By Birth

By Birth

So you are born in Nigeria with black skin, protruded lips, nice ass.

I am born in India with middle class mindset, brown skin, developing nation status.

There is Nike, born in US with white-flawless skin, health insured, free education, etc.

A chap called Hope, born with an incurable ailment to ultra rich parents and there is also Kranti born out of a rape incidence.

A tribal born in the Chattisgarh state of India, who is not allowed to enter any temple and drink scarcely available water around his village from the community well.

As it goes, we keep on fighting for every little thing that can affect our life from any closest to any remote, corner, throughout our life.
But, we hardly notice that most of the things that have the deepest impact in shaping our lives are those which are neither in our hands nor I think in anybody else’s.
For example: your parents, your name, your nationality, your religion, your caste, your societal status, your physique, your skin texture, your health, your perceived mental caliber, etc. etc.

When you are not even aware of your birth, so many of your life variables and constants have already been decided. Of course, you can change them in your life later on, but based on these “By-Birth” parameters, there are a lot many things that different people, society and even you, perceive about you.

As it is so commonly said, “First impression is the last impression”, same goes very much true here. And it is the fight against those “By Birth” parameters, which have limited and defined the scope of your life.
How many of us can wage that fight?
How many of us can win that fight?

For sure very few can.
But then as the Darwin theory says, it’s the survival of the fittest.
When you are fighting against something that is “By Birth”, then you have to be a Gladiator and nothing less.
Our life is an equation of variables and constants.
But always remember one thing, NOTHING IS CONSTANT.

secYOUliar

We are as secular a state as a state can be. But the people who generally define such terms have their own views and mostly they are the ones who keep on damaging it all the more. You will get a kick on your butt if you asked me, whom I am talking about.

Politicos have categorized parties, politicians, states and what not into secular and non secular. You say anything and they might throw their secular – non secular shit on your innocent face. And then they will ask you, “How dare you can say a thing so non secular in a country like India?”

Any discussion on religion will make you sit on either side of the “Lakshman Rekha”. And by using this Hindu mythological I am sure I have crossed the line.
But I firmly believe that, We are as secular a state as a state can be.

I won’t give any passionate story to convince you on that. But a simple incidence that took place last evening at a local salon.
I had not been to a cut for some time now and so went directly after office. And I was received by a very warm guy called, Tehseeb, my favorite at this place.
Whenever, I visit this place I always get to hear and watch some golden melodies of the Bolywood. This time it was no different at first.
But as soon as I was over with my cut and shifted positions for a shave, I heard an old ear sweetener, Mahaaaaabhaarat…..
Yes, the epic series of the Indian TV, the Mahabharat, began.
And to my utter surprise and joy and relief and pride about my India, I found that these people, all of whom are religiously Muslim, watch this epic daily. And what more, the owner of shop was also clarifying the doubts of some of his younger employees.

And they say India is not a secular.
Here I am sitting with a bunch of people who belong to a religion and profession, which is considered to be one of the least educated and well doing. And they all are watching an epic from another religion.

Move on you politicos.
Don’t teach us who we are.