What’s the value of a human life?
“Freedom”
Well, fair enough.Till this day, world has been witness to numerous struggles and battles waged in the name of freedom.
Millions laid down their lives and took others, for the very basic right of an individual, i.e., to live freely.India, as a nation, has had its tryst with the struggle for freedom. I am not sure about the coming generations, but most of us would have read about all that in our history books and seen all that in the form of movies and documentaries.
It indeed is a moving realisation that, there was a world before we stepped in, where one couldn’t speak openly, walk freely. A world of near slavery. A world of oppression. A world of indignity.We all should appreciate the fact that we didnt take birth in such a world. We live in a world which offers freedom of speech and expression. We live in a world where we can do things which people wouldn’t have even dreamt of, pre-independance.
In fact, the only time when we realize that we are blessed with something called “freedom”, is on days like 15th August or 26th January. It’s another thing that some among us fail to appreciate the importance of these days which, to be frank, are the only days when we as a Nation look back at the sacrifices made by our forefathers, who wished to see us- their future generations, live in a free world devoid of slavery, oppression and indignity.
Today, as we march ahead towards tomorrow, there are a set of people, who think that they are yet to attain freedom, in their own words – Jihad.
I still remember myself reading news during the morning assemblies in my school, and as far as I recollect, most of the times, I would find something related to this new form of freedom struggle, to read out to the crowd.
.But what came as a shocker was the news of serial bomb blasts rocking Ahmedabad, the very next day. 17 of them, killing 45 and injuring over 100.45 human lives.For what?Well as per one of the organisation which claimed the responsibilty for the blasts, they were carried out - “In the light of the injustice and wrongs on a specific section of the society in the state in 2002”.
Ok. I have a few questions for the folks responsible:-Among the 45, how many carried out the atrocities in 2002?Among the 45, how many stood in path of your so called “Jihad”?
Among the 45, how many were Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs...?
Among the 45, how many were directly responsible for what happened in 2002?
I would appreciate if you folks could get us the answers for these questions.It would have been a slightly different case, had you taken down specific people who were directly responsible for the 2002 atrocities, people who pulled the strings from above.Till date there hasn’t been any bomb designed, which would explode in a customised way, killing only people of a specific religion, caste or race, in a heterogenous crowd. Probably the day someone finds it, do get your hands on it.We Indians, feel sorry for all that happened not just in 2002 but in every single instance in the history of our nation till now, where innocent people have lost their lives, for no fault of theirs.
Among the 45 who lost their lives, there has been:-
A mother who had a child waiting at home.
A daughter who was on her way back from school.
A father who was the sole breadowner for the family.
A son who had gone out to get some vegetables for dinner.
All innocent people, with their dreams and aspirations for tomorrow.
Was it all worth it?
Whatever you have done, has it helped your people or your cause in any way?Just take a moment and think, how would have your mother felt on giving birth to you, had she known at that moment that you would end up doing all this in the future. Would she be still happy at bringing such a new life into this world?
People like me can only hope that, someday you realize the fact that, what you are doing is not right. It’s not helping anyone. No matter in whose name, no one has the right to take an innocent life.And yes, one more thing. Irrespective to what you guys have done and plan to do in the future, India as a Nation is not going to kneel in front of you. Decades of struggle has brought India to where it is today, and we as citizens of this Nation will not let such senseless acts of yours, dither us from our spirits. Hope you guys someday realize the value of a human life.
PS: I know whatever I have written here, might not make a difference to people who were behind the Bangalore & Ahmedabad blasts. Still, I wrote this as I couldn't find a better way to air out my frustration over such fanatics.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
If U Think U Can, You are Right
So many times in life we feel depressed and in solitude when we are marred by failure..At that time we dont know how to react..So i thot why not write something Inspirational.. something which i can refer to at times of failure..and feel good and Rejenuvated....So I am posting these success stories of great people in my own words..all the stories i'v come across since my childhood i'v tried to make a Boquet of them.. So when u feel bogged down just read them and I bet u'll feel good.
I think that there are three dimensions to Success... Attitude,Skill And Knowledge. You might have all the Knowledge in the world but and yet fail to achieve anything due to lack of Skills and Attitude.And u know what... the combination of all these three make a Mahatma: The Gandhi
In his First year in the automobile buisness, this man went Bankrupt and two years later his second company also failed...but he did not give up. His third however has done rather well.
