tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87960392721726978832024-02-20T00:17:27.334-08:00The Indian thinkerI have a bad habit of indulging in too much thought process !!Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-64714039113697747702020-02-10T05:37:00.000-08:002020-02-10T05:47:22.002-08:00Should premier institute students of India actively participate in politics?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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India has always been a
politically colourful country. Even in medieval India, the princely states
engaged in political diplomacy to either exist peacefully or join forces. The
roots of foreign rule in India also lies in the political mal-function of
erstwhile rulers. In modern India, the freedom struggle owes a lot to the
political activism of the various leaders who helped shape the country and
create an independent future. Many of these leaders were products of student
political movements. It was a time when the youth had an option to either
follow the British by the letter, or, join the movement. The question in modern
times is this: is it still required for the students to focus on politics?</div>
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I believe that knowledge of
current affairs is paramount in many fields especially for those who are
preparing for civil services exams. Even those who are not participating in the
exams may find it useful to collect the information about the “who’s-who” of
the country. Students of today will eventually be elemental in running the
country; awareness about which political party is claiming to have done
something and promising to do what more, will help them cast the correct vote.
In a democracy like India, with limited natural resources and a huge
population, good governance is as important as the citizens fulfilling their
duties.</div>
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Having said that, what about the
active participation of students in politics? In an earlier time, 70 years ago,
it was not only required, but, imperative. In modern times, in my opinion,
student participation in politics should be discouraged. To support my opinion
let me draw the reader’s attention to Lucknow University, Banaras Hindu University
and more recently, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Aligarh Muslim University and
Jamia Milia Islamia. There was a time, when the education at these universities
was at par with the world. Some students continue to make contributions,
however a larger majority is less and less interested in actual education
(there are more than one reasons for this) and more in the political movements
that are almost a continuous occurrence at these places now. Most of these
centrally funded universities have very low fees and attract some of the very
best talents (questionable) as faculty. These investments from the tax-payers’
money is wasted in activism.</div>
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In my opinion, again, students
can and should make true contribution through their superior knowledge acquired
through education and utilise it to change the country and solve its problems.
Law students can focus on improving judicial system, science and technology
students must innovate to create and emulate technology for the betterment of
the country. History students can help either to uncover any lost information
in time or simply in preserving knowledge of the old the world. Political
science students can study the political workings of the parties in the country
and around the world. Everyone should be allowed to take part in active
politics, but only after completion of their education. Once they have
developed a good understanding of the pros and cons of any political idea,
which can be done through a combined understanding of all aspects of education itself;
they are to be deemed eligible to enter active politics. For example, what
affect can a mathematics student have on the relationship between India and the
U.S.? Think of the butterfly effect. A mathematician may come up with a theory
or formula that may affect some product manufacture/marketing eventually
affecting trade between the countries.</div>
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As an artist would say, <i>beauty
is in the details</i>. We can see lot of protests in the country going on in
the country today. Some of the protesters don’t even know what they are protesting
about. On the flip side, some have raised some very valid doubts that would be
the long term consequences of applying the laws in the country. Those in
support do not see these effects. Thus, education of both sides is necessary.
Violence caused by protesters, especially student protesters is un-called for.
These students are either wasting their future or do not see one anyways, hence
the participation in anarchy. Only benefactors of the fate of these students
are politicians who themselves are not affected by these protests. Thus I
emphasize that students should refrain from political activities.</div>
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Now I will focus specifically on
the IITs. IITs were setup with the sole purpose of ensuring that the best minds
of the country (inclined to science and technology) can forget all distractions
and focus on mastering one or more fields of engineering to either provide
specialised workforce to the country, specifically or to the world, in general.
Let us not delve on the fact that mostly everyone aims at acquiring a degree
and then a high salaried job. The original idea was that these technocrats will
create technologies and jobs for the people of India. I am not sure what went
wrong and where, but, IITs have become more of another industry - on one hand
they drive the coaching industry, on another they act as coaching centres for
foreign universities. At the same time, I should not downplay the efforts by
almost all IITs to incubate tech-startups that can generate jobs. Although we
have not seen companies of the scale of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Mathworks,
Bosch, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc., but, for a country independent for only
70 odd years, we are doing great on the technology front, and by the way, most
of these companies employ graduates from IITs.</div>
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To conclude, I can only say
this: our country has many problems, some caused due to politics, some due to
finances, some due to natural resources, population, lack of technology etc.,
but, compromising with all-round whole hearted distraction-free-education, is
not a viable solution if we want to make India a developed country and a world
superpower. Indeed, we need ever more educated people in politics, but,
individuals should join politics only <b>after</b> completing education and <b>not
while attaining </b>it. Students of IITs, specifically, should not take active
part in politics and focus on the primary goal that the country expects from
them. A lot depends on what path the bright minds of our country choose.</div>
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Why the grass yonder green?<br />
Why are squirrels so keen?<br />
<br />
The dew drops on leaves they shine,<br />
Render beauty till the end of line<br />
