Saturday, December 7, 2013

Are we destined to be poor

Are we destined to be poor! Satnam Singh Sidhu BC

Yes and No

Yes, if we feel that way

No, if we ever think that I want to change it and I will.

We are master of our destiny. We can change it. But it is not easy. That is why, initially it might be possible that every body might think that they can change their destiny. But changing destiny is like climbing a hill.
Most people take some initial steps to climb a little, some may reach half way and few may reach close to the top, but very few reach the top.
Same is true to change destiny. I mean to become successful in reaching one's goals or targets. What ever it may be.
Toughest is to reach at top of hill of happiness.
Worldly achievements are also hard to achieve, yet with strong determination, hard work and guidance, one could achieve it.

But even those who reach the top of success, fails to achieve top of happiness.

Perhaps the path to worldly successes is straight forward and visible but path to happiness is not straight forward and invisible.

To be continued.......Dec 08 2013

There are two toughest things in this world to achieve:
    A.  Worldly Success
    B.  Divine Happiness

Worldly success leads to self confidence and happiness.
Divine happiness leads to self contentment and tranquillity.

What is happiness, self contentment, confidence, Tranquillity......

It all relates to our state of mind. Our thoughts, actions, feelings and emotions controls are state of mind.

Thoughts, feelings and emotions are very close knit. Actions are dependents upon the above three..

To be continued........



Monday, November 25, 2013

Our Mind and Our Surrounding!

Our Mind and Surrounding:

Satnam Singh Sidhu BC

Published on: Nov 25, 2013

Our Mind and Our Surrounding (Environment) are two single most powerful influences on our personality.

All changes happen in ourselves through self learning and self realisation are outcome of one's mind.

All changes happen in ourselves through religious preachings and practices, political, social and cultural values and changes are outcome of our Surroundings.

In other words, Inner changes and Outer Changes are equally important in shaping our Thoughts and Actions which in turn shapes our Personality.

If your own mindset contradicts with the Surrounding, that results in differences and revolutions.

If your own mindset gets in accord with Surrounding, that results in harmonious society without differences and discriminations.

Our Mind and Surrounding shapes us individually and collectively shapes our society, nation and world.


Revision 1: April 04, 2014

Some societies are multicultural and some aren't. But majority countries have at least one majority community in it which has the responsibility at large to shape the overall community. Canada and India are two prime examples of multicultural societies.

Language, Religion, Culture have direct impact on human psychology. Where as in modern society language is the biggest barrier to understand and communicate across borders and across communities and within community. Ones' ability to hold a particular public portfolio or responsibility is main established based on ones' ability to professional level of communication across communities and capability to perform jobs at professional level with the help of required prerequisite of that particular job.

So cross-cultural communication and prerequisite of academic level are paramount factors to qualify for any particular job. Simply labor related jobs where limited communication skills and minimum education could prevail are almost extinct from the modern era of information age.

In Canada official languages are English and French and in India official language is Hindi but overall English has taken over Hindi at least in Universities, Colleges and even schools. Rural India may be still Hindi spoken in majority but there are so many provincial (state) level official languages that it is not advisable to enforce Hindi as a working language. 

So India after independence went through lot of ups and downs based on linguistics and lost lot of time and energy which hampered the progress of country compared to rest of world. After 1995 the computer revolutionized the information highway and majority countries did not bother to fight over language. As a result every country and state still have their own mother-language but inter-nationally English has taken the lead over all other languages.

So every community, state (province) and country across world has united at least under one language and that is English. India still take pride in keeping its mother-tongue as Hindi and majority states take pride in there our regional or state level mother-languages but for academics, inter-state affairs, business communication and inter-national affairs English has been accepted as a official or working language in India and since every province have their mother-tongue and they don't like to be enforced for Hindi as working and official language, the alternative is English which has been accepted by India silently without any much opposition. Hindi predominant states sometimes try to get support from public to save Hindi as official and working language and same with regional languages but as of today, it has failed. People of India have realized that in order to compete for jobs in labor market whether it is regional, national or inter-national, only English is prerequisite. As a matter of fact people who are multilingual are preferred over monolingual.

















