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Things not Stanley Kubrick ‘s Shining Thing!

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

  1. I think pleasure and pain are well defined for most people unless you’re suffering from some disease.
  2. They don’t change for most animals all their lives.
  3. Almost all of the things done by people are guided either by desire to experience or desire to not experience.
  4. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably in the words of Nisargadatta who with help of Maurice Frydman created I AM THAT.
  5. When I began writing this article by responding to the prompt I had taken it for granted that it was about ‘activity’ as if the prompt asked “what are the 5 everyday things you do that bring you happiness.”
  6. I think a 4G smartphone is the most advanced technology I have.
  7. Most of the advanced technology is for comfort.
  8. Microphones let me talk as earphones let me listen music.
  9. Tubewell for fresh water.
  10. Coffee, tea machines for drinks. Similar to refridgerator for ice cream and cold drinks.
  11. Internet archives for research entertainment are some of the greatest inventions of this century.
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None!

What book could you read over and over again?

None of them.

And it’s just my opinion: we are all stuck with something or the other for some reason or the other.

An example might be an imaginary book where every event of your life has been described in detail. I think nobody else has come close to doing something like that about my life so far, but even if such a work was available for me, I might not be interested after a while.

Hence:

None of them.

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How Would You Know It’s Your Tribe? By Being Freshly Pressed Author!

How would you improve your community?

Step one: find yourself.

Step two: find your tribe.

Step three: know your tribe.

Step four: is your tribe in alignment with your Self or vice versa?

Yes: proceed to step four.

No: repeat step one.

Step five: define improvement as per your community.

Step six: contribute to your community.

For example: I consider, this article, as well as others similar to this as improvement to WordPress community.

I have contributed to WordPress, Blogger, online forums and e-mail community significantly since 2005.

OTOH, I am still waiting to qualify to become a “freshly pressed” author or an author who’s paid for his articles. That’s why I doubt if I am actually in the league of extraordinary gentlemen or in a wrong league.

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Why anything in particular when everything absolutely belongs to me?

If you could have something named after you, what would it be?

  1. In other words : are you proud of your name?
  2. Names are only placeholders for relative value put into them by cultural contexts or personal life histories.
  3. What’s in a name.
  4. In other words: this is not the time or place and I can’t imagine any time or place where I would have liked anything to be named after me.
  5. In other words: all names are my names.
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A Hero!

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

  1. I was learning to read. A library of books appeared in a government school in 1990-1991. This box had books from Eklavya publications New Delhi.
  2. The books had a lasting impact on my subconscious. After coming of age, when I questioned my spiritual enlightenment I looked back at that particular batch of books. It included Chakmak magazine. Not to mention syllabus books.
  3. Television, radio and local dialect shaped my world view.
  4. As usually happens to young children I was fascinated by martial arts in Bollywood movies and TV.
  5. I wanted to be a hero. A filmy hero who was able to defend great causes by being one many army. A saviour.
  6. Even that was possible as grandpa once told. There was a switch behind the medium size television set we had. That would have let me land in Bombay Bollywood to be a hero.
  7. Heroes were of many types. Delhi Doordarshan’s sentimental appeal to sacrifice yourself for Matrix, Patrix etc wasn’t really balanced by Bertrand Russell’s “patriotism is willing to die for foolish reasons.” I came across that only after college.
  8. Therefore, heroes who were warriors or army men brainwashed to die for their countries to receive accolades like Paramveer Chakra or Ashok Chakra.
  9. If someone thinks I mean they don’t value anything: it’s not so. Yet, in a world view there might not be a need for Jacob’s Ladder or Grave of Fireflies.
  10. If parents convinced me to not be a warrior I wanted to be at least a policeman. Most of the Bollywood movies which aren’t brainy show policemen as actual action heroes. Administrative officers, Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy, banking, media, politicians, mafia, priesthood and the rest don’t appear in the budding psyche of young children.
  11. Prompts are merely an excuse to rant. I am deleting old articles to create space for new. Reason is simple: though new WordPress websites are available it’s more difficult to get subscribers or to actually buy as much space as there was a decade ago. I have contemplated about using another platform for blogging but this one seems to be most comfortable at the moment.
  12. This year I visited that village where people barely recognised me as I was visiting after college days. Even then I was visiting with my father who was a teacher there for almost a decade. The librarian then offered to help me with those books I had read and touched as a young child of five or six.
  13. They were a treasure. I looked up Eklavya publications archives online but they were different books. It disappointed me like most things online do.
  14. Look at Spotify or other music apps. Even though classics are available they often come with deluge of compulsory advertisements. As much as home ministry mixing devotional chants with abusive words at such a refined level that a novice gets baffled.
  15. Art of livings chanting of Om Namah Shivay was mixed with home minister’s swear words during announcement of a new law which was popularised as a meme. Who’s going to protect Dharma?
  16. And how’s Dharma going to protect its protectors if all you have are life insurance corporations agents who compel you to sign papers without insuring basic life sustenance needs. Are farmers still dying because of loans or bad weather?
  17. I have definitely come a long way. Doctor Win Wenger PhD suggested that sowing of wild oats stops when you turn forty. I think I convinced myself that I was way past forty. What a relief. I got another job which actually paid instead of labouring for an NGO which actually had a king who was no different from Gujrati kings who only compelled you to surrender your imagined properties to them by showcasing great virtue on occassions which suited them.
  18. To be or not to be what you wanted to be when you were five is more an analysis of world view created by literature at that time than individual psyche which might have held certain promises for stakeholders who were investing into that world or crop.
  19. This verse:
  20. कल भात आएगा,
    एक पतीला;
    गरम गरम,
    और गीला गीला!
  21. Sums up the make up of this five year old’s mind by providence which wanted him to realise his birth in a commune or orphanage where he only talks to a postbox 📬.
  22. The postbox 📫 takes up role of singer of this refrain which means:
  23. Tomorrow there will be rice;
  24. One big bowl full of rice;
  25. It will be hot steamy rice;
  26. It will be wet hot steamy rice like you prefer.
  27. Young, naked five year old crying its heart out to a postbox where crops might have failed. Parents might have abandoned the child. Satellite cameras might have been capturing images to project them onto a Truman Show like grand reality.
  28. Subconscious of child had questions like those asked by Nachiketa to Yama or those in the Seventh Seal if you would. Upanishads or Vedanta. They’re all answered in due course.
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Puneet Saxena

