The Generation Jump

Generation gap (noun); a difference of attitudes between people of different generations, leading to a lack of understanding.

It’s natural that two people of different major age groups have a difference in their ways, whether it be their spirit, aptitude, reaction, attitude, calm and almost every aspect of one’s personality. There weren’t enough of repercussions of the generation gap as serious as are nowadays, so this term was never of as much importance as it’s of today.

Despite the fact that we lag behind a generation or two from the western world when it comes to social life, individualism and individual autonomy, nowadays the youth are exposed to the kind of lifestyle the people in west practice, through movies, songs, books, media and all. There is a major cultural exchange underway. These sources offer a great insight to the western world, and the thoughts of individual’s freedom of deciding his own future, the liberty to do whatever one feels like to do, to live independently without any interference from elders and family and many other liberties which aren’t prevalent in majority of the South Asian societies, find a great sense of acceptance amongst the youth and affect their thoughts and attitude majorly.

Once these thoughts get instilled in the mind of young people, they are excited to redeem the same for them from their backgrounds as well, now a point worth mentioning is that most of the people in their families are not familiar to these thoughts at par and are hence reactive. This is the point where the problem really starts.

Kashmir; A Local Account

In almost last two months nearly about 100 citizens have lost their lives at the hands of the security forces, agitating the encounter of the slain Hizb militant Burhan Muzaffar Wani. Here in Jammu, just another part of the same state the popular reaction is diagonally opposite, to the people here and almost throughout rest of India he was a terrorist but to the people of Kashmir he was a militant and a freedom fighter but a terrorist, here a mark of confusion is more literal in sense than that of narrative, maybe these two words  “Terrorist” and “Militant” have quite same resemblance but actually have totally different meanings, A Militant is a person who has taken up arms for some purpose, can be good as well as bad but at the other hand Terrorist means a person who terrorises others for eg; to a school going kid a bully is a terrorist or to an innocent farmer a land grabber is a terrorist, So the point here is about  the difference in characters of the same actors in respect to different  audiences.

Birth of a Revolutionary

"My life has been dedicated to the noblest cause, that of the freedom of the country. Therefore, there is no rest or worldly desire that can lure me now", these were his words in his letter to his parents.

His father and uncles were members of the Ghadar Party, led by Kartar Singh Sarabha and Har Dayal. His uncle was forced into exile due to pending court cases against him while Swaran Singh died at home in Lahore in 1910 following his release from jail. Born into a family of patriots he was destined to lay down his life for the noble cause whenever needed, but he made his span of 24 specifically marked and admired.

Jammu and Kashmir; A strange union.

 Jammu Division

     

It all started in 1846 i.e. when the erstwhile princely state of  Jammu & Kashmir was founded by the then ruler of the state, Maharaja Gulab Singh. With the decline of the Sikh empire, the Dogras started enjoying more autonomy over the Jammu region  and slowly got complete hold of the Jammu region and then adding to the expansion of the newly found kingdom many areas were annexed to its geographical boundaries, such as Gilgit and Baltistan and Kashmir, and hence the Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was formed.

The Educational Casteism

Stream Prejudices;

Humanities, Sciences and Commerce happen to be the different fields in specialised studies. All three of the above-mentioned acquire an equal respect as per their needs.Though choices amongst the three streams, depend upon one’s field of interest, but nowadays it doesn’t seem to be so. There is an apparent hierarchy in place in respect to the subjective streams.If to put it the way it’s assumed, it’ll be like, “SCIENCES>COMMERCES>HUMANITIES”.

70th Independence Day

70 Years ago today, was the day, when we're officially declared Independent, after centuries long oppression of one or the other section of the population, we finally managed to get through the hurdle of freedom on 15th August 1947. To be honest, the whole of the mankind wasn’t actually free until the 20th, century, because before the modern concept of free societies all most every section of mankind was ruled upon, not self-governing. To put it right, before the 20^th century all most every nation was ruled by some particular dynasty or ruler, who ruled up to their will and wants and the very concept of democracy wasn’t prevalent at all, so to conclude that there was no freedom actually before the last two centuries is absolutely right. A series of revolutions, mass movements, bloody battles and every possible public movement were all it took for the mankind to awake to the dawn of freedom or may be to witness the dusk of slavery.

Azaadi-Freedom

                                     "Your freedom ends, where others' start"      

Amidst such debates and arguments over what actually Azaadi-freedom is, one is quite confused over the narratives which are being fed. And yes it's quite precedented being at this very conclusion as nowadays there are a lot of versions of it.Considering all these notions respectively, only those should be bought which have REASON serving at its core because whatever the scenario is 'rationality must prevail', after all its the only way to get the best out of all these respective perspectives.

Jaagran;Worshipping or Lavish drama?

One is quite well introduced to 'JAAGRANS', growing up in Northern India. Before jumping on to its criticism, we should first simply understand the term 'Jaagran' , it means to give up sleep and to remain awake to pray,and mostly attributed to 'Godess Sheranwali'.

The concept of this practice is to sacrifice comfort of sleep,and worship, and its done mostly by singing hymns praising godess Sheranwali and many other incarnations of the forementioned diety. More traditionally brought into practisce in North india but nowadays, its being carried down to the south as well. But, as it might have been a custom/tradition/practisce started with postives as all other traditions are, isn't any exception of losing both its true values and relevence.

Free Faith

Alongside basic needs of human existence, Freedom is also an essential characteristic of a society to exist. Though all our body needs to survive are fulfilled through food, air and water but still one just can't exist without the very element of freedom. As it's known that minds are bound to thoughts and through them deeds, but if one doesn't have the liberty he can't be at ease even if the basic needs are being fulfilled because this leads to oppression of humans and hence seizure of their freedom of thought.

Roads in India

Development in our part of world is quite restricted to infrastructural growth i.e. Roads, Lavish Buildings, Hospitals, etc. Though, this being a wrong notion regarding development as growth is solely strengthening of institutions, yet being at this popular notion much of the focus being in achieving new highs in this field much is not done to maintain the existing and hence this resulting in the deteriorating conditions of the existing infrastructure. Streets and Roads as being the sole base of this notion of development, Millions are spent every year for projects pertaining to developmental and hence for constructional purposes.