Lila Naidu... How destiny plays with our lives!

 https://www.bhaskar.com/entertainment/bollywood/news/actress-leela-naidu-story-married-twice-in-her-life-130238536.html

Is kahani par shayad ek din movie banegi

How a person leaves movies for studies, even after being from an affluent family respects the economically weak, how she ends up in poverty, alcohol and smoking, A person counted in the 10 most beautiful in world for a decade, how she out of the gush of love marries a person double her age only to find the ugly side of a relationship.. what was the meaning of love for her.....  how failure of not the first but the second relationship devastates a person mentally, how a benevolent friend in this selfish world decides to help her, how destiny changes the times of a person...

A great story to be told to the world about this life filled with roller coster rides.

Awesome Short on Consistency

https://youtube.com/shorts/iRtvMkBCr2s?feature=share

The cycle of life......

 

How life should be led!

 https://youtu.be/4Nmh-fy-lEU

Aamir Khan, on how life should be led!!!

I didn't know I'd remain alive or not!

 Last year, around this time, there came 2 days I didn't know I'd remain alive or not!

Angels on earth saved me!!!

शादीशुदा जिंदगी में बहस न करें

 कहानी - कबीरदास से जुड़ा किस्सा है। एक दिन कबीर जी कपड़े बुन रहे थे और उस समय एक युवक उनके पास आया। युवक ने प्रणाम किया तो कबीर जी मुस्कान के साथ कहते हैं, 'तुम्हारे प्रणाम में ही झलक रहा है कि तुम कुछ परेशान हो, क्या बात है?'

युवक बोला, 'मेरी गृहस्थी में बहुत कलह है। मेरी पत्नी और मेरे बीच बिल्कुल भी तालमेल नहीं है, हमारी बिल्कुल नहीं बनती है। क्या आप कोई समाधान बता सकते हैं?'

कबीर जी ने कहा, 'ठहरो।' उन्होंने अपनी पत्नी लोई को आवाज लगाई और कहा, 'एक लालटेन लेकर आओ और जलाकर लाना।'

कबीर जी की पत्नी कुछ ही देर में लालटेन जलाकर ले आई। युवक ने सोचा कि अभी दोपहर का समय है, इन्होंने लालटेन मंगाई और इनकी पत्नी ने चुपचाप लाकर रख दी, कोई बहस नहीं की।

कबीर जी ने फिर अपनी पत्नी से कहा, 'इनके लिए कुछ मीठा ले आओ।'

कबीर जी की पत्नी मीठे की जगह नमकीन रखकर चली गईं। उस युवक ने कबीर जी से पूछा, 'ये आप क्या कर रहे हैं?'

कबीर जी बोले, 'जलती हुई लालटेन देखकर तुम चौंक गए, लेकिन मेरी पत्नी बहस किए बिना लाकर रख गई। मैंने मीठा बुलवाया तो वह नमकीन लाकर रख गईं तो उससे झगड़ा नहीं किया, मैंने ये सोचा कि हो सकता है कि घर में मीठा न हो, इसलिए वह नमकीन लेकर आई है। जब मैंने लालटेन मंगवाई थी तो मेरी पत्नी ने भी सोचा होगा कि दोपहर में लालटेन मंगवाना अजीब है, लेकिन बहस कौन करे तो वह लालटेन लाकर रख गईं। घर-परिवार में पति-पत्नी को धैर्य रखना चाहिए और बहस से बचना चाहिए।'

सीख - वैवाहिक जीवन में दो बातें ध्यान रखें। धैर्य रखें और बहस से बचें। अचानक कोई प्रतिक्रिया न दें। जीवन साथी कुछ कह रहा है तो धैर्य से देखें, समझें और बहस के बिना बातचीत करें।

https://www.bhaskar.com/national/news/do-not-argue-in-married-life-listen-to-what-the-wife-says-129324979.html?ref=inbound_More_News

Some awesome lines on Gandhian Thought, by Ayodhya Singh Dinkar

 Some awesome lines by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar...

