"Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time."
The quotation is about Important truths affecting the society at that time.
The society is guarded by rules and rules built by individuals,they are called
the elders,they get the right because of their experience,they act to what they see,
and they believe that its true,without sometimes analysing it otherwise,if "I can see it like the way it is,it must be true."Now if someone younger comes along to challenge their cherished beliefs citing that whats being followed by them for all those years is a mear fallacy and talks
about what is the truth, althought he might be perfectly right in stating so, seemlying is
said to assail the traditions and is castigated for the same.Truth does affect the elders no
matter how wrong they are or however important the truth may be.
To elucidate,I exemplify with what happened to two pristine men of science as we know them today.Galilio challenged the church citing that,"The earth moves around the sun, not the other way around",he was incriminated for this claim,just because he dared to challenge the church prelates who believed that earths the supreme power.
Huygen a fleging but diligent physict was rebuked by his contemporaries for this denial of the "Corpuscular Theory of Light" by the extremely eminent physict Sir Issac Newton. He was also chided for his claim of luminous ether in space,which he devised to support his wave theory of light.The scientists althought very clever themselves revered Newton to extent that
defying his principles would never cross their minds.How could they buy what a tyro was saying and they obviously took it as a personal affront to their research and credibility.
Now unlike then we know what the truth is and we have excepted it as we understood it,thanks to the intense research.The people at that time believed otherwise and therefore reacted negatively to something they did not understand.
This was something that happened centuries ago,therefore expecting the individuals to be open-minded to ideas seems ascinine.
Taking into consideration the world today before and after computerisation in almost all the fields.The field of Banking before computerisation, everthing was done manually, right from calculating the interest to analysing the balancesheets,typewriters ever
used to type letters,enters were made in a colossal book having entries of transactions from years together.All this changed once Computers came into the picture.The typewriters were replaced by PCs and printers,there was distributed database that
connected various offices together.But the older generation still sticks to the earlier means,they arent too comfortable to except that the computers are safer,neater and easier to use than doing everything manually.In this example the society was chary to except the truth rather than its downright castigation.
Every individual in the society believes in his traditions,faith,that the society inculcates into him and they are cherished to him no matter how chimerical they are.
If someone else contravenes his beliefs,his societies beliefs inadvertently abuses them, and the society at that time never takes it in a positive stride.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
a simple note
U know when you re living this mediocre life full of nothingness you just wake up one day and say to yourself nows the time I have to make something of myself, I say that to myself every single day.
but I still keep slacking each and everyday, looking at myself in the mirror and saying one day I ll be something, make something of myself. Will that day ever come? where I shall stand in front of the mirror and say yeah I made it!.Is it too much to ask from myself.I guess I need to stop saying maybe and just go for it.Just see myself try it like theres not going to be a tommorow.Lets make everyday a spl day, some day to cherise and not just go living by it by saying 'maybe' I ll make it.
Theres no tommorow without a today.Life is not forever you know.....
but I still keep slacking each and everyday, looking at myself in the mirror and saying one day I ll be something, make something of myself. Will that day ever come? where I shall stand in front of the mirror and say yeah I made it!.Is it too much to ask from myself.I guess I need to stop saying maybe and just go for it.Just see myself try it like theres not going to be a tommorow.Lets make everyday a spl day, some day to cherise and not just go living by it by saying 'maybe' I ll make it.
Theres no tommorow without a today.Life is not forever you know.....
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Taare Zamin par
And I pretended there was something in my eye. Yesterday I went for a movie with couple of friends, Taare zamin par. The impact of the movie on my emotional side was immense. For all those who know me well will agree I don’t get sentimental atleast in the case of movies but this made me release I might have 6 tear glands than the regular 4.
The movie stars Darsheel Safari shown as a 8-9 year old boy named Eshaan Avasthi who has the problem to read and write. When he looks at his books the letters seem to dance, the things that he writes are actually mirror images of what he means. He’s misunderstood to be a dumb kid in this competitive world where writing byhearted answers gets you marks in your exam, he cant understand the way a normal kid can and hence hes termed abnormal. Nobody thought that maybe he was above it all. Maybe his level of thinking is no where compared to ours, only because his ways of learning and understanding are not conventional.
