Sharath Chandra with SY

My interview by a Mass-com student whom I met in a vibrant place in Hyderabad. (Name won’t be revealed because of her request for anonymity)

S____ Y____: Welcome to the questionnaire Mr. Sharath Chandra. First of all the reason for me developing the interest to interviewing you is to know in detail about eccentric and radical people because am in future going to be a Crime Reporter. So, I’m rehearsing with you.

Me: That sounds a little goofy to me but it’s okay. I too have seen crazier people as you’ve mentioned about you. For becoming a crime reporter, you’re starting with me, that’s the interesting gesture for me. How did you come to that level of conclusion?

SY: Because of your blog www.insurgentminds.com. Your perspectives are too radical and anti-social. Do you know that?

Me: Why would I write without knowing. Start your actual questions.

SY: Okay,

SY: What’s your motivation for living

Me: What’s this… Ask such big questions in the ending.

SY: Okay, let’s start with the previous point. Why do you be so radical on your blog?

Me: See, everyone is uniquely made by both their genes and experiences. But the existing system of the time moulds and stunts them to fit them in the scheme. I realized it and came out of the system. There’s nothing as ‘radical’. When you are living a life immersed in hypocrisy, surrounded by false people, suddenly if someone speaks truth, they seem radical, even though you get a relief inside you.

And also, if everybody remains inside the system, won’t it be a boring society? Eventually, someone(not necessarily me) will come out to either make it or break it. Am the second type.

SY: Hmmm..Don’t you fear the consequences of not being in the system? Don’t you feel left out and isolated?

Me: Let’s divide that into two different questions.  

The word ‘consequences’ is a big word to use in my case. I took bigger and actual threatening risks in my earlier life. Coming to being isolated, I will tell you one thing. A person will actually will feel lonely when he has whole lot of people around him/her but he/she can’t be their original selves with anyone. A human can adjust/act for an hour, a day, maximum a week. Lifelong acting is a torture in itself.

The maximum consequence that happens is people who don’t have intellectual depth, who can’t digest honesty will be away from me. That’s actually a plan devised by me and it’s in action now.

To answer your second question, I’m never alone. I always find people who admire me for what I am and whom I admire for what they are. That’s how we found each other. And also, I have my tribe of mentors from whom I learn a lot regularly. So it’s actually like this.

I’m observing society from a distance. Am I big or not is not the point but I understood the smallness of people in society because I understood the flaws of people who boast of themselves as living perfect lives. Money, power, or beauty nothing is enough to cover a person’s visible fake life.

There’s a friend of mine who once said, ‘Whenever you post a new article, a handful of people get afraid about what you might have revealed about them’.

SY: What do you do for a living?

Cheppanu

SY: What?

Me: That means in Telugu, ‘I won’t tell’

SY: Why?

Me: Life is about ‘Being’ not about ‘doing’. People get identified with their work and that’s how it consumes them. I’m not my job, I’m not the work I do. I’m the way I live. And that’s the reason you are asking me questions today rather than finding a successful full-time blogger.

SY: Then don’t you worry about money?

Me: Think in the opposite way. Do you know how a successful man is tortured by people around? Do you know how many people want to live on him as parasites? I’m not a rose plant where a wild bee can come and suck the honey. I’m myself a wild plant. You never know how a wild plant reacts until you touch it.

(In the ears: By the way when I become rich, I won’t be generous or charitable because I don’t like people who want to live as parasites on rich people. So, I won’t help anyone whom I don’t like or who is unworthy.)

SY: You are talking about your physical reaction?

Me: Not necessarily. There are many physically strong men out there. What they will do is they will shout with weaker ones and surrender to the feet of stronger people than them. Physical or financial reaction is not the point. There is other aspect to life and that’s where I operate.

SY: Okay. Let’s get into some serious stuff now.

Me: Hello Madam, what’s that? All this was not comedy, it’s serious stuff.

SY: No wait. I have second set of questions.

Me: Okay, just kidding, carry on.

SY: Have you ever had any insecurity or inferiority complex in life?

Me: I had a lot for many years. Both physical and mental. I won’t get into the mental one because it’s now irrelevant and lost meaning. Physical-wise I had very strong low feeling childhood that am not muscular. But it vanished for 2 reasons

SY: What are they?

1. I have seen the unhealthiest habits of so-called muscular people and their outlook towards life. I got ashamed to look at them as heroes for years.
2. After seeing Michael Jackson, I felt slim people have a separate advantage and scope.

(laughter)

SY: You mentioned about muscular people. You are talking about all of them?

Every time I won’t use disclaimers such as ‘This is not about everyone’. If you or anyone reading has common sense, they have to understand it.

SY: What are your goals in life, I mean your dreams in life you want to fulfill before dying?

The biggest problem, I realized, with goals is, the next one will be ready after you achieve the first one. So, there can be no end to it and the loop is enslaving. So, I decided to live life in a liberating manner where as long as am alive, I should live life enough.

As you asked, my goal is, before 1 minute of dying I should be in an exciting state of mind to see ‘What’s next’. To reach that level of personality is my goal.

(Wired look)

Me: Yaa, I also don’t know what it is but just told you in the flow. Before dying I will remember you that you asked this question.

SY: I have seen that you also write movie scenes on your blog and you also made a short film named… ‘Behind Breakup’. Do you have film making ambitions?

Me: Yes

SY: Why do you want to make films?

Me: To rub my philosophy on people

SY: What do you have to say about your family and friends?

Me: This is not a platform for talking about my family. You better check my Facebook wall for that to know it yourself.

I don’t have any friends to talk about them.

SY: You don’t have any friends? How are you living then?

Me: Because I don’t have friends am living. Try this thing. Observe people who have friends and who constantly met, chat, laugh, party, or go for shopping or movies. Observe their intensity and focus towards life. You will understand. Don’t get confused, they might be rich, they might be successful, they might look cheerful but the actual thing will be missing that’s intensity. So many people around you, your passion will be diluted and your intellectual depth will be surfaced.

I don’t have friends but I have many enemies.

SY: Why is that so.

Me: Because ‘Enemies make us alert and friends make us complacent. ` Meaning, enemies will increase our intensity towards life because they make us think, plan, and learn unknown things faster.

The enemy’s agenda will be to destroy you and that which has the capacity to destroy you makes you stronger.

SY: Have you had any love stories or heart breaks in the past?

Me: I have had multiple ones. Because of them I’m here now celebrating life in your interview.

SY: What do you think of relationships now? Will you get into another again or will you be single?

Me: Let’s keep up the suspense. Let’s end this interview here and shall make an episode 2 completely on love because it’s a bigger and separate topic. Insurgent Minds also has also special followers for Love Coaching. So, let’s make it next week.

See you!

SY: What kind of a person are you? Where and how did you become like this?

Me: Stop stop. If someone sees they will think you are praising me.

SY: Seriously, fuck you! You are an abnormal human (Laughs).

Me: I know it. I proved it many times to many people.

SY: Let’s meet next week.