Financial Insecurities & Its ultimate consequences

More than twenty years ago, I had to face a close acquaintance who acted in a manner my inexperienced brain was not trained to understand its complexity. Why she behaved, the way she behaved and poor me; I was the target of her worst fear. When it became too hard for me to get a clue about her behavior, I shared it with Bernhard, the only wise man, I ever knew in my life. Then he said, its because she is facing some financial problem.  Although, I did not know her real financial issue in her life, as compared to me she was a lot better financially off and rich and acted rich. But that understanding helped me to keep close eyes on those, who seem to have money yet fear of losing it or overreact when there is sudden shortfall of it. Those people behave very strangely, when fear of uncertain future comes close by. If you have not noticed them closely then you should pay close attention to them, its almost as worse as watching those who are drug addict. Yes, there will be slight different in behavior issue than those of drug addicts.

Now, I am full grown and my keen interest in analyzing human behavior, which has only grown over the years had lead me to watch crime shows, mostly Indians. But, to understand it, I have to watch English shows too, if not similar shows then CNN to find the proper words to describe the situation; as they are pretty good when it comes to articulation. Here are some of the real life incidents of financial insecurities  and its ultimate consequences.

About a year ago, I read in news paper, that an army officer, who was on training in China had come to Nepal, just to kill his divorced wife. He had killed her first at her home and then burned her dead body on a road side of a highway. Geeta Khanal, was mother 10 year old boy was divorced from her husband couple of years ago. Locals of that area got suspicious, when he returned next day to check the remains and then they handed him to police.

After reading this news, one question really nagged me, when they were already divorced, then what could have gone worse between the estranged couple, that he had to take the harsh step to kill her ?  Later more news came in this case and in different newspapers. She had been successful in obtaining the huge chunk of property from her husband, after the divorce, which she had won in court cases.  But, as if obtaining most of the fixed properties was not enough for her, she also had filed for 50% of his current salary, which court had ruled in her favor too.

More news came about him too, that the man was dating with another woman. No one had to elaborate this that after losing everything to his divorced wife including half of his salary too, he had almost nothing left to start resettlement with new wife. It was kind of almost impossible for him to settle down again, due to his financial condition.

I found myself asking how much she should have enjoyed winning [him], in court cases. She won all the claims she made. They say, here in Nepal, court make sympathetic decision towards single women, than the real justice to those who involved in the case. She did win all the court cases but all that made her lose her life.

Here, I am not trying to justify what this man did is good, I am only trying to understand the situation, why the man found himself in a situation after divorce to kill his estranged wife ?

In another crime case, that happened in India. A policeman who had been sub-inspector almost half of his life and had sorted out many criminal cases in his thirty-two years of careers, had planned and executed the murder of his own daughter.

He was portrayed as a cruel, ruthless, abusing and full of doubt for his wife of more than forty four years, who had left him about two years before his retirement. When she was about to leave, he came to know that she had saved and bought one house in her elder daughter’s name and then the house they were living had transferred in the name of her youngest daughter.  And this mother of two daughter felt kind of deep sense of pride in this act of hers, for securing her daughters future from their own father.

This left nothing to this man after his retirement. To a man whose lifetime required him to read all the people for criminal purpose in life, was unable to guess what was going under  his nose. So, it should not surprise anyone, when he learned about all this, it shook his self knowledge of believing that, I can read people and sniff the upcoming trouble.  At the end of his life and career he had nothing, not his wife and not even home where he can stay or say its my home. He did not like sharing the house with her own daughter.

Fear of uncertain future, dominated his thought and manifestation of his behavior stunned the society. He must have thought, his house is what was his life time earning; and his own wife and daughters were treating him like strangers and it was not acceptable to him. So, he planned a murder of his own daughter.

It was a very complicated criminal case that challenged intelligence of investigating police officers to crack. It is because, that was the intention of this policeman. However, I won't tell you the details of crime because, I study complex human behaviors, when they are thrown in difficult conditions like this and read how they behave, like in the two above cases. As a writer who has keen interest in analyzing human behaviors, it's not my work to tell you, how the crime unfolded, because that is exactly not the intention of this post. Besides, you can always switch on to Sony channels, which telecast this shows for that kind of story.