<br />
Why does the dog bark, why purr the cat,<br />
With these and other musings, I sat,<br />
<br />
Why does the cricket critter, why buzz the bee,<br />
Who made this all, even you and me,<br />
<br />
Why does the wind blow, why are hills and valley,<br />
There's science and there's religion, but, why don't they tally,<br />
<br />
Why men fight; to one another, why are they mean,<br />
Answers, I will ever find, chances of that are lean...</div>
Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-34731893052533986352018-10-15T08:59:00.001-07:002018-10-15T08:59:22.139-07:00My Mistakes...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Mistakes, ever-repeating, I make again and again,<br />
And little do I suspect they will hide in night or rain;<br />
<br />
They count, add, sum and pile,<br />
When was I right? I know not, it has been a while;<br />
<br />
A cool winter wind has come ashore,<br />
I hope it blows away my worry chores;<br />
<br />
All is well, they say, when the apple is in,<br />
Where that apple, of my life has been?<br />
<br />
Let me put all my good deeds in vain,<br />
Oh! there, I made a mistake again...</div>
Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-81514228198875951352018-10-15T08:56:00.001-07:002018-10-15T08:56:06.146-07:00Never Lose Hope...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What art thou if not thou dream,<br />
Dark is the terra if not thou the light beam;<br />
<br />
Stray not from the path ahead,<br />
Let stones, rocks, make thy bed;<br />
<br />
Many a hardships, on you, will take toll,<br />
Hold it not, let roll the ball;<br />
<br />
Giveth you, when God a reason, you ran,<br />
Hold ground, steadfast, 'coz this will make you man...</div>
Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-24858672087804903182015-10-30T23:30:00.001-07:002015-10-30T23:30:21.642-07:00Move On<p dir="ltr">i tried again, to move the rock,<br>
that life had placed ahead;<br>
thrust aside, i was mocked,<br>
reduced to win just bread;</p>
<p dir="ltr">fame, no glory, loft nay,<br>
i looked for a purpose;<br>
pushed down, cast away,<br>
dreams became a yonder buzz;</p>
<p dir="ltr">i got up, i dust myself again<br>
prepared to fight for new dawn;<br>
even if <u>cometh</u> all <i>bane,</i><br>
i will not falter to move on....</p>
Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-21999203341384782502015-04-17T12:40:00.000-07:002015-09-07T12:22:51.083-07:00Life, work, search of purpose...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack">Another day
went by at my workplace, with my doing nothing. Now this word ‘nothing’ is
relative. According to my job role I fix issues for my client. To me, however,
I do <i>nothing</i>.</a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Allow
me to introduce myself. I am a Computer Science and Engineering graduate. My job is
something that some 10,00,000 strong engineering graduates all over India do
right out of their college. The problem is we as Indians have proven our might
as cheap and effective technology labour (with our national leaders focusing on
making more “workforce” for the world). It is overall good for the country. It
is one of the biggest source of revenue for our country, our biggest export
after crude material. It provides for jobs and livelihood to so many. And
ofcourse it doesn’t let our professional education go waste. So, it is great.
Period.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or
is it?</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
a country like ours which is essentially 5 or 6 thousands of years old in its
heritage and culture, but, roughly only 70 years of being independent and
self-governed, we are behind time. Seriously.<br>
Our country is credited to have given the world the decimal number system’s
greatest asset, the zero and also introducing surgery (sorry I don’t have any
official source for either, it is mostly “let-me-tell-you-a-story”), but, then
we bailed out. Our country is not credited with any revolutionary invention or
innovation (save the Radio Communication, which Marcony got credit for instead
of J. C. Bose). We have not yet been able to produce a product that has changed
the world.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes,
product.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Much
of the country’s budget depends on maintaining a balance between imports and
exports and a country actually becomes developed if it has successfully
surpassed the exports over the imports. We have unfortunately become a country
of consumers. Our imports far exceed our exports and we barely export any
engineered product (only exception being petro-products like engine oils etc.).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let me focus on my
sector. <i>As if it was mine</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our
country as I have mentioned earlier, has made a name for its IT expertise, and
yet we do not have a single software company that releases any major software
product. One might argue that tally is an exception, but, then tally is not
something you would gift your child on next deepawali.<br>
So, what is it? Are we not competitive enough? Are we not able?</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
answer these questions, one has to go back to beginning. <i>Literally; read the first line of this post</i>.<br>
Most of us may actually be quite energetic and dreamy, looking for lofty
purposes in life, but the purposelessness imposed on us in the form of the job
(we actually are rubbing our posterior anatomy off, for the sake of building
another country) makes us non-believers. We lose our faith that something grand
can actually be achieved. Those of whom that are not tainted, either find their
way out of the country or become non-technical money earners (to not offend
that community of high level corporate bureaucracy, I am not naming them!).
This results in loss of knowledge and ability to achieve feats of technology.
We turn into<i> bozos</i>. May be
someone will break out of the mold. May be someone will show us the way. We are
but cattle. Ready to be herded. Period.</span></span></div>
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Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-35890808614326149252014-02-21T20:23:00.001-08:002014-02-21T20:38:07.898-08:00Does Indian Education System Need A Change ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The education policy of India is to filter out the best from
the rest. This has its merits as well as demerits. The top rank holders are
further trained to excel and master some aspect of their field. This is
theoretically good, but, as is evident hasn't quite worked out. According to
stats, the erudite are leaving the country in search of higher salaries or
better facilities. There are many who have made a global mark after they left the
country behind. A recent example could be Mr. Satya Nadela. One may also consider Mr. Ajay Bhatt the
co-inventor of USB technology.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The policy itself is not flawed, the elite were supposed to
learn at a higher level and apply their knowledge to improve the status of
society at various levels. Initially this may have been the case, but,
media-hype and an urge to pretend to be extraordinary led our savants astray.
