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Friday 23 May 2014

ഒരു കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റ്‌കാരന്റെ കൊളോണിയൽ അനുഭവം.


ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട് ലേക്ക് വിസ വന്നപ്പോൾ ഉള്ളിൽ സന്തോഷം വന്നെങ്കിലും പുറത്തു കാണിക്കാൻ പറ്റില്ല. കാരണം ഭൂര്ഷ IT കമ്പനിയിൽ ജോലി കിട്ടിയത് കമ്മ്യൂണിസത്തിന്റെ ബാലപാഠങ്ങൾ പഠിപിച്ചു തന്ന സഘാകൾക്ക് ഇഷ്ടപെട്ടിടില്ല, അപ്പോഴാ, ഇതാ വരുന്നു ക്യാപിറ്റലിസത്തിന്റെയും കൊളോണിസത്തിന്റെ ജന്മ നാടായ ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട് ലേക്ക് ക്ഷണം.
ഉള്ളില വിഷമം ഉണ്ട്, ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട് പട്ടാളത്തിന്റെ  ഇറാഖി-അഫ്ഗാൻ അധിനിവേശത്തെയും  ശക്തമായ സമരരീതികൊണ്ട് അപലപിച്ചശേഷം ഇപ്പോൾ അവരുടെ ആഗോള കുത്തകകൾക്ക് വേണ്ടി ജോലി ചെയ്യുക എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാൽ ... ഛെ .. നാണക്കെട്.
എന്നാലും വയറ്റി പിഴപല്ലെയ് ഒന്ന് പ്ലയിൻ കയറി നോക്കാം.
 പോകുന്നതിനു മുൻപ് സഘാവിന്റെ ഡയലോഗ് , " അവിടെ  കൊലോനിയലിസം  ആയ കാരണം, അടിമേനെ പോലെ പണി എടുത്താലേ നീ ഒക്കെ കമ്മ്യൂണിസത്തിന്റെ വില പഠിക്കു. നിനക്ക് വിദേശത്ത് പോകണമെങ്കിൽ മറ്റു സഘാക്കളെ പോലെ വേണമെങ്കില ഗൾഫ്‌ രാജ്യങ്ങളിലീക് പോയി കൂടെ?". എന്നാലും ഈ കാരണം വീട്ടിൽ പറഞ്ഞാൽ, പഴയ സഘാവായ അച്ഛൻ പോകണ്ട എന്ന്  പറഞ്ഞേക്കും പക്ഷെ അമ്മ ഒലക്ക എടുക്കും. പണ്ട് തലസ്ഥാനത്ത് കല്ലെറിയാൻ പോയപ്പോൾ ഒലക്കഅടി കിട്ടിയതിനേക്കാൾ കൂടുതൽ കിട്ടും.
രണ്ടും കല്പിച്ചു പോയി. ഇംഗ്ലണ്ടിൽ  ലണ്ടനിൽ ആണ് ഓഫീസ്. ലോകത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ ഭൂർഷകൽ ഉള്ള സ്ഥലം എന്ന് പാർട്ടി ക്ലാസ്സിൽ പഠിപിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആദ്വാനികുന്ന ജന സമൂഹത്തിനു പ്രതികരിക്കാൻ പോയിട്ട് മനുഷ്യാവകാശം പോലും നിഷേധിചിടുണ്ട് എന്ന് കേട്ടിടുണ്ട്. പക്ഷെ കേരളത്തിൽ നിന്നലെ നമ്മൾ വരുന്നേ. തീയിൽ കുരുത്തത് വെയിലത്ത്‌ വാടില്ലല്ലോ..
