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World Inside: I completed a journey of a circle without reaching anywhere.

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:35:00 +0000

What is truth and lie. What is right and wrong. What is valued and useless.

I am intentionally not putting question marks after these sentences because there is none actually.

These are not questions. These are how we perceive a event, a conversation, a philosophical idea or an opinion in our life. It works mostly in autopilot mode. It's so reflexive that it became life and we have name for it such as 'discipline', 'pride' and 'morality'.

We become police of our own thoughts. 'Nothing is wrong' is a right statement or wrong statement. See again, the mind is divided of the division we encounter in life. There is this conundrum that is beyound significance. Or is there some significance, I am still to uncover!

Is there anything beyound the usual, routine and obvious? Which is out of chaous, conflict, unexplored, unexpected ? Things has to be done because it's obvious. That's why when someone ask me," why have you done engineering, I just feel nothing other than answering 'it was obvious thing to do at that point of time'.

Now when I look back and breathe upon my past.

I try to think beyound the obvious. It does not mean, I am fixated towards the chaous. But I want to see both. I want reach out to both aspect. I want to understand both the ways leading to where!

My decision is not influenced by the fear of unexpected turn of events. It is neither affected by the comfort of the obvious, much travelled road.

It is about my own willingness to try, about figuring out my inner desire and interest, which I feel was never nurtured to the extent. My choices were heavily influenced and shaped by societal belief, intellectual and economic poverty.

What happened in past few years.

You think and then you read and then you read history and it inspire you to also read philosphy and then you see your surroundings and find its very different than what philosphy is all about. It is happening in micro level everyday and it's unrecognizable. You level up and take up sociology. Ahh! What the hell, this feels so real, so painful and cathartic, going through movement, atrocities build a intersectional lens, which gives touge to history and enlighten philosphy at the same time.You meet the reality.

Now if you take literature, it's like opening your all senses at once. It's like eating a whole chilly. It creates sensory goosebumps at every pages you turn and it doesn't let you skip the thing that you could have ignored earlier. It bothers you at different level. It could beep your shouts and uproar your silence.

I have heard myself saying and hear as well, all the time, these belief and narrative are temporal, contextual and cultural. Now I see more of it in my everyday life. It become so overwhelming in a moment and so mundane in the next. I am torned, angry, at ease, all at the same time. Unbelievable!

I completed a journey of a circle without reaching anywhere. I was born, I was told, I listened, I escaped, I created my own world, I entered into different worlds, and I end up being in the one, I was born into. Unbelievable!

People can change the 'world inside' without reaching anywhere.

जो रोता नहीं है!

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:42:36 +0000

मैं रोया तो था पर इस लहजे में की सिसकी न सुने कोई।

तकिया भींग गया था, इसका पता तब चला

जब सम्भाल लिया मैंने अपना पसीजता हृदय, तड़पती रूह ।

एक क्षण को तो इसलिए भी रोया कि रोता नहीं हूं मैं,

उसने कुछ ऐसा सताया की उसके बाद रोना ही नहीं आया।

आयी तो सिर्फ यादें, जिसे मैंने कुछ यू टालने का प्रयास किया

जैसे बहुत ही घातक कोई बीमारी, एक बीमार टालता है।

मैंने बहुत लपेटा इस तड़पती रूह को, कि बीमारी अच्छी नहीं है ।

हर बार बहुत कुछ समेटने के क्रम में कोमल कुछ छूट जाता रहा।

इसी तरह मैं बन पाया वो जो सिर्फ हंसता है, रोता नहीं है।

-06/05/2022

📌देहरादून

आदमी का आदमी होना

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:30:41 +0000

दो तीन साल पहले तक आदमी सिर्फ आदमी होता था,

अब आदमी रायचंद, विचारचंद, तर्कचंद होते जा रहे हैं।

आदमी जो सुकून के लिए पहले एक सांस छोड़कर एक सांस लेता था, खुले आसमान को निहारता था।

अब वो आदमी सांस नहीं लेता, सांस के माध्यम से विचार लेता है और सांस के साथ विचार परोसता है।

अब आदमी मोबाइल स्क्रीन पर अन्य आदमी के आसमान को निहारता है, और सुकून भरी सांस भरता है।

आदमी के पास सुकून के लिए है घनघोर चर्चाएं, पॉडकास्ट और समर्पित जनरलिस्ट, थेरेपिस्ट हैं।

आदमी का सुकून आदमी में न होकर आदमी द्वारा परोसे जाने वाले विचारों, सुविधाओं, प्रस्तुतियों, की तरफ सारगर्भित हुआ है।

आदमी ने आदिमानव से आदमी होने की अपनी यात्रा पूर्ण कर ली है और नई यात्रा की ओर प्रस्थान किया है, यह यात्रा आदमी को कृत्रिम आदमी , और बुद्धि को कृत्रिम बुद्धि बनाने की यात्रा है।

अब, आदमी को आदमी के शुद्ध रूप में पाना एक दुर्लभ सुंदर घटना है। जहां आदमी अपने विचारों, अनुभवों, पूर्वाग्रहों से बंधा न हो बल्कि इन सबके साथ और विमुक्त उन्मुक्त हल्का उड़ने योग्य होता जाय।

हर एक आदमी को ऐसे आदमी का साथ चाहिए।

हर साथी को ऐसा आदमी होना चाहिए। आदमी को सिर्फ आदमी होना चाहिए।

समय : रात के 01 वज के 59 मिनट

दिनांक :13 अप्रैल, 2026

अनेकान्तवाद: अनन्त दृष्टिकोणों से देखे जाने की क्षमता

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:59:00 +0000

भारत में जितने भी धार्मिक सम्प्रदाय विकसित हुए उनमें से अहिंसावाद को उतना महत्त्व किसी ने भी नहीं दिया, जितना जैन धर्म ने दिया है। बौद्ध धर्म में, फिर भी, अहिंसा की एक सीमा है कि स्वयं किसी जीव का वध न करो, किन्तु जैनों की अहिंसा बिलकुल निस्सीम है। स्वयं हिंसा करना, दूसरों से हिंसा करवाना या अन्य किसी भी भी तरह से हिंसा में योग देना. जैन धर्म में सबकी मनाही है। और विशेषता यह है कि जैन दर्शन केवल शारीरिक अहिंसा तक ही सीमित नहीं है, प्रत्युत, वह बौद्धिक अहिंसा को भी अनिवार्य बताता है। यह बौद्धिक अहिंसा ही जैन दर्शन का अनेकान्तवाद है।

image is AI generated.

अहिंसा का आदर्श, आरम्भ से ही, भारत के समक्ष रहा था, किन्तु, उसकी चरम-सिद्धि, इसी अनेकान्तवाद में हुई। इस सिद्धान्त को देखते हुए ऐसा लगता है कि संसार को, बहुत जागे चलकर, जहाँ पहुँचना है, भारत वहाँ पहले ही पहुँच चुका था। संसार में आज जो अशान्ति है, रह-रहकर विश्व में युद्ध के जो खतरे दिखाई देने लगते हैं, उनका कारण क्या है? मुख्य कारण यह है कि एक वाद के माननेवाले लोग दूसरे वादों को माननेवालों को आँख मूँदकर गलत समझते हैं। साम्यवादी समझते हैं कि प्रजातन्त्री देश बिलकुल गलत राह पर हैं और प्रजातन्त्र के समर्थकों की दृष्टि में सारी गलती साम्यवादियों की है। इसी प्रकार, जीवन के प्रत्येक क्षेत्र में जो कोलाहल है, उसका मूल कारण यह है कि लोग विरोधी मतों के प्रति अत्यन्त असहनशील हो गए हैं, और, तब भी, सत्य यह है कि कोई भी मत सोलह आने सत्य या सोलह आने असत्य नहीं है। चीजें एक बिन्दु से जैसी दिखाई देती हैं, दूसरे बिन्दु से ठीक वैसी ही दिखाई नहीं देतीं। अतएव, आँख मूँदकर किसी मत को सर्वथा खंडित करने का कार्य हिंसा का कार्य है। अनेक मतों में किसी एक को पकड़कर बैठ जाना और यह मान लेना कि और सारे मत झूठे हैं, इसे विद्या का अहंकार कहना चाहिए। सत्य क्या है, इसे जानने का कोई एक मार्ग नहीं है। और सत्य के मार्ग पर आए हुए व्यक्ति की सबसे बड़ी पहचान भी यही है कि उसका दुराग्रह छूट जाता है। जो सच्चे अर्थों में सन्त हैं, वे अपने ऊपर भी शंका करते हैं और एक सिद्धान्त को मानते हुए भी, वे यह भाव बनाए रहते हैं कि, सम्भव है, अन्य सिद्धान्तों में भी सत्त्य का कोई अंश हो, जो हमें दिखाई नहीं पड़ा है। समन्वय, सह-अस्तित्व और असहिष्णुता, ये एक ही तत्त्व के अनेक नाम हैं। इस तत्त्व को जैन दर्शन शारीरिक घरातल पर अहिंसा और मानसिक धरातल पर अनेकान्त कहता है। जीवों को कष्ट नहीं देना, यह शारीरिक अहिंसा की पहचान है। किन्तु, जो चिन्तक और मनीषी हैं, वे जब आँख मूंदकर विरोधी मतों पर प्रहार करते हैं, तब उनका भी यह कार्य हिंसा का कार्य होता है। जन-साधारण को जीव-हिंसा से बचाने के लिए जैन दर्शन ने अहिंसा का उपदेश दिया, किन्तु, चिन्तकों और विचारकों को हिंसा-कर्म से विरत करने के लिए उसने अनेकान्त का सिद्धान्त निकाला। और यह उचित भी है, क्योंकि निचले स्तर पर तो मतों, वादों और विचारों को लेकर, जोर से, वहस की जा सकती है, किन्तु, विचारक जब अत्युच्च घरातल पर पहुँचते हैं, तब वे किसी भी बात को पूरे जोर से नहीं कह सकते, न बहस करते समय उनकी आँखों में मशाल ही जलती है। मनुष्य का ज्ञान अपूर्ण है और ऐसी कोई राह नहीं है, जिस पर चलकर एक ही व्यक्ति सत्य के सभी पक्षों की जानकारी प्राप्त कर सके। इसीलिए, हम जो जानते हैं, यह ठीक है। किन्तु, उतना ही ठीक वह व्यक्ति भी हो सकता है, जो हमारे विरुद्ध खड़ा है। अतएव, सच्चा अहिंसक विचारक किसी भी बात को बहुत जोर से नहीं कहता। अपने मतों को इस जोर से रखना, मानो, केवल वे ही ठीक हों, यह अहंकार का प्रदर्शन है, यह हिंसा और अधर्म है।

अनेकान्तवाद का दार्शनिक आधार यह है कि "प्रत्येक वस्तु अनन्त गुण, पर्याय और धमों का अखंड पिंड है। वस्तु को तुम जिस दृष्टिकोण से देख रहे हो, वस्तु उतनी ही नहीं है। उसमें अनन्त दृष्टिकोणों से देखे जाने की क्षमता है। उसका विराट् स्वरूप अनन्त धर्मात्मक है। तुम्हें जो दृष्टिकोण विरोधी मालूम होता है, उस पर ईमानदारी से विचार करो तो उसका विषयभूत धर्म भी वस्तु में विद्यमान है। चित्त से पक्षपात की द्रभिसन्धि निकालो और दूसरे के दृष्टिकोण के विषय को भी सहिष्णुतापूर्वक खोजो, वह भी वहीं लहरा रहा है।" इसमें कोई सन्देह नहीं कि अनेकान्त का अनुसन्धान भारत की अहिंसा-साधना का चरम उत्कर्ष है और सारा संसार इसे जितना ही शीघ्र अपनाएगा, विश्व में शान्ति भी उतनी ही शीघ्र स्थापित होगी।

114/ संस्कृति के चार अध्याय

प्रतिबिंब से बातचीत

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:25:00 +0000

वक्त बे वक्त अपनी ही बात करता है,

ठहरता नही हैं, सुनता नही है, समझता भी नही हैं ।

एक पल को ठहरना जब थके ना हों,

सुनना ऐसे कि समझना चाहते हो,

जब सुन पाओ तो सोचना क्या बदलता है,

जब सुन पाते हो समुद्र की गहरी तलवटी

पर्वत की ऊचाईओ को,

रूके-दौड़ते सतही जीवो को,

घ्वनियो से परे, शब्दो से परे,

भावो को, विचारो को, पीड़ा-व्यथा सोहाद्र को ।

ठहरना तब व्यर्थ नहीं, तीर्थ लगेगा,

मंजिल तव थी दूर होगी, धैर्य रहेगा,

पुछ पाओगे कोमल सवाल, तब बात करना,

व्यर्थ, वोझिल, कृत्रिम नही सहज लगेगा।

How much value does your self-content add to your facial or outer happiness?

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 06:19:00 +0000

Some people develop a happy face and it gives an imprint that they are really happy inside. Some develop serious faces and give imprints that they are gloomy. They do not feel happiness inside at all. They are the strict ones and highly disciplined and restrictive in terms of expressing their emotion. Have you met such people? or are you one of them?

How does that affect your lifestyle or relationship at work or at family gatherings? Do you attract more people towards yourself with your 'always smiling faces'? or Do you repel or push back people? I know getting a smiling face or a grim face is not in our control but your action and reaction to the action is in your control.

What can happen if you have a such constant face?

Both of them can face serious problems at work and in relationships. People with smiling and always happy faces can be taken for granted. They would be pushed back to do something that they really don't want to do but can't express properly and can't say no to things. People can take advantage of such a person in a way they do not want to. They can be asked to work extra and late hours because, with their always happy face, it can be wrongly assumed that they enjoy their work too much that it is obligatory that they work an extra hour. People with always happy face also uses their smiles or laugh to ignore a conversation that they do not want to engage in. It makes no sense to the other person of their intention until they know each other very well. That is why they make connections easily but can't sustain them for a longer period.

The same goes for a person with a grim face. They have their challenges too. They tend to deflect people. Irrespective of their desire to be in a group of people and have fun sometimes. They do not get companions easily or instantly. They do not invite the invitation of others easily. These kinds of people find it difficult to build connections and networks at work and in other new spaces in the beginning. But once they make such friendship and connection they tend to last for a longer period.

What one can do actually?

Both of them have to learn communication way more than other people. They will have to learn to say what they think. They will have to learn to explicitly tell people in clear words their choices and desire. What their face doesn't communicate, they have to do that communication by going extra on their part. Especially, in new places, They have to be vocal more than what they express with their face. If they can't push or control their natural facial look, they need to control the conversation.

And it is not true at all, that people with happy faces are always happy. Most of the time they hide their pain by laughing off. The same goes with the poker face person, they tend to express their happiness in a poker way. They do feel all the emotions inside. It's just it doesn't come explicitly to their facial expression. Don't judge people too early seeing what they look like. We ought to say that the first impression is the last one. But I think with little effort from these people, you should judge them by the last impression of theirs on you.

In the end, Your constant face is not depicting entirely your attitude towards life. It doesn't measure how happy or sad you are at one point in time. It's just part of your natural being just like your other organ. If you have such a constant face you have to work on your skills to get ahead of it. As your organs cant be your identity. It is what you are and what you feel. You have to learn to express your feeling and your personality a little more than others. You have to clearly communicate your feelings. Everyone Should express their feeling more in words and by speaking them clearly. It also helps others and yourself to be more content in life.

Learning is Simple: past vs present and course correction

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:50:00 +0000

Learning is not that complicated at all. This is what I believe and some of you might agree or disagree with it. But I disagree completely with the idea of a few eminent experts saying that learning is a complex and complicated process. Yes, I agree that different students or individual learns differently using different medium. But it is not something unique in the case of learning only. Every individual is different in their choices in life in general as well.

Why Am I saying Learning is not Complicated and Simple?

It can happen anytime anywhere. Learning is a natural phenomenon and not a mechanical or artificial process.
Learning doesn't necessarily need external or internal motivation. It is like breathing which can be controlled by an individual but up to certain limits. Mostly, It is something that happens back in your mind and subconsciously.
Mostly, we prefer a 'medium of learning' where we can learn about complicated things in a simple and comprehensible way. That is why we have created a set of rules to inculcate learning in school students, College graduates and for doctors and engineers and other professionals. These courses are made in Western countries primarily for this reason only. To make learning more accessible and simple, lucid and less time-consuming and more organic for the learner.
The Indian way of teaching and learning was based on listening and a conversational approach. Most of them were shruti. It was that way because of the same reason to make things simple and understandable for everyone. Hence most of the complicated concepts of philosophy were explained through metaphors and examples from real events.
Also, Most students learn the rules of sports easily and the rules of grammar and mathematics with greater difficulty. I have seen students making their own toys with their own minds. They do not know why the wheels move with the force they apply on them how far and why. But they know that this happens. They know that water when boiling is hot and would harm when they would touch it. So, they know a lot of things just don't know why what they know. Hence, In the early days of their learning, they ask lots of Why questions?

Why have we made our learning process"medium-focused rule-based" rather than keeping it simple as it was in the past?

We wanted to produce professionals who can work in our factory, offices in a mechanised professional way. Hence, we not only invented professional courses such as medicine, engineering, pharmacy, and management but we have also mechanised the other aboriginal subjects such as Mathematics, Science, Philosophy, History, Literature and Art.
I am neither saying it was unimportant. This process has made education, and knowledge accessible to a lot more people than what we were capable of with the previous approach and methods.

Way Ahead and course correction

It has definitely, enrolled a lot of people in education but missed the true essence of learning. Learning in the past was not limited to livelihood or to working in farmland or a factory. It was to understand life and find meaning in it. To gain eternal happiness and peace from your life works and get care and nutrition from society and ecosystem and give back.
Learning was to get satisfaction in life. As we eat delicious food to satisfy our taste bud's needs and calm our cravings. We needed learning to be an integral part of our life to satisfy our intellectual cravings. It was definitely a higher level of craving and could give us sustained and long-term happiness and peace in life. We have left that section behind.
We need intellectual satisfaction. We need to satisfy our intellectual cravings or desire to live happily. We need to reintroduce these in our 'medium-focused or rule-based' approach in its original way. That is learning is simple and it is everywhere and it is our natural desire to extract learning out of everywhere. Once we do it and implement and share it. We would be better as human beings and happier as individuals.

