USE MEDIA-GUN TO INDIANISED PAKISTAN

India-Pakistan relations follows a familiar pattern. Leaders of the two countries meet, usually on the sidelines of an international summit, and announce resumption of talks at the level of officials. Within a few days, they trade allegations of ceasefire violations. Every now and then there is a terrorist attack in India that traced to a Pakistan-based jihadi group. Pakistan accuses India of supporting terrorists operating on its soil. A war of words ensues, talks get derailed only to be resumed with much fanfare after the next meeting of Prime ministers.

Why does the dialogue between the two neighbours that share so much appear more like exercising on a verbal treadmill? Because the fundamentals of the relationship are frozen but as nuclear powers they cannot afford not to engage with one another.

The current generation sadly sees Pakistan as the country of Hafiz Saeed, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and the terrorists that attacked Mumbai. On the other side, Pakistanis continue to be told that India is an existential threat and a permanent enemy.

At such an environment, pigeons coming from Pakistan into Indian Punjab get detained by police as potential Pakistani spies and what seems to be a Chinese-made plaything drone becomes the subject of protest by the Pakistan government.

India want to be the big brother who talks peace. Love-hate cycle. Nothing stops Pakistani people from consuming popular Indian culture in the form of our movies, music and television. In the modern world culture, media and technology plays as crucial a role as weapons and diplomacy. Lets not talk to them. Lets invade them. Not with guns, but with culture.

We need shock treatment!

When Isaac Newton was sitting beneath a tree, it is said that an apple hit him on his head, and through pondering over this phenomenon he discovered the Universal Law of Gravitation . This was like a shock treatment administered by nature. This event triggered a train of thought in Newton’s mind. He started thinking about why, when an apple fell, it came down and did not go up. This thought led to the discovery of the Law of Gravitation. This law had always been there, but no one had discovered it before.

This was like a shock treatment. Shock treatment is a law of nature. This shock treatment can be called a challenge. Every human being faces this kind of challenge in some way or the other. This shock treatment is a blessing in disguise, for it always acts for the betterment of the person in question. And perhaps for all others as well.

“The falling of an apple” on one’s head is a very common phenomenon. Every person faces this experience, although not in the form of ‘apple’, but in the form of shock. We should take it as a positive sign and try to find out the message behind this event, and very soon we will find that it was just like the fall of an apple, the sole purpose of which was to enable us to discover a great law of life.

Finding Happiness Is In Your Hands

In actual life, there are always problems. If we want to live in a state of happiness, that will be possible only if we stop the thinking process. And, when our thinking process is stopped for long periods, it is but natural that we will become intellectually dwarfed.

The only formula for happiness is to manage problems rather than forget about them. Problems are created not by man but by nature. Because according to nature, problems are nothing but challenges. When we call a problem a problem, it seems to be an evil, but when we call it a challenge, it becomes a useful part of life, something that spurs our intellectual development.

According to this, the formula is: a problem creates a challenge, the challenge leads to a response and the response results in success. This is the scheme of things in nature. And, in this world, a positive result can be achieved by following the path of nature.

AN EGO TRIP TO SIKKIM

Modern civilization has reached its peak. We are now moving back to primitive lifestyles with more favour . Gradually putting life in slow gear there is a universal yearning to go back to the roots, to live a less complicated and de-cluttered life. While some people have been able to slow down their everyday madness, others simply look for it elsewhere… Travel trends confirm that more and more people are cutting away from the lure of big cities and their trappings, and taking a detour towards small towns and villages on their travels in India and abroad. Countryside pastoral charm is swaying travellers. Travelling hillside detox our body and mind.

Sikkim: A feast to eyes !Enter a caption

 

In Sikkim, we got to breathe clean air, gave our lungs a good scrub and flushed out all the mental toxins. Explored the ethnicity of the place and closely experienced a specific regional culture of its people. There is an old saying that “India lives in its villages” which I came to realize its deeper meaning only after exploring the natural beauty of Sikkim. Sikkim lies in the higher altitude of the great Himalayan mountain range bordering Nepal and Bhutan. So it has a cool pleasing weather. The people of Sikkim are natural lovers and preservers. They give freedom to wildlife by not harming its habitat or natural vegetation.

Sikkim has a passion for tourism. It is the most loved tourist destination in the northeast. It stands out from the rest of the north-eastern states. I am not sure who inspired them but it must be it’s nearest neighbouring country, Nepal or Bhutan. The people of Sikkim are very cordial, decent, respectful and openhearted to their visitors.

