Just Thinking

One of India's foundation pillar has been knowledge. We had great learned sages who contributed a lot to the world of Science and Philosophy. India also had one of the most ancient Universities. Some of the research that happened in these universites changed the whole world. In our mythology too we had given high importance to science and knowledge, Saraswati, Bramha, Vishwakarma etc. are peculiar examples of our interest in knowledge. But, even after our interest and inclination towards a knowledge based society why have we failed to create an example in the modern world. India today is nowhere when it comes to education standard. We failed terribly in keeping up the reputation of our ancestors. We are not even able to provide proper basic education where most of the other nations are achieving high level of advanced education. There are only a few Universities in India which could compete truly with the global Universities and for a country with hundreds of Universities this i

Live life king size. According to me, one of the most misleading quotes. Rather than living 'the life' we spend it working to become the king. I hope you understand what I want to say here, we have got it all wrong. Dissatisfaction is the biggest enemy of this age. We are not satisfied by anything. We want more of everything and are ready to do anything for it, but we forget that while doing anything we are spending some precious time of our life which could have been the best time of our life. There are two basic parameters to measure anything, quantity and quality. Quantity being the bulk or size of it or rather its physical features and quality being the experience of it, the amount of substance or depth anything has. Life can also be measured on these two parameters. Quantity being the physical appearance of one's life, his/her credentials, status in the society, resources at disposal,etc. and quality being the happiness in one's life, his/her relations, humor, tr