Food for Thought

India had been one of the richest countries in the world 200 years ago, and now it's one of the poorest. The British looted our gold and diamonds, yes, but is that the reason India is still a poor country ? ..   More than our wealth, the British took away our integrity, our self confidence, and broke our will power. They enslaved our mind to believe anything foreign is superior and curbed our capabilities to think independently.   Here's a quote from Lord Macaulay’s address to the British Parliament in 50 February, 1835:      "I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education s...

     I remember when I used to be a kid, I'd keep running around everywhere without taking a break or some rest. All the adults would be napping in the afternoon and would poke around them, room by room, wondering what makes them sleep in the day. I would stuubornly not sleep in the day, saying "it's not bedtime, yet".      Somewhere in time, things changed. Now, I'm lazy. A couch potato. Sleeping during my travels, my classes, whenever I find time, be it morning, noon or dusk. I have started loving idleness - sitting for hours doing nothing, relaxing all the while, watching movies and loving entertainment.      It is something, a culture that cultivated in me when I was around 14 years, I believe. I recollect I used to hate the fact that I wasting so much of my time, but it was addicting and I got comfortable with it over the years. And so, laziness, as an habit got rooted in me.      Any habit, as good...

Love is a very shallow thing, materialistc, and thus easily mutable, and removable. Imagine a patch of grass and a banyan tree.. The grass can be easily dug out, moved around as per need, and discarded and reinstated when wished. A deep rooted tree, will be hard to remove. The roots will remain,  even if you'd cut down the tree, it stays there burried forever. If love were like the banyan tree, there would be no breakups, everybody would have just one relationship, and it would last for eternity even if it was cut down. but love like grass, is easily broken, easily moved over to another as the needs change, forgotten as though it never existed, and always replaceable. Love comes when it needs something, when the expectations are fulfilled, when there is materialistic and physical worth. If any of it is lacking, the love changes. So not give too much importance to the feeling of love..  it is just a survival mechanism, embeded in the brain to sustain the species . Rathe...

Clinical depression affects millions of lives worldwide, destroying their mental stability, even pushing them to the point of suicide. Yet, practical awareness of the disorder is by far limited only to those who suffer from it.  Common understanding of depression is circumscribed as deep sorrow.. unfortunately, it is far more worse than one can imagine. " Clinical depression is not a simple state of mind, like sadness or boredom. It practically alters the chemicals inside one's brain. You can no more cure depression by just wishing and motivating, than you can cure diabetes or fracture. One needs to seek help and take measures to treat it. " Many factors cause clinical depression, or sometimes it just hits you out of the blue with no obvious reason. It does not affect everyone, but those of whom it does are inherently neurologically predisposed to it. Clinical Depression from one's own perspective: NOTE: The following passage might be grim to read for some people.. ...