jaishankar

@Shivram59 (50450)

India

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Clouds Betrayed All Of Us

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 20 Jun

Today it is very very hot. Yesterday also it had been gloomy since morning when I woke up. I left home with an umbrella for my long morning walk. Since it was not raining then, I didn't open the umbrella. I went up to the...

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Do This, Or That, Or....

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 17 Jun

If you have wealth, enjoy it, consume and enjoy it. Or, give it in charity for the welfare of the deprived section of the society. Or, if you are a miser and don't want to do either of the two, the wealth you have will be...

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Facing Ups And Downs

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 16 Jun

Today I opened my shop after returning from my early morning walk. I kept waiting 3 hours, but not a single customer turned up. It was going to be 11.30 when I decided to shut the shop. Just then a customers came. Before I could...

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My Bicycle Was Exactly There

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 15 Jun

I love to walk. Years ago my father purchased me a bicycle. I began going everywhere by my bicycle. Still I loved walking. One day I went to the weekly vegetable market by bicycle. The area where vegetables are sold is infamous...

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Nobody Knows Why It Happened

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 13 Jun

For last few days I've been recalling the good and bad incidents that I witnessed. My yesterday's post was about a very old lady from a rich family who swallowed a lentils grain and fell asleep. Today I recalled her 25 year old...

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A Miracle

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 12 Jun

There is a hillock at the outskirts of our town. At the foot of the hillock there is a hut where a farmer lives with his wife, a teenager son and his younger sister. Hardly three feet away from the hut there was a huge banyan...

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Sleeping Pill

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 11 Jun

A little away from our house, there is the house of a rich man. The man's mother is over 90 and is suffering from insomnia and can't see.The doctor has prescribed her a sleeping pill that helps her sleep. A girl from a poor...

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Leaving For The Village

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 10 Jun

I've just recieved a call from a friend in the village. He fell down from a tree a few hours back and has broken his hand. His father wants me to take him to the hospital by my car. . .it is an odd time. If I go to the village by...

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That Day In School

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 10 Jun

When I was in class 10, some of the students in my class used to see dirty pics. All those students were, in fact, bullies. They used to see these pics during recess . Teachers were not aware of these activities. One day one of...

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Travelling With Army Men

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 9 Jun

Today I'm recalling my college days. I remember the day when my holidays were over and I had to go to the college again. Those were the days when there was no college in my town. The city where the college was was fifty kms from...

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A Verse

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 9 Jun

A little while ago I was thinking about posting a discussion, but I had no idea. Suddenly I reminded having seen an interesting verse that a truck driver had written on the rear side of his truck. The verse was in Hindi. Here I'm...

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Even If

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 8 Jun

Today a couple of my neighbours were talking to each other. One of them said he wants to learn higher maths, but he would be 50 after five years. The other replied, "So what?? Even if you don't learn higher maths. now, you will...

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They Both Are Well

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 3 Jun

Last night I was feeling very downbeat. Couldn't sleep till late night. My wife was fast asleep. She was tired. I didn't wake her up. Changing sides on my bed I was struggling with the negative thoughts coming in my mind. I...

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This Never Happens With Me

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 2 Jun

I'm puzzled. I don't know why I'm feeling so lazy and exhausted today. Last night I had a very sound and refreshing sleep. And today was my day off business. I even could not enjoy talking to my friends. Nor am I feeling...

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It All Happened Suddenly

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 30 May

In the evening the weather in my town was cloudy. Then the wind started blowing. It was not storm, but the wind was rather fast. Minutes later we heard loud thunders. And now it has started raining. Nobody was expecting rain....

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My Friend Saved Him

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 26 May

Today the temperature at noon here was 46 C. I was talking to one of my friends. Suddenly my friend rushed towards the road. He caught a man who was going somewhere. The man was heavily perspiring and dragging his feet. He was...

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A Myth

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 23 May

Yesterday at noon when I was leaving for a village to meet one of my friends living there, a elderly neighbour came to me and asked me to carry with me a onion or a piece of it in my pocket. He said it would protect me from...

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To A Village At Noon

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 22 May

Today I had to go to a village at noon. It was sizzling hot. The temperature was threatening to cross 47 C. I could have talked to him over phone, but there was no network. I drant two glasses of cold water and went to the...

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Two Coins

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 16 May

A few years ago I had two old coins. I had found them in a old, wooden box. The years when they were in circulation were printed on them. One of them had 1912 printed on it. The other was in circulation way back in 1848. Both...

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Rich Friends, Poor Friends

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50450) • India 13 May

A friend of mine is a millionaire and another is from a very poor family. Both are my intimate friends. Some of my friends, who have big businesses, often ask me not to befriend poor people. They say it lowers my status in the...

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