A vent in the Delirium

U.S. President Mr. Barack Obama in his opening address to the parliament of India remarked- "India is not emerging, India has emerged." When the world's most powerful man says it, there has to be some truth in it. India with the world's largest population under 25 and world's second largest middle class, has all the potentials to "make it" happen. The ongoing World Economic Forum meet exemplifies this fact. Everyone at Davos is talking about India. The west is looking east, towards a country which has enormous amount of talent. Also the workforce works for prices as low as 2 Euros a day compared to about a 20 Euros a day in Europe. It represents a class of people who are hungry to work and make it happen. India has several other factors working for it, first the amount of people that speak and write English. This could be a major factor while providing solutions and services to the English speaking developed world. Secondly, India is a democratic n...

What 3 idiots symbolises is 3 individuals who don't understand the real reason why they are doing what they are doing in there lives. They finally awaken to making their avocation as their vocation. Hence, the 4 idiots of real life are Mark Zuckerberg, Shaimak Davar, M.F.Hussain and Anish kapoor. Zuckerberg is someone who made his college project into a world renowned phenomenon. A phenomenon which has 500 million ardent followers. A medium which in now connecting the millions of people to each other and the brands to their followers. Facebook has become a cult of its own. It represents what sheer innovation and technical know-how could lead to. A company which has been valued by dealbook to be worth more than the media giants like Warner Bros., and internet majors like yahoo!. The company looks promising enough for the future as well, because Goldman Sachs finds it worthy enough to invest 50 billion dollars. All this because the idiot had the guts to believe that he could make h...

The current surge in the people applying for B.tech and MBA courses points towards them as a means to rush towards money. But ask yourself honestly is money the sole thing you seek from the experience and have the one's who were only seeking this, lasted. You can't move ahead with a pseudo-motive of doing an MBA for the skills it imparts. Doing any specialised course needs you to be motivated for it. Not having motivation for the course but the ends, will sooner or later lead to your fall. If you are in it, be in it for achieving what it truly provides, a quality education and not the by products, the money. The money will follow you anyways, if you have the right set of skills. No man was ever denied money if he had the skills in him and was able to showcase them when it was required. We have so many leaders around us who didn't rush after money straight away but preferred to be entrepreneurs. If they too had rushed after money and taken up lavish jobs in some MNC's ...

The single most powerful force in life is " the will ". Your will to achieve something will always drive you through. Many might disagree, they may claim that although they have the will, success has always alluded them. Well you must wait and not let that will die. Keep the fire burning and this is where the test lies. Having a momentous will is not what leads you to success. A consistent and persistent will is what's needed. A strong will force makes you to be on the right track and be focused on your goal. Those who disagree must also reflect back if they have done enough to keep the fire burning just as hard as it was in the beginning. You must never give up on that will, no matter what and it will in turn make you work twice as hard for your goal. It's important to have a passion, a reason for why you want to achieve a goal. Your passion for a thing makes you do the unthinkable. One never knows his limits unless he finds something worthwhile and then complete...

It's that time of the year again and the scoundrels are out there to make the most of it. Does this mean that the one's like us are any less patriotic than them, who are fighting for hoisting the Indian flag. Surely not. Patriotism comes from within and these people just use it as their last refuge. When everything else fails, go emotional. Strike on people's emotions. Say things which just sounds good, no matter if you mean none of it. After forcing everything, now you want to force the hoisting on them. Why not think of it as the lowering in the name of the hundreds you killed in the previous months. They have lost their fathers, sons, husbands and mothers. Shouldn't that be reason enough. Forcing will not work forever. Instead make them believe they have your support in times of distress, not that all you want is symbolism. What does this symbolism mean anyways. First they, themselves must understand the symbolism in the tricolours of the flag. It calls for peace...

Structuralism could actually be best understood through deconstructionism. For understanding the inherent meaning of a structure you need to break it down. Segmenting it into atomic units which have a meaning of its own. Then analysing the individual units, to have an understanding of the elements before you form a structure. When you break it down you might realise the contradictions and internal oppositions that do exist among the elements of the structure. Thus, deconstructionism allows you to have an intrinsic knowledge of the structure. Often we tend to ignore the importance of these elements and settle with the meaning of the overall structure which only provides a superficial knowledge. After you have deconstructed a structure, you may find the structure to be irreducibly complex, unstable or impossible; but its after you start putting them together that you realise the greater meaning. Nothing exists as a discrete whole. This is what we must first acknowledge. Everything li...

The metaphor might lead you to think towards the Digital age but that isn't what I am referring to here. Not just the digital world but everything; the real world, the life, is inherently based on binaries. Binaries that oppose each other and hence are referred to as the "Binary Opposites". Nothing has a meaning of its own. To define anything you need to have its opposite. Try defining whats good in a world where there has never been a bad or honesty in a world which has never seen disloyalty or hatred to a world which has never seen love. In a unidimensional world where nothing is wrong, by default everything becomes right. To define a right you need a bad. There are no singular existences in life. Yet, we strive for singularities in life; for happiness, love, peace. A classic example of the theory has always been the Angel and the Demon dichotomy. There would have been no Angels had there been no Demons. We created Demons to form an existence for the Angels. Anyone ...

