The relevance of Consumer demand driven economic development

Development in todays world has become so very synonymous to Economic development alone and consumer demand is being spoken in the same breath as overall economic development ,so much so that it has become  the most important indicators  of the potential for economic growth and the overall human development in a region. But is consumer demand based economic growth a real indicator of Human development in the true sense? Lets take a closer look.

A lot has been said about how accurate a measure GDP is in explaining human development . There have been many studies that have proven it to be quite the opposite. So then does the fact that the consumer demand is rising really mean that we are heading towards  Development in the true sense , and if not what does this really mean to us?

Human development is a direct measure of the quality of life that the people are experiencing and  the potential for improvement of the same in the future and there are numerous studies to indicate that economic development or more money on hand does not necessarily mean more satisfaction. In fact it turns out to be quite the contrary to it. Take for instance the impact that the consumer goods have on our daily life. Back in india I have grown up hearing of how the daily routine was organised in such a way that every aspect of life, right from physical health to mental health and somethings as subtle and deep as spiritual health , had been taken care of by tweaking daily activities very smartly and intelligently. Washing of clothes for instance was the most complete exercise to the hands ,the likes of which does not find a substitute in todays alternatives . I find it so very innovative and intuitive in the way they had the toilets designed for example. You would be amazed at the ingenuity of our ancestors in creating a commode(indian) that enables you exercise those parts  of the body which are hardly reachable by any other physical routine , whats more the posture helps you press energy centres in the body which instigate the immune system and also help improve blood flow.How thoughtful of them to have weaved this into something that is an unavoidable doing on any given day. 

A lot of which  might  prove to be a little discomforting to begin with when asked to practice but then how would you like the idea of being able to get that vital dose of exercise being incorporated in your daily routine saving all that time and planning  that you otherwise do to keep fit considering the lack of time that we keep complaining about. Now how is all this that I am talking about you might wonder relevant to the topic in question.

In todays society the amount of money that one holds has become synonymous to prosperity and how well you have done for yourselves in life. What you do with the money though is buy amenities that are meant to make your life comfortable(which is the consequence of associating comfort to inaction) and thereby introducing newer needs in life to maintain the same level of health and physical wellbeing , which otherwise could have been achieved by some simple adjustments to our daily routine as mentioned earlier ,and which in-turn create the vicious cycle of want/demand for these goods , the lack of money to buy which makes you work harder ,progress in your job and earn better etc. What this is doing is gratifying you monetarily ,which to some extent is satiating you for having achieved something in your job but in the bargain what you have lost out on are the instruments that are the building blocks for a heathy and happy living. Most of the huff and buff  that you go through really does not add up to improving your quality of life per say as much as just keep your needs fulfilled.I am not for a minute suggesting against working for a living, but it would be a more worthwhile living if it was more effortless and not a case of you finding yourself in a rat-race.So then its a case of you stretching beyond need and should i say more often than not complicating the cycle of life by getting in too many other mini-goals to attain the same larger goal which is essentially happiness and wellbeing. 

So then business and monetary growth or economic growth is just a measure of how successfully a nation can provide for your ‘wants’ that you have created for yourself and has got almost nothing to do with what steps are to be taken to live a fruitful and happy life.

Doesn't that mean that the amount of money and demand that you generate has got nothing to do with your prosperity and its just that you seem to be finding tougher and tougher ways of maintaining the same fundamental requirement of life that has been is and will always  be.Collective consciousness of the society defines the direction in which we head and as it stands our collective consciousness has been been highjacked by a handful of people who are defining your idea of happiness . An advanced version of an IPhone for instance , the manner in which they market it , is deep enough to touch and alter your whole perception of what a better living would be, in this case a better life is being sold as a new version of IPhone. Yes the phone does a great job at what ever it does  and i personally admire apples products , but it should be seen as a gadget which does your job efficiently and nothing more. Economic motives have successfully been able to link human wellbeing to economic growth through the means of consumer driven demand ,which have now become essentials in our day to day lives. Most economic confusions and conflicts and crisis have their roots in a setup like this.

The Grand Delusion

just when you think you've got it all rite
there is wind in the sail and the body in spright.
when the scriptures sound a reflection of you
and you are a self incarnated who's-who

A a knock at the door , the mind store ,much to your abhor
your  eyes open wide ,can't fathom things intangible but pure
loud and profound , its the knock for change
shut your eyes to it ,only to squander options wide range.

Its tricky, sometime cheaky , certainly very tweaky
clutch it for sure !!!!, embrace it, coz i know at times you get very picky
Of you go on a spiral , the grandiose form of  which can make you go viral :)
spiral inside spiral ,its a maze, thoughts over thoughts , one that can drive u a'craze.

until you lose your scene of dexterity,make the wild chase
coz at the very end of it your assured of  knowledge ,one of shear grace.
perseverance, grit, patience , they all count in this very divine race.

the view from the helm overwhelms
as th great grand delusion finally presents
a slip here , a blip there is all it takes to loose balance
to get you stumbling back into the maya of ignorance

So stay tight , think right you've made it this far
now take on the mantle to get other 'us-par'(hindi)

Resetting Entropy

The world through the eyes of an alien  --

The scene
Finds a routine behaviour exhibited by a moving entity guided by a rather complicated
sensory system etched on a oval clump of mass (desc of a man and his sense organs) scurrying through a maze(traffic) before it could reach a destination(Offfffice hrrrr) , where one could so easily sense the unease and the lack of love. After an exhaustive session of which ,it was time for it(he) to head back to the place that was an adobe of bliss(home), where he entertained fellow beings with a soothing tune that he could produce out of a box of wood(the guitar) and it felt so good.

So then why does he subject himself to this ordeal, all that far away when there is happiness at his doorsteps? Why take the pain of slogging at the work place when all that made him happy was playing a guitar, playing which he could earn him a livelihood?