അവിടെ ചെന്നപോൾ മനസിലായി, കഥ തിരിച്ചാണെന്ന്.
എന്റെ അയല്കാരി ഒരു 70 വയസുള്ള ഒരു സാധാരണ സ്ത്രീ ആണ്. പേര് Ruth.
ജീവിതത്തിലെ നല്ലൊരു ഭാഗം അധ്വാനിച്ച ശേഷും ഇപ്പോൾ പെൻഷൻ പറ്റി ജീവിക്കുന്നു. അധ്വാനിച്ച കാലമാത്രെയും നികുതി അടച്ചു രാജ്യത്തെ സേവിച്ചു. ഇപ്പോൾ രാജ്യം തിരിച്ചു സെവികുന്നു. ദിവസേനെ മൂന്ന് പ്രാവശ്യം നല്ല ചൂട് ഭക്ഷണം കൊണ്ട് വണ്ടി വീട്ടിൽ വരും. ആഴ്ചയിൽ ഒരു ദിവസം നേഴ്സ് ചെച്കപിനു വരും.
പിന്നെ എവിടെകെങ്ങിലും പോകണമെങ്ങിൽ  ലണ്ടൻ  ട്രാന്സ്പോര്ട്ടിനെ ഒന്ന് വിളികണ്ട ആവശ്യമേ ഒള്ളു. അവരുടെ പ്രയമുള്ളവർക്ക് യാത്ര ചെയ്യാൻ ഉള്ള പ്രത്യേക വാൻ വരും. അവര്ക്ക് പ്രതെയ്കം പരിഗണന ലഭിക്കും, ട്രെയിനിൽ ആണെങ്കിലും, ബസിൽ ആണെങ്കിലും.
ഫ്രീ പാസ്‌ ആണ് ഈ പറഞ്ഞ കാര്യങ്ങൾ ഒക്കെ.
ഇനി ഗവര്മാന്റ്റ്  ജോലികരുടെ കാര്യം എടുക്കാം. എന്തെല്ലാം ട്രിനിങ്ങിംഗ് ആണ് ഓരോര ജോലിക്കും ലഭികിന്നത്. സുരക്ഷയുടെ കാര്യത്തിൽ ഒരു വിട്ടു വിഴയും ഇല്ല. ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് ഷെൽഫിന്റെ മുകളിലത്തെ അറയിൽ ഒരികളും ഭാരം ഉള്ള സാധനം വെക്കാൻ അനുവടികില്ല, മറിഞ്ഞു വീഴുന്ന കാരണം. നിലത്തു വെള്ളം വീണാൽ, ആ ഭാഗത്ത്‌ നിന്നുകൊണ്ട് മറ്റുഉള്ളവരെ മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് കൊടുകേണ്ട ഉത്തരവാദിത്തം ആദ്യം അത് കാണുന്നവനാ. ഒരു കൊടുംകാറ്റു വീശിയാൽ, പാർകിലെ ജീവനകാർ, പാർകിലെ എല്ലാ മരങ്ങളിലെ എല്ലാ മരകൊമ്പും വീഴില്ല  എന്ന് നോകി ഉറപ്പു വരുത്തിയെ  വീണ്ടും പാര്ക്ക് തുറക്കു.
ഇനി ആഗോള കുത്തകകൾ എങ്ങിനെ അവരുടെ തൊഴിലാളി വര്ഗത്തെ നോക്കുന്നു എന്ന് നോക്കാം.
ജോലി ഭാരം കൂടുനുണ്ടോ എന്ന് നോകണ്ട ഉത്തരവദിത്യം ഓരോരുത്തരുടെ മാനേജരുടെ ജോലി ആണ്. ഇരിക്കുന്ന സീറ്റ്‌ ശരീരത്തിന് ഏതെങ്കിലും പ്രകാരം ടോഷും ചെയുനുണ്ടോ, തലയുടെ മുകളിലത്തെ ലൈറ്റ് പ്രകാശം കൂടുതലോ, കുറവോ തരുനുണ്ടോ, നിങ്ങളെ മറ്റുള്ളവർ വാക്ക് കൊണ്ടോ അതോ നോട്ടും കൊണ്ടോ ഉപദ്രവികുനുണ്ടോ എന്ന് ഇപ്പോഴും അന്വേഷിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കും...

