The Beauty Of Gulzar

Parallelism

In his seminal essay, ‘The Defence of Poetry‘, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley endeavors to define the function of poetry. Shelley states that “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”

On that account, Shelley would readily claim Gulzar in his breed of poets for the latter’s ability to verbalize and derive poetry out of regular and commonplace things. Over the course of half a century, Gulzar has produced countless verses that have left every listener mesmerized by the extraordinary visuals produced by ordinary words.

How Does He Make The Impact?

The immense power of Gulzar’s pen has found numerous means. He has written dialogues, screenplays and even poetic anthologies. However, the dominion where he reigns supreme is lyricism. Verses produced by him propel any song towards the domain of poetry. His graceful blend of Hindi and Urdu allows him to draw images and sights that could only be a poet’s imagination.

What fascinates about his writing capabilities, even more, is the ubiquitousness of it. These lyrics talk and discuss anything and everything on the face of the earth. A simple look at the body of his work might overwhelm anyone for the number of songs that he has penned in his splendid career. This number, however, feels surprisingly insufficient when you begin to listen to each song. For the more you discover, the more you crave.

Air Pollution and India

According to the World Health Organisation(WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. The same data shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air that exceeds WHO guideline limits that contains high levels of pollutants. These deaths occur as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections.

India faces a severe Pollution problem. According to a World Air Quality report from Bloomberg, 6 of the top 10 most polluted cities in the World are in India. The report also stated that New Delhi has the worst air pollution of any capital city, a damning indictment of the country’s problems with pollution.

Air pollution is a big problem in India – researchers say it kills more than 1 million in the country each year. On average its cities exceed World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the amount of particulate pollution (PM2.5) in the atmosphere by a whopping 500%, according to the report.

New Delhi’s problems are caused by fumes from its sclerotic traffic and worsened by diesel generators and the burning of fossil fuels in cooking by the less-well-off families. Industry plays its part too, as does the burning of waste and farmers setting fields alight after crops are harvested.

Future

On the bright side, country is making some progress, thanks to its National Clean Air Program which is aiming to reduce its air pollution levels by up to 30% by 2024. India is also planning the world’s largest expansion of renewable energy by 2022. 

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/6-of-the-world-s-10-most-polluted-cities-are-in-india/

GAGANYAAN- INDIA’S FIRST CREWED MISSION

ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), with its astounding & momentous achievements, has proved that even – Sky isn’t the limit. It has come very far, from launching Aryabhata, the first Indian satellite, with the help of the Soviet Union- to set up a world record by launching 104 satellites in a single flight.

NASA’s budget of USD 23.3 billion dwarfs ISRO’S budget of a mere USD 2.0 billion by a whopping 168.38%.But the Indian Space agency didn’t let the spartan budget hinder them from successfully reaching Mars in its very first attempt. Neither did it stop them from discovering water on Moon, with the help of chandrayaan-1.

What is Gaganyaan?

ISRO is looking forward to making India proud with its formidable 10,000-crore Gaganyaan Mission. “Gaganyaan” is a Portmanteau word made by combining two Sanskrit words – ‘Gagan‘ meaning sky & ‘Yana’ meaning craft.

Gaganyaan will be India’s first crewed mission to space. Its success will make India the 4th country to do so, following Russia, the US, and China. This very ambitious mission aims to take a crew of 3 astronauts to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for a stretch of 5 to 7 days. ISRO’s GSLV MKIII (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch vehicle Mark III), an evolved, unequivocal & futuristic version of the GSLV MK II, will launch the crewed vehicle. Nicknamed “Bahubali”, it is India’s heaviest launch vehicle, weighing about 640-tonne.

Prime minister, Narendra Modi, also mentioned Gaganyaan during his “Mann ki Baat” in 2020. – “Gaganyaan mission will be a historic achievement in the field of science and technology for India in the 21st century. It will provide to be a milestone for New India,” he said.

Two uncrewed orbital test flights will be launched before the first-ever Indian crewed mission, Gaganyaan. Gaganyaan’s first orbital test flight formerly scheduled for this year, owing to the current dire Covid-19 situation in the country, has been delayed for the year 2022. “Owing to the spread of coronavirus infection and the lockdowns across the countries, vendors are working at a lower capacity or closed which in turn has impacted the supply of components. Even our officials are working from home due to the lockdown,” K. Sivan, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space said.

