Search for Realism

“Who is to say where reality lies,
And if reality lies; what’s the truth”

The search for Realism is a never ending quest
As it arises from my bewildered mind, that
Doubts and re-doubts the existence around me.

A lot of Idealism surrounds me
And I hear to perform Optimism
That takes me away from Emotionalism
As I fear being tagged as Pessimism

Or there is a lot of Pessimism
That keeps me away from Optimism
As I might be said doing the things
Those are far far away from Philosophism

Or it is Naturalism not to observe Romanticism
Live in the classic world following Commonism
And in the name of Pragmatism
Keep on oscillating between -
Idealism and Optimism

Where people are full of ideologies, and asking me to be practical
“How do I search for Realism?”

Humanity the biggest religion

Mumbai terror attack – four days of horror and loss.

What the heck is this? I really don’t understand why people have forgotten that they are humans. They want to do all wrong things in the name of religion without even thinking that the people they are killing might belong to the same religion. Let me say that the answer to this; according to them; will be that it’s called sacrifice. Now what is this sacrifice?? I will write some other day about it. But why people really use the name of religion to kill humanism. I was just thinking how religion is different from humanism and I cud think about a few points -


Religionism is Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Muslimism, Christianism etc.
Humanism is People.

Religionism is rejecting.
Humanism is accepting.

Religionism blindfolds the truth that you are first a human.
Humanism unveils the truth that no religion is above humanity.

Religionism needs somebody to show you the correct path. The path is correct only according to that “somebody”. And you really don’t question whether it’s correct or not
Humanism – you actually know what’s correct. It leads to wisdom.

Religionism leads to separation and slaughter.
Humanism leads to love and unity.

If everybody realizes that there is nothing more than humanity and a human’s life; such terror will definitely come to an end.

Existence

I sometimes doubt my own EXISTENCE

And wonder in loneliness -

Do I exist at the cost of LIFE?

Or do YOU exist at the cost of ME?

Or DO I EVEN EXIST?

Some Important Learnings

It’s rightly said that life is the best teacher. It teaches you many things. I wanna jot down a few points that I think have been most imp learning for me and which I ll never want to forget. I will keep updating the list as and when I learn something imp.

(1) Distances may not make your hearts apart, but you definitely lose touch with your friends. It becomes really difficult to keep in touch thru phones when you are in different cities, especially countries. You might not intentionally wanna lose touch; but it happens. And it’s obvious.
So, next time when your friend; who has not been in touch for months together or may be years together; calls you up or emails you, do not blame them for losing touch. Rather, thank them for remembering you.

(2) Emotions like –
Solitude and Love
Shun and Care
Misery and Happiness
Tears and Joy
Loss and Gain
Anger and Serenity
Insecurity and Passion
Envy and Possession
Despair and Hope
Obligation and Freedom
go hand in hand. One emotion is in-complete without the other and without the first ones; you will never understand the importance of second ones.

(3) GOD always wants you to meet a few wrong people in your life, so that you can cherish the ones you have and can understand the importance of right people. Hence, if somebody hurts you or cheats you; be assured that the person was not the right person and remeber the lesson that you learned from them.
It might also happen that you are in a relationship and it did not turn out to be the way you wanted. Understand that it was never meant to be that way. And you are yet to meet the right MAN/WOMAN of your life.

(4) There is not a single person in this world that doesn’t have any problem. It’s up to you how you behave in the conditions of distraught. You cannot avoid your problems. The sooner you accept them the quicker you will be out of them. All days pass by. Hence, you have to have the faith that the days of problems will also pass by soon.

પારેવાને નાનપણથીજ એક સપનું
કે એને મોટા થઈ ઉળવું ઘણું

પણ એને શું હતી ખબર
કે એના સપના થઈ જસે ચૂર

પારેવાનો એક પંખ રહી ગયો માળા માં
અને બીજો કપાઈ ગયો જીવનના ભાર માં

જિંદગી ની તરસ એટલી, પણ કયાંથી થાય એ તૃ્પ્ત
જયાં નદીએ પાણી પીવા જતા, એમાજ ડૂબી જાય

Khuda Ke Liye (In the name of GOD)

Khuda ke liye (In the name of GOD) is the first Pakistani movie to be released in India. The director has very clearly and in a very simplified way presented the major, complex and debatable issues like religious extremism, racial discrimination, the condition of girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan (that was during the Taliban days and I wish that has improved by now), the acceptance of art in Islam and the problems faced by moderate Muslims.

