The Month that Was...

One more month has gone past.. Month of April which was quite happening as along with natural factors of specialness such as first month of Financial Year, New years of some states, it also had IPL buzz, beginning of world T20 and for me visit to my home town Kanpur.

April months starts with tax planning for new financial year. Though, i am not eligible yet, thanks to my employer. But still needs to do fill tax planner for the year, before i could left for my hometown. It was a visit without any occasion, but Just for a break from unhealthy lifestyle and relax in the company of my loved once. It's really out of the world experience playing with my little niece and nephews. it just takes the all sorts of tensions away and one just forgets about all the worldly worries.

Since i was traveling alone in train and it was going to be approx 36 hours Journey, i took an biography on My favorite leader Subhash Chandra Bose. The book named Patriot, written by captain Manwati Arya from INA of Netaji.It was really difficult to pass this long journey in train. I read the book for some time and listen to music on cellphone for sometime and slept most of the time.Since it was Rajdhani express, they kept everyone busy eating every 4 hours except at nights.. that was also a sort of time pass. Observing people, their talks and behaviour, was a bit of interesting thing as well.

Finally i reached there on 19th April via New Delhi and Ghaziabad. Meanwhile IPL was going in a full flow, with many controversies over team ownerships, advertisement contracts, bomb blast outside Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore and Semis shifted to Dy. Patil stadium Navi Mumbai.It shows how our Govts reacts quickly when someone talks against them. Govt, IT deptt. and BCCI could not found anything wrong in Last 3 years against Lalit Modi but as soon as he targeted a union minister everyone just woke up. Shashi tharoor has Just resigned and everyone forget about him and started targeting Modi and whole IPL. I enjoyed my one week stay at home and then started to come back on IPL finale day, with my favorite "Team Sachin"i.e. Mumbai Indians there and IPL trophy had a great chance of getting lifted by the hands of the GOD of Cricket Himself.

But how come everything go fine with me. The connecting train to Jhansi from Kanpur got delayed by 3:30 hrs.And i had no option but to take bus from Kanpur to Jhansi. Bus started at 6:30 PM, with approx 6hrs 45 mins remaining to catch the train and only 230 Kms to go, One would feel quite optimistic and comfortable but people from my part of India might not. I thought it might take 5 to 5:30 hours and by 12 Midnight, i must be there. But when after 3 hours, i reached half the distance, i realised the big difference in northern and southern part of country. Northern part specially BIMARU states are lagging behind just because the people don't think about basic infrastructures like Roads and electricity but they are more concerned about cast and religion politics. Any ways the road ahead was making me feel like, missing my train surely and i already started thinking of a plan B. Adding salt to injury, the driver stopped for 20-25 mins for having dinner on the way. At that point, i thought it's all over. I was getting score updates in between for IPL finale. There also news was not good MI lost to CSK and the IPL trophy missed the golden opportunity to be lifted the GOD himself.

I had 45 mins only and there were no signs of Jhansi in the Dark and lonely roads. Suddenly i saw one sign board saying Jhansi, i still had 30 mins, talked to driver and he told me it will take another 10 mins to be at Bus stand and from there it will take 5-10 mins only to Railway Station. And looks like My stars turned around finally and i reached at platform 10 mins before scheduled arrival of train and now train was also 15 mins late.

Again passed the journey by using same methods as while going.. Throughout this journey, again the painful difference between southern and northern states was visible. The same railway department seems to be doing well in southern parts in terms of accuracy and cleanliness of railway platforms. Anyways enjoying some beautiful outside views from train, i was back to work on 27th and 3 days later world T20 started with India starting off well by winning both their first round games and Getting to Super League.

Now hoping for Good Luck of 26th April to be continued for rest of the year.. :)

Confluence of Two Everlasting missions..

