4th Dimension

My last post on this blog gave considerable feedbacks, thank god, there was more appreciation and less criticism. The most interesting thing I learnt from those feedbacks is Many people has many questions   comes from many thoughts gives many feelings and all this is shared in common domain which we can call as culture. I would like to shift focus on culture creation as a process especially when technology starts getting involved in this process. Since week, I am experimenting with my facebook profile by putting random thoughts, obviously some of them are copied but majority of was original. Interesting things happens when you put any good, sexy, funny, sad or nostalgic thought on your wall, and what’s that?? People in your list starts LIKEing that or starts sharing that, why do they do so? They do so because they tend to identify themselves with those thoughts, which seems to be real, worthy and true to the. It seems like to be human tendency to associate self with certain situ

After a long break in posting post on 4 th dimension, I suddenly aggravated by a stranger who pop in gtalk and asking for next post… it feels good when unknown people shows eagerness to read your words or gives their feedback. But strange question rose in my unexplored brain, why we feel so? May be answer needs some research psychologically, biologically, technically, culturally, socially, name the discipline and you’ll get chance of explore a very special, temporary, formal, funy , in short a STRANGE relationship with people and world around us. Relationship with strangers seems to be very complex statement, very lightly taken and very often ignored. World is full of strangers, by strangers here simply means people whom we don’t know. Practically it is used for people whom we don’t WANT to know. Modern culture forces us to confine ourselves to what we call SELF. If look carefully these strangers, we’ll realize that how much we are losing by not talking or maintaining distance with

Until French revolution doctors earned as artisans but now they are on top circle of capitalist society. Now, if we look at cost of administrating the patient, it has takes quarter of each penny. Average annual income spent on health and medicine by an individual is comparatively more than expenses in other sections. Even bankers are seems to be legitimizing such administration and cost of control through insurance. Over and above new prejudice of premium health services and products are helping in boosting up health costs due to irrational planning and higher gimmicks  that people ‘want’ in hospitals. Instead of providing old products more effectively and cheaply economic motivation are making health practitioner to move towards new and expensive ways of treating patients. This change of increasing medical costs is supported by increased coverage of insurance. Even political systems are helping health service providers to organize pathologies into different diseases and this creates

A state (Gujarat) which makes us feels proud about its vibrant developmental model. Shouting as of being worthy in front of world or branding more capital investment as a part of holistic development seems to have become habit this state. With political scene and through quick fix solution providing gives very rosy but gloomy picture about this state to me. Feeling of strong annoyance was observed when students of central university of Gujarat saw news Maruti Suzuki one of leading automobile company showed interest to invest about 1800 crores Rupees in state to setting up a manufacturing plant. State under a tag of development claimed that it’ll provide land and other incentives if this plant is established in Gujarat with a notion that this plant will generate employment opportunities in state. What a wonderful idea!!!! This idea proved as failure to me when I read news stating that land chosen for setting up central university was given away for maruti Suzuki plant by state gov

News of his death was truly breaking news, as world lost one of its most respected innovators. Steve jobs, one of leading tech innovator who successfully attempted to 'touch' lives of about half population on the globe.   His 'think different' products and enterprises, his spiritual philosophy and motivational life style have influenced many people irrespective to relationship with Silicon Valley. Indian IT market, though welcomed Steve's products very slowly and may be lastly among the world, respects his management fundamentals and ways of leadership the most. After listening news of job's death a wish man's words forced me to think, why India cannot produce personality like Steve? His point was based on Steve's biography, in which Steve values resemble to middle class values of common Indian person. Though we have such great and deeper values, why are we not able to setup studios like Pixar? Why we are not able to different and user-friendly g

Learning from movies, one of the most desirable ways to learn as well as to teach. This week I got exposure to three good films Yeh Mera India (Hindi), Harishchandrachi Factory (Marathi) and Cidade de Deus (Brazilian). The common thing among these varied movies I found very basic human propensity, something may be termed as passion, madness, eagerness, whatever you can think for the strong feeling to do something, no matter what is the amount of resistance you face. Having faith in goodness and truth seems to most difficult thing in times of pressures.. Sometimes, we are so afraid that we start avoiding good things which we inherit as a human. Contradictions faced by a district judge (Anupam Kher) in Yeh Mera India while declaring punitive action against a true man under a pressure of his duty as a judge and Indian law system clearly shows how we are becoming slaves of various systems established in name of professionalism , rules and norms. Coming out of court, judge requests com

Studying society seems to be one of challenging task, especially when your mind is filled up confusions regarding own (Indian) society and over that you are assigned to study, an American Society!!!! A salient thought came up in my mind when an intellectual lady from Harvard University said that society in America is almost extinct, I felt it as true at first instance, but after that I realized that it was just a lazy acceptance of argument from student of elite university of the world which was supported historical facts. Going by the words of that lady, I realized that she visited church, she had good weekend with her friends, country in which she is studying (America) is in economic crisis, that country is considered as super power in politics , there exists no society in that country? Polity, economy, education and religion are basic components of any society on this globe. Then why society is not directly visible in United States of America? Historically there are many argum

