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Revel.
Do you ever feel like you’re bigger than your own body?
The feeling that you can do so much more than you’re pinning for. You’ve been told that it’s impossible, that you’re impossible. It just won’t happen. Go to college, get a stable degree. Do something you won’t regret.
But I may just be regretting it.
I’m overflowing with passion and excitement. I want to revel. I’m trapped in a body that won’t let me. This isn’t me. What if I never find myself?
I want to be someone who people know, someone I can make myself proud of. I know I can do it. Just think of the smile on my fourth grade self, the girl who was getting into trouble like it was beer at a toga party. The girl who always tried to play on the safe side. The one who stayed on track, the one whose still…
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Questions, or are they?
Nine years through the Kronikles journey has led me to a barrage of questions I jotted down. A few of them might make you think I’ve tipped over the edge. Who knows, you may be right! Here they are, see if they make sense to you! When I see a blade of grass, is it really me seeing it or is the blade seeing itself through me? Isn’t it true that I am made of atoms? Is it not also true that when scientists study the human body, they are in effect studying atoms? Does it not go to prove that atoms are studying atoms? What if I am a tool for the universe to experience itself? What if that is the sole purpose of my life? Are humans unique because in this whole wide world, they are the only ones reduced to penning their thoughts? Are beings that need not talk to each other but can still co-exist not superior to me because they do not have to pen anything down? Is my dog my master then because all he has to do is look at me and I am willing to feed him, give him a place to sleep right next to me and love him so dearly that his loss is unbearable? Why should man be the top of the ‘food chain’? Is it because of his capability to create or merely because he chooses to randomly destroy for no productive reason? Is ‘I’ the root cause of all strife? Is that why we have countries and laws? When I see a deity with ten hands and fifteen heads, does it mean the hands and the heads are symbolic of all creatures on Earth? Is that why the Viswaroop of a God has a sampling head of creatures on this planet attached to his body? Why can’t it be that I am God, you are God and all of us are nothing more than an accessory, a limb, a part of the greater being called Para Brahman or the Universe or God? If so, is praying (a means of seeking something from the almighty) redundant ? Is the answer that simple? Is realization what we are looking for from the day we are born to the day we die? Do we even have the knowledge to realise the secrets of creation? If not, how do we seek knowledge? From writings of man and his belief systems or from observation of the miracle(s) of life around us? These are only few of the thoughts that rang in me while I was writing Kronikles. The book does not have the answers, what’s more even the questions aren’t there! But the journey was so interesting that I could not help myself but ask these questions and cannot do anything else except share them with you, my staunch reader.
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Kronikles: An eye opener
I migrated to Gurgaon in 2005-06 from Chennai to start life all over again. I did not know the transition would be so profound for me.
Gurgaon energized me. It gave me a goal, focus, strength, strong love and good people to work with. It rekindled my passion for writing.
The legend is that the millennium city was once a village donated by the Kauravas to their Guru, Drona, and thus it got the name. Guru-gaon (Guru’s village).
Did the city inspire me? Or was I meant to come here so I can write this story? To finish the journey of an incomplete legend? Or is it simply me trying to look for something more than the mundane? Never can say!
Time and Tide!
Shatru starts with the sentence, ‘By its nature, the universe gravitates towards chaos.’
I may be proved completely wrong but chaos sets in because of time. Everything has only limited lifespan. Even the universe. Thus, within the time it has for itself, it has to grow, just like Nara Hari, like us. I guess that’s why we are in a tearing hurry to educate ourselves, find jobs, find suitable partners and earn money so we can put our kids through college, buy a home and expensive cars. Time is running out.
At the end of it all, we look at the stars and wonder what we did in our limited time. Did we take time to travel, experience, wonder, listen to music, watch movies, play our favourite sport, eat the food we like, to do that one thing we always wanted to do.
Believe me, the disappointment we would feel then is not ours. It is the Parama Atman, or the Universe or the Great Equation or God (pick a name) asking us why we did not do what we wanted to because by not doing it, we have deprived the Parama Atman of the experience. Because we did not look at that blade of grass well enough, it could not see itself. That’s not fair is it? That’s the responsibility we have to everything around us…..For more info please visit here….SHATRU Kronikles Book-1
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Genesis!
Kronikles started as a series of bedtime stories I concocted for my little boy and girl. Simple short stories of heroes and villains with a lot of tickles, helpless laughter and monster attacks in between.
It became addictive for all of us for a while. Eventually, my children grew up and are busy figuring out the hard facts of college life. Left in the lurch with all these ideas raging in my head, the only thing I could do was pen (key) them down.
‘Shatru-Kronikles Book 1’ is urban fantasy based on Indian mythology. I started with Wikipedia research on Mahabharata. One thing led to another until I digested three versions of Mahabharata, Kalki Purana, Garuda Purana, English translations of Ayyavazhi literature, Kanda Purana, alternate versions of Ramayana, Rig Veda…the list went on.
I mixed that with Stephen Hawking only to realize our myth and quantum physics have a lot in common. (Quantum physicists maintain that life is a dream. Does Maya strike a bell? And I don’t mean the girl either). My all-time favorite management guru, Peter Drucker’s book on the practice of management was a great inspiration, especially in structuring the hierarchies in the books.
I learned about the magical properties of the eye, varieties of light, time continuum and they all matched with stories in the Hindu Puranas. Would you believe I found out there are three different ways to turn invisible? (None of them worked for me.)
The journey began seven years ago. It hasn’t ended yet, not by a long shot. Always provided I and my staunch reader are around, the journey will be a happy and fulfilling one.
I enjoyed writing ‘Shatru.’ I hope you enjoy reading it too.
The Journey-down a trodden path!
Many great men and women before me have said that every journey through life is a unique experience. It takes some amount of realization to even understand the import of those words. Unfortunately some of us go through life without once realizing what the journey is all about.
We are set on the goal, the destination. (I get up in the morning, go to my ancestral home to see how my ancestral money is growing, go to office to figure out how to make more money, go to the club so I can network, go to the party so I can feel I am living a great life, go back home in the night…get up in the morning, go to my ancestral home…) But, life is a journey, it’s time to figure out that a journey is different from a loop!
