The 12 year old Patriot....

Early morning on 28th July after trying a few 'remedies' on my dead cell phone I came to the conclusion that my cell phone was beyond repair. Yet in an attempt to salvage it I trudged over in the rain to a nearby Nokia care at 9am. It is situated on the 2nd floor of the building which has darkened staircases with no real ventilation and exposure to sunlight and high step rise. After climbing over 2 floors I was in front of the Nokia Care to read the sign - timings 10am to 7pm. Darn I thought, an hour early. While I imagined what I would be doing for an hour with a dead cellphone in hand an incident occurred which made my 1 hour early arrival meaningful after all!

Right we are, Duty we must!

One can never get the true hang on certain aspects of Life unless these aspects are seen up close. Not that I had never noticed the jam packed public transport, it is just that I keep forgetting the ever expanding population of this nation!

It is a great resource though very tough to manage and organize. The point worth sharing is an incidence which occurred during my recent bus travel across Pune city. I was carrying 2 loaded bags waiting for the bus near my college to visit a relative’s place. I somehow managed to struggle into the overcrowded bus inviting curses along the way as my bag hit a fellow passenger for no fault of mine for which I felt sorry!

I acquired a seat after some tussle and immediately within 2 minutes a thin formals clad teenage girl (probably a management student) tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to get up.

Nature : The One Colossal Classroom....

I struck gold dust @ 9:40 pm today. This is not about the physical glow and the lustre and the riches I am talking about but its wisdom. We as humans consider ourselves quite superior to nature never understanding the full glory of nature and its laws. Nature hints us in many ways to obey and abide by them lest calamity befall us. Throughout history we have regularly belittled nature as something insignificant, never realizing the true expanse of nature and disrespected it even when we experienced floods, earthquakes, forest fires, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. Nature sent out wisdom calmly through its realms using everything around as a media for the same and we kept ignoring it; we do so even now.

"Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better"
Albert Einstein

Nature today sent me a great message and I jumped at the opportunity to post it on the blog. Out of its many laws, there is the law of the wild which says not to kill when the self is not hungry. I will put forward my opinions and inferences from the following but before that take a look.


Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya 's Masai Mara in  October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw:


"These 3 brothers (cheetahs) have been living together since they left their mother when they were about 18 months old" he said. "On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to  play together. At one point, they met a group of impalas who ran away. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily."

These extraordinary scenes followed.......

Past the Realms of Money.....

It was downright hilarious to read the comparisons set up between Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the latter signed the Rs. 200 Cr deal with Rhiti sports thus bagging the highest package (bettering Sachin's Rs. 180 Cr with Iconix). Dhoni has "beaten"/"overwhelmed" The Little Master and such statements do not anger me but I am amused by the levels of foolishness the media drops to at decent amount of times. The simple fact that they can measure the contributions of men like Sachin and Dhoni in money shows the mediocre thought processes of these minds!
Both the cricketers firstly employ completely out of phase styles while batting and hence there can be no comparison at all. Sachin is about an impeccable technique and Dhoni

On the Tight Rope called System....

I have in my blogs talked against the US policy regarding Bhaarat and how the government is licking at their feet and allowing US to rule us. But I believe that there is no absolute evil nor absolute good . Good and bad both are a part in every entity of the universe. I found a part noticeable in the US system which is worth acknowledging and incorporating. Besides the fantastic infrastructure set up by the US I also appreciate the system they have installed to fight terrorism. Every system does have its deficiencies but the best part is that the US government has empowered its external and internal security forces to go hard at the enemies of the US and I salute that. I hope we can learn this from them and implement it in the near future.

While viewing their system there is an urgent need to address ours especially when our security forces are discouraged by the government in tackling terrorism. The US judiciary, legislature and executives work in tandem, as a unit against fighting the threat of terrorism but the Indian Government gives a very confused and disorganized look.

Rising One more Time....

I remember a story of intense passion and belief my father had once told me. Whenever I am down and out it is this story which reignites the desire to be better and stand back up.

There were 2 boxers, Axe and Ranko who always faced each other in every tournament final of their time just as it was the case of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in international tennis. Both had debuted around the same time and in 24 hours was the final of the world championship to which both of them had qualified. They had around same number of wins against the other in all international bouts and this final was to be the last game of their respective careers. Naturally, being the toughest of competitors, both Axe and Ranko were training very hard for this mega final and each wanted to sign of his respective career with a win over the other.