BEING AN INDIAN!!!!

Come Independence Day, one can see the Indian flag that stays proudly on the people’s chest but the next day one can see the same flags lying on the ground as small pieces of paper which no more command respect. This is a very sad situation but very true. I had been noticing this plight for the past few years. Some 61 years ago this was a great moment for the people as the mother India was relieved from the clutches of the Britishers (Foreigners). But today only a few still celebrate the day with the same feelings. For some it’s mere a holiday. For some it’s not even a holiday as they slog in the companies that work for the foreign countries. It has become a normal day for most of us. Do we spare a thought for the one’s who lost their lives to provide us this freedom we are enjoying????

In the early years the foreigners ruled our country stripping our mother India of all the wealth she possessed. Now a days we are being ruled by the democratic leaders who strive to fill their own bank balances doing something or sometimes nothing for the country. Their lies no much difference between the then beaurocrats and the now democratic leaders. But I think we are not to blame the leaders as they are the ones we have elected. So the fault lies with us –with the one who excise their franchise to select a leader for the country…..

61 years of Independence!!! Are we really free??? We are still caught in many of the social evils. Terrorism, Child labour, social evil practices. How can we say that we are a free country???? The country will only be free when we are able to eradicate all these evils from the society.

Terrorism has always been on a high. We try to forget a previous attack that we are reminded of them again. The killing of the innocent people in these attacks. What do they get by doing this?? But not once are the politicians attacked. It’s always the innocent people who suffer… why?? This is just one of the questions that we need to think upon to achieve freedom in its real sense.

There are many more problems that need to be addressed. But lets just think for a moment what are we doing for the country. We proudly say we are Indians. But are we fulfilling our duties towards our mother country??? If we had done our duties righteously our country would not have been a third world but it would have been a first world……

Why is that we take pride in bringing out the patriotic feelings only a few days before the Independence Day or the Republic Day?? Being an Indian we need to have secular thoughts because India is a very secular and biggest democratic country.. We boast of Unity In Diversity but is this true?? A small incident is enough to stir religious fights among the people.. Why???

It’s not the one individual who is to be blamed. We all are to be blamed. Let’s just think first “What we have done for the nation rather than thinking of what the nation has given us”

SNEHA NAIK

RELIGION AND BHAKTI…


We always remember one person when we are depressed and in sorrows but do we really remember to thank him always when something good happens in our lives inspite of the special bond we share with him???? I hope you might have understood whom I am referring to here. I am speaking about the divine power- the creator of the world.

One day I had been to chilkur but could never connect with him. I found the connection missing which I used to feel when ever I went to any temple whole heartedly with total devotion. That day the temple was totally crowded with the people who were there to offer 108 pradakshanas. People were pushing others to complete the rounds as soon as possible. I never understood their hurry to complete the rounds if they could not feel for what they were doing. I may be wrong in saying this because I way I felt may not be the truth. People there also have to show the affection for each other. There was no place for people to walk and few were doing the pradakshanas hand in hand.

But the definition of bhakti these days has changed to give and take policy. I have seen people strike deals with him. Give me this and I’ll give you that. But people don’t realize that everything on this earth has been created by him what will they return back to him. It seems same as the politicians who do things before the elections to get the people’s votes.

It this what is bhakti? Devotion???
I know I am not the right person to speak about devotion because I am not such a great devotee but worship god according to my definition of worship. I have no mandatory rules that I need to recite the prayers daily but do so when I feel like. My conversations with god are like I talk normally with others. I share everything in my life with him and he solves many of my problems, teaches and shows the path of life where I may not find total satisfaction but a path to lead so that the life doesn’t come to a stand still.

In the past few days I only had complaints to tell him, had lost the ray of hope in my life but now have learnt a hard lesson. Everything we wish to doesn’t come true. I was told by people that he does so, so that we don’t forget him in our lives. I never understood what they meant to explain me because I never understood why he would want us to remember him always. Its not he who needs us but its we who need him on our lives.