In this movie Eshaan Avasti suffers from Dyslexia, it’s a difficulty to read and write. This is usually misunderstood to be the childs mischief, laziness or dislike towards books. Now can a 9 yr old child like something he doesn’t understand or cannot associate with?. He likes painting in the movie that being his forte. He paints not what he sees but what he imagines. In the movie there is this pop math quiz in which the 1st question is 3*9 now in English its written as 3 into 9. Eshaan imagines that hes heading some space challenge and he has to put the earth(3) into Pluto(9) that retains earth and so his answer is 3. Eshaan doesn’t only face difficulty at school but also at home where his parents want him to be like his extraordinary elder brother who comes 1st in every subject in school. He even gets beaten up by the boys in his colony. The warm relationship between his mother and him touched my heart the most. His father too is a nice guy but is stern and worried about his sons future due to which he fails to recognize the problem his kid has. The brother Yohaan I must say is a very supportive boy who has his brothers back for anything. This scene when Eshaan bunks school and wanders the streets alone and begs his brother to write a sick leave note, Eshaan is shown very loyal as well when caught by his father,he doesn’t tell on his brother. After this fiasco his parents decide to send him to a boarding school in Panchgani. Eshaan begs and cries but his father makes his mind up, his concerned mother has no say and Eshaan is send away. The situation at this school isn’t any better to what he had faced in his old school. He gets punished and mocked at even here, only difference is he makes a friend Rajan Damodaran. Who tries to raise his confidence levels but after all the things Eshaan faces, the poor kid reaches his ever time low.
He has no confidence left in him and he cries out saying why me, why am I like this, why am I so dumb. The only thing to cheer him up, his parents also cant make it to meet him one weekend. The child is broken and keeps to himself, doesn’t talk, he even stops to do what he does best, paint. Then theres a source of inspiration in his life, a temporary art teacher Ram Shankar Nikumbh played by Aamir Khan. Nibumbh is a free spirited, jolly and fun loving man. Hes very good with children and teaches in a school for special children. Hes got an unconventional style of teaching. He communicates with children through song and dance. On his first day he asks the children to draw anything they wanted to unlike the old teacher. The children immediately click to his ways of teaching, but Eshaan does nothing. He by now has lost hope. Nikumb notices a few things about Eshaan that concern him, he looks through Eshaans books and recognizes a pattern of mistakes. He gets alarmed and reaches Bombay to tell Eshaans parents about the ordeal his sons been going through all this time. He explains the cause being dyslexia, his inability to do simple things that normal children can do at ease are really difficult for him. His father fails to understand this and thinks Nikumbh suggests that Eshaan is mentally retarded. Nikumbh the next day talks about all the dyslexic geniuses . Einstein, Picasso, Edison, Neil Diamond, and tells the class that even they suffered the difficulty to read and write and the rest was history. Eshaan now starts to believe that hes not alone, and that even hes capable of something. Later he revials to Eshaan that he himself had the same problem as a child. Nikumbh then starts teaching the boy to read and write right from the basic ABC… to math. Nikumbh believes that there lies a genius within this child, a creative genius. He polishes the rough diamond, and Eshaan now can read and write with Nikumbhs unconventional ways. Later that year Nikumb organizes an Art mela, where he invites all the teachers and students to come and paint. Eshaan wins the competition and his painting is printed as the front cover of the schools year book. At the end of the year his parents come to meet the school teachers and are surprised to see Eshaans progress. Not only does he win the competition but also does well at school.
All the movie puts forward in a simple way is that every child has his own capacity and level of thinking, he has his likes and dislikes, all the child needs is someone to polish him and set him in the right direction.
Overall the movie was more than just a movie, it touched my heart hope it touched yours too.
