A wanderer........OR....

The pathway looked abstruse and capable of bemusing the journeyer...The real is disguised by the misrepresentations of the perplexed mind.. And the journeyer wanders... Her own fake mindset forces her to stop but she does not stop...It is her battle against her mind to keep moving and so she marches ahead...She had been a fighter till now, but just a mere fighter..And she fought and could just do that..Her energies were not spent in "where to progress" but   were rather spent in "not stopping". And so, she succeeded to move but still failed herself because in-spite of moving all through and not stopping when the circumstances were adverse, she failed to accomplish anything..

And one day she realised that all this time when she thought of herself as a focussed journeyer, she was just being a wanderer..Her fighting spirit marred by lack of reason reduced her to a mere wanderer..an aimless entity wrapped in the personification of a big tree..but a day came when the tree fell down..a rootless tree fell down...

What could she do now? Too feeble to move and realising that she was just being an irrational fighter, she lacked the strength to get up...she was unacceptable to anyone in this world. But she did fight and in some way, could win over her mind but no one registers that.. Still, she could manage to be optimistic...She regarded her journey as worthy enough of distinguishing her from the rest of the world and so, its an accomplishment in itself. The world is too ruthless to appreciate her journey...why is it that nobody admires the journey when its unfinished? The society is too used to work with the finished products of fine quality...Anything lesser is rendered inefficient and looked down upon as unfit and being tagged as a mere wanderer..

And she realised that its her life and so, nothing else mattered. And she again gathered the strength to move,but this time, she moved with a reason...A reason known only to her and that made her a journeyer in her own eyes. The world could still think of her as a wandered and it did not matter to her anymore...And she knew that she wouldn't fall this time because she had got a reason.....A reason strong enough to make her journey worthwhile.............

"Intolerance"

The purpose of this piece is solely to voice my solidarity with one and all who are standing up against the 'intolerance' being depicted in the nation. I am not apologetic of voicing my opinion now and I would not like to justify or clarify to anyone the merits or demerits of the timing chosen by me for voicing my opinion. Whether or not I had voiced my opinion in the past, what are my political inclinations and so on and so forth are nobody's concern. I am also not concerned with quantifying 'intolerance' and measuring whether it is 'rising' or 'falling'. I would also like to clarify that I do-not wish to qualify 'intolerance' with the adjective 'religious'. Castigating individuals for belonging to a particular educational institution which protested on certain issue, hurling abuses at an individual for voicing his opinions for the sole reason that he is a celebrity (forgetting that he is firstly an equal citizen of the nation) and his opinions don't coincide with yours and so on and so forth, are all examples of extreme 'intolerance'. And they will remain so irrespective of the political dispensation of the day, in a similar manner that 'Emergency' remains a shining example of extreme 'intolerance', irrespective of the political dispensation of the day. Out of the multifarious voices rising up today, some might be sane, others not, some might be sincere and genuine, others not, some might be well-intentioned, other not, but picking up all these, bundling them together and labelling them with rhetorical terms like 'politically motivated', 'anti-national' is actually quite hilarious, bordering on the insane. So, let us please not get gobbled up by paranoia and let some sense prevail....