Oh ,Tell me true friend

Tell me true friend
where does it end?
The family your born
the wealth you sit on
The education you get
the  friends you have met
The clothes that your wear
the style you will dare
The brands that you use
from designers who confuse?

Your parent's love and care
the actions that you stare
The literature that you read
the upbringing that you need
The language that you use
the words that you muse
The food that you eat
the rendezvous and your beat
The vehicle that you own
the comfort that you clone

The person that you marry
the people of whom you are wary
The House that you live in
the pity, luxury or sin
The places that you visit
the entries and the exit
The carpet that you walk
or the walk that you talk
The God that you pray
the atheist who has his way

The compassion that you have
the hurts & wounds that you salve
The humans that you help
the animals that you make yelp
The buildings that you build
the associations and the guild
The name and fame you're after
the fun, frolic and laughter
The Person that you show
the reality that you know ?

Ushering a New government....

With every new day, a new hope arises.A lot has happened in the last 3 months and much will in the coming three.Just hope that India progresses in the right direction.

A lot many lessons were to be learnt and hopefully they would be.There is no sincerity in the 'New Politician'. Democracy was being 'redefined' by the earlier governments and so they did badly and sadly they LOST. I hope all others have GAINED from this.

It is not Power or Ownership that you MP's get, it is the chance to serve the people and their country. You have to see to the betterment of human kind and your co citizen. It is not about making personal wealth but using "people's wealth" to bring about a healthy and comfortable well being for the common man.

It is not families and relatives who should get the benefit of your representation , but the people and your constituency.Every Naya paisa has to be well spent and properly too, Responsibility and Ownership of actions is expected by your voter.Publicity and fame is your blessing for "good governance and execution''. 

You bring citizens across the country together and not spill venom so they don't. Caste Class Creed is man Made. The Land has equal ownership of all and so do the resources.The administration is paid to do work and not rob people.The police are to protect and not harm the common man.

A new team has come in but let new thoughts come in too. Education has spread and so will your Misdemeanors due to Media,Communication and Progress.People will ask questions ,so better take proper actions.The day is not far when they will come knocking at your door if you fail their vote to you. 

Times have changed,Youth are aware and no more in villages of ignorance and misinformation. Mobiles and their Sm's/Whats App can do a lot of damage even before you try to control your misdeeds.

Beware oh new Government, for you are " OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, AND BY THE PEOPLE"  

Show us that you are not a 'Moody Sar'...car.... drive well to the right destination.

Joining a movement called AAP

12th January 2014 will be remembered by me for two things, firstly for Swami Vivekanand Jayanti and secondly for joining a movement called AAP.

I have always been with the Movement of India Against Corruption, the Jan Lokpal Andolan and the entire wave of the common man standing behind the Man 'Anna Hazare'.

Having observed since a few years the way Arvind Kejriwal and his supporters have been going,the results they got, surprising themselves,and being forced to form a 'Political group and platform' to achieve the goals they have set; I am mighty touched,happily surprised and driven to help these 'young and new' people, who citizens of India,without caste,creed,political or economic bias.I suddenly remembered 2 things:- one the famous quote from the Bhagvat Geeta;

 Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha,

Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya Tadatmanam Srijami Aham'.

and Swami Vivekananda's words:-

“Arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.”

I became a member of Aam Aadmi Party having felt like one all my life. Having studied Political Science and Public Administration in order to join the Indian Foreign Services , it was my misfortune ,due to my Father's Political career ad my Grandfather's health, that I could not do so.

"Politics" so called has been a part of my life since childhood.I was 6 months old when My Father was voted to the MLA status.and there started a career wherein he reached the highest seat of MP and a chairman of PUC (Public Undertakings Committee).

He was originally a 'Die Hard Communist',but then all the best of people and intelligentsia was picked up by the Congress and it's leaders, and taken help of in building "Free India". 

AAP is no "party' for me. It is a Movement as I earlier mentioned.It is the feeling of the common man who feels there is a great "Betrayal" by the 'Indian Politician' and it's system of the Democratic process of " Government by the people,of the people and for the people".

The Quality of the Politician ad his politics has been seen deteriorating by Me since the last 57 years in front of my eyes..The treatment of Political Posts as their personal properties or family possessions is a sad and vulgar example.The "national spirit'', the pride of being Indian is so missing and the sentiment of "Tyaag" or public/social service and upliftment ,has been taken so ordinarily/loosely and made a pity of....it feels sad.

"Making fools of the common public and under all misconstrued claims looting the public funds"

 The Citizen looting fellow citizen is so rampant and frustrating!

This was felt by the "genuine" common man but he thought all these Politicians with thick skins would not yield and change their ways. When The "media" helped the common man to see from the Rallies in New Delhi by 'Anna' ... he decided to "don the Gandhi cap" the Gandhian ideology in a way...and fight these power brokers by getting into Power themselves. 

Here I only pray that Media should play a very responsible and unbiased role if India as a Nation has to be made proud and thereby improving our stature and respect in the eyes of the world.

The child is just born, it crawls and will slowly stand, no magic will help but "time and patience'' will see it grow into healthy and pure 'human being'.

