The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

So this was a quick read.

The book is about a young boy Charlie who doesn't have any idea of what is happening around. But he also portrayed like a super genius who reads a lot, listen to lot of bands, and understanding a lot of things which even the more mature guys don't.

Did I mention that he is a crying baby too?

I know there are some takers for this kind of narratives, and there are good chances for a adolescent person to identify with Charlie. We may have those lows in our life but that is just a phase. Charlie seems to be stuck in it like forever.

I think this is not a great book but if you think that you can't be influenced by pseudo emotional content which tries too hard to make you cry than this book is for you.

For others even if you read it you'll get over it by the Epilogue.

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens

I'll not call it a book in the first place. It is about 100 page long essay, and not really a book.

The author of this book is already famous for criticising famous personalities around the world. He seems to be always going against anything which looks large than life.

This book is on Saint Teresa, and how she was a friend of rich people (rich by wrong ways), and poverty (not the poor). This book shows her in bad light, and there were some instances which are so logical that you can't either answer them or doge them.

There are multiple such instances where she put the wrong foot forward. She had her beliefs against  birth control, convert to Christianity, and poverty etc but that doesn't undermine her efforts.

I'm sure the donations received could have been put to a better use, but unfortunately there was no such account maintained so nobody knew how much money they had.

But one thing I'm totally against it that nobody can decide how others should behave/expect when they are on wrong side of luck. A sick person needs medication. Provide it if you can or just stay away.

Finally, it's a quick read, and definitely gives you a different perspective about the "Saint". Read it for that irrespective of your leanings.

The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler

Again a book picked just out of curiosity. When I started with this book I was not really award about the content. I was expecting it to be a book about the history of some lost civilisation.

However, that is not the case. The book is about a theory which says that the Ashkenazi Jews were not a part of historical Jewish lineage but a different civilisation (or state/nation) altogether which eventually accepted Judaism.

The book is full of quotation and references for reaching to a particular conclusion. But somehow the writer was already under the influence of the conclusion, and the whole book was reverse engineered to fit the things.

I'm not an expert in such matters so I'll not talk about how correct the references are or even the conclusion is correct or not.

But from a reader point of view I can say that the whole narrative is not very much structured. A lot of things popped up in between without any previous reference.

Overall, the book was not really that great, and you can give it a pass until you're very much interested in exploring various theories around different religions, and civilisations. 

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr

I picked this book out of curiosity about the content it could have, and I must say that I was not disappointed.

The book talks about the journey of swearing (abuses and otherwise). It draws a picture that how the obscenities have developed in the society over a period of time.

It gives a lot of example of living conditions and social acceptance (or taboo) of a particular time and how the obscenities grew in those conditions.

One thing which I took from this book was that all the things which were taboo ended up being a swear world, which involved from God to body excrete or various body parts. Over a period of time even the sexual preference became a taboo and being considered as an obscenity.

Cast, colour, creed, class etc also became the swearing words give the social condition over a period of time.

I also noted that the author quotes that swearing give way to the frustration of a person and the magnitude is defined as which condition that person is going through.

I understand that swearing doesn't go well with the society, and considered a bad thing but this is an imperative part of the social fabric. It does change over different times, and the single source is what is taboo (or considered abnormal) for the society at that point of time.

Small and quick read.

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

I've no idea how I ended up with this book but after completing it I realised it was not really a bad choice. I've seen worse.

So the book is about the experiences of a curious journalist who went to cover an event of memory championship, and being fascinated by it participated in it next year. He actually ended up winning the event too.

The whole book looks like notes on how he prepared and his experiences during that time.

Joshua emphasises a lot on how we've forgotten the art of memorising, and more prone to rote learning. There are historical references of how memory was an integral part of the whole learning process.

He is of the thought that with some basic practices and exercises anybody can boost their memory. A lot of times author sounds a lot rational but many at times he over did it in pushing the point.

I totally agree with him that given the technological advances we've stopped memorising a lot of things but I never thought that this is the main skill of learning. I'm actually of the thought that after forgetting what you read, whatever remains is a learning. It is not really memorising something word by word with some recommended techniques.

I don't have a very good memory but I think that from all the books that I read I don't remember all the characters and plots. It makes me feel bad sometimes but I also go back to my favourite books and not because I forgot it but I wanted to go through it again for the pleasure of reading it.