I know !!!! sometimes a third eye helps.
As straight forward a thought that this is, it should scare the living day light out of our convictions about where we stand.

Try facing this scrutiny .......
Ever thought why a country of 1 billion is subject to a single curriculum for 20-30 years before it losses relevance. Is'nt the syllabus only the result of a thought process of a select few(however intellectual they may have been) and to therefore confine and preach knowledge and frame laws that are based on perception, only as good as our limited understanding of life, is to have a very myopic vision.

Wooweee ...!!!! I just unpleasantly surprised myself with that statement.

Why make people squeeze through our knowledge books when they can stand tall and explain the meaning of life for themselves. Our ancestors said so and so would have Mr Adam and Ms/Mrs Eve. The platform that we create for the generations to come is just one of the many possibilities that life has to offer.

That the probabilities of we getting it rite is only as much as finding a needle in a hay stack. We are letting them build on top of a questionable foundation. The wheel undoubtedly was the most celebrated inventions of all time , but was that it, One person shaped the thinking of the entire human race for centuries to come and we still seem to be stuck there. What makes us so sure of there not being an alternative which is as brilliant or better than this. Our DNA's and genes we claim are evolving by the passing second , why then are we ‘Rolling-on’ and not may be fusing into the thin air and fusing out of it, when there is record of our ancestors having done just that. Why do you find yourself helpless struggling in traffic jams when that is something that you have pushed yourself into. These are not hard and fast laws of nature, these are the result of the human construct into which we have lost ourselves. 

Now that’s recipe for getting beaten up real fast :P. Here’s more though ....

How can somebody be only an Engineer, only a Doctor, only an architect all his life and be miserable at it. The complete self that you are ,everything that is out there is in you and your ignorance makes you fear those very things. All it takes is a fresh stroke of thought and you are transformed into a whole new universe of your own where you are free to paint your imagination and design a whole grand new world.

Here’s the thing. Taking you back to the corner of by brain that I like visiting the most, the part that I lovingly call the G spot. G standing for geeee... an expression of enthusiasm(before your mind takes you to uncalled for territories). The human body they say is full of knowledge on its own. In its purest form , even before you are though all that you are thought in school. Yes you heard it rite and I am not freaking you out on this. The new born kid is the most perfect state of being for research to happen , because he is devoid of all the learning’s that we have to offer later on, which makes him take the beaten path and as truly learning ready the brain is ,It learns what is being told religiously, as a result exploring the same routes that have been taken by other and as a result restricting his/her possibilities. You are pushed to be under the mercy of a restricted set of neurons in the same familiar corner of your brain and we let this happen to kids over generations and generations, to the extent what started out a facts and possibilities are now laws and rules of nature.  As much that should scare us, the complexity of this amazes me. Its almost like watching the movie Inception being played at twice the speed.

So what am I upto , you might think.

Basically , If you were to imagine a inverted cone and your life was a travel from one end to the other, you start with a wide possibility and as time goes by you shrink your boundaries and very soon you reach to the tip of the cone where there is no scope to move around and manoeuvre. The converse to which is entropy of the universe where the most primary state of being is lost as time passes though space and ends up being clumps of masses that form what is our existing perception of the solar system and galaxy, this again is just one possibility. The Earth , Jupiter Sun were just a result of an accident called the big bang.

The point being that life is not as simply as it is !!!!!!!! :P

If you think you are in misery at any point in time in your life(to which a lot of people would say yes). Consider rerunning the movie of the universe from the tip of the cone ( a few minutes of investment  in this is sadly a must). You will realize how stupid you were and never ever fall into the trap again.

You would want to Reset the un-order and work from the scratch every instance.

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GDP, India and the 8% frenzy

Growth  being the most fundamental aspect of us Organic beings, comes very naturally to us all. In fact the
very existence of the entire creation is underpinned on exponential expansion.To straight-jacket a phenomenon as omnipresent and universal as that to a term ,which is now increasingly discussed on
board-meetings and policy making bodies to something that is almost given pre-natal care by the journalist's
in reporting every minor fluctuation seen ,to it being a topic to snack/gossip-over ,call it over-simplification
or the indian way of being inclusive , GDP has risen from being a disinterested term lying in the corner of
an economic text-book to a super-star of sorts.Come elections and we have would have a whole host of people political/non-political/apolitical leveraging all that they can for political gains.

Growth of an economy is a Big deal. A country being in a constant growth trajectory is in itself considered to be an accomplishments , what that means is that there is enough talent/resources in the country to inspire the fellow citizens to look forward for a more prosperous future ,It is a pat on our backs every time we see a positive figure in that GDP growth section . If we were to draw  parellel's with the human growth process over a lifetime ,even an eternal optimist would have to settle for a periods of lull before he bounces back and you also have the inevitable silence of death.

So then what is the whole hoopla about the GDP growth slowing down. It has merely gone down , it is not down and out. What people do not seem to realize in all this hype is that we are still 'GROWING' yes but growing at slower pace.But does it really matter? Its a very skewed notion of thought to have growth bottled into the confines of the monitory space. Then the question that begs to be asked is why this frenzy about it. I cannot help but go back to one of the most candid and well articulated list of reasons by Ramachandra Guha of as to why India Should not , Need not and Will not become a supper power. I am more interested in why India need not become a super power

What is superpower'dome anyways.Is having a huge foreign reserve a qualifier, or is having the mightiest army in the world one.The focus seems to have shifted from innovation/contribution/ideas that drive opportunities which in turn create avenues of economic growth to fixing the the number that is a result of it. The breaking news these days make fun reading to say the least.The GDP fell below the 8% , there are indications it would never reach back to the 8% levels that we are so used to ....and the mourning builds with ticking time as experts , planning minds pitch in with their analysis and proposals.The RBI then intervenes to reduce the lending rates and BOOOM the next month the prospects brighten up and we are back on the converted 8% track. And the whole 'feel good factor' about the GDP is intact, The world will view us in good light.

