Numbers Play!

 

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Numbers Play!

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On October 13, 2020, having finished another book, I counted the books read this year, by counting the reviews in my blog. (My kindle, naturally, counts only the books read on kindlè.) 

The number was 98. Last year, counted from March 19th onwards, it had been 39. 

Idly, wondering the average rate thus year, I counted the days until October 13th this year. 

The number was 287. Again, wondering, I compared the two numbers to check the rate. 

It was 14 books every 41 days! 

Numbers are still having fun with me! I realised it when I was 61 in '16, and had suddenly realised having been through 16 leap years, and how rare that phenomenon was. 

Before that, it was buying a ring for a truly amazing price and sudden realisation of the date being mathematically unique every century. Before that, another unique date was that of joining the Pondicherry University on 8th August '88. 

Our wedding date, set by his parents a few years later, was 8th August too, but the year didn't add to the play of numbers that I am aware of yet. 

Wonder what next. 100 books by 20th October 2020 would be good. 

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Thursday, October 15, 2020. 

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Well, 100 books by 20th October 2020 did happen, and too 102 by October 22, 2020! 

Further such numerical wonders weren't easy, since I read a Shirer work - it wasn't just length, but the import as well; and this was his final piece of autobiographical trilogy, which covered several decades of one's own life as a growing awareness and consciousness, so naturally while one read one stopped to reflect how much one concurred and how prescient this author was, and wondering if there was something missing in thst one lived a few miles away for years, was quite unaware of this, much less thinking of seeking an opportunity to see him and hear him. 

But then, after this, it was quite late in the year, and one felt a rush as December brought one close to over 120, but one couldn't get over the 14 in 41 rate! Could one get a better number? There had been books one had read over the decades of reading, perhaps some reviews were yet to be penned? This brought it to 142 on December 31 - one had expected a couple more, but blogger said 142 - and one finished Albert Einstein's The World As I See It, a few hours before midnight. 

A while before, after seeing which Agatha Christie's works I could remember, which I could find titles to where I remembered the book vividly, and then looking for more, I'd discovered that the Amazon site - Shelfari gone a few years now - had about two dozen collections of Jane Austen. Three complete collections being on my kindle, I'd started those reviews. But on Shelfari I would review all I could, and decided I'd do it for the Austen's works - complete collections, to begin with - and thought, why not keep copies of the individual reviews? So there were 23 more. 

Only, funnily enough, blogger decided they were all January 01, 2021, even though the Amazon site noted them published on December 31, 2020! The two separate sets were published simultaneously by me, so it was difference of opinion between sites. I decided I'd use both dates for each of them on the blogger, and leave it at that. 

142 is a number nice enough - 2020 being leap year, with 61×4 days (there's the 61 again), and even 122 books would be nice enough, but since the number was better, reaching for an even better was an effort that seemed worth, however ridiculous! After all, kindle tells me it's eightysomething, and even though several of them were complete collections or anthologies, one with well over two dozen and another with over a dozen separate books, of which one was a collection of 142 stories and another a collection of poems (Montgomery did write a lot, why couldn't one have discovered her before it was so nontrivial to see PE?), still, one didn't argue, one merely maintained it was valid to count reviews. 

Now comes reaction. The newly begun on December 25th, Middlemarch, which I thought would be fast since I'd had the impression I'd seen the film, is quite slow, for several reasons. One, no it wasn't Middlemarch but another Eliot that I'd seen a film, apparently, unless this book is the same but slower than it seems. Two, she's good, but does make one not only go over for appreciation, but also do a double or several take often, with heavy convoluted long sentences that are worth it. And three, I'm in no mood to race 2021, let 2020 win. 

At that, 2021 wins already all by itself, being a product of two consecutive primes, as my other half informed me to our shared delight. But books, kindle asked me for a goal and I set it at 40, one more than 2019; it seems too much at this rate, since I've a dozen or so complete collections of various classic authors, and shall be surprised to finish more than one! So kindle might count it at one. Do I count reviews? Blogger set it at 23 on the first day, despite my racing to have it set at the day before! That mixed it up!

And this, too, is just a few minutes into 11th!

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Sunday, January 10, 2021 - Monday, January 11, 2021. 

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One June 25, clocked 151, in 176 days. Today, June 27, it's 152, in 178 days.  

This is despite the massive heart attack on February 17, as discovered by medical authorities on March 6th, when swollen legs and inability to breathe became so acute one lost fear of hospital and surrendered with relief. 

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Once Home

In 1960 we went to the hometown I had always known, for birth of another child. I was five, and whenever anyone said "now you'll have a brother", I was quite outraged and stated with definite certainty, that I wanted another sister. Where did a five year old get the sense that girls were held less, I don't know, but it wasn't in any home I'd known. My mother had been in Homeguard during WWII, and had later been in competitions for shooting (rifles? shotguns? they didn't say), and worked before and after graduation. When I wasn't yet a year old, I'd been used to her coming home late, after having attended classes for her master's degree in the evening, after day of work at office. Grandmother, thats her mother, was my home.

But Delhi had been different, although we'd always had nice neighbours, Joshi, Majumdar, and more. Those two families were home, too. And then we'd gone to visit hometown, where yet another of us, the baby sister, was born. When my other grandmother told me, I thought they were fooling me. At the hospital I checked before being happy.

We returned to Delhi to a very different home, my third in Delhi, at the other end of the city. Our home faced the western horizon, and a year later when I heard my mother and grandmother talk in the evening saying "The days are getting longer, sun sets more North these days", I looked out at the vast horizon from our veranda where I'd be playing normally, and thought, "yes, I know that". Years later when i married someone who'd figured out the sun's North and South journey around the year, I knew he was bright - I'd known it before I was five, but living in Delhi, far more North than Mysore, and looking at the vast horizon in West, was different.

This new home was a part of a government colony, two storied apartment blocks set out in large open squares around grassy grounds, where children played and housewives sat in winter, and everyone slept under stars in summers. We rarely walked on the few roads, it was an option, but mostly cut across the squares, walking on grass or along the gravel paths leading from roads to doorsteps. These flats looked so like houses or bungalows, it's forever been a disdainful reaction when I hear people denigrate apartments in favour of houses. These actually were what Europe calls rowhouses, or townhouses as in UK.

Here the babyhood of the two younger siblings - the baby brother was born in Delhi, while we lived in that house - and childhood of all of us was forever lived in the time capsule that was that house and those five years. All my memories of home as home, spread out over many different houses in three different cities, are mostly from life there. We went to school there and had friends in the same neighbourhood, and the many neighbours I remember were all mostly from there. The Kashyap and the Mathur, the Banerjee and the Gothaskar, and the larger square that had the military officers.

I still remember the trucks filled with those military officer neighbours in 1962, and realising in recent years that I don't know if they all returned.

Only a few months ago I looked at the neighbourhood on Google maps and saw there were far more trees, but orderly, so I thought, it's nice, living there must be even better now, although the neighbourhood has since filled out, open spaces converted to built up and no more wide open horizons.

And then today, why I felt the urge I've no idea, but I looked again, and it's gone. Not just our house or block or square, but the whole G block looks empty, and when or why they did it I've no clue. These were transient homes, people shifted as they transferred or were promoted, but it seems like someone thoughtlessly wiped out our home, our childhood, our memories and traces of our beings.

The chicken coop that a neighbour kept that I carried my baby brother to show him, so he was quite engrossed and later imitated the baby chicks when he was home, keeping us all in splits, well, that neighbour must have left long ago, but as long as the blocks and squares stood, so did our traces somewhere in the air.

If I never visit, which is what is most likely, could I pretend that the Google maps are just mistaken, and everything I remember of the beautiful houses and spaces is still as lovely as in memory? Can one just make up ones mind that someone erasing ones whole chunks of life is of no consequence, and one holds it forever within?

Don't know. What I did realise suddenly, after crying a lot, is that the one home in metropolitan Boston that I'd always thought beautiful, and loved, had a front that was very similar to this house where we lived for five years, from 1960.
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Being 61 in '16

Being 61 in '16, is fun enough - but having seen 16 leap years makes it amazing play on numbers! What's more, while everyone born in '55 can boast of this, can't think of any other possible combination, and it repeats only every four centuries!

(Tried to actually work it out, and it seems to be

0 < 4(10x + y) - (x + 10y) = 39x - 6y < 4 

so obviously there aren't too many possibilities.

Of course, those born in '54, March onwards, would too have that - for duration of a day if born on March 1st, 1954, for example. Longer for subsequent birthdays. But the pleasure of the fun, of turning 61 in '16 and having seen precisely 16 leap years, is for those born in '55, March onwards.

Also, thinking informally, what jumps out is those born in 2000 before the leap day would have a similar unique being 01 in 01 having seen exactly 01 leap years. But think of the digital switch, and '55 it is, every four centuries!