Are We Subject of Destiny....

Are we subject of Destiny or  destiny is subject of mankind

This question is similar to old famous saying," What came first, egg or chicken..."

Yet we will start to explore this subject soon...

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Biggest Mistakes

Biggest mistakes at night is not dreaming while sleeping

Biggest mistakes during daytime is day dreaming

Biggest mistake at work is making same mistake time and again

Biggest mistake in life is wasting time in criticising others mistakes

Biggest mistake is thinking I am the best

Biggest mistake is not listening before  answering

Biggest mistake is breaking promises

Biggest mistake is pledging without knowing

Biggest mistake is trusting a stranger

Biggest mistake is not helping a stranger or needy person

Biggest mistake is not disciplining a child

Biggest mistake is intimidating a child

Biggest mistake is disciplining a young adult

Biggest mistake is feeling jealous of others

Biggest mistake is covering children mistakes

Biggest mistake is thinking of self

Biggest mistake is ignoring the inner feelings

Biggest mistake is not accepting others

Biggest mistake is giving up hope

Biggest mistake is under estimating others

Biggest mistake is not smiling always

Biggest mistakes is keep talking

Biggest mistake is not being humble

Biggest mistake is mistaking self ability



Monday, November 4, 2013

Destiny of India and Seeta Mata by Satnam Singh Sidhu BC

Destiny of India and Seeta Mata by Satnam Singh Sidhu BC


Destiny of India is nothing more than the destiny of Indians. There are few other names that are used by Indians which are regional in nature. Like Hindustani is mainly used by people of Indian provinces which are Hindi spoken. Likewise Desh Punjab is used mainly by Northern Indians especially Punjabi speaking Indians. Likewise there are so many regional names used by people for their own convenience.



Some people regret their decision to be part of India after independence. People of India are lacking nationalism due to various reasons. Mainly due to language barrier, cultural barrier and religious barriers. National politicians are main culprits for keeping these barriers or gap wide open for their own political gains.

One big card they always played since independence is of language barrier. They branded Hindi speaking regions as Hindustani and created cultural hate against non-Hindi speaking regions and people. They portrait Hindi as national language and non-Hindi languages as anti national. Southern Indian who do not accept Hindi as their national language because they love their own regional languages creates a big gap between Southern India and rest of India. Far east regions like Assam, Bengal also have their own languages and don't feel the need of Hindi as national language. In northern India, people of Punjab did not accept Hindi as national language either. Everyone knows what happened in Punjab in 1984 which was visible to every ordinary person. Even though the leaders of Punjab always blamed Indian Government since independence for keeping a unfavorable attitude towards people of Punjab. Not only that people of Punjab were tried to be separated based on language and religion. Punjabi speaking Hindus were conspired by national parties to mention Hindi as their mother tongue during national census.

Second card they play time to time is card of religion. As majority people are Hindi speaking in eastern, central and western India and these regions amounts to majority of Indian population which in turn amounts to majority of MP in Indian parliament. So politicians branded these regional people as Hindustani even though a big chunk of this regional population are Muslim. This very name gives Muslim Indians as second class citizen feeling being called Hindustani.

Congress strategically used Cow as their national symbol. This automatically created rift between Hindus and Muslims. Congress portrayed cow as national symbol and a sacred animal. Hindu portray Cow as Mother. On other hand Muslims use cow for food. Cow meat is considered delicious not only by Muslims but also by western countries.