Instead of staying back and getting their hands and feet dirty, they took the
foreign route. However the fault is not entirely of these individuals. When a
child is admitted in a school in India in most cases parents tend to cease
taking interest in the learning process of their children. The child is
supposed to score marks and pass all exams. The focus is not on developing a
life long nature of learning and implementing. Children are not interested in
mediocrity of school life, they want things to be magical. Alphabets form words
and words form sentences which in turn form the wonderful rhymes. Children love
to enjoy. The current pedagogy throws them in a race.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By the time the child reaches college level (XI and XII in
India), its choice of higher studies is biased by what parents, relatives,
elders round the block want or have chosen. After somehow getting past this
stage the under-runners have to face the embarrassment of not being able to qualify
the prestigious national competitive exams, which, their schools did not
prepare them for. The sense of mediocrity and inferiority remains stuck in
their minds. The toppers on the other hand, have a sense of accomplishment and
blooming confidence which helps them advance in their careers. An average
IITian (best engineers in India) then seeks a job in some multinational company
and eventually leaves country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The question, however, still remains unanswered that why
won't they stay in their home country. There are numerous factors the most
important being the socio-economic one where parents and teachers encourage
fresh graduates to prove their mettle in foreign countries and "earn
accolades" offshore. Then there are the political reasons, MBA grads from
IIMs (bests in India) have to undergo a harrowing experience if they try to setup
their own companies with political and anti-social elements seeking undue
shares in profits. The grad rather decides to pursue dreams in foreign lands.
The competition which shaped the entire life of the child since school through
graduation eventually fails to deliver the gem the country needs. The policies,
the pedagogy, the entire model of teaching needs to be refurbished from
scratch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The key elements of derogatory impact of present system on
the minds of the child are: peer pressure, feeling of failure, being evaluated
for worth and judged. On one hand unless we have tests and exams we cannot
ourselves be certain that the young ones have learned what we taught, on the other,
the above factors take over. In my opinion remote learning via networking is a
far better option where one has deadlines, homeworks and exams, but, need not
compare with others. Human teachers are indispensable, but, they will remain as
guides and not evaluators. At a higher level, parents and elders must encourage
the idea of serving the country with the power of knowledge instead of merely
contemplating better employment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In old tribal days, when a child was born, not
only the parents, but also the entire tribe made it point to teach the child
and carve a winner out of it. The child was taught to live and die for the
tribe. That hasn't changed even to this day, it is just that the tribe has
grown bigger in size. One day, not yet, the tribe shall span the entire world,
is all that we can hope, but, till then we must not reject the residuum but
make that extra effort to carve winners. Unless we believe that our country is
a better place, we will not begin to make it so.</span></span></span></div>
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Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-84672483364291894892012-12-31T13:13:00.001-08:002012-12-31T13:13:52.782-08:00May "Nirbhaya's" soul rest in Peace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
बहुत कुछ कहा जा चुका है "दामिनी" के बारे में। हमने ऐसे कानून बनाये हैं जो मासूमो के बजाये अपराधियों का बचाव करती है। हमारे देश में एक नारी की अस्मत की कीमत बस कुछ हज़ार रुपये एवं कुछ साल ही होते हैं। ऐसा मै नहीं भारत का कानून कहता है। भारतीय दंड संहिता के अनुसार एक बलात्कारी को मात्र कुछ हज़ार तक का जुरमाना एवं सात से दस साल तक की कैद ही होती है।<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, <span style="font-size: small;">think of the agony that a woman has to go thr<span style="font-size: small;">ough during the entire life wrecki<span style="font-size: small;">ng experie<span style="font-size: small;">nce</span></span></span></span></span></span>. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And trust me, her soul dies even if the woman herself remains alive. A<span style="font-size: small;">n<span style="font-size: small;">d that is the price of a woman according to our society and its laws.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the legal procedures that actually happen (let me inform you, the law in letter says otherwis<span style="font-size: small;">e), the victim is forced to recite the painful and shameful incident again and again to various officials involved in the investigation and justice procedure. W<span style="font-size: small;">hat kin<span style="font-size: small;">d of j<span style="font-size: small;">usti<span style="font-size: small;">ce is this? The woma<span style="font-size: small;">n is already broken<span style="font-size: small;">, but<span style="font-size: small;">, the law br<span style="font-size: small;">eaks her further.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead of making the accused prove his innocence, the victim is forced to prove that rape has actually happened. The victim has to undergo a physically penetrative test (b<span style="font-size: small;">y most<span style="font-size: small;">ly a male doctor, think what the woman <span style="font-size: small;">has to go through</span></span></span>). The entire procedure is rotten<span style="font-size: small;">. The woman <span style="font-size: small;">has to prove that she is of <span style="font-size: small;">"right character", she has actually been "raped", has to recite it in fro<span style="font-size: small;">nt <span style="font-size: small;">of many unknown male<span style="font-size: small;">s<span style="font-size: small;"> and all this <b><i>if</i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the police lodge the FIR at the first place.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The women are mostly threate<span style="font-size: small;">ned by the rich culprit to keep quiet and in this the police also help the accused. The recent suicide of a victim in </span>Punjab is a sordid example of this </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Punjab: Girl commits suicide a month after being gangraped</span><span class="txt11 fsi"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Punjab, Updated Dec 27, 2012 at 07:03pm IST</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span>he politicians are playing with laws and they neither try to bring in the strict laws nor they force the poli<span style="font-size: small;">ce to act with moral and legal responsibilities.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rea<span style="font-size: small;">son ? They themselves are rapists.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">We need to change the law boo<span style="font-size: small;">k seriously. </span> </span>The ne<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is urgent.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People and all citizens of INDIA are r<span style="font-size: small;">equested to send their decisions and suggestions to ex-CJI of India for his committee that will be presenting the report for the DAMINI case.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">mail your suggestions to: <b>justice.verma@nic.in</b> </span></span></span></div>
Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-16678674561001799642012-11-14T10:25:00.002-08:002012-11-14T10:25:37.276-08:00School Life: Days at School...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was born, with an ambition to make a <span style="font-size: large;">name,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and my parents wanted <span style="font-size: large;">me to do the same;</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was admitted to a school<span style="font-size: large;">, where,<span style="font-size: large;"> I have till now spent a part of life,</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thos<span style="font-size: large;">e days and <span style="font-size: large;">th<span style="font-size: large;">eir</span> memories, I will try to describe;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">T<span style="font-size: large;">he first day when I rea<span style="font-size: large;">ched the school, I wept,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was because of the feeling of loneliness, in <span style="font-size: large;">me that had crept;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">All these y<span style="font-size: large;">ea<span style="font-size: large;">rs<span style="font-size: large;">, some or the other led me <span style="font-size: large;">the way,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">My teache<span style="font-size: large;">rs<span style="font-size: large;">, I must say;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have had many friends all through,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, the days have pas<span style="font-size: large;">sed as if they flew;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once<span style="font-size: large;">, I had had a tiff, a bitter <span style="font-size: large;">one and tensions got dense,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I said sorry to him and we are friends ever since;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I made many mistakes and am still learning from them,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The experience I have attained could be<span style="font-size: large;"> weigh<span style="font-size: large;">e<span style="font-size: large;">d by the most precious<span style="font-size: large;"> gems;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have never been a good player I don't think I am game,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, then<span style="font-size: large;">, I was born with an ambition to make a name...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">- Bane Havoc</span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div>
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Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-75516997140523970472012-10-27T13:32:00.001-07:002012-10-27T13:32:07.552-07:00Hope and People<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You don't owe any more to</span> this city... you have given it everything...</blockquote>
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Not everything, not yet</blockquote>
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Batman</div>
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(The Dark Knight Rises) </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How many people do we have in this world who would simply give everything they have merely to see others happy and content?</span> Not many. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Next I will ask the obvious question, what is hope?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is it the wish of a student, being unprepared for his exams, to pass his exams with good grades? Or, is it the belief of the patient that he will be cured by merely visiting the doctor?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Neither of these. Hope is something, it is said, unique to the very fabric of the human nature. We put half of our best effort and "hope" that the most optimum result would be produced</span>. <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We believe </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that there is somewhere some supreme being who looks after us. Who cares for us and would not leave us in an abyss. Hope allows us to cope up with the pressures of our day-to-day life and continue to exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whatever one might say about hope, one aspect is pretty clear; we live by hope. Hope of a better life. It is argued by the non-believers that people try to prove the existence of alien beings that have superior knowledge than us merely to thwart that inevitable feeling of being left alone. Consider for example, that clerk you last saw in the electricity department when you last went to pay your bills. He might be churning in big amounts of money, but, definitely he never wanted to be there. He must have while in school dreamed of a life with more grandeur, luxury and respect. He did not or could not get that part of the gamble of life. Still he survives. Lives. Is it that he is content with his life? Or is it that he come to believe that this is how real life is?</span></div>
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<span class="huge bqQuoteLink"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8796039272172697883" title="view quote">No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.</a></span>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8796039272172697883" title="view author">-George Chakiris</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No, the fact is, he has hope. Hope that "something" will happen and change his life altogether. Make an overnight overhaul in his lifestyle. This is how hope allows a man in general to persist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Still I would say that there is another flip side of hope. The hope of improvement is not always an objective, materialistic view. It is often about someone. About some "<b>Hero</b>"</span>. <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We all want a hero to exist in our lives who would pull us out of our darkness and agony. As is rightly quoted:</span></div>
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A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and
reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy's shoulders to let him
know that the world hadn't ended.
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Men fail to understand the true nature of hope. We all need heroes in our lives. We stand in lines to just catch a glimpse of a movie actor. Why? Because he is a hero. He braves all odds and wins in the end. Finds the best life in the end. Gets the girl of his dream. We are fascinated by his success against obvious discomforts and obstructions. It is rightly said:</span><br />
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there can be no true despair without hope </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we lose hope we lose our life or atleast the will to live. Had there been no despair in our life, there would be no need to hope for anything better. Life would become stagnant and we would cease to live. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We need a hero and we need hope.</span></div>
Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-64489021783474147002012-09-07T06:25:00.004-07:002012-09-07T06:25:51.758-07:00Colours : A vivid thought for the joy laden...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent"> The intermix of colours, their entwining
nature, cradling to beget a new form to rise up above the horizon of
folklore and become the ecstasy of the elite, that are selected by their
unique love for the vibrant, vivid beauty of world---</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent"> </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> In the ethereal existence of the
vivacious sparkle, called life, often enough the diminutive lifeless
compounds called colours, fill the missing blanks so as to paint the
entire picture, the canvas being the individual's own retributions for
the forsaken and listless world...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> the painter uses these colours
to ride the wings of the unicorn of his imagination, to sway forth into
the unfortold expanses of wisdom, forsight and anticipation... he
fortifies his own calibrated picture of the joy of world, as, unseen by
the yet unawakened general mortals.... he is an artist...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> pristine in his methods....
glorified in his vision.. obscure to the world and may be living in
oblivion yet he is not dismayed by the apathy of the mortals.... he has
the conjunctive medicine for his disease, ration for his daily survival,
the need for sheer existence... he has the very meaning of matter....