On second thought, other three centuries have those born in '46 turn 71 in '17 of the next century with 17 leap years seen - but it does seem more special being a millennium 61 in '16 with 16 leap years!)

Almost as fun as the date we bought a ring, uniquely factoring year into date times month, but not both primes! 
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"See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sun rise on a tropic isle
But just remember darling, all the while
You belong to me

See the marketplace in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me

I'll be so alone without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too, and blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again
You belong to me

I'll be so alone and without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too, and blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
But remember darling, till you're home again
That you belong to me!"
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Some nice points from another one

blog.lauraerickson.com - Top Ten Reasons for Being Happy about Turning 61

 celebrating turning 61 a few years ago:-


1. I'm reaching my prime! 61 is not just any prime number, either--it's a prime twin with 59 (two prime numbers separated by just one number.) And it may be the largest prime that divides the product of the next two primes plus 1. If there is a larger such prime, it would have to be greater than 179,424,673.

2. As a geek who has been called "square," I especially appreciate the fact that 61 is the sum of two squares, 5x5 and 6x6. And because 5 and 6 are consecutive numbers, 61 is a centered square number. It's also a centered hexagonal number and a centered decagonal number.

3. 61 is a Keith number, because it recurs in a Fibonacci-like sequence started from its base 10 digits: 6, 1, 7, 8, 15, 23, 38, 61...

https://blog.lauraerickson.com
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21st September, autumnal equinox of northern and vernal equinox of southern hemisphere on earth! Only the second day every year of equality of day and night! This one brings longer nights hence to northern half, longer days to southern. And one more special thing about these two equinoxes, they are the only two days when Sun rises due east and sets due west,  around the globe.

Is it being older one cherishes noticing what one has known almost all one's life, about turning of earth, and her swings around the year? Rollercoaster of seasons was thrill since one saw the very first snowfall, and then on fall was the much awaited event - until one fell in love so completly with spring in Europe!

Still remember the evening circa '61 when a desultory conversation between mother and grandmother, heard as one stood looking out at sunset, made one realise one knew this already. They were talking of days getting longer, and I was aware Sun was setting further northwest.  Hearing them, thought, yes, I know this! How long, didn't ask oneself!
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Sapna jahan dastak na de
Chaukhat thi woh aankhein meri
Baaton se thi tadaad mein
Khamoshiyan zyaada meri
Jabse pade tere kadam
Chalne lagi duniya meri

Mere dil mein jagah Khuda ki khaali thi
Dekha wahan pe aaj tera chehra hai
Main bhatakta huaa sa ek baadal hoon
Jo tere aasmaan pe aake thehra hai

Tu rooh hai toh main kaaya banu
Taa-umr main tera saaya banu
Keh de toh ban jaaun bairaag main
Kehde toh main teri maaya banu
Tu saaz hai, main ragini
Tu raat hai, main chandni

Mere dil mein jagah Khuda ki khali thi
Dekha wahan pe aaj tera chehra hai
Main bhatakta huaa sa ek baadal hoon
Jo tere aasmaan pe aake thehra hai

Hum pe sitaaron ka ehsaan ho
Poora, adhoora har armaan ho
Ek dusre se jo baandhe humein
Baahon mein nanhi si ik jaan ho
Aabaad ho chota sa ghar
Lag na sake kisi ke nazar

Mere dil mein jagah Khuda ki khaali thi
Dekha wahan pe aaj tera chehra hai
Main bhatakta huaa sa ek badal hoon
Jo tere aasmaan pe aake thehra hai.
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A genuine ancient Goddess, Nana, from Gaandhaara, land that has been since over a millennium and half now been destroyed:-

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Goddess_Nana_Afghanistan_5-6th_century.jpg
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This video was made by one of those pakis that hated Malala for not giving up her education and obeying the orders of terrorists, and it seems to be no longer on the internet, or at least not at the link below, but they haven't changed their minds, as evidenced by the pakis supporting terrorism in Kashmir and their exported terrorists destroying schools and other educational institutions in Kashmir, chiefly via arson.

So the arguments against them stand and are necessary.


The whole thing would be honest if at the outset she said, we disagree with western notion of school education and believe that only education within norms of muslim religion as it was for centuries is the way to be. That was the gist of not only this video but the letter to Malala from the terrorist who shot her in head at point blank range.

There is a basic flaw in argument 2:25 here, hidden in the false assumption of equality of covering face vs not covering, and presenting it as a personal choice made independently by every woman. This is false. If it were true, the divide would not be muslim vs non muslim women, but be much closer to half of each, so half of covered women would be non muslims and half of muslim women would be dressed like majority rather than brand cover. Also, it is obvious to anyone not pretending that in an open society, where most women are going about without the face covered, a muslim woman goes out with a covered face due to her culture, imposed by her family and clan, and it isn't a free choice.

Incorporating free choice in this questioning of Western nations prohibiting hijab or burka and blaming them for lack of education for muslim women who cannot go to school because of this, is again fraudulent argument. Freedom of choice of apparel is limited by ambient social civilisation comfort, and this becomes clear when one sees "no shoes, no shirt, no service" notices in large letters at numerous places in US, for example. Posh restaurants do not allow males wearing jeans however expensive, another example. One could think of more extreme examples to match the extreme that is women in hijab or burka, namely, males al fresco, which would be not allowed except at nude beach and would invite arrest in most western countries. So demanding such a "choice" for muslim women, of going about with face covered, or even hijab almost imitating a bald head, is an implicit demand of imposition of Arab culture, and this quite rightly alarms west - where does it stop? What next, right to treat normally dressed women as sexual slaves that can be assaulted without redress? Imposition of Shari'a which decrees all non muslims as lesser humans Arabs legally above all others? It is ridiculous, out of question!

And it isn't about modesty. Most times in West women can perfectly well dress in normal western clothes and cover themselves without resorting to creating a ghetto atmosphere, except muslim community decrees precisely this ghetto imposed on every place on earth. Else one could easily cover with scarf, hat, trousers and a long sleeved, button down shirt just as well.

But the most objectionable part is the imposition of the diktat that a woman, and not a man, is nothing but a sex object, shamed if her hair and face show. Locking up half humanity in sexual branding is the shame, and most of the world has evolved out of it. Those that wish to reimpose this shame on the world are the ones that deserve to understand they ought to be ashamed, and that this demand of imposition of shame on women isn't a free choice. It is worse than any racism multiplied by all white slavery times every paedophilia. 

Another fraudulent argument 2:33 - drone attacks are against terrorists and their known locations, and if terrorists choose to use women and children as their shield, while continuing terrorism, blame the terrorists for the deaths of women and children caused in drone attacks. If it weren't drones, but ammunition delivered some other way, it wouldn't be different - the only way those women and children would be not endangered by war against terrorists is, terrorists stop using the women and children to hide their own hides!

The most insidious part of this is implied assumption that Malala is no different from any other woman or child who happens to be muslim with life endangered by a bullet or more. As much as the world agrees any innocent death is tragic, someone like Malala represents far more.

Malala stood for the cause of education for all children, especially girls, and this makes her a heroine, all the more so after she risked her life knowing she could be attacked, and even more so when terrorists obliged by shooting her in head at point blank range. She would be immortalised if she had not survived, but fortunately for the world she did. This makes her precious.

Those that hate her, are just filled with hatred, jealousy and greed, apart from fury about a girl being educated and determined to champion the cause of education. They deserve oblivion. And terrorists deserve the drones if not worse.

2:45 another lie when she says it is drone strikes that are responsible for disturbing education, ignoring the jihadists diktat against all school education and in particular against girls' schools. Yes, wars do disrupt lives, but such diktat do so far more. Europe schools did not suffer during the two world wars as much as Afghanistan did for over quarter of a century due to jihadists taliban régime.

2:45 - 3:00 she is parroting a clever mix of some facts with fraudulent arguments making it deadly lies, aimed at imposing guilt on everyone except those actually guilty of denying education to girls by sheer diktat. Lack of free education in pak isn't fault of west or IMF any more than someone starving in Namibia is due to California growing oranges. Free education should have been a priority for pak instead of the obsession with attacking India repeatedly, occupying Kashmir and Baluchistan, or control of Afghanistan via terrorists sent by pak explicitly for the purpose. As for poor people prioritising against daughters in favour of sons, what she isn't mentioning is the absence of family planning due to religious view of such planning as a horror against god, and consequent dependence of poor on madarsas for free education for sons including lodging and boarding, so they are taken young and inculcated into terrorism. It makes a zero investment hugely profitable industry of terrorists export for pak régimes, not that different from nazi triple k doctrine for women!


