nothingAn interesting article appeared in the Hindu dated Augest 9, 2006 by Jackia Ashley (Of course it is reproduced from Gaurdian Newspapers Ltd).The author has advocated that Ideas could not be killed with Guns. The tragedy of Lebenon is not between Isreal and Hizbollah terrorists. It is between two fundementalists. One jewish and other muslim.One can't deny the right of Iareal to exist.But the race that suffered Holohust during Hitler's regime has no right to bombard civilian homes and mercilessly kill innocent children.The Hizbollah organisation is a terrorist outfit. But you can not confront terrorism with terrorism. We in India has seen the ugly face of terrorism. Islam is an beautiful religion which has many great values.Fundamantalists would want to make the Islam Globally sucessful. At the end of cold war and after the collapse of Soviet Union there is a void between west and third world countries. There is no one to represent the Have-nots.World has become a huge Market place.Western countries tried to turn the world into a vast super market to sell their wares- only their wares.That is why GATT and Doha happened.Western countries thought that better trade relations between countries would avert another Great war. But the advent of Islam do not suit the western powers.Islam with their Oil fastly gaining ground in the Globe.Western powers think that by excess of military powers they could subdue Islamic countries- their by Islam. In this context the author has rightly said that you can not kill ideas with Guns. It is a Heart and Mind struggle.Islam is an idea . One must try to go deeper and try to understand. As she has pointed out ideas can be met with ideas only not with guns. I am reminded of a beautiful song by Colonial Cousins:
Come back as Jesus
Come back and save the world
We need a teacher
And you are the only one
Come back as Rama
Forgive us for what we have done
Come back as Allah
Come back for every one
I read about death in an interesting book. Death is an unavoidable thing in everybody's life. I too has experienced im my life. I lost my fathr and the girl i loved most one after another way back some 20 years before. It took almost an year to overcome my grief. here is an extract from the author's book.
"Tommorrow I too- this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself- yes, tommorrow I too will be some one who no longer walks these streets, some one or other will evoke with a vogue:" I wonder what becomes of him. And every thing i do, every thing i feel, every thing i experience will be just one less passer by on the streets in some city or other."
I am reminded of another line from Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam,
"Tomorrow-Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yester's Sev'n thousand Years."
Hi folks,
I am a misreable soul unable to find a way to wriggle out of a unhappy married life. If you are a indian that too a south indian you may a able to understand the flight of my problems. Just for the sake of family honour and tradition i had to continue the charade of living with my wife. There is no love or even affection between us. Even after marrying off my daughter i can't think of deserting my wife.There is nothing between us. We are poles apart.My tastes lie in good books and music. She can't understand music leave alone listening it. Even in sex i always wanted to be a active partner. She would particpate it just for the sake of it waiting to be over.I just don't know when my problem over. The sin of indian arranged marriage. Thank God! my daughter chose a love marriage for her.
some times i always feel i never got satiated in life. Have you ever felt content in your life.Only when i am in the mountains with my girlfriend and having sex there satisfy my body temporarirly.Fulfiilment and happiness are different from feeling content. Perhaps if we find a way to attain content in everything we do that might be our nirvana.Ultimate achievement.
