I found the "ELIXIR"

Throughout history and mythology,people have been continously searching for the "elixir" or "amrit" or the divine potion to give them everlasting youth and strength.Does such a thing really exist?.In the puranas the devas and asuras churned the ocean to obtain the divine urn of amrita.

Their are references to the everlasting "water of youth" in some modern fiction
too.An imaginary stream of water which transforms weakness and oldness to youth and strength.Wish our technologists could discover something similar.

Whether such a thing exists or not,we certainly do need some real or
atleast psychological elixir to pep up and energize our lives.



Some people claim to get a high through intoxicating spirits.
Recently,I had a juice of a certain fruit in a beverage shop in my city.
I felt extremely energized and pepped up.It was the "passion fruit" juice.

This is what i found in the search engines-

"The purple passion fruit is native from southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina. It has been stated that the yellow form is of unknown origin, or perhaps native to the Amazon region of Brazil, or is a hybrid between P. edulis and P. ligularis"



I just tried it for the heck of it,but the passion fruit really contains some passion ingredients.Maybe its just imaginary or intutive,But thats not the issue,
We do need to keep ourselves happy,energetic and strong through either real or psychological aids for a more productive and vibrant life.

Anyways ,I will continue to have more "passion fruit" juices from now onwards,
and to all of you out their-

------------------------"CHEERS"-----------------------------------------------

The Flower Movement-An refreshingly positive Agitation

I had a stroll through the countryside this weekend.
I felt a refreshing blast of peace and happiness through me.
Ask me why.....??.I was amidst a place filled with wild flowers.
Water lilies,Hibiscuses and a few more flowers which I am unable to name.
I guess blooming flowers in their natural state emit peace and happiness
vibrations which few other natural events can compare with.
The therapeutic and emotional effect of blooming flowers have little
comparisons elsewhere.

I look at the current athmosphere around me.Lots of frustrated,angry,
hedonistic and arrogant souls around me who have lost their touch with
nature and life.

I look back---40 years back.
Their was one movement which helped people to connect with their roots,
The Hippie or the flower children who questioned the ethics and foundations
of the contemporary society.We need something similar even now--As an observer recalled-""The cry of 'Flower Power' echoes through the land.
We shall not wilt.Let a thousand flowers bloom."

We need to fill our concrete jungles with more flowers and flower plants to
remind people of their dreary lives and the unbridled mechanical routine they
have sunk into.

As an old song goes'"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some
flowers in your hair". We need to improve the flower quotient in our cities.
More gardens and more urban gardens in skyscrapers.
We need that therapeutic effect to sooth the distressed minds.

We need to bring back the flowers in our souls and allow our happiness and true spirit of our lives to bloom.Viva...The flower movement.

Where have the Birds gone?

I looked at the sky yesterday.It was bleak and filled with smoke.
The one thing that struck me was the "EMPTINESS".

Now the flashback-I look back on my childhood.
I studied in a defence cantonment.I remember the myriad birds which filled the sky.

I remember seeing mynahs,parrots,sparrows,bulbuls,cuckoos,drongos,
thrushes.Their used to be a lot of birds other than the common crow.

I even remember seeing carrion birds like the kite and eagle.
But Now...,I am a bit puzzled,have all the birds been rusticated from the cities
due to the extreme pollution levels and excess urbanization..??!!
I occasionally see crows!!.kudos to the resilient bird.

Anyways I wish bird watchers do more to conserve urban birdlife rather than just bird watching in remote bird sanctuaries.

As i pondered.."Where have the birds gone??"..I reply to myself..."Wish they were back...".

Receding Forests-Environmental activism needed..

I was searching for a furniture piece recently.I was amazed to see the cost of basic furniture shoot up enormously.The reason was-Wood scarcity,No natural teak and rose wood available in much of the country.Even though our population is shooting up to almost a billion,we have not cared to increase the forest cover over our country.

The end result,mass plunder and destruction of our limited forest resources to satiate an insatiable appetite for wood and allied products.

We need more NGOS to work at the grassroots in afforestry programs to solve this problem.We need an performing environmental ministry rather an namesake protagonist.

Environmental activism is needed,However what is happening is an ostrich like approach,Burying the head in the sand and failing to see reality.

Meaning of life-???

What is the meaning of life on earth?
When do you feel you have attained satisfaction?

Is it attaining unlimited money,fame,power,unlimited pleasure?
What is the meaning of life...I keep thinking...

If i have left behind children,property and charity,Have i attained the pinnacle?
What about the person who could not obtain property and wealth?
Is his life in this planet meaningless??

is it unrivalled charity?

Or is it destruction which is the ultimate aim of creation?
the "death goal" as a sociologist put it.
But anyways on a lighter note,I will postpone these serious issues to another day...

and till then............??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eat,drink,party and be merry-uncontrolled hedonism

Rising Fuel costs

What is the solution to the rising fuel costs?

option1- Switch over to renewable energy sources?

option 2- force the government to issue artificial subsidies by organizing strikes

option 3- Ban all vehicles more than 10 years or with outdated combustion systems from plying?

option 4- Improve public travel systems.ban unlimited vehicle production and distribution.Maybe we need to be a dictatorship for this to come in force.

option 5-Force all single people to use only cycles...lol

Wish some people find some innovative solutions to this terrible problem and save the natural resources of our planet..... .

Johnny gone down-Book review

Verdict-Good, Rating-3/5

A good attempt by Karan Bajaj.

The Novel is an adventure novel and is a combination of James Bond meets Phileas Fogg meets Manmohan Desai.

The Novel traces the life of its Protagonist an Indian MIT student-Nick,who keeps stumbling from one mishap to another across different troubled spots on earth.

Nick who is on a vacation with his chum in Cambodia finds himself accidentally hurtled through the clutches of the Khmer rouge.He survives this and lands in a Monastery in Bangkok.He seems to discover a vision of life here.

He moves to the Rio branch of the monastery to indulge in evangelization to find himself trapped in the vicinities of the Rio underworld.
He himself becomes the gang-lord and eventually move to the las vegas through another whirlwind of circumstances.He develops an online gaming software worth billions when he returns to India to become a bait in an indian satta version of Russian Roulette.

This is when he realizes the whirlwind his life has taken and tries to sort out things.The author attempts a surreal psychedelic view on life.
The book is a good entertainer and opens the floodgates for an indianized version of James Hadley chase.

Some of the instances seems cliched and resembles bollywood potboilers of the 1970's,especially the last minute reunion with his college chum.

The book is a good one time read,could have been a little more down to earth.