With you once again.

After a considerable lapse of time as I sit at the dashboard, I feel greatly joyful because in the mean while I have moved past the 31 year milestone of my life. As this is the month of March the educational institutions are all busy in the year-end examinations, so is ours. During this year's exam I am enriched with many new experiences. And the time period when I was unable to update my blog, I was engaged in exam works.

No shortcut to success

In life there is no short cut to success. Wishful dreaming never brings success. Life passes away only in empty dreaming. And the goals of life remain unrealized. The great persons, who have already lived truly purposeful lives, have one thing in common and that is their determined hard labour. Life becomes useful and meaningful in realizing the great virtue of helping others to realize their own dreams. A person will automatically rise to height when he constantly monitors his life for the growth of others. The noble wishes to do good to others activates the untapped divine potentialities of man. Out of thousands of dreams only few dreams are fulfilled. Life gives chances to materialise one's dreams but the chance of the fate needs to meet with hard work of the individual before ushering success.

Holy 2010

Yesterday I was terribly tired and was suffering from acidity of stomach. A nasty headache was troubling me since last night. So in the morning I felt heavy weak and discomfort. I was not in a mood to go anywhere and decided to stay indoor. But the contagious spirit of HOLY 2010 gripped me when some of my colleagues called me to john with them pressing the calling bell of my house. I threw away all my illness and lined up with them. Colour powders were sprinkled and the holy was celebrated in full pump. This festival is very significant because many egos melt and broken relationships are mended. That happened when Pradeep smeared my face with some colours. Life is short and we should care for having good relationship with others. HOLY is a festival which is gives ample opportunity to renew a healthy relationship.

Jayanta uncle's family and our family set out in the morning for visiting the important tourist places of undivided koraput. Our first destination was Gupteswar. This time we found the temple beautification work in full swing. The steps of the temple which meanders upto the hill top are widened and covered with orange-coloured slates. The siva linga which is worshipped at this place is enshrined in a cave which elongates to a considerable distance and mingles into darkness.I could not muster courage to explore the end point of the cave. The thick darkness overpowers all shorts of portable lighting systems. The congenial bats flutter in the cave at the sight of the visitors. The big rocks, which make the roof of the cave, bear weird structures which add a strange sombreness to the place.

Sweating by a hillside

I sat in the college library. Mind developed a kind of tranquility. I loved to sit there away from my home environment. I felt happy because I was sitting their alone in the company of few books. Ajaya was delivering a class to the students. The sounds of his speech I could hear. It was making the atmosphere more study centred. But our college do not have a garden. The campus is not well-kept. This may reflect our neatly functional approach to the institution. We the lecturers come, teach our lessons and go away, so it happens with other staff. We read about environmental degradation but we never put efforts for its restoration. The basic attitude of life has become superficial and rootless. Yesterday I had been to a hill side near our town. And I found that the hills are stripped off the green cover by the local people. The collection of fire wood and other plant products have left the place barren. The hills show up massive hard granites to the blazing sunshine resulting an unbearable temperature rise. In that winter afternoon when I was climbing up the hill I sweated profusely. The winter evening became hell like. There the stay was not at all enjoyable because human interference in the nature's laws had spoiled the refreshing qualities of the hillside.