Ruckus

Hello Readers

How are you today?

I want to share a short story today, this one is not too ancient or too modern it is just what happens in present day, even though I have seen people go through this I would like to trace it out as a story.I Feel it is very important for this message to go out to as many people as possible.

The region of Madikeri also famously is a very famous and beautiful place in Karnataka, there lived a family in the midst of a coffee estate.

It is the family of Mr. Varma who is a successful businessman in the food processing industry.

Maya is  22 years old,  who is Mr. Varma’s daughter who wishes to crack the UPSC exam and wants to serve the Indian administration services.MR Varma’s wife is a homemaker trying to support the family in the best way possible.

So things are working out for this family with new hopes of Mr. Varma to make more profits, his daughter who hopes to clear her exam and so on. But as you know life is like cycle definitely there would be ups and downs!

Similarly, this family started facing issues which started off Mr. Varma’s business taking a U-turn due to certain corrections in the market of this product and some of his key employees quitting his business.

As some of us would be aware there is lot competition in the food processing industry and these were testing times for Mr. Varma.

The repel effect is always not good, in this family it played a key role in setting or rather changing the environment of the house, the house usually gaily and cheerful but now it turned out rather a mellow and dull place due to the pressures of Mr. Varma's  business.

Things became worse when Mr.Varma developed a bad taste for alcohol and started coming home drunk and started behaving in an inappropriate manner destroying the inner peace of Maya and her mother, who were very concerned about him.

Maya whose preparation for the exam was going well could not concentrate now and felt depressed and weak, even though her mother kept her motivated, she failed that exam.

There ends the story! Sorry if you think if it was abrupt, but the message I wanted to convey was told so I just wanted to end it there, so what is the message? Here goes.

A family is like an institution where there is something which goes on a daily basis and in the present scenario a joint family is not to be found very easily and even the nuclear families are like with maximum of four people in a typical case, if there a distortions in the normal flow of thoughts and understanding patterns in a house it will become a huge mental setback for people of the family who more simple or kind  at mind.

The Department of Domestic Violence and family disputes Prevention, USA says half of the families face problems due to parents! Please don’t take me wrong that I am trying to corner parents here, the kids are equally responsible so that other half of the graph is shared by them.

But in the above story which I shared, it is the case where an ambitious aspirant for one of the most difficult exams in the world was doing good and focused, unfortunately, she could succeed due to the lack of mental support at home.

So I would like to push this message to all those parents out there who love their kids, maintain decorum in the front of your kids, please don’t lose your temper in front of them make them feel uncomfortable instead build confidence in their minds, if you have your personal issues or with your wife or husband try to solve it by yourself, until your children are ready to take the heat and help you swim out of it. Stop setting wrong examples in your kid's mind.

In India, family counseling is still considered as the last step as we hesitate to share our personal pains to a stranger, but I tell you it is most required and helps keep a health check of your family bonding.

Let me know your opinion on this blog.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

Thanks a lot for your time, have a great week ahead.

Regards

Helios.

Cine Review

Hello readers

Before I start, please note this may be a spoiler if you have not seen the movie “Arjun Reddy” and you would wish to see it if you think so please watch it then read it, but the choice is yours.

How are you today? first of all happy Diwali to everyone, from my childhood I have always appreciated this festival, yes for few years for the fun we had in lighting  pinwheels, but later when we realized that all about the environmental implications it had and then stop bursting firecrackers and slowly understood the meaning of this festival, it feels great that there were great minds who brought in this concept and given to us  to carry it on to the generations to come because life is all about light and it is not about darkness, the light of hope, light of freedom, the light of achievement, basically light is all about optimism.

This is a new kind of blog which I am actually trying out and my first blog expressing my opinion on a movie which I watched today, the name of the movie is "Arjun Reddy" it is in the Telugu language a popular dialect spoken in the southern part of India.

For all those people who have already watched this movie, I am happy you watched it.

Ok let us now try to understand what kind of a movie it is , also the ones who watched it and have understood it I am sure you will say it’s a kind of rough movie and very raw, sometimes vulgar and beast like but at the end you would say it’s the most realistic movie I have seen in Indian Cinema lately.

