No Looking Back

You keep a way to fall back and you will always try to fall back. When you keep no way to return back to the secured place you only remain with the option to fight the situation ahead or die.

This way lead to success in either options. If you remain no more it is better than living as a defeated warrior, and if you win you live a pridefull life.

Puppy feeling

I was about to leave for home when I saw a small puppy running towards me. Puppy was very lovely and looking vulnerable and lonely. I can very well read this from the innocent eyes.

Puppy was asking through meaningfull eyes to pick me and take me home. It was obvious that the winter was not good for that little one.

I still couldnt do much for the sweet little one. I felt very helpless and cruel to part with the puppy while moving away from the office premises. God bless you was the only emotion I had for that little being.

regards

Tushar Joshi, Nagpur

Nagpur Birds

Nagpur Birds is a pleasant site for all bird watchers and lovers. It is maintained by Dr. Tarique Sani and Swati Sani. This is what they say about their site

If you are a bird lover this website will change your views about Nagpur... You will find here the complete checklist of birds for the region within 30 mins drive from the city and loads of photographs to prove it.

An annotated checklist of birds is available for download in PDF format for your records. There is also a brief checklist, which can be used to record your field trips when in Nagpur

regards

Tushar, Nagpur

How to become interesting?

First Reaction
When you are delivering a workshop or lecture to students and they are not listening to you. I mean they are talking with each other slowly, some noises coming from middle and the end of the hall. The first reaction you have is anger. Next you can also feel pity thinking they are not worthy of what is being delivered.

Alternate Thinking
One second thought on this topic can be is my material really interesting and relevant to them? It might happen that they are in a different mindset and need to be neutralized first. Recently while conducting one lecture in a camp I found that the students are restless. Continuing the regular material has become useless. I took a different path. I asked them whether they are searching for something which has been lost amongst them. They replied NO. Then I inquired about the session, whether it was bore and uninteresting, and I received silence in answer. That was quite clear an answer. This was a signal for me to prepare more. Study more so I can make my lectures and workshops more interesting.

Conclusion and Lesson
I concluded at the end that my lecture was not effective. I need to make my lectures effective if I want to convey some message through the session. This way their time as well as my time is saved.

Regards
Tushar

Freedom of Speech

One of the Bloggers Gaurav Sabnis, received a "notarized" legal notice email for his writing blogs about a Jam Magazine News.

This seems a ridiculous effort on the part of the IIPM Institute to threat a blogger to refrain from his rights to speak freely. In response to this, the news spread in mails and I also received the news through mails and I felt strongly to support Gaurav.

Some Ex-IIPM student also posted a report of his feelings and about IIPM in his blog after reading Gaurav's blog.

It is shame that Gaurav has to resign from IBM due to the threats and consequences of his blog post. I admire Gaurav for his persistence and his willingness to stand by his blogs and prove that the freedom of speech *must* be respected.

Jose Castillo says:
So now this thing is ripping through the blogs at a mile a minute, IIMP is
the number one search on Technorati , there is a wikipedia entry about them and
there appears to be no end in sight. The entire web community is hopping mad
that IIPM thinks it can crush the free speech that they love.
Is there a
lesson here… if you are a major entity and you are accused of doing something,
don’t pick on the bloggers, especially if the accusations are true.
Think
about it… how honest are you.

Yeah! IIPM has become top search term on Technorati.

Regards

Tushar

And they say be productive

First of all they have put me into body of a man. On top of that they poured adrenalin, scripts, prejudices, madness, and perceptions to drive emotions.

They also took care that the body and mind should fairly get attracted to women around. May be the women be of any shape or size, only her being a women is all that works, then there is fame, appreciation, power to lure you all the time.

As a dressing they have not forgotten to keep some misunderstanding, some ego and some jealousy in the body so it can get distracted easily.

And they say now be productive.

Myths becoming truths

Story of the farmer
I have heard the story of a farmer who when asked by several thieves about carrying a dog when he actually was carrying a goat. Finally farmer got convinced that there is some ghost in the goat and the goat is either appearing him as a goat and actually it is not, or it is appearing as a dog to others due to some haunting ghost. And the farmer ran away leaving a goat for the thieves for the dinner.