4:01 so lack of education is due to western capitalistic system while her religion prescribes it, but only within the framework of her religion -  she implies, and says, that education is only to be allowed according to kuran in madarsas! If that is the only education to be allowed, why blame west or capitalism? Because west must be forced to finance madarsas?

4:20 it is no accident that this young girl with a face matching a Pieta was selected to deliver this ISIS message, instead of the usual taliban male, evoking machine gun and revulsion even more than fear, but ISIS message it most certainly is!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=01sBefReZos
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"Ek khwaab ne aankhein kholi hain
Kya mod aaya hai kahaani mein
Woh bheeg rahi hai baarish mein
Aur aag lagi hai paani mein

Rab labbha papiya nu
Jeehna change kaam na change lagde
O kiven pind kajiye
Assi chol paake vi nange lagde

Aa.. aa.. aa..
O...

O zindagi yun gale aa lagi hai, aa lagi hai
Koi khoya huaa barson ke baad aa gaya

O pheeke-pheeke the din-raat mere, saath mere
Chhuaa tune toh jeene ka swaad aa gaya
Ek tarah ke awaara thhe
Ek tarah ki awaargi
Deewane toh pehle bhi thhe
Ab aur tarah ki deewaangi

Sajde bichhawan ve
O gali gali, o gali gali, o gali gali
Jis sehar vich mera yaar vasda
Kamaana painda ae.. oh khadke oh khadke
Ho itthe Rab na koi udhaar labhda

Ek khwaab ne aankhein kholi hai
Kya mod aaya hai kahaani mein
Woh bheeg rahi hai baarish mein
Mmm.. aur aag lagi hai paani mein

Khwabi khwabi si lagti hai duniya
Aankhon mein ye kya bhar raha hai
Marne ki aadat lagi thi
Kyu jeene ko jee kar raha hai

Pehle to begaani nagri mein
Hum ko kisi ne poochha na tha
Saara sehar jab maan gaya toh
Lagta hai kyun koi rutha na tha

Sajde bichhawan ve
O gali gali, o gali gali, gali gali
Jis sehar 'ch mera yaar vasda
Kamaana painda ae.. oh khadke oh khadke
Ho itthe Rabb na koi udhaar labhda

O.. zindagi yun gale aa lagi hai, aa lagi hai
Koi khoya huaa barson ke baad aa gaya
Ek tarah ke awaara thhe
Ek tarah ki awaargi
Deewane toh pehle bhi thhe ab
Aur tarah ki deewangi

Sajde bichhavan ve
O gali gali, o gali gali, o gali gali
Jis sehar 'ch mera yaar vasda
Kamaana painda ae.. o khadke o khadke
Ho itthe Rab na koi udhaar labhda"
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Jayas kumar Channa Mereya

One that has captured hearts of millions - Jayas Kumar, his first audition, Channa Mereya!

As difficult as it is to believe that people exist who not only hate a six year old, five in this video, and so much so they go to lengths to post their hatred on internet on his video where he can see it, so they deliberately intend to make sure they hurt the child personally, it's much harder to believe that they are so stupid as to find the excuses they did! That they don't know how to change the channel or silence the TV while his performance is going on, and must instead post hatred filled posts on internet.

But all that is assuming their posts are genuine, which of course is less likely than the usual alternative. After all who is so useless that they have nothing better to do than watch a TV program, hate a child, and post that on internet? Then again there were those that shot Malala in head at point blank range, because she was going to school despite their diktat that all females must be sex objects for their use!

No, these hate posts are far more likely connected to the same paid slaves of terrorism that hates anything good, anyone with talent who brings joy and light to people, and these haters are moreover most likely paid by those that paid stone pelters in Kashmir, this time to post hate filled comments to attack those that are providing so much joy to millions! These haters are filled with not just hatred of light but are paid to troll.

As for Z TV Saregamapa, of course they have him sing for trp, duh! They brought him in for trp in the first place! But trp isn't paid terrorism paid by oil money, trp is about popular demand and votes. Which means this kid is loved by not just millions but a sizable chunk of India, and global communities of NRI too. Perhaps this is why he is being attacked by the haters here, because the haters wish to extinguish all joy, and India too, since India is with Light, Love, and such qualities as are Divine. Of course, since these terrorists stand with death of all human civilisation!

One that has captured hearts of millions - Jayas Kumar, his first audition, Channa Mereya!

"Blossom of" Divine's Love, "may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever" - paraprasing an old beloved song from the much loved Sound Of Music, with all one's heart's blessings that flow naturally as one sees and hears Jayas Kumar.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fIn_n3DULB8
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Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo: Lata Mangeshkar
Music: C.Ramchandra
Lyrics: Kavi Pradeep


Lucky find, thanks to internet, after decades of hearing this when it was fresh! Quintessential lyrics that captured the time and encapsulated those months for ever, the song that brings the nation together more than any other!



ऐ मेरे वतन् के लोगो! तुम खूब लगा लो नारा !
ये शुभदिन है हम सबका! लहरा लो तिरंगा प्यारा
पर मत भूलो सीमा पर! वीरों ने है प्राण गँवाए!
कुछ याद उन्हें भी कर लो -२! जो लौट के घर न आए -२

ऐ मेरे वतन के लोगो! ज़रा आँख में भरलो पानी!
जो शहीद हुए हैं उनकी! ज़रा याद करो क़ुरबानी |प|

Kahin bhool na jaao unko, is liye suno yeh kahaani
जो शहीद हुए हैं उनकी! ज़रा याद करो क़ुरबानी |प|

जब घायल हुआ हिमालय! खतरे में पड़ी आज़ादी!
जब तक थी साँस लड़े वो! फिर अपनी लाश बिछादी
संगीन पे धर कर माथा! सो गये अमर बलिदानी!
जो शहीद हुए हैं उनकी! ज़रा याद करो क़ुरबानी |१|

जब देश में थी दीवाली! वो खेल रहे थे होली!
जब हम बैठे थे घरों में! वो झेल रहे थे गोली
थे धन्य जवान वो अपने! थी धन्य वो उनकी जवानी!
जो शहीद हुए हैं उनकी! ज़रा याद करो क़ुरबानी |२|

कोई सिख कोई जाट मराठा -२! कोई गुरखा कोई मदरासी -२!
सरहद पे मरनेवाला! हर वीर था भारतवासी
जो ख़ून गिरा पर्वत पर! वो ख़ून था हिंदुस्तानी!
जो शहीद हुए हैं उनकी! ज़रा याद करो क़ुरबानी |३|

थी खून से लथपथ काया! फिर भी बन्दूक उठाके!
दस-दस को एक ने मारा! फिर गिर गये होश गँवा के
जब अन्त समय आया तो! कह गये के अब मरते हैं!
ख़ुश रहना देश के प्यारो -२! अब हम तो सफ़र करते हैं -२
क्या लोग थे वो दीवाने! क्या लोग थे वो अभिमानी!
जो शहीद हुए हैं उनकी!  ज़रा याद करो क़ुरबानी |४|

तुम भूल न जाओ उनको! इसलिये कही ये कहानी!
जो शहीद हुए हैं उनकी!  ज़रा याद करो क़ुरबानी
जय हिन्द। जय हिन्द की सेना -२!
जय हिन्द, जय हिन्द, जय हिन्द||[3]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNyiOUPkiLQ
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Wo bhooli dastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi..
Lata Mangeshkar -
Rajendra Krshna-
MadanMohan..
a tribute


Beautiful song and beautiful Anita Guha.


वो भूली दास्ताँ लो फिर याद आ गई
नज़र के सामने घटा सी छा गयी वो भूली दास्ताँ...
 कहाँ से फिर चले आये, ये कुछ भटके हुए साये
ये कुछ भूले हुए नग़मे, जो मेरे प्यार ने गाये
ये कुछ बिछड़ी हुई यादें, ये कुछ टूटे हुए सपने
पराये हो गये तो क्या, कभी ये भी तो थे अपने
न जाने इनसे क्यों मिलकर, नज़र शर्मा गयी
वो भूली दास्ताँ...

उम्मीदों के हँसी मेले, तमन्नाओं के वो रेले
निगाहों ने निगाहों से, अजब कुछ खेल से खेले
हवा में ज़ुल्फ़ लहराई, नज़र पे बेखुदी छाई
खुले थे दिल के दरवाज़े, मुहब्बत भी चली आई
तमन्नाओं की दुनिया पर, जवानी छा गयी
वो भूली दास्ताँ...

