The problem with Discipline

 Schools were established in the 1800s in Chicago with the intention to produce factory workers. That is why there is a line in the morning, the uniform, the belt, the tiffin box, the bell, bow down, and at all cost- do what you are asked to do system. The goal was to produce obedient people who would do what is asked without questioning their authority. Fast forward 200 years and very little has changed. We as a generation have failed to define "discipline". We confuse authorities with leaders and we have massively diluted the definition of respect. We are asked to respect others- juniors should respect seniors, students should respect...

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Why you should get off social media?

I had been out of social media for 3 years and I thought I would share my experiences and perhaps convince you on why you should leave and why it is urgent. Social media has deeply handicapped the new generation. More affected are girls than boys. While boys may use smartphones for games and porn, they are by nature less subjected to the constant comparison of looks (albeit not the hierarchical status.) The rate of depression which has been stable since the 80s has increased from 11% to 20% in teenage girls in the last 9 years. (ONE OUT OF EVERY 5 TEENAGE GIRL IS DEPRESSED). In college kids, it has increased from about 5% to 16%. The...

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The War of Ideas

We are reaching a point where the minute we start talking about important topics like feminism, transgender issues, religion, political beliefs, environmental issues, if our viewpoints are different than others, then a mob on the internet comes to shut us down. But society means people with DIFFERENT opinions living together. That is the very backbone of society. Shielding the opposite viewpoints does not make us stronger, it makes us weaker and more dangerous. We need to learn to let our ideas battle, fight so that our ideas can die instead of us. The alternate is we ourselves fighting and bleeding. We will have to learn to be offended...

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Failing Love

I have fallen in love many times in my life and that means I have fallen out of it just as many times. But that is the thing about falling in love, that it is easy. It happens naturally, when paths come together, something that is simply handed to you because you just happened to be there. But staying in love, that is another story entirely. Your emotional erection wears off and your consciousness kicks in. And folks, I don’t mean falling with people only. I also mean with ideas. Like how excited you were when you decided to join gym or learn guitar or whatever that is, fill in the blanks please. But the point is, that it just hit...

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Behind The Mirage

The morning alarm is beginning to sound like the ticking of a time bomb. When air itself acts like a poison, I am realizing that my lungs are no more craving fame or likes in facebook or stacks of gold coins under my pillow. In his book, “Barking at the wrong tree”, Eric Barker says, “Warren Buffet is 89 yrs old billionaire with net worth of around 80 billion dollars. There is not a single thing he is not able to buy. Would you swap your life with him?... and if not, why not?” Regardless of what the world has been shouting us, our soul, deep down  can never be convinced that fame and all the riches of the world are more valuable than...

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The Paparazzi Behind The Screen

Lately I have begun to develop a keen sense of distaste towards people. “Is it the man that wears the beast or is it the beast that wears the man?” I had read that a while back. Are we inherently good people who happen to be bad at times or are we inherently bad ones who just don’t have the courage to appear bad. But that blog post is for another day, it can wait. So can everything, but nevertheless let me rant about something that has been bothering me too much lately . We as a generation seem to have been hypnotized in the things that don’t matter. The generation which is so obsessed with posting, “I don’t care what you think” in social...

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Conspiracy Against Soul

"Is it possible to miss someone you did not want to be with? Was the loneliness too big to rise in protest through your soul? Was it I you missed or was it loneliness that was too terrible? When you have never been treated with indifference, can you even know what love is?" The jurisdiction was against me. I was not enough. A 160 characters in the text would call it a day, the sentence for my insufficiencies, my failure to be a creature without a scratch. On the day you decided I was not enough, I swung back to my pits. Past, present and future collided simultaneously, simply and dreadfully. But hope is a crazy thing. You would think at...

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Dr. Govinda Kc- a prophet in a wrong land

Dr. KC shows what an ideal human being looks like and why you should not be one of them. If you have been following the news lately, it does not really take a genius to say who is right and who is wrong. Having nothing more than integrity has his only banner, Dr. Kc leads from the front on what a human is capable of, what an ideal human being looks like and why one should not aim for that. A man can stand suffering. I would claim that he has strength to stand tall than any suffering presented to him. But it is indignation that he cannot stand, not the suffering. How can one ask anyone to be virtuous when it is precisely what is being...

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The Mirage

The loneliness often stabs from the back, at the least expected moment. The tunes in the song when you are wired in, a quick glance at your own shadow- the trigger is sent and a meltdown is coming. And as my brain recollects the aura of a meltdown, I make my guards ready- the wisdom, the long breaths to distract myself, few quotes here and there, desperately cling on to the vision of dreams hoping they can drag me through the day. A battle is inevitable. I fragment. Each of my cells in the body aligns with one team or the other- one in the protest, one in the support. Each of them holding their flags for or against my vision, for...

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The impersonator

My voice cracks with the crushing weight of the question, "Are you okay?" as my younger self asks me the question from the mirror. I try hard to hear him- the screaming of the unfulfilled promises, the carcass of the broken dreams and the echoes of failure are louder than the soft words. "Have you done the things you wanted to do?", he asks me. My heart beats the same but sounds louder in the silence. My vacant eyes, my dry throat, and my dying soul muster up the courage in every corner of my being to just barely stand. I tell him that fate dealt a heavy blow, that I had lost at something infinite, something big, that somewhere I did...

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