Repetitive projection of lie as truth makes it look like truth
Yes, it does happen in our day to day life. When we see a young man, without any outstanding skills, wooing a beautiful girl by silly stunts; and ultimately the girl falling in love with him. Our young minds see this fact happening again and again in movies and serials and finally it is registered in the sub conscious that the life works this way only.

We see heroes and heroines getting success overnight and the efforts required for that achievement is never shown as there is no time for it and no need for a movie director. What happen is a message getting registered in minds that success is a luck factor and not a effort factor. That only some people can have the thing who are lucky as it is obtained over-night. The fact that, one has to work hard for years, make small achievements and then one can achieve great success can be read in biographies and auto-biographies only.

This is why I no longer watch serials on TV. Writing and reading is much better activity making me fresh and which gives me opportunity to think over what I read.

I couldn't touch the ball even once

Many have lost their possessions and lives in the heavy rain flooding in Mumbai. Still people are struggling to cope up with the forces of Nature.

I couldn't touch the ball even once
I remember the story of a football player who looked sad when his football team won the tournament. When asked he answered sadly that even though the team has won he couldn't even touch the ball, in the play, and now feels that he has done nothing for the winning of the team.

So friends like all other times this time also people will come forward and help others. People will donate money and give time for the needful people. Somehow we will win the battle of humankind with the forces of nature. But we should not have to repent later that even though the battle is won, I couldn't even touch the ball. This is our time to do something. An article written, a good word spoken, one concerning letter to a friend, some donation to the NGO, any thing what ever comes to your mind is going to work.

This is the time to show our friends that we are their true friends. This is the time to keep hope in ourselves and to understand that the most crucial help we can offer is our time and the actual presence in the affected areas, as a volunteer. I feel elated for the friends who can actually be there and help friends to cope up with the situation. This time also there will be loss, a huge loss of money and time. At least we can save relationships, we can strengthen relationships, friendships, and by showing that yes we are there we are present to be with them.

Even though I donated some money to the funds and called friends on mobile and land lines, still I feel my feet haven't touched the ball. Who ever can do this and doing it right now are people who have got chance to prove their human nature, their true inner character.

I have seen many people sitting in the balcony and saying nothing is going to happen and no help is given by the government and at the same time some one in the road below the balcony is clearing the debris and helping a man to find his belongings, without ever thinking of the governments' role in the situation. We can be at the balcony or at the road. I will choose road and every sensible person in this situation will choose the road. This is what I feel.

Tushar

Why some people are beautiful?

Many a times in my childhood I used to think why some people are beautiful and many are not so beautiful or even ugly? That question always used to crop up as soon as I saw some beautiful girl or some ugly person.

What is beauty?
Simple may it seem, but the question is difficult to answer. Now when I am a big boy, having seen many people so called beautiful and not so beautiful. What I have gathered is we have got an organ of perception and we try to get the feeling of all the things with our own perspective. If all people will have red noses then the people with non red noses will get labeled as ugly people.

Everything around us is beautiful
This is what I have summed up the answer as beauty is a relative term, what it appears now, when I am a matured person. When I feel someone is ugly, I get alarmed and re-think on my own opinion and I always end up liking that person no matter how ugly earlier I have felt to look at that person.

Remembrances of a movie
I always remember the movie "Mein Sundar Hoon" starring comedy master Mehmood. I always tell myself looking at mirror, that boss, you are very beautiful and I also tell some one each day that you are beautiful honestly. I am never wrong when saying you are beautiful to other person. Again as the term beautiful is very relative and the happiness getting spread by telling you are beautiful is worth spreading.

Tushar
(You are unique. Like everybody else in the planet - cherished line)

Who am I?

When I think of my existence in this world going away from myself, I see a city, a nation, a continent, a planet left behind. Then a galaxy, then a set of galaxy may be, towards an assumed infinite Universe. That time when I look back my size with comparison to these entities I suddenly feel I am nothing. Suddenly all my mundane problems leave me for some time and I am happy as a child. It feels good, real good.

