Good evening.
Many of you are aware that I used to take group tuition 4 years back. After I started my job in the school I stopped doing so completely. Two days back one of my student came to meet me. Actually he was fully aware that Manava and Aniruddha were not at home. But he came  and had a long chat with me about his admission after 12th and his future plans. Earlier he was not very academically driven, but now I was shocked and very very pleased to see him more focused. It really gave me immense pleasure in watching him  grow so nicely. We enjoyed our morning together immensely and he shared lots of things with me just like old days and promised to come back and meet me before leaving for hostel. It was really very satisfying and one of the happiest days of my leave.
Bhagyashree  

Hi again.

Some personal reasons for less participation:

1. Leadership quality and/or self driven quality less in my persona.

2. Uncertainty over the correctness of the decided course of action and its impact on others.

3.Fear of going wrong and having wrong repercussions in the shibir.

4.Passive nature and more a follower.

5. Less assertiveness about my own decision.

6. Less compulsive about following my own views. So, they wither away with passage of time.

Bhagyashree

 P.S. Thanks Sangeeta for the invitation. Now I will be able to sign in on my own. Thanks again.

शिबिरात आम्ही सुमारे ३ वर्षांच्या विरामानंतर आलोय, पण अजिबात परकेपण जाणवत नाही, कारण इथले ऊबदार नातेबंध. लताआजीनी तर अपेक्षेप्रमाणे फारच सहजत: आम्हाला या म्हटलं. मधल्या विरामाच्या  काळात अनेकदा शिबिरातील मित्रांनी भरभरून प्रेम दिलं. मार्चमध्ये मी मलेशियाला कामानिमित्त गेले असताना स्वरूपाने मल्लिकासाठी प्रेमाने घरी येऊन तिला आवडता डबा दिला. तिच्या गेल्या वाढदिवसाला संगीताने छान केक स्वतः बनवून आणला होता. सुधान्शुने आम्हाला चाय आणि व्हाय या TIFR च्या कार्यक्रमाशी जोडून दिलं. सुनीताने तिच्या घरी सर्वांबरोबर बोलावलं. विकास-विशाखाशी सतत संपर्क होता- त्यांच्या काही वैयक्तिक प्रश्नावरही आमच्यात चांगलं शेअरिंग होतं. अशी अनेक उदाहरणे देता येतील, ज्यामुळे शिबिराच्या ग्रुपशी आम्ही जोडून राहू शकलो, अर्थात या सर्वांच्या चांगुलपणामुळे आणि जिव्हाळ्यामुळे. एरवी असे बंध विराळा. लताआजीनी दिलेल्या विषयावर ब्लॉग लिहिण्याच्या निमित्ताने शिबिरातील मित्रांचे हे नातेबंध कसे व्यापक आणि समावेशक आहेत, याबद्दल लिहिता आले. नाहीतर हे ऋण शब्दांकित करायचे राहून गेले असते.

शुभदा चौकर

Three exercises for next three weeks!!!

Three exercises for next three weeks!!!

On the basis of our last teen age parent’s meeting & after discussing with Gargee & Mahesh I am putting below the tasks we are supposed to do over next three weeks:

1)      As pre requisite for attending next teen age parent’s meeting (you can say entry ticket!!) all of us have to write on blog about any recent incident which shows beautiful personal relationship. As Lata Aaji mentioned, let us remember to keep it short & simple rather than it being a sermon.

2)      Next meeting’s topic (which you should attend only if you have contributed on blog, as mentioned above) is about the personal space in relationship. In last meeting Lata Aaji has already mentioned few points. In the next meeting each one of us is expected to speak in short on the following lines:

What does “personal space” mean to me? Does anything come in the way of preserving it? If yes, what are the difficulties that you have faced & how you have overcome it.

Meeting would only consist of our presentation & discussion on this. So preparing above is must. However this is NOT to be put on blog.

3)      We have already planned topic for  our own teen age parent’s meet (not the meeting conducted by Lata Aaji). Just to remind; the topic is “issues we face in life due to difference in value structure of shibir & that of society in general & how we face these”. Please share incidents related to this / your thoughts on this on the blog so that we can decide meeting schedule etc.