Had he not knocked the door of police department repeatedly, the police officers who were once his colleague, could not have cracked the case. Therefore, one more thing also make me think hard, in this case. If it was his fear for uncertain future, which forced him to kill his own youngest daughter, the one who had got the house which should have been in his name, then had he become too arrogant in his own perfect plan, to keep knocking the door of police to find the murderer of his own daughter ? At the same time, it also made me wonder had should the mother feel still proud of her work to secure the future [with financial securities], due to which one of her daughter has to lose her life ?

Another case which again happened in India : a girls in her early twenties was killed and then her body was thrown in an open pit on the quiet area of a locality. After  investigation, it was learned she was killed by a man in his late twenties, son of a man with whom this young woman was dating. The fact was that she was dating with a man who was almost thirty years older than her. This old man had a sick wife, he sure did took care of his wife as a duty. Needless to mention, this older man’s wife was on bed for many years by now and was not showing any chances of recovery.

Police officers normally had to find out the motif of kill, what is the reason behind the kill ? when police asked the young man in his late twenties those questions, he had countered questioned police officers, “what would have my mother think about all this ‘filthy relationship’ and  this kind of ‘sin’ going on behind her back ?” If you watch The mentalist like me, that answer seems a pure lie.

Again the question nagged me : why this girl was a threat to the young man, that he had to kill her ? More deeper analysis would give us answer that justifies the kill. His mother was dying and after her death, his father would have re-married to this young woman. He would have lost everything, I mean his father’s property to this young woman, which he would have got after the death of his father. So, to secure his ancestors property, this young man must have thought had to kill the love of his father. Oh, yes his young sister was also involved in this case.

Does the secure future has all the answer that rest in family properties ? Is this what they call financial security ? And people will do anything, I mean anything even to kill near and dear ones ? Could there be any other reasons behind  above crimes ?

Although, my zodiac sign is balance scale, however; its not my job to judge people based on their criminal activities. I only study how they manifest their behaviors. And just because I watch many crime shows, it does not make me police to question, why they killed someone like this or that, there are police department to do this kind of work. And last but not the least, I am not a religious leader to say this is a sin, because for that kind of work there are plenty of judgmental people to give their opinion for this kind of act.

As a writer and a person who has keen interest in analyzing human behavior, I self study it and its my work to understand why they did what they.  

Fear, fear of uncertain future; do have tremendous power to change the whole incident to a different level. Its ultimate result do shake our conscience as a human being. Is this the real face of most intelligent creature on earth or this is just an excuse to do something horrible acts that happen in the above three cases ? Is financial security is everything ? It seems to me to some it is.

Is concept of Karma is misconception ?

Delfina’s is an eighteen year old normal teenager, but the only thing that differs her from rest of the people is, when she cries she cries blood tear. Her story came in Discovery Channel, Body Bizarre, as an effort to understand the medical anomalies some people face like her. There are so many people, who have such medical problems in their life. All of them have different and compelling story to tell but my attention was caught by Delfina’s case, she not only cries blood, but, also sweats but blood also gushes out from her nose and ear when she is tensed even slightly. It started when she was fifteen years old and now she is only eighteen. The TV channel team followed her everywhere to cover her story not only in her house  but also when she went to see doctors.

Her visit to many doctors did not offer any clue to the problem she was going through. Doctors could not find anything wrong inside her body, besides there was no such major physical complications she was facing, even after she bled from all parts of her body. Yes, due to excessive bleeding, she had lost her hairs, like those who goes through chemotherapy. During one of such visit in a clinic when doctor could not find any problem in her system, she was referred to psychotherapy department. This suggestion was something that made her bleed instantly from nose and ear just as she stepped outside from the doctors room. It panicked attending doctors who had seen her first time and trying to understand what is causing her bleed like that, but to Delfina it was kind of usual problem.

This cluelessness of her mysterious disease reminded me of one story, which I have read on the study of the Edgar Cayce. This story talks about concept of karma rebounds. Cayce was a divine healer, with his super sensory vision under the spell of hypnosis, he could help sort out many medical mysteries like Delfina, of course in his time. He was consulted of many such medical mysteries during his lifetime and he used to offer help and also tell them, why they were suffering from such troubles in their life.

