What Is Our Future ?

Despite being in a phase where I am yet to decide, What am I going to do with my Life? I am confused with the question, What is the future of Mankind? Not that I care less about my future prospects of becoming a Resource to the Family.

With the increasing complexity of the world which confuses us in day to day affairs of our lives. I am wondering what will happen to us in the ultimate future. Will we be like "The Jetsons", living a High-Tech life of cars Flying in the sky Or will we move to the Moon as shown in WALL-E because of destruction of Earth which according to 2012 should already have taken place.

Whichever the case may be, the medical science will take over tremendously, increasing our life expectancy more than average. Too sad for those who have been sentenced for more that 250 years in U.S Prisons.

Various Futurologists and several successful CEO's suggest that the future of mankind is "COMMUNICATION"

This is what the Western Culture has been trying to teach us over the years. Be it Social Networking, Instant Messaging, Blogging or Telecommunication. We are coming close to the "Star Trek" situation where, by mere tapping of chip on our shoulder would we be able to communicate among our fellow beings. Our thoughts would create signals that would help communicate with the person we wish to talk to. 

In all this process of advancement of technology we never thought about "What?" are we going to communicate. Or even the deeper question; Was Man born to Communicate by sharing their lives over a Complex Coded Sophisticated Network which we call the World Wide Web. Or Man was born for higher pursuits like finding the purpose of life, discovering the Realms of his own Brain by increasing the psychic powers, as our Sages used to do. But it seems we have off-shored the potential of Human Brain through the ionosphere to a bunch of pinheaded gadgets.

I don't wish to put any light on the advantages of communication media, which has definitely changed our lives. But I believe that too much sharing of thoughts has Complexified our Worlds, as we have gathered a pile of prerequisite information and history is becoming huge day by day. We may have servers at Google that can handle Terabytes's of data, but we sometimes need to Empty our Brains so as to view the true purpose. With the advancement of technology, communication would become much faster, but life will become more complex as every next generation would require more and more data to process so as to catch up with the ever growing Threshold of Information.

I wish the Sages of India had not been so protective about the Knowledge of Salvation that they possessed. Now we have a faster medium of communication, but have nothing substantial to Communicate.

This explains why I didn't blog for so long !!

Circle Of Boastfulness

Ever wondered, why do Rich & Less Scholarly Politicians & Businessmen say things like- "Mera baccha London se padhke aaya hai". Or when a Clerk boasts about "Mera beta IIT/IIM se hai".

Although these things don't bother me at all, but this is yet another example of Compensating your underachievement with the Successive Generation. This is only the start of a vicious circle. If my Dad was a pass-out form Harvard university and I couldn't get there, may be because of Circumstances or may be I wasn't Capable enough, doesn't make me an failure at any level.

If u look at the root cause of it, you will find Politicians again, who can afford an Unrealistic value for money Exchange Program for their Child, sponsored to do a job at Starbucks & living as a Second Grade Citizen, just so that his father/mother can speak to his fellow mates about the achievements of his child as mine have come to a halt.

In other case where a Babu becomes extremely Egotist thereby increasing his daily dose of "Kharcha Paani" or becomes totally, a Materialistic Ascetic because of the Unending System of providing Privilege to all the Sections of the Society, not because they are Poor, but because they have a Privileged Surname.

I don't wish to touch on the lines on Aarakshan. But I am onto the point where, Proud parents feel the continuous Urge to validate themselves with the Scholastic Achievements of their children.

I consider myself to be a Privileged child as my Parents are unconcerned about my Result. They ask me only if I have passed the exam; Or Are they supposed to provide me fees for reappearing in exam? Although I have never provided them such prerogative, despite Spoiling their habit by scoring good marks in School. I believe in staying down to earth. 

May be this is the reason that makes my parents proud, for a child whose Self Esteem is Sufficient that he does not need us promoting his Minor Scholastic Achievements in front of everyone. 

This does Prove that I am quite against a lot of Requisite Norms of getting a Brand Tag over me. But I am Happy to be born in a place where I have Freedom of Thought and Speech. I just wonder when this Attitude transcends in our entire country.

The Cloak Of Euphemisms

We live in a society where we have developed an intolerance towards truth. People have no resistance towards insults and hence, direct form of speech is fading out. Although language is becoming more formal and respectful in many ways, but it should not be to the level that it alters the feelings behind it.

