short story

Nightingale and red rose

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/NigRos.shtml

I read this short story by Oscar wilde recently. I was very much moved by the story and it was very touching.

Hope u like it

samjhauta terrorist attack

I was reading a experience written by a previous traveler in the same samjhauta express. He says about how the whole system works, here it goes….

“You just need a valid visa to get a ticket to Pakistan and most of the tickets are booked at the last minute of travel. The train starts at 9 in the evening and goes to attari, the last Indian check post before crossing the border. The passengers are guided through a metal frame for checking which is the only check done by the Indian police or army before boarding the train at the starting station.” The metal frames are now a day’s even used in entrance of malls to check the people, the trivia is the train travels to one our rival countries. I don’t have hatred against Pakistan but think about the problems we have with them, for more than 50 years we both are fighting for Kashmir, 3 wars for that, numerous incidents in which innocent people have been killed. So the train in reality goes to one of our rival countries and not a neighboring country.

I thought why only very few police personnel were allocated to such an important train?? The cause none else then our own politicians. The Delhi police unit has just around 60,000 personnel for catering to a city population in order of millions. In that too most of the police are for VIP’s and VVIP’S, u know what, only one tenth of the police are there for people ( statistics given by media). Can you imagine what meager a number is that for a capital of a country with world’s second largest population. The website of Delhi police quote’s “ with you -for you always” with whom you police are always??? VVVIP’S.

In terms of technology, we are no less than anyone else, around 18 cameras are installed in the railway station for safety purpose. But the lag is in logistics and scheduling of the trains, that particular track from which the train starts doesn’t have a single camera. I felt like LOL but couldn’t after losing 65 invaluable human life, let it be Indians or Pakistanis.

One of the RPF men quoted in a news article that the RPF cannot concentrate on any particular train like spending time for checking all the passengers as the number of personnel’s were way too less than that required to maintain the station.

The bombs used by the so called terrorists are not very complicated, they were simply IEDS it is called roadside bombs by the press. Roadside bombs and inflammable liquids like kerosene. I have read signs in train saying that you shouldn’t carry inflammable materials but never the police or any one for that cause checked in the railway station. It can at least be done randomly done for say 20 passengers in every train a s a first step.

The bombs used were very cheap, so the main cause of the accident is burning of the whole coach. This is not the first time that the whole coach is burning. I think nobody would ever forget the godhra incident. So I just searched whether there is anything called non flammable coaches. Not only there is non-flammable coaches but even India herself made a deal with France for non-flammable coaches in the year 2000. The deal ended after 5 years in 2005 without single coming to India ( I don’t know much details about this, just read it in some news article).

The villagers were the first to come to rescue of the passengers trapped in the burning coaches, people brought water in tractors and tried to extinguish the flame. The police and fire service came a hour later. One of the eye witness recounts the situation, he actually saved a woman but the woman was all along screaming about her children but the person couldn’t help her in bringing her children to safety. But afterwards in the hospital she recounted how her 5 children’s were happily playing the train even though it was late at night till that very moment.

Blame game has already started, everybody is pinpointing to some unknown terrorist, no towards unknown psychopaths, who else will like to burn people. Even if they are caught at last after years of court proceedings one of our own chief minister would plead for clemency for the accused like the parliament attack case or the some other leader would be too forgiving, that they would forgive the terrorists. This is democracy, we have to accept all this if more than 50% say so.

(I thank all those news reporters who helped me frame up this article with their articles.)

NEWS

First thing I do in the morning is to read the news in newspaper websites and Google news. Today there was not much of interesting news. So I got bored started thinking about what news is all about. NEWS, I have always known as an acronym for North, East, West and South. Knowing information from all corners of earth is what news is all about. The explanation was too convincing and I have never doubted that it would be otherwise. But when I tried to search for something else about news and ended up reading about what is NEWS in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News). I got some bad news while reading about news, know what??

NEWS is not an acronym of north, east, west and south as I have always thought and confirmed off but it is a plural form of NEW. What plural form of NEW??????

Have you ever said news things for new things???

It doesn’t sound convincing right!!!!!

So I started reading with great interest about news, then the link to snopes (http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/news.htm) cleared it. It says some words even if they are adjective have plural form. One thing is I gained a new insight in English through this. So the purpose I started reading newspaper yielded some results today. On the other hand I also thought of why I have accepted this acronym without questioning all these days?

So don’t accept anything without questioning even if it is too obvious. Questioning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It rings a bell at back of my mind I remember something I don’t know whether its poem or quotation by someone but here it goes like this

“ my six stalwart soldiers

when, where, why, how, which, what”

the meaning is still clear in my mind before accepting any fact or solution try to answer the following six questions and try to analyze the solution before believing in it.