vision.... sensibilities.... he has Colours</span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> </span></span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> </span></div>
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Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-53340930454502768732012-08-03T07:21:00.003-07:002012-08-03T07:22:30.664-07:00Life and Death<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5dd; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We often believe that we are born in a world full of opportunities, new heights to scale, new places to conquer. We are thrown in our own happy world and are happy in it. What we are generally not aware is that we are wearing away our time. Have you watched the movie "<i>In Time</i>" ? <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, we all have a stopwatch on our lives. It ticks. Backwards. Our time on earth is counted. We do not live forever. None of us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We live in illusions and think of "living life king size". How naive are our thoughts. How hollow our purpose; or must I say lack of purpose? We live simply for the sake of living. We live each day with the sole purpose that our next day be better.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5dd; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Yes I believe that life is a stake one has to put up with to earn a peaceful death. Maurice's saying is rather contradictory one might say. He says knowledge leads to a painful death. Maybe true. However I cannot vouch for that. It depends upon what you did with your life and your knowledge. You are supposed to use your knowledge to earn a peaceful death. If all you did in your life was to run after money, riches, lust and other material luxuries and novelties then perhaps you will die an unhappy death. Or, when, you craved for each one of these and found none maybe then you will not find peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I recently lost someone who was directly linked to my earliest childhood memories. I was an infant and he was one of my playmates. A child usually remembers all love and affection showered on him or her. So do I. He supposedly suffered of </span>Alzheimer's disease. He barely recognized his own kith and kin when he neared his death. Maybe he did not feel as much pain as by them who survive him. I <i>pray</i> to the almighty that so be the case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May his soul rest in peace and his memories be immortal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5dd; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">All quotations from :</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> <a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/death.html">http://www.quotegarden.com/death.html</a> </div>
</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-51605865831325372542012-07-31T10:41:00.005-07:002012-07-31T10:41:18.429-07:00New poem by bane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An ode to parting frnds:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I walked alone on a path I tread</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I met some women and men when life made me frayed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A word, a poke, a slap, a look</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the strains of life and pain it took</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I began to cherish the luxury of friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">never thought a parting, the heart it rends</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Felt a parting would not be hard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">wrong that I was, it hurt, inward</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">To lose a friend is to be born anew</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">when thou know not the world and view</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I miss you my friends and all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">barriers won't divide us nor would walls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Count me when thou count thy souls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">bane of mortals shall only void my roles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Fear nay the known nor the unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the shield of your people's love you've always worn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">May success be be thine... never you frown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The jewel of glory your name shalt it crown... !!</span><br />
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--- bane havoc (missing friends)<br />
</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-35584546432876329632012-06-12T04:07:00.000-07:002012-06-19T06:32:15.948-07:00Another poem by BANE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"> दूर शितिज की ओर चला मै</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">उमड़ - घुमड़ घनघोर चला मै</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">कूके कोयल , नाचे मोर चला मै</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">शीतल बौछार छोड़ चला मै</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">मन पावन कर हर ओर चला मै</span><br />
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- BANE</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-55367124168454319382012-03-10T22:10:00.001-08:002012-03-10T22:11:30.008-08:00Cyclic behaviour of Nature...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> We
can find the cycles of nature everywhere around us. We even have been studying
them in our school… the carbon cycle, the oxygen cycle, the organic matter
cycle. However these cycles are not just limited to these elemental levels.
Even the planets revolving around the stars, the satellites revolving around
the planets all constitute cycles. Apart from these cycles we have the cycle of
birth and death which we live out and in. I was reading an article in TOI on
the same topic and my thoughts were set into motion: - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">source: <a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/msticism/cosmic-cycle-of-life-and-death">http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/msticism/cosmic-cycle-of-life-and-death</a></span></span></div>
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Cosmic Cycle Of Life And Death</h1>
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you walk continuously along a straight path, you will never be found
again. But on a cyclic path, you come back repeatedly at the starting
point and eventually cover endless distance, provided the energy and
system remain intact.<br />
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Interestingly, most phenomena occurring in
nature favour a cyclic rather than straight path. In the greater
universe, we see planets circling around stars and stars moving,
centring around the galaxy. The process has been going on in billions of
other galaxies since creation. However, such movement is not without
purpose.<br />
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Apart from gigantic celestial bodies, <i style="background-color: cyan;"><u>it is surprising
that microscopic subatomic particles inside matter like electrons are
also moving in orbits around the nucleus of the atom</u></i>. These are all
energy particles and are responsible for matter formation and
destruction.<br />
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Returning to our planet, one of the most important
phenomena sustaining the life process is plants photosynthesis. It
continuously converts carbon dioxide released by life forms to oxygen in
the atmosphere through cycles so that there is never any dearth of any
component. Apart from this, there are myriad other cycles occurring in
nature that protect creation.<br />
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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose wrote
in his book, Abyakta, while going to explore the source of the Ganga,
albeit philosophically, "Oh river, where have you come from? Where will
you go? The river replied, "From the locks of matted hair of Shiva I
originate and go back to the same place yet again."</blockquote>
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Why does
nature prefer the cyclic path so spontaneously all along Sadi Carnot,
French engineer, discovered in 1832 that a reversible engine generates
maximum output only when it works in cycles.<br />
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It is also independent of the working substance used.<br />
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If
the cyclic path happens to be so desirable both for the material and
the living world, then it is highly probable that the most vital
phenomenon on earth concerning birth-death of human beings should also
work in cycles and is very unlikely to be a one-off incident.<br />
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does it work then? According to the Prasnopanishada, at the time of
death, the old body being incapable of sustaining the life process any
longer perishes along with senses and buddhi or intellect, leaving mind
and soul intact to space.</div>
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While the soul behaves as an onlooker
only,<u style="color: red;"> mind stores all sanskaras like a computer's hard disk.</u> This
soul-mind system acting as a link then enters a new embryonic body, the
matrix of which is determined by the previous mind at the time of death.<br />
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The
soulmind then directs the body as steam drives a steam engine away.
