SOUL TALKS

BABY STEPS TO ELEVATOR
He held the mike for the first time in his hands with his heart pumping very fast and his all concentration centered in his inhibition and self doubt. He assimilated all his oratory powers and gave the best speech ever in the school, for which he still owes and feel gratitude for his motivating and inspiring Hindi teacher, Mrs. Ruchika, who gave him chance to showcase his potential. After that there's no looking back for him. He has traveled baby steps to elevator to reach the zenith.


Making was not so easy. He too stumbled many a times when he didn't get support of circumstances and people. Even his own zeal deceited him while eyeing the fish eye. Than his tongue became his best friend. In odds his golden words hugged him like a mentor. His passion of addressing held the  fingers of his determination like a mother giving warm protection to her child. He  started walking steady and with wisdom.

When home had no roof, warmth had no cosines, friends' trust was merely a mistrust and love of relatives had lost its colors, he decided to empower his strength to be the best. Yes, he is the best.....applauded everyone when he visited Pakistan for international MUN event. Thunderous applaud perched in his pigmy compassionate chest when he started preparing, mentoring and organizing MUN event in his own school , where he had first looked straight into those 1600 eyes and hypnotized everyone including some who were not very sure of he being he. 

In the times when his besties had opposed him and mocked him, he got shattered and felt alone, life kept balance for him to walk with self trust. He started planning running to flying.There in his shell the caterpillar started taking its metamorphosis into butterfly. Like an elephant he started walking very subtle and not paying any heed to words of discouragement in his ears. The only point he was seeing was his success in the world of orators.  

He wants to be rich not because he wants to have treasure but because he wants his sister to be a doctor and wants to be in that abandoned house which he left to be what he is now and wants to be in future. He dreams to house all happiness and joy for his family from whom he's been away ever since  he was 12. Tiny innocent child still is alive in his hopes, though he grew so old and mature in his childhood. 

Amrit Khatri, a student of Ramjas college might not be a name for so many but those who know him know that he is going to write his story of success page  by page and one day a complete book to read for others to name him in their appreciations and in vouching him for shining through his struggle.

He has a long way to go and he is covering the distance with stick of his optimism, positivity and passion. Time anticipates his glint from baby steps to elevator. He is holding the pen of his story to put a full stop and he knows when that would be.

We, all his well wishers, offer him nothing but our smiles straight from our hearts. Smiles that mean encouragement and trust in his abilities and the feel that we are proud of him.                      

Amrit: Nectar.......Live unto thy name....Timeless, boundless and Immortal.



Sangeeta Sharma

Women

Women - Should she be equal to men

She is the creator of men

O Woman! Lovely woman! Nature made thee,

to temper man: we had been brutes without you

Angels are painted fair, to look like you.”

Thomas Otway

That is the power of her existence. She is truly divine in disguise of human. But it is equally important that society runs on two wheels, both the wheels must be equally strong to run smoothly. Although legally and theoretically women is now recognized as the social equal of man, but the institutions of caste, the patriarch family and the prevailing value system are still surcharge on them due to the spirit of male dominance or what  we call male chauvinism. 

But it is the power of emotion, which is the evocation of the infinite faculties of women representing her ability to scale the height of thought, love, beauty, care, affection, sacrifice and the list is endless. She is the magnificent creation of God, a multifaceted personality with the power of benevolence, adjustability, integrity and tolerance. She is the companion of man gifted with equal mental faculty protection and provider of the embodiment of love and affection. The role given to the women in society is measuring rod and true index of its civilization attainment. She is the builder and molder of a nation’s destiny. Though delicate and soft as lily, she has a heart, far stronger and bolder than of man. She is the supreme inspiration for man’s onward march.

If one happens to turn the pages of history (women like Mother Teresa, Kalpana Chawla, Sushmita Sen and so many worth appreciating) role of women stand out in resplendent letters. As she not only has proved her abilities as soft, delicate, emotional and caring mother, wife, sister, nurse but also she is the one who has attained the heights of achieving success in the field of Aeronautical sciences. She is spreading the message of being equal to men by achieving success in almost all walks of life which earlier was considered foreign to women’s nature and attitude.

It is hard fact that when men get name and fame and recognition it takes them to chauvinistic attitude, and they start considering themselves as the unconquerable monarchs, but look at the women’s modesty and generosity she accepts this looked upon attitude not to challenge the world of men but accepts it as a trifle hurdle where like other spheres she has to mark her presence, which is yet to be discovered, which is yet to have spread some vestiges of hope.  Why shouldn’t she be considered equal to men? Why? After all she plays great part in the progress of any country as the mental and physical contact of women with life is much more lasting and comprehensive than of men. “For the hands that rocks the cradle rules the world”. In women is hidden the revolutionary energy which establish paradise on this earth. She is less selfish; more dedicated to duty and have much potency than men by nature. Only elevating presence of women on the top can help bring in a semblance of order in the present situation, where she is looked upon as the mere, pitiable, weak, helpless and dependent creature. Not only this she is emotional, affectionate, caring and yet firm and is the perennial source of aspiration for man himself in the odyssey of life. Without the emancipation of women, existence of Adam was meaningless. She is the cultural backbone of the society. She is the incarnation of love and existence of men’s very presence.

This is the era of women. They are gradually emerging as a force in social cultural as well as political fields of the country. The tolerance, perseverance, inner strength, insight efficiency of a responsible and good being women help in the governance of the country on wider scale and of family in narrower sense. If men have sight women have insight. She has now occupied a pivotal position and has achieved eminence in different fields. Obstacles, yes obstacles are there in her venture of establishing her presence felt as equal to men but she continues to bind it with hope, optimism, happiness and virtue together as by an indissoluble chain. It is her power only that sets her apart from men on the lower rungs of the evolutionary ladder. Rather it will not be an exaggeration if it is said that it is only such qualities, which moulds her personality to a God like height.

 But she is the other half of men. She has got her existence from Adam’s shoulder bone not to forget the evolutions of the first Homo sapiens. Men and women are like body and soul. Like a body without a soul implies a rotting carcass, left to waste away in to nothingness. It is the sexual character which turns breathless life into an otherwise inanimate piece of clay, transforming it into a living piece of creation. It means it is through their complementary relationship only life is generated, so where is the space left to discriminate between them. There are just small oblivions which need to be replaced with shining world which should echo concrete jingles of equal and hormonal relationship between men and women. After all nothing is perfect.