River of thoughts

It was a few years back, the initial days of the band when one of my bandmates came up with a song called River of Thoughts. I wasn't paying much emphasis on lyrics those days so I really can't say that the song changed me completely or deeply influenced me. But I remember the name. Very vividly. Especially today.

For starters, I'm ok with getting arrested if expressing my views is a crime in this country. So, that's where I'd be if you don't hear from me for a very long time.

Now for the subject - No one owns water. It is extremely disheartening to see people squabbling over water. I'm not taking any sides. I'm not saying who has to do what. Its not my position to say so, without knowing the complete story. Like how there are issues on one side, there will be issues on the other side as well. It is quite but obvious that human nature will force you to take sides. Sadly, this gets on to classify people based on their religion, culture and language.

Every solution has a problem. Its easy for me to sit at home and say this. Farmers who protest are very valid in their claims. But targeting people purely based on any of my afore mentioned parameters is just plain simple boorish.

I'd restrained myself from talking about all of this so far. From talking about all the crap that the so called news channels promote as news. From talking about public refraining from all the violence that we saw a few weeks back. From basically having a biased opinion, because it is wrong to comment without knowing any story completely. I saw a video today on a social networking site. Promoted by a news channel as well. I can't find enough words to express how disgusted I am with it. I'm really sad that I commented on it and tagged a friend on it as well, something that I should remove right away so that the post doesn't get promoted. Ok, so that is taken care of right away.

You don't make videos where you belittle people from other cultures. And the bloody news channels shouldn't promote something like this with great support and the numerous hashtags. Solution to sharing is always something that is amicable. Because, duh, its called sharing. The solution isn't to hit people, it isn't to create arson, it isn't to create such shitty videos which come up with the lamest things on the planet - We all know the dispute is between which states over which water source here. There is a line that says Kannad gothilla, something that is oft used to mock the non native Kannada speaking "North Indians". So what if it isn't related. Let's make a video anyway. We'll get our share of fame for as long as the subject is in discussion. Pains me. Just pains me. And using a medium of Music for this. People, just quit. Music is definitely an expression of your rebel. But I'd definitely take offence if your song lyrics say - "Hit the people, sack the people and hit them till he bleeds."

I'm disgusted. Appalled and too much in shock.

Human brain

This thing keeps me intrigued. Like really.

I come from a time when even owning a computer at home was termed a luxury. And soon after a considerable folk started to, the middle aged men who would meet up at social gatherings would keep repeating (like most always do) about their brain being a hard disk that stores a lot of information and it never gets erased. It was some reference that the person who made the joke would laugh louder than the ones who heard it.

Well, humans. We all age, we all wear out, we all rot. If that joke didn't catch up on people, it was probably because of this.

But technically, I sometimes feel if its a hard drive or a RAM. I honestly am in no capacity to discuss in these technical terms, so I'll get rid of the jargon before I say something stupid.

The point I'm trying to make is, we all absorb a lot of information. Some extremely essential, some luxurious and mostly unwanted - the stuff we could do without. And then, who keeps recalling this information time and again thereby making the present situation a pain to live in? The brain. Some information that would have been essential at a point of time would somehow wear out in importance. 13 years down the line, when such an incident is called upon, the brain pulls out the information in exactly the way that it requires. A sad thing, it never happens for most of us when we write exams of any kind, at any level of maturity. I know the technical stuff - things that we want to remember, things that are dear to us, we make sure we remember that. Does that mean you erase off the rest? You don't! At that point, that information is probably useless and its stored in some deep storage. When the situation comes back, if at all it does, the brain pulls it out and presents it to you. How many times would each of us have experienced this! Just imagine, information of this degree, of this size - even if its stored in a computer, we would lose track of what to pull out when and from where. Despite its size, the brain simply sits and works, organising stuff in the head and neatly stacking them up. To a degree where I wonder if we control the brain or the brain controls us.