However, evolution from raw mind to enlightened mind is a long journey
considering that change in mindset is undoubtedly a slow process. To
effect this time-consuming transformation, continuous cycles rather than
a single one are the right answer. Had it not been so, all souls should
have required the same state of attainment at the end of a one-off
cycle. With the path remaining the same and with changed system (new
soul-mind), each time at the start, the soul-mind combo can, therefore,
repeat its journey afresh through a chain of cycles, which entails
continuous cleansing of the fleeting mind from illusory bondage of
negativity by selfless karma till it achieves liberation. This has been
the purpose as also Divine Will, which the cyclic path delivers
uniquely.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> Are we all not living
through a cycle at all times? If yes then what are the effects of the cycle?
What is a cycle at the first place? In any cycle, when we start from a location
we reach back the same location after certain interval of time. So is it not
obvious that even in birth and death we follow a similar pattern? We are born
and we die. We are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reborn </i>with a new
body and live a new life. As Mr. Bhattacharyya described in his article so well, the storage and soul (life causing <i>something</i>) never perish. They continue to exist and are passed on. Ancient sages said we are <u>stuck</u> in this cycle of birth and death and to be free we need to attain <i>moksh. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><i> </i>Apart from this, should we not also consider this: if somehow we can recover the data of the storage that never perishes, will we not become immensely intelligent? Think of knowledge and languages that are now lost. We will be able to speak them again. We will actually know many Vaidic mathematics principles (assuming we ever learnt them). I have a belief that the homo sapien race does not inherently belong to the earth. We will even be able to trace back our whereabouts and know all our origins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> What my present writing has led me to is this: we must have some control over our mind. By control I mean the ability to actually disintegrate ourselves temporarily from the body and look at the birth and death cycle as an outsider. I will definitely write more on the topic of <i>Kayagaman </i>or astral experience, as the west calls it. </span></div>
</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-59461014312723876832012-02-26T23:01:00.001-08:002012-02-27T19:52:35.482-08:00Love, Women and Indian Society<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/g96talvzdo67bxx/ode%20to%20love.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">An ode to missed love</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (download)</span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“First
love is sweet despair”</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What is love? Of course there is no
definition for it. When we are young our hormones are the predominant factor in
deciding whom we <i><span style="color: #00b050;">love</span></i>.
Science is of the view that in men the brain functions in such a way as to
allow them to choose the most productive of women that would bear their child.
Women, on the other hand are geared to choose the man that would provide them
with all sorts of support. And how exactly does either of them decide about
their partners? Smell, gait, voice, eyes, the way of looking and other trifles
that would otherwise hold no meaning. This is what a friend of mine once
remarked, <i><span style="color: #c00000;">infatuation</span>.</i>
But, what when they grow up?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The parameters doubtlessly change when
boys and girls grow up. One has to remember that those just out of their teens
are aimless and afraid of their futures. Fear gives rise to either to the fight
for survival or to bullying. Parents and teachers would have the children take
the former path. So should they, if they have to live and lead a luxurious
life. Nothing wrong there. <b>Society will
not feed you</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Wait a minute <i><span style="color: #1f497d;">bane</span></i>, the
heading says, “Women and society” and what are you talking about?</b> Patience my
dear reader, patience. Something our Indian society now lacks. Allow me to
recount an incident.</span></span></div>
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‘A girl joins a college to pursue higher
education. So does a boy. Of course the scene is set in the same college. The
girl is not of best academics. The boy is better in studies. The girl lacks
self confidence. The boy doesn’t have a clear aim. Having met the girl and
finding that she suits him, he foresees a future. He helps her out in her
studies and she finds for the first time in her life, someone who cares. They
fall in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">love. [</b>Pay attention now
dear reader<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">].</b>’</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">What
are your views regarding their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love?</i></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Do you think they were actually in love? Or was it just complementing each other. What one didn't get at home, one finds in a partner. The girl was considered a burden by her parents. The boy had yet to decide a path for his life and future. When he met the girl, he was suddenly taken over by the idea that he has a purpose in life. To protect his love, to care for her, to support her. She always wanted, but, lacked such care. They were now under the impression, they were made for each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Let us now take a look at the parents' perspective. The parents of the boy had obviously no objection (apparently) and as for the girl's family they were initially in agreement of their union. <i><b>Initially </b></i>I said and I mean it. Something happened and the result was something that was straight out of some <i>Bollywood masala</i> movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">A highly posted official of that college saw her and fell for her. Considering she was 18, he was almost double the age. A year later he proposed to her family, and, the family, seeing his position and bank balance, immediately agreed. The girl had almost no say in this. She was forced to accept the marriage and she gave in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The boy was threatened and warned of dire consequences if he even went near her. So, at age 19-20 she was engaged only to be married a few months later. She had no choice. The men in power always have their say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>So what is your point <i>bane? </i>This happens all the time. Why bother?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Yes. It happens all the time. It happens that a girls family considers her to be burden.<b> </b>It happens that a girl in India is never asked for her opinions for her life. It happens that a girl may not fall in love, may be married off at young age, to a much older fellow. It happens that a girl in India may have to bear a child and carry out the duties of a wife at an age when she hardly knows herself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>The girl in the above mentioned story asked her family only this much, that if they want her marry the man they want, atleast let her grow up. Let her complete her studies. She was beaten to silence and submittance.