Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Road to anihilation

As one who is observing the things going on around the nation, one is afraid to state that we are on the road to anihilation. One cannot honestly say that all the wings of our governance are free of corruption and scandals. The neo- liberal policies initiated two decades ago, at the instance of US have began to show its worst consequences. People of this part of the world held judiciary in high esteem as it was reasonably fair and just. The emergence of corporates as the major decision makers in the country , pushed the judiciary as their bidding. During this period hundreds of unfair judgements emerged from the highest court of the country which were patently anti- worker and anti poor . They were in effect giftting the heard earned treasures of the nation to a few corporate pirates. Perhaps our judges too migth have become richer in the process. It is with much pain we witness this gory sell out. Hope a day will come when more and more people realise this robbery and threw the agents of MNCs and Super Power from all the arms of our goverment and usher in a true democratic state, which our founding fathers really dreamed about.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Arrogance of the Young Pianist

A father, enrolled his 5 years old son to a music school to learn how to play piano, in the hope that the son would later grow up being a famous grand pianist.A few months passed, and there came a very famous pianist to the town where the father and the son lived. In just hours, the concert ticket for his show got sold out. Luckily the father and the son managed to get two tickets for themselves.On the day of the performance, it was one hour before the concert started, the seats were already filled with crowds, and the father sat with his son by his side. As how ordinary a child is, the son didn't find it so pleasurable to just sit doing nothing, and without his father knowing, he slipped away.A father, enrolled his 5 years old son to a music school to learn how to play piano, in the hope that the son would later grow up being a famous grand pianist.A few months passed, and there came a very famous pianist to the town where the father and the son lived. In just hours, the concert ticket for his show got sold out. Luckily the father and the son managed to get two tickets for themselves.On the day of the performance, it was one hour before the concert started, the seats were already filled with crowds, and the father sat with his son by his side. As how ordinary a child is, the son didn't find it so pleasurable to just sit doing nothing, and without his father knowing, he slipped away.The pianist was surprised too, and quickly get himself to the stage. Seeing the child playing innocently, he was not angry, instead he smiled and said, "Keep on playing", and the child who got the permit, kept on his play.The pianist then sat beside the child and started playing together with the child balancing and adding fabulous piano strikes to the play, he filled in the gaps and weaknesses, that they could bring to the audience a very beautiful piano play. It was moreover incredible that it was as if they were united and being as one playing the piano. When both were done, the whole audience gave them very big applause and awe, bouquet of flowers thrown from everywhere to the stage.Unfortunately, for that, the child became arrogant, he thought, "Wow, just one month of piano practice I could be this great!"The child was not aware that the one being cheered merrily by the audience was the pianist sitting by him, filling all his gaps and perfecting his play.~~~~~~What are the implications in our life?Many times we feel so proud for our achievements and successes, and become forgetful of those people around us who were actually very part of our success. Those forces may seems to be invisible, or maybe working our success from behind, but we never not owe our achievements to everybody living, to anything that ever exist for us and any other everything else. Understanding this perfectly, one would automatically always stay humble and never have the reason again to be arrogant