Its the right attitude that helped HENRY FORD achieve global success.
While on one hand the constant positive Attitude in the Kennedy family was the key behind John.F.Kennedy's success... on the other hand, the constant negative reinforcements and negative family in fluences form the early childhood made OSWALD grow up to become what he became : the murderer of Kennedy.
Stories of Ramayan & Mahabharata narrated by his mother left an indelible impression on his mind. He developed traits such as courage,sympathy for the poor and urge to do something great. Narendranath left his home ... with a burning desire to do something better and to know INdia better...he went from place to place to do something for the Opressed. He Always said "The Greatest sin is to think Yourself As Weak".He decided to go to the west to seek help for the poor of India and thus gave shape to his life's mission.He was no more the unknown Sanyasi..He was Now Swami Vivekanad-- one of India's all time great spiritual leaders whose teachings even today, inspire millions.
It is like the story of a young boy, while at skool he began to develop the unique concept of a piston. He tried to sell his work to Toyota Corporation bt he ws rejected again and again. He was sent back and his Friends laughed at his crazy attempts.Two years later he got the contract.His passion and belief in what he was doing paid off.When the Japanese Govt. refused to give him concrete to bulid a factory due to war crisis, he along with his team invented a process to make their own concrete. At the end of the war when a gasoline crisis hit Japan,Mr. Honda attached a small motor to his cycle & decided to build a plant that wld build motors for his new invention,the motorcycle.If you think you can,you are right.But think passionately. Passion for what you want to achieve. Enough passion to keep your eyes from wandering away from the goal.Total passion to finally see you through.
In the early 50's officials in the treasury of the arabian Kingdom of Yemen found the main unit of their currency,solid silver coins called Rial, disappearing from circulation.They were all going to Aden,where a mere clerk in British Trading company had put an open order for all of them.He had realised that selling them after melting down would be more valuable than the value Of Rial.He made some money before it was officially stopped.This money added to the money he had already saved helped him to start as a trader in a Polyester yarn. He was Dhirubhai Ambani.. the most powerful buisness tycoon in India. Because he has been Innovative as as well as passionate about his dreams.
It was this urge for being Unique that made a young boy stand at the centre of the Sydney Cricket ground and tell his father "I shall never be satisfied until i play on this ground". And it was not about playing on that Ground but about creating History.He was passionate about his game and ended up with a record career average of 99.6. "The Don" as people used to lovingly call him was one of the greatest batsman better know as Sir Donald Bradman.
Che Guevara,the world's greatest ever revolutionary,always felt "Failure does not necessarily mean that the cause you were fighting for was not worth it". Inspite of being an Argentine, he went to cuba and fought its battle of independence for sake of his Ideology.And then quit top ministerial posts in Cuba to fight for African countries before coming back to Bolivia and meeting his end. Che failed in most of his wars against his Opressers but yet he Achieved always what he wanted. "Che-alive as they never wanted you to be" as they say. He remains today in the heart of millions of people across the world as a revolutionary icon... He dared to have a Utopian dream...and chase it.These people are not easily discouraged by failure.The underlying self-confidence helps them to carry on despite setbacks.They use failure as a learning experience.They never leave the task unfinished.They feel tensed as long as something is Undone.
When you chase your dreams,there can be only two outcomes.Either you make it or you give up.And when things dont go your way and you end up being paralysed from the neck below sonce the age of 14,the easier option is to give up and focus on your pain. Ed Roberts refused to do that . Instead he mastered how to lead a normal life battling passionately against all odds.From his whellchair he became the first disabled director of California State Department Of Rehabilitation.He never gave up and thought "Impossible is not a word in my Dictionary" (as Napolean said).
It is abaout being blind since birth and yet having the conviction that you can make it and becoming a Stevie Wonder. It is about being deaf and composing some of the best and profounder music ever,like Beethoven did.It is about not only being blind and deaf but also being dumb and becoming a Helen Keller.
It is about being kicked out of school and then becoming the world's leading buisness tycoon and changing the way the world works,like Bill Gates has done..
In fact it is about failing in buisness at the age of 21,being defeated in a legislative election at the age of 22, overcoming the death of his sweetheart at the age of 26,losing congressional races at the age of 34 and 36,losing the senatorial race at the age of 45 and again later at the age of 47,and finally becoming the President of United States at the age of 52! It is about Being Abraham Lincoln.All these events which to a common man would seem to be failures -were to Lincoln the stepping stones to a future that he passionately dreamt ofYou can fail your way to Success..Even Napoleon lost one third of all the important battles he fought.They are peole who might fail....Fail 9999 times and yet with a smile say"I learnt 9999 times how not to make an electric bulb....."
And after many more such attempts Thomas Edison did invent the electric bulb and an organisation which still stands tall.Infact he ended up earning more than 1000 patents for inventions including the electric lamp, picture projector etc...These people work not only with their brains. Their eyes,ears,skin alll of them work. You can see the passion at their work.
They know at the tender age of 12 what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Just like this Yugoslavian girl knew. She worked passionately towards her goal.Her bodily needs took second priority over the hunger and abject poverty she saw in people around . She helped the poorer of the poorest people she could.She became the mother to all. Yes,for Mother Teresa Work was often her lunch.
Charles Dickens went through abject poverty and adversity in life. People kept rejecting his work. However,he was sure about what he was aiming for and sice he believed in himself he knew he had a fair chance of making it, he could sustain his passion for writing. Success could not elude him for long,and the major stories and countless short stories he wrote and charecters and places hewrote about will live with us forever. Probably Charles is a Classic example of a person who passionately beleived in two words--- I CAN.
So never get bogged down if you are hit by a Failure instead take it as a challenge and think God has Something good in the making for you..All stories of gr8 people have been plagued by series of failures..Yet they are great..
I wish my story could've been here. The story of a 17 year old boy who in him had this immense passion to be A Designer.. The passion which danced and sung even in his dreams..But i dont think i have the guts to fail so mant times and rise form the Ashes again.. chalo I'll give up this greatness to some one else "ja bachchey aish kar"...........If you know some success stories..please do post them in the comments section.. that would be great.....
I think that there are three dimensions to Success... Attitude,Skill And Knowledge. You might have all the Knowledge in the world but and yet fail to achieve anything due to lack of Skills and Attitude.And u know what... the combination of all these three make a Mahatma: The Gandhi
In his First year in the automobile buisness, this man went Bankrupt and two years later his second company also failed...but he did not give up. His third however has done rather well.
Its the right attitude that helped HENRY FORD achieve global success.
While on one hand the constant positive Attitude in the Kennedy family was the key behind John.F.Kennedy's success... on the other hand, the constant negative reinforcements and negative family in fluences form the early childhood made OSWALD grow up to become what he became : the murderer of Kennedy.
Stories of Ramayan & Mahabharata narrated by his mother left an indelible impression on his mind. He developed traits such as courage,sympathy for the poor and urge to do something great. Narendranath left his home ... with a burning desire to do something better and to know INdia better...he went from place to place to do something for the Opressed. He Always said "The Greatest sin is to think Yourself As Weak".He decided to go to the west to seek help for the poor of India and thus gave shape to his life's mission.He was no more the unknown Sanyasi..He was Now Swami Vivekanad-- one of India's all time great spiritual leaders whose teachings even today, inspire millions.
It is like the story of a young boy, while at skool he began to develop the unique concept of a piston. He tried to sell his work to Toyota Corporation bt he ws rejected again and again. He was sent back and his Friends laughed at his crazy attempts.Two years later he got the contract.His passion and belief in what he was doing paid off.When the Japanese Govt. refused to give him concrete to bulid a factory due to war crisis, he along with his team invented a process to make their own concrete. At the end of the war when a gasoline crisis hit Japan,Mr. Honda attached a small motor to his cycle & decided to build a plant that wld build motors for his new invention,the motorcycle.If you think you can,you are right.But think passionately. Passion for what you want to achieve. Enough passion to keep your eyes from wandering away from the goal.Total passion to finally see you through.
In the early 50's officials in the treasury of the arabian Kingdom of Yemen found the main unit of their currency,solid silver coins called Rial, disappearing from circulation.They were all going to Aden,where a mere clerk in British Trading company had put an open order for all of them.He had realised that selling them after melting down would be more valuable than the value Of Rial.He made some money before it was officially stopped.This money added to the money he had already saved helped him to start as a trader in a Polyester yarn. He was Dhirubhai Ambani.. the most powerful buisness tycoon in India. Because he has been Innovative as as well as passionate about his dreams.
