Ground Reality

 By Neeraj Bajpai Strong winds were buffeting a humongous white tent where an avalanche of thought provoking sentences was quietly pummeling minds of a sea of humanity.  At Kanha Shanti Vanam on the  outskirts  of Hyderabad recently, A  Simpleton,clad in yellow kurta, was sailing against tide of technology intensively contemporary life styles, and was profusely batting for use of technology like a salt in a lentil soup. Standing upright in front of a motely assembly of about 35,000 people who had just finished an hour long mediation to mark Birth anniversary of The Ramchandra Mission’s revered master Parthasharthy who had passed away three years ago, Senior Bureaucrat Laxmi Narayana, IPS was speaking with conviction while articulating his perception of life on the harsh ground realities. He spoke about tension ridden lives of people, caught in cleft stick of daily pressures and pulls both at working places and domestic fronts and panacea for ...

     FIRED by valuating hopes to bring palpable change in quality of education in country’s institutions of higher education, Noted Academician and Newly appointed President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) Prof PB Sharma has expressed grave concerns over falling standards of education in some institutions and said regulatory system must be made robust to bridle growth of engineering colleges as “Chemist Shops “. His concerns spiked after a report in a national daily recently that more than fifty per cent of seats in the private engineering colleges remained vacant this year in the wake of demand and supply gap. “Unplanned and uncontrolled growth undermines both the quality and standards and makes regulatory bodies redundant,  Dr Sharma said after the said media report. Engineering education in the country seems to have reached the saturation point with around 54 per cent of undergraduate and postgraduate seats in the private e...

Carrying forward his agenda of turning country’s universities into temples of excellence, Eminent Academician and newly appointed  President of the Association of Universities (AIU) Prof PB Sharma has embarked on a massive exercise of interacting with Vice chancellors of various educational bodies to  redraw contours of action plans to accomplish the cherished goal. A simpleton by nature, Dr Sharma who himself is the VC of an International level Private University in Gurugram, says he will work in close tandem with VCs to transform India’s Higher education to serve the cause of high employ-ability, continued contribution to the new knowledge creation, advancing frontiers of Knowledge, engaging into technology incubation, innovations and new product its development creating startups and new age enterprises in plenty. Focused on his vision, Dr.Sharma told this blogger that they would strive hard to achieve these goals with sincere committing to solving pressing pro...

It  was in mid eighties animals in an Indian zoo were virtually blighted to lead sexually starved life driving many of them run amok. But now,this Kanpur zoo is witnessing baby boom. Many  of them born here while many orphaned  babies are brought here for fresh lease of life.         It is like “JJ” whale calf rescued in US and its  its famous story was viral on international news circuits in 1997. This zoo is full of  “JJs” .  This youtube link-  https://youtu.be/8JbkHKOyGGs    - is about the  Current Baby boom in the zoo.  Transcript ROMANCE IN WOODS    Sexual Starvation passé, Baby boom hits Erstwhile Allen Forests Zoo in Kanpur    It was in Mid-Eighties When Animals in Kanpur zoo were virtually blighted to lead sexually starved lives, driving many of them to run amok. Many frustrated singles had hurt themselves fighting with iron grills of cages during heat. ...

In an Indian Zoo, Mother lioness recently refused to breastfeed her underweight Baby .  Lions generally dump weak child thinking that such babies are not too healthy  enough to be part of   Pride of Kings - Queens  of Jungles, say wildlife experts.  But in Kanpur zoo authorities rescued the weak baby Sundari and fed her with imported kitten milk. The cub survived and ready to join parents in the moated enclosure. This  link is about the visual story of the orphaned but pugnacious cub. https://youtu.be/zu94g6yJMek

Amid burgeoning requirements of organs and stem cell tissues for transplantation, a number of doctors and paramedical staff of a super specialty hospital on borders of India’s capital, in an inspirational initiative, took mass pledge for their organs and tissues donation recently. The move came during a function organised to mark Doctors’day in the super specialty hospital Yashoda in Kaushambhi area of the National capital Region. In the simple but elegant function, the hospital staff took pledge in full public glare and asserted that the move was in tune with similar bold initiatives taken by the hospital in past. Recently, the hospital conducted a free medical camp and provided costly operation facilities and other treatments to enrolled patients in the camp. According to Hospital’s managing director Dr PN Arora and Director Upasana Arora, Facilities for organs and tissues transplantation would be started in the hospital soon.    Dr Sunil ...

On a frigid day, she ditched me, apparently taking cover of heavy veil of mist hanging atop a sprawling park.  I was dejected to lose her warm company which was really soothing during bone chilling winter nights in the national capital, notorious for extreme weather conditions.  Refusing to accept the realty that she is lost, I embarked upon the operation search. All bids turned abortive but it was not enough to discourage me from the frantic hunt. I looked into all corners to pick up her trail which many times took to me strange places like heavy bushes in park, cupboards  in home, meditation halls ,petrol pumps, market places etc. Frustrated over the loss, I sought help of a bureaucrat to spot her if she is found in gracing any stroller in parks around. After a few days I resigned to the reality that she is lost for the good but not before making many in suspect in my eyes that they had stealthily laid hands on her. I was repenting to have roma...