"रानटी कुत्री"

त्या भयाण चिम्ब पाउस रात्री
मनुष्याची दोन पिल्ले भिजत पडली होती


काही तासांची.... दोन जुळी...
जगात कोणालाही नको असणारी...


दोन जीवांचा क्षणिक आनंद त्यांच्या जीवावर बेतला होता
आसपासच्या रानटी कुत्र्यांनी मात्र आपला सावज नेमका हेरला होता


भुकेनी रडून रडून आता चिमुरड्यान्चा आवाजाही शांत झाला
यमसदनी निघालेल्या पावलांचा कदाचित त्यांनाही भास झाला


रानटी कुत्र्यांना आपले भक्ष असेच आरामात मिळणार आहे
जोपर्यंत माणूसच माणूसकीचे लाखो तुकडे करणार आहे

अमित...

HaPpY DiWaLi....

Diwali, the festival of lights, is one of the important and widely spread holidays celebrated in India. It is a celebration of lights, and is truly a sensory experience. Today is the biggest day of diwali : Narakchaturdashi and Lakshmipujan. After today’s “abhyangsnan” (early morning holy bath) one past incident arrived in my mind. When I was around 5 years old, one poor family used to be our neighbors; Vishal (name is changed) and his mother. Vishal was around 3 years older to me. Vishal’s mother was working on daily basis in one of the restaurant. I used to play several games with him. During diwali all the kids in our chawl used to fire crackers. The fire crackers used to spread their colors even before 2-3 days of actual day. Vishal always used to stand near chawl window and watch other kids celebrating with full impel.  In the night he used to urge his mother for crackers. But she was incapacitated to fulfill her son’s desire. “Dear Vishal, I am sorry. But please be a good son. Next year I will surely manage and will bring crackers for you.” She gave him 2 rupees. “Child, this is for your chocolates and toffees”. Vishal was quite matured as compared to his age. He could understand his mother cultism towards him, and used to wait for next year diwali.

Two days before narakchaturdashi, I went with my parents to buy crackers and new clothes. We brought the crackers around Rs. 150/- and two new dresses for me. I was very happy on that day. When we return near to our chawl, I saw other kids firing their crackers. I showed them my bags of recent shopping. As we were climbing the steps, my mother noticed Vishal standing near the chawl window and watching other kids. That scene brought tears in her eyes. She held his hand and brought him to our home.

“Look Vishal, I have brought new clothes and crackers for diwali”. I opened the shopping bags before him.

“Nice Amit, I like all of these”.  Suddenly my mother lifted on packet of lavangi (an assortment of thin cylindrical crackers) and handed over to Vishal.

“Vishal, this is your diwali gift.”

“No. No. I cannot take this. My mother will scold me.”

“Don’t worry Vishal. I will tell bhabhiji”.

“Take it Vishal, its your diwali gift from me” I added. His eyes sated. He accepted the gift. On the day of diwali, after abhyangasnan we both went together to fire the crackers. After that I brought him to my home, we had a faral (sweets and namakins specially prepared for diwali) together. After this he suddenly vanished. I want to play with him. I could not trace him whole afternoon.

In the night Vishal came to our home. We were making the things ready for Maa Lakshmi Pooja. He was standing outside the door with his school bag. “Vishal, come in. Where were you? I was searching for you.”

“Can you come out?”

I went out of my home. “What’s a matter, Vishal?”

He slowly opened his school bag and took out one small box out of it. He handed over that to me. The box was nicely covered red and yellow kite paper. “What is this?”

“Open it”.

I slowly opened a box. I was surprised. The box contained one handmade “aakash-kandil”. Aakash-kandil was made up of different colored kite papers. It was nicely decorated with several stars. “Wonderful, Vishal. Have you made this?” He nodded. He had made this gift from those two rupees.

“Its for you Amit. Its your Diwali gift.”

I completely stunned with his answer. I accepted the gift. I spread my hands. We hugged and wished each other a “Very Happy Diwali”.

Teenage Brave Girl in J & K

When militants barged into her home in the dead of night, beat her parents senseless and turned on her, Rukhsana decided she wouldn’t go down without a fight.

Mustering all her courage, the frail 18-year-old managed to get her hands on an axe, attacked one of them with it and then shot him dead with his own gun.

She had never fired — let alone held — a gun before

The dead man turned out to be Lashkar e Toeba commander Abu Usama. His two accomplices managed to escape.

Recalling the terror that unfolded on Sunday (Sep. 27, 2009) in her home in Rajouri (J & K), Rukhsana said the terrorists accused her father of being an informer and rained blows on him and her mother.

When Ruksana saw her parents lying unconscious, she thought they’d died. A divine force gave her the courage to pull down the terrorist by his hair, hit him with the axe and snatch his rifle.”

The police were tightlipped about the motive of the militants but said Rukhsana would be rewarded for her courage.

Rukhsana’s story is a sign of the changing times — militants once sheltered by locals are now losing support.

