Why do we still have discrimination???

Hello,
Again after a long time I thought of writing a blog :). Actually I just read an article in The Times of India about the World wide discrimination among men and women, fair and dark all sorts of issues.. I was scanning through the sports newz and suddenly landed on this article. No, I will not discuss about the article, but after reading this my mind is filled up with lot of questions, thoughts and feelings..
Be it East or West there is always a discrimination between every single thing irrespective of how miniscule it may be. I am not grudging, neither I want to say how it can be wiped off.. But I want to make the point that though we have progressed a lot in science and technology still we are not able to think in the direction of science.. If we consider sports, let it be Olympics or in WorldCups even in tennis tournaments like Wimbledon till date theres a difference of prize money between women and men athletes!! But this discrimination doesn't stops here. It goes on.. a person with fairer skin gets treated differently in most part of the world.. I have seen many Indian taxi drivers or rickshaw drivers even the traffic police persons behave differently with a White foreign national from European countries and with tourists from African countries.. Week before the last week I was in Mysore.. I was alarmed to see all the guides were running behind a group of French nationals but were hardly caring about 3-4 so called "black" tourists from some African countries..
Many experts give many comments.. how it can be wiped off!! what are the root causes, but anyone hardly knows about this.. It is a practice going on for centuries. It has been like a habbit for centuries. It will take time probably another century to wipe out the whole thing. Atleast some people has started to think positively. Slowly the number will increase. Oneday every one will start thinking the right way. Let's hope for it..
Once in an interview Swami Vivekananda was asked, What makes a country stronger? His reply was, Education. Women and men are like two wings of a bird. If both wings are "equally" strong the bird can fly higher and this strentgth will come from proper education to both men and women. That was the thinking of Swamiji.. I wonder how can a person a dark skinned person that too in 1890 from a country like India which was still to be freed from the Britishers was treated like a King exactly like Jesus Christ in the United States of America and European countries like England. What happend to all the bias the people had then?? Whenever I think of this I get a feel to explore more and more into the life of this great man. Who knows may be from his life a real solution can come out..

cheers
Amartya

P.S. The link of the article in TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/With-due-respect-shes-a-lady/articleshow/5649917.cms

Feelings - "Feeling to do nothing" :O :-)

How can somebody define what feeling is?? can anybody?? I guess no!! Feeling is extremely abstract becoz it can't be told, only it can be shared. Only the person who has experienced that can relate to your feelings.
As of now, what exactly I am feeling I cant explain!! I am in a mood of doing nothing.. I cant concentrate on anything, only thing which is really calm and satisfying me is a soothing music running in my laptop. I dont know why this happens to me sometimes. I really cant figure out (neither I try to figure it out :) )!! During these times, when I "feel to do nothing" and literally do nothing! I tend to do some of these things, like - reading a story book or a comic strip or I will try out some really soothing music.. or simply try to meditate. I really dont know how to define this absurd feeling of doing nothing. Only if someone has gone through this similar situations can understand, bcoz simply, its the same feeling :).. Probably one thing which i must add in my todo list while doing nothing is writing blogs ;).. heyyyyy!!I just figured it out man!! whenever I really dont like to do anything for the past few months I simply blog!! Coz all the blogs I've written has been written in similar situation.. probably this is the reason why I write such abstract blogs!! whenever I have written a blog I havent thought of something, beleive me its instanteneous.. whatever is coming in mind I am just typing it :)
I think I have already given the answer of what feeling is!! not an one-liner defination but an explanatory answer :)
May be I'm being a little boring tonight.. or may be not :) but this is what I felt right now.. this blog is really the output from my "feeling to do nothing" :-)

bbyeeeeee
Cheers :)

Pressure !! whats dat??

A number of Indians share a common feature.. they delivers their best only under pressure. Probably pressure is the only thing which extracts the maximum out of a person. But there are two confusions,

first one - is this only applicable to us Indians?
and the second - is the work done under pressure produces the best output?
To some extent I have found that I can only produce a pretty good output only under pressure. As for example, I start reading just the previous night before the exam (I know I will get a lot of supporters :) ). But even if I want then also I can't concentrate like "that moment" I do!! By d way right now is exam time and I have started my studies.. ehmm.. blogging ;)
But just after the pressure gets over I have a feeling that I could have done it much better if I have given proper time and effort. But for 22 years the story goes on :) don't know when I will change or do I need to change as a matter of fact! My mother always shouts at me for this reason, probably she need to do this for a longer time I don't know :) But one thing is, she is doing this exercise for the past 22 years!!
Maannnn.. I'm a spoilt brat!!! ;D

cheers :)

Early to rise!!

