DesiReflections

Now a days, everybody is talking about hashtag, why such a innocuous symbol has become so important that the entire social media experts try to use hashtag. A hashtag is a keyword phrase used in Twitter   conversations that is preceded by a pound (#) sign and written without spaces in between, ie #ilovehashtag. The primary purpose of a hashtag is to bring conversations on the same topic into a single thread to make it convenient for information consumers to view and compare ideas. How it work The use of hashtags is not just for Twitter, although this is perhaps the most popular. They can be used also for other micro-blogging platforms, which include Google+ , identi.ca and  Instagram.  Different social media users from different countries can tie their conversations together through hashtags. For example, if you try clicking a particular hashtag in a message, you will see the list of posts using the same hashtag. Hashtags allow an audience to i...

I received  an invite from  Dr. Piyush Saxena to attend a press conference at The Club in the Andheri area yesterday. He is known for his healing therapy in my close circle but I never met him earlier, so I thought of meeting him and understand how  exactly he treats his patients.  Dr Saxena is basically a corporate leader and works with Reliance, he also practices a unique healing system called Cleansing Therapy . This therapy was basically originated in USA and found wide acceptance across the globe. Dr Saxena has done some advancement in the therapy  based on his  research and trails . Saxena with some of his patients  When asked how he came across this therapy, he told that 11 years back in 2003 his health was in a very bad shape, very low energy level, very poor absorption of food suffered from constant fatigue, it was in addition to allergy from more than 40 items. Somebody told him about liver cleansing therapy gaining popularity ...

गाय का दूध पीते पीते लोग बूढ़े हो गए हैं,  लेकिन बैल का दूध पीने पिलाने का साहस अतुल अग्रवाल जैसे बिरले ही कवि कर सकते हैं  . उनका  हास्य कविता संग्रह  प्रकाशित हो कर आ गया है , उसकी एक प्रति मुझे समीक्षा के लिये प्राप्त हुई  है . अतुल एक अरसे से मेरे करीबी मित्र  हैं. उनका उत्तर प्रदेश के एक छोटे से कसबे चंदौसी से मुंबई तक आने और दिल्ली की एक कम्पनी में नौकरी करने से लेकर एक बड़ा बिल्डर बनने का सफर कोई  आसान नहीं रहा के उसमें संघर्ष  और व्यावसायिक समझोते सभी के दर्द शामिल हैं ,ऐसे में हास्य लिखना अपने ऐसे ही कितने दुखों से निजात पाने का एक रास्ता है जो अतुल ने बिना सोचे चुन लिया था.  और इस पुस्तक की रचनाओं के साथ ही और भी तमाम रचनाएँ इसी बौद्धिक प्रसव वेदना का नतीजा हैं , मैं यह बात इस लिए लिख  क्योंकि उनके उस दुःख दर्द को मेने करीब से देखा है.  लेकिन यदि आप रचनाकार को भली भांति जानते है तो समीक्षा करते समय कई खतरे होते हैं, पाठक यह समझता है कि लेखक से अंतरंगता समीक्षक को उसके पक्ष में झुका  देगी...

मुंबई  में हुआ  वैश्विक हिंदी सम्मेलन                 मुंबई १० सितम्बर २०१४ देश भर में सितम्बर आते आते हिंदी के नाम पर तमाम सारे आयोजन किये जाते हैं , इनमें सबसे अग्रणी भूमिका सरकारी क्षेत्र के उपक्रमों और सरकारी विभागों की रहती है  . ये संगठन पूरा  साल  तो अंग्रेजी में सोचने, समझने और काम  काज करने में  निकाल देते हैं,  बस  हिंदी दिवस पर , जो कि संयोग से पितृ पक्ष में में ही आता है , समारोह करके अपने कर्तव्य की इति श्री समझ लेते हैं  .  लेकिन आज सेन्ट्रल बैंक के प्रांगण में वैश्विक हिंदी सम्मलेन का आयोजन का आयोजन किया गया वह कई मायने में भिन्न था. यह कार्यक्रम  विदेश के लोगों को भाषा के सेतु से जोड़ने की कोशिश थी, साथ ही एक सार्थक पहल भी थी कि आगे हिंदी  भाषा  को कैसे आगे बढ़ाया जाय. सम्मेलन का प्रमुख उद्बोधन हिन्दी की जानी मानी  साहित्यकार श्रीमती मृदुला सिन्हा ने किया  जिन्हे हाल ही में गोवा का राज्यपाल बनाया गया...

For Bengal it is Pujo time,  Assam it is Bihu, Kerala it is  Onam and north it is Deepavali when the entire population emerge into the festivity and devotional mood.  Ofcourse for Maharashtra and to be more specific for Mumbai it is without any doubt it is Ganpati when the entire city unites in a common thread called Ganpati. It is not only the Marathi community  alone who swear by Ganpati, even those who migrated from different parts of country also  merge themselves into this great religious, social and cultural  event. Political Colors are more prominent in Pandals But from last few years, I have observed that more and more the  occasion is highjacked by the politicians. Most of the Pandals show more flags of political party rather than Ganpati Bappa. The leaders of the  political party are given more milage than the devotees. There is a fierce competition among the Pandals to bring film and television celebrities and the stars get fat ...

Those who believe that Google is the worlds biggest search engine or they are into handphone business , they will soon be surprised to know that their driverless cars   will shortly becoming a commercial reality. In fact their Chauffeur car is already running on the roads of California in USA. Chauffeur in action    Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last year when Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on to his state's roads from 2015. Insofar as most people noticed this event at all, they probably sniffed derisively. For some, it'll be seen as an example of techno-hubris – flags on the moon stuff – as one of my acquaintances put it. For others, it will be seen as yet another confirmation of the proposition that the continental United States slopes gently from east to west, with the result that everything with a screw loose rolls into California. How thi...

Last hundred years or so had been era of innovations. Most of the inventions and innovations, which make our life comfortable have taken place during this period, The list is long - car, bus, electric train, aero-plane, telephone, electric bulb, washing machine, TV, Fridge you name it and that is there. But long term storage of electricity or energy has been a real challenge before the inventors so far, very few people worked in this area and big breakthrough is yet to come. supercapicitors  Interestingly, an Indian professor A K Shukla has done some promising work. He works at Indian Institute of Science, Banglore and developing a hybrid super capacitor. This is a device which can store electrical energy and has some advantage over the lead acid battery. His first exhibit is a small prototype, slightly bigger than a typical match box, weighing about two kilos. This can hold enough charge to light a lamp for five hours. But the requirement is for more. The lead acid ...