Pathways

UrbanSanyaasi

 

A road never seems lonely.

It is patient, it is waiting, 

Expectant like the slow soft burn,

Fire can turn us ash, but also burn away our impurity

A road can never be empty, 

It is filled with stories gently rolling,

Like clouds of a soft rain

Like winds of a spring night

And the most important of all,

The promise that a road is part of,

Two lovers, standing tall, walking straight,

joined hands, entwined gaze.

That is where you and I are headed,

That is what we are going to do,

I’ll walk by your side, I’ll stand in front of you,

the former in love, the latter in harm.

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The Bulimic Hermits

One fine evening as I was traveling the metro back home, through a corner of my eye I caught a sharply colored pocketbook in the hands of a guy on my left. He had just started it and seemed to be engrossed through. From the typeset it looked like the ones the missionaries sell. I read a statement – “If you have faith in all three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, and in all the gods which foreigners have and again into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have a faith in yourself and stand up on that faith.” It had to be Swami Vivekananda. And so it was a Ramakrishna Mission’s discourse.

I kept on reading coast the guy till a few pages ahead until I saw this particular remark: “The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think. Control of mind should be taught first…… I t takes people a long time to learn things, because they can’t concentrate their minds at will.” This statement, easily more than 125 years old makes more sense today than it did then. Being a product of the same system, criticizing itself sounds like development. My schooling years were spread into 7 different schools as is typical of progeny of civil servants. So schooling was a diverse input from different learning curves, methods, taboos, class freaks and pranks, etc. In all one common thing that was staunchly enforced was an acme discipline level especially in missionary schools. And in retrospect, I do think that discipline is a strong foundation to build the rest of self on. Meanwhile college life is discipline-resistant and working lives involve discipline forced down the throat. So school discipline is one flavor that nears the concept of control. Since its type is primarily extrinsic, it doesn’t emulate mind control which ideally should be intrinsic.

Learning theories rely on basic premise of a mind to assimilate, process, structure and store info that later can be invoked to be of use. A critical point here is that in Indian education all the stuff we learnt in our schools or even graduation degrees was limited till the sheets of the examination. We don’t find it of practical use or to promote our bases. Mind control hasn’t thus been having fodder to chew on with lack of avenues to creatively apply and qualify information. Moreover, the recent bulge in amount of enticing information we come across has skyrocketed with 3G enabled handhelds, bit torrent, hard drives and friendly neighborhood WiFi. Introspection can easily tell we are not filtering what we are exposing ourselves to. It’s like an unending movie in a glitzy mall screen. The mind control that we should have learnt while imbibing stuff, now amiss, makes us “Information Bulimics” with insatiable urge to keep devouring any sort of audio-visual-mental-gustatory input. The issue isn’t the urge, but how it develops into a justification of being a “consumer”. We won’t mind overstepping the border for sensory appreciations disregarding the spatial and temporal compulsions. We want it right here, right now. Maybe that’s why even phones have reached quad core processing; pizza more than 30 minutes late is free and using the term delayed gratification in a conversation sounds like Na’vi.

We are a lost lot aren’t we? As a generation lost in a huge crowd made up of our own selves? Meanwhile there’s a kid next to your knee tugging on your pants trying to ask your phone to play candy crush. 🙂 We are a generation of Bulimic Hermits….

Baby Love Me Too

Burn thy love, Smoke up the ashes……. Lie to yourself, that’s what you do best! Oh! :))

Tempestia

I found a new man again,

He said “Baby love me too”

Here we go again.

 

Run baby run, reality is catching up with you,

The fruits are turning sour and the leaves have started to fall,

One last kiss for the weary traveller.

 

Compartmentalizing love; Insisting on bringing order to chaos,

Convenience my darling, that’s the word,

“Hush baby hush, they think they know it all”, chuckles love.

 

Tossing your heart like a paper-ball game,

Letting your tongues make faulty decisions,

Hello there intimacy, long time no see? 

 

It’s all a joke they say,

Love, it doesn’t exist they say,

Still the fools run, yearn and look for it, still they do.

 

Burn thy love; Smoke up the ashes,

Kiss the funeral pyre; Rejoice in your victory,

Lie to yourself, that’s what you do best. 

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Round Unround

A delightful glimpse of life. Those little things….

