Gandhi and Churchill

After reading this book review in TOI on the book by Richard Toye Henry Holt named “Churchill’s Empire: The World that made him and the world he made”, I got back to Gandhi’s work Hind Swaraj. I have not read the book on Winston Churchill. But I know for sure that Winston Churchill disliked Gandhi and Gandhi never disliked anyone.

"It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice regal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor."- Winston Churchill, 1930.

His views on India as highlighted in the article were-

India is a Godless land of snobs and bores-1896.

India is a geographical term it is no more a united nation that the equator-1931

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion-1942

Nobody of us would like these comments. So let me take you back to Gandhi what he offered us from his work. Gandhi very captivatingly pointed out that if India was not united and Indians did not have the sense of belongingness then British couldn’t divide India. As only UNITY can be broken and not DISUNITY. India was united that is why British could split us. For him unity was never a political unity but unity of hearts.

Therefore religion played a positive role for him. He said that every religion would teach the people the path of friendship with others . Gandhi questions whether Hindus and Muslims were always at war with each or whether this difference evolved with their arrival. Only the evils of western civilization brought in the difference.

Gandhi never loathed anyone but Winston Churchill did. And that makes him different and the epitome of peace and non-violence. Respect what he offered us by giving enlightenment to our thoughts. I don’t fully agree with Gandhi on civilization but a blend of modernity and traditionalism, both can bring development while keeping our culture intact.

Murder in the name of HONOR is no HONOR.

A series of honour killings graped the country this year bringing deep insights into the civil society. Young boys and girls were brutally murdered by their family members to protect the reputation of the family or community in parts of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and New Delhi. More then 1000 killings have been done in the name of honour killing. There are special reports on this site http://www.honourkilling.in/.

Even as the civil society fails to do anything about this crime the Human Rights Commission has raised voice over this issue. The propagators of such acts, the unofficial village councils, called the Khap Panchayats condemn marrying outside caste and religion and now even within same kinship (gotra), even when there is no biological connection between the latter.

In recent times, feminist activism has been pushing the states to take steps to address the issue. In response, Khap panchayats are claiming legitimacy over honour killings in defense of “our culture”.

Can Haryanvi or Western U.P culture be protected by honour killings. If so is the case then the first the priority of every state must be to protect our pride, which has been brought down due to corruption. Why don’t people raise their voice and kill the people in return who commit female infanticide. Why on such issues our culture isn’t threatened? What a contrast we see in our culture and polity. At one instance we talk about development in every possible field and on the other we such issues where minds fail to develop.

Under pressure from Human Rights watch to frame laws against the killings, the Indian Government has proposed amendments in the Indian Penal Code to ensure that individuals issuing diktats (harsh or authoritative statements) against couples can be charged with murder.

The political class of our country must not overlook this heinous crime and must address the issue with the Khap panchayats and must ask them to address issues of more importance like lack of inheritance among women, gender equations (which is a matter of concern in both Punjab and Haryana) and female foeticide .

How To Design An Effective Website-Yashvi

In a class with Mr. Aatish we learnt about developing an attractive website. This is what he had to share on the same.

In times of globalization and liberalization having a website to promote your business in the virtual market of World Wide Web, it is important to have a well developed website. Designing an attractive and informative website is no child’s play. You need to put in lot of efforts and understanding. Here are few things you must remember before you develop a website for your business:

1. Navigational Space: The website has to be extremely user-friendly that is, the user must be able to navigate it easily. The pathway must be very clear and distinct. Make sure that the primary navigation, secondary navigation and link titles are well placed.

2. Color Psychology: Using the right color combination is the best way to promote your website. The color must be in accordance with the product or services being promoted. Use of flashy colors in the background might dissuade the viewers from exploring further. Whereas a carefully chosen color coordination scheme will prove more appealing to the viewers.

3. Fonts: You can decide fonts from a wide range of selection. Fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman etc are the widely used ones.The choice of the font must also correspond to the product or services being promoted online.

4. Content: Content is the backbone of any website. Ensure that your website has unique and error free content. Make it sure that the spellings, grammar and content is all perfect to attract a large number of visitors to your website.

5. Domain name: The initial steps include securing a domain name and searching for a web hosting service and choosing a HTML editor.
6. Web host provider: It is the task of the web hosting company to make your website go live on the World Wide Web. They host your site on their server and ensure smooth and hassle free services. Choose the web hosting company with utmost care.

The class was very informative.

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BATAO KAUN YE SHOLA MERE AANGAN ME LAYA H

Kisi ne kuch banayha tha, kisi ne kuch banaya h,
Kaheen mandir ki parchhai, kaheen mazjid ka saya h,
Na tab poocha tha humse aur na ab poochne aaye h,
Hamesha faisle karke humein yu hi sunaya h.....
Kisi ne kuch banaya tha, kisi ne kuch banaya h....