The same is the case with books. Once I thought that I will real all books in this world. In a math class when I tried to calculate my reading speed and then figured out the scope of my desire I found it will take many reincarnations to do such a ambitious activity. Suddenly all my pressure was gone. I no longer feel insecure about so many books around and the fact that I have read very few.

Now I have a plan to choose what ever book comes to me and read it as I know no matter how many of them I read it will always be less. So now I read for pleasure of reading. I think the correct way I got atlast.

Tushar

Personality Development Camps

Exams over, April comes with Holidays
March end means summer holidays. As soon as the exams are over near April 10 all students will be having around 2 months of holidays. In Nagpur this season is for Summer Camps. Many are named as "Medha Samvardhan Shibir", "PreraNaa Shibir", "Personality Development Camp", "Confidence Camp" and what not.


Camp life is thrilling
I strongly believe that students should go to these types of camps, as these camps teach the students discipline, yoga, cooperation, time awareness, self respect and self confidence. All these qualities introduced in one package, is what makes these camps a place worth to visit once in a season.

You come to know others
The most important thing students get in these camps apart from all other things is acquaintance with many more students from different areas. This exposure is what makes them open up with their problems and build internal confidence.

First Hand Experience of Failure

I was told that there is a requirement for PHP programmer in a company. I announced this news in my PHP batch which will be finished till April 15th. I also told the students that when they will be going through the application process and interview dates, our course will be almost over. I also told them that we have talked with the company people and they are willing to hire even such candidate who is about to finish a PHP course under my guidance.

I was insisting one student to apply and proceed. He was hesitant and was making excuses about not to go apply and interview. I wondered how can somebody say so who is aspiring for IT field.

After some counseling he told me about some of his friends who appeared for interviews and due to less knowledge were fired and now are dejected. He was afraid of being fired. I told him to be afraid of something which hasn't happened with you in life is foolishness. This means other people are controlling your life. Your friends control your life. They got fired. There may be many reasons apart from the reasons they have told. And the most important thing is even if it is failure; you must have first hand experience of failure.

After saying this I told him not to be afraid and take the experience and then decide. We must keep experimenting with ourselves. Some day there will come "eureka" moment when our experiment will succeed.

Now I wonder what I said, even if it is failure you must have first hand experience of failure. I understand learning from other people's failures. But yes there are some places where we must have first hand experience of the failure, if it has to be, to get along and get tough.

When a friend takes you away

When a friend takes you away from your studies, then he cannot be your true friend. Times may come that your true friends ask you to spend some time with them, when you need to study. This is a crucial time. You have to say no to the friend. You have to show courage of telling the friend that if he asked to bunk studies then he is not a true friend. If he really is a true friend he will get the message quickly. Probably he will also join the study.

Friends who take you away from your health and study are actually enemies in a friends disguise. If I want to be true friend to somebody I always look if unknowingly I am taking my friend away from his studies. I have no right to ruin his life just for mundane happiness of temporary moments.

If you cannot change the peer group to behave in favor of study and health, either you have to be more influential to make decisions for the whole group or you must have the courage to change your peer group. Even form a new group with your own ideals.

Friendship is the most beautiful association on the earth if taken seriously.

Beauty is in the Eyes

"How beautiful is she looking today!" These were the words uttered by a mother for her 4 years young daughter. Only a mother can say something like this for that girl. For others that girl was a dark colored ugly looking girl. On top of that the mother had put a light colored dress on the girl. What a horrible combination!

When some one looks ugly to us, who should we blame, or held responsible?

When I feel someone is looking ugly to me, I get alerted. Am I having too much accumulated pride for my looks? I instruct myself that beauty is relative, and after some time I can see all people beautiful around me. (A Shallow Hal like effect.)

Bent Chin

A reserved girl
… She was having a different type, not normal type of chin. She was keeping her eyes towards the floor, so no one should notice the deformity. She was not mixing with friends, behaving like a reserved girl …

What really is beautiful?
If all the girls on the earth were having bent chin, then may be a girl with straight chin be called as a ugly girl! A thought crossed my mind.

Beauty is relative
Then why to worry for such a thing which is not in our hands? The people, who are having beautiful features, are having it naturally and they haven't earned it through their actions in this life.


