Heart of India

The Heart of India

By

Mark Tully

In this mid semester break I was too lazy to go through any course book so wanted to get through some miscellaneous text, I found this book by Mark Tully on India, ’the heart of India ’, Mark Tully has worked as correspondent for BBC Radio services in India, before getting retired .He decided to continue his stay in this ‘Utopia Land’(my belief)…because this country is just brilliant.

In this book he has collections of stories that are somewhat morphed in terms of names of characters and minor changes….but most of the content was true to best of his knowledge. Most of the stories were of Eastern part of U.P. the place which Sir Tully considered to be demonstrated real picture of India and to this part of India I belong!!!!

Well reading these stories at first seems good and if not completely, they had truth in greater part and I must say Mr. Tully has more knowledge than me, of part of world, to which I belong.

But none of his stories seemed convincing enough that can compel a foreigner to continue his stay….and no way these stories portrayed ‘heart of India’ . I’m just not satisfied with the title but the stories are marvelous and one must go through this book.

This book has many stories of ‘Thakurs’.In those stories they have been shown degraded of their station which they had been enjoying since Vedic age(very true),this caused raising of my eyebrows for that moment, since I’m thakur(or kshatriya) too…even though I have always favored equality to all..but sudden rise of down trodden was hard to gulp down, while going through text!!!(and those assholes are still demanding for reservation……!!!!! For what I don’t know!!!)

It is all mixed but I wanted to convey 2 things

a)11)The title was not apt
2)Do away with this fucking reservations…….even if the ‘JACKASS PEOPLE ‘ our ’ neta’ still want to go with this…make reservation on economic status…otherwise division in society is inevitable.

GOD--formless??

GOD

This topic is the most basic yet difficult to get through. The point of difficulty is the simplicity of THE ALMIGHTY.

I have pondered over this issue again and again, and will continue to do till I find a solution of it. Before I pen down all my views about the god and all my experiences I would like to mention, what made me incline toward god like the way I was never devoted. After my schooling I dropped a year to prepare for my entrances, during this period I did less of studying my course book, preparation material and read A book, just 1. It was collection of 11 fables describing the greatness of Shrimad Bhagwat Gita,in a way.

I read that book again and again, same stories and every time I read they were as engrossing as they were when first read, each story has a moral and is based on a verse from Gita. If 11 verses can have this mesmerizing effect, my intellect limits me to truly explore the greatness of Gita.

So this lead to my inclination towards god and I was eager to explore more and more of god, but being a loon I didn’t try to explore even my passion(this has been a problem with me, serious issue and no motivational books, thoughts, ideas ………made me change my “shitty” attitude towards my passion). But somehow things happen and I found a channel which, if didn’t help me to know more of god, certainly increased my doubts about the almighty. It was an Islamic channel, my previous blog had mention of it.

The most basic doubt I have is “Is God one and formless”??

If yes, then why in Hinduism there exist as many as 16 Crore (or even more), even when the Vedas and the Upnishads say that there is only 1 god, yet Hindus have many. Whereas Islam suggests the ideology of 1 god and they practice the same(they consider worshipping many god as shirk or a sin), the word ”ALLAH” means one and only one with none next to him/her(or what to say, please suggest). After reading to a book by a Hindu scholar, about Hinduism suggests that the various forms of god that we Hindus worship is actually to depict the fact that we are form him and since with limited thought and idea and mental power we have, we assume him to be of form that we can understand, recognize and praise and this diversity of god in Hinduism, though saying 1 god theory has made Hinduism, according to Christian Bernard Shaw, the most tolerant religion in world. This scholar also suggest that buffalos if has to think of their god, they will assume him to be a very big buffalo, much larger than their size, yet a buffalo, in support of Hindus depicting the god in human form. MY DOUBTS ARE YET NOT ANSWERED, yet these theories seemed perfect in every sense.

Please if you are reading this post, help me out with this.

1) i) I feel god is one

2) ii)God I assume to be formless and featureless, similar to energy, no mass no form.

3) iii) Yet I feel god must have a form for human to help understand god.

If you any book that has teaching of Gautam Budhha please post me the link, because he’s the enlightened soul and can help me in my search.

