Drama of Nature

O dear Nature,
the mistress of universe,
your endless plays,
how easily we forget,
to live in the moment,
forgetting pricelessness of breath,
getting tangled up in past and future,
How humurous can it,
when a man howls and cries,
on inabilities of fixing the unfixable chaos of universe,
How wonderous can it be,
when a man who can build cities,
is forced to leave body on missing a breath,
Human walks like the king of the world when well and fine,
But nature has ways in every era to put the boss to grave,
A man goes through so many shades of life,
But world goes on like it has always gone,
with changing times, objects, instruments change,
changing world never changes,
whether we try to bring some change,
or do not try,
inherent nature of world remains same,
that's why it is mistress and not you :)
you are like one of million cells,
which can choose to be part of body for some time,
we close every door of possibility,
by presuming that we know everything,
like foolish attempts of river,
to become a sea by flooding itself,
but slowly grows in experience that,
the only way to become sea,
is to become a part of it,
to merge in it,
dissolve, melt,
there is no other way,

life alone is comfortable,life alone is torturous,
life alone is joyous, life alone is painful,
life alone is trusting, life alone is betrayal,
life alone is symmetry, life alone is chaos,
life alone is blossomming, life alone is gloomy,
life alone is stupid and foolish, life alone is harmonious,
life alone is bounding,life alone is freedom,
at max we attempt to nurture a better of it,
but life embraces in its lap of eternity,
everything,


I feel, every moment is gift,
a priceless moment,
as long as we live,
why not live in the moment,
keep our plans,
but never expect,
stop bossing around,
how wonderful can life be then :)

Arrow is pointing to earth which is tiny dot. . . .

NGO's and Goodwill work needs to change its stratagy

Someone has rightly said  "Having goodwill isn't enough, you need to do it with precision and involvement as in launching a rocket in space"

Today, I see NGOs all around India, but there is a tendency of being satisfied with being on a path of service. They don't scale themselves up. They do small small events of thanksgiving and all that, do merrymaking, organize a ceremony,give some quotes and that's it. I am sorry to say that NGOs have become complacent in India.

If you enjoy doing service, or enjoy painting, that means you have some raw material with you. But if you get satisfied with making just Rs10 doll with it, then it will only serve that much. It won't touch lives further. You need to create 1 million masterpiece with that hammer. That is how you must strife toward's doing something.


I always have passion for sharing and including someone in my crazyland, so I enjoy creating some Youtube videos of topics of mathematical base.That's a lovely way of expressing. Normally people in vacation, enjoy doing what they care for, but they become lazy in it. But you must make that passion to next level by planning it, deliberately leaving some open ends, but being on and on 12-15 hours on that project. You will become so involved in the process, even though it is goodwill.

I guess if you are misguided on wrong path, you are much more involved than if you are on right path enjoying it. This is one difference you must make. Why can't you make some worthwhile stuff with some goodwill or attitude of service, involving process?

Even Goodwill is so badly misinterpreted by NGO's. They show some poor girl's photo with small nozy and hairs hayway, and they do emotional blackmail. Even when I was in college, I did that as a shortcut for larger support. But things changed as I understood well, how when you are left have no clarity, no action plan, no deeper understanding to share about situation, you use this last resort of weak man. That is such inappropriate way , for asking donation for good cause. It must not either bounce to another extreme, because human touch is also quite essential, but not in such desperate or compulsive ways rather a clearly charted and compassionate way. For emergency, it may be serve need of the day, well , but not when we can plan things well, and work out effectively.


A good cause must be presented in a sensible, clear manner. We need to shed our focus on growth and planning of wiping out such situation, such meticulous plan that people stand for you in awe and inspired with shining eyes that yes, the grim situations can change. But we make grimness and sympathy, crying and weeping again and again our way of life. It is seriously quite depressing. Our short-sightedness is clearly exposed and that's why right work doesn't scale itself up.

I think, poverty is an issue, in next generation, but sustainability is going to be the most important factor. This system has got so big, so complex, and so vulnerable. Time is not too far, devastating technology will be accessible to a punk, and can empower irresponsible people too to just blow of the whole city. We need some serious thinking on every level, how such kind of research remains very confidential and politians are especially banned from it, because when war strikes, and when our blood boils and we may use most constructive technology for the worst forms of destruction. This is one suggestions, I wish some more ideas and ways of prevention and restriction of its outreach needs to be thought of.

A human being is so foolish, that he doesn't understand how wonderfully cycles of rain and seasons run, how ecosystem keeps wheel going, and they think, they can find all substitute for nature. But I hope someday they realize the immensity of programming, the complexity and yet the harmonious nature of the interactions of everything around.

