Indra's Drishtikona (Viewpoint) http://drishtikona.com My online journal with thoughts, opinions, comments and more.. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:36:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 Indra's Drishtikona (Viewpoint) http://drishtikona.com/images/favicon.gif http://drishtikona.com en Blog, Bachchan, and Bachhe http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002181.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002181.php#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:57:30 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002181.php Any blogger must be craving for a lot of readership. As I keep on writing on varying subjects of my interests, I don't expect many. And again many a times, my viewpoints are pretty harsh and caustic that many may not like. However, I always expect that those who like my views will try to pass on to their friends and then the cycle repeats. Thereby, a group of people of similar views may get established and grow. Stories that are personal certainly will have only few to read. But I expect my dear ones to at least look into my blog to keep on updating about my mental direction or also to get some glimpses from my life. As it appears there is at least one person who goes through my blog religiously. She is Shannon, my youngest daughter-in-law. I know it must be pretty difficult for her these days to find time, but perhaps that is her uniqueness. I get a heavenly pleasure when she asks or gets asked a question from inside the body of the entries. I got a little sentimental when I went through in media about the concern of Abhishek Bachchan about his father's blog. What really gets him hassled is his father not writing his blog regularly. One Mandvi Sharma of Times News Network reported this story:
There is something that gets AB's baby (Abhishek) upset - "when dad doesn't write his blog," Abhishek exclaims. "I want to wake up in the morning and log on to the blog. Just his talent for writing makes the blog an everyday part of my life. He is my father, so I know these things about him, but I love the way he writes. Even as a kid, he would teach me how to write essays and letters. For fans to get to know the workings of his mind, and that it's been put across in writing, is wonderful."
Shannon gets worried when she doesn't find my entry, as I keep on writing something almost every day. Once she asked Anand to find out if it was all well with me here in India when she didn't find my entries for few days. Anand replied, "Dad and mom must have quarreled so is the miss." Shannon said, "No, when papa and mummy fights, papa puts in more entries." Perhaps she had understood my mind better. When they narrated the story, both of us, myself and Yamuna laughed and got touched. With so many whom you knew or know, hardly few try to understand you rightly. It's difficult world and more difficult is the relationships. Words don't express what one wishes to convey. I am not a busy man. Big B is. Big B must have hundred and one reasons for not keeping the discipline of putting an entry in regularly. But I have none. ]]> Any blogger must be craving for a lot of readership. As I keep on writing on varying subjects of my interests, I don't expect many. And again many a times, my viewpoints are pretty harsh and caustic that many may not like. However, I always expect that those who like my views will try to pass on to their friends and then the cycle repeats. Thereby, a group of people of similar views may get established and grow. Stories that are personal certainly will have only few to read. But I expect my dear ones to at least look into my blog to keep on updating about my mental direction or also to get some glimpses from my life. As it appears there is at least one person who goes through my blog religiously. She is Shannon, my youngest daughter-in-law. I know it must be pretty difficult for her these days to find time, but perhaps that is her uniqueness. I get a heavenly pleasure when she asks or gets asked a question from inside the body of the entries. I got a little sentimental when I went through in media about the concern of Abhishek Bachchan about his father's blog. What really gets him hassled is his father not writing his blog regularly. One Mandvi Sharma of Times News Network reported this story:
There is something that gets AB's baby (Abhishek) upset - "when dad doesn't write his blog," Abhishek exclaims. "I want to wake up in the morning and log on to the blog. Just his talent for writing makes the blog an everyday part of my life. He is my father, so I know these things about him, but I love the way he writes. Even as a kid, he would teach me how to write essays and letters. For fans to get to know the workings of his mind, and that it's been put across in writing, is wonderful."
