I am running almost 48 days behind the new year. This blog was pending for long long time but only today I could gather my energies and overcome my inertia to compile my thoughts.
In between, ample times I had thought of writing my experiences but for some reason I hesitated from writing. Mainly because it turns into a personal diary and I end up spilling lot of personal stuff on public blog.
Anyway few pending items first. I finished 9 books last year. This includes Sachin Autobiography playing it my way, Zero to One: Entrepreneurs must read, Bureaucracy gone crazier, The book thief, Everyone loves good drought by P. Sainath, Old man and the Sea, Getting India back on track, English August, Ten judgements that changed India, The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks. Technically Sachin's biography was finished in Dec 14 so list remains to 9. I fell 3 short of target. More important is I could not write book reviews for all of them. A special thanks to Kiran ji for giving me these books.
Anyway I had set certain targets for my new year resolution. Though I did not compile any formal list but I had some sense of my wish list. Here goes the list:
Finishing one book every two week and writing review for the same.
Writing Daily blogs.
Exercising at least 5 days in a week
Reading newspaper at least 5 days in a week
Learning one new technology every three month
Registering my NGO and company
Starting a book readers club
One fun trip with friends
Writing 3 articles of newspaper grade
Sleeping before 11 in the night at least 5 days a week
Meditate daily
Learn to set realistic goals
Over the years, I have understood the importance of Rabbit and Tortoise story. My takeaway is rather than the speed or length of step, what counts is whether you took a step or not.
My sister's wedding took place recently. This time I played more central role in managing and monitoring things. It was one wonderful experience. Earlier I thought I am good at controlling my anger and learned to manage my frustration but in crunch situations, frustration does come out in open. It'll take some more time and little polishing to overcome it. Sometimes anger is very useful tool to get the work done.
Earlier I had planned to write my daily experience of wedding ceremony. But there is no bigger enemy than indiscipline and laziness. I think one big issue was my inability to find my own space in the house and failure in sleeping on time.
In this context, let me tell you a mythological story which I came across while watching youtube recently. One day Lord Hanuman went to Suryadev. Suryadev is regarded as king of all planets and most knowledgeable and powerful among gods. Lord Hanuman asked Suryadev, "Dev, I wish to earn light and knowledge from you". Suryadev was amused. He tried to discourage Hanuman. He said "Hanuman I am continuously in motion. How would you manage to learn from me".
Hanuman true to his character remain adamant. He said, "Lord I'll walk one step ahead of you". Moral of story is if we wish to achieve knowledge and make it big in life, we have to be one step ahead of sun. Means wake up before sunrise and sleep after sunset. And be consistent like Sun.
Recently I shifted to Noida. Have found a place, got new bicycle and currently engaged in getting furniture. Will keep posting about that as well.
So now that I have satisfied all my narcissistic appetite by blabbering so much about myself, please allow me to write some substance.
The hottest topic which comes to my mind is JNU. It is really unfortunate, shameful and disgraceful to see people shouting anti-India slogans and linking it with religious sentiments. One of the slogan says, "Bharat tere tukre honge, Insha allah Insha Allah". Most of the main stream media has focused on what has happened and who could be blamed for this. Newspaper and Digital media are colored as per their political affiliations and political ideology. Most sadly and as expected, Even Hindu has shown its left leaning approach again by limiting itself to oblique criticism of the issue.
However what is most worrying is "No one is talking about why did this happen"? Was it a Pakistan sponsored protest? Are the Kashmiris grievances off the radar of our media and governance. Why the idea of "Bhartiya" not able to integrate "Kashmiriyat" into it? What is so beautiful and precious which Pak has provided to our angry frustrated brothers of kashmir which we have failed to provide?
Was it about Afzal guru or Was he just a fig Leaf? Anyway Afzal was given a fair chance of review petition, curative petition and presidential pardon. He had exhausted all the legal options so terming his hanging as judicial killing would be unjust. Yes, some procedures were not followed during hanging. But given the polarization in Kashmir, a quite hanging was need of hour.
I recently finished my first book of the year. Coincidentally it could be considered a text book on Kashmir insurgency and contemporary kashmir politics. It is first hand account of Kashmir by former RAW chief and Vajpayee's Kashmir representative A.S. Dulat. My knowledge from the book combined by my reading of current situation suggests that prime cause of such sloganeering is because of our failure to engage Kashmiris in the process of national development. Kashmir may have a geographical contiguity but it has a mental and emotional disconnect with rest of the country.
Pakistan provides a platform to such aggrieved kashmiris to express their heart and speak their mind. Probably that is why a significant number of misguided youth run to Pakistan every year and take weapons in their hand.
Does this mean, India should allow them to say and do Anti-India activities on its soil. Answer is absolute No. But what we need to do is engage them quitely and vigorously in development process. Most importantly we should engage them in debates, dissents and discussions so that we can defeat them in their ideology.
The group at JNU can not be suppressed with sedition charges. This is only going to aggravate the situation. Rather best would have been if we could find few patriotic Kashmiri students from some university in Kashmir or IAS cadre officers from Kashmir who could counter and blow these anti-India perception apart with their subtle knowledge of History and facts.
