Superpower

Am sure a number of us have hoped to get superpowers. To be stronger than others or maybe teleport anywhere in the universe or just be able to fly away. Lets just see some of the coolest superpowers ever.

SUPER STRENGTH -- Just imagine if you could throw a boulder miles away. Super strength will let you beat up evryone to a pulp.

TELEPATHY -- Read someones mind and may be plant ideas in theirs as well...Inception with no dreams..

FLIGHT -- Fight or Fly syndrome to the letter...just zoom off from any troublesome situation.

RADIOACTIVE/LASER BEAMS -- Just zap away anyone/anything standing in your way or heck just for the fun of it.

TELEPORTATION -- Possibly the 2nd best power to have. Have complete control over the space time fabric. I don't need to specify some very lucrative options that may present to you.

SUPER SPEED -- Well not really much of a superpower but a little bit of practise and maybe you can make something off it.

SONIC BOOM -- We've all shouted ourselves hoarse sometime or the other but just think how it would be your shouts and shrieks could destroy tall skyscrapers..

TELEKENESIS -- Mind over matter is the best way to describe this power. The 3rd best power to have. Hone your mind and you have no mortal danger and no one to stop you from doing what you want..

REGENERATION -- The power to regrow cells, tissues and organs. Nothing and no one can destroy you . The only weak point is the brain. Protect it and you rule the world.

CHAMELEON -- Become whoever you want or whatever you want . A great power for camouflage and sneak attacks but nothing more. Though become a copy of someone powerful and you never know.

MIND SHARP -- A very cool name for the ability to learn and understand the ways of the world. I rate it as the joint 2nd best power along with teleportation. You can learn to have more powers and achieve great power.

SUBDUER --  Nullify anyones power and make them bow in front of you. Used wisely there is no stopping you.

THE SPONGE --  An ordinary name for the greatest power. Absorb others power  and use them. Fly, send out power beams, teleport, control minds, regenerate, copy other forms, and hurl boulders..you can do anything and thats why the greatest power to have...my NO. 1. But every creature has a natural enemy by the laws of nature. Yours is arrogance and the subduer.

Any other power you feel i have missed out feel free to leave comments. And if you find out how to get any of these powers please do tell me!!!

Indian Beauty

For those who after reading the title are imagining beautiful indian women I would suggest to move on this blog. For this article I will try and talk about the beauty of India or Indianess more accurately.

At 1st glance by anyone, not just foreigners but indians as well, India looks like a dirty, unorganized & dishevelled country. And they are absolutely right. India is dirty with people preferring to consider the roads as dust bins more than infrastructure. It is unorganized and dishevelled for nothing here seems to have a basic framework and work, from personal to public, goes on in a random manner. Beauty of India lies in surprisingly these very facts which for anyone but indian is nauseating. It is the reason why most of the world looks at India and wonders " How in the hell does it even stand up leave alone walk and run??"

But somehow, maybe through many millenia of dogged determination the Indian has mastered the art of not just surviving but sometimes flourishing in the most trying of situations and conditions. And there in lies our truest strength to someday reclaim our rightful place in the world .."The Golden Bird"

Colour of Religion

Dawn of the new millenium brought to attention the world over a growing threat from islamic ideologue. Though India had been suffering from it ever since independence due to mostly political and sometimes religious  reasons the world especially the superpower US came face to face with islamic terrorism only after 9/11 attacks. The damage that these islamic fundamentalists have done to Islam and its people will take many years to repair.

The middle ages also saw another religious extremism, that from Christianity. To say that the christian crusades were bloody would be an understatement which originally was to recapture the "holy" land from muslims ended up becoming a war against all other belief systems. Christianity still has not been able to break the hold of that gruesome period on its psyche though its been close to 6 centuries since the crusaders last roamed.

Hinduism has had a long history, no tradition of compassion towards all irrespective of faith. Yet the last 2 decades have stood as spectator to a  new and budding extremism- the Hindu fanatics. Driven by political leaders masquerading behind "Hindutva" philosophy it still has not reached its potential unlike the others, christianity and islam ,but with rising support and political patronage it will in a few years. The coming centuries may well be the golden ,no "Saffron" age of Hindu extremism. Unless the political class and common man nip it in its bud now it will develop into a very thorny problem for us .

Politicians and intellectuals may say there is no colour for extremism but common sense tells there is. The middle ages witnessed the Red White and Blue extremism . We are witnessing Green (Islamic and not environmentalists) fundamentalism and in the future we may suffer from "Saffron" terrorism. No guesses which country will suffer most from it.....

Smoke and Drink

Someone said that 'Necessity is the mother of all inventions' . Most of us believe in this very simple statement. Fire was born off necessity and so was the number 0 and also electric power possibly the 3 greatest inventions in history.

So cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and all "nasha" inducers were invented out to satisfy some need were not they?? But modern society has depicted these in bad light. It is not good for health that is guaranteed but then so is butter, oil ..you know the stuff that get our taste buds tingling. But for some reason smoke and drinks are targetted by many especially the activists.

