नवीन वर्षाभिनंदन 

I am venturing a new project. It is a magazine, named Wayam for school children of 5th to 10th std. It is a project of Shrikant Bapat of LabIndia company. I am the  Chief Editor. Wayam will have print as well as web edition. I am sending you the invitation of Launch by email. Try to come.
Venue: Gadkari Rangayatan, Thane
Wen 10th Apr 13
5 to 7 PM

Chief Guest Dr Anil Kakodkar.

Other speakers- Kumar Ketkar, Sudhir Gadgil, Achyut Godbole, Spruha Joshi, Uday Nirgudkar, Kartiki Gaikwad

All are welcome with kids

Regards,

Shubhada Chaukar

A Meet of Teenagers

   With no Shibir in April, most of us teenagers won't meet each other for a whole month. 
    But I thought, that we teenagers can meet each other in this month by ourselves. We can decide a simple topic and can have it for discussion. Place can be decided and so can be day.It would be great.Those of you who liked the idea and would like to come can comment on this post and we can chalk out the date suitable for all of us 

thirst

Tawny rajah

              The dryness has engulfed everything that came across it,and still goes on to do so. Its only our thirst which fuels our survival. Thirst spares nobody,from the tinnest to the most glorious creatures,nobody at all; Well the butterflies too have start experiencing the thirst.
              While summer closes in and as the winter ends the butterfly mudpuddling season starts,the activity is at peak during feb and start of march,and depends on the abundance of wet patches.These photos are from yeoor and you can notice that in almost all the photos the butterflies are mudpuddling.