बड़े रंगीं ज़माने थे, तराने ही तराने थे
मगर अब पूछता है दिल, वो दिन थे या फ़साने थे
फ़क़त इक याद है बाकी, बस इक फ़रियाद है बाकी
वो खुशियाँ लुट गयी लेकिन, दिल-ए-बरबाद है बाकी
कहाँ थी ज़िन्दगी मेरी, कहाँ पर आ गयी
वो भूली दास्ताँ...



wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi
wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi
nazar ke saamne ghataa si chhaa gayi
nazar ke saamne ghataa si chhaa gayi
wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi

kahaan se phir chale aaye, ye kuchh bhatke huye saaye
ye kuchh bhoole huye naghme, jo mere pyaar ne gaaye
ye kuchh bichhdi huyi yaadein, ye kuchh toote huye sapne
paraaye ho gaye to kyaa, kabhi ye bhi to the apne
na jaane inse kyon milkar, nazar sharmaa gayi
wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi

ummeedon ke haseen mele, tamannaaon ke wo rele
nigaahon ne nigaahon se, ajab kuchh khel se khele
hawaa mein zulf lahraayi, nazar pe bekhudi chhaayi
khule the dil ke darwaaze, muhabbat bhi chali aayi
tamannaaon ki duniyaa par, jawaani chhaa gayi
wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi

bade rangeen zamaane the, taraane hi taraane the
magar ab poochhtaa hai dil, wo din the yaa fasaane the
faqat ik yaad hai baaki, bas ik fariyaad hai baaki
wo khushiyaan lut gayin lekin, dil-e-barbaad hai baaki
kahaan thi zindagi meri, kahaan par aa gayi
wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi
nazar ke saamne ghataa si chhaa gayi
nazar ke saamne ghataa si chhaa gayi
wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi
wo bhooli daastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVqOiR193o
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Rahiye Ab Aisi Jagah..

Suraiya
Ghulam Mohd
Mirza Ghalib..
a tribute


Beautiful Suraiya, what a complete artist, bringing out the essence of this song in voice and performance both, unmatched !

Rahiye Ab Aisi Jagah Song Lyrics:
Rahiye ab aisi jagah chal kar
Jahan koi na ho
Hamasukhan koi na ho
Aur hamazaban koi na ho
Rahiye ab aisi jagah

Be-dar-o-deewar ka ik
Ghar banaya chahiye
Be-dar-o-deewar ka ik
Ghar banaya chahiye
Koi hamasaya na ho
Aur pasaban koi na ho
Rahiye ab aisi jagah

Padiye gar bimaar to
Koi na ho timaradar
Padiye gar bimaar to
Koi na ho timaradar
Aur agar mar jaaiye to
Nauhakhwan koi na ho
Rahiye ab aisi jagah.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GaD5PAG0M
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satyavijayi.com -

OPEN LETTER TO POPE FRANCIS FROM INDIA BY MARIA WIRTH

A Mind-blowing Open Letter from Maria Wirth to Pope Francis on Hinduism and Why He Needs to Stop Conversions!!
A small correction one would suggest is using "conversionist" instead of, or in addition to, the word "dogmatic", to distinguish Judaism from its younger relatives church and islam in the effect wrought upon the world. Everything else about the three is identical, except the younger two insist on converting the whole world and assert that those that covert, they, and only they, can stay out of hell.

But other than that, the letter deserves to be engraved on marble, in letters of gold a foot high each, and be raised as a monument in every city of the world, to be seen, read and understood by generations to come. Floodlights at night would be good too.

Ms Wirth has comprehended everything basic and profound India offers, and one can safely bet she has understood far more of India and of matters of spiritual knowledge, than many even in India who, sadly due to mindset affected by colonial regimes with doctrines like Macaulay's, and their schools for ruling class that are still seen as good rather than as serving those regimes, are either unaware of or unable to see due to the blinkers of such schooling.

https://satyavijayi.com/open-letter-pope-francis-india-maria-wirth/?utm_source=Net&utm_medium=SV07
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"21 ‘Achievements’ Congress has listed on its own website that will make you laugh"

Reminds one of the story of the father giving a sound verbal lashing to son for low grades -"look at this, shame! When I was your age, Tagore got nobel prize!"

But also, one is reminded of the time Ms Sushama Swaraj responded to a speech by Ms Gandhi sometime during the decade of UPA rule when the latter described the UPA rule as the best in history of independent India.  Ms Sushama Swaraj incredulously asked who Ms Gandhi was competing with, was she declaring her rule better than thst of her mother in law, her husband and his grandfather the first PM of India, Jawaharlal Nehru? She asked if Ms Gandhi had forgotten or not known that about six decades out of seven post independence of India, it had been her party that ruled, of which most of the years it was the family she, Ms Gandhi, had married into that ruled. She then proceeded to ask just who Ms Gandhi was competing with, her grandfather in law, her mother in law, or her husband, in declaring her own rule the best.

http://postcard.news/21-achievements-congress-listed-website-will-make-laugh/
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Beautiful.

m.facebook.com - Yuri Beletsky

Orion over the mountain lake :) King of the night sky. High in the mountains starry view is truly amazing ! The water was so calm that one could see the reflections of the stars. While Orion is a symbol of winter for those who live in the Northern hemisphere, here in the South we are in the beginning of the summer season. Clear skies too all ! :) #Nikon #D810a

Beautiful.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1775637312740427&set=p.1775637312740427&type=1&theater
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Backlit Saturn with Earth and her Moon visible in the rings, caught by Cassini.

An old favourite:- Beautiful, serene, lamp floating in space :-


https://i.cbc.ca/1.3867850.1480095632!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/in-the-shadow-of-saturn.jpg
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Dr. Subramanian Swamy on Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi becoming Prime Minister


0:25 - 1:29 specific part of Indian constitution that applies.

2:58 - 3:45 what Nehru wrote and his government decreed re heir to Holkar kingdom

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3211rCnwEmY

can only be more true for important positions of government of India, and all the more so for someone of purely foreign origin, of course; but, as Subramanyam Swamy clarified, the constitutional clause in Indian Constitution is explicit re mutuality of such possibility.

8:30 If he had to leave Harvard due to cocaine, it is likely well documented, under whatever name he used there; probably the verification would not easily be available unless one is an insider, which Dr Swamy definitely is at Harvard.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3211rCnwEmY

re mutuality

3:45 - 4:56!


7:30! And thanks for bonus,  7:30 - 10:08! , hope it all works (canceling such amendments). If we need someone from elsewhere appointed to take care of India, someone with more education and competence, honesty and career should be considered - Hilary Clinton, for example.


9:45 so that's the reason for name and passport with that name! Does India have dual citizenship agreement with Italy, or is this an exception?
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10:49 Varun certainly should do for dynasty fans, unless the foreigner quotient is necessary, which no one would be silly enough to admit to.
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Responding to comments below questioning Dr Subramanian Swamy about his expose of the current and the now ex presidents of congress, claiming there is no proof of his statements, and calling him a lier :-


To begin with, if you don't see a chain of logic, or that facts can be claimed easily enough if they are opposite of what Dr Subramanian Swamy says, that points st your own questionable mindset, capabilities, or possibly worse. As to proof, there is no proof that the posts calling Dr Subramanian Swamy a lier or questioning his statements were written by genuine persons, rather than agents paid with scam funds in Swiss accounts of the mafia family.
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Interesting conversation, of which the other one deleted his attempted lies and threats:

Jyotsna Gokhale
+Velington Fernandes " Italy didnt permit Dual nationality till 1991." while Subramaniam Swamy reports the boy's mom informing Italian embassy and obtaining an Italian passport for him at birth, which could mean he retained the Italian nationality until comparatively recently, that would be at least until he was at Cambridge according to himself. His mom retained her own Italian nationality and did not get Indian citizenship until legally it was necessary due to her husband becoming prime minister.

Swamy has more of a likelihood of finding stuff hidden in Harvard or Cambridge due to his personal connections, while someone conducting research whether on internet or in person is likely to get stonewalled with name changes, confidentiality, and more.

Dangerous is an inappropriate and unduly strong word in the connection and seems a personal threat from you against me. People in public life have faced far more than perception about once upon a time use of substance, which in his case might be true while in cases of false propaganda against colonial subjects of yore by ex rulers and their allies was usually false.


Jyotsna Gokhale
+Velington Fernandes Either you are really obtuse or deliberately bullying with lies. Your contention about

"Sonia G became Indian before 1991. Doesnt it logically imply that Rahul
Gandhi becomes Indian as soon as the day Sonia Gandhi became an Indian citizen which is before 1991"

is absurd and false in several points.

To begin with a parent's citizenship might give choice of that right to the child but it is not forced, and her having to become citizen of India however reluctantly does not indicate her son being made to go through that transition, much less imply it as necessarily so.

There is nothing logical or reasonable about a child having to be citizen of a country if a parent chooses it, if there are other choices and in particular a choice already made for the child.

You sound like the racist US right wingers who claim Obama is not a US citizen because his father was not. That is silly and false.

