Sun, shine!

So Delhi University resumed school today. 21st of July. One "epic" day it was supposed to be - it was all over the radio stations, people were excited about it, girls were over-dressing for it, god only knows how many Facebook status messages were made about however many people were psyched to return to college.


 First off, really, guys? You could find nothing better to do in the last one and a half months - NOTHING better than attending classes and chilling at the canteen, trying to scrutinize what the girls around you are wearing or saying so funnily that it makes you wanna call them witches and the word that rhymes very much with it?
Secondly, freshers, darlings, what on EARTH are you thinking wearing that shiny, almost metallic dress with stockings to college , accessorized rather unpleasantly with that Beaver or Bergere hat. OR whatever it is that you may call that UFO that junior of mine had unleashed on her head.

But talking about my day. Must admit, it was quite pleasant, very unlike the weather and that sense of impending doom within me. I have scared thoughts about my results that might be coming out any time now.

The day started with a long ride in the metro, which I quite like. AS long as I am with myself and by myself. I usually dislike company on the Metro. I like my quite, alone, contemplative  time so I can sort out the things and thoughts in my head. I did reach college late.

Maybe it was just me who was judging these parents who just can NOT let their little helpless girls come back from college by themselves. It was pretty ridiculous that they made time to be and WAIT at the college gates to receive their daughters, so they are safe and away from all danger.

I think this is something the human race in its entirety needs to improve on. Get rid of their fears. I do realise how much easier it is to say the same through this medium, but it is so essential that I can not stress on it enough.

I met some old friends and I always like the days when I do. I like also the fact that they remember me and are willing to spend some happy time with me.

 Before leaving college, however, I came up with a few ideas about what I probably could feel for the Anna Hazare movement. This was because of the debating society auditions of course.

Well, I am supposed to speak for the motion for the topic that I feel that the Anna Hazare Movement is a regret for us. And for someone who is beginning to loose interest in him, I think it's quite an ideal topic.
What I feel about the Anna Hazare Movement is that it is unconstitutional in its very foundation. He may find you in the Administrative services but he wont. He would have loved to find you in the army but he wont. However, throw in religious fanaticism and much politicization of various structural issues, and we get the Anna Hazare movement.

They do not form a body that is legally or constitutionally permitted and their protests are a very obvious and a huge threat to the government in power and even though I agree to the fact that competition and criticism is essential to the well being of a democracy.  However, we must realize that unrests such as these destabilize the government in power and divert there attention to less important but seemingly more significant matters. The country, therefore, at a larger scale, does not benefit from exercises sch as these.

Finally, I must say that adding a religious shade to this canvas of campaign against corruption is something none of us would expect a good 'Civil' servant would do. And Anna Hazare has certainly and very evidently pulled that trope into the whole game, thus rendering it highly competitive, obvious and politically rather 'mucky' if I may say so.

In addition to that, we must realize that Corruption is an evil we all detest strongly, however, it is not a practice that people can simply be made to 'quit'. It is a deep set of values, en grained in our minds, a way of working that a system gets adjusted to and needs to be phased out with intelligence and persevering attempts rather than frenzied protests.

And with this I shall draw this post to and end. However, plethora of ideas in my head.

Up for revelation tomorrow: My theory about how we can change. Each and every one of us. Think about it before you read my post tomorrow. :)

Smells like an EVIL spirit?

The humans aren't too different from bloodhounds.
We are naturally capable of smelling our prey, innately programmed to spot our potential competition and sufficiently equipped to eliminate all possible dangers that surround us.
Let's face it, we are not too different from other living beings that have lived, struggled, relished and finally died on this planet.
However, what nature has bestowed on us, we often forget. In the process of evolution, we all have been given the ability to know what can harm us. Now what is harmful may be different for different people. But that is the beauty of this intrinsic quality; this 'Inner Radar', if you will. It is the reflection of our deepest values and beliefs.
And what I find to be the best part about this ability (and which may be the worst for many others) is that no amount of brainwashing can change it.
We can sense danger and then choose one of the two options available to us -either to face it.

At war and under progress

A state of war, is perpetual. War can perhaps be ultimately traced to the natural human tendency to compete and thereafter, a strong urge to win - eliminate the other to gain control, to emerge victorious to be able to win accolades and more , to become what the society has come to regard as the Hero. Power to those who fight for it. Power to those who kill for it.

Competition is engrained in our every atom of existence, taught to us at every crossroads where the sense of self goes astray and so we've come to view it as one of our many 'natural' instincts. We have come to accept it as a way of life. You ask people what they live for and they don't hesitate in accepting that their life's biggest achievements probably revolve around achieving more than most they know.


 War, however, can be seen to have no advantages to the majority of the population that inhabit countries across the globe. There is loss of life, there is wastage or resources, the repercussions are hazardous and in spite of all this, the result is never definite.

However, in all its ugliness, ruthlessness, apparent irrationalness war is a healthy essential for development and progress. Most importantly and sufficiently paradoxically, war in a lot of ways is a means to progress and development. because what war essentially does is contest the existing power. It challenges the norm, it destabilises the prevalent dynamics of power. The lives taken, the resources exploited, the money eshausted - these are all instruments that we, as a race, must employ for the benefit of the larger populus, in order to safeguard the .
War is bad for what it does to its soldiers, but it would be outright hypocrisy to not attribute the safety with which we sleep at night to the the entire exercise of war. The positivity of war is certainly difficult to foregrounded as war is occurring, because the  loss of human lives, the destruction to the settlements are difficult to ignore and the sudden advocacy of a notion supporting such a deed seems disgustingly utilitarian and the immediate human response would be to refute this school of thought as a whole.

However, if One reallly puts their mind to it, it is easy to see that this is wha the Human Race has been soing over the years. WE condemn war, because of all its grotesque consequences on face value , but have we been able to eliminate it? Have we has any alternate solution? Why does Peace remain an idyllic term? Why is it that NOT ONE person , all through the ages, through the modern times , not a single person of extraordinary intellectual strength, extreme political awareness, absolute social awareness has been able to provide a feasible solution to this armed, organised fighting?

Because we need to fight to figure out who wins. Our means may be flawed, but this is our best bet.
War answers a lot of questions. ANd most importantly, war is the manifestation of the friction that exists between us humans. The friction whose existence we can not deny. The friction leads to creation - creation of new ideas , new ideals and the parallel retardation of old ones.