To watch someone or something so intensely focused is a pleasurable and highly motivating experience. Sikkim is madly expanding its tourism landscape. They have deep their heads into the pool of tourism development and management so as to trap more and more tourist. They are meditating at tourist who serves their purpose as a source of income. I will remain a Sikkim-inspired tourist with many more others to explore.

Thank You Lord, For Your Blessings!

While the world looks upon me as I struggle along. They say I have nothing, but they are so wrong. In my heart I am rejoicing, how I wish they could see. Thank you Lord, for your blessings on me.

There’s a roof up above me, I have a good place to sleep. There is food on my table, and shoes on my feet. You gave me your love lord, and a fine family. Thank you lord for your blessings on me.

I know I am not wealthy and these clothes their not new. I don’t have much money, but lord I have you. And that is all that matters though the world may not see. Thank you lord for your blessings on me.

When The Tenth Man Goes Missing

Ten foolish men forded a stream and on reaching the other shore, one of them began to count in order to make sure that none was missing. However, while counting the others he overlooked counting himself. He thus came to the conclusion that one among them was missing. Another man, thinking that the first one had not done the counting correctly, did the counting again. He too missed himself and counted only nine. They were unanimous in their opinion that they were only nine and that one of them had been lost. A pall of gloom descended on them and they began to weep loudly. Seeing their predicament, a wayfarer volunteered to help them, loudly uttering “one, two, three” and so on. And the moment he uttered ‘ten’, the 10 men heaved a sigh of relief and profusely thanked the wayfarer for having found the missing man.

The question is: Was the tenth man ever lost? The cause of their grief thus was their ignorance – supposition that one of them had gone missing and not the actual loss of one of them. Knowledge and understanding are within us. We only need to explore them. It does not create a new being for us; it only removes the state of our ignorance. We are looking for what we have never lost. So for acquiring more knowledge we just need to meditate ourselves and look within.

GIVE LOVE FOR MORE LOVE

In economics, if we give something, we will have less. If we have 10 rupees and we give five to somebody we cannot have 10 rupees, and certainly we cannot have 15 rupees; we will have only five rupees left. This is economics of the outside world.

The inner world is totally different. We give love and we have still the same love or maybe even more, because by giving, your love starts flowing. It may have been dormant, stagnant; by sharing it starts flowing. It is like drawing water from a well: the moment we draw water, from the hidden springs more water starts filling the space.

Pic: Love coins

Love is not a commodity. It is an energy which grows by sharing, which dies by not sharing. So, lets love each other that by loving others we become a more lovable person fill with love.

SCIENCE – CONQUEST OF NATURE

The desire for power has created many things in the world. Science has come as a desire for power, it has created power. But indiscriminate use of power is destroying humanity. So much so that Albert Einstein felt that he had done a crime against humanity. In the last days of his life, somebody asked Einstein, “If you were born again, what would you like to become?”
He said, “Never a physicist again, never a scientist. Rather, I would like to become a plumber.”
The very framework of science is to gain dominion over nature. That is the very terminology of science – conquest of nature.
I was told: A very unusual idea occurred one day to Frederick of Prussia. He was in the country when he saw sparrows eating away some grains of wheat. He started to think and reached the conclusion that these small birds consumed a million pecks of wheat a year in his kingdom. This cannot be allowed. They have to be either conquered or destroyed.
Since it was difficult to exterminate them, he promised a price for each dead sparrow. All Prussians became hunters and soon there were no more sparrows in the country. What a great victory.
Frederick was happy. He celebrated the event as a great conquest over nature. But the gloating ceased when in the following year he was told that caterpillars and locusts had eaten the crops because without sparrows the whole rhythm of life was destroyed. Sparrows go on eating caterpillars and locusts. There being no sparrows, the whole crop was destroyed by caterpillars. Then it was necessary to bring in sparrows from abroad. And the king said, “I certainly have made a mistake. God knows what I was doing.” It is good not to move in any way against the nature, so that we can go on with  the flow of the river of life. And wherever the river of life goes, we can go with it.

THE STREAM

The sparking dew droplets of deluge,

Enriched the pace of living,

The entangle barrier,

The hard fought flow,

The vaporize streaming looks,

The image of life.

 

The perils of solitude,

The thought of the thoughtful,

The never ending journey,

To the unending horizon.

 

Is always the call of the humankind,

The name itself symbolize the processing of the flowing,

In the veins of the blood vessel call life .