Every single question asked has a direct answer....yet the answer is never enough for human beings....man found the stone....he didn't stop with that....he found fire,made vehicles,invented a language,carved out caves,found that he could make jewellery out of the stones....he did not stop with the stones found on the surface,but dug out new ones,went into the sea,and more nd more...one discovery lead to anoher and another and so on....
To cut a long story short,man has been discovering several things and inventing several things...and ofcourse,there are more things to be done(what with a million engineering students looking for a project to work on!!!) And he has come to this stage because of his nature to question....which leads me to the main topic of discussion in this blog....and yes,it is going to be a little spiritual too....
Scientists have worked on several things,found an answer to the previous question asked and progressed to unthinkeable levels!!!!and the graetest of greats have always asked this question to themselves.....I s science God??? Or is there a Supreme power driving science itself....Born and brought up in a family that believes in a supreme power ,I have never questioned the existence of God....To me, God exists....He is ,to me,the driving force behind everything, the controller of everything from the flow of blood and adrenaline in my body to the movement of planets in the universe,to the moulder of my character....Omnipotent....
He spreads positive vibrations when i think about Him...And He takes different forms for different beings...And yes,more than all this, He maintains the balance in our lives...I blame Him,scold Him,yet I trust Him.... I know that I can open out to Him....To me,and to thousands of others,He is an invisible being in whom I can believe...like I said,he spreads those positive vibrations in me....
To me, one person calls Him Shiva,one calls him Allah,one calls him God who sends his messenger Christ in His place,and some call Him Science....
I know this is an issue that people have debatted with for centuries!!!Fought over it for no reason at all!!!Just to make their points heard.....!!!! this is absurd....a man ultimately has to live his own life....nobody can live his life for him.... He makes his judgements,fixes his thoughts,trusts in people he wants,makes his friends ,his foes... so why kill another life to make your point heard or why make your point at all in sensitive issueslike the existence of God????
I have heard of several people talk about the search for your inner self...but my opinion again....there is no end to reasoning and searching!!!! ;P
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
a meaningful life??!!!
This is how my day is literally pushed....every single day....I get up in the morning and just have time to get ready for college...so am not really thinking when i get ready...Then,time to board the bus...i read a book or simply gaze out or talk to my friend...Once i reach college,it's those last minute enquiries about assignments and records to be submitted on that day...Once classes start at nine,I wait for the break at ten-forty to stretch myself and have a word or two with my friends...when the break is over,i can't wait for lunch..again to relax(and of course,to eat...),then it's the next ten min break am waiting for...then finally for college to end at four...Then it's again time for the bus journey with my book or a chat with my friend...Back home,I slowly eat while watching Craig's "Reach out"...Then time to do record work or observation work or assignments....(there always is something to do)...This is how each day of my life is getting wasted!!!!
I just realised that am not doing anything worthwhile,or anything that i enjoy doing....Now,i've charted a plan to do more things...things that i hould feel happy about when i look back to my past on a later date...hope it works and hope i'm not just another human being serving no purpose here....
I just realised that am not doing anything worthwhile,or anything that i enjoy doing....Now,i've charted a plan to do more things...things that i hould feel happy about when i look back to my past on a later date...hope it works and hope i'm not just another human being serving no purpose here....
Saturday, February 7, 2009
A local train journey...
I travel quite a lot these days in our local trains(my college being ner tambaram)...and this is one of my experiences in the last journey i had(around three weeks back) and i remembered it just now...It would have been another 40 min trip from tambaram to kodambakkam...but everything that disgusts me happened on this single trip...
First of all,it started with me getting onto a running train(really!and this was my first time and as the laws in physics would have it...i almost fell off due to inertia(atleast,that's wat i think it is!)
Wat's the big deal?Yeah,right,it didn't stop just there...
I g0ot a seat in facing the direction opposite to that of the train's and i would have puked(i have that problem) if I hadn't got the opposite seat in the next stayion...so far so good....There was this lady sitting next to me and she was eating a carrot....ok,that's her mouth...but once she was done with it,she just threw the remaining part under our seat!!!As if that wasn't enough,a few students got in at pallavaram... they were having lays(it always hasto do something with food ;))...they got the lasrt powder all over their hands and wanted to wash their hands...the could have got up an washed near the entrance but thy chose to lean all over me and pour the water out of their water bottles...when they realiosed that their efforts were futile,they chose to wipe their hands(as if they couldn't have decided that in the beginning itself)...the lady opposite me spat out of the window!! YUCK>...limits exceeded....
