“Walk the Talk”

To my surprise I came across many personalities who love to crib, complain always and hence obviously remain totally unhappy. But the same people don’t like if someone else cribs in front of them. They constantly keep advising “not to crib / complain, be happy always” etc. I was taken a back after observing these two extremes in the same personality. They are counted under “double dholki” types.

Another example to quote is one of the teachers from my kids’ school always used the word “no” very very frequently during her conversations / communications with students in the class. For ex. If the students asks “may I come in mam?”, the answer is “no”, “Can I show you my copy mam?”, the answer is “no” and for everything there are multiple no’s in her communication. And she used to insist all the students not to use “no”. Again I was taken a back. I was really wondering what’s going on with such people.

Then I understood the crux and only according to me, as this first category of personalities now understood that cribbing, complaining etc. creates bad relationships and imbibes the habit of constantly looking for or try to retrieve only “not so good” points from everyone around. They must have paid huge amounts for their behavior and hence they now promote and request others not to crib and be happy with what you have, based on their experience or sufferings etc. And also, they must be trying to change too, you never know.

Same is the case with the teacher, she is using “no” so frequently and due to her habit, she might have left behind in her life. Hence, she is focusing on upcoming gen to avoid using “no”. She must be practicing the exercise of transforming “active-passive voice”, but its not yet visible to the external world. But simultaneously sharing her suffering is essential. Might be their way they give suggestions and behaviors are contradictory in nature but then I guess all people around them need to accept such personalities and go ahead instead of following the proverb / idiom “penny wise pound foolish” “बोले तैसा चाले त्याची वंदावी पाऊले”,  “walk the talk”. 

Keep learning and observe only good points from everyone, everything around, irrespective of gender, age, profession etc. to build our unique personality.

भेट...

माझ्या लहानपणी शेंडेफळ असल्यामुळे आई बाबांबरोबर सगळीकडे जायला मिळायचं आणि मी फार एन्जॉय करायचे त्यांच्या बरोबर सगळीकडे जाणं / भटकणं अगदी बँके पासून ते खरेदी पर्यंत. 

त्या काळी लग्न, समारंभ, आणि बाकी कुठलेही ऑकेजन असलं तरीही स्टील ची भांडी भेट म्हणून दिली जात होती. पण त्याची एक खासियत होती. भांडी किंवा पातेलं किंवा एखादा सेट ई. वर नाव टाकून मग ती भेट दिली जात होती. अर्थात तो काळ फारच वेगळा आणि साधा होता. पण ते छोटसं मशीन सुरु करून सांगितलेलं नाव त्या भांड्यावर अक्षरशः कोरलं जायचं, बहुतेक नेहेमी करता, मिटवता येणं अवघड आणि इतक्या प्रेमाने दिल म्हटल्यावर वापरणं आवश्यक आहेच ना. 

ते नाव कोरण्याची प्रोसेस मला लई भारी वाटायची राव. काय सांगू. 

• स्थिर हात, 
• उत्कृष्ट हस्ताक्षर आणि 
• मराठी / भाषा येणं, प्
• रत्येक भांड्याचा आकाराप्रमाणे आणि दिलेल्या मजकुराप्रमाणे अक्षर छोटं-मोठं करणं  ई. 

माझ्या दृष्टीने अती आवश्यकच होत, एक कलाच जणू, ज्यात कुठलीही चूक होणे नाहीच, एकदाच चान्स मिळणार, बा$$$स.. 

आता आहे का नाही असलं नाव टाकणं स्टील / पितळ / अल्युमिनियम वर कुणास ठाऊक पण हे लिहितांना सुद्धा मला सगळं माझ्या समोर होत आहे, तो कर्रर्रर्र आवाज, सगळं म्हणजे सगळं उभं ठाकलंय डोळ्यासमोर. 

"भांड्यांवर नाव टाकण्याची प्रोसेस म्हणजे" मला मिळालेली अनोखी भेटच जणू.

ब्रेड चा चिवडा / उसळ...

माझ्या आईकडे हा एक फार आवडीचा न्याहारीचा पदार्थ होता. कारणं अनेक आहेत, एक म्हणजे फारच कमी वेळा ब्रेड घरी येत असे, त्या मुळे हा नेहमीचा पदार्थ नव्हता आणि विविध भाज्या घालून केलेला रंगीबेरंगी, पट्टाकिनी होणारा असा, चटपटीत देखील, आणि पोटभरीचा. बाप रे, वर्णन करू तेवढं थोडच आहे ह्या पदार्थाचं. 

हो आज सकाळी माझ्या कडे हेच होत आणि करता करता मला एक किस्सा आठवला, म्हटलं चला लिहुयात, पट्टाकिनी. 