I know many who would contradict my ideology but I never meant to hurt anyone’s feelings and only tried to tell my idea of devotion and my way of worshipping God.
SNEHA NAIK

“WAQT NAHI”
Har khushi Hai Logon Ke Daman Mein,
Par Ek Hansi Ke Liye Waqt Nahi.

Din Raat Daudti Duniya Mein,
Zindagi Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Maa Ki Lori Ka Ehsaas To Hai,
Par Maa Ko Maa Kehne Ka Waqt Nahi.

Saare Rishton Ko To Hum Maar Chuke,
Ab Unhe Dafnane Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.

Saare Naam Mobile Mein Hain,
Par Dosti Ke Liye Waqt Nahi.

Gairon Ki Kya Baat Karen,
Jab Apno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Aankhon Me Hai Neend Badee,
Par Sone Ka Waqt Nahi.

Dil Hai Gamon Se Bhara ,
Par Rone Ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.

Paison ki Daud Me Aise Daude,
Kya Thakne ka Bhi Waqt Nahi.

Paraye Ehsason Ki Kya Kadr Karein,
Jab Apne Sapno Ke Liye Hi Waqt Nahi.

Tu Hi Bata E Zindagi,
Iss Zindagi Ka Kya Hoga,
Kya Har Pal Marne Walon Ko,
Jeene Ke Liye Bhi Waqt Nahi.........


How aptly this poem describes our lives……………. I never take much time to checkout the forwarded mails sent to me but this mail had me glued to it and just couldn’t stop posting it here…

SNEHA NAIK

TIME TO LEARN FROM THE ANIMALS????????


I would want everyone to ask this question for themselves. May be you’ll get the answer. I may be very wrong in posing this question but the present scenario depicts the same. The animals are getting the ethics and morals-the qualities of human beings and the humans turning animals…… I just want everyone to think atleast once about it. An incident from the diary of my college memories made me think about this and ask this question.


The day was very beautiful more beautiful was the pleasant weather. The birds chirping and the trees swaying to the tunes of the breeze altogether a very lovely sight. But the day demanded something else had no opportunity of enjoying the beauty of nature but to follow the norms of the busy daily life. As I was already getting late I hurried to the college. As I entered the college a very socking incident took my heart. A cat was sitting very close to a dog without the fear of being attacked. That took my heart beat for a second but as I was already late to the class I hurried for it. My mind kept thinking about it. The thoughts never left me for a long time. After the class we all friends gathered had a small talk and sat enjoying the beauty of the nature. Nature had such an impact on us that we forgot everything. No other thoughts came to my mind. I sat there enjoying the nature. I never shared the incident with my friends with the feeling that they would just laugh at me. It was a small incident but had a great impact on my mind. After the long day at college as I was returning home the same thoughts resurfaced. As I was traveling back home I kept thinking about it. We the humans have no humanity left in us but the animals have learnt it all from us. A dog and a cat the arch rivals sitting together is a great incident in itself. The two are a from different communities but we the humans belong to the same community, still fight amongst each other for some issue or the other. These animals which cannot speak, cannot think are setting an example of humanity, caring for each other the qualities once humans were known for, but now the scenario is changing. The jealousy, selfishness has taken over humans totally. The feeling of oneness no more exists amongst us. Finally the day will come when we humans would become animals in the form of humans only, but the animals will become human beings may not be in form but in nature, by acquiring the qualities we possess. The day will come when the creator himself may repent for having created human beings-his best creation in the universe.


I would be the happiest to know that many do not agree with me because this proves that the people still have the good qualities we are known to possess and have not lost them as I have thought…………


I finally make a plea to everyone… do ponder about it atleast once…….

