4th Dimension

In amidst of political turmoil in state, at the pick time of election season where all and everyone is in indulge in blame game. I stuck up at year old issue of Jihad. Jihad, most misunderstood, most used and most abused word. Jihad in Islamic sense is word claiming for internal or spiritual purification. It is always considered as ‘Pak’ (holy) in Islamic writings. It is struggle for avoiding, rejecting and destroying internal evils, sins, lust, greed etc. It’s a very powerful word, it fundamentally meant to abide the followers (bande) to the moral codes of Islam and seek eternal peace for soul. Since centuries in Muslim world, people use to keep names of their kids as Jihad, as Christians used to keep it as Grace and Hindu used to keep it as Bhakti. But in recent times, conception of Jihad got diluted. There exists a group of minorities which believes that, Jihad is not only internal struggle but it also an external fight against the forces which threatens the faith and faithf...

            I am a designer, a blogger, a research scholar, a friend, a son, a brother, aaaaaaa many things. Many things, many identities, many roles are being adopted (even assigned) by this entity called “I”. Every role has its own nature of demand. Performing these roles at its best is most challenging, most complex and most desirable thing.                       Today every human being is “burdened” with such roles and identities, to navigate between these roles and identities he has adopted strategy what we called multitasking. At single point of time we are doing so many things, for instance updating facebook status while sitting in class, writing assignments with listening music and what not. I feel height of multitasking when people take picture while kissing !!!  The first word which comes up in my mind after looking such snaps is undoubtedly F word…. Kissing is meant for exclusi...

Life of social science researcher now a day resemble me to life of postman whose bag is full of variety of letters but he is untouched to the content of letters. Letters of love, hate, marriage, death etc. makes no difference to his life or job. His duty does not allow him to share any emotional bonding with things he delivers. He is never responsible for what he delivered, whether its hate or love, sadness or happiness. Professionally he works round the year, does his duty without any complain. This thought served as kind of commiseration to me when I decided to spend festive time at university for some the sake of work, deadlines and in long terms for duty :)     At same time I got some turbulent thoughts over the word “despo” (meant for guys who are desperately looking for girls) in conversation with intellectual person on Facebook, however conversation was friendly and specific, this word was used in response of specific kind of interaction called flirting. ...

Again, while studying society, I got stuck up with word which is frequently used and abused, LOVE.  After month long observations and interactions of/with people I was able to frame out the 4 th DIMENSION of what people calls love. This is all about my interpretation of people views and behavior when they are/aren’t in any relationship. These interpretations are open of exceptions because it very difficult to understand human nature thoroughly. I attempted to understand elements of notion called love. I would quickly and briefly like share my dissection of love. Interaction is base of any relationship, we can’t relate to person or thing with whom we don’t interact. These interactions are responsible to generating feeling of belongingness (friendship stage). For instance, we generate belongingness with our bikes, cares, watches, phone etc. because of frequent usage of it (that’s why say that we love our things too). I same manner we generates belongingness with another...

It becomes very nostalgic movement in class which makes me to think body as device for understanding society and social relationships. Every class and chapter on body and self recalls my childhood memory where my parents, teachers, friends and society at large taught me certain body techniques , like washing hands, table etiquettes and all that stuff which is considered as manners in  our society. Our body many times fails to express our true self. Try to recall your childhood movements where your parents have restricted you do certain things you liked to do, just for sake of manners and etiquettes. This manners and etiquettes play very crucial in shaping our bodily behavior.  Our behaviors in public places are entirely different than behavior in private place. It is obvious that one can’t behave like home in train or bus. That means we are not free from the context in which play our role. For example while traveling I have to behave like passenger, while clubbing...

Every human on this globe, being a part of culture and civilization faces some events in his/her life where ‘things don’t work out’.   I came across many situation where things don’t happen as I wished and once I looked at society I felt that I am not alone… there are also other people !!! Almost all people I know have complained about this. Situation of life don’t go as per our desire. So the question comes why it happens so? Why our lives act as per our wish? I came across people who has complains about life and when I meet this people I feel my life is better than theirs, this happens because their complaints about unaligned life is more intense than mine. Everyone has their own answer to these questions, some complain, some cry, some become wise, some become nice and what not. During same time, I came across Peter Brook’s Mahabharata (1989) and M.K.Gandhi’s interpretation of Bhagwad Geeta. One is the movie and other one is book, though meant for religion and spiritual...