My Own Experiments with Life

Today, I met Shekhar Kapur, Nandita Das, Gulzar and Tom Alter, who had come for the launch of an audiobook on Gandhiji' s autobiography - My Experiments with Truth.

There was something that Mr. Shekhar Kapur said that set this thought process in me into motion.

We live in this world where we use interpretations of words in their contradictory sense. Take Truth, for example, we might assume by not saying lies, we're being true. A man would not tell his girlfriend about his wife. So did he lie about his wife? No. Exactly.

Now, consider Love, for example. A girl might ask her boyfriend if he loves her or not. The guy thinks - I don't hate her and I love spending time with her, so maybe then I love her.

You might say, if I don't do anything bad, I'm good then.

It is impossible for us to understand the propensity... the intensity of words like Truth and Love.
These words are just absolute. By not doing what its antonym says, doesn't mean we are adhering to that word.

Maybe, I too should start my own experiments with truth, love and life.