Life Delicacies

  We Live in Love   What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.   All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,   deserve your love and affection. Buddha Love is shown more in deeds than in words. Saint Ignatius One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho   Way back in 1949-50, neighbourhood unrecognized unnamed Primary School of Master Brij Lal ji, as he was called, was Alma Mater of many of children of our Mohalla and so it was mine also. Sitting on jute mat, in a road side verandah, with a small one Anna Kiyadha-a small Brochure, we used learn to write Hindi, Punjabi and digital counting in English on a wooden Takhati-plate washed carefully AND covered with a thin layer of clay (Multani Mitti, Gachani in local dialect)     with a beautiful margin around. Loud reading alphabet and roar of tables was order of the day ...

                                                        Ho Gaye Ho Pradesi You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.     Miriam Adeney   “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.”  Vera Nazarian   Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget that they are also growing old. Anonymous   My only daughter well employed, leaving her job in India, is going to Canada for green pastures there, I would be alone here as my husband is already with the Lord and subsequently she intends to settle her family there: I am not comfortable with any relations so most probably I w...

  I Have A Second Family   Time together as a Family is a gift.   “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”   Ralph Waldo Emerson   “My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can’t.” Greyson Chance   Neighbours are no less than the second family, so make sure you know them and treat them well.   Shikha Mishra   I get up in the morning at about 05.30 hrs, after freeing from my personal routine, the first thing in the day is to prepare three cups of tea, two for watchmen in the street who remain awake whole night and third cup is for a maid old lady in the neighbourhood whose day starts even earlier then me, the first words that I listen from them is “Ram Ramji Babuji”, it is so satisfying that somebody wishing me the Bliss of the Lord. Next thing is to pick up my “Jhola” (used cotton cloth made bag that can hang on the shoulder) and ask my Darling Madam ho...

  Journey दफ़्तर (Daftar)   O ffice to WFH   It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.   Benjamin Franklin   “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” Steve Jobs   Standing at the Local Bus Stand opposite Golcha Cinema in Daryaganj, Delhi-6, way back in November 1968, waiting for a bus, to join on first day at Dak Tar Bhawan, Patel Chowk, Parliament Street, I heard a four seater Motorcycle, Driver, shouting ”Daftar”, “Daftar”. I was new to the city, could not understand what “Daftar” meant, asked a person standing beside me where is “Daftar” reply was, “North Block” still could not understand, he explained it is “Central Secretariat” later somebody explained that it is “Viceroy’s” Office, when there was no other office this was known as “Daftar” and still continues like that only, still not happy with the information and asked will the Motorcycle go via “Parliament Street”, another D...

                                            Tolerance a Character Gem   Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. Friedrich Durrenmatt   Men are respectable only as they respect. Ralph Waldo Emerson   Good-humor makes all things tolerable. Henry Ward Beecher   Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses,  it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs. William Allen White   Tolerance is the mindful capacity to love, respect, accept the differences that make people unique . Byron R. Pulsifer   I have been keeping this write up pending for many days, trying to find out the exact meaning of “Tolerance” in day to day life vis-a-vie various groups and individuals we come in contact daily and found it was too complex and depends on the response of the receiver made up of so many complexities and genes in addition to indiv...

  Universe Communicates with Every Creation   "Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us   and conspires only to give the best   to those   who dream and work."   A. P. J. Abdul Kalam   Does Universe Communicate with Every Creation on the Earth! I think it does, not only with the objects on the earth but with all and everything visible or invisible in the Universe, in ways easily understandable by all whom it addresses without any language or script as humans know them.     Intuition the immediate apprehension by mind of forthcoming events. It is of knowing or understanding something without reasoning or proof, no scientific explanation for this phenomena: may be flash thought,  physical sensation, panic attack,  a strange feeling, repulsion to a person, hair standing on their end, butterflies in the stomach, a feeling of being unsafe or something else without rhyme or reason.  Intui...