ahem! clarification.. :)

I am jolly as i can be.. I am neither cynical, nor i am bound by any rules or pressures.. i am actually pretty free by my own will. I have merely stated facts here, and nothing else.. fifteenth of august is not souls independence day! its India's independence day, so i have taken up issues that continue to press. its just that we have a chalta hai attitude so people like me have to keep on reminding about the actual facts.. say for example you were tired one day and did not do your chores. you were soo tired that you slept off on the sofa, but people like me have to keep on reminding us that this is not the bedroom. one day fine, but your actual sleeping place is the bed!
Otherwise i am pretty happy with the freedoms that i take liberty of, and pretty optimistic about the future.. but i was JUST giving the actual facts :) i have seen many people who have had to modify their career path due to our society, so i have said about it.
KEEP THINKING, KEEP EVOLVING.. :)

INDEPENDENCE DAY????????

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So today we complete 62 years of independent India... But what is so special about today?? today was the culmination of the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people over more than 150 years, to achieve what we call and what we think is FREEDOM and INDEPENDENCE ...

Bu what is freedom? THe oxford dictionary defines freedom as the power to act, speak or think freely . so are we free?? everyone does something because he has to do it. except for a handful of people, most of us make choices by convention or force.. its the classic herd of sheep example.. from birth to death, its all decided by the society what you are supposed to do. and the few handful of people who act independently and do anything they do just because they want to do so, are called antisocial, and what not... most of us are joined in school today because thats convention.. did any of our parents do it by choice? did anyone think of a gurukul? then

you join IIT foundation because everyone does so.. or maybe a few people go for medical foundation.. then in intermediate you join a corporate college where ou will be anything but free. then you invariable join btech or mbbs or bpharma.. how many people are joining pure science or arts like bsc or bcom today BY CHOICE? its mostly either because they did not score enough for btech or because they cant afford it.. then you do a safe job because everyone does so. any one who takes risks and fails is shown as an exapmle of what the society does to people who defy it.. and those who succeed are flattered and taken to heights.. the result??? everybody starts thinking, everyone cant become like that.. i am not that capable, and such stuff. then you retire and donate to charity if you can, or become as helpless as you can, fearing every second as to what will happen if your meagre assets get misplaced? then you die in the same tension.

SO TELL ME WHERE'S THE GODDAMN FREEDOM??????

Now lets see about independence. India is a country with an airforce that is one of the five best ones in the world, without one proper proven aircraft thats it has built itself, and most of the aircraft come from the only countries that would dare to challenge it. so where's the fifth best airforce now? our navy gets the nuclear submarine capabilitythat is as outdated as our leaders' minds. russia and the USA had it way back in 1950's, whenu nderstandable we could not have done it, as we were just born.. China got it in 1981, and Pakistan wil not even think of attacking anyone without their support..so how is it great to get it now??

So, the bottomline is that we are in now way MILITARILY INDEPENDENT

Financially?? Whatever anyone might say, India has been hit by the recession, and its been hit BAD. What everyone thought as our insulation from it, was merely a delay . each day, people continue to lose jobs, and more and more fresh graduates are sitting at home. most of the companies in the IT sector are foreign, so any influence will be direct.

So we are not FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT.

So where, IS the independence and where is the freedom???? then whats all this fuss about August 15th??

© Sireesh.Y,2009

Charity.. noble act ???

What is charity? many people speak of charity as a noble deed that helps others and is beneficial to the community in particular and the society in general.

But how far is it genuinely beneficial? and is it really noble?We have been brainwahed from our childhood about how we should all involve in and encourage the system of charity, and thus "give back" to the society

We conveniently have forgotten how to think and reason. Why is charity noble? Is it because it helps a poor person or is it because it reduces one's so called EVIL wealth??
When you contribute to charity, you are actually feeding or rather even making parasites, who are far from worthy, and money is not evil. its lack is the root of evil, as someone rightly said.

Money is a noble idea of exchange, and of respect and recognition for a person's ability.
But charity is feeding and appreciating a persons inability and destroying his already maimed conscience. He loses his interest to work for his own sustenance.
Every man is born with an ability to think,reasin and introspect, and everybody should recognize this. By donating money to a person, are we not killing his ability to create more wealth for himself and his family?Are we not sowing the seed of disease in a healthy conscience?? IS this sin or nobility?
It is okay to help a person with a disability ( physical or mental), but only mentally disabled persons qualify for charity,as they are lacking in our gift to think.Even physically challenged people can fend for themselves though they deserve a support to start. We in our selfishness to look noble and cleanse your sins donate to them and kill their soul.
So, with all these reasons, if people still cant stop thinking of charity as a noble deed, we must include them in the category who cant think.

What is PATRIOTISM??

Would people care to achieve independence.had the Britishers been good to us Indians? if they had abolished some things like Zamindari system which the people found bad, and not been openly intent to make us servile, would anyone have revolted? It was just because the people were oppressed ,that they lost the comforts they had had, that they revolted. the ones who were given plum posts by the Britishers were happy under the Raj. the ones who weren't sought a government which would. so is it ultimately a quest for a satisfaction of the ego in some cases and comforts in certain others? Would the Father of the nation have come back to India leaving his job there, had he not been insulted and his ego hurt?
Had the Britishers been just in ruling and more peasant friendly , would we not have accepted them and given them the demi-god status that many film stars and cricketers enjoy today?
Would it not be just like Sri Rama killing Raavana and installing justice and peace in his country?? So in the end, what is patriotism, because even Bhagat Singh(whom i adore) joined the movement after a single large incident of the Jallianwallah bagh . so was the urge for independence a result of not wanting foreigners to rule our land or for installing peace, in which case any native ruler too would have been revolted upon and dethroned.. ex: french revolution against their native king!
And is Patriotism only called so when it is in the majority populace? because if it not, the Lankan Tamils were also fighting for a cause just like ours.. they were fighting for the privileges of natives.. were they not patriots in their own right??