The White Tiger

I bought this book on the streets of Bangalore where they sell duplicate books for less than half the price of original. Sorry Aravind, this would mean I am promoting privacy. Sorry for that. But I am happy for buying this book not for the cost but for the content and his writing style. With simple English and a humor touch its a good book to read.

The story is about a Village boy who becomes a driver and later an entrepreneur. Most of the story is in flash back. The story starts with Balram writing a letter to the Chinese Premier. Balram, the village boy who is the main character in the the story, was compared to White Tiger by his school inspector. Balram who hails from a sweet makers family, thus with last name as Halwayi. Writer has given a beautiful picture of how the landlords exploit the poors in vllages. His dreams of studying in school was short lived since his brother takes him out of the school and puts him in a tea shop to pay back the loans. He learns to drive a car after over hearing about the payments for a driver while cleaning the tables in the teashop. He comes to delhi with his land Lord as his driver. Delhi and its lifestyle is explained beautifully. The lives of drivers is beautifully written as well. It is in Delhi the writer kills his land road and runs away to Bangalore. I didn't like this part since he has written it as if its not a big deal to kill some one. Later in Bangalore he starts his Taxi service which was a booming industry because of the BPO/IT industry.

Over all the book is nice to read and you can carry this to read while travelling.

What is happening here?

In the recent past we have heard many stories in the NEWS channels about political parties hitting North Indians, women in the Pub, damaging public properties like buses and shops. Parties like MNS is been very active in finding out which North Indian is working where and how ti politicize the issue and gain some cheep publicity. This trend is also in run in the neighboring status like Karnataka where women in the Pub are beaten up in public. Adding more fuel to the fire, some of the news channels where present at that very moment capturing it live in their camera as if its a cricket match. This news was on air in almost all the NEWS channels for quite some time. Things don't end here, Mr Pramod Mutalik is live on TV and says that they have done everything right by hitting those women and would continue to do so in the future. This according to him is against our Indian culture. They call themselves are custodians of our culture. Shivsena's spokes person gives a statement that they are against women going to pubs. What an irony, the chief of Shivsena wants Red wine to drink and Cigar to smoke.

If we dig little deep in to such matters, we fill figure out that these are some trivial issues and have least importence at this moment for our nation. Just because some women in the urban India go to pub, drink wine and dance that doesn't mean we are loosing our culture. I guess the percentage of such women is hardly anything. Even in MNS case, the Maharashtra government reported that more than 80 % of the employed are from Maharashtra. Then why people like Raj Thakarey and Pramod Mutalik are making it a big issue. The only reason is their cowardliness to fight issues like corruption, poverty, child labour, etc. Even today in many places common man doesn't have a proper shelter to live, pure water to drink, and good food to eat. If you look at the urban problems its hell mounting. Slums, Pollution, bad roads, Traffic Jams, delay in construction all have become like part of life in almost all the cities. Why can't our political parties taks such issues and fight against the government or bodies?

Many news channels air such silly news to gain the TRP. The importance given to such news is so much that many of the important news have been forgotten. Some time its raises questions and doubts over the moral duties of such channels. These channels seems to be misusing the freedom. Its time now that Indian government should have a board to control/monitor these media. Media has to play an important role in bringing better governing practice. Media has to use its power in the right direction. Media will be playing an impotent role in shaping the future of this country. Millions of people in India every day eat and breath TV.

Today many people have lost their confidence over the government and political leaders. This is no good for the future of this country. Judicial system has lost its importance. We stand in top 10 for the corruption. We are one the most polluted country. 80% of the jobs are unaccounted in our country. The percentage of people paying Tax is very low. Politicians do you want any more issues? Can't you fight for such important issues? Do we need to leave our jobs and take care of these problems also?

Knowledge

To know is knowledge. To know about what? To know about man, material, etc. But how do we gain knowledge?

Man starts learning since his birth. Scientists have even proved that a baby learns from the days of its mother's womb. To support that statement, we have a mythological story where Abhimanyu learnt his first half lesson about the art of war when he was in her mother's womb Subhadra. It was lord krishna who was telling the story.
Man is a bundle of flesh when he is born. None of our five senses will be working properly. A new born baby's eye sight will be blurr initially. It can notice only dark colors. So is the case with other four senses. The sense of taste starts working the moment baby starts drinking the Milk. Initially baby will not even understand that it is suppose to drink the Milk when it is feeling hungry. Because both Milk and feeling of hungriness is very nave to it. It is here where we first start to accumulate the knowledge. As the baby passes the age, all its senses starts working better and better so is the cognition of knowledge and at the age of 7 they will have their first cut of impression about this world.
Now let us for a moment try to understand how do we learn. Man typically learns through his experiences. When we see an object, the light which falls on the object and reflects, falls on our eyes, and it reaches our brain nerves. It is here where we actually see the object. And if you see it for many times there happens a Synaptic connection which helps you to remember that object. The Eye, which is a sense organ was believed to be the place where man sees the object which was later disproved by other scientists. In the similar fashion we listen, taste, smell and hear. Our mind stores the information as images. That is why it is quick to learn for the children if you show them an object associating the word. That is why they show the image of an Apple in the book. Thus we keep accumulating the knowledge day by day.

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