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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.

3 idiots

Again a nice movie by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and very well acted by Aamir Khan. May call it sequence of Taare Zameen pe! A really nice and required social message to parents. I have seen the victims of such bringing and values, I am fortunate to have a wonderful father who always said its not everybody's job to be a doctor or an engineer, even pan walla do a job and he was ready to proudly accept a pan walla son also. He always allowed me make my own mistakes so that I can learn on own, guess thats what make me today what I am, thanks dad. Its really suffocating and sad that parents pass on their wish list as a duty to their kids.

Well about movie I would first like to talk about my choice of cinema. I generally prefer parallel cinema, which is practical and real over main stream or commercial cinema which is more of drama and fantasies. I really like the plot of movie and Vidhu V. Chopra who is great in mixing up the two, parallel and main stream cinema. What conflict with the movie is its definition of success. I perceive the movie in beginning has asked to compare success with happiness rather than statistics of account data or in movie language the race. They said we are racing to win rather than just enjoying the race. I remember my cricket coach who taught me, dont play to score, play to just enjoy and runs will come on own. Though I didnt won the race but I enjoyed. And thats what my success is. I really improved a lot with that thought, I didnt become Tendulkar but Kunal for sure. Even the movie has given the same thought but at end when Chotu (the real past of Rencho) again become a Phunsuk Wangdu (with 400 patents, and a statistically successful scientist) then guess it again calculated the success in the same meter of quantity rather than quality of being happy. I would have been much happy if the Chotu would have remain just a teacher with the pride of educating young ones with new, unbiased and non comparative education system. That itself is an success. But I guess thats what make it a main stream cinema and so a widely acceptable ending.

"If you focus on result you will never change, but if you focus on change you will get the result." -Jack Dixon.

Mumbai Local

Today after long time went for movie with two more idiots, 3 idiots. What a postural journey to reach the theater, honored by Mumbai local trains. Mumbai, what I like about this city is its pace, understanding, and functionality. I don't know about political definition of Mumbaikars, but what I felt in this span of few months is its very helpful and functional behaviour. Ask for help they will surely revert, many times coming out of their way to help. Nothing gets wasted here, space, advice, time, experience, anything.

I hardly traveled in the city but whenever did through local trains it was a fun ride. Sometime standing in such a funny postures that it can easily relate to any yoga assan or bharatnattyam dance posture, some times even the composition of patterns of mob around you seems very funny and exotic! I really can make out the difference between variety of cottons now with a rub in my face, can differentiate the smell between Ariel washed and Surf Excel ki dhulai, believe me such a close encounter even with women can also be suffocating! You can smell any Parachute, Bajaj Almond, Bhrinraj, Vatika or Lifebuoy, Lux, Cinthol, any damn FMCG, thankfully except the toothpastes! My friends said I m lucky to not traveled in summer, its breath choking sometime.

Other than that is those interesting and masala stories or episodes you heard while on move. Like, office politics, 30's filthy stories, whispering "me too" stories, the brief stories (vodafone ka chota recharge wali), ya.. hmmm... I know stories (rest is not allowed by the speaker), or just hmm.. stories (the rest is over ruled here, strictly but willingly, by both parties), then I wish stories (smiling with earphones on), Ekta's tortured 40's age group, occupied with either calculators or policies (neither willing to go home nor office), then the blank retirement plan policies stories about to or late 50's.

But today's story was away from it. It has a father and his young son (about 10 years), standing at door of train, grabbing a pole between door, father trying to cover him from all possible sides and watching him with a wet bird eye view. Trying to show him city through the door, explaining nature, people, city, government, and society with his own tone and values. The father said its a sin to pluck a leaf, if it wont be green then no more water will go inside land. I wish he keep the words with him. I was happy to heard those, wish the rest have heard too. I was smiling with him, he said he has two kids, this is elder, very innocent and soft but younger is exactly opposite, he said with a floating eyes the younger is such a crook that can sell this whole compartment before we could realize. Then he talked about his visit to his relatives, who had a fight with their neighbour over an affair between young ones. Respecting the presence of his son he doesn't spoke much with his words but expressive enough through his eyes. He said many things few with frustrations and few with realizations, I choose to keep the rest with me and his young son.

One of those special friend. I cant even said bye to them, at Kurla station they got thrown away with mob and I was pushed inside.

Mumbai meri jaan!

Punishment

Was following Ruchika's case from last few days. Some opinion demands that Mr. Rathore, the cop, should be punished as hard as possible, and even the school who expelled her. A very disgusting and shameful episodes of act by those whoever supported that devil. Was also following the democratic drama of our law system who is struggling to punish a terrorist who had murdered number of innocents not in a four walls but under the blue sky after over a year. I was reading the comments below this news, must say our society still not cultured to be made public. People asking to murder him, shoot him, burn him and what not ways of being nothing else but being a terrorist in ourselves too!

Why do we punish? Do we punish to take revenge or do we punish to create fear? I perceive we punish to reinforce. We punish to make sure that it shouldn't be repeated in future. When mother punish her child the objective is and should not be the wrong act in itself but the learning, that it is not accepted and shouldn't be repeated. And realization make the culprit guilty not the punishment, and if its punishment, then its harmful for both. Fear can only stop you, cant correct you. I believe the realization is much healthy than the fear of punishment. Because we always remember our realizations but not surely our punishments. Fear is a paracetamol which can cure your fever but not the disease in itself.

I am not at all saying that culprits and terrorists shouldn't be punished or hanged, they should be punished as per our judiciary system but we should make this as an example of realization rather making it an example of fear or threat. Its healthy sometime to cut our some part of body for a healthy life.

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein