Some Famous Quotes

• Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
• "Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife is dying.
•  I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.
• When your only tool is hammer, all problems start looking like a nail.
• If at first You don't succeed, redefine success.
• If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
• Isn't it scary that doctors call what they do "practice"?
• The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus?I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're ...too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating... you finish off as an orgasm.  - George Carlin

The relevance of Gandhian philosophy in modern world

If the beginning of the twentieth century was to signify anything then the world would have been destroyed by now. There as violence and counter-violence everywhere. The world was reeling under the pressures of two world wars. Imperialism was resulting in violence everywhere. Everyone was practicing his mental and physical power to overpower the others. The time was ideal for the birth of new philosophy that would take the world by surprise, which would change the thinking of whole world, which would regenerate the humanness of human being and kill their baser instincts. No points for guessing the country of birth of the philosopher and philosophy i.e. INDIA, yes the same country which has solution to each and every problem of the world. The philosophy is ‘ahimsa or ‘non violence’ and the philosopher was ‘Mahatma Gandhi’.

Gandhiji realized that the world was being tested of its patience, tolerance level and its ability to accept failures. People simply didn’t accept that they are not the best in every field. And in order to prove themselves better than others they indulged in violence which resulted in counter-violence. Gandhiji analyzed the situation at that time to perfection and propagated anew philosophy of Satyagraha, that took the whole world by surprise. He propagated a path that was hard to follow but then seldom in history has greatness been achieved without difficulty. His’ was the path to take people to greatness.

Productive old ageing

It is a common believe that old age people are luggage. In modern India most of the people will deny it but when it comes to their own head they feel the brunt of it. Modern people have become total hypocrite in this regard. They shed tears for other people parents but when it comes to their own parents they think it would be better for them to leave the world. Thus our elders are deficient of respect they ought to get from our side. In order to maintain their dignity and respect, the elderly ones need to be aware of productive old aging.

Today’s world is full of hypocrites. People are themselves not able to perform to the level they expect others to perform. People watch movies in which elderly are ill-treated by their children and feel sorry for them but they themselves commit the same crime when it comes to their own parents. Parents as they have been doing throughout their life, forgive them don’t give too much thought to them partially because of their love towards them and partially because of their need of them. But now is the time for the parents to understand that they ought to fight for the respect they deserve. Hence, comes the importance of productive old aging.

The only hindrance in this concept of productive old ageing is that old people are tired of working all throughout their life and want freedom from the difficulties of day to day life. They aren’t willing to work again. It is this rest factor coupled with the love for their children that old people become tolerant to the disrespect shown to them. The second problem is that there is a very small range of jobs that they can do. Perhaps education is the only line they can work with their real value and dignity.

There is only one solution to all these problems. They have to count on their experience if they aren’t willing to rest why to test their patience. Patience can pay in every field but not in this field simply because when the time will come they won’t be there to reap the fruits of their patience. Though there is only a little range of things they can do but whatever they will do will be the best simply because of the loads of experience they have along with them.

Thus, it’s high time the elderly people should be aware of productive old ageing, which will bring happiness to everyone’s life.

Are we human?

Are regularity, reliability, seriousness, punctuality and certainty human nature? Any human possessing these qualities is thought to be the best among his race. Are we changing the definition of human? Are we forgetting the anarchic and spontaneous side of human beings? Are human qualities becoming extinct? Will the human race survive the most dangerous threat it has ever come across in its long and happening history that threatens to destroy its anarchic and spontaneous side?

                   Dr. Walter F. Stromer has suggested a century ago that machines will increase the ferocity of wars, destroy the anarchic and spontaneous side of human nature and hence will deprive humans of happiness, the quality for which they were developed. How right was he in this context! People are doing from anything to everything to curb their natural instinct.

                The result of people’s willingness to curb their natural instinct will be too dangerous to predict. It might destroy the whole human race. People today have forgotten how to smile. People today wear different faces for different occasions. It has increased to such an extent that people have forgotten what they really are like. Every star is today asked the question what they are like in their real life! This has made the ever-haunting task of differentiating between good and bad even more daunting. More and more people are cheating others and are getting cheated.

Impending Common wealth Games

so, is the govt really to be blamed for the sloppy work before the games or are we just passing the buck to them.
Aren't we ourselves to be blamed for not showing enough interest at the beginning and only awaking when the damage was done? Haven't many of us helped corrupt officials in their deeds either directly or indirectly? Aren't we passing our responsibility and failure on Govt.'s shoulder?

Situation in Kashmir

Are our politicians again making a mistake of thinking that problem in Kashmir is a due to recent events?
The Kashmiris are wounded at the moment, they are not asking to be healed immediately but just asking for someone who can make them believe that in future there is life.  In their situation of distraught, anyone who can offer them even a glimpse of hope they will cling to them and the antisocial elements have to some extend succeeded in doing so. First of all we need to search for the reason why the people of Kashmir trusted us for better life and why a sudden outburst of anger. These two questions will provide answers to many questions viz. what they expected from Indian govt?, At which points the govt. has succeeded and at which points it has failed, etc.  At the same time people of Kashmir should  note that India being a huge country is not facing only the Kashmir issue, we are facing problems of Naxalite, Inflation, insurgency in North East, terrorist attacks in various other cities. So at times we tend to temporarily keep aside the perennial problems, it happens with all of us. Violence in form is unacceptable , so both the parties should restrain themselves to their maximum extent then only we can have a hope for a solution.