If My Father was a Politician...

If my father was a politician...

 

Ah! What bright days it could be. Wow! It would be an each day in the valley of corruption. The paradise lay in some green shades of corruption. Before independence our country was at the mercy of British, its rulers and then post independence it's been at the mercy of the rulers, the politicians. However, yes we must agree (and we have agreed to that), after independence a lot has been done for the progress of the country. 

 

We have made progress in several areas be it science and technology, economic field, power generation, atomic energy, political field, but there is one thing that has not been sorted or rather we can say it has made too much progress and that is CORRUPTION!

 

If my papa was a Politician I would legalise CORRUPTION!

 

Corruption is a part of everything from the high level to the low level from the government to the pandus (policemen), be it private schools or builders, name it and corruption exists however the levels of it range. We all know corruption exists in every part every corner, in everything that is to do with us, Indian Humans.

 

An interesting point of view it is and it will continue to be till we don’t accept it in our deeds. We use it in our words we follow it in our deeds then why not even, in our words we accept ourselves as corrupt where the problem is? In the present situation where is the problem? Have we ever looked into what are we missing when in our deeds we do it but in our words we don’t accept it, why? Why, taking the stress, why contradicting ourselves?

 

If Papa was a politician I would legalise it. Where you could bribe officially to the concerned person and they could have their rate card of bribing, but it will benefit the government also at large by giving a very small amount like one percent to the government which they can use for education and offer free education which will result in higher literacy rate all across India and not only Kerala. The benefit of some can be gain for many. Why don’t we accept that this is the most apt thing which could have been accepted, why don’t we trade in deeds the corrupt?

 

We are on an age where copying from the west and irrespective of having so many Government document we have AADHAR card the one card then why can’t we encourage ourselves to go a step ahead with making ‘corruption debit cards’ which you can swipe when a pandu has stopped you from breaking a rule and you could swipe it a percent would transfer to the government and the rest to him. It would be just like a stock exchange perfect demand and supply as per the situation. 

 

Your experience is your experience no one can wear it like skin like how you have been carrying it. A state of let-go in to be, in-tune with corruption; with the totality that there is no separation at all between honest and corrupt, there is no question of doing it is being, corrupt. We all waste time in remembering the rules why not just do and easily do without being ashamed. Being available to what it is. Cultivate corruption when will-we start accepting the ‘corruption rate card...’ What better offer this year you’ll get? Just sit down now. Such harmless transformation becomes “the one” that starts the procession.

—
Shwets :)

Tribute to My Mother :)

I am writing a TRIBUTE TO MOM in association with parentous.com

From the beans in a beanbag to beans on toast, from the black and white to the color in a 7 course roast. I dived into a pool of unrequited love, a womb that played my host. She nurtured a little thing into a 27 year old something, today. That is ‘Me’ and ‘She’ is my ‘Mother.’ The one cliché that still holds her sanctity no breed can match up-to. “Maa ke pairon mein jannat.” they say, this is true. The ONE word that is, yet to be defined in one single word - Mother. God plays the jester here in this Real Life Drama called Life. In my case he (God) decided to shower her with obstacles very few living souls can endure. Not a sob story, but matter of fact - at 21, this young budding girl loses her father, her house, people connive, people hate, people condemn, families drift apart.. In that storm of distress and suffocation, I saw this woman, barely gotten her own bearings straight. No idea how she did and continues her duty, standing there in the middle of this bustle. Stretching her arms out to me, knowing full well, she was set to play my mother, my father, and most of all, my best friend for years to come. She bored a beating heart of size and shape of hers; yet not her and yet not, completely different from her.

The journey we were about to set onto. And so we did. There's no science to it. It is as simple as a grain of salt that starts its journey locked inside a sealed Rupee 20 cocooned plastic wrap, and then sprinkled out one fine day into the dreads of real challenges, to deal with taste. I like to think, she embodies one such grain that created me, a taste.. I am her shadow. As I strolled she was there with me across the difficulties of childhood the adolescence of childhood and the confusion of teenage. She set up an example to me to be. In words, the number of words a dictionary developed with the maximum words will fall short to millions of things I saw, I observed to appreciate her. If I fly high and I fly high, sky touching high, on the bed of roses if I hear any music. She is the one, my Mother is the one.