Sonia did not take citizenship of India until she was forced to, by Indian law, alternative being her husband having to choose strictly between her and his prime ministership of India. That was '84, long after she lived in the home of his mother the prime minister for years, and this does not support the idea that her son would be Indian by her choice.
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Responding to a comment below the original yt video, by the same congress pro who had tried to and failed in conversation above and deleted his replies to my post, about "Indian law being not defined by Italy"  and other attempts to shame, provoke and bamboozle India:-


Re "Sonia Gandhi is a Naturalised Citizen of India.", is precisely what Dr Subramanian Swamy has pointed out is untrue if she never renounced all other citizenships, and there is no proof she renounced ANY!

According to Dr Subramanian Swamy, when she could no longer hold on to being a non citizen, the then PM Indira Gandhi instructed the official in question to accept the Italian ambassador's statement, which only said to the effect that she had told him she had surrendered it, but not that she had in fact done so.

Re mutuality clause, Italy or any other nation does not define law in India, India does so with clause of reciprocity. Bamboozling India with such shameful attempts to provoke is typical of fascists heritage.

https://youtu.be/2GyT9dqHxLk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GyT9dqHxLk
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Tears


Tears flow
Flow freely, now,
Unlike when one was
Assaulted, injured, wounds
Fresh, needed attention, but
Far more important was
Sheer survival, even as one
Fled from the beast that was pursing ever
With claws and fangs, his own or
Borrowed ones, of those he possessed, was
Ever snapping at heels, and one's
Beloved were in his jaws.

Then he was convinced, he'd chewed one to
Shreds, and having
Spat out a carcass, he played the drama of
Throwing one out, publicly this time for the
Show he'd missed the first time.

One survived this time, too, by the same
Grace one had been carried by, to the
Dismay of the beast and his jackals - he sent some, to
Lasso one back, but
Their chief instrument of blackmail, ones
Loved one, loving one, departed for ever, had
Tendered them powerless, except to
Deprive one of those one thought were friends,
And corner one, or attempt to, anyway.

Now, someone from yore, forgotten by the beast and the jackals
Someone who did care, had sought to
Care for ever,
Returned from the dim era of yore,
Resplendent now in remnants of
Shining armour of gold, and asked,
Do you remember?

One had thought one did, everything, but now
The question beamed lights around on
Moments, days, people,
Unforgotten, and
Ones own pieces of a n unacknowledged, broken
Forgotten heart,
Strewn across dim corners of one's being.

Tears flow, breaking dams one had built for
Sheer survival, so one wouldn't friends when one
Needed to gather up all one's fragile strength for
The desperate flight.
Tears flow, and this time
They aren't for anyone else
And so, they flow
Unstoppable.

Thus are now cracks in the
Dams, forgotten,
All because someone who once cared, asked now,
Out of the blue,
Do you remember?

And one begins to remember, the
Loved one in pain, because of one being
Discarded by the beast, or rather,
Released for a hunt,
Public one, everyone invited.

One now goes through her pains, too, in
Shadow of one's own unacknowledged ones.
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List of Jayas Kumar songs saregamapa little champs 2017 stage


1. Jayas Kumar 1 Channa mereya (RKjr) 25:09 - 35:20

     Shanmukhapriya 13:33, much fun with her mum

     Shreyan Bhattacharya 46:15 Alabeli Naar

     Riya Biswas 54:15 Tere Mere Beech Mein


February 25, 2017

https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-1-february-25-2017-full-episode/0-1-200305
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2.
     Bidipta Chakravarty auditions with Bhor Bhaye Panaghat

     Satyajit Jena

     Ansh Chawla Audi hero and bunch of kids

     Dhroon Tickoo 24:28 Yek Chatur Naar

     Saimann Sewa 33:45

     Aftab Singh, son of Mahesh Singh 43:37

      Rajashree Bag 51:50

February 26, 2017

https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-2-february-26-2017-full-episode/0-1-200304
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3.
     Utkarsha Wankhede Aayaat, Shakti, Bhumika Ray, Ehsaan,

     Shayon Biswas Ae Dil Hai Mushkil,

     Yumna Ajin sings De Di 22:35 - 23:23, in school uniform, short hair!

     Anushka Patra 23:15!

     Sonakshi Kar 23:35 - 30:04 Agar Tum Saath Ho

     Sartaj and Sarwar 42:15 Dangal

     Chaitanya Arora 45:50 - 50:10 High Heels duet

      Arshjot Singh Dhillon 50:15 - 58:08 Ramta Jogi

      Pankaj Das 58:10 - 59:15 Ankhiyan Udikadiyaan

      Ayat Sheikh 59:20 Dil Vil

       Hazel eyed unnamed jury favourite winner 1:00:20 - 1:01:36



March 4, 2017.


https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-3-march-4-2017-full-episode/0-1-200303
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4. Final selections, Jayas Kumar "lights, camera, action" opens episode,


    Nilanjana Ray at 01:01, didn't make it. Charvi Chawla, Bhumika Ray, Bidipta Chakravarty, ....

    Shreyan Bhattacharya Arziyaan, Shanmukhapriya 10:00 - 16:00 Jhumroo,

    Shabbir Ahmed quote:-

Sab rishtey hain apani jagah, kisi rishtey mein koi chouk nahin hai,
Jab Dastarkhan mein kam pad jaati hai roti,
Ek Maa hi jo kehti hai "mujhe bhookh nahin hai"!


     Jassu Khan Mir 16:20 Nimbooda


    Jayas Kumar "lights, camera, action" 23:22 - Jag ghoomeya - 30:14


March 5, 2017.

https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-4-march-5-2017-full-episode/0-1-200302
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5. Dhroon fitness test 12:08 burgers, 12:50 - 14:10 Jayas joins burgers

     Jayas on stage 20:40 -22:03 blessings

     Jayas arrives on stage in egg 31:45 - 39:30 Disco Dancer

      Utkarsha Wankhede 57:00


March 11, 2017


https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-5-march-11-2017-full-episode/0-1-200301

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6. Jayas Kumar and Dhroon Tickoo open with Rang Barase

     Shreyan Bhattacharya Sapnon Se Bhare Naina

     Rajashree Bag Mastani

     Shanmukhapriya Bang Bang, Bahubali on horse

     Riya Biswas 43:00 Salame Ishq

     Jayas 49:30 asked to decide, judges girls are best!

     Shaktiswarupa Panda 51:00 Paan Khaaye, teaches Neha cooking, kiss from
    Jayas Kumar 58:40

     Saimann Sewa Baawaraa Mann

     Jayas declares winner for flying sofa from Adnan, Jassu and Dhroon.


March 12, 2017.


https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-6-march-12-2017-full-episode/0-1-200300
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7. "Amul epic" Jury challenge drama "Dushman de yaar jurayaa", "Bachche Tere bachche", ... two hours double episode

     Rajashree Bag Pinga 4:15, challenge back phugadie, two other pairs on stage

     Shreyan Bhattacharya 14:30 kun faya kun, challenges Shamsher to drink a jug of milk, Shamsher finishes it dancing!

     Shanmukhapriya challenged by Nandini Shrikent to operatic style singing 24:30, challenge back dosa!

     Jayas Kumar 35:45 - 43:05 "Aaj phir Tere Mere pyarke .. sabko pyar mile ... sabko maal mile ... ", Tera hero idhar hai, challenges Javed to be horsey for him to ride!

     Dhroon Tickoo Darde Dil, challenges Aravinder to do push ups while carrying him on back

     Sonakshi Kar Haan Hansi Ban Gaye, challenges Debojit Saha to eat minimum dozen green chillies.

     Jassu Khan Mir kaala chashma with khadtaal

     Tanya Tiwari Bhare Naina

     Riya Biswas challenged by Dr Hansal 1:21:00, challenge back dance, joined by Jayas on stage 1:27:00

      Shaktiswarupa Panda, challenge from Paroma, and Aaditya Naaraayan duet QSQT 1:29:00, pink cherry blossoms

     Utkarsha Wankhede khatuba challenge by Bhavya Pandit.

     Yumna Ajin Lambi Judaai challenge from Padma Wadkar

     Shanmukhapriya on flying sofa with 100%.


March 18, 2017.


https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-7-march-18-2017-full-episode/0-1-200299
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Z Mirchi music awards

Noida race event, champs sing on public stage

March 19, 2017.
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8.  Boys vs girls

     Jassu Khan Mir Tharki Chokaro, Rajashree Bag Mere Dholana

     Riya Biswas challenges boys to dress pretty, Utkarsha Wankhede wins.

     Shreyan Bhattacharya Laal Ishq vs Sonakshi Kar Naam Gum Jaayega, Pandit Ajay Pohankar admonishes the jury about lesser marks for her, joint record breaking by the two - with Jayas!



