A day when I was dumb

One fine day out of nowhere a sudden thought struck me! I thought how it would be if I can spend a whole day without any sort of communication.

I wish I could put something like this. But nothing comes out of thin air. In reality every action has a small reason behind it. And my reason is several articles I read about silence and words. Anyway here goes my experience ‘On the day when I was silent!’
Any sort of communication means no communication with outside world or with any other person! Though that was what i had in mind it did not go like that.

The following words were written on that same day and its written with whatever emotions I had in that moment. Presenting it unedited!

Being silent is just like having a two sided knife! It’s both a boon and bane depending on various times. When you are in anger, you feel like shouting and unable to do it feels very irritable.. Highly irritating. And thr are times wen u r accused of wrong things but u haven’t done anything at those times, u r naturally falsely accused and u r unable to vindicate urself of d false accusations. Also one thing about being silent and giving a bland smile is that it can irritate the person opposite to u too much. Even as I type this stuff I am shaking with anger, irritation and desperation to shout back at many ppl. I feel highly irritating jus for one day that too wen am within my home the whole day! Sad to think about other dumb people who are doomed to unexpress their feelings through mouth! A silent smile is the most irritable thing that u can do to anyone wen they ask a question, wen someone irritates u or wen someone wants to see u get irritated! When we are in utmost anger it is best to keep silent instead of expressing our opinions. When ur voice should really have been raised at a time n if u haven’t done so u will definitely feel that thing deep in ur heart even after u remain silent for a whole day! But if ur anger and the opinion that u were about to express were silly, stupid, unrelated, unwanted or unjust then u would definitely understand that and you will have the inclination to do it after an hour or two!
Silence is definitely a boon and also a bane! This was the experience I gained during the whole day! Thought I tried to be silent without any communication it was a flop and did not work out well. The incessant questions that were shot at me, stupid moments that I had to face, awkward times when I had to do sign languages, irritable frnd who did not know anything about my idea and made me do sign languages as if am playing charades with him (was almost as good as talking).. grr completely irritating! Just as my mom pointed out the day before I started it, it is definitely a big mistake to undergo such a task at home or at domestic circles, it is always better to do it at an isolate location where u can remain completely away from any sort of communication!
One more thing that was both irritating and made feel helpless was the inability to express my frustration at the match between csk and rcb.. The qualifier 1 on 24-05-2011… Initially wen Chennai was batting I wanted to shout at them! Alas mouth was tied by my own brain! Then again the final moment of winning. I din want to spoil my 23.5 hours of struggle in jus one moment. I had to keep my mouth shut again and not shout after they won! So ultimately the day of choosing my little experiment proved to be very wrong! A severe headache both at the start of the game and at the end of the game! But finally the day ended good wen I wished my dear sister a happy birthday after keeping mum for 24 hours!! Jus gr8!
Though the ultimate idea of keeping silent is very great it can still be applied not only on certain special occasions but also on almost all of the days by talking and conveying opinions only when needed and by not going and sticking one’s nose into every trivial happening that goes around us! This has been a great experience today, learned a lot and I do hope that this will pave for better days in the coming days!

Dosai Down Down!!

How could anyone think of something as stupid as this? How could they do it? Why the hell did they do it? How did they come with the correct mixture for such an yuckish dish? Why does everyone get so interested with such a bland food? OMG!!! Just how do people manage to eat it…

I was forced not only to eat this completely plain and tasteless south Indian dish but also to make twenty of the same for my parents and sisters. Pure disgust and loathing imploded in me as I started doing it in the non-stick pan. Seems quite funny that making it is quite easy but eating it requires immense courage and more powerful throat muscles to gulp it down. Further one must have control over their inner tongue since taking a piece of it through the inner mouth definitely creates a sense of nausea when it gets stuck there for a second. Some people like to have it “moru moru”. Oh my God! That definitely tears your mouth. Never ever try it.

