Its been a long time that i have not written here. So what happened? had i stopped learning things? no. its just that there was little i could show in from what i was learning.
but from an absolutely unexpected corner came my learning.. FACEBOOK!! ( and you thought it was just time pass huh? )
statutory warning : the following might seem a little wierd.
I was taking a quiz on fb for the umpteenth time. and there was a question on the quiz-
WHAT IF YOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS?
a)
b)
c)
d)
i do not know what you guys do when you come across such a question. i decided to give it real thinking. and you knwo what? i was BLANK!. POINT BLANK. Think! - told myself. and then i realized that if i were to have say- 4 or 5k i would probably think
of spending it on parties and movies and clothes and so on. but given a MILLION dollars. i would be very responsible with them . you see that is an amount which is inconcievable to a middle class girl like me. if you would ask my brother he would have man grand ideas about them. I am the kind of person who does not much even dream of lavishness.
i clicked an answer in fb. but that was not an important thing. the important thing was that my mind went racing. i realized that if i had so much money i would be living my life far more responsibly than if i did not have money. ( think this is wierd ? the wierd part has not even BEGUN people :P). i realized i would learn more about money. i would do things that would
basically make me a very competent person in life to deserve to haold that kind of money.
all this seemed higly contradictory to me.
and then i understood one more factor. ALL OUR LIVES I WAS GOING LIVE WAITING TO MAKE MORE MONEY THAN I ALREADY DO. when I can make my lives better RIGHT NOW. by living that life. living responsibly. investing in MYSELF( we are our graeatest assets you see .. :) )
i wanted to live like i already owned a million dollars! ( THIS is what i was talkin about)
but you know there is a book called THE SECRET. in that book basically what is written is that we attract what we expect to be true. so in the money chapter it is written. that if you keep thinking that ' i dont have any money. what to do? i wish i had more money."---- whatis going to happen is that your mind will keep registering that you dont have money and you will attract that from the universe around you. you will remain poor.i had left reading the book at this point. i did not know how i could tell myself i had a lot of money when i ACTUALLY didnt!
This little experience however gave me a whole new perspective to what that book said. you see it has often been said - that only people who think like millionaires become millionaires and remain so. if you want to be a millionaire you will have to take hi shoes and sit in them all the time. think like one. live the life of one. take risks like one.
perhaps you do not want to be a millionaire. and there is a difference between wanting and wishing here. if i may clarify. you might wish to be a millionaire. but do you WANT to be one? if you WANT something you are willing to go the extra mile for it. if you wish soemthing. you sit in a chair or lie in your bed .. fantasiize about it .. wake up next morning and do nothing about it the whole day until night comes again and you repeat your exercise.
so whatever you want to be. BE THAT NOW> and you will come closer to it.
Akio Morito - the co-founder of Sony said- if you want to play the king,you have to be a king at all times."
hope it now makes sense. :)
tc
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Men vs Women : Not much difference left
On a friend's suggestion, I started of writing about a very casual discussion of the reader-writer's favorite "Difference in a man's and a woman's attitude", but surfing d web for some useful extracts and annotations to strengthen my views, I came across a very raw and quite a hot topic of elaboration...The male female psychological differences..
Well I think the clique which appears here should be broken off soon, so here's d soother.. Studies and research say that men and women are same and gender biasing as a benchmark for difference in psychology between the two sexes, is just another hyper exaggerated myth like others in the ' Men vs Women' civilization..
According to it, men and women show similar traits when issues like leadership, aggressiveness and cognitive abilities are concerned...The further detailing of characters den , I guess are more a work of individual personalities den, so characterizing them into 'guys attitude' and 'girls nature' is of no accord..
The researchers( Dr. Janet Hyde and her team), further suggest that this nature generates gender differentiation and creates a feeling of assumed prejudice.
In her research, she found out that the difference visible in the behavior of a man and woman were more or less restricted to men being more physically aggressive than women, being more into a less committed relationship and having a higher sense of self-esteem when matters of family are concerned. Other than these men and women were found to react similarly and having almost the same perspective.
To a large extend, I comply to it..Now with the narrowing of the gap btw the two species, where they are increasingly accepting the role of each other in society and at homes, differences between them is for sure getting limited. Now a woman is expected to be as practical and logical in handling matters of her life as a man
used to be ,some decades ago..similarly a man is getting more and more involved in family care and hence emotionally more reliable. A woman is as good a leader as a man and so the dominance that circulated largely over d male shoulders, is soon fading away. Man and woman are gelling well their responsibilities and nature and making it more of a person to person variation, than the general 'man to woman' variation.