पढ़ने के लिए जरुरी है रोचकता

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:01:00 +0000

आज कल मैं दो-तीन किताबें एक साथ पढ़ रहा हूँ। किताब यदि आनन्द के लिए पढ़ना है तो ये तरीका काफी अच्छा है। इससे पढ़ने की गति ,रोचकता एवं और जानने की इच्छा बनी रहती है। इसमें एक पुस्तक मार्मिक रूप में लिखी घटना वृतान्त है जिसे नोबेल पुरस्कृत कैलाश सत्यार्थी जी ने अपने काम एवं बाल श्रम से झुझते एवं विजयी होते बच्चे को मध्य में रख कर लिखी है। हर पात्र ऊर्जा देता है और अंधेर शहर को पहली किरण सा जगाता प्रतीत होता है।

इसके घटनाक्रम बहुत हद तक दिल को पसीजने वाले हैं। हर घटना आपको भावुक कर देती है। इसलिए इसके साथ-साथ मैंने चुनी एक और किताब जो की मैंने पहली बार जब पढ़ी तो सिर्फ पढ़ ली थी पर समझ नहीं पाया था। ये पुष्तक है देश के पहले प्रधानमंत्री की लिखी "भारत की खोज "- "The discovery of India" इस पुस्तक को में अंग्रेजी संस्करण में पढ़ रहा हूँ क्यूंकि ये अंग्रेजी में ही लिखी गयी थी। पाठक को हमेशा ये कोशिश करनी चाहिए कि पुस्तक को उसके मूल रूप से लिखी भाषा में ही पढ़ा जाए। चुकी मुझे अंग्रेजी में पढ़कर समझनेमें अब कोई खास दिक्कत नहीं होती तो ऐसा करना मेरे लिए सरल था । पहली किताब का नाम बताना तो मैं भूल ही गया - वो है कैलाश सत्यार्थी की लिखी पुस्तक " तुम पहले क्यों नहीं आए " इसे आप जरूर पढ़ें। खासकर की तब, जब आप अपने अंदर की इंसानियत को फिर से अपनी पूरी सम्पूर्णता में पाना एवं महसूस करना चाहते है। कई बार समाजिक काम करते करते बहुत सी चीजे बस एक प्रक्रिया लगने लगती है। इसे प्रक्रिया से अतरिक्त देख पाना कठिन होने लगता है। अपनी इंसानियत को संजो पाना मुश्किल हो जाता। ऐसे समय इन बच्चों की घटनाये आपको पुनः जीवित कर देंगी। प्रक्रिया को जीवन से जोड़ पाना कुछ सरल हो जायेगा एवं अपने काम के प्रति निष्ठा पहले से और संगठित हो पाएगी।

साथ ही मैंने एक और पुस्तक पढ़ना सुरु कर दिया है क्यूंकि पहली वाली बिल्कुल ख़त्म सी हो चली थी। ये पुस्तक थी "पैराडाइस इन वॉर"। राधा कुमार की लिखी इस पुस्तक की शुरुआत ही बहुत रोचक एवं कश्मीर के ऐतिहासिक, पौराणिक कथा से होती है। कश्मीर का वर्णन वेद में कहाँ मिलता है , कश्मीर के बनने की क्या कहानी है एवं कनिष्क एवं अशोक के समय कश्मीर के क्या वर्णन है , मोरक्को से आये अल-बरुनी ने अपने यात्रा वृतान्त में जो लिखा क्या वो वास्तव में कश्मीर की सच्चाई थी। राजा रंजीत सिंह के समय का कश्मीर सभी बाहरी लोगों के स्वागत हेतु कितना खुला या बन्द था। मुग़ल एवं उसके बाद डोगरा राजाओं ने कैसे कश्मीर को अपनी सबसे कीमती विरासत के रूप में पाया। आजादी के पहले तक कश्मीर अपने प्राकृतिक विरासत से साथ-साथ अपनी सांस्कृतिक, आध्यात्मिक एवं स्थानीय बौद्धिकता के लिए जाना जाता रहा। इसका प्रमाण निश्चित रूप में कल्हण के राजतरंगनी से प्राप्त होता है। किन्तु कश्मीर की कश्मीरीयत आजादी के बाद से क्षरित होती रही।

अच्छा बात किताब की तो होनी ही नहीं थी। बात तो होनी है पढ़ने के प्रति रूचि पैदा करने की इसके लिए आप इस तरह के प्रयोग जरूर कर सकते है , अलग-अलग विधा की, अलग विधा एवं भाषा में लिखी पुस्तक को साथ में पढ़ने का प्रयास करें। कोशिश हो कि इन सूचि में अपनी मातृभाषा में लिखी एक किताब जरूर हो। जो किताब आपको ज्यादा पसंद आए या जिसके कथानक ज्यादा रोचक लगे उनको निरतंतर समय अंतराल पर कम कम पढ़े। जो कथानक बोझिल हो उसे छोड़ना नहीं चाहते तो जल्दी और अधिक गति से निपटाने का प्रयास किया जाए। कभी-कभी एक ही पुस्तक के कुछ सन्दर्भ बहुत रोचक लगने लगते हैं और कभी कभी एक तरह की किताब या एक शैली की किताब पढ़ने से एक तरह के घटना क्रम की पुर्नवृति सन्दर्भ को सुथल बना देती है। इसलिए प्रयास करें की जो भी पढ़े बदल बदल कर पढ़े या एक साथ दो तीन अलग शैली की पुस्तक पढ़े।

सबसे कठिन क्या है ?

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:42:00 +0000

आप अनुभव किसे कहते हैं ? जो आपके साथ होता है , घटता है ? या जो आपने दुसरो के साथ होते या घटते देखा है ? अनुभव के आधार पर क्या कोई विशिष्ट होना चाहिए या नहीं ? मेरा अनुभव पुरे दिन दुसरो को निर्देश अथवा उपदेश देने में बहुत बेहतर एवं लम्बा है। क्या ये अनुभव किसी बच्चे के अनुभव से बेहतर या विशिष्ट होना चाहिए जो दिनभर अपने परिवार के लोगों को अपने उँगलिओं पर घुमाता रहता है।

मेरी ये राय है की आपके अनुभव एवं आपके ज्ञान की तुलना नहीं होनी चाहिए और ये इसलिए नहीं कि इससे किसी को बड़ा दिखया जा सकता है एवं किसी को निम्न या तुच्छ परन्तु इसलिए कि ये तुलना अर्थहीन है। मेरी और आपके अनुभव की तुलना इसलिए भी व्यर्थ है क्यूंकि वो एक ही हथकरघे से अलग-अलग स्वरुप की साड़ियाँ के सामान है , सभी एक मापदण्ड के आलों पे होकर भी अलग-अलग हैं ।

सबसे कठिन क्या है ? सबसे कठिन है अर्थहीन लिखना , अर्थहीन बोलना , अर्थहीन कैसे हुआ जाए ? जब भी मन में कोई विचार आते है वो अर्थहीन नहीं होते , जब भी आप कुछ बोलते हैं, उसमे दृष्टि निहित होती है ,कुछ उद्देश्य निहितार्थ होते हैं , आप चाहकर भी अर्थहीन नहीं हो सकते। अर्थहीन होना नश्वर होने के सामान है ? जीवित प्राणी अर्थहीन कैसे हो सकता है, ना ही वो अर्थहीन कह सकता है, सोच सकता है , लिख सकता है , इसलिए सबसे कठिन है अर्थहीन होना।

किन्तु आमतौर पर हम इस बात को समझते नहीं या समझ कर भी पराया कर देते हैं। जब भी आप किसी को अर्थहीन होने का विश्वास दिलाते है , वास्तव में आप उसे कहना चाहते हैं की आपके विचार से में सहमत नहीं हूँ , या आपका विचार सम्भव नहीं लगता अथवा ये की आपका विचार मेरे समझ के परे है। क्यूँकि अर्थहीन हो पाना तो सम्भव ही नहीं है। इसलिए जब भी आपके मन में ऐसा विचार आए जहाँ सबकुछ अर्थहीन लगने लगे तो पुनः एक बार गहन चिंतन जरूर करें कि कहीं ये सिर्फ आपकी सतही कल्पना तो नहीं। एक व्यक्ति अर्थहीन कैसे हो सकता है , कोई भी परिस्थिति अर्थहीन कैसे हो सकती है , यदि इन परिस्थितिओं से मैं परेशान हूँ तो भी मुझे ये समझने की आवश्यकता है कि इन परिस्थिति में कुछ अर्थ निहित है जो मेरी इच्छा के अनुरूप नहीं।

मैं, मेरा मन - मेरा दोस्त

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 06:37:00 +0000

रौनक अपने मा-बापू का एकलौता लड़का है। बापू की प्राइवेट कम्पनी में नौकरी है। माँ एक हाउस वाइफ हैं उनका काम घर की सफाई से शुरू होकर घर की सफाई में ही खत्म होता है। रौनक वैसे स्वभाव से बड़ा भोला आसानी से बात मान जाने वाला एक साधारण बच्चा है लेकिन है तो बच्चा ही तो अपने इसी बचपने में वो कभी न कभी सामान इधर का उधर छोड़ता रहता है | पढ़ने के लिए किताबे -कांपिया निकली तो बेड पर छोड़ दी , खाना खाया तो थाली फर्श पर ही छोड़ दी | माँ को उसकी इस आदत से चिढ होती है इसलिए कभी-कभी गुस्से में माँ के हाँथ पैर झाड़ू भी चलते रहते हैं | रौनक की मासूमियत इन्ही थप्पड़ और मार से धुलती जा रही है। माँ मारने पीटने के कुछ ही देर बाद बड़ा स्नेह भी करती फिर उसे समझ में नहीं आता कि वो क्या करे। ज्यादातर तो वो अपनी मार को भूल जाता और ऐसा वो इसलिए भी करता क्यूंकि उसे लगता है कि वो ज्यादा देर तक किसी से नाराज नहीं रह सकता है। इस उम्र में भी उसमे ये भाव पता नहीं कैसे आ गए थे। माँ के दुलार और स्नेह से उसकी हंसी निकल जाती थी और वो सब भूल के फिर से साधारण सा व्यवहार करने लगता।

बापू के पास इतना समय नहीं है कि इन सब बातों में ध्यान दे और बापू खुद ही ज्यादा तर किसी न किसी कारण परेशान रहते हैं। रौनक भी सायद ये बात समझता है इसलिए उसके मन में बापू के लिए प्रेम और सम्मान का भाव आने लगा है। बापू की मेहनत तो वो देखता है पर उसे समझ नहीं आता की इतनी मेहनत करने के बाद भी उसके घर कलर टीवी क्यों नहीं है। उसके सभी दोस्तों के घर रंगीन टीवी है जिसमे डिश भी लगा है और हमेशा सिनेमा भी आता है , जब टीवी ऑन करो सिनेमा आ रहा होता है। रौनक के घर में नई पर ब्लैक एंड वाइट टीवी है जिसमे डिश नहीं लगा। उसको लगता की ऐसा इसलिए है क्यूंकि माँ को नहीं पसंद की वह अपना कीमती समय पढ़ने के वजाय सिनेमा या कार्टून के शो देखने में लगाऊँ। उसे हमेशा लगता कि यदि वो अपने बापू को डिश लगवाने को कहेगा तो वो लगवा देंगे पर फिर वो दूसरे ही क्षण सोच में पड़ जाता कि "माँ भी तो है!"

रौनक अपने सब दोस्तों में अकेला है | वो एक ऐसे स्कूल में जाता हैं जहाँ उसके आस-पास रहने वाले कोई दोस्त नहीं पढ़ते। स्कूल में भी उसके सभी दोस्त है और घर पर भी पर वो अपने आप को हमेशा अलग महसूस करता है। उसके स्कूल में पढ़ने वाले दोस्त अमूमन एक ही जगह से ही आते हैं , वे सभी साइकिल पर आते। स्कूल में वो स्कूल के बाद क्या करने वाले हैं, कहाँ घूमने जाने वाले हैं , इसके बाद कोनसे ट्युसन टीचर से पढ़ने जायेंगे इसकी बात करते | रौनक चाहते हुए भी इस तरह के वार्तालाप में अपना योगदान नहीं दे सकता था क्यूंकि उसे स्कूल से घर जाने में ही एक घंटे से अधिक का समय लगता था। और उसके घर पहुँचने तक शाम हो चुकि होती है और उसके आस पास के दोस्त उसके घर पहुंचने तक खेल खत्म भी कर चुके होते थे तो उसे उनके साथ भी खेलने या समय बिताने का मौका नहीं मिलता। सिर्फ स्कूल की छुटियों या गर्मियों की छुट्टियों में ही वो जी भर कर खेलने के सुख को भोग पाता था। रौनक इतने कम उम्र में ही अकेला जीना सिखने लगा है। अब उसकी जिन्दगी में एक साधारण समय सारणी है जिसे वो भागते दौड़ते पूरा करता है और फिर अगले दिन लगभग वही समय सारणी उसका इंतज़ार कर रही होती है।

रौनक के ऐसी परिस्थिति के कारण उसके अन्दर बहुत से ऐसे विचार एवं भाव उमरते थे जो की शायद पच्चीस तीस साल के नौजवान को भी ना सूझे | इतनी कम उम्र में ही उसे अपना जन्मदिन या किसी जन्मदिन आम दिन जैसा लगने लगा | उसे अपनी जन्मदिन का कोई इंतज़ार नहीं होता ना ही उसे किसी के जन्मदिन की पार्टी में जाना पसन्द आता। उसे ये सब अभी से ही पैसे एवं समय की बर्बादी लगती है। उसके सभी दोस्त अपने परिवार से जन्मदिन और धूम धाम से मानाने की बात करते अच्छे अच्छे गिफ्ट की मांग करते वहीँ रौनक अपने माँ बापू से जन्मदिन ना मनाने को कहता | इतने धूम धाम से आयोजित जन्मदिन में भी उसे अपने नाम के विपरीत किसी रौनक का अनुभव नहीं होता | अन्दर से वह उदास ही होता | उसके पास अब कोई नहीं है जिससे अपने दिल की मन की बात कहे। उसके सभी दोस्त हैं पर कोई ऐसा दोस्त नहीं है जो बिल्कुल उसकी परिस्थिति को जनता हो जो उसे समझ सकेगा। जिससे वो अपने स्कूल ,घर हर जगह की बात कह पायेगा। उसे प्यार करने वाले माता-पिता हैं पर वो उनसे भी हर एक बात नहीं कह पायेगा। धीरे-धीरे उसने खुद से ही बात करना शुरू कर दिया। इस तरह से उसका अंतर्मुखी स्वभाव विकसित होने लगा और उसके व्यक्तित्व में ऐसे रम गया जैसे वो पैदा ही इस स्वभाव के साथ हुआ था। उसके पास कहने को बहुत सी बाते हैं पर सुनाने को कोई नहीं और अब तो वो किसी को अपनी बात सुनाना भी नहीं चाहता। वो खुद ही कमरे में अकेला हर बात खुद से ही कर लेता है। अब उसे अकेला कहना भी उचित नहीं। जब माँ की डांट पड़ती है तो रो लेता है खुद ही खुद को समझा भी लेता है , जब गुस्सा आता है तो मन ही मन सबको बुरा भला कह लेता है और फिर शान्त हो जाता है। जब खुश होता है तो अपने आप से ही घंटो कुछ न कुछ बड़बड़ाता रहता है। उसने अपने आप को संभालना सीख लिया है। उसे अपने साथ समय बिताना अच्छा लगने लगा है। उसके कई अरमान है , जिसे वो खुद को ही बताता है और फिर खुद ही उसपर गहन सोच विचार कर उन को बेकार घोषित कर फाड़ कर फेक देता है।

रौनक अपने माता पिता का अकेला संतान है पर अब वो अकेला नहीं है उसके साथ उसका 'मन' है जिससे वो लगातार बात करता है उससे वो अपने सच्चे दोस्त की तरह ही वर्ताव करता है। शायद ही उसे इससे अच्छा दोस्त कभी मिल पाए। उसने अपने आप को ही अपना सबसे अच्छा दोस्त बना लिया है।

You will not be your scorecard for now!

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:47:00 +0000

Your marks in any exam conducted by some school board are not the true reflection of how educated you are!

What does 'Grades' tells You?

Education and Examination do not come along as a mechanism that would complement each other rather they do not say anything about the other. Marks based exam in an Indian school tells us nothing about you.

for example,

Ramesh likes to play chess and doing good in the game. He has represented his school in a national level under-16 chess championship. Playing the game of chess has inbuilt some skills in Ramesh. He is a good orator, confident in his choices. He is patient and believes in solving problems through dialogue and discussion. He strategies and plan before taking any task or work and do not lose temper at the time of stress and external pressure. All these skills he had developed through the game of Chess. Some of the skills he might also have adopted by seeing, observing others and experiencing different situations.

Kiran lives in Srinagar a the small town of Uttarakhand. She likes to sing, draw and write poetry and short stories. She loves science and loved doing science project and experiments with the help of her teachers and peers. She has also won a national level science exhibition competition and secured the third position in the event. She is very particular about what she does in her free time. Her father is an army officer and she had learnt to be very punctual and stringent with her daily routine from her father. She likes to draw portrait through pencil and her portraits have been appreciated on many occasions by the inter-schools and district administration. Kiran believes in following her passion and also curious about the future and talks a lot about the issues of environmental degradation and the use of renewable energy through her projects, portraits and poetry.

Now, If I tell you Ramesh has secured 89% marks in his 10th board exam and Kiran has got 93% and would also be shared who score what in which subject. Are you able to know Ramesh and Kiran the way better than has mentioned in the above paragraphs? look these marks definitely tell us something about examinee that one is good in academics or good in science subject*. You have the capability to do hard work and you can very well write what you have read, understood or memorized.

But the marks don't tell us that one has really understood the importance of any subjects i.e. science, history, Social studies in his life and how it is reflecting it in one's personality etc. Do these subjects are adding values to their life? It doesn't assess the level or layer of understanding. It's a rating between 0 and 1 and telling nothing about how one has scored that 1 or 0. It also do not tells you where to improve and and how to improve in your learning.

Final examination should not be a dead end and it is not

Education should have the process to indulge in constant and regular examination. But today educations means final examination and then the curtain falls. teacher teaches you for that final D day. Some of us understood the topic and able to write complete answers, some of us writes half of that answer correct and some of us do not write at all. And then after examination, everyone receives a mark. And that's when everything freezes.

if someone isn't able to answer a question of profit and loss from a mathematics lesson within a fixed timeframe. What does it represent? that he is not good enough in mathematics or to be precise he is not good at solving sums of profit and loss. There are many layers that are hidden and decoding that hidden layers of abilities and inabilities are very important to know about that person abilities and inabilities. A students good with number has inability to comprehend the text and the exams in our schools are text based assessment. there is no variety to it. It doesn't even check the concept knowledge of a students. It just check that the answer is right or wrong without emphasising on the process and thinking that had gone into solving that problem. Assessment today sould be testing the thinking process , cognitive ability and the ability to apply the concepts learnt to solve problems.

if we go into this more intimately, we will realise that the objective is not to able to understand why the student or someone is not able to solve that problem. What part of the concept he wasn't able to understand and apply to get to the solution. The objective is to reach a conclusion that mostly means nothing at all in plain language. No emphasis is given for evidence-based interpretation from the assessments rather than it just provides dead-end marks.

These exams don't give you a chance of knowing your mistake and improvement or error correction and some might validate it by saying that life also doesn't give you another chance so these exams are preparing you for the future in life. I think this is the biggest myth that some of us have heard in the movies, from the teachers, parents, relatives.

But the good thing is that young parents of the upper class or middle-class families are now being aware of this. They are sending their kids to the schools that hold all the opportunities for their kids. If this remains the case within 5 -8 years times things will be different. I am not sure if the pattern of taking and giving an exam would change or not but if the process of the examination remains the same as it is now. It will lose its essence and importance in the masses. There would be no hype and news when the board exam results will be announced as most of the population will discard this process to be a true method of understanding the abilities or inabilities of students.