So unnecessarily we should not flag ourselves ugly, or get dejected. Who will tell this to that girl? Will it be easy for her to understand this?

Glimpses of a Poem 2

Grace name is synonymous to mysterious words. Words with deep meaning and a internal rhythm. We not only get involve in the rhythm but also become overwhelmed with emotions coming from between the lines of the poem.

In his book "chandramaadhaveeche Pradesh", Grace has written a wonderful poem named "paauusgaaNe".

meghaa.nche kosaLatee parvat
daree ninaade door
gaav chimukaLe vaahoon jaaiil
asaa kashaalaa poor

Rain when takes the form of flood, it can take away all the things it has given us. Grace has achieved a dramatic effect of fear from the word mountain in the first line of this stanza. Most of the poems written by Grace are picturesque. They create an exact picture of what is happening in from on our eyes.

In the third line when he says tiny village, it efficiently expresses the awareness of nature's power of destruction. Yes in front of this nature we are really trivial, and tiny in size. When we think of our galaxy we get the feeling how small we are and then if we think about our arguments and fights between person and person we can understand how foolish we are.

The village is being carried away along water in the flood and the viewer is helpless with numerous question in mind about why me? Why me?

Each time I read this poem it creates a strange touchy feeling in me. Ok friends this is for today.

Flowers, Birds, You and Me - Mangesh Padgaonkar

Some years back I have tried translation of one poem by famous Mangesh Padgaonkar, from his great poetry book "BolagaaNee".

Flowers, Birds, You and Me

Flowers I have seen
since my birth…

Their color
Their fragrance
Rhythm blended
Their dance

Flowers I have seen
Since my birth…

Unexpectedly one day
You came with flowers
Without a word you smiled
Those were wonder hours

Since then their appearance
Was newer and loving for me
Together they all seem
As if they're smiling for me

Now I love each flower
Just for you
Like those pretty moments
Every flower seems new

Now I have for each flower
Sweet blossomy explanations
They have developed with me
Mysterious hearty relations

Birds I have seen
Since my birth…

Their floating
In the air
Lively smooth
Colorful layer

Birds I have seen
Since my birth…

On that melodious evening
Fortune was in my hands
I was in the sea of joy
Holding your shy hands
A bird was singing
Romantic tune that time
From the deep dark green lands

Now I want every bird
Just for you
Like those touchy moments
Every bird seems new

Now I understand
Birds in a better way
They are beautiful singing parts
Playing in my romantic play.

(original poem - phule, pakshee, too aaNi mee, by Mangesh Padgaonkar from his book bolgaaNee, swair anuwaad - Tushar Joshi, i.e. yours truly :-)

Glimpses of a Poem 1

Some words from the master of Marathi poem, the one and only "Grace".

paauus aalaa paauus aalaa
gaaraa.nchaa varshaav
gure aDakalee raanaamadhye
dayaaghanaa too dhaav

Second two lines of the stanza gives a drift to the whole poem, showing us the concern in the eyes of the farmer. See, when someone talks about cattle the place of the poem can be depicted easily as a country side, rural area, may be a "gaav" of some 100 houses. The real pain of the last two lines can only be understood when we substitute the word "gure" (cattle) with "mule" (children).

mule aDakalee raanaamadhye
dayaaghanaa too dhaav

For a farmer his cattle is just like his children so what children mean to us is cattle mean to him. Now feel the pain of dear ones in distress and your helplessness of not being able to do anything to save them. So the only place to ask for help is now the almighty who has created all the things.

The word "dayaaghanaa" chosen to call the almighty has deep meaning. Prayer is for god to provide help as we cannot provide help, even if we try. These lines exactly express our helplessness over the natural resources and their calamities.

Tushar
(mee aahe shabda haLavaa, shabdaa shabdaa.nnee phulaNaaraa, shabdaa.nchyaa hi.ndoLyaavar dhu.ndeet sadaa jhulaNaaraa - yours truly)

Blessings and Tears coming our way

We wanted to help the needy
I remember my group of friends, boys and girls, with lots of inclination to do something worthwhile. We used to call our group "Surabhi Yuva Manch". After much discussion we were in a fix for what charity act we should do for the needy. Starting from who is needy in our opinion, to do we really need to do any charity?, we finished most of the theoretical topics that we could discuss. Still there was no answer in any one's mind. We all were eager to do something. We used to say to eat, drink and sleep, oh pigs also do that let us do something worthwhile.