Humein fursat kahan roti ki golai k chakkar se,
Na jaane kiska mandir h, na jaane kiski mazjid h,
Na jaane kaun ulajhata h seedhe-sache dhaagon ko,
Na jaane kiski saajish h, na jaane kiski ye zid h,
Ajab-sa silsila h ye, jaane kisne chalaya h
Kisi ne kuch banaya tha, kisi ne kuch banaya h....


Vo kehte h, tumhaara h, zara tum ek nazar daalo,
Vo kehte h, badho, maango, zaroori h, na tum taalo,
Magar apni zaroorat to h bilkul hi alag isse,
Zara thehro, zara socho, humein saanchon me mat dhaalo,
Batao kaun ye shola mere aangan me laya h
Kisi ne kuch banaya tha, kisi ne kuch banaya h....


Agar hindu me aandhi h, agar toofan musalman h,
To aao aandhi-toofan yaar ban k kuch naya karlen,
To aao nazar daalen aham se kuch savaalon par,
kayi kone andhere h, mashaalon ko diya karlen,
Ab asli dard bolenge jo dilon me chhupaya h
Kisi ne kuch banaya tha, kisi ne kuch banaya h....

Tribute to father of nation

Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi

(2 oct. 1869 - 30 jan.1949 )

Mahatma Gandhi's room at Sabarmati Ashram

Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was on fondly remembered on his 141st birth anniversary .

World's tallest toddler is an Indian.

Meerut boy is world’s tallest toddler at 4 feet, 5 inches


A two-and-a-half-year-old Indian boy with a height of 4 feet, 5 inches is believed to be the tallest toddler in the world. Karan Singh, who is the son of Asia's tallest woman measuring 7 feet, 2 inches, is twice the size of his friends of the same age in Meerut. His record-breaking mother believes this is only the start.

"He was born big and is already half as tall as me, so I believe he will outgrow me soon," The Telegraph quoted basketball-playing Shweatlana Singh, who dwarfs her husband, Sanjay, who himself towers over most people at 6ft 7in. Karan, who was twice the size of normal babies at birth, weighing 13lbs and measuring 2ft, never fitted into baby clothes. He now

wears clothes designed for children aged 10.

AN INTRODUCTION TO MEMORY TECHNIQUES

The tools in this section help you to improve your memory. They help you both to remember facts accurately and to remember the structure of information.

The tools are split into two sections. Firstly you'll learn the memory techniques themselves. Secondly we'll look at how you can use them in practice to remember peoples names, languages, exam information, and so on.

As with other mind tools, the more practice you give yourself with these techniques, the more effectively you will use them. This section contains many of the memory techniques used by stage memory performers. With enough practice and effort, you may be able to have a memory as good. Even if you do not have the time needed to develop this quality of memory, many of the techniques here are useful in everyday life.

Mnemonics

'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are techniques for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall: A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month.

The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember.

Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively.

Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently - as words printed on a page. While writing is a rich and sophisticated medium for conveying complex arguments, our brains do not easily encode written information, making it difficult to remember.

This section of Mind Tools shows you how to use all the memory resources available to you to remember information in a highly efficient way.

Using Your Whole Mind to Remember

The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them.

The techniques explained later on in this section show you how to code information vividly, using stories, strong mental images, familiar journeys, and so on.

You can do the following things to make your mnemonics more memorable:

• Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones
• Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images - these are easier to remember than drab ones
• Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
• Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
• Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image
• Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.
• Similarly, rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!
• Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively

Designing Mnemonics: Imagination, Association and Location

The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location. Working together, you can use these principles to generate powerful mnemonic systems.

Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics. Your imagination is what you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you. The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation, the more effectively it will stick in your mind for later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.

Association: this is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it. You can create associations by:

• Placing things on top of each other
• Crashing things together
• Merging images together
• Wrapping them around each other
• Rotating them around each other or having them dancing together
• Linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling

As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.

Location: gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information so that it hangs together, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another. By setting one mnemonic in a particular town, I can separate it from a similar mnemonic set in a city. For example, by setting one in Wimbledon and another similar mnemonic with images of Manhattan, we can separate them with no danger of confusion. You can build the flavors and atmosphere of these places into your mnemonics to strengthen the feeling of location.

Why has history forgotten this giant ???

                     जय  जवान  जय किशान                          
                      TRIBUTE

( 2 October 1904-11 January 1966 )
2nd Prime minister of India

Small of stature, simple and soft-spoken, Lal Bahadur proved to be one of the heroes of the history of India. A great general in  Gandhi's army of peaceful soldiers of freedom. He became the symbol of India's valor and self-respect.
The 106th Birth Anniversary of India’s second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
He was born in Moghalsarai, which is also spelt as Mughalsarai, on October 2, 1904. His parents were Sharada Prasad and Ramdulari Devi. Though his parents were Srivatsavas, Shastri dropped his caste identity in his early years. His father died when he was only a year old. His mother with the help of her father took care of the children. Lal Bahadur acquired virtues like boldness, love of adventure, patience, self-control, courtesy, and selflessness in his childhood.
He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna and a memorial was built for him in Delhi. Lal Bahadur Shastri was a star of great brightness in the history of India.