Let me make my point clear by making a positive example. These days we do not call a crippled man as handicapped, instead we use terms like Physically Challenged or Differently Abled. However referring to an old man as senior citizen is not a problem. The problem is the manipulation of truth, by government, media and organisations publishing factual information.

We seem to have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Poor people used to live in slums, but these days the underprivileged or economically disadvantaged occupy the substandard housing in inner cities. These are mere broke penniless people in abysmal condition but the higher authorities sugar coat it, as if these people have a negative cash flow.

Moreover the government or the politicians don't lie these days, they engage in disinformation. Print media glorifies even the worse human conditions and makes it a catchy statement, complex to be understood by a normal human brain thereby decreasing the true impact of the current scenario.

The top 1% of the population which controls the world has modified language at their convenience to conceal their sins. These people have been misleading us into believing that if u change the condition, that is going to decrease its intensity. It would have been so great if real life problem could have been solved on a mere piece of paper. Truth is always bitter and it should be left that way.

Euphemisation of real life problems like hunger, poverty, rape, murder is only going to take us away from reality, keeping these issues unresolved. Slavery of women in these days is termed as "trafficking". People who are murdered are coined as missing and those who die because of Military's negligence are termed as "Martyrs". Henchmen do not commit crimes, they make mistakes.

Most of us dont still find this a problem because we have become numb to the realities of life. Continuous use of euphemisms is bad for the countries' health. 

Such aspects of our modern language make me wanna vomit, or rather loose some of my lunch by engaging in an involuntary spill of partially digested food. 

"Ab Ki baar, No Bakwaas Yaar"

Bollywood Aftermath

Late 1940s to the 1960s was considered as the "Golden Age" for Indian Cinema. Some of the most critically acclaimed films were made during this period. It was the time of portrayal of Idealism on Celluloid to establish ideologies that people could imbibe in their real lives.

Then came the time for modern cinema from the late 1960s to early 1980s where the rebellious image of an "Angry Young Man" was established to give people strength to fight for their rights and against injustice.

During the late 1980s to 2000s the pendulum swung back to the family centric romantic musicals where serene love was portrayed with some commercial viability and the soaring box office figures started fascinating the producers.

Bollywood's progress was a parabola facing upwards in terms of content as well as economy. Even without a high pixel density, the cinema had the power to form people's opinion and inject doses of human values and ethics whenever required. But the dimensions of visual media were yet to be explored.

Recently, with the progress of Science & Technology, and the advent of Ultra high Definition Cameras and Retina display, the impact became clearer, quality of sound improved and Virtual Images became indispensable part of our lives.

With the onset of time, as the pixel density of the picture increased, the thought carried by the movie decreased and the "Content" part of the movie was compromised in the race of capitalistic ideas. Films were being appreciated for their reach to a wider audience, over the "thought" they communicated.

As the social media prevailed, success became a chain reaction and a direct link was established for the fans. Selling of underrated, mediocre ideas became much easier due to a flexible market. The content quality was lowered to the requirements of the inferior taste of the audience.

Bollywood's Aim, which could have been to improve the intellectual standards of the people was burnt at the stake and people were served deliberately with abusive language, item numbers, cheap slogans to titillate their minds & bring out the devil hidden inside them. Female were objectified to corrupt people, taking the western culture as a shield. Although Hollywood movies built an audience with patience; Bollywood preferred quick profits over training the masses.

Social Image and market value of celebrities were exploited by the directors and even small achievements were awarded with national awards. Appreciation of work seems a good idea to keep a person motivated. But when it is done at an underachiever level, then comes a problem of falling short of role models. A debutant with a single movie becomes an epitome of success and people aspire to be at that susceptible position. People want to establish their place in industry not by their work, but by their popularity charts. 

Quick success seems a dream for everyone and therefore the long lastingness in the industry becomes difficult. As a result they become a part of a Supply Chain where they are Highly Replaceable thereby turning into a mere Commodity in a Society lacking essential thrust for Excellence.

Criticisms could be unending, but as a consumer we can only learn to appreciate real art over mediocrity.

MARD Analysed

I was a very Happy Child who used to watch Cartoons and then gradually shifted to Mtv (a music channel which plays music no more). With the passage of time, knowing about the worldly affairs became quite necessary and very reluctantly I started watching News and reading Newspapers.

