Shruti-"Be Human!" (Series on people-Human Kind)

Hey... This is another person from Series on People- Human Kind.....
I dont have her snap, will post it later...

She is sweet & beautiful. Bubbly chubby & cute- Shruti

Shruti, she was our neighbor in our previous home. She is fond of my mother,& use to hang in my place for hours together. She must be in her 4^th std, when I met her first, Very bold & talkative. She use to fill our home with talks & dance & sometimes shouts… I became kid along with her, we use to do lot of mischief. Being with her was so charismatic that, many times I forgot I had to get back to my work...

We came close during my sis wedding, me & mom, real busy in doing wedding preparations… (Ah! It was typical Indian wedding... Full of dance, masti, gifts, food). Shruti use to hang around with us… quite lot... To help us out. [That’s what she use to say to her mom ;) ]

She is very talkative, she use to talk about her mom, dad, her twin sis Shravni- Shravni, physically handicap… abnormal child... But very sharp at her emotions...

Sometimes, I wondered whether, her parents ignored our darling doll Shruti.

Shruti moved on with everything… a care, love n affection for her sis… at cost of her beating & disturbing her studies, sometimes tearing books...

What more could be expected out of a kid I thought! She knew, to move on, along with all this…

One incidence took over everything , she was hanging around as usual , late afternoon, my Granny, offered a five star bar, Shruti very bluntly told her, that give another. It was a silence for a second & mom told her that its bad habit to ask for another (ala bla….. as usual typical of mom’s) she listened to all & just said, “I want it for Shravni, other wise take this back”, for moment it was pin drop silence, we were shocked…& She continued, I share everything with her...

What a satisfaction, she carried, when another five star was given to her...

That’s true human I thought...

Maturity at this age… that was to learn from her.

As time moved, there was a gap, eventually we shifted & we hardly met each other. I got married & busy… I met her hardly & heard of her from mom...

There was Diwali & I was there, all sudden this babe landed up along with her parents, to show their new car & take us on drive. She insisted us to come for a drive.

I was standing out of car & listening to her talks… & suddenly, she held my hand. She complained to me, that I have become quite & not talking much…

That was surprise, a small girl must be ten years old, was so observant that she could recognize change in me....

The maturity & mischief always goes hand in hand when it comes to her. & most amazing of all was she keeps calling us to just check how we are doing… like an old granny!

As Shobha taught me so much, so did Shruti, she taught me to be altruistic, humble & polite. Above all she taught me to be human.

Its Indian Performance

Hie..
hmm after long weeks... Was really busy at office.... so did not get much time to write...
we faced so many difficulties at this end...I am writing on it & will post it soon..

It was one of the busy day of the week in the office… there was sound of drum bits... I always get fascinated towards these stuffs like sounds, shouts & fights ... (My colleague… calls it Panchayat)
but I don’t mind... Yup its typical woman attitude, but I don’t mind it.

But it’s certainly not that I want to know, what is happening at other end, perhaps there is loads of observation stored. When two people are fighting, it’s not about there fight but about their expressions, action & reaction. That shows much of cultural &; social impact… that might be difference among people from different strata & regions.

Okay… I want to say something else here... that happens when sociologist look at I guess… So I was talking about the drum sounds.

I went to window; there was old man who was biting the drum. There was something full of feathers dancing on the beat. It looked like bird so of course it was catching attention of passerby. As music stopped, this feather cover wearing boy got out of it, folded it & than went across to collect money… hardly, few paid him other walked away … reason no one knows…

There is old man behind playing drums

This is boy wearing feather cover & dancing

There is plate with some coins...

Thats another pose...

Boy now removing the cover

(My students clicked the snaps which made me jot down these lines.. Thanx to Anup & Tanmay. Anup for giving his mobile to click snaps & Tanmay for clicking!)

(This was handmade stuff)

There I thought, might be this is India that why people don’t want to pay him. In America, England or for that sake in another country, if someone shows the magic, dance or plays music on street then he or she will get some reward for it & can earn some money for bread & butter. Why we like watching that on TV & appreciate it? Why we pay them there & not here? Could be we get attracted to the jazz & boldness behind it... & these people have rural look? I get these question in mind... Might be you will have different opinion....

What is wrong to appreciate this kind of talent?? I think its just matter of prospective!!

India being so much full of art & creativity….

Let’s inherit & appreciate it,rather then let it perish.

Let’s be proud of art & proud to help fellow human being, who is giving something in return than those beggars who have made begging a business.

Let’s enjoy the art & enjoy the satisfaction of helping fellow human being & be thankful for giving opportunity as viewers to help them out!

Religion called Humanity

I learn so much every day, life is real teacher. I lived in my own illusions so long, I thought!

As time demands, we have to be adaptable for change, let it be in adapting values, culture, thought (of course, which we agree upon... not a forcible adaptation!) to some extent we are doing that but still we are so much jammed in our thinking, in religion so much…

as sociology student, I have read so my thinkers, these thinkers, have drawn their own perceptions of connection between Society & religion.

Recently, funnily enough, I came across so many incidences.

Sometimes I go to beauty parlor, near my office. The owner is decent lady, but talks a lot… other day, she introduced me to her daughter, & she started with with my name & my caste & sub caste, as we shared same religion. It was so much astonishing, for me that people just not only are stuck up with religion but also with caste & sub castes….

Later followed by another incidence, which I don’t want to mention here…

But what was shocking to me or rather it broke my own illusions that people are still so much stuck up with These Manly Created Religions & Castes…
I thought, at least educated class of India, who is moving head to adapt new technology, culture have still stuck up with the castes & religions…

In my view, One has to understand... there is only one religion called Humanity & one caste called fellow human being to reach concept called spirituality!

Time Factor... Never Give Up

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. ~Willaim Penn

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ~Sister Mary Paul

Thats so true!

Here, I am with Personal experience & Fault..
Fault of not making my students understand importance of time...
(even though I did)

But there is yet so much to learn from whole experience..




Have a cool weekend!

Relations...

Hello... After weighty days ... was really busy...
A thought which was pondering over & over again... Na...Na not a big one... Small post... Here I go...

Relations a very long long subject to talk on… These were thoughts which flew in mind… (A personal connection to it too ;))

Relations are very chaotic in Indian Middle class; heal lot of expectations, duties, obligations, & responsibilities… just not at emotional end but also at monetary end.

I am sure, this is the case, with every Youngster who is trying hard to build career & aspiring for better life… at the end they land up in frustration... some escape to other country with varied reasons… & some struggle with a hope, that ‘this will improve’ One day, people will understand…

Hmmm!

I think, relations should be like a house, each room is independent but still combined… every room is meant for something & successfully completing roll to call it house.

Why cant relations be like this?

In the fast moving world, there is different set of requirement … for people to recognize… & stand by each other to create a better world & better relations to live better today N tomorrow!!

Have a fresh week!! What could be more better to end with fresh flowers...