सत्य की संपूर्णता देती न दिखलाई किसी को,

हम जिसे हैं देखते, वह सत्य का, बस, एक पहलू है।

सत्य का प्रेमी भला तब किस भरोसे पर कहे यह

मैं सही हूँ और सब जन झूठ हैं?

चलने दो मन में अपार शंकाओं को तुम,

निज मत का कर पक्षपात उनको मत काटो।

क्योंकि कौन हैं सत्य, कौन झूठे विचार हैं,

अब तक इसका भेद न कोई जान सका है।

सत्य है सापेक्ष्य, कोई भी नहीं यह जानता है,

सत्य का निर्णीत अन्तिम रूप क्या है? इसलिए,

आदमी जब सत्य के पथ पर कदम धरता,

वह उसी दिन से दुराग्रह छोड़ देता है।

तुम बहस में लाल कर लेते दृगों को,

शान्ति की यह साधना निश्छल नहीं है।

शान्ति को वे खाक देंगे जन्म जिनकी

जीभ संकोची, हृदय शीतल नहीं है।

Oxygen in Delhi

Recently in some sections of the media a comparison between Delhi and Mumbai’s peak oxygen demand during the second wave covid crisis is shown. In it, it is alleged that despite both having similar numbers of peak active cases (around 95,000), Delhi required almost 3.5 times the peak oxygen requirement of Mumbai. Hence Delhi government’s covid management efforts are given a demeaning thumbs down.

Data, when analysed in a completely mindless way, leads to results which can be laughable and at the same time may reflect the state of sinister prejudice some of our intellectuals can be struggling with.

A section on media alleges that Mumbai managed with 275 metric tonnes (MT) per day of oxygen even when the active Covid cases crossed 92,000. But Delhi demanded 976 MT oxygen per day while it had active case load of 97,977. 

Here it has to be noted that peak oxygen demand is not a function of total active cases, but of the peak number of daily covid cases. For a few days if a plethora of new cases come, those patients are to be provided oxygen then and there. If a tsunami of 50,000 new patients comes for three days, then the peak oxygen demand corresponding to those days will increase to that tune. Simple! Now lets look what truth this fact reveals for Delhi and Mumbai.

While Mumbai reached a peak of nearly 11,200 new cases per day during this crisis, Delhi reached a peak of nearly 28,500 cases per day, 2.5 times that of Mumbai. Now you yourself contemplate, if a flood of 2.5 times the patients compared to Mumbai is coming to Delhi hospitals, should they refuse oxygen and kill them just because Delhi’s total active case load is still not that much? Does total active case load has any meaning in saving lives  when for many days Delhi got a gush of patients many times that of Mumbai? Why dont our self proclaimed experts and analysts first sit and think before jumping to write down insane analysis in the media!

During the corona first wave in September 2020, Maharashtra had a peak daily cases of 37,500 and a peak oxygen supply of 850 MT. For a Delhi peak like situation of 28,500 cases, this would have translated to about 650 MT per day. Delhi was getting less than 500 MT for most of its severest crisis days. Would we first kill patients from Delhi with oxygen shortage and then complain also that they consumed so much oxygen, they could have managed it in even less?

On 6th April 2021, oxygen consumption in Maharashtra again touched 777 MT per day due to rising cases. As it takes a minimum of 6 days for the infected to require oxygen, the cases 6-8 days prior to that were in the range of Delhi’s peak (around 30,000). When Maharashtra can use this much oxygen for itself, why cant Delhi for almost the same number of daily cases?

Take the case of Nagpur. Peak per day cases nearly 8000, peak oxygen demand 164 MT per day. Extrapolate for the Delhi numbers, Nagpur would have required 584 MT of oxygen had it had Delhi like peak 28,500 cases per day. Indeed, Delhi was supplied 400-600 MT of oxygen during the havoc days, and it struggled to meet its demand against its supplies. What's the fuss about it, when will we Indians start avoiding that evil feeling of extracting political mileage from everything?

