ye kon chitrakar hai

it is said that beauty lies in the eyes of beholder,but there must be someone or something who/which created such beautiful things alongwith eyes to see them and other senses to feel,taste and hear them.what should be the minimum criteria for calling anything beautiful,according to me beauty is in symmetry(intra) and diversity(inter).it amuses me that no two things in this universe are exactly alike or identical.i am yet to see two similar leaves on a tree,even the twins share some kind of difference.i have learnt that 99% genes in honey bee and humans are same,yet we are so different.this makes me think that either nature has a very sharp memory like once it create anything never creates another thing exactly similar or it has such a short memory that once it create anything,forgets about it and has to create other one with a shift in design.

how true are those five words written by poet pope;"order is heaven's first law".look at the planets,they circulate in such cunningly calculated orbits,water always flow downwards,wind from high pressure to low pressure,sun rises from east.laws of physics are same for everyone be it king or subject.human brain is more complex than any of the integrated circuit ever made.such perfect balance is created through food chain so that no single species can overbreed and fill the planet by their number.

who decided the seven colours of rainbow but left water colourless.who taught ants to follow each other in a line,animals to walk in herd,birds to fly in flock.who designed honey comb,drop of water,mountains,flowers,butterflies.ye kon chitrakar hai....

mera pehla pehla pyar

it all started with black and white t.v and the one and only doordarshan.remote was unheard of in those days,so there was no competition to get control over remote control.doordarshan provided a rich cocktail of programmes those days,a blend of music,comedy,drama and knowledge.who can forget rangoli and chitrahaar.there were programmes to enrich your grey cells like bharat ek khoj,surabhi.byomkesh bakshi,tehkikaat had the thrill to chill the spine.alif laila,chandrakanta,vikram betaal gave wings to fantasy.after coming from school i shared my afternoon with dekh bhai dekh,swabhimaan and shanti.sundays were studded with cartoons like the jungle book,talespin and duck tales.how can one forget greats like potli baba ki,neem ka ped,mitti ke rang,malgudi days,junoon,sansaar.now we have got plethora of news channels but who can match sarla maheshwari in hindi news reading and sunit tandon in english.
gone are those days when serials were down to earth. serial these days have become N.R.I. look at the saas bahu serials,ladies wearing heavy makeup 24,7 ,costly sarees,living in mensions.light never goes off in their house,they never sweat,the gain and loss is always in crores in their business,gents never look for jobs because they are always born with golden spoon in mouth.
it is very hard to forget your first love,miss you doordarshan.

seven moments to die for

there are some moments on earth which are unmatchable.i have made my list of those seven moments.only a person who lives them,knows them.they give me goose bumps when i think of them,that is the weight they carry.here they are-
1.the most thrilling moment on planet is winning a 100 metre sprint with record time in olympics,you get the distinction of being the fastest man on earth.oh! GOD,we lesser mortals.i want to share a joke here"somebody leaves his shoes with a written note near them saying;these shoes belong to an olympic boxer.if you have guts,touch them.another man takes them away leaving a note saying-i am an olympic racer,if you have guts,catch me".
2.taking oath as president of united states of america.only devil knows how it feels like being the most powerful man on earth,world at your feet.
3.winning a nobel prize,world's most acclaimed prize regardless of boundries.
4.the negative G which one experience during the take off of a space shuttle and space walk.
5.free fall from a plane or a bungee jump.
6.proposing a girl for the first time in your life when you are not sure whether the answer is going to be in affirmative or not.
7.being a part of passing out parade of indian military academy.

i am not proud of my country

sorry for being so blunt but i must call a spade a spade,we are not only hypocrite and chauvinist but coward also,remember how intruders from afganistan attacked us time and again and we suffering from panipat syndrome allowed them to come to panipat first and then take any action.we had no guts to nip the evil in the bud.it is a pity how some handful of britishers entered through east india and took control of the whole country and our local kings helped them,people are on sale here if paid adequately.even after independence we have not aborted our slave mentality,we are now ruled by a political family,how strange is this that a century old party runs on the crutches of a single family.politicians here turn billionaire overnight once elected as M.P or M.L.A,and even sarpanch goes millionaire once elected.we are corrupted upto the neck and the insult to the injury is that we deposit black money earned from corruption in swiss banks.our black money is 9% of their G.D.P.this is not a small figure remember our agriculture contributes only 2.5% to our G.D.P.people are discriminated here on the basis of caste,creed,religion and the amout of melanin in one's skin.we don't love ourselves,we want our skin colour to be like the western people,fairness creams are selling like hotcakes.we are not happy with our figure,we want anorexic figure like western models.we are morally bankrupt.