What is one word that describes you?

  1. When I was a friend of Brijgopal and Rakesh, I used to see Puneet as a carefree young boy in our class.
  2. Rakesh left the group and Puneet joined it.
  3. We used to roam around carefree. Unit tests in Maria Mata Convent School Chhatarpur were both a blessing and a curse. I had scored three marks out of twenty five, he had scored zero. Miss Anuja Rathore punished us both with a bamboo stick on palms of our hands.
  4. Puneet moved on when I joined Kuldeep Shukla to help improve my scores on unit tests.
  5. Puneet was well built, athletic and later developed fondness for memorizing entire songs like “Aati kyaa khandaala.” Had amazing memory which he seldom employed to memorize lessons.
  6. We used to play a rugby like tournament during breaks. Teams were fond of having Puneet on their sides because such players ensured victory. The game was a superhit.
  7. I was trying to develop a martial arts school which was obviously super flop because we had to wash our school dress, not just Rugby but also fights between giants like Avadhesh and Puneet used to render our shirts torn. We were not well respected at our homes.
  8. He never liked his nick name given to him by our maths teacher “Punnee-laal Parathe Waale” as he frequently used to bring paraathe in his tiffin.
  9. There was an author named Padumlaal Punnalaal Bakshi in our syllabus, therefore some of our classmates used to annoy him with such names.
  10. When we met decades afterwards during COVID years: he again insisted on how annoyed he was with such nicknames. His actual nickname was Robbie.
  11. He used to fervently tell about how he used to burn RGPV copies when review requests used to come. He wasn’t fond of making money. He said he loved his friends but he wasn’t fond of listening to advise. He had a big ego and he was an achiever too.
  12. I still remember how he came to my house once after school bells with other friends to collect a notebook. Notebook belonged to a girl. The notebooks were cross distributed by our maths teacher who wanted to promote Mohabattein in a monastery.
  13. Puneet, along with Avadhesh and Abhishek ( Rajpoot) ensured that I wasn’t focussing on studies. They used to create nuisances all the times.
  14. When Puneet met me during COVID we discussed eschatology. His house was one of the first few houses in that colony when we used to play during childhood. He showcased some strange device in 2021-22 to me, some hidden project he was working on. Needless to say the project was way ahead of my understanding of technology at that time.
  15. Yesterday I heard that Puneet is no more.
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Permissions!

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

  1. After having bought eight platform tickets I was finally recognised by Railway Station Chhatarpur authorities.
  2. They advised me to not click pictures or use ATVM machine unless I was actually travelling to some place.
  3. In other words: loitering or wasting time or spreading litter at this Railway Station is not allowed.
  4. I went to the panel room located at platform where panel incharge was absent. I was advised to meet them on Monday.
  5. If the panel incharge allows me to study: I might continue to buy platform tickets else:
  6. I might completely give up buying platform tickets.
  7. This might be the concluding post about Chhatarpur Railway Station.
  8. There were many middle names: Prakash and Kumar were two of them and third was Prasaad.
  9. Prakaash means light.
  10. Kumar means young.
  11. Prasaad means grace.
  12. Do these names carry any special significance? Yes and no.
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Two Days Ago!

Time to come back to palace was supposed to be within ten o’clock.

When I reach at about 10: 15 PM I see people who are awake and discussing things with eachother.

Where’s the catch?

The alarm was to reach within 10.

The gatekeeper said: come about two hours before midnight so that sleep isn’t disturbed for everyone.

Now: everyone is happy. Shop where I work has an excuse to reduce the payment for he has time to argue but no time to consider that my breaks didn’t amount to more than two hours in total in the 12:30 to 9:30 shift.

It’s mostly people chilling out between 6 to 12 or even later.

If I insisted on staying or struggling to save money some people would have been happier. Schedenfreude and Defenestration.

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Hagen- Poiseuille Laminar Flow Hypothesis!

1. Georges Pouillet’s student Jean-Léonard Marie Poiseuille was a French physiologist, and the unit of measurement “poise” in fluid dynamics is named after him.

2. Haga comes from Old Norse. Hagen is a surname from Germanic tribes.

3. Hagen-Poiseuille Tesis for laminar flow suggests that there can be liquids flowing through parallel channels without mixing with eachother or without disturbance.

4. Among other researchers Peter Schmid( Schmies) was working with during 1993-2025 there was one gentleman from Sweden who had first national ranking. His own national ranking was 13th.

5. Issac Asimov researched into AI.