Transformation of a desert

Human mind is amazing.

If it is on right track, it can do wonders.
Dubai....Truly a city of wonders. Just imagine a desert and now one of the most beautiful places in world.
 Look at Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world and one feels amazed. Every morning on my way to work, i keep tracking the burj from metro and i feel proud of mankind.

Not just Burj, but everything around here gives one a satisfaction of what a human mind can do. Beautiful architecture, evenly spaced buildings, wide roads, total hassle free transportation.
Even the electricity and water bills or for that matter payment of fines, hassle free one click system.
The city just amazes me.

Miracle Garden - a true miracle. The most beautiful garden I have ever seen that too not in greener landscapes but in a desert. Just flower pots placed to make formations with an efficient drip system to water them, and I bow to the minds which created it.

Truly breath taking Beautiful Human mind!

But this same mind can cause destruction, if it goes on wrong path.

What a contrast! A reality and the biggest irony of life.

The Migratory Birds.

I never viewed myself as a person attached to places, events and things. I have been a free bird, with my family being my anchor, where i would return to.

So, when my husband decided to move to Dubai, neither of us including our six year old were alien to the idea. In fact, we welcomed the change with open arms and were pretty excited to move to the next innings of life.

I had my reservations though.I was worried if i would be able to clear Exam and get a job there. I envy my engineering friends, they are welcome in any corner of world, though the specifications of machines and software varies from place to place. We, as doctors have to prove ourselves by a test in any country we go, although human body is same, be it India or Any other place and same American Text books are followed all over the world.

Ever since i learnt driving, my car was my soul-mate, my independence. It knew my tears, my happiness, my feelings and was the probably only place where i would be myself. But moving to this new place would mean giving away this independence, as getting license here is too trobulesome.

Nevertheless, my Husband assured me ALL IS WELL. And with my anchors by my side my son and my husband, I moved to Dubai 3 months back.

Well, as human body and medical teachings are same everywhere I cleared my exam, got a job, much respectable than my previous one. I still have to get my license.

But, Now i wonder is it so easy. Are we actually free birds? I miss my friends. I miss my favourite places, my favorite eat-outs, my parents, my sweet niece.

I miss that air, polluted though it was, those streets, dirty though they were. But It was MY INDIA, the country which gives me my Identity.

And here I am in an alien land, in a different culture, which sometimes terrifies me, and i have none who i can tell this.

Probably you are free bird where u feel secure, and in a strange land i still have to feel secure.

And my thought goes to the migratory birds! do they feel the way i feel.

Book review : Arjun without a doubt.

Arjun : without a doubt. Truly awesome book by Dr Sweety Shinde.

When I first came across the title, I was not sure I wanted to read another of Gita- Mahabharata thing.

But somehow the book's cover and FB page made me give it a try and I am glad I did.

No, it is not a twisted version of Mahabharata. It is a saga of Arjun the great warrior, who never got the due credit for his greatness and Draupadi who has always been misunderstood through ages.

The narrative is gripping and as the story unfolds the reader is thirsty for me. Like the author words it ' If learning was a river I was forever unquenchably thirsty'....so is the reader thirsty for more coz it ends too soon. 

What I liked best was trying to understand Draupadi's feeling when she was forced into polyandry, her love for Arjun and her strength and feelings when she was disrobed. 

The book has lovely quotes, and few of my favourite are 

1. Parents should come with a warning sign that they are not perfect; elders are just flawed people who happen to be born earlier.

2. Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body, tears stream from the soul.

3. If motherhood transformed a woman  into a goddess, then why should the act responsible for this transformation be a sin.

4. But the best is always a state of flux, it is a constant endeavour; not a one time title.

5. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power.

6. No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape life. Denial would mean conceit and conceit is not the same as self respect.

Overall, definitely a must read.