  Coming back again on some more thoughts on control and resistance in this world!!! It was observed that the notion hierarchy rules the world and tries to suppress the notion of equality. Hierarchy is basically Greek term hierarchia which means arrangement of objects in “above”, “below” and “at same level”. In simple words it is an ordered set or non cyclic arrangement of things. Now days, the hierarchy is more commonly used in to represent levels of relations in society, either it be a class, caste, gender, occupation etc. Every human knowingly or unknowingly emits the notion of hierarchy, it is so well set in minds of humans that notion or concept of equality seems to be illusion. Starting from the basic institution like family, child is taught to respect his elders. Institute like education, religion, economy and politics are clearly and rigidly hierarchical. In academics pupil are ‘forced’ to follow hierarchy symbolized in form teachers, seniors, university etc. religion again

Before discussing anything, let me share some questions raised in my mind this week, why do parents, teachers, leaders, boyfriends, girlfriends etc. care for us? Thinking on word care provided me an unorthodox answer which I would like to share. From a day we are born we have been controlled by various emotions, roles, institutions and culture at large. Various emotions under the name of care, expectations or desires control our behavior at every stage of our life. For instance mother stopping or forcing her child to do something which she emotionally, culturally or socially feels not good for her child. Similarly, in every institution humans are bond to perform certain roles as per individual capacity and ability like in marriage, family, education or religious institutions. These institutions are said and meant to control our behavior and thoughts in society and necessary for survival of culture at certain level which again impose greater control over our behavior and thoughts. Thus

If we look at today’s society its broadly divided into two basic communities the owner community and the worker community (labor community, including managers also).owner community in Marxian perspective is ruling class which owns forces of production and tends to exploit (make optimum utilization – that’s what they calls) worker community and therefore conflict of interest between these two communities are observed in market. These owner communities control various institutions like economy, politics, religion etc. in society. In feudal era two main classes distinguished by their relationship with forces of production similarly in today’s era we can see owner community (capitalists) has control over all means of production while working community has control over only labor. The laborer in economy must sell his labor power to survive as he does not have means to produces goods independently. Owner community or capitalists depends on labor power and working community depends on cap

Reservations!!! One of the oldest controversial debate since Indian political independence. Whoever is part of India (Indian) had must thought about reservation policies at least twice in his life time.  What a big deal?? We are now habituated with such political policies which can be raised and suppressed as per the political needs of our ‘representatives’. Studying and working with esteemed government education institutions allowed me to observe picture more clearly and differently (that’s what I think). Reservations policies aim to uplift that population stratum which comes ‘at the end’ of Indian society which includes scheduled castes, scheduled tribe and religious minorities.  Providing reservations in education and employment is argued as it provides opportunities to suppressed populace and bring equality into society. What a wonderful plan laid down by the constructors of this nation- Keep certain things reserved for your poor younger brother!!! People coming under reservati

Relations!!! The most basic thing which keeps this world as well as Bollywood moving. This week two wonderful or say it awesome movies ignited thoughts in my head. These two movies for me was really heart touching because it was aligned to my thoughts, my experiences and my desires. Basically these two came up with very solicitous issues and dealt with basic problems which we as humans face due imposed relations. These two movies are chillar party and zindagi na milegi dobara, a mainstream commercial cinema with profit intense provided real insight of human nature. Talking about chillar party under production of Salman Khan (dabangwale :D) and UTV came up with relations between friends , parents and animal in smooth manner. A gang of colony kids fighting to save a stray dog with and without their parents support is beautifully narrated in this story. Similarly three guys in their 30s goes out for road trip and attempts to conquer their fear as if they at 18s ;)  humorously depict how

As a social animal we inherit skills of fighting, loving, caring etc. according to change in age, time and situation we upgrade such skills which further impact our behavior. Our behavior is mainly situation driven; the way we behave in front of our parents is different than the way we behave in with our friends or with our colleagues at workplace. Let’s attempt to think critically why as a human we do so? During our early childhood we develop strong affective ties with family members.  These ties provide drastic modification and make us conscious about basic social responsiveness like our religion, education or gender. After that we have situation which is noted as a difficult period in the life cycle i.e. adolescence. In particular, associated with this situation is prominence in our society of what has been called the youth culture, a distinctive pattern of values and attitudes is observed here. The age groups between childhood and the assumption of full adult responsibilities. Su

Almost every site we visit today has lots of ads; nothing seems to be wrong in that!!! Most noteworthy are the ads from matrimonial sites. Not only ads, I am sure all most every internet user (especially in India) would have been received invitation or advertising from any matrimonial sites.   19 years old girls or boys are getting phone calls offering discounted packages for searching their life mates, weird?? It’s true!!!   These sites are so desperately marketing their products and services as if they are most worried about our marriages in this world. Why?? Let’s have a look - It is a reflection of mindset new Indian urban youth having greater access to Internet which now a day seems to be flooded with matrimonial sites which offers new horizons of romance and ease in searching life partner as if its violating traditional constraints. Basic reasons for such huge fame of such matrimonial sites are its convenience, ease and anonymous ways of search. It is believed to be powerful t

Before few days, one of my friends shared a note on current situation of India. Like every conscious, learned and active citizen she seemed to be worried about ongoing political, economical and social scenario of this country, and why Indians are so worried? India is undergoing from very critical times in very sphere, it can be good subject for research!!!!! :-) Social system is based on relationships between individuals and institutions and information is key factor which enables these relationships to move on.   Before advent of communication instruments flow of information was major binding force of communities. If we look at our daily life pattern, we can easily realize how much important part does information plays. Newspaper, Television, Radio, Internet, Magazines etc. are just a few example of conscious source of information. The toothpaste, shampoo,   detergent, shaving gel, cosmetics, cloths, daily household things, food we eat , whatever you can see being used is used beca