Rukaiya's Ebike

Bought a monsoon cover for Rukaiya s ebike.

The rainy season is long past and we are into December and another six months at least for the next monsoons to begin. Then why buy it?

Well, it acts as a dust and tiny leaves cover/protector. You know the tiny ones that are like the tamarind leaves (or maybe they actually are). They fall from the trees and  lodge themselves in the  net seat cover, which is hard to clean. But that's not the only reason.

Her earlier brown coloured cover was brutally torn, ripped by some unknown person. The handicapped four wheeled vehicle itself was dragged and moved around on multiple occasions from its parking place. And I did not know who was doing it.

Then last week I happened to see from my kitchen gallery, a ground floor flat occupant of our housing society manhandling it. But before I could react to it or protest I was called by my special needs sister Rukaiya. And then later the exigencies of taking care of her 24x7 did not provide co

nducive opportunity to broach this incident 

However last Friday when I brought Rukaiya back home, I found this manhandler sitting in his parked car.  As I was parking Rukaiyas handicapped ebike he called out to me and told me - I wish you would park the vehicle a little in front...I have difficulty in turning it in reverse. I said if he brought his car into the compound in reverse he would not have to reverse his car. He mumbled about it being not feasible. I then told him that I am at home most of the day and night. If there is a problem he just has to call out to me and I would come down and do the needful.

However I complied with his request and parked  Rukaiyas ebike as to not inconvenience him. After all we live in a co-operative housing society 

I have Co operated with the Society when their technical and parking committee asked us to vacate our parking space since 1978  under our bedroom gallery of our flat  on the first floor  (then it was the sidecar scooter of my doctor brother).  This was during the paving work of the compound.  Despite it being the rainy season and despite the fact that Rukaiyas ebike was an electric, battery operated handicapped vehicle I cooperated. The ebike unsweetened suffered damage during the heavy rains due to water seepage  All in the hope that it was just a matter of days/ weeks.

But the committee had other ideas. Departing from the previous straight line parking against the compound wall they changed it to angular parking against the ground floor flats' windows 

With a triumphant look - we created two extra car parking slots a detailed pdf presentation was made justifying the change.

No thought was given to the difficulty in maneuvering the cars. The angular parking works due to sharing of open space between buildings. It works perfectly in the space between between Society s buildings Nos.3 & 4. It also works in the opens pace between our bldg no. 4 and the other bldg.no.5 because there is no compound wall there.

However, there is a compund wall halfway between the bldg no.2 and 3's open space which prevents sharing of the open space and thus prevents easy manoeuvring of cars parked on both sides. Worthy of note is that bldg. No.2 cars are parked straight one behind the other in linear fashion alongside their side of the compound wall.

Moreover the changed angular system of parking in our side of the compound open space leaves no room for Rukaiyas ebike to be transported to the two wheeler parking area in front of the bldg.

I recall my FB post of some months ago when I found Rukaiyas ebike despite the handle locked turned out from its parking space and the two wheeler of Mr.Rajesh Gandhi parked in its place. Although exigencies of Rukaiyas care prevented me from making a xomplaint I did speak to my advocate friend Mr.Harsh Desai who looked upon it as an offence under many criminal and civil laws including The Persons With Disabilities Act.

Incidentally this Mr.Rajesh Gandhi has in collusion with the housing society and many 'like minded'  persons instigated his wife Dr Ashwini Bhalerao-Gandhi to file a Suit No.174 of 2016 against my mentally challenged and physically handicapped 65 year old sister Rukaiya, my second sister Rafika Iqbal Gandhi and myself.  But today it's all free entertainment. The Life Show'.

My advocates firm M/s. Thakore Jariwala & Associates may be for all practical purposes defunct and our lawyer friend may have joined Dua Associates.... and the Suit itself may have gone into sleep mode. But as my other advocate friend said if the case comes up before an eccentric/strict judge it is quite likely that he may pass an adverse order.

