Friday 25 March 2011

Raju and controversies questions should be answered !!! 5th


With that I was peeping out of the window with some green spots on the ground, rare farmers on field some of them harvesting, crushing or sleeping under trees. Suddenly sound increases suddenly with a deep shallow ground on in front of my eyes. People around me stand up some of them saluting with their face towards window, some picked up quick coins and thrown them out of the window with a murmuring sound of “Jai ma Chambal”. It was not part of surprise as saluting things is a regular habit of Indians. But what I can see was a bridge on which train was moving which increased the sound, I was also able to see a dam about a half a kilometre from the bridge followed by a small bridge between them which might be build for road transport.
  What I conclude out of it was a line “Oh! these is river Chambal or these shallow space is the place where river Chambal used to flow.” I also saluted with that a  bit to rever but more to government for building landmarks like bridges, dams so that people like me who will be new to these places in future can easily conclude that It’s a river.
“Bat to shi he bhai sahib {The talk is right}”, I heard a high pitch sound from beside.
I just turned my eyes a bit to see what the talk  is ?
Aap hi se kah rhe hain {I am talking to you only}.
“Hi I am Mahesh”, he said with a hand toward me before I can come out of river seen.
Knowingly or unknowingly my hand started to move to complete one more formality as it is habitual of that.
“Hi I am Deepak ”, I replied.
“That I know” He said.
“How come”, me
“I was listening to you people for some time”…and with that I looked around and surprised to see.
  

Friday 11 March 2011

Raju and controversies.........questions should be answered !! 4th

As the train was moving, we were having great talks and he said how electricity was not considered a important commodity/service in villages.How people converted it in a positive thing for them. They believe not having electricity in night make us to plan to complete all tasks in day time only, but Raju believe it's not fair as 70 % of your intelligence and human power had facility to see other faces and perform livelihood tasks only for 10 hrs a day which includes food making as well as enjoying it, even though they have limited options always , natural calls which again a time taking task for them as every time they have to walk to a distance to ensure that person is out of others view. It is a easy task as per as man are concerned but a tough call for ladies and girls. Hence they converted it again into positive as they always do. As per Raju to avoid all such problems ladies used to wake up very early in morning before sun light turns darkness into reality which might have lead to better fitness for them compared to man which also reflects in life expectancy in India which is 65 for woman compared to 62 for man although it might have several reasons but it's sure above factor also adds to it.
Woman used to be in dilemma whether power should be there or not, Raju said.
I asked, " Why?"
He said " Its a great controversy to say but if power is not there they will not have good  irrigation and if it's there,  man used to go on field and they have to stay alone during night ....whether they are afraid of it or anything personal I don't know, but I heard saying them ye bijli ko bhi ab hi aana tha...(power came on wrong time)"
I said, " Things were really amazing those days."
He laughed.

I asked, "why are you laughing?"
He replied with a slow move of his eyes out side train's window, though the train was fast enough to ensure that he can not focus on things outside but was still trying.
Then he started slowly "Now also situations are not different, old people still have same feeling as power is granted to them, women still have same dilemma and young are still enthusiastic in such shows...only thing changed is for small children as they don't face dilemma now as they don't have to book space for their parents.They have most probably same learning inside and outside the screen.Now their father don't have too much options to suggest to see on Sunday as their is nothing like Ramayan broadcast  now, any way power breakdown still happens.
Not in in village of mine but its across the nation we had only 80 % of villages electrified till date. Electrified is again a controversial term but before that let me tell you that 20% of villages (which are about 127600 villages) have not seen electricity in their houses, till now"

I said " How it's possible to live without power.Government is doing a lot on that."

He said, " Friend these are facts and you will be surprised to know the definition of electrified"
I said, " I know that."
He asked eagerly," Ok tell me what it means?"
I said, " It's simple, all houses of any electrified village have a power connection."
He laughed again and said ," God  have not blessed our country's people with so much love."
I asked a bit angrily , "what do mean?"
He said just wait for few minute  I am coming from...shown me little figure, before I understand the sign language, he had rushed from the sit.