I decided it was time to get up from that place and stand near the entrance away from these people who got on my nerves!!I tell you,it really wasn't my day...There was a lady selling chikku and the lady next to me wanted to buy some(atleast wanted to buy...i thought)...but no.She wanted to taste as well!!!So she got the fruit from the vendor,got it squashed all over her hand,ate it,said it was nice nd sweet,and de3cided not to buy it on hearing the price!My God!She could have asked for the price even before tasting the fruit!As if this was not enough,she threw the seeds inside the train itself!!!I really wanted to yell at her-after all,she was standing next to the entrance!Then there was this lady who got in at the mambalam station.She hd her hands full of shopping bags and was balancing a cup of some masala sundal or something...Of all the places she could have taken in that compartment,she came and stood besi9de me,pressed between two of us (probably for balance) and was eating away happily...and wat a smell! I can't stand the smell of garlic taht was quite raw...and here she was...Thankfully,Kodambakkam was the next station-I got down,now I,ve decided to give the otyher compartments a try and avoid the ladies compartment next time.....I just want to check if even males can be like that!!
First of all,it started with me getting onto a running train(really!and this was my first time and as the laws in physics would have it...i almost fell off due to inertia(atleast,that's wat i think it is!)
Wat's the big deal?Yeah,right,it didn't stop just there...
I g0ot a seat in facing the direction opposite to that of the train's and i would have puked(i have that problem) if I hadn't got the opposite seat in the next stayion...so far so good....There was this lady sitting next to me and she was eating a carrot....ok,that's her mouth...but once she was done with it,she just threw the remaining part under our seat!!!As if that wasn't enough,a few students got in at pallavaram... they were having lays(it always hasto do something with food ;))...they got the lasrt powder all over their hands and wanted to wash their hands...the could have got up an washed near the entrance but thy chose to lean all over me and pour the water out of their water bottles...when they realiosed that their efforts were futile,they chose to wipe their hands(as if they couldn't have decided that in the beginning itself)...the lady opposite me spat out of the window!! YUCK>...limits exceeded....
I decided it was time to get up from that place and stand near the entrance away from these people who got on my nerves!!I tell you,it really wasn't my day...There was a lady selling chikku and the lady next to me wanted to buy some(atleast wanted to buy...i thought)...but no.She wanted to taste as well!!!So she got the fruit from the vendor,got it squashed all over her hand,ate it,said it was nice nd sweet,and de3cided not to buy it on hearing the price!My God!She could have asked for the price even before tasting the fruit!As if this was not enough,she threw the seeds inside the train itself!!!I really wanted to yell at her-after all,she was standing next to the entrance!Then there was this lady who got in at the mambalam station.She hd her hands full of shopping bags and was balancing a cup of some masala sundal or something...Of all the places she could have taken in that compartment,she came and stood besi9de me,pressed between two of us (probably for balance) and was eating away happily...and wat a smell! I can't stand the smell of garlic taht was quite raw...and here she was...Thankfully,Kodambakkam was the next station-I got down,now I,ve decided to give the otyher compartments a try and avoid the ladies compartment next time.....I just want to check if even males can be like that!!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Another war!
To those of you who read my previous blog,you don't have to tell me anything!!I know it's pathetic!!!! But i guess we will not discuss it anymore as i have already decided to write anything i want to say at that moment.....
It's a long long time since i wrote anything,so i don't have much to write mainly because i can't remember any interesting event or topic i wanted to write on....
It's been a long holiday for me...wat with me bunking two days of college and now sitting at home for another 3 days because of the bandh...Atleast our unit tests are postponed(or even cancelled :) ....but most unlikely!!!:()
This rally to be held today is to stop the war in srilanka (i don't know how the govt. comes up with these protests when the war is almost over and the ltte are on the losing side!!).I knew that a war has been raging for a very long time in that small country but didn't know much about the intricacies...
