Blogs on various aspects of social science such as Psychology, Philosophy, Politics, Religions, Films etc.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Rajneeti
The author has just seen Rajneeti and the experience has been so merimerising that he cannot control his temptation to write a blog for the film.
Based on the backdrop of Indian politics the film is a story of a political family. It is about a state assembly election where two aspiring and highly ambitious candidates representing two different sides from the same family are contesting against each other, and in order to vanquish each other they are ready to put everything at stake, all kinds of maneuvers and tactics are used ranging from propagandas, flesh, black mailing to even brutal assassination. It has an ensemble cast of big actors like Ajay devgan, Ranbir Kapoor,Manoj bajpai,Nana patekar,Arjun rampal,Katrina kaif etc and everyone has performed extremely well.Even newcomers like Ranbir and Katrina looked very matured in their roles along with the vetrans.The blog does not intend to write a film review but will like to dissect each and every character of the film and will like to delve deeper into their personas.
1> Manoj bajpai:- he was the champion of the champions.Out of all the wonderful performances he gave the finest one.His role was of "Viren Pratap Singh" and was loosely based on Duryodhana’s role.Like Duryodhana he was extremely ambitious and could go to any extent to get power, he was relentless, impatient and was full of hatred. But in spite of these was decently sly as well as dominating too. He was quite smart in emotionally black mailing karna(Ajay devgan's character Suraj) and also in using pressure tactics when required. Dressed in typical tight paints,shirts and half coat Manoj simply rocked.
2> Arjun Rampal:- One of the most complex character of the film and it is very tough to restrict his character in a particular frame. Was again highly ambitious, egoistic as well as arrogant & short tempered .Loved indulgence and was also very brutal but loved his family a lot. Playing Prithvi pratap had been the best performance by Arjun rampal so far.
3> Ranbir Kapoor:- Initially plays a suave and smart gentlmen but once when exposed to the real world politics the political DNAS in him becomes active. He gets transformed into a revengful and ultra smart tactician who can even gamble with his love to fulfill his purpose. Though shrewd like his brothers he was not all impatient like them. Was venomous like a viper but was also extremely calm and composed in his appearance.
4> Nana Patekar:- Inspired by the character of Krishna Nana Patekar played the role of a politician called brij Gopal who though was not into active politics but was active in each and every plot making.Was extremely intelligent, practical and desicive. But like all the male characters in the film his chaarcter too was not untouched with the streak of violence and blood.Looked awesome while puffing his stamina stick and observing the whole game.
5> Ajay devgan :- His character of Suraj was loosely based on the character of Karna( but the magnificence and emotional appeal was missing.)He was also extremely ambitous. Was brutal too,never hesitated in killing any one on the behest( along with emotional black mailing) of his friend Viren Pratap. Was a impressive speaker as well as cold and calculating.Behind every move of Viren Suraj happens to be the think tank.
6> Katrina Kaif:- Nothing much for her to play( except for the power packed speech after her husband's assassination). Was just there to add a bit of glamour.
In general Rajneeti was a film that took a very hit hitting stand on Indian politics but if delved a bit further it was more about the baser passions of human being, it was built on a complex web of human ambitions, arrogance of power & attitude of revenge. Though dark and looked a bit deviated from reality but was still very impactful and entertaining due to various reasons such huge starcast,power packed performance,smooth execution,nice direction etc.But the Real strength of the film depended on the fact that it was based on one of the best written book of human history that is the "Mahabharata" . A book which no matter is told in any context and in any time will always be alluring and charming.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Knowledge is just illusion
What is knowledge is it a reality or just an illusion, an illusion created by human mind. The author knows it well that he is trying his hand on a very difficult and politically incorrect area, but sometimes the mind wants to tread in this often unknown territory.
Always so much of emphasis is given to knowledge, knowledgeable persons are respected in all the quarters of life, every where one can find this obnoxious item, in the form of books,blogs websites,news papers, articles,ppts etc. In each and every nook one can find knowledge, The disease of this knowledge has become so contagious that it has started coming out of its regular adobe to various new places such as chat forums, parties,cafes everywhere.
But one thing I don't understand what is the basis of knowledge, or rather what is it exactly. As much I can understand it is just one's own projection,one's own understanding but why does it happen that an individual's understanding becomes a universal truth. If Freud writes on psychoanalysis it would have been his vision his understanding. How come that becomes a universal idea, why should a psychology student or for that any other student should go through the trauma of reading 500 stupid pages of psychoanalysis. It was Sigmund Freud’s idea and he has the right to perceive whatever he wants, but the problem arises when his personal idea becomes a universal truth & over a period of time this newly formed knowledge is read by more and more people thereby this idea which was once nothing but just an individual opinion starts getting deep and deep into individual psyche, bolstering itself more strongly as an universal conception.
That's the whole game of knowledge. Knowledge often disguised in some complex terminology and higher idea is nothing but an illusion, a chimera an individual's personal opinion which by chance becomes an enlightening thought.
I have started pitying people who gives so much of emphasis to this word knowledge. There is no dearth of such people who often live their whole life on this borrowed entity, in every corner of this world one can find such people discussing and debating, arguing and counter-arguing. Circling around some complex philosophy, vomiting out some bookish knowledge often lased with complex terms & these complex terms are often the life line of knowledge because it is these terms that can make a simple idea pure knowledge because knowledge can't be simple ,it should have state of the art terminologies which are often tough in remembering, and it has to be difficult in remembering because if it will have simple words then it will be remembered by any one, it will no more be an elite indulgence, an idea with simple words will be a disagreement with the general concept of knowledge according to which knowledge must have a streak of complexity.
In the end I will say that knowledge is just illusion.
(Views expressed over here are strictly personal and the author very well knows relegating knowledge as illusion might be too impractical but under the influence of some brusque random thoughts the author has written the blog.)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Antaheen: Eternal praise for an eternal film
A masterpiece is something that can transcend beyond the realm of subjective judgment , it can create such a strong link between itself and the observer that the observer hardly finds any free space for himself to make subjective judgment and if this definition of a master piece is valid then definitely the Bengali film Antaheen is a masterpiece .It is surely one of the best made films of the decade .Very rarely can one find a film like this that does not only have a terrific story,star cast, performance ,script, screen play but also such a magnificent cinematography ,songs,lyrics ,background scores,and music .In every department the film is simply awesome ,and when i say every department it does mean every department even the name is not an exception , the name "Antaheen" in English means endless and the film is really about the endless waiting of a man for true love, though not used frequently the word along with it's meaning is the soul of this 2 hour film . Shot in the beautiful locales of contemporary Kolkata the film is as contemporary as traditional, as classy as cheesy as realistic as dramatic , with out sounding so obsessive i will say that the flick simply dissolves all the parameters of compartmentalization .
The film fundamentally revolves around two net friends one a middle aged IPS officer played by Rahul bose the corner stone of indian cross over flicks and a young media journalist played by theater actress Radhika apte .Both the actors are in complete sync with their roles, while Rahul plays the role of a a bit haughty but well behaved cop radhika plays the role of a passionate TV journalist . Rahul is perfectly okay with playing the role that not only requires a great degree of gravity but also a constant outflow of human emotions beneath the blanket of this gravity . Radhika's character not only requires the the burning passion of a young media journalist but also the mellowness and capriciousness of a young lady who is just discovering her love .Along with these two actors the film has an array of very fine actors such as Sharmila tagore ,Mita visisht and Aparna sen .These two characters though chat daily in the night but they don't know the real identity of each other, circumstances make them meet with each other but hardly have any clue regarding each other's identity .Along with the story of these two the film also has a parallel love story of rahul's elder brother and sister in law who are though divorced but still so attached with each other that they are hesitant in giving the final adieu to each other and socio economic issues of land acquisition for a high profile construction project , but the good part is that in spite of dealing with three different story the film never looses its track, in fact in the end there happens to be a wonderful convergence of all the stories into an incomplete,painful but a perfect end .In spite of dealing with the burning issues of land acquisition the film never takes any stand , nor it tries to sound preachy . In fact as said earlier the film is just about pure emotions it has got nothing to do with making judgments.
Though from start to end the film is mesmerizing but the best is definitely the climax,though it will be in the favor of the viewer that any eagerness regarding the revelation of climax must be controlled by the author. Antaheen draws a very large amount of it's strength from the use of plenty of symbolic gestures .Every symbol has a meaning, many a times the meaning cannot be comprehended at the time of it's use but in the end it can be clarified provided a bit of thinking must be invested for exp:- the story of the phone calls of the "BHADRA LOK(gentle man)" received by sharmila tagore .Another forte of the film are the beautiful songs blended with apt situations and powerful lyrics .Cinematography is also simply awesome, though nothing so special these simple locations of kolkata have been shot with extensive beauty beautiful bridges, rains,silhouettes of water on crystal clean glasses ,greenery ,leaves soaked in rain water all had been shot with great beauty .Even the usual things such as CAFE COFFEE DAY CAFE, or a glass of wine ,or burning cigar each has it's own charm.