I have no any options but to wait for him but I was not silent inside....


Friday 4 March 2011

Raju and controversies.........questions should be answered !! .. 3 rd

But  as the time passed Joy increased, understanding reached at different level with every episode. These enthusiasm had some limits which can not be tackled easily even though all of the children, young men and women were united. They all have common interest at sunday nine o' clock but suddenly a wave of sock used to disturb the whole enthusiasm, pleasure, good wills and more emotions with a shout arree..yar aaj bhi light to chali gyi..followed by ,he bhagwan ..., they all suddenly start looking each other with pin drop silence converted again into a harsh, vulgar language.
They all were trying to have a good atmosphere for time being but electricity unavailability ruined the whole thought.Elder people were silent with back to their work if they have any(usually don't), as for them whatever power they were getting was a gift as well as surprise too. Young people again start showing there value by putting their efforts in shaking all wires, connections, pins...usually ask for pliers, tester etc ...as for them marketing themselves was prime concern in the show. Hence meanwhile they used to shout using vernacular language but their interest highly dependent on young  feminine concentration in the crowd. Also they used to do the job till no one orders them to do, as soon as some one ask them to do the same job in some authoritative tone their job changes to fight with the fellow who dare to order them, why?...because as I said earlier they were there to sell themselve in public not to ensure smooth running of show hence anything which hearts the same will be their focus.
Women have nothing to do in all this rather then watching all this but their pleasure usually don't disturbed by unavailability of power as most of them were doing the same thing what they were doing during serial ....breating into neighbors  ear some minute details of others home issues and ladies behavior around...or some may be discussing on new cloths worn in serial...with some comments on the activities going around but it was clear from thier faces that the pleasure is not disturbed....most happy with these incidence of power were some children who had been controlling natural calls due to non availability of space to go outside..
and Raju used to see all these with anxiety.His father used to say him on Saturday night son tomorrow you should go to see Ramayan and learn good lesson from their...he was confused which lesson to learn from here??
And Raju is not alone .....to face these. Also he had not only gone through these small confusions or so called controversies there were bigger waiting for .......

Friday 25 February 2011

Raju and controversies.........questions should be answered !! ..2nd

Raju  is also fan of such stories from the days when his mother used to cook food for family early in  Sunday morning.Deadline for which is nine o'clock in morning when even sun have little glory on earth, birds have not even decided the destination of the day, flora and fauna were cleaning the beautiful eyes to see the charm of day light.Menu for Sunday morning was decided on Saturday night so as to improve efficiency in cooking time and complete the task before time.
Initially he didn't want to wake up so early on Sunday and to involve in all such things which seems to be non sense to him, but he has to, as he was bound to book space for her mother in some front row in the open place (can be called a hall) where all neighbors will also fighting to get space. These fighting sometimes got converted into harsh words with full enthusiastic support from crowd gathered together but no such fight were remembered outside the wall. Even people used to forget all that as soon as it is nine o'clock and some religious sounds reaches into the ear's cave, not only that poster of people  got changed with sound. While some of them used to close their eyes and twin their hands, while some of them welcome it by reproducing a high energy sound in synchronization. The sound also varies from place to place and can be Jai Mahakal, Hare Krishna, Bolo Gajanan Maharaj Ki Jai or may sound hurrey......only. It was tough for Raju to predict that sound on every Sunday, initially ,as he had never seen any planning for such a great synchronization and enthusiasm.Later on he became a part of all that fights and enthusiastic Sunday morning,started enjoying it.
There were pin drop silence as soon as the serial starts. How can such a enthusiastic crowd most of them have not seen the class rooms, who knows Mahatma Gandhi as a saint or a man who invented money, as they have seen him on currency notes only can follows principles of non violence and covert themselves into a crowd with pin drop silence.  Still a question.....??
With a rising lotus flower on the screen with a conch (shell) in middle. Even some of people start saluting the lotus flower screen whether they were saluting Sagar enterprises or lotus flower? Raju still unclear about that ..... about sixth slide on screen shows
Tamil
Kamb Ramayan 
Mahirshi Kambar