12 മാസം ജോലി ചെയ്താൽ 13 മാസത്തെ ശമ്പളം കിട്ടും. ഈ  13ആം മാസത്തിലെ ശമ്പളം അവർ നമ്മൾ പിരിഞ്ഞു പോകുമ്പോൾ തരും. പെൻഷൻ വേറെ. പിന്നെ ഫ്രീ ആയി മെഡിക്കൽ ചെക്കപ് കണ്ണിനു , നട്ടെല്ലിന്റെ തേയ്മാനം ചെക്കപ്, അങ്ങിനെ പലതും...

ഇതൊക്കെ കാണുമ്പോൾ ഒരു സംശയം... സഘാവേ .. ഈ കമ്മ്യൂണിസം ഇതല്ലേ ...അതോ പോളണ്ട്നെ പോലെ ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട്നെ കുറിച്ച് ഒരക്ഷരം മിണ്ടി പോകരുതല്ലേ !!!

Wednesday 29 May 2013

Loose connection

അമ്പലത്തിൽ ഉത്സവതിരക്ക്. എനിക്കാണ് സ്റ്റേജ് അലങ്കാര ജോലി. വയികിട്ടു ആറു മണി ആയി എന്നിട്ടും നാടകക്കാർ എത്തിയിട്ടില്ല അതൊകൊണ്ട് അലങ്കാര പണിക്കു ശുഷ്കാന്തി  പോര.അപ്പോൾ ആണ് mobilഇൽ കാൾ വരുന്നത്. നാടകക്കാർ റെഡി ആയി എത്തി എന്ന്.
സ്റ്റേജിൽ കറന്റ്‌ എത്തിയിട്ടില്ല. ഉടൻ തന്നെ wire വലിച്ചു connect  ചെയ്തു. പക്ഷെ light  ഇടുമ്പോഴേക്കും കറന്റ്‌ പോകും. ദൈവമേ  ചതിച്ചോ!SalimKumar
ഒന്ന് രണ്ടു പ്രാവശ്യം ശ്രമിച്ചു നോകി  പക്ഷെ കറന്റ്‌ കട്ട്‌ ആകുന്നു.അവസാനം സംഗതി പിടി കിട്ടി. loose  connection . കുട്ടികൾ മതിലിന്മേൽ ഇരുന്നു wire  touch ചെയുന്നു , അത് കൊണ്ട് loose  connection .
അടുത്ത പ്രവശ്യും കറന്റ്‌ വന്നപ്പോൾ  ഒന്നും ചിന്ദിചില്ല .മൈക്ക് എടുത്തു അന്നൌൻസ്  ചെയ്തു.
"മതിലിന്മേൽ ഇരിക്കുന്ന ഭക്ത ജനങ്ങളുടെ ശ്രദ്ധക്ക്. മതിലിന്മേൽ ഇരുന്നു കാൽ ആട്ടരുത് വയറിളകും !!!"  wire ഉം വയറും രണ്ടു വാക്ക് ആണെന്ന് പറയാൻ അവസരംതാനില്ല. ഇറക്കിവിട്ടു എന്നെ.

Wednesday 8 August 2012

My College girlfriend.

We were new to the college, fresh from our higher secondary school. The dreamland where we are treated as adults, where we can bunk the class and go to movies. Place where teachers will not scold us or ask us to do homework. And above all where we could have a girlfriend.
After the first week, it became obvious that things are not what they seem. Yes, you can bunk the classes but it will permanently go into your attendance files. Scolding is replaced by insults and the new name for homework is project work. At least we can have proper girlfriends and that was the only hope that was bringing us to the college. But there again we are faced with more challenges. First of all college girls are more mean towards you, which makes you wonder what happened to the sweet school girls who used to help you with your homework and exams. Man, they have all changed!
Anyway luck favours the brave and we choose to be brave, on other hand what’s there to lose?
The hunt begins. The best ones are pre-booked by college seniors and we don’t want to mess with them. The average ones are taken by the movie-star lookalikes in the class. And there is tough competition to get the rest. I realised that I was late to the playground and my choices are fast running out.
Just when you though all hopes are lost, there is a ray of hope. It came as a beautiful warm gaze from one of the beautiful-girl group during that long and boring Hindi Literature session. First I could not believe that she was looking at me. Or is it someone behind me? I slowly turned my head around and to my relief, it was the college wall with dull white paint behind me. Still I wasn’t convinced, is she having one of those daydreams, where you look at something and let your mind run free? May be I was that something and who wouldn’t daydream in Hindi class? But wait, she is smiling at me. How should I respond? Should I smile back (polite response) or say hi (show that I am brave)? So I did the obvious, I looked down. When I looked at her again, she was still looking at me, still with that infectious smile. But she slowly turned her attention to her book and was reading something to herself.
She had me with that first gaze. The sun looked warmer, the breeze cooler and the rain was singing. Even the college toilet was looking like a throne. Things that hormones does to you!!
I managed to find her name, it was Helen {obviously name changed here}. After 2 days I managed to smile back at her but didn’t have the courage to talk to her. What’s the rush, she is not going to go anywhere? Or would she? There are boys still hunting. I better check with my friends to see how they have progressed? Pity on them, I thought. Why are they not lucky like me?
One evening, I, Sandeep {name NOT changed}, Faisal {name NOT changed}, Niyaz {name NOT changed} and couple of other guys met together in the playground after the college. We were talking about usual stuffs, bikes and cricket. After some time, we slipped to the obvious topic, girls. I was happy to find out that all of them have made good progress except of Faisal who was rejected and was called an idiot by a girl. Poor fellow, we gave him courage and support.
When it was my turn to talk, I told them that there is an angle for me and I gave them a clue that she is in the Hindi literature class. Everyone was anxious. Finally after a lot of persuasion I told them that it was Helen. Sandeep was shell shocked. He told me to forget her since she is already in love with him. I told him that’s impossible, since she smiles at me and told him about that amazing gaze she gives me. Sandeep told me that it is the same gaze that gave him several sleepless nights.
To our surprise, Niyaz shouted at both of us. He claimed that the gaze was meant for him since he sits in our path and is the first in her path. He obviously has a point but we will never agree to that. After all we 3 sit somewhere in the same line of sight.
We all then came to a consensus. The next day we 3 will walk up to Helen and ask her who she really loves? For who was that beautiful smile meant to be and who is that beautiful gaze targeting?
Faisal, who was silent till that moment, suddenly said, “No need guys. I already asked her. She was the one who rejected her. She is just counting the number of idiots in the class.”
Only then did we understand the game. She was marking us out one at a time and we fools jumped into her trap. Talk about black widow spider, this is the human version.
Now looking back at this story, we still laugh at these beautiful moments. The following years we were seniors and our classmates had no choice. The tables were turned!!!