The opposition is slowly coming out of shock and so is AAP... we are listening to and watching 'proof' every new day.I wish that 'Makarsankranti'

Makara means Capricorn Zodiac Sign and Sankranti means transition of the Sun from one zodiac sign to another. Thus Makar Sankranti is the day that marks the transition of the Sun into Makara rashi (Capricorn) on its celestial path. 

.............................................brings about the change in the Indian Political Horrorscope too.

Feel So Blessed And This Is Why...

I have been blessed with 3 children and I thank my wife for that! 2 girls and a boy. Let me clarify he is not the youngest but my second child.

Kirti,the Eldest was lucky to get to model for a children's company called "Gini&Jony" when she was in school and immediately did a 13 episode serial called "Saath Saath'' on DD1 (Door Darshan). That was quite an achievement in the school days.She has now grown up into a smart lady and is working for a hair Trichology company as a Senior Hair Technician.

Rishi,the second is my son who due to his schooling in a boarding school in Panchgani took to the liking for 'Mother Nature' and it's creations.He handled snakes and scorpions etc. at a small age and soon was a "Sarp Mitra" (friend of snakes) and worked for social causes.He took up photography when I saw some of his clicked pictures and told him that he had an eye for Good frames.Three  years ago he won the first prize for for a Wild Life Photography Competition 2010 held by Vasundhara outdoors and holidays - Nature Kids club.I was happy to receive the prize on his behalf from a personal friend Kiran Purandare :-http://www.naturewalkoutdoors.com/people.html  who was the main judge.We both were taken by surprise.Later he was into rock/wall climbing and also Motorbike racing. He won 2 second place prizes at Mumbai and Pune in the KTM Orange Day Races.Seeing his podium pictures I was an enthralled and happy father.http://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/features/ktm-orange-day-brings-radiance-to-punes-downtown-racing/14311/2  He now is into experimenting breeding of 'fresh water prawns'..

The latest surprise was from my youngest  daughter Naina, who is working as a floor manager and assistant director in KBC is ‘Kon Hoeel Marathi Crorepati’ on ETV Marathi.So enthusiastically watching the show with my mother, when I saw her name come up in the credits scrolled at the end of each show I was a smiling,and  a very happy father who felt deeply blessed.She has done this as her own choice of profession and I hope she achieves greater success. I hope All 3 of them do in their respective fields..

I wanted to express gratitude and heartfelt blessings and happiness by the maker showered upon me through this small way...my blog!

 

Solar Water Heating in India - Safety Measures!

Solar Water Heating  System (SWHS)  may sound so dry a topic in my blog. I do  not blame you,I have to justify tough why I have chosen to write about it.

I am basically an Arts faculty student and that too with Political Science and History of the west as my subjects.My attempt to study BA and then MA in Public Admn. in preparation to appearing for IFS failed badly as my father's political life,my grandfather's health all were a big hurdle. Pune was my final destination as my children wanted to study here and so I had to choose a future.... that I did in Renewable Energy which I thought would be the future business and need ...all this in 2001.

Having learnt all of it (Solar Power) from scratch as a layman and field worker, I am aware of more or less every difficulty in the field.I take this knowledge to share with my friends and acquaintances of some highlights....

" An incidence of 'Scalding' burning of skin by  hot water resulted in the ultimate death of a person." Can this be true? Yes very much so.It was a wake up call for me !! It should be one to those who 'use' as well as 'deal' in Solar Hot Water applications.

Precautions:-
1) Safety
2) Quality
3) Ease in Utility
4) Comfort
5) Technical Installation
6) Knowledge of Use/misuse
7) Adept agency

Companies like Honeywell have 'Anti Scald' valves.Forget the cost...it could cost your life/health.
Solar systems are fit in:-
a) Hostels
b) Hotels
c) Hospitals
d)Old age homes,
e) NGOs for the challenged
f) Industries
g) Residential Homes
h) Housing complexes

What happens;- Solar water heater produces uncontrolled hot water in summer, even steam. During this period hot water requirement is less/nil & generation is maximum.This non-usage further leads to overheating to higher temperatures. forming scales Ca Mg (calcium-magnesium),  leaking joints, fittings, gaskets etc.

A solution has to be provided for non-usage & overheating apart from scald protection.

This is done by anti-scald valve known as TM50 --It's "features'' are as follows:-

· Powerless: No external power is required like electricity or battery for operation. GREENVALVE

·   Anti Scald: hot-water inlet  automatically cuts off instantaneously if the cold water supply fails.*

·   Anti chill: cold-water inlet  automatically cuts off instantaneously if hot water supply fails.*

These two points makes valve safe for children and senior citizens.

·   Fluctuation in supply of hot or cold water makes proportional change in respective ports, which results in set uniform temperature water at the outlet.

·   Saves water: Initial water runoff from hot-water end succeeds control action by valve when hot water starts flowing. Initial water runoff from cold-water end does not take place. In case of no water at hot end, valve shuts off.

·  Entire control loop in 1 package: It includes Temp. sensor, PID controller, Actuator & control valve.

·   Compact size.

·  Sensor is built in, placed in flow for best feedback control, no separate mounting/fitting is required.