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The girl and the boy may be wrong. They may be rash in deciding their life's route, but, tell me do you find it meek that a girl in <b>India </b>should have no right to choose? There was a time when women in India chose their husband in a ritual called <i>swayamvar. </i>It is a thing of the past now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The women are suppressed inspite of numerous women welfare and rights laws. They do not yet have a say. A society that can not respect its women is bound to doom. It will eventually fail. And this is quite visible. The values are losing their merit and acceptance among the youth. Not only the boys but also the girls use language that might be called beggarly or filthy. They do not have respect for elders and scoff at parents advice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">These young boys and girls will become parents of tommorrow but will they be able to impart any culture or value to their children? No. The society will break. Evil will run rampant. All this just because we today will fail to give the best values to our children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Every parent wants the best for their children. However, in their decisions, the children's feelings should not be hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I know the girl will fall in order of events in her life. She will eventually forget her first love and learn to adjust in her new environment. She will be a good wife and a good mother. Her first love? <i><b>Sweet despair.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe the women will be liberated from such hapless conditions and will have a greater choice</span><i><b> </b></i></span> and say in their life. Hoping for the general good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">(<b>This is not fiction; it is based on a true story of my friends and the fate of their love</b>)</span></div>
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The world doesn’t know who
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I was asked by a teacher what my
objectives for my life are. I simply replied: “I want to innovate in a new
software system.” To this he replied: “will the completion of this objective
give you ultimate satisfaction? Will this suffice all your wants?” It is true
that I didn’t have an answer to this question. Then I thought, after much
musing, does any one of us have an objective? A purpose? The ancient sages told
us to meditate, to introspect and find the purpose of the gift that the lord
almighty has given us. It took years, to know it. When one stumbled upon this
truth, he was considered to be enlightened. What or how then we, young men, who
haven’t had much experience of this world, could possibly know the purpose?
Again what is this purpose? One of my dearest friend said that our aim should
be to strive for knowledge and be of service to mankind in general.</div>
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Now comes the big question, in
the real world scenario, is such mentality feasible? In a country where to earn
food is one of the most difficult task, is there any time or health for others?
Do we care for others, for philosophy? For values? No. We all will be too busy
earning our own livelihood. I will know a technique and my peer will know one
more. I will be busy taking on him so that I get beyond him in career. I will
be hungry for money, respect and superiority. I know I will be not the best of
the citizen; I will pay bribes to get my work done. I will walk along the set
lines of fanciful and immoral conduct, and become a legal trickster. Objective
whoever talked of that? I will be alive.</div>
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I think it will be almost
impossible to be the idealist that we think of, if ever we do think of it. At
the end I know I will hate myself for being what I would become in life.
Considering these thoughts all I would say in the end is this: “whatever or
however I live my life, I will die a respectful death.”</div>
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May all those who are aimless
find a purpose in life. Read the first line now. Again, carefully.</div>
</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-32208111595170593392012-02-05T01:45:00.000-08:002012-02-05T01:45:28.228-08:00Indians and the Agneepath way !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Should the youngsters of today's India resort to weapons?</b></span></div>
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"...यार इन सभी नेताओ को लाइन में खड़ा करके गोली मार देनी चाहिए... " We most often than not may have heard the more ardent of the patriotic youngsters say this. I have myself said this more times than I can recall. Now, a question has arisen in my mind, is it really the right way? Is it the only way to subdue the obnoxious presence of the omnipresent corruption? Will this cure the country of this disease and restore it to some pristine state?</div>
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was only 24-25, when in 1893, he was thrown off a train in South Africa. He did not fight back with the racist englishmen who considered themselves a superior race. He took up path that was peaceful, long term, diplomatic and non-violent. <i>Ahimsa</i> (अहिंसा), was his supreme tool of action. He was fondly called <i>Bapu</i> (बापू), or the father of our nation and it is the belief of historians and people alike that it was his non-violent struggle and his persistence that won the Indians their freedom. True, but, is it absolutely true?</div>
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<b>Have you ever considered the flip side of this?</b></div>
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<a href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT2_CVuIGM_aR9fAKNwDqs_El9pzo6_B7_83P6MGIT504JyZPxw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT2_CVuIGM_aR9fAKNwDqs_El9pzo6_B7_83P6MGIT504JyZPxw" /></a>Do you not think that if it were not for the forceful struggles and resistance provided by the so called extremists; Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, Ram Prasad Bismil, Chandra Shekhar Azad and other not so famous men, freedom was not possible?</div>
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When most men were talking of non-violence under gandhiji's teachings, there were some who were killed or who lost their loved one's to british bullets. So, when they were killing us why should we have not struck them back in the hearts and minds? We did and the above mentioned men were the most prominent in these attacks. A <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">जलियांवाला बाग़ massacre was reciprocated by Bhagat Singh, Azad killing Dyer, who ordered the killings.</span></div>
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Shubhash Chandra Bose was earlier a common indian politician, the first indian man to break the taboo that indians cannot enter civil services. He had differences with Gandhi, and he left Indian Congress and was exiled by British Indian government. He went on to take refuge in Japan and built the Indian National Army. He planned to attack India and win it back from the british. He couldn't succeed, but, he showed the rulers what Indians are capable of. He used force, but, highly organised force.</div>
