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Jaagte raho is the national cry of night watchmen in India. It has been historically associated with them; whenever the night watchmen would go out on their rounds, they will shout Jaagte Raho as they move along. When I was young, I was told that the watchmen shout Jaagte Raho not to wake up the people whose property they are supposed to protect. No, but they shout Jaagte Raho so as to stay awake themselves. This was told as a metaphor for inviting others to do good deeds. A person should invite others to do good, and speak about doing good. Because by telling others to come to good, we ourselves will get inspired to be good. Just like a night watchman invites others to be awake and to keep vigil, but the purpose of that is to be awake himself. It was a motivating thought. It inspired me to talk to other about doing good things even when I myself would not be translating those same words into actions. Jaagte Raho, I would say to others. And hope, that in some way, i...

So it was Saturday night, and alone I sat wondering why we are burdened with the chore of existence. And thinking of chores, I was reminded about another most daunting chore. Having a bath daily. I mean, why waste away so much water and precious pheremones! But then a wave of Nirvana swept across my mind. And I was enlightened ever more. For in that moment of sweet nirvana, I found out the reason for having a bath daily. And now that I have the knowledge, I must pass it on. The knowledge could enable us to optimise the frequency of the activity without being compelled to label a violator of the daily bath ritual a heretic. You see, dead skin cells from the epidermis keep shedding from the human skin. The epidermis is the topmost layer of the skin. Cells on it keep getting replaced by the cells from beneath it. In around thirty days, the skin of a person gets totally replaced by new cells. Snakes collect it and shed it at once. We humans keep shedding little by littl...

They were sitting in my hotel room, waiting for Rohit to get ready. In between our discussion about the falling rate of the rupee in comparison to the dollar, somebody took Baba's name and hijacked the conversation. "Do you know sir that Baba had actually died 7 days before his death was announced to the public?" Baba was a prominent politician of the area, now dead. "What do you mean?", I asked. "Baba’s death was announced on the 14th, but he had actually died seven days earlier due to an organ failure." "Why? Why would his family do such a thing?" "It is rumored that it took his family and accountants seven days to clear all evidences wherein Baba could get implicated. In the last 7 days, they cleared all the proofs, took all fingerprints, faked all documents that had to be faked and sent all the money abroad that had to be sent abroad. His body was kept in a sealed casket when it was shown to the people so that t...

If you have ever tried to evade a question, then know that you were wrong (in that for which the question was being asked). Our minds work faster than our awareness of it. It reasons faster than we can realize, and reason tells the thoughts not to turn to that question, as a measure of self defense. If you were correct, you would face the question. As you were avoiding facing the question, you were wrong. Our minds know the difference between right and wrong, and we don't need anyone to tell us these things. But still people lie and cheat and deceive, including me at times, for which I ask Allah's forgiveness. Why? And I guess one of the strong reasons for lying, cheating, deceiving, blah blah is ease. Physical and mental ease. I steal cause it's much harder to earn an honest living. And stealing is not what the thieves who we read of in story books as children do. It is done intricately and in an infinitely more refined way through economics. So physical ease is o...