This being just the tip of the iceberg without bothering much about what lies beneath I continue to strive......and evolve, hoping life will smile on Rukaiyas whilst she can still laugh.

Tit For Tan!?

Check out @SHAKTISH’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/SHAKTISH/status/939881814641885184?s=09

Rigging Polls Now Becomes So Easy

And with the kind of IT experts team the BJP has this would be so easy....press any button, vote goes to BJP.

Sad

Check out @milindkhandekar’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/milindkhandekar/status/939489689383456768?s=09

This is Unprecedented

Check out @AamAadmiParty’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/AamAadmiParty/status/939477803174629377?s=09

Arab World Must Join Muslim World

Check out @Reuters’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/939610622131605504?s=09

Rani Padmavatis s Jauhar - Fact or Poetic Imagination? by Sarah Hafeez

Acknowledgement
From article printed in
The Indian Express

Questions on Padmavati, triple talaq find place in BHU’s MA history paper

Rajeev Kumar Srivastava, assistant professor of Society and Culture in Medieval India at BHU, denied having set the question paper.
   
The question on Society and Culture in Medieval India read: “What do you mean by Johor tradition? Describe Rani Padmavati’s Johar in the period of Alauddin Khilji.”

PADMAVATI, the protagonist of a poem by a 16th century Sufi poet and the character at the centre of the raging controversy over the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film by the same name, features as a question in the MA second-year history paper of BHU, as does a question on triple talaq.

Students of history claimed that three weeks ago, they were asked to answer a question on “Rani Padmavati’s Johar” for 10 marks in a third semester examination. This was before questions on GST in Kautilya’s Arthshastra and globalisation as Manu’s theory featured in the BHU political science paper.

The question on Society and Culture in Medieval India read: “What do you mean by Johor tradition? Describe Rani Padmavati’s Johar in the period of Alauddin Khilji.” A student said he had studied the tradition of jauhar — a custom, as part of which, Hindu women self-immolated to avoid rape, capture and enslavement after defeat in a war — since it was in the syllabus.

But Padmavati was mentioned in passing as a matter of debate among historians in the chapter on jauhar. “We had read a small portion on Padmavati but the fact of her existence is debated among historians. Our professor stressed it as an important part only because it was in the news over the Deepika Padukone film,” an MA history student said.
Most modern historians have rejected the historicity of the Padmavati legend. Amir Khusrau, Khilji’s court poet who had accompanied him during his invasion of Chittor in 1303, did not write of any Rani Padmini or a jauhar at Chittor in his accounts of the attack, though he did refer to jauhar in his account of Alauddin’s conquest of Ranthambhore just before the Chittor campaign. Padmini first finds mention in the Padmavat, a poem written in Awadhi by 16th century Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540 — over two centuries after Khilji’s Chittor campaign.

Rajeev Kumar Srivastava, assistant professor of Society and Culture in Medieval India at BHU, denied having set the question paper.  “If Alauddin Khilji has any truth, so does Padmavati… We have been teaching the condition of women during Alauddin Khilji’s reign every year. Padmavati was taught irrespective of any political controversy brewing currently. The Babri Masjid issue is also raging, does that mean we will stop teaching Babur?” he said.
On the question on triple talaq, a student said, “There was nothing on triple talaq in our Medieval India studies syllabus. But sir held a special class on it. That is how we managed to answer the question. The class was part of a lesson on the wretched condition of women, especially Hindus, during the rule of Delhi sultans.”

Srivastava said: “If a student asks me questions on a particular topic, I have to teach him, even if it not spelt out in the syllabus in as many words. Anyone who is wise will understand or know that the problem and evil of triple talaq must have crept into society as soon as Muslim rulers invaded India. It is common sense. I am only teaching my subject that spans from 1206 to 1707. I also teach the ills of Hindu society like sati and the condition of widows.”