Cow slaughter was not banned in the hay days of the Indus valley civilization and early vedic periods.Banning of cow slaughter was chiefly due to economic reasons.Emperor Ashoka banned it, to prevent quality bulls from being killed for food during famine.It was later made a part of Hindu custom and people started blindly opposing cow slaughter.In our country thousands of people are dying , because of 
hunger and thirst.If slaughtering a cow can save money for a poor farmer and add to his meager income , then , why can't we allow cow slaughter?. 
from:  arun

Posted on: May 15, 2013 at 09:10 IST  http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/congress-to-restore-1964-anticow-slaughter-act/article4712163.ece



Religion and language are used as main cards by Indian political parties to attract the voters towards them. Congress went further one step within the Hindu voters. They used reservation as the main card within Hindu voters and attracted the majority Hindu voters by providing them reservation in educational institutions and in employment. The worker class of Hindu population, the so called 4th class or untouchables, got some social uplift under the reservation policies of Indian government. It is not that they were given social acceptance by high caste Congressmen of India, but they were used by a handful of Hindu elite class to make them their permanent political vote bank for congress. The other Hindu elite class did not like their idea. They opposed congress at every step. But it was possible for them to win in this game. Because the majority voters in India are lower Hindu class named as Schedule Caste SC or Backward Class BC. SC and BC voters out numbers Hindu elite voters. This is the very reason opposition never remain in power for very long. Their one time success against Congress was solely because of their open discrimination agenda against Muslim community. They fetch majority in the name of building a Lord Ram Mandir in Ayodhya by demolishing Muslim Babri Mosque.


Controverisal billboardWhat ever the situation India is right now, the politicians are purely responsible for it. Rather than building a united India where people of all cultures, religions, faiths and languages could have lived together and unitedly worked hard to build a Indian community reflecting cultural diversity and tolerance and respect for each other, it ended in shattering the idea of national unity. Muslims feels degraded and disrespected in India. Sikhs and Hindus of Punjab feels the pain of state oppression by Indian defense forces, by the interference of Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, Central politicians.

Even though the Card of Hinduism was played by Indian Politicians at that time and people of Punjab were punished to death, shot to death, burned to death, tortured to death, raped to death, humiliated in front of families and were jailed for life imprisonment at hidden spots. Till date families are missing their family members and they have no clue whether they were gunned down or are still behind bars somewhere in India. Till date no politician of India dare to talk about this issue in Indian parliament and no one dared to have a fair independent inquiry and punish the politicians who were behind this whole conspiracy.

Indian law have completely failed to address the issue of Punjab genocide in which Hindus and Sikhs were tortured to death. Survivors lived a life under terror and constant fear without any law and order. Even law and order personal and their families suffered major loss in Punjab.

When did this conspiracy started? Where did this was planned? Who were involved in it? Where did Indian Defense forces practiced their attack plan? Which agencies were responsible for killing our Hindu brothers and sisters? Which agencies were used to train forces as terrorists who were used to destroy the families of Punjab and who were corrupt officers who used their own criminal groups to intimidate people of Punjab and robbed every single penny from poor villagers in the name of terrorism?

As it is very clear to Hindu religious leaders and ordinary citizens of India that neither political parties (Congress and BJP) are sincere to get them the justice. The birthplace of Lord Ram is still under dispute forever. Both parties have played with the sentiments of Indian people. Whether it is Hindu or Muslim; Budh or Sikh; Christen or Jain.

Sikhs are awaiting justice since 1984 for Indian Defense Forces invasion on Sikh Shrines all across India and Punjab and genocide of people of Punjab.

Hindus are awaiting justice since 1992 for possession of Lord Ram's birth place. People light candles in Gauhati, India, to mark the verdict.
Muslims are awaiting justice in Gujarat since 2002.



Women of India is awaiting justice since Mata Seeta's kidnapping by Ravana. Mata Seeta was rescued by Lord Rama and his followers. But no Ram is coming forward to rescue Indian women (Bhartiye Nari) from Indian Ravanas who beat her to death for dowry, who rape her, who give her no identity.

Poor of India is awaiting freedom from pain of hunger. India need nothing from outside to finish poverty. All it need is to kill corruption.