The human mind ,as brilliant as it is ,comes with a user manual that is to be understood. It is devoid of intelligence ,ready to embrace  whatever you give it and totally surrender to it as being correct.This is a sort of device which you feed intelligence to and its your prerogative to ensure that you do your part rite.So then if you feed it with the intelligence that the target is 8% , it will very diligently work towards it and get it done for you. But you have not kept it abreast of the root cause of the issue which would range from supply-demand fluctuations, to inflation concerns,to regulatory irregularities.Holistic is what the data feed is expected to be if you are to expect a complete tried and tested result.

We have set our selves a target subconsciously which is impeding our own growth. What do we think are potential is or rather How limited do we think we have made our scope to be. The frenzy about this number is draining us of time that would be well utilized in resolving issues that are at the very root of it. It is sad that we as a society are have developed a herd mentality and do not have time for deep rooted analysis on why we do things the way we do it.

Here's a sample of why. The industrial revolution as we know it is one of the most significant happenings in the recent past which has arguably transformed the way we live our lives. But we all know that there are a lot of fallies to it, something that is inevitable in anything that is man-made. I find it hard to believe that in this industrial set-up there are thousands of people working under a single person. especially when the set-up is not a result of a innovative, path breaking idea.There is nothing to suggest the subordinate is in any way inferior intellectually or from a capability stand point.Yet he resigns to the fact that I have to live a life like this ,being a subordinate to others simply because this is how it has always been for generations in my family.
Its a mental-block that you develop for your selves and you end up living and dying with it.How does this hold relevance to the discussion that we are having about the GDP phenomenon. The government of the day which again is the sum-total of individual intelligence is so confined to ways and means of resolving an economic scenario that we loose out hitting the root cause of the issue.The government comes out with the statement that , there is demand out there for labor, but there are not enough people to work.The focus then
 moves to the discussion of 'is population explosion an issue after all' , because this has an positive effect to the growth of the economy.But what the population increase will bring along with it is its own problem of how do you feed them , do you have enough roads for them to ride on and more than anything , do we have enough resources for them to survive on. So this as might seem to the govt as a temporary solution , but the lack of a complete consideration of which will leave the a big hole in the Governments pocket.
Think this , why would the government not think of may be having sessions that can educate the people to make better use of their capabilities.Why not identify their forte and improve their skills, for all you know you would have found a Steve jobs who can create a company as huge if not more as Apple , which will not just solve your problem but revision your growth estimates to may be 20%.


We as humans have the unique trait of pushing the bar higher every time.A deep dive within our selves will reveal a lot more opportunities pursuing which may end up giving you a whole new different higher purpose ,voiding your current understanding. The constant introspection and questioning is what will lead you to a better quality of life and a more purposeful living.

The Spirited Journey to Health

it all starts at the tail of the spine
the tiny little thing there feels blessed and enshrined

the gush of energy takes it by surprise
as the fellow organs are in reprise

but not for too long does gloom rule the roost
as the prana cuts through it providing a much needed boost

triumphant and vibrant it makes it way up the ladder
all negativity can do not much ‚but grow ever-so sadder

as it played through the whirlpool of the naval
the little heart bent down to reach out in craving by which time it was amply clear, SRI SRI …you said it ,I was in for spiritual travel

the arteries and the vein’s lost no time in picking up pace
as the breath settled into a rhythm , that of SRI SRI’s grace

as every nerve felt respite
with a ‘wow’ i took breath in spite

the ‘reeeeeee’ felt never so resounding
as stress in me took a much deserved pounding

the mint cool nasal made way
even as i thought to myself , yyyyyyuppeeeeeeeeee!!!!! i am ‘making hay’

up she went in a graceful U turn ..boy wasn’t that a cracker
one that could humble even the best , yes the schumacher

by which time i had lost control of my senses for good
in pursuit of a more meaningful livelihood

the head opened up and made way
as the SRI SRI element in me steamed its way

a thunder it was , it took my breath away
your grace it was SRI SRI that washed all my sins away

I’ve heard. I’ve read but never felt it this way
SRI SRI !!!! i am blessed you pulled me out of harms-way

For all those who are blessed with SRI SRI’s grace you might want to guess this process.
For every one else you are a click away from transformation of the highest order.

The economics behind Ugly little butterflies

I always felt it a little hard to digest the claims made by great minds that all of us however insignificant may or rather will have a part to play in the way our lives unfold. An empowering feeling nevertheless. The profoundness of which struck me when I first heard of the 'Butterfly effect'.

The butterfly effect is the phenomenon whereby a minor change in circumstances can cause a large change in outcome.How a flapping of the wings of a butterfly in Amazon can cause change in weather patterns in Asia.

We often question 'How one isolated goodwill guesture can effect a change or even snowbowl into revolution'. I found it the hard way, all of us do. Every nonfunctinal aspect of the society traces its roots back to us. For a country that is deeply entrenched in the idea of patience and tolerance is now finding
the same quality manifesting itself as submissive acceptance of the current state of being.Being vociferousness is not the 'in-thing' thing anymore, even if it were to stand for what is rite. The mindless race for the 'White-color' has brought with its sterio-types that neither make scene ethically nor eonomically.We seem to be left with a growing list of cities that are full of directionless zombies, no wonder Bollywood(Indian film industry) too is showing interest in such movies lately !!!!!

