If I were to say that all that you see around you and that you have been experiencing all this while that you have been interacting with the environment around you is an illusion, not every thing that you see andhave felt and have come to believe as being a 'No-brainer' conclusion is as trivally concludable as we have made it to be. Here's how startling this can get. What if i were to tell you that the blue skies that you are so used to seeing above you is not necessecrily blue or for those lovers of nature .. your roses are guilty ofnot being in as radient a color as you thought they were ...ahh and for people there who crave for the bullion... what you have and are paying so much for actually not glitter.
Having virtually got the world to its feet and having raised some eyebrows .. let me get to the point. You might wonder then of as to what is it that plugs the gaps by filling the colours into the complicated 3D WireFrame that this world is. Its that wildly friend of ours who quiet often steps into or should i add does so unsolicitadly into the actions that we happen to take and make then feel natural to us .. when on the controry it brilliantly coaleses information from different sources to generate the pattern we endup seeing.Its the mind that i am talking about.well then if you thought that WYSIWYG(What you see is what you get), this should make you think again.You actually are viewing the picture spanning a life time that is projected on the background of our retina ,not before it was processed possibily to take away what was real.
For all you know, we have been programmed too beleive that grass is green and the roses are red by our ansistorsThis should find support in the fact that all that we see around has evolved from nowhere during the big bang.It was all dust an fire at that point in time ,how that can transform into ocean that spans 2/3rds of earth is something that is worth pondering .The fire that we protect ourselves from is what constitutes you.Think this....If only our ansistors had reacted differently to coming in contact with fire , depending what they did , we could well have been embracing fire , instances of which have been in our scriptuers ,Sita emerging out of fire ,fire there acting as a cleanser.Amazing how perception is what its all about, the slightest of changes to which can turn yourworld upside down and make you feel like a fool.
Our preconceived notion of a society and all those cleashes that we want to so religiously cling on to is doing nogood to us. We seem to have chained our own thinking process in the fear of facing the unknown.Little are we realizingthat the finite understanding that we have of our strenghts is tying us down into misery.This whole notion of bindinghumans into rules and do and donts are putting bounds on our understanding.Cant agree more with why this is being called a kal-yug and the attributes that have been associated , what good can one expect of a sitaution where peoplefind themselves in a gam-packed furnace left to grapple with the fellow humans in the fight for a living, unaware ofthe unbound possibilies that lie outside.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
The 'populous' debate
Having spent close to 1 1/2 decades basking in glory of the india shining campaign and now being
on the verge of taking this for granted , its time that we revisit what made us feel so and the
viability of it at that , think back and ull realize that at the heart of it all was this feeling
of having empowered ourselves into a buoyant feeling and quiet literally at that , the shear no of people
ready to weigh the global community down with their intellect , galloping opportunities onsite with the
voracious appetite that made the co-denizens of Hollywood run for cover, some thing that has become a trademark
now. To the extent that the usually articulate Americans(some might differ with me at that) are having
to comprehend this explosion of people with confused frown , well rather say that its been 2 decade long period
where the have constantly reframe an opinion about us , hnnn and we are not the ones to get that easily
deciphered are we...!!
And what is at the crux of this is the 'demographic dividend' the term under which the 'Indian Phenomenon' is
increasingly taking refuge under. Well most people who are accustom to (or should is say the victim of) the
(morning coffee + newspaper) combination will know what that terms stands for. The process of pumping people is
well on from the rural reservoir that is increasingly being accredited for having emphatically pulled
of the once seemingly herculean task of bridging the overseas divide gracefully ..kudos ...!!!.But one has to constantly
pinch himselves and take reality check , the question to be asked is if all this is helping us transform our
quality of life better.
The answer is shouting loud at us , starting from the fixable issue of chaotic roads, leaking drains,dust coated buildings
,littered cities to what is intangible impatient people, shortcut seakers, 'Sultans of Ego'(ill need another article to
delve in to that)unproductive one at that,most importantly the incomplete bigger picture of the world around,
where 'I','Me','Myself' is what ever action is intended to pamper , where all sane ideas have to take a back seat simply
because they think its outdated. If 'development' is what we want to name this and seek to draw parallels with the american
dream run , then i dont think the americans will be too proud of some thing like this.
We have taken a short sited approach to development. Cannot help but agree with the point that a renound Historian
Ramachandra Guha made , an argument in the lines of 'Why India will not and should not become a super power' , a truely
refreshing point of view of a passionate speaker whome I only key as a Cricket Historian until i came across this. A 'must
listen' 1 hr vedio recording that takes us through 10 reasons on why he believes so. This vedio sums it up all, rite from
his rendering to the Q&A session that had an Indian deferring with it and in his tone was not acceptive of the point of
view that saw his glorious country being cursed of non-progressiveness. Little did he see the bigger point that was being
made.
Some times we humans feel so stifled by the limitations that we have created for ourselves in not having been able to
express your point of view precisely ,if this was the case with someone who is as articulate as Guha .. well makes me
wonder of our languages are as incomplete a our thoughts are ...
on the verge of taking this for granted , its time that we revisit what made us feel so and the
viability of it at that , think back and ull realize that at the heart of it all was this feeling
of having empowered ourselves into a buoyant feeling and quiet literally at that , the shear no of people
ready to weigh the global community down with their intellect , galloping opportunities onsite with the
voracious appetite that made the co-denizens of Hollywood run for cover, some thing that has become a trademark
now. To the extent that the usually articulate Americans(some might differ with me at that) are having
to comprehend this explosion of people with confused frown , well rather say that its been 2 decade long period
where the have constantly reframe an opinion about us , hnnn and we are not the ones to get that easily
deciphered are we...!!
And what is at the crux of this is the 'demographic dividend' the term under which the 'Indian Phenomenon' is
increasingly taking refuge under. Well most people who are accustom to (or should is say the victim of) the
(morning coffee + newspaper) combination will know what that terms stands for. The process of pumping people is
well on from the rural reservoir that is increasingly being accredited for having emphatically pulled
of the once seemingly herculean task of bridging the overseas divide gracefully ..kudos ...!!!.But one has to constantly
pinch himselves and take reality check , the question to be asked is if all this is helping us transform our
quality of life better.
The answer is shouting loud at us , starting from the fixable issue of chaotic roads, leaking drains,dust coated buildings
,littered cities to what is intangible impatient people, shortcut seakers, 'Sultans of Ego'(ill need another article to
delve in to that)unproductive one at that,most importantly the incomplete bigger picture of the world around,
where 'I','Me','Myself' is what ever action is intended to pamper , where all sane ideas have to take a back seat simply
because they think its outdated. If 'development' is what we want to name this and seek to draw parallels with the american
dream run , then i dont think the americans will be too proud of some thing like this.
We have taken a short sited approach to development. Cannot help but agree with the point that a renound Historian
Ramachandra Guha made , an argument in the lines of 'Why India will not and should not become a super power' , a truely
refreshing point of view of a passionate speaker whome I only key as a Cricket Historian until i came across this. A 'must
listen' 1 hr vedio recording that takes us through 10 reasons on why he believes so. This vedio sums it up all, rite from
his rendering to the Q&A session that had an Indian deferring with it and in his tone was not acceptive of the point of
view that saw his glorious country being cursed of non-progressiveness. Little did he see the bigger point that was being
made.
Some times we humans feel so stifled by the limitations that we have created for ourselves in not having been able to
express your point of view precisely ,if this was the case with someone who is as articulate as Guha .. well makes me
wonder of our languages are as incomplete a our thoughts are ...
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