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Coming back to present times, we have seen that youth of India boiled at the idea of reservations and discrimination on the basis of <i>caste. </i>Some went on to say that the minister who brought it in should be killed. Their inspiration:<span style="color: #b45f06;"> <i>Rang de Basanti</i></span>, a movie that depicts five youngsters killing the corrupt defense minister of India because of whose actions their friend died. Although, it tried to depict youth awakening and patriotism, it simply showed some revenge taking. Justified?</div>
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Coming to almost the end of my discussion, I will talk about the title of my post, <i>Agneepath</i>. A movie that made waves when it was shot with Amitabh Bachchan as its lead actor and causing a frenzy still when it has been remade with Hrithik Roshan. The point? "Avenge the wrongs done to you", the violent way. We see corrupt and the shit about it, criminals taking up elite positions in the Indian government. It is not restricted to any one party. All are same. We talk about being the youngest country, but, we do not yet have a bright future. Not with criminals having the balance of power. Crime is rampant and although it may not affect everybody resulting in the illusion that we are safe, it is spreading like a wildfire. Political, Cyber, social everything. Our laws are good, but, outdated. Many clauses have lost their significance, but, the amendment procedure is too long and cumbersome. Result? Justice delayed and justice denied and most unfortunately justice inappropriate. </div>
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Law and politics is becoming the game of power brokers and when there is law-lessness, there rises violence. To settle their disputes, the ordinary citizen takes up weapons and hell breaks loose. Think about it all my readers and suggest the ways to make a peaceful, non-corrupt and dignified, decent society. Take care.!!</div>
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</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-62613023795838349872012-02-03T05:48:00.000-08:002012-02-03T05:48:27.204-08:00Promote Indianism !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been told time and again..."Anurag, why don't you wear a jeans
and a nice shirt instead of those loose and hanging clothes? You look
so morosely old fashioned....".<br />
This insistence of my friends has made me think about the fate of Indian culture. We are one of the <span style="color: red;">oldest civilization in this world</span>.
5000 thousand years and on. We have a dress sense that is old and time
tested. However, the young Indians do not seem to be much interested in
the history rather they want some toung-in-cheek type hype to be created
when they wear anything.<br />
It all happens because the young guns grow up watching the <i style="color: orange;">idlers</i>
(read movie actors) wearing all those fashionable clothes besides the
fact that the MNC's that provide bread and butter to these young guns
when they grow up is the incentive for them to wear fancy clothes.<br />
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A girl once told me she wears jeans and tops because she
is more comfortable in them for her day to day chores rather than <i style="color: purple;">salwar-kame</i><i><span style="color: purple;">z</span> </i>which
I had suggested her to wear. Now, as for her day to day chores, I don't
really think jeans-top does her any good. Never mind, the other fact
that they do not want to look odd amidst their peers.</div>
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Now, such attitude can be changed only if we are our own bread
producers. The west controls us financially. We have to break free of
such bondage and make our own empires that do not profusely depend on
western help. Only then can we regain the respect for Hindi and Indian
attire back in the hearts of our young Indians.</div>
</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-60494687326027846242012-01-30T05:48:00.000-08:002012-02-03T05:46:07.352-08:00Vote with Brains<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As our general elections have approached, we have definitely decided to vote, haven't we? However, are the candidates contesting the elections are worth our votes?</div>
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Consider this: our present government has barred four senior scientists of ISRO from government jobs. His guilt? </div>
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The action comes in the wake of the controversial deal in which a
private company was allotted scarce S band spectrum by ISRO allegedly in
violation of rules. The contract with Devas was signed during the tenure of Mr. Nair as the chairman of ISRO.</div>
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<span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">source: <span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-25/india/30662524_1_devas-deal-antrix-devas-antrix-and-devas</span></span></div>
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<span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">"We are citizens of India,
residing in India, we have cell (mobile phone) connection and email
connection, we have postal address and every thing is there. Actually, we have not hijacked an aeroplane or something so
that between hijackers and the agency there will be dialogue and what
not", Nair said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT"><span style="font-size: small;">source:</span> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Restore-my-honour-Ex-ISRO-chief-Madhavan-Nair-writes-to-Manmohan-Singh/articleshow/11687052.cms</span></span></div>
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<span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT"><span style="color: black;">Now, the esteemed</span> <span style="color: black;">ministers who have similar charges on their heads not only roam about with their heads held high but also hold their offices. Why is it that our scientists are being treated like criminals? Vote for those who are worthy of your choice... </span></span></div>
</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796039272172697883.post-76820789749059524782011-12-31T00:35:00.000-08:002012-02-03T05:45:45.071-08:00The Misguided Youth of India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I would like to start my conversation by stating that Indian youth <i><b>is</b></i> misguided, according to me. What I observe is that the young gen of India believes in living life "king size" without actually taking the pains to earn the means. They would rather spend their parents' hard earned money just to maintain a <i>status </i>among the peers<i>. Also, </i>our education system has entirely failed to harness the full potential of Indian youth that count to more millions than any other country.<br />
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Apart from other anomalies, the education system has failed to make the youth imbibe the feelings of national servitude and unity. We don't work as a team, but, rather try to slit throats of our own people.<br />
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We do not innovate... we simply copy the west... in attire and also in culture... The youth is misguided.</div>Anurag Banerjeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03344838793480419036noreply@blogger.com4