Open letter to Junta feeling ‪#‎insecure‬ and ‪#‎intolerance‬

To indians who is feeling #insecure :

‪#‎AamirKhan‬, Being the biggest fan of your work I still say having a Hindu wife and living a happy married life for so long is a biggest example of security for you. Hosting satyameva jayate with issue on road accidents and its horrific repercussions and having a best of buddy who did that and still making crores of Indian rupees does that bring security for you? There are communal issues at places but it didn't rise today or yesterday its there much before that and am confused as how you became insecure in just matter of few days?

I am really curious to know from Mr Khan as what has he seen in my country in past 18 months that he has not seen in past 48 years of his life made him suddenly #insecure !!

I would say biggest example of secure and tolerant india is that they appreciated a movie like ‪#‎PK‬ and you made 300+ crore money out of it. Do you have the guts to make a movie on intolerance in your religion and survive for a day anywhere in the world forget my country? I highly doubt that? Remember ‪#‎CharlieHebdo‬ ?

A country with 1.2 billion population with multi ethnic and multi culture surviving peacefully for so many years does that ring a bell.

I am curious to know to where do you want to leave to? Developed nations in Europe, Australia, Russia, US which was recently bombed, facing racial discrimination or to middle east Asia where people's lives are less worthy than a mosquito? All these nations are shooting an eye for an eye making all of them blind. Is my country doing that? When 26/11 happened in ‪#‎mumbai‬ , your city how come you were then not insecure and now you are?

The irony here is the brand ambassador of ‪#‎IncredibleIndia‬ thinks its #insecure !!!

To Indians who feel high #Intolerance:

People who are returning awards, every month of Ramadan my neighbor whose kitchen window opens to my home and cooking beef at 4 am in the morning with endless prayer in mosque with loudspeaker throughout day and night and not complaining once is an example I consider as tolerance. If there are incidents like‪#‎dadri‬ then there are people like us as well. Being 75% + population in this nation and being to pull of successful 68 years of independent India does that say something at least? Have you ever visited Minority dominant area in India and seen their behavior. You should try staying there for a while and see tolerance buddy

I am not saying my country is free from communal issues, they need to be tracked and resolved and I believe the system has always worked towards that in my country. Just because some anti social elements created few incidents doesn't make my ‪#‎HOMELAND‬ insecure or an act of intolerance. Stop aggravating a issue and look around the world what is happening.

Last words to Media in my country, Please pick up more sensible issue then a statement from a irrelevant person and stop asking explanation from PM who formed a government by being voted by majority of 1.2 billion Indians. Respect democracy. Grow up buddies and stop running behind TRPs.

India is a democratic nation, if you have issues work towards resolving.

Do not malign my COUNTRY by calling her #insecure ‪#‎intolerant‬

Yours truly,
‪#‎tolerant‬ ‪#‎proudindian‬

L O V E...

All these days my blogs were about places i saw, but this time its all about humans i have met known seen etc.

These days ppl behavior around me fascinates me alot. There are all kinds of people around us, parents, kids, friends,relatives, colleagues, neighbors, your fav celebrity and a person who sits next to you in bus whom you will never meet in your whole life again..oh the list is endless and their behavior is very interesting.

Coming to human behavior, among all the relations i have seen so far, a parent's love to child is the only selfless love. there is no expectation in return, no grudge held when hurt and still will do and want the best to her child. Can the love be so selfless and pure? I recently saw a 85 year old women serving alcohol to her 67 year old son, just to make him happy, she must have given birth to her son at the age of 15-16, so its been 67 years of pure love, so tat exists!! But there is a catch, its a curse that the child will not love back its parent with equal intensity.

