The World of Raju Sharma

 IT is December 2022. To be precise today is the 30th dec2022. Tomorrow is the last day of the year from Sunday onwards we will have a brand new year 2023. That will le. an year when I shall turn 50. From a physical standpoint that will be an important milestone in my life. So my childhood, teenage, youth et all is in the past. So now what? What is it going to be my game plan for life if at all? ' What am I going to do differently. The honest answer to myself is not to have any plans or resolutions . Except one..  This 50th year I want to commit to just one thing. This commitment that I Plan to undertake will be purely for myself. I do not want to put anything in social media about it or even perhaps speak about it to others. I believe this one thing would form my core change. I am feeling a bit nervous writing about the commitment to self. This is due to the fact that I am unable to concentrate and continue anything for long Yes, this year I want to meditate. I want to learn ...

 Day 2 in Kolli hills  I wake up to a rooster 🐓 or perhaps a peacock calling in the distant hill. The sharp call accentuated by silence all around woke me from my slumber in my beautiful hotel named Silverline Resorts. This hotel, situated in a hill top has friendly staff and well appointed rooms. I am at work , but the mornings are mine to savour . With this thought , I freshen up and walk towards the open area outside. Life is in the open. I tell myself . The forest beyond is serene. It seems mysterious to me as if it knows things that I have no clue about. Silence , serenity and mystery can be an attractive combination . I savour the morning bliss. The  weary heart feelings melts away.  The sun rays comes to the valley. The 🐦 birds and the swan 🦢 are here . The flowers 💐 are in full glory . The golden sun has soaked everything here . The bees , the butterflies, the insects and other creepy crawlers seem to be having a merry day.  Few feed on each other , ...

I am On my way from Trichy to Kolli Hills in Namakkal District of Tamil Nadu.  Abhinavgram is in Kolli hills and about 170 kms from Trichy airport. I shall reach the hotel by 9:30 or so . The evening sunset was beautiful as the last rays soaked the lush greenary around me . Our country is so diverse and beautiful. Love exploring the hinterlands . My driver  Reuben does not speak a word of English and I do not know anything remotely associated with Tamil . However , I think am having a beautiful conversation with him using few common words .  I said filter coffee . He stopped the car in a road side shop where the lady served excellent filter coffee. It was excessively sweet but delicious too . He tells me about his family and I gather that he has a loving family with a five year old daughter whom he dearly loves  He also explained about an arduous trek undertaken by pilgrims here in Tamil Nadu to a temple called Samaypuram in Trichy .  I can see men ans women wal...

Among  nature’s most beautiful things that is visible to human eye is perhaps the morning sunrise.Morning sunrise has an ethereal beauty about it. It was one such December 2021 morning in an isolated hilltop in an island called Diu in Gujarat, I waited patiently for the sun to rise up from the distant horizon.  Everything was quiet. The only sound that was playing in my ears was the sound of gentle breeze blowing all around, and the sea waves striking the rocks or rather caressing the rocks and its most gentle ways.  Grace is not a word I associated with sea waves till I visualised it myself on that December morning. I sat there on the hilltop patiently waiting for the sun to come out in all its charm. It was as if I was waiting for my beloved to meet me after a dark solitary night.  The wind blew around me wooooosh!  I felt as if the wind wanted me to be mindful of what is going on in the hilltop. Yes the wind wanted me to be present with her, she wanted me to...

Dear life, Why is it so difficult to trust oneself and be confident about ones on abilities.In my own case, I think I find it difficult to believe that I am good in anything. This is so far from truth . People come to me with so many questions about their issues . I am able to tell them exactly what has been their problem. But when it comes to myself , things look different. I ask myself “why?” Does this happen to you .? I guess we can solve most of the problems of the world However when it comes to our own issues , we get bogged down.. we don’t trust enough. It so happened that last month an exhuberent 30s something chap came to my office to see me . I was really hard pressed for time, as I had a flight to catch in the evening. However one of my dear friends had insisted that I meet him, and hence reluctantly I did meet him exactly for 30 minutes . He came to me with one question . He had got an offer from an organisation and whether he should join it. I took the marker a...

So my boss Summi’s mother is not well. She has been diagnosed with oral cancer . How painful it is to know that your mother is not well. I can imagine the pain that she must be going through at this point in time . We become so fragile and vulnerable during these times. We wish , we pray , we send healing waves , we go to the best doctors and we do everything possible to make life easier for our loved ones . All our attention is to heal .Each time we go to the doctor, we want some miracle to happen .And they do happen !.Healings do take place ,diseases do get cured .But then miracles are very pricey...they take time and place. They may be waiting for you just in the next step , or after some prolonged search . Miracles happen everyday at all times .However we may not know to define them as miracles. Her mother would just be fine. It’s 2:49 pm and it is her operation day . Doctors must be working on her . As I write this , she  is getting healed. Healed completely. Life is gett...

