Sci-fic 100 years back

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same"
This was written by H G Wells, in his book 'War of the worlds'. It still amazes me that this book was written in 1898, more than 100 years back.

Today's Generation's Definition of "being cool"

1. Following a trait just because "its popular" or "its in fashion" and not because one likes it. What about individuality? What about personal likes & dislikes? 
2. Using the f* and sh* word In routine talk (what happened to clean language??) 
3. Using different versions of shortened words while typing, forget the punctuation(I suppose after a decade i will be decoding English text). Creating a different set of hi tech script is a different story, but spoiling a beautiful language/script is another. 
4. All young girls look similar, as if fresh clones coming out of a factory. Straight hair left open, goggles, dark lipstick, mobile in one hand. What happened to natural beauty & uniqueness??? 
5. And boys are no less. A 'worn out' (literally torn) jeans, some colourful bands in one hand, some funny piece of cloth around the neck or the head (even in summers), some body part piercing, funny unshaved facial hair, overgrown hair (which is hardly clean). Reminds me of the look daily labourers working in farms used to have 
6. Always trying to be in news. Trying so hard that people post insignificant details of their life on Facebook (most of the time it does not make sense), and guess what the post gets 20-30 'likes'. 
7. About literature? I should say "If in case they do read" its Either 'Twilight' or 'Sidney Sheldon' or 'Chetan Bhagat' or 'Harry Potter' and whatever which is 'popular'. 

These are just some of the traits which come to my mind there are many more. And I mean majority of them not everyone.....I may be wrong.... need some discussion on these points...

Republic Day!!

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!  -Albert Einstein

Oxford dictionary defines “patriotism” as ‘having or expressing devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country’ and a country is a as we know a geographical area or territory governed by a set of people. So if I may quote George Bernard Shaw here “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it”

Who defines borders? Who defines Freedom? For that matter who defines the line between patriotism and treachery? Who defines the time when this part of the world became India? Who defined the point of time when a set of people living in that piece of land were called Indians?

If discriminating people on the grounds of language, accent, color, caste, work is considered as racism why is dividing them in boundaries is not considered racism? Why wars are not considered an act of Terrorism?

As Pablo Casals said “The love of one's country is a splendid thing.  But why should love stop at the border?”