Bingo there was a Idea.
Suddenly one of our friends came up with a idea. That was December with cold nights, so cold that everybody has started using woolen bed sheets. The idea was to collect old and not in use bed sheets from our houses. We decided to distribute these bed sheets we collect to the needy beggars who show up near temples in Nagpur.

We started Bed Sheet collection drive.
This is simple synergy. Some one out of curiosity told the idea to one of his neighbor and he got four bed sheets from him. Wow, that was great. We stated telling our acquaintances about our idea and in one week we gathered around 150 bed sheets. That was a great achievement and we were feeling as if we have conquered a fort. Industry is a boon allotted to we humans by which we can practice synergy.

How to decide who is really needy?
This was a question asked by one of our friends. This question shifted all of us in introspection mode. We started rethinking on our definitions about needy and poor. Again synergy came to rescue. Collectively the thing decided was such a idea we couldn't have thought individually. We decided to come out at 12.00 am midnight on the streets of Nagpur. That time presumable people are sleeping or trying to sleep. That was the only way we can find people without bed sheets sleeping on footpaths, below the bridges, etc. That was an exciting idea. Then was the time to tell our parents about our ambitious venture, and to our dismay we readily got permission even from parents of three girls in our group.

Unbelievable experiences we gathered
We started on by-cycles loaded carriers with bed sheets. It was just like a fleet of "kalandar people" heading towards their final goal. What we saw was too painful to describe. I saw one around 6 years young boy sleeping naked on the footpath. That time it was I to cover him with a bed sheet and he grabbed the sheet in his sleep so tightly as if it was a part of his skin. Tears got into my eyes all of a sudden. It was a shaking moment, I remembered my small brothers sleeping in cozy environment at our home.

Blessings and Tears coming our way
We got blessings from a very old woman shivering in cold. We got tears from a mother who was trying to supply warmth to her three children in vein. She could not help but cry when we offered her bed sheets. In only half an hour all our bed sheets were gone. We had covered only the lohapool area of Nagpur near the Tekadi mandir. The fact that Nagpur is much more big made us nervous and we felt helpless that day to the depth of our hearts. We got satisfaction that we helped many people that day but it was nothing in front of the idea of vast population of Nagpur City and what we have done is only for a small fraction of the needy people.

All of us were quiet while coming home
No body of us was ready to utter a single word. We all got on our by-cycles and got back to our houses. The feeling was so deep and acute that it was simply impossible for any of us to speak up. All that we were knowing is that if any body dared to speak even a single word all will start crying loudly.

Well nothing more to write now. Even the remembrance of that event has raised my hairs and I am suddenly out of words.

Tushar

If you want to remove mud - pour more water

Glass of water with mud
Suppose you have a glass with some mud in it. You want to remove that mud. That mud is a sore in your eye. You cannot stand that mud. You also don't want to touch that mud. Just the thought of touching the mud is petrifying to you. But you have one way to remove the mud. Simply hold the glass below a tap of water. Water will fill in the glass making the mud dilute. Finally the water will start spilling over the edges of the glass. One time will come that the glass will have just clear water and no mud.

So the simple theory is pour so much water and keep no space for mud to stay. This way we didn't even have to discuss mud, or touch it.

Can we spread so much good in the world that all bad will have no space?
Can this theory be applied to life in some extent. It will be a fantastic idea, and we will not have to discuss the bad things, or even touch them to remove them. So I can think of filling the cup of the life with so much good deeds, so much god thoughts that bad things, bad thoughts get no space to stay.

Can a disturbing habit replaced by Good One just like mud with water?
If I think on this line I can also think of doing something good in place of what I used to as a bad habit. Just removing a bad habit is always a pain. But the object of this discussion is not to remove the bad things. But paying more attention to the good things, and strengthening them so much that the other things diminish automatically.