A former head of history department and professor of ancient Indian history, Binda Paranjape, said it was usually the subject teacher who set the paper. “Usually, the professor who teaches his area of specialisation is the one who sets the paper. The paper is then vetted by a moderation board comprising other professors. Though I am not an expert on medieval history, being the former HoD and the seniormost teacher in the history department, I have never seen such questions from medieval history being set — especially the one on (nikah) halala that has more recent origins. The moderation board should have checked these.”

“These topics are not covered in the syllabus, so students of affiliated colleges, not taught by professors at BHU campus, will face difficulties answering questions. We as teachers of history do teach the emergence of popular historical narratives, but the treatment of the subject differs from teacher to teacher, something which makes a lot of difference,” she added. History HoD Ajay Pratap could not be reached for comments.

First Published on: December 10, 2017 4:34 am

हरिवंशराय बच्चन

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हारना तब आवश्यक हो जाता है
जब लड़ाई "अपनों" से हो !
और जीतना तब आवश्यक हो जाता है
जब लड़ाई "अपने आप " से हो ! !
मंजिले मिले , ये तो मुकद्दर की बात है
हम कोशिश ही न करे ये तो गलत बात है
किसी ने बर्फ से पूछा कि,
आप इतने ठंडे  क्यूं हो ?
बर्फ ने बडा अच्छा जवाब दिया :-
" मेरा अतीत भी पानी;
मेरा भविष्य भी पानी..."
फिर गरमी किस बात पे रखू?

Children Dying of Malnourishment in Yemen

I had pointed out this fact more than two months ago. Statistics were horrendous with a child dying every hour. It seems the situation has worsened.

It's main benefactor Saudi Arabia is dangerously aligned with the Trump administration paying it billions of dollars alongwith other Arab countries for peacekeeping in the region.

Little do they realise the anti Islamic  motives of the US which wants Jerusalem in which the Masjid al Aqsa is situated to be Israeli  capital.  Friday was the day of protest (age) for Muslims the world over.

Significantly the major protests came from Malaysia and Indonesia with Tunisia Turkey Pakistan Algeria joining in large numbers.

https://www.trtworld.com/mea/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-during-clashes-over-jerusalem-13005

The 9 Clock

Amazing mathematics!

The Prophet's Birthday Celebrated Worldwide

https://www.facebook.com/shakir.virpurwala/videos/10156202558149767/

The Physiology of Pain

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TIoEvzuPhNjv2hOC6lAYBM/The-ride-back-home.html

That day I was at Byculla with Rukaiyas on the ebike when the muscular cramps set on me in the  abdominal area.

There was little pain but I could feel the muscles entwine one on top of the other to create a local area of dull pain.

Having studied the physiology of pain on many  occasions. I have learnt the art of reducing/removing the pain by un-entwining the muscles by consciously releasing them one by one in reverse order (backwards)  i.e. the muscle cramped last is released first then the second last and so on.

However on that particular day it wasn't working. But I did not stop and continued riding the ebike until we reached home.

Lying down I slowly managed to un-entwine and slept.

I think most people continue or even increase their pain by hoping to get out on the other side of the 'Pain-train'.

Little do they realise that this is a dead end and the only way out is to go reverse or backwards.

As you slowly un-entwine the muscles backwards one by one the pain reduces and after all the muscles are un-entwined only the nucleus pain remains which is much less.

This is not the same as being indifferent to pain. It is a conscious scientific effort to reduce physical pain.

I guess if one is clinical enough and not awash with emotions one could do the same with the pain of the heart/soul too.

High school dropout.....or MA in Political Science from Gujarat University???

https://video.fbom3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/24319601_137370730370609_6666906750932746240_n.mp4?_nc_cat=102&efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoic3ZlX3NkIn0%3D&_nc_ht=video.fbom3-2.fna&oh=7e23a2987d40a391092db7c3e28c4a2f&oe=5BDE38B3