Marathi
Bhavarth Ramayan
Sant Eknath
followed by...Kritivas Ramayan(Bengali), Shree Ranganath Ramayan (Telgu), Charitra Puranam (Kannada), Adhyatam Ramayan (Malaylam),Chakbast(Urdu),Madhav Kandli (Assamese),Adhyatm Ramayan (Sanskrit) in subsequent screens all written in English, but as per Raju and crowd is concerned after so much excitement and repetitive episode seen with great attention they can remember only second or maximum third screen on which the names Ramayan and ऱामायण were written in subsequent slides which usually got a  combined salute from the crowd, willingly or unwillingly, Knowingly or Unknowingly......
People who even don't want to see each each other if they meet outside that hall are sitting comfortably touching, adjusting, understanding each other without having verbal communication. Space was not large enough to sit thirty people but any how fifty to sixty people used to manage in it. With always welcome to new comers too. How and why all of them are so much dedicated and putting hard effort to sit at that place while maintaining pin drop silence is a still a question........? Ladies used to sit in such a way that they can see the television while ensuring that old man can;t see them. Young people of the show many of them demonstrating themselves as organizers of the whole  event don't use to sit at fix place as they want to be seen a quite busy in organizing the show. Also they have a most important duty too, that is to have some synchronized enthusiastic sound meanwhile which is a typical task as whoever will shout  have a great risk of humiliation if he is not followed by a great synchronization. It means two things either he didn't understood public feelings on time or he is not a good leader as if a leader shout on useless things people used to follow usually.
Children don't have specific place to sit they manage either with family members or had to take some corner space but its for sure that most of them like Raju even don't understand the serial and essence of it but they were most exited about the show. Why?..because they had great hidden enthusiasm and came there to shout whenever time comes.

All these may seems to boring to you too till now but as like Raju and other children as you are not getting anything to shout till now.........but that I know and ensure soon we will shout together hold the hidden energy friends....hope to shout next week.....






Friday 18 February 2011

Raju and controversies.........questions should be answered !!

I was thinking about sharing some of my ideas, thoughts, observations, analysis with a lot of people but it was not working....
I don't know why?
It's not the only  why in my mind or so called life. As I wanted to know answer of many critical, essential and ignored questions in these days ....some of which I have got some clues, some are still left....I thought you will not be interested in all that but you will be, if you all  are not different from Raju..


Raju love to wear jeans like you.....
Raju has not changed his hair style for long and even has not thought of it for long.
He also loves to talk to girls when his friends are not there....
He sings song while seeing mirror with a thought of “Not that bad....!!!!"
Even he love to go to religious places rarely with his friends...and frequency can increase if friend are not around...he always thinks what the reason is?. And can never concluded between two set of arguments weather " Marginal utility of time in temple is less than the time with friends" or " When friends are not there we need God to talk to."  ......any way question still unanswered.......
He is also not clear about he love to see girls in jeans and love to wear it ....but it seems a bit odd to him when any sister of him wears the same.....why question still unanswered?
He enjoys giving suggestion to his friends and don't feel too good when advised long ...and it seems opposite when he see his father who says don't advise people till asked. Why just opposite? Questions still.........?
When he saws bad news he start a talk for a revolution for a value based country with high growth and development ....but when got caught in traffic he prefer to give 20- 50 rupees neither values nor development ...(Abhi gadi bda tu to?) ...why question still......?
He thinks to study a lot and make a difference..but he also start getting bored like you and me after reading these much at a time.........why question...??? will be taken later............