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It has been a few days since I have posted on my blog. Well, thanks to MBA, never got enough time to write something new. (You might not work, but it is fashionable to say "ufff, I have truck load of work")

neways, for the last few days, I knew what I wanted to write on the blog but due to the time constraints, could not.....

A few days back, during my retail mgmt class, the class discussion drifted towards a very unlikely topic - Indian Mythology & Science. How much are they related? Generally, as soon as we say Indian mythology, people create a picture of following mindless rituals and rites without any logic or scientific proof.

I will say that they are not scientifically proven because of the lack of research & surely cann't agree to the fact that these are not logical. Think about them, study about them and they start to make a lot of sense, logically. Don't believe me???? Let me give a few examples

1. The first written proof of knowing speed of light was not given by Galileo in 17th century but you can find it in our own "Rigveda"
2. If you have studied holy "Shiv Puran" and know about the Big Bang theory about the creation of Universe, then you will realize that both of them are pointing finger in the same direction.

& this is not the end. There are many things in Hindu myths for which a logic can be provided. All you need to do is LOOK AROUND. There are many books (& books well researched ,and by well known authors and a few by some scientists as well) which talk about the same thing.

Once a friend of mine asked me"If there is so much knowledge in these books/myths, then why don't WE understand it or why is it written in such a cryptic form? & If our ancestors were so knowledgable, why did we loose there knowledge?"

The reply to the first question from my point of view was that

• They must have written it in the form they knew the best. We understood it originally, but with the passage of time, we no longer understand it. Because instead of practising them (as was told in these texts) we started to preach them.

But I didnot have any answer to the second question, till a few days ago. During the same class, I mentioned above, my teacher said "To start something new, the old has to come to an end"

Is it possible, that to start a new civilization (of which we are a part) the old civilization disappeared and their knowledge was lost?

Definite answers??? NO......

Logic ????? May be.....

Faith???? Possibly.....

Science??? Will love to prove that.......

Adieu

Ankush Singla

(De)Part of Life????

Yet another bomb blast in Delhi, capital of India.

5th city to suffer from serial blasts in last month or a half......

Reminds me of a dialogue on one of the recently released hindi movie. The gist of the dialogue is that it seems for our coming generations, bomb blasts will be a way of life. When I heard this dialogue, I didn't think much about it. But today when I think about it, it sends a chill down my spine.

Living in a 'normal democracy', where the bomb blasts are as regular as a country under a civil war, today for the first time I feel afraid to live in this country.

Till now, I always thought this is something which will pass. I was just beginning to understand this world when terrorism was its peak in my homestate Punjab. What I actually saw was the decline of terrorism. For me, It was like the break of a vicious circle. I thought, we have been able to curb it in one state so following it should not be an issue in other states.

But, how wrong I was. In those time states affected were, J & K, Assam & Punjab. Look at it today. Every other state has a security problem of its own. If there are foreign terrorists in J&K, then there are Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh. 

If there is any state, which is not affected by such 'terrorists', then its own people are disturbing the peace of their state/city. 

What are we coming to? Is there a solution to it? 

I know a lot of people will say why do you only speak? why dont you do anything?

Well, this is where the ethical dilemma lies.

From the past personal experience, I have realized that the politics of this country is too dirty and too dangerous to be part of. One my close relatives, who is an active politician had a near death experience when he was attacked by goons of a member of the party he was opposing.

& as I don't want to be the part of the system, I have no moral right to condemn it.

However, I have a very simple question to ask.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION?

& this time it is not incoherent babbling of a disturbed mind......

(de)spirited????

Watched movie "Black Friday" today, A movie based on the very famous serial blasts in Mumbai. To be precise, 1993 blasts of Mumbai, 'cause in the last few years the town has been a target of so many blasts that a few more may make the citizens of this city insensitive to the agony of the blasts(if they haven't become insensitive to them already)

This same point brings to me the famous "Undying spirit of Mumbai".

This spirit is saluted each and everytime there is any threat on the city, may it be bomb blasts, floods, electricity failure or anything. Each time the way the Mumbaikers get up the very next day and get back to work has been hailed by many as the ultimate salute to the undying spirit of humanity.

It really is different from other cities. After 9/11, New York was not normal for many days. London shook for many days even after the blasts. But Mumbai, UP & READY THE VERY NEXT DAY.

But, being an outsider, having never lived in Mumbai, to me this spirit does not seem to be a salute to the humanity. (I might not be the right person to comment on this topic, but you can say that I am misutilising my right of speech)

So is this really the undying spirit of Mumbai or is it something else.....

Is it the resignation to the fact that to survive in this city you have to behave normally or otherwise you will not survive?

or is it the resignation to the fate itself by the mumbaikers?

To me it seems a combination of both. The way the Govt's after Govt's have failed in providing basic necessities to the city, it is but natural that the citizens will resign themselves to the fate that whatever is being provided is all they can get.(It is not that other govt's of other states have performed any better) & to improve your living conditions all YOU can do is work day in and day out.

So, you cann't avoid getting up everyday and being a part of the rat race again irrespective of the environment around you.

So I come back to the original question. "Is it the undying spirit of Mumbai?"

May be or may not be. I guess citizens of Mumbai are in the best position to answer this question 'cause they are the ones who understand this city better than anyone else. However I can just continue my incoherent babbling......

Sayonara.....

Ankush Singla