The assessment system should have to transform itself even with the continuing regression of the teachers or the hesitation of the bureaucracy. Assessment should be a deep, flexible, contemplative and interesting and fun part of the school curriculum. This should encourage students to reflect and re-engineer their aspirations. If this is not going to happen very soon. I am sorry to say but there would be no value in schooling then. fast and global reach of internet would make schooling an extra curricular adventure in no time. Education system had to rebuild itself as an efficient machinery to provide quality learning opportunities in really simple and interesting way to beat the internet. Assessment system would be playing greater role in that and there is no denying that AI and ML would be a integral part to make things simple and fun for both teachers and students.

An examination should not be telling people that you have only one chance in life to learn and prove it rather than it should be telling people that one can get as many chances as one wants. It's just that one has to create those chances on their own and with their inner interest and motivation. The choice is not between do or die but do and do it again untill wrap your head around something.

Education today is the economy tomorrow

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:32:00 +0000

आज हम बात करेंगे जन साधारण के लिए शिक्षा से जुड़ी उम्मीदों की, आखिर पढना-पढाना क्यूँ? आखिर क्यूँ विकासशील देश अपने जी. डी. पी का एक बड़ा हिस्सा अपने स्कूली तंत्र को सुधारने पर खर्च करते है ? प्रत्येक देश अपने नागरिको के विकास को लेकर चिंतित होता है क्योंकि नागरिको के विकास से ही अर्थव्यवस्था का विकास संभव है और बिना इकॉनमी के किसी भी देश मैं अच्छे रोड, अच्छे हवाई अड्डे, अच्छे प्लेटफार्म , अच्छे अस्पताल जैसी आधारभूत संरचना का सम्भव हो पाना कठीन है, तो ऐसा माना जा सकता है कि विकास की पहली सीढ़ी स्कूली शिक्षा ही होती है |

Education today is the economy tomorrow

श्रीमान एंड्रियास श्लेचर (शैक्षिक निति सलाहकार-महासचिव ओ.ई .सि. डी ) कह रहें हैं "Education today is the economy tomorrow " आज स्कूलों में शिक्षा की गुणवत्ता कल अर्थव्यवस्था का निर्धारण करेगी। ” एंड्रियास श्लेचर के इस कथन पर विचार करना आवश्यक प्रतीत होता है | ख़ासकर तब जब पूरा संसार एक प्रकार से जूझ रहा हो | बड़े-बड़े परमाणु शक्तियों से लैस देश की अर्थव्यवस्था सिर्फ इसलिए चित हो गई क्यूंकि उन्होंने सावधानी नहीं बरती एवं अपने बुद्धि का समुचित उपयोग कर यदि इस विपदा का आकलन कर पाते तो शायद इतनी बुरी स्थिति से बचा जा सकता था | समाज में जब भी कोई मानव निर्मित विपत्ति आती है तो कहीं न कहीं दोष शिक्षा की गुणवक्ता पर ही उठने लगते हैं |ऐसा होना या करना मेरे विचार से गलत भी नहीं है | किन्तु प्रकृति ने ये पुनः सिद्ध कर दिया कि मानव प्रकृति से बाहर नहीं है, प्रकृति के रहस्य को खोजते-खोजते मनुष्य ये भूल न बैठे इसलिए शायद रिमाइंडर कि तरह इस तरह की घटना (पेनडेमीक) हर सौ वर्षो में घटती रहती है |

चलिए मुद्दे पर लोटते हैं , आजादी के दिनों देश में साक्षरता दर 12 प्रतिशत ही थी किन्तु आजादी के बाद से ही ऐसे बहुत से प्रयास हुए जिससे देश में पढ़े लिखे लोगों कि संख्या बढाई जा सके | आज मालूम पड़ता है कि उद्देश्य केवल सख्या बढ़ाना ही था | इसलिए गाँव-गाँव स्कूल खोले गए , शिक्षकों कि नियुक्ति हुई | ये निशचित किया गया की संख्या बढ़ाने के लिए सबको स्कूल में दाखिला मिले | हर एक किलोमीटर के दायरे पर एक प्राथमिक विद्यालय हो ऐसी व्यवस्था कि गई | किन्तु तब भी बच्चों एवं बच्चियों के नामांकन के अंतर को भांप पाना कठिन ही रहा और उससे भी कठिन था इस अंतर को कम कर पाना | दक्षिण के राज्यों ने ऐसा भेद भाव कम देखने को मिला किन्तु वहां भी बेटों कि अपेक्षा बेटियों को पढाना व्यर्थ ही सिद्ध होता रहा | हलाकि पिछले 10-20 वर्षो में शिक्षा को लेकर लिंग अनुपात के अंतर में कमी जरुर आई है और यह 1981 के 26.62 प्रतिशत की तुलना अब 2011 मे 16.68 प्रतिशत हो गई है और अगले वर्ष अनुमानित जनगणना में इसमें और कमी आएगी ऐसी आशा की जा रही है |

साक्षर होना है या शिक्षित

डाटा में ये भी स्पष्ट है कि साक्षारता दर तो बढ़ी है पर क्या इसके बढ़ने से हमारा काम सम्पूर्ण हो जाता है ? क्या देश कि शिक्षा व्यवस्था का कार्य उनके नागरिको को साक्षर करने तक ही सिमित है या लक्ष्य कहीं और है | हमें साक्षर होना है या शिक्षित अब इस प्रश्न पर गहनता से विचार करने की जरुरत है |

हो सकता है ये सवाल आपको अजीब लगे पर जब हम अपने जीवन के 15 से 25 कीमती वर्ष शिक्षा को देतें हैं तो इस सवाल पर विचार करना जरुरी जान पड़ता है | इस विषय पर समय-समय पर दार्शनिकों ने अपने विचार दियें हैं , इसी प्रश्न को शिक्षा के उद्देश्य से भी जोरकर देखा जाता रहा है | हमारे देश में जब भी शिक्षा की बात होती है तो ज्यादातर अभिभावक इसे बच्चे के आगे जाकर कुछ बनने की प्रक्रिया से जोड़ देतें हैं , बच्चा भी शिक्षा इसलिए ही ले रहा होता है क्योंकि आगे चलकर कुछ बनना होता है हलाकि तबतक उसके मन में बनने को लेकर क्या करने की आवश्यकता है इसकी समझ नही के बराबर ही होती है | अपने अक्सर किसी न किसी व्यक्ति को बच्चे से पूछते सुना होगा " आगे पढ़कर क्या बनोगे ?" बच्चे का जवाब ज्यादातर तैयार ही होता है " शिक्षक या कुछ और "|

शिक्षा क्यूँ ?

शिक्षा की जरुरत रोजगार पाने के लिए या यूँ कह लें कुछ बनने के लिए | रोजगार या व्यवसाय में सफल होने के लिए |

शिक्षा का सरोकार जीवन कौशल एवं जीवन मूल्यों के निर्माण से भी है , इसके आधार पर ही चरित्र निर्माण सम्पूर्ण एवं समृद्ध हो पाता है

हमें भविष्य में आने वाले समस्याओं एवं आशंकाओं के प्रति तैयार करना

शिक्षा का उद्देश्य मानव जीवन को अपनी पूरी क्षमता के साथ जीना सिखाना भी है | शिक्षा की भूमिका किसी व्यक्ति के जीवन में बिल्कुल उत्प्रेरक की तरह होती है, जिससे व्यक्ति अपनी पूरी क्षमता को प्राप्त कर पाता है और एक सफल जीवन जीने को तैयार होता है |

मानव में लोकतांत्रिक भावों का विकाश करना एवं लोकतांत्रिक प्रक्रिया में विश्वास स्थापित करना

सीखना कैसे है, ये सीखाना भी शिक्षा का ही काम है ताकि हम आजीवन सीखने के कौशल को जान पायें और सीखने को तत्पर एवं तैयार रहें

अगर हमें कल की तैयारी करनी है और अपने वर्तोतमान को भविष्य के लिए तैयार करना है तो हमें उसके अनुरूप आज शिक्षा में बदलाव करने की आवश्यकता है |

शिक्षा - परीक्षा के द्वारा डिग्री पाने का माध्यम

किसी भी व्यवस्था का सही-सही आकलन उसके उद्देश्य तक पहुचने की कहानी कहते हैं | शिक्षा में परीक्षा का होना भी शिक्षा के उद्देश्यओं को पाने की कहानी ही होनी चाहिए| पर क्या ऐसा है ? 10वी की परीक्षा में 99 फीसदी अंक लाने वाला सफल बच्चा क्या अपने जीवन (रोजगार, व्यवसाय...) में सफल होगा ? क्या उसमे अपने व्यवसाय को सफल बनाने योग्य कौशल का विकास हुआ है ? क्या वो एक सफल और सार्थक जीवन जीने योग्य कौशल सीख पाया है ?

या सिर्फ उसके पास है कागज पर लिखे अंक और उसके माध्यम से नौकरी ढूढ़ने की उम्मीद | ज्यादातर बच्चे शिक्षा नौकरी पाने के लिए लें रहें होते हैं | इंटरनेशनल लेबर ऑर्गेनाइजेशन की रिपोर्ट यूथ एम्प्लॉयमेंट एंड अनएम्प्लॉयमेंट के अनुसार अनपढ़ लोगों की तुलना में पढ़े लिखे ग्रेजुएट या पोस्ट ग्रेजुएट युवाओं में अधिक बेरोजगारी है | ऐसा क्यूँ है ? उच्चतर शिक्षा लेने के बाद और अधिक बेरोजगारी !!!

शिक्षा एवं रोजगार :

शिक्षा एवं रोजगार दो अलग-अलग मुद्दे है | शिक्षा के बहुआयामी उद्देश्य हैं पर रोजगार करने का उदेश्य बहुत हद तक सिमित है | रोजगार पेट पालने के लिए किया जा सकता है- हर दिन के खर्चे निकालने के लिए किया जाता रहा है | अधिकतर हम शिक्षा को रोजगार प्राप्ति के उद्देश्य तक सिमित कर देते हैं | बेहतर रोजगार की संभावना के लिए शिक्षा का बेहतर होना एक आवश्यकता हो सकती हैं | किन्तु बेहतर शिक्षा एवं डिग्री प्राप्त करने के बाद भी सफ़र आसान नही हो पता है |

और इस कठिन सफ़र को तय करने के लिए शिक्षार्थी को कोई शिक्षा नही दी जाती है |

अपनी आतंरिक क्षमताओं को जानकर , उन क्षमताओं का विकास करना एवं उन्ही क्षमताओं के आधार पर अपने रोजगार का निर्धारण कर पाना - शिक्षा व्यवस्था की जिम्मेदारी, हर बच्चे के लिए ऐसे मौके देने की होती है |

इस अंतर को जान लेना की शिक्षा सिर्फ जानकारी को याद करके परीक्षा में जैसे का तैसे उतार देना नही है बल्कि जानकारी के आधार पर बेहतर निर्णय लेने के कौशल को कहते हैं | आज की शिक्षा हमें मजदुर बनाती है , अपनी इच्छा से मजदुर बनने में कोई बुराई नही होगी पर हर किसी को मजदूरी के लिए तैयार करना भी शिक्षा का सरोकार नही होना चाहिए | आज ग्रेजुएट होते ही विदयार्थी नौकरी के लिए भटकना शुरू कर देता है | हर विश्वविद्यालय एवं प्रतिष्ठित संस्थानों में प्लेसमेंट सेल होता है , जो नौकर बनने की इस प्रक्रिया में विदार्थियों की मदद करता है |

100 में केवल विरले ही होते हैं जिन्हें खुद का कुछ करना होता है , खुद को आत्मनिर्भर बनाने की ललक होती है | वो दूसरों को रोजगार देने के प्लान में जुटते हैं | पढ़ लिख कर ये बड़ा आदमी बने न बने समझदार आदमी जरुर बन जाते हैं और यही तो उद्देश्य होना है शिक्षा का |

यदि विद्यालय या पूरा शिक्षा तंत्र हमें ये शिखाने में जुट जाय की अपनी कमजोरी को सफलता पूर्वक कैसे दूर करें , अपने ऊपर कैसे काम करें , अपना शिक्षण खुद कैसे करें , खुद के भविष्य को कैसे तय करें , समस्या चाहे जो भी हो उसका समाधान कैसे निकालें , अपनी क्षमताओं का संवर्धन कैसे करें, जानकारी के आधार पर निर्णय कैसे लें, तो देश की बहुत सी समस्या का हल शिक्षा के माध्यम से एक युग में सफलता एवं सरलता से किया जा सकता है | सही ही कहा है "Education today is the economy tomorrow"

शिक्षा और स्वयं की खोज : पाठ्यक्रम से स्वयं तक

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पढोगे लिखोगे बनोगे नवाब!!!

किसी भी देश में व्यक्ति विकास बहुत हद तक वहां कि शिक्षा व्यवस्था एवं शिक्षा देने कि पद्धति के साथ-साथ शिक्षा को लेकर समाज में स्थापित समझ पर भी निर्भर करता है | यदि हम अपने देश कि बात करें तो काफी प्रचलित कहावत " पढोगे लिखोगे बनोगे नवाब , खेलोगे धुपोगे होगे ख़राब " से ही समझ में आ जाता है कि उत्तर भारत में शिक्षा को लेकर क्या प्रचलित है | समाज में शिक्षा का उद्देश्य नवाब बनना है , नवाब से क्या तात्पर्य है ? नवाब का एक मतलब अधिकारी बनाना हो सकता है जिसके पास सरकारी गाड़ी हो, नौकर -चाकर हों, वो जो कहे लोग उसे सुनने और मानने को तत्पर रहें | नवाब का अपने हिसाब से कोई भी मतलब निकला जा सकता है किन्तु ये तो तय है कि नवाब समृद्ध है और ये समृद्धि धन, विचार, भावनाओ, संवेदनाओं, आचरण, ज्ञान, विज्ञान, तकनीक के रूप में हो सकती है | पर मुख्यता हमारे समाज मे शिक्षा का उद्देश्य धन और वैभव की समृधि तक ही सीमित हो गई है।

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बच्चों से क्या उम्मीद बांध बैठे हैं आप ?

एक बच्चा जब पहली बार स्कूल जाता है यदि हम उस दिन का विचार करें और गहनता से सोंचे कि उस बच्चे के इर्द-गिर्द उसके परिवार में उस बच्चे के लिए क्या भाव चल रहें होंगे जैसे माता -पिता , दादा-दादी, नाना-नानी के मन में क्या विचार आया कि उन्होंने अपने बच्चों को स्कूल भेजने का निर्णय लिया है | जब एक बच्चा पहली बार स्कूल आता है तो उस समय शिक्षक या शिक्षिका के मन में उस बच्चे को लेकर क्या भाव होते होंगे | क्या ये बच्चों को देखकर उनके भविष्य का निर्धारण करने के लिए अपने अनुमान को स्वावलंबीत करना शुरु कर देते है ? उस एक बच्चे के लिए समाज के लोगों के अन्दर क्या भाव होतें होंगे ? क्या ये लोग जो सामाजिक रूप से किसी न किसी रूप मे उस बच्चे के जीवन से जुड़े है जैसे बच्चे की दाई माँ , पड़ोस के लोग , रिश्तेदार, दूध देने वाला या अन्य कोई | इन सभी लोंगो के मन में क्या चल रहा होगा ? ये उस बच्चे के सन्दर्भ में क्या विचार कर रहें होंगे ? उनके मन में बच्चे को लेकर क्या आकांक्षा, अभिलाषा, उम्मीद उमड़ रहे होंगे | देश अपने उस बच्चे को लेकर क्या सोचता है ? देश उस बच्चे से क्या उम्मीद बांध बैठा है? आप मन ही मन अपने बच्चों से क्या उम्मीद बांध बैठे हैं? इन सभी प्रश्नों पर विचार करें |

बच्चा क्या उम्मीद बांध बैठा है ?

अब अपना ध्यान उस बच्चे की तरफ लेकर जायें | अभी तक हमने बच्चे के इर्द गिर्द के लोगों के बारें में चर्चा की है कि वो क्या सोच रहें होंगे | अब उस बच्चे का विचार कीजिये| अपना विचार कीजिये जब आपने पहली बार अपने घर से अलग एक ऐसी जगह कदम रखा था जो शायद आपके घर से बिलकुल अलग था | विद्यालय (आपके समय आंगनवाडी केंद्र शायद नहीं रहा हो ) एक ऐसी जगह थी जो आपके घर जैसी नहीं थी साथ ही साथ वहां के लोग आपके घर के जैसे नहीं दीखते होंगे | आपके रोने या हसने पर घर की तरह कोई आपकी तरफ खीचा नहीं आता होगा | शायद आपने अपने जैसे हम उम्र को देख कर कुछ राहत महसूस की हो पर जैसे ही अपने पाया की आपको जो स्कूल छोड़ने आये थे वो जा रहें है फिर आपका मन पिघलने लगा होगा | कुछ तो फुट फुट कर रोने भी लगे होंगे | कुछ दिन यु ही गुजरने के बाद अब आप स्कूल से जुड़ने लगे | धीरे-धीरे वहां के लोग भी अपने व जानकर हो गये | ऐसा क्यूँ हुआ ? क्यूँ आप समय के साथ सहज होते चले गए ?

