Nostalgia Deep Rooted?

Sometimes our nostalgia is so strong and overpowering that we feel at a loss how to justify it.

It has happened to me many times; maybe it happened to you too.

Sometimes when you pass through a particular stretch of road or locality or residential clove or landscapes a sense of belonging seizes absolute control of you. You feel you belong there, know everybody there. Your heart fills with tenderness and eyes become moist. But your sense of reasoning tells you that this is the first time you have visited or passed through that.

There can be two justifications or possible explanations of such an experience.

First, it may be your intuition or telepathy trying to remind you of some connection that may have happened or is going to happen.

Second, it can be our deep rooted nostalgia which can extend to our past lives. Come on, we cannot arrive on this planet just by chance and do all the natural things naturally. There is an in-built sense of belonging in all of us which makes us to accept all earthly things naturally. This cannot happen by chance only.

Anyway, this is not a debate for believing or not believing. This is just an argument to explain things that cannot be explained otherwise.

Does Humor Has To Be Loud To Be Understood?

Filmmakers are the cleverest lot. They make their comedy scenes so bellowing loud that nobody dares misunderstand. One hint of humor is carried out in continuously heaped up dialogues so that the viewers don't dare stop laughing.

They are dead right. Fine or refined or defined or subtle or quiet or subdued humor is utterly helpless before the connoisseur humor eaters. Anybody trying to do that is rejected dejected and ejected. Herr Humor!

But I was also wrong. I thought this 'understanding' is only rampant in India. Now I'm afraid it's a global phenomenon.

Dare prove me wrong!

YSR--Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy 1949--2009

Around 9 o'clock in the morning of September2,2009 Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a southern state of India, set out on a helicopter for an important engagement. He ignored the pouring rain and a very bad forecast. Even the usual helicopter was not available and he took another which later proved to be air unworthy--not serviced for last two years. But, his commitment to his people was the priority.

The chopper vanished after about an hour and the Chief Minister with his two topmost officers and two pilots went missing. As the hours passed by without any success in finding the chopper the worst fears were in the minds of every countrymen.

After twenty four hours, today the 3rd September, the missing chopper was spotted on a hilltop and soon after all five persons were confirmed dead. It was a crash caused most probably by bad weather and the doubtful chopper.

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was a dashing leader who brought back the Congress into power in his state after ten years in 2004 and bettered it in the last elections. Being the first congress leader to form government for two consecutive term he also contributed significantly to the congress tally in the parliament both in 2004 and 2009 general elections. A Chief Minister by the people, for the people and of the people.

India and the Congress party lost a great leader who had tremendous potential for the future.

We express our heartfelt condolences on the tragic demise of Rajasekhara Reddy and his team of four. We are with the bereaved families in this hour of inconsolable sorrow.