Saturday 14 July 2012

Right to piracy

Remember those old days, when you could record radio songs, when you could record programs from your TV using VCR. Those were the golden days, but now if you save a youtube song on your laptop, you are a criminal. If you record telecasted movies on a DVD, you are a thief. Making private copies of a public broadcast makes you a pirate? Where is the morality in that? After the first public broadcast, the content must be free for private use.
RadioVCR
The way I see it, on a broader perspective, there is restriction on freedom. Today, its restriction on digital content and tomorrow, it will be communication and after that your thoughts and ideas. The patent laws are expanding their coverage from exotic technology to main stream ideas. The unholy alliance between tech giants have been responded with counter patents, rather than seeing the abolishment of stone age laws.
downloadbutton
Think of the schools you went to. What if tomorrow they say that the information you studied cannot be applied or passed on? Moreover in schools we are taught to share. Theft is taking the original, but piracy makes a copy for private use. Selling it commercially must be banned and seen as theft. In other words piracy must be free.
music sharing
Do you know that digital revenues grew by 5.3% year on year to $4.6bn to account for 29% of all recorded music revenues.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/28/global-recorded-music-sales-fall]. So its not a matter of survival rather greed that makes then stop making private copies.
However I am against the idea of selling latest products stolen from a private screening. Call me anti-establishment but also call be free thinker.


