THE TRIUMPH OF A LOST SOUL December 26, 2008
Posted by arun in Philosophy, happenings, life, personal, thoughts.4 comments
Slept thro’ the days and wept thro’ the nights,
Sought wisdom from a few undefeated knights,
Leaped thro’ many dreams, did you hear the screams?
Wasn’t aware I’d get caught in one
Turned out to be the worst nightmare!
If you’d ask now, I couldn’t care,
But it was insane; allow me to explain.
So consumed by cherubic innocence and beauty,
Lost my profundity,
With the world suddenly becoming two dimensional,
Failed to realize that suffering was optional,
Her feelings were never real but virtual,
Spite of the grotesque gorgeousness,
Blinded with the thought of grasping divine,
I decided to trade a valuable station,
Immaturity for sublime!
Only to bring me down,
I caved and dug my own grave.
Sanctity of my life got trivialized,
Think of it, I realized,
I lived with no color but gray of all shades,
Only to haunt me till my memory fades.
In the cobbled streets of my mind braided with topiaries,
I tried to savor those paltry moments,
Compassion with superfluous narcissism,
With the slightest of compunction,
but a subtle conciliatory tone of guilt,
Fear, tears and self-loathing on an infinite loop
Where the message never got through,
The melodrama seemed so magical
aha, how illogical?
A confused xeric soul in distress,
I can only wish and bless.
I wasn’t sure before,
But now I know; I will never obtain closure.
I snapped out of the dream, within a dream?
A blaze of light with a conjuring voice embraced me,
“I came to save you, your disheartened soul”, she said as I smelt her gleaming aura,
“Will you stay to heal me?” I asked,
What do you think? She replied.
A) BBC HORIZON DOCUMENTARY & B) INDIA: BIRD FLU January 17, 2008
Posted by arun in TV shows, happenings, thoughts.Tags: BBC Horizon, bird flu, brutal killing, catastrophe, chickens, documentary, epidemic, killing, perfect method, prevention, respect, techniques
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Aired January 15th, the documentary from BBC Horizon, “How to kill a human being?” narrated by Michael Portillo. The narration was ingenuous, sincere, legitimate and simple in its purview. With the amount of scientific innovations coming up every year, it definitely surprises one to find these vicious techniques still practiced as methods of execution. It would be unjust of me to write any further, as it would turn out to be a spoiler for the interested people and would also be demoralizing the efforts of the Horizon team. All I can say is, the documentary pellucidly portrays the amount of humaneness if any in the existing techniques in the process of killing a human being subjected to death punishment by trial and tries to find if there is a better way to perform it. A very good and a must see documentary!
Coming to the second topic in my title, the Bird Flu incident in India. Now, the iGoogle page certainly helps in keeping up to date with the current events with the aid of uber-cool gadgets. However, the more I see the more it makes me dull. I am already morose after being infected with dry cough for the past 2 days, a gift fulfilled on account of my excessive ranting over the fact that I pay for medical insurance and have not visited the doctor even once (for more than a year). The number of unpleasant incidents only grow in profuse, saturating your brain. I swigged my lukewarm tea as I clicked here and read about the Bird flu incident. Without digressing any further, quoting,
“Our objective is to cull up to 400,000 chickens and contain the virus from spreading at any cost.”
More than 300 veterinary workers and volunteers killed the birds by breaking their necks and in some cases stuffing them in gunny sacks and burying them alive. Eggs were also destroyed.
I totally understand the pandemic this has and will cause and its deleterious effects. However, is it really necessary to kill passel of those birds in this heinous manner? Anyone among us can avow this is definitely not the humane way to deal with. Catastrophes always catches us off-guard and these are sporadic events and will occur incessantly if not now, at a later point of time, if not this, some other incident, until every measure is taken to curb it completely. It is certainly an arduous task. If one were to blame time as an issue for retorting in this unfathomable manner, killing those birds brutally, it only exhibits the faltering safety measures. My purpose of adding the information regarding this documentary is to connote the adequate and inexpensive methodologies available and is even practiced for killing farm animals in a painless manner. How difficult would it be to be prepared by anticipating such disasters? Is it always necessary for some animal rights (in this case) or human rights commision (in some other cases) to goad the authorities concerned? Why follow these obstinate advocacies? Is this so imperceptible? I have no clue.
We genuflect in front of cows claiming it as a form of God. We have almost every animal and bird associated with a God. The least we can do is restrict our lethargic attitude and impudent behavior and if we have to kill them, then do it by inflicting minimum amount of pain. Scathing them and burying them alive is immoral!