Vyommitra, ISRO’s humanoid robot, will board the first test flight of the Gaganyaan schedule. “This humanoid will basically mimic human functions, will record parameters such as blood pressure, heart rate, etc. This is getting ready. The two unmanned flights will let us ensure whether everything is working well, whether the environment in the modules are controlled, whether it is safe for humans. Like any programme, after two successful test flights, we will undertake the operational flight,” said K. Sivan apropos of Vyommitra & the two test flights.

The second orbital test flight is also lined up for launch in 2022 and India’s first Maiden human spaceflight, Gaganyaan, is slated to ride to space in 2023.

Future missions

Another momentous mission adjourned due to the Covid-19 is Aditya L-1, which aims to study the Sun. It will cover a stretch of 1.5 million km from the Earth’s surface. The satellite will be sent to the Lagrangian point 1, between the Earth and the Sun.

Shukrayaan-1, ISRO’s mission to Venus in 2024, which will orbit the Earth’s closest neighbor & study its surface and atmosphere, is also worth mentioning.

Black Friday By James Patterson

Introduction

A wise man once said, if you start reading James Patterson‘s books you will never be able to stop visualizing about the story for weeks!! How exciting and exhilarating the journey was! It’s been a long time since I read his books. After reading a lot of overwhelming reads, I decided to pick Patterson’s book up.

This book was originally published in the year 1986 with the themes of economic warfare and a brainy FBI service cop investigating the terrorists group which caused several bombings in the wall street.

PLOTLINE AND ANALYSIS

James Patterson’s Alex Cross series is my all-time favorite. Archer Caroll reminded me of Alex Cross and his breathtaking investigations. This is a brilliantly written novel with the secret militia group, and deterioration of financial systems of the world.

The storyline is very interesting and some parts are certainly difficult to understand as it vividly concentrates on the American stock markets. A secret militia group called ‘Green Band’ scares the world by collapsing the stockmarkets of wall street. A lawyer Caitlin Dillon tries to solve the chaos with Archer Caroll. The bomb threats, stupendous adventures of Caroll, nostalgic love of Archer Caroll and Nora are the typical, awe inspiring elements in Patterson’s works. Little did I know that I was yearning for an action thriller genre. After reading ‘Black Friday’ I definitely want to read more books from this genre now. I was binge reading this book, it was an engrossing summer read for me! Guess what? I’m gonna add more Patterson’s books in my list now.

Do you love reading American thriller books/series? Comment down below!

Medical Miracle

Doctors at Delhi government-run GB pant Hospital conducted a rare surgery to save a 38 year old women.The patient, a Ghaziabad resident, weighing just around 40 kg, came to the hospital with severe breathing difficulty.One valve on the left side of her heart had shrunk. This was not allowing forward flow of blood.Cardiologists then did an assessment and they tried to access through a large neck vein but that was also not possible due to anatomical issue.Then a team of doctors decided to reach the heart through a vein in the liver.This was the first time in the world that balloon dilatation of the left side of a patient’s heart valve was done through the live route.The full procedure was done without a single stitch, with the patient being conscious.

VICTORIAN PROSE

The Victorian Period, almost coincident in extent with the reign of the queen whose name it bears (Queen Victoria 1837-1901), stands nearly beside The Elizabethan Period in the significance and interest of its work. The first great figure in prose, in the period, and one of the most clearly-defined and striking personalities in English Literature, is Thomas Babington Macaulay, who represents in the fullest degree the Victorian vigor and delight in material progress, but is quite untouched by the Victorian spiritual striving. The intense spiritual striving which was so foreign to Macaulay’s practical nature first appears among the Victorians in the Scotsman Thomas Carlyle, a social and religious prophet, lay-preacher, and prose-poet, one of the most eccentric but one of the most stimulating of all English writers. In 1825 his first important work, a Life of Schiller, was published. The first of Carlyle’s chief works, Sartor Resartus came next. The title is allegorical, and Teufeldrockh, the hero, is really Carlyle. The clothes metaphor (borrowed from Swift) sets forth the central mystical or spiritual principle toward which German philosophy had helped Carlyle, the idea, namely, that all material things, including all the customs and forms of society, such as government and formalized religion, are merely the comparatively insignificant garments of the spiritual reality and the spiritual life on which men should center their attention. In 1834 Carlyle moved to London, where he first published The French Revolution. Here as in most of his later works, Carlyle throws emphasis on the power great personalities. During the next years he took advantage of his success by giving courses of lectures on Literature and history, though he disliked the task and felt himself unqualified as a speaker. Of these courses the most important was that on “Heroes and Hero-worship”, in which he clearly stated the doctrine that the strength of humanity is in its strong men, the natural leaders, equipped to rule by power of intellect of spirit and of executive force.

