THE CHAINS

Life is a journey from a Mother's womb to a tomb. The time we opened our eyes for the first time, the world felt strange to us. Everyone around us smiled, but we cried. All were strangers. We did not recognize our Father or Mother. We kept on crying.

One day we began to realize things, recognize people and observe the surroundings. We started enjoying the nature. Suddenly our parents said, this is our name, this is our religion and this is our home.  We had no pasts in mind. We accepted our name, our religion and our home. We didn't realize that they had put a chain around us. A first chain of restrictions.
Days moved. We were sent to school for studies. We tried to protest and failed. We became students. Whatever teacher taught us, we accepted. Sometimes we understood things. Sometimes we just learned for qualifying the examinations. We had different skills. One was good in painting. One was good in singing. One was an athlete and another was a dancer. But nobody cared. Everyone received same books, same examinations. We had no other option. We accepted. We didn't realized that it was another chain they put on us.
We continued our life journey. We walked forward as we did not see a way to go back. Our speed of walking had reduced. The chains were tightened more than ever. We had no option to pause life. We moved again.
Time moved fast. We walked into a college. Then we found ourselves getting some free space. As it was the first time, many bewildered, did not know how to use it. Somebody used it very perfectly. They constructed many ladders to go high. Others just did what they felt like doing. Somebody had to sacrifice their free space for their family. They studied harder and harder. One day everyone received a common gift. A friend!! A person to understand us. A person to guide us and a person to inspire us when we were down. We walked three or four years together.
Slowly and slowly we started perceiving things, we realized ourselves. Some of us realized, we had traveled in the right path. But majority realized that they followed the wrong route. There was no time to correct the path. Some reached a junction where they met multiple paths in front. Majority selected the most traveled. Only a few dared to chose the path less traveled.
Today the walk continues...We are walking through different paths. Some doing business. Some are IT professionals. Some are scientist and some are artists, and the list goes on. But we have one thing in common. The chains. The chains our society had put on us. The chains which restricted us to think creatively and work for us. The chains which restricted us to love a person of other religion. The chains have created many religions in the society, many castes in the society and importantly a lot of narrow minds. Even this has led to chaos, riots and even wars. It has impacted the attitude of people as well.
"We belongs to royal family. We should not do this job". I heard someone saying this. "He is a driver and my daughter is an Engineer. How can I give my daughter to him?" Someone else said. "I want to see you as a great Engineer. You cannot earn much with writing." A father to his son. "You are a girl. You cannot go out at this time" A mother to her daughter.
We cannot forget the fact that many were succeeded in breaking the chains. We have many inspiring personalities. Their journeys were never ever easy. They surpassed many hard times. Some even faced death. But we should remember that they dared to break their chains.
The number of chains are increasing. Limiting our moves. Limiting our thoughts. I wonder when do we get freedom from these chains. When do we get time to chose our life?

MY facebook girlfriend

            Thought a hundred times to put a facebook status 'missing u dear'.But some force had been pulling my mind backwards.Even my thoughts were slowing down.I wondered if friction could acts inside our minds as well.

            I darted through the fb chat list to check if she was online.Yes..she was there.I thought to say a 'hai' but the same friction acted again."Let her give a chance this time to initiate the chat" i scowled.

            I had initiated the chat with her for last 4 times.I gazed at her name in the chat list with a hope that she would say a 'hai' soon.

            I glanced at the clock to know the time.Oh!! 11:30 only.Last day we chat until 1 a.m.After the last semester i seldom had a chat with girls during night.This girl is presumably different,had spent more time to chat with me.

            I opened her facebook profile page to see that awesome picture.In that peach tight top,matching earrings,untied hair and sparkling eyes she looked more cute and alluring.45 likes and 14 comments.Not bad at all.I gazed at the picture for a while.

