A nice video on Gujarat. Very moving Indeed
Youtube LinkApril 18, 2010
Perspcetives
The moving finger sometimes does go back,
Not to rewrite, but to reread;
And what was once dismissed, derided, mocked,
May, in the fullness of a moon or two,
Or even years,
Be hailed as wisdom,
spoken forthrightly at that earlier time,
And having needed courage
To face the obloquy of the others less perceptive,
Though burdened invective.
Remind yourself: A prophet's seldom praised
Before sunset,
of the day on which he first proclaimed
Unpalatable truths.
But if and when your truths
In the time become self-evident,
Their author vindicated,
Be, at that harvest moment, forgiving, gracious,
Broad of mind, large-purposed,
Amused by life's contrariness.
For not to all, only the few,
Are presbyopic gifts: long vision, clarity, sagacity,
By chance, through lottery at birth,
Bestowed by busy nature.
-"Karen Sloan"
Not to rewrite, but to reread;
And what was once dismissed, derided, mocked,
May, in the fullness of a moon or two,
Or even years,
Be hailed as wisdom,
spoken forthrightly at that earlier time,
And having needed courage
To face the obloquy of the others less perceptive,
Though burdened invective.
Remind yourself: A prophet's seldom praised
Before sunset,
of the day on which he first proclaimed
Unpalatable truths.
But if and when your truths
In the time become self-evident,
Their author vindicated,
Be, at that harvest moment, forgiving, gracious,
Broad of mind, large-purposed,
Amused by life's contrariness.
For not to all, only the few,
Are presbyopic gifts: long vision, clarity, sagacity,
By chance, through lottery at birth,
Bestowed by busy nature.
-"Karen Sloan"
The Road goes on
The Road goes ever on and on,
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can !
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
-Bilbo Baggins [Lord of the Rings]
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can !
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
-Bilbo Baggins [Lord of the Rings]
March 13, 2010
Key to liberation
You were looking for the key for years, But the door was always open
- unknown Muslim poet.(@The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga)
March 12, 2010
Life takes you Places
(4/1/2008)
The days of oblivion are long gone by, now come the days of back-breaking load of knowledge. Knowledge that nothing keeps still, even the most mundane of the in-animate objects keep changing at their own pace.
Left School, thought that i would run along the path, life has made for me; many friends were enstranged , many more i got.
The days of oblivion are long gone by, now come the days of back-breaking load of knowledge. Knowledge that nothing keeps still, even the most mundane of the in-animate objects keep changing at their own pace.
Left School, thought that i would run along the path, life has made for me; many friends were enstranged , many more i got.
March 11, 2010
The White Tiger
The book brings to fore the reality of modern jungle with all its fauna, contrasting few animals being analysed are The Stork, Buffalo, Lamb, Boar, ... and The White Tiger. Social issues of India are bared and beans are spilled as on how the Indian society is slowly going on the same ruinous route of Rome.
The book shows both the flip and the flop side of the Indian neo-Rich mentality. The flip being, Indians still show honesty even at the worst possible level of deprivation, although the authors shows this in negative light, and metaphors like "Rooster Coop". The flop, obviously being the carrying on with same thing...
The hard-hitting reality and no-nonsense attitude of the protagonist and his journey from "Darkness" to "Light" forms the spine of the story. The story begins in a typical Indian village with a large poor family of Halwai's, now forced to manual labour of pulling carts(rickshaw), how this kid named "Munna" grows from a chai-wala to a driver to murderer and finally a self proclaimed social entrepreneur.
The Indian dynamics of political system, law enforcement and judiciary are brought under scanner and open-secrets are told. The Chinese connection is intriguing, as to whether it was intentional or for pun.
All in all the book is a nice read, provided one is braced to face hard-bitter-cold-everyday reality concentrated and given in a single shot.
@Link: http://shru-perception.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
The book shows both the flip and the flop side of the Indian neo-Rich mentality. The flip being, Indians still show honesty even at the worst possible level of deprivation, although the authors shows this in negative light, and metaphors like "Rooster Coop". The flop, obviously being the carrying on with same thing...
The hard-hitting reality and no-nonsense attitude of the protagonist and his journey from "Darkness" to "Light" forms the spine of the story. The story begins in a typical Indian village with a large poor family of Halwai's, now forced to manual labour of pulling carts(rickshaw), how this kid named "Munna" grows from a chai-wala to a driver to murderer and finally a self proclaimed social entrepreneur.
The Indian dynamics of political system, law enforcement and judiciary are brought under scanner and open-secrets are told. The Chinese connection is intriguing, as to whether it was intentional or for pun.