We seem to have taken our sences so much for granted that ,we have forgotten to react to them. How else would you explain the case of an auto-wala(driver of a local commuting facility) not just being unreasonable with the rates ,but also justifying those insanely high rates, whats more with generous showering of tantrums that he's stacked up in plenty as they are fired on the hapless public who to begin with are caught unawrares and then helplessly take refuge in the security of their sojourn.The see-saw between the governig body and the public, priorities and ethics have to be balanced out to get it to steady state.

Lets talk numbers now . How does this butterfly flapping causing waves effect the bigger picture. The CPI(Consumer Price Index) which is a track of the increase in the rate of essentails against a set benchmark. The transport costs have a 7% weightage across India in the CPI.The CPI has gone up from 114.40 in 2010 to 127.5 in 2013, inflation
as a result has gone from being close to 7.5% to 10.3% now. What is to be noted is the WPI(Wholesale price index- prices at which essentils are bought at the wholesale market) 6.68% has grown at a slower pace than that of the CPI which means that the intermeiatory costs are more than real increase in Inflation.

Here's an attempt to identify the Root-cause of the same. I commute by a autorickshaw for a streach of 3 km a day back and forth. The auto rickshaw guy in the 3 km trip earns 15 Rupees * 6 = 90 Rupees pertrip. which is 30 rs/km. The mileage of the vehicle is 35 km/litr. diesel costs 50 rs/litr. A simple math tells me that
he spends 1.4 rs per km. Now that is a wooping 99 % gain. Considering that 60% is of it goes to the owner and a 20 % is the rental for the vehicle.He is taking back home a substantial chunk.Now what is more relevent here though is that some percentage of that 90 odd % increase is going to make its way into the retail prices.

There is every reason to believe that the 30% gap between the WPI and the CPI would be addresed partly by this opportunistic pricing by the autorickshaw fellows.This is only the tip of the iceberg, the story of one butterfly . There is no guessing in as to how many diferent ways this evil is currenly haunting us.Consiering that the Rupee is valued based the purchasing power of you and I and Inflation being the key indicatior or factor to determine the monitory policy of a nation. You and I can make a contribution in mitigating at least to some extent the damages.



STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RITE IN WHAT EVERY WAY YOU POSSIBILY CAN. DO NOT EVER UNDERESTUMATE THE POWER OF ONE SOLITARY BUTTERFLY.

The meandering journey of spirit to health

it all starts at the tail of the spine
the tiny little thing there feels blessed and enshrined

the gush of energy takes it by surprise
as the fellow organs are in reprise

but not for too long does gloom rule the roost
as the prana cuts through it providing a much needed boost

triumphant and vibrant it makes it way up the ladder
all negativity can do not much ‚but grow ever-so sadder

as it played through the whirlpool of the naval
‚the little heart bent down to reach out in craving
by which time it was amply clear, i was in for spiritual travel

the arteries and the vein’s lost no time in picking up pace
as the breath settled into a rhythm , that of shear grace

as every nerve felt respite
with a ‘wow’ i took breath in spite

the ‘reeeeeee’ felt never so resounding
as stress in me took a much deserved pounding

the mint cool nasal made way
even as i thought to myself , yyyyyyuppeeeeeeeeee!!!!! i am ‘making hay’

up she went in a graceful U turn ..boy wasn’t that a cracker
one that could humble even the best , yes the schumacher

by which time i had lost control of my senses for good
in pursuit of a more meaningful livelihood

the head opened up and made way
as the divine around me steamed its way

a thunder it was , it took my breath away
the body at ones washed all its sins away

I’ve heard. I’ve read but never felt it this way
almighty !!!! i am blessed you pulled me out of harms-way

You might want to guess what this process is about.

let go,fall with the universe

I wake up and see through the window over the medows between the leaves, purch my eyes on to the crimson light ,as the sun rests its chin on the tree clad cushion of the distant mountain valley. With every passing minute as i saw it rise ,i started de-focusing from my earthly existance and on to the skies. The clouds and the day light stars moving indepenently of each other , suspended in thin air and so was I ,or was I !!!!?

I soon realised that there was something harmonious about all this, what was it ???? The fact that there was no use of force. They were all acceptive of their respective states of being , non complaining, blissfull and freely falling.None of them seem to revolt on why they are made to be here or made to be part of the creation  there is silence and total acceptance. I take my attention on to my self and find it to be no different .There is no referece point in space that you can relate this fall to , there is no begining and end to this phenomena , its eternal.The galaxies ,the stars ,the entire mass of the universe how ever big they may be , deligently follow the un-written law.

The other day , i was in a confrontative situation with my dad .The merits of the argument apart , I found myself pushing hard to drive home a point, a point that I beleived was rite, rite it could have been for all i know, but I seemed to have over done it a tad. I realized that I probably came in the way of nature taking its own course.By forcing the issue, i had agitated the person opposite and as a result atleast temperoryly driven him away from him reflecting upon my perspective of things.I was in that 'post-argument truth downing' state , where you so often feel guilty of having jumped the gun in a sence.The postmortom revealed that I was yet again a victim of the 'I know this better' syndrome.

So often we fail to realize the shear complexity of the system called nature,It has its own fool proof way of dealing with imperfection, little do we realize that what we are messing around with or so often critisize is the creative energy in itself. Going back to the argument , had I not forced my point ,for all you know ,this would have ended a lot better. In the restrictive world that we live and the sckwed thoughts that we have we loose sight of the higher.We only know so much of the universe.The script for all you know is so brilliantly written by the creator , the magnitude of which is unfathomable and we try to gauge it with our worldly reasoning.And there is the mind that so often gets it calculations awfully wrong along with the knoledge of the self.. or the lack of it.