Come on friends. Yes we can fill this world with so many good things that evil things, unwanted things get very little space to survive.

So I can appreciate someone today…
I will find good qualities in friends and tell them today…
I will realize my error and say sorry without hesitation…
This list will go long way and I will try to give my best to this day for filling it with happiness, god things, the objective being leaving very little space to the unwanted substance.

Tushar

Boy with diamond eyes.

Play corner with slide, my daughters favorite place
Following my normal routine I stopped at the small play corner with my 3 year young (why people use this old word don't know) daughter. Each open ground in Nagpur is normally a play place for kids. Jaiprakash Nagar ground has an exception of a small slide with a merry-go-round of four plastic ducks. My daughter is very much fond of this slide (ghasargundee) so it is my habit to stop by this play corner whenever I pass by this place.

There was a boy with glittering eyes.
Today I saw a small boy around 8 to 9 years young, playing on the merry-go-round with immense happiness in his eyes. He was playing on the toys just as he is playing for the last time in his life. Ok I was not reading his mind but what appeared to me from his actions was very near to that.

His eyes were telling me that he is the happiest boy in the world today. What is so great about this play corner that the boy was so happy? Thoughts started crossing my mind. Being happy for playing is ok but this happiness was extreme. My daughter started playing on the slide, and with her usual style started uttering random words, and talking to me. Baba, yaa na.ntar malaa dairy milk gheoon deshil. Ho beta aapan gheu ha dairy milk, like this I was also responding with a playfull way.

Parting time - a touchy lesson
Then suddenly with great pain in his eyes the boy stopped playing. I was curious about what he will do next. He uncovered one big vessel full with Idli-sambar from under a big cloth that he has kept under the bushes. He kept the vessel on his head and suddenly there was a small vocal instrument in his hands the same which is used in earlier rikshaw pullers. He started yelling Idli-sambar, with his voice flute, and started his business for living.

Then it occurred to me. He was playing as much as he can between his business trip, that he has to make daily for his living. Oh, Boy what he was doing in his play age. Looking towards my daughter unaware of all this earthly facts, I had feeling so touchy that I cannot express in these mundane words.

Boy with diamond eyes
That play corner always reminds me the facts of this life. That boy with sparkling eyes and his desire to play when he was burdened by the destiny to sell idli-sambar on the streets.

Tushar

Pain is being poured into cup of my life, just as darkness is poured into night.

When a orthopedic surgeon starts writing poems. We can read immense feelings and depth in the writing. Same is the case with Priyadarshan Potdar. When I read his poetry I was stunned due to the bare concepts he presents through his style of writing.


aaNi yaa raatreelaa

yaa aayushhyaalaa kasaa duHkhaachaa vaas yeto
jasaa raatreelaa kaaLokhaachaa yaavaa.

kitee kaaLokha bharalaa
mhaNaje hee raatra phuTel
aaNi ritee hoiil
pa.nkha nasalelyaa paxaasaarakhee
nirarthak aaNi nishhpraaN?

maajhyaa aayushhyaat daravaLaNaaree hee vyathaa
nidaan too taree hu.ngeet rahaa,
maajha.n man taDakaNyaapoorvee
saaThavoon Thev tilaa yaa shabdaa.nchyaa kupeet.

vaayaa jaauu deuu nakos
yaa vaahoon gelelyaa niraadhaar kaaLokhaasaarakhee,
jasa.n pahaaTes taa.nbaDa.n phuTaava.n
tashee halakech ye
aaNi yaa raatreelaa sadgatee de.

1987, laaTaa.nchyaa aasapaas, priyadarshan potadaar

What a concept!
yaa aayushhyaalaa kasaa duHkhaachaa vaas yeto
jasaa raatreelaa kaaLokhaachaa yaavaa.

Here we can find the intensity of sorrow the poet is expressing. We can imagine the sorrow and pain he must have seen due to his profession and also he is sensitive to the world in a unique way is what we can decipher from his lines.

kite kaaLokha bharalaa
mhaNaje hee raatra phuTel

Wow, what a idea, and when we relate this to the earlier metaphor we can simply imagine

kite duHkha bharale
mhaNaje he aayushhya phuTel

I remember four lines by cha.n go here,

jhepel tevhaDhech duHkh
to aapalyaalaa deto
aaNi duHkha sa.npale kee
aapalyaalaach neto.



