Agony & Pain

Almost one year has passed since the unforgettable & hideous act of terrorism in Mumbai. Image still so fresh in mind, fear still so palpable. How I was so scared to go out and feel safe.
What has changed in last 1 year? New issues, new politics, and over all time.
But has that really healed the pain or just subsided it?
By chance I happened to see this TV program on same yesterday and as soon as I saw the visuals of baby Moshe, Major Unikrishanan's dad and many others who lost their dear ones, something inside me also died. Tears started rolling out on its own looking at those visuals.
Many random thoughts started arguing with each other.
What kind of mindset you need to have to kill so many innocent people without even knowing the religion, color of skin, language they speak?
What do you tell a kid who lost both of the parents?
What does an old father do on loosing the only son?
What about the psyche of person who survived this? Is not it scarred for life?
What did I do as I know that none of my friends/relatives were affected by this?
What really made those killing machines to even think of doing such things?
Many more such thoughts. Might be Politics of some superpower is affecting a person sipping coffee in the hotel lounge. Could be suffering of an innocent made another one to become a crusader of holy war....

But what really has changed over the last year? Nothing really. Some new Kasab will be thinking of doing the same again. Some new Major Unikrishanan would be ready to defend his country against such an act. And I honestly pray and hope, no new Baby Moshe looses his parents for this.

I know this world is not going to change and many more such events will happen in future as well. I might continue to be busy with my own life and issues.
Politics will go on and so is life.

Love for humanity, love for mankind. Amen....

Wisdom

Another birthday & 1 more year gone out of life.
Pessimistic view of life? for sure, yes that is.
Lets look at this differently. Another year of Wisdom attained. What say.....
What is wisdom? Some new experiences and learning form those. Is that it?
But what about the unforeseen future... At times its scary... at times life looks beautiful.
People tend to get so busy with life that they don't even see what today has in store for them leave aside future....
One blink and life can change forever. But does that mean, don't think about future? No, certainly not.
Uncertainty is itself which spices up the whole thing. So looking forward to another year of challenges and unexpected turns & twists....
Someone said: Life is short & so much to do.... So go on Tiger, conquer the world...
Amen....

Corners

Diversity is good. Diversity is bad. Who knows?
Convergence for sure is something which is based on divergence.....
Someone said once that India is a country of Ironies. Did not get this point that time.
Now having lived in 4 corners of India, I know what it was and how convergence is just something divergence gives birth to...
How people from different corners of a country react to life & its surprises...
How they live in a place which is not their area of comfort.
Northerners will think of themselves very highly. Being one of them I know how it goes around. Everything is discarded as of low value in front of their high-headed thinking (at times proud). Easterners often feel hurt at kind of ignorance others have for them. Having someone very close to me from that area, I know how these folks are some of the best when it comes to open-minded & open-heart souls. Southerners for very valid reasons think very highly of their culture. Educated but at times conservative in thinking. Nice folks who will give you harmless advice.
Westerners are some of the innocent at heart folks I have seen.

Coming to convergence which for sure drives its very existence from diversity of these 4 corners.
For very same reasons you have 1 shape which has 4 corners. Otherwise it would have been just 1 dot in place.

Free bird or Caged

Sitting on this comfortable cushioned chair provided by my employer I am struggling with umpteen tasks coming my way. Weather outside is awesome which brings back memories of college days when in same weather I used to hang out with my buddies at so called our hang-out over some drinks. But no time for dwelling into past memories today.
I pull the curtain up on window and get lost in the dark clouds hovering in the sky. See some birdies heading towards their nests. Wondering what kind of day they would have had. Must have thought about their food & children.
What I am doing is same here sitting in front of computer screen and making a living out in this so called intellectual world.
Who is the free bird here? One flying in sky or one sitting in this concrete building?
I know that I will forget all this after sometime when a new mail will pop-up in my screen with new issues and tasks.

Just wanted to have wings for sometime. Take a stroll in this dense cloud cover and feel attaining some kind of freedom which I know is very short-lived....

Here is the mail and I am sucked back again.....