     Jayas Kumar 37:35 - 49:50 Om shanti Om (RK3), Hanuman Chalisa complete (not given with episode)

     Utkarsha Wankhede Aan Milo Sajana vs Yumna Ajin Bulleya, equal.


March 25, 2017.

https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-8-march-25-2017-full-episode/0-1-200298
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9. Continuation of boys vs girls

     Tanya Tiwari Jo Bheji Thi Dua, sister tearjerking (copying from voice India 2016 Srishti Rawat sympathy factor), vs

     Dhroon Tickoo Ek Haseena Thi, dancing, chocolate donuts 17:15 Jayas joins Dhroon on stage, other kids 17:45 - 18:00.

      Adnan Hussain Chhaap Tilak, 100%, vs Shanmukhapriya Kill/Dil once more, Jayas dancing on stage, 16th 100%. Bahubali flying off one mountain onto another recreation.

     Saimann Sewa 38:00 Haaledil ko Sukoon Chaahiye 90.3%, 44:00 Saina Sewa and Jayas Kumar join on stage to perform blue pani,

     vs Riya Biswas Dafliwaale 93%, girls comeback.

     Utkarsha Wankhede challenge finished by Yumna Ajin.

     Shaktiswarupa Panda vs Satyajit Jena Ae mere dil mubaarak, Shaktiswarupa Panda Sanwaar Loon,

     Shanmukhapriya, Shreyan and Adnan top, elimination of Saimann Sewa and Shaktiswarupa Panda.


March 26, 2017.


https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-9-march-26-2017-full-episode/0-1-200297
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10. Asha Bhonsale visits, entering with Jayas Kumar holding her hand.

     Shreyan Bhattacharya and Riya Biswas Aajaa Aajaa, Asha Bhosale reminisces and more.

     Shanmukhapriya and Dhroon Tickoo Paanch Rupaiya Baaraah Aanaa. Ratnamala, Javed and Asha Bhosale, muthukudi

     Jassu Khan Mir and Adnan Hussain Na Toh Kaaravaan Ki Talaash, standing ovation and praise by Asha Bhosale, Jayas Kumar asked as 31st jury member, praises, hums Na toh Kaaravaan,

     Utkarsha Wankhede and Tanya Tiwari Leke Pehla Pehla Pyar

     Asha Bhosale Mera Kuchh Saamaan

     Yumna Ajin and Satyajit Jena Jaaneman Jaaneman, 100%, everyone dances to Jayas Kumar singing Aajkal Tere Mere Pyar Ka Charche

     Jayas Kumar sings 51:00 - 56:15 Yeh to hona hi tha (RK3) with Neha Kakkad, Asha Bhosale praises Jayas.

     Sonakshi Kar and Rajashree Bag Man Kyon Behka, Asha Bhosale reminisces about singing with Lata Mangeshkar.


April 1, 2017.

https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017-episode-10-april-1-2017-full-episode/0-1-200296
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11.  Mast mast
April 2, 2017.


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12. Don & proposal
April 8, 2017.

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13. Dhroon's grandma feeds Amritsar ghee laddo to everyone,
Jassu Khan Mir Babosa,
April 9, 2017.


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14. Wedding hoopla. Dilwale dulhania le jayenge
(Shashi Kapoor)
April 15, 2017.

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15 . Yahoo (Shammi Kapoor)
April 16, 2017.



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16. Alka Yagnik., Kuchh kuchh hota hai
April 22, 2017.

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17. Jury challenge; Riya chops off Dr Bansal's hair, Adnan has Shabbir blindfolded breaking pot, ....
April 23, 2017.


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18. Jayas's birthday April 21st telecast, mangoes, Dream Girl
April 29, 2017.

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19. Badan pe sitare (Shammi Kapoor)
April 30, 2017.


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20. Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, Shanmukhapriya kazoo and dil se re, Jayas Kumar dialogue and Superman, dances with both,
May 6, 2017.

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21.  Jayas no performance,  guest Pariniti
May 7, 2017.

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22. AR Rehman Rangeela
May 13, 2017.

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23. Sridevi Mom
May 14, 2017.

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24. Tattad tattad
May 20, 2017.

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25. Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, Nanha munna raahi hoon
May 21, 2017.


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26. Kids revenge against anchor, Jayas Kumar plays Sarkar;  Kriti Sanon and Sushant Singh Rajput Raabta,  Jayas Kumar Udi Udi, marriage proposals,
May 27, 2017.

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27. Suresh Wadkar, Yeh kaali kaalie aankhen,
Jayas visits delighted old fan, gajaraa
May 28, 2017.


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28. SK, 9 se 12
June 3, 2017.

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29. Jayas guru guest, Roop Tera mastaanaa
June 4, 2017.



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30. Papa special, Yumna baagbaan,
Dhroon Tickoo papa kehte Hain,
Jayas Kumar mummy mummy daddy daddy, blue coupe vs rose,
Jayas talks to papa shown only in special episode
June 10, 2017.

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31. Third challenge, Jayas mehbooba mehbooba
Riya nigaahen milane ko, Shanmukhapriya eena mina dika
June 11, 2017.



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32. Shreyan channa mereya, Riya Biswas Mohabbat buri bimari, Jayas Kumar  Selfie and Monjulika, Yumna Ajin Afghan jalebi
June 17, 2017.

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33. B&W, Riya Biswas Aaiye Meherbaan, Dhroon Cheel Cheel with Jayas, Jayas Mera Joota hai japani (RK), Maa ke kangan, Shreyan Bhattacharya Khoyaa Khoyaa Chaand, Yumna Ajin Daanv Lagaa Le, Jayas "homework nahin kiya" because wasn't given any, "homework dedo toh"!
June 18, 2017


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34. Audience request Riya Biswas darling, Jayas Itti si hansi (RKjr)
June 24, 2017.

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35. Sajid Wajid eid, Jalwa
June 25, 2017.


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36.  Kumar Sanu Teri Ummeed Tera Intezar, Riya Biswas Tou Shaayar Hai, Sonakshi Kar Dil Hai Ki Maanataa Nahin, Jayas Kumar Bas ek sanam chaahiye Aashiqie, Aaditya gift papa's house vs Jayas Kumar card, Jayas taunts Aaditya
"Aapko apnon ne loota, gairon mein kahaan dum tha,
Aapki naiyaa wahin doobi, jahaan paanI kam tha!"  - Aaditya tortures Jayas pretending to be him! Jayas recites aaratie.
July 1, 2017.

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37. Ranbir Kapoor with Jayas Kumar, Channa mereya, jhatka (RKjr)
July 2, 2017.


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38. Vinod Khanna memorial, Akshay Khanna Sridevi, Kaate nahin katatey
July 8, 2017.

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39. Tiger amma dekh
July 9, 2017.


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40. Dum dum diga diga (RK), Malhar
July 15, 2017.

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41. Anil Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor, Jayas Kumar Lakhan
 July 16, 2017.


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42. "Naak mein dum", Fans request, apni to jaise taise aapkaa kyaa hogaa, "koi anchor Aaditya jaroorat nahin"
July 22, 2017.

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43. Z artists requests, YJHD songs 2 ,(RKjr)
July 23, 2017.


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44. New auditions Parth Dhamija
July 29, 2017.

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45. Jawani diwani (RK2, Jaya Bhaduri)
July 30, 2017.


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46. Akshay Kumar, dhoom, mujhse pyar karanaa hai
August 5, 2017.

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47. SRK jabra fan
August 6, 2017.


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48. Janmaashtamie
August 12, 2017.

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49. August 15th hum logon ko
August 13, 2017.


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50. Jacqueline Fernandez and Siddhartha Malhotra,
Pal pal dil ke paas
August 20, 2017.


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51. Sachin, Ganapati
August 26, 2017.

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52. Farhan Akhtar, and Diana Penty,  Havan Karenge
August 27, 2017.


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53. Deol brothers yaaraa o yaaraa
September 2, 2017.

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54. Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu, Ria tumse milne ko
Shanmukhapriya Jayas Kumar duet New language
September 3, 2017.


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55. Jury challenge 4, Meet brothers,  two voice modulation for Jayas Kumar, Jaan e Jaan (RK2 Jaya Bhaduri)
September 9, 2017.

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56. Jury challenge Shreyan piano duet, Sonakshi naughty,
September 10, 2017.


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57. S Dutt khalnaayak
September 16, 2017.

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58. 440 volts
September 17, 2017.


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59. Fans requests, dabbewala, pyar time, A Aa ee,
September 23, 2017.

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60. Fans requests, tel malish champie
September 24, 2017.


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61. Milk shaker gift from an, Jayas Kumar  Shirdi Wake with Ramshankar
September 30, 2017.