SNEHA NAIK

“EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, HAPPENS FOR A REASON”


How true this phrase seems in our lives. We wish something but something else is what we achieve and may be that is what is called destiny. We strive hard to achieve our goals but sometimes our numerous attempts to achieve it fail and we land up doing something else. Only then we realize that this was what I wanted to do and destiny brings us there. It’s that then we realize and feel that “It’s good that our attempts failed or else I wouldn’t have been here.” The same thing happened in the case of a girl named Divya. She was born and brought up in a middle class family. She was a very hard working and intelligent girl but her hard work was never paid. She always got failures in her life. She completed her schooling with a good percentage though not up to her expectations and capabilities. She wished to become a doctor and strived very hard for it but her attempts failed and as a girl belonging to middle classed family couldn’t afford for a payment seat and so changed her career. She took up graduation and was very happy with the career change. She felt being a doctor was not her cup of tea once she started her graduation studies. She was very happy and wished to continue her further studies in the same field but her attempts to get into a good university for her post graduation failed. She was into depression thinking life had never been kind to her, never shown what happiness is but then life doesn’t stop and we also have to move along with it. Unwillingly she had to change her career again. Every time she planned a career change she kept explaining herself that the destiny takes you where ever you are destined to be how much ever you try to achieve something else which may interest you. She took up MBA and topped her university. It was then that she felt very happy may she had been so happy after a long time in her life. She was satisfied that her career shift had brought her immense happiness. She then thanked herself for the explanations she kept giving herself when ever she planned something she had no interest in. She had learnt to take life as it comes and feel happy in what ever she did. She made a job in a good software company who paid her well though she had no software background but had done her MBA. She had no regrets in life though she never wanted to follow the rat race of joining a software company but finally landed up doing the same. She was satisfied that she earned a great salary for herself though she never had the job satisfaction. This was the story of her career moves. In her company she met a guy who with his words made her believe that he was the one for her. She was in deep love with that guy. Being in love and being loved by the same person was a great feeling altogether for her. But the guy never felt the same for her and had always put up an act in front of her which she could never understand. Having met many failures in life she no more wanted any more failures but her life had some other plans for her. She felt that as the biggest failure in her life. She was lost completely. She was very lucky to have such great parents who supported her and never planned for her marriage once she had experienced failure in her attempts to choose a guy for herself. She slowly recovered from her depression. She left the decision of choosing a life partner for her to her parents. They soon selected a guy for her but left the decision to her whether she wanted him as her life partner or not. She arranged a meeting with him and decided to tell him all that had happened in her life as the relationship between a husband and wife always stands on understanding each other and accepting each other as they are. The guy was ready to accept her even after knowing her past and soon they got married. This was Divya’s life till now. She had to adjust for many things in her life, had to compromise on many things but finally everything that happened in her life had brought her success and happiness. Still in any situation where she has to change or do something which she never wants to do she moves on in life thinking “Everything that happens, happens for a reason”
SNEHA NAIK

MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES…

I would like to share the most cherished moments of my childhood. Every summer in my childhood was very special to me. The mango tree in my garden made it special. I lived in a joint family then. I, my sister and my cousins would always compete to get the mango that would ripen in the tree and fall to the ground. The one who laid his hand on the fruit first would get the chance to relish the tasty fruit. My summer even now doesn’t end without remembering the mango tree. Now the mango tree no more stays in my garden as we had to cut down the tree to construct the apartments we live in now.
Let me tell you about my childhood… the house we lived in then and the mango tree in that house. That tree will always remain special for me though the mango tree had many companions along with it the lemon, the pomegranate, the guava and many others. But I never could connect with the others as I had bonded with the mango tree then. The tree lay expanded till my terrace and the fruits would fall on the terrace. We would run up the stairs to get the fruit at the sound of the rattling of the dried leaves when the fruit would fall. I was one of the luckiest then because I was always rather most of the times the first person to lay the hand on the mango that would fall and had the opportunity of relishing the tasty mangoes of my garden. Mostly during the afternoons when everyone would be asleep I only had to get it because I would never sleep in the afternoons. The mango tree had shared along with me all my sorrows and pleasures as a child. I don’t know how old it was but had always been my best friend then and it will always remain in my heart. My arms were so small that I could never completely hold the trunk of the tree. My hands would never meet around. It would patiently listen to all the silly things I kept telling and never complained. May be that’s why I told everything to it, the things which no one else knows, the tree knew them all. The secrets I don’t even remember now lay buried along with the tree. That was the place where I had my childhood spent, the beautiful moments of my life. I am falling short of words to explain the feelings I share with that place but will surely tell when I find words to explain my feelings. Everyone has sweet memories of their childhood. Even I had a very special childhood and my friend the mango tree made it even more special. Those are the sweet memories I always cherish and even today every summer I just can’t stop speaking about the tree. Those were the beautiful moments that would never come back in life but will always remain special to have and will always have a special place in my heart.
This is a tribute to the mango tree the dearest one to me and will always remain my favourite pal and the best pal in my life…..