Bye

Milind

Love – is forgiving your friend who does not remember to wish you on your birthday.  This is exactly what I share with Gargee.  I never forget her birthday and always remember to wish her.  This time I just forgot.  When I remembered suddenly, it was past 5-6 days and I called her and before I could apologise profusely, she said ‘you forgot my birthday, but I know that you love me.’  I was very deeply touched.

Vaishali

Hi friends,
I am writing  a seperate post after a very long time. I was present here only through comments.But still I loved going through all your posts very much.

As many of you are aware that I underwent an accident and was recovering from it at home. Our blog gave me good company and friendship all through this. I wanted to share this thought as this point was not considered earlier.Through blog we can help somebody in  recouping  faster and with more positive attitude without even knowing that we are actually doing so. One more reason to continue to write on the blog continuously.
Bhagyashree   

Rutuja's Wall Painting

  During summer vaction Rutuja had been to Avani and Esha's house. At Avani's place they did some warli painting on the wall and at Esha's place they did some free painting i.e. whatever occured in their mind on the wall. Now look how the walls in our house look like.

 she did this paintings on her own. I was out of town and when I returned home I was really surprised and happy as such I want to share this feelings with all of you.
Mahendra

Pleasure activities at home

Hello my friends,

I want to share something about my interest which I am currently developing.

It is gardening. I used to discuss with my parents on improving my concentration in studies as well as at any work I undertake. They suggested me many things which we together can do. My mother gave me this idea of using the grill area of windows to grow vegetables. When I tried it, it was fun doing it.

First, I went to the nursery with my mother. She told me to choose plants on my own and I bought many plants such as mint, rose, lemon, bilva, vidyache pan cha creeper etc. Sunday I spent the whole afternoon and evening with plants.

First I went down collected all the small stones and arranged in pot and later sat and actually mixed the soil and potted all the plants. Later I sowed many seeds like cucumber, papadi, dhane, badishep, ginger and flowers like Aster and Ziniya. I am planning to grow spinach and many other vegetables in my kitchen grill now.

I and my sister also learnt one thing on how to take care of cleanliness of our staircase while doing such work. I realized as it was raining and due to mud we spoiled the staircase but we assured the watchman that we will clean it by mopping. In the night I was sitting next to our hall window and was watching my plants with great happiness. This was the best day as I had lot of fun doing this with my family and I just love spending my time with them. I also decided to water my plants on my own and take extreme care of it.

Do share your experiences as well.

Thank you

Vedant.

the power of art

 Sometimes the things we like helps us in the hard times rather than the traditional ways . This incident took place in our school. Just before our lunch I got a very bad headache which started taking its toll after our sports. I went to the school office took some medicine and came back hoping it would do some good. But no avail. It was our art class and only 45 min were left for the school to close down. Instead of doing nothing for 45 min I took to art and in that span of time I produced a good painting and all the pain and the throbing was gone. I felt normal again. Such  is the strength of art. This is my experience if you have any I would like to know.

अलीकडेच अच्युत गोडबोले यांचे ` मनात' हे पुस्तक वाचले. फारच छान आहे. मन या विषयावरचा ज्ञानकोश आहे.  त्यात गोलमनच्या EQ आणि SQ या संकल्पनांचा उत्तम परामर्ष आहे. शिबिरातील योगदानाचा खोलात जाऊन विचार करणारे, आणि विचार करायला लावणारे ब्लॉग वाचत असताना ` मनात' या  पुस्तकातील ही दोन प्रकारणे आठवत होती. आपण सर्वानी जरूर वाचावे हे पुस्तक. 
- शुभदा चौकर

shibirache mahatwa kalunsudha sahabha n ghenya madhil karane?
1.ammhi doghehi bhag ghenyascha v jastit jast mulana palkana sagnyach praynat karato tari sudha kami padto ka ase watate
2. kadhi kadhi sglyana samaun gheynachya praytnat swanandi kade  durlax hote ka ase watate
3. saglya palkashi ajun khup mokale na zalyane tyana samjaun gheyna kami padato
4.kruti kanyat barach ushir karto ,tya badal kahich niyojannasate te karu
samorchyachi madat ghynas ajunahi kami padato,
swatache swabhav dosh kadhun saglyanshi mokale vagayacha prytnya karu

A Beautiful Quote

''The single finger which
wipes out tears during our
failure is much better than
the 10 fingers which comes
together to clap for our
victory.''


