Freedom

Every living being in the universe loves being FREE.

It’s their right to enjoy, to be & remain in the complete state of FREEDOM.

But, what this #freedom actually is?

Celebrating the Independence Day today, is historically significant, as getting free from the clutches of British Empire, being enslaved for 200 years & more.

Yes of course, a big win that was, and that surely is.

We all have grown up reading through the pages in History about the struggle, the courage, the sacrifice & the resilience which was shown by our country-men during these two centuries.

Just close your eyes & imagine being a part of those times, step into the lives and we shall have spine chilling experience arousing all sorts of extreme emotions of anger, fear & despair within us.

And we shall know, and may can understand, what BEING FREE actually means?

We wanted to be free, because someone from outside, who was not from amongst us, entered our house and became dictator of our lives.

They came, they entered and they soon could spot and identify the vulnerabilities, we as an individual and as a family exposed.
They were learned, smart, shrewd and thus could easily play on our weaknesses, exploit us and ruled us for two centuries.

As a big mass of people, even in those times, we were easy prey to their cunning tactics.

Over the years, from time to time, our country gave birth to leaders, who within their domain of action & influence, tried to put up a fight.

But, many of these were skirmishes which were put off every time it raised heads. And ironically, every time the mutiny like situation was raised, it died it’s death by the weaknesses of their own people.

It doesn’t mean that it failed to create an impact. It surely did.

But it needed back to back collective efforts & sacrifices for 200 years to arrive at the complete freedom from physical bondage.

Why a whole of two centuries?

Why the struggle for freedom went on for such a long time?

It’s because every time a wave was about to be formed to rise to the crest, it was broken down and divided into small in-effective small thrusts, resulting into reduced significance.

This happened, because we were available to be divided, to be influenced.

This is a part of the History we know of.

Without a pinch of doubt, it gives us immense pride to read and know this long journey of struggle for freedom.

It does raise our heads in high esteem to know about the leaders which our country was blessed with in those times, who tried with unified efforts, without caring enough about their own lives.

But, 

• Have we proved ourselves as worthy successors to our predecessors?
• Did they actually envision, hope, desire, dream and wish for the India that we are living in today?
• Are we doing enough to claim rightful eligibility of being called as the citizen of this great Nation?
• Are we not still vulnerable to all types of external influences & self-weaknesses and easily get broken into pieces in the name of caste, creed, colour & religion?

Friends,

It’s time to question the credibility of the role that we are playing.

• Speaking honestly, Are we convinced enough about our roles, our actions towards anything & everything?
• Isn’t it that we are pampering ourselves on every wrong foot we put and somehow come up with intellectual excuses and keep giving benefit of doubt to ourselves for not able to justify the result?
• Aren’t we alwayz ready to jump into blame game and conveniently shift the responsibility onto the others and smartly distancing ourselves out of the criticality?

We are still the same people, of the times when they used to be guided like a flock of herd. With little education at their disposal, most of them relied on other’s brain to run their lives. Disappointingly, we still do the same.

We fear to get up and question.

We fear to take responsibility.

We fear to lead.

And thus we always have, and always had less of the leaders and more of the mass of followers flocking like herd.

We need #leaders in every family, every home.

Unless we are ready to face the challenges head on,

Unless we get up to be a change to bring about one,

Unless we start using our own brains, our own intellect, common sense and conscience,
we are still vulnerable to the forces who are ready to pounce on us for their benefits.

We need to know and understand our own paths, and most importantly knowing where are we heading towards?

And once we start thinking in this direction, we can say that we have begun our struggle for freedom.

The struggle is far from over.

The challenges are immense and shall keep growing with every step we take.

The road is steep.

But unless we begin today, we wouldn’t be in a position to face our own self, towards the dusk of our life.

It’s important to celebrate the day, which very well helps to rekindle & reignite the dormant spirits within us. But equally important is to ensure at the same time, that we shall keep the flame ignited and light up the whole nation by our deeds.

AND AT THE STROKE OF THE MIDNIGHT HOUR, WHEN THE WORLD SLEEPS, INDIA SHALL AWAKE TO LIFE & FREEDOM

Jai Hind!

Wishing the spirit of happy Independence Day to all.

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By –

Sanjay Jogani

15thAugust'2018

Mumbai. India.

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

It makes me wonder what to write about #Women on International Women’s Day, the ones about whom the History has been written, time & again.