In the end it can be said that the film is simply a class, a complete package that has the capability to get it's viewer into altogether a new realm of experience .I watched the film yesterday, though the film has ended up the sounds are still very fresh and reverberating in me.I can still see the final scene where the melancholic Rahul bose is sitting in his car and he is just seeing the world world which has taken a 360 degree turn for him in just a small time, and from the background comes a heart breaking but electrifying song .
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Anxiety has a lot of positive sides also.
The up coming blog that i am going to write will basically deal with the positive side of anxiety, lot of negatives has been said on the anxiety factor, and frankly speaking being anxious is a very uneasy state of mind, though it is neither painful nor torturing as such but it creates such a chaos in your inner world that every thing seems to disturbed, any ways this not the point of discussion, the point of discussion is that this state of inner volatility can also do a great good provided if it is used in a proper way .This state can really help you to take new resolution in your life and to implement something new, some thing more positive in your life .
At first it might seem a bit weird that how come there be a relationship between anxiety and taking a new resolution .But there is a fundamental relation ship between them . As human beings we all suffer with some sense of incompleteness and incompetency and we do want remove it, we always make plans to take some thing new in life but unfortunately most of the times it gets restricted to planning only . We hardly implement in practice, the reason being the underlying pattern of our habits which is so deep in us that we do not find it easy to break this down .externally we might have some sort of angst with us but internally we are habituated with the way we live and are with complete peace with us ,internally we do not want any change . Now the good part of anxiety is that it creates a lot of inner turmoil, suddenly the so called equilibrium that the mind had created comes to a crash .we started doubting ourselves ,suddenly we are at some unease with our self, the so called habitual set up that was developed by us disintegrates temporarily. Now this period of temporary disturbance is the most fertile ground for doing some thing new, now there in this situation of chaos of yours there is no predetermined habitual inclination to stop you from doing some thing new , in anxiety you get the freedom to start any thing new .(In fact rather than freedom it is more of a need , you really want to do some thing new to pacify your anxiousness , to suppress your uneasiness)
The point that has to be taken care of is that anxiety can get you started but after that to continue some thing for a long period of time you need a decent amount of self discipline and dedication .Once the dose of anxiety goes down old habits will like to come back but with a lesser vigor , at such time you need to be a bit more patient and cautious . You need to be committed towards your new found practice for a while, after that over a period of time this new commitment of yours will become a habit and both you and inner being will be used to it .
So next time when ever you suffer with an attack of anxiety don't be worried, rather try to use this opportunity for some better purpose .
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
If this is secularism then i am happy that i am not a Sickular Idiot
There has been endless rounds of debates on secularism ,When ever it comes to hitting the Right wingers in the country every one from the self proclaimed purist left wingers to the pseudo secular Indian media has taken the shelter in the great ideals of secularism ,for them any thing on which the right wing parties agitate or want to fight for seems as a contradiction of secularist credentials of india.
Having said this i must say that i am also a firm believer of secularism and i believe that if India needs to develop as a nation secularism has to be kept at the fore front , But the point that has to be taken care of is what do you really under stand by secularism , here with out getting much into etymology i will like to say that in my opinion secularism is an idea that aims for providing a kind of socioeconomic atmosphere in a nation where people from different religions can live with peace ,where every people gets equal opportunity in terms of economical, political and social incentives to develop their capabilities and to move forward in their life. Secularism aims for the creation of a society where the ideals of the predominant religion should not be imposed on the minority , In short it aims for a society where minorities should not be demarcated in any sphere of life ranging from political, social ,economical etc. A very important point that has to be taken care is that secularism is more of a political and social idea rather than being a cultural idea .With this practical definition i completely agree and any thing that contradicts with these ideas must be scuttled at any cost ,but in the present Indian context is the so called nexus of socialist-communist -pseudo secular media serious with this , for them i do not understand why is the cultural aspect becomes so important over political and social aspects that there definition of secularism starts tampering with the very roots of Indian culture .I do not under stand what is really wrong with them , as a state we are committed to secularism we have, we should and we will be striving for building a just society where every one can live with peace and can get ample opportunities so that move forward in all spheres of their life, but i do not under stand how is this idea related with the notion that if secularism has to prevail in India each and every cultural tradition of the majority should be annihilated . How come being anti -Hindu and being secular are synonymous .If secularism means pacifying the minority at the cost of heritage and the cultural assets of the majority then i do not have any qualm in saying that such an idea is not only irritation but is simply preposterous.
If secularism means rationalizing the slaughtering of cows then i am happy that i am not a secularist .
If secularism believes that one should disobey the national anthem of India seeking religious reasons then i am happy that i am a non secularist .
If secularism believes that it is okay to convert poor people from the majority by giving money then i am happy that i am a non secularist.
If secularism means that there is no wrong in the mass murder of Kashmiri pandits the original residents of Kashmir then i am happy that i am a non secularist .
If secularism means that infiltration from Bangladesh into Assam , West Bengal and other north eastern states is okay then i am happy that i am not a secularist .
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Defeated, Dejected and Demotivated .
There happens to be time when you feel defeated , when you feel dejected and when you are low in motivation, you don't feel like doing any thing neither do you have the strength nor do you have the focus to do any thing, you just want to relax,just relax and nothing else, you just want to sustain yourself, just want to do the bare minimum of your life and after that you do not want to do any thing . It happens with every individual.It happens , and their is nothing new in this .You feel as if their is some flaw in the design it self ,you feel as if its no more your mistake, in fact you are some one who is beyond this game of mistakes and correctness ,you are just a part of the game which is played on you and with you with out your permission. you are just helpless, you are no one to do, you thought that you can make a lot of difference, you dreamed high and was optimistic of your victory, but it was not the victory but defeat that was waiting for you because defeat was designed for you by destiny. it was your illusion that there was victory but there was no victory , in fact victory is the privilege of a few and for other it is defeat , and you are among this very vast bunch of others, the losers who in spite of making good start are derailed in the middle , they loose their motive mid way so do their goal and target .There happens to be a hunger a passion in the beginning but suddenly it goes away ,once the effervescence goes out every thing dries up.
The very purpose of life that was dreaming of the ideals of perfection, victory and celebration suddenly gives way to idea of sustenance, just sustenance by following the bare minimum requirements , and beyond that there is now no extra need, in fact its not about whether there is a need or not ,because need and want are just projection of mind, a projection that makes you do some thing but now since you have started questioning the design it self where is the need for these projected needs and wants, No need ,No want just sustenance mere sustenance and beyond that it is all illusion for this tired mind and exhausted body.
AND IN THE BACKGROUND COMES THE LINKIN PARK'S FAMOUS SONG:-
I tried so hard and get so far but in the end it does not even matter,
i had to fall and loose it all .
i am defeated , i am dejected and i feel demotivated .
Friday, February 5, 2010
To drop Your Ego first you need to have a concrete Ego
Many things have been written on ego ,every religious and spiritual thinker believes that ego is behind all forms of human misery either directly or indirectly and as a result it is always instructed that human beings must try to get rid of this ego , even i do feel that if a man really wants to live a happy and peaceful life he should sooner or later he needs to get rid of his ego ,because ego is nothing but a convoluted insatiable entity that can never be satisfied,the more you will try to appease it the more it's expectations increases ,But the point is though it seems very simple to say that drop your ego and live a happy life its easier said than done ,it is one of the most difficult task to be accomplished (especially for a person who has got an egoistic persona).The very basic reason is ego as a whole is generally not a very concrete idea but rather a confused state of mind .In fact an egoist person is himself very confused ,he him self find it tough to comprehend his ego in exact terms,he knows that ego is something that gives him pain but at the same time since his own persona is some how intermixed with ego in such a way that he really finds it tough to drop it as an separate entity.
But there is a technique available to drop one's ego ,and that is not to fight with ego but to nourish it.It sounds paradoxical but that's the way the world is ,by nourishing i mean rather than fighting with one's ego one should first try to develop it ,so that over a period of time it should no more remain as a confusion but as a concrete idea , an idea that is clearly palpable.Once the idea becomes concrete it becomes easy to drop it. Remember one thing only some thing concrete can be dropped ,an abstraction can never be dropped so first make your ego exist ,first make it happen and then drop .Now there is no more confusion,now ego is no more an abstraction but a clear cut reality whose futility and meaningless can be viewed by the human mind,now as individual man will no more be confused and now his action of dropping is not based on any external instruction but on his own understanding and awareness.