Only then I could realise that the World is Harsher than the Brutal Roadies episode and Injustice, Poverty, Hunger are the problems which the people have been facing. Out of them all the most brutal of these is RAPE. It represents a sick mind Incorporated with Pervert Mentality and Human Objectification. Awareness about the worldly affairs and its shortcomings made me think- Why does this happen ? The only answer that I could get from others is that "The World is a Bitter Place to be in".

But I couldn't be convinced with just a generalised statement so I went on to think about their Root Cause and the Factors affecting the increasing Rape in our country.So I analysed it from the scratch. According to a Survey the Child Sex ratio has dropped down to 914 females per 1000 men in 2011. Female Foeticide rates in India increased by 49.2%.

The statistics are enough to tell us that it is our typical mentality that a male child is an asset and a female child is a burden, which has lead us to this situation. Families didn't prefer a girl child and therefore an imbalance was created between the sex ratio. So we had more number of males than females.

In our indian society which doesn't support live-in relationships and makes marriage almost a compulsory event, to have a dignified image in the society. Also then we have the great dowry system which then makes the girl child absolutely undesirable.

The rest of the males who were destined not to get married because of the Imbalance in the Scales had not even been given an opportunity to Mate. Those who were rich got to romantic places to channelise their extra energy, although being rich automatically made their survival easier. So the problem with the rest of the Indian males persisted.

With the advancement of technology in medical sector, we could determine the sex of the child but it proved as an Unnecessary Evil. It is we who started creating a disruption in the environmental cycle. Not that I am trying to defend those Ruthless people who are mentally unfit, but what if we can analyse the problem to permanently eradicate it. 

No, I am not suggesting to legalise prostitution and run our economy with it. But if we stop knowing the sex of the child and stop female foeticide and save the girl child then we can make this world a better place to live. But just praising girl child will not help. We need to bring revolutionary changes in our society like treating the girl equally in every respect and give an equal chance for both the sexes to progress.

On further analysis our so called Bollywood which contributes $6.2 billion to our GDP has lowered its standards for a majority of population by Objectifying Women by introducing "Item Songs". This may seem a senseless point now but when you go to a low budget theatre and listen to what our movies have forced our men to think in a glorified manner, the need for an urgent change can be felt.

Its only we, the future generation of our country who can form Opinion and change the Mentality of the Society by having strong ethical standards of our own !!

Career Counselling From Strangers

So as usual, I go to a party and Surprisingly I find a lot of Elderly people there. Normally I thought it as a chance to boast about my Convincing Skills by participating in various discussions. But now recently I have started getting scared of the Grey Haired Men and Ponytail Aunties.

Although I have crossed the Rebellious Puberty phase of my life, But I guess this is one of another dangerous situation for me when people start asking me: "What am I doing these days. Usually I am quite well prepared for such questions as I keep on doing random stuff everyday. Although  I prefer deviating the topic to some Current Affair or some Technology stuff whereby I am sure of knowing much more than the Salt Pepper Man in front of me.

What really shifts my equilibrium is the subsequent question: "Beta Kya Socha hai Life Mein"

and my entire routine of intellectual bullshit accompanied by some Flattery goes off the track and completely freaks me out.

Hence I really sat down, not for the purpose of knowing, What do I want to do with my life ? But simply for the purpose of finding an answer to such a Publicly Customary question. May be giving myself the thought that, I'll do something at least wasn't enough this time. If this was the case I would have to scan the place where I go every time to avoid such situations.

I really started thinking that why do Elders ask me these kind of questions at all...Why am I being made the Centre of the Universe. What fault did I commit in my childhood, that I had to face such a harsh situation ?

Then I just got my answer and I realised that this was absolutely my fault that a stranger comes to me and talks about what I wanted to become.

In childhood when anyone asked me "Beta what is your name?"

My, Rather Our Entire Generations Answer used to be: "My name is this_, I study in Class this_, In this_ public school, My class teachers name is this_ and My Roll number is this_.

People were Impressed by the Fluency of speech along with the Confidence accompanied by the innocence we possessed once. Thats where I got my answer, we spoiled our elders by giving them Information they never wanted to know and now they just want to know: What do you want to do with your Life, thats not too much to ask...is it ?

But on writing so much and going behind several aspects has made me really wonder, What am I going to do ????

Isn't One Life Enough ?

