"Chennai Rains" the news reader repeats the news to show the submerged roads and buildings. It is a cool non-rainy day which was declared as holiday for schools by the district collector at our place, fearing the same scene may get repeated here too.
For the last fifteen days it has become a practice for my children to watch TV news in the morning before they go to school. Not that they became interested in the constitutional debate or developed an interest for what blunder Rahul is going to make today. But it is the message of the met. dept about the possible rain fall and confirmed holiday on account of that, which is more interesting to know.
These unexpected holidays which have an element of surprise which even surpasses that of a stock broker in the opening hour of stock markets became happiest moments for children across tamilnadu where rain is only expected but never rained.
Today's holiday made my younger son to test his skills at painting. Half an hour has passed since he decided to give a tough time to MF Hussian paintings. Suddenly a crayon hits the wall with a scream in the back ground. The time has come for me to play the role of a parent cum coach cum pacifier.
I looked at the canvas which was milky white until a few minutes ago now got turned into a color bank displaying each color you can imagine.
" I am not able to apply any new colors on this" complained my son.
"You can't", I replied. "Because only a white background can display any color properly,not this paper which has all the colors applied on".
My discussion ended suddenly as the voices on tv increased with the auto decibel increasing facility the television channels got these days. Some one is screaming at the other on an issue related to constitution.
All political parties were started by some visionaries who never bothered about themselves. They devoted their life to the cause of society. They had great ideals. They wished to make the society a better place to live. They worked hard towards achieving their goals.
They had laid down clear principles on which the system is supposed to work. If their ideology was fundamentally wrong or if they had any other dishonest motives, probably they might not have succeeded in creating a nation wide phenomenon.
But what we see now in many of the political or non political organisations is something completely contrary to what it was earlier. They became murky with people leading them becoming opaque in their vision. They became individual centric, creating demi gods. They became instruments to cater personal needs of the leaders and their followers.
What started with a clear canvas and a beautiful picture on it drawn carefully by the original painter became dirty over a period of time.
Each leader who inherited the reins of the organisation tried to apply colors of his choice on the canvas.
Their shadows covered the original picture and it was lost long ago.
Be it the religion or political party or any other organisation or movement that was brought into existence gets it's basic character covered in many colors over a period of time..
The only way may be, is to undo all these colors and look at the original picture once again to start the journey afresh and make it more purposeful.
Because YOU CAN'T PAINT ON A DIRTY CANVAS...
For the last fifteen days it has become a practice for my children to watch TV news in the morning before they go to school. Not that they became interested in the constitutional debate or developed an interest for what blunder Rahul is going to make today. But it is the message of the met. dept about the possible rain fall and confirmed holiday on account of that, which is more interesting to know.
These unexpected holidays which have an element of surprise which even surpasses that of a stock broker in the opening hour of stock markets became happiest moments for children across tamilnadu where rain is only expected but never rained.
Today's holiday made my younger son to test his skills at painting. Half an hour has passed since he decided to give a tough time to MF Hussian paintings. Suddenly a crayon hits the wall with a scream in the back ground. The time has come for me to play the role of a parent cum coach cum pacifier.
I looked at the canvas which was milky white until a few minutes ago now got turned into a color bank displaying each color you can imagine.
" I am not able to apply any new colors on this" complained my son.
"You can't", I replied. "Because only a white background can display any color properly,not this paper which has all the colors applied on".
My discussion ended suddenly as the voices on tv increased with the auto decibel increasing facility the television channels got these days. Some one is screaming at the other on an issue related to constitution.
All political parties were started by some visionaries who never bothered about themselves. They devoted their life to the cause of society. They had great ideals. They wished to make the society a better place to live. They worked hard towards achieving their goals.
They had laid down clear principles on which the system is supposed to work. If their ideology was fundamentally wrong or if they had any other dishonest motives, probably they might not have succeeded in creating a nation wide phenomenon.
But what we see now in many of the political or non political organisations is something completely contrary to what it was earlier. They became murky with people leading them becoming opaque in their vision. They became individual centric, creating demi gods. They became instruments to cater personal needs of the leaders and their followers.
What started with a clear canvas and a beautiful picture on it drawn carefully by the original painter became dirty over a period of time.
Each leader who inherited the reins of the organisation tried to apply colors of his choice on the canvas.
Their shadows covered the original picture and it was lost long ago.
Be it the religion or political party or any other organisation or movement that was brought into existence gets it's basic character covered in many colors over a period of time..
The only way may be, is to undo all these colors and look at the original picture once again to start the journey afresh and make it more purposeful.
Because YOU CAN'T PAINT ON A DIRTY CANVAS...
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