The srilankan tamils were treted like slaves,they were not given a right to vote and were discriminated and treated like outlaws...Just like every other story ends,the sinhalese lost their limits and the tamilians rose against them in protest...Initially there were several tamiklian civilian groups workiing for this cause,but being humans they had their internal clashes and the LTTE(Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) emerged victorious...This clash continued in the subsequent years and things grew from bad to worse in the late eighties...Everything acceptable upto this point...India decided to intervene and bring about peace in sri lanka....this was followed by the Indian army sent to the country...They were called the Indian Peace Keeping Force...India meant well,but this only worsened the situation with the LTTE thinking that their demands may not be met without violence,what with their arms and ammunition hideouts being found by the IPKF....The sinhalese too thought that a third member was interfering and causing more havoc....Result:Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber belonging to the LTTE...
If the govt. had really been against the war,they would haveheld thes protests a little earlier...that is my personal opinion...
Well,things really need to change in our country....corrupt and selfish politicians disgust me....am sure most of us Indians feel the same way,yet none of us educated people really stand up except talk(me included)....Of course with IITians entering politics,there is a change....A streak of light...HOPE!!!
It's a long long time since i wrote anything,so i don't have much to write mainly because i can't remember any interesting event or topic i wanted to write on....
It's been a long holiday for me...wat with me bunking two days of college and now sitting at home for another 3 days because of the bandh...Atleast our unit tests are postponed(or even cancelled :) ....but most unlikely!!!:()
This rally to be held today is to stop the war in srilanka (i don't know how the govt. comes up with these protests when the war is almost over and the ltte are on the losing side!!).I knew that a war has been raging for a very long time in that small country but didn't know much about the intricacies...
The srilankan tamils were treted like slaves,they were not given a right to vote and were discriminated and treated like outlaws...Just like every other story ends,the sinhalese lost their limits and the tamilians rose against them in protest...Initially there were several tamiklian civilian groups workiing for this cause,but being humans they had their internal clashes and the LTTE(Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) emerged victorious...This clash continued in the subsequent years and things grew from bad to worse in the late eighties...Everything acceptable upto this point...India decided to intervene and bring about peace in sri lanka....this was followed by the Indian army sent to the country...They were called the Indian Peace Keeping Force...India meant well,but this only worsened the situation with the LTTE thinking that their demands may not be met without violence,what with their arms and ammunition hideouts being found by the IPKF....The sinhalese too thought that a third member was interfering and causing more havoc....Result:Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber belonging to the LTTE...
If the govt. had really been against the war,they would haveheld thes protests a little earlier...that is my personal opinion...
Well,things really need to change in our country....corrupt and selfish politicians disgust me....am sure most of us Indians feel the same way,yet none of us educated people really stand up except talk(me included)....Of course with IITians entering politics,there is a change....A streak of light...HOPE!!!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
The best diary ever!!!
This is one of those fleeting thoughts i had.....and i thought...even if it is in a few words,i have to put it down here...
Every year, for the past 6 years I have resolved to maintain a diary and jot down the day's happenings, my thoughts,etc,etc.,etc....But i realised recently that everyday diary entries are not for me!!I am too lazy for all that....so i write in my diary only when i am really bored and have nothing else to do(that depends on my definition of nothing else!),or I am in a mood to write(that's quite rare these days!I have enough record work to love writing!) or I am really frustrated..like i've had a fight with my dad(which happens most of the time and is the major reason for the existence of my diary!!!).But tell you what!Diaries can be tiresome...you might have stuff that you don't want anybody else to know ....A diary can spoil somebody's perception of what sort of a person you are...after all...my diary contains only things about all the fights with my dad!!So see....I am not the same sweet girl they think I am!;P
Then comes your blog....My no. of blogs justifies the fact that i have nothing much to write here...my topics are pretty lame!ok,guys,I agreed already! I can read your minds....no need to rub it in!!!!:D
So wat is this best diary ever?????MY MIND!!!!!!or for that matter,anybody's mind!!and the heart helps it to decide how close the matter is to you....There are certain things i dare not put down in words.....so i put them away safely at some place in my head....and it's just like a computer.....brings things to me when i want it!!!Goodf,bad,embarassing situations,a nice incident-anything!!!!You want to remember it for life??YOU CAN!!!!