The home page of Flipkart advertised a book called "One Life Is Not Enough" by Mr. Natwar Singh revealing several things about the Gandhi Family. So I just looked for the book as to how thick is it ? and It turned out to be sufficiently within my reading capacity. Also my Indian tendencies were captured by a 15% discount. Although I was not interested in reading Political Revelations, but couldn't help it from the value for money aspect. 

Also the trending #NatwarSingh hashtags on Twitter made me dive-in more for the facts that the author wishes to reveal. First I thought him to be a new "Trojan Subramanyam Swami". But then I realised that people are so damm scared, Be it in School or in College or in Real Life. In School the Headmaster scares us with the stick. In College, students are Wooed with attendance and in Real Life people are threatened by death.

Mr. Natwarlal at the age of 83 revealed the truths about Sonia Gandhi and much of the Gandhi family and how inefficient and passionless Rahul Baba is. But from instincts we all knew that, & also we have made a lot of jokes about the Silence of Manmohan Singh, the Italianness of Sonia Gandhi and ROFL Rahul Gandhi too. As a matter of fact Congress has been in limelight via negative publicity which BJP has taken a good advantage of.

On remembering Batman Begins I first thought Mr. Natwar Singh to be a Bruce Wayne who stands for Justice, despite the evil intentions of his master, saves the city from destroying. But as I wondered, there was no bravery in telling these things to the world when Nothing was at Stake. You dont become a Julian Assange or Edward Snowden just by exhumation of the Dead.

The real strength lies when you fight against the Dynasty during their tenure and saving India from wrong decisions. We may make a lot of Kejriwal jokes, call him a racist. But the end of the day we need to realise that standing against Black Money is not racism. He may be making a lot of mistakes but he is not a Critic who comments from the back seat.

My transition of thought form Batman Begins to Wikileaks to Kejriwal have now made me believe that I am totally wrong. Writing such books is no Bravery Its like hitting the Principal's Car with a stone on the last day of your School.

As I have read the book early enough so I am thinking of returning back the book to flipkart through their return policy....Just Kidding flipkart...I am a loyal customer.

Should Getting Into a College Be One's Dream ?

With the passage of time, the brand value of Prestigious Colleges Soared, along with the ever Increasing Population. To get into a good college became Tougher, as the Struggle for the Survival of the Fittest began. The difficulty level of Entrance Exams Increased and only the most Academic ones could get into the Top Colleges. To achieve the best in any sector, our dreams should be kept higher. But getting into colleges like Oxford, Harvard, LBS, MIT, IIM-A,B,C, IIT's became a challenge even for the toughest.

But what about the dreams of the remaining millions of students. Were they dreaming in the wrong direction? Or They were supposed to lower their dreams? Or They were simply supposed to learn how to Modify, Adapt and Compromise? Or Simply they were made to overestimate their potentials.

Anything could be true, but before getting into the Psyche of any of the above lets have a look at the final outcome. A young boy selling Tea becomes the Prime Minister of the Largest Democracy of the World. A Gas-Station attendant becomes the Leading Entrepreneur of the 20th century. And the non patriotic pass-outs from top institutes work for giants like Google and Microsoft making a brilliant Indian like Staya Nadella the CEO of the Billion Dollar company in another country and the pass-outs form Premier Institutes of India write Youth Oriented Uninspiring novels. 

So according to the final outcome, its not the Alma mater that matters. But the typical Indian Mindset, in chase for a degree doesn't let us come out of that shell. Some require it for a status in society, some for dowry and most of them for getting a high paid job. But nothing seems wrong with that.  

Should we stop aspiring for the best colleges of the World? No that's not quite what I am saying. But not having been able to reach the Top Colleges shouldn't either be considered as a Disqualification because in life be it any situation; A handmade paper with an Elegant Stamp on it would not help in getting through the toughest problems; nor will the clearing of 435 Levels Of Candy Crush prove your Intelligence.

When the going gets Tough, the Tough gets Tougher. Also I am surprised that how a funny thought in my mind transformed into an Inspiring thought at the end. May be I write Extempore Or I dislike Youth Oriented Novels a lot !!

Molecular Psychology: Potential Energy Graph

Although half of the world doesn't care what happens at the sub-atomic level, neither did I. But some situations led me to meet this book with a foreign red colour named Solomons. I couldn't resist myself from reading a chapter and then I fell into a vicious circle again of connecting Human behaviour with Nuclear Physics.

This is a nightmare for a fully faltu blogger like me who writes on a new topic who no one understands including me. But my hands loose coordination and automatically start writing this stuff. 