The theory is right now hard to digest.. If dis is accepted den what will happen to our great women defense..."tum sab ladke ek jaise hi hote ho" and the men one liner.."yeh ladkiyan bhi naa"...Not only this I guess half of d world's love issues would be settled.. half of the marriage counselors would be out of job and the great all time debate of 'men are from mars women from venus' will go deep down...It would be quite early to form any conclusion but ya dis really deserves some great piece of mind moulding even after being accepted, because that is the view with which populations have grown old.
Well I think the clique which appears here should be broken off soon, so here's d soother.. Studies and research say that men and women are same and gender biasing as a benchmark for difference in psychology between the two sexes, is just another hyper exaggerated myth like others in the ' Men vs Women' civilization..
According to it, men and women show similar traits when issues like leadership, aggressiveness and cognitive abilities are concerned...The further detailing of characters den , I guess are more a work of individual personalities den, so characterizing them into 'guys attitude' and 'girls nature' is of no accord..
The researchers( Dr. Janet Hyde and her team), further suggest that this nature generates gender differentiation and creates a feeling of assumed prejudice.
In her research, she found out that the difference visible in the behavior of a man and woman were more or less restricted to men being more physically aggressive than women, being more into a less committed relationship and having a higher sense of self-esteem when matters of family are concerned. Other than these men and women were found to react similarly and having almost the same perspective.
To a large extend, I comply to it..Now with the narrowing of the gap btw the two species, where they are increasingly accepting the role of each other in society and at homes, differences between them is for sure getting limited. Now a woman is expected to be as practical and logical in handling matters of her life as a man
used to be ,some decades ago..similarly a man is getting more and more involved in family care and hence emotionally more reliable. A woman is as good a leader as a man and so the dominance that circulated largely over d male shoulders, is soon fading away. Man and woman are gelling well their responsibilities and nature and making it more of a person to person variation, than the general 'man to woman' variation.
The theory is right now hard to digest.. If dis is accepted den what will happen to our great women defense..."tum sab ladke ek jaise hi hote ho" and the men one liner.."yeh ladkiyan bhi naa"...Not only this I guess half of d world's love issues would be settled.. half of the marriage counselors would be out of job and the great all time debate of 'men are from mars women from venus' will go deep down...It would be quite early to form any conclusion but ya dis really deserves some great piece of mind moulding even after being accepted, because that is the view with which populations have grown old.
The Legacy of Advani
Lal Krishna Advani, one of the most debated public figure in this country is surviving his last few months in active politics. After the 2009 General Election debacle and the recent turmoil in BJP it is imminent that Advani ji shall be retiring from active politics sooner than later. A question arises in the mind does this person deserve so much turbulence and criticism at the end of his political career. So I decided to look at some of the aspects for which Advani shall always be remembered.
Advani, a long time member of Jan Sangh laid the foundation of Bhartiya Janta Party along with his colleague and friend Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the early 1980’s. That was a time when only two members of this party Advani and Vajpayee used to be elected to the parliament. Gradually they attracted the masses and the famous Rath Yatra of Advani in 1989 made BJP a political force to reckon with. This Rath Yatra was the event which gave voice to the nationalists who were struggling to find some other political platform than the Congress. The mass appeal of Advani grew leaps and bounds and eventually took BJP to the pinnacle of power in the late 1990’s.
The biggest contribution by LK Advani to this country has been the formation of a dual political voice, an alternative to the monopolistic Congress party. No democracy can thrive without a strong and active opposition. Today in every city, every town of the country we have two separate voices arguing for the future of the country which is the basic rationale of democracy.
At the same time, Advani cannot be spared without criticism. His ambiguous political statements such as the Kandahar hijacking issue, the Jinnah statement drew a lot of criticism even from his own party members. His inability to stand honestly on issues such as the Gujarat riots and the Babri Masjid demolition case are also debatable.
Vajpayee and Advani were the two stalwarts of BJP and their comparison is inevitable. Advani termed as the ‘iron man’ lacked the charisma and the shrewdness of Vajpayee. Advani was an able manager of the leader Vajpayee but as it very often happens, a successful manager cannot always rise to become an able leader.
Though his persuasion to stay as the leader of opposition after the election defeat has tarnished Advani’s image, but as Sir Mark Tully puts in a NDTV talk show, we do hope that the history will remember Advani as the person who gave this country a strong national political party strengthening the Indian democracy and not his last few turbulent months in the active politics.