Sanjay Khemkar

After the Sunday shibir we listened to various versions of RANJISH HI SAHI on you tube.We listened to Runa Laila as well.It was really very refreshing.

The BAKUL tree outside ELPHINSTONE COLLEGE is blooming .Please have a look at it if you happen to be there.

Dear friends,


Yesterday night I was completing my daily school assignments, while I remembered Mehdi Hassan's gazal heard in the Teenage shibir on last Sunday. I just thought of listening to his other gazals. I enjoyed my time listening to them and completing my work together. It built a very serene and calm environment all around the room. Just then Aai came and we together heard the same gazal (RANJISH HI SAHI) which was played in the shibir. You all can also enjoy these gazals.


Om V.

Posted on behalf of Priyanka

शिबीरामधून मी प्रत्येकवेळी मी नवनवीन अनुभव घेत गेले, व त्यातूनच भरपूर वेळा मी तिथे पाहिलेल्या, ऐकलेल्या गोष्टींचा उपयोग माझ्या भाचीच्या लग्नासाठी केला. या सर्व गोष्टी साध्य करीत असताना मी मानसिक दृष्ट्या खूप सुखावले व म्हणूनच त्यातून मला मिळालेला आनंद मी आपणां सर्वांसोबत वाटू इच्छिते.

सर्व प्रथम मला हे आपण करावे असे वाटले, कारण लताआजींनी अद्वैतच्या विवाहाच्यावेळी ज्या काही आकर्षक गोष्टी घरी तयार केलेल्याहोत्या, त्या माझ्या लक्षात होत्या व त्यातूनच मला मुख्य प्रेरणा मिळाली.

जेव्हा हल्लीच आम्हा आयांच्या संपूर्ण दिवसाच्या शिबीरात आम्हाला एक मोत्यांची सुरेख माळ करावयास शिकविली, तेव्हाच मी मनाशी ठरविले की, आपण या माळेच्या डिझाइनचा उपयोग लग्नातील वधू-वरांच्या मुंडावळया करण्यासाठी करायचा. व मी तो विचार जेव्हा लताआजींना सांगितला, तेव्हा त्यांनीही मला ही कल्पना खूपच छान आहे असे सांगितले. एवढयावरच त्या थांबल्या नाहीत तर त्यांनी मला ताटाभोवतीची महिरप, लामणदिवा ठेवण्यासाठी जी रोवळी वापरतात ती सजविण्याबाबत सुचविले.त्याचे साहित्य सुध्दा कुठे मिळेल हे ही सांगितले. उत्साहाने स्वतकडील सजावटीच्या वस्तूसुध्दा दिल्या.

मला सर्व प्रथम वाटले की हे मी करू शकते का! पण लगेच मनात दुसरा विचार आला कि मी जर आता प्रयत्न नाही केला तर मी ही संधी नक्कीच गमाविणार. आणि तसेच पुढे असंही वाटलं का नाही मला जमणार? आपल्याच तर घरातील लग्न आहे व तिथे कोणाशीही स्पर्धा नाही. आणि मी केलेल्या गोष्टींचे सर्वांना निश्चितच कौतुकच असणार हा मला विश्वास होता. व मी खूप उत्साहाने कामाला लागले.

मी छान 2 रोवळया सजविल्या, मुंडावळया केल्या, ताटाभोवतीची महिरप तयार केली. हे सर्व करताना मला जेव्हा काही अडचणी आल्या तेव्हा मी आपल्या शिबीरातील सख्यांचा सल्ला घेतला. स्वरूपाला मी हक्काने सांगू शकले कि तिने मला भाचीच्या सासूबाईंच्या ओटीत द्यावयाच्या वस्तू ठेवण्यासाठी एक फोल्डर करून द्यावा व तिनंही मला तो तितक्याच प्रेमानं करून दिला. लग्नसमारंभात द्यावयाच्या भेटवस्तूही आकर्षकरित्या सजविल्या. फुलांच्या माळांनी लग्न घर सजविले.

यातून मला निर्मितीचा आनंद तर मिळालाच व सर्वात महत्वाचे म्हणजे मी काही थोडंफार करू शकते हा माझा स्वतबाबतचा विश्वास वाढला.