So there is this curve called the Potential Energy Curve between the Internuclear Distance when the two atoms are brought close to each other. Which tells us that when the atoms come close to each other then there is an attraction between the nucleus consisting of protons(+ve charge) of one atom with the electrons(-ve charge) of other atom. Doesn't this sound like what happens in the very first Relationship.

We get attracted towards the other person's superficial things, like the electrons in the other atoms surrounded at various energy levels. Now what happens next, obviously we go on a date But what happens at the atomic level in this principle?

Yes, this is exactly what happens, the atoms come close because of the strong attraction despite of a high repulsive force between two nuclei and both atoms start exchanging their unpaired electrons to form a more stable state. Even after quoting such an important scientific principle, I feel like Joey Tribbiani making it sound dirty.

So what next, The obvious? Yes they start thinking of forming a bond, either Covalent or Ionic bond. But there is a catch, If they get too close, I mean the intermolecular distance decreases too much then the nucleus containing the protons start creating a tremendous repulsion force thereby increasing the total energy of the system making it totally unstable.

So in conclusion a proper distance should be maintained in relationships so as to form a proper bond and now I wish I had read this book earlier.

Either I would have been in IIT or at least would have had a successful relationship.

The CoNfUsEd Hindus

Hinduism is the Religion of Celebration, of Surplus Gods. Although we are supposed to learn a lot from the traditions, I found everyone, even our Gods to be Confused on one very Controversial subject i.e. FOOD

Food ?? Yes after putting a fair amount of thought and completing a thousand+ family outing/parties I have come to realise this fact that Hindus are totally Food-Centric.

You must be remembering the old saying that the Grandmother tells to her Bahu that "The way to your husband's heart goes through the Stomach". Which is mostly true for each one of us.

And to provide the Surrounding Atmosphere, Hinduism provides us with a Million Festivals to Eat endlessly like Annakut, Janmashtmi, Holi, Diwali etc and Burp and Fart the entire day.

Even our ancestors were True Foodies, but they still had to remain fit, otherwise Darwin's Theory could wash out their genes with the onset of Food. So they calculated an interesting Mathematical Formula and found out the solution which was FASTING.

So they created festivals of some established Gods spread evenly throughout our calendar, who could convince their followers- NOT to eat on certain occasions. Which was actually a compensation diet for their Mega-Lite-High-Fat-Package.

But the Satvik tendencies were to be controlled, so as an advertisement campaign were introduced "Mehmaan Nawazi" to keep the Fat Levels of our fellow Human Beings exactly the same. We tend to fall into this vicious circle of Gluttony every time.

When Westernisation Prevailed, we were not fit Like Tommy Hilfiger or Calvin Klein Models who took a Protein Rich Diet. We had either Skinny Saints or Bulky Ganesha's . So we went to Foreign Countries to research this fact with our Family wearing Caps, holding a Cold-Drink bottle along with a chips packet in another hand. We still conclude each Foreign Trip to be more successful, after we get back to our country; Just because we were saved by our Ma-ka-khana.

Conversely the Enthusiastic Foreigners come with a book of Lonely Planet and study the entire history before they even enter inside our Heritage Property, they tend to compromise on food. This not only makes them fit but keeps them hungry for Knowledge and Exploration.

Although we get a thousand arguments to justify the Festivity, the only thing which we could follow is our taste instincts and avoid eating the extra morsel. 

Hinduism is not a Religion, It is a way of Life, and our Supreme Court Tells us that...No further arguments, Its Ultra Vires The Constitution !!

Guilt Free Society

Is there a "Rule Book" which tells us about What is Right and What is Wrong? Or we all work under some "equation"? Both of these Presumptions dont seem to be true. So how do we know about the righteousness of our path? 

This answer can be found only deep within. As we came-in with an installed Programme in our Subconscious Mind that tells us about our wrongdoings. So, Can we generalise the ideologies on which man should work?

Despite of the infinite complexity of the brain, people start to find the answer to their problems in Books and Other People's Opinion. Great Scriptures like Bhagwat Geeta and Ramayana are so advanced that they actually guide you to the best level. But depending your life on someone else's thought is like Navigating a Ship without a Compass; for it every wind is the right wind. Are these the right way of solving the problem or do we have more alternatives? Dont confuse me with any spiritual guru, who is about to give you any "Moralistic Gyaan", because I truly believe in Logics.