One such article questions Delhi’s oxygen consumption compared to Mumbai but later states that the oxygen consumption in both per capita was almost same, around 0.0045 MT per person, but Delhi using about 10% more oxygen per person compared to Mumbai.

Ok, now we got it! So the Yaksh Prashna of today is why the Delhi patients used 10% more oxygen compared to Mumbai! And yes! It is the complete failure of Delhi Government. 

Can Delhi government advise its hospitals to use lesser oxygen per person? A doctor who knows hundreds and thousands are dying daily for want of oxygen will really waste oxygen? And Delhi government’s engineering degree holder Chief Minister should tell these doctors of years and decades of experience to use 10% lesser oxygen as the doctors might not be having brains to know the oxygen situation in the city and the country!

We think the next hisaab kitaab they are going to prepare is how much per capita water a Delhite takes compared to a Mumbaikar and how much he urinates, and blame the government for not issuing guidelines to take 10% lesser water to save the country from excessive urination.

Was there not an Oxygen crisis in Delhi? Did Kejriwal government sold off this oxygen to industrial plants? Did the hospitals not have an acute oxygen shortage, they just hired high paying lawyers, got prepared the papers overnight, and approached the High Court in urgency just for fun? To get into headlines? Was it all a drama by the hospitals? Were the patients who died due to oxygen shortage killed in spite of having ample and excessive supply and storage of oxygen?

So the Delhi Chief Minister was playing a drama in front of the Prime Minister, while there was an excessive supply of oxygen hidden somewhere in government stores? Were videos getting shared in social media of the Delhi patients dying due to not getting a single breath of oxygen were all fake? Were those patients acting to get that extra buck? Were SOS messages on facebook and twitter from Delhites for the last cry for oxygen were all due to Delhi Government selling the oxygen in black market in those days?

Alas, some people in our country have lowered themselves to such a deep and dirty level that they do not feel ashamed of doing devil politics even over dead bodies.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/methink/kejriwal-covid-gimmicks-tale-of-two-cities/

https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/mumbai-delhi-oxygen-crisis-covid-cases-deaths-1799979-2021-05-07

https://www.news18.com/news/india/in-terms-of-numbers-the-worst-could-be-over-delhi-is-past-its-peak-3728087.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/with-oxygen-demand-down-to-nearly-half-of-april-ngp-starts-supply-to-other-dists/articleshow/83016159.cms

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/after-76-days-covid-cases-again-below-1k-in-dist/articleshow/82721447.cms

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/fda-foresees-oxygen-shortage-in-coming-days-7261843/

https://www.google.com/search?q=maharashtra+covid+cases+peak&oq=maharas&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j35i39l2j46i67i433j0i67j0i20i263i433j69i60l2.4453j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=131442&sid=1

यह वाकया ब्लॉग पर डालने लायक था

 सॉफ्टवेयर के काम के सिलसिले में डाटा अपलोडिंग का काम चल रहा था। हमारी टीम के एक सदस्य पिछले हफ्ते 2 दिन की छुट्टी पर थे और इतवार की छुट्टी तो उन्होंने ली ही थी... तो मैंने उनसे कहा कि भाई आज इतवार को वह काम करके इसको कंपनसेट करें।

अब इस तरह के जुल्मों सितम पर व्हाट्सएप ग्रुप में एक कमेंट कुछ इस तरह का आया... गैरों पे करम, अपनो पे सितम, ए गौरव सर...

