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What Changes?

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

What changes?

Don’t you think that fourth and fifth world war already took place?

If, after fifty years, Russia-Ukraine and Israel Palestine are taught as fourth and fifth world war, who’s going to awaken them? Nobody.

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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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I, me, myself or Norway!

Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

  1. I, me, myself.
  2. Raman Maharshi, often considered to be Dakshinamurthy among gurus would agree.
  3. Some others disagree. Self is neither one nor many, nor sum of parts or…..
  4. None of the teachers were influential enough to last forty years of my life.
  5. And so on and so forth.
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I think it’s a trap and I might be paranoid, only thing is: it’s a trap and I am not paranoid.

What was the best compliment you’ve received?

I can tell you about compliments I gave. There are absolutely no compliments which can save your life, your day or your future.

All epics are full of those though. Actually it’s swear words people use as compliments these days.

I give myself compliments, in order to motivate myself, it’s done by comparing myself with myself in space and time ( to quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge.)

The best achievement was clearing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test after so many trials and tribulations.

Now I am struggling to clear this test on United Nations World Food Program Website called Free Rice. It’s an archive of archaic words at level fifth and fourth.

If I clear this test: I might be able to flawlessly score everyday. Flawlessly score at least 2060 everyday. This would be an achievement enough to save myself from embarassing teenagers I come across everyday who throw temper tantrums to register themselves instead of actually doing anything meaningful for community or themselves.

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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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Time to come back to palace:

  1. No time for sand mafia. Do as you please if you come via car. Do as you please if you pretend to attend a marriage every night. Or an emergency.
  2. No time limit if your name is on name plate.
  3. If you tell them that you’re gainfully employed: first find the police department selfie stick which wants you home before twelve
  4. Second: grandmother sleeps soundly, rest of the family is also enjoying sleep. Two young children in their twenties are roaming on their roof in the midnight as their dog barks but rest of the civilized society is so deeply asleep for seven to eight hours between eleven to eight o clock in the night that you are supposed to be within the palace of grandeur where masonic laws have miserably failed to provide any solace in form of civility, before eleven or even before ten.
  5. The same people will eat you alive for not being employed but now they’re focussed on being civil to let everyone sleep in time bar neighborhood kids who chat and roam after midnight on their roof. No rules or planning or advanced telling for jhun jhun Devi fond of wearing ornaments despite being almost retired from service. What kind of ghost ship are they steering and to where and why?
  6. I spent a long time figuring out if they actually had any discipline regarding checkin or checkout if it was really a place with those restrictions. There were none. Maybe kavi sammelan is over now and only means of taxation is by squirming anyone who is too tired by being honestly employed instead of sitting at door to collect taxes by spewing forth laws at random which are not applicable for tenants.
  7. Enough with this bullshit of random laws already. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon for all purposes. Deus Ex Machina. Did they tell me about their trip to Baandaa? Did they tell me how they went to that place, why and when? Did they do so just because they were more mature than a forty years old? Why then do they allow someone only thirty years old to enter at random hours while hold me to answer random questions after a hard day at work?
  8. This is the justice system here of which these truthful people are extremely fond of and in appreciation for.

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Don’t Speak More Than Automattic Guild Lets You Speak No Matter How Many Awards Your Weblog Won in 2015. Not Your Uncle’s Automattic!

If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

  1. Be Yourself, everyone else is taken.
  2. The quote is by Oscar Wilde.
  3. Nobody can replace you, even if your copies are assembled en-masse in a Nick Bostrum/ Tesla factory.
  4. With that said, if having referenced three authorities wasn’t enough: I would like to know how does it actually feel to know all of the words in the UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test database. How does it feel to know all of the words in spelling bee contests. How does it feel to be Sir Donald Bradman or James Harbeck or Founder of a Test like Joint Entrance Examination for engineering students in India or To be founder of Harvard or Massachusetts or To be the founder of United States of America.
  5. I have pretty good idea by now how it feels to be Gandhi, Kabeer or Prahlaad. I don’t want to feel that.
  6. I might like to feel superior to others but I can’t dispense Mensa Membership to every student I meet.
  7. You would really love to know what it feels like to be a Charles Babbage, JRR Tolkein, Or
  8. Why all these pundits got trapped here trying to undo curses within the lands of haunted dolls.
  9. They were merely curious. Curiousity killed the cats. Dogs took over. They were Sirius.
  10. Then, they found more than they were looking for, almost 1408 of Stephen King.
  11. They resolved to find their Team Cobbs who already had bugs like Mal in their designs.
  12. What does it feel like to be Amish Alvi or Amish Tripathi: Immortals of Meluha fame? I don’t want to know.
  13. Where there’s mining: there are reptiles. There are nightmares. Petroleum industries. Oceans.
  14. It’s like motivating people to be administrators, not in so many words, an idea repeated in Bollywood, Hollywood, Tollywood etc ad infinitum, ad nauseum, ad absurdum.
  15. How does it feel to be Khaleel Zibraan for a day?
  16. How does it feel to not worry about progenies or ancestors or hungry ghosts?
  17. How does it feel like to have committed absolutely no sins?
  18. How does it feel to be.
  19. How does it feel to not care anymore for celebrities?
  20. How does it feel?
  21. Why?
  22. Who?
  23. Reductio Ad Absurdum.

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