Vipanchi

Hellow all, today there is something different from what I write generally. It is nationalism. Yesterday when I was watching the 'madras cafe' movie, these thoughts which were silently roaming in my mind started jumping out. They posed a question to me -"is the nation for its people or people for its nation?" These series of thoughts just broke all my conviction on patriotism, which was groomed carefully from my childhood.  PEOPLE, FOR THE NATION: To answer the question that puzzled me is not so simple. It requires a contextual understanding of the topic of nationalism. Nation-a utopian concept, though, holds a high place in the hearts and minds of people. There are people like the army men whose patriotism is undoubted. However, this concept of nationalism when interpreted in a wrong way lead to the severest of human crisis-world wars. It was ultranationalism that engulfed the humanity of Europe especially the Italians and Germans. It is that concept of nationa...

Happy women's day!!! Today when I was surfing through google my eyes got struck by this quote- " be a girl with a mind, women with attitude and a lady with class".  I felt the beauty of this quote and thought, I must definitely interpret this one. Girl with a mind: Here is something really interesting and something that is really needed. Many of the girls, teenagers especially, miss upon improving their skill set and focus excessively on their beauty. It is not their fault, of course, society wants them to do that. Though things are changing a bit, there are huge masses who emphasize the beauty of a girl rather than the ability of her brain. The beauty of brain is seen secondary. But it is to those girls whose mind is sharper and whose heart is stronger- Puppies too look cute, but what differentiates between a dog and a human is her mind!!!  So you know what you are. Women with attitude and a lady with a class: When you are a woman, you need a great character to o...

Yeah!!! I am back.....with something that is very interesting, not only to me but probably to everybody. It's love-BOY&GIRL. It fascinated me from those times when I started understanding the routine love stories portrayed in Telugu movies. My analysis on love mostly comes from this understanding and some personal lessons here and there. Oh yes! those quotes that you get when you type true love in google also have some impact on me. So what is true love? I feel that than understanding what true love is, it is easier to understand what it is not. So, true love is not talking on the phone for hours together, giving gifts for birthdays, continuous chatting, sending quotes, posting photos, avoiding any serious talk on relationship, career, always living in the world of fantasies........all this does not comprise true love. In fact, it does not need all this. True love needs compassion towards the partner. It needs to understand the requirements, forgive the fallacies, enjoy t...

Hellow, I am back with another item of self-improvement rather, I would say this as self-protection.This article is the first in the series of articles that I will write on human relationships and management of heart breaks. Human relations are of different kinds -parents-children relationships, Friendships, love etc., Whatever is the relationship, it must give you strength and support.It must help you to discover your inner self.It must be an enabling force for you to climb greater heights in your personal life. The underlying secret thread, the magic, that keeps these relationships alive is love. To write on love......I must think a bit because it is nothing and everything at a time.It gives immense strength to a father to work harder even on the eleventh hour only to see the smile on the face of his beloved child.It is the force that keeps a mother alive surviving all odds from maternity pains to patriarchial ills of subjugation and exploitation only to see her daughter emanci...

Today when I was reading the article on twin prejudices that mentally ill women face in India, a whole array of incidents flooded my mind.It reminded me of my interaction with such-differently abled people or with people around them.There are at least 3-4 instances where I happened to visit or listen to those people.When such incidents happen, many thoughts come to my mind on how can I influence those situations for the betterment of those people. INCIDENTS: This is a boy from a village where I happened to visit a school.He is probably not mentally ill but the growth in his cognitive capacities seem very weak compared to others in his age group.But people there told me not to bother about him because he is MAD. A boy of 20yrs: In a village which I already mentioned when I wrote about SWAPNA.He is born Muslim, initially, he was well but due to unknown reasons, he lost his control over his actions.He started to dance or visit temple or mosque, utter random words.The villagers sta...

Hellow, today I have decided to make an impact on at least one of my readers to set a goal, to have a purpose in life.Let me clarify one thing here, why am I writing this? I know many people around me with greater goals, with bigger purposes in life.The same way I find even more people with no or little goals-mostly fantasies.Whenever I talk to someone, I try to analyze her value system and her orientation in life.As of my analysis, I observed 3 kinds of people. Great souls-They constantly learn, think and travel towards their destiny with sincerity, dedication, and commitment.Their purpose is very clear to them. Moderate souls- They did not discover their purpose yet or they have a purpose but do not know the path or they know both yet struggling to travel the path because of personality issues like lack of confidence, laziness, procrastination etc., Little souls-These are poor souls who do not have control on their lives.They are mainly guided by instinctive beh...

In this post, my aim is to put forth my deeper analysis on what makes one succeed.Though I am not successful yet-I mean I am on the way, I do not think it to be wrong to have some idea on how to succeed.Though this is not my intellectual property, I find no offense in stating these three quintessential for success. BURNING DESIRE: Everybody will have dreams, goals too, but those who succeed will have the burning desire.As Socrates once said, desire for something should be like craving for oxygen when you are under water.When you have a goal, you know you love it, that motivates you every morning to do what you have to do.That burning desire will do everything for you.It will make you plan accurately, help you work in the right direction and that will take care of your ego and over confidence too.No one with a burning desire ever feels satisfied and there will be no space for over-confidence in her. ALL SHE NEEDS IS VICTORY!! HARD WORK: Let me say this-nothing is possible without...