India: 60 Years: 60 Words: [4] Ayurvedic and Yoga

India: 60 Years: 60 Words: [4] Ayurvedic and Yoga

[India has competed 60 years of independence and to mark this, I am presenting this series of Articles, about the words, that are meaning a lot for the progress of the country. If you feel I missed some thing [For listing of words see the first article “India: 60 Years: 60 Words”] do inform me at premputar@gmail.com I will try to include that at the end of series]


If we look into ancient human life style, we are bound to realize that life was very closely related with nature and more stress was on the natural use of things. The most adverse and socially damaging effect of technological advancement on human life is converting the human actions into mechanical one and drawing the life away from nature. Towards the end of nineteenth century it was felt that this artificial base of life will going to prove reason of filling the individual and social life of human beings with stresses and pressures and it will be going to hard to find ways of human relaxations. Modern health and physical sciences forced to revert back to nature in search of remedy for the unavailability of relaxation and in the mid of twentieth century say between 1940 and 1970 ayurvedic and yoga had started to find again their natural place in the human life.

In the present market dominated life style Yoga alone is a commodity with an annual turnover of billion dollars. People from the America & Western countries are finding immense attraction for this life style called Yoga, which believes in and is based up on the theory of self control and knowing to self are the best and most effective natural tools to keep the life free from the stresses and pressures.

With the growth of modern medicinal facilities it also become a known fact that most of Allopathic medicines comes with one or more side effects. Most of literate are aware of the fact that most commonly taken allopathic medicine for the relief from the joint and other body pains comes with some side effects which might prove harmful and damaging for the vital body organ kidney. As the awareness went on spreading more and more people started to return back to roots and went on to opt the Ayurvedic therapy of medicinal science at least in the disease where surgery is not the only option.

Look at the present markets, from health to beauty presence of Ayurvedic and herbal products is significant. Modern technological excellence is helping in the bulk production of these goods. This ancient Indian science of health which was treated once by the rest of the world as the weapon of quack is finding an important place in the modern life style and turning into business of billions. The race for the patent and trade mark of Turmeric and Neem is more than sufficient to narrate the importance and economic values of these products. Yet another evidence of increasing attraction towards this health science is reflecting from the increasing numbers of tourist from America and Europe are visiting Kerala the southern Indian state with the fame of being the mother land for the Ayurvedic massage.

Gunned Childhood

Gunned Childhood

Indian social consciousness is under the tsunami ways generated from the news of firing and killing of fellow students by two school students at Gudgaon, near the capital city New Delhi. For the western world countries such incidents are not even considered as news but for the Indians, this was shocking news and first incident of its kind hence the thought storm and debates are touching never before altitudes and horizons. If we look in deeper sense this is the cast of high speed growth and following blindly western life style, which we are paying in this format.

Indian thought sky is filled with a kind of unknown aggression and anxiety and this is happening because race for the growth had made life values sidelined to provide space for the occurrence of such incidents. Look at the Indian life style, it is changing vigorously, self centered emotions are at ever high, elopement of combine family system is resulting in creation of vacuum of life values. Wealth is dictating norms of Indian social life. In this atmosphere when violence in schools news is flashed by media, it is natural to bring a quake in the social consciousness.

Technology has filled the human life with the physical comforts and means to meet with every desire and wants but how can we forget that it is also the technological growth, which is responsible for the inductions of enormous pressures and stresses in our day to day life. Students are also part of this social life style and how can they get escaped from these pressurized situations? In fact they are under such deep pressures that even we can say, this life style is making our children deprived of childhood.

Steep and though competitions are there in every aspect of life including the world of children. Pressures of studies, stresses of examination and concern for success are testing the mental wealth of kids at very tender age. Anger, anxiety and fear of failure generated from these, is resulting in such incidents. Modern life style suggests relaxation and entertainment to get rid of all these pressures and stresses. Look at the television, most trusted and widely accepted mean of entertainment in Indian families, it is helping unripe child mind to learn the lessons of violence and cruelty and most adversely prompting them for the creation of pseudo confidence, in such situations happening of this type of incidents can’t be termed as abnormal.

If the present childhood is holding the gun to solve the problem and get rid of stress and pressure, surely the social atmosphere is root cause for it. It is unfortunate that our social atmosphere is not providing a chance to childhood for being equipped with wisdom of knowing the end result of such incidents.