Yes… All this hatred is for the famous south Indian dish and my archenemy (in food) – Dosa. I do not know why I have such hatred quite contrary to the fact that I too am a South Indian, who has been in Chennai since birth. Whenever I see people eating it in restaurants, it is amusing. When some of the people I know get excited at the thought of eating dosa I get more amused and look at them with astonishment, contempt and pity. And when I am forced to eat it during breakfast or dinner I get angry on my parents! ;)

What is there in it anyway? For all I know, it’s just rice flour and some other flours mixed together and how did people get to like it so much that it has risen to the point of being a trademark of Chennai and South India.

How much do I hate dosa is a question for which I would like to answer. If I ever get to become a dictator or prime minister of India my first rule would be: Henceforth, preparation and consumption of Dosa at any public outlets, restaurants, motels, public gatherings is illegal and a punishable offence.

Today I had to eat for this horrible circular thing as dinner. The pain is still fresh and hot in my heart just like the hot dosas. It may be a single man’s woe and suffering but this soul will never give up till I get to the bottom of this injustice meted out to me by the society!

‘Dosai Ozhiga!!!’ (Dosai Down Down!!!)

The Magic Hat

When Knowledge is the nectar
Birth is an obligation,
Life a pain,
And death a bliss.

When the truth unravels,
Birth becomes an unwanted intruder
And life an endless wait
For the arrival of the guest – ‘death’.

Open the safe of knowledge
With the key of thoughts
To enlighten the mind of the daring truth
That life is a trivial game show.

Pitiable lives run amuck
Amassing money, power and fame
Afraid of the truth,
And ignorant of the secret
That life is just a magician’s hat.

Divide and Rule: From 1900 to 2000...

Some hundred years back, when the British were finding it difficult to control the riots and mutinies against their rule in India, the British came up with a wonderful tactic which was good enough to make them continue their rule for another half a century. Their idea was ‘Divide and Rule’ policy. They initially started favouring Hindus and went against Muslims who were in the fore front during the 1857 struggle. After 1900s they started favouring Muslims. Though the community who they favoured changed constantly till 1947, they made sure that the age old enmity between Hindus and Muslims always remained afresh. This separatism reached its climax when they decided to split Punjab and Bengal into west and east thereby completely separating Hindus and Muslims both physically and mentally leading to creation of India and Pakistan in the end.

And why am I stating this well known fact now? After sixty years of independence?? Let’s make a quick view of the present Indian situation! Every form, every application and almost every ID card in India has columns like ‘Religion’, ‘Community’ and ‘Caste’. Indian Constitution proudly brags that India is a secular state and every Indian has equal rights – ‘Right to equality’. Here is an excerpt of what was given about right to equality in my primary school book, “Blah… blah… blah… All rights universally apply to all citizens, irrespective of race, place of birth, religion, caste, creed, color or Gender. But certain provision is provided to minority classes for their upcoming.” This last clause of ‘minority class’ constitutes almost 70% in Tamilnadu and around 50% average all over India. Since when did 50% and 70% percent become minority??? I was informed by someone that when constitution was initially formed it was framed in such a way that the privilege was made only for a few years. Then why did it extend till now?

Politics! Apparently, our politicians too find that Divide and Rule Policy is the best way to rule when they are rotting in their own corruption. Split the population into factions, make them brood over their own sect of people, never make them realise the truth and most important of all constantly remind all the important vote sections from which they could extract votes that they are a minority and shower them with more privileges. We have moved a long way from the real caste discrimination when higher class used to discriminate the weaker sections, to self-discrimination where people condemn themselves to the ‘backward classes’ so that they extort maximum possible privilege. It even gets worse: One such ‘community’ still does frequent strikes and bandh demanding the Government to discriminate them to a further backward class. The Government too happily encourages them indirectly. India has degraded from the point where discrimination was seen as cruelty to the point where discrimination is self-inflicted!

So ultimately, I don’t find much difference between India before independence and the present India if you minus the technological developments. The British plundered our wealth for their country in the name of Colonialism and Imperialism and remained in power using the divide n rule policy. At present the politicians plunder our resources, deposit them in tax haven countries and make people ensconced within their shells of caste, community and religion, a modified and better version of divide and rule!!!