Now to the storyline, let me first tell you what it isn’t actually it’s not some great thriller storyline kind of cinema where you have mind-boggling plots which keep you guessing the murderer until the end, or some fairy tale not real love story which doesn't have any practicality and cannot happen in real life especially the dishumm dishumm (popular expression used for fight in Indian Cinema) which we  end up watching always.

This movie is  about the life of a medical student, the director Mr. Sandeep Reddy Vanga has brilliantly portrayed  the character of an angry man ( Arjun Reddy) who is a topper in his college but still has bad habits which many medical students  end up in like: drugs and alcohol during their course, again I greatly respect doctors and I am seriously not generalizing that the majority of the students end up in all of those but unfortunately it is a fact and I don’t blame the students for this, because the profession is such that you need lot of tenacity and that’s  Gods honest truth.

So this young man a college topper and perusing his house surgeoncies’ falls in love with a Mangalorean girl, and they are inseparable until their bond is deeply broken when both the families do not agree to their marriage due to the “caste” and “creed” issue which is typically expected from our society. the story takes an ugly turn when the hero ends up totally depressed and almost loses his mind for this girl and ends up on road addicted to extreme alcoholism and drugs which proves bad for him with blackouts and also ends up his medical license to be canceled.

At that particular scene of an in-house bench court where his brother and his family try to get him out of this case Arjun realizes his mistakes partially and accepts his misdeed and his medical license is canceled.

There I think I developed respect towards the hero’s character for his truthfulness, which I appreciate.

After this, the story has been brought back by the death of Arjun’s dear granny who passes away and Arjun now on the roads rejoins his family because he cared for his grandmother very much, who was with him for when he told about his love story.

The last 30 minutes of the movie which I expected to be ended up abruptly as it happens with many movies here the endings are split, I liked the way in this one even the ending was realistic. At first, we see Preeti the Girlfriend who is married according to her family’s choice is a pregnant and Arjun is broken after he sees that as he feels she is not at all happy.

Next Arjun goes aboard just to take a time out from everything, where he meets his old time friend Kamal, now Arjun is even more convinced that he needs to claim his life back and his soul mate back, so he comes back and tries to talk and convince Preeti to marry him!

After a while she is shown in a park sitting on a bench and Arjun talks to her with no response, after persuading to talk to her, she breaks down and says she is pregnant with his baby and she was not living in her house just after three days of marriage because her family noticed that she is pregnant.

So finally ending on a happy note they marry with the approval of both their families.

Well there ends the story I have kept it way too brief I agree which I have done it on purpose as this a blog and I have got feedback saying that my blogs are too long sometimes.

But I think after I while I watched something realistic, because I am sorry to say we are living in a hypocritical society where we always keep saying tradition, custom, caste creed and religion and end up not being truthful to any of these, that I feel is even more disastrous than being agnostic or atheistic or a rationalist, this movie helps us understand actually what true love is and it is nothing but devotion according to me to anything you love not necessarily a women  it can be anything your profession, your hobby or your talent, but sometimes we end up hiding our feelings hiding our desires for the sake of society by doing which I think we are cheating ourselves.

I feel we should go all out and do what we like unless it is not harming society, now for the ones who say well it is a movie and you can show and script it the best way to woo the audience, I will not agree at least in case of this movie, because if you watch it you will see reality It doesn’t look like scripted one! also saw some ruckus in the media where people protested against this movie, I stand by my statement that it is a realistic movie may be exaggerated at some parts and a little bit of foul language which may have been avoided and blur some scenes of doing booze, women, and drugs but the truth is always ugly.

I would not like to end this blog with a marketing tone saying “I urge you to watch this movie and so on” and please this is not any paid media kind stuff where I have great connections with cast or crew that asked me to write a review I am just a rookie who likes sparking discussions with my dear readers this is out of my free will.

Let me know your thoughts in the comment box.

Have a blissful Diwali and a weekend.

Regards

Helios meaning the sun in Greek (my blog name from this blog onwards)

Herald

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

Every tiny molecule of ash is in motion with my heat, I am such a lunatic that I am free even in jail.

-Sri Bhagat Singh

We all look up to our leaders and are also motivated by their stature and the way they take care of their followers.