We clearly need to shift ambitions of external nature, to a more sustainable more internal nature. For example if every Indian start's living luxuriously, then no trees on earth, no resources, nothing left. We need to make our dream, ambitions inward, such as creative pursuits like singing,painting, teaching,etc and that too with some amount of concreteness. We need to create a sustainable model of society. We need not be like a heard of sheeps tamed by marketing industries, which anyways mostly thinks in very short sighted way or family catering of age old dreams of big house and all that. You need to have brain of your own.

The earlier we realize, the better.

Now, That's why Old people tend to be good at teaching . . . :)

After writing too many serious topics, this is rare times I guess, I am writing so lousily and just simply expressing one awesome moment in day to day life . . .

A humped back, a bald head, a stick in hand, and a great experience in life is all you need to figure out somethings better.

I had a very interesting observation today, when I was watching a video lecture of an MIT professor Gilbert Strang. Somehow, we both have one thing in similar, tendency to remember less. But well, he has it because of age. These days I am also teaching some students mathematics at a small scale, and that's why it get's even interesting to relate teaching methods.

Now this very respected and admired professor, Prof. Gilbert Strang, has one great thing, he has age, which stops him from doing heavy calculations and remembering too much stuff, and this makes him invent new and new ways of expressing fundamentals of stuff. First he has very deep understanding of subject which is natural advantage. But more than that,he knows art of simplifying things and making it memory efficient and highly prioritized data in terms of high stress on important concepts and not too much meddling around. He enjoys what he does, because he has simplified things so much so for himself. I have seen class 6,7,8 books, and I wonder how students figure out the core and jist of concepts. But this old gentlemen has developed such a wonderful quality in teaching, maybe by choice or age, but it is just so much lovable.
And by the way, if you are scare of Linear Algebra, his video lectures will bring rains of relief to you. I fear that you might start liking it too :)

So, this was one thing which I learned, but I would end this article with rather a light but an inspiring note. I was just changing channels on TV, and suddenly, my remote's button stuck on AAJ-TAK, and there was some interview of SRK about Chennai Express. Now, he was asked about how do you choose films and all bla bla bla gossop by an experienced reporter. He answered, after being in film industry for 22 years, working 12-15 hrs a day, money definitely doesn't mean much, all is routine, but what keeps me running, are the small small exciting moments, like facing first shot of film and being with some friends in industry, . . .  otherwise, I can't keep up the beat.

When you have everything, and when you are bored of everything you wished come true, the little and the closer things keep you moving, and big big things mean even lesser and lesser and just become an instrument of keeping stuff going.

take care,
and have a great weekend :)

Importance of Soltiude

Imagine yourself inside your laboratory working with robots or any of your project, without anyone interfering with you, just fully immersed in the subject, so much so that you forget everything. Human geniuses have not come from Heaven or Hell, it has come out of such deep contemplation in life.  If you observe the pattern, soltitude is something which is common in most of the men who have produced unparellel results.

If you want to do something new, what must be first thing to do? Just think logically? You must keep all rubish around you aside and bust don't allow anyone to interrupt you. In age of technology, we are totally missing this point. We have created such corporate structures which are more of marketing and convincing and politics but works very less on bringing human genius out of a person. 

Current society is grinding us down to become almost predictable dumb ass robots, who are stuck with features of Iphone and Ipad, and girlfriends,parties, jobs, family and a big cocktail of people around us. If you are just stuck being a vomit house of information around you, how can you be open and receptive to new food, new ideas. 

Imagine yourself in Movie theatre with a talkative girlfriend or an important client. You will miss so much in movie then. Atleast in movies, we value involvement and soltitude, but why don't we value it in our day to day life, when we are at office? Slowly OpenWorkspace design's are entering but I personally wish workspaces to experiment on effeciency in group and in seperate spaces with least pressuring telephone bells and more encouraging comments, I bet you Companies will produce tremendous results, but even if someone is sceptical, why shy away from experimenting?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/barbaraarmstrong/2012/05/24/balancing-the-needs-for-collaboration-and-privacy-a-tall-order-in-workplace-design/

Today, complains are coming round the corner, nothing new is happening in life, although everything is new around me? Why is it so? Because we are so much surrounded by prerecorded information, that we have totally forgotten that we can create situations around us too . . . 

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.” 

If you seriously wan't to do something which you consider worth striving, like some want to plunge in music, subjects of art's, etc. Separate yourself from distractions, develop some self control and planning,and just try to get maximum in flow with work as you can.If you are having conversation, be with it, if you are doing art or research or IT Stuff, be with it. But still I prefer that avoid familiar, because it will bring you back to square one some times. A famous character of Friends, Pheoby Buffey(Lisa Kudrow) had once said, that most important thing I did, was to become insensitive of comments and create space for myself. 