The movie stars Darsheel Safari shown as a 8-9 year old boy named Eshaan Avasthi who has the problem to read and write. When he looks at his books the letters seem to dance, the things that he writes are actually mirror images of what he means. He’s misunderstood to be a dumb kid in this competitive world where writing byhearted answers gets you marks in your exam, he cant understand the way a normal kid can and hence hes termed abnormal. Nobody thought that maybe he was above it all. Maybe his level of thinking is no where compared to ours, only because his ways of learning and understanding are not conventional.
In this movie Eshaan Avasti suffers from Dyslexia, it’s a difficulty to read and write. This is usually misunderstood to be the childs mischief, laziness or dislike towards books. Now can a 9 yr old child like something he doesn’t understand or cannot associate with?. He likes painting in the movie that being his forte. He paints not what he sees but what he imagines. In the movie there is this pop math quiz in which the 1st question is 3*9 now in English its written as 3 into 9. Eshaan imagines that hes heading some space challenge and he has to put the earth(3) into Pluto(9) that retains earth and so his answer is 3. Eshaan doesn’t only face difficulty at school but also at home where his parents want him to be like his extraordinary elder brother who comes 1st in every subject in school. He even gets beaten up by the boys in his colony. The warm relationship between his mother and him touched my heart the most. His father too is a nice guy but is stern and worried about his sons future due to which he fails to recognize the problem his kid has. The brother Yohaan I must say is a very supportive boy who has his brothers back for anything. This scene when Eshaan bunks school and wanders the streets alone and begs his brother to write a sick leave note, Eshaan is shown very loyal as well when caught by his father,he doesn’t tell on his brother. After this fiasco his parents decide to send him to a boarding school in Panchgani. Eshaan begs and cries but his father makes his mind up, his concerned mother has no say and Eshaan is send away. The situation at this school isn’t any better to what he had faced in his old school. He gets punished and mocked at even here, only difference is he makes a friend Rajan Damodaran. Who tries to raise his confidence levels but after all the things Eshaan faces, the poor kid reaches his ever time low.
He has no confidence left in him and he cries out saying why me, why am I like this, why am I so dumb. The only thing to cheer him up, his parents also cant make it to meet him one weekend. The child is broken and keeps to himself, doesn’t talk, he even stops to do what he does best, paint. Then theres a source of inspiration in his life, a temporary art teacher Ram Shankar Nikumbh played by Aamir Khan. Nibumbh is a free spirited, jolly and fun loving man. Hes very good with children and teaches in a school for special children. Hes got an unconventional style of teaching. He communicates with children through song and dance. On his first day he asks the children to draw anything they wanted to unlike the old teacher. The children immediately click to his ways of teaching, but Eshaan does nothing. He by now has lost hope. Nikumb notices a few things about Eshaan that concern him, he looks through Eshaans books and recognizes a pattern of mistakes. He gets alarmed and reaches Bombay to tell Eshaans parents about the ordeal his sons been going through all this time. He explains the cause being dyslexia, his inability to do simple things that normal children can do at ease are really difficult for him. His father fails to understand this and thinks Nikumbh suggests that Eshaan is mentally retarded. Nikumbh the next day talks about all the dyslexic geniuses . Einstein, Picasso, Edison, Neil Diamond, and tells the class that even they suffered the difficulty to read and write and the rest was history. Eshaan now starts to believe that hes not alone, and that even hes capable of something. Later he revials to Eshaan that he himself had the same problem as a child. Nikumbh then starts teaching the boy to read and write right from the basic ABC… to math. Nikumbh believes that there lies a genius within this child, a creative genius. He polishes the rough diamond, and Eshaan now can read and write with Nikumbhs unconventional ways. Later that year Nikumb organizes an Art mela, where he invites all the teachers and students to come and paint. Eshaan wins the competition and his painting is printed as the front cover of the schools year book. At the end of the year his parents come to meet the school teachers and are surprised to see Eshaans progress. Not only does he win the competition but also does well at school.
All the movie puts forward in a simple way is that every child has his own capacity and level of thinking, he has his likes and dislikes, all the child needs is someone to polish him and set him in the right direction.
Overall the movie was more than just a movie, it touched my heart hope it touched yours too.
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