Please don't pull the trigger

We head to school,

To a place of love and brotherhood,

Thank you mother,

For the tiffin you made and the bag you packed,

We shall return very soon,

Don’t worry, its just another day like everyday..

Why are my friends bleeding?

Why is this apocalypse?

This winter was supposed to be peaceful,

Next January my dad promised me a new bicycle,

Why is lord that everyone around me cry's of pain?

Why is it that stains of blood pour along with rain?

O Sir, do not profess hatred,

Please hold your gun, don’t pull the trigger,

Don’t make this peace a dreary December..

I promised my mom that I would be back home,

Help me, don’t make my mother cry,

For the sake of your Lord, and the children who call you dad,

Please don’t pull the trigger, I promised my mom that I would be back..

I shall give you the chocolate that my mom packed for lunch

Please don’t pull the trigger, I love my mom very much..

I beg you, and bestow my head ahead of you,

Let me and my friends go, we are innocent,

Please don’t pull the trigger, my mother shall pray for your better future..

As you pull this shot and this bullet pass my head,

My last words to my lord,

May God give you wisdom and may you someday realize,

What you have done is wrong,

May you be taught benevolence and humanity,

May my Lord teach you a lesson.

Somebody please console my mom,

Rub her tears and hug her tight,

I know she’ll cry when she’ll miss me every night..

#Peshwar Attack

Rise against fear

As a child I always feared to speak in front of the crowd. I had a fear of being broken down or been insulted. I never figured out how this fear developed within me. It was perhaps because of the fear of confronting people in their eyes. I never dared to face the crowd. It was also not like I tried and I was insulted.

The fear remained until college days. I never stood up to speak anything. I stayed away from the crowd. I never thought of fighting the fear within me.

It was the day of my technical seminar in my college. I had prepared a very good presentation on driverless cars. It was a trending topic and my effort had made the presentation a remarkable one. I was to give the presentation in front of my friends and the Head of the Department. I was not at all prepared with my presentation. I had a good hold on English and an adequate stock of vocabulary; but still I was not prepared. All I lacked was the confidence in me. I thought to skip it, which no one had ever done it history. I was broken inside. I could not gather the stamina inside to stand up and face everyone and elaborate everything that I had jolted in the slides. I took a few minutes for myself. I sat down and asked myself that was I a loser that I was having thoughts of quitting and giving up. I sat alone and recalled a few incidents from my childhood. I recalled the incident when I assisted my father in confronting robbers in a train and finally we achieved victory over them. I also recalled incidents of my days in scouts and guides. I recalled incidents of my philanthropy and blood donations which saved two lives at different odd situations. I fought against many odds. I didn't fail in them. I was not at all a loser. If I could have stood up against those I became pretty sure to have easily made through the seminar.

I stood up on my turn. I walked and took my stand. I prayed to Almighty for little help. I knew it was just for a few minutes and I would make through it. I spoke out in front of the sitting crowd. It was smooth and unimaginable. I couldn't imagine that it could have been that easy to speak in front of such a huge crowd. I spoke without any preparation and my presentation ultimately brought highest marks in my entire group. I nailed the presentation. It was easy and I finally made through it.

Today in my MBA, I am here giving presentations and speaking fearlessly and confidently.

Thanks to Mountain Dew!! I have learned to rise against fear..

Relieving my Movie list

Protisodh – An Assamese movie which has been directed keeping in mind the depiction of the Assam agitation and the linguistic agitation. Every actor has equally given their best. It is a must watch for every Assamese.

The legend of Bhagat Singh – This movie shows real incidents of bravery of a few national heroes. Most of us hardly have time to remember them. This movie shows few of their acts of bravery and their stamina to carry on the struggle in spite of inhuman british torture. Finally it shows that few people never feared death. For a revolutionary, death is as beloved as his valentine.

Rand De Basanti – A movie on the youths of today. Corruption has become a vital component in the blood of Indian politics. This kind of corruption has even taken many lives. This movie shows the uprising against corruption with a parallel comparison with the revolutionaries who fought for our countries freedom.

LOC-Kargil – There are some people who stay awake all night just to ensure that we sleep peacefully. They are rendering their service at unimaginable epics of temperature. This movie shows the depiction of the 1999 Kargil War, where our country lost many heroes in the battlefield.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose – The forgotten Hero – This movie is a depiction of one of the bravest man of the earth. He is the man who formed his own army to stand against the British rule. We are fortunate enough to have him in our country and unfortunate enough to forget his sacrifice today.