Among the other great Victorian writers the most obvious disciple of Carlyle in his opposition to the materialism of modern life is John Ruskin. But John Ruskin is much more than any man’s disciple; and he also contrasts strongly with Carlyle, first because a large part of his life was devoted to the study of Art- he is single great art-critic in English Literature- and also because he is one of the great preachers and of the nineteenth century humanitarianism at which Carlyle won’t sneer. His own practice in watercolour drawing led him as a mere youth to a devoted admiration for the landscape paintings of the contemporary artist J.M.W. Turner. Turner, a romantic revolutionist against the eighteenth century theory of the grand style, was then little appreciated; and when Ruskin left the university he began, with characteristic enthusiasm , an article on ‘Modern Painters’ designed to demonstrate Turner’s superiority to all possible rivals. In the intervals of this work Ruskin published others less comprehensive, two of which are of the first importance. ‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture’ argues that great art, as the supreme expression of life, is the result of seven moral and religious principles. “The Stones of Venice” is an impassioned exposition of the beauty of Venetian Gothic architecture, and here as always Ruskin expresses his vehement preference for the Gothic art of the Middle Ages as contrasted with the less original and as it seems to him less sincere style of the Renaissance.

Contemporary with Carlyle and Ruskin and fully worthy to rank with them stands still a third great preacher of social and spiritual regeneration, Mathew Arnold. His essays fall into four classes, literary, social, religious and political, though they cannot always be sharply distinguished. Some of his essays like, those on “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”‘, “Wordsworth” and “Bryon” , are among the best in English while his “Essays on Translating Homer’ present the most famous existing interpretation of the spirit and style of the Greek epics. In his social essays, of which the most important from the volume entitled “Culture and Anarchy”, the contemporary English life presented as being in a state of moral chaos. he held that the English people had been too much occupied with the ‘Hebraic’ ideal and disregarded the Hellenic(Greek) ideal of a perfectly rounded nature. He found that one actual tendency of modern democracy was to ‘let people do as they liked’, which, given the crude violence of the populace naturally resulted in lawlessness and therefore threatened anarchy. Culture, on the other hand, includes the strict discipline of the will and the sacrifice of one’s own impulses for the good of all, which means respect for Law and devotion to the State. Existing democracy, therefore, he attacked with unsparing irony, but he did not condemn its principle.

Importance of education in life and society:

To say Education is essential is an understatement. Education may be a weapon to reinforce one’s life. It is likely the most vital device to trade one’s life. Education for a infant starts off evolved at home. It is a lifelong technique that ends with death. Education simply determines the first-class of an individual’s life. Education improves one’s knowledge, abilities and develops the persona and attitude. Most noteworthy, Education influences the probabilities of employment for people. A exceedingly skilled character is probable very in all likelihood to get a suitable job. In this essay on significance of education, we will inform you about the price of training in existence and society.

Importance of Education in Life

First of all, Education teaches the capability to study and write. Reading and writing is the first step in Education. Most facts is completed via writing. Hence, the lack of writing talent capability lacking out on a lot of information. Consequently, Education makes humans literate.

Above all, Education is extraordinarily necessary for employment. It sincerely is a terrific chance to make a respectable living. This is due to the competencies of a excessive paying job that Education provides. Uneducated human beings are possibly at a large downside when it comes to jobs. It appears like many bad human beings enhance their lives with the assist of Education. Better Communication is but some other position in Education.

