Nothing Changed !!

Life comes full circle for him. 10 year back he was sitting the same place under the same cloud and same serene sound of waves waiting to watch each wave bulge to the shore. Nothing has changed neither in him nor in the place. The only difference he found is the waves are a little less enthusiastic to come to shore or he is sitting a little far from the shore. That is it. Nothing else has changed. One more thing maybe moon is a little smaller then before maybe here is another distance effect. Last morning there was something in paper about smaller moon etc he never paid attention to astronomical theories. Anyways nothing has changed in moon except some additional minor scars on the face. Life must have been tough on him as well. Few clouds are missing from the sky may be due to global warming effect they may have starved to death or just evaporated. Others are also look a little lean maybe due to grief of separation for their dear ones. Still not bad and yes he can feel some change is air odor as well. It has more dryness in it now before it was very cool and soft and its direction was very much consistent but this time it feels like it is undecided or rather say confused about where to go. He just noticed that all of these are staring up on him un-flickered, un-fidgeted before they were like a free soul without bothering about anyone’s presence. It seems that they are asking him..
Are we changed or is that you?

Most Persistent Human Emotion

The title must have created some curiosity in you so let me describe this a little more. Here we are going to talk about one of the most persistent and widely misinterpreted human emotion. This emotion was with us from the history of evolution most of our spiritual books talk about it. Take a glimpse of it in Ramayana when Ram showcased it killing Raavan or feel it in Mahabharata conflict. Yes you guessed it right.
it is "Revenge".

As a human we care most about it. Most of us give our self a reason to take beauty off from others life using this simple reason, revenge. We love it we enjoy it we celebrate it even going further we teach it and justify it.

Most of world's conflict are justifiable based on this simple human emotion. Take examples of some most flared up conflicts of today's world.

•Israel justifies bombing Palestine because they perform terrorist activities against them vs. Palestine justifies sending suicidal bombers to Israel because they bomb them.

•In our own country somebody took revenge and burned many people alive and for the same reason some other people took revenge and massacred thousands of people and after than various parts of India bombed and claiming organizations justified it because of massacre happened on them.

•Most talked about calamity caused by this emotion in recent time was collapse of WTC and aftermath of it killing many thousands of people. Still many countries are involved counterattacking each other encircling same emotion.

The more we talk about it more examples we find. You would hear less stories about somebody sacrificed his or her whole life for some cause other than this. Here we can argue that love can counter it and in many cases you are right but here is the catch. In all cases revenge origination point is love be it love for country, love for religion, love for family, friend anything but you will hardly find any case where revenge originates love. So who is going to persist? Answer is clear!!

It is everywhere, It is spread throughout our lives we want to get away with it but somehow also embrace it. There is no way out. It was there before our existence, It will remain all along our life and it will sustain even after we perish.

As title suggests, it is truly most persistent human emotion.

Feel Of Indianess

Long time back I was taking to one of my friend about life in US. During the normal chat she suddenly mentioned about something normally abnormal.She erupted, You must be missing feel of Indianess there. The question just struck me as an obvious. May be I was missing something which I was trying to figure out or just her certain perspective did the trick. Not sure what but since the day I was trying to figure out something which could answer specifically to me what this feel of Indianess is all about if there is really something or this is just a social sympathetic glitch which we use with anyone living abroad. Why is this a integral part of our life.
"Feel Of Indianess".

The first obvious point came in my mind comprising this feeling is our own dear family, relatives and friends. This doesn’t suit when we take a little bigger sample. Most of Indians are living here with their family and they developed their own friend circle and they are more connected with them then any of us use to being in India. Still they miss something but what?

Second point could be Freedom of being in our own country. This argument also hold little ground as most of us practice more freedom being in US then our own country. US have more efficient law and order machinery and human rights which others really respect.

Most of us refute this saying we face discrimination being an alien but let’s face it we have more discrimination in India based of region, cast and even at social stature. We are one of most discrimination friendly society in this world so we really don’t have any point complaining about it.

Another point in my case which I miss more is food. I really don't have food security if I talk in terms of UN but drilling down into this also make me feel that we have most mixed cultural society in US so you can find your favorite taste within 10 mile radius irrespective of what country you belong.

What is going on? I can't find a single point but still I know I am missing something which I like to say “Feel of Indianess”. Let’s review above points once again.

OK so we have friends, family but still we have less interference in their life.Each and everyone have their set of beliefs and we have little power to boss around them. I still remember one incident when parents were explaining their 12 year old son why he should not chase girls and the boy was little convinced and they were so helpless :) Funny example but the point I was trying to make is that we miss a sense to make a difference in someones life or in short sense of guiding someones destiny.

Second point was freedom. So we have freedom act but under big surveillance. From road to home our each activity monitored, tracked and logged. If you make a mistake it get attached to your life forever. In short, point I am making here is, you have freedom but you have little freedom to shift rules to suit your freedom. As an Indian we miss this very much.

Third point was discrimination. It would not be too much if I say Indian society is based discrimination. From morning to night we do discrimination and we face discrimination in various forms. The issue in US is if anywhere it happen we are always at receiving end. So here we miss our upper hand to practice discrimination and that gives us little sense of proud which required for any human being and as an Indian, funny but true, most of this we derive from discrimination.

As per fourth point is concerned we miss lot of chances to crib as we belong to society having less logistics. Cribbing is a part of our culture and we really love to practice it. Take it road, water, electricity, pollution where we crib majority of part in India are just fine here. Now what? :)

Apart from that there are some other things which we miss to some extent are haggling ( Organized retail is everywhere in US), Cheap road side food ( FDA rating is culprit in US),Indian railway journey (Nothing comparable to that), corner paan shop (very useful to find addresses).

I am missing an important element here in this feeling and that element is Parents. Most of us miss our parents a lot and who don’t, really don’t miss much Feel of Indianess..

Some of above points may sound belligerent and expose dark side of us but a sum of all of those really constitute feel of Indians and make more sense to an Indian than anyone else.

Comments invited!!