This being the case , we would much rather let things happen ,observe them and be cogniZant of the bigger force that is in action that knows of the larger longer term good more than us, sometimes refered to as GOD.Imagine ... how does a wound get healed, not becuae of the antibiotics, not because of the truck loads of pain killer that you gulp. Its the healing action of the billions of cells ,the life force in you ,the will to get well.So,then what do we do when we try to influence it .We are dictating nature on what it has to do aren't we. Pain is a mechanism to send alarm signals to us for attention,at times it is a sign of the process of healing which is underway.Why would you want to supress it.Why would you take synthetic medicines that are prepared based on our restricted knoledge of ourselves to influence some thing bigger,better as the supreme power. Lets move to a healing mechanism that is closer to natures way of handling it.When I say that , it takes time, give it time and you'll see what it can do to you.

A simple experiment will help you realise this.Even as you read this article , try feel the stress levels in your body. Let all the part of your body loose. To the extent that no part of the body is standing up stiff.Let the metabolic activity take over, feel the blood flow thru every part of your body.Observe the heart
beat as though that was the sole purpose of your life. Switch of the banter in the mind ...in short SHUT SHOP for a while.I would be surpried if
you did not enjoy the company of yourself.

a few 'More than a compelling reasons' to avoid non-veg

1) Our human digestive system is not designed to digest the complex nonveg food.Think of it this way .... what i you are asked to warm up or a game of football and do 2 rounds of the groud and feel good to go. But then misinterpreting that more is better and going the extra-mile drain's you more than anything. In the process you end up being underprepared for the game called life, you feel exhausted and worne-out.



2) Hello my fellow global warmers .....you ask how .....heres how ...The amount of natural resources that are consumed in feeding what is to be the potential lunch or dinner contributes to 27% of the total global warming in te planet.To put it in perspective , all the vehicular pollution in theh world put together comes to only 20% of the pollutants. Cheif contributers, the amount of water,grains,fodder(plant life in one orm or the other) that goes into feeding it is about 1000 times the amount of water,plant(natural resources) required to sustain the highest order of health.



A fully grown buffelo in its life time consumes enough water to float a Naval destroyer !!!!!! now tell me



3) What do we all strive for , a life ful of peace without any agitation.Then why would you want to spend so much and end up getting all the negative energy. Here's how, thr animal has its own set of emotion the negativity of thought which is in pretty high proportion in all animals is what translates onto muscles and tissues. Not when the hunter goes for the kill all the negative energy during the chase is now embeded into the animals muscles. An there you are ... consumimg all the negativity freshly backed out of the owen. This makes a person 'Rajasik' and 'Thamasic' (in the highest scripture)where your body energy levels are not in harmoney with the nture around you and that is what causes anger aggression , leading to depression.





4) It eats into your pocket. Wondering How ?????!, Not on the amount of money that you spend to buy one. Infact since the majority prefers non-veg, the govt have to subsidice it. A MC Donalds burger actually costs 40 $but is sold for 4$ who pays the rest ????? .... the tax payer.



Ok and what i get to hear if that non-veg is the best form of protien , so where does that come from ... go explore nature there is enough out there ... enough to give you that protein if not more and a sustainable one at that ... and keep you more alert and aware

Exiting the mind game

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.

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 ...

holistics

'socital wellbeing' - A state of being of a group of people to whome conformity to a set of rules saposadly 'etched' to
completion by what i call 'self-proclaimed era-defining' thoughts , which otherwise should qualify as being nothing more than
'progressive cleshe' ,

Add the indian aspect to it and 'the samosa of life' gets a spicy flavour to it , what with its
emotions(complicated and layered once at that),and the big fat alloo of uncertainity stuffed at the very core of it.what that
throws up is the dangerous recipee of indulgence.Propelled by the urge to grab a hefty pie of which , people end up compromising
on the absolute.

A trip abroad on wrk, inflated bank balances and as a result of it , enough money for remitences back home .. sounds like the india story !!!
heres more ...uninformed,purely fantacy driven , voracious apetite to the $-factor , non-cognizince of whats expected ,top it with the habit of
fretting on the elusive.

How many times have we disliked the experience of being reminded of the fact that the correctness,quality,completeness are the desired
vertiues that result out of time-taking,persevering effort.Yet i truley commend the never dying spirit with which humans dare to dream to take
the shorter path , ofcourse only to be defied by time.Yaaa I know .. only if 20 years of youthful lifetime was time enough for us to complete
all our obligations of wanting to amass enough money, to have bungi-jumped in newziland,romanced in france, felt the cold realites of antartica,
,burnt our hands in the stock market ,taken a shot at a casino in Vegas, wondered at the misery engulfing a millionaire ...before finally
looking within and reconsiling ourselves of our worth.All this with the added complexity of having to compete with a billion of them ... I get it.
We surrender ourselves to the mercy of our resources(our sences) and fail to recoupe when its time,But the situation is not so rosy either.Rather
look at it this way .... a billion of them thinking alike , which rule of probability does that satisfy.Thats testimony to how restrictive we have been thinking
The fact that there is no sanity in thought and the insecure lives that most of us lead , there is every reason to believe that our steriotypes dont work.Quite
intreguing to see that in this 'era of accomlishments' we seem to have parellely distenced ourselves from our roots.I see Intelectuals suffer,
at the hands of some very ordinary ideas , great thinkers compromising on values. The bottom line being that its the completeness in the understanding that
counts , irresective of what we do. I dont think a man who has a holistic view on all factors influencing life will ever be a source of chaos to the society,
Where there is noise here are imbalances,infact disproportionate numbers of any kind is also cause or alaram, and when we thin of BIG numbers we think of
population and ofcourse we think of .....!! he he .But the bueaty of this universe being that there is nothing absolute which includes the existance of the Universe
in itself... so then right or wrong is only relative and temperory... as temperory as ourselves.That explains why every suggesssion can have a counter argument
to it and it can be won on very loose grounds as well.But if some practises can give us a temperory sense completeness its well worth a try.