My mother is complete in every way for me and the reason is because it is she, who has completed me, sees me accomplished. While walking on the terrain of my life, full with ups and downs, I always feel her presence like the soothing breeze, always encouraging me. Not letting me down or under anything, to give me anxiety of any kind. Her talk, her words, her voice’s sound fills me with the nourishment that is like love and peace.

Passing through the salad, through the appetizers, the main course, the desserts, the ice cream, let’s just say, without that one grain of salt at the brink of taste, your entire evening your life could end. Now that’s the real journey... Its cliché to compare her she is like a seven course meal complete in every way possible she is healthy like the salad. It is she who has taught me what it is to be healthy and whole and complete. When I was a kid she never forced me to do something she believed in a very simple policy that she would explain me what she felt was right and I had a chance to discuss with her clearly what I felt if I could convince her with my thought. I would win in this way. She made me who I am. I do I did I will, conquer and she will yet witness all of; as she has been with a smiles an endless smile on her face without imposing a dogma on me.

She is like an appetizer as she inculcated curiosity in me like an appetizer does for food to learn, to live life with a sense of wonder, with the sense of cherishment, etc. She taught me that question yourself when in doubt than questioning outside. She fills me with abundance like the main course is filled with abundance. So many dishes around to fill the appetite; she has filled me with abundance of emotions to fill the appetite of my soul and perform my duties.  

She is filled with warmth of love and care, like a hot bowl of soup in a way. There are times I do not understand her when I do not get things right. Those are the times when she is worried for me. Her way of showing concern, she scolds me! At times she apologizes later, I do get hurt but only till I do not understand her point of view. Just alike if you put hot soup in your mouth its warmth can burn you but then you understand your mistake. She is like a rich wine; she ripens in her wisdom as she grows older, this I have witnessed and I continue witnessing. She herself mentions that as I keep growing she keeps growing too as a mother it is a dual growth which cannot be separated. Just like the grapes from the wine.

Being a daughter the relationship is little complex because I look at her what a woman is. As I am growing up I have reached this stage, to an extent grown up as very another woman who lives her life, differently. I choose between imitating my mother having significant influences in my life. A slice of life on a plate, today I look back, and I see a canvas full of colors and yet the parts that shine are the silver grey, strands of hair in my mother’s hair. The experience and the baggage of duties that we all ignore on a 4 o’clock afternoon napping in our beds while she is up and about preparing the next meal. It is my turn to give back.. But then, we are friends. We're a team. Love is just the beginning. I am her taste, I am what she perceived 25 years ago, in a kitchen - a taste to make her Chef proud.

As an adolescent I might have look down on her my mother and think that other woman are much better. Of course I was not a fully grown woman which I am still not hence took the leverage to, do not understand the challenges and choices that my mother would have faced. It is only when I am becoming her slowly second to second day by day year after year I am one who fully appreciates my mother.

She is colorful like a fruit platter, bringing so many diverse joys together on my plate of life. No one will ever understand what she goes through and what strength she has except for me as I am the only one who knows what her heart sounded like from inside. And in every step I take my eyes wonder, I bow I bend on my knees.

Thank is a word which has a meaning to the core and on the outer surface as well. It is a word that comes to me first for my mother from the deepest core of my senses. Thanks to my mother is a truth that need-not-need a witness to prove. Not boasting about myself but about the motherhood that gave life to a satisfaction a smile as that last piece of salt, it is a great pleasure for me, to start living in this world through my mother’s carving. My mother the dearest will always be by my side wherever I go, wherever I be, this is a permanence to me to her to BE.

Review if Stop the Wedding - Stephanie Bond

I had never read anything by author Stephanie bond before but I will definately read in the future. It was a cute uncomplicated read. Loved the plot and I loved how the author made her character so normal. Annabelle And Clay didnt want their parents to marry each other they go about breaking them up only to find there was a spark between them which they never expected. Loved the line where annabelle mom tell her that the best part of Love is it sustains maintains and above all it remains. It's a cute love story worth a read:-)

GIVING AND LIVING

A story that i came across and want to share with you all " A STORY OF GIVING AND LIVING" A story of a rich Goan landlord who once asked his parish priest - " why does everybody call me stingy when everyone knows that when i die i will leave everything that i have to this church?" the priest said; there was once a pig and a cow in this village. this puzzled the pig. the pig said to the cow, people speak warmly of your good nature and your helpful attitude. they think you are genrous because each day you give them milk, butter and cheese. but what about me? i give them everything i have, i give them the famous goa sausages, bacon and ham. i also provide ingredientsfor sorpotel yet no one likes me. why is that? the priest continued ' do you know what the cow answered? the cow said "perhaps its because i give while i am still living"

MUSIC FOR SOUL

Music has a healing touch, music is used for relaxation, stress
reduction, pain relief and tapping into one soul. There are variety of
instruments or sounds that can be used for making music a window to
our soul.

