Wars – Nothing but Pain

How it will be to leave our country and be in some other place where the air you breathe is not yours,
the wind that caress is not yours, the sky you see is not yours?
You can't go to the place where you spent your childhood?
How it will be to leave all your friends, lovable ones and your properties and flee away one fine day?
They would've left their friends, their favourite tree/plant or their much loved stuffs.
Will they know when they will be able to go back to their place?
Do they know where they are heading?
Do they know how their future will be?
W/ a heavy heart and like a bird which doesn’t know its destination, there they leave...
W/ tears that couldn't get those answers but more questions, there they leave...
Leaving all they know and loved, there they leave...

Is this the case in one or two countries? How many people? How many of them become homeless
every other day, how many of them become refugees every day? Do we know?
Do we care? Do we bother?

What we did from our end? We see news everyday in TV and newspaper and continue w/ our day to life.
It’s just news for us. But for some people, this is LIFE. This is their day to day life.
For us, it is just some hot news sitting relaxed on our couch we sit and watch the news. Yeah, we are just common people; we can’t do anything to stop all these. We get up, go to office, crib about work, crib about food, crib about managers, compare our 60k salary w/ 75k salary and speak all day about our worries.
We forget that people are there who doesn’t even have a job, who doesn’t have a dress to wear, no home to get back in the night, no food to eat. We don’t care about them. Yeah, I am also like you. Shouldn’t we feeling guilty? We are cursing god that we are not born as Tatas or Birlas or Ambanis. But we should be grateful right that we are not born there and torn into pieces physically and mentally by wars?

We are just normal people. We just know only to crib. When will these sufferings end? When we will understand that love and Peace? When we will learn to love people? When we will stop the war?
Isn't wars are just political dramas and common people doesn’t get anything from wars
Except troubles and pain?

Gossips…

When we learned gossiping? Not sure.. But gossiping became a character w/ in us. We all gossip about almost all possible things under the sun. When we were kids in school our favorite topic of gossiping will be the school teachers. We all want to know whether the “Miss” who look pretty and whom we like most is married or not. There will be always rumors all around the school that she is married/ she has a boy friend.

Our attention will move to the gals/guys in the class when we reach our college. In college we would’ve gossiped the most. All our disappointments and frustration will turn as imaginative stories on others. Work, neighbors, and celebrities no one it spares. Everyone would have got affected in their life because of the gossips by others on them. But no one wants to stop gossiping even after getting affected. They want to gossip more and take vengeance by gossiping. All will get a brutal satisfaction when they spread stories about the people whom they dislike.

Gossips trickles in our body all throughout our life. It stays w/ us right from our childhood till we die. It comes w/ us like our own shadow. Like a cyclone fear will round us up when someone gets affected by us. Trying to hide our fault we say much more bad things about that person justifying our stories. We all fear to accept mistakes but we all expect others to accept their mistakes. We all live w/ scars we got by hurting others w/ our stories. We are hiding our scars w/ more scars.

We are surrounded my numerous rumors all around us. We are carrying them wherever we go.

Gossips are in the air invisibly holding us, crushing us, and squeezing us w/ its innumerable hands. Before gossiping ask yourself “Whether you want to do that “ “What if it’s going to cost a life” Why you want to do that” “ don’t you feel like a savage animal when you hurt others by gossiping”.. I need not say all the questions you wanna ask yourself. But do ask once at least before you come up w/ new stories and spreading them.

Now, don’t gossip that “She might be affected badly that’s why she is giving lecture like this “ :-)

Books vs E-Books

E-Books - a recent one getting rid of paper bound form of book. See now I am finding it difficult to differentiate b/w book and e-book ‘cos of a new form introduction.

Guess this will be the problem, when something new gets introduced, then the original one loses its individuality and you got to explain people properly which form you are talking about old one or new one J Ok Leaving this here let’s go back to our topic..

I started reading books long back way in my school days. Something amused me in reading; I started reading all forms of printable versions that comes to my house as magazines, papers, novels whatever it is.

Now after this e-book introduction, I started feeling something uneasy. To be frank I never liked to read e-books in e-book format. E-book format in the sense reading it by sitting before PC.

I always liked holding the books, feeling the essence, allowing your mind to wander w/ the book come back and start w/ the page you left and went. Books stored in cup boards will always give a pleasant smell - only book lovers can feel :-) I love wandering through the cupboards of the library like a lone warrior cruising along some mystic mountains.

I like book marking the books, come back after some time, see the book marked page and sink into memories.

In childhood, books are secret places to store special flowers ;-) , hand written precious papers, place to grow your peacock feather and much more.

How e-book can replace this feel? Impossible…..

One thing I liked about e-book is – easy mode of transport and I have collected lots of my favorite books. Know what I am going to do w/ that ;-)

What else ..Take print outs of them, bind them, transform it to a book..and then read and enjoy :-)

[ I can hear people saying “you can’t change some people” :-) ]

Huge Novels..

When I was given AYN RAND’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ to read, I said to my friend suddenly “what a huge book, more than 1000 pages”

“Haven’t you read any kinda huge novels before?”

“Nope I don’t think so....hey wait..Yes I did…I have read before”

“Which novel?”

I said “ Ponniyin Selvan – the great historical novel ever written”

I am not here neither to talk about Atlas shrugged ‘cos am only some 10% through there and nor about Ponniyin Selvan – cos this needs a separate column to talk about that. That much special :-)

I used to think, how much time will these writers would take to write those kinda big novels? Even if they write, on what confidence they are writing that their book will be published?

How about people giving preface to that novel or the editor/publisher, would they have really read the novel fully? I don’t know yaar!

But thank god! Before I post anything here..I need no one’s approval or editing here :-)
What a nice technology…. !!

Kids!!

This small girl I saw her while playing in the streets when I went to Jayanagar 9th Blk, Bangalore where I stay. She is so cute...little with a height till my knee. She captured my attention.Suddenly she entered the shop, where we were purchasing something...It’s a quite big shop... I was taken aback by a jerk that time. I started Thinking how she entered such a big shop without any hesitation. I started
fearing will the shopwalas chase her away since she is from roadside?
Then later I realized. She is a CHILD. She don’t know anything about our false status or the difference in the kind of life we lead...She doesn’t have any boundaries in life. All are humans. All are lovable on earth no partiality, no indifference...the whole world is their playground.

The truth behind her action it strikes hard on my head! Bang!!!How we ourselves have created difference between us. We are restricting ourselves to our very own laid rules, false prestige, beliefs. We are prisoners for our own way of life. We are idiots.Children are like Gods! How true Is that!! I realized it. No no that small kid has made me to realize it!!