I don’t think any word can truly describe what a Mother is.
She is one person who transcends all barriers no matter who is she is and where she belongs to.
I guess a mother is same across all the species including the human kind.
Did you know?
A human body can bear only upto 45 Del (unit) of pain.
But at the time of giving birth, a woman feels upto 57 Del of Pain.
This is similar to 20 bones getting fractured at a time!!!!
Love your mom!
So what’s the plan this year?
It’s independence day.
It’s a day off.
A time to celebrate, just like any other day…
I know I hate it too when we get a national day off during weekends…
What to do? We have too many such days and events in our yearly calender and the list now is just too endearing.
So what have you decided this year?
Like last year watch lots of theme based shows on all national TV, Surf a lot on your remote, take off with your family to a restaurant for a nice and sumptuous lunch followed by some shopping
God, aren’t we tired of doing the same old thing over and again?
I mean we have one and what are we doing with it?
Independence has become such a clichéd word now!
We use it over and again and abuse it to the max…
What have we done within us and around having got any independence?
Can you name one thing that you feel you have done worthwhile using the independence that you have got today?
Go to a school… you’ll find teachers teaching the same old history, geography etc etc. Our kids are expected to know the date when Gandhiji started the Dandi march and broke the salt act or whatever it was for whatever the cause. I mean it’s all good. Really good to know but who gives a damn if the date is mentioned wrongly by the student? 1 mark gone. Someone wrote it correctly. Someone wrote it wrong. Our Indian curriculum expects you to score full marks even with that God forsaken correct date. But no one cares to tell or ask students to think what if that particular incident didn’t happen? Or maybe a scenario where you alter the possibilities and allow kids to come up with their own analysis on a given situation. Don’t you think that would make the kid go through pages in history, understand the facts and then arrive at their own inferences? No wonder, most of us are so bad when it comes to knowing what happened during those times… our past.. our history…. No wonder we are still harvesting book worms rather than brains that is most desparately needed in these competitive times.
Come home, a parent expects kids to be someone. Some person.
Doctor, Engineers are the most common of all. Kids are not supposed to be what they want to be. They are supposed to be what their parents want them to be.
Do we watch what our kid is doing intently? Maybe a drawing, reading, narrating, reciting or anything that lets a spark and makes you think “Hey I guess my kid could become a good musician?”
But no! We immediately assign a price tag to their dreams.
“Nah, it’s too cheap”
“No scope in that”
“Not another AR Rahman”
“You will only end up running here and there”
How many times have we dismissed our kids right to their dreams?
How rare have we followed it?
To make it even worse, we rave about our neighbour’s kid having too ambitious dreams and on the contrary shoo our own kid’s thoughts!
Have we ever aimed our kids to be the most prolific writer in the world, or maybe a scientist or even a cricketer like Sachin Tendulkar?
Why are we so stuck to some basic achievable dreams that suit our pockets more than the eyes and hearts of our kids?
Why shouldn’t we aim higher?
Why should we shy away from those dreams?
Do we think those dreams are smaller?
I am yet to see a kid of today who knows what he wants to become when he grows up. Whatever he/ she says its all a sound box relayed from their parents rather than their own.
So what true independence have we all achieved if we haven’t given that basic requirement to our children when it comes to their future?
What’s the point in celebrating it when we don’t know to use it fully?
Only that day will be the day we finally get our independence. Until then it is all the same except that we are the oppressors and our kids the slaves.
Can we see a day when we can live the dreams that our kids want?
I would surely say yes, that day isn’t far behind. Times are changing so are our thoughts and outlook towards life.
Let’s give what we didn’t get. Let’s make our children what we couldn’t achieve.
Happy Independence day!
Hi,
Here’s wishing you all the best wishes and Ramadan Karim.
This is the time to catch up with family, friends and well wishers and immerse yourself in a festive mood.
Have a blast and have a great time.
Time to patch-up
Time to let go of your egos
Time to smile
Time to celebrate
Time to fast
Time to binge
Time for everything…
Make yourself a good one.
Ramadan Mabrook!
A poem by Kruthika Dev
Oh Rain! You give me pain,
You fall like a grain,
That pricks and put me in vain.
If you are ain’t there,
We’ll be nowhere.
You are the most important resource,
We write about you in prose,
As you fall like a drop,
Something like happiness in me crop.
If you ain’t there,
We’ll be nowhere.
I received this by email from one of my colleagues in office. It is an inspiration to one and all!
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam called him a ‘true scientist’.
Mitticool, a clay refrigerator that works without electricity had turned the world’s attention to its creator Mansukhbhai Prajapati, a craftsman based in Gujarat .
Presenting the national award to Mansukhbhai in 2009, President Pratibha Patil appreciated his work and asked him for a Mitticool.
Scientists and journalists from across the world have visited his unit to see how he makes eco-friendly products at a low cost.
A school drop-out, he has achieved a feat that many in the world envy today. The simple and unassuming Mansukhbhai is not keen on money. His ambition is to make more low-cost and eco-friendly products for the masses.
“A good majority of Indians cannot buy a fridge as it is expensive. Besides this, electricity bills and maintenance cost is also high. Mitticool is an eco-friendly product which has no maintenance costs. It also retains the original taste of vegetables, says Mansukhbhai who has sold 1500 units so far.
“I failed in the tenth standard. But I was not disappointed as I knew that I was capable of making something new,” says Mansukhbhai who holds a patent for Mitticool.
People who considered him as incapable, now look up to him. They say, “you are the pride of our community!”
He has been popularising earthen products since 1988. The only drawback for him is the lack of stores to sell them.
The products are mostly available in Gujarat and in some stores in Mumbai and Pune only. Besides, the low-cost fridge, he has developed a water filter, non-stick tava and a pressure cooker all made of clay. And he has many more innovative ideas.
It takes 10 people to make a fridge in one day. Made from clay, the refrigerator can store water, fruits, vegetables for 8 days and milk for one day.
The upper part of the refrigerator stores water, while the bottom unit has space for fruits, vegetables and milk.
At present, he sells the clay fridges at Rs 2,500, at his unit. Most of the sales outside Gujarat are done during exhibitions.
In Mumbai and Pune, some of his products are available. Every year he takes part at the international trade fair in New Delhi in a bid to popularise the products.
If you wish to contact him dial: 02828 221156;OR 0-9825177249 (M).
E-mail: info@mitticool. in
Image courtesy: Clay artifacts.
No dream is too big… and no dreamer too small!