THE BEST 2007 OFFERED… January 7, 2008
Posted by arun in happenings, life, personal, thoughts.Tags: adorable, baby, beautiful, completeness, cute, family, happiness, health, loneliness, love, princess, wishes
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I came for my masters to Germany in Sep’06. Within 2-3 months, the weather became gelid and started to snow, as it is now. It is extremeness for people from Southern India, Chennai especially. Also, snow is a silent depressor. It puts you in a state of depression even without you realizing it. Fortunate for me, I find comfort in solitary and gregarious phases. However, I have been deprived of a plethora of events and experiences one could enjoy back at home. The glorious nostalgia owing to the lacunae of this period can be countervailed by only cherishing those memories. I prefer to defer writing on those other ebullient moments I miss, dedicating this blog solely to the ONE & ONLY BEST thing that 2007 had to offer me; a new member to our family – my sister’s baby – Samyuktha!!
It was November 18th, one fine Sunday morning, when I got the call from my father (conversation translated to English).
Dad: Hey Arun, How are you?
Me: Hi pa, I am fine! How are things there? How is akka (sister)?
Dad: I called you in that regard only. Your sister has given birth to a baby girl today!!!
Me: Really??? Awesome, Wondrous, great!!! I won the bet with akka. It is a girl.
Dad: Yes, yes, you did (laughing rhapsodically). The delivery went fine. She is resting now.
Me: That is good. Have athimber (Sister’s husband) and akka come up with a name?
Dad: I don’t know about it yet.
Me: This is great news. And I am stuck here.
Dad: Yes, we know! Your mom was also saying the same. We miss your presence. However, I have to get back to take care of some chores here. I will call you again in the evening. Mom will also be available.
Me: Ok pa, sure. Convey my heartiest regards to Athimber and Akka. I will mail both of them. This is great news!! bye.
(We spoke in the evening). I was filled with a feeling of ineffable ecstasy, a state of euphoria, a sense of gratification, exuberance and excessive joy; though I feel I express them nonchalantly for no apparent reasons. While delivering emotions to one’s expectations in especially demanding situations has been always a challenging task to me, it should be fairly conspicuous that I am certainly not emotionally detached. I had to mention this because, I have encountered a lot of people who misunderstood me to be aloof or an introvert before they became close to me. And I really take my time before I express myself and confide in one completely.
Within a couple days, I was linked to snapfish. Though it is a step short of reality, I smiled with joy as I looked at the photos; she was very cute, and small. Because I am 6′3” and people always have this amusing look when I lift a baby, the thought of me lifting her and others grinning at that made me smile. It gave me a greater sense of satisfaction. A few weeks later, on various occasions, while speaking to my sister, I heard her babyish rambling and occasional crying. These things you realize and feel the absence only when you miss it. To a person experiencing it, it may seem very ordinary. Those were the best days of 2007.
I wanted to put an effort into writing and expressing my thoughts, that struck me and are worthy of, over which I was pondering on a few moments ago whilst hovering over a bunch of sites mindlessly. I can’t wait to see the little princess. I wish her a healthy long life and happiness and my love to athimber and akka.
CHAK DE INDIA – FLATTERING! January 4, 2008
Posted by arun in culture, happenings, life, thoughts.Tags: anger, attitude, country, crime, flattery, india, molestation, negligence, order, pretence, sluggishness, women, wrath
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Stop this please!! Enough with the delusions. Enough with the pretence gloating. Enough with the attempt to cajole the masses with bogus adulations! For those people who are under the misconception of patriotism as a result of excessive inanity or vacuousness, this post is not for you. So stop bitching. Yesterday night, out of desperation I logged on to Cricinfo have a look at the cricket score of the 2nd test between India and Australia. As it was updating, I had an urge to see a glimpse of Tendulkar’s bashing performance and so logged on to CNN-IBN. I was totally taken aback, filled with consternation after hearing about the New Year eve molestation incidents and a total sense of bafflement over this “first woman serial killer” of the country. What the hell?
Regarding the former, I couldn’t help but flout at the dysfunctional attitude of the Police commissioner whose statement was the following:
I cannot provide a police officer for each and every individual. So, if you want to protect your women, keep them inside your houses. Do not make a mountain out of a mole-hill. We have done everything we could.
He should have learnt the “mole-hill” saying from somewhere for it to have popped out from his otherwise incorrigible English. If not for the press and some noble photographers, the whole incident would have been repudiated and vanished into thin air. This only reveals the hubristic attitude of the fainéant officials aggrandized with power, puffed up with utter negligence and reluctance , who are supposed to protect us from these aimless neurotic asses who behave so uncivilized. I see these culprits as a detached flaneur with obdurate conscience and as emotion deprived beasts suffering from the inability of putting their mouse back in the house and respect the other gender. This is a lethargic attitude which puts a lot of other innocent people into trouble. If it were to me, I would enforce the law practiced in some countries of amputating the genitals as a treatment of punishment for crime against women!! Such a fear should induce order.
The one on the left should give a clue about the fainéant officials I mentioned, Left: Our own pride Right: Scotland yard
