Silent Prayer For Faith Astrayed

"Itna Aadar Insaan To Kya, Pathhar Bhi Pooje Jaate Hain", are the famous lines from manoj kumar's Purab Aur Paschim , depicting India's cultural heritage & religious mindset of the Indians.

Although there are numerous religion in India, but 82% of India's population follows Hinduism. And the above lines holds good for Hindu religion only. This religious nature of Indians has been sought to give them mental peace, social unity & stress free lifestyle, in which western countries are far behind us.


India may be among top ten in the chart for crimes, rapes, murders & corruption (total number, not per capita), but it don't find any position in the chart for teenage pregnancy, divorce rate, abortion ratio. Which I believe is because we have a blind faith in our religion and we follow our sculptures.


Did you notice that I am contradicting myself with the title i have chosen? no, I am not. I am neither atheist nor agnostic, but i see the religion with a different perspective. And due to which today i strongly want to condemn the precious gifts, the richest temple in the world, tirupati gets every year. Every year The richest god becomes more richer by kilos of gold & precious stones presented by business tycoons & infamous politicians.

I don't have stats to prove that none of it goes to society welfare, but one thing i am sure of that lord venkateshwara won't enjoy the diamond crown on His head if many of His disciple struggle for one time meal. Today Lord venkateshwara possess the jewellery worth Rs 50000 crores in His treasure, which is guarded by cctv cameras and comes out once in a year.


He would have been much proud of them if Instead of crowning Him with diamond & gold, they create jobs for poor, schools for orphans & medication for diseased one. Today we are worshipping the Pather, but we have forgot our responsibility towards poor. I am sure tirumala trust would be having some or the other such organization for serving poor, but these hefty gift item are definitely not serving any purpose other than decorating some stone. Does any faith needs attractive gods? Does your love for your spouse demands physical beauty? of course not, these are the feelings, which should not get affected by material things.


I am by no means against the worshiping of god in the temple, I myself goes once in a week, because it keeps my faith alive, it gives me peace. But I prefer to serve Him by serving someone in need.


PS: please try to forgive me, if someone's believe is hurt by this sensitive topic.

papa!!! where can i float my boat?

Today is worlds environment day. And I am tempted to acknowledge it either by doing something or by promising something.

Yesterday Bangalore witnessed heavy rain for short amount of time. We were on the cafeteria, enjoying the rain, watching the road jam on bannerghatta road and noticing the water flowing by the sidewalks. There was enough water on cafeteria floor so we took some pages and started making paper boat.

After lots of hits & trials we could make everything but boat. By the time we could have asked someone how to make it, rain stopped & water from cafeteria was dragged away by the sweeper. And our desire to bring back memory from our childhood went to trash.

Later that night i was thinking about those good old days when i used to bother my sister to make a boat for me so that i can follow the same on the sloppy road ,when i used to pray for rain to happen for a mere rainy day holiday or when i used to demand for onion pakoras to enjoy the rain and when i wanted to get wet in the rain accidentally.

Now when i can afford kukure to enjoy the rain, i can ask a child to make a boat for me, i am free to get wet as much as i want & i can enjoy the rain at home by applying the leave online, rain doesn't lasts for that long.

Last year Bangalore faced power crisis because of decreasing water level in the river. This year also i suppose this is going to happen. While in west Bengal cyclone named Aila left 140 people dead & thousands affected, monsoon is expected to reach in UP & Bihar quite late this year too. Like every year this year also some of the states will face drought & some will be washed away with flood.

Although many of us don't give a damn about monsoon ,flood or drought, because as long as we are inside our flat situated in a metropolitan city and as long as pizza are available on our door steps, we can enjoy these natural calamities also on TV. We generally expresses our concerns on global warming, ozone depletion, solar variation but we do very little to save our precious environment.

I have decided that from now onward I wont be asking for polythene whenever i go to more or nilgiri. And I am goin to ask all the banks to send a ecopy instead of hard copy of my monthly statements.

I don't know what you can do to save your environment, but whatever it is, find that out before its too late, because you can not buy rain or the excitement you child can attain by floating a paper boat.