Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Time + Money = Loss of relationship and tradition

Growing importance for time and money makes relationship weak and given least priority. This in a way has a serious impact on understanding and keeping up our tradition and loss of moral values.
 
There has been a lot of discussion done over this issue in the past and it is still debated in the society, cause for this is many many factors but the impact of it is mostly on the aged people and kids at home. I thought about this issue a lot coz I am personally going through this in my life. It is painful, it is really worrysome. I dont want this to happen but unfortunately it happens sometimes and I could realize there are some mistakes at my end but not able to rectify it. I have been thinking if my son or daughter would get to meet, interact with those relationship like uncles, neices, aunts or would they get to celebrate the festivals along with all the family members and extended family I am sure my kids will never get 10% of what I got in my childhood. I can still remember those manners and etiquette's that my grand father taught me. My grand mother taught me how to worship, epic stories and a lot many things that gave me an idea about my religion and tradition. Will I be able to create such an opportunity to my kids? or will they ever get to know all that I got to know or will they learn those stupid things from internet and thru SMS messages. Technology gives both the positive theory and the negative theory and understanding them would be a difficult task and for sure they will be confused.
 
I strongly believe that its not good for this society to continue like this and to change this we should all look first look at our families  and see if we can bring in some change. I would appreciate if readers can come up with some ideas/suggestions to correct this.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Shaheed Uddham Singh: Alias Ram Mohammad Singh Azad - The impact created by this unsung hero......

In the history of India "The Independance struggle" will occupy most part of it. Independence struggle gave birth to a lot of heroes. Some were real and a lot of hype's like Gandhi. I dont believe in giving credit to a single person or celebrating him alone for an achievement like attaining freedom to India.
There are some imcidents that was not spoken much but I believe these incidents should have shaken the British, created fear in their mind which finally got them out of this country. One such example is the act of Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh who killed General Michael O'Dwyer. Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh who witnessed the Jallian Wallah Bagh massacre took an oath to avenge the killings. He fought many odds before he could reach his final goal of killing Michael O'Dwyer 21years after the massacre happened.
What scared the British? Its not the killing as such but the place. It happened in Caxton Hall in London. British believed that we would always resist their occupation in India without guns and only sitting here in India. When Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose travelled out of the country and built an armed force against the British and when Udham Singh attacked them in their capital, it should have sent signals to them that Indian's are capable of anything and they are taking a different path which would cause disturbance in Britain. People like Gandhi made us look like poor guys who are capable of nothing but shouting slogans. If this Gandhi guy not been there we would have put a brave fight lost more lives but achieved a freedom out of bravery and not let the country split.
It is Udham Singh who travelled abroad to many nations before reaching Britain after 21 years of the massacre and killed O'Dwyer who should be celebrated.