that's it....done with some more crap stuff!!!But i like it anyway!!!:) :)
Every year, for the past 6 years I have resolved to maintain a diary and jot down the day's happenings, my thoughts,etc,etc.,etc....But i realised recently that everyday diary entries are not for me!!I am too lazy for all that....so i write in my diary only when i am really bored and have nothing else to do(that depends on my definition of nothing else!),or I am in a mood to write(that's quite rare these days!I have enough record work to love writing!) or I am really frustrated..like i've had a fight with my dad(which happens most of the time and is the major reason for the existence of my diary!!!).But tell you what!Diaries can be tiresome...you might have stuff that you don't want anybody else to know ....A diary can spoil somebody's perception of what sort of a person you are...after all...my diary contains only things about all the fights with my dad!!So see....I am not the same sweet girl they think I am!;P
Then comes your blog....My no. of blogs justifies the fact that i have nothing much to write here...my topics are pretty lame!ok,guys,I agreed already! I can read your minds....no need to rub it in!!!!:D
So wat is this best diary ever?????MY MIND!!!!!!or for that matter,anybody's mind!!and the heart helps it to decide how close the matter is to you....There are certain things i dare not put down in words.....so i put them away safely at some place in my head....and it's just like a computer.....brings things to me when i want it!!!Goodf,bad,embarassing situations,a nice incident-anything!!!!You want to remember it for life??YOU CAN!!!!
that's it....done with some more crap stuff!!!But i like it anyway!!!:) :)
Monday, December 29, 2008
In the eyes of the beholder!!!
For those of you who thought i was going to tell you about that Jefferey Archer short story with the same title,well,you are wrong....But the reason why I chose this title is because I want to convey the same thing here.....
A few days back,I was going through an old album of the 1950s... My eyes chanced to see them as I was cleaning out a shelf and what I saw only made me go on from one photo to the next.There my pati and thatha were!Smiling away as newly wedded!Then my thatha's graduation photo...He was extremely smart and looked very young!Just imagine!He was married in a few months after that day!Then my pati...with her traditional looks...Even the other day one of my patti's cousins visited us and he told me..."You know,your pati was the beauty of srirangam those days..."..Yes, I could see that.Her long hair,charming smile,the traditional nose-stud and earrings...slim even after two kids!!Definitely a beauty....(I'll definitely try to scan the photo and put it up here in my blog).My pati was also an AIR artist and lent her voice for tamil dramas...
That left me thinking...Here she was now-weak,unable to move freely,dependent on others to for her every single move!She can't sleep peacefully because she does not feel comfortable in any position and can't turn on her own!She has difficulty in talking,her fingers close on their own,she can't control them as well...they call this the parkinson disease,a problem with the nervous system...But she is no way less to me from what she was a few years back to what she is now!She remains to be the same dear,pati who I can cuddle up to.Her wrinkles have made her softer and more cuddly, her tooth-less(not completely toothless) smile more baby-like,small face making her cuter by the day,and her uncontrollable fingers holding me when i do anything for her..I can feel the trust she has in me as I hold her.She doesn't trust anybody else as much as she trusts me and appa...Ma,you still remain my sweetheart,...I will always come to you for comfort...
The same holds good for my thattha..It's a year since he passed away,but he is always around me...I can literally feel him...when I go to college,when i study and especially when i sing!!He is there...not at all gone... and will remain with me for the years to come...He will live on in the work i do..I will continuously hear him praise me...However,I wish i could remember my healthy thatha...whenever I think about him, only the thatha of his last days-the frail one who can't see me,who can only imagine how i looked,how i was dressed...but he was there,supporting me throughout....
But,beauty definitely lies in the eyes of the beholder!!!They are still beautiful to my eyes....they grow more beautiful day by day with more no. of wrinkles!:)They get older as my grandparents and they are indeed GRAND-PARENTS!!!!
A few days back,I was going through an old album of the 1950s... My eyes chanced to see them as I was cleaning out a shelf and what I saw only made me go on from one photo to the next.There my pati and thatha were!Smiling away as newly wedded!Then my thatha's graduation photo...He was extremely smart and looked very young!Just imagine!He was married in a few months after that day!Then my pati...with her traditional looks...Even the other day one of my patti's cousins visited us and he told me..."You know,your pati was the beauty of srirangam those days..."..Yes, I could see that.Her long hair,charming smile,the traditional nose-stud and earrings...slim even after two kids!!Definitely a beauty....(I'll definitely try to scan the photo and put it up here in my blog).My pati was also an AIR artist and lent her voice for tamil dramas...
