Notes on Uniqueness....!!

Whether it is a people or a race or a country, we should never forget our uniqueness, cultures and roots.

You may feel that she looks stunning in the high colar black jacket but you never realized that others like your simplicity; your's simple looks.You starts mimicking the american tone while speaking and while humming a Lady Gaga song you pick wrong notes but you never realized when you chants the ghazal, you mesmerise the passers-by. You thought to get success in business by copying some well known and popular product to realize later that your business is far behind to the business you copied.And the reason is that he has started long before you started and he knew that someday somebody wil copy him and then how can he come out with better product. Everybody in this world is unique. You better goom and nurture those unique qualities for a better acceptance

In South east asia and middle east there is a surge of Bollywood movies. The same bollywood movies which used to be called as dumb dancing-around-the-tree movies by the west. There is an increase influx of western actors in bollywood movies too.The reason is bollywood has a huge market outside India. It is good to see that Bollywood retains its flavor blodly stating that "love it or hate it, this is it"; and yes its presence is increasing in multifold than earlier. In many countries you can easily hear a popular bollywood song and in big cities you can find a "Bollywood Dance" class.Earlier time kathakali is coined as a ghost-dance for its unique appearance of the dancers and rapid eye movement and now it is a world known dance.Similarly when somebody talks about Bihu you propmtly asks him back -are you from Assam? With nominal dance steps and stereotype tune bhangra is another name for Punjab.Abroad while in Chinese new year, the cebration is incomplete without dragon dance; Deepavali is incomplete without lamps and colurs;halloween is incomplete without weird,fearful attrires.I believe there is not a single big city in this world where you will not be able to find an Indian Restaurant. And they are successfull too just by showcasing their countries delicacies.At the same time I wonder how many Indians became successfull opening up an western food giant!! It is all about the roots or the cultures of the country or states when it it comes about identity. You forget it, others forget you.

I am not so blunt to say that mimicing is wrong. Following others might be good sometimes but never always. If you can adopt good things from others keeping your own stucture intact, it is good. Any revolutionary product, the nobel prize always followed by a great idea or unique idea which is original.

After all - “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”