Education improves and refines the speech of a person. Furthermore, humans additionally enhance different capability of verbal exchange with Education.Education makes an man or woman a higher consumer of technology. Education in reality affords the technical capabilities quintessential for the use of technology. Hence, besides Education, it would likely be tough to take care of contemporary machines.People emerge as greater mature with the help of Education. Sophistication enters the existence of skilled people. Above all, Education teaches the price of self-discipline to individuals. Educated human beings additionally recognise the price of time a good deal more. To skilled people, time is equal to money.

Finally, Educations permits persons to categorical their views efficiently. Educated persons can give an explanation for their opinions in a clear manner. Hence, skilled humans are pretty probably to persuade humans to their point of view.

Importance of Education in Society

First of all, Education helps in spreading understanding in society. This is possibly the most noteworthy factor of Education. There is a speedy propagation of know-how in an trained society. Furthermore, there is a switch of expertise from era to every other via Education.Education helps in the improvement and innovation of technology. Most noteworthy, the extra the education, the greater science will spread. Important traits in warfare equipment, medicine, computers, take vicinity due to Education.

End

Education is a ray of mild in the darkness. It really is a hope for a properly life. Education is a fundamental proper of each and every Human on this Planet. To deny this proper is evil. Uneducated formative years is the worst issue for Humanity. Above all, the governments of all nations have to make sure to unfold Education.

A Folklore For My Generation

‘There was something special about the sixties. That seems true now, in retrospect, but even when I was caught up in the whirlwind of it happening I was convinced of it’

Haruki Murakami for A Folklore For My Generation

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS

The story of 1960s, with the blend of magical Beatles and students’ movements, this short story is one of the insightful creations of Murakami‘s. He has delineated the life of the adults in 1960s with the evocative storyline. Moreover, he talks about the boisterous students and their complicated emotions in relationships.

Two high school friends are meeting again in Italy and discussing about their life. The story moves from the outlook of the narrator, he reminisces the story of his friend and parallelly his friend narrates it from another perspective.

‘If you have ever gone to high school, you know the type I mean. There’s somebody like him in every class, the kind that keep things running smoothly’

He introduces the protagonist as a perfectionist, the above lines elucidate the demeanor of the central character, the relationship of the perfectionist and his Miss Clean girlfriend Yoshiko.The girlfriend’s character is as complex as his typical, classic characters, she makes you wince, laugh and cry.

Both friends are talking about their work lives in present, in retrospect, the narrator contemplates about the relationship of his friend and Yoshiko. The emotions are fervent and profound, the story revolves around the deep seated thoughts of Yoshiko and how she panics to marry his friend despite of the excellent wavelength in their relationship, the strong convictions of Yoshiko and how she sets boundaries in the relationship which makes it suffocating for his friend are portrayed in Murakami’s subtle humor narration.

THE ENDING

The ending is the bee’s knees in the storyline!! Although the storyline is moving with the dark portrayal of the complicated emotions, the readers strangely feel satisfied in the end, the slapstick humor wafts discreetly from the grim circumstances.

‘It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical’

His friend talks about his relationship to the narrator and concludes his story by quoting the above lines with an instance of forgotten fairytale. The story vividly captures the absurdity of human lives and the fragile convictions of the young adults, I guess this is one of the best stories in the collection, the human suffering and depth of emotions are brilliantly ventured in the elusive storyline. The writing style is lucid but certainly elusive. Recommending this short story to everyone, Murakamians this should be your next read!

India’s Olympic Wins

The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 and it took India only four years before seeing their first representation at the Summer Olympic Games. It all started for India in 1900 when they sent the athlete Norman Pritchard to Paris where he won two medals in Men’s 200 meters and Men’s 200 meter hurdles. Till date, India has participated in every Summer Games since 1900, sending their first Olympic team in 1920 comprising four athletes and two wrestlers. It was, however, not till 1928 that India saw its next medal, after which there have been several Olympic medals obtained. Today India holds a total of 28 Olympic medals and seems to be improving its performance at the Olympics.

