Are Indians doing enough for the country...?

Scenario 1 Evening at the dinner table a small family & friends gathering, sat us, discussing the pathetic state of Indian polity, the bureaucracy, rampant corruption, and how the government has not drafted its policy properly for vision 2020. Ladies are more concerned about growing commodity prices and increasing the syllabus of our children. The trauma that they face every day in dealing with their day-to-day expenses. Oh yeah!!! The cuisine served is good but the Kebab could have been crisper... Mrs. Sharma has purchased a new sari - a very elegant one and nice fabric.. It's from a shop in a mall, which has opened last week...Few of our ladies have planned to visit the mall next week. My good friend Mr. Singh is telling how he imported a car by frisking duties- His brother is in Customs..Some senior positions. Mr. Gupta is quite excited and asks if he could get some help in case he wishes to do so!! The talks are endless..... We have had some drinks over the discussion. It's Time for dinner.

Scenario 2. Oh!! Woke up late... It was 2.0 A.M when we came. I have to rush to the office... By the time we are ready, it's already 9.00 AM. Not enough time for Breakfast will take in the office. Has to drop wife in between. She is also ready... Huge rush on the roads... These silly buggers (the politicians/bureaucrats blah blah...) They couldn't do enough to make this road wider and manageable in the last 20 years... Oh. There is an accident on the road.. The guy is bleeding. For god sake, somebody helps him and drops him at the hospital. Pity for the poor chap... Our police - don't know if they could come in time? Have to deposit the Advance Tax..Need to think, how can I save it? Need to call the C.A in the afternoon. Hectic day in the office. It was month-end and target pressures are killing us. The big deal is on the way only if the management approves for some consideration the customer's wants. He is stuck at 5% while the company wants it at 3%. Let's see what happens. Coming back to home. It's around 9.30 PM. Passing through, came across the place, morning accident had taken place. A police constable in mid 50's standing at the site, his lathi in his hand, no place to sit. He has been there since morning. Very tired. Wife just came. Don't feel like making food. Children have slept. They had called for pizza. Took a drink. Can't handle it enough. Read in the newspaper the next day, the boy who met with an accident, died as he could not be taken in time to the hospital. Nothing can happen in this country!!!!! Had applied for US-Visa.The same is approved. Will leave with my wife next month. Maa -Papa will stay back.. can afford so many people with new jobs in the US. They will be visiting us every year.. We have a good tenant to take care of them!!!!!!!!!! And yes I will be sending them regular paychecks...

Knowledge isn't an external phenomenon

Knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. What we say a man "knows", should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what a man "learns" is really what he "discovers", by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere in a corner waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. 

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind, but the object of your study is always your own mind. The falling of an apple gave the suggestion to Newton, and he studied his own mind. He rearranged all the previous links of thought in his mind and discovered a new link among them, which we call the law of gravitation. It was not in the apple nor in anything in the center of the earth. 

All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases, it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant, and the man from whom it has entirely gone is all-knowing, omniscient. There have been omniscient men, and, I believe, there will be yet; and that there will be myriads of them in the cycles to come. Like fire in a piece of flint, knowledge exists in the mind; the suggestion is the friction that brings it out. So with all our feelings and action — our tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and our blame — every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves, to have been brought out from within ourselves by so many blows. The result is what we are. All these blows taken together are called Karma — work, action.

Every mental and physical blow that is given to the soul, by which, as it were, fire is struck from it, and by which its own power and knowledge are discovered, is Karma, this word being used in its widest sense. Thus we are all doing Karma all the time. I am talking to you: that is Karma. You are listening: that is Karma. We breathe: that is Karma. We walk Karma. Everything we do, physical or mental, is Karma, and it leaves its marks on us. When we look at someone with the expectation or draw inspiration from an ideal source, we should see the power of our own inner strength and believe in our Karma, to accomplish, what we desire ..!!

M.F Hussain- Liability or a Asset

Alas!!! Once again, we the Indians have entered into a debate on the reasons of Mr.MF Husain's becoming citizen of some align land.

I feel surprised ,when people defend him in the name of democracy ,freedom of expression but more surprised when people opposes him in the name of religion. What I know is, that freedom of expression does not allow one to hurt the sentiments of millions and on the other hand ,know that the religion is not fragile,which would break into pieces by a art work of Mr.Hussain. People debating have not actually seen those art work and have only heard of it.. But they are jumping to make opinion in favor or against..... of such art. Frankly I have not been able to lay my hand on these paintings hence know not ,as how to react on them ?????

For me we have larger issues than this.... What is more surprising ,when the intellectual gets into these kind of debates and form their opinion. The attempt is to label themselves as some super saviour of the definite school of thoughts in favour or against ,which would establish them in different league. The logic is clear-increasing TRPs.... What has been done, 30 years before is not the point of discussion ,but what will happen after 5 years is the larger issue.So Indians, lets move forward....