Advani, a long time member of Jan Sangh laid the foundation of Bhartiya Janta Party along with his colleague and friend Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the early 1980’s. That was a time when only two members of this party Advani and Vajpayee used to be elected to the parliament. Gradually they attracted the masses and the famous Rath Yatra of Advani in 1989 made BJP a political force to reckon with. This Rath Yatra was the event which gave voice to the nationalists who were struggling to find some other political platform than the Congress. The mass appeal of Advani grew leaps and bounds and eventually took BJP to the pinnacle of power in the late 1990’s.
The biggest contribution by LK Advani to this country has been the formation of a dual political voice, an alternative to the monopolistic Congress party. No democracy can thrive without a strong and active opposition. Today in every city, every town of the country we have two separate voices arguing for the future of the country which is the basic rationale of democracy.
At the same time, Advani cannot be spared without criticism. His ambiguous political statements such as the Kandahar hijacking issue, the Jinnah statement drew a lot of criticism even from his own party members. His inability to stand honestly on issues such as the Gujarat riots and the Babri Masjid demolition case are also debatable.
Vajpayee and Advani were the two stalwarts of BJP and their comparison is inevitable. Advani termed as the ‘iron man’ lacked the charisma and the shrewdness of Vajpayee. Advani was an able manager of the leader Vajpayee but as it very often happens, a successful manager cannot always rise to become an able leader.
Though his persuasion to stay as the leader of opposition after the election defeat has tarnished Advani’s image, but as Sir Mark Tully puts in a NDTV talk show, we do hope that the history will remember Advani as the person who gave this country a strong national political party strengthening the Indian democracy and not his last few turbulent months in the active politics.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Education Reforms
With the announcement of education reforms, Mr. Kapil Sibbal has tried to usher a new era in the education system of India just like the economic reforms by Mr. Manmohan Singh changed the economic perspective of the country. Though the education reforms comprise of many aspects such as primary school education, compulsory education, higher level education, examination reforms and proper regulatory bodies, Mr. Sibbal took the right step by proposing to bring changes in the school education which perhaps forms the crux of other problems as well.
The 10th board examinations conducted under the CBSE board shall be optional from the next year and the students shall be judged on a grading system. The question we all have been asking ourselves for so many years is that do the high school examinations serve any purpose apart from forcing children into mad race for marks, neglecting their health and creating a nervous atmosphere in the family. The answer doesn’t come in the affirmative. Yes, the exams do motivate and stir the students to work hard, but a 15 or 16 year old student can otherwise be instilled to study regularly with the imparting of good values and importance of education.
The other aspect which has its share of critics is the grading system which cannot differentiate between students acquiring 95% and 97% marks. This concern has been raised vociferously by parents, students and teachers. The fact however remains that the purpose of grading system is to remove this very inherent fallacy of our school education. Life is all about tough competition, but there is an age and time for it. Surely a 16 year old student should not be expected to imbibe the negative values of envy and unfair competition of stealing one or two marks by hook or crook. Another fact to ponder upon is, does the student who scores 97% marks always fares better in life than the student scoring little less. Well any rational person has the same answer, a big ‘NO’.
Now comes the very genuine concern of the implementation of this system. Due to lack of infrastructure, proper classes, laboratories, qualified teachers, this task seems difficult. But then should we adopt a wrong policy in principle just to cater to the implementation needs. Or should we adopt the right approach and then work upon the implementation details. The latter option seems to be more logical.
Another aspect on which I would like to shed some light is the mentality to resist change by people. Inspite of knowing the drawbacks of our education, the resistance to change shown by many parents is not very encouraging. Though their concern for children in a country with no social security and unprecedented competition is appreciable but unless we try to change this education system of ‘British Raj’ era how will the youngsters face the future challenges.
Before every class 10th and 12th examinations, we see many counselors and educationists advising students and parents to remain calm and not get nervous. But in a practical world these advices cannot be implemented unless we decide to alter our system to meet those ideal situations. We do hear a lot about corruption in our country, but it is not as if our countrymen have lower moral standards as compared to people of other countries, it the faulty and obsolete system which breeds this menace. To address all such fundamental problems it not the people whose characters can be changed but the system which over a period of time make the people adjust to it.
This is the first step towards education reforms and a welcome one. But to substantiate it and achieve the vision of a better education system further efforts are required in changing the examination patterns and higher education system of India.
