A world of Dream: Shatter it yourself

A world of dream...

How nice it seems. Free from daily troubles. Once you are lost in the dream, roads to next stage automatically open themselves up to you. And everything is so fluffy on the way.

How easy you become millionaire and all your life's problems are solved just at throwing of a bundle of notes. Worrisome things like death, illness are never even existent. You get whoever you wished for and are even more happy with them.

You fly high and there is nothing stopping you, except the only thing real... the harsh situation, the deep shit you have brought yourself into.

Why did the pillars of dream not realise ? Because there were never there, you fool! Did you ever had a look what is the platform for them ? Never did it occur to you that this world is not in the dimension your dreams are.  Now you are homeless, begging for even a small shed to protect you from rain, why not try to rebuild the pillars of dream ?

You, you are for the real world. Where did you waste yourself in the world of no end ? While you were resting in peace in your cushioned bed, a body left this world hoping for a better world ahead. Was your cushioned bed even visible to it ? You just wasted your existence connecting yourself with the bed which did not even exist.

Your limbs are for real, you are for real! The power that you have is for real. Proof lies in every bit of this world. It has not got built by itself. Hundreds of years of strength of hands like yours have created and witnessed the magnanimity of things around you. Your two eyes are for real. See. Inspire yourself. Get fuelled to act. Act to serve this world. It badly needs you, however much you wish to neglect it.

These students will make everyone proud

A year and a half ago, I went to a college for promoting a training programme for job placement. I was received well and was given a chance to address the students as the chief guest in their annual departmental function.

Sincere students look up to their teachers and always have a hope that their teacher will guide them to a bright future. Some of them contacted me after my address and showed their interest in the training programme. Excited to have my first batch of students from this college, I decided to come to the college classroom itself instead of my classroom to teach them, as it was far to the students to travel 13 kms to my place. They learnt programming and had enthusiasm and ambition of changing the world. I had not imagined that students from private colleges would be having their eyes lit up for bringing change to the world. I had thought that they would be solely focused in securing a job after graduation. It was a pleasant realisation for me as now I could dream of involving students from all colleges to work with me.

I had to discontinue my visit to the college as I was going to get married and following 2-3 months would have been busy, though I always kept myself available to the students and tried to clear their queries through chat and email. This is the least I could have done to keep their spirits high.

One year on, and yes these students are turning out to be exceptionally good in programming and still have great eagerness to change the world. Their hard work has already rendered them great feats in competitions and their tenacity to learn more leaves them growth hungry. Who wouldn't like such students. I called some of them at my home classroom to discuss how interested they are in resuming the classes, and they were ready and excited to start.

At Teck Academy, I guide students to better themselves in programming and work at some challenging example problems which will make them ready for placements in college. All those students, near or far, interested in interacting with me can contact me from any source given in the page. I will be more than happy to give you guidance related to programming and placements. 

Happy Republic Day

While I listen to this song, which got auto-played in youtube after the song I was hearing finished, it hit my mind that I have not written for long. Also today is a day not to be forgotten, as our country's functioning system was brought into force this day.

We the people, had given to ourselves this constitution exactly 2 months before 26 January 1950. We started abiding by it exactly 67 years before. Our soldiers, guarding the country's vulnerable boundaries continue abiding by the constitution even at the cost of their physical existence.

Our political leaders, who upheld the constitution in its formative years are to be praised and saluted for their will and commitment to build the concept called India. Had they been of wavering tendency, our 1.3 billion people would have no where to look upto and the fall would have been even more insulting than the British Rule; that we were not able to stand on our own when we were given a chance. Unfortunately, the trend of honest politicians was soon replaced by corrupt ones, who got inspiration from corruption of bureaucrats and rose to power. The constitution was again in threat when dictatorial attitude of Indira Gandhi but with power of the people, the threat did not loom for long. Diversity of India forced coalition politics which bound government of many terms to opposition and interruption filled functioning. But the coalition government at least showed that no section of our country is not represented. All, thanks to the solid foundation on which our forefathers built the constitution.

Time and again, this masterpiece of Baba Saheb Ambedkar, or so I feel, has saved this nation from political disaster. This time though, under the present government, I feel the constitution is showing its true power! The nation has matured in these 68 years and we now have more engineers, doctors, statesmen, artists, and many other professionals than even before. This government has the freedom to execute its plans without any interference from opposition. In addition, the representatives holding the minister-ship have impeccable records professionally and politically, with most of them already having proven their intention of India First. The current alliance shows what we can achieve if we act collectively and coherently. I am not a bjp fan, but I am immensely awed by the discipline, a sense of common cause, and intellect of the party members.

Of late, no other political party seems to have new faces in political arena; most of them just being busy in reshuffling and adjusting the defected other-party members. Good orators and debaters like Sambit Patra, Nalin Kohli, Sudhanshu Trivedi etc are adding quality to the discussions in tv debates while others seem to have no quality content in their replies. The opinion of crowd is not built in a day and in debates where some party spokespersons outshine others, the winner in minds of the people becomes clear.

