Its 15th august, does this date remind you of something? Does this date have some importance in your life? Do I need you to tell, what vital significance this particular date plays in the history of India? Well, I think, I don’t really need to say about all these or answer these above mentioned questions in my life.
Ya, its 15th August, the day we got independence...freedom, liberty, the synonyms can go on and on. It was 15th August, 1947 we got independence from British rule. Fortunate enough, today we are celebrating 61st birthday of our motherland, but however I want to ask to my friends, juniors, seniors and so called respected politicians... what does freedom mean to you in your life? Do you wish to devote your entire life for the sake of our motherland? What can you do for the improvement of your nation? I again know, you all come across these types of questions every next another day. But dear friends, please don’t take these questions lightly. Some might say...salee kyo paka raha hai... abe bore mat kar...
Sounds bad, well it is bad. How can you react like this? Today, every next day, we talk about development, progress, unity and so many so called economical and social issues. Every four years, new government gets elected depending upon the faith of billions of people and four-year or five-year plans proto-types strategies are designed. We say India is rising; we are looking for the permanent membership in United Nations. We say that the world is looking India as the next potential market in south-east Asia. Again, my dear friends this imagination can go on and on. But dear Indians what about our in-house problems that have remained unresolved since our independence. Where is education for all, corruption free environment, equal rights for every citizen, poverty-free India?
Today, even after 61 years of Indian Independence, there are regions across India where child education still acts as a dream. Issues related to child like female infanticide, child labor, child sexual harassment has in-fact grown at tremendous rate. Why in country like India, where we worship goddess like Durga, Parvati or Laxmi disrespect women? Why women in India still not safe even in her own home? Every 30 minutes, one woman is raped in India and in 75% of the cases the offenders are the victim’s acquaintances. We talk about 33% women reservation bill in parliament, then why the picture has still remained unchanged? Fortunately things or the circumstances have changed in metros, but the large ratio in rural areas remains static.
Education for all. Doesn’t it sounds very good? Certainly it does, but and but...the current scenario depicts the true picture. As per The Week, monthly magazine, there are about218 million child labourers under the age of 14 world-wide and 15 million in India; 85 percent of them are from rural pockets. Globally around 126 million children work in hazardous conditions and 1.8 millions are forced into prostitution. The story on other side of the coin is not different. About 46% children below six are malnourished. So, think can you still cheers for our great motherland.
Poverty...well very familiar with this world. Unofficial estimates show that districts of banda, Hamirpur, Jalaun, jhasi and Chitrakoot have witnessed around 2,000 unnatural deaths in the last four years. Out of 32 Lakh people directly engaged in agriculture, 80 percent are deeply in debt. The statics and go on and on.
Well, the 15th August, 2008 is over, next year again we will just meet and perhaps will raise our concern on different areas. But dear citizens of India, how long we will just wait for things to improve...perhaps the time has come, when we should all get united and make this land a better place to live.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
I Dream....and want you to dream...too
Hey friends...
It’s really nice to see you back and to tell you very frankly i missed you all a lot. To tell you very frankly there have been many occasions when I felt very alone and wanted to share you my experiences. Finally, I am happy to have one wide platform where I can share my views and some learning that life has taught me in this last 25 years. In my previous blog, in fact my first blog I wrote about thoughts. I do want to write about thoughts but I will talk about this subject in my next blog. However, today I am in mood to share about one gift that our mind performs when you and I have a sound sleep...and it belongs to everybody. No matter whether you are rich, poor, high elite class business professionals or typical middle-class labour....no matter whether you are Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh....no matter whether you are new born baby or a man with age around 50 or 60+.
Yes....this time you guess it right, and it is DREAM. So can anybody explain me what is dream all about? Do you really dream? Can anyone differentiate about realistic dream or just a dream? And finally can anyone answer me why do really dream. However, if we go through a dictionary and look for the meaning of dream then it means- The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. That's it! Now let me explain in a more down to earth language. Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness (like awake, asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating or daydreaming) cause different brain wave activity. Our conscious mind, or the part we think with, our "window" into life, only takes up a very small portion of our brain activity. Other areas control things like breathing, heartbeat, converting light to vision, sound to hearing, balance when we walk, etc. etc. This too has it's own percentage (small). Another area controls imagination. This area is widely an undiscovered frontier.