The 10th board examinations conducted under the CBSE board shall be optional from the next year and the students shall be judged on a grading system. The question we all have been asking ourselves for so many years is that do the high school examinations serve any purpose apart from forcing children into mad race for marks, neglecting their health and creating a nervous atmosphere in the family. The answer doesn’t come in the affirmative. Yes, the exams do motivate and stir the students to work hard, but a 15 or 16 year old student can otherwise be instilled to study regularly with the imparting of good values and importance of education.
The other aspect which has its share of critics is the grading system which cannot differentiate between students acquiring 95% and 97% marks. This concern has been raised vociferously by parents, students and teachers. The fact however remains that the purpose of grading system is to remove this very inherent fallacy of our school education. Life is all about tough competition, but there is an age and time for it. Surely a 16 year old student should not be expected to imbibe the negative values of envy and unfair competition of stealing one or two marks by hook or crook. Another fact to ponder upon is, does the student who scores 97% marks always fares better in life than the student scoring little less. Well any rational person has the same answer, a big ‘NO’.
Now comes the very genuine concern of the implementation of this system. Due to lack of infrastructure, proper classes, laboratories, qualified teachers, this task seems difficult. But then should we adopt a wrong policy in principle just to cater to the implementation needs. Or should we adopt the right approach and then work upon the implementation details. The latter option seems to be more logical.
Another aspect on which I would like to shed some light is the mentality to resist change by people. Inspite of knowing the drawbacks of our education, the resistance to change shown by many parents is not very encouraging. Though their concern for children in a country with no social security and unprecedented competition is appreciable but unless we try to change this education system of ‘British Raj’ era how will the youngsters face the future challenges.
Before every class 10th and 12th examinations, we see many counselors and educationists advising students and parents to remain calm and not get nervous. But in a practical world these advices cannot be implemented unless we decide to alter our system to meet those ideal situations. We do hear a lot about corruption in our country, but it is not as if our countrymen have lower moral standards as compared to people of other countries, it the faulty and obsolete system which breeds this menace. To address all such fundamental problems it not the people whose characters can be changed but the system which over a period of time make the people adjust to it.
This is the first step towards education reforms and a welcome one. But to substantiate it and achieve the vision of a better education system further efforts are required in changing the examination patterns and higher education system of India.
Friday, August 28, 2009
The Oaths We Didnt Take
Today in the morning the editorial of The Times Of India threw on my head several bombardments of terms which not only I did not understand but which I could not even pretend to understand. The writer ( whom I found out was a very well known name in political philosophy) talked about the founders of our Country and how they wanted it to be a ‘nation state’.
Subsequently as I found out that this term is very different from what we are or even what they declared us as intending to become. I dug in more information about the terms inscribed in the Preamble to our constitution and came up with surprising information and conclusion.
“WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a _[SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC]..”
An oath which we certainly never took in our lifetimes and hence there is little wonder that we follow little or none of it in our lifestyles.
A friend once said to me about religions and I find it to be true even now when I write about my country – “The original intentions are often well forgotten in the multitude of years and people.”
Let me start from the beginning people.. Basically a nation state is a state which not only has a territorial integrity but also cultural integrity. In simpler words the people are bound by their culture or a philosophy along with their territorial boundaries. For eg –The Japanese- not only they are bound together as a country but their culture etc is unique to them and that also binds them as a people. A nation state does not have any major sized minorities. We as a nation are not really a nation state as we have many different cultures , languages etc. The founders (except for Mahatma Gandhi let me add because he did not identilfy with this concept) apparently thought that our national spirit would serve for that binding philosophy.
Anyways this theory led mo to dig deeper as why are e called a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic , Republic Nation.. and ARE WE IT?
We are a satisfactorily democratic and sovereign country . We have de-facto internal supremacy. And we are a representative democracy.
So in the same way we also are a satisfactory Republic- a country in which the head of the state is not a monarch. Although with our politics becoming a matter of son inheriting father’s throne we are still hung up in history somewhere. ( Actually we as a people are like that. Its not just the politics look at our film industry also. :P)
I chose those three terms first because those were the original terms for us.
The other two- socialist and secular were additions of Indira Gandhi in 1976. I do not know why she added them, but the way it seems to me – she wanted to belie the truth of our country. (She never defined the terms she added and moreover took to religious politics herself after loosing that 1978 elections.).In fact these terms are yet not clearly defined.