Tushar

Do we get nervous because someone is superior?

Someone better than us - nearby :O
When there is some new entry in class or group and that person is say fluent in English. We can see that person speaking very fluently with others. Obvious is the response of the listeners. People are attracted to that person. Sometimes the reaction of this incident on us is jealousy, envy or just dejection.

Can Someone superior mean we are inferior?
Yes. Many a times we get unhappy because someone is good or better than us. When I think of this situation ideally we shouldn't. Again some other person being superior never means I am inferior. But then why this feeling come to me, and hurt me continuously.

Turning mountain into Gold Mine
So if there is a new person in our group speaking fluent English instead of envy, or saying "um shisThach aahe", we can take this thing as a asset or advantage. How? Yes this can be called as taking advantage of your fear for your betterment. If looked with a different angle now we will be listening good English often around us. Certainly a chance to learn more by repetition. We can take that person as a resource for us in learning English. But often our ego comes in our way.

Are we afraid of being exposed?
Yes. We are afraid of being exposed. The fact is if we never accept that we have lots to learn, we never learn, we remain in the same position where we are. So next time when I see someone near me speaking nice in public, drawing good paintings, writing good poem, I will be happy and remember yes now I have one person who can show me how to do good in that field as a resource person.

Competition should with ourselves not others.
Rose cannot compete with Jasmine. In the same way no one on this earth can compete truly with other as each one is a unique person. S important is if I am ahead of what I was yesterday then it is progress, and time to give myself a pat on the back.

Tushar

When someone appreciates - feels good

I know anybody just saying me that I am good wont make me good, in the same way anybody just saying me bad or inefficient doesnt make me bad or inefficient. Still when people comment and make statements we are hearing from some corner and then we find ourselves dejected, off mood. Sometimes our whole day gets lost dejected.

What is this? I call this surrendering control to people. We are so vulnerable sometimes that we could not understand that people are controlling our lives. As soon as I enter the office, someone asked me hey are you ill or what, your face looks yello and pale. For the whole day I feel something is wrong with me. I work in a dull manner. What has that person done to me. He has just commented on me. That actually doesnt makes any physical change in me. But my chemistry is certainly changes. My mood is off. This is that other person who is controlling my life. He has decided how I should spend my day, and I have easily surrendered to him.

Taking the concept to the other side. If we want to make someone's day then we must search for chances where we can tell the person his abilities. The real ones. When I told one of my friends that he talks so good that his recorded cassettes can be marketed and will be successfull. He was in high spirits the whole day, and I was also happy as I havent said anything untrue.

kadhee javaLachyaa mitraakaDe
phakta tyaachyaa saaThee jaave
aapalee duHkhe aapalyaa chi.ntaa
sagaLe tevaDhyaa purate visaraave

gelyaa gelyaa tyaas mhaNaave
phakta tujhyaa saaThee aalo
tujhee aaThavaN yet hotee
iatakyaat bheTach jhaalee navhatee

to sukhaane phuloon yeiil
ekaTepaNaa visaroon jaaiil
tyaachaa ujalataa cheharaa paahoon
aapaNahee ujaLoon yaave

kadhee javaLachyaa mitraakaDe
phakta tyaachyaa saaThee jaave

            (tushhaar, naagapoor)

We tell qualities of others seldomely. If we can make someone's day just by saying some good thing then we must do it atleast twice. But of-course saying what is not should be avoided.

Tushar

Buying college projects - Recent Trend

Scenario - College Campus final year students.

Hey friends, see we are a group of five students, but no body of us know programming language to that level which is required to make a good and impressive project. But friends our project must be superb, I mean mind-blowing, everybody must praise our project.

So what to do friends. Yes I know one of our senior who was telling they have purchased their final project from some person. We can go there and in just 5000 to 6000 rupees i.e. a 1000 per student we can get the project done from them.