So folks ! Long time no news . Actually there is not much happening in my life. I have been diagnosed with something called sleep apnea. Now this is an interesting health problem . It sounds so comical to others when patients like me snore heavily. Most of the times with the mouth wide open. There is just nothing that you could do with your snoring Well I have purchased the CPAP machine and have been using it . Let’s see how much my body responds 

My colleagues in USS would remember this picture very well. I discussed this during my presentation on the systems thinking at the Bhopal meeting on the 7 th of June 2015. This picture has made me think about my own self from different angles? In the picture above a little girl is stretched and bent to fit into a cubicle box. She has fitted herself so well. Almost like a toy made up of some rubber or such other flexible material. In some-ways she also looks proud of her achievements (notice her expressions in her eyes! isn’t she try to convey something?). She appears to me as if saying silently, “I have done it” Perhaps, (my assumption here) she is a circus artist, and she has trained her body (ever since she managed to walk) to get into such a box like situation. Hence due to the flexibility of the body and training she has been able to do this act. Now, the title of the page says, “I my position”. Hence it signifies that whatever position I have taken in ...

Delhi is a furnace these days.  With temperatures soaring over 45 degree centigrade, there is nothing you can do to beat the sun outside. It seems all the time, the sun is angry at you for systemically destroying the environment around. I feel in summers we become more self-centered. I notice myself that I am a bit more considerate to my fellow beings, co-passengers and people in general during winters or when the temperature  is low  

                              Orcha is Madhaya Pradesh. The fort of Rani Laxmi Bai. History tells us that Rani Laxmi Bai jumped with her infant son saddled on a horse back. Wow what a fearless fighter she was.!

आगे बढ़ते जाने का मतलबसिर्फ नया पाते जाना नहीं होताआगे बढ़ते जाने का मतलबनिरंतर कुछ खोते जाना......अकेले होते जाना.....भी है........ Read it on the facebook today. Cheers

Amit Pokriyal has written the following lines in the white board. Have silently adored the writer, whoever wrote it for the first time: खामोश प्रार्थनाएं जल्द पहुँचती हैं खुदा तक। मुक्त होती है वें शब्दों के बोज से ॥ Silent prayers reach the almighty fast, coz they are free from the bondage of words!

                              Orcha is Madhaya Pradesh. The fort of Rani Laxmi Bai. History tells us that Rani Laxmi Bai jumped with her infant son saddled on a horse back. Wow what a fearless fighter she was.!

I have often been dubbed as a rude, cut and dry person, somebody who can hurt others blah blah.... I have no qualms about. Have got used to it and perhaps this has become a part of me now. Forgot when was the last time I thought about myself. However something which has always suprised me about myself is my sensitivity to pregnant women. Yes, I seem to be extra sensitive when it comes to pregnant women, whether they are walking in the streets, in the mall, or just anywhere. Perhaps it all started as I had witnessed my wife going through two preganancies. I do not want to talk about the problems therein. They are there. Yet the beauty of creating or more aptly co-creating a life inside the womb is an ethreal feeling. There is somebody inside because of you and what you planned (or even failed to plan).

Of late there is a strange kind of laceration that we can see all around us. This wound is at its embroytic stage. However the puss from this disease is seeping out steadily. There is a foul smell already. The wound is deeping day by day and is infecting other body parts. The stench from the bleed and wound is toxic, putrid and gets down your spine. Nobody has any respite from it, though some of us pretend to or actually run pass the way. The puss has some of the world's most decayed ingredients, substances which have always been abhored by men and women alike. Ladies and Gentlemen, this laceration, this deadly wound is the fanatic intolerance that is raising its head around us. Somewhere in Kerala, a person's arms have been severed by people who did not believe in what he did. This is grotesque, brutal and calls for immediate condemnation by all and action by people who have the authority to take action. Co-existence has been our buzzword and let this coexsitence thrive under...

Both of us at a place called Dhaulchina near Binsar

Have heard so many philosophies about death. But have never been able to terms with it. Actually one can never come to terms with it. You learn to live with the fear . The fear of death-of your near and dear one;s is far more terrible than death itself.

I am often amused and irritated by people who have the FFV syndrome. FFV is a serious disease of the mind. O Boy! if you happen to meet a person inflicted with this disease, you better get out of the way. Reason she/he would send out verbal sharpnels describing the experiences of FFV and the only thing you experience is disgust married to anger. The marriage of disgust and marriage so induced by FFV procreates a child called frustration. Frustration is a tiring baby right from the embroytic stage to as long is it lives in you. FFVs could affect people from all walks of life and people of all ages. However, the people most succeptible to these disease are those with some inflated egos, lesser education and so on and so forth. FFV-First Foreign Visit. Yes thats the diseases. Have you not heard the one-timers and in many cases the only timers throw away names such as Dubai, UK and USA etc? But a paradox FFVs are very particular about not speaking of visit to Bangladesh, Nepal or sometime...