So what makes this music “healing music?” or “music for our soul”

Music has a way of stirring our innermost feelings and all our five
senses, it helps us in tapping our inner most potential. Music is a
universal language that has the ability to speak to us deeply and
uniquely.

If you've paid much attention to how you respond to a variety of
music, you may have noticed that some music seems to energize you,
some music can move us to deep pain, or spark a special memory of a
time, place, or a relationship. Some music seems to make you relax,
feel less stressed, and feel happier. And some music fills us with
deep spiritual fulfillment.

Let’s take the movie “Mughal – E – Azam” which has a gorgeous love
theme, the melodious music penetrates to us throughout the movie, and
throughout ourselves with its bitter sweetness, generating the beauty
of love and the tragedy of two lovers and the loss of their love.
Another legendary movie “Gumnaam” wouldnt be the same without its
daunting, low, repetitive sounds that makes you sit on the edge of
your seat waiting for someone to attack from somewhere.

One aspect of “healing” music is to stir our feelings, to help us deal
with our negative emotions like, grief, sadness, anger or other
feelings. By allowing ourselves to feel those feelings, the intensity
will eventually lessen and get released, resulting in us being healed.
When we avoid our feelings within us, whether we are aware of them or
not this is one of the wonderful ways music can be incredibly healing.

When you walk down to a mall, you will see a lot of instrumental Cd’s
how can these instrumental Cd’s be used. They are the best way of
relaxation whether we are aware of it or not, music that's relaxing
tends to slow down our heart rates to about one beat per second. If
we're feeling stressful, angry, anxious, or irritable, our heart rates
tend to increase. Music can actually help our heart rates slow down to
a more relaxing pace, changing our physiology. This phenomenon is what
can help me fall asleep more easily. It's what is found with mainly
meditation tapes or other instrumental music.

There is an unlimited ocean of combination of different music how does
one decide which music is made for their soul. As soul is unique of
each of us it is only we who can truly know which music stirs up our
energy and helps us to heal and balance ourselves. Whenever you listen
to a particular beat or a song and you feel each and every cell of
your body filling with ecstasy that beat or music is your music for
soul.

Papa i want you

If i could have a lifetime wish

A dream that would come true

I'd pray to god with all my heart for yesterday and you.

a thousand words cant bring you back

I know because i have tried

and neither will a million tears.

I know because i have cried

You left behind my broken heart and happy memories too

I never wanted memories

I only wanted you..........

DAMAGE CONTROL

Although the ring of money on the box office is fainter than ever before, the seasoned players of Bollywood are finding recession an event they believe should come once in a while!! Surprised? Don’t be! The current slowdown is being seen as a reality check in Bollywood which was long overdue. The world’s second largest film industry is now looking at a more realistic environment, thus making film production cheaper.The current economic outlook has brought some sanity in production budgets, say film industry veterans. Movie making is set to be cheaper by around 30 per cent this year as most of the actors are expected to take a cut in fees or striking innovative pricing deals with their producers which are more variabalised, linked to the outcome of the movie. With the future looking gloomy, producers are now looking at paying a reduced upfront fee or fixed fee to actors. Instead, they will be a given a share in the profits made by the film, as this will lead to 30-40 per cent cut in the fixed fees of all bankable actors,” There are unconfirmed reports that Bollywood actors such as Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan have recently entered into such revenue-sharing arrangements with their producers.A majority of the films made in this year will hit the box office in 2010.In the past few years, the euphoria had led to a overall escalation of costs beyond logical realms. Production, acquisition of talent, and salary costs had shot through the roof defying the logic of return on investment. Stars that were being paid above Rs 20 crore for a movie are now willing to take a 50 per cent cut in their fixed fee.Around 30-40 per cent of planned Bollywood films will not take off this year due to tightening of budgets by corporations, banks and other players, Even if these movies are made, they may not be released as the marketing costs of a movie are on the same lines of producing a movie. Considering that we have double the output of films as compared to Hollywood in a recession time one will have to just wait and watch how low financially the industry will be hit.