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62. Jayas Kumar and dhakkan, ai ajanabie, gift clock for Ratnamaalaa
October 1, 2017.


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63. VG and Jayas Kumar gas cylinder lifts,
Jayas Kumar Yashomatie maiyaa (RK, Shashi Kapoor),
Jayas Kumar song for mummy,

October 7, 2017.

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64.  Jayas sings with Dhroon and HR, Jayas Kumar Gulabi Aankhen, jacket, mom
October 8, 2017.


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65. Sukhvinder, Deepaawalie, mutual awards, paisa Yeh paisa Dhroon and Jayas, trp king
October 14, 2017.


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66.  Angrezi mein kehte hain ko I love you -  Poison song
October 21, 2017.

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67. Ek pyar ka nagma (Nanda, Jaya Bhaduri),
Aajkal tere mere pyar me (Shammi Kapoor)
October 22, 2017.


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68. Channa mereya
October 28, 2017.

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69. Finale. Combined surprise, and solo rock star (RK3)
October 29, 2017.
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Link for Jayas

https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/episodes

https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-2017/0-6-308/episodes

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Quoted from "Savitri":-

"Thoughts leaped down from a superconscient field
Like eagles swooping from a viewless peak,
Thoughts gleamed up from the screened subliminal depths
Like golden fishes from a hidden sea.
This world is a vast unbroken totality,
A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers;
God’s summits look back on the mute Abyss.
So man evolving to divinest heights
Colloques still with the animal and the Djinn;
The human godhead with star-gazer eyes
Lives still in one house with the primal beast.
The high meets the low, all is a single plan.
So she beheld the many births of thought,
If births can be of what eternal is;
For the Eternal’s powers are like himself,
Timeless in the Timeless, in Time ever born."
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Quoted from "Savitri":-

"And the ocean silence of Infinity.
Even now some thoughts could cross her solitude;
These surged not from the depths or from within
Cast up from formlessness to seek a form,
Spoke not the body’s need nor voiced life’s call.
These seemed not born nor made in human Time:
Children of cosmic Nature from a far world,
Idea’s shapes in complete armour of words
Posted like travellers in an alien space.
Out of some far expanse they seemed to come
As if carried on vast wings like large white sails,
And with easy access reached the inner ear
As though they used a natural privileged right
To the high royal entries of the soul.
As yet their path lay deep-concealed in light.
Then looking to know whence the intruders came
She saw a spiritual immensity
Pervading and encompassing the world-space
As ether our transparent tangible air,
And through it sailing tranquilly a thought.
As smoothly glides a ship nearing its port,
Ignorant of embargo and blockade,
Confident of entrance and the visa’s seal,
It came to the silent city of the brain
Towards its accustomed and expectant quay,
But met a barring will, a blow of Force
And sank vanishing in the immensity.
After a long vacant pause another appeared
And others one by one suddenly emerged,
Mind’s unexpected visitors from the Unseen
Like far-off sails upon a lonely sea.
But soon that commerce failed, none reached mind’s coast.
Then all grew still, nothing moved any more:
Immobile, self-rapt, timeless, solitary
A silent spirit pervaded silent Space."
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"There is an Influence from a Light above,
There are thoughts remote and sealed eternities;
A mystic motive drives the stars and suns.
In this passage from a deaf unknowing Force
To struggling consciousness and transient breath
A mighty Supernature waits on Time.
The world is other than we now think and see,
Our lives a deeper mystery than we have dreamed;
Our minds are starters in the race to God,
Our souls deputed selves of the Supreme.
Across the cosmic field through narrow lanes
Asking a scanty dole from Fortune’s hands
And garbed in beggar’s robes there walks the One."

(Quoted from Savitri.)
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Harry Winston Luxury Jewelry Collection Summer


Stunning from moment go! Stupendously beautiful. Lovely, exactly the stuff of dreams of young - and who wouldn't want to be young enough again to wear these and blossom from within!

Funny, this is one video that puts up an "eh, ok" thumbnail, instead of one of the stunning pieces it shows from beginning through to end! Most others have clickbait thumbnails that have little to do with content.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-UHgBDu4k
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Nostalgia About Kedarnath, And Watching Kedarnath, The Film Set At Kedarnath

Beautiful setting of the film is the chief reason we went to see it, since it has been just over quarter of a century since we went, and it's unlikely we might again, what with health issues even without landslide fears. And in this the film is far from disappointing - superb scenery and much more so than our rose gold nostalgic memories would have made them, made watching it a breathtaking pleasure most of the time. We had no expectations of the film other than this, so the young pair was a pleasant surprise.

It's only later that it emerges to one just how carefully the film was crafted to stay on the brink where it could, but need not be, interpreted as a message, or a bunch of them, all serving perhaps an underworld diktat, and all equally false.

Reminds one of the time one saw an old classic by a director very revered in highbrow and esoteric connoisseur circles of the intellectual metropolis Boston-Cambridge neighbourhood, at Harvard theatre, and it so happened there were a couple of colleagues there too, so we had coffee at the spot close by after the film. The youngest one of us was quite ardent in his naive bong praise for the film, Autumn Sonata, and the third one said he understood the point of view of each and so was silent. A decade and half later, a similar argument was in Amsterdam at the Riiksmuseum over a painting titled "Arabs" or something including the explicit word but depicting a coal black pair, and I remarked that it was false, while our then host (holder of many passports but not the one he coveted, Dutch) opined - just as the young guy in Boston-Cambridge had about the film - that it was excellent artistically. My complete disagreement in either case, despite the guys assuming compliance from what they obviously assumed was lesser human for obvious reasons, went a long way towards permanent friction.

Why does this film remind one of those completely unrelated topics is obvious to anyone familiar with the deep underlying issues not as hidden here as the guys pretended they were in those two - the underlying issue in each is a fraud perpetrated via an artistic effort to veil the false propaganda. Then, I had called it garbage served covered completely in ketchup, in the first case. But regardless of whether it's ketchup as it could be termed in the second case, or hollandaise in champagne as in case of the first one the film - or in this case a thick cheer with saffron and pistachios served ice cold, the thorn remains unquestionable. And that is the falsehood.

Autumn Sonata was vicious propaganda about evils of women achieving an identity via a superior talent, although nobody ever said a word about need of women earning to support children due to males fleeing from responsibilities thereof - so the issue has never been the actual suffering of the children, which couldn't be worse for a woman with talent and career than for a manual worker exhausted working nine hours a day in high heels serving coffee and burgers. The painting was stereotypical of Europe assuming everyone else is black and they are white, neither of which is true.

This film does not explicitly articulate, but instead skirts the "all but" route, of making the message or propaganda not quite articulated in the dialogue. The message? It could be interpreted as "there is no love jihad, it's about casteism imprisoning youth away from love and girls from right to freedom, minority is noble and majority backward in India,....", - needless to say none of which is not fraud.

Yes, in this particular tale the guy isn't going after the girl deliberately or cheating her of knowledge of his identity or, having married her, then pressuring her to convert; which doesn't prove that that is precisely not happening generally to hundreds, if not thousands, of naive young women who were not brought up to protect themselves against such freedom taken away precisely because they had it, pretty much like the Europe eight decades ago voting a bunch into power that took away votes from everyone and promised it will be for a thousand years!

Yes, in this case the young man is a part of India and not the jihadist mindset that uses rape and physical assault to benumb young girls  into complete submission via total humiliation and calls it grooming - but that is not to say hundreds of young girls haven't suffered it from gangs that inflict it deliberately.

Yes, in this story the guy saves their lives and risks, even gives up perhaps,  his own, but that is not to say hundreds of others in real life don't gangrape and subsequently sell the young woman, who loses her identity and her family and life and freedom and future, all at once.

This film maker plays it safe by saying nothing explicitly while making the message clear as Himaalayan pristine streams still in hills, by deliberately choosing a highly revered shrine of India (would he dare use a locale or object revered by a powerful institution outside India?), by leaving no doubts just how ignoble the choice of the parents is and how wrong the behaviour of the community (would he dare make that assertion in real life stories about the minorities associated with ex colonial regimes by showing facts of their behaviour on film and calling a spade a spade?), and more.

And so, covered in the beauty of Himaalayan ranges and valleys and treks, and the talented delightful young pair, still, rotten at core this is. If one can avoid that core and merely enjoy the beauty by floating above it all, good luck, but chances are the propaganda is a poisonous jet stream of falsehood and it will get you.

And the pity of it all is the offering of the young pair of artists at this alter to falsehood in the propaganda to cover up the jihadist warfare so it can carry on with impunity.

The young hero does his job superbly, of depicting every emotion and flicker of the young man who is outgoing in public purpose but reticent in his private feelings. His willingness to stand up for the needs of his valley, his protecting his clients and his hiding his own vulnerabilities and his anguish, are all very endearing.