After many days I'm witnessing the sun to rise! Actually, I forgot from which side the sun rises :). It has been d-a-y-s that I have no relation with the rising sun! For the past few years I have been waking up in the morning only if I have a class or so. But today, I'm really enjoying the morning!
A junior of mine, just opposite to me, has started playing some devotional music making it a perfect morning for me! By the way u know today I got up at 4.30AM! Probably the earliest in last few years! I'm getting a bit nostalgic, remembering my school days.
In those times, I used to get up early in the morning everyday. May be at 4-4.30. Then used to get ready for the school. The bus used to come exactly at 5.45AM and the school used to start at 6.30AM. When in the morning I used to walk to the bus stand I used to see the newspapers coming in a van and distributing it to vendors and some vendors used to carry the papers at the carrier of the cycle. The chai shops fuming with white smoke of hot milk and a beautiful aroma of the tea coming in. The flower vendors just started to open their shops and decorating their shops with the flowers. Then the school bus used to come. I would jump into the bus and would grab the window seat. Slowly the bus used to get crowded with friends and we used to chat at the loudest voice we could ever produce. Then the bus would run smoothly through a traffic less city to our school. We used to enter the gate in a single line. Then we went to the specific rows of our class and section on the school ground. The prayer would start exactly at 6.30AM. Then again in a line we would proceed to our specific classrooms and the day started.
After a long time I really could get a feel of those days. It's really good to rise early, you get the whole day to spend as you wish :)

Have Good Day!! :)

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Hello! It has been a few days I haven't written a blog. But tonight is really an ideal weather for writing and sahring something. From the evening it has started drizzling and till now it's the same. A cool wind is blowing with lots of water droplets in it. I have closed my window because it's really chilled outside. A really nice atmosphere for a hot cup of coffee and a wonderful story book in hand. And that's what I'm doing now! Not the coffee but the story book is there :-). You know! if you read a story and share it with 5 of your friends it gives you more satisfaction and enjoyment and I also want to get that now. (Ooooops! A little interruption. I got a call and left for the OS lab to return the switch 'm having to my friend. But I really liked to walk up to the lab. The atmosphere is undoubtedly wonderful.)
Right now I was reading a book called The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin. S. Sharma. It tells about a person how he fulfils his dream and reaches his destiny. I personaly think it's more of a fable than a story. It realy captivates your thoughts.
It's all about a renouned lawyer who has got all his materialistic pleasure and has reached the pinnacle of glory of his professional life. But he is missing a lot in his personal life! He has got a broken marriage, a bizzare lifestyle and is realy missing all kind of peace of his mind. At this juncture he suffers a massive heart attack. Here, the story starts taking it's own turns! The writer who is a junior of him in this story tries to visit him in the hospital but he is refused by Julian (the lawyer whom we were talking about). Then suddenly no one finds Julian anymore.
After 2 long years, life has again started to move in it's own way, suddenly somebody wants to meet John(the writer who has now become a very successful lawyer) in his office without a prior appointment. When John meets the person he is shell shocked! the person standing infront of him is looking like half of his age, full of energy and life. It was Julian! He's a changed man now. He is having a wonderful physic and looking so young that it seems that he has walked back into his youth against time. What happend to him? what's the miracle behind this?
Actually theres no miracle. For the last 2 years he travelled to India for search of peace and satisfaction. There, in the Himalayas, he met with The Sages of Sivana. Now he has turned to a monk. He has learned a lot about life from the sages and now he is again in the West to serve the people who really needs to have a peace of their mind, a proper goal of life. Do you know what he learnt from the sages?How he controlled his life and reached his destiny?
aha! I'm not going to share this to you. I realy want you all to go ahead and read the wonderful story. Be my guest! you will love it. When you will start reading this you will really find how wonderful it is. Afterall I really can't narrate it the way the author has done. I have it with me, if you like I will mail it to you. :-)
Thanks for being with me in this beautiful night. I really enjoyed to share what I have just gone through. I will be even more excited if I find that you are really inspired to read this and taste the wonders it has in it!
'm going to sleep now goodnight! have a nice day.

bbyeeee
:-D

A blog is a blog it can't be a diary!

Hello again! For a little while I was thinking about something which I really want to share with you all. Can a blog be treated as a diary? I don't know what people think, but what I have found out is that, blogs share the day to day events of people, their thoughts, views and all. So what a diary is? Isn't it quiet similar? You go on sharing your views and thoughts, each and every incidence of your daily life! Quiet similar to blogs right? But still I personally think a blog can never be a diary! It is because in a diary there's a privacy that people try to maintain. But, in blogs people want to share their views, ideas, emotions and experience. The only difference which I find between the two is the privacy factor, otherwise there's no difference between them. If you go through the blogs or diaries anyway both give you a clear picture of the person's thoughts, his/her character and many other aspects of the person. But still I feel that blogs only shows the positive sides of a person's character. That's where a diary is different! It shows every aspect of the person. Clearly, the person can be understood by only reading his diary. A Blog Can't Do That for sure!! probably that's why a diary maintains it's privacy.
To me diary writing is something which I enjoy not only because I feel free to express my emotions and feelings which really makes me feel better, but also the fact, that I write my diary in my mother tongue that is in bengali script. It's extremely satisfying, really feels good. Do you feel the same?

So ultimately my conclusion is "a blog is a blog it can't be a diary"

cheers :-)

My First blog :-)

How will it be if an extremely lazy person starts for an adventure that too in the jungles of Africa!! or a sumo wrestler suddenly starts practicing for a 100m sprint for qualifying in the Olympics?? huh!! wanna know why i am talking these crap? its becoz i'm feeling the same while writing my first blog :-).

To me internet is something as needful as my 4times diet everyday! It is all about my mails, orkut, facebook, and very importantly endless information. But for a last few years I'm hearing and reading some thing in which i am totally new, that is blogs!! and every time I used to read various blogs I thought that its nothing but waste of time!! This is the first time 'am writing my blog and believe me I'm really feeling its the best time pass I could ever have!! So from this moment Internet has given me something new in life which i will enjoy a lottt!!
Heyyy! I became a blogger :-)

bbyeeeeee