Here is one story of a young woman, who was suffering from obesity and at one point it became too miserable. Once she visited Cayce to know about her condition. His finding : two births ago, you were a famous athlete in Rome and used to make fun of those who could not run as fast as you could because of obesity. Lest, you should hurt people again in this manner, you yourself are so fat now. This story is told n the book of learn to live - 2.

That karma rebounds concept sounds really believing at first sight, and being born as a hindu, I am so tempted to believe this concept until I look into my own life and trying to rubbish the people who believed that my life was part of curse, but let me tell you another story before I tell you mine, which I find in the book, think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill.

The writer talks about his son, who was born as deaf and mute, who not only did not have physical ear, but when doctor operated him there was no sign of hearing in his lifetime. But the writer was in denial to accept the truth, so he was determined that his son will hear and speak. He asked this question to himself how ? and he, only he could have found the answer. Although, he was clueless about it, he was convinced that he will find it. His single minded determination came from Emerson saying, “The whole course of things goes in teach us faith, we need only obey. There is guidance for each of us and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right words.” For him ‘desire’ was the right word, he desired his son would not be deaf and mute.

When his son was just an infant, he would fill his minds with a burning desire to hear and speak. At one point in the book, he admitted that he infused a deceit into the mind of his son and he believed him. After about twenty years his son was able to hear with the help of an electronic hearing machine and talk just like a normal person.

“The little ‘white lies’, I planted in his mind when he was child leading him to believe his affliction would become a great assets on which he could capitalized, have been justified.”

He further writes down that in his book that, when Blair was an adult, Dr. Irving Voorhees a noted specialist on such cases examined him thoroughly. The doctor was surprised, when he learned how well Blair could hear and speak, and said his examination indicated that theoretically the boy should not be able to hear at all.

It was his statement that, if you desire, you can outwit even mother nature.

I started writing my blog to know me better, but, more than that to know my surrounding and I started digging more about things that is so perplexing truth that nagged me for a long time. Because there were something, in the notion, I am not convinced. The concept I grew up hearing it, I simply refused to believe, what I have been infused to believe. we were told that we landed up in Bal Mandir because of our past deeds and bad work in our past life. The story of Blair by his father is a prove that, if injected properly how it works so perfectly, I would like to quote him again, “it is my duty and privilege to say, I believe and not without reason, that nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.”

The only difference between this father and the people who injected so much negativity in our young subconscious mind of fully able body, during my childhood in Bal Mandir is; he was sure of what he was doing and wanted a sure fire result of it. But majority of those didis and housemothers and others, who always passed nasty and negative comments to us, were so ignorant of its lasting impact of it in the mind of a child's subconscious mind and later in life.

Don't get me wrong, I have a huge respect for  Edgar Cayce and his divine works. But after reading the book, think and grow rich which has so much similarity of my own thinking and condition I have found myself, I am forced to ask this question, to my readers is the concept of karma is true or it is just a wrong diagnosis of a situation ? What is more interesting is, that these two good men, both are Americans and were in the good work at the same time. Cayce died around 1953 while Hill died in 1970.

Beyond the Corporate Humour

A Chinese man is about to show his martial art skill, and out of nowhere his facial expression changes into pain. Camera draws back to show his hands, which he had stretch to perform. There is an Indian man biting his hand. Just then the slogan ask you on your screen, hungry for Chinese food ?

Are they nuts to make ‘stupid ad’ like this ? You must have asked this type of questions  many times, whenever you see ‘senseless’ advert like this on TV. Let me tell you, making an advert [ in foreign country as well as in India] cost them a heck lot of money than you earn in a year. If, only if you are you are in good paying company that too in management. As for your curiosity to know how much they spend playing those ads on TV ?  Its way big money than a CEO of multinational company makes in a year. Yes, even Unilever CEO.

But then, why big company spend that huge budget to make an advertisement, which not only sounds and looks ‘stupid’ but also seems total waste of money ? Here are some examples of such advertisement and along with reasoning why they spend huge money on it.

A man was walking on the street, suddenly he was hit and thrown of the road by a moving car. An ambulance appears on the scene out of nowhere, and two men came out with a stretcher and then, they picks a packet of Bingo from the floor, puts it on the stretcher and then gleefully waking takes it into the ambulance, while leaving the man laying on the floor.

