Curse of Reason

I struggle with metaphors as I see things as they were and as they were ought to be, crumbling, in a fashion, terrible to say the least. Somewhere in between the loathed reality and cherished goal, all of a sudden a fissure has turned up. Something challenging, in a daunting manner, the very premises of the conscious existence. It might have been propelled by some certain recent experiences but that just is the lit match to the box, which is, as it now seems a teeming pool of unintelligible matter. Often have I come across the warnings on sharp turns, which loosely translates into, "Focus deviated is when accidents happen".

Walking

If life is understood as a plane, we walk through it, making, or rather more correctly, discovering our share of this world, with all of it's composition. The walk through this alive plane is also in itself a training for the same. The more one has walked, more they have discovered and better they are at it.

Experiences at individual level are what constitute the same for the whole as well. Not only do they supply us with the knowledge on doing better but also with humor to get better of the indifference that keeps pushing in from all directions, and also at times with things quite humbling and overwhelming to keep us grounded. The walk, with every mile stone passed is also deposited as lessons to fall back upon and help muse out the problems waiting ahead.

From Aamir Khan to Sonu Nigam; Our Failure

We erect huge facades for celebrities. And maybe that is the reason for us undermining their individuality. This is to say that, we expect them to do a lot of things and say a lot of stuff or not say particular things and in this we undermine their capacity of being just another human and citizen with same messed up life and most importantly, the right to an opinion, just as anybody from amongst the magnitude of 1.25 bn. has. To us, they must do what we expect of them and not what they want.

 It's just like yesterday when all the opinion platforms were stormed in a reaction to an apprehension of one of the most acclaimed actor, Aamir Khan, which he rather braved to voice and notwithstanding the tornado his way, stood by. And in the continuum to this sad state, we again had an almost same episode repeated.

Just less than a week ago another person, again an acclaimed celebrity, took the same path and boldly voiced his opinion or anger to be more precise, against what he called “forced religiousness”. In a series of tweets, starting from his own situation of being awakened by the sound of amplified Azaan to a general comment on temples and gurudwaras. Just as the celeb maintained the bold tradition of speaking up on issues that matter them, “we the people” also didn’t fail to maintain our’s, that of blowing things out of context and condemn in silence, the one who dares to speak up.

Case for a separate Jammu

The very intrinsic necessities of life have never made one flirt with issues of parting ways but have only brought many under the same umbrella, but as the human race evolutes from simplicity to complexities so does its leanings. Though the science claims, that we humans come from ancestries linked very close, regardless of races, nations, faiths, creeds and all the divisions made, but the nature of species tells otherwise. Throughout the history, circumstances have lead unions and divisions, of course on merits altogether different. No doubt that the argument of the division of any kind is always ridiculous and hate breeding, but happens to be a reality against all odds. We humans, however same in Genesis, have diversities throughout. Every person on the planet carries some sort of identity. Every race has its medium of communication, which it calls its mother tongue, a distinct way of life and ethical values, which they may call their culture, except for few a belief system too. These aspects. however extrinsic have a great romance in one’s heart and thoughts, and as I mention it above that “ species evolutes from simpler to complex” these aspects find more leanings in people. There is nothing wrong to be sceptical about this, it’s rather natural. Where at one hand it divides people it also makes sure that every race respects the other at the another, if one pledges loyalty to his identity, he implicitly acknowledges the same for the other as well, that is how beautifully nature enshrines harmony and understanding.

The Gandhian-Congress approach and it's flaws.

M. K. Gandhi is deemed the father of Nation and many people very readily accept this. And many people in utter naivete identify as Gandhians too. But, isn't this the result of a very simplistic reading of history and our freedom struggle? At a time when people are free to think what they want, they should make sure that they don't make reason and logic suffer in the guise of freedom of speech. No, doubt we are all free to speak our minds, but this doesn't mean that we don't be fair to the truth. And of what I make of history, Gandhi is simply overrated. Although I find a major portion of his philosophy quite kaput, but there are two aspects I'm very particularly critical of, those are his role in the freedom struggle and his theory of 'non-violence'.