We can’t keep self deprived of technological advancement and developments of the modern times. Surely this is the time for the trio of teacher, parent and student to look into problems in tandem because communication is the best way to get the root cause of problem. Introduction of crisis management and facing the stress and pressure into school syllabus is yet another way of tackling the problem. Making teachers and parents more sensitive and aware of unrest of student can also be considered as the solution of the problem. Surely accumulation of wealth and availability of physical comforts are changing our life style but it is most essential for the stability of social norms to prevents the creations of situations responsible for the gunned childhood.

Desired Loans

Desired Loans

EMI, these three later have become such meaningful in the life of modern human society that it is often said that EMI is more powerful even than the Gini of Alladdin's Lamp, especially when it comes to power of fulfillment of human desires. You just have to express your desire; it may own a duplex house in the top most building of city, buying high definition costly and prestigious electronic goods or car and even a foreign trip and this formula of EMI [equated monthly installment] without vesting a single moment will start working for fulfillment of your desire. Surely this is giving you a life style which in true sense can be "Neighbor's envy owner's pride."

Market is creating desires and in these times of working husband and wife we are finding it convenient to fall pray of these desires. The new economy is not based on the policy of earn, save and enjoy but is following the principle of enjoy, spend and earn to meet the needs of EMI. Here I would like famous Hindi story writer though I am unable to recall the story name in which he had said this " Credit is the guest will not go away easily from your life, if you allow its entrance in your life." The situations in these days have changed a lot, in the present era credit is no more a guest but is a close relative who takes care of your desire at every walk of life.

Market is taking advantage of our weakness of not controlling our desires, keeping within our earning limits and as the natural result for this failure, we often falls pray to web of these desires loans. The new finance kings, the market movers or the credit companies are expanding their reach to every village and city. They know the human weakness at its best hence once you have to commit just a single mistake of calling them or entering their office they will not let you allow to go without a loan, soft touch feminine voice will not leave any page unturned to impress you and telling you how a loan from company is beneficial for you, how will it work for increasing your social status and how this loan is going to give a new meaning to your life by filling with never imagined enjoyments provided you prove your ability.

Credit card companies are moving one step further and will provide you the feeling of being at higher economic status. All of sudden you cell will start ringing and a silky soft feminine voice is inviting you to visit company office with news that you are among few elites who for their better financial records are selected by the company for allotment of credit card without any processing fees and with a good attractive credit limits. You filled with emotions of pride enter into a spacey office, welcoming smiles present here and there and a well mannered conversation will leaves no space for wisdom and you came out with a winning smile and a plastic money bank in your hands after signing all the necessary documents without much thinking.

All is going in smooth and satisfactory way but the trouble starts when just one EMI didn't realized or you fail in depositing your credit card dues just by one day. All of sudden the soft silky voice that was adding pleasure to your telephonic conversation will turned into high pitched threatening sound. You will be forced to pay very high penalty for this failure besides paying a real huge interest at the rate of ranging from 25% to 40%. These finance and credit cards are going and adopting such harsh ways of recovery that a few people have prefer to commit suicide for getting rid of this day to day insult. As these companies are always aiming at their profit only hence RBI [Reserve Bank of India] is forced to interfere into it and issue a guide line for the recovery methods of these new finance kings.

The best way is the implementation of though "Deserve before desire" but if it seems that most of people are looking it as a outdated and useless thought hence it will be advisable to get knowledge of recovery methods adopted, rate of interest, penalties etc. before signing the legal documents of the loan.

MNC Working: Creating the need

MNC Working: Creating the need

Just look at the modern business world, Government machinery fails, local businessmen undergo the feeling of being unsuccessful but as soon as a MNC enters the arena scene start changing, the gloomy sky start taking shape of pleasant atmosphere with favorable winds and never before clarity makes the vision more and more positive and filled with excitement. Does these MNC are with a magic lamp to produce the magnificent effect? Does they are superman, capable of bringing these drastic and unbelievable changes? It is fact these are the peoples seating at the money Everest, huge investing capacities, more skilled human power and power of sustaining losses for a considerable long period are making them different of lot but their success source does not lies here in. As these supporting factors can be managed and made available by any body active in the field and wish to touch never before success heights.