           Suddenly a notification pop up on my wall.When i opened the link it was the same thing.'sachin slashed a 100th ton..I felt like the world have shrunken to the little master for last 6 hours.I remembered someone's fb status update."Is cricket is the only thing to discuss here in fb??" Yeah he was right. Many football matches were going on the whole day and are going to begin as well.But nobody showed any interests in the kick off.Everybody have been running behind this great hero,putting fb status update about his remarkable achievement,sharing his links ,discussions,comments..whatever they could ..they were doing all the time.Even i had participated in many discussions about sachin as well.But the sad news was that indian team failed to came up with a win in the match.So much disappointing.That was too against bangladesh.

          Time was moving very slowly without pestering anyone in its same rhythm.12:00 a.m.Now what??i understood that waiting her again was meaningless.Had my chat failed to impress her??It could be a reason for her silence as i know my chat with girls through fb was so far a failure.I could have asked her mobile number last night.Crap!!! I missed an opportunity.

         Life would give you a second chance in any of the matters.But when it comes to a girl you will get only one chance and if u fail to kick the ball ..then shut your mouth and dont look back.When a series of reminiscence began to hunt my thoughts i logged off the facebook and sat silent.

         I have not thought even in my dreams that this girl from kochi would influence my mind within a week.All of it happened from a friend request that i had given to her as a part of making friendship with girls in fb.Even i was not sure that she would accept my friend request.Life sometimes pull us down sometimes make us happy sometimes give us hope and sometimes it breaks herat!!My heart is not broken..or is it??Is this the situation people came up with the word infatuation??

        I opened my eyes hearing a beep sound from my mobile.I took the mobile and was surprised to see a message from an unknown number.." hai sidharth..it is me sairah..sorry that i slept off before my laptop after login to fb.damn ..my work have not finished yet.tomorrow morning i dont think i could submit my sheets."

        Instead of the message about her work i have shocked to see how she managed to get my number.The design and submission was not a new thing to great new stuff for me as sairah was not the first architecture girl  i have in touch within my life so far.And what was the last line? oh fear about the submission.I had seen my ex-girlfriend being an architecture student had to cut her morning hours so that she could submit her sheets atleast in the afternoon on the deadline.She always submitted her sheets in the afternoon on the submission day.

       "It was k sairah..try 2 finish ur wrk as fast as posble and get a gud slp soon" i replied her.

Within seconds i got another message from her."U din sleep yet??time is alrdy 2:30"

         "dats k..i hav bn sleepn until i woke up by ur msg." 

          I understood that  she has the habit of chatting through mobile as i got the next fast response from her.

          "oh sorry sidharth..i din mnt to irritate u..now u just slp"

          "no .its k..u cn text me."

          "can u gv me a compny then ..if i keep on drwn alone i wud slept off agn"

          I remembered ,she had told me that she have been staying as a paying guest in some with  a friend Remya.Sairah  remarked that Remya went to home last week as she got severe fever and headache.With a great smile on my face i replied."yes i would like to give u a cmpny."

          "thn com on..i login to fb if possible.textn thru mobil is very hard"

          I got into fb again.She was there online already.I checked the notifications,opened her caht box and said a 'hai'.

          "hai"she replied.

          Now i thought to ask her about where she had got my number."wher did u get my numbr??"

          "oh i got it from ur batchmat Athul."

          Athul??ya i know him.He is my batch mate.But how come sairah know him?"How do u know him??" i asked.

          "oh!! he is also my fb friend.But not like us .I met him during our last cultural fest.He is my good friend"

          Athul is her good friend.i was shocked to here it.I thought i was the first final year to caught her.It was my foolishness to think so as sairah is a second year student.

          "y silent?"she asked.

          "nothing..how is ur wrk gng??"

          "fine..You got a headfon??"

           I saw my headphone tangled near my laptop.But it is trash as i have forgot to install sound drive for windows xp after i had formatted my laptop.I have been using linux for watching films.So sound drive for windows was no more an essential thing.The most desperate thing was that my usb modem have failed to be  in  compatible with linux.

          "sorry Sairah i have no headset."

           "Oh it is ok."

            How could she manage to chat while drawing?Drawing  a line..type...drawing another line ..type..May be she is using cad or some software for drawing which saves a lot of time instead of taking pencil,T square and arki stuffs to hold and manage typing.

