Monday 30 November 2015

Can hurt people's feelings but not people

The intolerance debate is boiling hot and there is a subtle thing we are all missing. There is a group of people who hurt the sentiments of others and when others protest they are labelled intolerant. They are labelled intolerant because the form of the protest is different from the harm caused. Harm is caused to the sentiments while the protest is physical. Yes it is the fault of those who protest physically for they do not have the education to reply in terse logic. Yes it their fault to not have the popularity to garner public supports. They are afterall unwanted barbarians uninitiated to educated criticism. If they can't reply with words they should better tolerate and live humiliated. When their beliefs are questioned and disgraced they should tolerate for they are not articulate enough. 

Sunday 29 November 2015

Passionate Childhood days

From the childhood days,
Machines were my plays,

Cities of high rise and helicopters,
Guns, missiles and robots, I played with them all.

I never compromised on thinking deep,
Even when my score cards would weep.

I remember I failed in Math before the boards,
But never gave up understanding the matter deeply.
I fretted and fumed to make sense of things,
In two months I improved mighty steeply.

I was never attracted to marks or fame,
But the sheer joy of knowing would give me a gush I couldn't tame.

Yes, what fun it was to teach,
Concepts they never would understand how deep.

And fun it was to play,
Before school, in recess and at the end of the school day.

Hey, that was a magnetic typewriter that I designed,
And the multiple tube experiment that I designed.

Zeroing on the definition of gravity in class 9,
And threadbare understanding of buoyancy was mighty fine.

Teachers were god for me,
But disagreement was my norm.

I asked CP sir about the area of a rectangle,
And yes I stumbled upon integrals.

Oh what fun was poetry and prose,
With Brutus' dialogues, my hairs rose.

'Miles to go before I sleep'
'And toiling upwards in the night',
Great lines were always in my sight.

It was all music fin and play,
There was no pressure to perform.
I am a normal guy after-all,
Never one of the upper crest,
I can thus follow my heart,
Without becoming another rat.

Oh what satisfaction integrity, sincerity, dedication and hard-work would bring,
Who cares if success comes my way,
But success did come b'coz that is its mechanism.

Remember the debates with Renu M'am,
And the quote I wrote in my class that time
"I never let my school interfere with my education"

Following the mainstream, I never did,
No matter what was my career speed.

I was ready to fail in subjects,
But not let them go without having understood them.
Acting, dancing, sports, music, debates, I loved to try it all.

Oh and all those good friends of mine,
Arpit, Sumit, Umashankar and Mayank.



Monday 9 November 2015

To chase or not to chase

To chase or not to chase my cherished goal madly is the question that I am faced with right now. I know very well that if I chase my goal with full deliberation, I am sure to achieve it. I have done it before and I can do it again. But the big questions that I face is was that chase worth it? Well herein I want to say to myself that the chase was indeed worth it and I need to chase a goal once again. I am cognizant of the fact that I achieved the goal last time but something went wrong after that. I feel it was not because the goal chasing was wrong, nor the goal itself was wrong, indeed it was a cherish-able goal, what was wrong was that it was not enduring. Once I achieved that goal there was a sense of vacuum that I felt. And I did not fill it with an equally appealing goal. I took to spirituality but I forgot the achievement gene in me. I recall the instructions given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita that Arjuna should not hesitate to fight the war and be a beggar because when people will despise him, he will not be able to tolerate. Sri Krishna asked Arjuna to fight so that it gives him a sense of material satisfaction but to also spiritualize his fighting so that he is not bound by the karmic reactions and achieves peace of mind.
I too have to follow the strategy of Arjuna. Well, I want success in technology, research and I want huge sums of money for me. I AM GOING TO CHASE IT WITH FULL DELIBERATION. I am only going to do a few things that will ensure that I will not be frustrated at the end of all this and do indeed enjoy my life all throughout. These things are:
1. Keep in touch with a good number of people both online and offline.
2. Have a deeper friendship with atleast one of them.
3. Take time off to visit family
4. See how you can benefit more and more people with your technical and business knowledge.