Fear Perplexed !!!!

If emotion is told be controllable, fear being one sure is.

How naturally fearsome has fear been ever since we first encountered it..... ingrained in our DNA or has it ? Perception i believe plays a very important part in
the 'fear-index' of yours.

The beuaty of being human is in the subtility of balance that has to struck b/w being pround of the complicated entity that we are and the humbling feeling
derived out of demysifying this complex self.

So similar and cleshe are reactions to situations that some times i wonder if we every want to react diffrently.One hardly lets the 'brilliant-u' do its job
when confrunted with a situation of fear.We curb our natural instincts in doing so. That is a result of wanting to be in 'safe-mode' in life.That is where we go wrong
in being restrictive in thinking. I strongly recommend the book 'The greatness guide' by robin sharma. Ok the word greatness might turn half the ppl off from reading it
But if u dont , u sure will miss out on one of the most satisfying feeling , no where in comparision to the painful load of misery that a average human carries
to his death bed.

Look at it this way . The supernatural that GOD is ,has given us an opertunity to be a spectator to his brilliant creation , all we have todo is experience the process of your worldly
acions as a third party and not own it.That is when u have an uncluttered mind free of the burden of being the soully responsible for our actions.You get into
what i call is the 'Adventure-mode' .Treat every situation as an experience and not getting weighed down by the burden of expections that you build for yourselves.
And ull find results and how .... will find avenues of making fear work for u .... relishing the experience. Thats what most successful ppl do ...
Being alianated by ppl is considered reson for alarm and a need for change required from your side ... rather that is a clear indicator that you are not ready to
stand for what u believe in or in most cases one doesnt want to take the effort of analysing the situation at its merit.

It all comes down to how early you analyse and understand this and releave urselfs from the thoughts that is stopping u from unleasing yourselves.

The honkomaniacs

beep beeep ... beeeeeeeeep ...... peeep peeep peppepepepepepe ..... and not to forget the quintessential beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep !!!!!

If you think communicating orally takes 'effort' .. and you buy into the idea of 'it not being worth the effort' .... the 'world of short-cuts' has a solution for this as well ..... walllllllaaaaaaaaa !!!!!

Introducing the 'button press' technique of communcation.... wondering as to were i am going with this......!!!!!!!



The other day ... in another of those stressed out walk's down the lane ,when i was busy trying to figure out just how ... a road as wide as it was .... (with the road layers having been considerate of the 'volume' of traffic brrr....) could get clogged to an extent that pedestriants were having to get their sence of geometry spot on to make those precise angular turns to get past it .... i senced the feeling of something brushing my pants from behind ... and even as i prepared to turn back to give him a much deserved stare .... i heard the dreadfull music of him beep.An he went on and on with it until it stuck me that he was trying to 'beep me of his way' and with the pitch of his honk , he eventually managed to. Hows that for an 'effective comm alternative'

For a more rediculus instances now ....... ppl seem to have lost the true sence of the word 'utilisation' ...... and also the understanding of what a 'trafic signal' stands for ..... heres how .... If the signal turing from red to green is not an indication enough for ppl to go by ...then what is .....!!!!
I cannot help but redicule the impatence(which derives strength from the deep rooted and ever growing store-house of ignorence that ppl are unknowingly nurturing ,fueled by the unsensored ethos of our society) of a man who can think of nothing but honk completely aware of the fact that the traffic will clear in a second or two and then , he has the whole road for himself and those ...... the agression of the 'vroom' of the throttle only reminds me of war horses on their marks .. waiting for the command to tear appart the opposiion ... the only difference being that in the later .... the intensity in this case is well utilized.


I quiet litrally wake up to the 'suprabatham' of honkers ..... thanks to the location of our house which i must say .. is tailor made to receive the brunt of it... infact there are rooms that act as amplifiers to make things worse ...The honks bieleve me lastes from the begening of the road on one side touchs its peak at the juction(alongside which we stay) and melows down on the way towards the end of the other road ..... ok one more utter of the this and this could well be my last artcle from here......grrrrrrrrr !!!!11


phew !!!!!!!!!! what these things do at rhe least is motivate me to write up .... they have no other bright side to it do they ...'kahan woh din jab ham tarasthe the .. logon ki aahat sunne ko hyderabad ke un sunsaan galion mein ... aur kahan aaj .....jab hame use chehel pehel se bhaagne ka ji kartha hai ......'

Banglore makes me re-opine ....................

The scene is set at another of those gloomy or rather call it blore'ish evening's, I see all my apprehensions on work ruining my evening
plans fading away err ....!!!!, much to my delight.With every pending task being dismissed with a click of the send button, and my superiour oblidging
to all the answers that i had to give him ,with a gentle nod of his head in full approval .Puffed up i was , all set to kick of on my 'exended week-end' trip back home.
I could smell the uncetainity in the air ... quiet litrally ...... the heaven's had stayed silent long enough without intervention ... and up there they looked as though
shaded by brush strokes..... shades that god has reserved for blore ,inching to pour down waiting for the devine nod.

In the hope that the clouds would hold on aleast until i reached my room or the 'greedy me' wanted it to hold on all the way to the station .thats quiet an
unfair wish , in a place like blore where commuting has a whole diff 'time' dimention to it.A place where the average space a man occupies when he comutes on
is the size of a car (a sedane) and where fashion is synonymous to settinling for no less than going Kirkwood .At times i have found myself peeping in to find the commuter , who is usually a person who's physical dimentions are no way in proportion
to the mode of transport.I dare ,not to question them on this , fearing to hear the most dreaded answer , that of their 'human rights' being questioned. I see the lack of intent
to care for the society while we plan for our well being.

