Look into yourself, you are the change you need to be, not the change you hope others will be.

Priority 2010

1. Learn French
2. Learn a classical dance form
3. Start cracking on my PhD topic

You have to want to love your life.


You have to want to want; it has be an all-encompassing feeling, one that can drive you to madness.

Then only do you feel that this is a life well-fulfilled or else it shall remain a never-ending series of anti-climaxes.

2010

I am hopeful about the new year. It's my gut feeling and I am willing to do what it takes to make this coming year work for me. I am going to conquer my fears with courage and fortitude, overcome bitterness with compassion, love my family with an open heart and pray for a good life for all with a clear conscience. This shall be my strongest endeavour.

Make believe

I am "always-already interpellated." Disturbing as it sounds, it remains the truth of life. Shackled by a privileged social position, I shall always be the oppressor, for this is the logic of my being, determined from the time of birth. I can choose to be different in my actions and words but as long as I remain within this structure of life, I shall always be both the oppressed and the oppressor. Breaking free and attaining moksha (deliverance) seems the only legitimate human salvation. I understand it now, 'cause everything is maya, the illusion.

I am not a fatalist but I do believe that even fate is structured by this very logic. Then how do you believe that I had an equal chance of surviving when one out of every four children in the world, who die under the age of one, is an Indian.

THE PARADOX OF OUR TIMES- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The paradox of our times

Is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers

Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints

We spend more, but we have less

We have bigger houses, but smaller families

More conveniences, but less time

We have more degrees, but less sense

More knowledge, but less judgment

More experts, but more problems

More medicines, but less wellness

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often

We have learnt how to make a living, but not a life

We have added years to life, but not life to years

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back

But have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour

We have conquered outer space, but not inner space

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted our soul

We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice

We’ve higher incomes, but lower morals

We’ve become long on quantity but short on quality

These are the times of tall men, and short character

Steep profits, and shallow relationships

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare

More leisure, but less fun

more kinds of food, but less nutrition

These are the days of two incomes, but more divorces

Of fancier houses, but broken homes

It is a time when there is much in the show window

And nothing in the stockroom

A time when technology can bring this letter to you

And a time when you can choose

Either to make a difference or just hit, delete.

Never pass a judgement on people.

a rant

I have been writing stupid reports to donors sitting in foreign lands, telling them about how wonderful life is, now that they are in this world. Like geez, give me a break or I will run away. But not so fast, till I learn my French and sip champagne.

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Karsh Kale. K.A.R.S.H K.A.L.E. I <3 you. I hope you can feel the love, you need love; we all need love.