तो मेरा रिप्लाई कुछ इस तरह का गया कि हे सज्जन! आपके अंदर का शायर भले ही जाग गया हो परंतु यह कविता कुछ इस तरह से लिखनी चाहिए थी, तो अधिक प्रभावी हो जाती.. :-) (और पसंद आने पर शायद छुट्टी भी मिल जाती)

ग़ैरों पे करम 

अपनो पे सितम 

गौरव मोहतरम 

हम गए सहम

हो कुछ तो रहम 

कि ऐसा जुलम

कि ऐसे जख़म

ना सह लें हम

मिटा दो भरम

लगा दो मरहम

कुछ तो नरम

कहो ना सनम

दूर हो ग़म

दर्द हो कम

शिकवा भी थम

जाए जो हम

करें फ़राहम

आपका करम..

आपका करम!!

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जिंदगी का युद्ध कैसे लड़ा गया और जीता गया या हारा गया यह तो बातें अलग रही पर हाॅं! यही लम्हे जीवन को यादगार बनाते हैं!! :-)

Money..... धन

अगर आप जीवन में कुछ बहुत बड़े काम करना चाहते हैं तो उन्हें करने के लिए पैसा अपने आप आ जाएगा। 

अगर आप जीवन में औसत काम करना चाहते हैं तो उनके लिए पैसों की समस्या हमेशा बनी रहेगी।

Online Education

The quality of education of a school is reflected in the number of hours its students spend in libraries without being asked to.

The quality of teaching by a teacher is reflected in the number of questions the students ask at the end of the class. You can have doubts only when you your attention is on the subject and that can happen only when the teaching is interesting. For education to succeed, it should be fun to learn.

PEOPLE DO NOT WATCH BORING MOVIES.

STUDENTS DO NOT UNDERSTAND BORING LESSONS.

Offline Education and Books

Only when one is interested in the subject, does it lead to interaction – where in the student wants to know more about the subject, clear their doubts, and looks for more material to get a deeper insight into the subject.

If children today are not reading more and more books outside the school text books, it is because of the impression they have about books – thanks to the boring teaching that focuses on parroting rather than understanding.

Education should motivate students to read books even after the school is over, generate passion about knowledge in general and the subject in particular. But unfortunately, education today makes them run away from books and knowledge.

Online Education and Educational Videos

Due to COVID pandemic, many schools worldwide are shifting to online education. While it is a good move considering the risk of the pandemic spreading further, it is less effective, especially at lower classes, considering the distant nature between teacher and student.

Students today can learn a lot more by watching beautiful youtube videos that teach stuff in ways that are not only easy to comprehend, but also generate a keen interest in one to know more about the subject.

But thanks to online education, students will now get pre-recorded videos from their teachers – I am afraid this will make students run away from educating videos on platforms like youtube as well!

Boring teaching makes students run away from not only from text books – but books in general. Similarly won’t boring educational videos being forced in the name of online education make students run away from otherwise effective online videos as well?

For education to succeed, it should be fun to learn

How to provide effective Online Education?

Online education can be effective only when it is interactive and innovative. Teachers can use more innovative methods like slide shows, animations, videos, audios and other digital assets to make their teaching more effective. This can actually make classes more interesting than offline classes!

Distributing boring pre-recorded videos will be useless, waste of time. The quality of education will hit rock bottom by doing so. There are better youtube videos available that can make one comprehend the topic easily, than watching boring pre-recorded videos.

So how can online education be more effective?

Teachers should make use of additional benefits provided by technology by making good use of slideshows, animations, audio/video assets, etc so that the students find it more interesting and easy to understand.

Teachers should encourage students to ask queries and get answers via WhatsApp chat sessions or similar other means.

Teachers should also conduct regular interactive sessions with students to understand how effective their teaching has been, and how well students are able to comprehend the lessons.

Teachers should focus on imparting education than on completing the syllabus.

Every teacher should always encourage students to ask more questions and more questions. No teacher should ever discourage students from asking questions. And for smaller classes, especially at primary school level – online education means nothing. Unless and until you succeed in making it as interesting as cartoons like Tom and Jerry.

https://www.hitxp.com/articles/motivation/effective-online-education-fun-to-learn/

27 October 2008

That day changed my life. 

