Why most of the Indians are not able to appreciate our own rituals and culture....

After watching the above talk, I was very much impressed with the presenters analysis of east and west philosophies as THE world and MY world, logos and mythos, linear and cyclic etc. As a child and also as an adult i love stories and more specifically, like to listen to them rather than reading. The initial story told by the presenter about Lord Ganesha and Lord Karthikeya was actually a competition conducted by Lord Shiva for a rare fruit of knowledge. Its a well known story in South India and I have never analysed that story interms of objectivism and subjectivism. Since the competition is for knowledge fruit, now it makes more sense to me. This makes me think are we missing the actual content of many hindu mythologies ? Or is it due to our education system which is western makes us think scientifically and rationally, forcing us not to believe in myths involved in our rituals and culture . I am having a strong sense that current generation which are hesitant to follow our rituals are because of our western education system. I believe that if we are educated with our own ancient philosophies from our Vedas and Upanishads may be all those rituals might make some sense. Globalisation is inevitable, we got to have both sort of education system and let the choice be made by the students, once they are adequately knowledgable in both the forms of education system. By that understanding, I guess people will be respectable to each other and peace will prevail.
There are more thoughts in my mind...but i am not able to convert those in words, The above paragraph may be showing glimpses of my thoughts and not coherent enough, I guess in future I might put in a much coherent format.

PROPOSAL

If i want to sell a four letter word the immediate response might be a two letter word, but if you give us some time, may be we can haggle for a while and settle peacefully in a win-win situation with a three letter word.
LOVE
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Question

If you are dangerous to your loved ones will you stay with them or away from them ?

BASIC INSTINCT

Right Basics Makes Successful Instincts

Life is a Game

Life is a strange game, no one knows how to play it, but still everybody plays it till their last breath..wow what a spirit ?

Decent Exposure

I saw the photography titled, a soul through blade of light...and loved it instantly. Thought of recreating it as soon as possible, but no pencil and no blank paper was available. Utilised a blue ball point pen and on the back of another technical journal print out started recreating this image, following is the orginal sketch followed by the digitally modified image. I titled it as decent exposure, I donno how my friends will react n receive this image, so just updated in my blog for records, instead of circulating.

Does beauty grows within few minutes ?

After a longtime my mind is free from work load and the sun was shining brilliantly on a cold windy winter day in baltimore. Got up early and went to usual bus stop to catch bus. There was another female waiting on that stop. Strangely she wasn't wearing any winter jacket, whereas, I am freezing inspite of having an overcoat. Thought of starting a conversation as the bus didn't reached the stop at appropriate time, but somehow inhibited that thought. Surprisingly she started the conversation, asking exactly the same question which I thought of asking her. Slowly we had a conversation... about our academic background, living in baltimore and about future career prospects etc.. As the conversation proceeded, I realised how beautiful she is... as we were conversing her beauty, her charmness kept on increasing....I never felt this way before. We chatted for half an hour or so, the bus didn't arrived yet, but she has to leave and can't wait for the bus, she took a cab and left. But the pleasant chat and her growing beauty within that half an hour stayed with me...Then I realised what a fool I am, I didn't even asked her name. We discussed a lot without even addressing our names.... But anyways the feeling was nice and I got to find about the concept of beauty and how it can increase within an half an hour conversation.