In todays times , when we claim to have fast-pased our life and to have surged ahead, we seem to have lost focus of out pusuite , or should i say of what
our pursuite is supposed to be. A changes i believe is requied when there is a need for one , a need to change say an existing system which does not deliver , but change has
become synonymous to changing times.and when that happens we end up loosing out to the change rather than gaining from it.An what have we lost from the recent
string of changes , well in the the persuit of simplyfying actions , we have lost the essence of the what it was in practices for ,in the first place .. havn't we ? A lot of
this has to do with the basic understanding of our lives. It all comes down to doing simple things rite.


The fruit of a successful completion of a task is in its completeness , and we get here only when we have a complete undertanding of why it is performed.That explains
the unsuccessful completion of all the tasks that we do. So all such situations should ring alarm bells in us which should help us realize the root cause of the problem and not surprisingly ,
in most cases we will find ourselves to blame for the consequences of our action.Beleive me .... if only every ine starts to practice this ... there would be absolutely no confusion.U will
not go around advocating ur point , coz it gets solved within you .You put yourselves under the scanner and look at it in the light of other circumstances.

That was from an idealistic perspective , and we have a long way to travel in this direction to even envision the bueaty of the fruits , it bears.

Where Ordinay is Cleshe !!!!!!!!!

If u have been an obeserver and assimilator of things that go around u in this world and have leveraged ur intelllect
, you would have already acknoledged chaos 'reigning' and will have lost faith in rules binding our lives.

Look at the world panning out from a lay mans perspective and .... we find ourselves unstoppable, we've have defied all odds ,we've done the
untinikable ,we've found means of litrally 'kissing death good bye'.Now that is as close to defiying nature as we a have
got or have we ?


Nature has its own nack of tackling imbalences and it does a fab job doesn't it. its almost inate in it , is the nature to get back to the
state of equilibrium , which is where we should belong to .We indulge ourselves so much to the 'world' that we find ours selves on a swing ,precariously
flirting with the contours of the 2 exteremes , true to the nature of a pendulum in full swing ,
.It appears to have a certain flair attached to it , in philosophical terms 'maya' ,and thats
what mesmerises us ...
hmm i wonder how much more we have to learn from nature !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! only if we could make an ernest start !!!!!!!!!!1


Glimses of this are found in every aspect.The other day there was a discussion that came up , one that has become a routine these days that of the
recession vows and the impact of it on the 'big fish' that fed on it .... u guessed it rite , the IT sector.It was'nt any more than a decade and a half back when
the internet was an alean to us.We've moved from then on to getting overly obsessed with it to the extent that it would be a pain full poceess to part from it.
Why do we always have to go thru the crest and the trrough of the sine wave before we feel the need to find the median path .If we thought that we are wiser
than the generation rhat has gone by ,why doe that not apply to real time decisions. Why are we still bound by the ordinary just why ????!!!!!!!!!!!

From the inside , out of the box ..

If you thought that the you are ‘made of’ the idea that surround you …. Hnnnnnn … U certainly are. And if u thought that you are ’only made of’ the ideas in the society hmmmm …….. that’s both a demo of the power of words and test of what u are???? … was that eye brow raising ….!!!!! I am not surprised …….


Which gets me to a point that I have been mulling upon for a while now , the fact that it’s the ready-made ‘patterns of thought’ that have evolved over generations , that tickles the lazy-you into imbibing them and enter into a zone of ‘permanent void’. This is where we belong to. Look around with patience and , just take some time out to observe ppl around where ever u are …. We’ve got ppl galore for this experiment, categorize ppl by their attributes .Create a virtual database of such patterns of behavior …….. You will not have too many of them .. I assure you . Over a period u will find resemblances in patterns ….. And some might surprise u , by reproducing them. Soon you will start finding clones of people quiet literally …. clones of their attributes I mean. and believe me .. this is when it starts being fun . U cannot help , but wonder at your findings .U might also find yourself not being perturbed by them , rather u’ll find your eye-balls inquisitively observe those un-healthy ripples on their four-head or for that matter all over their face and your brain trying to figure out the reason for the same. Well the concern was not of the sheer no of repeated patterns … but what are these repetitions of ? …. The repetitions of some disturbing attributes.

As proud owners of the tag of the ‘most evolved’ creatures on the planet , we do little to justify our position. I’ve made it a habit to co-relate just about every thing with the theory of probability. If only each one of us could identify our own assets we would have as many patterns as the no of ppl around and its this is when ppl stop complaining that coz we identify ourselves with the ‘Unique U’ some thing that all of us have in ourselves and very few manage to get a feel of.

Imagine a world were each of us identify and are allowed to identify with our own perspective of things , I don’t think there would be any scope of confusion , which now is all pervading. and that would lay the basis for a near perfect world where our thoughts and actions are in sync with nature and the interplay as they call it between human and the divine would create ideal circumstances for all we ppl

Making sence of 'Ignorance'

Well it's about time the vent of my dormant volcano of opinions open up to agitate the surrounding society with its scary side !!!! yet again.

so what prompts me to unleash his time around ....!#!$!$ ..... well the culprit being, the word 'inorance'. The sheer contrasting nature of the 2 meanings that its stands for .... 2 diffrent meanings for the 2 grades of people whole form the
'creast and the trough' in the rating of humans by the wisest & enlightened of souls to have exised.

So the lets get to our 'disection lab' with this ...... lets put it under the scanner . it sounds as simpe as 'ignore' + 'ance' .... hmmm .. just about ignoring what the person opposite
has to say to u, and it becomoes a great weapon to bolster ur illusionary self-esteem by resorting to it and making self-proclaimatory statements like 'ignorance is blissfull'.

Man tends to hide himselves in the safety of the coucoon that he has biult for himself, but little does he realize tthat the ingrediemts that went into the construction of it
is of such britlle nature that , one strong storm of the underlying truth can blow it away and leave him exposed to the rough environment.