In short i will say that rather fighting a futile battle with one's ego first man should try to follow his ego,as an individual we all are unique and all have some sort of desires,we all want to prove ourselves so rather than first dropping our ego we should first try to pacify it, we should first try to celebrate our individuality,and after this celebration when we are really contended with our-self,once when we start viewing ourselves as an elevated individual then there in that moment of glory we find that though we were craving for this but this nothing but a nuisance and there in that moment of awareness we drop down our ego completely.
REFERENCE:- a) NEW MAN FOR NEW MILLENNIUM: OSHO
b) FREEDOM:- OSHO
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Meditation:a path to transform Oneself
Many things have been said and written on the benefits of meditation, Here in this post of mine i will like write my own perspective on meditation ,though meditation as an idea is a vast concept, and it might take many post to give a complete description of meditation as a concept, so here i will just like to emphasis on how can meditate help in changing or rather transforming an individual. Often in various books and magazines we come across articles regarding changing one self ,such articles are always very interesting and inspiring ,since as individual we all have some disgust with ourselves such articles give us an inspiration to change ourselves , we try to follow the instructions given and generally we do get some positive results initially but after some time the motivation goes away and we again go back to our old position ,Finally the net effect is zero.
Though we fill bad for it but in reality the problem is not exactly in us,these articles and these motivational authors miss a very critical point of human psyche, as individuals our actions , our behavior our feelings and our attitude is predominantly not dependent on our conscious but on the vast realm of our sub consciousness mind of which we hardly have any control.Our mind is just like an ocean ,there is a thin upper surface which is our consciousness but inside the consciousness there is a huge subconsciousness that governs us ,The structure of this sub consciousness is a very complicated ,it is influenced by various factors ranging from our attitudinal inclination,our genetic structure, our style of up bringing ,our social atmosphere where we have been born and brought, many of the incidents that have happened to us that had some sort of impact on us, along with these various other factors that constitute this vast and large subconsciousness.
Now this sub consciousness that governs our mind ,what ever we do or what kind of behavior we follow originally depends on our belief system ,on surface it looks that we are doing things either consciously or out of just habit but in reality what ever we do we do due to some of our deep beliefs, in surface every things look simple but in reality for each and every simple task of ours there is some deep belief, there is some priority that we follow,there is some craving and preference that governs most of our day to day activities,these all stuff lie in our sub consciousness .
So any activity that aims to change us as a human being is bound to fail until unless it does not put focus on controlling our sub conscious. Now when it comes to a technique that really understands the sub consciousness fully and can get deep inside it is nothing but MEDITATION.
ITS not that sub conscious mind is some thing so complex that we cannot comprehend it, but we are so deeply engaged in our day to day activities , there is so much of chaos in our life that we lack the focus and peace that is needed to observe the mind ,meditation does nothing but gives us the required peace and focus so that we can observe the sub consciousness, once when we start observing the sub consciousness we become familiar with ,we get a fresh hand idea of what is happening inside us ,we start getting deep into our mind and after getting deep and deep we really become familiar with the set few core beliefs in us that govern most of our activities , and then once the roots are known it becomes very simple to make the required change. Your inability to change yourself is nothing but your ignorance of yourself and and you can achieve control and command by doing nothing special but by just becoming more and more aware of your self.This awareness can be achieved by the power of observation that MEDITATION can imparts in us.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Anxiety :My perspective
Before going into detail first lets see what is this stuff anxiety all about ,as per the wiki defination anxiety a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with uneasiness, fear, or worry.
Anxiety can occur to any one and it can occur due to any thing ,the reason might be some thing as serious as the result of an exam that is to be published with in a few hours to some thing stupid as a being ridiculed by your friends.anxiety is a game of cause and effect ,beghind every attack of anxiety there is a basic factor that is responsible ,like as i said the it might be your upcoming exam result or it might be the ongoing cricket match,but it is not the cause that has much significance in anxiety ,what can really disturb you is the effect that follows the cause,once the cause has occured its effects set in where an individual starts visualizing a lot of future consequences related to the main cause and as result of this starts suffering from great deal of uneasyness.for exp a cricket match might be the cause of anxiety but it is not anxiety inself,anxiety comes into picture when the mere thought of the final result of the match where his side might loose makes some one filled with fear or worry,thus there is always a reason behind anxiety that reason it self is never responsible for the uneasyness which anxiety can cause,it is often our thought process that gets stimulated in a very rapid,arbitary and fervent fashion that is responsible for the uneasyness.
One another important of anxiety is that it has magnetic as well as evolutionary power to some extent ,by magnetic i mean one anxious thought attracts other thought there by setting a chain ,by evolutinary to an extent i mean that the intensity of thought keeps on increasing over a period of time,initially the thought might not be very intense but once our psychie gets into the act of recieving anxious thoughts the intensity of anxiety keeps on increasing there by increasing our uneasyness and after some substantial amount of time when the level of anxiety would have reached its peak it strats reducing there by giving relief to the individual.
Anxiety may not always be negative only,in many cases it might force you to take some positive action ,and at the same time it should be noted that it is present in all the individuals to some extent,only when the intensity rises beyond a particular extent,when the frequency of attacks goes beyond a particular extent anxiety strats disturbing individuals and then some sort of preventory measures become imperative.I will describe a simple preventory measure in the next blog.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Whom are you fooling mr. nayak???
like any other fundamentalist muslim his love for islam and its practices are so exorbitant that he even some times (in fact many times)doesn’t hesitate to cross the highest peak of cretinism to defend any stupid interpretation of fundamental islam(more on this on some other blog),one other mania with which he suffers is to always compare islam with any other religion,one can always find him comparing kuranic verses with the verses of other religiuos books (which are often taken out of context)and then using his own interpretations of these verses to prove his ulterior motive that is the supremacy of islam.
He claims that islam is religion of peace,muslims are the only true people in the world,islam is completlely flawless and in what ever small issues in which muslims are involved are not out of their fault but due to the fault of the non muslims who are jealous of islam.What i really want to say to mr nayak is that he claims so many big thing on islam and muslim but cannot he make him self to see what all happening in the world around him,does he think that the fundamentalism in islam which we see all around is just an aftermath of the injustice done to muslims by the world around it,does the 700000 deaths that took place in iraq in the name of secterian violence is not enough to proove that in the present scenario the muslim psyche has got completely bloodstained,well violence in israiel might be an excuse but what logic does he find in pan islamic violence that is present everywhere whether in the southern phillipines ,kashmir,russia,central asia or north africa.What extra proof does he need that in the present scenario where at one stage the whole world is moving towards the ideals of liberty,democracy and secularism the islamic psyche still lives in middle ages where violence is not considered as something profane but a part of power sharing mechanism.If this guy is really serious for the image of isalm then how could he afford to waste his time in stupid and foolish lectures on proving the supremacy of islam,rather the very 1st thing that he must do is to to galvanize the collective psyche of the islamic youth which have got rusted by the forces of fundamentalism and conseravatism.He must take a positive action if he is serious for islam or otherwise he can carry on with his mania,the status quo willl be mantained so will muslims enjoy the victory of this self proclaimed warrior of islam who loves indulging war with other religion on such turfs where he alone is the winner ,judge and spectator of the war,other than he and his small bunch of foolish companion no one really cares for such war.
Monday, October 19, 2009
my conception of man (part 2)
BUDDHISM:buddhism also believes in the concept of reincarnation ,baring few differences the idea is more or less the same as hinduism,so i dont think we need to go deep into the subject.
ISLAM,CHRISTANITY:such faiths like there oriental counterpart dont believe in the idea of reincarnation but at the same time they give too much importance to the lord which i dont find a very fair idea.according to them the almighty lord is the owner of the world or rather the universe who sends us to the world to test us ,if we will please him with our good deeds(which even includes giving thanks to him)then he will award us with heaven but at the same time if we will not do good work then we will be appointed to the hell after we die,now what kind of logic is this almighty lord sends us to test ,is this the soul reason of existence?God sending us to test and then distributing prize or punishing us ,so god is nothing but a judge who loves playing with us,frankly speaking i am not very comfortable with such kind of logic.
