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Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic A different angle about Durga Puja.
usha manohar wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
What next are they going to interpret from such festivals? Seriously, Durga stands for the superior classes that must and will always dominate the lowly ones??? Utterly ridiculous and too pompous an article, what was the writer thinking when he wrote this nonsense??
I have come across many such articles written about gods and goddesses where the author gives his or her own interpretation , to suit whatever it is they are trying to achieve..
Yes Usha I agree with you, but it is my personal observation that almost all the leftists who claim themselves to be progressive are the ones who ridicule and show immense hatred towards our traditions, culture, and generally everything that are considered to be beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. By doing so, they think that they are being modern and progressive, an attitude which has proved to be damaging for the art in India and has now moved on to cultural aspects. Unfortunately, the damages that this attitude has caused is the main reason also for moral and otherwise general degradation of the population. Now, likening the worship of Durga to oppression of dalits is just taking it several notches down that road towards squalor. So that should reason enough for us to worry about.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
anil wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
Is ti also a border town, Anil?
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to anil for his/her reply to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Choice of profession.
I initially started out working as administrator, then moved on to people management which I did like but was not the job of my choice. Then after the birth of son, I resigned and chose to stay home as a full time mother but one fine day, a great opportunity came knocking on me when I was asked to translated an art instruction book as a trial. It turned out great , the publishers liked my work and I now am an almost fulltime freelance translator. IT was around teh same time that I stumbled across boddunan where I tried my hand at writing articles, which I could successfully and liked it. So initially even though I may not have worked at something I liked best, it was sheer chance that I changed my career completely opposite of what I had been doing until now and found that it was something I really liked.
Now, there is another opportunity where I will starting next week as administrator of an art studio. I will share the details of it soon with you as I want to share and connect you all too with the activities that we will be conducting in our art studio.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to RAMAKRISHNAN. A for his/her reply to the topic How doomsday could come .
Man is an insignificant being in this infinite universe; but he thinks he is the supreme authority of everything. We know that everything in this universe are different forms of energy. And we cannot add or destroy a single unit of energy in this universe, rather than changing the existing energy from one form to another. That means we, humans, have no power of creation or destruction. These powers are vested in somebody whom we don’t know or is beyond our knowledge. ....We are just witnesses, watching the wonderful world like a bewildered child, but pretending like a colossal genius.
10 years ago
rambabu liked a reply to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic How doomsday could come .
anil wrote:
RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:
Scriptures of different religions have their own predictions regarding doom’s day, known as ‘pralaya’, ‘deluge’, etc., based on the long-sighted vision of their scholars. Similarly scientists have also made their predictions based on their researches and studies… It is nothing new or not to scare anybody, but to make everyone aware that for every rise there is a fall.
No one is last long, it is universal truth. But most of peoples thought that they are immortal.
Exactly. Man is proud about his achievement and his command over the Mighty nature shows his immature thinking. Where is this conqueror who boasts and brags about his achievements when the mighty Tsunamis and cyclones which wiped of everything in a fraction of a second ?
Man is not even a fraction of a mere speck before this vast and endless nature.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Choice of profession.
anil wrote:
If job is our choice it give pleasure and satisfication. My first choice is accounting. For it I joined C.A. But it is my fate that I could not complete it. I worked as senior accountant in cement factory and vegetable edible oil. At present I am running shop of photo state. But this job is not of my choice. I can do accounting work but no one like to give job because of my health problem.
I agree. I know well about your health that forced you to remain in a job which you do not relish or like. Still I applaud your strong will to remain as a self reliant without being a burden to others.
I got an opportunity to change my profession as a creative artist and utilized it. But all cannot get such opportunities to stick to a job close to one's heart.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
anil wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
Places like Ganganagar are are very rare. Most of the places are buried under the concrete jungles everywhere. Peace and tranquility had become things of the past.
In such conditions, places like Ganganagar still keeping its sanctity and serenity is really achiements. Being a resident of Ganganagar, you have all the reasons to be proud.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic 94th birthday of cartoonist R.K. Laxman.
anil wrote:
rambabu wrote:
The Legendary R. K. Laxman was a self made satirist. His forte is Political satire. His favorite bird is Crow. He has drawn innumerable number of Crows.
