Thursday, 26 November 2015

All power is within....

For a long time i always think we are really obsessed with our goodness, our greatness so much that we never think there can ever be an iota of possibility of improvement... The moment someone ever points out something be even anyone amongst us...we immediately resort to ' offence is the best defense
' strategy and leave no stones upturned to ridicule the person in front,and it is needless to say that... the said topic dies a premature death and the question of improvement is sure not to be reborn... Whenever someone somewhere says India needs to be safer, cleaner, more disciplined country etc...our patriotic guns are already up in arms with defensive examples of countries like A,P,I,S and what not....why we never bother to look a bit higher? If someone is making his/ her country worse it's their issue. Let's look up to better places in the world. Today everyone traveling length and breadth of the world ,I am sure has no dearth of knowledge of more disciplined, more honest,more ethical , more punctual and progressive countries.... so why we don't give such examples? Why knowingly or unknowingly we love to level ourselves as ' we r doing the best' and ' India hai,idhar sab chalta hai'... why and how long ? We r the best workers, the most productive brains,the best human hearts and the most disciplined lot till we reach the Indian border and inside India, we ....start spitting incessantly even in the so called worshiping places,pushing someone to go ahead,bribing to give a seat to our own undeserving ward when deserving ones are standing in line, crossing every traffic light till traffic police takes a Rs.100 note or there is an irreversible death warrant issued within no time for self and co commuters !...the list is endless... why am i writing this? There is an intention... i feel someone someday may read my thoughts and feel how i feel.. and will feel and act and may be that will make a difference and will let me die with little more satisfaction.. we all can do our bit..it reminds me a story read in my son's Hindi prose, "Desh prem "...where the writer has given insight how each of us can make or break our country's pride and never to think ' what can i do alone?'The story somewhat is as follows in short..." An Indian monk goes to Japan and that day as he was fasting, was searching for fruits and did not get any in that area and says in disgust " what a country, you don't get a fruit'...Suddenly a boy comes from behind and offers him a basket of fruits"..Happily the monk thank and asks how much to pay and he politely says " welcome, my price is,please don't tell anyone that my country does not produce fruits and take care of guests"... such even can be patriotism..! And another boy from a different country goes to a foreign University to study and in library when he thinks no one is watching tears few pages of a book and leaves,but gets caught in the flawless detection system and his punishment was " no one from your country will be allowed to study in the University". So is our power to bring pride or shame to our beloved country.... So let's go positive...We all can do, our small little bit and the drops will make the ocean... So let's look a bit higher, let's take our country little further, let's make it safer and better... u and,me,we can do it....sometime.... someone will remember us...forever.. forever.....

Let's do what we can...

One thought is coming to my mind... The amount of time we are today spending in sharing and discussing who should tolerate whom and who says what and what not, i think if we all are really concerned about India and think a bit about the unruly chaotic traffic conditions we have created for ourselves, the filthy roads where even an inch of footpath is not pleasant to walk and the tyres of vehicles get more injuries due to incessant digging of the roads than can ever be imagined, if we think little harder to decrease corruption, our work ethics, all of us at our own personal level, in our official capacity, in work place,in school, college, garden,roads,theatre behave responsibly,work little better,, think little clearer our children will breath purer air,live longer and healthier, our maternal mortality should come down to one of the lowest in the world... Then does it matter really whether it is Hindu/ Muslim/ Christian/ Boudh ,Jain or Parsi development???~ It is India... which needs to go ahead...small countries like Japan, Singapore, Scandinavian countries have so much to teach us,why i wonder...we never like to spread them and never get tired with the obsession of going round and round what Amir/ Shah Rukh or Salman ever say....what they may be saying or doing may be their businesses...but we can do our bit ...we are also living here...India has immense contribution for each of us... we are blessed to be born in a country like India so blessed by nature... let's spare a moment... spare a thought..