NEW HOPES, NEW DESIRES

  We, human beings, are social creatures by nature. For us socialising and engaging with others in a conversation is almost as crucial for survival as eating and breathing. With time, our ways of communicating has evolved. With the development of technology and advancement in medium of communication, there are many channels and modalities through which one can communicate. Gone are the good golden days when people used to sit together and enjoy the “face to face” interactions. The regular one to one interactions are replaced by the web conferencing, instant messaging and emails. The social media has no doubt played an important role in reviving and connecting with our long lost pals and family members through its medium. Individuals who are living away from their families remain connected with them. At the professional level, organisations have found a new channel of communication through the use of online platforms. These platforms are a blessing in disguise for the organisation...

Every one of us remains dissatisfied throughout one’s life regarding the deprivation of one or the other kind. And this deprivation is nothing but sheer notional as the same is a deprivation about something which humans have themselves created. Humans have created wealth, religion, caste and other such amorphous and false divisions and values in their communal life and have since been running after them. Knowing very well that none of our material possessions would accompany us to the next world, we still keep chasing them. We not only chase, we actually keep fighting and competing for the false acquisitions thereby making our life on earth really excruciating. In the process, we continue making life of the self and that of our fellow human being still more pathetic and painful. While all this happens, we can clearly see through the working of a definite plan of the Almighty. One does feel there is an order in disorder; there is a system, which works through the apparent chaos. Desti...