UrbanSanyaasi

She was one of those walking paradoxes. Wearing long flowing kurtis but smoking Marlboro (in India, that’s a paradox. In the world, that’s just a beautiful woman going about her way). Long wavy tresses with short clipped sentences. Deadpan expressions in the photographs she clicked of herself but beautiful aesthetics in  the ones she clicked of her muses, of her subjects, of people and phenomena around her. 

 

Every evening, at the behest of her mother, she dragged her feet to the kitchen, grumbling as her fingers mangled the dough and a side of her cheek clenched with her jawline while she ran the rolling pin over the ball. She could feel the invisible acidic gaze of her mother and her ancestors, bearing down on her shoulders, noticing the amoebic shape that the roti was taking.

 

It took some months before her lover visited her home and they stood talking…

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The Black Paradigm

War is continuation of Politics by other means – Carl von Clausewitz, 1816

War is continuation of Politics and Economics by other means – Mike Ruppert, 2009

 

Oil on earth is ending, each one of us knows, yes but what if it finishes sometime in next 15 years? Worry? Panic? Chaos? Ablution? Solution?

Allow me to show you a little picture. Every morning someone in say Delhi has his breakfast with nice aloo parantha. How did he get one? Let’s talk of the process. Wheat growing is agriculture where an Oil powered machine plows the fields, planting is done by an automatic oil driven planter, irrigation is done by using pumps (using oil/electricity), fertilizers of Ammonium Nitrate made from Ammonia (whose feedstock is oil) are sprayed, pesticides made of petroleum are administered. And once crop is ready the entire process of harvesting, transporting, processing and packing is done.  (Each one of them using oil and its products – all plastics, machine fuels, gensets for electricity)

So seemingly, oil has made our lives a lot simpler and thus paced up the rate of development we have. Thanks to it, the population, all over the world has grown over the centuries exponentially. Check out the following graph of human population.

It is no surprise that this has been due to a more accessible source of energies – coal and crude oil. In 1712 with the invention of Steam engine run on coal by Thomas Newcomen, the Industrial Revolution got a new and upgraded lease of life. On January 10, 1901, the discovery of a huge oil reservoir on Spindletop, Beaumont, Texas created a race of energy. Until then whatever oil was known was refined to create kerosene for lamps. Now it would create entire economies. Insofar that pace of development brought by oil exploded the population that grew from 0.2 to 1 billion in 1800 years to 7 billion in next 200 years! And it looks like we don’t have a finite ceiling to that because UN forecasted a stable value of 10.5 billion only by year 2062.

On the other hand, Oil as we knew it till today is ending, but worryingly at a rate none of us knows or is prepared to handle. Enter Peak Oil.

For any product of finite availability, there would be a time till when its production would increase till a particular value. Beyond it, no matter how much money or resources you invest in its production process, it won’t increase, because well it is declining and most of it is used up. It is logical to go down. That has what has happened with Oil. The middle point of curve of max production is Peak Oil. And the enthralling part is that we passed Peak Oil in 2006!

This graph explains that almost 60 countries of world producing oil have crossed their Peak Oil point. Of all the data that Energy administration departments all around the world throw, the max production level of 85.6 million barrels/day was reached in 2007 and never again, in a situation when EIA reported in 2009 that world oil demand is set to rise 21% from 2007 to 2030. We are at a situation in the world where in pursuit of infinite growth we have hit the ceiling against a limited amount of energy to throw money at and use up. And on top of it our economic systems designed on fiat currency and fractional reserve systems have made us dependent on banks for every single thing we do, from our salaries to expending our savings. That actually hides the real scenario of oil from the financial markets.

Modern Geopolitics is the fruit of a shrub nurtured with oil. The international geopolitics revolves around gaining a strategic advantage to access newer fields of oil. The rush is to exploit the cheapest ones because once the wells run dry the cost to find newer ones will be galactic. In brief this theory explains a lot about USAs strength in modern day geopolitics. It is the biggest consumer of oil and had been the biggest producer till 1950s. Its relations with Gulf nations are only alive till Gulf has oil. Saudi Arabia having 25% of the known world’s reserves maintains constantly that it isn’t anywhere near the peak oil. On the contrary it has started off shore drilling despite that fact that it costs 10 to 50 times more cost than drilling onshore. Obviously the easy access wells have been exploited and there is a peak of oil. But they can’t declare it for the reason that the Arab population has been fed on the premise that oil is the key to their progress. The situation in the country is highly complex and declaring that more than half of their oil is over, will call a revolution, endangering the reserves. No country would want a disturbance since there is no known replacement for this 25%. A few more observations are Russia’s lack of support to Global Climate conventions because warming will create access to Siberian permafrost regions which have enormous oil deposits and also will open a new trade route for Russia to East and South Asia which are the new economic powerhouses in the offing.

