Life thoughts

Since time immemorial most of the kings or emperors wanted to increase their power and area of influence. This led to small battles or full fledged wars to loot or to acquire the territory of neighbors and forcibly takeover their livestock or wealth etc. War has always been costly affair and for that kings had to increase the taxes on its citizen which used to deteriorate the living standard of common man and people living in extreme poverty leading to discontent.   Moving to 16th and 17th century, new class of Europeans merchants started trading with distant countries which were not sharing border with them. There were trade routes between Europe and Americas & Asia and to increase their profits they planned to control the produce in other continents which required military power and money to fund those military expedition. Rich people in Europe funded these but not through taxes but they gave it voluntary in lieu of profits. Companies like East India Company were part of ...

In hindi movie "Mission Mangal" actor Akshay Kumar speaks about the Indians at the top of corporate ladder in US. Be in Sundar Pichai of Google, or Satya Nadella of Microsoft or India Nooyi of Pepsico etc. There are many more Indians who have reached to pinnacle in their fields be it Amartaya Sen for economics or HarGobind Khorana in biochemistry but mostly out of India. It is not that Individuals in India didn't achieve anything, Raman got Raman effect on his name, Aryabhatta got Zero and there are more such names but they achieved much more when they were living and working outside India and we Indians didn't do justice to our potential. I wonder what makes Indians to shine outside and covered with dirt while staying India. I can't doubt our brilliance and issue can't be with individual it has to be collective systematic failure.  Many centuries or millennial back, when the things were not complex, individual intelligence was probably enough for a society to...

In Covid times, our Prime minister, Mr. Narendra Modi has given slogan of self reliant India. What does that mean? Does it mean that we produce everything what we need internally in India? Now the question arise, is it possible? Can we do that?  In entirety i don't think this is possible even and we have to depend on outside world for some of our needs. Biggest share of our imports are crude oil, electronics, precious metal & machinery. Out of these we can't produce crude oil or previous metals as they are mostly located in few geographies only. Electronics is one area where imports have grown exponentially in recent past and it will continue to grow in near future also. Can we make everything that we need in electronics? I will let you to decide. Let me take one example of mobiles phones in this category and iphone in particular, though this is more or less same for other mobile devices makers. Mobile phone required following. Chipset, Apple uses its own Application proces...

Way to look into future and visit our past In everyone's life many a times one get curious to know what had happened to him or in general in the past or what is going to happen in the future. People say that with Yog or Sadhna one can do that. It might be possible but the logical mind doesn't accept it. Let us see if there is a scientific way  for future or past travel.  Everyone must have heard and seen cloud thundering. The energy travel in two ways, one is thru sound waves and other is light wave. Speed of light is about 300,000,000 meter/sec while speed of sound is 343 meter/sec. That means that a person can see the event of thunder happening well before he can hear about it even though event has happened at the same time. If we have two friends sitting together and one is blind then the friend with vision can always predict the future and tell his blind friend well in advance that thunder is going to happen in few seconds which the blind friend will hear in few seconds an...

This is my first blog, i hope to get suggestions to improve further and appreciation if i was able to bring different perspective of customs that we follow in India. In today's busy world we tend to hear little bit about some custom and we make our opinion regarding that very quickly and then we either try to trash that quickly or sometimes we don't think over it and just keep on following that even if some change is required in that. Some of our customs were well thought of during prevalent times and they were really good Ritis but with change in time few might have become Kuritis and need some changes to it In India, getting married in life is one of the biggest event in one's life and marriages are also an ocean of customs that we are religiously following for long long time. There are couple of things we associate with wedding, food/party and the dowry, lets not jump in the conclusion yet. Let me take few of the customs we follow in marriage and put my perspective and...