Fallen flowers, to earthen the beauty.

 

Let's act against #childlabour

 

Clicked many years ago, somewhere in central India at a small railway station, a girl child was selling water to passengers. "Refill your bottle with INR 1 only" was her punch line.
The photograph left me suffocated for many days.
Let's act against #childlabour

#children #water #india #childlabour #artagainstchildlabor

Remembering Environment on Environment day!

I have clicked this photographs in January 2022 at Waghur dam. The dam is quenching the thirst of 6 lakh population as well as agriculture need of nearby surrounding area. The buit took many trees, natural flora and fauna, many villages. 

This photograph reminds me the importants of preserveing nature when it comes to utilization of nature resources.

We, the human beings nature's creation unanimously utilizes natural resources for our selfish deeds. We built dams, highways, township at inexplicable cost. The damage done the nature is irreversible and irreconcilable.

The compensation for this environmental loss would never be justified for sake of human development. And as a matter of fact we can not compensate the loss at any cost. Solution to problems of mankind shall not be damaging to the nature. We should not be creating more irrational equations.

The only way to sustained environment is to preserve nature with technological advancement and by having least impact of development activities on nature. Wherever and whenever possible we must avoid damaging the nature with best possibilities. This picture speaks thousand words. We must celebrate environment each day. Why should have only one day to celebrate.

Protect Environment and Mankind!

Rain brings out the best of Nature

 Rain brings out the best of Nature. (Clicked at Bangalore, Karnataka, India)

Red Berries

 

A testing time for time-tested friendship

Indo-Russian friendship celebration event was the last event I have visited before the pandemic of the Covide19 struck on the globe. I was flipping through the nostalgic memories of events I had attended in Delhi, and the last was Indo-Russian friendship celebration held from 7th - 8th March 2020. The event marked the friendly bonhomie of the two nations. Russia is a time-tested friend of India, undoubtedly.

Russia is/was always stands by India whenever there is/was veto power used by some of the democracies against India. India and Russia's friendship is very important in terms of strategic defence alliances & deals. It was Russia that supported India in the 1971 war for the liberation of Bangladesh. The strategic support of Russia kept USA, UK, and China at bay. India is highly dependent on arms & ammunition from Russia. 

According to the data found on some of the articles available in the internet, the dependencies were 70% which comes down to 49%, because of a recent effort to manufacture defence equipment at a domestic level. From a defence point of view, Russia is an inextricable strategic defence partner of India. These defence ties help to maintain peace in South Asia. Apart from the defense deals, India and Russia also share cultural heritage, trade deals, educational opportunities etc.

The recent movements happening between Russia and Ukraine, called military operations or invasion or war sparked the debate around the world about India's stand on the current situations. For some, as a nation, we all are observing the paradox of India's strategic point of view. Although, it is a ubiquitous fact that we have maintained neutrality on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. War always brought calamities for human civilization. India's stand on resolving conflicts through dialogues has been made clear to both nations. 

We have navigated our views keeping the strategic importance of Russia as still there is the interdependency of crude and arms between the nations. India as a nation has kept the importance of national interest first policy terms maintaining neutrality on the conflict of Russia between Ukraine.

Hopefully, Ukraine and Russia may arrive at some conclusion through dialogues in order to maintain peace in the region.




Regards

Amol Nakve

Happy Happiness.....

'If you want to be happy, be'- Leo Tolstoy.

Pursuit of Happiness is a fundamental right as per United Nations (UN) charter passed in the year 2012 and since that moment we are observing 20th March as World Happiness Day. We have been known to the fact happiness is a choice, still most of the time we all succumb to not attaining the full state of happiness. The three major factors that are hindering happiness are poverty, inequality and global warming/pollution. 17 sustainable development goals(SDGs) are addressing these challenges revolving around happiness. Hopefully, we all met the resolution of SDG's by 2030. 

Thanks to Bhutan, for adopting the Gross National Happiness as an indicator of holistic growth in the decade of 1970. It was the first kind of innovative adoption to see growth in terms of happiness by 

replacing the gross national product. 

In the year 2012, Bhutan had moved the resolution on happiness and the UN has passed the resolution and asked member communities to celebrate this day with joy and zeal for spreading the happiness. Bhutan has become the epicenter and got popularity due to the theme of happiness i.e. spreading happiness. 

The year 2022's theme is to celebrate happiness day is Keep Calm, Stay wise and be kind. Keeping calm in every situation is key to satisfaction, staying wise in tough circumstances for success, being kind to other needs, mistakes and errors will empower you. 

Happiness all start with 'I'. Its a rationally irrational subject. Remove 'Y'(Why) from your happiness embrace the materialistic and non-materialistic content we possessed. Path to happiness pass-through containment. Happiness is not something readymade . it comes from action and deeds say the Dalai Lama. Our Karma will decide the state of our future happiness. Our good deeds lead to the happiness of others and thereby happiness of self. but this path requires wisdom.

Happiness is being seen as one of the well-being aspects in terms of workplace productivity and a true indicator of being engaged with a shared vision of the corporation. Happiness and productivity are inextricable. Happy employees lead to happy customers. Organizations started appointing Chief Happiness Officers in order to make workplaces happy. It should not be seen as a threat to capitalism. In fact, capitalism will grow under the umbrella of the strong Happiness Questions. Happiness reduces stress, enhances immunity and that may lead to higher productivity.

And this day let us determine to spread happiness. Happy people make Happy company.

Stay Happy!
Amol