Anyways you take a call on what you want a great memory or you are fine with all that you remember. But the books is a light read and you can even finish it fast.

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This was again a big one and the author was the reason I wanted to read it after completing The Penelopiad by her.

This is a historical fiction which revolves around a real person named Grace who was convicted of a murder. The author has added a lot of fictional characters and details to make it look like a story.

Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the narration goes in detail about her madness and asylum days.

The novel is written in a very engaging style however, I lost a lot of things due to force fitting the narration of weather, and the scene. I strongly believe that a lot could have been omitted in editing as it was unnecessarily adding to the pages without delivering any affect.

As far as characters are concerned there was a confusion over the whole narration as it was told differently by different characters. It never tried to claim her crime or innocence which was very vague. But ultimately it was not expected to be crime novel.

Finally, it is not highly recommended because if you are unable to read it you're not missing much, until and unless you're very much prone to fall for anything which has Booker nomination tagged with it.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

So here is another one with logical reasoning to it by Dawkins. The last one I read was The God Delusion. Anyways, this was the book which motivated me to read other books by Dawkins.

I'm not very sure about the book. First thing was that I was not aware of a lot of biological/botanical terms mentioned even when the explanation was very easy. So this was a bit tough read in that sense but there were definitely some light moments :)

My second thought is that the whole idea of gene supremacy was so over served that it actually sounded fiction. As I mentioned earlier that I am not a subject matter expert here but still the whole narration was so gene centric that it was not convincing enough.

I understood that gene is responsible for how species evolve but the examples are so selective and put forward in such a way that it forcefully tries to drive the point which should have come naturally. So as far as logic and reasoning is concerned this one stands nowhere when compared with God Delusion. A reader is more than willing to receive new thoughts but you can't push a point beyond a limit.

Another thing which I'll like to add here is that all the examples and phenomena mentioned in the book added a lot to my understanding about life of different species e.g. bees.

This is a good read but most of the people who don't have patience for the going through the initial thought set up will find it boring.

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

So, I stumbled upon this book while searching for the Booker prize winners. I found the name of Margaret Atwood who is very popular as a poet and novelist. I was planning to read the other novel by her first which is "The Handmaid's Tale" but I'm going to keep it for later.

I'll also like to add that this is not a full fledged novel but a short novel or a long story as you can call it. Technically, they call it novella. I realized this in the middle of my reading because I was through with half of the book in like an hour. This is a problem with reading ebooks that sometimes you don't know how long this is going to be because I don't count the number of pages. Though, I thought I could have when I was reading my previous book "The Hindus".

Any ways, the book is not really a story but it is a narrative from Penelope's point of view who was the wife of Odysseus. I hope you are able to connect it with Odyssey. The narrative revolves around the twelve maids of Penelope and how they were hanged in the end without any proper reason. There is a whole reasoning of disloyalty etc in Odyssey but here it is given from Penelope's point of view.

There was no sequel of Odyssey which glorifies the female characters so this one is from a woman for a woman.

The whole story is around what all Penelope had gone through during the absence of Odysseus. It's rendered beautifully and it raises the question of freedom that a woman has versus a freedom that a man enjoys. Odysseus was gone for long years for Trojan war and he has a long list of adventures after that with witches, ogres and gods. Odyssey has details of his sleeping in the arms of beautiful maidens and goddesses but when he comes back after all these years first thing he was worried about was the chastity of his wife.

Why the whole epic glorifies his relations with other woman but very conservative about the conduct of Penelope? She doesn't have the freedom to do what she wants to do. If she does she will be labelled as a whore. May be she would have been hanged or brutally killed for that. Why chastity is a woman's virtue and she is judged on this scale so rigidly with zero tolerance?

There were no times when a woman was really glorified. We may find some deviations but they will be very rare. They are so rare that you can count them on fingers.

The saddest part is that there is no change in this perception of a woman, she is either objectified (like the maidens of Odyssey whom the Odysseus enjoys) or scrutinized for her loyalty/chastity/whatever-makes-a-man-feel-better.

I hope that one day we all have the freedom to live with dignity and make the choices that we want to make and do not follow what others have decided for us.

This is a pretty good read and it questions the very mindset of a society.

The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger

This is the book which took me about four months to finish and the credit goes to my latest muse a 30 inch long bamboo flute. I never gave up reading for anything but this was just out of this world.