Let Us Learn The A-Z Of Camera-Yashvi

Mr. Pawan Koundal, from IP College gave an insight of Camera and its various angles, shots and movements. This is what he had to share:

• Angles: Angles show the relation between object being photographed and camera. A right camera angle is sure to optimize the impact of the picture multiple times and give an emotional touch. These are some of the popular camera angles used extensively:

o Bird’s View Angle/Aerial view/Aerial Viewpoint: It shows a scene directly from overhead. It is widely used in documentaries and sports.

o High Angle: A crane is used to shoot this angle and the camera is elevated above the action. Here, the subject is made to look insignificant as the camera looks down.

o Low Angle: This shot makes the subject look stronger and powerful as the subject is shown from below.

o Canted Angle: The camera is tilted to suggest imbalance, instability and transitions. This shot gives the feeling of ‘suggestion of point of view angle’.

o Eye Level Angle: This is also referred to as real-world angle. Here is subject is made to look real.

• Shots: Shots are described in relation to a specific subject. Given below are the popular types of shots:

o Extreme Close Up: this shot is preferred when facial features are to be highlighted in very dramatic scenes.

o Big Close Up: It is a tight close up or full head shot. This shot is taken when emotions and expressions are dominant.

o Close Up: A particular feature of the subject takes up the entire frame. This is widely used by news channels-head and shoulder shot of the news anchors.

o Medium Shot: Covers the subject body above the waist. It is taken to show a particular part of the subject in more detail.

o Medium Close Up: It lies between close up and medium shot. This shot shows the body above waist without getting awkwardly close.

o Mid Long Shot: In this shot subject is shown above the knees and even the background is dominant.

o Wide Shot/Long Shot: The subject takes up the whole frame. It is the perfect establishing shot.

o Extreme Long Shot: The purpose of this shot is to show the subject's surroundings. The subject is often not visible.

o Over The Shoulder Shot: This shot is taken from behind a person who is looking at the subject. The person facing the subject occupies almost 1/3rd of the frame. This shot get the feel of looking at one person from the other's point of view.

• Movements: Camera movements define the relationship between the subject and the camera frame. It shapes the perspective of the space and time of the viewer. It even controls the delivery of narrative information. Following are the various types of camera movements:

o Pan: It is the horizontal camera movement. Here the camera moves left and right about a central axis.

o Tilt: It is a vertical camera movement. Here the camera points up or down from a fixed location.

Overall, the class was very informative and interesting.

It's the matter of thinking...

Where we are coming from? What we speak, what we listen, how we perceive the arrangement of things around us, ranging from relationships which we inherit at the time of birth to the other things which complete the picture of our lives and where we are directing ourselves to a place where we can form agreement with others who are associated with us directly or indirectly.

We might encounter a constant complain, where we individuals often complain about misunderstandings with others. Garima is going through the same state and complains in front of her friends, “ I just don’t understand why my family isn’t understanding my point of view on the issues personal to me.” Well the emphasis should not be on the fact that a particular issue is personal or not, the importance must be laid on the fact why such considerations arise.

THE REASON

Our individual ways of thinking are a result of what we learn about ourselves, our families, our cultures and our world as we grow up. Each of us has different interactions with people, places and things, and different methods and speeds of processing information. How we absorb and process these interactions determines who we become. And who we become is a sum of those experiences that drive our thinking and, subsequently, our behaviors.

Consequently what we become in this process of development may not fall into the correct lines of our family values, cultural norms etc. Our thought process may go offside. That’s where the individuality comes to play.

So is there a solution to this problem of understanding, misunderstanding, interpreting things unlike others and perceiving things the way we want irrespective of the fact that it may prove destructive to our well-being. Say for instance a 4 year child considers studies as of no use and refuses to enter a school. Now the agreement that parents would form in such a situation with the child would be that they would buy him a toy car if he enters a school and so the child does. But such a agreement might fail when the child would develop his understanding.

THE SOLUTION- BROADEN YOU HORIZON OF THOUGHT.

The solution is not in reaching out an agreement but ideas must be shared, worked and reworked upon. If synthesis of thoughts isn’t possible then people must talk and exchange thoughts. In case of this child who doesn’t want to enter school, parents could try to know the other interests of the child and channelize them, at same time motivating him to study as well.

With each day, a person’s horizon of thoughts must expand and allow space for more flexibility, where we can share thoughts and transform them for better. And this can be done in any family or culture. Because all these institutions are for the growth of a person and not for imposing restrictions on someone’s identity which might be different from a larger entity.