·   Simple setting of required water temperature by knob.

·   No specific maintenance is required under normal operating conditions.

·   Valve operation is gradual hence does not produce surges in piping(water hammer)

·   Valve operation is silent

All SWHS users,manufacturers (especially installers) please take serious note of all this.for further detailed enquiry I have a contact for technical support and supply.     >       vega_inst@yahoo.com

I hope I have evoked enough of thoughts in you to make you think in the right direction.

Friendship....Male and Female

Both a creation of Nature, will continue to be debated ....

The 'way' a human is born has been discovered and how it grows too but we haven't yet been able to substitute the 'Female womb'.

Genes and DNA can be deciphered but to make a 'particular perfect human' has been an impossibility.Cloning is copying Nature....but the characteristics would be restricted to a part and not an entirety.

The attraction of Males and Females is a natural one or else we would not have multiplied the way we do. So that is beyond personal control.As every person is 'unique' and so will respond differently to similar situations.

Humans all over the Earth have come up in different Geographical,Cultural,Educational,Social,Economical,Religious,...so on and so forth....conditions. Thereby their,Ethics,Morals,Habits,Parental/Teachings etc..etc... will differ...having no common grounds even in the same country.

Humans grew up with the law of the Jungle.Humans settled down and formed a 'civilized' society. The rules were made by a Male dominated or even a fully male group of thinkers.But they put sense into 'jungle' living.
The 'Survival of the fittest' and Might is right laws of Nature were put in control by Rules and regulations,Bans and censures....So then each male/female got a 'mate' for the most natural urge of sex with the institution of 'Marriage'

All this is quite serious and so is the requirement by each individual for food,water,sleep,sex,etc..So how do we balance all this?What about availability and need when one is away for days on end...Why do we always think of Ethics,morals,etc....all set by us humans?What about 'Mother Nature' who made us all.

All relations and relationships are human creations..The names we give and the restrictions we put....all due to prevention of 'inbreeding',wrong genetics,Blood groups...etc...

So a Friend could be a male or a female so a male-male is OK but a female-male is not if it is without sex...and vice-verse ? I just differ to go into thoughts of sitting as a "Judge" on every action of Humans..

Sanctimony is a human creation ...But when one lives in an educated developed society....one should compare an apple to an apple and not have any thought across the board.

Whether Indian or western...the human remains the same...
Here are some good references by modern studies...

http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/advice/male-female-platonic-friendships

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-21/man-woman/32847964_1_attraction-men-and-women-friendships

A lot more can be said and explained...but this should give each a clear idea and keep Religion,Culture,Country,...(all man made) ...out of this!

25 years ago...this day...

Father was up and ready early in the morning, having shaved and bathed. He was waiting for the social and political local leaders he had called to discuss various burning issues of the region. Several issues agitated his mind. Why is it that the proposed coach building factory had not been sanctioned for Akola? Why no effective demand was being raised for shifting the headquarters of the Cotton Corporation of India to Akola known as a rich cotton growing, processing, trading town with several textiles mills located there. He was visibly unhappy that the local leaders were not taking up these issues in right earnest.

While pacing up and down, he lit a cigarette when he suffered a massive stroke. He slumped on his bed, never to recover. Doctors were summoned. But to no avail. He was dead. Our black prairie dog lay under is bed, refusing to eat or drink for three days. It was ‘Shani Amavasya’, Saturday, 16^th April 1988.

His heart always beat for the people of his soil. He lived and died as a ‘Bhoomiputra’. He was only two when his freedom fighter mother was sentenced to jail. He too became a prisoner to be with his mother. His mother’s brother was a revolutionary and even hid arms at home. Having had such a surrounding, it was natural for father to follow in the footsteps of his mother and uncle. He was jailed twice and after the Independence was elected the first and youngest  President of the Freedom Fighters Association in Akola.

An avid reader, he was an enchanting orator who moved the audience. Chief ministers and even the Prime Minister showered him with praises for his oratory and sought him out as the star campaigner during elections. Even his political opponents acknowledged his oratorical prowess. Just five feet in height, he rose to immense heights in social and political stature in Maharashtra.

I was in Mumbai with my family when I got to know the news of his death. I was so dazed that I could remember only vaguely how we reached Akola. His people had already taken over his body and the last rites. I simply did what people told me to do. I told mother to take care of herself and expect everything to be as it was when he had left the ministry and given up his ticket in 1972 to honor the wishes of Mrs Indira Gandhi who wanted all those who had enjoyed an office in the government to make way for newer blood and devote their time and energy on party organization. It was then that he suffered massive myocardial infarction.  Having no office and position, all his fair-weather friends and relations left him.

I told Aai (Mother), “phones will stop ringing, so will the doorbell, letters will dwindle. He left Ministry in ’72 and now he died as a sitting MP. Never be afraid of the future. We would never be compelled to go back to a chawl where my sister Kiran and I were born. We will make a better life, so what if father has left us with no money.

In the last 25 years we have become richer in terms of friends and well-wishers earned. 

I pray in the memory of a everlasting memory of Madhusudan A Vairale my departed ,beloved,Father....that the dreams he saw for his people will come true....someday...