In India, You can Have an ideology, support a political party, believe in policies and ideas, favour a sporting team.
But never ever be a fan. Especially of individuals, be it politicians, sportspersons, actors and Govt servants.
Because Most don't care about you.
Many don't believe in what they say to you. Most don't practice what they preach to you.
For them, You are nothing but a means to an end. And their end is very different from your end.
In that regard
One person will ask you to live, breathe and fight for Kannada. Will ask you to object to milk packets because of Kannada. But will send his kids to Canadian International School and Canada for higher education.
Another one will ask you to die for Tamil. But will send his son to a convent and get him educated in English.
Then there are people who will implore you to get your kids educated in Marathi medium, because you know Marathi Pride and all that. But will send their own to a Scottish school, where the fees is more than your annual salary.
Some will go out of the way to prevent the growth of industries in their state. But will send their daughter to the neighboring state for starting a company.
Some push their state into bankruptcy and starvation, but will send their kids to London where I kid you not, they become Connoisseurs in foods so esoteric that you need a language degree to pronounce their names.
Your transport secretary does not pay the toll he / she levies on you.
Your health secretary goes to London to get himself treated not the local govt hospital.
Your cricket captain doesn't use any of the products he endorses.
Your Head / Tail / Feet / Hand actor asks you to drink Coke and eat Lays, but doesn't have sugar and runs away from chips faster than he runs away from you.
Most ask you to be patriotic and stay back in India. But send most of their kids abroad.
So Never idolize individual people.
Don't listen to them without applying your own brain.
Most will say you are the most important person in their life, but will not hesitate to unleash the police / bodyguards on you.
They will make you wait endlessly in traffic jams so that they travel comfortably. But then they will tell your happiness is their main concern.
They want you to follow what they tell you. But they will never take responsibility for the outcome.
Because They don't make the choices they ask you to make. They don't deal with the fallout like you do.
You are nothing to them as an individual.
For them you just another non playing character in an ocean of non playing characters. Their interest in you is only to the extent of how much they can extract from you.
They don't care you live or die, as long as they keep benefitting off your stupidity.
For the people you blindly follow, they don't even want to know you.
For them You are nothing but a movie extra.
A nicely worded ghostwritten social media post, which they don't even read, forget mean.
And if you die in your attempt to validate your fandom, you become a name on a sheet, whose family has to be given ex-gratia payment to. And most probably they would have to pay a bribe to receive it.
So be smart. Support people by all means. But draw a line.
Don't be a fanatic of anything. It isn't worth it.
You gain nothing from it. But will lose everything because of it.
The only people who love you and care for you are your family. They will be the only ones who will miss you when you die.
They will be the only ones who remember you when you are gone.
Don't believe me, ask the families of people who were killed in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
@_avichawla Its not just the same direction, more accurate term would be on the same span.
The eigenvectors of a matrix A are those vectors X for which multiplication by A results in a vector in the same direction or opposite direction to X.
I am a 90s kid who used to turn on the TV to watch Sachin, Sehwag, Ganguly, Dravid and VVS bat. I now turn on the TV to watch Bumrah, Shami and Siraj bowl.
My generation was jealous of watching Wasim, Waqar, Ambrose, Walsh, McGrath, Lee and Donald bowl, wondering if we'll ever produce a quality pace attack.
Today, our bowlers are the envy of the world, and it is such a heartening feeling to witness this growth in Indian cricket.
Thanks, Obama!
In order to spite President Obama Wyoming GOP wrote into their state Constitution "each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions.”
This insert is the reason why they can't pass an abortion ban.
There is no street in Kochi that doesn't have garbage by its side, for years.
Cochin Corp still transports foul smelling garbage in open trucks daily through every road & which id1ot thinks transporting bio waste like that leaking on the roads is ok?
Corporation, municipality,