Real Vs Virtual world

“On a day Sachin hit his 100^th century, Pranab slammed it in, too. He’s saved you Rs 4,500 crore in direct taxes, but taken away 10 times that through indirect taxes, making the Rs 41,440 crore mop-up the largest ever. Excise duty is up across the board, and almost all services – including eating out, mobile bills and AC rail travel (Mamata, take note) – will now cost more “

- THE TIMES OF INDIA, date – march 17, 2012

Today’s newspaper is half occupied by Sachin’s 100 and half by Pranab’s budget. I am not writing neither about Sachin’s accomplishment nor Pranab’s budget, here I am writing about virtual world. After referring to newspaper I went and open internet – some news website, facebook and gmail. I found Sachin and Pranab is not only in newspaper but also in virtual world, they are everywhere and occupied large section of news website, twitter and facebook etc.

Yes it is hot news and it is ought to be. But there is something difference and extra thing you can see in the virtual world that you cannot find in the real world. Because of this, some people come up with the view saying after few years the print media may extinct from our life and it will be killed by the virtual world. ohhh! I didn’t mention what is that extra things I got in virtual world today. I went to website, the same news was updated in the website too, but there is a comment section. That comment section makes the page more attractive to me. I could see the comments and views of the people, though some comments are stupid and some are very informative. Because of this virtual world, the sharing of news is added with sharing of views; in some cases views are more interesting and informative than the news itself. And also in some cases when news is wrong, the commenters give the true information. It seems the world is getting more transparent.

Facebook / social sites are also an interesting place of virtual world; it is like a place for gossiping. But it is beyond gossiping, it is the place where idea and information is shared. There are few groups in facebook where you can see the serious people with serious idea and ideology. You can find few people who keep on sharing the positive message, also people who keep on criticizing the systems and government, different people with different idea and different activity. The interesting thing we can get after thinking is the reason why people do share their ideas and philosophy in facebook. They share information, that is because they want to influence others behaviour (exception cases are there).

Information leads to knowledge and knowledge is the power. How? Oh! I cannot explain you, but believe me knowledge is the power. Our lack of knowledge and information give chances to other to exploit us. Can we consider knowledge as tangible? If we look on the characteristics of knowledge it is intangible because we cannot touch it, see it and feel it. But if we look on its ability and capability we could say it is more of tangible because it brings changes. Every changes takes place is directly or indirectly related to knowledge and information.

Since virtual world is run by knowledge and information never underestimate it, never underestimate the power of facebook and other social sites. Don’t just criticize facebook just because many do fun here. Because knowledge is power and it is shared better in virtual world. But don’t allow it to affect your real life too. Balance it and be a good manager of virtual and real world.

Movie.......................

There are few movies I never tired of watching repeatedly. Because these few movies tell about the life, about the meaning of the life, about those moments that give meaning to someone’s life, and about those tradeoffs that are must for adding meaning to life in a short span of 1 to 2 hour time. More importantly I appreciate the great works and I love to see the great things produce by great people because of their great efforts. Movie is one where we can see the excellence in a very short time, and its excellence is prove by the impact it gives to us on the way we think and the way we feel by triggering the hormones of feel good. The thing I got to know is, every great movie is made perfect because of small moments, small dialogues, and every small beautiful things.

Everyone is busy in celebrating Holi, and I am sitting in front of my laptop watching an already watched movie. And since, I get easily bored with doing routine work, which is more of like doing repeated things; I knew that I will get easily bored if I watch the already seen movie with the same way I had been watching it. Therefore today I just change the way of watching and I enjoyed. It gives me so much pleasure I could not stop myself from sharing it. Actually sharing is also part of the new way of watching the movie.

1

"Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest. If god int

ended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs."

2

"You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world."

"I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel."

Young Jenny: "Are you stupid or something?"

Young Forrest: "Mama says, stupid is as stupid does."

3

"Now, you wouldn't beieve it if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running."

"Now, it used to be I ran to get where I was going. I never thought it would take me anywhere."