Shannon gets worried when she doesn't find my entry, as I keep on writing something almost every day. Once she asked Anand to find out if it was all well with me here in India when she didn't find my entries for few days. Anand replied, "Dad and mom must have quarreled so is the miss." Shannon said, "No, when papa and mummy fights, papa puts in more entries." Perhaps she had understood my mind better. When they narrated the story, both of us, myself and Yamuna laughed and got touched. With so many whom you knew or know, hardly few try to understand you rightly. It's difficult world and more difficult is the relationships. Words don't express what one wishes to convey. I am not a busy man. Big B is. Big B must have hundred and one reasons for not keeping the discipline of putting an entry in regularly. But I have none. ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002181.php/feed/ Indra@69 http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002178.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002178.php#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:35:03 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002178.php God has been very kind to me. He has bestowed on me what was the best for me. What more I would have got: a supporting wife,three lovable sons, beautiful daughters-in-laws, and cute grand daughters and grand sons living near around each other sharing love and affections with each other in the best part of their dream country. And how can I forget the presence of some of those who love me and keep remembering me. And I am sure He will keep his kindness rain on me, and all around me till end. And I pray 'Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu Niraamayaah (May all be happy; May all be healthy) and let Him take me from 'Tamso maa jyotirgamaya' (from darkness to Light). I do also remember, salute and pray on this day my grandfather who made me what I am.
]]> God has been very kind to me. He has bestowed on me what was the best for me. What more I would have got: a supporting wife,three lovable sons, beautiful daughters-in-laws, and cute grand daughters and grand sons living near around each other sharing love and affections with each other in the best part of their dream country. And how can I forget the presence of some of those who love me and keep remembering me. And I am sure He will keep his kindness rain on me, and all around me till end. And I pray 'Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu Niraamayaah (May all be happy; May all be healthy) and let Him take me from 'Tamso maa jyotirgamaya' (from darkness to Light). I do also remember, salute and pray on this day my grandfather who made me what I am.
]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002178.php/feed/ My Indian like Weakness http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002146.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002146.php#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:26:15 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002146.php Hanuman on body, and his paying tributes to Sam Manekshaw, when Sam's own country's leadership failed. But yesterday I read an interview of Obama in Oulook. And I am emotionally with him. His moral support for the Indo-US Nuclear Deal ensures that he will not cause any obstruction expressed in his "reluctance to seek changes". Moreover, the disclosure that his mother, an anthropologist, did rural development work in India, and his admiration for Mahatma Gandhi was just heartening. I don't know if Obama will succeed in meeting the aspirations of Americans who are just fed up with Bush. Americans need real push from Obama to improve American economy for its people to be happy with him and to keep his popularity sustained after getting elected. I was equally carried away by the extraordinary support that G-8 nations gave to the Deal. "We look forward to working with India, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Suppliers Group and other partners to advance India's non-proliferation commitments and progress so as to facilitate a more robust approach to civil nuclear cooperation with India to help it meet its growing energy needs in a manner that enhances and reinforces the global non-proliferation regime," the Chair's Summary released at the end of the G-8 summit said in Toyako. Perhaps, for India it happened for the first time and is good enough a proof of India arriving on the global scene. It is certainly not due to some extraordinary political push of Indian leaders, but because of the emerging economic strength of India. And India must focus on its growth path more arduously carrying out many pending reforms in time. Let the bogey of global pressure not become the excuse for the slowdown. Before ending this story, let me quote one more reason for my excitement. It from a report that appeared today in media. "In many European history and art books, oil painting is said to have started in the 15th century in Europe. However, scientists conducting experiments at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), have proved that the paintings in the Bamiyan caves were made of oil, hundreds of years before the technique was "invented" in Europe. Scientists from the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo (Japan), the Centre of Research and Restoration of the French Museums-CNRS (France), the Getty Conservation Institute (United States) and the ESRF recently identified drying oils in some of the samples they studied from the Bamiyan caves. The scientists found that 12 out of the 50 caves were painted with oil painting technique, using perhaps walnut and poppy seed drying oils. Apart from oil-based paint layers, some of the layers were made of natural resins, proteins, gums, and, in some cases, a resinous, varnish-like layer, the report said. The world was shocked when the Talibans, who controlled Kabul at the time, destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in Bamiyan on religious considerations. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from 5th to 9th century AD." Let India get ahead. ]]> Hanuman on body, and his paying tributes to Sam Manekshaw, when Sam's own country's leadership failed. But yesterday I read an interview of Obama in Oulook. And I am emotionally with him. His moral support for the Indo-US Nuclear Deal ensures that he will not cause any obstruction expressed in his "reluctance to seek changes". Moreover, the disclosure that his mother, an anthropologist, did rural development work in India, and his admiration for Mahatma Gandhi was just heartening. I don't know if Obama will succeed in meeting the aspirations of Americans who are just fed up with Bush. Americans need real push from Obama to improve American economy for its people to be happy with him and to keep his popularity sustained after getting elected. I was equally carried away by the extraordinary support that G-8 nations gave to the Deal. "We look forward to working with India, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Suppliers Group and other partners to advance India's non-proliferation commitments and progress so as to facilitate a more robust approach to civil nuclear cooperation with India to help it meet its growing energy needs in a manner that enhances and reinforces the global non-proliferation regime," the Chair's Summary released at the end of the G-8 summit said in Toyako. Perhaps, for India it happened for the first time and is good enough a proof of India arriving on the global scene. It is certainly not due to some extraordinary political push of Indian leaders, but because of the emerging economic strength of India. And India must focus on its growth path more arduously carrying out many pending reforms in time. Let the bogey of global pressure not become the excuse for the slowdown. Before ending this story, let me quote one more reason for my excitement. It from a report that appeared today in media. "In many European history and art books, oil painting is said to have started in the 15th century in Europe. However, scientists conducting experiments at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), have proved that the paintings in the Bamiyan caves were made of oil, hundreds of years before the technique was "invented" in Europe. Scientists from the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo (Japan), the Centre of Research and Restoration of the French Museums-CNRS (France), the Getty Conservation Institute (United States) and the ESRF recently identified drying oils in some of the samples they studied from the Bamiyan caves. The scientists found that 12 out of the 50 caves were painted with oil painting technique, using perhaps walnut and poppy seed drying oils. Apart from oil-based paint layers, some of the layers were made of natural resins, proteins, gums, and, in some cases, a resinous, varnish-like layer, the report said. The world was shocked when the Talibans, who controlled Kabul at the time, destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in Bamiyan on religious considerations. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from 5th to 9th century AD." Let India get ahead. ]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002146.php/feed/ Emma Grows to One http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002143.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002143.php#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:26:03 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002143.php
Happy Birthday
Einstein in mind Mahatma at heart Monalisa on face Ashoka with spirit Be great for me to boast We raise a sweet toast This day so bright For all a delight Keep coming and coming Take Blessing and hugging
--- Dada and Dadi
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Happy Birthday
Einstein in mind Mahatma at heart Monalisa on face Ashoka with spirit Be great for me to boast We raise a sweet toast This day so bright For all a delight Keep coming and coming Take Blessing and hugging
--- Dada and Dadi
]]> http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002143.php/feed/ America’s Independence Day- July 4 http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002140.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002140.php#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:34:03 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002140.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002140.php/feed/ On Father’s Day http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002120.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002120.php#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:38:43 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002120.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002120.php/feed/ On This Day 53 Years Ago http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002119.php http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002119.php#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:46:31 +0000 Indra http://drishtikona.com/archives/personal/002119.php
On this day 53 years ago, we, Yamuna and myself got into this relationship that is the closest and divine as many say it is decided in heaven by Him. Even with the memory failing, I vividly remember the day in all details, the happiness of my mother, and all the other members of the family including my grandfathers and great grand mothers for the occasion, and all the rituals and functions. Life thereafter has been full of fun and festivities. The Great has remained so kind to us. We remain grateful to Him. We are sure He will be similarly kind to us till end. What more do we need? Thanks a zillion SIR.
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On this day 53 years ago, we, Yamuna and myself got into this relationship that is the closest and divine as many say it is decided in heaven by Him. Even with the memory failing, I vividly remember the day in all details, the happiness of my mother, and all the other members of the family including my grandfathers and great grand mothers for the occasion, and all the rituals and functions. Life thereafter has been full of fun and festivities. The Great has remained so kind to us. We remain grateful to Him. We are sure He will be similarly kind to us till end. What more do we need? Thanks a zillion SIR.
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