That left me thinking...Here she was now-weak,unable to move freely,dependent on others to for her every single move!She can't sleep peacefully because she does not feel comfortable in any position and can't turn on her own!She has difficulty in talking,her fingers close on their own,she can't control them as well...they call this the parkinson disease,a problem with the nervous system...But she is no way less to me from what she was a few years back to what she is now!She remains to be the same dear,pati who I can cuddle up to.Her wrinkles have made her softer and more cuddly, her tooth-less(not completely toothless) smile more baby-like,small face making her cuter by the day,and her uncontrollable fingers holding me when i do anything for her..I can feel the trust she has in me as I hold her.She doesn't trust anybody else as much as she trusts me and appa...Ma,you still remain my sweetheart,...I will always come to you for comfort...
The same holds good for my thattha..It's a year since he passed away,but he is always around me...I can literally feel him...when I go to college,when i study and especially when i sing!!He is there...not at all gone... and will remain with me for the years to come...He will live on in the work i do..I will continuously hear him praise me...However,I wish i could remember my healthy thatha...whenever I think about him, only the thatha of his last days-the frail one who can't see me,who can only imagine how i looked,how i was dressed...but he was there,supporting me throughout....
But,beauty definitely lies in the eyes of the beholder!!!They are still beautiful to my eyes....they grow more beautiful day by day with more no. of wrinkles!:)They get older as my grandparents and they are indeed GRAND-PARENTS!!!!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
A terrible,terrible day!.
It's been a long day,today-no, not exceeding the 24 hours....but a really really boring day...The past one week hasn't been good at all for me(except the lunch after my last exam at a friend's place....too good...:) )
The same old waking up at 7.45 in the morning because somebody kept calling your name or the knock or sound of the calling bell pushing you out of your dream world into reality.I then spread the newspaper on the floor and squatted, sipping my bournvita...appa was out with some official work.Then I had my bath,watched tv,tried the sudoku and it was finally time for my appointment with the doctor-the monthly check up....All the way i was yapping away to my dad about an exhibition in the city and how i would like to see it...But even as I was narrating it and begging him to take me I was 100% sure that he was not going to and he was making false promises...How well I knew my dad!!
Then I was back home and didn't know what to do...I wanted to make my last day of holidays as eventful as possible,but looking back at the day I could see that i had done nothing exceopt get up,eat and talk...There I was again,watching tv...it wasn't long before my pati complained of a headache and I switched it off with a long face...i sat sulking,hoping that my dad would at least realise how bored i felt...Well,I was right,he did realise, but as usual did nothing about it...Oh,yes...he made one of his Oh!-so-often-heard promises that he would take me out at seven in the evening(and here I am typing away about a uneventful day at eight!).
The horriblest thing(you can see how horrible it is...I can't find a better word!) that can happen to a person is getting bored...in fact,if you wanted to punish a person,you can leave him alone with nothing to do and there he will be,in the verge of tears....well,today I was in tears!
So what am I going to do about it?I can't do anything about today,but definitely I can decide wat i'll do on a later date when i am in a similar situation...what with so many duties to fulfill!so many things to be learnt and so many places to be seen(after all, I am old enough to make my decisions,plan my day and put them in action as well!).... I take it up as a chal;lenge to write about an Oh-so -full-day inthe near future....:)
The same old waking up at 7.45 in the morning because somebody kept calling your name or the knock or sound of the calling bell pushing you out of your dream world into reality.I then spread the newspaper on the floor and squatted, sipping my bournvita...appa was out with some official work.Then I had my bath,watched tv,tried the sudoku and it was finally time for my appointment with the doctor-the monthly check up....All the way i was yapping away to my dad about an exhibition in the city and how i would like to see it...But even as I was narrating it and begging him to take me I was 100% sure that he was not going to and he was making false promises...How well I knew my dad!!
Then I was back home and didn't know what to do...I wanted to make my last day of holidays as eventful as possible,but looking back at the day I could see that i had done nothing exceopt get up,eat and talk...There I was again,watching tv...it wasn't long before my pati complained of a headache and I switched it off with a long face...i sat sulking,hoping that my dad would at least realise how bored i felt...Well,I was right,he did realise, but as usual did nothing about it...Oh,yes...he made one of his Oh!-so-often-heard promises that he would take me out at seven in the evening(and here I am typing away about a uneventful day at eight!).
