Friday, August 28, 2009

Disparity unabridged...


India is now home to incredible stories of modernization, storehouse of talent and powerhouse of knowledge. Countries like USA have speculative fervor on our emerging scholars and graduates which has put them in a state of dilemma over their well established education system. They are facing stiff competition from a nation which was of no equivalence in the past.

India is taking huge leaps of advancement with diversified international strategies and efficacious business involvements. It has also become a happening place for foreign investors and holds a substantial position in the emerging markets portfolio.

From without, everything is coming up nicely on the path of becoming a powerful nation but from within the scenario looks quite different. There is a lot of time to focus and debate over narrow things which bring concussions between the political leaders but there is no time to look at the major drift that is catching up its ever widening pace, with the seeds of change being sown only for people who live on the upper edge in this country.

The riches are getting richer and the poor are becoming poorest. Its like one part of a body is moving hastily and the other is just limping at every step.

For example, the latest technological fizz is pertaining to the storage of data in clouds that makes file sharing, data migration and remote access more readily available to the educated class but that can be nothing more than a bad news for the majority of Indians who live in the absence of electricity- the most elementary need of technology. The advancement is confined to the major cities only while rest of the country looks stagnated. Stepping out 10 km from the periphery of any major city would reveal the true story to anyone from the educated world.

The population count has placed us in the runner up position and very soon we would be making it to the top with the current matrix of multiplying population. In such a scenario being only optimistic can not serve the purpose of connecting two far ends of our society.
With every problem comes a solution. However, a problem this big not only needs solution but also contribution. Little contribution out of our awareness can prepare the basic ground-work to abridge this gap. The will to contribute would itself eradicate the difference from the minds of young generation...:)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Life of a youth...


If we see the overall map of human life youth is the most fascinating place where everyone likes to live in while few actually realize the importance and value it has. If I revive the past; being a child I always dreamt of doing all the craziest things in my youth, things which were beyond my reach and my parent’s permission.

Now, living in the age of my dreams, I’m holding my feet above the fire, facing the harsh realities of life. I also think that down the line I would revisit this age time and again, trying to invigorate the youth that I had once lived, adding the colors of experience to it and thinking I could have bettered it by doing this and that, making my life more meaningful. The truth reveals that its very hard for young people to become faithful to their lives and harder for the old to become faithless...what an irony!


Life has become a trekking adventure where my journey began from a beautiful valley of childhood towards the peak of a mountain called youth. I found myself arrested in future thoughts of life, life which could be seen from the cliff of my youth, where every breath taking moment could be captured, where I could feel like standing on top of this world. Moving up the slope with bag full of expectations continuously jogging on my shoulders, moving through narrow, wide, difficult and easy paths, I have reached the place now.

But i feel exhausted, strained because of the difficulties I have encountered while climbing up. The mind is too consumed to embrace the beauty of this place and has lost the importance of seeing the most beautiful destination of childhood dreams, the youth. It is caught up in worrying thoughts, thoughts like worms which eat away the corpse. The mind has become tired of this adventure and I look down to get to the safest place where i can spend the rest of my time peacefully.


I think everyone goes through the same hardships in this world and remains invisible from others. Moreover, the advanced leaps in the competitive society make the youth live life in broken fragments because of which youth today seems to know the price of everything but the value of nothing.


I have come to believe that its the invisible which controls the visible like mind controls the man, electric current controls the machines, air controls human life and heat that controls the engine or nuclear explosion. The same invisible power in humans is the will to turn impossible into possible and it tells us to be open to experience the experience of life. So, if life is playing a prank...why not enjoy it? :)