THE PURPOSE

You get out of bed,its a fine Sunday morning..before you know it,an early morning viral state of consciousness takes you into retrospect and bounces thoughts back and forth like a traveller in a worm-hole. You love it with the content state in life as nothing seems out of place but the fact is this: the relationships in your life rust the armour of eccentricity that nature bestows upon all of us.

Not that,its a quality we kings of our lives are too proud of,we want love of relationships to come to us,so we provide the psyche with the murky water of likeability and let the other close ones brood .And through all of this,our respect for the sanctity of that relationship(all kinds and not only pup love) takes place of the eccentricity of thyself.

The psyche travels further...of all the workaholic nights and relationships of hope,you travel back into the vacuum of rusted eccentricity which is eventually only as strong as your hormones...and you are lost in the hope of finding the Purpose..The thinking man statue,the self-help books,the religion within..its all chaos until you stoke the passions that childhood hours bestowed upon you..carnal pleasures become pointless and miniscule to your self now..and you begin the nine-month journey in the womb of nature,nurturing the self,finding beauty in actions and words...sliding through the wormhole now till the fine moment where eccentricity and wisdom have a titan clash and you start over again.This till you find the PURPOSE of your existence and a companion to understand and value it.So you go back to nature,Preserve.And till you do not find that equilibrium...well...Eat .Pray .Love,earthlings!

sair kar..

Sair kar duniya ki ghalib, yeh zindagani phir kahan
zingagani gar rahi toh , naujawani phir kahan…..

The history and progress of Muslim-Jew relations!

Last night I received a mail from a close Muslim friend depicting the atrcoties by ISRAEL on people sharing Muslim values in Palestine and if I would've been a Muslim,it would make blood burst out of my veins!!(though I grieved it as a human-being.)But then I realised the feeling was of a "What can be done" kind spontaneously instead of a layman aggressive oneand that's what foreign diplomatic interaction is all about.

Moving on,I start briefly with the history of Jews from the 12 tribes to their settlement,what we call Israel today.Throughout their journey they have suffered torture and affliction time and again,most recently by Hitler-led Nazis.During Roman empire,they were protected by kings because of their good services and partly because Catholics' religion won't let christians lend money and hence they emerged as prominent money-lenders though virtually as slaves to the Christian kings.

Church's influence on Roman empire made them follow "Convert or die"policy.Large-scale displacements under different empires and massacres have reduced them to a paltry 12-13 million worldwide!!After Muhammad's demise in 7th Century AD, they worked under Muslims in the middle-east and were happy enough with their respectable servility rather than Church's oppression.This has been described as "Golden Period" for Jews!

But the Golden Period was just a flash of light as Hitler started Shoah against this kind!!Millions of Jews were killed in Poland,Europe and North Africa.It was high time they got a land of their own(and the sacred land) but the Muslims won't give up an inch of Palestine(as we love Kashmir).UN intervened(under the influence of the Americans and the Bristish) and in 1948 Jewish state within then-present Palestinian land was formed and many Arab-Israel wars have been fought since then.

Israel has been constantly provided diplomatic and military aid by U.S.

Truly,I think this conflict will never be resolved unless U.S. intervenes because only U.S. has maintained that level of comfort with this panick-stricken over-aggresive state who's acting like a kid with a knife with all its resources and at a wrong time !!Leadership change in both U.S. and Israel has shown a new ray of hope

Israel has to stop building permanent settlements on the disputed land and bombarding innocent citizens is never going to make them any less hated leave along have cordial relations with their neighbors.Islamic countries have to come together(Saudi-Arabia and U.A.E.) not to wage a war or a holy war but for a diplomatic dialogue along with the U.S.(which has to stop pampering Israel) Lets remember Hatred begets hatred begets hatred!!

Of Madmen,Honest diplomats and Spoilsport politicians!!

A few months back I read an article by Vir sanghvi and it was a fact that resonated with my thoughts about how does Pakistan Govt. gets away with the rocket firings,the terror business,the 26/11s and all of that matter,after being clearly evident that it is the epicentre if not the sole conspirator in all of this.

Here's how all of it works.The mad man theory was something that Americans used against the Soviets.They spread the word that US President Reagan was a madman,a drinker who listened to no one. This sparked a speculation that he would press the red button(famous nuclear weapon launch symbol in the office of US President!!) on a hiccup.The Soviet people went berserk eventually as the fear sunk deeper.A mad man sitting on of a stockpile of nukes-It would make anyone sweat in their shirts to put it soberly..

Pakistani huqmaraan has perfected this Mad man theory.

Next time any regular activities from Pakistan take place,try to dig deep into who is answerable from the Pakistani owl pack,the Parliamentarians that is!!Bet you'll get lost in PoK.

Zardari says,the military is not in our control(as the history has seen),Military says ISI which is hostile and works as an independent entity has to curb terrorist activities(the sympathy being the sporadic blasts in Pakistan), ISI won't come out to address anyone and the void is left open.

The current hulabaloo over none of the 11 Pakistani cricket players not being picked up by any of the IPL clubs instigated a smile and made me think about Vir's point.