I had bought 1000 Nifties at 4000 after Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Basant Maheshwari very convincing declared on the TV screens that Nifty after having fallen from 6k to 4k can not go any further.

I bought 1000 Nifties at price 4000.

The share market kept slipping and I kept pouring more and more money to meet the margin requirements.

On 24th October 2008, the Nifty had fallen by 400 massive points (more than 13% in a day!) but had recovered the same day. I was going out of money having borne a 10-12 lakh rupee loss already. This money was against selling the shares in the portfolio which already were beaten down massively. A 35 lakh portfolio had already reduced to a 7-10 lakh portfolio. 

On 27th Oct 08, the Nifty which was at 2900 in the previous session was seen at 2250! In just one day.

I now lost my courage.

5-7 lakh further loss in a day was there... The entire portfolio was going to be wiped out.

I sold those Nifties that day.

My portfolio also was reduced to about 2 lakh to meet the margin requirements.

Later that day the it recovered to around 2500 but no money and courage was left with me.

Whatever I got from my father in inheritance till that day, was lost.

One of my friends survived that harakiri and successfully recovered the losses in due course of time.

That day I sold the Nifties which I had been nurturing for long keeping in mind the long term returns.

If that day was not there in my destiny, I would have had around 1 crore+ in that portfolio, which was turned into a 2 lakh one that day.

We may say I lost one crore that day. It changed my life.

I stopped share market tracking and never looked back at that demat account for the next 12 years, till today. It has almost zero money. Had to leave my job and join a coaching to be able to earn more money.. we may say I became a teacher due to that day.. my dive into the social sector got delayed.. still am waiting for that... I became less confident about myself.. had to compromise in a lot of situations in life.. 

People share their successes but it is really difficult to write about your failures.

In the hindsight I feel that me being an extremely introvert person and especially at that time was the prime factor for me not be not able to show courage and wisdom in those moments.

My upbringing had lot to do in how my personality was shaped, and I lacked courage and clarity of thought to be able to deal with that situation. I lacked talking to people about that and sharing these difficult situations with them. Had I shared this situation with people, I would have dealt with it in a much better way. I lacked people with whom I could have shared my problems.

Courage and wisdom are two very rare qualities in a person. The real test appears in a situation like that emerged on 27th Octobet 2008. I lost money, got my life changed but I need to learn from it. Having an insight what makes a person fail and working for its remedy can create wonders for the person and the society.

Bulla ki jana and Naiharwa

Bulla ki jana maen kaun... by Bulle Shah.. and Naiharwa.. by Kabeer.. I think two of the greatest poems written in last one thousand years... atleast of the ones songs have been made... And really beautifully rendered by Rabbi and Kailash Kher respectively.

The all pervasive mental disease...

This is how much people love and regard someone who thinks about all the communities, and not just about any one particular community.

The mental blinds of both sides, and the media of both sides ... are u listening??? You are a big 90% of them all! You are a mental disease.

-Gaurav Singhal

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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/bernier/txt_bernier_dara.html

Scene a day before Dara Shikoh's death

 The crowd assembled upon this disgraceful occasion was immense; and everywhere I observed the people weeping, and lamenting the fate of Dara in the most touching [99] language. I took my station in one of the most conspicuous parts of the city, in the midst of the largest bazar; was mounted on a good horse, and accompanied by two servants and two intimate friends. 

From every quarter I heard piercing and distressing shrieks, for the Indian people have a very tender heart; men, women, and children wailing as if some mighty calamity had happened to themselves. Javan Khan rode near the wretched Dara; and the abusive and indignant cries vociferated as the traitor moved along were absolutely deafening. I observed some faqirs ["Fakires"] and several poor people throw stones at the infamous Pathan;..

-Account of a French traveler who witnessed the last days of Dara Shikoh. 