If you are wondering how it works for the marketer, here is the answer, when you go to the market to buy snacks, that ad which lingers in your head without your permission [it remains in your subconscious mind] will scream in your head to buy Bingo over others that is available in the racks of supermarket or other grocery stores. As long as you keep buying Bingo, their job is done.

Have you seen a movie star Saif, asking a hen to give him three eggs, so that, he can make omelet ? The hen which is inside his kitchen, where he is about to make omelette gives him only two eggs and then he asks it in English, “I said three don't you understand Hindi ?” then the hen gives him one more egg instantly.

If I am not mistaken this is the advertisement of Amul banyan [undergarment]. But, even if I am mistaken, because Saif is the brand ambassador of this brand and he has been of this for quite some time so what is good for a brand is, star association with a product. Because it plays a huge role in sale of a product and adds brand value to any brand, not just ‘banyan’.

One of my favorite adverts of recent time is, an Indian man goes in a restaurant in China and then he embraces the big fat chicken that was dancing in front of its door. On the table inside the restaurant there was a small cute bowl with a picture of a rooster’s head. He orders his food from the menu and starts eating. His bright and happy face tells it, how much he loved it. As he was enjoying his meal, he sees a chef pass by him. He tries to communicate with the Chinese chef by flapping his folded hands saying the puck - puck taste good ! To his horror the chef communicates back with the same manner that its not the puck-puck, its bhaw bhaw showing a dog’s picture on the wall.  His look suddenly changes, which looked he was about to throw up with disgust.

Its a very good story told by the ad maker, which I never get tired of watching every time it come on my screen but, as long as I don't know or remember which company it advertised for what kind of service or product, its a total waste of money and despite the good story or good reviews it may have earned by viewers,  it fails to deliver the good result in the end to its marketer. Its just the another case of selling a story instead of a shoe.

A boy was seen with a cup filled with Pepsi up to the rim. Although, he was on the moving roller coaster, he did managed to hold his cup with Pepsi without dropping a drop of Pepsi from the cup. All this time, the logo of Pepsi on the cup can be seen. As he climbs down a sweet young girl comes to him and ask him what’s the time ? He absent mindedly pours the Pepsi out on the floor,  as he tries to see the time on his watch [it's a bit old ad].

Blue star AC ran this summer an advert : a man in his office throwing all his tantrum and at the same time his wife at home is behaving equally irritated and throwing all the tantrums, as everything and everyone seem to be annoying them. Suddenly the switch of ac is on, at the both places and there mood swings instantly. Now they seem happy and communicate in very jolly and lovable manner. It does not make any sense at all as it has no story line, but the way they did it, makes you laugh every time you see it. How a mood swings instantly  if the not air changes into cool in a room.

Good advertisement not necessary do have a good story to tell, but it also give high  importance to a branding strategy for a product as well as its best quality. The maker of the advertisement not only sold the story to you, but, branding was equally huge part of the above two advertisement making. So next time if you want to go to buy something, you will remember one such particular adverts and will choose the product that stays in your mind long after you thought you forgot seeing it, over their competitors brands.

If you think they are joking, then you got it totally wrong. Big corporate house intention is to make you buy their product by seducing your conscious or subconscious mind at the same time.

I want to win the race

I want to win a race, but I know for sure

I can't win it with a horse, which has defeated mindset.

I want to take part in this winning race now,
but, I don't have the horse, which believes he can win the race.
Should I start the race with the horse,
which doubt its not going to win the race ? or

I should train my own horse to win the race.

My only challenge is that, the race is  a very long journey,

and I can't do it alone, therefore,

I need a horse which thinks, it can help me win it.

I want to win the race, but I know for sure

I can't win the race with a horse,

which has defeated mindset.

Long distance journey and my own life being at stake

with this race, left me no choice,

but to train my own horse

Whatever time it may take, to make it believe

it will sure win the race, if only it makes its mind.

All I have to do is to breath the belief in its ear

until it believes, yes I am the horse which can make you win the race.

Enemy Inside

I do remember Christiane Amanpour once cutting short a religious lady, who was her guest - perhaps last year - for using the word ‘evil spirit’ in her talk. Seeing my brother on the top post of church’s ranking and not surprisingly, he is surrounded by others like him, who keep using evil’s spirit and devils work. I have heard them using these words for the things that ever made any sense to me. Therefore, I know exactly why she rubbished that religious lady for using the word, saying this is just ‘extreme’ way of putting it. And then there are people who never gets tired of teaching their young children to stay away from strangers as they might pose potential threat in this way or that way. Nothing unnerves me than this belief.