The movie revolves around three characters Mansoor, Sarmad and Mary/Marium. Mansoor and Sarmad are brothers and are the best musicians in Lahore. They belong to an educated and well-to-do family with mixed liberal and traditional values. Mary is a Muslim girl born and brought up in UK.

Sarmad is much brain-washed by a Muslim Maulana and he turns into an extremist (Jehadi). He quits music, starts following Muslim dress-code and is compelled to do all the wrong things in the name of religion/Allah.

Mansoor joins a Music School in America. There he meets an American girl Jeanie and falls in love with her. They are happily married but things change drastically after 9/11. He is captured by American agencies just for being a Muslim and belonging to Pakistan.

Mary is in love with Dave; an English. Her hypocritical father deceitfully brings her to Pakistan. She is forced to marry a Muslim and is imprisoned in Afghanistan. (Mary is cousin to Mansoor and Sarmad).

The best part of the movie is the 10 minutes court-room scene in which Naseeruddin Shah makes a special appearance. He has the best dialogues in the movie and he delivers them superbly. The second best part is the end.

The plight of Mary is heart-touching and reflects the double-standards of patriarchal society in Pakistan. The character of Sarmad very aptly depicts the dilemma of the Muslim youths. But Mansoor’s story is the heart-breaking one. It highlights the very less know problems that Muslims have to face all over the world just for being Muslims.

All in all a very beautiful movie. The movie is a BIG NO for the people who want to watch it just for fun and entertainment. It is for the thinking audience. The movie throughout will raise many questions in your mind.

You might want to stop watching it halfway as it is depressing. But watch it till end and I bet you will love it.

Rating – 4.5/5

Law of land

read it from here

The police carried out a raid and closed a factory.
The children, who were working there, were all set free.
Some said: "We are orphans. To eat we need a livelihood."
The reply was swift and crude: "It is against the law".

"Then we will have to beg", they said,
"or else we will have no food."
"That, too, is against the law,"
the policeman in charge said rudely.

"If we cannot work and cannot beg, then we will die from hunger,’’
replied the crying children. "That you can do,"
was the answer.
"There is nothing illegal in dying".

We

If aught I know
I know naught but you
I am in search of U
With a waiflike dream I dream for Us
The dream of finding WE

From my collection..

Expectaions :)

"Love me the most when I deserve it the least,
coz that is when I need it the most......"

YOU

I see no beginning or middle or end to you;
only boundless strength in your endless arms;
The moon and sun in your eyes.
Your own brilliance scorching the Universe.

--read it somewhere... don't know where.. but had
noted it down in a notepad on 24th Oct 2007...
gave it a title "you" coz the word "you" is
there in all the four lines...:):):)

** Proud Indian **

WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

--Rabindranath Tagore

A Little Poem

"Slowly, silently,
With every word of my pen....
You wud be entering,
in the world of dreams,
Created by my heart...

"I was in 7th standard when I first started writing diaries.
My english teacher gave us an idea of it. And she told us
to start it with a small poem of 2-4 lines and I wrote
the above one...When I showed it to her, she was not
much impressed but she told "Good Effort"....
It's the first poem tat I ve written....

A Little Prayer

O Lord,

Please teach me how to live beautifully in the times of adversity.
When things are going wrong, please teach me how to hold
happiness and strength.

Please teach me how to stay calm when situation arouses anger.

Please teach me how to work hard and dedicatedly when task in
hand seems very very difficult.

Please teach me how to be positive even in the midst of criticisms.

When I am surrounded by difficulties, I start losing faith and
when there is only sadness in my mind;
please teach me how to wait for your blessings with patience,
faith and calmness.