1 Rocket :: 7 Satellites

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched on a booster rocket to orbit the country's 16th remote sensing satellite and six European nano satellites on Wed. 23 September 2009. Out of the six nano satellites, four are from Germany, one from Switzerland and one from Turke

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) was launched at from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the island of Sriharikota. It is the vehicle's 16th launch since September 1993.

Of the 15 remote sensing satellites India has so far launched, nine are still in operation, including the Oceansat-1, which was put into orbit in 1999.

PSLV-14

Oceansat-2 is the sixteenth remote sensing satellite of India. The state-of-the-art Oceansat-2 carries three payloads and has the shape of a cuboid with two solar panels projecting from its sides.

{ Click to Watch Video }

The 960 kg main payload, Oceansat-2, was the first satellite to be injected into orbit at 1081 seconds after lift-off at an altitude of 728 km. About 45 seconds later, four of the six nano satellites were separated in sequence. The initial signals indicate normal health of the satellites. PSLV-C14 mission carried six nano satellites - Cubesat 1, 2, 3 and 4 as well as Rubin 9.1 and 9.2 - as auxiliary payloads along with Oceansat - 2. The weight of these nano satellites was in 2-8 kg range. Oceansat - 2 and the six auxiliary payloads were placed in a polar Sun Synchronous Orbit inclined at an angle of 98.28 degree to the equator.

This was the sixteenth mission of ISROs workhorse launch vehicle PSLV and its fifteenth consecutive success.

Salute to ISRO

The Chandrayaan-1 probe had found traces of water across the surface of large parts of the moon, challenging the long-held view that the earth’s natural satellite is bone dry.

Chandrayaan-1

The spacecraft also found indications that water is being produced in the lunar soil through interactions with charged particles streaming out from the sun.

Indication of Water in Lunar Soil

This major discovery is a vindication of the Chandryaan-1 mission, which encountered many problems and finally ended abruptly last month.

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a U.S.-supplied instrument that flew on the Chandrayaan-1, examined the intensity of different colours of sunlight bouncing off the lunar surface.

Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)

In a paper being published online this week by Science, American and Indian scientists report that the instrument found a distinctive signature of water and hydroxyl emanating from the moon. (A water molecule is made up of one oxygen atom linked to two hydrogen atoms, while hydroxyl has the oxygen atom attached to just one hydrogen atom.)

The M3 discovered the signature of water and hydroxyl on the surface soil and rocks at many diverse places in sunlit regions of the moon. The signature was stronger at the higher latitudes. Two U.S. space missions, Cassini and the Deep Impact spacecraft, had provided supporting evidence.

What was detected was water molecules present in extremely minute quantities on the surface soil and rocks, noted J. N. Goswami, director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad and principal scientist for the Chandrayaan-1. He estimated that less than a teaspoon of water could be squeezed out from several kg of lunar soil.

The widespread distribution of water seen by M3 was “a complete surprise,” said Lawrence Taylor of the University of Tennessee in the U.S., one of the authors of the paper. Scientists have begun finding signs of water in some lunar minerals.

Discovery with the help of Chandrayaan-1 has made all of INDIANS proud.

SALUTE to ISRO....

मी "वेडा" .....

लोक म्हणतात "तू 'वेडा' आहेस",
आहे मी वेडा, ह्या शहाण्या जगापासून दूर....

मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो माझ्या मात्रुभुमीवर...
मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो माझ्या आई-वडीलांवर....
मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो माझ्या भावावर, सवंगडयानंवर....
मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो Physics-च्या प्रत्येक concept-वर....
मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो ह्या पानावर त्या फुलावर....
मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो तलपत्या सूर्यावर.. शीतल चंद्रावर....
मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो घनदाट मेघान्वर....
मी वेडयासारखं प्रेम करतो पावसाच्या प्रत्येक थेम्बावर....
आता तुम्हीच सांगा.. आहे ना मी "वेडा"....


मला शहानपणाचाही अर्थ जाणून घ्यायचाय...
त्यासाठी एखादा शहाणा ही शोधायचाय ...


"मला माझं आयुष्य कल्पतरु सारखं व्यतित करायचं.. !
फ़क्त दुसऱ्याला देत रहायचायं..... देत रहायचायं..... !!!"

अमित...

(माझी कविता)

"तो थेम्ब"

आजही रानात "ती" एकटी बसली होती
शुन्यात हरवलेली

अतिशय दबकत दबकत पावले टाकली
तीला भेटण्यासाठी

ती मात्र हरवली होती कुठल्यातरी भावविश्वात
ह्या आयुष्याच्या कचाट्यात

मग मी ही मोडली नाही तिची गूढ़शांत समाधी
हळूच बसलो शेजारी

न्याहळत होतो तीच्या मुद्रेवरचे बदलणारे रुतु
ती उगाळत बसली होती भुतकालातील कटु

मग तीची समाधी भंग पावली
मला पाहून ती थोडीशी बिथरली



"आजही नाही आला रे तो....
सगलेच पुरुष ह्रदयशुन्य असतात
दूसरी मिळाली की पहिलीला विसरतात..."