Last week, I watched a movie, ‘the devil inside’.  Perhaps they call it thriller or dark twist, I am quite not sure about its genre. They were talking about the people, who were possessed by devil. And at times some of them were possessed by multiple and very powerful devils. Some of them were in mental hospital and some were kept in the basement of a house, tied on their own bed. The was a story told by Rosie about her mother and she was trying to capture those things in her camera with her team. In the process she met two priest, who helped her in her quest to find some answers. The document type story telling was interesting but, by nature I don't like stories that ends on suspense, which do not offer me any clue for what they were trying to understand.

As if by coincidence, this week I read a news about a father, who had paid 10,000/- to kill her teenage daughter. Because, Chandra Raut Barai was not happy that her sixteen year old daughter Rubi had eloped with Arun Kumar Sah, a seventeen year old boy, who also happened to be their neighbor. They ran to New Delhi on March ‘13. They were brought back to village and then the girl was sent to stay in her aunt’s place in India, for some time and then again she was arranged to stay in one of her uncle’s house just couple of days before the plan that took place in may 21, 2013, where he sent contract killers to kill her. Her body was charred beyond recognition and it had taken the investigating police officers seven days, just to identify her body.

Her mistake, she had fallen in love and then eloped with a boy whose caste was different than her.

Tens of thousands of people get killed every year around the world for choosing a life partner of their choice. The reason is not just inter caste marriage;  sometimes, the other party coming from different religion, status or from the ‘enemy family’ of the same society.

I watch an Indian crime reality show, regularly. A well to do family in Punjab, Jalandhar was miffed by the murder of their servant and at the same time loss of huge cash and jewelries from safe too. When investigation ended, it shocked the parents of Sagun, in fact, it was her plan to kill, all her family members, parents and her younger brother through contract killers.

The reason, she had fallen in love with a man in her village, who was poorer than her and was from ‘lower caste’ than that of hers. Sagun’s* father threatened Charan Singh to stay away from her, and then forced him to leave the village too.  While Sagun’s parents were busy searching for a suitable man for her, she still could not shake her head from her first love. Despite Charan Singh being a married man now, they were still in constant touch.  

When Sagun’s mother Jaspreet* went to see her daughter in prison cell and wanted to know, "why she wanted them to kill ? How come that much hatred in your mind for us ?" Sagun however seem not feeling guilty not even feeling remorse she responded in reply that, “you never wanted me to be happy with my choice. When you say ‘good man’ that meant your prestige and your status in society came first, then my happiness, when it comes to my life. Where is my happiness in all that ? where is my right to choose a man for my life ?”

She sure ended up in jail but she seemed more sorry for the death of an innocent man, Gurvinder Singh, her family servant, than the plan failing to kill  her family members.

In another case, that also happened in India, Sakchhi* and Piyush* was both married now and were living in different village. Before marriage they were romantically involved and wanted to marry but they belonging to very conservative society Sakchi was married to a different man.

One day, the mother-in-law of Sakchhi was murdered and father-in-law was brutally attacked. Police officers were baffled, how come the couple did not hear the help cry from the old couple, when they were sleeping in the next room ?

During investigation, it come to know that Sakchhi’s mother-in-law had sniffed that she was having an affair with another man. The other man happened to be her old flame. She had made her feel that this relationship was ‘filthy’ and ‘sinful act’ and you must stop it immediately. 

However, Sakchhi was not feeling guilty of her relationship with her ex-boyfriend, who had killed her mother-in-law. She admitted in front of police that she was not ahamed of her relationship with her old flame, love of her live. She was not ready to stop seeing him instead she wanted to marry him and then spend rest of her life now more than ever. She was sick of pretending to be good wife and mother to her two children aged six and three, with a dead soul inside her.

If children get marry they get killed by their own parent, if children don't get a chance to marry, then they do not hesitate to kill their own parents and siblings. And if they are forced to marry with others, the first love never seem to die, it just need a chance to take a flame and then again it has power to burn everything around their life, like the Sakchhi and Piyush did to her in laws.

