The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

[Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement: reference]

So these people are not the anti-corruption heroes? Ask around, see how many of the supporters know about them.

J. Gopikrishnan, second from left (with mic) [photo source]

Subramanian Swamy [photo source]

Without the brains (head), how does the body function?

Or is it just easier to support whosoever is ‘in the picture’.

We complain of the caste system, but is it not ‘the legs’ that gets the most mileage? [Along with the arms?]

Mumbai …

Kartikey Sehgal

I realise that I can’t be writing about ‘male ego and feminism’ and decoding human behaviour in the current political and social scenario. The recent Mumbai blasts have affected me; it’s proof that I am still sane as compared to other Indians who are essentially mannequins or puppets depending on the time of the day. That series is postponed.

I also realise that ‘sarva dharma sambhava’ is understood to mean ‘all religions are equal/possible’ and that the term stands for multiculturalism. It does …

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[Postings to the website may lessen in frequency for some time. Readers, subscribers and visitors, do not take this as a loss of interest.]

[[true romance|Romance]] is, reflection. The time spent in coffee shops, when we thought we were important. Sharing sly smiles with friends, over the appearance of the nearby man. The pretence to read a popular book, whilst hoping for a gorgeous interruption. ‘Live in the present’: minds were manicured by self-help books.

If life is lived in the present, then …

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What if the elixir of life is discovered.

Even then, in such an exalted world situation, human quest for the unknown will not halt. For human preoccupation with creation is not dependent on life and death. Humans create during death and after death and before death. All symbols and rituals, rules and religions are creations.

But, argue now, but is the man not motivated by death. The thought of leaving behind his self through his work. Then how is he not dependent on …

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Passion is, that ends. Passion operates on the horseback of time. Humans operate on the illusion that passion will never end.

Where should lie the passion.

Should the passion be about work, idea, or the realisation that passion and non-passion have little bearing on the time in life. Say, composing music on a bright sunny morning on a hill station, in a home stating as its pride a manicured lawn with colourful flowers on the edges, so that they stand out against the …

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A series of mails I am writing to a friend I haven’t met for many years. Our conversations are on email only. They are lovely though rare.

there is no absolute. The quest for the absolute, however, is absolute.
The wisdom that this quest is meaningless maybe absolute.
For instance, the wisdom that while I am searching for absolute happiness, I know that there is no absolute and so I must just enjoy the journey.

Those who don’t have this wisdom feel thrilled …

Kartikey Sehgal

Love is the fear of non-availability.
Man seeks fame to prove to self its hollowness.
Hence the poor love a lot while the bourgeois are bored.
The bourgeois fear the added poverty to the state of their hollow life; they suppress the poor; perhaps for the good of the poor.
The poor wish to know the nothingness of the nobility.

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Internet downloads were rare then. Beethoven’s symphony number 4 and 7 were on a single cd; a unscratched cd was valued. I …

Kartikey Sehgal

“Happiness will not come from happiness; but only from pain. We know the value of standing in shade only after roaming in the hot day sun.”
–Atharva Veda

Pain is fun. Pain is natural. Pain is the word given to describe a feeling that is not like happiness. Humans crave pain. Often they are not able to understand the true nature of pain and hence they give in to drugs and sadism. To know pain is to understand a simple duality.

You know …

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(On the notion that India was never really a nation because of it’s pluralism.
The author writes that:
Pluralism is a human quality that transcends itself into the society. Our nation is criticized for being disunited against foreign aggression; ‘hence the concept of nationhood was weak’. Does this mean that aggression and cruelty are the hallmarks of a nation?) 

Physical reality and spiritual reality are inseparable. The mind and the decisions that probe the physical reality are worthy of worship. The scientist …

Kartikey Sehgal

It was while protecting his mother and home from outsiders that child Ganapati lost his head in a battle with his father Shiva. Subsequently, on Shiva’s orders, the head of the animal which lay with its head facing the the northern direction was fitted to Ganesh’s body. And Indians worship Ganapati as the protector of homes. As a person/God/with form/formless who binds the family. When we praise the family structure in India, we praise Ganesha. That is why Hindu homes establish his place …