Hockey

The Indian hockey team dominated the Olympics from 1928 for decades to come, winning an unprecedented 3 gold medal titles. The dominance of India’s hockey team started in 1928 in Amsterdam, when Dhyan Chand scored a hat-trick against the Netherlands in the final. Major Dhyan Chand is revered today as one of the greatest sportsman in India, and also the greatest player in the history of hockey. By the Berlin Olympics in 1936, the gold medals had piled up for India and London 1948 was the first gold medal post-independence for India. The Indian team kept winning until 1960 when the gold streak was finally broken.

Boxing

In Beijing 2008, Vijender Singh became the first Indian boxer in history to win an Olympic medal. Then in London 2012, India’s newfound love for boxing saw Mary Kom winning a bronze medal for the country. With her win, Mary Kom had become, and remains to be a role model for Indian women wanting to get involved in sports.

Shooting

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the first shooter to help India get a medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004, and inspired an entire generation to take up the sport. Following his footsteps, Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in Men’s 10m Air Rifle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He remains the only individual Olympic gold medalist in India and perhaps the most notable among the Indian Olympic winners.

Tennis

India had gone without a medal of any sort for four straight editions before Leander Paes won a bronze medal in 1996. After losing to Andre Agassi in the semi-final, Paes went on to beat Fernando Meligani in the bronze medal match. The medal was a huge achievement for India as they had returned without a medal for many years before Paes won in Atlanta.  

Weightlifting

Breaking the norm of only men fetching Olympic medals for the nation, India saw Andhra Pradesh’s Karnam Malleswari clinching the bronze medal in the 54kg category at Sydney 2000, becoming the first woman in doing so. She had created history, and after her many female athletes would follow to win medals for India.

Wrestling

In 1952, Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav had created history by becoming the first Indian to win an Olympic medal in an individual sport at the Helsinki Olympics. The sport was wrestling, and he had won a bronze medal for it. After that in 2008, Sushil Kumar clinched a bronze medal in wrestling after a great deal of struggle and effort. Furthermore, in a traditionally male-dominated sport, Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal with her bronze medal finish in the Women’s freestyle 58 kg category at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Badminton

In London 2012, Saina Nehwal became the first Indian badminton player to win an Olympic medal when her opponent, China’s Wang Xin, was forced to retire hurt during the match in the semi-final. She was the first Indian athlete to win an Olympic bronze medal in the women’s badminton singles. In the following 2016 Rio Olympics, the nation witnessed PV Sindhu take one step closer to gold by becoming the first Indian shuttler to reach an Olympic final in the 2016 Games. She was not able to clinch the victory but won a silver medal in the Olympics. She was also the youngest Indian (21 years old) to achieve this feat.

Conclusion

Every single Indian medal winner may not be mentioned in this Article, but it is important to highlight that every single person who has won a medal for India must be respected, whether that medal is bronze, silver or gold. The Olympics are a worldwide event with the highest level of competition possible, so we should be proud of those who have won for India.

LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE BOOK- GO GIVER

1. Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

2. The only winning proposition is one hundred percent. Forget win-win , focus on the other persons win. Because your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other peoples interest first.

3. As long as you are trying to be someone else or putting on some act or behaviour someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself.

4. All the giving in the world wont bring success, unless you also make yourself willing and able to receive in like measure. Thus, the key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

5. Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

This man sleeps for 300 days in a year!

A 42-year old man from Rajasthan Nagaur district sleeps 300 days a year and has been dubbed as the real-life ‘kumbhkarna’, the character from Ramayan, famous for sleeping undistrubed for six months.

Pukharam, a resident of Bhadwa village suffers from a rare disorder called Axis Hypersomia which makes him sleep for 20-25 days once he takes a nap.

Pukhram was diagnosed with this condition 23 years ago and, since then, it has affected his daily life as it gets difficult to wake him up once he falls asleep.

Axis Hypersomnia is a chronic neurological sleep disorder that leads to daytime sleepiness and or long time sleeping hours for over 9-10 hours in 24 hours.

LAWS OF MONEY THAT WILL HELP YOU BUILD REAL WEALTH

1. Gold/Money clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invest it under the advice of men wise in its handling. Therefore while investing your money take the advice of a wise man.

2. Gold/Money sleeps away from the man who invest it in business or which are not approved by those skilled in its keeping simply don’t invest things unknown to you or first learn about them and then invest.

