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A new low in advertisements
@fiitjee
. You are posting the picture of a child saying that she performed badly because she left your institute! I have blurred the picture because I don't believe in this disgusting way of claiming your superiority by belittling a girl child.
We talk about parents putting pressure on kids for IIT JEE, but what about this manner of advertising where you shame a student for not performing? And claiming superiority by claiming that she would have performed had she been in your institute? Shameful
@fiitjee
@fiitjee
And it doesn't stop here.They are claiming about their superiority by talking about the institute with a 'history of suicides'. Shameful. Suicides in Kota are an issue that concerns us all above petty competition but claiming in this manner is cheap
@fiitjee
@EduMinOfIndia
2 years today to the day when Ctrl+F didn't throw back that dreaded sound (that day though, I had scrolled the result PDF) - this late night outside UPSC 'touching' and seeing the result PDF holds it's place as the most blessed moment of my life, will always do 🙂
And goes without saying (even though I have completed for competitive examinations) that getting into IIT really isn't everything. Life indeed is how you respond to situations, not how you just win. The examination of life is really beyond such petty messaging by
@fiitjee
The simplest of words can convey the deepest of emotions. Khaled Hosseini in the Kite Runner - 'For you, a thousand times over'. I can never get over this meaningful sentence. 🙂 No rhetoric, just old-world honesty. Sincerity wins over everything.
My and Narayani's (
@narayani_bhatia
) Strategy and Booklist for Prelims, Mains, and Electrical Engineering Optional.
Also, sharing the blog link for reference where we will keep updating stuff.
Best wishes, Narayani and Katyayani
Exactly 2 years ago this day used to make my heart sink, today - lucky and blessed that this day makes my heart sing! It is an exhilarating feeling to work for the Government of India! 🙂
Dec'19 I was wondering how frequently I'll be able to meet my family in the 16-month long training at NADT. Come March,I came back home for the training turned online due to Covid!We start Module 2 today - fretting over life and excessive planning?Let go & flow with the Universe!
What is that something in A R Rahman music that makes for an idyllic summer afternoon? A weird sense of content, a pang of nostalgia, like sepia-stained memories of a past well preserved, but infrequently visited!
A positive step forward is being there for someone who needs to speak, but along the way, let's start developing the virtue of being good listeners. A sensitive, non-judgemental heart that listens, rather than the intelligent, logical mind that tells.
Looking at the oft-repeated narrative over class 12 marksheets - which goes like 'see I scored average/low but see today I'm successful'. Is it a self-defeating argument? Today I'm accepted, happy and intrinsically a good human being, despite my marksheet. Can we say this?
The day my father left us in the physical realm he wanted us to watch this movie, "for the message" he said. We resisted, saying that we find it depressing (though this movie is a masterpiece). He talked about the message...
Absolutely. The notion that we must be working 24*7 to show our sincerity is so misplaced and so wrong! We just glorify burnout and slogging - so sad. I wish we could collectively change notions.
A 25 year old IIT-IIM graduate and Big 3 consultant recently took his life due to work pressure.
The company will fill his position in maximum of 1-2 months.
Coworkers will forget him after sometime and move on with their lives.
This is the only reality that we live in.
Be
We so very often underestimate the power of right intention and right effort in life. Combined with belief, it's an indomitable force, can move mountains.
And after clearing in my 5th attempt, I've been taunted by a select few to have wasted my years by joining the service at the age of 28 whereas I could've made some career in some other field by the age of 28. My answer : no response is a response.
Are we defined more by our unmet goals/desires/dreams than the ones that actualise? No generalisation, but it's a question springing from observation. Do the actualised ones become the stepping stones of the hierarchy of dreams - forgotten and stepped because now they're ours?
My and
@narayani_bhatia
's notes for UPSC Prelims, GS Mains, and Electrical Engineering Optional. Also included is PYQ Analysis and Insights for both Prelims and Mains.
When your grandchildren ask you, did you do your bit during the Covid pandemic, would you have an answer that would make sense to your conscience, above all?
Thought credits : discussion with like-minded people on this issue.
"All losses are restored and sorrows end" - William Shakespeare
Blood. Sweat. Tears.
Thank you Universe for placing me at AIR 246, Civil Services 2017.
I am reaching this realisation again - an event cannot compel us to turn inward and sensitive. These virtues are based on free will, an event can only act as the catalyst. The journey of our soul depends on our willingness.
@anudeepd7
I knew a brilliance will point this out! How I have come to see it as, is - everyday an erstwhile limitation is broken, and every such act is a miracle! For before that it was an impossibility. I might be wrong though!
@Ananya_Ind
We are 2 sisters Ma'am! As a family we don't really believe in surnames, but I'm carrying forward our Father's first name and my younger sister
@narayani_bhatia
is carrying forward our Mother's first name! :)
Either there's an explanation to life, living, passing over and everything in between. Or there isn't.
If there isn't, then it's pure chaos, a disorder we are statistically a part of. If there is...