शिक्षक एवं समाज के अनुसार अब बच्चे ने स्कूल में बैठना सिख लिया है | अब आगे कि पढाई कराई जा सकती है | अब आती है वर्णमाला एवं गिनती की बारी और शिक्षण संस्थओं ने शिक्षको को बच्चोँ के लिए तमाम अधिगम बढाने की एक पूरी लिस्ट पकड़ा दी है। इसी समय को कहा जाता है नीव डालने का समय। जैसे घर की नीव जितनी मजबुत होगी घर उतना ही विशाल और भव्य बनाया जा सकता है, वैसे ही अब शिक्षक और अभिवावक के अनुसार बच्चोँ के जीवन मे शिक्षा के नीव डालने का उचित समय यही माना जाता है।

अब मैं अपनी बात बताता हुँ। मैं ऐसा मानता हुँ कि मकान मैं पड़ी नीव और बच्चे के शिक्षा कि शुरुआती नीव भिन्न-भिन्न हैं। आज के परिपेक्ष में बात करूँ तो दोनो के बीच एकरूपता बनाना मानव जीवन को कम अंकने जैसा है। घर बनाने के लिए पड़ी नीव घर की सीमा निर्धरित करती है जैसे घर कितने मंजिल का या कितने कमरो का बनेगा, कैसे आकर का बनेगा अगेराह- बगेराह । परन्तु आज बच्चोँ की शिक्षा से जुडी नीव उसकी सीमा निर्धारित नही कर पाती बल्कि इसके उलट बच्चे मे मौजुद खनिज रुपी प्रयत्नशील उर्जा उसके असीमित क्षमताओं का निरंतर प्रमाण देती है। अतः यह कहना कदापि उचित नही की यहाँ शिक्षक का काम लोहा पिघलाना है ताकी बाद मे जाकर उसे आकर दिया जा सके। यहाँ शिक्षक का काम मुख्यता बच्चोँ मे विध्यमान उर्जा का सही रुप मे संरक्षण करना और बाद मे इस उर्जा का सही उपयोग करना सिखना होना ही उपयुक्त होना चाहिए ।

सीखना : प्राकृतिक प्रक्रिया है

हर मनुष्य की सीमाएं है किन्तु हर व्यक्ति अपनी सीमायों में कुछ न कुछ निरंतर रूप में सिख रहा होता है , अपने अनुभव एवं ज्ञान को क्रमशः परख रहा होता है | उसी रूप में यदि हम बच्चों को देखें तो उनके साथ भी सीखना एक निरंतर चलने वाली प्रक्रिया है | अपने अनुभव को टटोलें तो आप पाएँगे कि बच्चा सायद संसार को समझने में प्रयत्नशील है , लैटिन अमेरिका में जन्म लेने वाला बच्चा नियमित रूप से अपने आस-पास घट रही घटनाओ को देखकर समाज एवं परिवार में प्रतिक्रिया देने का एल्गोरिथम विकसित कर रहा होता है उसी प्रकार अन्य देश के बच्चे भी अपने परिवेश को आधार मानकर सीख रहे होते हैं | इनमे भी कुछ चीजे स्थानीय आधार पर भिन्न-भिन्न होती है और कुछ तो प्राकृतिक रूप में सभी बच्चों में एक समान होती है |बच्चे को पता है कि उसे भूख लगने पर रोने की प्रतिक्रिया करनी है | जैसे-जैसे वो विकसित होता जाता है , वैसे-वैसे उसकी प्रतिक्रिया वयस्क मनुष्य के अनुरूप ढलती जाती है और ऐसा एक बच्चा अपने अनुकरण करने के स्वाभाविक कौशल से कर पाता है | अतः बिना किसी सिखाने के प्रयास के भी बच्चा बहुत कुछ महत्वपूर्ण सीख रहा होता है | ये प्रक्रिया स्वाभाविक रूप से उसके अन्दर चलती है किन्तु यदि इसी प्रक्रिया को अलग रूप में देखें तो ऐसा भी कहा जा सकता है कि हमने (वयस्क मनुष्य ने) बिना किसी अतरिक्त प्रयास के बच्चे को (जन्म से जबतक की वो विद्यालय जाने योग्य हो गया है) बहुत कुछ सिखा दिया है | बच्चे को अपनी जरुरत व्यक्त करना , प्रतिक्रिया देना , खुशी महसूस करना , अनुभव करना जैसे अनेक जीवन कौशल सिखाने का प्रयाश नियोजित तोर पर नहीं करना पड़ता |

भाषा सिखने-सीखने को लेकर लगभग 200 वर्षो से चिंतकों ने अपने विचार दियें हैं और आज भी कई प्रयास किये जा रहें हैं | जन्मजात शिशु अपनी मातृभाषा सिखने के लिए क्या प्रयास करता है इसपर विचार करने की आवश्यकता शिक्षा से जुड़े हर व्यक्ति को है,इसके उलट शिशु को मातृभाषा सिखाने के लिए माता-पिता एवं परिवार के लोगों को क्या-क्या प्रयास करते रहने होते हैं ? इसपर भी विचार कीजिये | ये विचार उन सभी व्यक्तियों को करना चाहिए जिन्होंने अपने बच्चे का नामांकन विद्यालय में कराने का सोच रखा है या भविष्य में कराना चाहते हैं !

मानवीय मूल्य कैसे विकसित होती जाती है !

अब जब बच्चे का विद्यालय आना नियमित होने लगा है और उसकी रुची अपने दोस्तों में बनने लगी है , उसने अपने अनुसार दोस्त बनाना शुरु कर दिया है तो ऐसा कहा जा सकता है उसका समाज में जुड़ने एवं सम्बन्ध स्थापित करने के कौशल का विकास होने लगा है | सम्बन्ध स्थापित एवं पोषित करने के लिए मनुष्य में जितनी भावनाएँ होती है , बच्चे उन सभी भावनाओ का अभ्यास शुरु कर चूका है | सम्मान , करुणा , निष्ठा , त्याग , ममता, कृतज्ञता , चिंता के साथ-साथ क्रोध , ईष्या , घमंड , श्रेष्ठता , हिंसा जैसे भावों का विकास होने लगता है | इन सभी भावनाओ को पोषण परिवार , समाज एवं स्कूल में घट रहे कृत से ही मिलता है | उचित है कि बच्चा समाज में हो रही घटनाओ का अनुकरण ही करता जाता है और परिवार समाज एवं आस-पास घट रही घटनाओ को ही आधार मानकर अपने लिए स्वतः ही मूल्यों का चयन कर लेता है | यही मूल्य समय के साथ निरंतर अभ्यास से ऐसे जुड़ते जाते हैं कि इनसे पार पाना या इनमे संसोधन ला पाना असंभव होने लगता है | उदाहरण के तौर पर जब एक बच्चा अपने विद्यालय में नियमित रूप से हिंसा देख रहा होता है जहाँ उसे ये समझ में आने लगता है कि किसी प्रकार कि गलती की सजा हिंसा ही है और इसी से गलती से होने वाली समस्या का समाधान होने वाला है तो वो भी अपने से कमजोर बच्चों की गलती पर हिंसा करने को आतुर होता है | उसकी हर समस्या का निदान हिंसा पर ही टिकने लगता है और कब देश की शिक्षा व्यवस्था बच्चों को हिंसक बना देती है खुद शिक्षक, माता- पिता एवं शिक्षा तंत्र को भी इसका अनुमान लगा पाना नामुमकिन हो जाता है |

बच्चों में स्वतः जागृत भावनाए कब जीवन मूल्य बन जाती है और निरंतर अभिपोषण से ये मूल्य जीवन के आधार बन जाते हैं पता भी नहीं चलता | जो बच्चा जैसे जीवन मूल्यों को पिरोये हुए होगा उसका जीवन दर्शन वैसा ही विकसित होने लगता है और वो समाज में उसी प्रकार अपनी भूमिका स्थापित कर पायेगा | यदि हमने वर पक्ष द्वारा दहेज़ लेना सामाजिक रूप से सही माना है और इसे समाज में सही साबित करने के लिए तर्कहीन कारण भी दिए हैं, तो भी ये नहीं माना जा सकता की उस समाज में रहने वाला बच्चा जब व्यस्क हो जायेगा तो अचानक से दहेज़ लेने-देने कि प्रक्रिया का विरोध करने लगेगा | क्योंकि उसने समय के साथ तर्कहीन कारण को ही अपने जीवन मूल्य का आधार बना लिया है | अब उन मूल्यों को अलग कर पाना उस व्यक्ति के लिए सरल प्रक्रिया नहीं है |

जिस शिक्षा की आज हम बात कर रहें हैं वो जो विद्यालय में सप्ताह के छः दिन और समाज में हर दिन देना अनिवार्य हो गया है , मैं मानता हूँ ये नीव नहीं है | इससे भविष्य का निर्धारण संभव नहीं है, इससे भले आपके प्रोफेशन का निर्धारण किया जा सकता हो किन्तु, बच्चों के आरंभिक दिनों में सामाजिक मूल्यों के जीवन मूल्य/आधार बनने कि प्रक्रिया में जो शिक्षा सार्थक योगदान दे पाए उससे ही बच्चे के भविष्य के एक स्तम्भ का निर्धारण संभव है , उसके भविष्य में न्यायसंगत, संवेदनशील, विवेकशील एवं इमानदार व्यक्तिव बनने की पूरी उम्मीद होगी | अतः शिक्षा का एक मुख्य उद्देश्य प्रोफेशनल निर्माण के साथ-साथ व्यक्तिव निर्माण का भी होना चाहिए | एक तकनीकी रूप से सक्षम प्रोफेशनल किसी भी समाज के लिए तभी कल्याणकारी हो सकता जब उसने मानवीय मूल्य (करुणा, प्रेम , सौहार्द , सम्मान, कृतज्ञता, निष्ठा, संवेदना, ईमानदारी, विनम्रता, साहस) को सही रूप में अपने जीवन मूल्य का अंग बनाया हो |

चलिए बहुत समय ये समझने में निकाल दिया है कि आज अधिकतर विद्यालय में दी जाने वाली शिक्षा का महत्वपूर्ण समय विषय सम्बंधित पढाई एवं ज्ञानवर्धन के साथ -साथ व्यक्तित्व निर्माण के लिए भी दिया जाना चाहिए | अगले अंक में हम अन्य देशों कि शिक्षा से जुड़ी कुछ बाते जानने एवं विचार करने का प्रयास करेंगे |

अंत करने से पहले कुछ साझा करना चाहता हूँ |

"Too often, inequality is framed around economics,
fed and measured by the notion that
making money is the most important thing in life.
But societies are creaking under the strain of
this assumption, and while people may protest
to keep pennies in their pockets, power is the
protagonist of this story: the power of the
few; the powerlessness of many; and collective
power of the people to demand change.
Going beyond income will require tackling
entrenched interests—the social and political
norms embedded deep within a nation’s or a
group’s history and culture."

Achim Steiner

Administrator

United Nations Development Programme

Plastic-Free Madh : An Initiative for Plastic free Island in Mumbai

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:18:00 +0000

'Plastic Free Madh’ a project aimed at making plastic free Madh, an island village in Mumbai suburb was started in the last week of January 2019. The project started with a lot of uncertainties and doubts is now showing its positive impact. The project was initiated by two young Piramal Fellows Simran Sharma and Vaibhav Patel.

Founded on the seven Islands, the city of Mumbai has been heavily known for its coastal tourism and pisciculture. Madh Island is one such location which has gained tourism population. However, the original occupants of the land are the Kohlis, which are the oldest fishing community of Maharashtra. Madh Island is heavily guarded by the Kohli Community with a population of 45,000 people as it is the last bastion. The primary occupation of the community is the fishery business. But in recent times, their business has been disturbed because of the immense amount of plastic in the sea. Irregular supply of fish with an investment of Rs. 100,000 in the daily process has made it difficult for the local fishermen to make the ends meet.

Piramal fellows, Local People, BMC staff and officials after the Sunday Cleanliness drive at Madh

Since 2017, I have been working in the Madh jetty area of Madh Island. The journey to Madh Island can be stressful or adventurous, either way, you can take it. Madh Island is no more an island but a neglected peninsula, dropping off Mumbai’s western coastline.

Looking at this problem after several interactions with the fishermen, I designed a prototype initiative called “PLASTIC FREE MADH” which aimed to reduce the usage of plastic by the local residents of the Madh area. Although legislation has been passed banning the usage of plastic, it is ineffective until the vicious cycle of demand and supply is dissolved. Aiming at this, my colleague and I collaborated with local corporates and five heads of the fishermen communities for the production and distribution of 1000 cotton bags in the area. The project also had another tangent when we started off with beach clean-up drives for the sullied beach ‘Vater Pada’ in Madh. We piloted beach clean-up every weekend starting from 10^th February with a bandwidth of 35-40 local people as the second step towards creating awareness amongst them. Clean up drives have been arranged in collaboration with the solid waste department of the BMC and Mr Afroz shah- UN environment minister for the oceans. Together we did several community visits to understand the usage of plastic by the community people and did surveys of 100 local shopkeepers. Through the survey of the shopkeepers, I analysed that plastic is majorly used to buy dairy products.

Initially, we aimed at replacing single-use plastic bags into cotton bags from the area, gradually we started a drive for cleaning the existing plastics in the area. Surveying 115 shops and households in the area over plastic usage, popular vote of residents of the area was to replace plastic bags with cotton. We started a campaign with the cleaning of Vatarpada near Madh church with the support of local people and BMC, a small port area where fishing boats are rested.

Simran along with local volunteer and BMC staff is involved in the cleanliness drive

Vatarpada was filled with tons of plastics when we first visited the space. In the last one and a half month, we have been cleaning the area with the help of solid waste management dept of BMC and local leaders and residents of Madh. Every Sunday morning we clean the area, significant change can be seen as compared the first day, when we started. With every week going, the numbers of people joining us for the drive is on increase.

Phase 1 of the production of cotton bags has been completed as the local self-help groups have tailored into the making of the cotton bag. The costs have been incurred by the local corporation for the raw material and the daily wages of the workers. Phase 2 of the distribution of the cotton bags will be completed by the month end of April. We have also completed fifteen beach clean-up drives with around 1000 kg of garbage being removed from the beach. The aim of beach cleanups is not to clean the beaches but to create a sense of responsibility amongst the local residents the need for better spaces and showcase the damage done by plastic to the oceans.

Through this project, we have managed to create ownership amidst the youths and the local leaders of the communities and also addressing the pressing issue of marine life degradation and loss of livelihood through the usage of plastic. This initiative motivated the local political leaders to find alternative solutions by producing cotton bags to make Madh a plastic-free region.

Post our pilot initiative, we plan to expand this project in other communities adjoining the coastal lines of Mumbai which have been heavily contaminated by plastic usage.

We find that the problem caused due to plastic is not limited only to the untidy beaches but now it started haunting the fisheries in the suburbs.

We believe beach cleaning is not about clean beaches, as the harm was done so far needs a larger solution to tackle the problem. We wanted to create a sense of responsibility among the people living in the area, that space belongs to them, they should be taking care of it. Quality of fishes in the sea is degrading every single day, and the sole source of livelihood for people in Madh is fishing, their livelihood is at stake. By now around 2000kg of garbage has been cleaned with the help of BMC workers, community leaders and residents of the community.

BMC staff had supported with its full potential to the campaign "Plastic-free Madh"

Courtesy:

Vaibhav Patel & Simran Sharma
Gandhi Fellow; B-10; Mumbai

Jhunjhunu : A land of Brave Soldiers, Business Tycoon and the hub of Great Initiatives

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:50:00 +0000

History

A small town of 5929 square Kilometre is located in between the border of Haryana and Rajasthan. This Town comes under the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan along with two other major District of Rajasthan namely Sikar and Churu. Various structure and old construction tells the chronicles about the richness of the town in the past. It was not clear in history about who was the genuine founder of the town but there is a mentioning that the town is under an autonomous functioning under of its own king. The town was developed with all its infrastructure to provide assistance to the Baniya (The traders and Merchants) so that the town would get its share and the kingdom remain prosperous and flourishing. History mentioned about jhunjhunu in the Vikrams Era 1045 when the town was under Chauhan dynasty. After Chauhans, Nawab had captured the territory and ruled for almost 280 years. Sidhraj was the renowned king of the Jhunjhunu at the time when the Chauhan Dynasty is in power. In the year 1450, Mohammad Khan and his son Samas Khan had captured the town from the Chauhans.

Jhunjhunu was ruled by numbers of Nawabs in the succession. Below is the list of all of them. Rohilla Khan was the last nawab who ruled this flourished town Jhunjhunu.

Mohammad Khan 7. Mohabat Khan 13. Saad Khan
Samas Khan 8. Khijar Khan 14.Fazal Khan
Fateh Khan 9.Bahadur Khan 15.Rohilla Khan
Mubark Shah 10.Samas Khan Sani
Kamal Khan 11.Sultan khan
Bheekam Khan 12.Vahid Khan

Jowrawargarh Fort made by the eldest son of Shardul Singh at the heart of the town Jhunjhunu

Rohilla Khan was the last ruler of all the Nawabs. In his kingdom, Rohilla had appointed Shardul Singh as the Diwan of the Jhunjhunu. He was very trustful, Courageous and brave just like his ancestor Rao Sekha ji who was the ruler of Shekhawati before the Nawabs. Rohilla Khan has a great amount of trust on Shardul Singh and after the death of Rohilla Khan. Shardul Singh became the ruler of Jhunjhunu. He ruled the state for about twelve years and after his death, the states become scattered into five region and all these five regions were administered by his five sons. Shardul Singh had six children from three wives. One of them had expired at a very young age. Remaining five sons become the independent rulers of the different regions of Jhunjhunu.

Thakur Jowrawar Singh was the Eldest son born from the first wife at Kant (now a village in Alsisar Block in Jhunjhunu). He was the ancestors of the families of Taen, Malsisar, Gangiyasar and Mandrella etc.

Thakur Kishan Singh was born in 1709 from the third wife of Shardul Singh. He was the ancestor of the families from Khetri, Arooka, Seerga, Alsisar etc.

Thakur Kuwar Bahadur Singh, Akhay Singh, Thakur Nawal Singh Bahadur and Thakur Kesri Singh were born from the third wife of the Shardul Singh. The administration of all these five sons collectively known as Panchpana.

Business families such as Birla, Piramal, Dalmia, Rungta, Maheswari, Khaitan, Poddar, Singhania and many more are from Jhunjhunu. If we talk about the Shekhawati regions many more names adds-up to the list like Bajaj from Sikar and Mittal from Churu. From an anecdote by one of the teachers from Jhunjhunu, the land also had many business tycoons immediately after the independence of India. Almost 17-20 business big houses were from the Jhunjhunu. Bagar, a small Nagar Palika in Jhunjhunu had highly equipped hospitals at those times but as the times passes the hospital had to sell their equipment as they get old.

G.D Birla: Ghanshyam Das Birla was born in Pilani. His father Raja Baldeodas Birla was the first one in the family who went to Bombay (Now Mumbai) and established a number of businesses on trade. G.D Birla was most successful amongst the other three brothers in Birla Family.

G.D Birla

There was an incident where Aditya Birla talks about the advice that he received from his grandfather. His grandfather G.D Birla writes "eat only vegetarian food, never drink alcohol or smoke, keep early hours, marry young, switch-off lights when leaving the room, cultivate regular habits, go for a walk every day, keep in touch with the family, and above all, don’t be extravagant"
Jhunjhunu also posses an eminent engineering institute BITS Pillani. The Institute was also the gift of Birla to the country. Currently, there are a number of international schools and three international BITS centre is functioning. A number of students from all across India had enrolled in the institute. The institute offers several courses on engineering, masters in Business Administration as well as in PhD. According to the Nation Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF), BITS Pilani Secures the 9th rank amongst the various eminent institution of the country. The Institute's host number of students from all parts of India and abroad.

The Town is famously known for diligent soldiers. The land has made numerous sacrifices to protect their country from terror and to safeguard the line of control in the battlefield. Jhunujhunu had its own culture of producing battle heroes, every village had at least three to four soldiers in service and many retired one. If you will roam around these villages, you will find monuments of the martyrs. The soldiers of this town had even fought in the first and second world war. You name the war that India had fought and you will find the martyrs from this land of brave soldiers.

War warrior from Jhunjhunu

Captain Ayub Khan became the war hero of the 1965 Indo-Pak war as under his brave leadership he was able to push back the Pakistani army from Sialkot. With his old Sherman tank of Indian army at that time, He was able to dismantle the anti-aircraft guns. He with his platoon also destroyed three anti-tank Patton of Pakistan army and captured one under custody. After this manoeuvre, the Pakistan army escaped Sialkot. Ayub Khan also becomes the two time MP from Jhunjhunu. He was the only Muslim MP from Rajasthan who won the election two times consecutively.