It has been confluence of two historic days in this week of April month. Baisakhi and new years from other states joining the birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
Baisakhi, which is marked as festival of harvesting of Rabi crop in Punjab, with sheer joy.But the festival is combined with feel of sacrifice with establishment of Khalsa panth by Guru Govind Singh, which reinvented the Sikhism. It also combines with starting of Arya Samaj by Swami Dayanand Saraswati which worked towards cleaning Hindu society. But it also combines with painful day of Jaliawala Bagh Massacre when Innocent people were shot dead by one mad British General Dyer and the GOD was watching all this injustice quietly over
there, creating doubts on many minds of HIS own existence. How can almighty who said to be created this beautiful world can watch such acts quietly. How can he justify this?..

The day follows with another historic day in history of mankind. The Birth of a social reformer, who fought for human rights of millions of people who were treated as someone beyond human race by people of their own country, their own religion. They were deprived of basic needs like education, health and the above all right to live freely. They were untouchables, as if just by their touch water and air was getting polluted.Even Temples of their own religions were closed for them by so called elite class and again the Almighty was
silent. How can the GOD allow one human being to behave like this towards another human being??

Both these were starting of new era in history of India and mankind. On Baisakhi day, Khalsa panth started and which changed the way of living of Sikh society as it gave them sir name of Singh (the Lion). This was the day which asked for supreme sacrifice from them to free nation and free their community from all sorts of evils.Similarly Deeds of Dr. Ambedkar signifies the start of new era in Indian socio-political structure.He fought against all sorts of odds for deprived class, also advocated reforms in Hindu society by giving women
right in property.
The Baisakhi saw Jaliawalabagh Massacre, which ignited many young Indians to fight against British govt.Bhagat singh, Ajad, Rajguru, sukhdev, udham singh and many other sacrificed their lives for free India.Ambedkar's mission was also same, he wanted an India free of inequality among their people. He wanted India to be a better place to live for people from all parts of society, whether Rich or poor, deprived or elite.

Unfortunately, the visions of these great heroes are yet to be fulfilled. Politics are just doing politics to gain power and little for betterment of society. Half the population still deprived of basic needs. Social and regional divide is getting wider. But both these days gives immense hope and shows us that big social movements and changes can be triggered by even one single spark of lightning ideas. Both Guru Govind Singh and Dr. Ambedkar just proved this.

One Shockful Lesson

It was ugadi evening.. Unusually hot day in Bangalore. Our ceiling fans were also struggling in heat.they were running as if they have deeply taken the moral of story of rabbit an tortoise.Slow and steady wins the race... KKR were struggling too against CSK on their home ground.
Then suddenly, to our surprise, a lightening happened as if Goddess of Power blessed us, and fan started dancing in Joy. Seems it reaches the finishing point of the race and now dancing with Joy. We thought "oh so it was Voltage that was causing our fans to go slow like a tortoise".. Our faces also lit up with smiles, Finlay bit relaxation in this heat.
CSK also won comfortably and we switched off TV, off to the bed using remote control. Laptops were also doing overtime in night and were kept on even in sleep mode. :)

We Woke up quite early due to hot and humid conditions, as fan was not running, We thought there's no electricity. But an hour later we realised that Mosquito killer "All Out" is twinkling, may be indicating the fate to follow. So Power is there but fan has reached final destination and ran it's last race. Soon we found that "Internet devta" also gone as connecting white box's lightening green eyes seems to gone emotionless.
Then only we Realized it was not Goddess of Power but Lord Shiva with his Destructive eye open for creating new shristi.
It was Really sad scenes all over. with Dejection in heart, we left for office. Then suddenly House Owner came as Angel send by God. Aware of last night tandav, he was planning to replace fans. This gave us Bit of hope and solace.

We Reached office in 20 mins and then It turned out to be After Shocks as in case of massive earthquakes.. laptop's AC Power Adapter was also found dead. It was supreme sacrifice to Save big Bro Laptop.then whole day we Struggled to get process to get adapter replaced finally and finally got to know right process at the end of day only.
We reached home deliberately late, knowing there will be no fan. But to our surprise electrician was ready to replace fan, and replaced both. it was like begining of new shristi.. new fans came and were dancing in joy of freedom.