Why a person cannot choose a life partner of his or her choice, when they are the one who has to spend life together ? Here in my side of continent, marriage is regarded as a family affair, and the truth is, it is; in every part of the world.  But, then, why they can't choose a partner on their own to start a family of their own ? How big prestige or status pressure should be, in an individual choice ? Does those pressure fit in constitutional right of a person to have a right to think and choose a life partner ?

I have always been a hard core believer of love marriage, as against arranged and my head always bow down to those, who went for love marriage to start a new family, with or without the permission of their loved ones. But, at the same time, love marriage has also created some enemies in our society. Surprisingly, this creates enemies inside the home first, then, it becomes burning issue in society; as people gets divided into two groups depending upon their own belief. What is important to understand here is, its not love marriage, but forcing new generation to choose life partner against their wish have invited crimes in society. Its more like, who can win the argument, even if, at the cost of taking or losing life of close family members.

So, when they say love for family, what do they mean ? Is this really the case of status, prestige, caste or religion only or there is more that lies in the depth of its belly ? Is this the personal happiness that has to surrender under family status ? When they say happiness of family, does this mean, that the new generation has to surrender their happiness to the older generation ? Really ? In all the above cases, it was the older generations, who opposed the new generation’s wish to choose life partner. Not surprisingly, the unthinkable followed once they felt, its do or die situation.

In the movie, ‘the devil inside’, no one knows who and what caused all the trouble to the people they were studying. At the end, all of the involved people became the victim of that unknown power. Perhaps, some of the things remains unexplained for centuries and may be this one is one of them. However, in  above cases; people involved may be refusing to take a good look into what exactly is the problem, that made their life miserable. Its not the love marriage that is root of all problems, in fact; its our society which is bit slow in accepting a person’s right to chose a life partner, which ultimately invites all the horrible incidents in our society that ails our nation too.

At this point, I remember the African proverb that says, when there is no enemy within the enemies outside cant not hurt you.

 * In the Indian crime cases all names are changed  to  protect privacy.

Why Science & Math Mystifies Me ?

Science has always been one of my weakest subject, when I was in school and to top it all, it was math which made me even more weaker. I somehow could manage to get the pass marks to make it in science, but, math just got angry with me. Have you read my earlier blog post ? its my math and science teacher who was not happy with me, and this may be the major reason; why I am so very poor in these two subjects. But, this post is not about my math and science teacher so, I won't cover that part here.

Science just eluded me when I tried to understand it. Why it was so hard like Mandarin [Chinese language] to understand. I could read the lines but could not figure out what those lines were telling. My comprehension in science just comes to nil. I can't get it even if I try hard to get it. But I think it's not the science that I don't get it, it seems its the scientist opinions, that I failed to get.

Here are just some of the examples why I failed to get when it comes to science.  One February 15, 2013 a space rock, which the Russian Academy of Science estimated,  weighted about 10 tonnes hit the earth. The rock fell on earth at the speed of 54,000 km/h. I get this much, besides it did not hit my home so its still ok if I fail to get the power and speed of its. But as I read further down the article, was that a meteoroid ? on The Guardian by Stuart Clark that had reappeared on the Himalayan Times on  February 17, 2013.

My brain got zapped at the point when the writer tried to give us the answer;  as I did not see anything wrong in the question, here is the question and answer that goes like this:

What do we do if we spot something big heading for earth ?

A recently formed working group of United Nations committee on the peaceful uses of outer space would be called into session. Known as the space mission planning advisory group, it is composed of scientist from Nasa, the European space agency and the world other space agencies. the groups would immediately meet to advise on who has the expertise to build the different parts of the necessary space craft and who should pay for it. then it would pass the decision to the hands of politicians.

As you see, there is nothing wrong in this question. But its the answer that made my brain go in deep thought.

Does this group of scientist are telling me to escape an accident that normally kills and damage a lot less people and properties than tsunami or other natural calamities and even other accidents which falls mostly on unpopulated areas. Although, about 40,000 space rock falls on earth every year but the major one that hit earth was on 1908, when an asteroid exploded in Tunguska region of Siberia. It had flattened forest over an area of hundred of square miles. Its size was estimated 50 meter across.

