Sunday, 6 April 2014

MOBILE….

What is Mobile?

Is it a device, a game or your girlfriend, is it Sun, Moon or breathe of life. I think it’s breathing since we are checking our mobiles at the same frequency as we breathe. We can call it as a device as it helps us in day to day activities, or a game, as it has entertaining feature. We can also call it as girlfriend as we are addicted/ dependent on it. For most people we may call it as Sun/Moon as we see it in morning once we woke up and in night before hitting bed. All the above things are okay, they can be dealt with but the major concern here is, mobile has become a life supporter/Saans/Breathe of our life. Now we cannot live without it, we feel insecure, as if someone has taken away our life. If I say about the mobile in such a way; you might think that I am a critic, so I have tried 2 experiments to check mobile effects on myself.


1st When I was not in India, I didn’t used mobile and felt nothing although I didn’t had any choice also, 
2nd when I was in India- I tried to put it away for a day, but I couldn’t as it works as a clock for me, So how so ever critic I am, one or the other way, I am also dependent on mobile but up to a limit and the limit decides that it has become breathe for our life or not.

My thoughts: Mobile is necessary but up to certain limits, we have to make sure that it does not become a necessary evil. Use it but don’t overuse it, don’t let it overcome yourself.
Never get addicted to Whatsapp/FB/Angry Birds or any other things, but try to have face to face interaction with people, don’t keep texting on whatsapp but call that person at least once in a new moon.


Rest: Its your life, you have to decide.

Monday, 31 March 2014

Running to Madurai

Bridge between India and Lanka
 We can get autorickshaws for visiting Rameshwar city right from outside the Ramnathswamy temple. They charge us Rs. 500 and show all the 10 famous spots. I don’t remember all the names and locations but Ill tell you the main ones-1st was a temple, from where we can see the complete Rameshwar, it was situated well above ground level. 


Train Bridge between mainland India and Rameshwaram
Next we visited the Ramsetu, although we cannot exactly see the bridge, but the point from where it was actually started.  Its said that in 2006 Tsunami, the bridge was submerged under water and not only the bridge but one complete village. As per todays date, we can see people walking in ocean (on submerged bridge) for atleast 2-3 kms which shows existense of bridge from India to Sri Lanka. We can even purchase floating stones from there by paying Rs. 150-200.


Dr. Kalam's House
There were small temples and lakes in between and also Thakurjis Baithak ji. Then there was a Panchmukhi Hanuman temple and the most interesting “Kalams House”, Indias X President used to live in Rameshwaram and has modified 1st floor of his house into a museum. It houses all the prestigious awards earned by the Missile Man. Its actually an inspiration source for todays youth and the only museum in India without an entry fee.  



It took us around 2 hrs to complete the spots, tour was wrapped up by 11 o clock in morning. Hence we started running to Madurai-our next destination. Previously our plan was to spend a day in Rameshwaram and next in Madurai, and we were able to close the show in a single day. I advised Baba that we can visit Kanyakumari and come back instead of going Madurai, but he didn’t had the thing to move to a new place and return. So we just visited Madurai.

We were there by 3 o clock but at that time Meenakshi Temple was closed so we visited a fort nearby, in the meantime we rescheduled our bus for the same day-thanks to internet and mobile, since it was useless to do timepass in madurai. Next we visited another big temple-Meenakshi and then too bus station. In short we visited 2 holy places in a single day and returned back to Chennai.