Spectator's script

It's a Sanskrit verse that means "What's the biggest astonishment in life?" The question was one of the 60 questions that Dharamraj asked Yudhishtir in Mahabharata. Yudhishtir's answer to this was that the biggest surprise is that daily people are dying and their relatives who go for their cremation think that they won't be here one day. They plan of their 30s, 50s, about kids, buying property even after watching that life is not eternal. Recently my grandfather passed away, and 1 thing which I observed is that people speak "Ram naam satya hai" while going to the cremation ground but no one says that while coming back. And in case if that dead body wakes up in the middle (cases have happened like this in the past where doctors have wrongly declared a person dead), then everyone will get quite. Why? Nowadays someone's death has also turned into an event just like a small get together, the only thing is that the tent is white. Apart from 4-5 c...

India is celebrating 72nd year of independence. But wait a minute, are we really celebrating? 16 hours of my festive day went into sleeping, waking up late, applying coupon codes on food orders, getting calls from my boss on an urgent deliverable, eating and listening to Modi's election focussed speech. Is this is the celebration? but how to celebrate it is a big question. I went on my terrace in the evening and was shocked to see the number of kites which is decreasing year after year. I remember, in my childhood days, I used to go on to my neighbor's terrace regularly for a month before the independence day to fly kites. But now that time has gone and overpowered by gadgets and social media which claim to bring people closer. Yeah, I am sure, I now receive 20 messages on every festival as opposed to actually talking to 10 people physically.