Anyway, I finally finished this book and I have mixed feelings about it.

I'll start with reason why I started reading it in the first place, and the one word for it is "controversy". When I heard of it being taken back by publisher I was curious to know what objectionable content does this book has.

Now, the question is what I think about it. Most important point is that it doesn't have anything objectionable. It is a plain factual (there are some facts and some mythology) book which dwells upon a lot of points but doesn't establish a single one of them. I believe this is by choice of author and not because she lost the plot in between. Second thing is that the questions raised in the book have been raised many times earlier from different people, and we all can discuss over it all our lifetime without reaching a conclusion as why a particular thing was said or done.

The most important factor is that we move on. We move on with a new knowledge from our past. Something which makes us proud and humble together. We acknowledge what others have said and done with a freedom of agree to disagree.

We may not agree to everything but that doesn't mean that everything which is against our conventional wisdom is untrue,

I believe there was always a trend to raise the non reason-ability in various religions, conventions and institutions. All we need is just a rationality to understand the thoughts without any bias.

Finally, this book is a good read but don't read it just for the controversy it created (like I started reading it) but to see a different face of religion and culture in India, Specially, there are a lot of anecdotes which you may find funny or bizarre. This girl (she is 75 year young) spent five decades of her life to learn Indian culture, and she is worth listening.

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann

This is a big book with around 450 pages. It took 12 hours to finish it.

The only reason this book got my curiosity was that it was on the theme of partition but I realized that there was a lot around Nehru and Edwina. When writing a book around such theme it depends on writer how much space she wants to give to something which may not be tasteful for a lot of people. And I'm glad that all the instances mentioned here between Nehru and Edwina never sounded scandalous.

The book is well searched as there is a reference for almost any quotation or figure mentioned. In fact, it gives a subjective review of what was happening during the final stage of India's freedom struggle.

On thing which I goes against it that a lot of times the book was filled with a lot of details which could have been avoided by giving shorter description to the point. But this depends on the style of author, and since I haven't read any other book by her I can't really comment on it.

This book definitely sound balanced because during the whole narration it never felt like it is biased in favour of anybody be it India or the British. I'm glad that it actually added a lot to my understanding of India's freedom fight, and circumstances in which a few decisions were taken or not taken.

For the readers I'll say that you need patience to finish this book. But it is definitely a good read.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

This is a big book, and be sure that you can't just run through the pages. The book is a running commentary which starts from human evolution and ends up with the latest developments in science and society.

Yuval is an Israeli professor of history and he mentioned that Guns, Gems, and Steel is the main inspiration behind this book.

Guns, Germs, and Steel is on my list since last 3 years but didn't really started it. I had a thought of reading it but I was not very sure if history is something which I'm ready to go into.

Anyways I finished Sapiens and it took some 11 hours over the last two weeks.

This book left a lasting impression on me as it unfolded how the things developed along the human evolution. There are a lot of instances which are more like an educated guess and not a proven fact but given the citing you may end up agreeing with a lot of them.

The human evolution resulted in the extinction of lot of other species. I couldn't have agreed more because there was a recent study which showed that during the British Raj 75% of lions were killed in the name of entertainment during their hunting expeditions. We may cry for dwindling number of lions but deep down we know that we're responsible for this destruction. The natural habitat of so many animals and birds have been destroyed in the name of development.

Along with the evolution the book touched various subjects around religion, social norms, biology, anthropology, and economics.

I specially liked the story of evolution of credit, money and religion which is spun around myths, and a common belief in those myths.

I wish that we all could have seen beyond the myths which are around us. These myths in which we don't believe but still follow.

Just wanted to quote "Consumerism tell us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If you feel that something is missing in life, go shopping".

This book is a must read if you want to know how things evolved and we as a human have done so many wrong things in name of development and so called "civilization".

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

This is another novel which I read after reading about the author.

I never heard of Sylvia Plath but somehow her information showed up when I was searching for some other piece. I immediately checked the Wiki link, and decided to take this up next.

This is a small book, and I completed it pretty quickly.

The book is a good read as it is a semi-autobiographical novel. The whole story revolves around the thoughts and experiences of Esther, and doesn't boast of a conversationalist style that novels generally have. There is no plot as the whole narrative doesn't fit as a story, and should be treated like a personal diary or a journal of a mature person who looks at the world from a different lens.

