US Independence Day

Tomorrow is US Independence Day i.e. 4th July 2009. Today we have official leave on this occasion. Sometimes I really think, how it feels when we have to strive hard to get leave on our Indian National Holidays. Citizen of India depending on holiday list of Independent US.

Even it makes me feel there are few things for which INDIA is still a developing country. From past 26 years I have been reading posts on wall and feeds on sites that India is a developing country, indeed India is still a developing country, born in Independent India, will I be able to see a "Developed India"
Is it not important for us to think on this? How far is it true that our future generation will see a Developed India? There are many more question in the Que, which no body will answer, or are hiding their feelings just because they are the reason for these questions in my mind.

"सत्यमेव जयते", "वंदे मातरम", मेरा भारत महान" These are few words echoing in my ears ever since I think of Independent India, but are we Independent yet? स्वतंत्र भारत को स्वतंत्रता क्या अभी तक मिली है? My points may be controversial but its true.

Root

In today's materialistic world, I don't know how many of us still carry on our values. In this fast growing world we sometimes forget what we are. For what we are born...what are we running for... is it only money or we are running from ourselves... we don't want to look back from where we come.. I am a Maithil Brahmin girl and in our tradition still people think twice before sending their girl child for higher studies or job, I am thankful and happy that The Almighty blessed me with such a lovely mother . I am what I am because of her. I still carry on my family values, madhubani painting one of our tradition is in my blood, its all because of my mother.
www.sudhajha.page.tl is her web page explore to know more about my mother and my root Maithili. Though there is more to Mithila Art than Madhubani paintings, This site invite everyone to get acquainted with Madhubani Paintings- An ancient and celebrated art form of North Bihar.I feel proud of being a maithil and basically I am proud that I am a citizen of India.

"Jai Mithila, Jai Maithili"

Who am I?

Perhaps this is the only question life really throws at us . Maybe all our scientific endeavors are, one way or another, directed at it. Maybe cosmologists trying to understand the origin of the universe, biologists working on evolution or psychologists studying behavior are driven by the same desire to know. Or perhaps I shouldn't speak for anyone else and only say that for me it is this way. My scientific work comes out of the question I am driven to ask when lying down, traveling in an extraordinary altered state or sitting in meditation. Science and living life are the same thing and require the same commitment and principles.....I was sitting when something scribbled on my mind "What drives you?"...........Am I so obviously "driven"? ....Yes , rush constantly from one thing to the next, rarely rest, almost never watch TV or even sit and listen to music....Living is working and playing with my mates...and cleaning the house. Something drives me. It is all part of the same question.....So I am delighted to write on this profile of myself....Many of you may think that You and I are, academically or in terms of our beliefs, poles apart...I don't think so .....In my meetings with all of you and infrequent but valued correspondence I have often been struck by the similarities not the differences in our ideas....So I am glad to write about me...and what my thought is about.....