Was thinking of some strands which tie the life- from one end to the other..how they again entwine to each other..and some times we succeed to untie those naughts and sometimes we fail...
Oh ya, one thing more comes...does Failure or Success actually lie in our hands or Destiny has some hands in it?
My reaching Bangalore...was it destiny or the reason of my failures...well,as I think Destiny had a hand in giving the failure to reach certain point...
Puri is one of my favourite holiday destination..for most of the Bengalis since ages...Its "Goa" for us...its the safest and the most favourite bet for a Family vacation...I have also been there many times and have always loved the vacations there...still long for them...
It is where I first fell in love with the Sea...the waves...the sounds of waves breakin in the silence of a full-moon night...
Puri reminds me of the carefree holidays spent in childhood there...
See how I got lost in some other topic...haan so was I saying in Puri I first noticed as a kid that when waves break on the shores and retreat they take back all that is there on the shore...they wipe away their own remains....they wash away the footprints that we make...
I was really amused when I saw and understood the phenomenon the first time...Over the years it is a feeling that has remained with me...and I always love the sea...and how it wipes away what is there on the shore...it encompasses and takes everything in itself...as in washing away someon else's sins...
I have made mistakes, some blunders...have been also cheated,hurt....some due to my ignorance,stuborness,stupidy...some because of other people...
But as my closest friend says - For me the life is a new slate now...its clean...now what I will fill be beautiful and correct...and this time no one else will have a hand in it...Mom says the same too....
I have always heard,there is a point in life in which it completes a full circle..and thats the beauty of it...remember Ashima's character in The Namesake...how it traverses different time phase before she completes a full life circle...somewhere I guess in real life also we attain that...and that point is the destination that destiny takes us to...
And till then we all are Vagabonds in our own way...walking,tumbling,searching..that which we have come to this world for...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Just bloggin....
What to write??? I wonder where does a person start from when they are writing a blog -about everyday mundane activities, about family and friends,breaking news,world discussions,current trends etc etc.I get lost in my thoughts everytime I log in to this sphere ..see last week the topic on my mind was Twittering & "Luck by Chance",then it was my heartbreaks,then it was certain movies & books...then about the blog fight and debate in the some of the Indian celebrities' blogs I follow...its an ever-ending list...
But finally decided,is just 2 months more before I leave this city and go back home...so what better than to collate the images I have in mind,to collaborate the thoughts I have of this new country I lived in and saw and the observations I made of this city and the expressions I sent in letters(e-mails!!!)to my parents...before they fade,to share them.But will do that from the next post..
Was to put up this post yesterday...but just couldnt finish it..Finally I am also satisfied with the look of the blog...New in the medium,so still learning the technical aspects of it...
Have been reading through some interesting poetry recently...and came across this verse..felt like sharing it in this space.
"Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream"
-by Edgar Allan Poe.
But finally decided,is just 2 months more before I leave this city and go back home...so what better than to collate the images I have in mind,to collaborate the thoughts I have of this new country I lived in and saw and the observations I made of this city and the expressions I sent in letters(e-mails!!!)to my parents...before they fade,to share them.But will do that from the next post..
Was to put up this post yesterday...but just couldnt finish it..Finally I am also satisfied with the look of the blog...New in the medium,so still learning the technical aspects of it...
Have been reading through some interesting poetry recently...and came across this verse..felt like sharing it in this space.
"Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream"
-by Edgar Allan Poe.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Fountainhead
"Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on this earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. Man has no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons, and to make weapons -- a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind."
-: Quote Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
I had finished my High School board exams when Mom gave me this book and said have you read this..if not you should,its remarkable! Usually I would have heard of the famous books which I pick up to read...but somehow this has escaped me till that day.. And then began my "The Fountaihead" journey...slowly,gradually I too like hundreds of its readers got engulfed in the world of Howard Roark.
For a young girl at an impressionable age,The Fountainhead opens a world of ambition and rebel, a quest for independence and integrity. I do not have the count of how many times I have read the book but each time I have found something new..some new amgles to the characters.
Would not like to venture into the depths of the critcism of Idealism and Objectivism....but one thing I always feel that certain thoughts and idealogies which stand true over years and in changing times should be left beyond the realms of criticism. A novel in 1943 has as much potential to show light to the generations looking for guidance in the year 2009.
Coming to the three main characters whom I personally have loved and studied and found lots of similarities with people around me.
Dominique Francon - a vision of an independent girl,fierce in love and ideals and stubborness to do what you want to do.And the only woman for a man like Roark.
Gail Wynand - Rags to riches,ambitious,inspiring and powerful
Howard Roark - The protagonist, his principles and his one-dimensional idealogy stands him apart - the speech at the Courthouse of an individual's struggles in the world of second-handers.Roark awes you,inspires you,makes you fall in love with the integrity of human soul.
At the culmination of the story when Wynand understands the importance to hold on to your spirit and self and let not the world's ideals change is as relevant as in the story as in modern world.That was the protagonist's victory.It is all encompassed in the last conversation that Gail says to Roark,
"Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours...and could have been mine."
Amidst the many controversies and criticism surrounding the ideals of Objectivism and the idealogies of The Fountainhead...the book has challenged,awed and thrilled all its readers.
And in the world which is full of Peter Keatings and Toohey's, Roarks do a world of difference.
This person in real world might not exist in totality but there are people with ideals who still do..I know of one!!!
And for the The Fountainhead,it is a story which inspires me each time I read it...a book I would recommend to each person I know,and who believes in himself!!!
-: Quote Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
I had finished my High School board exams when Mom gave me this book and said have you read this..if not you should,its remarkable! Usually I would have heard of the famous books which I pick up to read...but somehow this has escaped me till that day.. And then began my "The Fountaihead" journey...slowly,gradually I too like hundreds of its readers got engulfed in the world of Howard Roark.
For a young girl at an impressionable age,The Fountainhead opens a world of ambition and rebel, a quest for independence and integrity. I do not have the count of how many times I have read the book but each time I have found something new..some new amgles to the characters.
Would not like to venture into the depths of the critcism of Idealism and Objectivism....but one thing I always feel that certain thoughts and idealogies which stand true over years and in changing times should be left beyond the realms of criticism. A novel in 1943 has as much potential to show light to the generations looking for guidance in the year 2009.
Coming to the three main characters whom I personally have loved and studied and found lots of similarities with people around me.
Dominique Francon - a vision of an independent girl,fierce in love and ideals and stubborness to do what you want to do.And the only woman for a man like Roark.
Gail Wynand - Rags to riches,ambitious,inspiring and powerful
Howard Roark - The protagonist, his principles and his one-dimensional idealogy stands him apart - the speech at the Courthouse of an individual's struggles in the world of second-handers.Roark awes you,inspires you,makes you fall in love with the integrity of human soul.
At the culmination of the story when Wynand understands the importance to hold on to your spirit and self and let not the world's ideals change is as relevant as in the story as in modern world.That was the protagonist's victory.It is all encompassed in the last conversation that Gail says to Roark,
"Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours...and could have been mine."
Amidst the many controversies and criticism surrounding the ideals of Objectivism and the idealogies of The Fountainhead...the book has challenged,awed and thrilled all its readers.
And in the world which is full of Peter Keatings and Toohey's, Roarks do a world of difference.
This person in real world might not exist in totality but there are people with ideals who still do..I know of one!!!
And for the The Fountainhead,it is a story which inspires me each time I read it...a book I would recommend to each person I know,and who believes in himself!!!
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