3. Gold/Money goes away from the man who would force it to impossible earning or who follows the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment

4. Gold/Money will come gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

The Legends Of Pensam – A Review

Have you ever regretted for not picking up a book earlier? I sure have. Here’s an ode to one of these books!

‘Everyday I saw clouds dropping lower and lower like omnious waves. The hills were blue, their outline rimmed in black, and the trees were still. Then fierce, hissing rain would cover the land like the sea’.

The Legends of Pensam by Mamang Dai

Introduction

I’m regretting now, I’ve never had bookish regrets like this for years. This book is an enchantress, an absolutely beautiful enchantress. The stories are lulling, it pulled me in to picturize the narration, to dream, to contemplate. The folklores, the enchanting description of nature, breathtaking portrayal of the Arunachal Pradesh gave me a book hangover. This book is certainly a tidbit for those who love reading contemporary Indian Writings in English.

PLOTLINE ANALYSIS

‘The Legends of Pensam‘ by Mamang Dai is a collection of short stories. They are all interconnected. There’s a story of a widow Pinyar and her son, interwoven in the folklore of supernatural being Miti Mili, the beliefs of indigenous people, their exquisite narration of the ancient stories are told in the mercurial prose.

The stories portray the colonial period, the Japanese wars, the landscape of Arunachal Pradesh, one of my favorite stories in this collection is ‘the words of women’. The story revolves around the rural women working in the mountains, cutting wood, cracking dry bamboo and carrying it back to the village, the raw portrayal of their demeanor. The generations of the families and their curiosity about learning the stories of the village are evocative.

CONCLUSION

Pensam means ‘In between’, the beautiful title syncs magically with the balmy stories. I picked this book up last month for the Northeast Readathon but I couldn’t read it, I was procrastinating relentlessly to read this beauty. I regret it now. I should’ve read this book earlier. Don’t be like Lavanya, if you are looking for a warm, sweet, beautiful short story collection! Get this right away guys!

Why did Windows Phone fail?

We all remember the time when Nokia made a deal with Microsoft to launch the Windows OS phones. And we also know some reasons why Windows Phones failed, which include; lack of accessibility to some useful Apps, partners like Samsung not launching Windows Phone, Microsoft’s approach to licensing Windows Phone, and the company’s failure to attract developers. 

A former Nokia engineer shared some reasons behind the failure of Windows Phone on Reddit. He joined Nokia after the 2011 deal with Microsoft to put windows 7 on all its smartphones. And he also worked with the Nokia X project. 

He believes that Microsoft’s failure to launch Android was the company’s biggest regret. Also, Microsoft underestimated Google and its services like G-mail, Google Maps, etc. Which ended up in 2012 when Google stopped funding efforts to make Apps for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. 

He wrote, “Obviously Apple was red hot and Microsoft knew that, but Google was new to the OS business and they weren’t taken seriously enough. Android was pretty rough then, but the real value was Google’s services; when Google cut Microsoft off of YouTube, Maps, Gmail, etc, it made WP look cheap.”

The second reason mentioned was with ‘botched Windows 8’ and with the disgrace over ‘Microsoft metro interface’. Metro interface worked great with Windows 7 touch screen devices but it didn’t come out that great when Microsoft put it on the desktop in Windows 8. 

The former employee wrote, “Before Windows 8, WP had a lot of people’s curiosity. After Windows 8, people associated the two together as bad products even though the teams then were pretty independent, and things done poorly on Windows 8 were not reflective of how the experience was on WP. Even with Windows 10, the stigma against Metro never recovered.”

He argues that as a leading tech company Microsoft still has a bad reputation due to its actions over the past decade. “At the time it was still horrible and it meant that the young guys who grew up hating Microsoft were making the big startups for other platforms,” the engineer said. He also said, “For all the negatives on the consumer side, coding for WP was always better than Android.”

 After the harsh failure of Windows Phone, it was not possible to get the company back with more Windows Phone. By the year 2014, Android and iOS were blooming in the market, and no matter what Microsoft did to improve their Windows Phone there was no vital reason to switch. It was then when they decided to launch a secret work project “Nokia X”, the first android phone launched by Nokia. 

