It was certainly not a "just like that" kind of announcement from the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi jee on the eve of 8-November-2016. On one hand, while most of the media and journalist were warming up for the next day election trends and Trump vs. Clinton war, it was never clear what was so urgent, and what kind of announcement will be made by PM.
In my view, the announcement was nothing less than a "biggest surgical strike on the Black Money mafia". And the moment, the announcement came to a conclusive remarks, the headlines of all the news channels took a forced turn towards "the immediate ban on Rs. 500/- and Rs. 1000/- notes". I had just reached back to home from a tiresome official tasks, and was trying to relax in sofa for a while. But the announcement made me completely energized again. I switched over to one of my favorite channels: TIMES NOW. There it was, Arnab Goswami made it clear - "If you have any black money, and you have any kind of unaccounted money, your game is over". Indeed it meant so. Such a bold and courageous step requires thorough preparation, secrecy, and above all a will-power to do. Any changes in political history always draws severe criticisms, but this is probably one of the boldest steps in the financial history of India, that must be appraised all the time. There are a handful of persons, who differs in their opinion with all others, but for the sake of nation, one to two days suffering is worth for nation building. Those who underwent some kind of problems in the past two days, must think that their sacrifice will be remembered for the building of nation. Now all the black money mafia is in a big soup. They are left out with literally no options, and it is probably one of the toughest action against corruption. My sincere appreciation to PM and all his colleagues for such a bold step. The India, United India stands with you. Jai Hind.
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Please accept my hearty greetings on the new year 2016. I extend my prayers for a very happy, prosperous and eventful year ahead of you. For a happy New Year, just stick to some simple and basic rules. Have faith in yourself and your abilities. Count your blessings before you cry on your misfortunes. Learn to take each day one at a time. Create opportunities for yourself for quitting is never an option. Above all accomplish all you take under your wings – never abandon without completion. Wishing you all the very best on new year. DBS. PLEASE READ IT ALL THROUGH (THOUGH LENGTHY).
It was just another ordinary day, one Saturday. I had an appointment for my mother at KIMS to get her eyes checked and also to ensure the new spectacles are doing fine with her eyes. Myself, Amma and Shilpa were in que for our turn whereas Dr. R. Gopal was looking after his patients, one by one. Fortunately, or unfortunately, we did not take telephonic appointment, hence we had to wait a bit long for our turn. The corridor was full of patients, each and everybody waiting for some event to take place. Hospitals are probably one of the rare places, where all kind of emotions are mixed by the almighty. Some people come to hospital with a hope that – they will soon recover and get good medication to improve their health. On the other hand, there are people who are in the direction of loosing their hopes, and the Doctors are holding their hopes alive through all their efforts. Hats off to all the Doctors. In amidst of such events, I noticed a very young boy, hardly of 10 years on a wheel-chair assisted by his father. From the dressings of his father and body language, it appeared that – they are not from very rich background. For sure, they came to KIMS for some kind of treatment. The young boy, sweet boy indeed, was in KIMS patient uniform. He was sufferning from some peculiar disease. His throat was punctured with some medicated pipe and the poor boy was often coughing. Just unable to speak. Though – no tears on his eyes, but he was struggling a lot. With lot of control, he was just sitting silently on wheel-chair, but his cough was not within his control. Due to his disease, mild blood was coming out while he was coughing. By seeing his situation, naturally many of the bystanders nearby were feeling uneasy. Some of them were suggesting his father to take him to Emergency at the earliest. His father, another poor chap, was findhing himself very much helpless. Through his lungi, he was trying to cover his boy's mouth. Not many of us will be able to do with anybody. Believe me, it was very very tough situation for me. How can I help that young boy ? In few minutes, the KIMS sisters came and took the young boy along with his family members to ward. But a big and heavy question