Ok. We all agree. As we have to complete all our journals, and all the assignments are also due, and what, see our examinations are also near. How are we going to learn all the state of the art languages, required to make a complete project in this much 3 months time frame.

Hey I met our guide yesterday and he was telling me to make our project look good, I mean good graphics, and some things like adding some voice or telephony or networking anything that rocks. How are we going to do all those things without any guidance?

Ok friends after meeting the provider we have finalized the project in 7000 rupees. They will give us the source code and also will explain what they have done in programming. And they will also help us in making our project reports. Now we are relieved man, really.

And one more thing we will not be disclosing this thing to anybody. It is understood that we have developed this project by or own.

(This is a bitter fact now a days I have seen amongst students. I am still thinking for the solution of this problem.)

Tushar

Hate is Dangerous for health

I have seen all the time, hate for somebody leads to emotional problems in our own system. We pay a heavy amount of our time and emotional balance just to maintain hatred with someone. Who are we punishing? Actually this is a punishment of somebody else's fault that we give to ourselves.

Forgiveness is not easy, as it requires power. Cowards can never forgive, egoists can never forgive as their confidence balance is based on false assumptions. Only a person who has courage, and mental balance can forgive and break the chain of hatred.

Descrimination

The question raised by Abhijit was somewhat like this:

> There are some yahoogroups named like Maratha,
> Chitpawan/kobraweb ,shimpi s , vanjari s ,parsi s I
> mean to say is racially discriminated groups.

> Sunita Nandu wrote:> . . . . aaplaya jatichi manse
> gola karane v dusrayalay dur lotane hyachi janiv
> tumhi dusra jatichya manasalya karaun det aahe.

This statement is biased. When people of some common interests and intentions come together, we cannot always say that they are ignoring others, or discriminating others.

> Sunita Nandu wrote:
> Aata aapan 21 va shatakat aahe tevha dharma, jatiyata hi
> sarve bajula tevun aapan sarve ekatra yene aavashyak
> aahe.

Ok. This concept needs some more thinking and explanation.Let me put the things in a different way. Suppose you are in trouble due to some family tradition and perplexed whatto do in a particular festival at home, what you do. The normal solution is to contact some family member near orfar who has gone through the same traditions and ritualsand to ask about their comment on it. So if these type offamily problems are discussed on some yaho group bycollecting all family members scattered in the world, can it be calledas discrimination.

The whole idea of gathering is not to ignore others, discriminate others always. When you classmates meet after many dayscan it be called ignoring other scoolmates? :-O or discrimination?

> Sunita Nandu wrote:
> jar ashi pratek jatichi yahoogroups keli tar aapan pakat tya
> jatimadhe adkun rahu sahakto va jatiyavaad nirmaan
> karane aahe.

What I feel is creation of Family or the whole concept of living together as a family is formed for synergy, and notto discriminate other non family members. When you livein one house, with one good name to it, are you dicriminatingpeople living in other houses just because you are not livingtogether?

The single point I am highlighting is one should also thinkon the other side of the coin, the situation. If some peoplewith similar past and experiences, eager to discuss the pastand solve the problems due to fixed traditions then a betterway is to gather similar people and discuss the problemwithg them first before putting the things in front ofall the Desh Ki Janata.

> Veena Hosur wrote:
> Classification on the basis of caste like "brahmins
> group" or Iyengars group" or "Maratha group" that is a
> different thing.

I dont feel it as a bad thing if it is done for discussionsand betterment of past traditions, and for solutionsto the problems faced by the community as a whole.

How to perform "BodaN" can only and should be discussedwith people who have done it or know how to do it sobetter be discussed in a group formed by similar traditions.

This doesnt mean people are discriminating others who dontknow anything about "BodaN", (a tradition followed only bysome kokanastha people)

> Veena Hosur wrote:
> I do know such groups created by
> fanatics exists who cannot think beyond their caste or
> creed. Thats a different story all together and the
> less said about them the better as these people are
> still living in stone-age.

I dont know what groups are referred by the above statements but when ever i have got a chance to discuss with groups formed on caste basis i alwayshave seen a concern in members for better communicationof the traditions, rituals, betterment of the community

Tushar