But The biggest shock was yet to come. As soon as we switched on Our Lifeline the so called Idiot Box "TV" . It was shivering and screen was trembling in sock. And within 5 mins after admiring our idiotic act of keeping it in sleep mode and power on. It went into "maun samadhi". I think it had no words to explain our stupidity so It went "Speechless".

Thanks to Lalid Modi, we have IPL. And i think First time ever we watched Sachin Thrashing Bowlers in a silent mode.Watched MI thrashing DD and went to sleep.. This time TV was fully disconnected from the source of power and all other equipments except new fan.... But we have already learnt our lesson and God is too kind and busy to give lessons every day to same person.
It was Real life example of thousands of ad saying save electricity. Switch off all electric equipments when not in USE. We would never forget it now.....:)

Are we in 21st Century????

Disgusting!! this was first thought came into my mind, when yesterday, i saw shocking visuals of So called Godmen madly standing over infants and beating Girls and women infront of hundreads of villagers on the name of curing them from evil souls.
The people out there were simply chanting, clapping and singing devotional songs while this mad "Baba" was brutely beating girls and women to cure them from evil souls.
Administration also seemed to have kept their eyes closed and day dreaming some where.

But the way people around him behaving was the most diturbing part of it. Even in 2010, India belives in these things, people worships such fraudulant babas. Administration also get influenced by them. Even though we boast of fastest growing economy in world, and are nuclear super power and we have discovered water on moon, the other part of story is really sad.
People still get influenced by such blind faiths, get affected by religious and regional divide.
Do we have a moral right to be called as Economic Super Power when 30% of our poulation is struggling to earn 1000 rs per month. Can we really boast of IIMs and IITs when 45% of our population is illeterate and 20% of litterate haven't studied beyond primary school.
Can we boast of one of the largest democracy, Where Girl Child is killed soon after taking birth just because she is a girl in many parts of nation, Where untouchabilty and cast and religion based divide still exists in minds of even so called "Well Educated" people.

Got really disturbed.. but then there is always hope and i thought "We Shall Overcome One day... " waiting...... for the day to come soon.

New Year New Hope

The day began with new hopes as Hindu new year is being celeberated in many states of India with different names.
Ugadi -- "Yuga Adi" The begining of new age as rightly called in Karnataka and Andhra marks the start of Chaitra Month, which marks the onset of spring.
Gudi Padva in Maharashtra, Cheiraoba in Manipur, Navreh in Kashmir, Chetichand in Sindh are other names given to the same festival of new begining and hope in other parts of nation.
But whatever you called it, the inherent feel remains the same. The Joy, hope and expectations remains the same.
It's just another day of happiness in this busy life of many people which brings them closer to nature and their family. And for some it is a day to relax by extending long weekends.
Every year, we promise ourselves and to our loved ones to get rid of any bad habbits and gain some good, but everyone may not be able to achieve these goals, still another year gives the strength and fresh energy and impulse to acheive what has been missed last year. That's the way life goes on....
I wish this year bring joy and happiness to every face on earth and our planet become little more beautiful place to live on this universe... :)

Koshish by Sohan Lal Dwivedi

लहरों से डरकर नौका पार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती,
नन्ही चींटी जब दाना लेकर चलती है,
चढ़ती दीवारों पर, सौ बार फिसलती है.
मन का विश्वास रगों में साहस भरता है,
चढ़कर गिरना, गिरकर चढ़ना न अखरता है.
आखिर उसकी मेहनत बेकार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती.

डुबकियाँ सिन्धु में गोताखोर लगाता है,
जा जा कर खाली हाथ लौटकर आता है,
मिलते नहीं सहज ही मोती गहरे पानी में,
बढ़ता दुगना उत्साह इसी हैरानी में.
मुट्ठी उसकी खाली हर बार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती.

असफलता एक चुनौती है, इसे स्वीकार करो,
क्या कमी रह गयी, देखो और सुधार करो.
जब तक न सफल हो, नींद चैन को त्यागो तुम,
संघर्ष का मैदान छोड़कर मत भागो तुम.
कुछ किये बिना ही जय जयकार नहीं होती,
कोशिश करने वालों की हार नहीं होती