Random Thoughts

This blog is specifically for all those people who missed out on their love stories of school days to get into IITs or any other premier institute. The story starts from the early days of our childhood, just like every other kid, we were also engaged in all kind of fun and mischievous activities. Punishment for the unrest created by us used to be sitting in a girls group or vice versa. We absolutely hated the idea of sitting with girls and I still don't know, why that was the case? We were so little and naive but still, the company of the same-gender is something all of us desired. We grow a little bit and adolescence hits us, all the hormones are forcing us to notice all the subtle changes in the physiology of our batchmates, from the increased breast size to newly growing facial hairs. I don't know about girls but for boys tearing the pages of school magazines with a sexy girl in it was fairly common before the abundant arrival of porn. Phones were scarce back then, the int...

Almost every crime that happens in this country due to the gender difference is a direct result of people not being exposed to the proximity of the other gender. Making strict laws can definitely bring down such cases, but, until and unless the mindsets of people are not changed this problem will never completely vanish from our society. Most of us never understood the opposite gender proximity thus often we end up reacting foolishly or aggressively with other gender. Both genders need to learn and understand the concept of proximity in order to curb these crimes. There are several downsides of people not being exposed to each other's comfort limits, priorities, and behavior. I've witnessed highly educated men aggressively behaving with women on the other hand decent boys unable to even speak their names in front of a girl. Both the spectrum of this societal structure is not suitable for the growth of our society. Of course, aggression tends to bring more imbalance but we c...

Most of the people around the globe have little to no knowledge of yoga. 'Yoga' means union with the cosmos and it is so much more than twisting your limbs in seemingly different nonsensical postures. Whenever you mention yoga to someone, people in India will generally conjure up the image of Baba Ramdev as its brand ambassador. Just for the fact, Baba Ramdev named his company Patanjali because saint Patanjali wrote the 'Yoga sutras'. What Baba Ramdev teaches is called Raj yoga that is designed to cover the physical aspect of yoga. The biggest disappointment regarding yoga is people reducing it to the level of another physical exercise, the notion of yoga being a practice to keep you fit and healthy is an incomplete and underestimated picture. There are several forms of yoga and different dimensions to it. Explaining it in a blog is almost impossible and I'm not a master myself to teach you the real technique but I can give you a broad idea of yoga and its ...

Continuing the part-I, there are many other things apart from education, parenting, and liberalism that threatens the very fabric of our society. A lot has been said about all these topics, but still, I felt the need to put all these totally different problems under one umbrella. Finances: We go to school for some 18-20 years, and finally after the end of our academics, all we do is run after the money. The irony is that we train ourselves for 20 years or so to do something else entirely and that's why most of us are inept to handle our finances. When a person doesn't know how money works, all he/she can do is to work for someone else. Remember, the employer will always provide you with the least amount that will keep you away from resigning. Financial acuteness comes only with practice like any other skill. When Warren Buffett was a teen, he used to sit with investors to know the working of the markets and we all know where he is today. Not everyone will become Warren Bu...

As we all know, India was one of the earliest inhabited places on the entire earth by civilized human beings. With all this glorious past, comes the wonderful teachings and way of life that was passed on to the generations for millennia. Despite a long rich history, modern India is cursed with multiple problems that we collectively face as a society.  Education: It's been more than 70 years and we still follow the same techniques that were introduced by Britishers to educate the so-called 'uncivilized' people of this country. Education policy has barely changed in all these years. All we are taught in school is how to be competitive and how to memorize the facts that serve no purpose in adult life. We completely abandoned the concept of "Gurukulas" where students were taught modern science along with the skills not only to survive but to lead a gentle and peaceful life. We discarded this system, calling it old school and fully accepted the foreign way as t...

Like most of us, everything I knew about this city was from Bollywood. I knew that it is very crowded and costly but seeing or experiencing that personally is an entirely different thing. So, here comes the perspective of a Delhite (Noida se hun, Delhi se nhi; pr Noida waale bahar apne aap ko delhi se batate hain) who visited this place for the first time. I boarded my flight on the 11 August 2019 from IGI Airport, Delhi. As my flight was about to land, I looked outside the window and what I saw was quite unique, entire mountain ranges of bright blue color just like an ocean but as my flight moved further down, I saw entire mountain peaks covered with small huts covered with blue plastic sheets. It was a huge slum and it was depressing to look at with skyscrapers on the other side of the city. I landed there and waited for half an hour to get my luggage, just for the fact Mumbai airport is far better than Delhi's.  I moved out of the airport, booked a prepaid taxi (Non-AC)...

These are the few topics when middle-class Indian families stop making sense. Not all of the middle-class people think and talk like this but the number of people who makes these kinds of arguments are substantial. Inter caste marriage I've talked to multiple people on this topic and I couldn't convince them about any aspect of it. I ask them, why do they think that same caste marriage existed in the first place? No one gave me a befitting reply to date. The reason it existed in the past was that earlier caste was defined on the basis of the type of work people did. It was necessary back then to know the custom of the family otherwise the women of the house wouldn't be able to handle things like dietary requirements of a smelter or a warrior. There were ton of things needed to be known according to the type of work people did. Back to the present day, everyone is doing similar jobs regardless of their caste. So, why are people still stuck on the same age-old custom t...