One of his cartoons that I like immensely is, A serpentine Queue standing before the Ration Shop. A man in the queue posts a letter to his wife through the Post Box, just by the side of the road. An inquisitive person asks him, to whom he has written the letter.. The man replies, " To my wife. Four days ago I left my home for the Rations. I informed her that I was safe and standing in the Ration queue."
As usual, the Common man looks silently.
It is true we Indian spend some years of our life is queue. Today I read in newspaper that Maharashtra government lift ban from criticism of politicians. Now a cartoonist can scatch cartoon on politician. Real tribute to great cartoonist, R.K. Laxman.
R.K Laxman is a legend. Legends are forever. He may not be among us today, But his works especially that depicted the stark realities existing in the society through his cartoons like a weapon stay in every Indian's heart.
The world needs more Laxmans.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Indo Pak Relationship.
anil wrote:
Musrf Parvez, Ex president of Pakistan accepted in his one interview that Laden, Jawahir is our hero and Laskar is our creation. Now what is left to prove that Pakistan is mother land of terror and terrorist.
Exactly. Both the countries had reached a point of no return. The provocative firings across the border and giving shelter to Dawood Ibrahim prove that Unification of India and Pakistan is mere wishful thinking. Here is the proof.that Pakistan is still protecting Terrorists like Dawood Imrahim
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/dawood-ibrahim-leaked-tapes-karachi-pakistan/1/409047.html
10 years ago
chinmoymukherjee replied to the topic Indo Pak Relationship.
Such wishy-washy thoughts completely betray
ignorance the harder realities which surround
Indo-Pak relationship.These two countries
have virtually drifted away to two poles
in terms of ideology, political architecture
and even culture.Pakistan is a failed
state with its military establishment and
feudal lords developing a permanent vested
interest in anti-Indiaism to begin with
to emerge as the greatest distabilising
threat to world peace and security.How
mere cultural exchanges can bridge this
yawning chasm in perceptions is beyond my
comprehension.
10 years ago
RAMAKRISHNAN. A replied to the topic How doomsday could come .
Man is an insignificant being in this infinite universe; but he thinks he is the supreme authority of everything. We know that everything in this universe are different forms of energy. And we cannot add or destroy a single unit of energy in this universe, rather than changing the existing energy from one form to another. That means we, humans, have no power of creation or destruction. These powers are vested in somebody whom we don’t know or is beyond our knowledge. ....We are just witnesses, watching the wonderful world like a bewildered child, but pretending like a colossal genius.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic Indo Pak Relationship.
Musrf Parvez, Ex president of Pakistan accepted in his one interview that Laden, Jawahir is our hero and Laskar is our creation. Now what is left to prove that Pakistan is mother land of terror and terrorist.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic 94th birthday of cartoonist R.K. Laxman.
rambabu wrote:
The Legendary R. K. Laxman was a self made satirist. His forte is Political satire. His favorite bird is Crow. He has drawn innumerable number of Crows.
One of his cartoons that I like immensely is, A serpentine Queue standing before the Ration Shop. A man in the queue posts a letter to his wife through the Post Box, just by the side of the road. An inquisitive person asks him, to whom he has written the letter.. The man replies, " To my wife. Four days ago I left my home for the Rations. I informed her that I was safe and standing in the Ration queue."
As usual, the Common man looks silently.
It is true we Indian spend some years of our life is queue. Today I read in newspaper that Maharashtra government lift ban from criticism of politicians. Now a cartoonist can scatch cartoon on politician. Real tribute to great cartoonist, R.K. Laxman.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic How doomsday could come .
RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:
Scriptures of different religions have their own predictions regarding doom’s day, known as ‘pralaya’, ‘deluge’, etc., based on the long-sighted vision of their scholars. Similarly scientists have also made their predictions based on their researches and studies… It is nothing new or not to scare anybody, but to make everyone aware that for every rise there is a fall.
No one is last long, it is universal truth. But most of peoples thought that they are immortal.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic A different angle about Durga Puja.
usha manohar wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
What next are they going to interpret from such festivals? Seriously, Durga stands for the superior classes that must and will always dominate the lowly ones??? Utterly ridiculous and too pompous an article, what was the writer thinking when he wrote this nonsense??