Saturday 19 May 2012

Human: herbivore or carnivore or omnivore

When searching the internet for dietary advices, one is easily mislead with propaganda and lack of scientific knowledge. We usually come across debates on whether human beings are herbivores, carnivorous or omnivores. In schools we have always learned that human come under omnivore. But a lot of blogs and sites back the idea of human being herbivore. Let’s look at some of their usual claims and the scientific fact.
Most of the arguments are not even related to the species digestion. Like the argument of relation between the facial muscles in a species to the food it eats. It’s like saying I know to speak English and therefore I am an English man. Absolutely absurd and ridiculous.
Even the length of the canine teeth could be misleading. Have you seen the canines on a gorilla? Can you infer that it is the largest meat eater?
gorilla canine
How about the Panda? Its diet is made of 99% bamboo shoots. Have you seen the canines on them?
 panda-teeth
Yes, there are carnivores with long canines and herbivores with flat canines. But you will have to look look at a more scientific way rather than measuring the length of canines.
cat_canine_teethcattle-teethimggoat teethdog caninehumanteethLion Teeth
A wolf eats a lot of meat but wolves will supplement their diet with fruit and vegetable matter; they willingly eat the berries of mountain ash, lily of the valley, bilberries, blueberries andcowberry. Other fruits include nightshade, apples and pears. They readily visit melon fields during the summer monthswolf-teeth
So looking at canine and saying something unscientific is another way of showing your ignorance.
Even more idiotic is looking at the nails. Comparing the manicured nails of human to that to wild animal is nothing short of being ludicrous in its highest form. And more outlandish is comparing that to hooves of cattle to determine the diet of human. Insane!!!
Let’s look at some of the main arguments.
1. The most common argument is the length of the intestines of human, herbivores and carnivores. I am posting below some of the images. I am sure many of you will recollect them from your school days.
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The claim is actually a contradiction where the length is longer in carnivores and omnivorous but smaller in herbivorous.
2. Another famous misleading argument is the pH level of stomach.
The pH of gastric acid is 1.35 to 3.5 in the human stomach lumen, the acidity being maintained by the proton pump H+/K+ ATPase. The parietal cell releases bicarbonate into the blood stream in the process, which causes a temporary rise of pH in the blood, known as alkaline tide.The pH of your stomach is very acidic it ranges between 1.5-3pH, it is maintained by hydrochloric acid (HCL) and gastrin. A specific enzyme, pepsin, is activated and works best on digesting proteins in the acidic environment.
The stomach is acidic in order to kill any bacteria that enter the stomach. The acid does not break down food, but contains an enzyme called protease, a form of pepsin, which breaks down proteins into polypeptide chains. No further digestion takes place in the stomach, as this takes place in the ileum, small intestine. The stomach has to maintain its acidity for the enzyme protease to function. The stomach acid is very acidic, but is also quite dilute, and the acid (Hydrochloric Acid) is fairly harmless in this diluted state.
The pH of a cow's stomach is 6.5 to 7. Maintaining rumen pH levels between 5.9 to 6.2 can optimize microbial yield and VFA production. Cow has four stomachs: first two are weakly alkaline so bacteria can live in them, the fourth one=the real stomach=abomasum is acidic, like any stomach. the third one=omasum is somewhere in between, but probably much closer to the rumen and reticulum, as its function is mainly to absorb water, not acid hydrolysis.
The dog's stomach will produce some large amounts of strong acid, thus lowering the pH level down to somewhere between 1 and 2! Now, pH=1 corresponds to an acidity you would obtain with a 0.4% solution of Hydrochloric acid!
3. I like this argument a lot : When you see a dead animal on the road, do you feel to eat it? (A question in favour of vegetarians) In the same way, if you see a tomato in the gutter, do you grab it and devour it?
4. Now let’s look at the way a herbivore digests vegetation. A cow has 4 stomachs (actually 1 stomach but 4 compartments) which digest cellulose by fermentation. This is facilitated by the microbes (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, archaea, and viruses) in the rumen which digest the food. These microbes are the actually reason why herbivores digest the vegetation that it consumes. Humans on the other hand lack these cellulose breaking microbes and rumen. We cannot digest grass or leaves in its natural form.
5. Saliva indicate we could be omnivores. Saliva and urine data vary, depending on diet, not taxonomic group.
6.BAPN(beta-aminopropionitrile) is also a metabolic product of a compound present in sprouts of grasspea, pea and lentils. BAPN cause skeletal disorder because it affects the bones and connecting tissues.
Raw cashews contain urushiol, which is the same chemical that you’d find in poison ivy. It can cause the body to have a very similar reaction to one experienced from poison oak or ivy. If a high level of urushiol is ingested, it can be deadly.
If you’ve ever looked at a potato, you may have realized that some turn a greenish colour. This is due to levels of glycoalkaloid poison. In the past, there have been deaths due to potato poisoning. It is rare, but most happen due to someone drinking potato leaf tea, or eating green potatoes. Death doesn’t come suddenly. It usually results in weakness and then a coma. Don’t worry about having the occasional green potato chip, but do discard any potatoes that have green eyes, sprouts, or greenish skins, rather than prepare and serve them, especially to children.
Amonds without heating are poisonous, because it has cyanide. As well as Apple seeds have cyanide.
Eating too much of meat can lead to cancer and cholesterol.
Tomato leaves and parts contain glycoalkaloid which is actually very poisonous.
7. Only animal food have Vitamin B12 in human usable form. It’s easier to get protein from animal products than eating very substantial amount of protein rich vegetation. And minerals like iron, calcium and zinc come easy from meat.
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Instead of me deriving the conclusion, accept the facts and eat healthy. The best diet is a balanced diet of green and meat. The answer at this point is certain, we are neither carnivore or herbivore, but a classic omnivore.
The best arguments in support of a meat-free diet remain ecological, ethical, and health concerns
NOTE: Milk is broken down by an enzyme called lactase in mammals. Humans being mammals have this ability in their infancy but as we grow old we produce less of this enzyme. By the child reaches 6-7 years, this ability is very diminished. So drinking milk is arguably not advantageous once you reach your adulthood compared to your childhood.
We get almost all our energy by burning oxygen in our body. That’s why we breathe. Let’s not breath in carbon di oxide which is actually our waste product. It’s like eating our shit. But better than inhaling carbon monoxide. Nicotine and tar. Stop smoking because its actually poisonous to you and the people around you.
I will be adding more of the arguments as I go along with the actual scientific facts behind them. Why because people believe whatever is written on the internet without verifying the facts.

