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Yesterday we watched the closing ceremony of the XIX CWG held at JN Stadium, New Delhi.  I had watched the opening ceremony at Mr Manoj Sharma's place, while I was in Delhi.  India performed its best so far in all the CWGs held so far bagging 101 medals in total which included 38 gold and made its position at second just after Australia and above England.  Indian sportpersons performed their best with true spirit of a good  sportsmanship.  In total, though Commonwealth has 54 nations, 71 nations participated as 17 nations sought permission and also became part of the total participants, though they had not been under the colony of England.  Next games are going to be held at Scotland in 2014. However the organizing CWG has been a point of discussion since last many years and more so in last few months.  I got reminded of Asiad 82 which was also under controversies amid leadership of Mr Buta Singh, then chairman of Organizing committee of the games. ...

25th Sept 2010/Saturday////8:25 pm/Defence Colony, Gurgaon/ I am back to Ashutosh’s place after a visit to Metro Mall. We were five of us, me, ashutosh dash, and three of his old students from IIM Shillong. We had lunch together at MDI and thenafter came to his house, had tea etc,,, and then after walking for around 400 mtrs boarded an auto which dropped us at the Mall. The mall looked good, crowded by people, being a Saturday, a weekend, may be the crowd is still bigger, and today is World Daughters Day, a day which I never was aware of. As we walked through the mall looking at different showrooms, looking at people, couples of different ages, kids, safaiwalas etc, we followed the escalators and behaved perfectly like young kids who play with escalators taking a ride up and down. All through we kept talking to each other and tried relating our knowledge of books and business with what we were looking at. We reached on the top and tried to see which are the movies on show at the PVR...

आज के दिन वर्ष १९४९ को भारतीय संविधान ने हिंदी को राज भाषा घोषित किया.  तब से आज तक हम हिंदी को अपनी राष्ट्रभाषा मानते आये हैं.  मुझे अपने हिंदी भाषी होने पर गर्व है क्योंकि यह मेरी राष्ट्रभाषा के साथ साथ मात्रभाषा भी है.  पिछले ६१ वर्षों मे हिंदी ने अपने भिन्न रूप देखे हैं और आज इस बाजारी युग मे भी वह अपनी पहचान बनाने मे काफी सक्षम रही है.  हाँ यह बात अवश्य है कि जिस प्रकार से अंग्रेजी ने अपना मुकाम हमारे व्यवहार मे बनाया है, हिंदी कहीं उससे पीछे खड़ी प्रतीत होती है, यह एक शर्म की बात तो है परन्तु कहीं ना कहीं इसके लिए हिंदी स्वयं या उसके जानने वाले, उसका प्रचार-प्रसार करने वाले, साहित्यकार, आदि जिम्मेदार हैं.  जिस प्रकार से हिंदी के संस्थानों मे राजनीति ने अपनी पैठ बनायीं है उससे यह कह पाना बहुत मुश्किल है कि हिंदी के प्रचार-प्रसार मे लगे यह तथाकथित सरोकारी अपने आशय मे कितने इमानदार रहे हैं या रहेंगे. आज भिन्न विषयों का साहित्य हिंदी भाषा मे उपलब्ध नहीं है, और यदि है भी तो उसका स्तर काफी गिरा हुआ है.  आवयश्कता इस बात की है कि हिंदी मे अधिक से अ...

Today is Janmashtmi (Birthday of Lord Krishn) and I am reminded of this great devotional song composed by Surdas (great worshiper of Lord Krishn).  I would like to share these lyrics with all my friends. Though these words reflect on different shades of Bal Krishn's behaviour, these are still relevant and we at times behave the same way, we are honest, we lie, we defy, we pretend, we reject, we accept, we.... Enjoy the lyrics: Maiyaa mori, main Nahi Makhan Khayo Bhor bhayo gaiyan ke paache, Madhuvan mohi pathayo . chaar prahar vanshivat bhatakyo, saanj pare ghar aayo .. .. Maiya Mori .......... 1 .. main baalak bahiyan ko choto, chinko kidi vidhi payo . gwaal baal sab bair pare hain, barbas mukh laptayo .. .. Maiya Mori .......... 2 .. Tu janani man kii ati mori, inke kahe patiyaayo . Jiya tete kachu bhed upjihai, jaani parayo jaayo .. .. Maiya Mori .......... 3 .. yaha le apani lakuti kambaliyaa, bahutahi naach nachaayo . Jiya tete kachu bhed upjihai, jaani para...

Shillong - 8th June 2010 THREE is an important number.  It is inauspicious in many religions.  It is odd whole number.  It is a natural number as well.  Just a day back I started reading 3 mistakes of may life by Chetan Bhagat .  It has been in the shelf for few months since I bought and every time I looked at the shelf, I heard a call from 3 mistakes, I attended to this call just on this Sunday. I shall write about the book once I am through with it, for the moment let me talk about numbers. One, Two, Three, Four, Five..... nth Three is an important number. We have grown with a nursery rhyme - Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, THREE bags full! One for the master, one for the dame, And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.  Why the poet s so concerned with only three bags, could be two or four, may be 3 is not more, and 3 is not less as well.  Of course it is relative.  It seems an Ideal numb...

I learn that the culprit, Anderson (then chief of United Carbide) who was put behind bars on non-bailable offence, was provided a smooth passage to move to America by the then government officials.  Both at the centre and the state (MP), congress was ruling.  As things are getting open like the peel of the onion, it is exposing many of the politicians of their intention, integrity and inconsistency.  These politicians when murdered or attacked by their own people (may be body guards or others), the nation cries, it becomes a national grief, but may be these attackers know their master better than the common mass.  We should not complain.  We get what we deserve, they get what they deserve...

There has been a debate on the caste/religion/ethnicity based census.  There have been points and counterpoints.  My view is that the census should be of the human beings not of anyone else.  My belonging to a caste is immaterial if I remain a good human being.