Thursday, 31 December 2020
Getting Into Others Shoes
Friday, 4 December 2020
Happy Birthday Buddhi Bhushan
Friday, 16 October 2020
MS-III
When everything is fine, we dream of having the have nots in life. But in the matters of survival we forget all the excesses and only wish for "existence".
Here goes the inspirational list of survivors from Gandhi hospital's Covid ward ( MS-III 4th floor Inpatient block):
Bhoomaiah 80/M/Non-diabetic
Maarayya 60/M/Diabetic
Krishnudu 45/M/Post Radio and Chemo
Chennamma
D.Narayana 41/M/Dialysis patient
Kavitha 29/F
Lavanya
Jagadish
Pavan 21/M/Decreased platelet count
Indumathi
Komal
Surya Narayana 64/M/Non-diabetic/Non Hyper tensive
Kasi Viswanath
Yes, my father and me were tested positive for SARS-CoV2 aka covid19. My father was suffering from moderate to severe covid19 symptoms and we both got admitted in Gandhi. It's been a month now. We both got discharged on Sep 16th after getting treated there for more than a fortnight starting Aug 31st.
Lucky enough. Thankful to the almighty. Thankful to my doctor cousin Phani who directed us to Gandhi and doctor friend Ravi who guided us at home. And most importantly, all the doctors who treated my father while we were at Gandhi.
Ending this article with an inspiring quote I saw and experienced from Gandhi Hospital:
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
Debugging Weddings-1
With the wedding bells ringing all over braving covid19, I was there at my friend's sister wedding last Saturday. Global economy has taken its toll and every sector is badly hit. Like the blessing in disguise, wedding costs are now down to cost of a grandly given birthday party. With limited invitees and below par attendance from near and dear, 1000 pax grand gala mass event in convention hall turned into 100 pax classy event in mini-banquet hall. In the absence of band baazas and dhandias, an unusual silence prevailed, giving the driver seat to traditional Sannayi melams and vivaha mantrams. Suddenly, I realised I was attending a whole new wedding with the sounds of these reverberating all over. I heard the ayyavaaru chanting the below sloka which had a lasting impact on me as I read it only few days before on one of my colleague's wedding card:
శ్రీరామ పత్నీ, జనకస్య పుత్రీ – సీతాంగనా, యౌవన కోమలాంగీ
భూగర్భ జాతా – భువనైక మాతా – వధూవరాభ్యాం – వరదా భవంతు
What is a wedding* ? How to define it ?
Why is it so special ? Third most talked aspect in middle class life after good education and good job is a good marriage. They say marriages are made in heaven.. are love marriages included in it ?
I have witnessed only two wedding ceremonies from close quarters but the sea of emotions, waves of crests and troughs involved in it are still afresh. I wanted to write what a wedding means to me..and what I have understood by seeing the families never-ending apprehensions before and at sigh of relief/happiness after the wedding. Mind you, the wedding couple will be in a complete different world and they are inspiration for both parties to toil all through the wedding day.
Arranged Marriage:
The message which my grand pa passed onto my mom at her wedding comes to my mind now. "See Lakshmi, bonding between husband and wife is crucial for fruitful wedding. Everybody may not have the luck of love before marriage but still they have every chance of loving their better-half after the marriage in a subtle way."
Yes, in a subtle way because of all sorts of responsibilities shared between the couple from then on makes the love/caring/affection/concern for each other reveal in a hidden way. It's visibility increases with two vitals called understanding and patience.
Love after marriage starts slowly but it thrives with time and grows bigger over a period of time. Wedding ceremony is a vedic seed sowing event in which both groom's side and bride's side unite to let the grooms sow the seeds of their wedding plant in the soil called family with the help of water called mantras and in the presence of invisible air representing our ancestors, god and goddesses. Slowly, the wedding plant grows and have its branches of trust built between the pair, the pair will have their children called flowers and fruits, thus it flourishes and gives shades of happiness for both sides of families and all the people associated with them.
I will continue pondering over this..
I am yet to write on emotional things involved on a wedding day, my take on advantages of love marriage. And are they really made in heaven ?
*Here, Wedding and marriage are used synonymously for the sake of better writing.Usually, a wedding is a ritualistic ceremony after which the marital relationship starts between a girl and a boy.
Sunday, 9 August 2020
In the journey of life..