So the next question I get in mind is - What is guilt ? Being a truly internet savvy person; The Wikipedia results say:

Guilt is a Cognitive or an Emotional experience that occurs when a person realises or believes- accurately or not- that he or she has Compromised his or her own Standards of Conduct or has Violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of Remorse.

Although I couldn't understand half of it. The thing I could get, is that its a Feeling that we get when we do Something Wrong. It all comes down to realising- What is Right and What is Wrong. So why is it that I consider something Moral and for someone else that is a Sin. Is it some sort of Subconscious Negligence on my part or an over analysis of Idealism on someone else's part. Who cares !!! Right

But the point is, why do we tend to have guilt at all if there are no rules made by the Almighty. Is it "Guilt" that is eating away our brains and stopping us from absolute productivity or may be we were sent to purposefully think on these lines and create a Self Guided System.

We generally tend to do those things which we are deprived of. Thousands of illustrations may be popping up in your mind, so I don't need to expand on those lines. But our initial childhood period plays a very crucial role in setting up our guidance system for our life. 

But that is not in our control, so the only option we have with us it to feel free like a bird, breaking away the Myths and enter into the Realm of Absolute Bliss. The day we all stop having guilt is the day we start committing mistakes again and hence start learning.

According to a very famous futurologist named Alvin Toffler-

The literate of the 21st century are not those who can Read and Write, but those who can Learn, Unlearn and Re-learn. So we need to Reboot our Conceptual understanding about Life and Resolve the Mahabharat going in our mind between Ideality and Practicality.

May be that would be a day, we either head towards Communism or I would stop writing blog; Confusing other minds ;) 

MultiBrand Education

Globalisation led to a market full of brands from across the Globe and the consumer had more options thereby more competitiveness between companies, leading to a better product value. As time passed, man Capitalised on everything even Education.

So why is our education system so rigid? Its like we can wear only one brand-clothing, If education sector is such a serious business, Why is it so rigid and not up to the market ? Why dont we have a market of competitive teachers ? Why is there such a stagnation in this ever growing business ? Although more development and innovative techniques are needed in this sector rather than the automobile, clothing and other goods sector, as all these sectors are by product of an efficient education system.

Having said that, what change do we really want ? Do we want our teachers to treat us like customers and say the customer is always right ??? No, thats not quite what I am saying. What I am trying to say is that whenever there is a competition, we tend to perform better. But our education system has become outdated and our respectable teachers have become a prey to it.

Again, I am not suggesting to start some teacher training programs. They are already equipped with adequate knowledge. What I am trying to say is to just bring competition into the market by allowing the consumers i.e. the students to permute and choose their teacher that best suits them through online as well as classroom programs.

An immediate thought comes, Why cant we do that ? May be because we are institutionalised. If we can choose our teachers all over the country by their Video Lecture Programme accompanied by Doubt Session, Personal Lectures then we can bring in more creativity and learn from those, whose words hammer our brain.

The idea seems to be a bit impractical and eliminating human touch, but then what about the distance learning courses; How have they become so successful ? The idea they bank upon is the value of time. If we students are offered a curriculum whereby we can plan our own session, we would realise our value of time and money and utilise it to the fullest. Instead of totally depending on the institute for our Intellectual Development just because we have paid full fees in lump-sum.

What if teachers have a market cap value like our Bollywood industry and they are individual entities whose rights, the Institution has to purchase in order to provide good facility to their customers. And the best democratic part being we have the right to choose.

Dont you now think, this was a Right curtailed from us a consumer ?

Jago Grahak Jago !!!

Facebook Psychology

We all know about the facts that Facebook has become an excellent communication medium and it helped many friends to reunite despite of long distances. But have you ever wondered the principle which fb depends upon and what part of our Brain is leading us to log in again and again, uploading more photos with friends and family thereby increasing the data load on Facebook servers, which they happily welcome.

10 - 15 years ago when the communication mediums were not so subtle, Parents used to tell their Daughters not to even have a .jpeg format of their own photographs. As someone could morph it and malign their family's name. But today we have broken all Psychological Barriers into becoming a more open minded society. These days we click pics only for Facebook and it has become an indispensable part of our lives

As the mixed economy of India boomed, brought in more jobs thereby more money into the pockets; many superstitions were eroded as Westernization started capturing the minds of people. Today every american product and service has become such an integral part of our life that we cannot live without it.