4

"Now for some reason, I fit in the army like one of them round pegs. It's not really hard. You just make your bed real neat, and remember to stand up real straight, and always answer every question with "Yes, Drill Seargeant."

5

Jenny: "Why are you so good to me?"

Forrest: "You're my girl."

Jenny: "I'll always be your girl."

6.

"Forrest, I never thanked you for saving my life."

7.

Forrest: "Why are you dying, Mama?"

Mrs. Gump: "It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. Something we're all destined to do. I didn't know it, but I was dentined to be your mama. I did the best I could."

Forrest: "You did good, Mama."

Mrs. Gump: "Well, I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you."

Forrest: "What's my destiny, Mama?"

Mrs. Gump: "You're going to have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're going to get."

Forrest: "Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them."

Mrs. Gump: "I will miss you, Forrest."

Forrest: "She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. And that's all I have to say about that."

8.

Jenny: "Were you scared in Vietnam?"

Forrest: "Yes. Well, I... I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water like that mountain lake, it was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the deasert, when the sun comes up... I couldn't tell where the heaven stopped and the earth began. It was so beautiful."

Jenny: "I wish I could have been there with you."

Forrest: "You were."

9.

"I don't know if Mama was right or if it... it's Lieutinant Dan. I dan't know... if we each have a... destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze... but I... I think maybe it's both. Maybe both get happening at the same time. But I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need... I won't be far away."

* Now I am sure what i am doing by putting up some clips and quotes from the movie. Actually I was thinking of writing few personal views on every clipping and quotes but i have some important work to finished..

My kite flying story..........

When I was just a Kid

I used to play alone, most of the time.

I made kite, which do not fly.

I cried to my mother, Kite made by my mother never flew.

I cried to my neighbour *Pupu, Kite made by Pupu always flew.

It might be because he used potato glue.

I ran and fly, I ran in the street, in the afternoon time, when road was all empty.

I cried silently when my kite stuck to electric post.

When I grown up little, I started making kite, and stop crying for kite.

I made kite with the stick, broken from the bamboo broom.

Whole day I made, when it was ready

Most of the time, Sun didn’t wait to see me flying my kite.

When I grown up little more, I was a good kite maker

I stopped running for flying my kite.

I sat silently looking at my kite, flying above my head in the sky,

far away from the ground, opposing the strong wind.

When I grown up, I stopped flying kite.

But sometime I wish .......................................

*pupu - grandpa

It is all about how I think....

“A kid could not sleep, he went to see his mother, she used to say him “I’ll give you a magic drink, and then you’ll sleep”, and she gave him water with a bit of sugar (he, of course didn’t know it was sugar), and she mixed it well in front of him, and… it worked !”

Researchers found that the belief over the placebo pill lessens the pain even when it isn’t chemically design to do so, this mistaken belief decreases activation of the amygdala and pain related structures such as the cingulate and the insula while increasing activation of the lateral and medical prefrontal regions. The above phenomenon is called placebo effect, i.e. “a substance or procedure ... that is objectively without specific activity for the condition being treated". Placebo is a terminology used in the medicine science, which deals with human psychology and power of thinking. I am not a medicine student, who can explain you about the placebo effect in details. I am a management student, with hobby of reading and exploring new things from various subjects and trying to connect those things with management science. How placebo is linked to management? There are so many self help books available in market. The first self help book I read was Dr. Norman Vienciet Peal’s “Power of Positive Thinking”, and I never regretted of reading this. As some people said happiness is nothing but our mindset, I am always curious to know how come this thinking, an intangible process, can bring a tangible change to our life?

I am trying to say, Placebo is power of positive thinking, the optimistic power that can heals the suffering.

Positive thinking is always associated with the word expectation, when a patient goes to a doctor, he went with the expectation, the doctor will definitely cure his disease and the medicine given by him will be helpful. This expectation seems more important than the drug given by doctor. One more interesting thing is, the pricier the drug, the higher the expectation of efficacy, and stronger the placebo effect. Here shows the proportionate relationship between price and quality of the product. It is not only applicable in medical science; it is applicable in every field. The branded goods are more expensive than the unbranded goods though the quality and design is same.