“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.” 

― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

The biggest disadvantage India faces today is not that it doesn't have talented people, but we need contacts and all politics has entered into it. If you want to be politician, it is a great choice, make it and live through it. But someone having extraordinary talent in some field need not be politician who market's himself well to get into high position. I met an extraordinary painter, who paints such amazing Warli art, but lives in subhuman conditions. And the bosses are making all the profit.

Trust me on this, don't buy too many opinions. When you are alone, either you can quell your rising conscious awareness and involvement by overeating, wine, over indulgance in sexuallity and remain stuck with it or you can make these voices louder and louder unless it resonates completely in and through you.

So go, watch air buddies , get some entertainment and then,get into some work so deeply, that days and night pass like a fraction of second. That's the way work should be, and not like a painful, chitter chatter, here catering, there catering, politics, how to win friends and influence people job. True genius is bound to come. Otherwise you will always be stuck with the predictables and live a normal life like any other animal, survival and procreation with a flab of repetitive fluctuating intelligence.

Fixing up stuff

Sometime's it happens in life,

when you grow up and become ruthless and intelligent,

when you get tired of everything,

and suddenly you realize, 

how beautiful it was ,

how ugly you made by simple logic and compulsiveness,

how beautiful the childhood is,

and how ugly have we made it now,

This formed a doorway in my heart long back ago,

to live a life of a child inside heart and adult inside head.

Having seen through and through life of average Multinational's, the intelligent, the people who handle the pressure's of world and creating more pressure, I realize how empty has life become. The word's of logic without warmth has made a human anesthetic to life process. I mean sometimes I feel, even a butcher is more open to life than MNC's. People have turned professional's, and life has become a never ending race of competition, leg pulling, politics, ego clashes, dominance, stress and what not.  People have got so miserable that the only resort for them is wine and obsessive sexual behavior(OCD). 

I mean what kind of growth is it at the same time I realize that how easy it is to criticize, and how difficult it is to do something.
I am not talking about sweetness or love, I am talking about becoming totally mechanical and cut-off. Atleast one must feel the work he is doing. There is just money and no inspiration for learning experience during some jobs. I have my parent's in Kendriya Vidyalaya, and I see everyone united as a big fat family, they may speak different, but still they are free to express, such healthy and warm relationships I find less and less. We are loosing good things which is unfortunate, see you must be daring and courageous enough to stand away from trends, if they are not enhancing, and choose to be a trendsetter  . . . .

I still think that system's of working have to go through an important transformation . . . .

I was blessed to be in a very remote village of India, in south gujarat for about a month. I mean how simple their life was and how filled with life they were. They didn't watch all episodes of HIMYM or Big Bang theory, but their life is more lively then most of us. You must understand this one fact that one essence that you will find everywhere in Indian subcontinent, is Reverence. India paid reverence to everything. If you go to some old schools of India, you will see how we paid reverence to food, soil, air, sun and anything and everything. Even sexuality was revered and given a beautiful form of marriage. Don't you see the broken and torn lives of people elsewhere?

So going through so many ups and downs in life, I started experimenting on life, tried to go to depths of logic, sink in depths of emotions, and lots and lot's of things.

So these are some practical things which have worked for me, 

1. After a hectic schedule, give your self involved in learning classical music or some classical instrument or play Violin or Flute.

2. To much logic is poison, beware of it. If there is no inspiration and devotion, logic by itself brings a very uneasy sense.

3. Success is important, but more important is the beautiful moments in the process. If you stay stressed out for 100 days for just a day of party and rock and roll, then I am sorry, it will never happen, because what habbit you make, is what you do habitually, if you made the habbit of staying stressed for 100 days, eventually the patterns are going to be repeated more often. I would rather prefer to live all 100 days with inspiration and devotion.

What is more intelligent?

CASE 1: Doing work with stress, abusing yourself and other's, abusing the work itself, life, working with too many people, taking too many opinions, and always trying to run-away.

CASE 2: Work simply, keep very few people near you, paying reverence to work, and care very less about results, simply lovingly and gently trying to make best out of life, living life with such such intensity, going through tough and smooth aspects with such maturity and devotion?

In both case, both are equally capable, but just the way they approach things is different.

I prefer CASE 2, choice is your's.

You can be capable of reaching the destination from A to B by staying inside the car, or sledging and getting dragged by a car. In both ways, you will get capability, and life is NEVER judged by it, life is judged by the process in which you have lived in and out through during the process.

I have seen the most miserable successful people and most warm and compassionate  successful people,  both are successful, but then the choice is your's how to approach, both are the ways during this journey.