Ayub Khan receiving Vir Chakra from the then President S. Radhakrishnan

Apart from all these renowned facts, the town is also known for the various initiatives that the district administration had taken in the past 4-5 years. One of them was "Apna Baccha Apna Vidyalaya". The initiative gains a lot of public recognition. To promote the initiative district administration had formed a committee and route plan to bridge the gap between the community and the school to increase the enrollment of the Government school at scale. The committee involves the different education department like SSA, RMSA, DIET, Piramal Foundation and other departments of government likes Women Child department, ICDS and The program crossed the set target and also received an appreciation from the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi during the Man-Ki-Baat radio show.

Apna Baccha Apna Vidayalay Campaign

The district administration had worked day and night to improve the gender inequality of the district. After constant effort and continuous campaign on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, The district government was able to improve the sex ration from 901 in the year 2015 to 955 in 2017. The initiative like lunch with Ladli, collector Ki Class, Community Bal Sabha, Door to door Campaign, School visit by parents, Collector ki Kurshi, Ratri Chaupal, Girl child Birthday celebration are the few ones that had given a boost in improving the result and the mindset of the people had started yawning.

Jhunjhunu District gets recognition for Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan

There are some tourist places in Jhunujhunu as well. Mandawa is famous for Bollywood film shooting because of its age-old Havelis that provides antique sceneries. Apart from that Alsisar Mahal is famous for its yearly music festival that enchants the folk's rhythms in the heart of the city. Lohargal, with a story from the epic Mahabharata, is a tourist spot for many virtuous and curious tourist. Rani Sati Mandir is famously known with all its eternity. Marwari's from all over the world visit this temple. The temple had the highest number of foreign tourist footfall in Jhunjhunu.

SHRI RANI SATI DADI MANDIR, JHUNJHUNU

LOHARGAL DHAM

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One crucial part I would like to mention specifically here. One of our legends of Gazal Gayak(Singer) Shri Mehdi Hassan who later after partition went to Pakistan was from Luna, Jhunjhunu. His family was from Jhunjhunu Rajasthan. Do listen to his Gazals - It is my personal suggestion to all the readers. All of them are exceptional.

REF:
https://www.nirfindia.org/univ

Know MORE about Ayub Khan
https://www.rediff.com/news/special/ayub-khan-the-war-hero-who-became-an-mp/20150928.htm

Know MORE about Apana Baccha Apna Vidyalaya campaign
http://rajrmsa.nic.in/Public/Documents/01-06-2017-131047~Document.pdf

दे दो दे दो कक्षा एक की किताब , कक्षा पांच कक्षा पांच ...........इधर देदो .....

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:29:00 +0000

बच्चों की उर्जा और होशियारी के चश्मदीद हम पिछले 19 महीनों से हैं और रोजाना इसकी झलकियाँ हमें मिलती ही रहती हैं| आज का दिन भी ऐसा ही था, LIBRARY CAMPAIGN( “पधारो म्हारे विद्यालय ) के मौके पर आज रामपुरा में दूसरे चरण के काम को अंजाम देने पहुँचे| जहाँ रंग-बिरंगे चित्र पुस्तकालय की दीवारों की सुंदरता बढ़ा रहे है, पुस्तकालय के दरवाजे पर राजस्थानी अंदाज में “पधारो म्हारे पुस्तकालय” पाठक को अपनी ओर आकर्षित करने को तैयार हैं| बस जरुरी इस बात की थी की पुस्तकालय को थोड़ा व्यवस्थित किया जाए और इसी क्रम में, सबसे पहले उनसे मिलना जरुरी था जो अपने अंदर सबसे ज्यादा उर्जा रखने वाले होते हैं, कुछ चमत्कारी से होते हैं, और कुछ हरफ़नमौला| आपका अंदाजा सही जा रहा है, वो हैं “बच्चे” | आख़िर लाइब्रेरी को उपयोग में लेना इनके लिए इनके स्चूली अधिकार से कम नहीं और तो और इनके कौशलों का स्तंभ है| बैठ गई उन बच्चों के बीच में जिनके साथ आज पूरे दिन पुस्तकालय को व्यवस्थित करना था, अब किसी भी चीज के शुभारंभ से पहले पुरे मन-मस्तिष्क में उस काम के उदेश्यों का होना तो ज़रूरी ही है| मैंने पूछा बच्चों आपको पता है आप यहाँ क्यों बैठे हो? किसी ने ‘नहीं’ में उत्तर दिया, किसी ने बताया की ‘ पुस्तकायलय में रखी किताबों को सही तरीके से रखना है’| इन सबके अलावा हमारे लिए जरुरी ये भी था की हम ये जान पाएं की बच्चे पुस्तकालय के महत्व को शब्दों में वर्णित करने में कितने सहज हैं, मैंने पूछा “अच्छा बच्चों आपको क्या लगता है पुस्तकालय क्यों ज़रूरी है?” कुछ देर की चुप्पी के बाद ढेर सारे जवाब आए| किसी ने कहा की “पुस्तकालय से हमे हर विषय का ज्ञान मिलता है”, “ पुस्तकों में बड़ी प्रेरणादायक कहानियां होती हैं जो हमारी मार्गदर्शक के तरह काम करती हैं” और भी बहुत सारे जवाब सामिल थे| पर एक जवाब ऐसा भी जिसकी मैंने तो कल्पना नहीं की थी वो था “ पुस्तकालय हमारे पढने के कौशल को बढ़ता है” | है न बड़ा ही रोचक जवाब? शायद मैं और आप स्कूल के बच्चों से ऐसे उत्तर की शायद ही अपेक्षा करें| लगभग 45 मिनट की बातचीत के बाद हम अपने मिशन की ओर अग्रसर हुए|

पुस्तकालय में जाते ही लगभग २००० से ज्यादा पाठ्यपुस्तकों की लगी ढेर पर नज़र पड़ी, थोड़ी आशंका हुई की कैसे होगा ? पर होनहार बच्चों न तनिक भी देर न किये बिना फटाफट हमारे साथ एक योजना बनाई की हम काम को कक्षा के स्तर से बाँट लेते हैं, जैसे की कक्षा 9, 10, 11, और 12 किताबों को कक्षा के अनुसार छांट कर कक्षा 5, 6, 7, 8 के बच्चों को देंगे और वे कक्षा के अनुसार किताबों के बंडल तैयार करेंगे| अपनी अपनी किताबों के लिए लाइन बना कर “कक्षा 1 कक्षा 1 , कक्षा 5 कक्षा 5” बोल बोल कर बच्चे अपने जिम्मे आई किताबों को इकठ्ठा कर रहे थे| सच में ये दृश्य बड़ा रोचक था, जहाँ किताबों पर सालों की धूल जमी थी और उन किताबों को बच्चे इतने रोचक अंदाज में छांट रहे थे| सच में ऐसे नीरस काम में भी बच्चों ने मुस्कान की छटा बिखेर कर ये तो साबित कर दिया था की इनका लड़कपन अभी खुल कर सांसे ले रहा है| धीरे- धीरे कर सभी ने टीम वर्क की मिशाल पेश करते हुए पूरे पुस्तकालय के रद्दी अख़बार, किताबों, धूलों का मानो सफाया ही कर दिया हो| 2 घंटे लगातार काम करते रहे, किसी ने मेज़ और अलमीरा की सफाई कर उसमे क्रमवार तरीके से किताबें जचा दीं तो किसी ने वर्षों से पड़े हारमुनियम को साफ़ कर उसकी धुन भी बजाना शुरू किया| देखते ही देखते पुस्तकालय और निखर उठा था, कुल मिला कर मजेदार दिन था | स्कूल की छुट्टी तो हो गई थी पर बच्चे मिशन पर तैनात थे, इसी बिच उनके काम को सराहना देते हुए वहां की अध्यापिका ने बच्चों PARLE –G बिस्कुट खिलाया, हाँ वही G for GENIUS वाली बिस्कुट| आज मैं कितनी चीजों की प्रत्यक्षदर्शी रही, बच्चों की टीम भावना , मैनेजमेंट, मिशन स्तरीय कार्य, सकार्तामकता, और साथ साथ कभी ख़त्म ना होने वाली उर्जा की| सच ये बच्चों के भीतर ही देखना संभव है , जरुरत है इनकी उर्जा की सही दिशा में संचार होने की|

जल्द ही नए लेख के साथ आउंगी , बच्चों के लिए, बच्चों द्वारा और बच्चों के पुस्तकालय को पूरी तरह व्यवस्थित करने के बाद|

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Gandhifellowship "Community Immersion"

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:56:00 +0000

One of the best parts of being a Gandhi fellow is that you get lots of opportunities to go through several self-building processes. One of them is Community Immersion. This is the process that is exhilarating and life-changing. This process can bring you stories that you would tell throughout your life. Now, Imagine a place(a slum or village) which is totally unknown to you a while back and where you will get a chance to stay for a month. Not only, do you have to be there but also engage school, community and community heads so that they can work on the loophole identified in the community, and school and this will happen because you were there. Sometimes, you don't even understand the language people around you speak. I am sure some of you are getting very excited about it and most of you became anxious to some extent and thinking how could I be useful if I don't know their language and can't speak with them, How would I communicate with people around. It's not an easy task! Is It? Ask yourself. Your answer will decide how much you need this fellowship.

निष्पक्ष चुनाव ऐसे !

Till then let's clarify a bit more. You (a fellow) had to be in a community. This community may be a slum or a village depending on your location. If you are in a location like Thane or Maharastra, of course, there is no village around and you have to live in a slum for one month. Now, for you to stay in a totally new place without any resources could look like a tough task if you are sitting in your home and reading this and eager to join the fellowship. But trust me after joining this fellowship and being a part of the Community Immersion process you will feel the confidence and the change within you. How and what things work in a village and with the villagers. What they wanted and how welcoming they are if you open up yourself for them. They accept you with whole hearts. Trust me, it is totally fair to have a slight discomfort in the warmth of the people who are looking at you and the children who started dreaming after listening to your stories and seeing the dream competing with you.

Now let me tell you my stories of community Immersion bit by bit. It's not possible to write all of my stories in a single piece of a blog but I will try to write as much as it would be ok for you to read.

I want to start my journey with a quote that I came across reading on the wall of the school which says and I quote " Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead If you lose, you will guide" My journey begins with this quote. I was also quite nervous and anxious as everybody else because it was the first time in the whole 22 years that I was staying somewhere totally new and without the comfort of known people like friends and family.

A clear objective of this process is to understand the problem closely that common villagers had to face just because they do not have the privileges or opportunities that urban people have. This process could also help us understand the perspective of the community and people about the government schools and teachers and vice-versa. It is said usually that when you come back from this process, many of you could already develop grit and resilience. The reason for this is that you keep trying and you achieve what you set for yourself and that no one else has done for you. Your goals, Your grit and your achievements.

ELECTION KA RESULT AAYA!

One thing I was very clear that I would use storytelling and story listening sessions to develop reading and listening habits in the kids and could also improve the vocabulary and elocution of Hindi words in them. I have experimented this with children in my earlier endeavours and this technique made the learning joyful for both of us. I picked up almost 30 books from the school library on the very first day with the help of the principal of the school. I also had a 30-minute discussion with the principal Shri Vijendra ji and jotted down the to-do list for 30 days. With the help of teachers, I made a class-wise list of the irregular students of the school because my plan was to visit the houses of these students. However, I was not able to do it because of the 20-day school vacation that came in between.

कहानियाँ आमने-सामने

I went to the houses of some of the school kids and talked to their parents about them. I was facing immense problems understanding the accent of Marwari. It made me more vulnerable in that situation. But responses which I was able to understand are satisfying. Most parents didn't know which of their children were in which class. Though the responses of their mother are sufficiently satisfactory. I also asked what are the things that interest their children, and what are the one or two good habits or behaviour of their children that they wanted to mention. The response that I got from their mother socked me, one said my daughter is 'Sudhha'. explaining the same she said she wouldn't respond even if she gets beaten by me, teachers or someone else.

हमलोग

There are plenty of good things about community immersion. First, I got to eat delicious mid-day meal. Simple Daal and Roti were so delicious to eat that I can't compare this with anything. The government senior secondary school Sonasar had a really awesome Bhojanmata. She made food for all the teachers and children. Rajendra ji and all the MDM staff were very kind to me. In a whole month, not a single day they forgot to ask me if I had the food or not.

MID-DAY-MEAL(NAMKEEN RICE)

In the evening, after school, we (me and the children of class 4-8) planned a storytelling and activity session. It continued for almost a month and we started with storytelling and eventually performed Nukkad Natak. We read many stories sitting in a circle side by side and also listened to everyone. We learned together how to give respect to a reader and what happens when we listen to things carefully. Do we enjoy more if we involve ourselves in the story and start analysing the situation? We also talked about the story and tried to empathise with the character. That's how we were able to shift easily from the stories to performing in Nukkad Natak.

कहनियों मे हैं आप!

The house, or should I say the home where I stayed for a month became a home from the house within two days. Chandra Bhai was the person who on the very first interaction, won my heart. He was very generous to me. We had talked for around two and a half hours on the very first interaction. There was a teacher Sujit ji who came in while we were talking about my reason for staying in the village for a month.

After listening to my big and bigger ideas of change in a village, Sujit ji started having doubts on me. He asked why you had come from a city like Kolkata to serve here (I told him that I am from Asansol clearly but Any city in Bengal is Kolkata for him). He started being suspicious of me. He said to Chandra bhai that these days Villages are also not safe, People from outside come here and get involved in suspicious things. Sooner, He became more rude and aggressive and started saying you may be a liar.

Nothing like that happens, nobody who is from a good family and from a city would come and stay in a village. Tell me frankly, what is the true reason for you to come to this village and why you wanted to stay in this house. I am sure he was trying to test me that time and that was absolutely fine. If I was there, I would have done the same. But at that time, Iwas scared when Chandra bhai started being protective of me and defended me in front of Sujit ji for saying such harsh words to me.

I pondered that people like Chandra bhai, who trusted me and was open to welcoming me in his home are the citizen of Village. A person staying in cities would need a lot of courage and security to welcome someone like this. In the night when I was just to hit the hay, I started thinking, have I done the same being in the place of Chandra bhai? Do I have that kind of heart, courage and acceptance for people? Could we expect this kind of generosity from a people at this time? I learnt a lesson, I learnt what is the trueness of truth. I decided the same night that I would also try to be generous to the people, Whatever I would do, I would see Chandra bhai in people.

HOME SWEET HOME

In the home, there were 10 people including me two bhabhi ( Though I call them Didi from the day first), Two Bhaiya, Dadi and four kids Subham, Saurabh, Samar and Goluda. In-home most of my time goes with the kids. Especially with Goluda, as he was the only non-school-going child. I can't forget his constant call for me by GUJI( GURUJI). I took a deep breath as I remembered his sweet memories. A picture of him came across. I felt for him when it was my last day in the village. I know He would miss me and want me for a walk birdwatching early morning.

BAL SANSAD ELECTION

I think, first week remains the test of your grit and then you start liking the people around you, the kids and ambience of the village. After that nothing seems impossible and you will start feeling empowered.

गुजी तोतो ! (Guruji Parrot)

That is it. I had written this small memoir to reverberate my memories of the very first Community Immersion. I had a great respect for what I did for myself through this process. The idea for writing this short bits and pieces of memory is also to reserve it as a digital album and reading this you might get inspired to join the fellowship or visit your or any village.

Gandhifellowship "Mini Public System Project :स्वच्छ भारत अभियान "

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:39:00 +0000

As this is our first unofficial post as a group in a form of a blog. Let me take few seconds to explain the core objective of this endeavour. The primary objective is to connect with the people around and showcase them our constant efforts. In others terms, we also want to stimulate our youth to join our hands to become a change maker by bringing change within himself or herself. At last, We wish to explain some of our objectives, Learnings and challenges throughout our journey within the fellowship tenure. We will be explaining all of our practices and endeavour encountered during our processes.

Now, read the title again "Mini Public System Project: स्वच्छ भारत अभियान". So, As you can understand from the title, it is another process (Mini PSP) that we have participated in for a week. During this process, we got some direction and suggestion in a form of a document. I am mentioning only the gist of it. The key terms mentioned in that document were as follows

one week - Duration.
3 Hours a day ( we could use 3 hours for this as we have other works going parallelly to this).
Sustainability ( We have to make our idea/plan/सोंच sustainable ).
Schools or communities ( We could choose any places from these two as our target area)
Women participation ( As we all firmly believe that women participation is very important to the success of any endeavour).
Involvement of community head-Sarpanch, community members parents, students, teachers and govt. officer.
Mindset change ( This is the key to sustainability).
To impact on at least 70% of people in the community.
To conduct an event to ask for the participation of the community or others.
To collect photos and videos side by side to showcase the endeavour.

From All of this, we can come to a conclusion that it is not just an awareness campaign but more than that.

Ok, now we can talk about our plan and how we did it in our cluster. But first, let me introduce you to all of our member who did this together as a team.

Adarsh Suryawanshi

He is from Ayodhya. He is a fatherly figure in our house. He has done his graduation from Allahabad University and masters in rural development from Banaras Hindu University(काशी हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय).

Annu Jha

She is the princes' charm of the house. very caring and accommodating.She is originally from Bihar but her parenting was done from Dhanbad, Jharkhand.She has done her Bachelors in journalism from Makhanlal Chaturvedi national university of journalism and Masters in Communication in Media's studies from the Central University of South Bihar.She has a sweet voice.

Satyabrata Sahoo

He is the godfather. The thinker and Mr. caption cool. He has an immense strength of remaining cool in an adverse situation. He is from Cuttack, Odisha. He has done his bachelors In commerce(Management Honours) from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack Odisha. He has also completed his MBA in Development Management from Centurion University, Paralakhemundi, Odisha.

Patitapaban Choudhury

He is the altruist. Energetic and smart enough to use NVC(Non- Violent Communication) at times. He is a gem in our team. He has done his BBA from KIIT University, Odisha. He is from Berhampur, Odisha. He has also the honour of representing India in Rugby.

Mohit Kr Singh

Hi, Now, I have to write about myself. I am the only child of our team. Everyone cares for me so much so that I never felt, I am not at my home. I am the only Engineer here on my team. I have done B.tech From Asansol Engineering College in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering.

Now, I am going to share our day wise schedule and planning and what we wanted to achieve in the end. We as a Gandhi fellow got a responsibility to clean a community and make it through sustainable modelling. So, We wanted to develop such a plan or idea that we can use in other communities with slight change according to need. We wanted that our plan will be acceptable to every community and remain sustainable even after we disengage from that. We want ownership of the community people on our shared plan and they should feel the need of doing this.

Day-1

We planned a meeting with the Sarpanch of the village Kasimpura and the School HM of GUPS Kayasthpura. We wanted to involve them in our plan and needed equal participation and motivation for this work. We explained to them what we are planning for next seven days and what would be his role in the coming days. We wanted Students participation in organising the event and to lead the cleanliness drive in their community with us. So, We asked for help from HM.