The young girl, despite the not quite so admirable character she portrays - she is open in being less than respectful of her elders in a way that leaves one between askance and aghast, and doesn't fight when needed despite the liberties she risks taking when not necessary to risk her everything - is still nevertheless made very endearing by the young debutante from the lineage of half a dozen or so well known lines of lineage.

And the unforgettable part is the tragedy that struck the region, with - the numbers given in film at end - 4,300 lives lost, 50,000 rescued by military and 70,000 missing. We could barely recognise the newly reconstructed trek, so changed is the valley.

But here too the director gave in to the underworld demands, or was it the mafia opposition? He never mentioned the rescue work carried out by various private institutions, because they are associated with the majority of India.

If India isn't whipped continuously as per Macaulay policy of humiliation and lies against it, how will they accept their subjugation meekly? They might rise up and expect a citizenship equal to those tribesmen of non Indian origin who were granted nawabhoods for defeating Indian forces so the colonial regimes could establish a hold, and no longer be ignorant about Nawab being not princes but merely tax collectors!

Funny, the appeasers attempt to trick majority with a silent implication that the unquenched love of the young was what brought on the wrath of heavens pouring down and caused the landslides that were responsible for so much devastation - but they failed to take into account the sureshot weapon they provided the trench against them that are their more than equals, since the film will be interpreted by them as heaven's wrath brought down due to sacred spaces defiled by footfall of the unholy!

And while the appeasers go parading calling themselves secular, it's the trye secular India that's losing the middle ground, since there is nothing more secular than India with her ancient culture, and aligning with India in any way is now branded by the invader appeasers as regressive!


Responding to a comment below another yt video on the topic, by Kanchan Thakur:-


"😡😡

एक लड़की केदारनाथ दर्शन करने जाती है,

वहां मुस्लिम कुली से उसको प्यार हो जाता है,

लड़की का बाप कहता है 'ये रिश्ता हुआ तो प्रलय आ जायेगा' ।

लड़की कहती है

'फिर तो मैं प्रार्थना करती हूं कि प्रलय आये' ।

बादल फट जाता है,

पूरा केदारनाथ डूब जाता है और वो मुस्लिम कुली दूसरे किसी मदद करने की बजाय सिर्फ हीरोइन को बचाता है

और

लड़की के बाप को दिव्य ज्ञान प्राप्त होता है

कि प्रेम में जाती धर्म नहीं होता और हमारा देश गंगा जमुनी तहजीब वाला देश है (जैसे दिल्ली के अंकित सक्सेना को ज्ञान प्राप्त हुआ था) ।

वो अपनी लड़की का निकाह उस कुली से करवा देता है ।

ये कहानी है फ़िल्म केदारनाथ की । 😡

फ़िल्म से एक सीख और मिलती है कि

हिन्दुओ ने अपनी लड़की का निकाह मुसलमानो से नहीं कराया तो प्रलय आएगा ।

बॉलीवुड वाले भांड क्या गुल खिला सकते हैं, समझ से बाहर है.

केदारनाथ त्रासदी में करीब एक लाख लोग मारे गए,

कइयों के तो शव भी नहीं मिले आज तक,

पूरा देश खून के आंसू रोया था, जैसे अपना कोई सगा वाला मरा हो ।

इतनी भयानक घटना पर फ़िल्म भी बनाई

तो उसमें भी लव जिहाद का जहर घोल दिया ।

केदारनाथ पर फ़िल्म ही बनानी थी तो सेना ने अपनी जान पर खेलकर कैसे लोगों की जान बचाई ये बताते ।

सेना का पराक्रम बताने की बजाय एक मुस्लिम कुली को महान बता दिया।

ये वो फिल्मकार है

जो पैसों की खातिर अपनी बहन बीवी बेटी भी सुला देंगे किसी के भी साथ।

क्या फिल्म का नाम केदारनाथ रखकर भी ऐसी घटिया फिल्म बनायीं जा सकती है?

😡😡😡"



Kanchan Thakur - just a small correction, the guy is gone in a landslide as the girl and others rescued watch from the helicopter, it's not exactly a wedding but uncertainty at the end, he is one of the 70,000 missing.  If the father has any second thoughts, they aren't about getting her married to the boy he's known, only about reassessment of his wrath against the boy.


Kanchan Thakur  - another small correction, it's not about a girl going to visit, it's a local girl, although the trailer diesnt make it clear; and she doesn't fall in love just casually, she's intrigued at a connection made as a fanatic cricket fan but also she's very angry and desperate to get out of an enforced engagement with someone who changed his mind about marrying her sister after a childhood connection of several years; so the rebellion is really a cry for help from a young girl in circumstances she has little control over. The film would have been lovely if it were not mixed up in a false propaganda and set in the immensely beautiful place, but we saw it only to relive our memories of the travel.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=03-KVRmd3xo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SypmQenLQgs 

Work, Honour - And Prestige

Watching an early episode of a talent show, and seeing a contestant and her pop, and a judge too, in tears about how school children taunt one amongst them - about the father doing what they consider "beneath"! as if children shoukd have any such concepts - brought, this time, an onrush of thoughts, puzzled and protesting.

We went to the US style community schools that were designated by locality, and while we knew some of us had pops who had ranks higher than others, as evident by the number of rooms in the house allotted by the government (this being probably leftist style), our equations at school were far more about who gets along with who, and even academic prowess played a far smaller part than any other considerations.

That children so young, not even teens yet, should have such contempt for honest work, is abominable. And yet this happens precisely at the expensive schools that are supposed to be often run by institutions, such as church, that profess equality, should tell the whole story.
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For too long has India been subjected to values that are, not only not of India, but completely false. One such issue, related to work, has far reaching roots and threads, to do with culture and history and traditions of India, and the false whipping of India indulged in by various powers that sought to break up India for not merely sadistic pleasure taken in such pursuits by such powers, but - of course - for all the benefits they expect, once India is broken.

For it hasn't been easy, no matter what false propaganda of centuries used to tame the subjects into slavery. Other cultures took much less being wiped out by the dominance of Rome or by the onslaught of the conversionist powers, and they were the ancient cultures India knew in antiquity. Egypt, Persia, .... wiped out in less than a century except in name, and here still remains India - not merely in existence but alive and vibrant. And her own self. Despite the conversionists attempting to shame India with lies, false theories, propaganda. Despite every Macaulay. Despite every other culture imposed on her.
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One such aspect, a major one, has been about work, position, and prestige accrued thereby, usually mistaken for honour or lack thereof. And this has far reaching connections every which way one looks.

India has always had a caste system based on categories of work, but they always were categories separated by the character of the vocation - intellectual work, physical power related work, trade and consequently wealth, and crafts. The higher castes, as a rule, were not richer, but quite the opposite. And the top two were not allowed to charge for work, or to refose services if someone could not offer much, or anything at all for that matter.

It's the colonial regimes that brought their own caste systems and in addition created new ones that together were used by the said regimes in order to establish and entrench the said rule, and they formed the vicious castes, fraudulently labelled class, that stayed on, while Indian styke caste system gets whipped every possibke opportunity.
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Hence the disrespect meted out to someone who is respected world wide, but constantly reminded by political opposition in India that he used to be a tea vendor as a young boy. 

Hence the tears of a judge at a music talent show because her sister was taunted - at an elite school she went to, where her pop sold snacks outside the school, and couldn't move much further because it was a small town. Not that a few miles would change the mindset that did this taunting. 

For, such mindset is based on the premise that, short of being a British royal, being as high as possible on the rungs of various ladders towards that peak is the prestigious thing, while any honest work including not only trade but also professions such as medicine or science, are low, unless they are mere hobbies, or bring in tons of money without need to actually work. 

Feudal landlords therefore are high in this as are those titled by the British, but a chef is only goid if holding a certificate , preferably from West somewhere. The alternate rung of prestige is, of course, the administration - and since this is vestige of the era when as part of the administrative services one woukd be on the side of rukers, not subjects, that explains the obsession for "jobs" with very angry disdain for entrepreneurial opportunities created by a new government that has cut through every possible red tape. 

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I recall a classmate who, last time we saw one another, was still not out of primary school, but was helping his pop deliver coal, which we rarely used but were having it that one time, don't remember why. I was startled to see him, and began to realise much. 

Of all the classmates I recall - and one was always there until we both finished our college, as she reminded once - him I remember with a pinch at heart. 

I wouldn't have taunted. Would never have occurred. But then, nor would have any other schoolmates, I would think. Such a behaviour would have brought eyebrows raised at the very least, and a disdainful clamour one could bet safely - "who does that one think they are?" 

And that, in short, would be giving it a short shrift. 

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But then, ours wasn't an expensive school sponsored by foreign values and teaching them.
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