Why I cant appreciate Dhoni....

Sport is an emotive art transcending the realms of being Earthly. Its a field where winning and losing is secondary but imaginative and creativity is the focal point. What separates the sport from the real life is the ability to make things look simpler than they actually are. It is at this point I would like to stress upon the fact that the way a game is played is more important than the game itself. There will be dozen of Nadals, Dhonis, etc who can turn a game due to their dogged performances,but its the few Sachin, Fedderer and Zidane who take the game to next level. The teasing and tantalizing play which separates the moral spirit from the maestros.
Its their effortlessness and the tranquility which beholds us in a trance. It is this magic which makes us take a break from our daily life. It is the period when the game is made to look like a stage where the artist knows what he is doing, that beholds a sight. Its not the game that we are glued too, its the beauty of the way things are done in a way it must be,its the perfection which we lack in life.

I rember to forget everything....

The naive or complex beauty of the world is the ability of our mind to simultaneously both indulge and withdraw from the externals. The social outlook of the mind cries for love and care while the other is busy feeding for itself. We cannot help but think to change the world but only after we have isolated and insured ourselves from the change. We cry for help with arms tucked in.The imbalance between our desires and thoughts hammers home when crave for power but not the responsibility associated with it. Voraciously vindicating our vestigial needs is our mind which veers out at every available path. it is this inability of our mind to accept the ground reality that everything which has a beginning has must have an end, that we wander helplessly in search of an objective which does not have a reason. We make up ourselves and believe that we are out of the reach of vicious tentacles of the void which perhaps is the only thing possibly not having a reciprocal.

Mending a broken glass

There were times stuck in night and day,
When I think what has gone astray,
Our friendship which is lost and gone,
And has fallen like a failed dawn.


One thought which always makes me ponder,
That whom shall I have to make me reach yonder,
Why I wonder have things needed to be so bleak
When our friendship was meant to be as strong as the teak....


Am I not being true?
Or doing things not supposed to do?
Feelings left unfelt as we hardly talk,
Cold gazes burn me when you avoid me in the walk.


This path for me is untread,
For there is hatred everywhere to spread.
I believe not that our amity is fading away?
Let me know, if yes, can we patch up today?

You must know things which I really care,
Closest to my heart were the times we used to share,
But now the glass has broken,
Leaving pieces razor sharp to pierce my heart as token


I say we shall mend the broken glass, atleast give it a try
For I had a of time in solitude to cry.
Our relationship I felt was honest and true,
For I had many happy thoughts to accrue,


The time away from has made me realise,
And gave me a pair of swollen eyes,
I cry for the way our friendship used to be,
Is there a chance for it to be resurrected from the ruins?

Or has the company that I cherished..come to an abrupt end?
Is there a way to mend the broken glass??

Discipline an impediment to growth??

Discipline in many cases has become strictly adhering to a set of rules preconceived. Discipline teaches us how to follow the rules to complete a project. Not that i am against reaching these objectives but i have a strong feeling that discipline lives by drinking the life juices of creativity. A disciplined job may satisfy all your basic quality requirement but it will not improve your standard. Discipline eschews experimentation which for many is the heartbeat of life.

Discipline does not provide the opportunity for a person to develop out of his shell. Discipline makes a disciple and not a student. For any observer it will be clear to him that nature its own follows disciplines. This is not because things are ordered but we are taught to see things ordered. We are made to model existing chaos into preconceived models. We simplify random happenings by fitting it in normal curves and Poisson distributions. But what we forget is by having a preconceived,that is, disciplined approach we are averaging out the exact edges. We are flattening the curves of nature. How nice would earth be if flatten the Mt Everest and fill up the Mariana trench?

A chaos approach to things teaches us how to see things differently, how physically force affects other, how one thing is the same and different at the same time. Its against the rule of discipline that the antonym of discipline be called indiscipline rather it must be termed undisciplined or random approach. Discipline is a mould which tries to suppress individuality in the person. It is mold which has grown on stale minds. It is a tool used by the weak at higher position of authority to stifle the creative and strong minds at lower levels.