To Mouth ulcer,
"In the journey of life..." is such a phrase which can be beautiful and awful; it depends on where we currently are in our journey. All the toughest mountain passes once surpassed becomes an achievement and a life time memory but whilst going through them we may struggle and look downhill .
To err is to human and to dream is to human. Certainly, not everything we dreamt of is in our hands. Life drags them; it gives us hope and solace sometimes, thrill and pain the other time just to make us feel the sense of it. What is the fun if everything happens in a flash ? At times,when the journey once thought to be on a smooth highway turns out to be a rough ghat road; the best we can do is to decelerate, reduce the gear, apply brakes, control all other anxieties (of where are we leading to? what road is this?) and continue driving to reach our dream destination.
In this regard, nature provides us good examples. A tiger, even a mighty tiger must await hours and hours for its prey to become vulnerable and hunting prone before the hunt actually begins. It is just like the long-lasting pre-production work done by Baahubali director Rajamouli before commencing the shoot.
Trees in southern India have to survive in dry-deciduous forests unlike trees in tropical evergreen forests in the north and northeast. Lush green forests in south post June will have to shed its leaves after February to sustain the dry summers till the end of May. These dry deciduous never feel sad for the good fortunes of evergreens which experience rain for most of the year. In their journey of life, these trees prepare for adversities, consume less and continue their wait for the onset of monsoon i.e. for the life to thrive again.
A herd of thirsty elephants walks miles and miles starting March in search of water ponds. But the greatest happiness for them comes after the showers in June with the joyful bathing in water plenty rivers and lakes. None in this eventful planet goes without struggle and none ends their struggle midway !
All living creatures in this lovely world experience joy and happiness which is scattered amidst the pain and uncertainty. However bright the sun may be, he has to re-emerge from darkest of the clouds to shine again!
With love,
Dentogel
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Let the child in us shine forever !
Change is the only constant !
Whatever happens, life has to move on !
Stay strong and keep moving!
When going gets tough, the tough gets going!
These are some common quotes we keep on listening from our near and dear when we express our inability to carry out day-to-day activities efficiently and when we ponder over happened things from past and might-happen things from future only to waste our valuable time. And most of such concerns are mind-set related and are often seen as small issues when conveyed openly.
So how do we deal with them ? Is it just because of over-thinking, over imagination, living in past or fearing about future? Or is it because we are less-occupied and inactive ?
Let us try to devise a solution to this by seeing newly born in our family.
A kiddo does many amusing things all through the day. He keeps himself busy with something or other until he sleeps, he shows his enthusiasm to grab everything he sees, touches things to have a feel of it, he enjoys what all he sees, he has keen eyes, ears and eagerness to know new things. He displays all sets of human emotions as and when they occur to him without attending communication skills class like most of us do. It's just that he doesn't know any of our languages we speak but he conveys everything with his actions and natural signalling system. The smile he gives whenever his dad comes back from office, a quick cry if his mother is quietly slipping away from him are priceless. He is what we saw with no filters and no hidden things. He cries whenever he falls down but in a minute forgets the pain getting hold of newly bought teddy! That's the best part in a kiddo ! He is instantaneous, natural, super optimistic and relentless in his efforts.
Now, are we all the same what we were in our childhood? Many of us say No!
Time to re-inculcate some of the best qualities which we all had in our childhood.
Dr. Kalam always says "it is the optimism, cheerfulness and ever-learning attitude of the child that we all should carry throughout our lives." These qualities are enablers for our continuous growth and teaches us new things wherever we are and helps to make ourselves better day-by-day; it also leaves a positive impact on our surroundings. But the problem here is, having got the best of nurturing, the best of schooling and now better social status we all tend to relax, take light and try to enjoy/limit ourselves. Once we are stagnant, thoughts of endless cycles about every minutest things create ripples in our mind eating away what all good we acquired over the years. What the fun in ruining us like this! Let us all choose some stream, some hobby, some activity to carry the child in us! Let us be more occupied like a child to be happy because happiness is contagious and it creates a happy environment ! It clears away our polluted minds and paves for the far better world for us! To be happy, we need not be rich, we need not do great but we need to pursue small things consistently and grow continuously like how a tortoise pursues it's race! Know that (1.01)^365 gives 37.783 while (0.99)^365 almost nullifies. So, start now and never stop! Go beyond the goal for there is no real goal till the journey of life reaches it's last mile !