Do you remember how helpless Japanese scientist were, when the 2011 Tsunami affected their nuclear centres ? The whole world could not do anything, but just wait and watch for almost a month when the threat of exploding it loomed large. Then how come this scientists can prepare themselves from the speed that is almost four times the speed of a boeing plane ? Those who say scientist are crazy bunch of people, they must be right, at least that    solution they came up do suggest they are.

Then, there is one more scientific findings based on the research that appeared in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Its about the sperm counting. In general this finding has nothing wrong except; I wonder how could they count sperms that has approximately 70 million sperm per milliliter the men produced during winter season ? The researchers found that men with normal sperm production has the healthiest sperm in the winter. For example healthy men produce 70 million sperm per milliliter of semen during the winter compared to summer. Do you know only about 5% have the motility or swimming speed which improves the couples chance to conceive babies. At the same time I am really curious how many milliliter sperm men produce at a time ?

Just tell me how could they count it so fast, when it takes every nation to keep track of population in every ten years ? which is combined years of  more than 20 - 30 years to count only about 7 billion population in the world. It took researchers from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva about three years during 2006 - 2009 to do this research. There were more than 6,000 men on this research to take part in the lead researchers fertility clinic.

Then there are some scientists who estimated that the current age of sun is about a billion years and its total age is about 5 billion. They predict that, in due course of time it will lose its heating power gradually. This prediction really got my all common sense.  Archaeological findings have revealed  time and again 100 of millions of years existence of life on earth. But, every civilization has ended earlier than 10,000 years, as much as our history supports it. None of the civilization has been successful to date back more than 10,000 years of history to prove their civilization story.

My other logic is when we do not have a history of more than 10,000 years of any civilisation, then how come a scientist can say that the sun has the age of only 5 billion years. Who will be there to keep the track of this prediction, when this civilization will one day end and then another will start ? Therefore, I think that the scientist must have bad dream before predicting age of sun.

But maybe its more than logic. His lack of knowledge that got clashed with my own knowledge. In the book by Dr. Swami prapannacharya what is in the Ved ? [p.11]  the age of universe is 15,55,21,97,29,49,982 years old. He had said the source of this fact is Ved, as the name of his book suggest. If we believe this fact, then just imagine the life of sun as guessed by western scientists, which is just 5 billion; has completed long time back and may be we have been living in dark by this time, based on that hypothetical prediction.

If you guess I have slightest idea how big the age of universe is, then you must be completely.  Told you math and science is my weakest subjects. But, one thing I am dead sure, that number is a lot bigger than the number 5 billion, the predicted age of sun by the western scientist. So big that I don't have to worry about living in dark, but will I or you or any of your ancestor will have to see or face that dark age which is going to happen 5 billion years later. So, in this matter does this even effect that I don't understand the science or the math in this case ?

But please keep in mind even if you reply my questions, remember my science and math is so poor, you might guess I might understand the answer.

Echo

Adam, Adam, Adam the small crowd usually chants in a cheerful manners to support him, as all of they want him to make it; which of course, is to win the competition. He took the challenge to eat food; that seemed almost impossible for many normal people like you or me, who have normal appetite. But Adam Richman admits, he is a normal man with unusual appetite. I hope, just like me, many of you, do love to watch this program on TLC, on man vs food.

But for me, when I watch this program, I am not much interested in what he eats and how the food taste. More than anything, I am more interested to see him making it, even at times, when his face wears a telltale look that, he is not going to make it. Then the crowd cheers him from all sides of the restaurants. More than once, he had admitted it, in front of camera its the  cheering crowd that helped him make it as a winner, than the food on the plate which seemed hard to gulp down.

Recently, I have been more interested to know the power of human brains and its capacity to do exactly, when it hears the words and starts acting on after hearing the spoken words, on the same manner.

Why is that ?

Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho, who is very well known religious leader in Christian circle and powerful international speaker too, when he writes in his book, The Fourth Dimension. “The spoken words has power, and when you release that word, it is the word, and not you, who performs miracles.” This line somewhat quench my thirst to find answer in this matter.

How spoken words makes the whole difference in a person’s life, who keep hearing the words repeatedly ? If one is encouraged in proper manner, the person will achieve the expected result, I mean exactly as expected; however if one is doubted for his/her capability for long, they are sure to stumble in the process. But if its the negative feedback, how its impact will work on the whole mass is what has the power to force me think  hard.

