I was having good nap after having my favorite Bisibelebath and Curd rice which was disturbed by two females in my life. Do not have pending office work, newspaper to read so thought of disturbing Jame’s party with one long “pakau” article. I used to post my short snippets in my office forum but due to large number of articles it was closed down and also used to share some of them in my training sessions which I am not able to take since they are scheduled on week days. I am now trying my hand at Jame’s forum till you throw me out.
Coming back to snippet “Life comes full circle”. Nature has designed the systems to move in circles so that you cannot distinguish where did you start and end, continuous journey e.g. Solar System where planets revolve around sun and planets itself rotate to complete the revolution. If you peep into the atoms which are invisible to naked eye, science says electrons move around the nucleus. I have observed the same with human life and want to support with below 5 topics (restrict it and do not bore you with my pitilu). I am sure you guys have also seen changes around you from childhood till date, I will be happy if you share the same.
1. Birth and Sunset years : In the first decade of life we depend on the parents a lot, innocent to the core and after that become furiously independent [ like my father-in-law three daughters, bold and independent] and during twilight years insecurity grips in, crave for love and support, depend on others [sometimes] to move around.
2. Children: Few decades back, parents never pushed their children too much in the name of education. They enjoyed their childhood with outdoor plays, required reading, not very choosy about the field and happily settled down in various professions. In the early 90’s, parents and students zeroed down only on two professions on earth [Engineering and Medicine], folks who were not good at memory retention tests settled for pure science. Two decades have passed, engineering and medicine colleges have mushroomed as money spinning machines leaving behind the quality education.
The new school of thought is that children should not be pressurized and they need to cash on their strengths. Today’s children have variety of options to choose and
parents have liberal mindset to venture in the less traveled path for their children. Children health and happiness is given priority rather than getting more marks through bywrote learning which does help in the long run. Don’t you think this is where we were several decades back when there was raw intelligence in children rather than trained minds.
3. Communication: There was a time in India where people used to be hooked to the radio for music, cricket score, plays. In early 80’s television came with Doordarshan as single channel and retired the radio. In 90’s satellite television made inroads and impacted our concentration, people only flipped from one channel to other rather than viewing one complete program. We had completely written off the radio chapter from mankind. If I am not wrong at the start of 21st century, private radio channels took rebirth and people today cannot stay without 94.3, 91.1……..punarapi jananam punarapi maranam (circles)
During my childhood having phone connection was considered luxury, parents used to keep away from work after they reach home and enjoy the weekends with near and dear ones. Due to fast paced development in technology we became 24x7 available and always are curious to know what is happening in the outside world, thanks to social networking sites which has made personal touch thing of past. Lately people have realized the bad effects spending long hours in front of gadgets and consciously keeping away from work by taking planned vacations, switching off mobile when there are with family in the name of “work-life” balance. We have gone back to the same days where the family was given time and work was part of life and not life.
4. Marriage: Few decades back most of marriages in India were arranged and within same religion and cast. Over a period this was considered old style since two people need to be in love and understand then get married. The rate of love marriages started giving competition to arranged marriages. The scope also widened with interreligion , intercaste, international. Now dating is a inthing and if you do not have boyfriend in your teenage then young folks will raise eyebrows.
With increasing cases of playboys, harmful effects of sex before marriage/live-in relation, child birth in teenage. Slowly people are moving towards arranged marriage based on thought process that marriage is union of two families just not two individuals. On the lighter side, In arranged marriage if anything goes wrong you can always blame it on elders where as in love marriage one needs to take responsibility of decisionJ
5. Food (Seema will read this with concentration): During my childhood, home food was everything and going out to eat was a rarity. There were few hotels Kamat, Shanbhag, Woodlands this was before birth of Darshini’s in Bangalore. With Software boom in India, multinational companies made inroads with their pizza, hot dogs, burger, French fries, pasta coke……the young with disposable income started binging on the junk food and took it as insult if someone offered the native food.
Few decades have passed people have got bored with international food which is mostly dairy products and adverse impact of junk food on the growing children. One can sense the change in mindset with lot of authentic restaurants mushrooming at every nook and corner – jolada rotti oota, davangere dosa, rajasthani, gujarati, telugu…..
We have gone back to the point where we used to respect our own food.
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