This is the Energy Scenario we face today. But the things are not as grim as they seem. Alternative energy technologies are being developed to take place of crude oil. Solar, Wind, Hydrogen, Bio-Fuels, Shale gas, Geothermal, Tidal etc all have their advantages and disadvantages of which to date we don’t have a single reliable access technology. Detailing the energy sector advancements is another topic in itself and I would digress.

Still talking of India’s efforts towards the shift have been exemplary though not top of the line. The initiative to exploit Shale gas as automotive fuel in form of CNG, PNG and LNG is a very good step. Although Shale gas reserves won’t take place of Oil because we don’t have a well laid out delivery structure for gas. When part of India’s population is still waiting to get access to electricity and are still dependent on fuel wood, biomass for energy, Oil would be a far cry for them. Our major consumption is imported and we burn 8 billion USD per year to buy Oil. But since we have world class refineries like ONGC, GAIL, etc to create ready petroleum products, they incur back the revenue of 5 billion USD by supplying other nations.

As to conclude I would mention Charles Darwin. Darwinism says an organism that adjusts to the nature the best will survive and the others will hit an evolutionary dead end. Social Darwinism hence says, if you are in a group and a bear attacks, you don’t have to be the fastest runner, you just have to be faster than the slowest one. All our advancements to date have been related to energy: from coal blocks, to steam, to industrial revolution, to automation, to modern technologies now. And if this energy ends, we end too. The basic law that governs bacteria growth in a petri dish or even stock markets for that matter says, “Something that grows by that rate would have an equally sharp fall (History of every bubble)”. And the bubble this time is the Human population. The shock of energy crisis is coming this is definite. It won’t come in a day, it would come slow, but when and how long it will be till we have a post-crisis order arranged in the world, nobody knows.  This is the Black Paradigm

References:       The End of Oil: Paul Roberts

Collapse (Movie): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeufX6S-Q_s

(Trailer): http://youtu.be/WAyHIOg5aHk

Ironically, Law!

My recent studies into the finer points of our country’s polity revealed me some appalling facts that I felt sharing with everybody else. One thing in the start I would like to mention is that polity is not politics. Polity is Political Science, the study of realm of Legislature that has been making the written rules by which this country is ruled. These are Laws that govern our freedoms, our livelihoods, our businesses and our rights to a fulfilling life, so basically something not to be messed with. But since Legislation or Law making is the ‘Job Profile’ we assign to our beloved (sic) politicians, they do bring in an element of politics in the polity, which so to say have introduced some very weird situations in some spheres. Another actor in the stage I would like to mention is our Hon’ble Supreme Court which is like monitor of the class that constantly does the function of making sense of the laws that Parliament makes and it has been doing a commendable job in its sphere so far.

Starting with the a very queer sounding policy called Policy of Carry Forward made in year 2000 through a Constitutional Amendment act, is one example of how impractical the things can go. Most of us would know that reservation in recruitments cannot go beyond 50% of total seats as per the constitutional guidelines. But this policy says it can be violated. In a nutshell it says that for SC/ST quota in Govt jobs that remain vacant after the recruitments, the vacancies will not be shifted to other categories like General or OBC. Rather they will be carried forward to the next year’s recruitments. That means if every year for a 100 total seats, 22 (15+7) are reserved for SC+STs and out of these 6 (4+2) remain vacant, then next year the vacancies would be 106 and reserved being 28 (22+6). This ratio here goes to 51.8% of seats reserved (also adding 27 of OBC seats to 28 here). Now this trend shows that if it continues every year, the seats of reserved categories will increase, by the year every year. It seems to be a worrisome trend for sure. And from what I came across, it has shown its colours. For a particular post in DU Faculty, there was a case where the number of SC/ST seats for one year equalled those for General Category seats…………totalled for 10 years!!!