From the above paragraph three headings come into my mind: 1. Placebo and expectation, 2. Importance of pricing, and 3. Trust.

Placebo and expectation:

In service marketing it says, when your customer exceeds its expectation he is a satisfied customer. It simply means, the only secret mantra for excellent customer service is fulfilling and exceeding customer’s expectation. (I don’t want to go deeper here, identifying the expectations is also a vast subject). Expectation is universal process, applicable in every fields. Since there is no free lunch, there is no action without expectation hiding in the back. Be it love, helping, whatever the action is, there is always an expectation. Is goal a part of expectation?

Importance of pricing:

We always think, the higher the price the better the quality. It is the theory which gives chance to the marketers to fool the customers. The perceived value increases along with the price. The free service, though it is the novelist thing, many a time it does not get excellence, because people do not give importance in it, they take it lightly. It may be the reason why the government schools in our state (where the fee is very less) does not perform well, in spite of having all kind of infrastructure and facilities.

Trust:

I don’t want to say much about it. Everyone knows how much important it is. There is no happiness, no relation, no action, and no success without it. We would not have existed if trust is not there. We just need it.

In conclusion, why placebo? Because we become what we think, not what we eat. We live with incomplete knowledge; there are so many things we do not know. Every day we are encountered with some miracles. Thinking good will obviously will bring good news to us. Expecting best will always bring best result to us. The pain and hard work we put is a price without it, the life would not have any value. The trust, let us live with it.

Fear series 1: Fear of Writing Blog..

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ~Orison Swett Marden

When I was in fourth standard I tried to write a story, I started writing, after writing few pages, before completing, I showed to my mother and few trusted people. I still remember my mama appreciated me but some of my dear ones laughed at me. Obviously the story was stupid. I felt shy and didn’t complete it. I had forgotten that once I had a wished to become a writer.

When I was in seventh standard of my high school life, I had submitted a poem, a stupid poem on corruption, to our school’s magazine co-ordinator. It was not selected for publication. Those days are happy days, the feeling of failure never hunted me. There was always something to do and something to think and never got time to feel sad about the failure of past. But I had completely forgotten the feeling of writing.

Thanks to my professor and few very good friends of my college, because of them I have started feeling of writing after long years of my life. But the difficulty was answering the questions - for whom to write, for what to write and what to write? These are the questions I had to answer before started writing. Yes I found the answers - I would write for myself, I would write because I feel writing and I would write anything about whatever I feel.

I found blogging is a good option for practicing my writing. Yes I opened my blog on February 2010 but I could not write anything. Why? Because I feared, I was feared of writing.

Hold on! Am I feared of writing? I did introspection why I fear of writing. And found few reasons, reasons that showed me the medicine of curing my fear too.

The first reason I found was I am not a good writer and I never wrote before. Ok if it is the real reason for my fear I should not have thought of writing because I was not born as writer. And obviously I have to start from the beginning, in the beginning stage how I will be good at what I do?

The second reason was I am feared of mistakes. Everybody fears of mistakes, so I am. But is it the real reason for my fear of writing blog? The mistakes may be the grammatical mistake and spelling mistake. If it is grammatical mistake I should not feel ashamed because English is not my mother tongue. And being a human being how can I escape from the trap of mistake.

The third reason is I am too much worried of what other will think about me. Will they laugh at me because of my writing, will they think that I am a stupid, or will they find my mistakes?

But all these reasons were baseless and completely wrong. The real reasons are I was not confident, I had no courage to follow my wishes, I was over pessimist about what other will think about me, in reality nobody has the time to think and judge me. Therefore all the reasons are just illusions.

“Fear itself is an illusion I conclude”.

Love u 2011.... but I have to say bye bye....