I have come across many such articles written about gods and goddesses where the author gives his or her own interpretation , to suit whatever it is they are trying to achieve..
Yes Usha I agree with you, but it is my personal observation that almost all the leftists who claim themselves to be progressive are the ones who ridicule and show immense hatred towards our traditions, culture, and generally everything that are considered to be beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. By doing so, they think that they are being modern and progressive, an attitude which has proved to be damaging for the art in India and has now moved on to cultural aspects. Unfortunately, the damages that this attitude has caused is the main reason also for moral and otherwise general degradation of the population. Now, likening the worship of Durga to oppression of dalits is just taking it several notches down that road towards squalor. So that should reason enough for us to worry about.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
anil wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
Is ti also a border town, Anil?
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to anil for his/her reply to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Choice of profession.
I initially started out working as administrator, then moved on to people management which I did like but was not the job of my choice. Then after the birth of son, I resigned and chose to stay home as a full time mother but one fine day, a great opportunity came knocking on me when I was asked to translated an art instruction book as a trial. It turned out great , the publishers liked my work and I now am an almost fulltime freelance translator. IT was around teh same time that I stumbled across boddunan where I tried my hand at writing articles, which I could successfully and liked it. So initially even though I may not have worked at something I liked best, it was sheer chance that I changed my career completely opposite of what I had been doing until now and found that it was something I really liked.
Now, there is another opportunity where I will starting next week as administrator of an art studio. I will share the details of it soon with you as I want to share and connect you all too with the activities that we will be conducting in our art studio.
10 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to RAMAKRISHNAN. A for his/her reply to the topic How doomsday could come .
Man is an insignificant being in this infinite universe; but he thinks he is the supreme authority of everything. We know that everything in this universe are different forms of energy. And we cannot add or destroy a single unit of energy in this universe, rather than changing the existing energy from one form to another. That means we, humans, have no power of creation or destruction. These powers are vested in somebody whom we don’t know or is beyond our knowledge. ....We are just witnesses, watching the wonderful world like a bewildered child, but pretending like a colossal genius.
10 years ago
rambabu liked a reply to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic How doomsday could come .
anil wrote:
RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:
Scriptures of different religions have their own predictions regarding doom’s day, known as ‘pralaya’, ‘deluge’, etc., based on the long-sighted vision of their scholars. Similarly scientists have also made their predictions based on their researches and studies… It is nothing new or not to scare anybody, but to make everyone aware that for every rise there is a fall.
No one is last long, it is universal truth. But most of peoples thought that they are immortal.
Exactly. Man is proud about his achievement and his command over the Mighty nature shows his immature thinking. Where is this conqueror who boasts and brags about his achievements when the mighty Tsunamis and cyclones which wiped of everything in a fraction of a second ?
Man is not even a fraction of a mere speck before this vast and endless nature.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Choice of profession.
anil wrote:
If job is our choice it give pleasure and satisfication. My first choice is accounting. For it I joined C.A. But it is my fate that I could not complete it. I worked as senior accountant in cement factory and vegetable edible oil. At present I am running shop of photo state. But this job is not of my choice. I can do accounting work but no one like to give job because of my health problem.
I agree. I know well about your health that forced you to remain in a job which you do not relish or like. Still I applaud your strong will to remain as a self reliant without being a burden to others.
I got an opportunity to change my profession as a creative artist and utilized it. But all cannot get such opportunities to stick to a job close to one's heart.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
anil wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
Places like Ganganagar are are very rare. Most of the places are buried under the concrete jungles everywhere. Peace and tranquility had become things of the past.
In such conditions, places like Ganganagar still keeping its sanctity and serenity is really achiements. Being a resident of Ganganagar, you have all the reasons to be proud.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic 94th birthday of cartoonist R.K. Laxman.
anil wrote:
rambabu wrote:
The Legendary R. K. Laxman was a self made satirist. His forte is Political satire. His favorite bird is Crow. He has drawn innumerable number of Crows.
One of his cartoons that I like immensely is, A serpentine Queue standing before the Ration Shop. A man in the queue posts a letter to his wife through the Post Box, just by the side of the road. An inquisitive person asks him, to whom he has written the letter.. The man replies, " To my wife. Four days ago I left my home for the Rations. I informed her that I was safe and standing in the Ration queue."