MODERN ,RATIONALIST THINKER:The entire process of thinking underwent a great change after the arrival of freud,marx and darwin in the picture.after them in many quarter of intellectual thinking subjects like religions,mysticism and metaphysics were looked upon with contempt,they were reduced to nothing more than the luggage of the past which was a complete misfit in the modern world and which shouldnt be further carried on by the modern era.This new vision looked at every thing as nothing but mere objects and man him self was no exception.For this new aproach man and his various aspects such as conciousness, psychie and others are nothing but just a scientific phenomenon which had found its place in this world out of matter of chance,I find this approach some how intellectually stimulating but sorry i cannot extend my intellectuality to such an extent that such a wonderful world around me will look some thing which doesnot have any sort of intelligence working behind it and which is nothing but just a matter of chance ,how is that possible,the whole journey of man with his own set of ups and down be restricted and reduced to something that is just a matter of chance.This new approach might find its validity in the realm of pure science where every thing can be tested and validated in the laboratory but superimposing this on man's life which has its own nuances and subttlieties is not a convincing idea for me.
One point which i want to raise over here is that i am not refuting any of this as a complete no no, i am not the authority to do so ,in fact why me no one has the authority to do it,every school of thought wether that is religious thinking like hinduism or islam or other thinkings like rationalism or objectivism are made by great intellects and there is some sort of logic (or in some cases pure empirical ,practical kind of evidences) on which there ideas have been fabricated,so i am not refuting them.My sole purpose is just to raise some valid doubts and i dont think that raising doubt is a bad idea,since i have to explain the conception of man it is important for me to first discribe briefly the various different major concepts of man along with there flaws.It well help us in doubtiing our preconceived notions and to have some how a new(i dont think new is a very optimum word to use over here)or rather i should say a fresh insight towards knowing the concept of man as a an entity.I must say that so far what ever i have written is not directly related to the topic that is conception of man but has definately set the prelude for it.
ISLAM,CHRISTANITY:such faiths like there oriental counterpart dont believe in the idea of reincarnation but at the same time they give too much importance to the lord which i dont find a very fair idea.according to them the almighty lord is the owner of the world or rather the universe who sends us to the world to test us ,if we will please him with our good deeds(which even includes giving thanks to him)then he will award us with heaven but at the same time if we will not do good work then we will be appointed to the hell after we die,now what kind of logic is this almighty lord sends us to test ,is this the soul reason of existence?God sending us to test and then distributing prize or punishing us ,so god is nothing but a judge who loves playing with us,frankly speaking i am not very comfortable with such kind of logic.
MODERN ,RATIONALIST THINKER:The entire process of thinking underwent a great change after the arrival of freud,marx and darwin in the picture.after them in many quarter of intellectual thinking subjects like religions,mysticism and metaphysics were looked upon with contempt,they were reduced to nothing more than the luggage of the past which was a complete misfit in the modern world and which shouldnt be further carried on by the modern era.This new vision looked at every thing as nothing but mere objects and man him self was no exception.For this new aproach man and his various aspects such as conciousness, psychie and others are nothing but just a scientific phenomenon which had found its place in this world out of matter of chance,I find this approach some how intellectually stimulating but sorry i cannot extend my intellectuality to such an extent that such a wonderful world around me will look some thing which doesnot have any sort of intelligence working behind it and which is nothing but just a matter of chance ,how is that possible,the whole journey of man with his own set of ups and down be restricted and reduced to something that is just a matter of chance.This new approach might find its validity in the realm of pure science where every thing can be tested and validated in the laboratory but superimposing this on man's life which has its own nuances and subttlieties is not a convincing idea for me.
One point which i want to raise over here is that i am not refuting any of this as a complete no no, i am not the authority to do so ,in fact why me no one has the authority to do it,every school of thought wether that is religious thinking like hinduism or islam or other thinkings like rationalism or objectivism are made by great intellects and there is some sort of logic (or in some cases pure empirical ,practical kind of evidences) on which there ideas have been fabricated,so i am not refuting them.My sole purpose is just to raise some valid doubts and i dont think that raising doubt is a bad idea,since i have to explain the conception of man it is important for me to first discribe briefly the various different major concepts of man along with there flaws.It well help us in doubtiing our preconceived notions and to have some how a new(i dont think new is a very optimum word to use over here)or rather i should say a fresh insight towards knowing the concept of man as a an entity.I must say that so far what ever i have written is not directly related to the topic that is conception of man but has definately set the prelude for it.
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
my conception of a man(part 1)
AS my book is based on various aspect of a man it is imperative for me to first discribe my own defination of man.Various schools have various defination for a man,for some its an eternal journey that keeps on changing one body to another(as proposed by oriental schools of thought such as hinduism and buddhism),for some such as darwinism man is a just a link in the evolution of life , and for some such as marxism it is nothing more than a mere object which borns ,lives and when dies perishes for ever.Man has always pondered to know the exact truth behind the meaning of existence ,but as far as my knowledge says no one has the real answer.Every school has got its own set of flaws,Every school has some inconsistency.
HINDUISM:hinduism says that the basic essence of life is soul (or atman in sanskrit) which is equivalent to brahman(the god),and this atman which is eternal in nature keeps on moving from one body to another.till here the idea seems plausible but the point of contradiction arises at the point when one body dies and the soul needs to enter into another body,now what convention should decide this process ,this cannot be just a random process,for this hinduism has a reply in the form of karmic theory,its your karma that decides your next fate,if you have done good karma you will have positive points with you and as result of which you will taste better fortune in your next birth(for exp:you might be born in a well off family and may lead a lavish life in your next birth because of your good karma ) and if you have done wrong deeds then you will taste bad fortune in your next birth because of your bad karma.now mathematically this entire concept looks plausible but if one will delve in side a bid a great chaos will be seen,if karmic theoryis the soul factor that leads the mathematics of reincarnation then it has to be preassumed that man is solely responsible for what ever he does,he is completely independent at every stage of time to make his own descion,but is it the reality.Absolutely not,not every man is independent many times the situation forces him to do,the context always play a very vital role,it is vey tough to judge a man's action with out thinking of the context,just think of a boy living in iraq,who has seen the dismantling of the saddam regime and the malestorm of the post saddam iraq,what kind of childhood had he been living,when he should have known the world through the eyes of education the only thing he would have seen is secterian violence,hatred and animosity,what kind of psychie is he going to get,in the midst of such a turmoil there is a great degree of chances that he will be morphed into a terrorist thus attacting a hell lot of negative karma.At the time think of a boy living in dehli who is born and brought up into a well educated family,who receives proper education and proper upbringing and becomes a responsible and ethical adult thus there by attracting a lot of positive karma.thus according to karmic theory the boy in iraq who became a terrorist should be facing a lot of misfortune in his next birth where as the boy from delhi on account of his better upbringing will be enjoying a great deal of fortune in his next birth.Nt only the entire idea looks unjust but some how irrational also.
to be continued
HINDUISM:hinduism says that the basic essence of life is soul (or atman in sanskrit) which is equivalent to brahman(the god),and this atman which is eternal in nature keeps on moving from one body to another.till here the idea seems plausible but the point of contradiction arises at the point when one body dies and the soul needs to enter into another body,now what convention should decide this process ,this cannot be just a random process,for this hinduism has a reply in the form of karmic theory,its your karma that decides your next fate,if you have done good karma you will have positive points with you and as result of which you will taste better fortune in your next birth(for exp:you might be born in a well off family and may lead a lavish life in your next birth because of your good karma ) and if you have done wrong deeds then you will taste bad fortune in your next birth because of your bad karma.now mathematically this entire concept looks plausible but if one will delve in side a bid a great chaos will be seen,if karmic theoryis the soul factor that leads the mathematics of reincarnation then it has to be preassumed that man is solely responsible for what ever he does,he is completely independent at every stage of time to make his own descion,but is it the reality.Absolutely not,not every man is independent many times the situation forces him to do,the context always play a very vital role,it is vey tough to judge a man's action with out thinking of the context,just think of a boy living in iraq,who has seen the dismantling of the saddam regime and the malestorm of the post saddam iraq,what kind of childhood had he been living,when he should have known the world through the eyes of education the only thing he would have seen is secterian violence,hatred and animosity,what kind of psychie is he going to get,in the midst of such a turmoil there is a great degree of chances that he will be morphed into a terrorist thus attacting a hell lot of negative karma.At the time think of a boy living in dehli who is born and brought up into a well educated family,who receives proper education and proper upbringing and becomes a responsible and ethical adult thus there by attracting a lot of positive karma.thus according to karmic theory the boy in iraq who became a terrorist should be facing a lot of misfortune in his next birth where as the boy from delhi on account of his better upbringing will be enjoying a great deal of fortune in his next birth.Nt only the entire idea looks unjust but some how irrational also.
to be continued
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
MY BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before getting into the details of writing the blog i will like to specify the reason that forced me to resume writing blogs in the midst of such a hectic schedule at tapmi.It was was friday night and me along with some of my pals was hanging down my hair at a resturant as a usual task to chill after a rigourous five days.In the midst of some gibberish which we guys were spinning out one of my friend ANUPAM who is a typically no non sense guy suggested me to write a book,frankly speaking i laughed at the idea,fine i love reading and writing but then book,that sounds too big of an idea,but after coming back to my room i gave some serious thought to this ,why cannot i write a book,definitely its not an easy task,it calls for a lot dedication,devotion and discipline but then why not to give it a try,i think this is something were my ample reading,writing skills and my keen insight of observing the world around me will find a right platform.So with this new obsession of writing my book i will like write this blog,so what am i going to write, well my new book or rather book i should say will be a kind of self help cum philosophy whose main focus will be man,his existence ,his life ,his life along with its victories and defeat,along with its songs of glory and elegies,along with his fullness and futility,along withs his mirth and frustrations,along with his matter and spirit,along with his internal and external world.My book will look at every aspect of a man's existence(one important point to be noted over here is that when i say man i want to say not the masculine man but the specie HOMOSAPIENS it self,being a man myself this little prejudice of mine is bound to occur and i beg my pardon to my female readers for this).since the central theme of the book is man the book cannot be restricted to any particular category.it will have every thing that is related to man ,ranging from the vast external cosmos to the minute matters of day to day life.it will have every thing with whom a human being can relate himself.
