Welcome to the future...What after marriage?

Some days at Mumbai, with nothing noteworthy to do except wait for the Monday to arrive so that I can join Siemens, allowed my mind to rush through the delicacies of life...My mind pondered over many things. Let me put them down in brief. But, it is surely interested and captivating topic for humans like us, in our early 20's!

It is my Siemens who says, ‘we answer to the toughest questions’…

I wonder how things changed within so such a time frame. Think of the life span of our grand parents who lived to their fullest in their married lives and earned then. They had more than 'ample' time to give to their soul mates. 

Next came our parents who were neutral in this regard and they had to perfectly balance both married life and earning/job. And they did. They had ample time to give to the soul mates and to earn their living too.

Next, it's our turn to prove ourselves. It is now the time to prove that, 'Yes! We have the time to marry and we will do it!' Where married life, rather the life with our dreamed/loved ones is a better phrase nowadays, is on one side and our jobs/incomes on the other. It is very hard to hold both the things tightly and it will intrigue others if we do so.

Needless to say that side, with earning income, is almost touching heights. Time is not far when there will be no time with us to 'invest' in marriages and they will be held through emails. And that too in the leisure office hours. The rituals will be performed through youtube and google videos. Necklaces and rings will be sent as jpg images, and yes, in encrypted formats so that nobody could steal it. Lunch for the families and friends will be clubbed with those of some festival or might be, god knows, it might happen that lunch transforms into 'marriage coffee' or 'marriage tea' instead of marriage lunch/dinner, to save time obviously. Yes, there will be various coffee's for various 'class' functions. Simple coffee for the lower class, filter coffee or cappuccino for the middle class and here comes for the high class, the CCD coffee, anything can happen over a coffee. Worth a tag line!

It may happen that the 'muhurt' will depend upon the 'network availability' and of course will be at weekends and the photographers will be the then century webcams.  And guess what, guests will be sent an e-invitation card, which is not new nowadays. But the present cards have 'Your presence is the most valuable gift' at the bottom. Time is ahead when it will say 'Please avoid obscene chats and direct personal comments during the function'. Surprised??

These are simlple transformations of the words which are not far ahead.

1. Function hall -> chat room or the group chat.

2. 'muhurt' -> 'network availability' 

3. Marriage Lunch -> marriage teas or coffees

4. gifts -> e-order of the gifts.

5. rings or necklaces -> jpeg images, of course encrypted

6. Photographers -> Webcams

7. Patrika -> CV

But, what about the emotions and feelings, at least of the newly married couple if not of the family members. Who will take care of them??

Do not worry. Technology answers everything. Hugs and kisses will be sent, as they are now, through emoticons. More to it, you can always send files with whatever you want to write.

But, my only fear these emoticons things may not just stop to hugs and kisses, but go ahead to Ahh's and Ohh's. Might be true, but what after these emoticons?? What next??

Welcome to the future...

Let us wait and see what lies ahead but it is for sure that it is time to think on how to 'culture' our next generation!

Intel dual core processors, 'Whooo hoooon'!

Sporty Leaders of sports...

Hockey coaches teach hockey, they guide the players to play hockey. But,the concern here is this happens 'sometimes'.Sexual misconduct allegations against national field hockey and weightlifting coaches are plaguing the news nowadays. What are the leaders up to? Where are they leading, not only themselves but the subordinates???

It's alias, The New Delhi Commonwealth Games (C.W.G.)has been in the news for the some of the prominent achievements! Achieving highest figures possible in the financial scams. They are in the spot light for every possible reason,by delays in the construction of infrastructure and venues, which should have been finished months ago for test events but instead, are just starting to come on line now, cutting it fine with competition set to commence on October 3, for the financial scandals, etc.

But, I give due respect to the name C.W.G -> Common Wealth Games. Very true. The 'game' played with the 'Common Wealth' on the board and the threads in the hands of our Hon'ble Mr. Suresh Kalmadi!

After all, the CWG song itself says,

"Yeh toh khel hai

Bada mail hai

Milaa diya… milaa diya!"

I just wonder to which game the word 'khel' in the song refers to and what does it mean when it says ' Milaa diya...milaa diya'!

Cheers to Indian Sports and the sporty leaders of this Sport!

Existing battle for existence
         ...If it is heads, I win; If it is Tails, you lose!

I'm back after a long while..

Recently, rather yesterday, a very captivating, though very bad bad, news struck my batch-mates. It went on like this..

A boy named XYZ had received the joining date of ABC company (for this very reason that didn't yet receive the joining date he was very nervous and frustrated). Couple of days later, somewhere around mid week, he was over excited hearing the news that he had been called to join ABC on Monday, tomorrow. He was happy and made himself busy in the joining the company preparations. I'm saying here that he was happy because this is what we friends perceived from his very acts and behavior then. Things were going smoothly, everyone busy in their own lives and XYZ calling some heads rarely, as he usually did, saying that there was fear prevailing in him about the new company, the new city, the new life. Our friends tried their best to erase this orthodox thinking lines from him and they were successful, at least, seem to be.

Suddenly, on Sunday afternoon, everybody's phone rang and the news that XYZ had committed a suicide spread much more than wild fire. Nobody, including I, want to pen down how the process of so called 'Suicide' was executed as it is much much more than just pity.

This post is not just to mention the incident or for the sake of posting a Breaking News or for any intentional News spreading motto. But, being a citizen of India, I have something to say with authority. Rather, I've something to express my concern about. This series of student suicide is becoming popular in lines as of the TV serials 'Kunku' or 'Chaar divas Sasuche' (Marathi) or 'Taarak Mehta ka Ulta chesma'(Hindi) etc. This train of student suicide is also running on a parallel track to the one of farmer suicides.

But my deepest concern is that where the popularity of the TV serials is just an illusion or it has no direct relation to the mortality of a country and in regards to the farmers suicide, there are means which if followed by the governing body might curb the rate farmers suicide, if not reduce drastically (Although the issue of, the means 'to be' followed by the governing body is of much more concern), there are no such means which the governing body can follow which can help to reduce, and not only curb, the mortality of this young red blood. I can base my views on the fact that making the youth 'strong', is an individual responsibility rather than shirking i onto the governing body. It is the responsibility of the parents, who are the very reason of increasing the head count of a nation by one, to teach the new being, the way to 'live'. And this should be done, right through the childhood and not when the youth start flying away from their very ones and very things and become independent, at least try to be. When it comes to suicide, the strength of the individual comes into the picture and by saying strength I mean to collect all the strengths one can have under one canopy, the mental, emotional, ethical, logical, psychological, etc and physical coming at the last.

I healthily urge the parents, to imbibe in their children, the very fact that

'This World is a very better place, unless you think so..' and teach them appropriate way to live. It might happen that this is difficult, as the way to live are very few which can be put into the young minds but the counter parts, ways to die are countless...It is the battle of the existence and of the non existence, the later trying to behold the former is all possible ways...