Early morning bazaar

Note:- I don't know if waker is the right word,but I used it thinking of person who is awaken.If u know the right word,please take the pain and leave it in comment.Proceed to reading :)



delhi,5:00 am---Rain yesterday brought chill to this season and I was feeling a bit extra (rather, more than just extra). The place I'm talking about is the nearby marketplace,where I went to get hold of an autorickshaw.
Chill that I was feeling was enough to shake me till my backbone...it was so cool,,,chill was chilli.
The scene in the market is what was so mesmerising and compelling me to write something about it.
I had the privelege of getting up early in the morning,thanks to dad for it,the practice I abandoned since I passed out my High School examination...so the feeling of getting early was long gone and I must say,its absolute great to be awake early morning provided you went to bed 5-6 hrs prior to it.
Hmmmm,so the market place,the actual topic,it was similar to what to be expected at 5:00 am...a police Gypsy,next to the police post,with all its light on(they were functional!!!! :) )ready to charge as and when commanded,some hawkers half awake and perplexed over whether its morning or night still,few vehciles moving as if some qualifiers of F1 is going around,huh..and few shops open,they were never closed,intention to gain 24x7 could be the reason. the high mast light making the place look cool that it never looked with people crowding it and vehciles overcrowding it,the honking and those trins trins....phew...Morning bazaar is much more cooler,provided shops are open.

As I looked up,I found moon was now growing in size day by day to become a full mooon...and remark the end of Ramadan and beginning of feasting...the gibbous moon was shining as brighly as star and I doubted this fact that it has no light of its own!!!
surprising,no??

well I,early waker,was in happy state to jot the points as soon as I got the chance,its 5:30 in the morning.......and i must say early wakers are gainer (I neva cared for it, :( )

Rainy day--->28th sept.

ahhhhhh..............
after really long tym.........it rained it delhi.........it feels awesome to write your feelings at this moment.
My college is in Noida so i have to move to and fro betwen delhi and noida.......and for many days i was observing the spectacular forms of the cloud in the skyand the sun shining at the periphery of them producing such a brilliance that canot be defined or expressed in words.They all were waiting to end up in water .I feel they were just trying to get bulkier by collecting more of other clouds and they ultimately decided to soak delhi today.......it rained the way it never had till till date in this year..........folks dont waste your time reading this crap,if you are reading this in this very rainy moment........go its tym for some pakodas and cup of tea......and loads of love....
and if you are reading after rain of 28th sept.......do not lament.....play back the memory of this date and have the fun of the same day again.....and free yourself from worries

Happy Living

School Life

Just seen a series on BBC world "Indian school",
it reminded me of the school life I had.I had been to 3 school since I came to delhi,in 1996.
first one Oxford Public,for a period of 6 months,then I shifted to Frank Anthony,studied there till 8th then finally moved to Tagore International and completed my schooling there.
Every time I changed school,I missed the previous one like missing a personal stuff,very dear to me,which while studying there I never realized and for that matter I didnt need too,coz I was there.

Seriously and its not only me but also those who went to school,they do miss their school,(proves:Communities on social networking site and surveys about finding tru friends in school compared to any institution for higher education)

What a wonderful phase of life it was being in school(though i'm in kinda 1,my college is more sort of a school or ass cool,for that matter) but still....school is school.

Yeah,the programme!!!!has in this episode,the elections in school,abt a young lad,taking admission into this school and had been to many,b'coz of regular tranfer kinda stuff of his father and was about usual stuff happening in school,feeling of reliving those days was just mesmerising.

Now a complete novel can be written about the school life and it need lots of time to sit,review and letting your pen flow to ink your ideas on paper and I must tell you my mind is pumping with ideas at this moment and willing to write what all I have,but just can't.

Few incidents from my most cherished moments,is of the time when I was in 8th,I tell you I was or our whole class was no less than a fraternity of punk,including girls,new innovative ideas of cheating in exams and tests,teasing teacher,unruly in assembly,which often lead to punishment of cleaning of school grounds by THE CLASS VIII D.

throwing chalks at the teachers when they were looking in their book,stealing their pen while they go out,standing in morning assembly looking at the pair of parrots,making love on some tree with lovely flowers and we making noises while watching 'em,laughing while national anthem was sung,for no puspose,just like that,we used to bring just a pencil color box,to shade our maps in geography exam,and it had maps hidden very carefully and this box was passed to everybody one by one,mass cheating,lol and what not,each day was just like period of unending fun.