Sharabi – One of the Amitabh Bacchan’s classic movies. With no special attention towards any serious message, this movie should be watched only to see Amitabh Bacchan’s acting.

Daman – One of the best movies on gender equality directed by Kalpana Lajmi. This movie has been directed in Assam. Raveena Tandon has done very good acting.

Dil Chahta Hai – We all as bachelors have wanted to live a damn care life. This movie is reel presentation of all night-outs, trips, tours, bike rides, beaches and holidays.

Sadda Adda – We all have lived in a home far away from home. This movie is a presentation of bachelordom where life means to live in brother’s arms.

Pre-Marital Sex

Is it wrong to make love with a person whom we love without the social acclamation of marriage and is it right to have coitus with a stranger on the first night of marriage itself? The later; this happens in the arranged marriage culture which is still prevalent in some Asian countries. Is the social acclamation of being married so damn necessary to make love? Is pre-marital sex a sin?

Marriage is defined as a process of unification of two souls. To be precise, marriage is the process only to socially recognize the process of unification. Sex is process of unification of two souls. Obviously one individual won’t surrender the most beautiful moment of his/her life to another individual without any attachment. Pre-marital sex is initiation of the process of unification that shall later be socially recognized with knots and oaths. Pre-marital sex doesn't involve deceiving someone. It involves on a mutual agreement of two souls to practice something natural with their body parts. Marriage isn’t something that will change the spell of sex from sin to something very pious. Marriage is just some spells made by a priest or a known man that notifies our social unification.

A person has nothing to do with age to get ready to involve in the process of coitus. It is just that the person should be mentally ready and consensual. Waiting until marriage to have sex is a cultural phenomenon that had been carried on from time unknown without any acceptable base. We talk of gender equality on one hand and condemn pre-marital sex on the other hand. Pre-marital sex is respecting individual’s thoughts and actions.

There are other issues which we should be more concerned of than pre-marital sex. An individual shouldn't ask his partner if she had made love with somebody else before marriage. The question should be whether she had taken the perfect precaution as and when she made love before marriage.

Submitted for Indivine for Poonam Uppal's True Love

Rural Development

Rural development refers to the growth, evolution, stage of inducement and progress in the areas where people are primarily engaged in primary industries. This process aims at improving the well-being and self-realization of people living outside the urbanized areas through a collective process. In this process the efforts of the native residents are combined with Government authorities to improve their economic, social and cultural status. This process includes agricultural growth, economic and social infrastructure, fair and equal wage rates, improvement of living standards and building schools.

Government has continuously strived to improve the living conditions of the people of rural India with the help of microfinances, schemes like MGNREGA and institutions like NABARD. While there are many benefits attached to them, there are also some problems with them. With the assistance of microfinance firms, the agriculturists and cultivators are getting small amounts of money as loans from them. They are utilising the money to set up small entrepreneurships and getting diverted from their primary occupation of agriculture. They should have been more concerned for agriculture, which stands as the backbone of our country. While MGNREGA assures 100 days of assured labour unemployed villagers, it is also turning them lazy and lethargic. They could have worked hard and discovered a fortune instead of sitting back and relying on the assured payment.

Today on one hand India is going forward towards development with the corporate sector. This development cannot be an exclusive development. We cannot build a healthy society with a rich section on one side and poor on the other. Rural society must also be included in the process of development.  Their living standards must also be uplifted. It is notable that about three-fourth of India's population live in rural areas, thus rural development is needed to develop nation as whole. Nearly half of the country's national income is derived from agriculture, which is major occupation of rural India. Around seventy per cent of Indian population gets employment through agriculture. Bulks of raw materials for industries come from agriculture and rural sector. Increase in industrial population can be justified only in rural population’s motivation and increasing the purchasing power to buy industrial goods. Also it is worth mentioning that the growing disparity between the urban elite and the rural poor can lead to political instability.

There are many problems faced in rural development. The people designated and authorised for the task are numerically inadequate. The fund issued for rural development activities is comparatively less. Also for rural development social evils like inter-caste marriage, dowry and other rituals should be eliminated. The government is working very less to eradicate them. Lastly it is us who should be involved in this process but our busy schedule and short term profits aren’t allowing us to predict the long-term loss.

Submitted to  Guwahatian - An E-Magazine from Guwahati