I am not a boring guy, and don’t perceive me as boring guy just because in this evening of New Year, I am sitting alone in my room with a hot cup of Assam tea thoroughly mixed with Nestle milk...  ... Sometime loneliness is the best partner to be sitting with. Accompany of hot tea and little chilling weather is a perfect match. After some time my mama and echan(sister) will return from their New Year evening walk. Before returning them to home, let me thank 2011 for everything and for good and very good experiences (every difficult moment I went through are very good experiences because I learnt many thing from those).

2011 loved me, kissed me, kicked me and some time threw me far from my wishes and wants to make me stronger and wiser, though I am not sure whether I became stronger and wiser, but one thing is sure that, I have changed a lot in both in-side and out-side. The chilling temperature of Delhi and Lucknow, the aggressive nature of Delhi city, the soft and sweet Hindi language of Lucknow, the soft nature of Kolkata, the aggressive and humid climate of Chennai with soothe nature of Chennai beach, welcoming and familiar nature of Guwahati are few memorable moments given to me as gift by 2011.

2011 gave me a new job with many hopes in it and snatched my old job that is not fit to my personality and not matching with my future goal. It is the year that shows my path where I have to travel.
Over all 2011 was a great year for me, it was great because of people whom I have interacted, the lessons they taught me and the love and care they gave me and the wishes they conveyed me.

I am also sure that this 2012 will be more interesting one. Let this New Year’s celebration washes all the sorrows of bomb blast, earth quake, economic blocked and many more sufferings.

Seriously I want to fall in Love

Life indeed is meaningless without love. Love that motivates, love that inspiress, love that energises mind and body is what I am searching for. I am searching for the love that will bring meaning in each moment of my life. Want to drink the wine of love that makes me forget everything other than my lover. No sorrow, no tensions just love. Let the whole world goes wrong to me when my lover is with me. When everyone stands against me, let my lover be with me for me and so I am.


Living in the world of romance, that makes my life meaningful, where only happiness exists and sorrows are also considered as happiness. I know everyone of us want such love but very few people are lucky enough to get such a lover. Luck is what decides by karma they perform the strategy they applied and the hard work they put. Love is blind and I want to be blind for my lover. Love is blind because my lover may not be beautiful to other’s eyes. When people are in love they do not care what other think about them, they love and they are happy in their romance. In the initial phase of their romance, people think they are crazy but they make history and their names never die.


Love is a verb to be done with a noun. Why many people are not successful in their love? There are many reasons. First, they fall in love with many, no commitment. It is because he falls in love because others tells his/her lover is beautiful, judgment is by others not by himself/herself. Second, fear of falling in love because it needs responsibility. Responsibility requires hard work and pain. Third, lack of patience and persistence. Difficult situationss come into life and it has to be faced not to run away from it. Fourth, lack of trust and believes to whom he/she loves. Trust is the most powerful bond but invisible to eye. Without it, nothing can succeed. Fifth is huge investment and expenditure. It requires lots of spending of time, money, sometime friends and dear ones too for the sake of love.


Every moment many new love stories are written. Very few published and known to us. Mother Teresa falls in love with “service to mankind”, which forgets her to return to her own country. And blind her to think what others will think about her when she went and ask for a donation for the diseased children to the people. Love of Bill Gates towards the computer that forces him to go to lab every midnight. There are so many romantic people we read and heard about them. A.R. Rahman and his romance with music, Sachin Tendulker and his romance with cricket, Dhirubhai Ambani with business, Pele with football, Amitabh Bachchan with acting, list is endless.


Some people start falling in love very early and some people very late. It may be because of the hormones due to the pituitary gland that triggers and activate by the environment where they grow up. I really do not care about others, what makes me feel sick is why I do not fall in love yet, a true love that never dies.


Note: Dear friends thank you for reading. Kindly look at the love from holistic point of view. Please remember the definition of love is not limited to the chemistry between boyfriend & girlfriend, husband & wife. And in the same way, love story is not limited to the story of Romeo & Juliet, Laila & Majnu and Khamba & Thoibi.