Socialism is actually an economic concept in contrast to capitalism, which it states spreads inequality by concentrating wealth in the hands of some people.It believes in equitable distribution of wealth. Notwithstanding the fact that there is a large gap between the rich and the poor in our country. More than that I believe that this concept has become highly obsolete as we are everyday turning our country into a more and more capitalist nation as there is where prosperity lies.
As far as secularism is concerned- telling ourselves that religion does not interfere in the matters of the state is a foolish lie. That we SHOULD be socialist is another thing but answer my question – where ARE we? The only reason that our country is not dominated by a single culture like Saudi Arabia is perhaps we have so many cultures if we were to adopt any one of them there will be too much blood shed and riots. Remember Gujrat riots? Our politics .. our entire psyche is ruled by our religion. Yes to a lesser extent in the kind that is writing this blog and that will be reading it. But even here we will find the non secularists.
Its high time we become aware of the oath we take implicitly by begin born in our country.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Competition laws
Competition laws or more famously known as the anti trust laws prohibit collusion between market participants for the purpose of protecting competitive markets and protecting consumer rights. These laws aim for the repression of cartels which restrict free trading, prevention of predatory pricing, restriction of practices such as refusal to deal with certain business entities and supervision of mergers and acquisitions to monitor for transparency. The rationale behind anti trust legislation is that though it curbs a monopoly house’s freedom, it also curbs sufficiently the monopoly house’s freedom to curb the consumer’s freedom.
In the early part of 20th century the large American corporations used trusts to conceal the nature of their businesses. Big trusts became synonymous with monopolies and were perceived to be a threat to democracy and free market mechanism. This initiated an aggressive anti trust campaign. After the World War 2 , this legislation was introduced in Europe and certain other countries like Japan. Whereas American law emphasizes strict competition, European laws emphasize competition with inter firm collaboration.
The anti trust laws are not without its critics. Under some schools of thoughts, many economists argue that it is unnecessary since competition is a long term dynamic process. Certain firms due to their efficient and innovative practices may acquire market dominance but when they decide to manipulate prices taking advantage of their monopoly position, it offers opportunity for other firms to compete, thus gradually leading to the erosion of the monopoly.
Shifting our focus to India, there used to be a Monopoly and Restrictive Trades Practices Act, 1969 (MRTP) to curb practices which violate the conditions for free market practices. But with the Indian economy in all kinds of restrictive shackles and government monopoly it was never regarded as a serious law. But after the economic reforms a new competition law was introduced in the year 2002, though it will still take some time to come into full practice.
Though the anti trust legislation is important for the functioning of free market mechanism, it is essential that that the focus of these laws should be on the protection of consumer welfare and competition rather than the competitors. It has often been observed that stringent anti trust practices lead to social and political aims that undermine economic efficiency.
In the early part of 20th century the large American corporations used trusts to conceal the nature of their businesses. Big trusts became synonymous with monopolies and were perceived to be a threat to democracy and free market mechanism. This initiated an aggressive anti trust campaign. After the World War 2 , this legislation was introduced in Europe and certain other countries like Japan. Whereas American law emphasizes strict competition, European laws emphasize competition with inter firm collaboration.
The anti trust laws are not without its critics. Under some schools of thoughts, many economists argue that it is unnecessary since competition is a long term dynamic process. Certain firms due to their efficient and innovative practices may acquire market dominance but when they decide to manipulate prices taking advantage of their monopoly position, it offers opportunity for other firms to compete, thus gradually leading to the erosion of the monopoly.
Shifting our focus to India, there used to be a Monopoly and Restrictive Trades Practices Act, 1969 (MRTP) to curb practices which violate the conditions for free market practices. But with the Indian economy in all kinds of restrictive shackles and government monopoly it was never regarded as a serious law. But after the economic reforms a new competition law was introduced in the year 2002, though it will still take some time to come into full practice.
Though the anti trust legislation is important for the functioning of free market mechanism, it is essential that that the focus of these laws should be on the protection of consumer welfare and competition rather than the competitors. It has often been observed that stringent anti trust practices lead to social and political aims that undermine economic efficiency.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Rain and drain...
Before the blog moves on with something more subtle and engrossing, digging deeper into The Partition or our own messed up life, I feel like going a bit to the lighter side. And before you feel after reading the title that it is but another description of our primary class' favorite essay topic, I want to tell you that it is not.
