3P's

We’ve heard of three rivers, threesomes, triangles…but what about three P’s? What is this 3P that is sweeping our nation from corner to corner like the bucket full water that cleans every aangan in many Indian homes? 1 P is the smallest denomination of the Indian currency system that can be held on one’s palm and be seen. 2 P is an act most people engage in throughout the day. 3 P? Bolo bolo kuch to bolo.

“Hare Ram Hare Krishna” (a topic worth a blogpost separately specially after Akshay Kumar’s cheeky smile for the music video kickoff)…Ley bol diya.

Politics

Lord Macaulay, now deceased unlike the immortal Ashwatthama, also liked challenges and probably sparked off today’s political fashion in India. Macaulay stated, “I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage.” It took two centuries for the British to realize their fallacy in assuming that any foreigner can truly rule another people- but the adoption of certain values did bring in much humanism in our culture that had been spread thin like butter over bread and left to the exploiters to exploit. Thank you Macaulay Sahib…shukriya indeed. For a non participant, Desi politics seems to be based on the constant tussle between forces that wish to force policies of “humanism” and the traditionalists. Since I am not too keen on the rat race that is today’s politics I won’t drool on this subject. Although I would like mention my curiosity- What is the difference between a politician and a statesman and why aren’t today’s political leaders “statesmen”?

Publicity

Post all our Chak De’s…T20, Asian Cup, Nehru Cup…the only one that still gets swarmed by tabloid makkhis (flies) is the first. Without our tele, press, radio, internet, cricket would be yet another improvised form of gulli-danda. So lesson to be learnt is simple: Want fame, fortune, frolic? Get the second P covered first.

PaRhai

Being a child of a Humanities family and a student in pursuit of science I often meet persons who often think aloud, “Arey tu wrong field mein hain. Tujhe to…” Sorry to disappoint, I am definitely not in the wrong field. The divide between Humanities and Science in the Indian education system can be stretched to be compared to the Hindu- Muslim communal divide (a reality that we shall overcome?). Our education system is very strong in most aspects of parting knowledge and ploughing old information for new information, but lacks in imparting the cross cultural bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences. Maybe someday we’ll teach our children the art and science of science and art respectively. Why do I say this? If anybody studies any elegant derivation of physical law with the usage of mathematics, it’s parallel to any beautiful painting or music. And good music of course has acoustics built into it.



Ooops...almost forgot the other set, "Punya, Paap and Paschyataap."