It was this urge for being Unique that made a young boy stand at the centre of the Sydney Cricket ground and tell his father "I shall never be satisfied until i play on this ground". And it was not about playing on that Ground but about creating History.He was passionate about his game and ended up with a record career average of 99.6. "The Don" as people used to lovingly call him was one of the greatest batsman better know as Sir Donald Bradman.
Che Guevara,the world's greatest ever revolutionary,always felt "Failure does not necessarily mean that the cause you were fighting for was not worth it". Inspite of being an Argentine, he went to cuba and fought its battle of independence for sake of his Ideology.And then quit top ministerial posts in Cuba to fight for African countries before coming back to Bolivia and meeting his end. Che failed in most of his wars against his Opressers but yet he Achieved always what he wanted. "Che-alive as they never wanted you to be" as they say. He remains today in the heart of millions of people across the world as a revolutionary icon... He dared to have a Utopian dream...and chase it.These people are not easily discouraged by failure.The underlying self-confidence helps them to carry on despite setbacks.They use failure as a learning experience.They never leave the task unfinished.They feel tensed as long as something is Undone.
When you chase your dreams,there can be only two outcomes.Either you make it or you give up.And when things dont go your way and you end up being paralysed from the neck below sonce the age of 14,the easier option is to give up and focus on your pain. Ed Roberts refused to do that . Instead he mastered how to lead a normal life battling passionately against all odds.From his whellchair he became the first disabled director of California State Department Of Rehabilitation.He never gave up and thought "Impossible is not a word in my Dictionary" (as Napolean said).
It is abaout being blind since birth and yet having the conviction that you can make it and becoming a Stevie Wonder. It is about being deaf and composing some of the best and profounder music ever,like Beethoven did.It is about not only being blind and deaf but also being dumb and becoming a Helen Keller.
It is about being kicked out of school and then becoming the world's leading buisness tycoon and changing the way the world works,like Bill Gates has done..
In fact it is about failing in buisness at the age of 21,being defeated in a legislative election at the age of 22, overcoming the death of his sweetheart at the age of 26,losing congressional races at the age of 34 and 36,losing the senatorial race at the age of 45 and again later at the age of 47,and finally becoming the President of United States at the age of 52! It is about Being Abraham Lincoln.All these events which to a common man would seem to be failures -were to Lincoln the stepping stones to a future that he passionately dreamt ofYou can fail your way to Success..Even Napoleon lost one third of all the important battles he fought.They are peole who might fail....Fail 9999 times and yet with a smile say"I learnt 9999 times how not to make an electric bulb....."
And after many more such attempts Thomas Edison did invent the electric bulb and an organisation which still stands tall.Infact he ended up earning more than 1000 patents for inventions including the electric lamp, picture projector etc...These people work not only with their brains. Their eyes,ears,skin alll of them work. You can see the passion at their work.
They know at the tender age of 12 what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Just like this Yugoslavian girl knew. She worked passionately towards her goal.Her bodily needs took second priority over the hunger and abject poverty she saw in people around . She helped the poorer of the poorest people she could.She became the mother to all. Yes,for Mother Teresa Work was often her lunch.
Charles Dickens went through abject poverty and adversity in life. People kept rejecting his work. However,he was sure about what he was aiming for and sice he believed in himself he knew he had a fair chance of making it, he could sustain his passion for writing. Success could not elude him for long,and the major stories and countless short stories he wrote and charecters and places hewrote about will live with us forever. Probably Charles is a Classic example of a person who passionately beleived in two words--- I CAN.
So never get bogged down if you are hit by a Failure instead take it as a challenge and think God has Something good in the making for you..All stories of gr8 people have been plagued by series of failures..Yet they are great..
I wish my story could've been here. The story of a 17 year old boy who in him had this immense passion to be A Designer.. The passion which danced and sung even in his dreams..But i dont think i have the guts to fail so mant times and rise form the Ashes again.. chalo I'll give up this greatness to some one else "ja bachchey aish kar"...........If you know some success stories..please do post them in the comments section.. that would be great.....
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