Saurabh Dhopate

Delhi riot 2020. One religion of people beating someone who is from another religion.   Love happens, naturally! Falling in love with something or someone is a passive activity. You don’t need motivation for that. You just simply fall in love. Dhoni doesn’t need a cause to fall in love with cricket. While hate doesn't occur naturally. It needs some cause. Indians have a cause to hate the Britishers. Humans are naturally born to love. But after birth, they either learn or are taught to hate others. People are not born as bad people – they are not born as communal, casteist, sexist, murderers, rapists, etc. – they become bad when they start hating. Why do people hate? 1. Self-hatred – The hatred of other people often comes from hatred of one's self-being. Such people have a characteristic of self-disliking. Most of the time, rejections, break-ups, and academic failures cause self-doubting and self-disliking. They do not love(like) themselves, which generates a feeling of hatred ...

  During my college days, photography became my hobby. For that, I bought a DSLR and a smartphone boasting of best camera quality. I have never regretted investing money in the gadgets. Gadgets give you an edge, but sometimes I feel that these gadgets have stolen some of the best moments of my life, which I can't get back! There was an annual function in our college and my friends who were performing, acting, dancing, singing, asked me to capture their performances. After the event, everyone was chattering about it, but I had this nagging feeling of having missed out on something very precious in my life. The pictures that I clicked turned out to be good and were loved as well, but I realised I failed to live the moment. And I still regret that. After that incident, I decided that I would avoid clicking photos or at the very least touch my cameras once I have soaked in whatever the moment has to offer.  If we are in a habit of clicking photos (of everything), then we are const...

Narrator One : I thought that after cracking the UPSC exam—and getting the IPS post—I’d fight for peace, service and justice for the rest of my life. But things are not going that way. By now, I have been transferred for nineteen times; my life has become nothing short of a puppet show! Working in this system might be delightful for those who have vended their integrity. Currently, I’m investigating the case of a journalist who was shot dead last month. When I went to the journalist’s home for interrogation, her mother said, “Since a few days before her death she seemed stressed. In fact, once she had confided in me that she was close to acquiring a vital piece of evidence. Apparently, it could have become a cause for the collapse of the government—which was formed by the ruling political party.” And now the things are coming to light as I’m being coerced by a political goon and my senior officers to stay away from the case. Since last week, I’m getting life-threatening phone ...

“Imagine, there's no heaven or hell, above us, there's only sky, and it's easy if you try. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one.” —  John Lennon         I can remember when the last time I was looking at the stars and trying to find myself in that dark sky, just lying on the terrace, alone. Oh, I forgot to talk about this photo! The Hubble Space Telescope of NASA captured this photo, which was published on August 16, 2018, and the facetious part is, the field features only 15000 galaxies. It is tracking the birth of stars over the last 11 billion years back to the cosmos’ busiest star-forming period, which happened about 3 billion years after the big bang. The universe, the observable universe is estimated to contain 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies. The Sun belongs to a galaxy called the Milky Way, astronomers estimate there're about 100–400 billion stars in the Milky Way alone. By seeing these figures, and comparing th...

        Imagine the world without words. The words, why do they have to exist? Perhaps, without them, we are nothing, as our entire life revolves around them; there would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better.       Actually, I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.       The world shakers are the ones who understand the true power of words. Yes, Hitler decided that he would rule the world with words. And, at the same time, Mahatma Gandhiji too decided to make this world more peaceful, with words. Because they both knew how powerless a person could be without words. And maybe that's why they both devised they would never fire a gun. By looking at these two people, I see, at the same time how the words can be so ugly and so glorious!