There are times when you are alone, alone with yourself and dreaming away in tranquility. Dreaming with open eyes, anytime of the day, hearing the sound of silence, taking in the serenity of the ambiance and never feeling lonely for a moment. Such moments are rare but lead to a great deal of self provocation and awareness about self. You learn new things about yourself. Nothingness is a great way to reach out to your inner self. Forgetting everything and dreaming about something you love, you almost get lost in some safe arms that hold you tight. Giving you strength, comfort and pleasure. It also makes you realise the arms that you seek. It could just be the moment you need in the times of distress, discomfort or disbelief. The problem is that we spend very little time with ourself. Claiming to know ourselves inside out, we spend little quality time with self. What we need at these times is seclusion and solitude. A time when you are neither happy nor sad, not bound by any emotion,...

Everyone who has ever been on a one-way would know the difficulties associated with it. You can never go back or afford a wrong turn or enter from the opposite side. You have to take every step very carefully so as to not miss a turn because if you do, you'll never be able to take it. You have to drive slow but you can never be too slow for the risk of being run over. This is analogous to our lives which are like one-way expressways, just that they are among the world's longest. And its the toughest drive possible. So many turns, so many lanes. Choosing the correct lane, driving straight on it, taking the correct turns, managing the correct speed; doing all this is what makes the drive so difficult. The most amusing thing is that whatever you do, no matter how carefully you drive, at the end you'll surely run out of fuel and come to a halt. Thus, its also important that you make sure you achieve your destination before the fuel runs out. You must also have the destinati...

Today ask yourself a simple question- What is the worth of your life on this mother earth? How long does it take you to get an answer? Do you even get an answer? Should it be taking you this long to get an answer? The conundrum arises of the fact that the world compares worth as per the Forbes List. Worth is measured in respect of the money you possess. Hence the problem. Is a new born then absolutely worthless? We are obsessed with giving numbers to everything and then comparing them. Even though we know that we can't give a man's worth only by his bank balance, car, house etc. Yet we give them numbers and even strive to increase them. It is a case where we know everything yet prefer to ignore the obvious for the lust in the darkness. Even the number crunchers describe the house, the car, the job as an "asset" . Now isn't your honesty, friendliness, morality, an asset. If yes, then why shouldn't that form your worth. But how do we measure that. So ...

The only reason why there was and still is a Superbeing present is because we need Him. Its the age old mechanism devised by men to find support in times of distress. Everyone fears an abyss. A situation where you are cornered, alone, pitch dark, with no signs of any light. Everyone who claims to be not afraid of anything like this might well be the Lord Himself. Being an atheist doesn't reflect that you have no belief in the Supreme but that you have had it easy till now and He has had the blessing on you, for you to evade a situation where you are bound to believe in Him. Eternal hopelessness might well be the black hole of life. Which is a pseudo existence until death. This is why we absolutely need God. Its the last thing we have to fall back upon when all other options are exhausted. People might not believe in The Phenomenon but everyone believes in hope and belief. Well this is what The Phenomenon represents. Faith is just a way to provide you hope and belief. When...

The oxymoron in the statement perfectly suits the oxymoron that life often presents you. There's sadness that accompanies happiness at times. This is also where values come in. Your values should tell you to acknowledge the sadness that accompanies the happiness and not get carried away with every slight excitation the fragile life offers you. No happiness is permanent and neither is any sorrow, whats important is to enjoy the moment but stay grounded and feel the physicality of life. Any change is painful. The larva is clumsy, ugly, slimy while the butterfly is colourful, vibrant, beautiful but the metamorphosis is painful. The most beautiful creation of God, a new born is the result of a very painful process. There is pain associated to beautiful results. What we often do is forget the pain and disassociate ourself from a lot many important things. The destination may be beautiful, but thats a momentary thing, what lasts longer and is more important is the journey. When we re...

Its amazing to notice how the Puppet of one time has grown out to be the Puppeteer. The puppet meant to work for its master, for entertaining him, is now ruling and making the master dance to its tunes. Its something I realised from a very personal(aweful) experience. Losing a mobile- shouldn't that have hurt from the financial view point only. That's supposed to be the parameter for evaluating every materialistic thing. That's what governs the materialistic world, MONEY. It's the sole principle. Strangely though, the sorrow was hardly for the financial loss. You tend to associate yourself to these materialistic things emotionally. Never for one second do we realize how we are playing into the hands of the puppet, the control of our lives. The technology governs us. It makes us feel powerful, weak, in or out of control. It helps us make memories, keep memories and then so easily lose memories. We are so fragile, standing on a crust of ice, yet we feel so firm s...

You might think- when did the immortal ever die to be reborn again(or worse, does any such thing exist). "God is dead" is a widely-quoted statement by German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. He proclaimed in his work "The Madman" as follows-: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?" Seeing the anarchy and nihilism around us, many probably would tend to agree that we have murdered the creator of all. We, as one of His creations, should have given Him the due honor and regard by following natural order....