The Country

        “Cutest bye, The Trip and The Scientist: an experience hmmm…. all have a tinge of spiritual touch and sentiment next article should be more political” this was my MindVoice yesterday. What shall I write about!! There are lots happening, Attack on Prasanth Bhushan and Anna Hazare supporters, koodankulam Nuclear Plant issue, Incrimination of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko and many more. Or I can write about the heated debate that I had with my friends as to what a country is! Hmmm so many thoughts!

Tymoshenko at Trial

         OK let me put forth Mind Voice’s take about Country in this article. What is a country? What is a government? Who are the citizens of a country? Is the landmass the country? Are governments and people present to protect the country? Let’s go back in time before democratic and republic governments were established there was monarchy, before that feudal systems and before that normal groups. The order of these forms may vary from place to place on earth but these were the basic system of forming a society. But during all the types of system one thing was common that is the land....

Multifaceted India

        When civilization started to flourish around the river INDUS (A huge sheet of water) around 3500 BCE there was no India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. Only different dynasties rose and fell under the leadership of different monarchs from time to time and so did the countries of then. Though the rulers and name of countries kept changing, the thing that was unchanged was people and the land. As time moved on, various political changes have happened and under the democratic form of government, territories of countries are marked.

Naruto

        In the Cartoon series of Naruto I remember one of the characters saying,” It is the people who make the country and not the land that makes it” When a group of people have the same feeling and unity they corroborate to form a country. The only time the entire country INDIA feels as one is during a cricket match. A citizen in Kanyakumari is not bothered about earthquake in Sikhim. So is a citizen in Sikhim about koodankulam Nuclear Plant issue. To disapprove the freedom of speech constituted by the constitution of INDIA people are attacking Prasanth Bhushan and Anna Hazare supporters. The INDIA that was sewed together by Vallabhbhai Patel is now being tormented to pieces by the whims of its own citizens.

 koodankulam Protest

Prasanth Bhushan Assaulted

        More than the Lokpal Bill, Electoral reforms and Administrative reforms, what INDIA needs is for its citizens to understand what INDIA is and what unity in diversity really means. Every time there is a change of government the successor throws a slugfest on his predecessor like in the case of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko. Immaterial of what the news channels propagate people must try to understand facts and be united. 

The Scientist : an experience

        Hi guys, I would like to tell you a story. This is a story about a great scientist. The scientist was an embodiment of knowledge; he knew everything. There was nothing unknown to him. Yet he did not know what he should invent. After a long thought he decided to make a replica of himself. He started step by step; he made a simple robot which was controlled using remote. Then he felt there was something missing in it.

 

         He wanted it to think on its own, so he gave the robot the power to decide but this made the robot to disobey his commands. It started to do as it pleased like our 2.0 version robot of Endhiran. So the scientist decided to make changes in the robot’s schema, he created a separate world for the robot made it to live on the planet and form its own schema by its own experiences. He believed that by only programming the basic functions initially he can let the robot to program itself based on its experience in the world.

        There is no hard coded set of rules or regulations prescribed externally in the world but only the preliminary functions programmed which is same for everyone internally. Based on the experiences in the world robot has to program itself. The great scientist is what we call as GOD and we are the ROBOT, but why did GOD start this grand design? What is the eternal purpose? Nobody knows. Our schema has developed a lot from the stone ages, yet nobody knows which is the saturation point. "There is no complete good as well as complete bad" everything is only an experience.

The Trip

        Hi it has been a while since I went on this trip, yet it is the one which I reminisce about. It was a weekend and we had planned to go on a tour. We started early in the morning and there was a drive for around two hours. We reached Somnathpur Temple; though it is small it has a lot of beautiful carvings. I was amazed by the elegance of the builder and the Hoysala architecture. The archeologist there was apprising the tourist, by analyzing the inscriptions about the Hoysala commander of 1268 CE who had built the temple to evince his glory. I wondered maybe everyone should do something like this!

Somnathpur Temple

Talakad

 Latter we left to a place called Talakad; it is a town on the left bank of the Kaveri river, a spot where the river makes a sharp bend. Though it is a river, the water in this place seemed to be at standstill. The place is a scenic beauty. We played there for some time and left to another place called Shivanasamudra. It was a water fall on the same Kaveri river, the very same water that was at Talakad was in its prime glory at this place. It is a roaring falls; The water looked like milk gushing out of the black rocks. I was looking at the falls and the forest cover around it. This very setup has been on the face of earth for a long time. Long before the humans and long before the dinosaurs, its beauty cannot be matched by any manmade structures.

Shivanasamudra Falls

         I looked all around the place there was no inscription as to who made it. The entire setup of the river along with its falls, source and beds has outlived everyone, yet its maker has not left any inscription. I wonder why? Maybe, he has left us as his inscription to marvel and wonder at his work!