Let the child in us shine and shine forever !
అమ్మ అని కొత్తగా..మళ్ళీ పిలవాలని-2
Monday, 11 May 2020
అమ్మ అని కొత్తగా.. మళ్లీ పిలవాలని-1
Friday, 1 May 2020
2020 turning into test match
A quote from my good friend goes like this.. "sometimes we may not win the race; completing the race itself would be an accomplishment".
At the times when Indian economy wass slowing down but have the enough vigor in it to become a $5 trillion economy* by 2024 (with the evens of growth drivers i.e. largest consumer market and largest demographic dividend). At the times when two super powers of the world (US and China) were waging tariff wars. At the times when Saudi Arabia(aka US) and Russia were in a tug of war for supremacy over crude markets. At the times when millions of endemic Kangaroos and Koalas went dying in the great Australian bush fires(seemingly natural but man-made disaster) and at the times when Brazil's Bolsonaro preferred economy to environment causing enormous loss to the Amazon forests aka earth's lungs (an artificial disaster).
Yes, these are the times, when man's extremely irresponsible behavior was troubling himself, troubling the tiny creatures in the farm field and troubling the giant whales in the oceans to name a few. Now comes the turn of mighty man who claimed to tame the whole universe but miserably failed to figure out the tiniest of the tiny SARS-CoV-2 !
Let it come to us, then we will face it attitude rightly fits for many of the developed countries. Whilst the developing and poor countries lack health infrastructure to fight pandemics, it is sheer negligence of developed countries that welcomed the invisible and made it invincible. Studies say vaccine hesitancy (also known as anti-vaccination meaning reluctance to be vaccinated or to have one's children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services) in the developed countries like US and Italy is one of the reasons for wide-spread outbreak. The strict implementation of vaccination programs have helped countries like India to build some sort of resistance to existing and new viruses.
Today, May 1st :
Many countries are celebrating International Labor Day in lock-down! There is a saying mother loves the weakest of her children the most because it is they who needs more care, more back-up in all the stages of development. Look at the plight of laborers and daily wagers, their lives are most affected and most shattered. Governments and the able should take every possible measure to ensure रोटी कपड़ा और मकान to them. May be, we also need to make them self-reliant. In fact, no big country in the world is self-sufficient today. Current global supply chain is like a spider web any disturbances to it will impact all the developed and emerging economies. If oil is supplied by US and OPEC+ countries, most cars are manufactured/assembled in oil-deficient China. And the result is largest known slump in the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil market !
Children are also playing their role in this crisis. They are now facing amusingly annoying situation. Most of them got promoted but extended summer vacation has also given them extended lock-down :-)
Yes, health care providers, public administrators, police, sanitary workers have rendered their services in the need of the hour. They are doing exemplary work. The quote "వైద్యో నారాయణో హరీ" can now be extended to policing and public services also. In the later years, we may see more children aspiring to become doctors, collectors and policemen to serve this nation.
Similarly, it is the time for us to acknowledge dignity of labor across all facets and respect every job doer in the society. Then, Indian migrants will work in India, for India with due respect in the society. By now, we understood that it is is OK to make a simple living staying with dear ones though with limited luxuries.
Between our matinee idols and demi-gods are reduced to man status and are busy in making #BeARealMan videos on twitter and instagram !
Given the intensity of outbreak, it's interesting to note that few Americans who stranded in India amidst lock-down are not willing to return to their homeland while fellow Indians on foreign land (Iran, U.K, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines) are making every attempt to return home!
Aftermath of Corona:
Once the life after corona reaches normalcy, it will never be the same old one, it will be a new normal. Remember now spitting is punishable crime in India (recent guidelines by Ministry of Home Affairs). I believe the current generation always had a good sense of humor (thanks to all comedy shows we watch) , now along with it we also got good sense of life like how it can turn the tides for us. With corona dismantling all our dreams (postponement of personal events like marriages,postponement of client projects; housing loans scarcity, losses in business, pay-cuts, no hikes, no promotions and no new recruitment) let us take a long breathe, start making game-by-game strategy as MS, the captain cool emphasizes we take one game at a time, it is long way to world cup final and we cannot give our best keeping finals in mind from league stage!
Signing off ! Stay home, Stay safe, Live today, think today !
Kasi Annapurna
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