Ponder

Once in a while i start thinking about things like meaning of life, meaning of existance, reasons for doing what one does, reasons for not doing so many things and so one.. there are two ways the argument usually goes. One treats this whole thing as an offshoot of idleness, hunger, thirst, frustration etc, essentially rather than finding the answers, one might learn to ask better questions, or not to ask uneasy ones, live life rather than spending it figuring out the theory behind it..
The other side says one must find these reasons, these answers even to achieve the worldy objectives.. It's been a long winding debate and i have been postponing the final showdown , handing out tactical victories to each side once in a while.
As the joker says, both the sides are equally correct, one must find balance.. but how does one find balance and know if it's not the balance of the kind out decadent empires maintained before someone with more purpose pushed them out?
We've all got only one life, this earth has one life, unverse has one life and no matter what we do, at present, that is how it's going to be.. there are two ways of looking at it again..one which say why care, the other say we've got only one chance so we must..
personally i have never been able to decide absolutely between the two..
what i increasing realise though is how this random freedom molds the environment, which in turn often gets back to us in ways one never fathoms.. the classical balls in random brownian motion...

the cultural noah..

few day back everyone was shocked to hear and watch what happened at a pub in mangalore..Some custodians of indian culture decided that best way to stop the flood is to beat & molest girls who obviously didn't know the great indian tradition for appeasing goons..
I was heartened to read catagorical condemnation from political leaders from all hues.
Now though it's time for them to do their own bit for culture. with chief ministers of rajasthan and Karnataka deciding to arrest "pub culture" one wonders why the poor sena men were arrested and pooh-poohed.
apparently they found it unpalatable that a small time goonda should hog all the lime-light.
while it is perfectly acceptable for our CMs to have rapes and murders and molstations and mujras desi style, they can not women enjoying themselves by their own free will, and from their own tax-paid money, a tax which is supposed to pay the government for citizen's safety among other things..
Why do our polititians seem to support all the wrong causes? be it communal rhetoric, mafias coming to politics, Quota sytem, N-Deal, Cash for vote brand leaders, Consipacy theorists such as Mr. Antuley, the retrogressive,sick ideology of moral policing, there is always one usual suspect- over beloved NETAJI..
We might speculate on reasons and go on but it doesn't help anything, people who should do these, the NETA and the voters, they have their petty interests to take care of.. for the voter. recollect a couplet-
sipahi chor hai, jo chor tha sipahi hai, yeh khel gaon ke bachho me ab bhi chalta hai,
isi liye main andheron se kuchh nahi kehta-ke har gunah ujaalon ke ghar me palta hai..