This all mischief lead to caning from headmaster,it happeneed once a day.One day something very crazy happened,all boys did some wrong even girls were involved,but they are always out of trouble,god has written their luck that way,i guess.This all played major role in decision taken my parents fro change of my current school,I didnt like their idea,nobody would
ever have liked that.
But atlast I was in Tagore,school that has given me bestest of friends I guess I would ever have and my first love too,not a successful one though,still waiting and hoping.The fun and mischiveous activities dominated here too,but the ceratin difference in level was there,compared to Frank Anthony,in Tagore it was lower.It doesn't mean I didn't enjoy in tagore they were equally good,rather better,its just that activities that gave fun were different in both schools.I love FAPS,I love TIS,I love oxford Public,I love Tiny Tots,Faizabad........I love every school i have ever been too,without preferences whatsoever.
But as life goes everyone passes school and has to leave it,same applied to me and now I'm in college.
You find friends here too and also best friends,but school friends hold different place in heart,its just like relation you have with parents and your relatives.

As I said I have matters that can end up in volumes of book.but constraints hindering,if I ever get a chance I'll continue this series to have u more of my school life and events in there.

good day,keep missing school.....

A point of view

I had lovely vacations for full 2 months (I must tell u my coll is great in this stuff).
During this I did, what I think I'm best in doing, i.e., watching t.v.
Channel that I loved to watch was "Peace tv".
It is about spreading humanity, as channel claims and to very extent I agree with their motto.
They preach Islam through their channel, which is a great religion to follow, if followed the way its mentioned in Holy Quran, without any second meaning (which has indeed lead to many problems, correct me if i'm wrong).

There, a person, Mr. Zakir Naik delivers his speeches. I tell u he's a great scholar and the amount of knowledge he has about the holy scriptures is enough to facinate any person (he influenced me so much so that,i even thought of accepting Islam as a religion once). But
at times, while giving his speech, he goes illogical. I don't feel to quote any of his statements, he does go illogical in few cases, but whatever he does is enough to bring harmony (if his few controversial statements are discarded).

I'm here to discuss a different issue, what I personally dont like about muslims (I don't hate them, its just that I disagree on few points and thus I dislike their attitude).
They think, everything is Quran (its a very good book, i'm again saying) and religion, but to all my muslim bro and sis, whatever is not there in that holy book, try to accept those things too after consideration, using your brain that allah (peace be upon him) has given to u, to me, to everybody......

There r other things too in this world and they could b good or bad, but allow those things to atleast reach ur brain, and then decide whether to accept it or reject it.

And religion is way of living and not the way of ruling thoughts, I guess most of u are influenced by second part, i.e., u allow the book to rule u, without giving a thought to its contents.

Ponder over this issue and correct me wherever i went wrong.
Sorry if it has hurt ur feelings, I had no such intentions,what I felt I wrote.

waiting for ur comments...............

Abhishek

Good things and GOOd qualities don't stay for long

while writing this topic,i have in my mind experience of past 3 yrs only(weak memory could be the reason) and being a student it mainly concerns with THE GOOD QUALITY of a STUDENT,to study hard...

so,what i've felt is that i have timely highs of conc and dedication towards studies and (what a pity!!!!!) it doesn't last longer than a week,while this post is created i am into one such high tym.
and i want to tell u dat my hopes,my expectation and wat not reaches its peak,during this high.

and 1 facinating thing which i just noticed is that,well first lemme tell u I'm doing engineering in comp sc.
,so the facinating thing.....hmmm
during this tym plans bout my career changes,I think of going to U.S. fro a P.G., M.S. course and then during the dominating Hibernation period if not seriously i think(rarely,but thought does come) of M.B.A. .............

wat a change of feild in terms of career!!!!!!!!!!!!
this all drives me to dilemma.
it would have be good if that high tym remains wid me all time.

well,congratulations to me on writing the first blog.