Ram Janmabhoomi or Babri Masjid?

The recent news deferred justice for Ram Janmabhoomi and Babri Masjid dispute probed me to put my thoughts down here.

I still remember the day when the Babri Masjid was demolished and it was shown LIVE on National Television – was all about 13 years old kid then. I remember how my parents were worried that this could lead to a huge impact... lots of brutality was just about to unfold. As a kid I was unable to understand why at the first place someone was destroying something? How some destruction can make you divine? How can you get blessings from your 'God' by destroying something? How can killing people make you become more pure? With these questions in my mind i saw what was following, the riots, killings, burning people, raping girls etc on TV. Luckily we were residing in a non volatile area. But this had a huge impact on my emotional self.

I started hating my own religion... thinking if this is what my religion has to offer, why should i even worship a so called 'God'... if even 'God' can't prevent these things from happening then why is he/she called God? I didn't like the fact that i was a Hindu and my fellow people did something as shameful as this... Now after 18 years from this, though the intensity of this has reduced a lot, still i am not able to wholeheartedly pray when i visit temples (off course just to give company to someone, or when someone insists). I never go to temples on my own, never because i feel it from within. I have become indifferent to religion and just don't judge anyone or anything based on religion.

While reading about this subject on Wikipedia, i found apparently Hindus and Muslims used to pray together in this Mosque – Temple together until 1870. Here is the excerpt:


"It is said that up to that time, the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque-temple. Since the British rule a railing has been put up to prevent dispute, within which, in the mosque the Mohamedans pray, while outside the fence the Hindus have raised a platform on which they make their offerings.

Then why can't this happen again? Why can't we make a Temple in the same compound as the Mosque shares? Why are we struggling so much for a verdict? Let's set an example again to our younger generations let's unite. Why do we need to struggle so much to unite with our own country men? After all our ancestors have done it quite well i the past... if they can do it, we can do it as well!

First experience of an accident

Yesterday morning i was driving towards dentist's clinic. After i passed Sadashiva nagar park, i was driving towards the Mekri circle road, one lady on a Scooty Pep was driving on the perpendicular road and towards the junction suddenly sped up and banged onto my bumper!

That junction is a killer junction. People coming on the perpendicular road don't realize that there is a junction coming up. Also they see the whole road ahead of them empty, therefore the natural tendency of drivers is to speed up... Which turns to be dangerous! And that's exactly what happened! I was on first gear and just nearing the junction, suddenly a two wheeler whizzed past me as i press the break... but it was too late and the vehicle's tail hit the end of my front bumper and her Scooty took a half turn and fell down... she fell down on her shoulders... I immediately parked my car and went to check on her... already there were about 10-15 people surrounding her as she picked herself up. Apparently she had blacked out for few seconds... she had a deep cut on her left eye brow and had some bruises... she was complaining of shoulder pain... however it was not so severe.

She didn't even know what had gone wrong... when i told her she suddenly came in front of my car as i breaked... she admitted that she was rushing to office as she was already very late and had got a call from office. She was apparently trying to get ahead of a SUV and an Auto rickshaw and that's when she came and hit me!

I told her i could help her getting a first aid and also let her relax for a while... I took her to Aneesh's office (spot was just behind Aneesh's office) helped her with first aid. Waited for her husband to come and pick her up. We had also parked her bike in Aneesh's office. After about 30-40 mins later her husband landed up and he looked very angry and annoyed with the whole thing... I tried to be friendly with him and explaining him what had happened... however, he seemed indifferent and just took her away!

After that even i drove back to the destination and kind of shrugged it off... i was happy that everything went off smoothly... had it been a man driving the bike i am sure it would not have been this smooth...

To my surprise brother of the lady called up Aneesh this morning to inform that she is admitted to the Hospital and the bike has suffered some damage... and he was trying to get compensation for the same... what i don't understand is that why she needed to be admitted in the hospital? She didn't suffer any major injury, neither did the bike had any major damage... the bike got some scratches here and there, and one of the rear view mirror had broken... What is more surprising is that they had the time to find the office number and called... He even avoided giving the name of the hospital where she is admitted!

This action provokes me to think, is this world not for people who are honest, compassionate and nice? Had I the fled the site, what would have happened to her? Is this the reward of taking care of people, even when its not your fault? Why does people always tend to think, if your are nice to someone, there is something fishy about it and pressure can get some some undue advantages!!!

Back to blogging!!!

Its been quite long that I haven't written anything at all... to be specific, its been 2 years! I was busy with my first pregnancy and took some time to cope with it and now I am back. Believe it or not I have been missing it a lot and feeling so good to have found time to write something again.

Now that I have started again, I am thinking what should I write about... should it be something from the current affairs? Or review of the last movie I saw? Or would be it be something about the organization I work for? None of these seem very interesting now. I am also thinking why not write about my daughter [who kept me away from blogging for so long!]. Yeh, that sounds interesting for the time being...

My daughter, who is about 16 months old now, is such a bundle of energy and enthusiasm. I sometime feel why can't we have such energy and enthusiasm. We could have been much better person then. Most of her day goes on roaming around the house and inspecting and learning new things... picking every trick which is displayed, every antic which is been performed, trying to learn every word spoken to her... she would try to imitate every action of every one of us... the moment I am back from office she would try talking to me and narrating the whole day, in her own jargon! She acts as a super stress buster... every evening I spend with her I learn something new... never giving up, seeing positive in everything, trying to be compassionate about others, accepting your mistake and learning not to repeat them and so on... and I am learning them in a new way!

Life is so good with her. However, its not the lazy life I had before she came into our life, i am still enjoying and trying to match up to her energy and enthusiasm.