DIWALI WHAT IT MEANT TO YOU

              HINDUSTAN A NATION FAMOUS FOR FESTIVALS

I initially wrote INDIA but then edited with HINDUSTAN. What difference does it make be it INDIA or HINDUSTAN? Friends let me inform you that in age of modernization and industrialization we are heading towards INDIA from HINDUSTAN where we celebrate our festivals with less efforts and antiquate. Where we do enlighten our home but we least use the very traditional oil deeps which actually represents the sentiments of BHARAT which rejoiced on the return of LORD RAMA. Which lit lights and deeps to welcome RAMA who registered win over evil and restored the rule of equity and fraternity. But we celebrate our diwali alone in flats. We don't even visit our flat mates. In the age of 4G we do get blessings of our parents but on live chats. We use led lights to decorate and artificial rangoli. The festival has been commercialized. I don't complain about that but at least we must avoid china made lights and use Indigenous earth light. And we must celebrate this and all other festivals with our family and our friends in Indigenous way. And spread the lights of truth and non-violence, equity and justice. So that we must adopt the spirit of the very festival DEEPAWALI. And spread happiness in the hearts of your parents who sacrificed all their comfort for you. And with your friend who always stood by you in your pleasure and pain.

MY RANGOLI

        

Middle class mentality

              Sub-Standard people with Sub-Standard thoughts

Here it is referred about those people who are some how managing their bread and butter, if not butter then at least dalda . Friends these are the people who feel proud on being segregated from the so called lower-class people. They does not have much time to look into the studies of their wards because by evening they are so dry in earning their basic needs that they simply go for sleep. May be due to tiredness may be because they have to start fresh the other day.Whatever be the reason neither they are bothered nor their kids who love playing. Their kids mostly overlook those wounds for which a High-class kid would have run for tetanus and first-aid but the middle-class kid cannot afford these expenses. They are forced to live in a flat on rent. Stranger to every new place he has to shift, never become the part of society. They are not allowed to opt gardening as their hobby. They don't know what and how they serve in restaurants. They have never seen how the screen of cinema hall looks like. New cycle for him is like SUKHOI-30 the costliest gift. They use their pencil till it is finished. 

But when it comes on helping someone or solving others problem High-Class people avoid involving in charity. Here also  you will find middle-class people spending their time in helping others all because they have enough time. Middle class man spend their time in doing nothing. If a road accident take place you will not see any high-class people stopping for the victims. Here also middle-class men spend their spare time in helping sufferers.  

My Rangoli Art: my colour

                              2006 Diwali When it started

                                  2007 Diwali when I used branch of a tree

               2008 Diwali when I used plant leaves to make rangoli

       

                          2009 Diwali use of marigold leaves and colours

                       

          2010Diwali when I used velvetpaper,magicballs,and water-lights 

      

    2011 Diwali combination of white,red and green with gliters

                                         

                                            2012 random idea given shape

                                                   

                                                  He who gave them shape

                                2014 Diwali when ganesha came to my home

               2015 multi color rangoli with peacock wings in the centre 

shadow of sun

                                      The holy sun in the holy Ganga

would you like to pluck the fruit?

                                  shooting the costliest fruit

ODDs and EVEN of NARENDRA MODI speech in UNO

                               LION COULD NOT ROAR

It was certainly a delight to hear MODIJI in UN. But the speech he is famous for he could not deliver the same. Media follows NAMO, and media favours NAMO but what INDIA lacked in the regime of congress in the speeches of premier of the country that cannot be compensated as speculated by the country.He spoke in Hindi and this made media to compare his speech with that of ATALJI but to my surprise his speech was nowhere near to that of ATALJI extempore speech,as he was seen looking in to paper for source. Even in the matters of PAKISTAN he seemed to be more like a statesman that leader of a country which is facing terrorism and insurgency since independence. When PAKISTAN raised the issue of referendum in Kashmir what prevented MODI to raise the issue of terrorism,violation of cease-fire,insurgency, and Al quaeda. Although he talked about it indirectly by using terms like good and bad terrorism, and condemned some nations for allowing their soil to be used for rise of these terrorist, but this also seemed to be bureaucratic effort by not taking the name of PAKISTAN directly.I don't think the leaders of RSS would be happy to hear his speech.

Now talking about Even, there major three things he talked about, 1. global village, 2. co-operation in field of cyber space and clean water 3.global terrorism. Talking about the first he connected the effort of INDIA in global cooperation to her culture by using phrase वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम। He also advocated for reforms in UNO by talking about the side effects of less participation of Nations in UNO by citing examples of different groups and advocated unity among them. He also demanded cooperation from UN in fields of cyber space and clean water indirectly.Lastly he talked about global terrorism and appreciated efforts to finish it, but at the same time he advocated for the inclusion of assent of all nations in such operations. By talking about good and bad terrorism he indirectly tried to surround PAKISTAN,but this indirect blame would have gone in vein if he would have prevented himself by directly commenting on PAKISTAN which he finally does not. As he said that the issue of Kashmir cannot be solved by raising it in UN and also said that INDIA want bilateral talks with PAKISTAN which clearly sidelined any role of UNO in Kashmir. But certainly he would have replied in a better way, may be the pressure of UNO affected his flow. Similar bureaucratic approach is not expected in his policies when dealing with PAKISTAN.   

IS INDIAN MEDIA HEADING TOWARDS CULTURAL VACCUME ?

                           Indian Media:Its Social Obligation v. TRP

On one fine evening i was watching some news channels in quest for news. Previous day a boy was killed by Tiger in Delhi zoo.What was the reason behind that accident? Who were responsible for the accident? Was it possible to save his life? These are the question to be answered after inquiry  but certainly some other questions related to incidence troubled me and  forced me to raise these questions infront public through my blog. The questions were, what is the role of media in our society? Media has any role in building a nation or not? Is media really fourth pillar of democracy? And the answer of these questions were not encouraging when i tried to answer those in context of Indian media. In this particular case media seemed to be trying to sketch TRP. A case which demanded a all together different role from media, it acted reverse . Where media was required to contribute in the inquiry and find out the culprit and create pressure to punish them. Media on the contrary did some thing else they used the video clip(I am finding it difficult to understand who the hell shooted  these videos,our society has become that insensitive? that is a different discussion, so leaving that) and the clip was on Air till the next day and was broadcasted with different headings. Anchor seemed to be trying to create a sensational thrilling program out of the real mishap. How sad is it? Where Indian Journalism is going.

I was delighted to see the role of media before Parliament Elections, where they contributed in the festival of democracy by performing the role assigned to them and certainly the rise in polling percentage must be credited in the accounts of  youth and media. Social media also proved to have acted as platform for discussing the worth of a candidate and a party.But today it seemed to me that media is still trying to cash the popularity of Our Prime Minister and has become insensitive enough to cash the end of a life even. It is unfortunate. But we cannot blame media alone as media project only those stories which are liked by people of this country. So till Indian audience will continue watching Big Boss and Roadies where one is full of obscenity and the other is dictionary of abusive language, till we cannot expect change in TV programs or in the approach of media. Till Indian audience will continue searching reality in TV we will see media trying to make stories in utmost mishap/accident even of death.