Ever since centuries and ages in time, the significant events or happenings, invariably saw the women at the centre stage, playing the most pivotal role, culminating eventually to create History.

The most popular epics in Indian mythological scene are “Ramayana” & “Mahabharata”, roots their emergence mostly based on the powerful virtues & strong characters  of “Ma Sita” “Draupadi”, “Mandodari”, and so on…

We talk about Ghosha, Lopamudra, Maitreyi, Gargi of Vedic age (almost 3000 years and before); were the women with substance, immense intellect, knowledge & wisdom.

If we take into account the recent History of 19^th & 20^th Century India, we have, 

Rani Lakshmibai, who led the revolt against the British, better known as warrior queen; 

Kittur Chnnanmma, who rebelled against East India Company; 

Savitribai Phule, an activist who started first school for women; 

Sarojini Naidu, an activist and a poet, popularly known as Nightingale of India; 

Captain Prem Mathur, the first woman pilot in India, 

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first woman and the first Indian President of United Nations General assembly 

and the list goes on….

Even today, whether in Politics or Sports, Business or Economics, a Home-Maker or a Corporate Head, women have been cruising strongly in all departments, at home or away.

With extreme ease and adaptability, they can and have enacted various roles of life with excellence.

Just a couple of days back, news was aired on a TV Channel that India has the highest percentage of women pilot in the world, near to 12% (1200 in figures). 

And such a news becomes all the more important, as because, especially in the country like India, where still the dogmatic customs & traditions are being practised, which deprives the women of their rights to exercise their skills, talents & knowledge for their own growth as well as that of the Nation.

So, when we talk about the celebration of International Women’s Day and it’s importance, it’s actually meant to and is supposed to highlight and emphasise the contribution of women all throughout since time immemorial.

They are & they have always been celebrities.

It’s virtually impossible for any system to operate to an optimum performance with required efficiency, unless ably supported by women as one of the important catalysts, may it be leading from the front or behind the curtains holding the pillars strong.

Men are generally known to make powerful business decisions. 

But, I have seen many of them, thrive on the wisdom of their better halves to march ahead. 

And quite astonishingly the wisdom the women possess is purely based on the simplicity with which they look towards a problem or a situation.

In today’s time of super paced age, women are emerging and leading from all the frontiers, matching pace with the changing times at the speed of thought, with much stronger will & execution.

Here I do not intend to undermine anybody’s integrity or pampering with gender biased-ness, but, the fact remains a fact. 

I am sure many of my male friends shall agree with me, that implementing thoughts & power of execution, is what females are best at.

As our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Mody says, that the focus is now not on “Women development”, but it’s more on “Women led development”, is undoubtedly a worthy statement.

We all need to grow beyond our perspectives to actually understand that it’s a foolish exercise to talk about gender in-equality any more.

At the same time it's very important and a must that a man and a woman always complement each other, as both of them possess the virtues of strengths & weaknesses of the other partner, within their own psychology.
So when one can develop a perspective about the other and his/her situation, then to move together becomes easy & smooth.

I would not miss to mention here, that I am blessed with wonderful friends in women, who have been playing an extra-ordinary role in my life, helping me to evolve and strengthen my intrinsic traits, to keep growing in my journey through life.

This write-up is an effort to salute & to bow in reverence to all the women in the world, without whom the words “life” and “living”, doesn’t hold any significance.

The Women and their extra-ordinary contribution since ages have always been celebrated, and today, we continue & vow to emphasize as a part of our moral duty to put an effort to honour their presence, their work, their existence.

By –
Sanjay Jogani (Saluting the Women Power)

Mumbai. India.

8.3.2018

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Right to be Happy

Right to be happy

Sometimes I wonder, how much we all have immersed ourselves in various kind of duties, commitments, have-to-do lists, responsibilities......??

The web thus created, we made it as our #ComfortZone.

And when suddenly we come across some happy & exciting opportunities on our way, our deep entanglement doesn't allow us to step out of it.
We resist & avoid switching modes.

We have stopped looking for alternate ways & options, when it comes to make our own selves happy.

We have & in fact we find, hundreds of ways to fulfil our social, family & work demands, but when it's the case of our own wishes, our own dreams, our own happiness, then somehow we tend to pull ourselves away.
We start looking the other way.
We start forming excuses to support our denials.

