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What will be your future today?

Ganesha says the positions of stars says that I would be sharing my take on them with you.

The post is about horoscope, neither mine nor yours but just horoscope. I really cant comment or take a stand on the subject. I don't know do I believe in it or not but for sure I do check my horoscope if I have given choice. I noticed one thing when you ask people about it they opt for very defensive conversations (like I did, "if I have given choice"), rarely seen people coming strongly for it. While most of us do check their horoscopes daily, sometime with each of option, like astrologers column then tarot card readers and may be numerologists too! Some of us just go through it while watching or reading news but some purposely looking for their today's future by visiting .com or by watching those animated and scary Babas on our "so called" news channels.

While I was giving thought to it few words came to my mind like, faith, trust and belief. Then I looked for their meaning, how does they differ among them? I am not going to write their dictionary meaning here but will write rather what I understood. Faith is something which is blind and immaterial, trust comes with experience and a very material in scale while belief is something which comes between those two, a very personal and individual thing. Its more of perceptual while could have gained with experiences or may be an intensified form of faith. Our faith on something could be so blind that we can belief on something which we don't believe! For having faith on something we need to have belief on it first and not vice versa. Belief could be impractical or unreasonable but trust have reasoning to it.

For me, I have faith on religions, trust on relationships and belief on me.

Now talking about future I "believe" there will be hardly any one who wont entertain the idea of knowing his/her future. I guess more than that we all love to know or hear about ourselves. So may be for most of us it could be just fun reading but eventually by constant repeat episodes of experiences we develop a believe or could be trust with it. I do read but not religiously but I doubt tarot cards and numerologists for sure. I really wonder how stars could be related to each of us but if they do, wow! It should be a very interesting system study of flow of energy, if it is.

I believe let future be a mystery for the excitement of today and enjoy the present. And finally the Ganesha says, ensure the karma and leave the phalam.

Journalism

I remember watching helplessly 2:00 PM evening news and 8:30 Doordarshan news with dad while sitting for meal. Though seemed monotonous but not dramatic and biased at all. Today it seems vulgar and meaningless sometime. Even newspapers, same like those scary and nonsense "Khabardaar, Sansanny" News Channel which are ready to fall to any limit for their viewership. There are few news websites on whom you are bound to find minimum one third of their homepage on nudity or sex, minimum. Its more of gossip than journalism. Market share has become not the primary objective but the only objective.

On 31st Dec '09 Times of India's first page main story has claimed that India is building her two war front strategy against her neighbours, China and Pakistan.I really cant digest the need of publishing such news, and the irony was on the next day, when the newspaper came with cover of campaign called, Aman ki asha! If you really hopped for peace then why have you published the "two front war" article, which was almost claiming that we are already in a war situation with our neighbours. I believe such sensitive news shouldn't be published until its really an emergency. Such news promote rumors and also build an unnecessarily feeling of insecurity in to the citizens. And publishing such news on the front page was too much of drama than a sensible journalism. Because once you published something so serious and scary at such a big platform, you really cant control its responses then. So forth the biggest strength of democracy becomes its biggest flaw, freedom of speech. We know how we response to just a cricket match results, sometimes it turns up into communal dialogues or even riot. I was really clueless to read that but the name TOI was much enough for me to judge its seriousness. Either you talk about war or the peace, dont confuse the citizens with an insensible marketing strategies.

I remember my friend who had a habit of saying something new and exciting to his parents. One day he said to his parents that I am shifting to his building, I was clueless to heard that, it was very unnecessary and stupid of him but then I realized his urge of seeking attention. He was never trusted and taken seriously in our friend circle.

Here I am not questioning the truth behind the news but the necessity of the news, at a given date.

Remake of 3 idiots

I really enjoyed the movie a lot especially the speech by Chatur and definition of book by Rencho. But there were few scenes where the movie seemed too unreal and direct. I felt the movie has theme of, chase excellence and success will follow. A great idea to build on but my curiosity was of just success. Not how to achieve it but what is it. And I perceive meaning of success is very subjective rather than objective.

So if I have the opportunity to remake the film, 3 idiots then would like to bring few changes. Like, not showing suicide as reality, though it is but still my idea of cinema is to inform to motivate. In Rang de Basanti also they shot the minister and then his dad, which was too much for me. I didnt like the movie at all. Especially the way they ended. I believe if one has opportunity to speak to mass then better it be motivational, simple or non ambiguous. Violence is not the solution to any problem, the movie also said the same at last but what was the point to be murderers than. I like the movie, Yuva. It has a message, practical and an unambiguous path to improve or betterment. Same with 3 idiots, we know students are committing suicide and even if some are not aware than also it would have been better that they would have just inform rather then showing some one attempting suicide. I agree it brings drama and seriousness, and also work as an eye opener to their targets, parents and teachers, but it was too naked. Because by showing suicide you may motivate parents to stop it but you may also end up motivating a depressed student to think of it as an option. Though it was unjustified in the movie later but a depressed student may get convinced with just suicide part, as he may not convince his parents like the movie stars did.

Another change as I said in my earlier post will be with definition of success. Winning a race doesn't mean to stood first always. Its the fun and experience thats what matter, if you have really enjoyed the race than thats much enough to survive in market. In my story Rencho wont stood first but the Swamy (from Uganda) will stood first. Let him have the best job and package, thats what success for him is. And let Rencho be just Chotu not a scientist Phunsuk Wangdu with 400 patents. Let him be happy with his thought of education passing to new generation with not comparison but being individually competent. Thats what success for him is. My definition of success could vary from yours. And if one perceive to stood always first is success then for them I remember a Sufi story whose moral is, a blind man whose wife is ugly, better remain blind forever. My English Professor also taught me this, either you wake early or you don't wake up at all. She meant its better to realize as early as one could or else it will be too late to realize at an old age. So its better to not realize late and cursing whole life, when you can't change anything. Else its better he remain blind to the rest of his life, and end up in peace.

If you play with an aim of being Sachin or captain of your team you will end up nowhere, but if you will play for that cracking sound and that touch of perfect contact and timing you might be ahead of Sachin Tendulkar. The way he did, earlier it was Don Bradman, now its him tomorrow it could be us.