The Masses , The Leaders , The Country

"Its sometimes so amazing to see the political power of few individuals around us....it dazzles me in all senses. The remarkable ability of these individuals to lead the crowd of thousands ......"

The above statement in its current context would sound like a praise for few people who we see as political icons .... and i wish the praise was true. Not just Mahatma Gandhi but even Bhagat Singh would have been the happiest souls in the heavenly abode of god.

A country which , by my ability to forecast , will be the greatest democracy and economic power of the world in the future to come, is time and again held at ransom by these "political individuals".

They fuel the hatred in peoples heart when they could have guided them for the betterment of the society. They make the needy fight with each other , portraying that the needs of the people conflict ( when actually the do not) and the only way to resolve it is to fight as the cavemen did...where are we destined to go this way to moon or back to the caves?

West Bengal , the rich heritage of the state is second to none, it mints out the most remarkable liberal arts talent that India has seen, yet the state is deprived of the path to stand tall when it comes to progress......what is the reason? who is responsible? what satisfaction will it give us even of we answered these questions correctly ? Until we realize the fact that some "lady" who herself had no clear objective of what the state wants, what the poor and needy people of the state needed, stood up to fight for the rights of them. What did the state gain ..."NOTHING".. it lost what could have been a leap , a giant leap into the industrial landscape that the state would have taken. A mass which trusted their leader , a mass with such a power that one of the greatest companies of our country could not stand their opposition, was mislead to the point that they were left with nothing but a few suicides ( thankfully) , an unusable stretch of land and "UNEMPLOYMENT".......

This doesn't end here.....Maharasthra on the other end is witnessing an entirely different kind of hate campaign led by an influential political individual and his party. When we are trying to eliminate wars between the countries, this gentlemen has given us the wars of the states , I wish i could say it on his face that "Sir this is INDIA not RUSSIA."....We talk of unity across nations...and we cant unite among the states of the country, shame on us. Tamils vs Kannadigas / Marathi vs Bihari / Hindi Speaking vs Non HindiSpeaking / Hindu Values vs Non Hindu Values......No this is not a match fixture of IPL or NHL, this is the hatred fixture which exist in our country and is time and again fueled to the most aggressive levels by selfish individuals for their political ( which automatically translates to financial) gains. Have these individuals ever asked their kids what they want ? and thought how can their kids become a global individual keeping their head high above in this world of great competitions? . Maharashtra which hosts the financial capital of this country will die a slow death of such hate campaigns if this doesn't stop here. The most ridiculous part of this that when the speakers of this party appeared on various national news channel none had one view point of why such a hate campaign has been fueled. One said its the employment which is the issue , other said its the issue of preserving the Marathi culture, the other came forward saying that its the issue of language in which the exam papers are not printed......."PATHETIC" is only what can be labeled on such people who are misleading the masses for making people thristy for each others blood.

Their is a long list of what "the great leaders" , across the states of our country ,have done which has brought nothing but social epidemics to these states and their people , these leaders have plagued the society with diseases which they can use to for their own "political" advantages

I did want to write my viewpoint on this issue , of what happened in Maharahstra/West Bengal was wrong or right, but i don't want to since its no point in debating if no one is implementing it.

I don't want to target an individual or political organization....the fame thirsty news channel and individuals are already doing so.....All I want to put down is that when "you" have the power to lead the masses ...why can't you lead them for the benefits of the nation , which in turn brings loads of benefits for them. "You" have that amazingly sharp ability to fuel the thoughts of the people and gather their energy ....then why can't you be a "wave-guide" which translates the energy of the masses for the benefits of them and for the benefits of the generation to come.....

For those who are the "masses" .. follow the leader who talks of now to resolves the future ....fuel that movement which starts now and revolutionizes the future.....blind faith is good in GOD not in human beings......before you stand for a "cause", understand it clearly....if someone shows you heads on the coin would ask you to bet would you not first see if the coin has tails on it? Before betting your life , your future on the decisions taken by "one political individual" listen what has never been told to you....understand what was the other side which was never talked about by such individuals.......

We the masses have the power to transform our future and create the best of this nation.....start "TRANSFORMING IT NOW"

Feeling of "Being Unsure"....

Ever had that feeling creeping inside you or floating around you which says that something needs to be done but what ...we are not sure.....time and again i feel that this occurs a lot with the people of my generation or may be with the generation to come also.......never gave it a thought that why does it happen.....initially i thought just that its that bug in my brain which no anti-virus has been able to quarantine till date....but then i guess my generation (am i being to generic ...i don't know...please excuse me for exercising my right to free expression ).....is infested with it........

Well then why.......the probable thought that i have been able to derive out are not that much appealing but still convince me to some extent........for me something which needs to be done is sometimes "change the technology that i am working on" or "change my domain all over" or "change my job" or "change something which helps me stop thinking of these changes"...........confused? so was (is me) I....

Then sometimes "i should start learning something new "..what ...'i should learn guitar ...." or ''i should learn drums which i think i can be really good at" or "learn something which doesn't give me time to think about learning the other two things".... then it also happens that " i don't want to have anytime for myself..." why? many reasons....which compel me to not think about myself......then what do i do to achieve that....."hmmm....make a movie" ( i am serious ) ....."do photography' ( to cover the causes i really like everyone to see....the face of pain ....the face of success...the face of humanity and the humans who kill humanity.....).... why so much is happening..........
I figured it out to some extent....the world around us has fueled this great drive of change.....its changing so fast and people are moving in and out ....up the ladder...that it has created a huge appetite for taking risks and learning new things ......its the want for change to achieve that pinnacle of success in professional life that generates so much confusion in us.......well i guess i have figured it out for myself...and my efforts are now much more concentrated an properly guided........that's what has been taught to me by life......"GUIDE YOUR EFFORTS AND ENERGY"........