After all Journey of Life can end any moment, and thankfully nothing stays forever, today I was watching Harry potter 1st part after many years and I realized how I saw growth of the final ending,  but it ended. So why not be busy making Life a beautiful journey despite all odd's that we encounter . . . ?

Suggestions for Educational Amendments

Dear friends, Today, in regards of Open Teaching Learning initiative, I had today communicated some views regarding education to some respected people who are always eager and devoted to improving Education system. This includes APJ Abdul Kalam, Prof Yashpal and CBSE committee members. I hope this becomes a stepping stones in future of our next generation. I insist you to give as many suggestions as you can.

Letter follows like this : 

Sir,
I am a student, who is going to do Masters from IISc Banglore. Having completed my primary education in CBSE, I intend to comprehend in words how wonderful CBSE initiatives are and what needs to be done.

These are list of few ideas I wish to suggest :1. Open Education(like Open source) :  How great would it be, if children themselves become a part of teaching process. For instance, Ekalavya school in Ahmedabad did a very successful experiment of making students design questions by themselves and seek answers. The level of involvement went immensely high.  My recommendation is to give a blue-print of the book to the teachers and involve children in creating their own versions of text books!. Of course, the approval needs to be sanctioned by some body, but these versions if uploaded in CBSE portal can work great wonders. For example, if a group of students in ShantiNiketan designs their books in an artistic way, then it could be a form of inspiration to other students with an artistic bend.

 In such a way, if an IIT colony students design it, then it would be an inspiration for such reasoning bend students. The idea of Opening up education is a very revolutionary idea which I want to suggest. There can be one main book but integrating teaching and learning process in an organic way is fantastic in both essence and practicality. Idea came up to me by Vivekananda's idea that education even in translation means - That which comes from within.

The idea that a child judges himself by marks gets replaced by a child rewarding or judging himself on basis of how wonderfully he went to depths of subject and creating questions worth exploring. This would be a great enhancement in whole process of Education.

2. Encouraging Part-time Teaching: By giving a very basic qualification (based on some test) to IT Engineers, doctors and educated people, we can formally allow them to teach on Saturdays and Sundays or after Office timings. I mean these experienced people can be so much of an inspiration to the next generation, and I think, we can very well directly incorporate and channelize  the passion and enthusiasm of this generation to sharing and inspiring the next generation. We may encourage them to share their experiences through talks, videos or personally along with teaching contribution. If flower of compassion sprout's in such people, a phenomenal wave of growth and harmony is bound. It would be gratifying and also phenomenal possibility to Nation as a whole.

3. Multifaceted form of Examination - To judge a needle by standards of sword will always create judgement errors. But if we create multiple standards, we lose transparency. So what I wish to convey is that at-least in few science and non-science subjects like English, Social Science - Marksheet may contain multiple form of scores - Let’s say Innovative Expression or ideas : 27/30(sub score), Tough Reasoning(29/30) Correctness(Main score) : 80/100. So NIFT will see the innovative expression aspect, IITs will see a tough reasoning aspect of it. In this way a child will not be demoralized by his under- performance in one aspect and on other hand it will become easier and rather more effective way for Admissions in Higher Education.

 I appreciate the efforts of dividing the score into Viva and Theory, but there are many challenges, especially the level of ambiguity involved is too high. Purely objective way is Transparent but not all inclusive and doesn't recognizes the Grey areas of a child.

4. Integrating ICT with Education: CBSE has strongly promoted such moves. But still as a student of DA-IICT which is only university in India giving degree in ICT, I had some practical suggestions regarding it:

               a. Encouraging Teachers to create online Practice test's with time out  (eg Moodle, etc)

               b. Encouraging Teachers to record class lectures and share it on YouTube: NPTEL's success story is not unknown to us, but I still see the bar of teaching to MIT's Physics’ professor Dr Walter's who is great inspiration to me person in terms of risking his life for teaching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zc9Nuoe2Ow . Of course I remember Dr. Yashpal's serials and phenomenal work of Prof. Arvind Gupta. Every municipal school has 5 desktop computers out of which at-least one is working, which still, can be useful. We will know how.

Even if the teacher doesn't come there, either such video lectures or Skype can do great aid.

               c. Guiding and showing various possibilities of learning things and projects through ICT.

I wish to give more practical suggestions on this. My dream and wish is that students start enjoying the learning process and take it as an inspiration which takes them ahead from where they are and not an experience of demoralized faces which fade away by crisis of competition. Idea of competition is a curse of single objective judgement, but when the doorways to multiple possibilities flourish by the maturity of education system, idea of competition fades and blossoming of individual potential happens.

Attached is a 25 page open book named Inspire Child, Inspire World, which I found very insightful.

Regards,

Jaley H Dholakiya