आजही माझा हात तीच्या डोक्यावर स्थिरावला
तीच्या डोळ्यातील "तो थेम्ब" आजही नकोसा वाटला....

अमित...

(माझी कविता)

हाताचे पाय करून मिळविली डॉक्‍टरेट

पुण्याच्या रामवाडीत राहणाऱ्या रिक्षाचालकाचा दोन्ही पायांनी अपंग मुलगा भाऊसाहेब बोत्रे याने केवळ जिद्दीच्या आणि आत्मविश्‍वासाच्या जोरावर डॉक्‍टरेट मिळवली आहे. 'डिझाईन अँड डेव्हलपमेन्ट ऑफ एम्बेडेड इलेक्‍ट्रॉनिक नोज अँड इट्‌स ऍप्लिकेशन्स' हा त्यांच्या पीएच.डी.च्या संशोधनाचा विषय होता. पुणे विद्यापीठाने त्याला ३० मार्च २००९ ला पीएचडीचा निकाल सुपूर्द केला. दोन वर्षांपूर्वी बोस्टन (अमेरिका) येथे झालेल्या आंतरराष्ट्रीय परिषदेत भाऊसाहेबने त्याच्या संशोधनाची मांडणी केली होती.

भाऊसाहेबचे दोन्ही पाय लहानपणीच पोलिओमुळे अधू झाले. मात्र त्यांचे जगणे जिद्द आणि कष्टाची परिसीमा गाठणारे ठरले. कुबड्यांवर चालता येत नव्हते म्हणून दोन्ही हातांचे पाय बनवत त्याने स्वतःला शिक्षणाच्या प्रवाहात झोकून दिले. भाऊसाहेबने पुणे विद्यापीठात तिसऱ्या क्रमांकाने उत्तीर्ण होत "एमएस्सी' पूर्ण केले. त्यानंतर डॉ. दमयंती घारपुरे यांच्या मार्गदर्शनाखाली "पीएच.डी'साठी संशोधन सुरू केले. "आर्टिफिशिअल न्यूरल नेटवर्क' आणि "गॅस सेन्सर ऍरे'च्या आधारे "इलेक्‍ट्रॉनिक नोज' तयार करून अन्नपदार्थांचा ताजेपणा, गुणवत्ता तपासणारे तंत्र विकसित करण्याचा प्रयत्न भाऊसाहेबने केला आहे. या संशोधनातून संगणकाला कोणत्याही अन्नपदार्थाचे गंध किंवा वास ओळखण्याचे सामर्थ्य येईल, अशी आशा त्याला आहे. खरगपूर आणि बंगळूर येथे "आयआयटी'मध्ये झालेल्या कार्यशाळांत भाऊने प्रबंधवाचन केले आहे. केंद्रीय विज्ञान संशोधन केंद्राची सिनिअर रिसर्च फेलोशिप त्याला मिळाली आहे. "फिजिक्‍स ऍण्ड टेक्‍नॉलॉजी ऑफ सेन्सर्स'च्या दहाव्या राष्ट्रीय परिषदेत त्याच्या सादरीकरणाला पहिला, तर बंगळूरच्या स्पर्धेत कृत्रिम गंधसंवेदना पद्धतीबाबतच्या प्रबंधाला दुसरा पुरस्कार मिळाला होता. बोस्टन परिषदेत सहभागानंतर त्याचे संशोधन आंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तरावर पोहोचले आहे. देशाच्या उपयोगासाठी या विषयात आणखी संशोधन करण्याची इच्छा भाऊसाहेब बोत्रे यांना आहे.



आजच्या स्पर्धेच्या युगात प्रत्येक जण पैशाच्या मागे धावतोय। अश्या समाजत भाऊने "किती लाख" मोलाचा आदर्श सर्वांसमोर ठेवलाय, नाही का?

भाऊ माझा चांगला मित्र आहे आणि याचा मला फार अभिमान आहे

(मराठी पाऊल पड़ते पुढे)

|| जाणता राजा ||

हे हिन्दवी स्वराज्य व्हावे ही श्रींची इच्छा !!

इन्द्र जिमि जृम्भा पर
बाडव सअंभ पर
रावण सदंभ पर
रघुकुल राज है !

पवन बारिबाह पर
संभु रतिनाह पर
ज्यों सहसबाह पर
राम द्विजराज हैं !

दावा दृमदंड पर
चीता मृगझुन्द पर
भूषण वितुण्ड पर
जैसे मृगराज हैं !

तेज तमअंस पर
कन्ह जिमि कंस पर
त्यों म्लेंच्छ बंस पर
शेर शिवराज हैं !

(मराठी अभिमान)