Rising Buddha

           An extreme optimist will try to find positive element in almost every negative thing. For them a war could serve a positive function. One such optimism with the wars is the growth of technology. Today we see nuclear energy, rockets and missiles, explosives etc used for both good and bad. These are the inventions that do no have a happy story of origin. Nuclear bombs evolved through Manhattan Project used to end the Second World War, rockets and missiles evolved through ancient kingdoms feud among themselves and so many more. Are all the technological inventions produuct of war? Should we feel indebted to bloody wars?           Thinking about the invention of printing press can counter the above arguments and answer the question asked. Printing press's invention has no bad story but it's evolution to present stage is making one! The way media and press is working to the detriment of society today, leaving behind its v...

               Voltaire, the French philosopher at the dawn of enlightenment once pondered upon this question. It arose by a thought experiment in which few young boys would meet an old Turk sitting under a tree. The Turkish man would tell  them how he has disassociated himself from other's business, politics and minded his own that is cultivating his garden. The same maxim can, in the modern world be equated to "Mind your own business" proverb.                The 21st century is no more a less relevant time to ponder over this question again. Are people more into other's business? Or is it the new medium of communication- the Social Media, that have made the things more fluid in this regard? 

 A news ("dis-news" to be precise) reporter questioned a farmer on his dressing sense! The farmer was wearing a pair of denims  and a jacket. We have been conditioned from early childhood to see farmers in torn and dirty dhoti kurta. Though we think of raising living standards of ourselves and the government thinks similar for farmers, the target seems far from becoming an achievement with such social attitude.   The news reporters of the country anyway shall remain conditioned to their political masters in an India divided by ideologies that once used to be melting pot of ideologies.