Dunno, somehow there surfaces a feel of guilt, as if we actually didn't deserve to pamper ourselves.
Somehow, the feel of freedom is missing.
Every thought and every act, is subject to someone or something.

Why can't we develop and build a beautiful world of friends & family around us, where there is mutual sharing of each other's responsibilities & willing intention to step up to fill up the proxy for the other.

This shall make it so easy & convenient for one to feel & experience the freedom and liberty to see & chase his/her dreams, and explore the world around.
A little push and a little encouragement, to make one see beyond the limited space, which they know & have made to be so called world for them.

#JustARandomThought
#PersonalPerspective

By - Sanjay Jogani
31stMarch'2018
Mumbai. India.
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The Season Of Exams

The season of Exams.

Here comes February & March, and everything comes to a stand still.

No extravagant family outing, plans, travelling & commitments.
The focus is only on ONE thing.
And that is, the students preparing for their all important finals & parents-teachers keeping a close watch. (As good as exams for them too :-))

Just went to drop my Son for his 1st exam of XII boards today.
Amazing scene of students & parents all around.

Last minute check-lists being carefully and hurriedly covered.

• The hall ticket,
• The writing board,
• The compass box kit,
• To check whether enough numbers of pens & pencils there,
• To check for water bottle,
• last minute advise on how to approach the paper, how not to leave any question unanswered,
• last minute hugs and kisses...

This is simply amazing.

If we closely look at all these emotions turned into actions, we see there is lots and lots at stakes, lots invested on every student with respect to time, money & energy, not only by the parents, but also by teachers, the institution and the education department.

To see their child passing out with flying colours in all important boards exams, is every parent's dream.
Right from the time the child is put into kindergarten, the immediate destination in mind is STD X & XII boards.
And this we believe, sets the tone for an entry & eventual jump into the career oriented graduation stream.

But, I somehow feel, the things have changed or constantly changing, from the perspective of students.
Students appearing for XII boards seem to be much calmer & confident. One of the reasons may be, it being their second outing & experience of appearing for boards, after X boards. Good for them.

At the same time, I have noticed that most of the students at this stage of their academic pursue are not ready or prepared to commit on any particular onward course of studies.

I remember our school & college days in 1990's, when these used to be our all important stepping stone to launch ourselves for higher studies and which also used to set tone for what we actually wanted to become professionally in the career to follow.
May be, limited choices of academics during those times helped us with better clarity pertaining to the same.

Today, the choices are immense, much beyond usual Science, Commerce & Arts. Each of these primary fields of studies now have umpteenth number of sub-choices, leading to or can say branching out to many unknown and unexplored territories of career & profession.

Every year or an alternate, a new subject, a new stream is launched into the mainframe.
And thus, the approach to look towards academics is changed.

More and more inclination towards liberal arts education is seen, where it offers flexibility to the students with respect to their area of interest & strengths.

But in no way it means that students are not thinking or going for core careers pertaining to medicine, engineering or finance.

Yes there are students with strong grip over technical subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Biology and also much clear about their course of studies to be pursued.
But what I am hinting at is, that the volume of students (would rather mention "unsure" students) is increasing every year, who are ready to throw their weights or experiment on any unusual, little offbeat and apparently challenging stream of academics or profession.
And while choosing so, interestingly, their attention to the "pay pack" is secondary.

In anywayz, not going into much details about the intricacies of various opportunities available in today's times, the fact remains that for us parents, who are with school of conservative thoughts, would like to see our children to be sincere in what they study, sustain focus (feel pity for them in these times of electronic distractions) and have clarity about their future.

And quite obviously, who wouldn't like their child to be consistent enough to walk his path towards secured future which they have seen/dreamt for themselves.

So, between outgoing winter and welcoming of the summer, we have these few dayz, which tests our temperament to the extremes.
Let's keep enjoying these times which give us enough spice & space to talk, argue and debate.
At least it is one thing which invariably unites all the students at one side and all what-so-called chasers at the other. ;-)

Once again, wishing best of the luck to all the students (more of that to the parents) to perform at their best, justifying their abilities.

Small request to all my young friends.
If possible, try to understand at least a little from your parent's perspective, when they are trying to help you to pull yourself out of your compulsive addiction towards electronic gadgets, which you are stuck with even during the times which demands more of your focus and personal attention.

By - Sanjay Jogani
21stFeb'2018
Mumbai. India.
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