Going back in time there were great leaders who have lead people in the right directions which have helped to make this world a better place to live.

 Historically there are many people who were great leaders and their legacy is being taken as an example till date talks about Karana oh! What a great worrier he was. He fought till the end and gave away everything that he was asked including his divine shield which was a divine gift. That is one of the qualities of a leader non-materialism or sacrifice.

Recently I  read a random article about the correlation between mythology and logic, the funny part is that recently when my cousin visited he actually suggested writing a blog based on almost this same topic but, highlighting leaders.

So what is the correlation between the almighty sun and a leader, well I have read in the history books which often contain some poetic lines like: “here comes the leader who shines as bright as the sun” now why do they say that why is a leader compared to the sun? Well, I was thinking about it for some time and these thoughts uttered to my mind.

The sun is selfless, for him, the first priority is always shining to give light and this shining takes  lot of his strength   because he burns himself up to shine for us, similarly, a leader is a person who believes in helping his people first and lead them in the right direction he will think about himself  lastly after he has helped his people in whatever it is required to be done.

The sun is a mighty star placed millions of lightyears away from our mother earth, but still, each and every being on this earth is dependent on the sun, to be clear we can say without hesitation that without the sun there is no life, imagine a day of darkness! all that breaths depend on energy on the sun and he is the only one capable of supporting life.

After talking about the sun, little peek inside mankind, there were many kings who were seriously great leaders Pritiviraj Chauhan, Sri KrishnaDevaraya the Wodeyars of Mysore, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Chandraguptha Maurya and so all of these above-mentioned leaders share some common qualities like ambition, challenging self, the zeal to win a battle and above all giving their lives to their people and helping them enjoy a better life.

I feel most of the present leaders have forgotten these basic lessons of being a front-runner and end up in just getting criticised from their people for their lack of duty and misdeeds.

If the leaders are firm and stand on their toes with the intention of selfless, that my friend is a move towards progressive society.

A leaders mind should be as clear as mountain water and should contain minerals of selfless and compassion towards his men.

-Anonymous

Please let me know your thoughts in the comment box.

Thanks for your time.

Nucleus

Hello readers

How are you today?

We discovered the earth when we were traveling to the moon.

-Astronaut on board the first moon landing mission.

Understanding is the key for to succeed in the process, without us knowing what we are doing there is actually no meaning in life.

So in the vernacular education system which almost all of us have been through, there are considerable amounts of attention and technique which were given and used by our teachers to make us understand our subjects as well as the other values.

But as you know our brain is almost the most advanced natural computer available in this world, as this computer grows, by which I mean as we grow so does our brain, growth here means is not physical growth, I am talking about the psychological upgradation that happens simultaneously as we mature.

The spark!

Spontaneity defines a spark, a spark can make or break situations for instance when I say make a situation think of a spark plug which starts your vehicle. When I say break a situation think about a gas leak and a small spark in that room the result is just a big sad fire accident!

The above paragraph was just to bring the subject of sparks upfront because what I actually intend to discuss about is the mental spark. Well, actually it is not much of a complicated concept to understand.

So here is what I think is a mental spark, something which comes spontaneously to your mind in the correct situation which is useful, to that situation and maybe help you to solve the problem you are in.

One of the common mental sparks which light every day understands when you are in a conversation a pattern of sparks light up in the participant's minds which leads to arguments and agreements and maybe finally a solution.

The self-Spark.

This is a person realizing somethings which he has noticed each day but suddenly starts thinking deeply about something he realized, for example, there are some fantastic things that one always wonder about like the eternal question “ how the universe works “? I think that has always fascinated and me and there is appoint where science stops and cannot explain further and that is you known mystic force comes into picture, actually some days ago I was seeing a documentary on discovery science where scientists have come up with a breakthrough theory about how the electromagnetism has been an important constituent in forming of stars and planets.

Maybe the example becomes a little bit lengthy sorry, so that is the whole point, our minds ignite to certain stimuli and go into the thinking mood which will help us understand life better.