Disciplinarism is anti-human in its root morals, more its anti -organic. The things that need to be disciplined are things which have no life. A disciplined child may stay away from the dirt of life but never shall he have the initiative to clean it up. The modern Indian society is a classic example of how discipline acts as a malaise. Every one is taught how to mumble on over population, poverty for five minutes but none is given a chance to get down and act to solve the problems. Every single child is brought up with the expectation that he/she will earn her life through a stable job. This unfortunately has meant a shockingly low percentage of entrepreneurs in our society. We as a society tend to accept the average the extremes will take care of themselves. Not only has this made our society dependent on foreign economy but has lead to a tricky situation in which there are trained personnels but no leader to direct them.

Many would argue discipline is necessary for a progressive upbringing of a child. Discipline will improve the money management skills and all those blah blah!!! Discipline is not going to improve you pocket balance, but what does save your pocket is common sense. Consider a simple case where you gonna buy a cola .Through which of the following statements would you be influenced on changing the decision.

• You read in a book(occasionally :P )/mom advised(more often :( ) not to buy cola.
• You see bulletin cola is good for suiciders as it increases the chance of all the unending list of diseases such as ulcer, insomnia.,etc.

In the first case you are instructed/disciplined whereas in the second you are asked to reason your choice. The satisfaction of making the right choice is robbed when you are disciplined. A discipline is best suited for people who deal in abstracts who I regretfully inform are called mentally under developed.

Well, for a while I have been about how to conclude this post. Meanwhile a thought crossed my mind aren't we disciplined to conclude every post with a proper conclusion. As a mark of breaking the shackle, I leave the post without a conclusion.

P.S.

Note 1:

This post was influenced by my 'quality management' albeit the other way around of stressing the need for discipline.

Note 2:

To any one in Anna university subject selection panel.

What is the need for such outdated management papers in engineering when an engineer is supposed to have a lot of logical reasoning??

Note 3:

To the economists who put up stupid theories in management

The above piece of text is also a theory which deals with a large proportion of people. Will I get any doctorate for authoring this??? :P

Note 4:

Rolling back I now feel discipline is extremely necessary because you must know the rules well before breaking them.

Two worries, which is bigger??

Which is more grave situation

A state under the water and its chief talks about the problem faced by the people of neighboring country ?
-or-

A state or a historical spot under siege by terrorists in spite of prior warning?

Well certainly the politicos have gone mad here, at least for the time being. Humor is something which is difficult to extract from this situation , but ironically the leaders has given something to laugh about. May be they are trying to follow advanced philosophies regarding trouble management , that is, to laugh at the trouble itself. The secularism (pseudo -secularism) in parts have reached alarming prepositions, the entire India has now pockets of illegal immigrants who are ready to explode and rip the country apart.Well, the heart bleeds when our people are given sacrifice to the unmindful acts of the politicos...

Better Nation through Better I

We(I) have always dreamed of India as a better country, better for its residents, better for the tourists, better for its flora and fauna too. Before I enter into further codswallop, I would put the gist ahead, "For a nation to be developed it is the duty of the citizens to put in the hard work".

Where are the pitfalls which prevent India from acquiring the developed status? It is our mindset that has to be blamed. We stood tall when markets fell, we had a reasonable rise in GDP, we are the second largest producers of rice and wheat, we produce the highest number of engineers every year, culture wise,technology wise we are the best!! But still we are calling ourselves developing.

The reason we call ourselves still developing is we ourselves. Imagine the same you in Singapore, Would you put the down the confectionery wrapper on the streets? would you go past an unmanned signal in France? Or would you bribe the traffic police in UK? Would you allow your dogs to litter in the open in Japan? No you will not, simply because you are in a developed nation. It is your mindset that prevents you from being a miscreant.

I cannot provide a befitting conclusion other than tell that I will take utmost pride being its citizen and help it realize its own strengths. Lets try to be model citizens even with no rules and prying eyes.

Points to ponder

This label has special memories for me. I remember in eighth grade ,this was a special section in our social sciences book which me and my friend studied even before the lessons were started. These were things which instilled some interest even in such dead subjects(I meant history no offense). Usually it contained facts relating to the lesson such as time line, and other important event. One stark contrast with higher standards is that " I do not get to learn anything extra without any effort." What pains is that even people who have the power and who feel the system is severely flawed make no efforts to change the scenario.Some of my views about today's education which i personally feel are :-

"Indian education is similar to its democracy, both are flawed but there are no other practical solution to them."

"Marks (Grades, ranks etc etc.) are a prison.
A prison that a student's mind can neither touch ,smell or feel..
A prison which confines him from exploring himself and which
Detracts him into oblivion from the true goal of education."


"Are they the educated who know or are known only by the educated?"