Protest

Whenever I have opened facebook today I have seen different posts and pictures regarding the rape case of Delhi, protests in varied languages and pictures. But do these guys really believe that giving a status update or sharing a picture can bring in a change to the society and rapes cases will never appear in the newspapers again or the rate of the crime will decrease? Have changes in history ever came so easily?
I tell you after a few days they all will be back to their normal life and all these posts will rot in their timeline. If they really want to act and bring a change why not study hard and become an IPS officer or rather join the politics and try and get elected in the Lok Sabha where they can make laws according to their will and make a better India.

Donation to God

I live in Kolkata and one of the major festivals of the people living in here is the Durga Puja. Its a festival celebrated for five days and the people go for pandal hopping day and night these five days to see the various pandals and idols made on a variety of themes. And, I was no exception.

But, as I moved about along with my companions I noticed people giving money in honor of the Gods in glass boxes kept in the pandals for this purpose and a thought struck me. Are we big enough to give money to the Gods? Gods are believed to be the most powerful forces in the universe and man is just an creation of the God just like the earth and all other things, only blessed with a soul. Then how can human being which is so small in contrast to the universe have the audacity to donate money towards God?

Whenever we give money to someone, we may not tell it in words, but subconsciously it is understood that we are greater than them in terms of money, power, position or whatsoever. So do we convey that we are
greater than God when we donate money towards God?

However, by all these I don't mean to say that you should not donate money towards the trust or foundation which are organising the puja. Don't get me wrong. I am just saying that if you really want to donate some money towards the organisation it should be done at a corner and not at the centre. The donation box should be kept at a side where people would donate if they wanted to. But it is never done. The donation box is always kept at the centre in front of the Goddess and whenever you give some money over there it seems that you are giving money to the God.

Life After Death / Life Before Death

A few days back i watched a film, namely, The Dirty Picture, which
traced the subsequent rise and fall of Silk Smitha, a Kollywood
actress or rather a item song dancer of the 80's. She came to the
limelight by shedding off her inhibitions & almost all her clothes which all the other actresses were unwilling to do at that era and earned some real cash in no time. However, at the end of the film she is seen regretting her
life-turning decisions: not listening to her mother about getting
married and settling down with her husband. She regrets her running
off from her village home the day before her marriage, showing off her
body on screen and finally loving all the men she had loved in her
life. When she becomes fed up with her unsuccessful career, her
bankruptcy, her no relationship with her mother; she realises her end
has come and uses the ultimate weapon of man, commits suicide.

Now the point is that was her life worthy? She may not have enjoyed her
life except for a very brief period of time yet a film has been made
after twenty years of her death and the whole country knows her today.
Had she been just a wife she might have lived a peaceful life & died of old age or of some disease and no one would have known her but she would have had peace of mind. So what is important: a life where there’s a lot of cash, fame & power or a life where peace of mind exists? Which one should we strive for? I simply don’t know.

Unconditional Loyalty

A few days back I finished reading The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini. It was a great book, needless to say, for the accolades it had received says all about it silently. So I wouldn't go into all that.

But after completing the book a question got in my mind. Hassan, the Hazara servent of the protagonist, was always very loyal to his master & tried in every way possible to keep his master happy. He cared for his master so much that he left his homeland, his own home and came to his master's house to save it from getting ruined and later got himself killed in the hands of the Tallibans just to save his master's house. Now, what I was asking myself is that whether loyalty like this is truly what all the masters must deserve and Hassan is an ideal servant or is it that Hassan was wrong and there must be a limit to the services they offer??? I really don't know the answer to this but to some extent, I personally believe that giving up one's life and putting one's family at stake for his/her master must be too much of loyalty. Please correct me if I am wrong.