My upcoming blogs will be dealing with subject of my book,hope readers will enjoy it.Any kind of suggestion is most welcome.
My upcoming blogs will be dealing with subject of my book,hope readers will enjoy it.Any kind of suggestion is most welcome.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Black is Bold,Black is Beautiful
In India, beauty and fairness are synonymous terms (though south is an exception but even there also being fair is a respectful idea ).Indians don’t only have fad for fair color
But in fact they are mad for it, not only females but also males aspire to be fair (that’s why some one like
Shahrukh khan needs to endorse fairness cream for male) you take up a matrimonial and a very common sentence
Which you will comes across is wanted a fair, beautiful blah blah blah bride for a blah blah blah.In a country where
Being fair is almost the first requisite for being beautiful a dark complexion is nothing less than an anathema (at least
it holds true for the female specie).
But there is a paradox, while the middle class and the lower class do crave badly for fair color the higher echelon
Of the society negates this presumption, if one will carefully study bollywood one will definitely see
That if a comparison being done between dark skinned actress and fair skinned ones the darker race will definitely out number
It’s fairer counter part.Not only actress like Konkana sensharma or naandita das who are more into art house cinema rather than being with commercial genre have got earthy looks but in the present scenario some of the most successful commercial actresses like Priyanka chopra, Deepika padukone ,Sameera reddy, Bipasha basu ,Asin are dark skinned. Then we have
Got some one like lara dutta and amrita rao who are though not dark but are of wheatish complexion .Well there is still no dearth of fair looking actresses like Ashwariya rai,Sushmita sen ,Vidya balan etc but with the large no of dark skinned actress present right now we can surely say that the old saying that beauty and fairness synonymous t doesn’t match the ground reality, not only in bollywood but even in the modeling world some dark skinned models have achieved the sky,be it ujjwala raut(the model who went international),shweta menon or indrani dasgupta(my favorite) .
So what has become so special with this dark complexion that suddenly it has become so fashionable? One thing is surely the fact that dark complexion is some how more sexier than the fair one, at least I believe so. Who else can forget hot and dusky Bipasha flashing her skin in Jism or sensual sameera reddy coming out of water in a white bikni in race. Even in the time of 70’s and 80’s both the so called sex sirens ie Jinat aman and Parveen babi where dusky but the most important reason lies in the fact that the world around us is changing ,at least the youth is . The gen x is ready to experiment,they are ready to break the norm,no more are they interested in restricting them selves to the same old adages, for them fair is beautiful but so is black. The new generation definitely has got a very diversified taste where complexion no more matters ,what does matter is your attitude and the way you are presenting yourself, if you have got the right mixture of style, confidence and presentation you will surely have a space to carve your niche. Not only have the audience changed but so have these actresses and model who are an integral part of this confident and vibrant GEN X.The way in which they are representing themselves with the cock tail of style, smartness and attitude definitely helps in quadrupling there beauty Lets hope that this very same freshness and newness which had swarmed the upper echelons of the society must percolate down to the wider mass.it’s evening time.Just say Amen
But in fact they are mad for it, not only females but also males aspire to be fair (that’s why some one like
Shahrukh khan needs to endorse fairness cream for male) you take up a matrimonial and a very common sentence
Which you will comes across is wanted a fair, beautiful blah blah blah bride for a blah blah blah.In a country where
Being fair is almost the first requisite for being beautiful a dark complexion is nothing less than an anathema (at least
it holds true for the female specie).
But there is a paradox, while the middle class and the lower class do crave badly for fair color the higher echelon
Of the society negates this presumption, if one will carefully study bollywood one will definitely see
That if a comparison being done between dark skinned actress and fair skinned ones the darker race will definitely out number
It’s fairer counter part.Not only actress like Konkana sensharma or naandita das who are more into art house cinema rather than being with commercial genre have got earthy looks but in the present scenario some of the most successful commercial actresses like Priyanka chopra, Deepika padukone ,Sameera reddy, Bipasha basu ,Asin are dark skinned. Then we have
Got some one like lara dutta and amrita rao who are though not dark but are of wheatish complexion .Well there is still no dearth of fair looking actresses like Ashwariya rai,Sushmita sen ,Vidya balan etc but with the large no of dark skinned actress present right now we can surely say that the old saying that beauty and fairness synonymous t doesn’t match the ground reality, not only in bollywood but even in the modeling world some dark skinned models have achieved the sky,be it ujjwala raut(the model who went international),shweta menon or indrani dasgupta(my favorite) .
So what has become so special with this dark complexion that suddenly it has become so fashionable? One thing is surely the fact that dark complexion is some how more sexier than the fair one, at least I believe so. Who else can forget hot and dusky Bipasha flashing her skin in Jism or sensual sameera reddy coming out of water in a white bikni in race. Even in the time of 70’s and 80’s both the so called sex sirens ie Jinat aman and Parveen babi where dusky but the most important reason lies in the fact that the world around us is changing ,at least the youth is . The gen x is ready to experiment,they are ready to break the norm,no more are they interested in restricting them selves to the same old adages, for them fair is beautiful but so is black. The new generation definitely has got a very diversified taste where complexion no more matters ,what does matter is your attitude and the way you are presenting yourself, if you have got the right mixture of style, confidence and presentation you will surely have a space to carve your niche. Not only have the audience changed but so have these actresses and model who are an integral part of this confident and vibrant GEN X.The way in which they are representing themselves with the cock tail of style, smartness and attitude definitely helps in quadrupling there beauty Lets hope that this very same freshness and newness which had swarmed the upper echelons of the society must percolate down to the wider mass.it’s evening time.Just say Amen
Monday, June 15, 2009
god,beleifs and my journey towards knowing the true meaning of life(part 1)

Here in this post of mine I will like to write a commentary on my belief system
and my faith. In the beginning itself I will like to make it very clear that as much my faith is concern I have never held a concrete view point, for me it had always been a flexible affair (at least in my younger days).From time to time my beliefs have been influenced by various factors ranging from parental influence, my own experiences and of course my reading. Since I guess my belief system is something which keeps on changing or rather evolving with richer experiences of life so I will like to run this post continuously in various parts. Here is the first part that basically deals with my beliefs and faiths of my child hood. Being born and brought up into a conservative maithil Brahmin family the faith and belief system of my childhood was highly influenced by general hindu faiths and rituals. I use to go to temples, use to pray in front of idols, use to ask for pardon after committing some mistake and on encountering some trouble use to pray for help from the god. As a kid I loved listening to mythological stories, watching epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana and reading short stories from hindu mythologies. Like every other kid of my age I believed that god resides some where in the sky and he keeps on watching us all. As taught by my family I did believe in the concepts of sin and always tried my level best to abstain my self from wrong doing, the fear was always there( though definitely this concept of fear is the biggest hindrance in a man’s journey towards knowing the truth but with my own experience I can say that it also checks you from doing wrong,to be very frank it was this fear of being punished by god which helped me evolve into a more or less ethical and upright person.)To sum up I will say my childhood was like a normal hindu boy whose mentality was laced with general hindu beliefs .Two of my favorite deities where lord Shiva and mother Durga.My love for lord shiva was due to his simple(but mystical nature) and his maverick attitude and my love for mother durga was an outcome of my upbringing in Bengal where durga puja is celebrated with great effervescence and mirth every year.