           "hey ..Sidharth...y silnt??

           When chatting with some person you like more,it is hard to keep the pace of typing a constant..You will type more time to type or reply.Doesnt she know it??

            I asked the cafe manager how long i had been using the internet this sunday evening.When he said five hours i felt it hard to believe that i sat there before a computer,chatting with Anamika,missing a play at the college ground.

            "Can u please type faster? it is very borin to wait"Anamika's message.

            I have been thinking how to ask her for a meet tomorrow morning when i recieved her message.

             "oh sorry dude..k..lets stop chatn here as i want to leav the cafe..we cud meet tmrw at a coffee corner..k"I finally managed to ask.The reply was a sudden no which came from her without thinking for a chance.

             "y?" i asked.

             " i hav to submt my sheets tomorrow afternoon"

             Damn it!!! There it goes again.When Anamika became my gf i thought that i was lucky enough about the architecture course she was doing.I found it more comfortable to got her out of the college for a one day for a date.I told about it to my friends that if they are looking for a girl then watch out someone from architecture block.But nowadays everything happened against my expectations.Anamika was busy with submissions all the time and this is the third time she rejected my willingness to meet her.Submissions...submissions...submissions...what the hell???Is there any day that architecture students get a chance to put down there pencil and scale???  

              Five hours at cafe..!! 100 rupees.!! And the result a "no"."I could have drunken a beer for the money i wasted here."i felt so much disappointment.And what about my assignments?I have 2 assignments to finish and submit before next 10 a.m.Without saying a bye or tc i logged out of the fb.I walked out of the cafe with a strong determination that i would go and write the assignments and as a result i brought two assignment books too.I lighted a cigarette and dragged myself to hostel.I saw Vivek and Ganesh coming out of the t.v. room in the hostel.

            "Sidharth..I was about to call you..come on...let's go to KTDC and have some fun with beers."Ganesh said.

             "no way ..i have two assignments to finish and after all i have only 200 rupees left in my purse."

i thought to say these words.But all that came from my mind was.."yes da...let's go"

            I woke up from a series of reminiscence when my mobile rang with a loud sound through the silence of midnight.It was a missed call from Sairah.OMG..I looked at my fb chat box and surprised to see a series of message from Sairah.

          "You slept??" that was the last message.

          "No.." i replied trying to forget the past, hunting memories of Anamika..

                                                                                                                       (TO BE CONTINUED)

          

            

             

             

INDIAN CRICKET TEAM :CURRENT PROBLEMS AND ISSUES...

            What a performance at Australia.!! Or you guys loved their performance at England!!Or you guys are waiting for the Asia cup??Whatever be the answer, keep it with you.It was a great chance for the team India to have a victory in Australian soil.Yeah.because if you have observed the Australian performance before their test against India you would understand that they had dismissed for 47 in South Africa a month earlier.Then they lost to New Zealand just 10 days before the start of first test.They were under a great pressure as Ponting and Hussey were not in form and even Clarke's captaincy was questioned.But finally what happened.In the entire series India managed just four victories in 14 matches,including all three formats.The last time Indian's suffered a 0-4 whitewash on Australian soil was in 1967-68.This was the third whitewash down under.From these performances one thing is clear.Indian team is facing some problems and issues.So what are those problems and issues??I know this is not a simple question to answer.Everyone will come out with different problems and solutions as well.But this can be done only after a study and evaluation of our team.So let's start rite??!!

           Sachin,that's the first name catching the attention of my mind.Don't know why!! May be because i like Sachin the most among the cricket players in the world.Leading run scorer in both test and ODI,leading century maker and the first player to score a double century in ODI cricket.Are these records enough to admire and worship him??Tendulkar is the first and the only player in Test cricket history to score 50 centuries in all international cricket combined.I think this is enough about him.But we are not discussing if he is a great player or not.instead what he did at India's bad and critical situations at Australia.Analysing Tendulkar's performance during Australia tour,Chappel said that Sachin looked in good touch when he was playing freely but showed vulnerability when batted conservatively.May be he is right about Sachin.In cricket, team's performance is important than individual performance.We all know the way Sourav Ganguly have gone out of the team.If sachin is not playing well he deserves the same treatment too.Hey dont stare at me.I am not against Sachin.but talking with true facts.

