Modern India!!

Well yesterday i was watching the TV flipping through channels looking for at least something which is worth wasting my time, which as a matter of fact isn't that important, but still couldn't find anything!! But then i struck gold i saw this news channel( i must say these news channels are pretty interesting these days ) with like a thousand people on screen running in a field with a couple of dozen policemen running behind them with the caption under the video: Breaking News..gujjars want reservation in Rajasthan, 6 die!!!
The actual news was, at two places in rajasthan dausa and kota, gujjars who are basically an upper caste want the government to recognize them as one of the scheduled tribes, so during the demonstration they had blocked the highway between jaipur and agra and to clear them off the highway the police had to fire at them!!
That made me laugh my guts out. Was just trying to re frame the piece of news in normal English and it looked like this: Gujjars the UPPER CASTE wants the people of the country to recognize them as a LOWER CASTE!!!
Imagine telling this to someone a hundred years back when people were dying because of this caste system and they could have done anything to get rid of this agonizing practice but the only difference it was the other way round.
The UPA government has done a great job in developing this country, we no longer have people such as those from the kerela of the 60's, when thousands and lakhs of low caste hindus converted to Christianity just to get rid of the social and economic troubles! And now the UPA government has completely turned things around for the people! It wont be a shock for me or for that matter for any of us if those lakhs of Christians start reconverting to law caste hindus!
Would sure be a treat for the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi sitting in heaven and looking at this country where he fought so much for the rights of the lower castes and started calling them HARIJANS ( sons of god) just to get them acceptance in the society, that now the people don't just accept them they are ready to literally die to be one of them, shocking it is but its the Modern India's Truth!!

Believe in yourself

"Believe in yourself" thats what most parents tell their kids to do when probably they are low because of some failure(read..not being able to live upto their parents expectations coz kids hardly know what a faliure is at that age when they are forced into this unfair world of competitiveness) they have had or they could be having in the future. for most part of my life i hadnt believed in that but somehow lalety i had become a strong believer of the theory as being the only secret to success.
so as is the habit of mine i was preaching this to one of my friends, that she should believe in herself and everything would become great when she suddenly caught me offgaurd and she said something which actually made me think about it all over again.
she said"is just believing enough to succeed? dont we need luck more than the belief?"
and i just had to think over it, is it the "belief in oneself" which is most necessary to succeed or is it the "Luck" which is the almighty.
So the i wondered, LUCK, what does this little word of four letters mean? Is it what has been written for us to get in this span of few years we call Life?
It doesnt feel great to think on those lines coz it ends at us getting to a conclusion tha we are not the masters of our destiny and worse still we have absolutely no control over our future and what is going to happen would Happen no matter what we do!!honestly i would not want to believe that. so i am happier with the belief that i control my life and am sure i share these thoughts with quite a few others. thus for me and people like me its NOT Luck which we care about!
Well probably for the ones who believe in Luck its more of their own belief in God which makes them think that luck is on their side and they make things turn our way.
So it again comes down to what we believe in or rather who we believe in, and if the "who" is yourself then i think one would always suceed in whatever endeavours he start with a belief in himself!!