Another Kalaam of India

 *Another Kalaam of India has passed away recently. An embodiment of heavenly honesty and uprightness.*

https://www.bbc.com/hindi/india-55065863

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ये खबरें उड़ाने वालों का कहर ही था 

हर दिल में उबलता हुआ ज़हर ही था

दो पल को ढूंढा नहीं सच को कभी

बेताब दुश्मनी को सारा शहर ही था

कुछ दोस्त थे मेरे दुश्मनों में हुए

लगा रहा बहस में शामो-दोपहर ही था

ना तुम मुझे सुनोगे ना मैं तुम्हें सुनूंगा

यूं हम को लड़ के जाना ठहर ही था

दोनों बराबरी पे रक्खे कभी ना तूने

परचम बगा़वतों का जाना फ़हर ही था

-Gaurav Singhal, sometime around 2017-18

सोशल मीडिया में बैठे मुल्क के लोगों के नाम...

सबको हर हालत में अपनों का बचाव करना है

अपनी कमियों पे पर्दा, दूसरों पे घाव करना है

अपने सब सही हैं दूजे सब गलत हैं

सबको पहले से ही तय ये बर्ताव करना है

कोई नहीं जो दोनों तरफ का सच बोले 

वैसे पूरा सच बोलने का दिखाव करना है

मेरा धरम मेरा मज़हब ख़तरे में है दोस्त

मुझे अपनी तरफ की कमियों का ढकाव करना है

खबर वाले भी बिक कर दो खेमों में हो गए 

इन खबरों का मक़सद ख़ून का बहाव करना है

सफेद-पोशों तुमको कामयाबी पाने को

बस ज़हर फैलाना है, और टकराव करना है

कोई एक ख़ास हो या सब बराबर हों यहाॅं

इस वक्त को मिलकर अब ये चुनाव करना है

दोनों नफ़रत वालों को कुछ पता नहीं मुद्दों का

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आधा 'सच' जो झूठ है बकौल गीता-ओ-क़ुरान

आधा 'सच' फैला के नफ़रत और तनाव करना है

किसी एक की ही कमियां देखकर तो बस

इस समस्या का और भी गहराव करना है

गौरव तुम ने जो लिखा है इसको जा कर

बात तब है ग़र दिलों में बदलाव करना है!

- गौरव सिंघल, अगस्त-सितम्बर 2020 

Never Waste A Crisis!!!

Never Waste A Crisis!!!

Utter a word of truth

Utter a word of truth

That goes against the king,

And behead yourself with

The sword of your own tongue


-Ameer Khusrau

Communalism: Discussion with a friend

Do sides hain... Of the media... and the social media.. they don't show the real truth... Due to them only india is in this condition now.


The present saffron communalism is in response to the green communalism of 2-3 decades... The Hindu bhakt lobby is voting en masse in reaction to the green communalism of last 2-3 decades.

Jaise aap pareshaan dikhte ho, aise hee green communalism se last 2-3 decades mein hindu intellectuals pareshaan dekhe maine.

But green side wale intellectuals ko doosri side ki batein nahi pata aur pata bhi hai  toh woh un par nahi bolte... One sidedness is communalism.... And saffron side wale intellectuals ko doosri side ki baatein nhi pata aur pata bhi hain toh woh un par nahi bolte.


So they are also communal.


Aur maze ki baat hai ki yeh dono side ke intellectuals jo utter communal hain, apne aap ko secular aur secularism ke liye ladne wala bolte hain. There will be never a word by these communals on the wrongs of their sides or the rights of other side. They will only talk and write about the wrongs of other side and rights of own side.


Idea of india ko khatra dono sides ke jaahil communals se nhi hai... Dono sides ke self-declared secular intellectuals se hai jo khud bhi nahi jaante ki woh kitna communal hain.


You closely observer people, media, politicians..  everyone around you...

You will find very very few people (hardly none) talking and writing about these all four: 1. rights of one side, 2. wrongs of second side, 3. wrongs of first side, and 4. rights of the second side.


All the people sans the above are part of the problem. And that's a huge 99%, I guess!!


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