I believe there are some people in this world who are so amazing, and they have an entirely different view of looking at things. It is sad that sometimes they are so driven by their own thoughts that they don't realize that their being present makes this world a better place.

I hope Sylvia could have written more, and we've definitely

I just couldn't complete this piece without mentioning her poem "Mad Girl's Love Song" because this can be written only by a person who is in perfect sense, and so sensitive to everything happening around her/him. Here is the poem:

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I'm not a big fan of poems but I'm going to remember this one forever.

Love

Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State by Tarek Fatah

So this is one of the books which didn't let me move out very often. I finished this book in 13 hours over 4 days so this is one of my fastest read too.

I saw Tarek on a prime-time debate, and thought of reading this book. I was looking for what Tarek has to say in details because there is rarely any scope of thought, and understanding in such debates.

I started this book, and once I was through the content page I was so engaged that I was just rushing through the whole book. My first impression was that this is going to be like reading a thesis but actually it ended up as an encyclopaedia of truth about the whole set up.

I know that reading a book doesn't make me a subject matter expert but after reading such books (Zealot, No god but god, The god delusion) I realised that religion is the most personal thing, and there should not be anybody who should dictate what to do and what not to do.

Relegion is something which brings the best out of you. It teaches you to love, respect, and gives you courage.  A religion which tells you otherwise is definitely taking you to a wrong path, be it any religion. I understand that religion thrives in a community but this adds the complication in pursuing it because many a times rather than becoming a lot of people following a particular way of life, it actually becomes a mob which can be turned towards a lot of things which should be avoided.

Also, religion has to be removed from all the outer world activities like money, law, politics etc. I think current politics is something which thrive on the negativities of a religion when it comes to a mob. People want to believe and trust in something which is beyond human understanding, and this search for that unknown is something which is incorrectly posed as mould while is should be treated as a flowing river.

Follow your religion, and ensure that it spreads love and respect for all. The beauty of life is that we all are different and we should respect these differences, and build positively on this sentiment to have a safe and happy future.

Peace

Tambora : The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D Wood

I was reading this book from quite some time, and it actually reminded my of a lot of concepts from Geography classes.

The book is about a volcanic eruption that happened in 19th century and it's after affects were felt over the time. Extreme weather (snow, rain, and heat) was recorded around the world after this eruption.

The book draws a lot of instances from literature, paintings, and travelogues. I'm not really sure if these are the best sources to conclude upon but you ended up in believing it to be true. Shelly actually shows up a lot and seems to the favourite of William.

A term which is used very frequently and stays with you for a long time is "year without a summer".

There are anecdotes about weather change across Europe, Asia, US and beyond.

I really couldn't believe that the changed weather conditions actually pushed Chinese people to grow opium rather than rice. I think that was more about the choices people made in terms of earning most money. As the consequence they ended up exporting a lot of rice from the neighbouring countries and regions.

Any ways if the mystery and such narrations entice you than you can go ahead. Others may find the details a bit boring.

Open Confession to a Man from a Woman by Marie Corelli

So I got this book lying around with some old books which I took out recently from the packed boxes. I didn't even know the author when I started reading it, and went ahead for the sole reason of the title of this book. Of course, the book being only 114 pages on a small size paper in a big type was also a reason, and I completed the book in 2 hours flat in 2 days.

While reading the book I got curious about the author, and found some interesting details about her. Her novels actually far exceeded in sale to her contemporary authors which count  Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling all put together. This was some serious news for me, and I dived deeper into the book.

The book was very interesting, and initially I took as a memoir or a soliloquy. But as I moved ahead I realised that this book is simply written by a jilted lover. The initial pages were good, and were written very well but once the venom started it became a bit annoying. She actually wrote like she is a queen, and the poor lover is a cur from some deep dungeons. I know I can be judged as what is commonly known as male chauvinistic pig but there were a lot of mentions where the author tried to give upper hand to all her decisions, and it was all the mistake of her lover or a basic nature of a man in general.

She mentioned a lot of things which she appreciated in the early part of their relationship, and after break up (he actually married some other girl) she found all his traits mere trifle. She even sympathised with the girl whom her lover married, such a sham. And she justified it by proving that marriage is something which kills the romance from people's life which was the most absurd of the objections. I actually felt that this was the main reason for her hatred towards the institution called marriage, but I bet given a chance she'd have done it first thing herself.

