Things are not what they seem

A steep incline will look easy when seen from a distance... while a gradual one will look difficult. So if a task seems too difficult, its probably easy enough if you take one step at a time while a difficult one has to be done the hard way.... by not taking it for granted and with dedication.

A job that has to be done ... has to be done.

Bangalore a wannabe Mumbai

Bangalore ... the garden city.... once meant to be a home for retirees.... a summer abode for the british... a sort of a hill station... a young city. Life was meant to be laid back... tension free .... ordinary!!! But then one day something happened which the city was not prepared for... it began to grow younger .... in its population. Youngsters began to come to the city for a life. The traffic began to swell... the public transport began to burst at the seams. The infrastructure work began to lag behind ... it had to get used to a new pace ... an alien pace... a pace that wasnt meant for the old bangalore. Retirees began to groan... this place is turning into hell.

The truth is that the Tamas.... the Still Inertia left behind by the old world will take some force to change. People here must stop wearing masks. Stop pretending that they have achieved something by just having some moolah in the bank and a comfortable home to retire to. What are they doing for the city? A city is a place according to me where the crowd is vibrant, full of ideas... wanting to improve their lives by a conciuos effort. An effort to improve the quality of life that has to be made by the majority, not by an isolated few.

Mumbai didnt need to go through this phase because it was always destined for great things. The people there are and were always proggressive in their thoughts. Bombay city is a pioneer in many ways... cause mumbaikars are leaders. The have a natural born instinct to lead to create and to morph with the times. Chance only favours the prepared mind not the lethargic or soporific one. Just being a good follower does not help ... you can only manage to serve someone else by doin that. To improve oneself, one has to be a forward thinker... a real go-getter. Things are changing for the better infrastructure-wise in Bangalore, but the mindset still needs to change.

There is no great history behind bangalore... it is a history waiting to be made.

Wake up people!!!!! or we will only remain wannabes loafing on MG road dreaming of Marine Drive!

Government

Are not all governments robbers? Some do the robbing with legislation, some without.

Paisa

Money, Get Away.......
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
Im all right jack keep your hands off of my stack.
-Pink Floyd

There are manys names for the same commodity.... dollars, pounds, dirhams, euros. But the most original and the ancient of the lot has got to be paisa. The unique thing about our country is that the name for the curreny means money in the local language. Money in english dose not mean dollars; But paisa in hindi sure means money.

The reason for this maybe in the straight-forwardness of the people of India. There is no ambiguity when one says paisa. It means without mistake Money. The honesty even reflects in our languages. What you pronounce is what you write, unlike western languages.

Come to think of it, the crux of the matter might lie in Niyat. No english word immediately comes to mind to describe what we mean by Niyat. Maybe that is because the west does not give much importance to it. Niyat is not only honesty, it is a way of life. To be clean in the mind, without any ultetior motives. To do the right thing no matter what the opposition to your task is. Niyat is the force by which most successful
people get the power to achieve. Guess these things are not that important to the west.

Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say is the root of all evil today.
Paisa... paisa...paisa

East V/S West

In the words of the great Aurobindo...

The East is more ancient by many thousands of years than the West, but a greater length of years does not necessarily imply a more advanced age.... Asia is long-lived, Europe brief, ephemeral. Asia is in everything hugely mapped, immense and grandiose in its motions, and its life-periods are measured accordingly. Europe lives by centuries, Asia by millenniums. Europe is parcelled out in nations, Asia in civilisations. The whole of Europe forms only one civilisation with a common, derived and largely second-hand culture; Asia supports three civilisations, each of them original and of the soil. Everything in Europe is small, rapid and short-lived;
she has not the secret of immortality.

July 3, 1907