With sarpanch Ji, we talked on various topics starting from our introduction and purpose of choosing this village to the availability of funds for the cleanliness. We got an assurance that we will get all his support for this work.

Day-2

On the Second day of our journey, we visited the community and had a conversation with the parents of the students and other villagers and asked them some common questions about the Cleanliness. We asked them "How they dispose of degradable and Non-degradable waste".

We also went to school and prepared Nukkad Natak with the help of students. We made a script with the message indicating the importance of Cleanliness in the society and asked few questions that "why Villages are getting more and more polluted with the Non-degradable waste?" The village was very clean 10 years back but now we can see the piles of plastics here and there. Students visited the community with a rally and the slogan on "Swachhata". We identified few important places where we played Nukkad Natak.

Then we met with the Sarpanch Ji with the idea of Volunteer generation. We wanted few young volunteers who can help us impact widely in the villages. We want them to be motivated enough to carry out this process for a larger goal which is the sustainability of our shared plan in the village. We explained our idea to Sarpanch ji and with three hours with the help of Sarpanch ji we managed to generate 19 volunteers. We made a list of those volunteers and asked them if they are free 5 in the evening for the next day. We wanted to have a meeting with them before a community meeting so that we could reach on the same level with our plan. We noted everyone's name and mobile number and dismissed them for that day.

Volunteers at site

Day-3

We wanted to have a community meeting with the help of sarpanch ji and our volunteer. So, we started to frame our messages to talk to the community members and prepared some poem, Videos and speech.

After that, we met with our volunteer at 5 in the evening and motivated them with our objective of cleaning our village. We talked with them about the ranking of our district and the state in the SWACHH SARVEKSHAN 2016 report and also discussed with them a story that was published in that same report from our own district Jhunjhunu. We also showed them a video at the end of our discussion“Bharat ka Khat Apke Liye” Link of the video ----

https://youtu.be/mxwFPm1T0vQ

We wanted to have a survey in the village so that we could identify the more critical problem of the community people. We prepared a survey form with the help of Volunteer and shared that with them. The volunteers took the ownership and agreed to go with the form to each door in the village and do the survey. We decided that we will complete this task by 5 PM on the next day.

We also pasted some note on the wall regarding the community meeting near sarpanch House. We asked the volunteers to invite the community people to the community meeting tomorrow at 5 PM during the survey.

Day-4

As was planned, We started our Swachhta rally from the school with the help of the kids and went to our two targeted community. Student’s played Nukkad Natak on the Chaupal and main area of the villages. We return back to our school by 2 PM. After that, We went to the community where the community meeting is going to be held. We established our gadgets and collected the survey form. Then we started to put our point in front of the gathering. There were 39 children, 21 male, 09 women and 11 senior citizens were present from the community. Sarpanch ji, was also available with us. We expressed our concern about the cleanliness of our village Kayasthpura and Kasimpura. We asked people that what is the reason that our villages were clean 10 years before and now it is filled with plastic litters. We have also shown them a video of the Asia’s Cleanest Village Mawylynong placed in Meghalaya, India. We understand collectively that if we try to give 2 hours of our week on a regular basis. It will not take much time to clean our village and after that, we could keep our village clean throughout easily by devoting 30 min of our time weekly. We with the present villagers took a pledge on the cleanliness.

Day-5

We started three days cleanliness drive in this two community for 2 hours with the help of our Volunteer and other community people.

For having large-scale impact, we went to the office of the BDO Alsisar and talked with them for about 3 hours. We wanted that BDO could arrange a meeting of us with all his 34 Sarpanch. Luckily, we got an opportunity to talk to all the present sarpanch and Gram Sevak as there was already a workshop arranged on that same date on MSGY( Mukhyamantri Swachh Gram Yojna).

We came to a conclusion after a discussion that we will get to work with one Panchayat to develop it as a model plan for others.

The selection of panchayat would have certain criteria

1.Enrollment in School should be decent.

2. Women participation should be needed.

3. Sarpanch motivation and desire to experiment with us.

4. The population should be average.

After that, we selected Budha ka Bas Village.Sarpanch ji seems motivated enough to raise their hands first and remain checked on the above criteria.

Day-6

We were continuing our cleanliness drives in Kayasthpura and Kasimpura with the help of our volunteer and Community people.

We went to Budha Ka Bas and attended a meeting with all the HM of the 5 GUPS(Government Upper Primary School) school and 1 GSSS(Government Senior Secondary School) school. We started to narrate our objective and brief of our plan to do this in the Five community of Budha Ka Bas. We did the same thing like volunteer generation and planned Nukkad Natak.

Day-7

In Kyasthpura and Kasimpura, we ended our engagement and hand over the responsibility of keeping their village clean in the hand of volunteers and sarpanch ji. Sarpanch ji, also assured us that they will set up dustbin in the village with the fund that they will get from the government and will try to keep the village clean.

धन्यवाद !

Dreadful Dream!

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 14:34:00 +0000

Dreaming is not always a delightful experience. There are several bad and evil experiences as well.But do you remember any of those evil dreams? I guess a few of you would say 'yes'. If you could remember any of such fantastic glimpse of your nightmares. I would love to know about those dreams because the dreams are much more intriguing than our real life. I can remember when I was thirteen my dreams were more or less like a fantasy movie. There are several characters in my dreams but they have never shown me their faces.I presume they were shy. The adventure of watching such a dream is not less exciting than watching movies like Hobbit or Harry potter. If I compare them scrupulously I would say my dreams are much more embellished. You may also share your experience about the cacophonic dream in the comment box below.

I have heard that a few people have also experienced a glimpse of the chucklesome dream. This surreal dream is the mixture between real or true events in the past and imagination or desire in the future. These dreams could be amusing. One of my friends explained to me that he changed his mode of transport every other second in his dream. He started his ride with a bicycle and suddenly hold the yoke of an aeroplane and again came back to the bicycle.It was a very weary dream because of the rigmarole that he went through.

There are some situations in the life when a person feels miserable because of the events that are taunting to the person. It could be a problem with the family, Friends or even within a job and work. At that time a person starts dreaming about that event and try to look at it with a different perspective.The reason would be the constant thinking about that event due to the pressure and the fear of failure. The person starts finding the solution of the problem in their dream. This is a good practice, though. Because in the real world a person doesn't get more than one trial. It was also observed that some student due to exam phobia starts memorising their upcoming course paper in their dreams.
There are few Sites that can decode your dreams. Yes, there are! I also get amazed when I heard this for the first time. here(http://www.dreammoods.com/) you can decipher the meaning of your dream according to A-Z search as well as you can pick the particular context of a dream from the list provided such as dream about snake, death or any other context that you can remember.

I will not discuss the biological reason of dreaming. This is very complicated and unexplored topic. The main and basic reason of dreaming is still unknown.But there are continuous researches going on to discover the cause and effect of dreams. There was a research done within a group of 264 students which explained that the night-owl people dream more frequently than the early-birds. This research was published on 2011 in the journal Sleep and Biological Rhythms. There are many such experiments published by scientist and Psychologists but the results are not completely confirmed.

There are many websites and published articles that try to explain the phenomenon like dreaming and sleeping.But still, both are castles in the air because none of them surely say why human sleep and dream.
Various Researches show that dreams are necessary to have a healthy life and there are also some researchers that say when a person starts showing extreme fear, violent and rigorous symptoms during a dream. It could be the starting point of a disease like Parkinson's and so on for that person. So, extremism within the dream could be cautious. Though Parkinson is not a mental disorder but it could cause death as well if the symptoms get much more severe. All you want to know about Parkinson Disease(PD) http://www.parkinson.org/understanding-parkinsons/what-is-parkinsons

But after all, Everything is Okay, until you are having a sweet dream. It might also happen that few a times you could see a dreadful one but that must be the mirror of your real life issue. To avoid such dream one should have to be delightful.
I wish you a blend of the happy and dreadful dreams as both are required to be healthy.

The Winter's Tale

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:46:00 +0000

Let's Read one more interesting Story summarised by Merry Lamb and Charles Lamb from The William Shakespeare's Play The Winter's Tale.

Leontes, king of Sicily, and his queen, the beautiful and virtuous
Hermione, once lived in the greatest harmony together. So happy was
Leontes in the love of this excellent lady, that he had no wish

ungratified, except that he sometimes desired to see againagain, and to

present to his queen, his old companion and school-fellow, Polixenes,

king of Bohemia. Leontes and Polixenes were brought up together

from their infancy, but being, by the death of their fathers, called to

reign over their respective kingdoms, they had not met for many years,

though they frequently interchanged gifts, letters, and loving

embassies.

At length, after repeated invitations, Polixenes came from Bohemia to

the Sicilian court, to make his friend Leontes a visit.

At first this visit gave nothing but pleasure to Leontes.He

recommended the friend of his youth to the queen's particular

attention, and seemed in the presence of his dear friend and old

companion to have his felicity quite completed. They talked over old

times; their schooldays and their youthful pranks were remembered,

and recounted to Hermione, who always took a cheerful part in these

conversations.

When, after a long stay, Polixenes was preparing to depart, Hermione,

at the desire of her husband, joined her entreaties to his that Polixenes

would prolong his visit.And now began this good queen's sorrow; for Polixenes refusing to

stay at the request of Leontes, was won over by Hermione's gentle and

persuasive words to put off his departure for some weeks longer.

Upon this, although Leontes had so long known the integrity and

honourable principles of his friend Polixenes, as well as the excellent

disposition of his virtuous queen, he was seized with an ungovernable

jealousy. Every attention Hermione showed to Polixenes, though by

her husband's particular desire, and merely to please him, increased

the unfortunate king's jealousy; and from being a loving and a true

friend, and the best and fondest of husbands, Leontes became

suddenly a savage and inhuman monster. Sending for Camillo, one of

the lords of his court, and telling him of the suspicion he entertained,

he commanded him to poison Polixenes.

Camillo was a good man; and he, well knowing that the jealousy of

Leontes had not the slightest foundation in truth, instead of poisoning

Polixenes, acquainted him with the king his master's orders, and

agreed to escape with him out of the Sicilian dominions; and

Polixenes, with the assistance of Camillo, arrived safe in his own

kingdom of Bohemia, where Camillo lived from that time in the king's

court, and became the chief friend and favourite of Polixenes.

The flight of Polixenes enraged the jealous Leontes still more; he

went to the queen's apartment, where the good lady was sitting with

her little son Mamillius, who was just beginning to tell one of his best

stories to amuse his mother, when the king entered, and taking the

child away, sent Hermione to prison.

Mamillius, though but a very young child, loved his mother tenderly;

and when he saw her so dishonoured, and found she was taken from

him to be put into a prison, he took it deeply to heart, and drooped and

pined away by slow degrees, losing his appetite and his sleep, till it

was thought his grief would kill him.

The king, when he had sent his queen to prison, commanded

Cleomenes and Dion, two Sicilian lords, to go to Delphos, there to

inquire of the oracle at the temple of Apollo, if his queen had been

unfaithful to him. When Hermione had been a short time in prison,

she was brought to bed of a daughter; and the poor lady received

much comfort from the sight of her pretty baby, and she said to it: 'My

poor little prisoner, I am as innocent as you are.'

Hermione had a kind friend in the noble-spirited Paulina, who was the

wife of Antigonus, a Sicilian lord; and when the lady Paulina heard

her royal mistress was brought to bed, she went to the prison where

Hermione was confined; and she said to Emilia, a lady who attended

upon Hermione: 'I pray you, Emilia, tell the good queen, if her majesty

dare trust me with her little babe, I will carry it to the king, its father;

we do not know how he may soften at the sight of his innocent child.'

'Most worthy madam,' replied Emilia, 'I will acquaint the queen with

your noble offer; she was wishing to-day that she had any friend who

would venture to present the child to the king.' 'And tell her,' said

Paulina, 'that I will speak boldly to Leontes in her defence.' 'May you

be for ever blessed,' said Emilia, 'for your kindness to our gracious

queen!' Emilia then went to Hermione, who joyfully gave up her baby

to the care of Paulina, for she had feared that no one would dare

venture to present the child to its father.

Paulina took the new-born infant, and forcing herself into the king's

presence, notwithstanding her husband, fearing the king's anger,

endeavoured to prevent her, she laid the babe at its father's feet, and

Paulina made a noble speech to the king in defence of Hermione, and

she reproached him severely for his inhumanity, and implored him to

have mercy on his innocent wife and child. But Paulina's spirited

remonstrances only aggravated Leontes' displeasure, and he ordered

her husband Antigonus to take her from his presence.

When Paulina went away, she left the little baby at its father's feet,

thinking when he was alone with it, he would look upon it, and have

pity on its helpless innocence.

The good Paulina was mistaken: for no sooner was she gone than the

merciless father ordered Antigonus, Paulina's husband, to take the

child, and carry it out to sea, and leave it upon some desert shore to

perish.

Antigonus, unlike the good Camillo, too well obeyed the orders of

Leontes; for he immediately carried the child on ship-board, and put

out to sea, intending to leave it on the first desert coast he could find.

So firmly was the king persuaded of the guilt of Hermione, that he

would not wait for the return of Cleomenes and Dion, whom he had

sent to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphos; but before the queen

was recovered from her lying-in, and from her grief for the loss of her

precious baby, he had her brought to a public trial before all the lords

and nobles of his court. And when all the great lords, the judges, and

all the nobility of the land were assembled together to try Hermione,

and that unhappy queen was standing as a prisoner before her subjects

to receive their judgement Cleomenes and Dion entered the assembly,

and presented to the king the answer of the oracle, sealed up; and

Leontes commanded the seal to be broken, and the words of the oracle

to be read aloud, and these were the words: 'Hermione is innocent,

Polixenes blameless,-Camillo a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant,

and the king shall live without an heir if that which is lost be not

found.' The king would give no credit to the words of the oracle: he

said it was a falsehood invented by the queen's friends, and he desired

the judge to proceed in the trial of the queen; but while Leontes was

speaking, a man entered and told him that the prince Mamillius,

hearing his mother was to be tried for her life, struck with grief and

shame, had suddenly died.

Hermione, upon hearing of the death of this dear affectionate child,

who had lost his life in sorrowing for her misfortune, fainted; and

Leontes, pierced to the heart by the news, began to feel pity for his

unhappy queen, and he ordered Paulina, and the ladies who were her

attendants, to take her away, and use means for her recovery. Paulina

soon returned, and told the king that Hermione was dead.

When Leontes heard that the queen was dead, he repented of his

cruelty to her; and now that he thought his ill-usage had broken

Hermione's heart, he believed her innocent; and now he thought the

words of the oracle were true, as he knew 'if that which was lost was not found,'

which he concluded was his young daughter, he should be

without an heir, the young prince Mamillius being dead; and he would

give his kingdom now to recover his lost daughter: and Leontes gave

himself up to remorse, and passed many years in mournful thoughts

and repentant grief.

The ship in which Antigonus carried the infant princess out to sea was

driven by a storm upon the coast of Bohemia, the very kingdom of the

good king Polixenes. Here Antigonus landed, and here he left the little

baby.

Antigonus never returned to Sicily to tell Leontes where he had left

his daughter, for as he was going back to the ship, a bear came out of

the woods, and tore him to pieces; a just punishment on him for

obeying the wicked order of Leontes.

The child was dressed in rich clothes and jewels; for Hermione had

made it very fine when she sent it to Leontes, and Antigonus had

pinned a paper to its mantle, and the name of Perdita written thereon,

and words obscurely intimating its high birth and untoward fate.

This poor deserted baby was found by a shepherd. He was a humane

man, and so he carried the little Perdita home to his wife, who nursed

it tenderly; but poverty tempted the shepherd to conceal the rich prize

he had found: therefore he left that part of the country, that no one

might know where he got his riches, and with part of Perdita's jewels

he bought herds of sheep, and became a wealthy shepherd. He brought

up Perdita as his own child, and she knew not she was any other than

a shepherd's daughter.

The little Perdita grew up a lovely maiden; and though she had no

better education than that of a shepherd's daughter, yet so did the

natural graces she inherited from her royal mother shine forth in her

untutored mind, that no one from her behaviour would have known

she had not been brought up in her father's court.

Polixenes, the king of Bohemia, had an only son, whose name was

Florizel. As this young prince was hunting near the shepherd's

dwelling, he saw the old man's supposed daughter; and the beauty,

modesty, and queen-like deportment of Perdita caused him instantly

to fall in love with her. He soon, under the name of Doricles, and in

the disguise of a private gentleman, became a constant visitor at the

old shepherd's house. Florizel's frequent absences from court alarmed

Polixenes; and setting people to watch his son, he discovered his love

for the shepherd's fair daughter.

Polixenes then called for Camillo, the faithful Camillo, who had

preserved his life from the fury of Leontes, and desired that he would

accompany him to the house of the shepherd, the supposed father of

Perdita.

Polixenes and Camillo, both in disguise, arrived at the old shepherd's

dwelling while they were celebrating the feast of sheep-shearing; and

though they were strangers, yet at the sheep-shearing every guest

being made welcome, they were invited to walk in, and join in the

general

festivity.

Nothing but mirth and jollity was going forward. Tables were spread,

and great preparations were making for the rustic feast. Some lads and

lasses were dancing on the green before the house, while others of the

young men were buying ribands, gloves, and such toys, of a pedlar at

the door.

While this busy scene was going forward, Florizel and Perdita sat

quietly in a retired corner, seemingly more pleased with the

conversation of each other, than desirous of engaging in the sports and

silly amusements of those around them.

The king was so disguised that it was impossible his son could know

him: he therefore advanced near enough to hear the conversation. The

simple yet elegant manner in which Perdita conversed with his son did

not a little surprise Polixenes: he said to Camillo: 'This is the prettiest

low-born lass I ever saw; nothing she does or says but looks like

something greater than herself, too noble for this place.'

Pamillo replied: 'Indeed she is the very queen of curds and cream.'

'Pray, my good friend,' said the king to the old shepherd, ' what fair

swain is that talking with your daughter?' 'They call him Doricles,'

replied the shepherd. 'He says he loves my daughter; and, to speak

truth, there is not a kiss to choose which loves the other best. If young

Doricles can get her, she shall bring him that he little dreams of';

meaning the remainder of Perdita's jewels; which, after he had bought

herds of sheep with part of them, he had carefully hoarded up for her

marriage portion.

Polixenes then addressed his son. 'How now, young man!' said he:

'your heart seems full of something that takes off your mind from

feasting. When I was young, I used to load my love with presents; but

you have let the pedlar go, and have bought your lass no toy.'

The young prince, who little thought he was talking to the king his

father, replied: 'Old sir, she prizes not such trifles; the gifts which

Perdita expects from me are locked up in my heart.' Then turning to

Perdita, he said to her: 'O hear me, Perdita, before this ancient

gentleman, who it seems was once himself a lover; he shall hear what

I profess.' Florizel then called upon the old stranger to be a witness to

a solemn promise of marriage which he made to Perdita, saying to

Polixenes: 'I pray you, mark our contract.'

'Mark your divorce, young sir,' said the king, discovering himself.