The next important person is your partner, In this country people do love, arranged marriages. Their relationship is a very long journey where it goes through lots of ups and downs,which has love, hate, anger, fight, support, sympathy, care all human emotions. I met a wise man other day who says 70% of Indian couples want to get out of relation, so does it mean the love has run out of its course? I would say yes, but I must appreciate the Indian society where the society norms makes the person to hold on to things till the last string is pulled out, the reasons could be many, it could be child , money or you are so used to your partner that you have a high tolerance to everything and you just go on with the flow. etc

In all the rest of the relations, i feel its mostly give and take, if you are good to me, if you help me in tougher times, if you save me situations its a thankful love which will be strong in initial days and gradually the impact on human mind decreases and over years it remains just as a memory.You will be grateful to the other person and will help that person in need but that thats all, you will not love that person purely.

The most selfish love is, love towards GOD!! Yes, you pray god endlessly, you worship god endlessly, but there is so much selfishness in that love that every time you remember good is when you are in need, you spend hours, days, years in worshiping him so that he does miracle to you, he saves your from troubles, he gives you the best, so i feel tats the most overrated Love :)

Even though we are taught to be kind to poor, love all in schools for as much as 20 years, i feel its just not in human nature tat he love all at all the time selflessly

I can't end the topic without mentioning the last but not the least love which is friendship. That is one relationship which turns more sweet over the period of time. but if there exists a pure friendship between two people no matter what happen in each others life, they always wish best for each other, isn't it the next best love after parent's love?

How many agree?

Me Myself and Gujrat

I am impressed with infrastructure (roads, industries, and lifestyle), discipline in Gujarat specially no non-veg restaurants and liquor shops in major part of the state (Its smuggled in milk exporting vessels but still the crime rates by alcoholics are meager compared to other states), hats off to the governance.

A week long vacation after a long long time was a good break from mechanical life :) and ofc it woke up my writer instinct :) Far from office, household, virtual world and daily soaps :)

A trip along Sourastra mirrored me a reality check of things which I/we are running behind. Major locations visited included Dwaraka, Somnath, Gir, Gandhi’s house in

Porabandar, Gandhi ashram, Akshardham in Ahmadabad.

Gandhi's house and Gandhi's ashram, Wow the simplicity in those places stunned me, those places question every man's obsession towards luxury where in 2 pair of clothes and simple vegetarian food can give u a content life!!!

Highly impressed with somnath and its history. A jyotirlinga to be remembered forever for n number of reasons. There was a 45 mins presentation of history of the Temple, around middle of the story Mohamed Ghazini comes and sweeps of wealth in temple, at tat moment i wondered if god really existed there then y did it allow tat to happen, but at the end of the story the temple was demolished several times and re-constructed. Hence I realized it not about wealth but strength of god to survive there. After so many attempts and today in 21st century it’s still standing there head held high attracting millions of devotees.

Dwaraka and its stories was always heard or seen in television series of Lord krishna, going to visit the lord by sailing in sea was different experience.

Lastly visiting Gir was an eye opener and made me question the man kind for several reasons. Firstly commendable effort by Gir forest authority to bring the lion count from 20+ to 411 in almost 100 years when this species was in the verge of extinct. Secondly good to know that there exists 54 village with various vegetarian tribal’s (yes vegetarian tribal’s) who survive in same forest along with those lions in 300km range. But in reality if they should grow beyond this count than mankind should give them enough space to survive. 

But the million dollar question is what the man kind (specially Indian mankind) should ask themselves is, why so much less space on this earth for anyone other than human species and ofc inside human species the rich has more right to live than poor. But humans are just another living being but since he can think and implement changes, he is driving the world to end by hampering the ecosystem? Humans are acquiring all the landscape, producing toxic elements which earth can’t digest, driving every other species to extinct, where are we going? The so called development is making us crazy tat we can’t differentiate between right and wrong kind of development. Hence the irony is we don’t breathe pure air, drink pure water and earth nutritious food we are on self destruction mode and guess what we are taking the whole planet down with us, though the developed nations and various organizations are working towards making man aware of his heinous crimes, the ground zero is still sleeping with loads of plastics, dirty water, and poisoned food. Sometimes I wonder if we are the ASURAS of kaliyug?