In the pursuit of providing equal opportunities to the socially and economically backward sections, this seems to be a well done effort as provided as a Constitutional directive. Well ironically, one of the five considerations the Constitution mentions that Government has to take while reserving seats is, “Reservation policy shouldn’t affect the overall efficiency of the administration”, (stated Indira Sawhney v/s UOI, 1993 case) But at the same time mentions special provisions that exclude super speciality institutes like R&D institutions, military and medicine. Talking about double standards.

Another very interesting law is one given by SC & ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act, 1989 which has a little flaw. In one case there were two magistrates that were booked under this act for not taking due action on an application to remedy a person belonging to SC category, which was seen as an atrocity against him. That said, one of those magistrates was let off, simply due to the reason that he himself belonged to SC category, and according to the act, atrocity can be only committed by a non-SC person to a SC person and not by one SC to another SC. It seems hard to believe such a law being made at the first place, but yes it is there. Hon’ble Supreme Court pled the Parliament to review this act and make suitable changes, though.

I conclude by saying that reading through the various acts, articles, bills, etc I feel that as a part of nation building, painstaking effort has been taken to make a written compilation of rules that give is so many freedoms and opportunities to live a dignified, prospering life but sadly the spirit of letter has got left on the paper itself. I mentioned here only two acts that seem out of place but there are 2000 more that give us the law and land in pursuit of a civilized society. Laws are not the same as applied out there, we know. And even the Constitution isn’t a PDF document. It can be amended, re-interpreted and re-applied. Therein lays the hope that we can change where we started this nation from: The Constitution of India.

Ironically, Law!

The Bird’s Reverie

Things I learnt living in an apartment

Living in a small town doesn’t let you know, what challenge living in an apartment is all about. So here I’m lodging in an apartment for a few days at Gurgaon. The place is Ridgewood Estate in heart of the city. And apparently I’m living at great heights. Literally, I mean:  a 100 feet off the ground. A friendly piece of advice goes about this: Don’t just loiter in the balcony if you got weak gut.

Now there are few things some of them, perturbing I must add I have been experiencing living here. And I am here to share them. Firstly, the old adage ‘Privacy is a Privilege’ applies. It’s a practice of the civil engineers to raise buildings close to each other – facing each other because well, there’s lack of free ground. And so also having made floor to ceiling windows-cum-doors (you don’t know which to use how) there are a hundred rooms that have a clear cut view of all the room décor there is in the hall I sit in right now. Weirdly, the concept is alien to me, a small towner where we have our doors bolted even before the primetime movie hits at dinnertime.

Secondly, I don’t know how children get raised up here. I mean in sense, there were my kind whose first real toy was mud! Shaping, digging, making bridges in the vegetable garden was a major choice of “playing outside”. Here I see kids that have no access to ‘grasses’ except that in school ground and have to play on hard concrete of parking in the evening. As I watch them from the eighth floor, they only skate or cycle on the tarmac. Poor souls.

Thirdly, even if this particular set of apartments gets counted as posh society, there still is a lot left to catch up in here. In the entire area of a house that can be counted on fingers for hundreds of feet, there’s hardly a corner left to recreate. You know, add a little dash of a self-made painting to the wall, set a bunch of bean bags here or there, set up a little study. Basically, things that go beyond the bedroom-hall-kitchen drill, to add an element of genius to one’s living place. And there’s not even storage here, I wonder where one puts their winter clothes or the Diwali gifts.

Next, there is a mentionable uncomfortability about the lift systems. Every time the door opens, a group of people are found staring at you like deers caught in headlights. Obviously having a hostile looking stranger standing inches from you can be unnerving for some but the biggest dilemma comes at what do you do for those really excruciating 30 seconds or so. Where to look, where to stand, how to press the buttons with people cramming the corners!?

Lastly I add, even as the homes go smaller in the cities going bigger, and the cost-of-living spirals as resources deplete by the hour, what one sees through the glass window remains virtually unchanged to the people whose life is in the fast lane. And which leaves them little to think over the changing socio-cultural economics to which they adjust, in compulsion maybe but they have the box office seat to changes we the people may have to excruciatingly accept as we head towards a society trying to find its new roots in the glossed up world of pamphlets.