Coming back to Facebook, where we seem to have a lot of friends and a great social life, some people like to portray their absolute happiness and some project their sadness. Everyone uses it according to their needs and personality traits. It is such an open platform that we can choose what to show.

Hence again we get drowned in a Quantified Ocean of likes and dislikes, share and promote totally forgetting the present moment by shifting our psyche entirely into the cyber world.

No wonder George Orwell was right about the Big Brother, but even if Edward Snowden would have not told us about the PRISM project, we all must have volunteered to keep each and everything online making NSO's work done at the footstep itself.

Previously we used to have 30- 40 people in our lives who we really cared about and they reciprocated similarly. But with the evolving e-newspaper of 1000 other friends or acquaintances of ours who we rarely cared about; now we deliberately log in to read what is happening in their lives. Feelings of absolute happiness, sadness, jealousy, greed have been captured online and the posts on Facebook have started controlling our lives.

There are people who come on, log in and see some news about what they like, log out and get back to work and there are some people who log in browse browse and browse, log out and log in again. I have not conducted a survey or peeped into some other balconies to gather this information but even you know this truth as we have been part of each of the two types at some point in our lives.

Facebook seems to have captured this tendency of ours to know "what is going on with other peoples lives". Although nothing seems to be wrong with it, we are totally within the frame of our Constitutional Freedom. But we forgot one most important thing which is "Self Analysis" i.e. the time that some of us used to spend in Analyzing our mistakes and thinking about our future, planning and most importantly dreaming.

This crucial time has been taken from us because of "Bhed Chaal" tendencies to first of all make a Facebook account and then the continuous need to maintain standards of Extrovertness by either writing funny or sarcastic status updates or uploading "had a great time" photographs.

That is why sometimes I feel Twitter is a much better platform, its like cricket match were only 22 players play, but we still have a good time and we also get the to raise our placards.

Don't worry I am not getting paid from Twitter, neither I have any malice against Mark Zukerberg.

The only thing I can suggest you finally is just follow me on twitter @mathuranshuman

No wonder I am smart  ;)

The High Of Happiness

While the rest of the world is busy with their external affairs, working their butt off to earn more Money or spending their Time Socialising. I am left with an Interesting question: To Attain Happiness, of which the easiest way I find is to get a High, not alone but with the best of my buddies.

Every time, there is a tremendous secretion of Dopamine which makes me happier than those who seek happiness in this utter Materialistic World, buying things they dont even need or buttering people who pull off the Ethical part in you. I am not boasting myself about the quality Friends and Siblings I have, but it is about the Expression of that Ultimate Truth which has become an absolute Cliché. If you know what I mean.

Although, I may not have a specific topic in my mind to write an article, well if u want to read that kind of stuff read The Hindu and The Economist with such prominent "The" standards of greatness. But as of now I am left with a very unusual, publicly unacceptable question in my mind which is -

Is getting High in any form equivalent to Meditation ?

There is a fine possibility that just after asking this question, some of you might realise that "This guy doesn't know what Meditation is at all" or may be I know something you don't. The facts that I've realised over the years of experiencing (a proud owner of a single prominent grey hair) is that anything that gives you Happiness Meditation.

With the emerging questions in mind that what Happiness is exactly about, we can go on researching, reading spiritual books etc; which gives us a great thought to memorise and show off our Intellectual skills in front of everyone. Its only with time that you realise the clichéd part of it that, Self Realisation is a very long process and -Knowing Something and Understanding Something are two very different things. Which should not be confused with either greying of hairs or natural ageing.

So now that my Dopamine levels go down over the week, I am left with another question: Whether I have fallen into a Vicious Cycle of Addictions living a life of practicality or Am I at a higher understanding of Darwin's theory of Survival of The Fittest. But the only thing that drags me again into the cycle is the Pursuit of the Ultimate High thereby secreting more and more Serotonin in my body.

As the urge for Happiness increases I am left with another question: Can we double our happiness by meditating when we are happy ? i.e. Meditating when we are High. Although I have never experienced such things, but theoretically it seems a mind boggling concept which I seek to achieve soon.

Being a Typical "Type A" personality, I would keep on getting such thoughts but the point is 

Have you found your Happiness ?

Do Not Read This !!

As I am requesting you kindly not to read this henceforth you must not read further.

But you seem to be a little different. You are not at all listening to me. I’m requesting you not to read this but you are still reading further. 