Before ending the blog I would like to say always be in the ignited mode understand each and every step of your life and reason it out why things happen the way they happen, it does not require you to become a student of any applied science or some great mind from Massachusetts or Carl Sagan institute you are born with it each one of us is! Indeed just you need to tap your capabilities.

The best use of the sparking is you will understand your life and why your sad if you are you will get an ability to chalk out a plan to how to resolve that and become more successful!

Thanks for your time until next week then Adios…

Change - The constant process

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

Change your thoughts and you change.

-Anonymous

Change is the way of life I am sure you would have read this,  and also this one, change is inevitable

It is actually necessary and it is the reason that the world has evolved till here and continues to evolve.

Now even when we look at the animal and plant kingdom we see that what biologists call evolution, in short, it can be called transformation.

But there is a condition here; there can be bad change and good change.

Bad change can be more and more modernization leading to disasters in the world.

Good change can be the same technology helping visually challenged to regain their vision.

Now for another question what does it take to change someone of his attitude, thoughts or the way he thinks.

There are reasons people change some are pleasant and some are not so happy ones.

The good reasons that we can see a change in a person are, chasing him or her to progress, self-realization and maturity.

When we think about the unpleasant ones there are people who are nice but their circumstance made them the sadists they are today, the challenge is not to bow to the circumstance and being the person you are, which again changes you to become more brave and strong.

Now for that question what does it take to change a person, let me be positive to change him into a good person?

Well, I feel his attitude matters, suppose that person had a good attitude towards life half job is done the other half is a little persuasion and goal orientation.

But if he or she is leading a life in a negative mindset, a lot of pushing around is required.

Definitely, I feel we need to always change for the good, attitude is a set of beliefs which we see and learn as we grow up and how we respond to stimuli which are partially transferred from our parents.

But the crux is that finally, it's up to the individual how he wants to live? But I urge people to change for good and develop good qualities, mannerisms and awareness and being proactive in the society so that we can make the place you stay reach new heights, which may help change the lives of millions. 

I want to end this blog here with the hope of seeing a change in the reader's mind.

Let me know in the comment box what are your thoughts on this blog.

Thanks for your time.

Fear for nothing?

Hi Readers

Hope all of you are fine.

When was the last time you got scared and then took time to analyse why you got into that loop of fear and panic?

I am sure you would remember when you had felt frightened definitely you would not have taken time to analyse the reason behind it.

Let us discuss on this a bit today because in this era of people ending their lives for utter stupidity like some utterly obnoxious WhatsApp group called "blue whale" I feel where are driving our gen next? is this life or some social networking robot farm?

You know living itself is an activity and just to live have we realized someone is working from within to make you live, what do I mean by living? I mean it takes a lot of efforts just to be here now and able to read this passage because there are places in the world, even a moment away can just be death.

Talking about fear, do you think it is an illusion? if you are thinking so you are wrong even though Lau Tzu who is the father of Taoism in China said I quote: " There is no greater illusion in this world than fear!" I would not completely agree because it is no illusion as it is actually proved now as both a biological and psychological phenomenon of how your body and mind respond to certain stimuli.

Now the stimuli can a be a nightmare or a sudden blast of your car tyre, so as I told you getting scared, is not unnatural.

But what is not good for oneself is that to have a fear psychosis problem I see so many of my peers, friends, family and benefactors  getting scared for nothing, I recently came across a book called  “ The fear book" by Cheri Huber where the author mentions about fear used an escape tool by our own brain and has lead to laziness of millions and developing the inability to carry on the even the simplest of  daily tasks , I agree this is just a perspective but definitely  it is a food for thought and a perspective to think alternatively and not get scared without logical reasons.

I remember in one the episodes of the much famed tonight show  Bill Maher had said "half our lives are wasted in fear and the other half in repentance" I feel he is right.

You know fear works in both ways it sometimes turns out to be a good for example you scold a child who has a habit of biting nails so that he will quit that bad habit.

So now how can fear turn to be bad, imagine you were a very active person in life and suddenly due to some incident you are grounded and end up spending more time at home than going out like you used to always? say for some months.

But then after that phase, is over you would get the same leisure time you got before to go out and explore and do your business or whatever you intended to do,this is the  turning point,  some people take it in the right spirit and will do what has to be done and be their  own self.

