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DAY 1578

Jalsa , Mumbai Aug 13, 2012 Mon 11 : 48 PM

Ramanathan’s Birthday today Aug 13 th and we wish him all the happiness and joy that life can bring to him ..

Tomorrow the 14^th of Aug 2012 is the 25^th Wedding Anniversary, Silver Jubilee, of Kalpana Kakade and we all wish her and her dear husband a life of togetherness and joy as ever. May you celebrate a 100 years and more together !!

Tumblr., denotes a window that says they are having a problem, which needs to be sorted out, so if any of the Ef is wondering why I am getting close to my ‘regular’ hours of sleeping .. err … they are completely wrong ! I write elsewhere and shall post as soon as the platform is ready.

The joys of grandfather hood increase by the hour ! The ‘little one’ now begins to register and express, or at least try desperately to. For someone that has been through these stages in the growing up of little ones, it comes as no surprise that these are the days that need to be frozen in time permanently. I need to be careful of what I express because in todays times of advanced invention and research, someone may actually get up and do it, which could be exciting to some of us but not to all.

In the absence of a designated vocabulary, the toddlers develop a language of affection and anger, distaste and displeasure, of unique quality. It is really a wonder of nature how they educate themselves in doing so, and make it mandatory for those that nurture them, to understand each ‘word’ they utter.

And not just understand, but indeed to act accordingly !

Such darlings !!

The digital platform provides us an access that brings us all together and as the days go by I realize the immense contribution that science has made and continues to make, in connecting humanity. Each and every program that cyber science constructs and exercises is noticeable only for one commonality. How to connect with another. How to be more knowledged of the other. How to savor the information that draws in by the billions. How to hold hands, to care, to offer service, and to enjoy the benefits of one, that one may never have ever have seen or met before ! What an incredible utopian world gets created each moment. Yes, we still have the differences in culture and language and religion and color and race, and they strive and exist for but one reason – to divide and to erode, an element, that perhaps was the most persuasive for all time. But now, the simultaneous offering of the other opposite, of togetherness and brotherly sisterly affection, gives us all a chance to ‘look back in anger’ of what we have lost for centuries, and what would have been the state of affairs had their been such facility then.

Every aspect of the cyber that builds platforms – FaceBook, Twitter, Blog and a myriad others that we are still ignorant of, thrives and survives on just one common denominator – how to connect with as many people as possible, how to build banks and content, that shares with us details of the ‘other’. Alright, the commercial ability and its benefits of monetization in a capital world, have and do cause us to think of its other aspect, but I do feel that the coming together is far more valuable than the billions that ride and drive commercial empires as a result of this !

So the entire day has been spent in consultation and discussion on how we can improve our own platforms. What is it that we can do to attract another to another in happiness and joy and in service to them, and we have been excited of the varied developments that are being thought of, which hopefully could come into operation in the ‘not too distant future’ – a most clichéd expression if ever there was one !! But seriously though, as one that has been moderately compassionate about his word and wishes, I do believe, and wish that you believe too, that ‘sooner rather than later’, another clichéd cliché, it shall all fall into place.

On the twitter platform a short while ago, Moses from Israel mentioned his love for the song ‘ Kajara re’ and I put in a 140 letter message, stating that just the other day I heard a most astonishing story about the song. It is one that is at once filled with sorrow and grief and immense irony, so those that wish to skip this portion are advised to do so.

Ram Gopal Varma, who is making his next film on the 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai, has gathered through his extensive research and sources a most poignant occurrence.

Three senior most police officers that had travelled on that fateful first day, in a police vehicle towards the Hospital where the terrorists were active, had been shot instantly and died while still in the vehicle. The vehicle had also carried two constables that escaped the firing, as they had ducked in the rear end of the Qualis behind the seating. Two of the terrorists had after the shooting of the officers, walked up to the vehicle and pulled out the bodies of the three officers, and ridden the vehicle to cause further mayhem. The two constables unknown to the two terrorists had remained in that hidden crouched position without making a sound, even though one of them had been injured by a bullet in the shooting that killed the officers.

The vehicle, now driven by the terrorists was driving along to a predetermined destination to catch up with the others in the team, when one of the hiding constables’ mobile rang ! One of the terrorists, sources or Jadhav the other constable, has stated to be Kasab, now captured and in custody, turned round while driving and pumped bullets into the constable who’s mobile rang, killing him. Jadhav who was pretending he was dead, lay still, inches away from his colleagues dying face, when this happened. Through communication and suspected movements of course this vehicle was abandoned by the terrorists and another family vehicle travelling on the road opposite, was forcefully stopped, its occupants removed at gunpoint, and taken over by the terrorists which then through a blockade at Girgaum Chowpaty, by the police, was intervened and that is where through the brave efforts of another constable, who took a bullet from them but grappled with Kasab, caught him alive !

And now … for the other facts as reported … the ring tone of that mobile phone of the constable that was shot in the Qualis … was … ‘Kajara re’ .. !

And more … the call he was getting, was from his Father, who wanted to know what was happening, because he was seeing and watching television that there was some trouble in Mumbai !!

That phone call cost the constable his life ! His Father has till date not been able to live with it !!

It is painful to narrate something like this .. can one imagine the plight of those that endured this ordeal .. ???

Amitabh Bachchan