So, being in India and not feeling affected by rains is I guess a far fetched sense of 'I- give-a- damn!' attitude. And specially when you live in a not so high-tech, not so downtrodden place like ours ( I currently reside in lucknow ), your dilemma becomes all so acute. I dont know what to feel when I see some good gray clouds gathering around atop my house and locality. Will it be a cool respite or will it be (like almost always) another day when I will have to stay all closed and arrested inside my home...
And please dont form an impression that I am scared of getting drenched. I love rains and the romantic self satisfaction it brings along. All I hate is the after effect of it, and believe me I am really envy of those who dont have to go through the same ordeal.
Rain considers it its birth right to fill every small and big pit on the road and the streets and the tiny narrow ‘gully’ that it catches view of. I feel when it rains, the Rain God comes down riding over the dark clouds with a high resolution microscope ( don’t look with contempt, the heaven and gods have become very high tech, according to the movie- hanuman returns...those who have not watched it , please grab a copy and do it) and finely searches for each and every pothole and orders his transporter to shoot with all known precision . And I dont have to say much, The God almost always wins.
And then I am, so are rest of my locality neighbors, left hip hopping, crisscrossing and jumping to find a way to go around and be saved from stepping over to a God blessed creature( the mighty pit) and be subjected to a curse.
Well that is just a perception. My aim today was not to bring 'gods power in small things' to your notice but some very interesting theory came across today...
And that goes as.. The tiny and huge craters there on almost every road of my city (and most of others) are not bad things. They are playful little 'swimming pools', where the tired soul of the city and some mischievous children, can play around bungee jumping and other sorts of adventurous sports ( I guess that is the reason , lucknow is constantly becoming devoid of good swimming pools, they are available almost everywhere now only in a better shape).
That is not all. In some streets our dear respectable municipal corporations have built on nice bumpy 'speed breakers' (that is the name given to them). They are actually platforms from where if you have quite a good speed you can have a nice good launch and dive with greater force into the water, so that not only you , the other commuters nearby you can also enjoy it. When you come out of it, you will surely have some evidence all over you that you were engaged into some sports today, so that all those people who feel you are quite a lousy one can actually have some eye opener...
So next time you see these pits around anywhere, please do not despise them. They are but for your entertainment , so that the path of life does not become too straight and boring .
So, being in India and not feeling affected by rains is I guess a far fetched sense of 'I- give-a- damn!' attitude. And specially when you live in a not so high-tech, not so downtrodden place like ours ( I currently reside in lucknow ), your dilemma becomes all so acute. I dont know what to feel when I see some good gray clouds gathering around atop my house and locality. Will it be a cool respite or will it be (like almost always) another day when I will have to stay all closed and arrested inside my home...
And please dont form an impression that I am scared of getting drenched. I love rains and the romantic self satisfaction it brings along. All I hate is the after effect of it, and believe me I am really envy of those who dont have to go through the same ordeal.
Rain considers it its birth right to fill every small and big pit on the road and the streets and the tiny narrow ‘gully’ that it catches view of. I feel when it rains, the Rain God comes down riding over the dark clouds with a high resolution microscope ( don’t look with contempt, the heaven and gods have become very high tech, according to the movie- hanuman returns...those who have not watched it , please grab a copy and do it) and finely searches for each and every pothole and orders his transporter to shoot with all known precision . And I dont have to say much, The God almost always wins.
And then I am, so are rest of my locality neighbors, left hip hopping, crisscrossing and jumping to find a way to go around and be saved from stepping over to a God blessed creature( the mighty pit) and be subjected to a curse.
Well that is just a perception. My aim today was not to bring 'gods power in small things' to your notice but some very interesting theory came across today...
And that goes as.. The tiny and huge craters there on almost every road of my city (and most of others) are not bad things. They are playful little 'swimming pools', where the tired soul of the city and some mischievous children, can play around bungee jumping and other sorts of adventurous sports ( I guess that is the reason , lucknow is constantly becoming devoid of good swimming pools, they are available almost everywhere now only in a better shape).
That is not all. In some streets our dear respectable municipal corporations have built on nice bumpy 'speed breakers' (that is the name given to them). They are actually platforms from where if you have quite a good speed you can have a nice good launch and dive with greater force into the water, so that not only you , the other commuters nearby you can also enjoy it. When you come out of it, you will surely have some evidence all over you that you were engaged into some sports today, so that all those people who feel you are quite a lousy one can actually have some eye opener...
So next time you see these pits around anywhere, please do not despise them. They are but for your entertainment , so that the path of life does not become too straight and boring .
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