Some time back, as I was watching a talk show, an eminent economist Sujeev Shakya was the guest then.  He then, remarked while answering a question that, it's really been about fifty sixty years here in Nepal, we had not seen a political stability. As an individual, I am least interested in political matter, therefore that revelation was something, I found very interesting to remember. And with that, I came to know the true impact of echos of spoken words in a real sense, because reality of it was our nation's poor condition and overall performance for so long.

Just a month ago, it really had not even been a week, when Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi had taken the position of Prime Minister newspapers and Facebook post were already full of negative comments about him and the people he chose as his cabinet members or in his advisory team. How come a newly appointed politician, who was selected from out of the track to free a nation from a deadlock condition [judicial system] can be judged just in a week’s time, to his full potential. Was not that tool short time even to open anyone mouth to say he is good or bad ?

Most of the time newspapers and other media mediums are full of negative stories about politicians, but what I can't be ignored that, journalist, reporters, scribes think tanks including columnists and cartoonists are doing what they do best; to slap politicians. Now I see only the echo of what is being said for so long and how can I expect better situation here ?

In reality, politicians are there in the office only for short term but journalists and media person are there for more than thirty years doing the same work yet not being able to change society, even an inch with their news and views. What can not be ignored that they still keep blaming politicians for everything that goes wrong in our society.

Ironically, there are more journalists, media persons, and think tanks in a country than politicians, yet why nothing is changing in my country ? Forget about country, because for a country to change, our society must change first, drastically; only then, things do change in a nation. Why they are not changing society first with their powerful pen ? instead why they are focusing solely on politics and blaming it all to politicians ? Journalists and media person who cover and focus only politics, and do not touch other areas of the society are pure  status quoist, and opportunist; a scar in the name of journalists.

Well, understood, there is no second opinion that, politicians are the hated bunch of people across the globe, yet world has prospered under such politician’s leadership too. Because the growth of a nation do not entirely depend politics alone, as presumed here in my country. Then, why the good bunch of intellect group here in my country, is blaming it all to politicians ? Here people blame politicians even for a flood, and no newspaper or channel tell us that, politicians are not a rainmaker.

I am saying this based on what scanty news, I read on newspapers, see the Facebook post from seasoned journalists and reporters and sometimes I watch on TV. I also get a chance to hear those, who read and watch news most of the time. Not surprisingly, so frustrated and hopeless about my country’s future.

Covering politics only for newspaper or news channels is de-focusing from other issues and therefore, blaming politicians is purely misleading mass, because the bigger pie of journalists, reporters and media are focus digging only negative sides of society forget about just politics. Of course, mainly its politics  being the dirty game and politicians being ugly players of such dirty game. But the states fourth power is not working on the better side of our society, I mean the other sides of the society. Every society has its flaws and strength. Why focus or waste time only on flaws ?

My society indulge in blame game culture ! as if blaming is an ornament and wearing it will give us a true pride.

When will my country's intellectual group learn to vent their frustration and disappointment in the same way and otherwise ? well, the answer is very simple when journalist, reporters, think tanks and media persons are keen to learn about it. The big question is, do they know about it or have refused to learn about it.

Every time I see CNN or BBC their news and views force me to think hard; news does not necessary mean busting scam and blaming politicians for everything that goes wrong. Sometimes we need to understand the deeper lying reasons to find the answer that serve us for long term and not just for short term. You must be knowing this, Adam Richman is an american, just close your eyes for some time and think hard and try to understand what I am saying here as see the real difference between we and Americans as an example.

Anuradha Koirala and Pushpa Basnet was made heroes by CNN, Dr. Sanduk Ruit and Mahabir Pun was awarded international award like Ramon Magsaysay Award and others. Before this I have never ever read any news about these heroes, except Pushpa Basnet in the newspaper I read regularly. I also do not know about anything, they have own such award here locally for their praiseworthy contribution to our society.

Therefore, I strongly believe, my country really needs a new generation journalists, reporters and media persons and think tanks, who can make an ordinary simple man like Adam Richman to achieve something unthinkable with the echos they make.

Echo sure has a power to surprise us, we hear back what we say, in the first place, the only difference is, it comes in a different sound. Therefore, some times its really hard to believe; in fact echo is our words.