The horriblest thing(you can see how horrible it is...I can't find a better word!) that can happen to a person is getting bored...in fact,if you wanted to punish a person,you can leave him alone with nothing to do and there he will be,in the verge of tears....well,today I was in tears!
So what am I going to do about it?I can't do anything about today,but definitely I can decide wat i'll do on a later date when i am in a similar situation...what with so many duties to fulfill!so many things to be learnt and so many places to be seen(after all, I am old enough to make my decisions,plan my day and put them in action as well!).... I take it up as a chal;lenge to write about an Oh-so -full-day inthe near future....:)
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
My pursuit of Jack Higgins books.....lol...really....
These hols i got to read 3 books-one was by James Hadley Chase and the other 2 by Jack higgins....Well,this author was totally unknown to me until I joined the library a few months back and my dad casually asked me what books they had stocked up.....Until then, I was going in for the same Sidney Sheldon,James Chase,Jefferey Archer and the occasional Archie comics..So when my dad asked me about the books I was scratching my chin and tried really hard and said,"Oh!They have magazines like women's era and film fare!!" As you can imagine my father was not very happy with my answer...."What Darshan!!You have joined a library...All you see is a single shelf in that huge library?? See,I don't want you to grow up like me-not knowing anything!!! I learnt many things very late in my life!! So i want you to be perfect and disciplined in whatever you do...",he went on in his usual style of starting a mini-lecture...(oh,it sometimes turns into a maxi-lecture!You never know!!)
And the very next time I went to the library i made it a point to check out what books were available..."There's a whole row of Irving Wallace,Robert Ludlum and they have stocked up P.G.somebody's books......then the usual kid stuff-Enid Blyton,Sweet Valley twins,comics...."With that,I went into a series of old memories...and how I would love to read those books even now,one or two -once in while...
"Ok,check out Jack Higgins...especially The Eagle has Landed and it's sequel...."
So the very next day I returned from the library with a tattered copy(they had only one copy,and that was in the mentioned condition...)of The Eagle has landed and The Eagle has flown.....The titles sounded exciting an that kept me going for a few chapters....The book was on one of my least favorite subjects-WAR...But my dad urged me to go on.The story itself heated up only towards the end-the last 5 or 6 chapters....as soon as I was done with that book,I couldn't keep my hands off its sequel.Then followed two other books....Night of the fox and Cold Harbour.... Now I am successfully 4 books old and I can't wait to read the others...WAR books still remain my least favorite...but i have decided to try anything before I say anything negative...I love the way the author shows both sides of the war...the German side and the British side...His protagonists are all common men who have been dragged into the war...the ironical view they develop towards Life...the end -sufferers....really wonderful!!!
Yes, we should also lean back and give a thought to what a meaningless life we are leading...Life is short,even if it's a hundred years for a happy man,and life is never ending for a man who doesn't enjoy life....The eyes have It!!!(No, I don't want to go into that Ruskin Bond story now...read it for yourself...my blog is long enough!!!:P)
Starting from a library story,I have moved into the plot,the emotions and Life.....Really!I must learn to control my thoughts and focus!!!!!
And the very next time I went to the library i made it a point to check out what books were available..."There's a whole row of Irving Wallace,Robert Ludlum and they have stocked up P.G.somebody's books......then the usual kid stuff-Enid Blyton,Sweet Valley twins,comics...."With that,I went into a series of old memories...and how I would love to read those books even now,one or two -once in while...
"Ok,check out Jack Higgins...especially The Eagle has Landed and it's sequel...."
So the very next day I returned from the library with a tattered copy(they had only one copy,and that was in the mentioned condition...)of The Eagle has landed and The Eagle has flown.....The titles sounded exciting an that kept me going for a few chapters....The book was on one of my least favorite subjects-WAR...But my dad urged me to go on.The story itself heated up only towards the end-the last 5 or 6 chapters....as soon as I was done with that book,I couldn't keep my hands off its sequel.Then followed two other books....Night of the fox and Cold Harbour.... Now I am successfully 4 books old and I can't wait to read the others...WAR books still remain my least favorite...but i have decided to try anything before I say anything negative...I love the way the author shows both sides of the war...the German side and the British side...His protagonists are all common men who have been dragged into the war...the ironical view they develop towards Life...the end -sufferers....really wonderful!!!