Thursday 23 February 2012

The man who invented slow motion.

Have you ever seen a person move so slow that he appears stationary? This is the story of such a person. His name is Shashi (fake name). He has this ability to ride his bicycle so slow that even old people would walk past him.
But I am going to speak of his other ability, one that is so unique to him. He is a living magnet of the cricket ball. He could attract any cricket ball going in some other direction to divert and hit him on his chest. For a guy with such dangerous quality, his house is in the worst possible location, at the end of a cricket ground. Given his unique ability to attract balls, there are some pretty amazing stories of the ball finding its target in the most unusual ways.
Once he was reading newspaper inside the comfort of his house. The cricket ball went through the open window of his house to crash into his chest making a hole in the newspaper. Once he was playing cards under the shade of a tree at a corner of the ground. The cricket ball went straight to the tree hitting the branch and finding its target. This time it hit his head from behind. The force was so strong that he practically fell face down into the deck of cards and came up with a card in his mouth.
And many times, the ball would fly high only to land on his chest while he is on his bike with precision timing. Of all these stories, one story stands out as the best that I could remember.
It was a very close match between our cricket team and our rival team. It was the last over and our rival team needed 5 runs to win. The match was so interesting that there were many spectators gathered to watch of which one was our Shashi. When the last over was being bowled, our fielders were on their toes stopping every attempt for runs. In the 4th delivery of the over, the batsman hit the ball and it was racing towards the boundary. Our youngest and strongest fielder stopped the ball before it could reach the boundary. While he was collecting the ball in his hands, he noticed that the batsman was looking to run again. The fielder did not think then, he aimed at the wicket keeper and threw the ball with all his might.
Only that the ball slipped from his hands and went straight towards Shashi’s chest who was smoking a cigar. The ball landed on his chest with a thundering sound and threw his cigar away in the force of the impact. The whole cricket ground went silent. We were expecting Shashi to yell at us for what we have done, instead he turned and walked. We thought that it is nothing serious since he is not complaining. But the truth was worse. He walked away for he was out of breath. He was not able to breathe in because of the impact to his chest. There was cigar smoke coming out of his nose like mist as he walked in circles.
After a couple of minutes, he could breathe again and the started shouting at us in all the possible ways. He used words that I haven’t heard of, in different ways I haven’t thought of. After half an hour of yelling, he sat down. People who were gathered around asked us to take him to the hospital and so we did.
In the hospital, the doctor asked us to take an X-ray of his chest. When the doctor examined the results, and analysed the extend of different injuries to his chest, the doctor asked, “Did you boys throw stones at the poor man?”

Friday 4 November 2011

The task of a critic.


Every walk of life is filled with critics judging everything that they have seen or not. The task of a critic is easy in many ways. There is nothing to lose and they command a position over those who offer their dreams, their labour and sometimes their life to our judgement. It’s even more fun to tease and to hear someone tease. But the reality is that any average work or attempt is far beyond the value of our criticism.

When was the last time we presented ourselves to the judgement of others and risked it all? It’s hard for a new talent to come on the arena and present us with something different. We must have the patience to appreciate the attempt and understand the thought and work that has gone behind to present us and capture our attention. Not everyone is talented but we must appreciate when we see an attempt because talent can come from anyone.