Perpetually Perplexed

We feel that after 20 years of globalization and IT revolution, the living conditions of many of the Indians has improved drastically. We also see that middle class has really arrived and even lower class people are not having to worry about where their next meal is coming from. We have blame the government for providing 1Re rice and job guarantee scheme for poor people. We urban women blame these facilities provided for them because we do not get domestic helps who will literally complete cleaning our entire house for a pittance. But rural folks really face problems as they do not get labor to work in their farms and it is not possible to get the work done without labor. They will have one or two children in the family and at least one of children would be working for an IT company in state capital. And the best part is, even the working class people will have maximum two children, and even these children will be educated and will be working in a town.  But what we do not kno...

I am again doing multi-tasking or shall I say multi-reading? Knowing too well that multi tasking is less efficient and I am NOT a multi-tasker. So I am reading "Calcutta chromosome", "Eat pray and love" and "ಯಾರದಿ  ಕಾಡು "  And happy to say that none of these books are of the type - I have to read this book :( and at the same time they are not trivial either. " ಯಾರದಿ  ಕಾಡು " is by Mahashwetadevi. No I did not learn Bengali overnight. I am reading the kannada version which was re-translated by telugu version. And the book is good so far. More about it in a later post. And "Eat pray love" was the book I thought is something like a chicklit or some kind of romance. But Elizabeth Gilbert's book is about the journey of a woman around world in search of meaning in life. Again, so far I like the book. Calcutta chromosome is thriller by Amitav Ghosh. I picked the book because I am supposed to read 12 more books by Indian readers by ye...

Finally I have found my bliss. In the form of a cleaning/decluttering site called flylady.net. The one thing which I thought too menial even to detest. So I follow some basic principles like keeping the kitchen sink clean everyday. And trying to shine bathrooms.  So does that prove that a lady, no matter what is in her grey matter is born to clean? Is this the purpose of life I was searching all these years? Or as the site says, was my mind cluttered because my home was cluttered? May be this too will pass.

But politicians do  Note:  The line from the famous Hindi patr iotic song "Sare Jahan se Achha" h as t he meaning - Religions do not teach us  to hate each other    B air means animosity

There aren't many things common between these two women of the Indian Subcontinent. Durga that is Durga Shakti Nagpal is an IAS officer in UP of India and Jiya is  a cartoon character in first animated TV series "Burkha avenger" in Pakistan. Durga Shakti tried fighting the sand mafia in UP by confiscating the sand trucks and slapping FIRs on persons involved. One of whom happened to be a wannabe MP. Jiya is a mild school teacher in day and burkha clad super hero during night. She fights evil characters who are not witches or demons, but fundamentalists who stop girls from attending schools and corrupt politicians. Her weapons are not swords or magic wands, but pens and books. OK, both are women fighting for justice. But in Burkha avenger Jiya wins against bad people. And Durga Shakthi was suspended with a charge that she demolished a religious building there by incited communal disharmony. (If inciting communal violence was an offense, what would happen to so many ...

These meditation people certainly know how to take the fun out of everything. They keep saying ' always find good in others. Never judge people' If we always find good in others and not judge them, how can we make fun of them? And if we do not make fun of others, how can our spirits be uplifted  or how will we feel happy? And after all we came googling meditation in order to be happy, right? Look at our Hindi songs. The ones which we love are the ones which badger others. Be it 'Ek chaturanaara' or more recent 'Pappu can't dance saala'. Some of you may also love the sad love songs of Rafi or Lata. But they will either remind you your love who cheated/left you or remind you the fact that you never had a love making you more miserable. So why sing  and be miserable when you can sing and be happy, very happy indeed. So come on, dance,  saying 'Pappu can't dance saala', imagining your enemy to be Pappu and you to be Micheal Jackson.