But inside this whole music of thoughts sometimes a cacophony of doubt tried to peep outside. The doubt was based on a very logical presumption. What I supposed was that fine I have a belief system and a set of deities whom I believe but the same set of thought is not shared by people of different religions,exp there are muslims and Christian who don’t believe in lord shiva or goddess durga .They have there own belief systems, now dismissing there belief system just on account of the fact that they aren’t in accordance of my view point was strictly a no no for me but at the same stage of time I was not in position to drop my own view points since they were not only close to my heart but some where inside my mind I was also fearful of such a drastic step.
and my faith. In the beginning itself I will like to make it very clear that as much my faith is concern I have never held a concrete view point, for me it had always been a flexible affair (at least in my younger days).From time to time my beliefs have been influenced by various factors ranging from parental influence, my own experiences and of course my reading. Since I guess my belief system is something which keeps on changing or rather evolving with richer experiences of life so I will like to run this post continuously in various parts. Here is the first part that basically deals with my beliefs and faiths of my child hood. Being born and brought up into a conservative maithil Brahmin family the faith and belief system of my childhood was highly influenced by general hindu faiths and rituals. I use to go to temples, use to pray in front of idols, use to ask for pardon after committing some mistake and on encountering some trouble use to pray for help from the god. As a kid I loved listening to mythological stories, watching epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana and reading short stories from hindu mythologies. Like every other kid of my age I believed that god resides some where in the sky and he keeps on watching us all. As taught by my family I did believe in the concepts of sin and always tried my level best to abstain my self from wrong doing, the fear was always there( though definitely this concept of fear is the biggest hindrance in a man’s journey towards knowing the truth but with my own experience I can say that it also checks you from doing wrong,to be very frank it was this fear of being punished by god which helped me evolve into a more or less ethical and upright person.)To sum up I will say my childhood was like a normal hindu boy whose mentality was laced with general hindu beliefs .Two of my favorite deities where lord Shiva and mother Durga.My love for lord shiva was due to his simple(but mystical nature) and his maverick attitude and my love for mother durga was an outcome of my upbringing in Bengal where durga puja is celebrated with great effervescence and mirth every year.
But inside this whole music of thoughts sometimes a cacophony of doubt tried to peep outside. The doubt was based on a very logical presumption. What I supposed was that fine I have a belief system and a set of deities whom I believe but the same set of thought is not shared by people of different religions,exp there are muslims and Christian who don’t believe in lord shiva or goddess durga .They have there own belief systems, now dismissing there belief system just on account of the fact that they aren’t in accordance of my view point was strictly a no no for me but at the same stage of time I was not in position to drop my own view points since they were not only close to my heart but some where inside my mind I was also fearful of such a drastic step.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
20-20 cricket:men in blue needs introspection & contemplation

In 2007 under the guidance of meticulous mahi india created sensation all around the globe by winning the 20-20 world cup.Then after few days the same men in blue continued their winning expedition by defeating Australia in an another match at there home turf thus Shutting up the blabbering ponting who had earlier commented that India’s win at the world cup was just a fluke. After this there had been no looking back for dhoni as well as for The whole team, India continued to deliver it’s magnificent performance at test as well as one day cricket but the very same format of 20 -20 cricket which the team one’s mastered Very diligently is proving out to be a tough nut to crack.Team had repeatedly shown poor performance in this format of cricket and the latest defeat at the hands of west indies should be treated as the final testimony for this,now where does the team really lag,well with big hitters like sehwag,dhoni,yuvi,pathan brothers run machines like raina ,gambhir and rohit and with a whole barrack of killer bowlers team India has got no dearth of talent.The problem with the team is there strategy ,there approach towards the game and to some extent there over confidence.here in this post I will like to dissect each and every problem of the team India one by one and will like to suggest some remedial steps for it.
1.OVERCONFIDENCE:team is still not in a position to come out of the hang over of the past.the world cup 2007 is over so simply getting stick to it will serve no purpose .One should always keep this in mind that in a fast format of cricket like 20-20 you cannot have any favorite.20-20 is something highly unpredictable Its imperative for the team that it must come out of shackles of the past and should drop the favorite tag from its mind as soon as possible, it will help the team to come up with a fresh strategy ,the very same freshness and newness that helped us win the 2007 world cup.
2.EARLY LOSS OF WICKETS: if one will carefully look upon the past few matches one factor that had always been common is the early loss of wickets, from the very beginning the strategy of the team had been to make a huge score, to achieve this the top order batsman starts making big shots from the very first bowl which eventually ends up in loosing wicket, once you loose two three early wickets pressure builds in and then the middle order batsmen become defensive which ends up in loosing a great deal of over. The right strategy for the team should be to show some degree of patient in the earlier over (that doesn’t mean that loose bowls should be spared) and instead of trying to send every bowl over the boundary they should try to set themselves in the first 4/5 over and then should go for attack.
3.M.S .DHONI:HIT MAN HAD EVOLVED INTO A PEDDLER: when dhoni started his international cricket he was known for his big hits which was often devastating for the opponents,this helped him winning millions of fan world wide.But once he became the captain the very same player who was once a hit man had become a peddler, once known for his big hits dhoni is now more into rotating strikes, though this had been helpful for the team in excelling in one day cricket where dhoni’s new avatar helps the team to stabilize in case of early fall of wickets and to win games while chasing decent targets. But this had been detrimental for the team in 20-20 format,it had been noticed that dhoni often wastes a great chunk of bowls(the last match against west indies where he made 11 out of 23 bowls is some thing which should be strictly unacceptable for a 20-20 match.)Dhoni should play the way he wants to play in 50-50 game but when it comes to a 20-20 match which has just 120 bowls to go he should in fact he must try to play as bombastic as he can. This will be judicious not only for the team but will also be an entertaining affair for his myriad fans spread all around the globe.
4.GHAMBIR NEEDS TO BE A BIT MORE FAST:when it comes to one day international cricket and test cricket gautam gambhir aka gauti is the perfect weapon in armory of Indian team ,his big innings with decent enough stike rates caters the need of the team India very well but in a fast and furious format like 20-20 his slightly more than 100 strike rate does not suit well with the aspiration of team India to win the 20-20 world cup second time in a row. His knock of 50 out of 46 against Bangladesh might would have been an applauding affair had it been a one day international match but for a 20-20 match it was a bit sluggish deal. In a 20 -20 format it does not matter whether you are hitting a 50, a 60 or a 70 .What does matter is that your strike rate .Even 35 or a 40 by gambhir with a very high strike rate would have been far better than his elegant 50, being an opener gauti needs to be a bit more fast .
5.FIELDING:with time Indian fielding has improved and India has got some very good fielders like gautam gambhir,rohit sharma and raina ,but still when compared to some of the best fielding sides like south Africa or Australia India still needs to improve. Indian fielding lacks sharpness .We have got some very good fielders but as a whole team we are still not intact in our fielding . We still miss catches,stumpings. Miss fielding is still not infrequent. Even in the last match against WI there were two silly miss fielding which cost us us 8 runs,a wonder ful run out opportunity was wasted by dhoni,had bravo been shown the pavilion things might would have turned out the other way round. Our resplendent men really need to put some extra effort on there fielding.
These are some of the fields where team India really needs to improve upon. India still has 2 more games to play in super 8 against the very same South Africa and England whom it defeated in the last world cup’s super 8 to book its berth in the semis .With the combination of right strategy, hard work and the display of good game both on and off the field India can repeat it’s magic which it one’s did in South Africa some 2 years back .
1.OVERCONFIDENCE:team is still not in a position to come out of the hang over of the past.the world cup 2007 is over so simply getting stick to it will serve no purpose .One should always keep this in mind that in a fast format of cricket like 20-20 you cannot have any favorite.20-20 is something highly unpredictable Its imperative for the team that it must come out of shackles of the past and should drop the favorite tag from its mind as soon as possible, it will help the team to come up with a fresh strategy ,the very same freshness and newness that helped us win the 2007 world cup.
2.EARLY LOSS OF WICKETS: if one will carefully look upon the past few matches one factor that had always been common is the early loss of wickets, from the very beginning the strategy of the team had been to make a huge score, to achieve this the top order batsman starts making big shots from the very first bowl which eventually ends up in loosing wicket, once you loose two three early wickets pressure builds in and then the middle order batsmen become defensive which ends up in loosing a great deal of over. The right strategy for the team should be to show some degree of patient in the earlier over (that doesn’t mean that loose bowls should be spared) and instead of trying to send every bowl over the boundary they should try to set themselves in the first 4/5 over and then should go for attack.
