Friday, January 5, 2024

Wonderful World

It's such a wonderful world

So unbelievably magical and colorful

There is this hot big ball of fire and light

That rises up cool orange in the morning

And sets down as deep orange in the evening

It is white, bright and warm in the day

But we have dark nights at end of day

Heat and cold both have its share

With the presence and absence of sun’s glare

So wonderfully they share…

 

Plants too welcome and like the sun

Each day they are happy to see him

Their leaves and flowers smile at him

Throughout the day

Appreciating and thanking the sun

For what they get from his light

What a wonderful site…

 

Birds live on the trees and shrubs

Different shapes, sizes and colors

Each bird has its own song

Birds sing because they have a song

Hundreds of them make a symphony

And for them it is never one too many

Their religion is singing

So wonderful hear that

When one drops out other comes up

So symphony does not stop


No one can find earth's end

It is like a huge round orange

We could run around it

Without falling off the edge

Outside it is cold, crusty and welcoming

But inside red hot, molten and forbidding

Earth rotates and revolves

It also behaves like an unstable drunk

So wonderful to know that she is having fun


Then we have seas and oceans

Faces of which may be violent

But inside is spiritual and nonviolent

Depths of seas have a lot more life

Living undisturbed, quietly

With peace and zero anxiety

There is also a barter going on

Between the sun, oceans

Planes and mountains

They all barter in forms of water

The sea cleans the atmosphere

And also regulates the temperature

For us, earthlings

What a wonderful understanding…






Thursday, January 4, 2024

Non-existent existence

I was just a point

A dot

In a state of singularity

I had no face, no body

No heart or brain

No identity or name

But that was real 'me'

Entirely me

It was blissful being that dot…

Now, there are trillions of dots inside me

In my body, in my brain

All these dots interact with each other

And with other dots in the universe

Getting entangled

They fight and cry

Love, hate or rejoice

Sometime outside dots order my dots around

In another moment my own dots want to run the world

Want to own the world…

I miss that early state

That one point was much more sacred

Than all these trillions put together

My originality is lost due to multiplicity

I wish to return to the same state,

To the state of singularity and

Non-existent existence


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Sunday, March 10, 2019

NDA's 2014-19 Tenure

The most important event that is approaching in Indian calendar is our parliamentary elections. The dates have not been announced yet, but processes are on. Actual voting is due to start from April 2019. It will take a very long time, as India is a huge country with a massive population. Thus the election becomes a massive project that includes movement of work force, material, ballot boxes, security-personnel and any other forces that might be required for such important sensitive activity. But good thing is that India has gone through this exercise many times earlier and it will successfully do it this time again.

Present NDA government took over the reins of the running the country in 2014. BJP was the most powerful party, as it had won maximum seats on its own. PM, Modi has been honest, hardworking and person with foresight. He had led the country from front and allowed every other minister to use their own initiative and intelligence in their ministries. I did not see that anyone was snubbed, restricted or told to do things differently. This government has two women handling the most powerful and important ministries; MEA and MoD.

This government has done so much for actual poor and middle class of the country; mainly for women. On 15 Aug, PM had announced that all the villages will be connected with electricity within a stipulated time and it was done. Secondly PM Modi’s massive ‘cleanliness’ drive pan India has taken roots. His drive against open defecation has worked wonders. Many cities and states are now ODF (open defecation free). It may be known to many but cleanliness actually leads to better health in immediate future. We in India say, ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’.

PM Modi understood a real, practical and unavoidable problem of women while cooking for her family. It’s the smoke from the wood fire. Cooking has to be done and has to be done without fail. So, millions of gas connections via gas cylinders were provided ‘free of cost’ to such families, especially in the north-east of the country. Now these women can cook without shedding tears.

PM Modi has done great job in foreign affairs. He brought so many countries back into our fold. PM Modi has rejuvenated relationships with few countries, people thought were kind of ‘not required or not important to pursue’. I can name Mongolia in this context. He also improved our connections with many nations who always thought were actually ‘not our friends’.

Awtar Krishna Kaul Essay

  It was the end of 1971. I was still at the Film Institute doing my final year of sound recording course. One fine evening some of my frien...