Books read in 2020

The great enemy of plain language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one is real and one is declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms. ~George Orwell

Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics do not like- then cultivate it. That is the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. -Jean Cocteau

  ~Highly Recommended~

  • Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir - Malik Sajad
  • Hatred in the Belly: Politics Behind the Appropriation of Dr. Ambedkar's Writings Ambedkar Age Collective

~Worth a Look~

  • Let's Talk Money - Monika Halan
  • Jaya - Devdutt Pattanaik
  • Bhutan: The Kingdom at the Centre of the World - Omair Ahmad
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
  • Topi Shukla - Rahi Masoom Raza
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't - Jim Collins
  • अरे यायावर रहेगा याद? - अज्ञेय,सच्चिदानंदा हीरानंद

~Pleasure Reading~

  • Coolie Lines - Praveen Kumar Jha
  • एशिया के दुरगम भूखंडों में -  सांकृत्यायन, राहुल

~Avoid~

  • The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes

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Kanpur Coaching Mandi

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For previous article on Kanpur coaching mandi, go through this label of Kanpur Series . Hot News:  IIT Entrance Examination (JEE) of the seven teachers together to prepare a joint platform sigma - IIT JEE is made. Students will get a place to preparing for the three subjects without straying around and meet all the facilities. In addition, due to the joint will reduce the fees too. Sigma of the joint forum of the physics teacher Anish Srivastava and Raj Kushwaha, Ashish Bishnoi and Anurag Bishnoi of mathematics and chemistry of Pankaj Agarwal, Nirmal Singh and Sanjay Chauhan's. Small - small batch (one hundred to two hundred) in the three subjects under the same roof will get a chance to prepare for. Three different subjects to students before a total of 51,300 rupees to pay the fees now total 45,000 fees will be charged. Sigma's head office 117 / N / 581 Raniganj (Kakadev) will be. Old Time:  Even after paying Rs 8,000 for each of the three different JEE subjects, most of the...
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Lyrics of Title Song from Bharat Ek Khoj

सृष्टी से पहले सत्य नहीं था, असत्य भी नहीं अंतरिक्ष भी नहीं, आकाश भीं नहीं था छिपा था क्या कहाँ, किसने देखा था उस पल तो अगम, अटल जल भी कहाँ था सृष्टी का कौन हैं कर्ता कर्ता हैं यह वा अकर्ता ऊंचे आसमान में रहता सदा अध्यक्ष बना रहता वोहीं सच मुच में जानता. या नहीं भी जानता हैं किसी को नहीं पता नहीं पता नहीं है पता, नहीं है पता........... वोह था हिरान्य गर्भ सृष्टी से पहले विद्यमान वोही तो सारे भूत जात का स्वामी महान जो है अस्तित्वमाना धरती आसमान धारण कर ऐसे किस देवता कि उपासना करे हम अवि देकर जिस के बल पर तेजोमय है अम्बर पृथ्वी हरी भरी स्थापित स्थिर स्वर्ग ओर सूरज भी स्थिर ऐसे किस देवता कि उपासना करे हम अवि देकर गर्भ में अपने अग्नी धारण कर पैदा कर्व्यपा था जल इधर उधर नीचे ऊपर जगह चुके वो का एकमेव प्रान बंकर ऐसे किस देवता कि उपासना करे हम अवि देकर ॐ ! सृष्टी निर्माता स्वर्ग रचायता पूर्वज रख्सा कर सत्य धर्मं पलक अतुल जल नियामक रक्षा कर फैली हैं दिशाएं बहु जैसी उसकी सब में सब पर ऐसी ही देवता कि उपासना करे हम अवि देकर ऐसी ही देवता कि उपासना करे हम अवि देकर......
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Kanpur Coaching Gurus

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Memories of coaching days at Kanpur are inseparable from me. I have done a separate post on Kanpur coaching mandi only. The most remembered image of my coaching days was the advertisement of Ankush Bhatia by Pran classes, and it was pasted on each wall of Kanpur. His photo was spread at distant corners of the city, showing All India Rank 51. Never seen any local marketing campaign like this. Sometimes, I recall the rush of students from one coaching center to another for seat capture, xerox copying of assignments, and 'out-of-course' study material. The JEE course was never completed on time in the Kanpur coaching mandi. At the end of March, the mad rush to complete the course began with various test series taking place simultaneously. I could not forget that pressure till now. I will never forgive Anish, Pankaj, and Vishnoi sir for combining their individual treats into 1 party for JEE-qualified students. For information on the pre-2000 AD days of coaching mandi, check this l...
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Bahadur Shah Zafar - Last Mughal King

Lagta Nahin Hai Dil Mera Ujde Dayar Mein Kiski Bani Hai Aalam-e-Napaidar Mein Bulbul ko baghban se na sayyaad se gila Kismat mein kayd thi likhi fasle-bahaar mein Kehdo In Hasraton Se Kahin Aur Ja Basen Itni Jagah Kahan Hai Dil-e-Daagdaar Mein Umr-e-Daraz Mang Ke Laye The Chaar Din Do Aarzoo Mein Kat Gaye Do Intezaar Mein Din zindagi ke khatm hue shaam aa gayi phaila ke paanv soyenge koonje mazaar mein Kitna Hai Badnaseeb “Zafar” Dafn Ke Liye Do Gaz Zameen Bhi Na Mili Koo-e-Yaar Mein English Translation: My heart is not happy in this despoiled land Who has ever felt fulfilled in this transient world The nightingale laments neither to the gardener nor to the hunter Imprisonment was written in fate in the season of spring Tell these emotions to go dwell elsewhere Where is there space for them in this besmirched heart? I had requested for a long life a life of four days Two passed by in praying/wishing, and two in waiting. The days of life are over, Its evening of death Now I can sleep w...
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Unofficial Nursery Rhymes

I celebrated my 23rd birthday in mine native village with joy. It was not big celebrations and bumps but entirely new experience. I was able to recall my favorite rhymns of childhood days on birthday. 1 Tantan tantan ghanti baajee ,bache gaye school masterjee ne sawal poocha, bache gaye bhool master jee ko gussa aaya, jama diya rule bachoon ko bhi gussa aaya ,choed diya school; 2 Tam tamatar tam tamatar khayen hum angrez ka bachcha kya jaane angrezi jaanein hum 3 Nana nana bhookh lagi hai khalo beta moongfali moongfali mein dana nahi hum tumare nana nahi nana gaye delhi,wahan se laye billi billi ke do bachhe ,hum hain sache; 4 Motu seth sadak pe let gadi aaye phat gaya pet gadi ka no. 88,gadi pahunche india gate india gate pe khade sipai,motu seth ke hue pitai. 5 Ram naam ke kothare mein ho raha ttha match ram ne maara chakka,hanuman ne liya catch.
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