3.M.S .DHONI:HIT MAN HAD EVOLVED INTO A PEDDLER: when dhoni started his international cricket he was known for his big hits which was often devastating for the opponents,this helped him winning millions of fan world wide.But once he became the captain the very same player who was once a hit man had become a peddler, once known for his big hits dhoni is now more into rotating strikes, though this had been helpful for the team in excelling in one day cricket where dhoni’s new avatar helps the team to stabilize in case of early fall of wickets and to win games while chasing decent targets. But this had been detrimental for the team in 20-20 format,it had been noticed that dhoni often wastes a great chunk of bowls(the last match against west indies where he made 11 out of 23 bowls is some thing which should be strictly unacceptable for a 20-20 match.)Dhoni should play the way he wants to play in 50-50 game but when it comes to a 20-20 match which has just 120 bowls to go he should in fact he must try to play as bombastic as he can. This will be judicious not only for the team but will also be an entertaining affair for his myriad fans spread all around the globe.
4.GHAMBIR NEEDS TO BE A BIT MORE FAST:when it comes to one day international cricket and test cricket gautam gambhir aka gauti is the perfect weapon in armory of Indian team ,his big innings with decent enough stike rates caters the need of the team India very well but in a fast and furious format like 20-20 his slightly more than 100 strike rate does not suit well with the aspiration of team India to win the 20-20 world cup second time in a row. His knock of 50 out of 46 against Bangladesh might would have been an applauding affair had it been a one day international match but for a 20-20 match it was a bit sluggish deal. In a 20 -20 format it does not matter whether you are hitting a 50, a 60 or a 70 .What does matter is that your strike rate .Even 35 or a 40 by gambhir with a very high strike rate would have been far better than his elegant 50, being an opener gauti needs to be a bit more fast .
5.FIELDING:with time Indian fielding has improved and India has got some very good fielders like gautam gambhir,rohit sharma and raina ,but still when compared to some of the best fielding sides like south Africa or Australia India still needs to improve. Indian fielding lacks sharpness .We have got some very good fielders but as a whole team we are still not intact in our fielding . We still miss catches,stumpings. Miss fielding is still not infrequent. Even in the last match against WI there were two silly miss fielding which cost us us 8 runs,a wonder ful run out opportunity was wasted by dhoni,had bravo been shown the pavilion things might would have turned out the other way round. Our resplendent men really need to put some extra effort on there fielding.
These are some of the fields where team India really needs to improve upon. India still has 2 more games to play in super 8 against the very same South Africa and England whom it defeated in the last world cup’s super 8 to book its berth in the semis .With the combination of right strategy, hard work and the display of good game both on and off the field India can repeat it’s magic which it one’s did in South Africa some 2 years back .
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Hope must prevail

The following article was written by me some six months bag when i was packing my bag for infosys.Though right now i have quit my job but still i think the post will be highly motivating for those readers who will be starting there career or will be joining the wagon of job search.
In the light of sub prime crisis the whole world is going through economic down turn...gone r those days of blue chip jobs,bullish market n spending spree ....every where pink slips r spiralling day by day,sensex is touching ground n cost cutting is d norm ............in d middle of all such turmoils many yuppies r gearing up 4 there maiden job assignment...me being one of them can get the touch of that fear factor..of that obvious anxieties n apprehensions....but the point 2 be remembered is that every aspect of this universe is a part of a cycle n d economy is nt an exception.....so if today its is sliding down tomorrow it will fly high sun will rise again n so will d warmth..but what is imperative over here is that this learning oppurtunities should nt be squandered at any cost ,as kites fly highest against the wind n nt with it so r gr8 proffessionals r made during recession n nt in boom(remember branson)....so friends dont worry .There was a dream seen in d summer of 91.. D building of that dream might b shaking but d base is intact n it will remain intact provided d fire of passion should keep on burning some where inside us...d facade of wisdom should prevail over short shighted fantasies.....n our dream of making india an economic giant should smoulder in our heart before ending i will like 2 tell all my friendsdare,fight ,struggle,adapt,negotiate ,win celebrate n at the end of the day evolve as better professionals better citizen n last but nt d least as better human beings
I am not a player but the game itself

During my school days i was inclined towards poetry.But from the past few years i was completely disconnected from poetry.Now today all of a sudden there was a deep urge to right a poem.So tried my hand in writing a short poem which in my opinion is more an attempt towards bragging my supremacy rather than a poem.
I am not a player But d game itself,
I am not a wave But d energy itself,
I am not a lover But d love itself,
I am not a thought but d mind itself,
I am not a villain But d destruction itself,
I am not a phenomenon But d concept itself,
In the end i will just say,
I am nt an entity But d existence itself.
I am not a player But d game itself,
I am not a wave But d energy itself,
I am not a lover But d love itself,
I am not a thought but d mind itself,
I am not a villain But d destruction itself,
I am not a phenomenon But d concept itself,
In the end i will just say,
I am nt an entity But d existence itself.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
U.S MOVING FURTHER EAST IN EUROPE:WRONG SIGNAL FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
after the collapse of the soviet union there was a general agreement between us president ronald reagan n russian premiere mikhail gorbachev that america will not go further east of germany but in light of a weakening russia america did n't keep its promise.after the abrogation of the warsaw pact starategic alliance were made with different countries of eastern block such as poland,hungary,czech republic n georgia.permanent membership of nato were given to countries such as poland and czech republic where as georgia is being considered for a permanent membership.meanwhile a ressurecting russia was no longer in a position to retaliate.its reservation were unheard in the global geopolitical sphere.
recently as a part of its relentless look east[europe policy]the neo con bush administration decided to make missile defence shield in poland and a radar system in czech republic.under this plan america will establish 10 intercepter missile in the baltic coast of poland and a radar system in prague(czech rep),according to america this will give strategic advantage to america in shooting down misssiles from the rogue state of middle east such as iran n syria and north korea.the project is having tacit suppoirt from NATO.
GENUINE RUSSIAN CONCERN
THIS relentless american persuit has infuriated russia.The concern is quite natural since baltic region where america is planning to establish its missile defence shield is at a distance of just 115 miles from russia.america can easily use these sites to hit russian sites.to protect american concern russia was also in a mood to permit america in building joint deffence missile shield in its southern region but the offer was turned down.
RUSSIAN REPLY
things dont remain the same forever.Russian economy has ressurrected its self and so has it's defence sector and political influence in the global arena.russia is also establising a missile deffence shield,it has a planted short range iskander missiles in kaliningard....russian premiere mevdev has given a clear cut indiacation to its army officials to escalate there deffence resources.Reforms are taking place in different defence related dept.the signal from kremlin is pretty clear-russia is not going 2 give in so easily.
ALARM BELL IS ON:TENSION ESCALATING
in the light of the post georgian crisis along with the latest american moves things are getting worser day by day in the eastern european region.at one end there is superpower america with its ever increasing apetite and greed and on the end there is ressurecting russia geraing up to get its lost glory back,but this entire scenario is sending wrong signals all around the globe.Under its retalitery move russia is also making military alignment with communist nations of south america [especially venezuala], countries in central asia ,iran etc.Though it will b too early to say that a newer version of cold war is in making but if given a free hand the present circumstances might pave a way for such a one.
NOW EVERY THING DEPENDS ON THE NEW RAY OF HOPE
between all such turmoils the newly elect president barack obama has to play a very important role.So far obama had been sceptical on this issue but such politicaly correct maneovre is nt sufficient.For the sake of global peace he has to take concrete steps,steps that will ensure demilitarization of the eastern european region.Russia has ensured that if america follows the path of demilitarization russia will respond in the same fashion there by ensuring peace in d region.
the american lame excuse of attacks from iran holds no ground since however strong iran might become it will never dare 2 hit american or other european sites.even if such threats have got some ground then why is america avoiding using russian soil.America can ally with a fiercly communist china,it can ally with autocratic sheikhs of middle east,a military regime in south east asia (now it is the matter of past since pakistan has a democratically elected government these days)then what is really wrong with a capatilist russia which is catching up very fast with rest of the civilized world in the domains of freedom,liberty, democracy and other aspects.
recently as a part of its relentless look east[europe policy]the neo con bush administration decided to make missile defence shield in poland and a radar system in czech republic.under this plan america will establish 10 intercepter missile in the baltic coast of poland and a radar system in prague(czech rep),according to america this will give strategic advantage to america in shooting down misssiles from the rogue state of middle east such as iran n syria and north korea.the project is having tacit suppoirt from NATO.
GENUINE RUSSIAN CONCERN
THIS relentless american persuit has infuriated russia.The concern is quite natural since baltic region where america is planning to establish its missile defence shield is at a distance of just 115 miles from russia.america can easily use these sites to hit russian sites.to protect american concern russia was also in a mood to permit america in building joint deffence missile shield in its southern region but the offer was turned down.