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed - Mahatma Gandhi

Will the real mankind please wakeup? How much ever we say we are the most intelligent species on this earth were we able to stop the meteor shower which happened on

Russia few days back? The universe surely has its way to get back on MANKIND!!

Walked on a hot charcoal!!!

5 years back my confusion was to Go/against the wind

http://swapna-shetty.blogspot.in/2006/12/go-withagainst-wind.html

Today i did walk on the hot charcoal and not once but twice in gap of 3 days :)

Wat made me to do so...so many reasons but mainly a thought/proverb which i heard from one of the fictional character on TV and goes like this

"There is nothing called right or wrong in this world...Its just what you believe in"

Me Myself and Bengalooru

Finally i am bak to the city where in I always wanted to live in :)

It was nostalgic to see cloudy cold morning...sunny afternoon....and raining evenings

but i must agree there is lotz of things have changed in last 3.5 years..........

Good things....

Good to see that in and around majestic area the walls are painted representing rich culture and traditions of karnataka.

Good to see much more effective public transport (believe me the millennium city gurgaon still survives on cycle rickshaw...(corrupt CWG committee are u listening??))

Bad things.....

How much ever I try hard to speak in kannada to local shopkeeper to sales persons in mall to autowallas.......they try to speak in different languages which include english hindi tamil.......grrrrrrrr i hate this part. In europe though england is very near to germany swizz italy compared to india....ppl preferred to speak in native language...y is saat samundar paar mera bharat behave the other way?????

My fav hangout place MG Road's lenght breadth width height hav changed grrrrrrrrr

weather is awesome and feels like heaven after dreadful experience in gurgaon

but i must confess...i miss gurgaon for some strange reason :(

Journey to MOTHERHOOD

Lying on the hospital bed for 48 hrs just waiting for world's deadliest pain was very ironic situation. Doc was frustrated after 2 days of attempt to get labor pain with all the technologies in the world. The last option was to operate...and trust me....that moment when they took me on stretcher to operation theater i felt like getting up and running away from the hospital. Situation was similar to an incident happened couple of months back when i was suppose too show an demo of an application to an end customer sitting at Zurich. Just before minutes to kick off the demo.. .application started behaving the other way. The demo was key point for next payment from customer to my huge team for huge application. I felt like running away at tat moment and this was worse than tat. Within 5 minutes in operation theater i cud here my little angel crying and i felt like that is a dream. when the doc showed me the baby i felt some miracle has happened. I couldn't believe my eyes. i couldn't believe its my baby. When i first took her in my hands i felt that moment was DIVINE. It was more divine than standing on the Mt Titlis @ Switzerland. At that moment i felt how good it is to be a women and felt better than men as men can never get to feel that moment ;). After the operation my body was numb for next 6 hrs. Doc suggested to go to deep sleep and trust me i was planning as what shud i make my daughter....a dancer, astronaut, pilot....hmm the journey of motherhood is very interesting!!!!

Me myself and Native

After 6 long years of working.....a break for natural circumstances is a welcome change. That to the break to be enjoyed with mom and mother nature is a topping on an icecream.

The daily routine included a morning walk, working from home/cyber cafe, eating nutrious food,
watching mother nature etc.

The best part is....there is no honking of tata sumo's early morning, no jhat driving bullet in the
middle of night, no lorry driving around with its horrible sound.

The bearutiful is when u go for a walk in the morning.....u can hear only chirping of birds, those
cycle bells, the calm, fog covered coconut trees instead of fog covered dlf concrete jungle. small
river which is eager to join the sea nearby. It makes ur mind calmer compared to constant honking at traffic signals on the way to office. u feel how much u hav missed things in life :)

The lifestyle, people, even the animals, birds have so much stability in life....no hurry to run as
if to conquer the world, the evening walk from cyber cafe to home make me see so many things. Those traditionals homes lit with light, the tulsi infront of house lit with light, group of ppl doing
bhajans, men returning from work with fresh fish in their hands, birds returning home
enthusiastically. am mesmerized by every small little thing of this small city :)