Open Letter to Hardik Patel

Dear Hardik,

I congratulate you on your new found fame all over India and especially Gujarat! For the past few days you have been a constant trend on social media, sensation hungry electronic media and nation as a whole thanks to your public rallies demanding OBC status to your community.

You are young,energetic and have a solid  backing of political heavyweights as it has been evident in your large rallies organised by your group of people. You are free to demand anything in a democratic country as long as you do not disturb the social harmony prevailing in a state. You claim that it is your right to have reservation, you claim supreme court must take a  call on increasing the quota for reservation and you go on claiming your rights. You say that you're holding peaceful demonstrations and in the same breath threaten a democratically elected government, of consequences it will have to face if it does not listen to your demands. Its all about your right,your demand and listening to you.

You claim to belong to the same community as the legendary Sardar Patel and you act in a manner which is highly disrespectful to the iron man of India who stood for India's unity, while you shamelessly stand on the blessed nation's soil determined to take a divisive course of action. Your supporters call you new Modi, while the great man, our prime minister, has a humble background and stands for the ideology sabka saath sabka vikas. You claim to hold peaceful demonstration, while some supporters of your movement turn  violent and hurl caste abuse against other caste members. If you are really apolitical why do you threaten that lotus will not blossom in 2017 ? If you do not have any political aspirations why did you endorse Arvind Kejriwal in 2014 elections and why are your supporters wearing skull caps styled after mein hoon aam aadmi famous from AAP? If you stand for peace then why is a pic of you holding a gun is making rounds??
If you do not belong to any political party why do you make announcement that patidars will vote those who give them reservation?

There are more questions emerging than answers from your suspicious actions from last few days. Have you ever wiped the eyes of a underprivileged patidhar?? or shared your meal with an underprivileged patidhar or a poor man from some corner of Gujarat???

You are channelising your skills into a wrong cause and threatening to uproot an elected government. If these are the hallmarks of your proposed social movement,  then any sane person with a little bit of common sense will call it blackmail than a social movement.

The 65 percent youth of this nation including you and me are looking at a bright future in a changing India which is slowly yet steadily gravitating towards a merit based social order than a caste based one. We are getting educated and having privileges which our elders could only dream of. Yet people like you are making fun of this generation by proving that anyone can buy us for their selfish political ends. I ll stop short of calling you that you are sold which would be an understatement. You are trying to buy limelight for your own selfish needs. You are not only misleading your community members but you are trying to mislead a young bright generation. Go and read your primary school textbook to know the duties of an Indian citizen.If you haven't kept them I would recommend you to visit a school book shop in Ahmedabad where you can get it.

This has already been a long letter. I know this will not reach you. Even if this reaches, you will not understand this as you are consumed in your own ulterior motives.

Wishing you a good health and a speedy understanding of ground realities.

Fellow Citizen of the great republic of  India

Chyavan Mallya B,
A no one.

Icons Are Above Caste

The Patel agitation led by Hardik Patel that is boiling in Gujarat over OBC status for Patel Community rises a serious question on associating socio-cultural icons with the caste they were born in. By invoking Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his speeches and demanding reservation for his community, Hardik has made a serious error of looking at our national icons through the narrow eyes of caste.

Let me be clear. Sardar Patel, who is rightly called the iron man of India, prevented the danger of India's further division in post independence era. Had it not been to the bold decisions of this legend, our nation might have been divided in to 500 princely states quarrelling among themselves. Such was the vision of Patel, that he united a nation that was deeply divided on the basis of caste,religion,language and geography. To associate such a legend with caste is a foolishness. One can be proud that Sardar Patel was born in his community but, taking his name for the sake of further division of an already divided society by reservation is s serious error on the part of young Hardik.

If we were to call Mahatma Gandhi a bania, Pandit Nehru a Brahmin,  Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam a muslim or Dr Verghese Kurien,the father of white revolution as a Christian, we are making a great disservice to a nation which is deeply secular in its tradition and has the much revered constitution having the ideals of the great Dr B R Ambedkar, the father of modern India's social awakening and reformation. The so called leaders of politically motivated agitations and movements not only disturb prevailing social harmony but also seriously threaten the channel of inclusive progress.

Everyone can be proud that a personality who has achieved a great degree of success in  one's field was born in a community that he made famous. But invoking the name of that person as someone exclusive to a community and as an ideal of selfish interest is a deep disregard to such personality.