RUSSIAN REPLY
things dont remain the same forever.Russian economy has ressurrected its self and so has it's defence sector and political influence in the global arena.russia is also establising a missile deffence shield,it has a planted short range iskander missiles in kaliningard....russian premiere mevdev has given a clear cut indiacation to its army officials to escalate there deffence resources.Reforms are taking place in different defence related dept.the signal from kremlin is pretty clear-russia is not going 2 give in so easily.
ALARM BELL IS ON:TENSION ESCALATING
in the light of the post georgian crisis along with the latest american moves things are getting worser day by day in the eastern european region.at one end there is superpower america with its ever increasing apetite and greed and on the end there is ressurecting russia geraing up to get its lost glory back,but this entire scenario is sending wrong signals all around the globe.Under its retalitery move russia is also making military alignment with communist nations of south america [especially venezuala], countries in central asia ,iran etc.Though it will b too early to say that a newer version of cold war is in making but if given a free hand the present circumstances might pave a way for such a one.
NOW EVERY THING DEPENDS ON THE NEW RAY OF HOPE
between all such turmoils the newly elect president barack obama has to play a very important role.So far obama had been sceptical on this issue but such politicaly correct maneovre is nt sufficient.For the sake of global peace he has to take concrete steps,steps that will ensure demilitarization of the eastern european region.Russia has ensured that if america follows the path of demilitarization russia will respond in the same fashion there by ensuring peace in d region.
the american lame excuse of attacks from iran holds no ground since however strong iran might become it will never dare 2 hit american or other european sites.even if such threats have got some ground then why is america avoiding using russian soil.America can ally with a fiercly communist china,it can ally with autocratic sheikhs of middle east,a military regime in south east asia (now it is the matter of past since pakistan has a democratically elected government these days)then what is really wrong with a capatilist russia which is catching up very fast with rest of the civilized world in the domains of freedom,liberty, democracy and other aspects.
Monday, November 24, 2008
AMBEDKERITE BUDDHISM- A POLITICAL BLUFF

BUDDHA is the eternal path of love and peace.from its very inception it has taught mankind to live with peace and harmony .but in the post independence scenario these very basic institutions of buddhism are under threat.thanks to some greedy demagogues often knwn as ambedkerite buddhist or neo buddhist who are exploting this religion to bake there political breads. THIS hypocritical buddhist move ment started by ambedkere which though draws its inspiration frm buddha but in reality is nothing more than a political bluff by some greedy politicians..in my opinoion its a clear cut case of political opputunitism which is based on d pillars of falsehoods , propagandas,myths n of course greed .
lets see how????
propaganda 1
aryans came 2 india.....those were fair coloured..they suppressed d local inhabitants who were dark skinned.....
MY REPLY- 1.oh morons n fools if thats d case then why do we have so many dark skinned brahmins..exp kautilya....n why do we have so many fair skinned dalits exp ram vilas,kashiram etc....[now a very imp point 2 be noted over here is that this change in complexion can never take place on account of inter caste marraiges since it was strictly prohibited....this logically proves that color can never used as a political agenda to divide indians..its highly inconsistent and renders no clear cut formulation]
2.these fellows dont even knw d basic meaning of arya....aryan might be aracial term but d oriental concept arya has nothing 2 do with this..arya means an enlightened man exp gautam buddha...n this term had been used in other non hindu religions also like jainism and buddhism.....if still they have gt some doubt then i will suggest such fools 2 read max muller's work.
3.d invasion of aryans in india itself is fraught with so much of inconsistencies...though i dont have time 2 go in detail..but d book by david frawley might be an eye opener
PROPAGANDA 2-
such fools dont even knw d abc of budhism but they use buddhism as a tool 2 bake there political breads..they exhort there followers 2 embrace buddhism n renegade hinduism.........
MY REPLY- these fools dont even knw the fact that buddhism is nt a political entity..just because it suffice there base motive does that mean that they will use the way they want.........no never ......buddha is way of life ..a man can embrace it while remaining equally inclined 2 his original faith..buddhsim is very tolerant n accomodating faith..d best exp is china where a man can follow buddh. n confuciousism conccomitantly .People followed buddhism in there personal affairs where as d administrative outlook was inspired by confuciousism .....in d same if some wanna join buddh. there is no need 4 him 2 stop worshiping hindu deities[ untill unless there is some political motive in volved]..this ambedkerite buddhism is nothin but a sham buddhism......n should be stopped at any cost.....
PROPOGANDA 3
2 garner some more support these insane even claim that south indians or in other words d dravids were originally indians who were suppressed n sent down 2 south by ayrans....... n there assumption is based on d same old rotten ground of complexion...south indians are aboriginal since they have got dark color n north indians r out siders since they have fair color.
MY REPLY- oh my fool pals ...dont u knw that south indians whom u call aborigianls r nothin but pure hindus only n d rituals they follow r very much in line with d practices of north indian hindu only,,,as much d difference in there skin is concern then that has nothin 2 do with race but with climatic conditions...to make this point more clear i will like 2 give the exp of europe-in northen european contries exp sweden which is far off frm equater ppl have got blond hair where as in southern european nations exp italy which is comparatively closer to equater ppl have gt black hair.so does that mean they r of different race ..no...then how could they use such petty tricks in dividing indians. so again this agenda of dividing hindus on complexion holds no ground.
I think its high time that we must understand the secret agendas of these neo buddhist .these traitors are doing this to divide the hindu society and carve out a political niche for themselves that will consist of innocent dalits .It has become imperative for us to scuttle this newly emer ging political virus which has become dangerous to a journey which we call BHARATA n is dear to us more than our lives.
JAI HIND..
JAI BHARATA
lets see how????
propaganda 1
aryans came 2 india.....those were fair coloured..they suppressed d local inhabitants who were dark skinned.....
MY REPLY- 1.oh morons n fools if thats d case then why do we have so many dark skinned brahmins..exp kautilya....n why do we have so many fair skinned dalits exp ram vilas,kashiram etc....[now a very imp point 2 be noted over here is that this change in complexion can never take place on account of inter caste marraiges since it was strictly prohibited....this logically proves that color can never used as a political agenda to divide indians..its highly inconsistent and renders no clear cut formulation]
2.these fellows dont even knw d basic meaning of arya....aryan might be aracial term but d oriental concept arya has nothing 2 do with this..arya means an enlightened man exp gautam buddha...n this term had been used in other non hindu religions also like jainism and buddhism.....if still they have gt some doubt then i will suggest such fools 2 read max muller's work.
3.d invasion of aryans in india itself is fraught with so much of inconsistencies...though i dont have time 2 go in detail..but d book by david frawley might be an eye opener
PROPAGANDA 2-
such fools dont even knw d abc of budhism but they use buddhism as a tool 2 bake there political breads..they exhort there followers 2 embrace buddhism n renegade hinduism.........
MY REPLY- these fools dont even knw the fact that buddhism is nt a political entity..just because it suffice there base motive does that mean that they will use the way they want.........no never ......buddha is way of life ..a man can embrace it while remaining equally inclined 2 his original faith..buddhsim is very tolerant n accomodating faith..d best exp is china where a man can follow buddh. n confuciousism conccomitantly .People followed buddhism in there personal affairs where as d administrative outlook was inspired by confuciousism .....in d same if some wanna join buddh. there is no need 4 him 2 stop worshiping hindu deities[ untill unless there is some political motive in volved]..this ambedkerite buddhism is nothin but a sham buddhism......n should be stopped at any cost.....
PROPOGANDA 3
2 garner some more support these insane even claim that south indians or in other words d dravids were originally indians who were suppressed n sent down 2 south by ayrans....... n there assumption is based on d same old rotten ground of complexion...south indians are aboriginal since they have got dark color n north indians r out siders since they have fair color.
MY REPLY- oh my fool pals ...dont u knw that south indians whom u call aborigianls r nothin but pure hindus only n d rituals they follow r very much in line with d practices of north indian hindu only,,,as much d difference in there skin is concern then that has nothin 2 do with race but with climatic conditions...to make this point more clear i will like 2 give the exp of europe-in northen european contries exp sweden which is far off frm equater ppl have got blond hair where as in southern european nations exp italy which is comparatively closer to equater ppl have gt black hair.so does that mean they r of different race ..no...then how could they use such petty tricks in dividing indians. so again this agenda of dividing hindus on complexion holds no ground.
I think its high time that we must understand the secret agendas of these neo buddhist .these traitors are doing this to divide the hindu society and carve out a political niche for themselves that will consist of innocent dalits .It has become imperative for us to scuttle this newly emer ging political virus which has become dangerous to a journey which we call BHARATA n is dear to us more than our lives.
JAI HIND..
JAI BHARATA
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