She in fact sounded so rude while glorifying her own achievements. Of course, she said that all man around her are jealous of her success while not knowing that there were a lot of men who were actually paying to buy her novels. But accepting this fact would be belittling her own argument.

I didn't feel quite write after completing the book so no matter how famous she was I'm not going to read any of her novel in future.

Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh

Finally, I read the last of the Ibis trilogy, and ended up wanting for more.

This is the last book of the trilogy, and it is as good a story as the prior two parts. There are some new characters, and the story extends further to what happened to the runway prisoners of Ibis.

The story telling is in it's best form and I couldn't put it down (not literally as I was reading the ebook). It took some 15 hours of reading spread over 3 weeks, and I feel like I'm reading slower now even when I was engaged so much with the narration.

One thing that happened very frequently with me was that I was able to connect the dots across the narration. I was aware of the outcomes of a lot of things, and twists before even reaching them. This may be due to the fact that I've already read the first two parts, and I was aware of Amitav's style of writing. The events which I guessed easily were the the tryst of Zachary, fate of Mrs Burnham & captain, fate of Shireen & Zadig, and Ah Fatt.

There is long list of references which are too big to look at but as mentioned in the epilogue I was not very sure if it was based on real story. We know the details of opium war and world war, which writer has included beautifully. I was not really looking for some real facts, and the story itself is a reward of reading it, forget about how much is fact based and how much is fictional.

A good read, but you will have to finish the first two parts first to keep running through the narrations and not referencing to the previous books to understand anything which happened in previous journey.

Peace 

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It took me a while to finish this book. It actually took me 2 months to read all those 720 pages, and given that it took him 3 years to write, it was worth it.

If you're aware of Dickens' style of writing than you can't be untouched with the do good, and happy ending spirits in his novels. This is the 3rd novel of Dickens which I read after A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. I love the way he writes which keep the readers engaged, and no matter what people end up seeing the goodness in the end.

The whole story revolves round the two girls Bella, and Lizzie who look at life differently but ended up with the best a life can offer.

I'll not go in the details of the plot as that is not my aim here. But I'd like to mention that the characters were quite evolved, and portrayed in the best way possible. However, I doubt that we'll get some of those moral characters in our day to day life. They sound so perfect, and generous that they seem to be impossible to exist.

This I'm not registering as a complaint but a lot of times the situation were a lot dramatic and I understand that a writer has to keep that curiosity alive and their reader engaged.

In a nutshell, gem of a read, but need a lot of patience to reach the end. There will be many moments when a reader feel that s/he can guess the end, and I assure you that your guess will be correct. But beauty lies in completing the book otherwise we could have read a one page synopsis of the book.

Peace

Ashley Madison Exposure : Is This Really Required?

The social media is hot with the news of Ashley Madison user's information being made public.

The hackers portray it like they did a public service and they should get a pat on their back.

Is it really the case? Are these hackers any different from those people who want to shackle the freedom of any type be it which religion I follow, what clothes do I wear, which books I read, my sexual preferences etc? The answer is NO. They're not different from those people. How anybody can have a right to decide what I should do in my personal life. I may be the best programmer or hacker in the world but does this give me a right to expose what is none of my business. Do I need to

I don't approve of people cheating but does my disapproval give me a right to put these people to public shame. I can only imagine what happens to a family when such incidents come to light. Try imagining it happening to a million families. Hope you didn't like the picture.

The problem with having such ideologies is a firm belief of self righteousness. How can you agree with anything I have to say? These differences make us human and the mutual respect for such differences makes us a better human being.

And, here are some fun facts, 90-95% of actual users are Male which means that most of the users might have failed miserably to have an affair. This information itself makes the whole exercise look foolish apart from the vulnerability of forging identities in a virtual world. Also, the Ashely Madison needs better security for their servers.

Another thing is that this data was release through The Onion Router (if you know what it means) which is not really accessed by common public. So, even if a user's ID and other details were hacked, nobody will really get it other than the guys who are an avid users of such technologies. So the real people are never exposed.

So in the end of day it is just a news, and nobody is really exposed. I hope the hackers will learn from this, and put there skills for some good use.

The Story of a Fried Rat

So this story showed up recently in digital and social medium. The story is about a rat being served from KFC (they are famous for frying chicken really deep). It seems that the person who has been served the rat was not very happy with this service as he asked for a chicken and not a rat.