Yes, we should also lean back and give a thought to what a meaningless life we are leading...Life is short,even if it's a hundred years for a happy man,and life is never ending for a man who doesn't enjoy life....The eyes have It!!!(No, I don't want to go into that Ruskin Bond story now...read it for yourself...my blog is long enough!!!:P)
Starting from a library story,I have moved into the plot,the emotions and Life.....Really!I must learn to control my thoughts and focus!!!!!
Friday, November 28, 2008
Who is God???
As I sit here with nothing to do....I have these strange thoughts...well,not everybody thinks this way!!!(wierd,really...)And this is what is running in my mind....Who is God??? For most people ,the moment they close their eyes,the image of their favourite God is what flashes in their minds....But my question is above all that!It's not just the physical appearance of God that I am talking about....it's more of what he does.....
There have been several creative portrayals of God in recent films like God Tussi Great Ho,Thodaa Pyaar Thodaa Magic....where we se the modern God in a suit...
Here's what came to my mind...these small things that ran in my mind...
*Clothes...God's wardrobe must be full of clothes that we have seen so far ,with all the changing trends ,including clothes of every place that He has created(Oh,i can only imagine a He)..right from coats,to Scottish skirts,to Dhotis,Lungis,Bermudas.....everything..and probably all that is yet to be discovered and designed....
*His favourite hobby-Painting....yes,that's just it!!What else can possibly be there?
I see him painting those extra clouds giving that gloomy feel to the Earth when he is in such a mood...or painting the crimson of the beautiful setting sun hiding behind the scarlet clouds...giving a breathtaking and beautiful sky with the radiance outlining the clouds...which makes you think if the sun can hide at all..in a game of hide and seek!!He has painted the green pastures,the beautiful sceneries in several parts of Europe(with a windmill and a dusky background in Holland, green,green everywhere with that oh!so-tidy cottages of the English and the huge tall castles of the Scottish), the busy stretys of New York, a bazaar in India-with all its colours..
*Music- He really is a great creator!! He has created the soul stirring Carnatic music...there are several verses praising Him and they are all rendered beautifully,the Hindustani music that blends with anything and everything!!He has also experimented with a thousand instruments right from the sound of water in a glass in jalatharang to the huge harp that gives out wonderful notes when plucked!
*Dance-Well,we can see for ourselves the different moves...
And at this point,I really started realizing that He has given us sooo many things to relish and enjoy....not only has he created all of them-he has also taught us how we can enjoy the chirping of the birds,gurgling of streams,soul-stirring music....He didn't leave us alone....He gave us friends,parents and a host of several animals and birds....He certainly is the greatest teacher!!!
But hey!Stop there.....he also created bad people...ok,they are not born bad...but look at what's happening around us!!People who cheat,who are greedy for position and money....and the main evil-money!!!Ah!How it can buy you anything in the world and lure you into a trap!But he instilled in people who were meant to be good, values.....he made the bad and the good,yet he gave one money,posts,all the riches and the other,good values,kindness,generosity ,yet little money (in most cases...i don't say the rich are bad!!!)...
Ah! I understood....Just the way Shakespeare(I hope I'm right) said,"All the world's a stage and people,mere actors!"Yes,this is a game,a drama that God is staging.....he likes to see the good and the evil together,test his actors with their skills and hearts!!
Now I see Him,the great director,smiling away at his creation-his huge theatre!!!
There have been several creative portrayals of God in recent films like God Tussi Great Ho,Thodaa Pyaar Thodaa Magic....where we se the modern God in a suit...
Here's what came to my mind...these small things that ran in my mind...
*Clothes...God's wardrobe must be full of clothes that we have seen so far ,with all the changing trends ,including clothes of every place that He has created(Oh,i can only imagine a He)..right from coats,to Scottish skirts,to Dhotis,Lungis,Bermudas.....everything..and probably all that is yet to be discovered and designed....
*His favourite hobby-Painting....yes,that's just it!!What else can possibly be there?
I see him painting those extra clouds giving that gloomy feel to the Earth when he is in such a mood...or painting the crimson of the beautiful setting sun hiding behind the scarlet clouds...giving a breathtaking and beautiful sky with the radiance outlining the clouds...which makes you think if the sun can hide at all..in a game of hide and seek!!He has painted the green pastures,the beautiful sceneries in several parts of Europe(with a windmill and a dusky background in Holland, green,green everywhere with that oh!so-tidy cottages of the English and the huge tall castles of the Scottish), the busy stretys of New York, a bazaar in India-with all its colours..