RULES.....................

Rules are framed by people to rule over themselves, then why a lot of people don’t follow the rules???

So, on what basis the rules are formed. I am not writing about laws framed by the government but about the personal values which we frame ourselves to rule over ourselves. Everybody follows a certain set of rules, I call them policy (even my brother used to make fun of me, whenever I say “it’s my policy”, he used to say “aahh, yes LIC policy). So, how and when do these policies are formed, what influences one’s moral values, is there some common things that form the basics like family, friends, way of thinking, living conditions and locality they live in.

“Each person frames his own laws to govern himself”. I have changed my rules to suit my objectives, with time, with experience and by reading books and hearing others experience. For me it has always been like if you don’t face any dire consequences or if you are not going to spoil someone’s life directly then its fine to carry on your work. For example using these unlicensed software. Yes, I am cheating someone in their business, I cannot justify it anyway but I personally never feel as though I am cheating someone. As long as I feel that way, I have a perfect frame of rules to follow for myself.

SATYAMEVA JAYATE

The country's national motto, emblazoned on its governmental crest, is "Satyameva Jayaté" -- "Truth Alone Triumphs." The question remains, however: whose truth?

I read the following statement in review of a book called “ IN SPITE OF THE GODS”.

What is truth??????

As usual I tried googling the word truth, to my astonishment I came to know there are big theories about truth. (ha.ha..ha…..) one more theory to know(2 know more abt tht follow the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth). But everyone of us know what is truth, at least we have our own definition of truth. Truth can be subjective, relative, absolute and objective. Everyone of us knowingly or unknowingly using one of these forms of truth to move on and make things happen in our favor. Everything has its own limit same way truth tooooo has its own limit. The limit to truth is set by individuals by themselves for themselves.

god!!!!!!!!!!! help me................

I was watching a movie called “life is beautiful”. It is an Italian movie ( I saw a dubbed version in English), I have seen it quite a few times even though it is a dubbed film. One of the dialogues goes like this, the hero’s uncle advices him about serving. Uncle says that

“ we(servers) are serving but we are not servants, god serves us but he is never our servant”.

To confuse you with my clear confusion I will explain it in detail. First things first (mmmmmm, it would be better if it is first half first). First half of the sentence conveys that servers are there for serving others. They are doing a great job, they have their own self respect, dignity and they are fellow human beings. A good server is the only person who serves you with a smile other than your mother, relatives and friends. Yes, I know they are doing it for getting good tips. So everybody (people whom you don’t know) does expecting something in return from you. I think in the same way, I help others (work for others) expecting something in return (except to a very few people).

Now come to second half the core of confusion, god serves us but he is never our servant. This line was running at back of mind for quite a few days, what he was trying to mean or was trying to verbalize my thoughts. God serves us, I am a firm believer in god, so I think that statement is true. If god serves us then how are we going to pay him(if at all i find him). What should I do to pay him back or should I pay him back anything at all, does god expect something from us……..

This confusion which was all along there came to light after hearing this sentence quite a few times.

why did i do it the whole day?

I thought why I did the process whole day and what are the ways to avoid the process of doing it every day or continuing it. So here I go……….

Even before i finish that process, I thought of the work I have for the whole day and planned everything in mind, postponed as much as I can to the next day and continued my process. Even after that gap for few minutes I continued the process without any problems and felt more comfortable doing the process in the morning(thinking didn’t help me). Then the alarm went on, it started beeping for some time but my hand unconsciously switched it off, so that I can continue my process (alarm didn’t work). Then after sometime one of my friends was moving around busily, doing his daily routine before his class but that doesn’t stop me or interrupt me from continuing my process in which I was deeply concentrated. After some hours probably one or two, the friend comes back and starts listening to songs obviously with speakers ON but no way I am going to stop that process which I like the most(even loud speakers doesn’t help). Then he even starts disturbing me, in fact torturing me by kicking but I am so concentrated in the process and attaining my own goal that I follow ghandhigiri principles and leave him unharmed( torture doesn’t help). At last, I finish that process not because of any external factors but to start that process on right time from the succeeding day (in which I will obviously fail). I came to the conclusion that the only thing that can make be or break me do that process is fear, fear in mind, so to create fear in mind for the upcoming days I postpone the work in the preceding days which will make me or compel me to break free from the process at right time. hope my plan works for the upcoming days but anyway I am having a good time today.

Yes, you were right in guessing from first but if you are still not confirmed about the process I am talking about then probably you are doing the same process and reading this stuff.