judgement day

so the results are declared and i am happy that india voted for some kind of stability.this verdict is a slap on the face of small parties who were eyeing political bargain in case of unclear verdict.how can one forget blackmailing of left parties at the time of nuclear deal.
indian voter is still not mature enough.people still take into account caste,creed and religion of candidate,as someone said"people in india don't cast their vote,they vote their caste".regional parties thrive on this myopic vision of public.
i have always been in support of two party system.india spent 10,000 crore on general election(more than u.s did) and even after spending such huge money if we are not able to get a stable government than the whole essence of democracy is lost.
i have some suggestions for our democracy;
1.the general election and the assembly elections should be held simultaneously.development works come to a halt due to model codes of conduct of different elections.this will help in proper management of resourses and hard earned money.
2.there should be a two party system like u.s and u.k have so that local parties can't hold our country hostage on petty issues.
3.only graduate candidates should be allowed to contest(it is hard to believe that you need some kind of qualification to clean a street as a sweeper but can do without it if to clean your country as a M.L.A or M.P)
4.the election commission should be given more teeth to bite.it was a pity how some candidates flouted the rules and made a mock of system in open.
all the problems are interconnected.as long as we are poor,overpopulated and uneducated,we will be an easy prey for these demagogues.

pushing the limits

it has been a very busy day for me,but i am not tired.i think activeness and laziness both are contagious.on any normal working day i am very punctual,wake up early,go to gym,go to duty,perform other regular household duties,study.everything picture perfect.but on holiday i am as lazy as bovine.it is said that greed,appetite and sleep are like spring,you can strech them or can limit them,how correct.challenging your limits is always a fun. tough pill to swallow?,read this-
thomas a. edison stuck continuously at one job for 5 days without going to bed,and he kept on at another experiment for 48 hours without a shift of attention.noah webster took took 30 years to complete his dictionary.alexander dumas wrote 18 hours a day for 40 years.sir harry lauder,the scottish comedian,tried out his song"roamin in the gloamin"10,000 times to perfect it for the stage.maurice ravel worked 12 hours a day for two years composing a piano concert.

(i came across some good lines,just want to share-
jane kis dhandali se subah ko kehte hai sham log,
dene lage hai jhuth ko sach ka mukam log,
chehre ki dhul pe na padegi nigah apni,
ilzaam aaine pe rakhte hai tamam log.)

mind your language

during the present lok sabha elections samajwadi party in its manifesto promised to ban english and computer if it comes in power.it haven't surprised me.these local chauvinists thrive on public's ignorance.they know that if the public learns english and start using internet they will come to know where they stand in global arena.it is in their interest to keep people backward,uneducated and most important,isolated.these self declared custodians of heritage and culture send their childs to the most elite english medium schools and thereafter in foreign for higher studies.so they dont have the right to say a word against this language.
english is the most dynamic language.two thirds of the world's correspondence is now written in english.one half of world's newspaper are printed in it.three quarters of the world's broadcasts are delivered in english.
the UN has registerd more than 6,000 languages but half of these languages are spoken by less than 1o,ooo people and if that is not enough 200 languages have fewer than 10 speakers.out of these all,english stands tall and wide.english shoud be made compulsory in every school on earth.native languages can co-exist with english.human mind is developed enough to handle two languages.just imagine the scenario when everybody under sun is connected by one language.anybody from india can go to germany,japan and china without being hit by language barrier.what would be the effect on tourism and trade.after all the ultimate aim of any language is connectivity and expression of thoughts.

nobody kicks a dead dog

my grandfather is a very interesting character,though annoying at times.he asks me time as many times as i enter his room.the high time to speak to him is in evening after he gulps some rum.often to extract things out of him i praise gandhiji and nehruji for their contribution to our freedom,this tickles a bone of contention in him.he says that these two had done nothing but took over the government after independence.he is a great fan of bhagat singh and subhash chander bose and held them responsible for our independence.i have tried many times to convince him about the role of former two but all in vain.
this is the case with most of us.we find glory in criticizing these great people.in my opinion greatness of these people lie in the fact that they can be critcized without any fear of retaliation.stones are always thrown at the tree which bears fruit.can you criticize bal thakaray in maharastra,CPM in bengal?.
they must have made their share of mistakes(gandhi gave nod to partition and china attacked from behind when nehru was chanting hindi chini bhai bhai),but then to err is human.everybody admires one who dies for country but nobody wants him to be from his own home,may be from neighbourhood.so it is so easy to criticize others.i want to quote one line from the movie rang de basanti,"desh ki safai mein apne haath gande kaun kare".
i want to finish with these lines of theodore roosevelt-"it is not the critic who counts,not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,or where the doer of deeds could have done better.the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,who strives valiantly,who errs and comes short again and again,who knows the great enthusiasms,the great devotions,and spends himself in a worthy cause,who at best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst,if he fails,at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat".

to start with

i have always been reluctant about having my own blog because i am not the kind of person who can sit before computer and write blog regularly,but i certainly want to give it a try.to write what you think is a nice way to vent your feelings,so i am looking forward to it.