Polixenes then reproached his son for daring to contract himself to

this low-born maiden, calling Perdita 'shepherd's brat, sheep-hook,'

and other disrespectful names; and threatening, if ever she suffered

his son to see her again, he would put her, and the old shepherd her

father, to a cruel death.

The king then left them in great wrath, and ordered Camillo to follow
him with prince Florizel.

When the king had departed, Perdita, whose royal nature was roused
by Polixenes' reproaches, said: 'Though we are all undone, I was not
much afraid; and once or twice I was about to speak, and tell him
plainly that the selfsame sun which shines upon his palace, hides not
his face from our cottage, but looks on both alike.' Then sorrowfully
she said: 'But now I am awakened from this dream, I will queen it no
further. Leave me, sir; I will go milk my ewes and weep.'

The kind-hearted Camillo was charmed with the spirit and propriety
of Perdita's behaviour; and perceiving that the young prince was too
deeply in love to give up his mistress at the command of his royal
father, he thought of a way to befriend the lovers, and at the same
time to execute a favourite scheme he had in his mind.

Camillo had long known that Leontes, the king of Sicily, was become
a true penitent; and though Camillo was now the favoured friend of
king Polixenes, he could not help wishing once more to see his late
royal master and his native home. He therefore proposed to Florizel
and Perdita that they should accompany him to the Sicilian court,
where he would engage Leontes should protect them, till, through his
mediation, they could obtain pardon from Polixenes, and his consent
to their marriage.

To this proposal they joyfully agreed; and Camillo, who conducted everything relative to their flight,
allowed the old shepherd to go along with them.The shepherd took with him the remainder of Perdita's jewels, her baby clothes, and the paper which he had found pinned to her mantle.

After a prosperous voyage, Florizel and Perdita, Camillo and the old
shepherd, arrived in safety at the court of Leontes. Leontes, who still
mourned his dead Hermione and his lost child, received Camillo with
great kindness, and gave a cordial welcome to prince Florizel. But
Perdita, whom Florizel introduced as his princess, seemed to engross
all Leontes' attention: perceiving a resemblance between her and his
dead queen Hermione, his grief broke out afresh, and he said, such a
lovely creature might his own daughter have been, if he had not so
cruelly destroyed her. 'And then, too,' said he to Florizel, 'I lost the
society and friendship of your grave father, whom I now desire more
than my life once again to look upon.'

When the old shepherd heard how much notice the king had taken of
Perdita, and that he had lost a daughter, who was exposed in infancy,
he fell to comparing the time when he found the little Perdita, with the
manner of its exposure, the jewels and other tokens of its high birth;
from all which it was impossible for him not to conclude that Perdita
and the king's lost daughter were the same.

Florizel and Perdita, Camillo and the faithful Paulina, were present
when the old shepherd related to the king the manner in which he had
found the child, and also the circumstance of Antigonus' death, he
having seen the bear seize upon him. He showed the rich mantle in
which Paulina remembered Hermione had wrapped the child; and he
produced a jewel which she remembered Hermione had tied about
Perdita's neck, and he gave up the paper which Paulina knew to be the
writing of her husband; it could not be doubted that Perdita was
Leontes' own daughter: but oh! the noble struggles of Paulina,
between sorrow for her husband's death, and joy that the oracle was
fulfilled, in the king's heir, his long-lost daughter being found. When
Leontes heard that Perdita was his daughter, the great sorrow that he
felt that Hermione was not living to behold her child, made him that
he could say nothing for a long time, but 'O thy mother, thy mother!'

Paulina interrupted this joyful yet distressful scene, with saying to
Leontes, that she had a statue newly finished by that rare Italian
master, Julio Romano, which was such a perfect resemblance of the
queen, that would his majesty be pleased to go to her house and look
upon it, he would be almost ready to think it was Hermione herself.

Thither then they all went; the king anxious to see the semblance of
his Hermione, and Perdita longing to behold what the mother she
never saw did look like.

When Paulina drew back the curtain which concealed this famous
statue, so perfectly did it resemble Hermione, that all the king's
sorrow was renewed at the sight: for a long time he had no power to
speak or move.

'I like your silence, my liege,' said Paulina, 'it the more shows your
wonder. Is not this statue very like your queen?'

At length the king said: 'O, thus she stood, even with such majesty,
when I first wooed her. But yet, Paulina, Hermione was not so aged as
this statue looks.' Paulina replied: 'So much the more the carver's
excellence, who has made the statue as Hermione would have looked
had she been living now. But let me draw the curtain, sire, lest
presently you think it moves.'

The king then said: 'Do not draw the curtain; would I were dead! See,
Camillo, would you not think it breathed? Her eye seems to have
motion in it.' 'I must draw the curtain, my liege,' said Paulina. 'You are
so transported, you will persuade yourself the statue lives.' 'O, sweet
Paulina,' said Leontes, 'make me think so twenty years together! Still
methinks there is an air comes from her. What fine chisel could ever
yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, for I will kiss her.' 'Good my
lord, forbear!' said Paulina. 'The ruddiness upon her lip is wet; you
will stain your own with oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain?' 'No,
not these twenty years,' said Leontes.

Perdita, who all this time had been kneeling, and beholding in silent
admiration the statue of her matchless mother, said now: 'And so long
could I stay here, looking upon my dear mother.'

'Either forbear this transport,' said Paulina to Leontes, 'and let me
draw the curtain; or prepare yourself for more amazement. I can make
the statue move indeed; ay, and descend from off the pedestal, and
take you by the hand. But then you will think, which I protest I am
not, that I am assisted by some wicked powers.'

'What you can make her do,' said the astonished king, 'I am content to
hear; for it is as easy to make her speak as move.'

Paulina then ordered some slow and solemn music, which she had
prepared for the purpose, to strike up; and, to the amazement of all the
beholders, the statue came down from off the pedestal, and threw its
arms around Leontes' neck. The statue then began to speak, praying
for blessings on her husband, and on her child, the newly-found
Perdita.

No wonder that the statue hung upon Leontes' neck, and blessed her
husband and her child. No wonder; for the statue was indeed
Hermione herself, the real, the living queen.

Paulina had falsely reported to the king the death of Hermione,
thinking that the only means to preserve her royal mistress's life; and
with the good Paulina, Hermione had lived ever since, never choosing
Leontes should know she was living, till she heard Perdita was found;
for though she had long forgiven the injuries which Leontes had done
to herself, she could not pardon his cruelty to his infant daughter.

His dead queen thus restored to life, his lost daughter found, the long-sorrowing
Leontes could scarcely support the excess of his own happiness.

Nothing but congratulations and affectionate speeches were heard on
all sides. Now the delighted parents thanked prince Florizel for loving
their lowly-seeming daughter; and now they blessed the good old
shepherd for preserving their child. Greatly did Camillo and Paulina
rejoice that they had lived to see so good an end of all their faithful
services.

And as if nothing should be wanting to complete this strange and
unlooked-for joy, king Polixenes himself now entered the palace.

When Polixenes first missed his son and Camillo, knowing that
Camillo had long wished to return to Sicily, he conjectured he should
find the fugitives here; and, following them with all speed, he
happened to just arrive at this, the happiest moment of Leontes' life.

Polixenes took a part in the general joy; he forgave his friend Leontes
the unjust jealousy he had conceived against him, and they once more
loved each other with all the warmth of their first boyish friendship.
And there was no fear that Polixenes would now oppose his son's
marriage with Perdita. She was no 'sheep-hook' now, but the heiress of
the crown of Sicily.

Thus have we seen the patient virtues of the long-suffering Hermione
rewarded. That excellent lady lived many years with her Leontes and
her Perdita, the happiest of mothers and of queens.

.....................................................The End...................................................

Thank You, for reading with us. If you would like to suggest or say something.
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Innovation, evolution and destruction.

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:41:00 +0000

The way we are evolving now is way faster than when we have started this journey of human existence on earth. Now, we have many more innovations. Few people are saying that Innovation is the only way possible for the survival of human race on earth.Few are reluctant to follow this idea. But what is the truth? Where these innovations are taking us? What if we don't have a wheel and hence no car and bike. What if we don't have an aircraft for bestowing us from one land to other. What if we don't have Nuclear bomb and electricity. What if humans are also living in the way few extinct species are living. Really! Can we afford to live like that? No no! I am not saying that human should start from the beginning and go to the woods and live like a chimpanzee. Obviously, that is not our place and why should a human do that. We have a good brain with us. We can build beautiful houses and colonies with our ever imaginative brain.That is logical and understandable.

Actually, I am only interested in making you afraid of the possible peril that is the consequence of the innovation and so-called evolution of Human intelligence. So, be ready and I am sure you will get something new from this. If I google on the internet and type when was the first bomb made? It shows a result that itself may not be true but I take it as a 97% true event as I don't have any evidence to prove it wrong. It claims that the first use of the bomb was noticed in the year 1221 in a war between the Jin dynasty and the Song dynasty in china. The name of the bomb was "Thunder-crash Bomb". With such bugaboo name, I could guess that it was mostly for making enemies afraid of its effect. The explosion of this bomb can be heard up to 500 meters. The construction principle of this bomb is quite simple. A vessel containing some pieces of casting iron, porcelain with gunpowder. It was the simplest bomb you could ever imagine and the effect of it is also not that much hazardous.

My interaction with Google is still on track! The next question I asked Google is the name of the countries which are innovative enough to make bombs on their own? I got the result as the list of the countries who has nuclear Weapons.Soon, I realised that the bomb with which we have started(Thunder-crash Bomb) is outdated now. Now, if I will talk about such bomb people may think that I am interested in fireworks only. Mr Hans M. Kristensen once said that comparing today's inventory with that of 1950's is like comparing apple with orange.According to him the number of nuclear weapons declined significantly since the cold wold war but the strength of detonation increased drastically.It implies that now we need less effort to have great destruction.That's indeed a great innovation for future destruction!

Few countries are not even bounded by any treaty that can restrict them to fire a nuclear shot.They can claim after launching that it was a vogue trail on other countries. It was just a mistake! don't laugh! It seems funny but actually, it is not. There are many countries who is playing with nuclear power at their home but claim that they haven't seen any such thing.Here, I am not questioning Innovation but the only concern I have about the innovation of destruction.How this race of making Nuclear weapon started? What is the future of such deed? Is it going to stop somewhere? why countries are willing to produce more ammunition than grains! To whom they are protecting their citizens. Human must be protected from the human and for that protection, we need the nuclear weapon. But now I am having doubts because of these innovative nuclear weapons.Do these weapons helps us protecting our lives or make it more vulnerable? Just think about it! Maybe while you are thinking someone could pull the trigger unconsciously.

A Midsummer Night's Dream By Charles Lamb and Marry Lamb.

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 19:35:00 +0000

Finally, we accomplished reading the first part of the story! Puck did a blunder! Let's see the consequences in the second part of the story.

If you want to read the first part of the story please follow the link mentioned below.
tsfrommohitsingh.blogspot.in/2017/01/a-midsummer-nights-dream-fromcharles.html

Had he first seen Hermia when he awoke, the blunder Puck
committed would have been of no consequence, for he could not love
that faithful lady too well; but for poor Lysander to be forced by a
fairy love-charm to forget his own true Hermia, and to run after
another lady, and leave Hermia asleep quite alone in a wood at
midnight, was a sad chance indeed.

Thus this misfortune happened. Helena, as has been before related,
endeavoured to keep pace with Demetrius when he ran away so rudely
from her; but she could not continue this unequal race long, men
being always better runners in a long race than ladies. Helena soon
lost sight of Demetrius; and as she was wandering about, dejected and
forlorn, she arrived at the place where Lysander was sleeping. 'Ah!'
said she, 'this is Lysander lying on the ground: is he dead or asleep?'
Then, gently touching him, she said: 'Good sir, if you are alive,
awake.' Upon this Lysander opened his eyes, and (the love-charm
beginning to work) immediately addressed her in terms of extravagant
love and admiration; telling her she as much excelled Hermia in
beauty as a dove does a raven, and that he would run through fire for
her sweet sake; and many more such lover-like speeches. Helena,
knowing Lysander was her friend Hermia's lover, and that he was
solemnly engaged to marry her, was in the utmost rage when she
heard herself addressed in this manner; for she thought (as well she
might) that Lysander was making a jest of her. 'Oh!' said she, 'why was
I born to be mocked and scorned by every one? Is it not enough, is it
not enough, young man, that I can never get a sweet look or a kind
word from Demetrius; but you, sir, must pretend in this disdainful
manner to court me? I thought, Lysander, you were a lord of more true
gentleness.' Saying these words in great anger, she ran away; and
Lysander followed her, quite forgetful of his own Hermia, who was still asleep.

When Hermia awoke, she was in a sad fright at finding herself alone.
She wandered about the wood, not knowing what was become of
Lysander, or which way to go to seek for him. In the meantime
Demetrius, not being able to find Hermia and his rival Lysander, and
fatigued with his fruitless search, was observed by Oberon fast asleep.
Oberon had learnt by some questions he had asked of Puck, that he
had applied the love-charm to the wrong person's eyes; and now
having found the person first intended, he touched the eyelids of the
sleeping Demetrius with the love-juice, and he instantly awoke; and
the first thing he saw being Helena, he, as Lysander had done before,
began to address love-speeches to her; and just at that moment
Lysander, followed by Hermia (for through Puck's unlucky mistake it
was now become Hermia's turn to run after her lover) made his
appearance; and then Lysander and Demetrius, both speaking
together, made love to Helena, they being each one under the
influence of the same potent charm.

The astonished Helena thought that Demetrius, Lysander, and her
once dear friend Hermia, were all in a plot together to make a jest of
her.

Hermia was as much surprised as Helena; she knew not why Lysander
and Demetrius, who both before loved her, were now become the
lovers of Helena; and to Hermia the matter seemed to be no jest.

The ladies, who before had always been the dearest of friends, now
fell to high words together.

'Unkind Hermia,' said Helena, 'it is you have set Lysander on to vex
me with mock praises; and your other lover Demetrius, who used
almost to spurn me with his foot, have you not bid him call me
Goddess, Nymph, rare, precious, and celestial? He would not speak
thus to me, whom he hates, if you did not set him on to make a jest of
me. Unkind Hermia, to join with men in scorning your poor friend.
Have you forgot our school-day friendship? How often, Hermia, have
we two, sitting on one cushion, both singing one song, with our
needles working the same flower, both on the same sampler wrought;
growing up together in fashion of a double cherry, scarcely seeming
parted! Hermia, it is not friendly in you, it is not maidenly to join with
men in scorning your poor friend.'

I am amazed at your passionate words,' said Hermia: I scorn you not;
it seems you scorn me.' 'Ay, do,' returned Hermia, 'persevere,
counterfeit serious looks, and make mouths at me when I turn my
back; then wink at each other, and hold the sweet jest up. If you had
any pity, grace, or manners, you would not use me thus.'

While Helena and Hermia were speaking these angry words to each
other, Demetrius and Lysander left them, to fight together in the wood
for the love of Helena.

When they found the gentlemen had left them, they departed, and
once more wandered weary in the wood in search of their lovers.

As soon as they were gone, the fairy king, who with little Puck had
been listening to their quarrels, said to him: 'This is your negligence,
Puck; or did you do this wilfully?' 'Believe me, king of shadows,'
answered Puck, 'it was a mistake; did not you tell me I should know
the man by his Athenian garments? However, I am not sorry this has
happened, for I think their jangling makes excellent sport.' 'You
heard,' said Oberon, 'that Demetrius and Lysander are gone to seek a
convenient place to fight in. I command you to overhang the night
with a thick fog, and lead these quarrelsome lovers so astray in the
dark, that they shall not be able to kind each other. Counterfeit each of
their voices to the other, and with bitter taunts provoke them to follow
you, while they think it is their rival's tongue they hear. See you do
this, till they are so weary they can go no farther; and when you find
they are asleep, drop the juice of this other flower into Lysander's
eyes, and when he awakes he will forget his new love for Helena, and
return to his old passion for Hermia; and then the two fair ladies may
each one be happy with the man she loves, and they will think all that
has passed a vexatious dream. About this quickly, Puck, and I will go
and see what sweet love my Titania has found.'

Titania was still sleeping, and Oberon seeing a clown near her, who
had lost his way in the wood, and was likewise asleep: 'This fellow,'
said he, 'shall be my Titania's true love'; and clapping an ass's head
over the clown's, it seemed to fit him as well as if it had grown upon
his own shoulders. Though Oberon fixed the ass's head on very gently,
it awakened him, and rising up, unconscious of what Oberon had done
to him, he went towards the bower where the fairy queen slept.

'Ah! what angel is that I see?' said Titania, opening her eyes, and the
juice of the little purple flower beginning to take effect: 'are you as
wise as you are beautiful?'

'Why, mistress,' said the foolish clown, 'if I have wit enough to find
the way out of this wood, I have enough to serve my turn.'
'Out of the wood do not desire to go,' said the enamoured queen. 'I am
a spirit of no common rate. I love you. Go with me, and I will give
you fairies to attend upon you.'

She then called four of her fairies: their names were, Pease-blossom,
Cobweb, Moth, and Mustard-seed.

'Attend,' said the queen, 'upon this sweet gentleman; hop in his walks,
and gambol in his sight; feed him with grapes and apricots, and steal
for him the honey-bags from the bees. Come, sit with me,' said she to
the clown, 'and let me play with your amiable hairy cheeks, my
beautiful ass! and kiss your fair large ears, my gentle joy!'

'Where is Pease-blossom?' said the ass-headed clown, not much
regarding the fairy queen's courtship, but very proud of his new
attendants.
'Here, sir,' said little Pease-blossom.

'Scratch my head,' said the clown. 'Where is Cobweb?'

'Here, sir,' said Cobweb.

'Good Mr. Cobweb,' said the foolish clown, 'kill me the red humble
bee on the top of that thistle yonder; and, good Mr. Cobweb, bring me
the honey-bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the action, Mr.
Cobweb, and take care the honey-bag break not; I should be sorry to
have you overflown with a honey-bag. Where is Mustard-seed?'

'Here, sir,' said Mustard-seed: 'what is your will?'

'Nothing,' said the clown, 'good Mr. Mustard-seed, but to help Mr.
Pease-blossom to scratch; I must go to a barber's, Mr. Mustard-seed,
for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.'

'My sweet love,' said the queen, 'what will you have to eat? I have a
venturous fairy shall seek the squirrel's hoard, and fetch you some new
nuts.'

'I had rather have a handful of dried pease,' said the clown, who with
his ass's head had got an ass's appetite. 'But, I pray, let none of your
people disturb me, for I have a mind to sleep.'

'Sleep, then,' said the queen, 'and I will wind you in my arms. O how I
love you! how I dote upon you!'

When the fairy king saw the clown sleeping in the arms of his queen,
he advanced within her sight, and reproached her with having lavished
her favours upon an ass.

This she could not deny, as the clown was then sleeping within her
arms, with his ass's head crowned by her with flowers.

When Oberon had teased her for some time, he again demanded the
changeling boy; which she, ashamed of being discovered by her lord
with her new favourite, did not dare to refuse him.