Do you see fingers being raised towards you .... when you read this .. !!!!!!!!!!!1 well we all do .. i am sure ... not barring anyone of us

What we have been refering to untill now, was onlyin the realm of ou own society...... a society that is biult on the emotinal bonding and self senteredlyness

All of us here revel in the environment that is condusive to us and ... In fact ..... THE 'IGNORANCE' of not wanting to venture into the unknown is what is costing us our bliss.

Just thinks of it ... a billion of us ... all having a self centric approach to life ...... and slogging away in the persuit of that 'unreal' Well beng ,the question here is that do we even know what exactly we are
heading towards. All u get after reaching the pinacle is a confused smile , still trying to make sence of what that 'achivement' has got u , and that is what i say is the 'Hight of ignorance'

lets range this in a 'ignorance meter ' ....... its a simple law of nature u see .... there no smooke without fire .....our intellect has not dampned to the extent that we dont
realize that there is confusion, chaos and disarray in the society and i am afraid that we rate very hgh in the 'ignorance meter ' , we have ourselves to blame fothis.

And there's more blunder ..........

Ever wondered what the most facinating ,'powerfull yet vulnerable' thing left yet undiscovered, is ..... u fuel it ... u own it ... an u sure 'misuse' it the most.Yes i am refering to the most complicated organ that we know of ,the 'human brain'
An its probably cause of these powerful traites that it has that ,the best of us r unable to handle it in a more fruitful way ...In spiderman's word ... 'with great power comes great responsibly' ......
An all of us without any bar of discrimination have been gifted with it .... yes the word is 'gifted'.God has almost been too generous to us humans ,to have blessed us with the ability to decide our course of life.
The tendency of man to turn the best of their lives to moments of mysery ...has left him in a state of what i call 'organized confusion'I say that coz .. evy thin around him feels 'spick and span' ..... but there is no sanity or order in the place where its required the most ... u ppl ur smart enough to get that one liner i guess hmmmmmm ......
Like the saying goes ....'Ppl wid the most miserable lives .... if Sit back and start taking stock of the 'good things' that have happened to them ,with out their knoledge .... it would easily out-weigh their bad ones.
do we have a common root cause to all this confusion ..... yes we do ........ an u guessed it rt .....'its within us' ........isin't it strange that we ourselves are responsible for all the 'caos' around us. So what am i pointing out to here.
Lets spend some time 'judiciously' and assign ourselves the task of peeping into our life till date and finding out answers to some very basic questions

q) when was the last time u surprised u'rselves and out-performed ppl in the sphere of wrk. think of the circumstances u where in the build up to it, i am sure u would come back to me and tell me that u had this unparelled urge to get it done and were focused , with no attachment to the results Isint it as simple as that ........... focus on just the goal that u have for urself with little or no attachment to the result adds a whole new dimesion to ur productivity at the wrk place.Not just that but .... it changes the way u perceive the world.
Which brings us to another of those basic questions

q) Why .. just why is there so much 'comotion' in the world around us. coz what is in is what shows out side . yep ...... there is this inner voice of the mind which constantly murmering and wanting u to indulge in actiities that jus dont help u maintain ur peace of mind.I know theres unrest out there in the mind .... an the chanllenge is to calm it downits just an amazing feeling belive me ...... the silence , calmness within u will just transform u and ...... will allow u to perform strong,discretepowerfull actions.It just changes litrally evy thing bout u .. litrally every thing ..... right from the way u talk ... ur tone ...... there is a sence of steadiness ..in u . ur no more competing with others .. coz ur in a league of ur own ..... way way ahead for others around u in thought.......

Only if we could have more ppl who can think in these lines ...........

The 'man' of today , we believe is the most 'evolved creature' in our conceivable history of existance . The self indulgence of whome has made him view the bonty & flair of mother nature through the glasses of 'want and gred' and hence almost reduce them to mere memories of the past.
Run .. run do not stop ... else u would fall back ... fall back in what ......... 'In the gruilng race for survival' ........... and where this race is taking us is anybodies guess ..

What we probably dont realize is the stress that we are inflicting on mother nature in trying to edge over each other ... and are waiting in antisipation of as to what nature has in store for us in return to our deeds .If the natural catastrofies of the recent past are anything to go by then .... we'll nature is hitting back .. and in a manner and scale which none of us can comprehend .......

so ... so .. how do we take this .... there r probably two ways of lookng at it ,,

a) the average man might react to the events and say ... well lets work on a gadget that helps combat the forces of nature .... lets make use of the use of the unparelled technology we've got to defy nature and protect human race ...............
Well now that is what 'Incomplete Knoledge of yourselves' can account to ....... what we dont seem to realize is that .... 'Science and nature' go hand-in- hand or rather ... science evolved with 'laws of nature' as the basis

b) Or look at it in a more proactive way with a sence of responsibility towards something that we have been ignoring for such a long time now
look at it in this way ...with the law of equations in mind ...... we were only forming one side of the equation with our behaviour to earth (Left Hand Side or L.H.S )... there had to be a balancing effect on the other side(Right Hand Side or R.H.S) to help the theory itself to hold good ...

L.H.S = R.H.S

And if we had to draw parellels of what is in store for us in the future to .what has been thought to us in the scriptures ..... we seem to be in what can be called .. the 'Last Phase' (the kali yuga) of the cycle of evolution that earth goes thru ,and it is in this phase where man becomes most notorious ... and it is this act of his which is an indication of the cycle ending ...
Isn't it fantastic that ...the timing of these cycles are so impeccably managed ...... and that nature almost force us humans to indulge in activities to give a hint of what what is to come in the future .....

Its time we wake up to natures call and make a consiuous effort to engage in acts of day-to-day life which are more forthcoming