However my request was only because of the fact that you are not going to find any substance in this article that is why I thought, why should you waste your precious time in reading indiscreet stuff like this. But you seem to be a totally free creature who has no pending work to do and is still interested to read this useless article further.

I’m really amazed with your tenacity about finding things till the end , you are not paying attention to what I am saying at all. Despite of knowing the fact that the country is not progressing and our GDP is abominably low, you still continue to read. Please don’t waste your time further as this is not going to give any piece of advice to your life nor is going to resolve the conflicts of your mind.

Now as you may have seen that this article is about to end, so you must have understood that I was actually true in advising you  that you should not have actually read this, well the article finishes here however you have failed to listen to my advice but as you have wasted so much of time and energy to read up till here so I would like to draw your  attention to the article heading which was Do "Not" read this.

At this stage I can only suggest you that if you still have more time and nothing interesting left to do in your life you may go on reading this passage again and increase my page-views, no wonder if I start getting paid for my blog in some time. 

Cerebrum - Bangalored

Today when we go to a KFC restaurant, we never care what their "Secret Recipe" is, we just order our Large Popcorn and move out, well no offence to the Pious Vegetarians.

Meanwhile Europe has been executing their "Apprenticeship Model" since the middle ages wherein they train the youth rigorously according to their field of interest and later on they take over their businesses and train the next generations.

This system was happening even in our country from a long time ago but was quite Individualistic and Unorganised but with the onset of "The Youth Ego", i.e when the Youngsters of India thought that I would do something on my own. So he/she left the huge platform of their Parents Success to serve into the mighty Corporate World. 

The only thing we forgot (by this time you may have figured out that I am one of you) was that we didn't have any skills required to do a Corporate Job. The Global Labour Arbitrage brought tremendous job opportunities and  we got a White Collared job in a "Call Centre", where we were supposed to speak in an American accent and call United States as "The United States" by simply faking our accent which we became pretty good at.

Due to reducing arbitrage India had to move up on the value chains, hence we got ourselves an executive M.B.A from a Premier Institute. Market capitalisation, Finance, Equity, Working Capital kind of terms enhanced our Persona.

But the only thing we forgot was that the man sitting in US was holding the Reins of our Career and we practically had no control over it. Our overprotective parents never wanted us to face the kind of difficulties and struggle they had  faced. They just wanted their child to live an honest upright life. But as they Spared The Rod It Spoiled The Country's Economy.

I am not saying that we all should join our Family Business or stop doing Corporate Jobs. My point of view is that we should not become a Country skilled in Clerical Jobs. Rather we should bring in new innovation technologies to either our family business/profession or even explore new Entrepreneurship fields by developing skills required to enter into the Global Market.

Now Probably You Might Be Thinking, What is the KFC's Secret Recipe ??

Indori Midas

Well I should first of all filter the readers as they may not expect some good English here nor some 'vocab' words so, the students appearing for CAT, GMAT, GRE, TOEFL and likewise highly intellectuals may skip reading this.

In English Literature there is a very famous quote that

“To Err Is Human” but it is modified in Indori Shtyle as

“To Aeeeeein Is To Indori”

This accent mixed with a multiplicity of tone variations has many features which Indori people use as their shield in many situations, like

when they are Surprised, when they are Confused, when they Agree deeply and this Aeeeein is also used as a replacement for “Pardon Me”, I couldn’t hear you or “Come Again”.

So you see how expressive and multitalented Indoris are. Well for our non-lndori readers, you can easily qualify to get into this category as there is no eligibility criteria or qualification required to get into this bracket.

Probably the only one you need is to alter your accent with some add-on special words like “Aur Kya Bhiya”, “Knee Ho Payega” and many other slangs. Most Importantly you will have to develop a complete love for street food.

Well talking about food, there are some things that you will find only here. I am not talking about the Sophisticated 5 stars in vogue, they don’t represent the true spirit of Indore, I am talking about our Birthright Food- Sev, Poha, Jalebi, Samosa, Kachori. I can imagine the Saliva revolving around your Spice loving Palettes. This is what makes Indore different from other cities. We may not be the Commercial Capital of India or officially recognised as a Metropolitan city, but in the food industry no one can beat us. If you eat the same food in any other part of the country you may realise that the "Midas Touch" is missing.

Despite the Auto-Correct feature continuously retaliating me with my illegitimate slangs, I couldn't control myself for expressing the non-communistic love for my city.