There is no need to fight against corrupt leaders.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. PTISimply plan for coming elections and chose honest and simple leaders like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. People complain that he is a weak PM, but don't judge him from his silence, judge him from his planning and execution of policies. He alone can not do anything about corrupt politicians in parliament, but he is trying to do what he can. If he speaks honestly then almost whole parliament would be against him. Because majority is corrupt and few honest parliamentarians won't have guts, like us, to support him. Don't blame a honest man, if you really want to listen to such a person, then give him a honest parliament force by electing honest MPs.
It seems as if most Indians are inheriting the spirit of Ravana. No body want to become Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Guru Nanak, Guru Gobind Singh.

I know everyone is busy in their own career and their family. No one has time to fix social fabric of India. Just imagine if Mahatma Gandhi, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sahdev, Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha and all freedom fighters of India (including Hindu, Muslim, Sikhs and All) would have said the same thing, where would you have been standing today.
Anna Hazare took a great initiative but people like you never bothered supporting him. It is very easy, as it is for me to write, to support through facebook or e-mails but real freedom asks lot more than this.  

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

When no hope is left and you still get it!

When no hope is left and you still get it! Satnam Singh Sidhu BC

A time comes in life when you feel alone and you have a strong feeling that nobody is on your side. No body care about you and no one want to listen to you.

During this time you ask your new friends about your dilemma and they tell you what to do just based on what they know about you and what is their experience in that field.

But sometimes you get an answer which may astound you. You might have never seen yourself from that prospective.

I shared my feelings with a new colleague which is becoming my new friend. I asked her that I am very sad inside now a days and I really don't know why? Another colleague entered the conversation and showed his interest in the topic. He also asked me why I feel like that?

I get caught in a situation where I was really expecting an answer to that question from her and later from him. Instead they asked me to share why I feel like so?

I said I really want the answer from you guys and that is the reason I shared my feelings with you. My friend said that I must be hiding some sinful thinking otherwise I should be able to share my feelings with them.

I was astound from their observation about me and my feelings. I never got such a comment about myself in whole life.

It may be true that I might a person of that caliber who is committing sins in his life without acknowledging the sins. But on the other hand I think since my new friend hardly knows about me and my past life, she may wrong in her opinion about me.

But I never dared to talk to her about this matter after this. It is more than a week and I am still wandering about myself. Who I am? What she said is true or not!

I don't want to engage her in this topic deliberately because chances are she may realize what she said and may change her opinion simply to comfort me.

But question arises apart from that what is sin and what is not? Is there a straight answer to this or it is relative to a situation?

This is my new topic of search. What is SIN?

I asked many of my colleagues in last week and I got various vague answers to it. In past couple weeks I found myself in a situation where I got upset with my manager for not getting me enough help from the service department. He politely asked me to slow down and do every thing you can by yourself. Because know body can help me in that situation. Even he asked me to go home if I can not handle the situation. I told my manager that I don't think there is any need to go home for myself and if someone really have to go home then support staff should go home and not me.

Few days later one of my colleague got upset with me and blamed me for interference to his work. He did not stop there and further blamed that I interfere in every body's job and nobody likes me here.

Even though first part was understandable and I knew why he was upset because another colleague shared his sale to half. But later comment is bothering me now.

Is he really right in his opinion. Am I really a man of inconvenience to others. Am I bothering others during the work hours.

So far two things are on my agenda now. Am I sinful and am I inconvenient to others at work.
I really don't know and I want to find a way to resolve the issue. Why? Because I can not live in peace if I ever feel I am bothering anyone without reason.

How I am going to find the answer, I don't know. I hope someone may suggest me something.

By the way during the same week I have found some hope in my old friends. I found one of my friend through internet after 26 years. Also I found a group of people who wanted to help some needy students and I am part of it and some of my old friend initiating a project on my request to form a trust fund so that we can continue helping needy students in future as well.

I have got some comfort out of it. I have seen some hope to my feelings through my old friends and yet I am seeking help from my new friends.............