Just A Thought

" Self-Realization is the first encounter with Reality ." A simple but true statement. We spend years on this earth, lost and burdened with a load of aspirations and dreams. But for there comes a time in everyone's life when the realization struck like lightning and the entire life turns upside down. We realize that we've been chasing the wrong goals throughout our lives. Most of us spend our entire lifetimes chasing wealth, power, and materialistic joys of life and believing that achieving those goals would fill our lives with happiness. Little do we know that if happiness could be bought every rich man would be happy and poor would not be sleeping at night. However, we all know that is not true. But for the lucky ones who get a taste of this self-realization, a chance of turning around their lives presents itself.   I happened to have a similar experience. I was sitting in a restaurant with some of my friends, when suddenly in the middle of the conversation it struc...

It seems that the dream to see a corruption free India would remain a dream, atleast till the time UPA is in the power or we can say till the time this country is being ruled by Gandhi Family. In her latest statement Mrs. Sonia Gandhi has stated that the nation will have to accept the government's draft on Lokpal and there will be no further compromise on the part of the UPA government. She has also described the government's version of Lokpal bill as a path breaking legislation. Keeping the CBI under the administrative control of the government and controlling all the postings and important appointments of CBI clearly reflects the sincerity of UPA in puttT What good a Lokpal body will achieve when the people it wants to investigate are the ones who control the investigation agency. It is a fact that no nation has been able to provide a corruption free society to it's citizens, but India it seems that is hell bent on claiming the title of the most corrupt nation in the worl...

The Jan-Lokpal movement has hit the country like a tsunami, and the common man has thronged to support the movement in the numbers that may soon match the JP movement of 1974. After a long time, someone has decided to become the voice of the frustration rooted in the hearts of the common man of India. This is a chance for the public to show these politicians that we will no longer tolerate the corruption and the corrupt. But still, we need to ask ourselves if the Jan-Lokpal is enough to get rid of the cancer of corruption? The answer to this question is NO. Because corruption is only a part of the problem faced by our country and the public. I firmly believe that a poor, uneducated public divided into the lines of religion, caste, and sub-castes, will never be able to reap the benefits of an institute like Lokpal. Till the time people are poor, they would always be prone to fall prey to the rich and mighty who would continue to exploit them. A poor man would happily forgo their r...