kept on pinging my brain all through for the next two days. And today, I am posting it as a blog. I know, many of you will feel sad reading the above portion. But its a hard truth. In a way or other, we all come across such events. How can I help such people ? Very difficult question posed by almighty on me. I am not having a clear-cut answer, but I am posting my views. We can help such people by: (1) Joining them in their sorrows. Such people can not be helped by just money. No, money can not buy everything. Join them. Don't keep hatred of hateful feelings towards such people. Tomorrow any one among us can be in his place. Never ever hate them. Try to love them. Though its very tough, but try to give love to them. They need love and care. If we can not give love to them, at-least do not hate them. (2) Try to avoid expressions, which can hurt them. Don't show extra sympathy, just because you feel sorry for them. They don't need your sympathy. They need your care and help. Help them. Treat them like normal. (3) Most important of all: to their near and dear – never pose any question, which can hurt them. God has balanced the society by giving something extra to somebody and taking away extra from somebody. Thats why there are poor and rich altogether. We can balance the society by filling this gap, not by widening it. So, dear friends. We are very very lucky to have great health and wealth within us. Many people don't have it. Please thank almighty for all the things, He has given us. Pray for the poor, who are not given such positive things. For sure, we can not give all our wealth and health to such poor people. But, But But.......we can share it with them, by (1) Not hurting them by reminding them – what they do not have. (2) Not posing heart-breaking questions to their near and dear. (3) Not showing hatred feelings towards them. Tomorrow we can be in their place. If you support my blog, please share with your friends and colleagues. If you don't like it, just ignore it. Thanks a lot for reading my full blog. It was the last over of 20-20 match. Chasing our score of 110, the opponent team reached 101 runs in 19 overs with two wickets in hand. It was indeed a tough call for the bowler to choose the line ane length. Nevertheless....he dared and in very first ball the opponent went for a quick two. Now score was 103 runs. Another 7 runs of last 5 balls. Next ball was superb yorker taking away one of the stumps and heart bits got extreme high now. Another 7 runs of last 4 balls. The last batsman had very little options. He decided to open his hands. The next ball....it got in touch with his bat....and all the fielders and spectators kept their lost a few heart bits. Ball went quite high. The fielder had sufficient time. And this time.........once again he proved that "WHEREVER YOU GO IN THIS WORLD, YOU FIND A KERALITE". Yes...it was Arun this time. He kept his nerves and caught the ball quite cleanly unlike a few overs back when he put it down. And thats it....we won the match. Wonderful match. Today, we had little less in numbers hence we joined with the VSSC Team. Anil Garg preferred to choose our members and kept his faith on all of us. Winning the toss, we elected to bat first. This time, we had some experienced players from VSSC, however it was quite a slow start. We were hardly reaching a run rate of 4 to 4.5. The first innings saw some good but slow partnerships. Sonal and Sobhan did their part nicely. It was Jai later, who tried to capitalized. Prijith and Arun also contributed their part. Finally, two veterans Subbu and Anil Garg took the attack and the last few overs produced good sixers, boundaries and the team attained valuable 109 runs in 20 overs. The innings saw quite a number of run-outs. Everybody contributed their parts to the dot.
Second innings saw excellent bowling spells from VSSC players, followed with Sobhan who finished his complete quota of 4 overs. Arun and Prijith kept their nerves while bowling. Subbu proved to be a deadly wall on the mid-off saving ample of runs for his team. Prashant showed heroics in taking a tough catch. Four attempted catch in the long off from a junior player was finally dropped. Jai used his entire body to stop singles quite close to the pitch and troubled batsman in taking the singles. Finally, it was the bowling team, which kept its nerve till the end and won the match. For sure, Arun's catch will be remembered for long. This match has given enogh confidence to SPL Royal Challengers that - they can beat any team and perform to their level best. Cheers. DBS. After a long gap, finally SPL Royal Challengers (hereafter referred to as SRC) completed their 2-match successful series against VSSC Team at Colony Ground on 26 Feb 2011 (Saturday).
