Gandhi haters

There is a section of people who love to glorify Nathuram Godse and his philosophy. And produce logical justifications for his killing of Gandhi. Earlier these voices were subdued . Now with the anonymity and secrecy of group chats , we find them everywhere.

I can only feel pity about these mentally retarded people and their progenies. If they were from the uneducated or socially disadvantaged strata of the society , I would understand. But surprisingly they are from our own social circles and well to do middle class upbringings .

I don't know if it is my fault to have such hateful and spiteful people in my circles . Sometimes I wonder what is the fate of people like me in this world of venomous creepy crawlies all around . #Randomthoughts

Morons

#Justsaying  You can take people out of rural areas and give them an urban life, but it is very difficult to take out the hackneyed and regressive rustic mindset out of them .

Find this amplified with what happens everyday around me and the interactions I  have , physically or virtually ,,.

Just to give an example got this forward in a Whatsapp group of well educated and well placed individuals .

इंदिरा विधवा हुई तो प्रधानमंत्री बनी, सोनिया विधवा हुई कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष बनी, राजनीति बलि माँगती है
ईश्वर रॉबर्ट वाड्रा की रक्षा करें
( Translation - Indira became a Prime minister after being widowed, Sonia became Congress President after being widowed, Politics demand sacrifice, May God save Robert Vadra ).

I know it very well that there will be still some people reading this post who will  laugh it off as a joke and there will be a few who will be elated .

The opening paragraph of this post describe them aptly . #BitterPill

Happiness

We all know early in life from others that happiness can neither be bought or kept locked in a vault as treasure. But still we carry on with the grind of life , relations , wealth , power , religion with the false notion that we.are all doing it for happiness , if not ours then for our dear ones.   After chasing it for a lifetime in vain , you realise  that happiness is not a destination either where you can expect to rest forever after you do your duty. Neither it is the culmination nor the beginning . 

Is happiness then the sum total of all the moments and all the feelings which we enjoy from our within without any efforts to achieve them. Exploring the thread of such feelings and moments makes me conscious that life as I have lived has not been wasted as I normally like to think . So it must be true.

Alpha male syndrome

#Randomthoughts People like Shashi Tharoor, Imran Khan or Anup Jalota , just to name a few as glaring and contemporary reference , are envied by most males . More so in a sociallly regressive milieu of this subcontinent with  conservative patriarchal valuesets which restrict sexual or even platonic interactions with females. The skewed sex ratio also adds up to the problem .

Frustrated males devoid of a  loving , caring and fulfilling sexual relationship with a suitable female partner feel themselves inconsequential and slighted to see a middle aged or older male public figure with a desirable younger female. The plain jealousy and envy raises the hackles of the dormant alpha male in them . And it triggers the obnoxious reaction of running down the celebrity. Of course, the vitriolic opposition is given a moral pyjama to wear ,as an excuse.

A man who has ever loved and received the love of a woman will never feel threatened or jealous of another man. Slightly concerned or amused , maybe but never to the point of running down another chap as immoral.
#Justsaying

Alistair Cook

What a way to sign off in style and ride into the horizon . Every cricketer surely dreams of such moment in their lives . Very few can actually  live up to it.

Alistair Cook , Congratulations . Perhaps this century that you have scored in your farewell test match is the crown on your glorious cricketing career .

To chose your final essay on the pich at the prime is by itself an act of courage and determination , more so when one has the world record of playing the highest number of consecutive test matches. To end the career with such elan is just awesome

Like

Perhaps all of us realise by now that there is no reason to take facebook Likes seriously. Because many people also click the Like button  involuntarily even in case of a notification of death.

By the way, don't  take the acronym RIP also too seriously . It may also mean Really Irritating Person .

So whether you like this post or not , please do not post RIP when you learn about my death . I will not like that .

🤓😎🤗

Museum fire

#MuseumFire News reports say that a fire has gutted down Brazil’s National Museum at Rio. It appears that extensive , almost near total damage has been done to the artefacts. If true , then it's truly heartbreaking. There really is no greater loss than historical treasures and art. This can be only compared with a part of your memory being erased , for ever.

This particular museum is said to have housed one of the best collections of indigenous literature and artefacts in the world. And we all know that though very old , the sourcing of these invaluable treasures started only about six centuries back . That way perhaps , it is a loss for the entire world.

What surprises me is how can such calamity be allowed to wreak so much havoc at such an important place .  Maybe a fire can't be prevented from occurring but surely there are several measures of fire safety that goes with such important places. Don't know why or how the Brazilian government chose to ignore the safety measures .

That brings another question to mind . Are our own museums safe to prevent such catastrophic eventualities ? Hope they have.
#Randomthoughts.