A Colorful page in life

ప్రాణంలోని ప్రాణమా, మౌనంలోని సరాగమా,
నా గుండె గుడి లో దీపం నువ్వు,గుండెసడి తాళం నువ్వు,
చిన్నపిల్లలా ముద్దులొలికే మాటలు నీవి ,విని తరించే భాగ్యం నాది.
వెన్నెల దారుల వేయి కాంతులు, నువ్వు నవ్వితే వెల వెలబోవా!!

నువ్వు తాకిన పూవనం, పులకించేను తోటంతా యవ్వనం,
ఆ పూలదారిలో మనం నడిచే క్షణం, జీవన మధురక్షణం,
నింగి నుంచి తారను తెంచనా? చందమామని చెక్కిలికి రాయనా?
ఆ చుక్కల్లో చిక్కి నవ్వుతావేమో, రాలిపోయేను పాపం నక్షత్రాలు!!

సాగాలి మనం నడకలో నడకై, జీవన తరంగమై,
జన్మంతా నాతో ఉంటావా? నీలో నేనున్నట్టు గా,
మనసులో నన్ను నింపుకుంటావా? నాలో నువ్వున్నట్టు గా,
జగమంతా మనమే ఉందాం జనమెవ్వరు లేనట్టుగా!!


-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్

Gujarat, Nature and Activists

Many of my left liberal, communist and socialist friends resort to the tools of ‘Greater Good’, ‘Equality with Dignity’, ‘Government’s Responsibility’, ’Marginalized’ etc… to counter my arguments over issues like religious reservations, economic policies, minority appeasement etc… and I am eventually compelled to release mild tantrums like “Going by logics of yours (lefties), people of this country can only survive either by begging or stealing”.

These days, the word ‘Environment’ gives orgasms to many activists and their views get endorsed from the usual suspects, especially when it’s related to Gujarat. If you are a keen observer over the strategy and methodology applied by the Anti-Modi or Anti-Gujarat group, you can easily trace the origins of the latest allegations by so called environmental activists against the Government of Gujarat in regard to the ‘Technology Solution for Environment Upgradation’ seminar organized by Gujarat Govt. Mr. A. K. Joti, Chief Secretary of Govt of Gujarat is accused of being anti-environment and pro-industry. Mr. A. K. Joti has made a comment on “Basel Convention” with respect to other players like China, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

I tried to deconstruct the strategy applied by these activists whenever Gujarat or Modi is the issue. The tricks used by these activists seem to be a neo-platonic approach, which usually yield good results.

Never Let Me Go - Tunes of Sorrow

Its perhaps a guilty pleasure to admire tragedy because of the emotions it can spur in the viewers mind and with all the skepticism towards life and its meaning, ‘Tragedy’ may be the intangible essence of life. Life, as understood (or misunderstood) by us could bring its sorrow assorted with its ecstasy to play cruel jokes accompanied with hope. Thus, tragedy is a long spectrum of emotions which ruthlessly demands a lot of comprehension unless one experiences it.

Never Let Me Go (2010) is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s book by the same name, it’s a dystopian film. Kazuo Ishiguro [1] has mastered the art of tragedy, the films fluidity is a testimony to it and the grief of its characters is the relentless questioning on the meaning of life. Almost every frame of the film has its share of melancholy, and the characters constantly ‘Break the 4th Wall’ and shoot uncomfortable questions. One might be under the assumption that a dystopian film would trim the burden of reality and it would be much easier to digest the feelings, but on the contrary – it’s the dystopian set which makes the film more tragic and engaging. What is it like to know you are a sacrificial goat?

Dangling Pointers - Ideologies of so called Modern Indians

I am a Computer Science & Engineering Graduate and the title of this post should be comprehensible for people who come from the same academic background and for those who don’t - below is the minimal definition from Wikipedia.

Dangling Pointers: Dangling pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations.

The presumption that an individual can be devoid of an ideology by being an active participant in social and political issues is not agreeable to me, for me it’s more of an hypocrisy and style statement and less to do with the social and political neutrality which an individual tries to project himself to keep immune from any disturbances. In this internet age, where one has the extreme freedom to express his views with anonymity and where one has the power to question and expose the lies of others, it’s imperative that the individual has an ideology. But, these-days I find a peculiar set of people who claim that they do not belong or associate themselves to any particular ideology but their views are based on greater good of the society and some clichéd stuff.

Sagaika Ghose, author of the book ‘Gin Drinkers’ states that her political ideology is ‘Liberal Democracy’ “Theoretically”. Barkha Dutt editor of NDTV enlightens us of what is bad by tweeting “Many of those tweeting in the name of the 'Right' online are the worst Ambassadors for their ideology. Mostly spewing poisonous garbage.”, We have B.Raman, who equates the restless right wing online people as ‘Nazi storm troopers’, the one and only Ramachandra Guha who is an expert in history, cricket, politics etc… and I suspect that his computer password is the pet name of the ‘The Greatest Indian after Gandhi’, the editor in chief of ‘The Hindu’ who has the unique power to read hundreds and thousands of pages of court judgments with in a matter of hours and write an editorial on it. All the mentioned esteemed people can easily be associated with one or the other ideology. The new group (I must admit that I found these creed recently, they may have come into existence even before my discovery) which deny any association to any particular ideology but project themselves as active citizens who have genuine concern towards society and politics amaze me and I call them as ‘Dangling Pointers’ and thus the title of the post. May be its premature for me to classify them, but taking of risk of going wrong, I would give a general classification based on my observations.

Why i write and what makes me write

I am a lazy guy, not even 2 out of 10 posts which i want to write make into my blog, but i do get some energy and responsibility to blog once in a while and the credit goes to Arun Shourie.

Just because "The Only Fatherland" of these theoreticians has collapsed, just because that collapse has taken the theory down with it does not mean that they have been rendered harmless. Their claims are hollowed, they have nothing to say, but they still control large parts of our academia and a very large part of media, certainly the media in English. Therefore, at every opportunity they must be confronted with what has become known about the regimes they had held up to us as exemplars. They must be confronted with and requested to explain what they were writing till just six years ago. The lie they repeat should not be shrugged off just because it is the same old lie: it must be nailed with evidence - each time, and as many times as it is repeated. As must every half-truth by which they seek to once again inveigle us into looking away.
~ Eminent Historians