This picture says it all….First time but with a double treat…
I don’t consider these Oscars to A R as his achievement for Slumdog….These are his Early Life Time Achievement awards…
The world will start following up AR’s musical journey and realize how ignorant they had been,for having not recognised AR much earlier….
Each and every molecule of those awards deserves to you AR….Congrats…
As a tribute to you, I’m dedicating you my next event-The India Quiz….. 🙂
எல்லாம் புகழும் ஒருவன் ஒருவனுக்கே….
My brainchild of 8 months-The India Quiz,is being brought into life next Friday on the 27th of February…It has been on my mind ever since i finished my last quiz…..
After initial hurdles, which have gone past at the speed of light,now i see a clear picture of it coming into life….
I discovered a vibrant peck of energy for helping me in organizing it, he is doing his part in the best way….And with another new talent( as far as i’m concerned) is also on board for hosting the quiz with me…..
I hope it’ll get a better response than my first and the very successful quiz-Test Your Common Science…..
Suddenly from a few days,and after a long time, a particular short but eventful period of my life which was buried in my mind is surfacing incessantly.
It was one of those times, which has made a huge impact on me.It made me better and stronger…..Although, I got better, there were few events which occured I’d rather not think about again…I had to bury it by putting in a lot of effort…
I attribute a new ‘me‘,whom most of you know, to be to the transformations i underwent then….I hadn’t been what I am today before atleast three years…
I’m scared now, for everything around me seems to be reminding me of those days….Not because I’ll be hurt by it or any such thing…..But i don’t want to be drawn onto that track again….For now, I feel that I am very vulnerable in doing so….
But, I’m trying my best not to let it happen…..I think i’ll come out successful in this test of reminiscence…..
Introspection has been at its peak after many influential encounters. My career path is one thing i’m really thinking of right now.
I could easily realise that i wasn’t made for making software. From there on,i’ve been trying to reinvent myself as a core electronics guy.Even though i’m good at it,i realise i can perform some other tasks in a much better manner.
It has been evident with my recent ventures, that i am more efficient( and happier….) in doing creative pieces of work,be it arranging a quiz or organizing any event on a substantial scale or hosting events.
I am good in front of a comp trying to code, I’m better when it comes to interpreting and realizing electronics, I’m at my best when given a stage or a dais……
I’d conclude that my technical creativity is not at par with my otherwise creativity.
(I have spoken about my creativity here, and not about the dedication or commitment to any of the tasks undertaken by me,which are always at zenith….)
Although i had been tolerating these people belonging to an antagonizing group of humans,they crossed the limits…..
You can counter ‘Logic and reason’ by a superior level of the same…. What is to be done if you are to counter an attack of futility instigated by purposeless use of power!!! I was rendered helpless, infuriated, desperate to retaliate…. I, after a long time was furious. I could feel the sudden and strong surge of hot blood to my head….Unable to stand in that situation…My teeth grinding against each other, making me really angry….There isn’t an efficient way to counter such people,who are unfortunately at a high position(definitely which they are not worth of)….
Another kind are the leeches or the parasites depicted in Ayn Rand’s works…The parasites who feed on your ideas…They seem to be in an illusion that my idea is it their right…They don’t even acknowledge that they are the flag bearers of Plagiarism….I had to show them their own color, although not in a pleasant manner….
I don’t understand how people of these two and many other ugly facets of humans stay with even themselves….I’d hate myself to the core,if i were belonging to any of those herds……
I can’t categorise myself as an atheist or a believer………I do believe in a fictitious supreme spirit which is necessary for my mind to remain motivated and to borrow strength from. I know it is just deriving energy from myself, but through an indirect belief…I, like many others feel it necessary…
Further,I don’t believe in idol worship. I’m a devotee of only a saint after whom i’ve been named…Although i participate in all rituals conducted at home, not because any of those makes sufficient sense…Its only for my mom’s sake…
I believe that we have made God as an answer to all our Obscurities….We attribute all unexplainable events to God…A common notion implied to God in all religions by us is to attribute our helplessness, our ignorance, our suffering, sometimes an undeserved success also to God…
I don’t believe that God is light and ignorance is dark…I believe that ignorance is a state of mind when we are close to God….Reason is the tool we have evolved to possess and drift away from ignorance or God…
If there were a God, he also would want us do the same…Follow the path of reason, even if his own recognition between us would diminish…
So finally the final semester of my B.E is here. I’m not sure how far i have been transformed into an engineer who can defy nature and make world a better place( only in a human perspective).
The past 3 and a half years have been-as the cliche goes ‘a roller coaster ride’. I would attribute these years as the ones to have influenced my personality the most till this point of time.
Hoping for the best yet to come…..
I read this statement in a newspaper. I felt that the second half to be absolutely relevant to all the absurd and atrocious demonstrations of the so called ‘moral policing’.
I believe it is the immediate consequence of narrow mindedness and manifestation of absurd,ridiculous,stupid logic. The justifications given to these indecent acts of policing are paradoxic to what it ideally is to be.
On the first hand, we do not require police to monitor our morales and behavior,whereas ironically there is acute shortage of the actual police to inhibit these acts of idiocracy.Each and every incident like the Mangalore pub one,are the reminders of how crude our society thinks. I say that because not everyone is against these criminals. These self proclaimed policemen have support starting from the government to our fellow citizens.
Now when an evil without form such as this is creating havoc,what is that we can do except to complain!
The problem is the loophole in our administration,legislation and the security. For,the government has share holders in its majority from these sections,the laws passed intentionally are left flawed so that they are acquitted as it happened yesterday,there is no immediate action taken by the police.
We need to stand together for we can’t allow our freedom to be lost again,this time to ignorance and acts guided by blind arrogance and not by reason.
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. Man has no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought.
To hunt, he needs weapons, and to make weapons–a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man–the function of his reasoning mind.
“But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act–the process of reason–must be performed by each man alone. We can divide a meal among many men. We cannot digest it in a collective stomach. No man can use his lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his brain to think for another. All the functions of body and spirit are private. They cannot be shared or transferred.
The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who
stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He
is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his
thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other
man–and he asks no other man to exist for him. This is the only form of brotherhood and
mutual respect possible between men.
Let this feeling of Indianness be not impulsive, restricted to only a few special and symbolic days of the nation’s past achievements. We need to be working at this very moment to make India proud.
Like many others i feel that we are not patriotic to the core. We are emotional about our nationality and yes, we are patriotic- but just for the sake of words. When it comes to the real requirement, that is, dedicated efforts from us to play our part, most of us would not be up to the mark. If everyone would perform his/her duties with their national role and their contribution to the motherland in mind, we would have definitely surpassed all our peer nations.
I’ve always wondered as to where it went wrong, and why is that we take things for granted, and are negligent about our duties and responsibilities, from where does the parochial mindset come into picture, why is it that we are not ready to give the same importance to national growth, ,like we give to our personal well being . I know many of you would have had the same torturous thoughts.
I feel that we are trying to relax and savor the taste of freedom, brought by the struggles of our forefathers. We feel that enough they had borne the pain, and now that we have a Free India with us-a gift from all those great souls to us, we can do anything we wish, for we have in our hands a precious gift-a Free Nation. I personally feel, this is a gift we are not worthy enough to have, if we don’t play our part in making a Free India into a truly independent country which can lead the world.
Disclaimer: The above statements were made not pointing at anyone in particular, but i think you’ll know if it was targeted at you or not
Ideas are Immortal 