Monday, November 09, 2015

pang

If you are unhappy with the situation here, leave
Go to a country you will be happy in
I want only the best for you ….
Says the country.
In a way it is a good thing because you must not have a country to feel patriotic about as patriotism is a narrow, narrow emotion in us.
So if you are thrown/flown/put out of your country, consider yourself lucky.


What is happening in war-torn countries?
(You are not asked to leave, you die trying to)
We are at peace, we are happy.
We are shopping for things.
We only ask you not to eat a certain thing, or wear a certain thing, or say a certain thing or feel a certain way.

Is it when you publish that you say it is complete?

I trust you are in a time when all that had to be said
has been written down,
and all that was written down
has happened.
Several times over.
However, I had something to say,

Thought, talk, action

Thought: When you are a child, you act on impulse. So, that phase of our life will not be discussed in detail in this post.  When you start putting thought into action, is when you take time into the action. You think it through before you put it down. In India -- I say India, because I have not lived anywhere else in my entire life, so the reference is to us Indians, the Hindoos. "Hinduism is not a religion, it is a philosophy," you will hear on and off. I want to know how much importance is placed on thought in India. Religion is topmost on my mind these days and hence I digress. So how much importance do we give thought Indians or not, Hindus or not? Bohot sochoge toh pagal ho jaoge* is something I have heard often. I worry that the effort to erase thought can be quite trying for most of us.Madness scares many, but it is not that bad. However, we live in times where it is always just a step away it  so it scares the shit out of us.
Talk: We talk. A lot. How much of this is talking your thought out loud? When we talk our thought out loud we form a bridge of discourse, on which discourse go up and down. We know a lot about communication. Oh yes, we do!
Action: If we do not place enough importance on this we are over we know. Therefore put most of your resources into this. Ever wondered why we are so very busy all the time?

* If you think too much, you will go crazy.



Thursday, November 05, 2015

I miss Hindi

In a democracy, you cannot corner a majority, you cannot pin the blame on the poster boy of the majority. At least the stupidity of the counter-attack proves it was not a planned outburst. Please do not ask us to refrain from being emotional about this. It may make sense to keep the emotion out of this, but we are only getting there.



(note to self:  A section of the media has called these incidents awardwaapsi. Going emotional or salivating from wherever at the prospects of money/fame/TRP/what??)