Happy New Year 2008

Another year has passed, leaving a lot of memories to my life. I can’t mark them as good and bad. When there are many colors, it’s foolish to see them as black & white. Some are sweet, some are sour and some others are spicy. The time has come to welcome another new year. I gladly welcome it into all of our lives.

Hope Year 2008 brings us another tasty dish with all the colors.

Gandhi - Truth & Non-violence

I am an ardent fan of Gandhi. He proved the power of two great universal principles "Truth" & "Non-Violence". Though I heard a lot about Gandhi from my childhood, I hardly know about his personal life. So, I bought his autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth".

He is neither genious nor rich. He is just an ordinary guy like anybody. In his book, with out any shy, he reveals(confesses to) all his mistakes and warns us not to take untruthful path either by ignorance or for the sake of comforts. But his commitment to his principles and faith in God made him a legend.

Some of my friends don't like Gandhi for different reasons. But I always used to argue against them but I never used to have solid knowledge about Gandhi's life to disprove them. But after reading this book, I am happy that I am right. He did many mistakes just like any other nomal humans, but confessed his sins and refomed himself into a great man (leader). I have many friends who also criticized Gandhi for making millions of people to follow him. For their kind information, Gandhi never insisted to follow him, but to follow one's own inner voice. He knows that our inner voice supports only truth and non-violence.

Some of his views -

Truth - "Rather to say God is Truth", I say, "Truth is God"

Non-violence & Vegetarianism - "Man has got power over all the animals not to feed on them but to protect them."

Confusion about "My Favorite Pet name"

In a suvery there were some questions about our personal tastes. One among them is to specify "My Favorite Flower". At that time I forgot all the names of flowers except Rose. After thinking for a while, only Cauliflower and Andy flower(Zimbabwe cricketer) came in my mind. Later I remembered Jasmine and Lilly. But I got confused between them and at last I wrote Rose as the answer. Next question was about "My Favorite Pet name". It's very easy to answer. With out any second thought, I filled my favorite pet as "It's dog, and if I have a dog in future, then I would think about what to name my dog. Answering similar questions I submitted my report.

After a few minutes one of my teammates asked a doubt - "Is it favorite pet name or the favorite pet". The girl who was taking that survey answered, "It is your favorite pet name". Immediately I got surprised and said, "I think it's about name of the pet and not our pet name". With a smile, she reponded, "Both are same", and left from my desk.

How can it be? My pet name is not "Dog" and even if it is, it can't be my favorite.