Grief is so tangible that you can literally pick it up in your hands and not know what to do with it. Grief sits so heavy in your chest you feel you won't be able to breathe. Grief doesn't tell you how or why or when, but it's there when it's there. The ache of grief - terrible.
International Day of Happiness 2020 - life's too short, take a moment to tell the people who made you happy, ever in life, even for a moment, that they did. Undeniable smile assured 🙂
"Most of these women, including me, are not looking for a knight in shining armour. Because our lives without being married aren't miserable.
Yet we harbour the hope of growing together and growing old with someone who can love us, care for us and respect us."
Simple 'emotions' : getting half a Friday off and listening to 90s hits, nostalgia - the kind that creates a knot in the pit of the stomach, reminiscent of summer afternoons after school - sunlight scorching through the windows but summery curtains that sway with the music.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past... the charitible deceptions of nostalgia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
@harukimurakami_
The same water falling on foam will create a different impact than when it falls on stone. I feel it depends on how porous we are as individuals - the same knowledge is a boon or bane depending on who we are.
2 years today to the day when Ctrl+F didn't throw back that dreaded sound (that day though, I had scrolled the result PDF) - this late night outside UPSC 'touching' and seeing the result PDF holds it's place as the most blessed moment of my life, will always do 🙂
Probably the only question I want to ask : 'were you honest to your own self?'. Answers everything, doesn't it? We owe answerability first, foremost and maybe only to our own conscience. Everything else is a manifestation of this answer.
Can someone please educate me as to what exactly is TikTok? How is it different from Instagram/Facebook and why the craze and obsession with TikTok basically?
You don't get answers to a few things in life. But when one of those few things is not just a thing but about the fulcrum of your life, you feel just helpless.
Mat Kar Maya Ko Ahankar,
Mat Kar Kaya Ko Abhiman Kaya Gar Se Kachi Jaise Os Ra Moti,
Jhonka Pawan Ka Lag Jaye, Jhapaka Pawan Ka Lag Jaye,
Kaya Dhool Ho Jasi, Kaya Teri Dhool Ho Jasi
Delhi had woollens packed and fans on in February, light woollens again in March end, rising mercury in April and again today we're back to no AC and only fans. Wonder what Koppen and Thornthwaite would say about this 😏
The only upside of getting stuck in unusually slow traffic on the way to work on a sunny winter morning in Delhi is the happiness the sunshine is giving me in the car! Soaking in the sun!
@dcp_southwest
@dtptraffic
the traffic signal just outside DCP SW office (and Munirka Enclave) is a potential hazard zone. Cars speed up and do not obey the traffic light - many pedestrians, children and senior citizens cross the road for Mother Dairy/bus/school.
@Ananya_Ind
@AkashvaniAIR
🙂 I was looking at a career in research before joining the prep phase of my life. 5 years in the UPSC phase and finally I'm here! Deep family support but intrinsic conviction was mine! Wouldn't have survived these tough tough 5 years otherwise! I own this decision completely!
@neeleshmisra
Absolutely. The narrative where everything that costs money is preferable needs to be reconsidered. The most expensive is actually home food, it takes effort, love, time management, finances and so much of planning - nothing compares to it in terms of its 'cost'. It's priceless!
Also request
@DelhiPolice
@CPDelhi
- when we call the helpline (100/112), your staff asks female callers to also tell, wife of. Hope this changes. Callers of all genders may be asked to say child of etc if reqd. The 'wife of' identity is sexist and outdated
@virsanghvi
@ITCHotels
A life so well lived. Imtiaz Ji was our tenant for 27 years in Delhi and he shared such mutual love with my father. Grew up hearing about him in our home. Lost my father last year in May and now this news. Such a loss.
@Chaayos
I am a big fan of Chaayos.But want to give a suggestion-why is it mandatory for your staff to only wear Western clothes?They can wear sweatshirt of Chaayos even over their Indian wear (national dress).For women staff who r expecting western wear can be very uncomfortable
@goairlinesindia
my ticket on flight G8-2520 scheduled Apr 01,2020 has been cancelled at your end. I can share the PNR on DM. There's no information on how I will get my refund, nor any communication from you to that extent. Please get back
Spoke to your staff about it,they cited that audit deducts their score.i feel as Indians we must wear national dress with pride.trousers/jeans can be v uncomfortable for a women who is expecting to deliver a baby shortly
@Chaayos
@raghav_ver
@vijivenkatesh
I feel this so much. I lost my father suddenly to a cardiac arrest in May this year and when I gather the strength to look back at our pictures, every little outing we had seems so precious. The realisation of the loss tears me everyday. Sending you strength.
Bought this beautiful Dongria dupatta from
@Boyanikaonline
but the stamping is right in the middle and it's indelible. It has happened earlier with expensive sarees also. Request you
@Boyanikaonline
- can it be put on a label or at the corner to avoid spoiling the dupatta?