In fact the strength of MNC's lies in their unmatched and marvelous quality called "creating the need". They are not followers of "Deserve before Desire" but are the masters of generating "Desires". They believe in "If desire is there human beings will go for the fulfillment either by hook or crock". They also believe in making the commodities part of living styles, Just look at young Indians, instead of cheaper fresh lime juice or healthier coconut water they are running behind costly carbonated cold drinks which may also prove a health hazard, and making it icon of life style. They even neither think nor hesitate to pay more than Rs. 10/- for a bottle of these cold drinks for which manufacturing cost is less than a rupee. Even in the Punjab "chhola Bhatura" or in the south "Idlee" are fighting for their existence against Burger culture. This is not because of these burger and other such fast foods are more nutritious and more health supportive but just as these MNC have successfully highlighted the unhygienic conditions under which Indian foods are prepared publicly and hide the harms of MNC products. We are avoiding to eat "Vada Pav" at road side stall just because it is being prepared before us but don't hesitate to eat "Pizza" just because we are observing gloves covered hands in the action.

It is fact an old story from my memory inspired me to go for this writing, that story not only reflects the functioning of MNC's, there ways of creating need but also successfully broke the myth of modern youth that they are the progressive human spices over their parents, modern youth may be leading on the fronts of technology and handling the modern equipment but surely we are miles and miles behind in spotting the adverse effect of a certain happing on our future life, in comparison of our elders, at least these stories are supportive of this fact. I know many of my blog readers will show their disagree ness with this at this moment but I am sure after reading the story all will left with only option of being agree with this.

As n my this blog posting is going to be a bulky and lengthy hence I am going to post the story as the separate and concluding part of this.

We are changing

Change is the name of time and as time is flowing without waiting for any thing to be happen or any body’s arrival or departure hence change is become constant but essential part of the life. With the time we are bound to observe and follow the change in our life style, our living standards and even in our thought process, but in this changing world few things are constant and unchanged, sunrise has not been affected by these changes the poor sun still prefer to rise in the east. Truth, honesty, politeness, sympathy, helping others were the basic qualities of being human and are still unchanged a lot. Still when we say marriage it means union of two individuals of opposite sex, though in the some countries a very few examples are set against it but in the wider sense meaning is unchanged, still we are with the firm mind of taking care of our children till they grow up.

Our social attitude went under the change in very huge way, our clothing is also on the same path, our meaning of education has also been altered and the most importantly our vision of humanity has been changed. Society, community, cities and ultimately Nations are developed from the basic unit called family. The effect of time on this basic unit are very much significant for the change in our social attitude, it was remote time when families were huge in population, parents, brothers and their children all were the part of the family. The family started to shrink in its membership strength and we are reaching to the attitude that not only grown up children but also the parents are on the way of developing thought that both are having different families. We are speeding on the way of making our helps a reciprocal action and found ourselves under the influence of this thought process whenever we help others.

Cloths which were designed to protect the human body from the adverse climatic situations are showing a drastic change. I read some where “ In the winter men wear more cloth to keep them warm and ladies wear less for same purpose” it seems that in our recent life only the winter season is left, might the changing time have changed all other seasons into winter.

Education that has made human most civilized and cultured among the all livings on the earth is also under the effects of changing time. Our vision to education is changing, education is no more gaining of knowledge, addition to wisdom and sharpening the creativity, it has changed to the vision of an ability to earn livelihood. We are on the way of becoming habituated of listening “You can’t understand this old man! Time is changing and for success we have to cope with this changing time.”

So for the time being it is good by from me and hope to meet all of you again when we both might have went under the changes generated by time after all we are changing.

Palm: An Evergreen Plant

Palm: An Evergreen Plant

The living style of human is changing and the growth of population is forcing human to accommodate plants in the bed rooms, by the side of staircase, on the steps of stairs, in the backyard; the latest trend which is showing an increasing attraction among the urban areas is the terrace garden. It is not the big corporate offices that are only decorated and looks lively with the greenery by the presences of plants but this trend is seems to be expanding even to small business houses. The need of going closer to nature is being observed, extracting ever most attention in general.

One plant that is universally present in almost all part of world, at gardens, offices and homes, irrespective of the geographical location and atmospheric conditions; and making the place beautiful green with look of nature, is the Palm. The reasons for opting Palms includes

*** There are over 3,000 spices of Palms are available to choose from

*** The beautiful shape and ever green nature also make this plant the first choice

*** The growth rate of Palm is bit slow hence not for the months but even for the years same plant can be kept in use.

*** Long living life of the plant is yet another point of choice.

*** Palms can remain green for a considerable time without watering and even without sufficient sun light.


Some of common spices that are used in the Indian homes and offices are
China Palm
Erica Palm
Ladies Palm
Fonex Palm is the one that is usually found on express highways because this plant needs comparatively very large pots. This plant can also be seen in the gardens directly roped into earth. Indian rainy season is on go to a nursery near to you and bring a Palm, A few Palms are sufficient to safe guard the greenery of your garden.