The spirit of constitution is what is driving the politics right now, or I wish to believe, is starting to drive the politics. Earlier, the Anna andolan moved the public out from their comfort, and Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (which seems to have lost the cause for which it started and got people's support) emerged. Then an alternate option of BJP as power holder came into realisation. The nation has seen unprecedented changes in these 2-3 years, including demonetization, which in my opinion is the boldest move the government has made till now, all this under the umbrella of our constitution. Though with a small fear of dictatorial apprehensions (signs of which have not appeared till now),  I am seeing the current development of politics as going a right direction and aiming towards growth of every one.

He who, taught me love!

He who, taught me love

Only seems like a dream and nothing more

He who, talked for hours

Has become a story with a scar

He who, fought in love with me

Is now caught in love by else

He who, showed me the differences

Has made life indifferent

He who, had so much to say

Is now silent in the grey

He who, scared me with his wish-list 

Is now flying high in the mist  

He who, sang in the ears

Is moving ahead with his dears 

He who, dreamt to grow by my side

Is now been held tight in the snow slide

He who, was always seen

Is still searched like a silly teen  

  

He who, taught me love

Only seems like a dream and nothing more

  

What to do when the world is against you

Die is the simple solution :P
Fight is a little tougher solution.
Change the world according to you, for you. - Toughest solution

The equations somewhat lose their demarcations the moment the word 'world' is replaced by 'family'

Some great minds and some not

I have been fortunate to have lived among some of the brightest minds of the country, though just for a small period of time. There were saintly geniuses as well as aggressive winners in my college. There were some who rose to sky after falling into deep shit due to their carelessness, and yet some of them fell deep into troubles from their cheerful state. In midst of this all, I spent some very defining parts of my life. These minds continue to inspire me to reach to the top and never give up, as they have still been doing.

However, college life doesn't last forever and real state of a human is 'survival'. He will do anything for it. Topics like intellect and humility don't matter to them generally unless it fetches them money. Simplicity matters to them when the simple person has already proven himself through his power. Purity and ethics bother negligible number of minds if no greed or ambition is associated with them.

How in a resource crunch situation, a man changes himself and cares only for himself! I was ready after college to give up my new job to go prepare for civil services but my father said that it is important to first make your state good before taking care of others' state. I did take his advice seriously, but only after sometime did I realise that the minds are not the same. They are clever, shrewd, sometimes wicked as well, thirsty for recognition and drunk in superiority. May be this is a regional observation and can not be applied generally. The harsh truth that I realised is 'situation of survival makes you an animal'. Survival in job, survival in business, survival of life... the animal in you saves yourself from getting vanished. It fights for you and brings you back from death, to go for another survival challenge. That animal, however, can not take care of anyone else but the body owner. That animal is called Self of the person. Other people are demolished because of it. The self doesn't care about all. This animal never needed to appear in my colleagues or profs in my college days. But real world teaches differently. I concluded that I have to live along with these great as well as no great minds for the rest of my life.

My camaraderie is spread out in different parts of the world and most likely would still be spreading goodness to the world, or some of them would have also become victims of 'survival'. But certainly, the old time is gone, and it won't come again...

All you have is the present time to make better than old time :)

The death of two puppies

Some incidents just stick to the mind and become very basis of a part of your character. In this regard, an incident comes to my mind. It was about two baby pups getting crushed by a car. I  can't recall my age but should be less than 10 years old then.

I was freely roaming outside my home and must be wondering about some things of nature when I suddenly heard a loud shrill of dogs, a sound made by them when they are hit by stone or a stick or bitten by other dogs. (Street dogs are not so uncommon in India, so I suppose the sound is not unclear. ) I went to the source of the sound.

The damage had been already done. The driver of the car possibly didn't realise that it's not a stone that he has taken his car over, but were two live puppies, and rode the rear wheels of the car as well over them. The pups made sound for a few moments, then I saw blood coming out of their mouths. It was not that I had seen blood for the first time, but live running blood was the first incident. It did not scare me, but made me inquisitive for sure. In a few moments, the two pups became like statues, like any other dead street dog I would see on the road.

What made impact on my mind was, their mother! She wouldn't let the sweeper take away the pups' bodies. She held the sweeper's clothes and stretched it to the extent that the sweeper feared that her clothes would tear if she dared move a step towards the pups. The two dead bodies remained there till I was there. The driver of the car realised that he has run over two baby animals; he slowed down for a moment, looked at the statues, and then went away to his work.

The mother dog didn't show her grief, or anger. She just didn't let anyone go near her pups. I had not seen emotion in animals before this. I was scared away by dogs twice before this incident, but i never felt that was because animals have anger as emotion. I just thought they are there to kill and bite bad guys. ''That's why people write beware of dogs'', i used to think.

But i love those creatures anyways (though there are serious hygiene issues associated with them, but who cares when you are a child ).