The funny part is that the people who are ready to eat out anything moving under the sun are against such swapping act from KFC. Their argument is that rat is not supposed to be served in KFC, this argument is based on the fact that the chicken were sanitized and announced medically fit by an international animal loving organization. This organization also gave clearance to the other humble beings as well but KFC got the license only for chicken and not for the others.

The second argument was that the rat was served as a whole. It had a proper nose, face, tails and a stomach which was filled with such high quality nutrients. This is not true because the stomach was filled with a delicacy (a secret ingredient of KFC) and not with the sewage sludge.

The rat in the question didn't die innocent and he (of course, I'm not going to use “it”) left a letter for me. In this letter he has mentioned that he has been a delicacy in so many third world countries but was never accepted as a delicacy in first world countries (I think they call them developed countries). He just wanted to prove that he is as good as chicken and as innocent as the butcher of KFC who is responsible for the glorious slaughter of millions of chickens around the world. He strongly believed that given a chance he would like to be on the platter of anybody who can afford it. 

He also put a request that his brethren be treated as equal to chickens, fish, prawns, lambs and all such sort of servings. He raised a question if Ratatouille is a dish including rats as a primary ingredient but I wanted to tell him that this dish was an ordinary one with no living being included. This is a dish for the barbarians who can’t relish the taste of meat, fat, bones and other body parts.

I just want to appeal on the behalf of our loving fried rat to all those not so humble beings to bestow their benign vulture-gaze on everything moving under the sun with an open mind and keep on feasting on everything so that nobody tries such a daredevil act again and feels left out.

I'm sure our lovely rat will have a deep fried grin on his face when he will see that his sacrifice is not in vain and the people are going to devour his fellows with equal zeal.

Yoga is Not So Cool @ 6 in the Morning

So I was getting these sms (who sends sms in this era) from a service numbers (which have these weird names like SV-187 which looks more like a code name of a virus biological/other or a satellite launched by ISRO) which badly wants me to go out on June 21st and do Yoga, it was supposedly the International Yoga day or it was a universal Yoga day, you never know if some aliens in a different galaxy are getting their limbs (if they have any) flexed to celebrate this day.

Being a not so curious case I tried to do what I generally do when I hear such things, I just searched it on internet and clicked on the third link (first 2 were news which I am not into), and landed on this site called Wikipedia (there are so many Wiki around that you never know which one it is) and found out that this a very recent phenomenon announced on Dec 11th, 2014 at UN (Don’t even think what it is). I also got the Wiki definition of Yoga “Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual practice or discipline that originated in India”. Isn’t it so cool :)

Being blessed with the laziest bones on this planet I totally ignored all 15-20 sms sent by taxpayers money, and I woke up at 9 in the morning too realize that I have silently passed the duration while some 40,000 odd (of course they were odd) people were twisting and turning in front of India gate. I switched on the TV and it didn’t came as a surprise that this is some sort of world record. We Indian have this inherent quality of getting into these gatherings at meteorological scale and make everything look like a fair. We hold the highest number of such mass records (Sing, Dance, Music and what else).

I’d not be surprised if there was a news debate from the owner of a cow who can smell a rat out of a cat that foreign elements are behind it. You’re doing a good job homie.

For all those guys on Rajpath, I wish you reach the Yogpath or Janpath or whatever-path it is you wish for. Just hang on there and don’t get twisted to much. And to all those Yoga teachers who are charging a fees for it which are higher than Burj Khalifa (figuratively speaking), just rot in hell (if any).

And here comes the best part, there was a deluge of proud Indians who’s favourite asan is Nindrasan. These guys woke up at 12 o’ clock in the afternoon and the first thing they did was that they were proud without moving a finer on Yoga day. They were proud on Facebook, Twitter, Wahtsapp and all those places where they can be with burning less than a calorie.
Meanwhile all the Father’s are humbled as their kids were going gaga over Yoga than Father’s day (or Baap Diwas like I call it), and nobody gave a damn that this was the longest day of the year Summer Solstice.

I feel sorry that I didn’t participate in this mammoth gathering which everybody is so proud of socially or whatsappically, I just wish we had some day like World Sleep Day, Chillout day, Doing Nothing Day, Couch Potato Day and I’m sure gonna participate in all these days with all my strength, and I’m sure we can create a small record there as well.