Firstly, my genuine request to all the players that - let them check their body parts. Count the legs, hands, fingers....and move their legs in 180 degree angle. Formally, SPL is likely to permit half day medical off to non-injured players also. Quite against the outside pitch conditions, SRC players got adjusted to pitch and weather conditions. Extra bounce and Durban pitch did not trouble any of the batsmen (as they did not stay for more than a couple of balls). In the absence of any other nomination, once again the burden of captaincy was given to Subbu (Sr.) and maintaining his track record, he lost both the tosses (100% consistency). And with no hesitation, the opponent captain opted to bat first in both the innings. First Match (First Innings Highlights): All the bowlers did accomplished their tasks to the dot perfection. Kishore's magical spell produced a series of wickets. Trivandrum ARFI Express (Arun) was superb with his line, length and speed. Sobhan and Subbu (Jr.) combination produced good overs. Consistent Dhoni (Sonal) kept wickets quite nicely. First Match (Second Innings Highlights): Slow and steady start with subsequent wickets. One of the forgettable understanding between Subbu (Sr.) and Jai costed Jai's wicket. Sr. Subbu remained mere a spectator standing on the non-striker end seeing all wickets come and go. Match came to an end bit early than expected. Second Match Highlights: Once again SRC bowlers keep a check on opponent team and got regular wickets. Run rate piled up with due completion of all the bowling. Second inning saw one of the HELICOPTER shot from Jai who opened the innings. Madhav showed quite STABLE and CONSISTENT batting while Sobhan continued hitting at the other end. Abhinow Alok lost atleast 130 calories during his 3-run parternership with Sobhan. Tired Team of SRC still maintained its winning streak and played till the end. There was quite a heroic knock from Arun, which probably went unnoticed but produced respectable score. Kiran also bowled a memorable over at the end. At the end of the match, team discussed its positive points and flied back to their places. Overall, a superb performance from SRC. Kudos to all..... Sharing One of My Very Recent Dreams with All of You ...
(Was it really inspired from famous movie "THE SIXTH SENSE" !!!) Dear Friends, I wanted to share one of very recent dreams, that I saw with you all. Probably.........the length of this blog may seem big, but I want to put forward my feelings to AS SUCH to the extent possible. So please excuse me...for such a lengthy blog, but hopefully, you will enjoy reading it fully. Do share your comments at the end... To start with, in general, I happen to see lot of dreams. If I say that - every alternate day I see one dream, I may not be wrong. All kind of dreams - colorful, scary ....friends........relatives.........events, office..............and ghosts too....... Its just matter of some feelings and - I see one dream. People say - I don't sleep properly. Whatever....... It happened in the middle of December. Shilpz (my better half) had been to Mumbai for completion of some official tasks, and I was alone at my apartment. We have quite recently moved to our apartment (say, 5 months back or so). Its really a beautiful, cool and peaceful place. I enjoy each and every day spending here. When Shilpz is not here, I often like to finish off my dinner as soon as possible (~ before 7 PM).......and then work on laptop till 10 PM or so...and then I enjoy seeing some of my favourite TV serials and movies. The SIXTH SENSE happens to be one of my very very favourite movies. If you have not seen it, I strongly recommend you to see it. You must see it. Well......it was probably one of the other days....office routine was hectic in connection to forthcoming GSLV and I was very much occupied with routine stuff. Anurose (my student) had been helping me quite a lot and was sharing a good amount of workload from my end. I was in dilemma about my tour to SHAR (Sriharikota) for the launch. During the satellite launch, I often go to SHAR and stay there till the launch is over. In general, SHAR can be reached through CHENNAI via train or taxi. I always preferred train over taxis. Sometimes, SHAR officials use to arrange taxis for us from Chennai airport itself. So, this was all the background of my dream. That day also started like a normal day only. Morning generally use to start with NEWS Paper and AAJ TAK News Channel. December season must be generally chilled, but it was not. Night was indeed cool, but electrical power had gone somewhere in the middle of the night, and I was sweating. Due to regular INVERTER, I expected that - power would come soon, but it did not. Darkness prevailed in my bedroom. Sweating was increasing, and power was still down. I peeped into my mobile..........it was 0425 AM or so. Darkness was not allowing me to see anything. I kept on rolling on my bed for some more time. And finally I got fed up and decided to get out of the bed and go to drawing room. So I moved to drawing room and lied down on the sofa set, expecting that - drawing room may be better option that the bedroom. Still no POWER. Finally after one hour or so, I decided to open the BALCONY door expecting a cool breeze with slight sunlight will make the atmosphere better. But to my surprise, the BALCONY was locked. Well........the keys must