Vipanchi

Today, I  encountered a question when I was reading a book and got stuck at that. This caused a plethora of thoughts to flock my mind and now I see a sense of taking another stride towards self-awareness.  It is a question of 'happiness'. What is your definition of happiness? The purpose of this blog is to solve this question. Happiness is an abstract concept. It is a feeling that every one of us experience. However, it is a feeling which most of the theorists or economists or placing it the other way, learned men are unable to define. However, there is a general understanding that mortal beings' ultimate goal is the pursuit of happiness. Aristotle put it this way " Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence". Is happiness the purpose or the purpose is happiness? As Aristotle said, it is the purpose of life to find happiness. Then there is another view which says, having a meaning and purpose to li...

Hello all This is a moment of extreme joy to me. This is a moment to cherish, a story to share!!! Let me jump into the topic........ Rabindranath Tagore dreamt of a world " where the Mind is without fear and knowledge is free".  That great Guruji gave us a vision, rather a mission. A mission that has the effect of a panacea to all the ills of our society when rightly understood and implemented. Most of the founding fathers, stalwarts, visionary leaders and common man and woman like YOU and ME, I guess, share this vision. The vision of an educated, enlightened India. BUT...... We sometimes cannot act, sometimes we fail in it and sometimes, we just don't take that idea seriously. We often complain about the state of things..... when we get time, not an offense, they are the genuine concerns. Sometimes we take up things, to change the way they are, but unfortunately, the world reflects our limitations and we end up there as was the case with me when...

Hello all, LOVE.....What it is............and what makes it true........, I tried to elucidate this in my previous article TRUE LOVE.........   In this article, I pondered on Making and breaking a relationship . My concern here is on the way relationships start and end. So, these days, we have a lot of craze for having a partner(lover as we call them). Relationships start so quickly-I mean, people call it love so soon as if there is no other relationship(name)  for that sort of relationship. So after some days or years of exchanging thoughts, gifts and much more, differences arise between them. They see that as an end to their love and their relationship. Finally, it's a break-up. The story doesn't end here.The present trend is to celebrate a break-up! So soon there is a new relationship. And it is again called as love. They again miss each other, share many things including the story of past breakup(s).  Nothing wrong, it shows that people are open minded. MOVE ON.....

Education and its importance is something that doesn't need any explanation. However, it is something that is deliberately ignored in our country, by our people. And another problem is the present trend in most of the middle classes- an excessive focus on their child's education which often ends up in a disaster. So in this post, I want to dwell on these chronic issues. Education system defines a society and thus a nation.The morals that people uphold, patriotism, scientific bent of people, the amount of workforce that will be available to a nation, the amount of wealth that a country holds ........education has a direct bearing on all these things. The growth of an individual and his outlook on life, for a majority of people, is defined by their school days. The exceptional performance of one either good or bad, if we track down for clues, we can find them in one's school days. So what is the importance that we must attach to something that will have a direct bearing on...

I was a student once ridiculed by many, I was a broken heart, I was the one who thought that life is as simple as I plan.I was the one who cried over losing in exams.I was the one who struggled to keep up promises made to my family.I was the one who was least cared by my friends. So I feel that I am qualified enough to write about HOLDING ON DESPITE DIFFICULTIES. Life is always full of surprises  No one knows what is to come by the next moment.Yet many of us fill our minds with full of expectations.When our expectations are beaten by the challenges life gives us, we get disturbed.It is a common thing where people with dreams often are bogged down by smallest disturbances in their plans.Perhaps this happens because those slightest difficulties seem much bigger to them at that moment and they stop there.We often hear many students especially in intermediate stage committing suicides for reasons like, not getting good rank etc., Many youngsters end their l...

Hello, I am back after, of course, a long gap. So I have decided to make a lasting impact on all of you. For a long time, I have searched for a single answer to my insecurities that mainly emerge by virtue of my craving for others attention.Whether it be in class room to get the attention of your teacher, or near notice board where you want your 5th or 6th rank to be noticed by your peers, or be it in a party where you want that smart boy to notice you............you are always longing for attention and it is often intense, it makes you act in a very different way than what you actually are. Some times you win and sometimes you lose. But this longing for attention and recognition will only grow even if you win or lose. Let me make it clear. For instance, in a class room, you want yourself to be recognized as the topper and you did it, your craving does not end there, later you go to a competition, there too it starts in your mind that you have to be recognized as a topper. It someti...

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...