take
liberated...?? did I say somthng against indian ethos....

Mis-Adventure

2008-02-22T08:17:00.000-08:00

Life is getting cool these days...wat a fun??I ran away from marketing summit, RAN AWAY!!!
It was actually like that...lectures were getiing from best,better to good and do cum under worst criteria in itself.. and I decided to leave the place to have a look of INDIA HABITAT CENTRE and if u put it like this I want to learn how a space sell.....gr8 space like this where sculputures, painting exhibitions and what nt,I missed library, it was not that I didn't went there..but it was for IHC members only :(
nehw fun on the run....isn't tht gr8

Leisure :)

2008-01-05T09:01:00.000-08:00

so, wht I did in these last three four days, it was full on full a movie session preplanned,planned& replanned. Watched pink panther, If only, 300,taare zameen par & blah blah blah...
300 is amazing spartan movie and if only amazing luv story (will talk abt both later) more over smiling point is tht this is what happens if u live in a hostel, a complete buffoonery, u ask for a movie and it is so easily available and even newbies within 3-4 days of its release date u hv the movie with u..:)
Three cheers to our amazing networking and simple contacts...Thanks to this piece of creativity tht is surely a hostel ppl masterart tht the next weekened too m planning dozens of movie watching.
Jealous....then watch Just my luck ;)

mba lessons- I

2008-01-02T04:23:00.000-08:00

Learning sales and distribution is not a simple and that simple task but imagination works wonder and memory makes it wonderful atleast when u relate some of the mgmt. fundas with the real life situations.One lesson today I was learning about sales and distribution
Problem: u hv got hell lot of inventory(variants) in the industry and tragedy is that some of the variants just donot click & then & wat???
Solution:1)short term: remove the variants and scrap it.
2)long term: cut down your no. of variants.
Imagination and memory at work:The story goes like this that once upon a time wen I was small got to clean up my room as mom always like all mothers, has that peculiar notion to shout at me,"Bachha your room!!!dirty room!!!!clean room!!!".Funny thing is that I was lazy, though today also lazing arnd is my favourite pastime but at that time it was more or less a mischief.I put all those craps inside my almirah and outside my room looks damn clean,damn clear and wow!!Then sumday my mom got my almirah checked and wen she found all those craps inside my almirah her instant reaction was outside cleanliness doesnot mean spreading scrap inside.So true I could have dumped the real scrap in dustbin and got rid of them at once but blame it on my laziness and moreover for all those scraps which show a sign of less consumption from my side I should not have bought those items again but again blame it to my spendthriftness or either an overdemanding nature or say I want that other children have those things then why not I or call it insecurity (put all things together and label them under a vague mental disorder which has no logical clues and our professors term it as "BULLSHIT")
So Y I hv written all this, just got fascinated with an idea and to explain myself why this bullshit works.

Y blog!!!!

2008-01-01T07:35:00.000-08:00

The title says so many things, isn't it guyz(wen I say guyz,I mean galz too)??But title itself is a mess of my thoughts, thought to blog is not instantaneous but something I thought of ultra moments back...
I hv got so many reasons..one reason spending time in b-school without dng anything sumtimes is cruel and killing as well. .
second being I want to own sumthng of my own..
Third being I hv got so many a thoughts to be put down on a paper but being in a so called technological age chose for blogging..
and thus this list can go on & on & on...
But to be straight and simple blogging is jst fun...and a space where sharing will be the prime motive for me and for all those ye read the blog...
so blog it, create it and enjoy it :)