People may say that you can get hooked on to it and it is very difficult too stop once you've begun but then it is the same with fatty food as well if obesity in US and now increasingly in India as well is anything to go by. Why not contemplate ban on fatty food as well along with cigarettes and alcohol.

In moderation they can provide for stress relief and so i tell my friends smoke and booze responsibly and preferably not close to me cause passive smoking is worse than active and boozers are a little unpredictable. And guilt has no place along with pleasure :)

The Man from Earth

What would it be like to never die?? Many of us have wondered about it. A movie almost gone unnoticed by the masses is 'The Man From Earth' which is easily one of the most interesting movies ever that i have come across. Directed by Richard Schenkman this wonderfully thought out movie tells us about a man who has lived for 140 centuries ,a freak of nature, and his retelling of his journey . The best feature of this movie is the human-ness of the immortal, for he remembers as we do, does not have super intelligence but is one of us only a little older ;)...Watch it..it will be woth your while.............

Why we don't need Religion

As the modern man started settling down and cultivating the seeds of civilization and society he began to ponder on his place in the world and the universe. It must have seemed impossible for him to believe that all this around him and now us could be a mere co-incidence. That there must be some higher purpose to their being. From this bloomed the greatest tragedy of humankind----RELIGION.

In the early days of humanity religion filled the void that amn could not explain. Why the sun rose ??Why it rains??? Why the earthquakes??? Why the volcanic eruptions??? Who created the universe , earth, the plants and animals and more importantly Us??? Religion answered all of it. With no means of knowing the truth behind all this religion came like a bright light cutting through the darkness of night.

But along with religion came superstition, pre-judices off which religion seemed to find its drive. The early forms of religion allowed for original thinking and pursuit of truth none more so than Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. But with age instead of maturing further it became a child like the other major religions Christianity and Islam. Fluidity gave way to rigidity and questioning nature to orthodoxy drowning the world into the depths of darkness.Science and its priests,the harbringer of prosperity and a genuine happiness, has been ruthlessly persecuted..religion and its intolerance has affected the psyche of mankind in the worst possible way.

But now with science fighting back and providing us more and more insight into the working of our world and disproving all of the religious myths ...its time we parted with the old ways...religion has become obsolete..it served its purpose & it makes business sense..once a product has served its purpose and is no more effective and competent it has to be discarded.....Evolution is in the nature of things and its time we let religion evolve as well....and that evolution is Science.......

Disappointment

2010 coming to an end and all i take with me as an indian is disappointment. To say that I am proud to be an indian anymore would be a bit of a stretch. I still love the country but no more do i hold pride on my country. You may assume that it is because of all the scams (Adarsh, 2G, Land grab, Radia tapes) but well that just makes up for a part of my disappointment. Nor is the deadlock in Lok Sabha a major reason for my disappointment and to a certain extent shame. If you think its because the Congress led UPA is shamefully trying to protect its cadre or BJP led NDA thats doing it, then thats not it nor is the obvious corruption in our premier investigative agency CBI or even the corporate world. The religio-lingo-political situation in Kashmir, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka has not much of a bearing in the sense of futility i feel as well.

Its just very simply and obviously ,if you understand the whole concept of a democratic society, none other than YOU. Whoever said society is reflection of the people got it right on the accelerator. For the rotten society we live in is all because of the rotten people in the society. And no one not even I am an exception. Each one of us is non arguably the most sick and disgusting creature in the animal kingdom.

Politicians are nothing but elected representives. Guess who elects them?? Oh come on it can't be that difficult. All of you who have had access to a decent education know about Adult Franchise even though quite a few of you would not have made use of it. For those who don't know then Adult Franchise gives all over 18 Yrs to vote for their preferred leader and take part in the drama that is democracy. But who are the people who actually do vote ? The uneducated poor who easily led by religion, language, caste, community votes for a worthless scumbag who they think will help in their development but ends up ensuring his/her own and maybe his/her families coffers are not just full but bulging like a

But well politicians are expected to be corrupt now-a-days. But is the common man's corruption which has let me down completely. Driver's license, passport, gas connection, telephone connection anything and everything to occur in a timely manner needs  lets say  "extra incentive". Not just requested or guardedly asked for but demanded and almost with no hesistation paid by us the common men and women, no gender biases in this land of gender discrimination. Where we can we cheat the others, even the meanest and poorest of all not let off. Stealing the single meagrest of  meals from the plates of the poor also doesn't seem to affect our emotions and empathy , the most important of the human traits that supposedly differentiates us from the rest of the animals, so then why look at all the scam news and make comments like "how shameless are these politicians" or "oh these politicians are destroying our country". If you want to be ashamed of someone be off yourself not others. Because you are shameful and nothing else...the lowest of all creatures.

Sad thing is we were a great civilization..destined to do great things ....show the world what a civilized society actually meant but have ended up creating an example of the ' anti society '. Though this isn't the saddest thingof all.....the saddest thing is that in a few years, unless thrs some miracle, I will be you and there is very little I can do about it..............