Anyway now that supreme court has jumped in the matter so I wish a better sense will prevail soon in all the camps be it rightist the patriot, leftist the dissenters or kashmiris the protesters.
amen
In between, ample times I had thought of writing my experiences but for some reason I hesitated from writing. Mainly because it turns into a personal diary and I end up spilling lot of personal stuff on public blog.
Anyway few pending items first. I finished 9 books last year. This includes Sachin Autobiography playing it my way, Zero to One: Entrepreneurs must read, Bureaucracy gone crazier, The book thief, Everyone loves good drought by P. Sainath, Old man and the Sea, Getting India back on track, English August, Ten judgements that changed India, The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks. Technically Sachin's biography was finished in Dec 14 so list remains to 9. I fell 3 short of target. More important is I could not write book reviews for all of them. A special thanks to Kiran ji for giving me these books.
Anyway I had set certain targets for my new year resolution. Though I did not compile any formal list but I had some sense of my wish list. Here goes the list:
Finishing one book every two week and writing review for the same.
Writing Daily blogs.
Exercising at least 5 days in a week
Reading newspaper at least 5 days in a week
Learning one new technology every three month
Registering my NGO and company
Starting a book readers club
One fun trip with friends
Writing 3 articles of newspaper grade
Sleeping before 11 in the night at least 5 days a week
Meditate daily
Learn to set realistic goals
Over the years, I have understood the importance of Rabbit and Tortoise story. My takeaway is rather than the speed or length of step, what counts is whether you took a step or not.
My sister's wedding took place recently. This time I played more central role in managing and monitoring things. It was one wonderful experience. Earlier I thought I am good at controlling my anger and learned to manage my frustration but in crunch situations, frustration does come out in open. It'll take some more time and little polishing to overcome it. Sometimes anger is very useful tool to get the work done.
Earlier I had planned to write my daily experience of wedding ceremony. But there is no bigger enemy than indiscipline and laziness. I think one big issue was my inability to find my own space in the house and failure in sleeping on time.
In this context, let me tell you a mythological story which I came across while watching youtube recently. One day Lord Hanuman went to Suryadev. Suryadev is regarded as king of all planets and most knowledgeable and powerful among gods. Lord Hanuman asked Suryadev, "Dev, I wish to earn light and knowledge from you". Suryadev was amused. He tried to discourage Hanuman. He said "Hanuman I am continuously in motion. How would you manage to learn from me".
Hanuman true to his character remain adamant. He said, "Lord I'll walk one step ahead of you". Moral of story is if we wish to achieve knowledge and make it big in life, we have to be one step ahead of sun. Means wake up before sunrise and sleep after sunset. And be consistent like Sun.
Recently I shifted to Noida. Have found a place, got new bicycle and currently engaged in getting furniture. Will keep posting about that as well.
So now that I have satisfied all my narcissistic appetite by blabbering so much about myself, please allow me to write some substance.
The hottest topic which comes to my mind is JNU. It is really unfortunate, shameful and disgraceful to see people shouting anti-India slogans and linking it with religious sentiments. One of the slogan says, "Bharat tere tukre honge, Insha allah Insha Allah". Most of the main stream media has focused on what has happened and who could be blamed for this. Newspaper and Digital media are colored as per their political affiliations and political ideology. Most sadly and as expected, Even Hindu has shown its left leaning approach again by limiting itself to oblique criticism of the issue.
However what is most worrying is "No one is talking about why did this happen"? Was it a Pakistan sponsored protest? Are the Kashmiris grievances off the radar of our media and governance. Why the idea of "Bhartiya" not able to integrate "Kashmiriyat" into it? What is so beautiful and precious which Pak has provided to our angry frustrated brothers of kashmir which we have failed to provide?
Was it about Afzal guru or Was he just a fig Leaf? Anyway Afzal was given a fair chance of review petition, curative petition and presidential pardon. He had exhausted all the legal options so terming his hanging as judicial killing would be unjust. Yes, some procedures were not followed during hanging. But given the polarization in Kashmir, a quite hanging was need of hour.
I recently finished my first book of the year. Coincidentally it could be considered a text book on Kashmir insurgency and contemporary kashmir politics. It is first hand account of Kashmir by former RAW chief and Vajpayee's Kashmir representative A.S. Dulat. My knowledge from the book combined by my reading of current situation suggests that prime cause of such sloganeering is because of our failure to engage Kashmiris in the process of national development. Kashmir may have a geographical contiguity but it has a mental and emotional disconnect with rest of the country.
Pakistan provides a platform to such aggrieved kashmiris to express their heart and speak their mind. Probably that is why a significant number of misguided youth run to Pakistan every year and take weapons in their hand.
Does this mean, India should allow them to say and do Anti-India activities on its soil. Answer is absolute No. But what we need to do is engage them quitely and vigorously in development process. Most importantly we should engage them in debates, dissents and discussions so that we can defeat them in their ideology.
The group at JNU can not be suppressed with sedition charges. This is only going to aggravate the situation. Rather best would have been if we could find few patriotic Kashmiri students from some university in Kashmir or IAS cadre officers from Kashmir who could counter and blow these anti-India perception apart with their subtle knowledge of History and facts.
Anyway now that supreme court has jumped in the matter so I wish a better sense will prevail soon in all the camps be it rightist the patriot, leftist the dissenters or kashmiris the protesters.
amen
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