THE BLUE CITY

JODHPUR is know as the ” THE BLUE CITY ”.

Meetali Soni


Jodhpur is second largest city of Rajasthan. It is a popular destination among international tourists featuring many palaces, forts, temples and landscape of the Thar Desert. Jodhpur was historically the capital of the Kingdom of Marwar, which is now part of Rajasthan. The city was founded in 1459 by Rao Jodha, a Rajput (one of the warrior rulers of the historical region of Rajputana). The city is called the “blue city.”because it is a well-planned city with blue colour . Thar desert, the largest desert of India, is situated here. The city surrounds the historical Mehrangarh Fort. Jodhpur city was a princely state and was also the capital of the Kingdom of Malawar in Rajasthan.The old town is a wonderful example of vivid colours providing a photogenic backdrop to everyday life. The majority of Rajasthani women wear long, colourful skirts and you can see this while visiting the shops of the Nai Sadak and examining wares on the stalls of the Sardar Market. Eye-catching, bright oranges and yellows are popular colours for their fabrics. And the Rajasthani tradition for women to cover their heads.local men wearing sizeable turbans. The yellows and reds of their traditional headgear is just as much a draw to the eye as women’s garments.The old city circles the Mehrangarh Fort and is bounded by a wall with several gates.[11] The city has expanded greatly outside the wall, though, over the past several decades. The city is also home to several educational institutions, the most prominent being All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Dr. Sampurnanand Medical College, DSRRAU Jodhpur, and National Law University, Jodhpur, and many research institutes, such as Indian Space Research Organisation, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Arid Forest Research Institute, and Desert Medicine Research Centre are also located in the city. The old city of Jodhpur is surrounded by a thick stone wall. The wall has six huge gates called Nagauri gate, Merati gate, Sojati gate, Jalori gate, Siwanchi gate and Chand pol.

Sojati Gate: The walled city of old Jodhpur has main entrance from Sojati Gate on the south which was named on the road that takes to village named Sojat, but now it has been occupied by the busiest commercial centers around it. At the left of circle is the statue of Rajiv Gandhi.

Jalori Gate: Another gate is Jalori gate, to the southwest of Sojati Gate along Station Road named as the road leads to Jalore village. It is near to Jodhpur Railway station .Jalori Gate, which is the best way into the old city. Station Road, leading off to the right towards Sojati Gate, is lined with cheap hotels and restaurants. Main Jalori Gate circle has shops of Surya Namakin the one of oldest and delicious mirchi vada server, and many fruit seller and lime water vendors. Also, among the major book providers like buuklo, second hand book depot, book world etc, few are located here

Merti Gate: Waking down to the nai sarak cycle market you may discover an old gate called Merti Gate named as the road leads to the village called Merta. Just before this you will find many namkeen and sweet shops that are there from times when raja used to rule.

Nagori Gate: One of the best place in Jodhpur is nagori gate named on the road leading to nagore village. From the circle goes roads in five different direction, one which is towards the gate takes you inside the city where you may find many jewelry shops, famous city namkeen shops and chai wala.

Siwanchi Gate: This gate is been preserved as being the most traffic intensive place. Now it has been a city bus stop and at the same place, Jodhpur child hospital is there called Janana hospital or ummed hospital and a famous temple of Shani god so the area nearby known as shanishcher ji ka than (place of god Shani). As you walk down the road inside the city at the center is a temple of god Hanuman and few namkin, flower and fruit shops.


20 BEST PLACES TO VISIT IN JODHPUR.
MEHRANGARD FORT
JASWANT THADA
TOORJI KA JHALRA
ROA JODHA ROCK PARK
UMAID HERITAGE ART SCHOOL
UMAID BHAWAN PLACE MUSEUM
CHAUHAN ART GALLERY AND ART SCHOOL
SARDAR MARKET
GHANTA GHAR
MANDORE GARDEN
PHOOL MAHAL
BALSAMAND LAKE AND GARDEN
MACHIA BOILOGICAL PARK
KAYLANA LAKE
MASURIYA HILL GARDEN
MAHAMANDIR
SHRI GANESH MANDIR
ROA JODHA JI STATUE
BABA RAMDEV TEMPLE
MAHARISHRI DANDHICHI GARDEN