I guess I better post this once I depart from here. Someone reads it, I’m sure to get some piece of advice from neighbour next door or next floor. 🙂

The Elevator Times

Information Age. Yeah Right! :D

After much being coaxed and derogated to write something, I finally sit down. But what the hell? The sunlight’s not on my desk now. I should rather move to the dining table. Well the glass top is way more cold than the warm wood, and F##K!……
I stubbed my toe on the chair! Everyone’s worst fear on a wintery morning. Hell it pains. I should have probably sat and watched those remaining episodes of Death Note…… Chuck it!

Hi Friends!
This little conversation to the self up there might sound…. “That’s me!” well this is exactly the “Stumper” I want to talk this time.

I was watching the movie Scent of a Woman the other day. They are checking in an airport and Charlie as Lt. Col.’s new aide grabs his arm to direct him:

Lt Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino): Are you blind?
Lt Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino): Are YOU BLIND?
Charlie Simms (Frank O’Donnel): Of course, Not!
Lt. Col.: Then why do you keep grabbing my goddamn arm! I take your arm.
Charlie: I am sorry.
Lt. Col.: Don’t be sorry. How would you know! Watching MTV all your life!

Well this was just an eye opener, I would say to lots of things WE people are still to learn. And by WE I mean the endless line of engineers trying to convert their calls to a B-School (and still not knowing either of those fields), the button-down power-dressed MBA dude  banging his head on the screen trying to crunch numbers, the bored up guy/gal placed in an IT firm in Gurgaon sitting in his office thinking WTF!, Unplaced people, Commerce/Arts/Entire Spectra of Lovely University Courses, basically) or that fast life living Metropolitan kid that thinks such a fast life is what I’m meant for. Just the average big dreams Youth of the day near or far, city or nowhere.

We are the Millennial kids of the Information Age. And information for us is like the medieval day Honor. We show it around like a badge on a bag! No wonder the other day I was sitting in a placement interview and the first thing the HR and I discussed was the quickness of Twitter to spread Info. Yes Information is Knowledge. Knowledge is Power. But as the Spidey movie teaches us, “With Great Power comes Great Responsibility”, we need to do a lot in this domain. Not for the regular do-things-for-the-society-kind but for ourselves.

The recent post on my FB Timeline by ‘Humble – The Poet’ does point somewhere in that direction. The post starts with:

“Women don’t need our protection. The idea that women require protection not only degrades their position, but also inflates the idea that we actually have the power to do such a thing in the first place.”

And more importantly ends with:

“There are parts of the world, where that preparation and precaution (to protect oneself) aren’t luxuries but necessities to survive though harsh environments. Most of us are fortunate not to be in those positions, and many of the uglies they face on a daily basis are ignored until they hit our doorstep.”

This is where the responsibility starts from. Our daily lives seem more of a struggle to survive through lack of opportunity, lack of time or lack of ways to have fun. And in this rush of things to WANT, our perceptions have got way SKEWED to the level that minting bucks is the only source we see to survive through. The ugly truth is that things we were taught as children to stay away from are exactly the ones that are running the society we live in. Be it corruption, nepotism or cheating or even to the extent that protecting our own women is now seen as an act of sexism. There’s no difference in Indian and Bhartiya mentality. They co-exist in close quarters and as I see it are a function of how we see ourselves responsible for these little things that take monsterous sizes and effects.

The self-responsibility starts at Believing that yes minting bucks is the only way to survive AND doing what I REALLY WANT is the only thing I should be doing (being Lazy-Ass/Horny/Gangsta doesn’t count!). Maybe that’s when we can have less frustrated individuals who even when making a moolah of a package won’t go wasting their life over the LACK of FUN!  Maybe that’s when we won’t have men pushing themselves on women. Maybe that’s when we would stop projecting women as objects of display.

And for the least realize that fears should be better than stubbing-my-toe-on-a-corner. There’s a guy I don’t like in the friend circle who recently joined army. He exclaimed once, “This is a place where we make man a Man”. It was statement of humor for the group but I somehow felt how right he was. A much unheard term these days called Rites of Passage was what he was pointing to. With our fathers and grandfathers absent from our homes we really have forgotten what it is like to idolize someone and learn what truly being a Man means. This might sound a bit incriminating but we have achieved a generation of men ‘raised by women’. And these are the same men who have forgotten how to respect them. Amongst other aspects, this is one thing that comes in the realm of Information that we all really need to know.