Now, every day our mind came across different state-of –frame, and sometimes cannot deal with chaos very well, in fact it either resist or sometimes manufacture order. (very important to the dreaming process.)This too occupies a small percentage of brain activity. Then there is memory. Memory is vast and I believe it occupies more of the brains resources then most people believe and then there is the activity called dreaming. I think that to a certain extent, we dream all the time. Even while awake! But the process is functioning in our subconscious mind, out of view from our "window". If defined precisely, they may not be referred to as dreams technically, but the activity is very closely related.
However, if we look for an answer for why we actually dream, then as per Dr. Saurabh Prakash,M.B.B.S we dream during the REM, or rapid eye movement, phase of sleep. During this phase of sleep, our closed eyes dart rapidly about, our brain activity peaks. Two different schools of thought exist as to why we dream: the physiological school, and the psychological school.
As per physiological theory, we dream to exercise the synapses, or pathways, between brain cells, and that dreaming takes over where the active and awake brain leaves off. When awake, our brains constantly transmit and receive messages, which course through our billions of brain cells to their appropriate destinations, and keep our bodies in perpetual motion. Dreams replace this function.
Psychological theorists of dreams focus upon our thoughts and emotions, and speculate that dreams deal with immediate concerns in our lives. Connections between dreams that the human psyche have been made by many people over thousands of years. The famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle wrote in his "Parva Naturalia," over 2,200 years ago, of a connection between dreams, waking experiences, and emotional needs.
Well, friends I will try to explain more about dream sin my next blog. Just wait for some time...and till then have a good sleep and do dream about dream.
It’s really nice to see you back and to tell you very frankly i missed you all a lot. To tell you very frankly there have been many occasions when I felt very alone and wanted to share you my experiences. Finally, I am happy to have one wide platform where I can share my views and some learning that life has taught me in this last 25 years. In my previous blog, in fact my first blog I wrote about thoughts. I do want to write about thoughts but I will talk about this subject in my next blog. However, today I am in mood to share about one gift that our mind performs when you and I have a sound sleep...and it belongs to everybody. No matter whether you are rich, poor, high elite class business professionals or typical middle-class labour....no matter whether you are Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh....no matter whether you are new born baby or a man with age around 50 or 60+.
Yes....this time you guess it right, and it is DREAM. So can anybody explain me what is dream all about? Do you really dream? Can anyone differentiate about realistic dream or just a dream? And finally can anyone answer me why do really dream. However, if we go through a dictionary and look for the meaning of dream then it means- The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. That's it! Now let me explain in a more down to earth language. Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness (like awake, asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating or daydreaming) cause different brain wave activity. Our conscious mind, or the part we think with, our "window" into life, only takes up a very small portion of our brain activity. Other areas control things like breathing, heartbeat, converting light to vision, sound to hearing, balance when we walk, etc. etc. This too has it's own percentage (small). Another area controls imagination. This area is widely an undiscovered frontier.
Now, every day our mind came across different state-of –frame, and sometimes cannot deal with chaos very well, in fact it either resist or sometimes manufacture order. (very important to the dreaming process.)This too occupies a small percentage of brain activity. Then there is memory. Memory is vast and I believe it occupies more of the brains resources then most people believe and then there is the activity called dreaming. I think that to a certain extent, we dream all the time. Even while awake! But the process is functioning in our subconscious mind, out of view from our "window". If defined precisely, they may not be referred to as dreams technically, but the activity is very closely related.
However, if we look for an answer for why we actually dream, then as per Dr. Saurabh Prakash,M.B.B.S we dream during the REM, or rapid eye movement, phase of sleep. During this phase of sleep, our closed eyes dart rapidly about, our brain activity peaks. Two different schools of thought exist as to why we dream: the physiological school, and the psychological school.
As per physiological theory, we dream to exercise the synapses, or pathways, between brain cells, and that dreaming takes over where the active and awake brain leaves off. When awake, our brains constantly transmit and receive messages, which course through our billions of brain cells to their appropriate destinations, and keep our bodies in perpetual motion. Dreams replace this function.
Psychological theorists of dreams focus upon our thoughts and emotions, and speculate that dreams deal with immediate concerns in our lives. Connections between dreams that the human psyche have been made by many people over thousands of years. The famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle wrote in his "Parva Naturalia," over 2,200 years ago, of a connection between dreams, waking experiences, and emotional needs.
Well, friends I will try to explain more about dream sin my next blog. Just wait for some time...and till then have a good sleep and do dream about dream.
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