As usual, the Common man looks silently.
It is true we Indian spend some years of our life is queue. Today I read in newspaper that Maharashtra government lift ban from criticism of politicians. Now a cartoonist can scatch cartoon on politician. Real tribute to great cartoonist, R.K. Laxman.
R.K Laxman is a legend. Legends are forever. He may not be among us today, But his works especially that depicted the stark realities existing in the society through his cartoons like a weapon stay in every Indian's heart.
The world needs more Laxmans.
10 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Indo Pak Relationship.
anil wrote:
Musrf Parvez, Ex president of Pakistan accepted in his one interview that Laden, Jawahir is our hero and Laskar is our creation. Now what is left to prove that Pakistan is mother land of terror and terrorist.
Exactly. Both the countries had reached a point of no return. The provocative firings across the border and giving shelter to Dawood Ibrahim prove that Unification of India and Pakistan is mere wishful thinking. Here is the proof.that Pakistan is still protecting Terrorists like Dawood Imrahim
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/dawood-ibrahim-leaked-tapes-karachi-pakistan/1/409047.html
10 years ago
chinmoymukherjee replied to the topic Indo Pak Relationship.
Such wishy-washy thoughts completely betray
ignorance the harder realities which surround
Indo-Pak relationship.These two countries
have virtually drifted away to two poles
in terms of ideology, political architecture
and even culture.Pakistan is a failed
state with its military establishment and
feudal lords developing a permanent vested
interest in anti-Indiaism to begin with
to emerge as the greatest distabilising
threat to world peace and security.How
mere cultural exchanges can bridge this
yawning chasm in perceptions is beyond my
comprehension.
10 years ago
RAMAKRISHNAN. A replied to the topic How doomsday could come .
Man is an insignificant being in this infinite universe; but he thinks he is the supreme authority of everything. We know that everything in this universe are different forms of energy. And we cannot add or destroy a single unit of energy in this universe, rather than changing the existing energy from one form to another. That means we, humans, have no power of creation or destruction. These powers are vested in somebody whom we don’t know or is beyond our knowledge. ....We are just witnesses, watching the wonderful world like a bewildered child, but pretending like a colossal genius.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic Indo Pak Relationship.
Musrf Parvez, Ex president of Pakistan accepted in his one interview that Laden, Jawahir is our hero and Laskar is our creation. Now what is left to prove that Pakistan is mother land of terror and terrorist.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic 94th birthday of cartoonist R.K. Laxman.
rambabu wrote:
The Legendary R. K. Laxman was a self made satirist. His forte is Political satire. His favorite bird is Crow. He has drawn innumerable number of Crows.
One of his cartoons that I like immensely is, A serpentine Queue standing before the Ration Shop. A man in the queue posts a letter to his wife through the Post Box, just by the side of the road. An inquisitive person asks him, to whom he has written the letter.. The man replies, " To my wife. Four days ago I left my home for the Rations. I informed her that I was safe and standing in the Ration queue."
As usual, the Common man looks silently.
It is true we Indian spend some years of our life is queue. Today I read in newspaper that Maharashtra government lift ban from criticism of politicians. Now a cartoonist can scatch cartoon on politician. Real tribute to great cartoonist, R.K. Laxman.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic How doomsday could come .
RAMAKRISHNAN. A wrote:
Scriptures of different religions have their own predictions regarding doom’s day, known as ‘pralaya’, ‘deluge’, etc., based on the long-sighted vision of their scholars. Similarly scientists have also made their predictions based on their researches and studies… It is nothing new or not to scare anybody, but to make everyone aware that for every rise there is a fall.
No one is last long, it is universal truth. But most of peoples thought that they are immortal.
10 years ago
anil replied to the topic Today is 89th foundation day of my city, Sriganganagar.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
I have heard about Sriganganagar from my army friends who have had the opportunity to live there and from what I heard, the place and the people are simply fabulous. I hope to visit your city one day!
Welcome Kalyani, Yes Ganganagar city have two cantonment area, and one cantonment area is 50 KM away. Ganganagar is district headquarter.
10 years ago