Now comes the question to self...we want to be everywhere proving every point and making people understand and believe that you are the best one around here......but then....as someone said to me ....its better to be a truck that ferries cows from "A" farm than the truck which ferries dung from all the farms .....yes...every one have their silver lining.....discover that......and uncover it to shine through the crowds......believe me you will........and its movies/photography for me ...:)......behold i will be on imdb soon......:)......... for the last reasons.......i'll let it remained unpublished ...since i have to analyze that for myself... just myself.....:)

When do we start?

I am not that young and i am not that old.....but still i can say that i have seen it all...would it be wrong?....

Well i had a friend who said every thing in this world is a result of a relative comparison....like truth and lies, honesty and dishonesty..good and bad....How do you say something is good? Compare it with something bad...but then how did we conclude that it is bad....may be its chicken and egg problem.....or was it that we were taught that it is bad....since it was something unacceptable in the civilized society.....i will may be come back to this some time later....

So when i say i have seen it all...i guess its relative to the what my buddies have seen......and when i say that we were taught something is bad...do we follow our social teachings always? if not then is it wrong?....do we always shoulder our social responsibility?..if not then is it wrong?.....

Nothing is wrong or right ..but then again its an opinion..and who cares about it since they all have their own....

A child who grows up in lowest strata of the economic hierarchy is taught the rules of the living life by the streets...since its his society......a child who grows up in the highest strata of the economic hierarchy has been preached the teachings of riches....so if a child who's learned his lessons from the steerts spits on the floor of a shopping mall.....would it be wrong?..its not wrong since for him every thing walkable would be a spittoon....and if a child from the upper strata spits on the road..is that wrong?....for his people it may not be wrong.....since his society taught him that roads are not what he should care about since they are not the prized possesion of his socio-ecomonical status.......

But then since its my blog and i can put my opinion through.......Yes its wrong.......there is no difference between two kids ....none of them knows what their civic responsibility was...since their social teachings never taught them so.....so what difference did this upbringing make ......may be a lot if we sit and quantify....but if we sit and look around us.....it did not make any difference.....we treat the roads the same way...every thing thats not making our house look dirty is a dustbin to us......we do not care for water wastage...we do not care for power wastage....we do not care for any social responsibility until and unless....its somewhere making you famous...or making you satisfy your internal need to show to people that you love your society so much ( the love which vanishes in a week )......

When do we start and do things for a cause thats not satisfying our personal cravings?...When do we genuinely start pooling our efforts to bring something good to our generations?....When do we join hands and stand up together as a power of social revolution ?..The power up against every odd ....every force that time and again mocks our society..and blows it into pieces ....and ridicules anyone and everyone who care for someone they do not know...for something that does not belong to them....When....?

When eyes hear and hands speak.....

I was pretty nervous as it was my first day, i didn't want to do anything wrong, they were every where some looking towards me , with expressions i could only read as "stranger" and others busy with themselves.

I posted myself under a tree which shadowed a set of staircase leading to school's stage. The tree saved me from those interrogating expressions of the hands and eyes seeking an answer, so was i afraid of answering? or was i afraid of answering wrong? probably the later.

As i was sitting , Ashwini came to me ( A KG student whose name was displayed on his ID card) , and moved his hands towards me pointing towards the "helmet" that i carried , i gave it to him and then Ashwini was like the happiest kid around. The helmet sat on his head giving him a look of the astronaut :-)..he went around holding my hand and showing his school mates his new style and then pointing towards me to make people aware the source of this mischief :-). It took just a few moments and i could read most of their gestures , and i knew what to answer to those beautiful eyes. Every thing suddenly started making so much sense, my fear vanished somewhere and i was eager as anything to start assisting the teaching lessons to these kids..... i couldn't wait to talk to them more .....i knew i would have to work hard to learn to teach them but i had found the strongest driving force to do so......it was nothing but these kids ....

Ashwini taught "my eyes the first lesson of hearing" and "my hands first lesson of speaking".

It was my first day at the school for special children, where me and my team mates volunteer every weekend, these kids had hearing and speech disorders, most of them being 100% affected, so the only language that they knew was of signs.

Things around me constantly brought surprises, the bell rang and students where all assembled at one place for the morning prayers..but then they couldn't hear !! How did they hear the bell?. They did not i guess the gesture of the hammer striking the brass plate signalled them that it was time for the prayers.

Its since been a great journey for me among these kids, every Saturday when i am at this school, its not me teaching the kids its these kids teaching my life a new chapter each day i meet them............Kids from this school pass out with full capabilities to achieve success in all walks of life....becoming able contributors to the development of this society.....

We take so much from this society around us , its time that we start giving back something to it....no matter where you are what you do...if you can spare a few hours which can help any underprivileged or physically challenged kid....it would mean a world to them......Please come forward and start looking around you...create a culture ...create a group....pool in friends and family ....a small effort from our end can bring phenomenal difference to the lives of such kids.