Dedication and Determination...

Some people believe in something and does everything in their hands to do it or make it come true. Here, in the picture above is a story of a person, whom I know, who believes in something and just stretches himself to see his dreams come to life...

In his/her shoes!!!

The title, "In her shoes", has been used before for one of my older posts. It was about the movie with that name and a poem from that movie that I liked a lot. But I had to reuse it with a slight change because, I found it apt for what you are about the read...

There is a saying that, we will not appreciate something unless we miss/lose it. I don't know exactly how that saying goes. But what I have written above is what it means...

But here I am not going to write about that subject. It is a similar subject. It goes like this, "We will not be able to appreciate what one man feels about something unless we find ourselves in his situation". You know that, right? I know that you knew it. I am smart! :-)

Ok, enough of this pathetic effort at comedy. Let's stop beating around the bush and go straight into the matter. We should always beat the bush, whenever you get a chance. Only then he will stop interfering in others household matters. God, I hope CIA will not read my blog!

"Cut the crap!!!"

Err, who said that? hmm, may be the inner voice...

"Alright!!!"

What I was saying is, you don't really appreciate how much your uncles or Aunties love you or used to love you unless you become an uncle or aunt yourself...

You may be feeling that, "what the heck? I used to know exactly how much my uncle used to love me. He loved me so much to buy a cylce on my birthday". Hmm, may be you are right...

But as for me, I am sure I used to love my uncles and aunts more when I was a kid than when I was a grown up. And that could be because I was not feeling there love as I used to do it when I was a kid...

But as soon as I became an Uncle, I just realized how much my Uncles and Aunts love me. They might not be able to make me feel the same as I have plenty of cousins also. But I am sure I understand how they feel about me inside...

So, don't worry if you don't understand someone. There are chances that oneday you might find yourself in that position and everything will be clear like the blue sky...

All this revelations, thanks to my dearest nephew... Love you always, dude!!!

Cancer of a country!

I am proud to be an Indian. And I am proud to be a Keralite. Don't ask me too many reasons for that, as I might not be able to come up with many. But the most important fact or reason is that "I just happened to be born there"...

India is a diverse country and I guess the regionalism is more in this country than in any other part of the world. If we think hard and compare us with other parts of the world, we might even wonder how come a diverse country like ours survived in one piece for so long. I don't know. And I pray to god that it remains like this...

Most of this regionalism is visible in Politics, where petty issues like sharing water from a river or creating a railway division is done with the motive of improving the life of their own region and using it to win elections. Is there no other way to impress people other than hurting other people?

Is this the right way? I am sure this is not. But then, how can we ever come out of this situation? Or is this going to be a problem which is just getting ready to explode into gigantic proportions? The glimpses of these are already visible, like blocking the train to the rival state or blocking the water flow using a dam...

Media has a huge role to play here. While projecting the regionalistic aspects during celebration of a national win like World cup win, are we sending the right message to the society? We need to celebrate our local heroes, but not to the extent that people interupt the normal life as in the case of prince of Kolkata. What we have to do is, we need to sell the stories of heroes from other parts of country also. Project them as Indians. Even that will inspire a generation to go for whatever they want to be. And more importantly, that will give that sense of being and Indian first to the society...

May be, the only way to change this is by changing oneself as I don't know if the attitude of politicians or media guys will change easily. When I look at myself, I am also as regionalistic as any other. Or am I calling myself a regionalist just because I am proud of the achivements of my state. No, I don't think that is a good reason to term myself as a regionalist. But if I hate someone just because he was born in another state or speaks a different language, then I am one of the cancerous cells of this country...

We must change our attitude and stand together for our country and think that we all are Indians first...

God save my country!!!