All in all the book is a nice read, provided one is braced to face hard-bitter-cold-everyday reality concentrated and given in a single shot.
@Link: http://shru-perception.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
September 23, 2007
Courage
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the the quiet voice at the end of the Day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
September 21, 2007
Love...
Love is always patient and kind, it is never jealous. Love is never boastful nor conceited, it is never rude or selfish, it does not take offence and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure what ever comes.
September 16, 2006
ARE THEY DIFFERENT?
Ysterday there was Buzz about a new school for children having IQ greater than 160 only. The school boasts of individualistic approach of teaching every student. The News item was Titled-
Refuge For Intelligent People.
The intelligent people are different than the rest, but the act of segregating them is injustice to both-The Student and The System.
The System will be affected by the loss of intelligentsia, thus the normal students will lose the healthy competition they had.
I would place a metaphor here : the brain does all the work in the body, so should the brain be removed from it? The answer is NO. Because the brain although highly developed than any other organ DERIVES ITS NUTRITION FROM THE BODY. Similarly the intelligent people are different but segregating them is not a tangible solution as they are also nothing but a part of society.
The Segregated students will be made to believe that they are great and the others are not up to their par in any aspect of life. Taking them out of the system is undermining the values of equality.
In the end the intelligent people have to co-exist with other people in the society. Thus they should be provided with the means to develop and utilise their talent to the fullest.
The intelligent people are different than the rest, but the act of segregating them is injustice to both-The Student and The System.
The System will be affected by the loss of intelligentsia, thus the normal students will lose the healthy competition they had.
I would place a metaphor here : the brain does all the work in the body, so should the brain be removed from it? The answer is NO. Because the brain although highly developed than any other organ DERIVES ITS NUTRITION FROM THE BODY. Similarly the intelligent people are different but segregating them is not a tangible solution as they are also nothing but a part of society.
The Segregated students will be made to believe that they are great and the others are not up to their par in any aspect of life. Taking them out of the system is undermining the values of equality.
In the end the intelligent people have to co-exist with other people in the society. Thus they should be provided with the means to develop and utilise their talent to the fullest.
September 5, 2006
The Rajasthan Episode (Part 1 - Chittorgarh)
Lord Be Praised.Rajasthan... One state which is usually associated with Desert and shifting sands. But, My notion about this state was to be shattered and I was to be enlightened.
All of us were getting bored after 5 weeks of staying back at home. We wanted to do something, go somewhere. Hence we took it upon ourselves to search for a suitable destination. Everyone suggested some place or the other, but we could not reach a consensus. Then I suggested about Rajasthan, as that was the starting of monsoon. So we thought that heading towards Rajasthan would give us reprieve from the pouring of Goa, and Humid Climate of Hill Stations.
So we started collecting information about the state. we visited the State's Tourism Development Website, and many other sources, including People who had visited the state.
We Came to Know that there are mainly two tourism routes
- The Marwad (Desert) Route: which passes through picturesque Jodhpur, Jaiselmer, Bikaner...
- The Mewad (Green) Route: which has cities like Udaipur, Ajmer, Pushkar, Jaipur.
We Chose the Green Route.
Thus we now started planning our trip, with the places to be visited in mind.
We decided that we will concentrate more on enjoying the beauty of the journey rather than just the destination, thus we went to three cities only. viz.
- Chittorgarh
- Udaipur
- Mt.Abu
Dates were decided with everyones convenience in mind.
The Journey
The trip was to start at 7.00 AM on 11th July; We started rumaging for things to pack.. like CD's, Medicines, Camera's and other stuff... and finally at the end of the day, I was able to pack eveything.
On the dawn of 11th July, we started our Fun trip to Rajasthan, our route was simple and straight.
On Day 1: We headed straight to Chittorgarh.
We took a break around noon, to have some snacks.
and then went straight up to the fort...
A Birds Eye View Of the Fort
Victory Tower
The FORT must have been very magnificent during its prime.
It is very big, encompassing many smaller buildings such as temples, and other palaces... to mention a few, the Well know "Victory Tower", then the palace of queens, from where the queen of Chittorgarh along with other women of the fort performed the JOHAR....
It took us around 4 hours just to have a glance at each and every thing inside the fort... later we decided to go in detail.
We climed upto the top of the Victory Tower, the view from that point was just Magnificent. Then to the temple of lord Brahma, the only other temple in the world (the 1st being in Pushkar).
Around the sunset, we watched the beautiful fort in the twilight, and later continued our journey, towards Udaipur....