I hope the whole thing can be summarized in one way. We should really look to personas like this:

Than this:

(I love Mr. Downey Jr but post his drug-fueled life. He’s given us some masterpieces of acting recently).

So one big question can still be (if you really interested) where the hell do you find some liberating information.

Inside Yourself

AAAAHHHNNNTTT! Wrong answer. (Come on who u kidding. We still don’t know our ways around a sewing a button yet) One needs to look a little behind to the generation who created the companies like Apple, or Nations like our Own, or Dams-Hill Stations like a few renowned Engineers. And specifically they did this through entirely simple systems, no Google no Twitter no WikiWorld. Simple sense and those little things that helped them do what brought them contentment in what they did. One lot that can be of help is our Grandparents. They know a few things better than us. 😀  And a site probably. This might sound lame but in the ocean of modern sense that overflows everyday on internet, I found this a secure lighthouse. (For Gentlemen check out artofmanliness.com.) For Ladies you can go probably look at GQ.com. (Ain’t I a pig?)

So Happy Gathering Info then! 😀 😀

The Man’s Vacuum

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson

The above statement said by Woodrow Wilson contains in itself a far reaching meaning which needs to travail deeply through the mentality of the society we live in. The definition and the meaning of being a Man is no longer the same as in the time of our fathers and grandfathers. So diluted is the concept of manhood, that it is actually difficult to define it, given the modern circumstances. The ageless principles of manliness that have been ingrained in our society and being celebrated since centuries are no longer seen anywhere. So to say we no longer know what it means to be a Man.
A mind game quite famous in this regard is worth mentioning here.

“You are inside room in a building on fire. There are two people with you. One is your Mother and other is a very important person of the society. And you have to evacuate one of them along with you. Who will you choose?”

Since some time, I’ve been asking this question around to many people, both males and females mostly adolescents. There is a stark difference in the answers. While 76% males preferred to save the socially important person than their own mother, almost all of the females preferred to save their mother. There is a learning point here.
If the man saves his mother, yes that will be an act of love, compassion, duty expected from a man to his own parent. The same goes for a woman, and more so because they are all so close to their mothers, it is a clear choice for them. But if the man chooses to save that socially admired person, which will be an act called extra-ordinary; an act that is selfless and contains a very big personal sacrifice. Such a person would be admired, respected, hailed and condoled, for the decision he has made for the greater good. A woman will get all the same honor if she saves the person, but I don’t think she is socially bound to save him. The survey above is a reference. I explain it further.
The journey of a person from boyhood to manhood, commonly known as rites of passage, was a clear demarcation of a male to his transition into manhood. Modern society clearly lacks this important transition, leave a few exceptions. So males at the age of adolescence or even beyond, struggle hard to display acts that somehow bestow them the title of a Man. A female on the other hand has a clear transition from girl to a woman and they need not prove themselves that they are a woman. Not a surprise we hear the phrase ‘Man Up!’ we never hear ‘Woman Up!’ ever. The word ‘virtue’ which is actually closely related to female virtues nowadays is a Latin derivative of word virtus which means muscular strength. Sadly, today all virtues are ones expected from a woman, especially in India.

A century ago, when formal education wasn’t so prevalent, the boys at home followed their fathers at their daily vocation like farming, woodwork, smith, etc. Their education consisted of values and principles learnt out of that self bred man who was the idol for those values and taught how to live a giving life and to respect women. With advent of industrial revolution, the father’s were no longer home to teach those hard learnt lessons. There was a vacuum left in the boy’s life who hard to try hard to make sense of his duties, ethics and sense of responsibilities a man has to portray. The vacuum still exists today, and that’s why we see so rebellious teenagers and cases like the Guwahati molestation case.

It is time; we have to acknowledge this lack in our lives and start living a giving gentleman’s life, stop being consumers and start being creators, be Men not just through muscular bodies but from the heart, start treating women with the respect and stature they hold in our lives, be a part of something bigger, live a Life by a Code. Recreate the Man, that our forefathers were – the models for the Gods we believe in.

*inspired from Brett and Kate McKay’s blog – AoM.

I Walk the Line – Johnny Cash