*Music- He really is a great creator!! He has created the soul stirring Carnatic music...there are several verses praising Him and they are all rendered beautifully,the Hindustani music that blends with anything and everything!!He has also experimented with a thousand instruments right from the sound of water in a glass in jalatharang to the huge harp that gives out wonderful notes when plucked!
*Dance-Well,we can see for ourselves the different moves...
And at this point,I really started realizing that He has given us sooo many things to relish and enjoy....not only has he created all of them-he has also taught us how we can enjoy the chirping of the birds,gurgling of streams,soul-stirring music....He didn't leave us alone....He gave us friends,parents and a host of several animals and birds....He certainly is the greatest teacher!!!
But hey!Stop there.....he also created bad people...ok,they are not born bad...but look at what's happening around us!!People who cheat,who are greedy for position and money....and the main evil-money!!!Ah!How it can buy you anything in the world and lure you into a trap!But he instilled in people who were meant to be good, values.....he made the bad and the good,yet he gave one money,posts,all the riches and the other,good values,kindness,generosity ,yet little money (in most cases...i don't say the rich are bad!!!)...
Ah! I understood....Just the way Shakespeare(I hope I'm right) said,"All the world's a stage and people,mere actors!"Yes,this is a game,a drama that God is staging.....he likes to see the good and the evil together,test his actors with their skills and hearts!!
Now I see Him,the great director,smiling away at his creation-his huge theatre!!!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Rain,rain shower away!!!!
Now that I have nothing to do, I decided to update my blog......and my topic is the very same thing that has kept me indoors for 2 whole days!!RAIN!!!
Well, this one's been a reaaaaalllllyyy heavy one after a vvvveeerrrryyyy llllooooonnnnggg time!!Madras is literally sinking!!
About the developments and the discomforts this rain has caused-2 of my university exams got postponed(i know i am strange....but think of it this way...at least i wouldn't have had to prepare for it all over again after 2 weeks....The exams would have been over!),the whole area is flooded and there's water up to our hips!!!....anticipating electric shocks and live wires,the people in my apartment complex decided to cut the power....so no power now..(I am at my aunt's place right now....just came over....so don't wonder how I am writing this..).the water has entered the ground floor flats...and those people are draining it away in buckets...they'll have to move to some relative's place at night!!no schools,no colleges....great!!! but no power,no tv,no comp,no music as well!!!!:(
the pluses are few....but i say "rain rain shower away....don't wait till another day" coz when there are no rains also, we complain......
There's just this one problem in Indian cities (at least most Indian cities)-there's no proper drainage system.....otherwise we can enjoy this cool,wet weather...all we need is an umbrella or a rain coat......it's the stagnant water and the diseases it brings with it that are a problem.....
But i have to agree with people that "too much of something good can also be bad"-look at the number of deaths,people going homeless and fields and crops ruined!!!We comment about things from within the four secure walls of our house,but there are people out there,who don't have a single wall to shelter them!!!
Well, this one's been a reaaaaalllllyyy heavy one after a vvvveeerrrryyyy llllooooonnnnggg time!!Madras is literally sinking!!
About the developments and the discomforts this rain has caused-2 of my university exams got postponed(i know i am strange....but think of it this way...at least i wouldn't have had to prepare for it all over again after 2 weeks....The exams would have been over!),the whole area is flooded and there's water up to our hips!!!....anticipating electric shocks and live wires,the people in my apartment complex decided to cut the power....so no power now..(I am at my aunt's place right now....just came over....so don't wonder how I am writing this..).the water has entered the ground floor flats...and those people are draining it away in buckets...they'll have to move to some relative's place at night!!no schools,no colleges....great!!! but no power,no tv,no comp,no music as well!!!!:(
the pluses are few....but i say "rain rain shower away....don't wait till another day" coz when there are no rains also, we complain......
There's just this one problem in Indian cities (at least most Indian cities)-there's no proper drainage system.....otherwise we can enjoy this cool,wet weather...all we need is an umbrella or a rain coat......it's the stagnant water and the diseases it brings with it that are a problem.....
But i have to agree with people that "too much of something good can also be bad"-look at the number of deaths,people going homeless and fields and crops ruined!!!We comment about things from within the four secure walls of our house,but there are people out there,who don't have a single wall to shelter them!!!
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