A scientific perspective explaining fear psychosis.

But, unfortunately, there are people who end up in the loop of feeling scared for nothing and imagine reasons like: I have become old, there is lot time lapse and the outside environment has changed to what I have seen and what it is now!  but still there are some people who still go out but sometimes it may so happen that may be a small accident or an injury may occur which is purely coincidental and I feel in these times it is common, but that person considers it  as a big blow to his mind will end not stepping out again or will begrudge and postpone when there is an opportunity.

Our body is actually a complicated biomechanical machine which has the most advanced controls in the world and the controller is you and who are you ? its your soul which is living inside you till you breathe and it goes to another body after you stop breathing and your soul is limited to your body, so suppose that soul enters a dog's body it is limited to what a dog can do , if it enters a  human body that soul is  supposed to be in the most superior and intellectual body available in this world, so how is that fear has a place where there are no limits to what you can achieve in all the good ways.

So stop feeling skirmish within yourself and think about a goal and achieve it and never become a machine that doesn’t move or work always be on your toes and never work in a semi-switched on mode minus the will power. Let the will power beacon glow like never before so bright that the mal-function lights like fear and panic do not get a chance to glow.

Be brave until the end, just look around and look at the boarders I am sure you will get some motivation. Choose what you want you to become and you will be that I assure you, only thing matters is your focus. 

The beauty about fear is that when you run to it,  it runs away.

-Robin Sharma

Until next week bye.

Right to privacy - A discussion on the 7th fundamental right.

Hello readers

Hope you all are fine.

People should not be afraid of Government, Government should be afraid of people.

-Alan Moore

Hmmm, it's raining here as I am drafting this blog feels pleasant.

Well, the present government is definitely proactive when compared to the previous one and we all have reason to believe that.

Recently I heard news about the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the right to privacy, I think it was much needed and welcome the move.

Why is our right to privacy important? Let me ask you a simple question do you feel safe if some stranger knows your personal phone number your personal address and your bank account number! Definitely, it is unsafe.

Right to privacy is something which will protect you in many ways, I was reading an article written in the first post by Sri. Rajeev Chandrasekhar on firstpost.com I have listed some takeaways which will help us get some awareness about the right to privacy as a fundamental right.

1.     There are several implications of this judgment but mark my words, the full impact of this will be seen and felt over the coming years as the relationship between citizens and the state, citizens and big corporates gets redefined and recalibrated to realise the vision of being not just the world's largest democracy but also the most advanced democracy

2.     Central to implementing this vision is the idea of a digital India. In an interconnected world where technology governs virtually all aspects of our lives, Thursday's judgment embeds consumer rights within the Constitution. This verdict effectively creates for the first time, obligations and responsibilities for all entities, government or private, that deal with the information of Indian citizens.

3.     This verdict has put to rest the issue of privacy is a fundamental right and it goes way beyond Aadhaar. The main issue was the seven-decade-old culture in our bureaucracy where citizens had no protective rights against the State.

4.     This ruling will deter unethical practices by corporates such as stealing biometric details from Aadhaar card to illegally procure multiple SIM cards or sharing of information without any authorisation. With the intrusion of technology, the telecom companies, e-commerce companies and other private service providers are duty bound to safeguard the data of citizens or face legal action by the empowered consumers.

5.     Similarly, for making Aadhaar mandatory for targeting beneficiaries, the UIDAI will have to make necessary legal modifications so that it does not violate the privacy of citizens. We already know that Aadhaar of the NDA govt shares very little with the Aadhaar of the UPA. The NDA Aadhaar has legislative backing, its verification process is far stricter and numerous fake accounts enrolled during the UPA regime are being removed.

I also read an article written by Sri. Gopal Sankaranarayanan in times of India he is an advocate in the supreme court of India, he describes this judgement as one of the remarkable ones in the history of the supreme court.

Sri. Gopal Sankaranarayanan argued on behalf of the Government of India in this case.

So, all in all, Let us all welcome the 7^th fundamental right.

This law will also help us in not giving away our personal data to mega analytics tycoons who convert our buying patterns and preferences into "meta data" and sell it to E-commerce giants.

Thanks for your time, until next time bye.