Providence and the stangeness of it!

Providence has strange ways of working. Read this line in a book by Nayantara Sehgal. A shayari says “hawa khilaaf thi leqin,ye shama bhi kya khoob jali hai-khuda bhi hone ke qya qya sabot deta hai”.


Indeed it is. And I have many times experienced it too, and have always wondered why so. Simple ways, normal or rather plain routine is may be a bit boring for God or the almighty. So to add spice (read zing) to itself or our lives he/she (deciding the gender of supreme is of great responsibility and understanding) does it probably. What could Life have been with no ups and downs just a flat road without any speed breakers….it always amuses me to explore that possibility. There are shocks, jitters, tremors, set backs and there after follows stability, new avenues, opportunities, accomplishments and triumph. And then we realize it – the strange ways of the working of providence, the realization of the supreme. But my point is – is it necessary that to realize and respect the supreme, do we need the jitters first?

A very recent tremor encountered by me makes me mull over the idea more. It happens to me that I have been devoting more time in religious or spiritual activities these days. At times confronting them and at times practicing them. But either ways the time spent is on these types of things. The more I am thinking the clouds of confusion thickening. Is it not only normal that after a quake, return of normalcy is a natural course? Do we call it providence or the normal course of nature? Is it the involvement of supreme or only the natural course? Am I afraid to accept the normal that I need to resort and relate it to supreme? Or is it actually the supreme, which is unseen and is strange in its manifestation, that we spend our life time in understanding its ways!!

the new audiences for tv soaps, aila !

even five years down the lane of time, i could hardly find a male glued to the television during a daily half hour soap which basically revolved on topics of family drama with highly charged up emotional scenes. but today i can have the list full with them. some of the names are actually surprising because i can vouch that otherwise these 'guys' seem truely practical and pragmatic! well both the words practical and pragmatic have been used in perfect positive sense by me , here. there were times when the only available channel DD showed serials like humlog, nukkad, ramayan and etcetra, and the whole family gathered to watch them. but then came a time when daily soap concept started revolving around the saas bahu saga, where the quintessential sindoor and bindi became the trade mark and ornamentally designed pallus the hallmark. those were the times when not only the subjects of these soaps had a typical feminine audience but also pushed males to channels catering anything but not these.
the dramatic turns of such sopas which took a regular five day pause to unfold were too tiring and monotonous, the repetition of one punch line (read boring & melodramatic) at least thrice, the super pathetic background score in a sad scene, the sudden leaps and jumps of time and generation, the countless number of family members...uff all added to the unbear-ability of it. so if the male population just wanted a different channel or separate tv room or may be a different occupation at that time, no feminist even could raise a word on that!
but surprising it may be,suddenly i find more males booking themselves for the 8.30 to 11 pm slots for tv these days, picking and fixing their very own sopas and deftly switching between channels to catch the glimpse of rest of the lot!!! be it the new era of soaps which include various social and human topics with the flavour of bit of melodrama and touch of unrealism though. but still these topics have if not anything else showed that television serials are not only meant for bahus and saas but even bhaiyas,chachas and taujis too have thier slots and preferences ......cool for a change and india of 21st century (read pragatisheel)

here, ! too join

after seeing the enthusiasm of so many people around me about blogging i realized that the need to let self's feelings published is not such a bad idea nor something uncommon. so finally letting myself loosen a bit and attempt thy begining. as usual a bit unsure about the future course regarding this attempt but very excited about the start .... hope to have loads of learning and fun on the way :)