Our icons were born in  a community much like all of us are. They made progress to break the barriers of religious ethnicity,caste based diversity and linguistic variety and rose above these divisions and became Mahatmas.

We are at a crucial juncture in modern India's progress where the majority of the nation's population is young which is supposed to be unbiased regarding these narrow sentiments, yet has a deeply polarizing example in a young leader trying to gain foothold in political arena with his caste based social movement. It is up to us to decide whether we want to be progressive or regressive.

thanks to the reasons behind my blog posts

Happy Independence day my dear readers... the unknown who has consistently liked my post in last few months,though I have no idea as to who you are. I wish you post a comment and let me know what do you expect from my writing and wish to know your name if possible. Being anonymous is a luxury that only a few can afford. I wish you come out of the veil of identity..by liking my post through your google profile openly...after all we are a free nation where our identity and thoughts are to be shared without any anonymity.

Thank you for your consistent likes as I know that there is someone who is reading my weird posts apart from known ones....

And thank you Tanisha as well...not for those likes...but for inspiring me to write consistently...your spontaneity in writing and impressive vocabulary makes me jealous..yet happy. You are born to write.

Most importantly my dear friend Smruthi who has been the reason for my consistent writings. Though I have told you that you have been my source of positivity, I have never acknowledged you in my posts...the day i had a conversation with you there was a déjà vu moment..and I am happy to tell you that you are my soul sister from a different mother..I couldn't find a better term.

To quote Smt Sudha Murthy..." only diseases come through bloodline, not our talents or worldview... "

She is right...my writings or the the field of interest are different from my parents..though I share their looks,the taste for reading and their broad mindedness, my worldview did not come through bloodline...but through an atmosphere created by them at home where I could talk about anything with an open mind and debate anything... They have never treated me like a child...they never told me what to read or what not to read and never kept a tab on my interests...except setting my moral highground...I wish every child in the world gets parents like mine...Its important to bring up your child...but not teach him or her....as the saint Vivekananda put it "the child teaches himself"...and I am a living example of that...not as the most accomplished example but as the most underdeveloped yet free spirited individual who was given freedom to take own decisions at a very young age of 11.

Thank you for reading this awfully long post that has nothing to share other than my own little corner of mind...

Solitude...a state of mind

I named my blog Solitude the day I started it and till date I haven't written about why I feel close to that word.Writing is a very personal journey where, in the process of writing the writer is absolutely alone and at times avoids company of people to find a place and time where he/she can concentrate... This nature of writing made me name my blog Solitude.

Now back to Solitude...there is a thin line of difference between lonelyness and solitude. Loneliness is the failure to fit in to a group and later feeling rejected by people and a conscious desire to remain away from people...the mind of lonely person is not really lonely.... its full of curse for people who have a company and jealous of such people.

Solitude on the other hand is a saintly virtue. You can experience solitude in the midst of a busy street. Solitude is concentrating on your inner self to change your mindset towards people and things and is the sign of an evolved soul...
Seeking solitude means keeping the mind free from bad thoughts, from desires and more importantly its a passive meditation.

Solitude is a constructive force...greatest discoveries in the world happened when those people were momentarily lost in to solitude. People who seek solitude are the ones who want to think deeply and make positive changes. While lonely people seek revenge people who seek solitude want to find a solution on how to avoid conflict.

In solitude till my next post....

PS : dedicated to all people who think that they are alone and yet act positively to make good changes...

Rain Droplets 2

Some more #shorts
#Rain the first rain made her fall for him..they shared their smiles and tears under one umbrella..now that the rain has stopped he has forgotten the need for an umbrella and she walks alone under its shade in tears to protect herself from sun.

#fire as they encircled seven times they were declared man and wife...little did she know she cannot encircle it again to get rid of that monster...as fire is the evidence of union not separation.

#waves as the waves hit the stones at the beach... i try to make my heart a stone that stops the waves from digging further. I see the patterns on hardrock after years  of having faced the waves...may be a rock too has heart...

#desire a prince wanted to find solutions to fulfil human desires...then he came up with a solution to not have desire...he became buddha...yet millions had the desire to be like him..they ended up becoming bhikkus...as they failed to see that their desire to be buddha defeated them.