SNEHA NAIK

ONE RAINY DAY


The day seemed long and dull to me. I wanted to be alone and do what I wished to do and not what others wanted me to do. But I was surrounded by many who seemed to speak endlessly with which I could never associate myself. And then the moment came for which I had been waiting for a long time. I had the whole time for myself. I was the happiest person on this universe. I felt like a queen ruling the kingdom-my home. That day god also was very kind to me and granted all my wishes. I had been longing for my space and it was granted and then I wanted it to rain and there that wish of mine was also granted. The breeze brought along with it the sweet smell of the sand, the feeling that it’s going to rain. I rushed to my balcony to feel the first rain drop. It started drizzling and the pitter patter rain drops started falling on my face. They brought a smile on my face which came from the depth of my heart. The happiness showed on my face. It was the smile that came up instantaneously and not the one that was brought up on my face to please some one else. That moment I felt the whole happiness in the world was only for me. These feelings would just not wade off from my heart had it not been for the door bell to ring. I never wanted to open the door as I never felt the need for anyone in my life at that moment and never wanted to share them with anyone. But the sound of the door bell grew annoying and I had to open the door. It was some person not known to me but I connected with him immediately. The anger I had when I was opening the door was gone. He introduced himself as Ajay a friend of my friend. Initially he was very formal but soon we became friends and I felt as if I had been longing to meet such a person in my life. I thanked god for having given me this happiness unasked for. I never realized the time when I was speaking to him. We got to know each other very well in the little time we had spent together. I felt as if he was the one with whom I can spend my life happily and longed to tell him this. But the shy girl in me arose and stopped me from doing this. How much I tried I just couldn’t tell him my feelings. I feared I may loose a great friend if he had no such feelings for me. I didn’t want to loose him and at the same time I couldn’t hide my feelings for him. The next moment he said all that I wanted to hear and tell him. I felt as if was in heaven and wanted to tell him that even I had the same feelings for him but hesitated to tell him as I felt I would loose a great friend. As I started speaking the door bell rang. The sound was getting irritating and only then did I realize that the bell had been ringing for the past half an hour and I had not even opened the door. I was still standing in the balcony feeling the rain drops fall on me and trying to catch as much rain water I can in my hands and splash it on my face. Only then did I realize that I had been dreaming. It was the best dream of my life. I then rushed to open the door to see if it was the same person for whom I had opened the door in my dream but was sad when I realized it was my mom and dad for whom I had opened the door and not the same person I longed to meet. For some time I just couldn’t come back to normal but had to explain myself that it was just a dream and that it would never come true but those will be the moments I would cherish all my life and will keep waiting for the same person to enter my life as he is the only one who has all the qualities I wish my life partner to have. And from that day on I had been waiting for him and will be waiting for him through out my life…………………………….

*******Ajay only a fictious character created and nothing much above it
SNEHA NAIK