Oberon, having thus obtained the little boy he had so long wished for
to be his page, took pity on the disgraceful situation into which, by his
merry contrivance, he had brought his Titania and threw some of the
juice of the other flower into her eyes; and the fairy queen
immediately recovered her senses, and wondered at her late dotage,
saying how she now loathed the sight of the strange monster.

Oberon likewise took the ass's head from off the clown, and left him
to finish his nap with his own fool's head upon his shoulders.

Oberon and his Titania being now perfectly reconciled, he related to
her the history of the lovers, and their midnight quarrels; and she
agreed to go with him and see the end of their adventures.

The fairy king and queen found the lovers and their fair ladies, at no
great distance from each other, sleeping on a grass-plot; for Puck, to
make amends for his former mistake, had contrived with the utmost
diligence to bring them all to the same spot, unknown to each other:
and he had carefully removed the charm from off the eyes of Lysander
with the antidote the fairy king gave to him.

Hermia first awoke, and finding her lost Lysander asleep so near her,
was looking at him and wondering at his strange inconstancy.
Lysander presently opening his eyes, and seeing his dear Hermia,
recovered his reason which the fairy charm had before clouded, and
with his reason, his love for Hermia; and they began to talk over the
adventures of the night, doubting if these things had really happened,
or if they had both been dreaming the same bewildering dream.

Helena and Demetrius were by this time awake; and a sweet sleep
having quieted Helena's disturbed and angry spirits, she listened with
delight to the professions of love which Demetrius still made to her
and which, to her surprise as well as pleasure, she began to perceive
were sincere.

These fair night-wandering ladies, now no longer rivals, became once
more true friends; all the unkind words which had passed were
forgiven, and they calmly consulted together what was best to be done
in their present situation. It was soon agreed that, as Demetrius had
given up his pretensions to Hermia, he should endeavour to prevail
upon her father to revoke the cruel sentence of death which had been
passed against her. Demetrius was preparing to return to Athens for
this friendly purpose, when they were surprised with the sight of
Egeus, Hermia's father, who came to the wood in pursuit of his
runaway daughter.

When Egeus understood that Demetrius would not now marry his
daughter, he no longer opposed her marriage with Lysander, but gave
his consent that they should be wedded on the fourth day from that
time, being the same day on which Hermia had been condemned to
lose her life; and on that same day Helena joyfully agreed to marry her
beloved and now faithful Demetrius.

The fairy king and queen, who were invisible spectators of this
reconciliation, and now saw the happy ending of the lovers' history,
brought about through the good offices of Oberon, received so much
pleasure, that these kind spirits resolved to celebrate the approaching
nuptials with sports and revels throughout their fairy kingdom.

And now, if any are offended with this story of fairies and their
pranks, as judging it incredible and strange, they have only to think
that they have been asleep and dreaming, and that all these adventures
were visions which they saw in their sleep: and I hope none of my
readers will be so unreasonable as to be offended with a pretty
harmless Midsummer Night's Dream.

THE END.........................!

The End is not tragic! everything came back to it's originally meant position! This is the comical play originally written by William Shakeaspeare.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM_ from_Charles lamb and her sister Marry Lamb.

noreply@blogger.com (episodeofthelife.blogsopt.com) — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:28:00 +0000

Hi! peers!
here I am with an another story that we are going to explore in the Monday's storyteller session.

The Title of the story as you know is "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM".
Actually, it is a big play written by William Shakespeare. Yes, we are reading Shakespeare's works in a different way. Thanks to the Charles Lamb and her sister Marry Lamb for writing the huge play in form of short stories in her books " Tales from Shakespeare".

This story is taken from "Tales from Shakespeare" written by two sisters in 1807. We are using these stories for improving our reading, listening and speaking ability. I will ask you to read a paragraph. After you finished reading, you will have to explain the part you have read in your own words. After that, we will discuss some vocabulary and some expressions that would be difficult for us.And then anyone can ask for mic and can explain the same paragraph in their own way.
Hope you got my point. If not I will be there with martin to assist you in the session.

There was a law in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the
power of compelling their daughters to marry whomsoever they
pleased; for upon a daughter's refusing to marry the man her father
had chosen to be her husband, the father was empowered by this law
to cause her to be put to death; but as fathers do not often desire the
death of their own daughters, even though they do happen to prove a
little refractory, this law was seldom or never put in execution, though
perhaps the young ladies of that city were not unfrequently threatened
by their parents with the terrors of it.

There was one instance, however, of an old man, whose name was
Egeus, who actually did come before Theseus (at that time the
reigning duke of Athens), to complain that his daughter Hermia,
whom he had commanded to marry Demetrius, a young man of a
noble Athenian family, refused to obey him, because she loved
another young Athenian, named Lysander. Egeus demanded justice of
Theseus, and desired that this cruel law might be put in force against
his daughter.

Hermia pleaded in excuse for her disobedience, that Demetrius had
formerly professed love for her dear friend Helena, and that Helena
loved Demetrius to distraction; but this honourable reason, which
Hermia gave for not obeying her father's command, moved not the
stern Egeus.

Theseus, though a great and merciful prince, had no power to alter the
laws of his country; therefore he could only give Hermia four days to
consider of it: and at the end of that time, if she still refused to marry
Demetrius, she was to be put to death.
When Hermia was dismissed from the presence of the duke, she went
to her lover Lysander, and told him the peril she was in, and that she
must either give him up and marry Demetrius, or lose her life in four
days.

Lysander was in great affliction at hearing these evil tidings; but
recollecting that he had an aunt who lived at some distance from
Athens, and that at the place where she lived the cruel law could not
be put in force against Hermia (this law not extending beyond the
boundaries of the city), he proposed to Hermia that she should steal
out of her father's house that night, and go with him to his aunt's
house, where he would marry her. 'I will meet you,' said Lysander, 'in
the wood a few miles without the city; in that delightful wood where
we have so often walked with Helena in the pleasant month of May.'
To this proposal Hermia joyfully agreed; and she told no one of her
intended flight but her friend Helena. Helena (as maidens will do
foolish things for love) very ungenerously resolved to go and tell this
to Demetrius, though she could hope no benefit from betraying her
friend's secret, but the poor pleasure of following her faithless lover to
the wood; for she well knew that Demetrius would go thither in
pursuit of Hermia.

The wood in which Lysander and Hermia proposed to meet was the
favourite haunt of those little beings known by the name of Fairies.
Oberon the king, and Titania the queen of the fairies, with all their
tiny train of followers, in this wood held their midnight revels.
Between this little king and queen of sprites there happened, at this
time, a sad disagreement; they never met by moonlight in the shady
walks of this pleasant wood, but they were quarrelling, till all their
fairy elves would creep into acorn-cups and hide themselves for fear.
The cause of this unhappy disagreement was Titania's refusing to give
Oberon a little changeling boy, whose mother had been Titania's
friend; and upon her death the fairy queen stole the child from its
nurse, and brought him up in the woods.

The night on which the lovers were to meet in this wood, as Titania
was walking with some of her maids of honour, she met Oberon
attended by his train of fairy courtiers.

'I'll met by moonlight, proud Titania,' said the fairy king. The queen
replied: 'What, jealous Oberon, is it you? Fairies, skip hence; I have
foresworn his company.' 'Tarry, rash fairy,' said Oberon; 'am not I thy
lord? Why does Titania cross her Oberon? Give me your little
changeling boy to be my page.'

Set your heart at rest,' answered the queen; 'your whole fairy kingdom
buys not the boy of me.' She then left her lord in great anger. 'Well, go
your way,' said Oberon 'before the morning dawns I will torment you
for this injury.'

Oberon then sent for Puck, his chief favourite and privy counsellor.

Puck (or as he was sometimes called, Robin Goodfellow) was a

shrewd and knavish sprite, that used to play comical pranks in the

neighbouring villages; sometimes getting into the dairies and skimming the milk,sometimes plunging his light and airy form into the butter-churn, and while he was dancing his fantastic shape in the

churn, in vain the dairymaid would labour to change her cream into

butter: nor had the village swains any better success; whenever Puck

chose to play his freaks in the brewing copper, the ale was sure to be

spoiled. When a few good neighbours were met to drink some

comfortable ale together, Puck would jump into the bowl of ale in the

likeness of a roasted crab, and when some old goody was going to

drink he would bob against her lips, and spill the ale over her withered

chin; and presently after, when the same old dame was gravely seating

herself to tell her neighbours a sad and melancholy story, Puck would

slip her three-legged stool from under her, and down toppled the poor

old woman, and then the old gossips would hold their sides and laugh

at her, and swear they never wasted a merrier hour.

'Come hither, Puck,' said Oberon to this little merry wanderer of the
night; 'fetch me the flower which maids call Lore in Idleness; the juice
of that little purple flower laid on the eyelids of those who sleep, will
make them, when they awake, dote on the first thing they see. Some
of the juice of that flower I will drop on the eyelids of my Titania
when she is asleep; and the first thing she looks upon when she opens
her eyes she will fall in love with, even though it be a lion or a bear, a
meddling monkey, or a busy ape; and before I will take this charm
from off her sight, which I can do with another charm I know of, I will
make her give me that boy to be my page.'

Puck, who loved mischief to his heart, was highly diverted with this
intended frolic of his master, and ran to seek the flower; and while
Oberon was waiting the return of Puck, he observed Demetrius and
Helena enter the wood: he overheard Demetrius reproaching Helena
for following him, and after many unkind words on his part, and
gentle expostulations from Helena, reminding him of his former love
and professions of true faith to her, he left her (as he said) to the
mercy of the wild beasts, and she ran after him as swiftly as she could.

The fairy king, who was always friendly to true lovers, felt great
compassion for Helena; and perhaps, as Lysander said they used to
walk by moonlight in this pleasant wood, Oberon might have seen
Helena in those happy times when she was beloved by Demetrius.
However that might be, when Puck returned with the little purple
flower, Oberon said to his favourite: 'Take a part of this flower; there
has been a sweet Athenian lady here, who is in love with a disdainful
youth; if you find him sleeping, drop some of the love-juice in his
eyes, but contrive to do it when she is near him, that the first thing he
sees when he awakes may be this despised lady. You will know the man by the Athenian garments which he wears.' Puck promised to
manage this matter very dexterously: and then Oberon went,
unperceived by Titania, to her bower, where she was reparing to go to
rest. Her fairy bower was a bank, where grew wild thyme, cowslips,
and sweet violets, under a canopy of wood-bine, musk-roses, and
eglantine. There Titania always slept some part of the night; her
coverlet the enamelled skin of a snake, which, though a small mantle,
was wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

He found Titania giving orders to her fairies, how they were to
employ themselves while she slept. 'Some of you,' said her majesty,
'must kill cankers in the musk-rose buds, and some wage war with the
bats for their leathern wings, to make my small elves coats; and some
of you keep watch that the clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, come
not near me: but first sing me to sleep.' Then they began to sing this
song:
'You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen
Newts and blind-worms do no wrong
Come not near our Fairy Queen.
Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby
Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby;
Never harm, nor spell, nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh;
So good night with lullaby.'

When the fairies had sung their queen asleep with this pretty lullaby,
they left her to perform the important services she had enjoined them.
Oberon then softly drew near his Titania, and dropped some of the
love-juice on her eyelids, saying:

'What thou seest when thou wake
Do it for thy true-love take.'

But to return to Hermia, who made her escape out of her father's
house that night, to avoid the death she was doomed to for refusing to
marry Demetrius. When she entered the wood, she found her dear
Lysander waiting for her, to conduct her to his aunt's house; but before
they had passed half through the wood, Hermia was so much fatigued,
that Lysander, who was very careful of this dear lady, who had proved

her affection for him even by hazarding her life for his sake, persuaded her to rest till morning on a bank of soft moss, and lying
down himself on the ground at some little distance, they soon fell fast
asleep. Here they were found by Puck, who, seeing a handsome young
man asleep, and perceiving that his clothes were made in the Athenian
fashion, and that a pretty lady was sleeping near him, concluded that
this must be the Athenian maid and her disdainful lover whom Oberon
had sent him to seek; and he naturally enough conjectured that, as
they were alone together, she must be the first thing he would see
when he awoke; so, without more ado, he proceeded to pour some of
the juice of the little purple flower into his eyes. But it so fell out, that
Helena came that way, and, instead of Hermia, was the first object
Lysander beheld when he opened his eyes; and strange to relate, so
powerful was the love-charm, all his love for Hermia vanished away,
and Lysander fell in love with Helena.

The Tempest __copy and paste!

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Hello, friends!

It's my first time that I am sharing something using Blogger!Today I am going to share a story that I have read recently from a book suggested by my dear friend.Actually, it is a play rather than a story.

The Tittle of the story says The Tempest. I hope few of you faced Tempest in your life.Tempest means storm ,cyclone or tornado.And I know people around West Bengal are really aware of this natural phenomenon specially cyclone and storm.Tornado generally occurs in the USA and other western countries.By the way, this is a very brief description of the title.

Let's move and know about the writer.The father of English Literature William Shakespeare.He wrote this play in around 1611.It is not worthy to mention but still i would like to shed light on a fact that he married at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway a 27 year old woman .Literally,what was that?Awful!Isn't it?By the way, he still proved himself through his great work in English literature!

if you are interested to know more about Shakespeare which i think you are not!please follow the link https.https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-shakespeare

i will devide the story(better to call it a play) into two half.

here you go with the first part!

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which
were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his daughter
Miranda, a very beautiful young lady. She came to this island so
young, that she had no memory of having seen any other human face than her father's.

They lived in a cave or cell, made out of a rock; it was divided into
several apartments, one of which Prospero called his study; there he
kept his books, which chiefly treated of magic, a study at that time
much affected by all learned men: and the knowledge of this art he
found very useful to him; for being thrown by a strange chance upon
this island, which had been enchanted by a witch called Sycorax, who
died there a short time before his arrival, Prospero, by virtue of his art,
released many good spirits that Sycorax had imprisoned in the bodies
of large trees, because they had refused to execute her wicked
commands. These gentle spirits were ever after obedient to the will of Prospero.
Of these Ariel was the chief.

The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature,
except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly
monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the
son of his old enemy Sycorax. This Caliban, Prospero found in the
woods, a strange misshapen thing, far less human in form than an ape:
he took him home to his cell, and taught him to speak; and Prospero
would have been very kind to him, but the bad nature which Caliban
inherited from his mother Sycorax, would not let him learn anything
good or useful: therefore he was employed like a slave, to fetch wood,
and do the most laborious offices; and Ariel had the charge of compelling him to these services.

When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was
invisible to all eyes but Prospero's) would come slily and pinch him,
and sometimes tumble him down in the mire; and then Ariel, in the
likeness of an ape, would make mouths at him. Then swiftly changing
his shape, in the likeness of a hedgehog, he would lie tumbling in
Caliban's way, who feared the hedgehog's sharp quills would prick his bare feet.
With a variety of suchlike vexatious tricks Ariel would often
torment him, whenever Caliban neglected the work which Prospero
commanded him to do.

Having these powerful spirits obedient to his will, Prospero could by
their means command the winds, and the waves of the sea. By his
orders they raised a violent storm, in the midst of which, and
struggling with the wild sea-waves that every moment threatened to
swallow it up, he showed his daughter a fine large ship, which he told
her was full of living beings like themselves. 'O my dear father,' said
she, 'if by your art you have raised this dreadful storm, have pity on
their sad distress. See! the vessel will be dashed to pieces. Poor souls!
they will all perish. If I had power, I would sink the sea beneath the
earth, rather than the good ship should be destroyed, with all the precious souls within her.'

'Be not so amazed, daughter Miranda,' said Prospero; 'there is no harm
done. I have so ordered it, that no person in the ship shall receive any
hurt. What I have done has been in care of you, my dear child. You
are ignorant who you are, or where you came from, and you know no
more of me, but that I am your father, and live in this poor cave Can
you remember a time before you came to this cell? I think you cannot
for you were not then three years of age.'

'Certainly I can, sir,' replied Miranda.

'By what?' asked Prospero; 'by any other house or person? Tell me
what you can remember, my child.'

Miranda said: 'It seems to me like the recollection of a dream. But had
I not once four or Eve women who attended upon me?'

Prospero answered: 'You had, and more. How is it that this still lives
in your mind? Do you remember how you came here?'

'No, sir,' said Miranda, 'I remember nothing more.'

'Twelve years ago, Miranda,' continued Prospero, 'I was duke of
Milan, and you were a princess, and my only heir. I had a younger
brother, whose name was Antonio, to whom I trusted everything: and
as I was fond of retirement and deep study, I commonly left the
management of my state affairs to your uncle, my false brother (for so
indeed he proved). I, neglecting all worldly ends, buried among my
books, did dedicate my whole time to the bettering of my mind. My
brother Antonio being thus in possession of my power, began to think
himself the duke indeed.The opportunity I gave him of making
himself popular among my subjects awakened in his bad nature a
proud ambition to deprive me of my dukedom: this he soon effected
with the aid of the king of Naples, a powerful prince, who was my
enemy.'

'Wherefore,' said Miranda, 'did they not that hour destroy us?'

'My child,' answered her father, 'they durst not, so dear was the love
that my people bore me. Antonio carried us on board a ship, and when
we were some leagues out at sea, he forced us into a small boat,
without either tackle, sail, or mast: there he left us, as he thought, to
perish. But a kind lord of my court, one Gonzalo, who loved me, had
privately placed in the boat, water, provisions, apparel, and some
books which I prize above my dukedom.'

'O my father,' said Miranda, 'what a trouble must I have been to you
then!'

'No, my love,' said Prospero, 'you were a little cherub that did preserve
me. Your innocent smiles made me bear up against my misfortunes.
Our food lasted till we landed on this desert island, since when my
chief delight has been in teaching you, Miranda, and well have you
profited by my instructions.'

'Heaven thank you, my dear father,' said Miranda 'Now pray tell me, sir, your reason for raising this sea-storm?'

'Know then,' said her father, 'that by means of this storm, my enemies,
the king of Naples, and my cruel brother, are cast ashore upon this
island.'

Having so said, Prospero gently touched his daughter with his magic
wand, and she fell fast asleep; for the spirit Ariel just then presented
himself before his master, to give an account of the tempest, and how
he had disposed of the ship's company, and though the spirits were
always invisible to Miranda, Prospero did not choose she should hear
him holding converse (as would seem to her) with the empty air.

'Well, my brave spirit,' said Prospero to Ariel, 'how have you
performed your task?'

Ariel gave a lively description of the storm, and of the terrors of the
mariners; and how the king's son, Ferdinand, was the first who leaped
into the sea; and his father thought he saw his dear son swallowed up
by the waves and lost. 'But he is safe,' said Ariel, 'in a corner of the
isle, sitting with his arms folded, sadly lamenting the loss of the king,
his father, whom he concludes drowned. Not a hair of his head is
injured, and his princely garments, though drenched in the sea-waves,
look fresher than before.'

continue...

till now we came across interesting characters like Miranda,Prospero,Sycorax
Ariel,Caliban,Antonio,King of Naples,Gonzalo.