be in my bedroom, where I often use to keep them. So, I went back to bedroom to fetch the keys, but result was negative. Fed up once again, I came back to SOFA. Then suddenly, I got an idea that - sometimes TV plug may be working, so I switched on TV Point, but result same. A disappointment. I kept on rolling on sofa for few more minutes, and then finally decided that - I should prepare a cup of hot tea, and start my daily routine. Before going to kitchen, once again I tried to open BALCONY, but no positive result. I came to kitchen and tried to fetch the milk pot. Due to darkness, things were not clearly visible, so thought of opening the UTILITY Door. But to my big big surprise, this door was also locked. Come on I say........whats this ? I was surprised. Whatever....I came back to drawing room and though, let me see - if the news paper has already come. So, i opened the FRONT Door........and was happy to see that news paper was already kept on our door, as usual. Uffffffff, some relief. so I brought the news paper inside. While doing so, I was surprised to see a few more sheets of old news paper lying down near to my door. How it can be ? Whether I forgot to collect the newspaper last day or what ? With some confusion, I brought all the newspapers and found that - they were lying there since last week. That mean, I am not collecting news paper regularly. Is it so ? I asked myself ? No answer. I was very very keen to see the result of INDIA - SOUTH AFRICA Test match, Particularly, I wanted to know how my favourite VVS Laxman played the knock. But due to darkness, I was not able to read it properly. Finally, after few more minutes, gradually sunlight started showing its presence in my drawing room and was happy to see light. But still NO ELECTRICAL POWER. And now also I am not able to open the BALCONY Door. Fed up with electricity, I peaked up our INTERCOM and called the caretaker for more than 6 times, but no response from the other end. Mobile battery was almost exhausted, so no signals either. With some anxiety I opened the last sports page of HINDU and updated myself with the latest scores. Every minute was looking like an hour or so, and electrical power was down for so long. However, by now - time was about 0630 AM and sufficient light was there to read the things. So I took some old newspapers and started reading them. It was one among them. Paper was very badly folded, showing that - it has not been touched for more than few days. In morning light, my eyes went to fifth page, which drawn my attention. The title of the news coverage read " SIX ENGINEERS MET AN ACCIDENT WHILE HEADING FROM SHAR TO CHENNAI ". My God........whats that ? Six Engineers..........who are they ? From VSSC ? I got shocked.............and in principle my hands got shivering.......as I saw my own snap.......smiling snap on the news. I was one among them. Oh No................My God. Then one by one scene started back to my mind. (1) NO ELECTRICAL POWER..............probably nobody was there in apartment, hence caretaker has taken out the power. (2) GHOSTS Cant open the doors.......................was it why , I was not able to open the doors. (3) My Refrigerator was empty.......(though I did not mention above)...........so nobody stayed in home for some time. (4) Sixth Sense dialogue: "THEY (GHOSTS) DON'T SEE EACH OTHER, THEY SEE, ONLY THEY WANNA SEE. THEY DON'T KNOW THEY ARE DEAD. Oh My God.............am I Ghost ? No ways................Each and every event was confirming that - its true. And time was - really 0635 AM....when in full sweat, I got up from my bed, just to realize that - it was a horrible dream. Believe me or not, after that dream, I did not read NEWS PAPER for about a week or so. It was quite difficult for me to believe that - I was a part of that dream. Whatever................after these many days, I thought of sharing my dream with you all. Thanks a lot for reading my dream. THE BEST WAY TO COME OUT OF A DREAM IS : TO GET UP. After my SHAR Trip (April 10 - 16, 2010):
It wasn't just one another day. No, certainly, it was not. After a huge disappointment and a sad trip to SHAR, I was back home and was feeling quite lonely and was appearing as if - everything is going wrong. Everything appeared to me as if - things are bound to become NEGATIVE towards me. And then a spark came in my life....................it was a small story. It gave me so much of confidence and courage that - in no time - I started seeing the positive light ahead. That particular phone call made me believe ......... GOD IS NOWHERE. GOD IS NOW HERE. I share the gist of the phone call with you all through this blog. Hope you all also will like it. DBS. One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: One belonged to him, the other to the LORD.When the last scene of his life flashed before him he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of foot prints. He also noticed that it happened at the lowest and saddest times in his life.This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it. “LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you you would walk with me all of the way But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why, when I needed you the most, you would leave me.”The LORD replied, “My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you. |
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