Now,the ball is in India's court as conspiracy or not,the madmen in Pakistan have become dam(ned)men as they have no one to blame for this.Not the Politicians,Not the Sports ministry,forget the corporates if it triggered a bleep.India needs such diplomacy to deal with Pakistan.India's Foreign Politics has to evolve and shun Gandhigiri and adopt this very valid principle. Because when statesmen become madmen,there should always be a Plan B especially when you have a country like India at stake.

What is Love???

So..what really is love...1. It's an energy that binds all of mankind together in ways more complex than what meets the eye...like bee has love for honey,fly for flame,brain for knowledge,psyche for good music,female for her sibling,a male pengiun's perseverance..holding its egg at -70degs for several months!!...It's a passion that has governed all of us throughout our lives and yet we tend to ignore it through the narrow yet defining intricacies of ourSelves..searching for scapegoats to bounce out of a covalent bond with relative ease..not thinking of the IMPACT the decisions may cause to other beings...2. It is more or less an involuntary reflex that God has endowed upon all of living kind to understand the very basics and principles of life .. a feeling that breaks all barriers of human thinking which tend to take us in different directions.. Ambitious as every living being is made to be with differing grades of coloration...and by that I mean layers of complexity....biological and emotional...which define us as unique beings, as a species and individually..for ex. a human female won't eat its child out of hunger but a Tigress does...beacuse of the aggresive nature and the overpowering urge to live..and there lies the difference that has governed living kind for ages...the truth is...Love is a passion..and truly, its easier to be commited when you're passionate..We humans are unique in the sense that we have a balance...not the ecological one...(which is quite twisted case in our kind)...but a balance of mind and heart...of emotions and ambitions..of truth and farce...and what 's beautiful is that we have the tendency to choose...that most other species on this planet do not...because they are just part of an ecological system and "Survival, Sustenance and Reproduction" are the only strings that hold their love by virtue of nature...
Now,where does all this lead to..I mean one would say its easy to have thoughts and jotting them down...but Love means real pain,real sacrifice and real patience...and words may be set of alphabets that can alleviate the opposite but not enough to fill the vacuum of reality...but the truth is that is what defines you as an individual and tests you as an emotional human being..Patience is the key to any succesful relation and of giving the other person more importance than everything else that matters..of rising above petty fights and differences and undrestanding that what matters the most is the other person and not the juices and chemicals that lead us to the differences...once this is imbibed..Love can cross any barriers,any distractions and any test of time:)

Confessions of a Rookie Roadie---- Vol 1

After quitting my previous job and a build-up of energy that had started bubbling under the psyche,I needed to get out of the system...It wasn't the inner urge to explore this time but the newly found one...I wanted to test and henceforth, stretch my limits as to how much I could tolerate my own SELF in the harshest of conditions when conscience tends to melt away and the aggresive alter ego takes over...If you control yourself in such circumstances,you can control a lot of your energies and guide them..It's like testing your ideals in trying circumstances..only the conditions are uncontrolled when you're out in the wild...

We started from Bangalore at dusk hours to take leverage of the cool weather...Energetic and seeking adventure as we disembarked on the 600+ km Rameshwaram journey,things seemed to be on the right track until it started raining plus a 20 km long jam on a pitch-black night...It was a sign of what was to come...After the serpentine moves through the traffic jam,we upped the ante.. and as the rain gods transformed light rain to heavy downpour,we kept moving on the dark road as the water tricked down our helmets (and we had no option but to gulp it)... those lights were the only things left in the whole world....surprisingly it rained for 150- 180 kms...Totally drenched in rain one of the mates hit the wall..he had no jacket so we made it out of a gunny bag!! and moved on group-courage..then it was open road,wind and raw sceneries...

One thing is for sure that if you're not someone with a soft corner for hard-core biking,you're not someone who should consider road trips...coz' as the bums get numb(:P) and continuous bumping mixes the bile juices in your belly giving a regurgitatory feeling,the chemical effects are definitely going to sabotage your emboldened stance...

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Delhi 6 :Another feather in masakali 's cap...

Contemporary cinema has always been a tale of stereotype love stories or junk comedy driven solely by male/female actor's charm.This is not an overnight shift but a phased change from the content or moral-driven cinema of the previous times when films like Prahaar,Bavarchi and even comedies like Golmaal(Hrishikesh Mukherjee) used to be socially driven dramas unlike the fast food movies of coeval times.
Its quite difficult these days to get away from the fact that comedies have abruptly brought even the serious actors(like Akshay Kumar) to a whole new level(mostly southwards).Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has always proven to be someone who taps the today's young guns' energy with a little something (and that comedy stuff) for the aam aadmi. It all started with Rang De Basanti, which had a social message amalgamated into its secularly-knit body and had the sensible/practical comedy while preventing it from digressing into a categorical one....Everything about the cast was energetic and so was the script..The Delhi-born director continues with his mindframe of social fabric and beautifully blends the facts and feelings in characters and dialogs with the content-driven yet melodious and amazingly energetic music(again by A.R. Rahman)...Delhi 6 is the continuation of that built-up trust of RDB with the audience which would have otherwise caused some sort of outrage because of the language used or the visibly Hindu-mythology dominance in the film...But in the end you get a strong feeling of oneness, of togetherness and an entertaining movie..hats off for bringing pragmatism to an exaggeration based industry...