           Now the second man i would like to focus is Sehwag.What about his performance?bad luck for him as well.Being a great hitter of the ball, he too failed to give india a good start with little master.Instead of talking about Sehwag's performance i think it is more better to have about India's opening.We saw India's awesome win against Sri Lanka in the last match.The credit  goes to kohli ofcourse.But we have to thank our openers for gifting a great start.So the one thing is clear here.India always need a better start to move on to a win.If our openers are consistent in providing a good opening score like 50 runs from 25 balls or a 35 from 15,kohli and gambir will carry India to a good total.

          Now lets move to our great captain,Dhoni.It is hard to blame him at this instance as he was the man behind the t20 WC and 50 over WC for India.But if we can forget Sachin's past performance and blame him,then why cannot criticize Dhoni for the two consecutive failure.This time Dhoni came up with a new idea,an opeining rotation system.According to this new scheme, one opening player among Sachin,Sehwag or Gambir have to be kept outside the team.But we saw how far it has helped india in the series.we have to think for a while that if it was a strategy  to keep Rohith Sharma in the team.Whatever...Rohith Sharma was a total failure in the series as well.He put down everyone's hope over him.The australian former captain Mark Taylor said that there are plenty of lessons to be learnt for India and one of them should be the one day captaincy.He remarked that Dhoni should learn from jayavardhana in the way he carried Sri Lanka over his shoulder.Hope you guys all know that the next world cup for 50 over format is going to be held at Australia.Do Dhoni can be a best captain to led India in Australia?Dhoni proved one thing.He is capable of carrying team in the Indian subcontinent where the pitches favours the run flow.But the question remains if he can do the same role in the pitches which favour the bowlers.

          Did you ever noticed the attitude of indian players??Sunil gavasker said that India have to change their attitude.There were occasions when it looked like they were not hurt enough.There were a few examples.Ishant Sharma dropped a catch of Michael Clarke off his own bowling and what do you think his reaction.He was smiling.Gavasker said "You dont smile when you drop a catch and Clarke went to score triple hundred".

         Now i hope this would be an interesting part of this article.Let's start this session with our selection committee.Do you think that our selection committee is doing the right choices at right time?Hope you will be aware of the indian team for the upcoming Asia cup.Sehwag,zahir khan and Umesh Yadav have been rested.Virat kohli is the new vice captain.It is an interesting news that we have yousuf pathan back in team.also Ashok dinda,great fast bowler, and manoj tiwari is included in the team.Sachin has been lucky enough to be selected.Jadeja is also maintained in the team.Is that a correct decision?Jadeja was also a failure in the series.We have Yousuf  Pathan in team and still kept jadeja.We have to wait for the action then.

         We all would have different options for the Indian team selection .i will support one player and somebody will support another one.All the options will have faults and benefits as well.Our indian team selected by a selection committee which consists of past indian players but their decisions can also be go wrong.We saw it already.So have this interesting question..!! What about a voting system for the selection process??surprised?? ya...i am going to talk about it right now..A website under the authorisation of bcci will be maintained for the selection process through a voting system.Not anyone can participate in the voting system,but the state cricket players from all the states and the past indian players.All of them will be provided with a specific login id and password. A list of final 20 members will be given for the voting process.The voters have to select their team of 15 members from them.Just a random voting is not enough.They have to give the reasons for a particular selection.This is only my idea.You all will have another creative solutions too.please write your ideas here.

         As this is my first article i would like not to go beyond a limit.so i am stopping here by wishing our Indian team a great success for the upcoming Asia cup.Thank you for reading.now please post your comments and opinions.

         

           

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        there will be no connections between the articles that i am going to post here.but everything will be related to our society.Most articles will end up with a practical solution as well.The practical solution may not be the best but just an example of what we can do.so read on,,,,DARE TO REACT...!!!