माझा एक मामे भाऊ होता. त्यांचं कुटुंब अकोल्याजवळ एका छोट्या ठिकाणी राहत असे, कारण तो तेथील बँकेत पदाधिकारी होता. त्याला तीन मुलं. त्याच्या सर्वात लहान मुलाला काहीतरी उपचार करण्याकरता त्यांना मोठ्या शहरात यावं लागत असे. आम्ही नागपुरात राहत असल्यामुळे मग ते नागपूरला येणं प्रिफर करायचे. पाच-सहा महिन्यातून एकदा यावं लागत असे, ज्या प्रमाणे डॉक्टर सांगतील तसे.  मग काय त्यांना आमच्याकडे येणं म्हणजे उपचार+सहल होती. मोठी सुमो नावाची गाडी भाड्याने घेऊन निघायचे आणि आई बाबा तिघे मुलं ड्राइवर आणि बाकी बँकेतील गाडीत मावतील / जागा असेल तेवढी अजून काही मित्रमंडळी. माझ्या त्या भावाला हा ब्रेडचा चिवडा आणि त्यातल्या त्यात माझ्याच हातचा फा$$$$$रच आवडायचा. इतका कि तो एकदा बशीत / मोठ्या वाटीत / डिश / बोल ... मधे  दिलेला संपला कि चमच्याने वाटी वाजवायला सुरु करायचा. आणि जोवर मी त्याला पुन्हा दुसरा राऊंड वाढत नाही तोवर वाजवतच राहायचा. साधा चिवडा तो, पण काय त्याला आवडायचा म्हणून सांगते. खाता खाता इतक्यांदा म्हणायचं "कित्ती झका$$$स करतेस ग तू".  

आज देखील टचकींनी पाणीच आलं डोळ्यात ह्या सगळ्या प्रसंगाची आठवण होऊन.  

न मागता मिळाली दाद किती वर्ष लक्षात राहते नाही. सहीच.

Insult....

 I am narrating my observations since my childhood days, entirely spent in Maharashtra. And Pangat is a enjoyable and respected culture in Maharashtra in those years. "Pangat means sit down on ground or on chair+table for eating food and people will serve you". "Buffet" fashion / practice / culture came later, many years later. From my point of view Pangat and Buffet is totally opposite to each other especially when Pangat is at home for a special event or festival. In general elders always used to suggest kids and all "not to talk" while eating food, and its so true even from science perspective. Another reason again from science perspective is to concentrate while eating food, eat food when its hot, so that it will be digested easily and other hungry people who are waiting will get place to occupy in the next round of Pangat. With so many reasons, I still recollect we used to enjoy food in Pangat due to the variety, and exactly due to so many items in the plate we used to concentrate and eat, which is definitely giving respect to the food. As to live this life, one of the important items is food, other than many others, it is also said that if we get fresh and healthy food two times a day indicates we are really lucky.

Now in this so called modern world, with the invent of technology, at canteen, at home or in restaurants too, many a times I have observed that people make "Best Use" of two given hands, by one hand / thumb they surf the net and with other they eat food, "what is going in?", God knows.

A very simple question "Why?".

And this is not enough my dear friends, sometimes or many a times background music or TV is also going on at the same time.

According to me its a huge insult of food which we are getting in front of us.

So a humble request to all the readers, kindly keep your phones / any gadgets aside for 15-20 minutes and enjoy / cherish the food, look at the variety of colors we fortunately have in our plate, with a range of tastes too. Say thanks to the giant efforts of farmers for providing us the food in ample quantity.

Desi solution to downloading attendance of small gathering

Its easy to download the attendance when the class or meeting is going on and before the meeting ends, on these many online platforms, we are using these days. 

Wanted to send attendance of one of our past departmental meeting conducted on Teams, which I never tried it before, and I was asking Google-Baba about it, but somehow there was no success / no answer available. Tried all possible options and links available on Teams, but all efforts in vain. Then forwarded the recording to the concerned person and requested to manually check how many attendees were there in previous meetings. 

Finally, I saw a magical number in colorful circle next to the meetings recording on Teams, immediately just took my cursor on that number and boom, I got the list of attendees, wow, I immediately went on Cloud-9. Desi way solved it temporarily. Took screenshot immediately showing names of all attendees and forwarded to concerned person. But still looking for technical solution. Will get it resolved soon.

Watchman for sometime

I am able to recollect one of the Akbar-Birbal's story where king becomes begger to understand his life etc.

Ofcourse it was not the same, but today at my office bus stop I have requested one watchman for his chair and he gave it immediately. All those who were entering and exiting were amazed to see a watman in different attire today, as after giving away his chair he left and was roaming around here and there I guess.  I am sure I made their (people who were entering and exiting) day already with my tiny presence on that chair. 

As my legs were talking and complaining, it was necessary for me to sit down while waiting for my bus to arrive and there was no other option but to enjoy watchman-ship for a while.

It was fun and a good change for me really.

Truly blessed…

I always heard people saying that “the life has become monotonous”, “same place is now boring” etc. while thinking of leaving the job, of course at every organization irrespective of the domains there are meeting / conference rooms, just to have a change from regular working place to meet and discuss together. 

People prefer to go and eat their own dabba at canteen so that they will have some walk and different visual. 

Thanks to the current situation and online teaching for me, and of course due to ease called laptop, everything remains portable. Because of all these reasons and as my legs sometimes starts complaining still, I get to occupy various places at office, as the objective is to continue teaching and other work. I have never ever thought that I can work from a different place than my own cabin / allotted work-space, but now it’s a reality and everyone at the office are helping me out with it. 

Of course, I just need charging point and a chair, that’s it. I was truly unaware of such working conditions may occur with me, but now I am living with it and its actually a lot of fun, I get to meet many people and feel charged up. I am truly blessed to have wonderful support from my organization starting from head to colleagues, God bless them all.