(To Be Continued....)
January 25, 2006
THE TECHFEST 2006
Myself with some of my friends went to IIT-B for participating in an event there for TECHFEST.. their Technical Festival. During 20-22nd Jan.
we were to participate in the Ultimate racing competition of the year, our own Indianised RC DRAGS Competition.
We boarded the Viramgam Passenger for MUMBAI on 19th night. The train infamous for being late and taking double time than other trains on the same route. The Tain came an hour late as was expected of it. anyways, we got onto it at surat, after that, once inside the train, we got the bedding etc out and sat discussing about our prospects of competing against the best of the best in Asia. and went to sleep around midnight. the train reached its destination at 6AM on 20th. and suddenly we were in the thick of a commotion to get out of the train.
We did anyhow, we deboarded the train, and went to the other platform to catch our next connecting Local.
When we reached the IIT-B Hostels, we were kindda exhausted with the effort.Anyways...
at around 9 we had our breakfast and then went to see the arena... we were queqed for 10.30 the other day. So we practiced a bit, fine tuned the machine, and then went for a stroll... we visited arena for many other competitions.
Next day we went to the arena an hour and half before our scheduled time. we checked and rechecked our every part of the machine, which was a car (built using a Engine(diesel)) and to our utter horror, we found that a particular bolt was damaged and needed to be replaced, the calm changed into turbulance...and suddenly we were all doing this and that, luckily we found a shop and bought the required part and replaced it, but our bad time was not over yet...
Now the clutch mechanism was giving us jitters... Somehow we managed to mend the things. and we went in the arena for the elimination round which was a one-on-one challange... we prayed, and started our engines, pushed the accelerator and waited for the countdown... and 3...2...1...GO... God be praised... the machine ran perfectly and we won that particular part... now we waited... for the results to be announced the following day...
God be praised again, we made it to the top, we were amongst the top 30 Teams selected out of a total of 300 Teams which participated...
we were to participate in the Ultimate racing competition of the year, our own Indianised RC DRAGS Competition.
We boarded the Viramgam Passenger for MUMBAI on 19th night. The train infamous for being late and taking double time than other trains on the same route. The Tain came an hour late as was expected of it. anyways, we got onto it at surat, after that, once inside the train, we got the bedding etc out and sat discussing about our prospects of competing against the best of the best in Asia. and went to sleep around midnight. the train reached its destination at 6AM on 20th. and suddenly we were in the thick of a commotion to get out of the train.
We did anyhow, we deboarded the train, and went to the other platform to catch our next connecting Local.
When we reached the IIT-B Hostels, we were kindda exhausted with the effort.Anyways...
at around 9 we had our breakfast and then went to see the arena... we were queqed for 10.30 the other day. So we practiced a bit, fine tuned the machine, and then went for a stroll... we visited arena for many other competitions.
Next day we went to the arena an hour and half before our scheduled time. we checked and rechecked our every part of the machine, which was a car (built using a Engine(diesel)) and to our utter horror, we found that a particular bolt was damaged and needed to be replaced, the calm changed into turbulance...and suddenly we were all doing this and that, luckily we found a shop and bought the required part and replaced it, but our bad time was not over yet...
Now the clutch mechanism was giving us jitters... Somehow we managed to mend the things. and we went in the arena for the elimination round which was a one-on-one challange... we prayed, and started our engines, pushed the accelerator and waited for the countdown... and 3...2...1...GO... God be praised... the machine ran perfectly and we won that particular part... now we waited... for the results to be announced the following day...
God be praised again, we made it to the top, we were amongst the top 30 Teams selected out of a total of 300 Teams which participated...
June 19, 2005
The sudden shift of life
The day of saturday, the 18th dwaned with a fear; Fear, as everyone knows, but this wasnt what was in store for all of us? was it destined to happen, the most reputed man, the man known for his morale fibre and sustained performance even in the adversities, like, Plague, Earthquake, Riots, ... and the list will go on. was asked to quit, just for the reason that, the organization can not sustain him. Impressing upon him that 11 years of pure dedication, means nothing to those who see only money, and that too, the equation, they arrive on is completely incorrect. They say that to earn Rs.1 Cr, the need to give advances of Rs.100 Cr., so if they cut the cost by reducing the no. of employees, i.e reducing the expenditure, they can attain the same profit in less advances, and advances means risks. But tell me, that if you dont take risk then will you ever be able to get profit? if you reduce the workforce more than what is required, then those Rs.68 Cr would be a distant dream.hope that those people get the enlightment and dont destroy those who are dedicated.
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