spot swordtails mudpuddling

angled sunbeam

malabar spotted flat

leaf blue female 

tawny coster

आजपर्यंत  मला असं कधी वाटलंच नाही की आपण आपल्या चांगल्या आठवणी डायरीत लिहाव्या ,पण आज सबंध दिवसात  जे काही  घडलं ,त्यावरून असं वाटलं की आपण हा प्रसंग लिहून ठेवावा . त्याच्यातून मला सचिनला ,यशोधनला बरच काही शिकायला मिळाले .
       गोष्ट सुरु झाली जून महिन्यापासून ,मी व सचिन काही कामासाठी पुण्याला गेलो होतो ,येताना एका हॉटेलमध्ये जेवायला थांबलो ,बाहेर पडताना माझी नजर पडली एका वेलीवर . त्याच्यावर एक जांभळट ,खूप सुंदर फूल होतं . मला वाटलं याचं कटिंग  घेऊन घरी लावावं म्हणून मी त्या मालकाला विनंती  केली कि ,मला कटिंग द्याल काय ?त्या बाई ना आश्चर्य वाटलं कि असं काय आहे त्या फुलांत ? त्यांनी  ते कटिंग दिलं ,मी लगेच घरी आल्यावर त्याला आमच्या बागेत लावलं . एक नवीन सदस्य आमच्यात आला . पावसाळा असल्यामुळे वेल छान वाढली . नंतर छान फुलं यायला लागली . त्या फुलाचं नाव काय हे मला माहीतही नव्हतं . पण मागच्या आठवड्यात आनंदमेव्याच्या ब्लॉगवर शैलजा ने तिच्या घरच्या बागेतले फुलांचे फोटो पाठवले ,त्यामुळे त्याचे नाव कृष्णकमळ आहे हे  समजले . मग नंतर मला त्याच्यावर अळ्या दिसल्या आणि त्या अळ्यांनी पानांना खाल्लं होत . मी आधी घाबरले कि वेलीला तर काही होणार नाही ना ?मग मी ओम ला फोन केला ,त्याने मला लगेच सांगितलं की कदाचित तिथे कोश तयार फुलपाखरं येणार . त्या दिवसापासून मी,यशोधन ,सोनाली, आम्ही लक्ष देऊ लागलो .
          कोश अगदी लांब अळी सारखा पण पांढऱ्या रंगाचा आणि त्याच्यावर  तपकिरी रंगाचे ठिपके होते . दुपारी कोशाचा रंग ग्रे व्हायला लागला . मी परत ओम ला फोन केला ,त्याने अगदी exactlyआणि confidently सांगितले की त्याचा जन्म सकाळी सात ते अकराच्या मधे होणार . त्याप्रमाणे आज सकाळी जाऊन बघते तर कोश फुटून फुलपाखरू बाहेर मातीत होतं ,पण त्याला काळ्या मुंग्या लागल्या . त्याला अलगद हातावर घेऊन मुंग्या बाजूला केल्या पण तो पंख हलवत नव्हता ,मग सकाळी परत डॉ ओम ला फोन केला ,त्यानी सांगितले सुर्यप्रकाशात ठेव ,त्याचे पंख सुकले की तो उडेल . हे सर्व यशोधन बघत होता आणि मला मदत करत होता . मला तर असं वाटलं की जणु खरच लहान बाळाचा जन्म झाला . त्याला बघायला यशोधन चे मित्र पण आले . त्यांना बर्फी दिली .
           पण दुर्दैवाने त्या फुलपाखराच्या पंखाला काही problem होता  त्यामुळे तो उडू शकत नव्हता . मला त्याचं फार वाईट वाटलं . मी मध द्यायचा प्रयत्न केला पण काहीच उपयोग झाला नाही .तेवढ्यात अनिताचा फोन आला ,संत्रं सोलून ठेऊन बघ असं सांगितलं ,आणि मी तसं केलं ,आणि त्याला झाडातच ठेवलं ,पण ते करताना एकीकडे फार वाईट वाटत होतं की आता त्याला उडताच येणार नाही ,आणि स्वच्छंदपणे उडण्याचा आनंद घेता येणार नाही . सचिन तरी मला म्हणाला ,धनश्री सोडून दे त्याला ,असं सांभाळून त्याला आनंद मिळणार नाही आणि असं जगण्याला काय अर्थ ?मला तर रडायलाच आलं . पण मी त्याला झाडातच सोडलं . शेवटी तरी त्याला नेचर बरोबर राहू दिलं .
          या प्रसंगातून हे कळलं की आपण आपले प्रयत्न करायचे ,बाकी सर्व त्या देवाच्या हातात . तोच हे सर्व जग बनवतो . निसर्गाचा तर हाच नियम आहे ,मातीतून येतो आणि मातीतच मिळतो . यशोधानला फार राग आला जेंव्हा मी म्हणाले की एखादेवेळी तो वाचणार नाही . He is also not ready to accept it.It shows that children are so innocent and possitive.या प्रसंगातून यशोधनला बरच काही शिकता आलं . हे सर्व घडत असताना कितीतरी लोकांशी सबंध आला ,खूप गोष्टी कळल्या . कृष्णकमळाच्या फुलाची गोष्ट ओम कडून कळली . ती अशी सगळ्यात बाहेरचं वर्तुळ म्हणजे कुरुक्षेत्र ,मधलं वर्तुळ म्हणजे कौरव  ,आतलं वर्तुळ म्हणजे पांडव आणि मध्ये श्रीकृष्ण . या प्रसंगाच्या निमित्ताने मी अपर्णा आणि सर्वेश सोबत पण बोलले आणि तोमी काढलेले फोटो ब्लोगवर घालायला  तयार झाला . हे सर्व घडलं ते या चांगल्या समाजामुळेच .

    I would like to thanks my parents who are very cultured.       once again thank you Om,Sarvesh and Aparna,and I always feel that I am so lucky to have such good husband,loving mom in law,caring sister in law,loving son and loving families of Anandmeva.

धनश्री .

           
       

HI EVERYONE ,OM VAKNALLI HERE,
                                                  Sorry for not contributing since a really really long time! I know that even out of my busy schedule, I need to take out time for this really essential task of blogging on Chequebook. Again really sorry!!
During this time period I have been witness to a whole range of happenings on my side. I would like to share some of the significant ones with you all in my upcoming posts.

The BIG Drama..........

Me and acting, yes quite possible. Though not a lead one, I might satisfy the needs of an accompaniment.
This is what exactly i did in our lovely school,TRIDHA. Though most of you must have heard about it from me or Omkar Khache,we have never formally introduced our school on chequebook.
So, ......where to start?!! It is an IGCSE board school in Andheri E . Our school believes in variations and diff. colours that add a spectrum of elements in our lives. So if you look at the school, it is simply full of colours; from the building ,students ,teachers ,their ways of teaching and ours of learning,all of this is always varying. There is no structured monotony in the school.
Actually I could write a whole blog about it,but my main focus now is the drama.(in case if you want to know more about it ,you'll are free to talk to me or Omkar dada)
                  So as every school has their annual days, we too have them in Primary (1st to 6th). But every year the big focus is the Class VIII Drama. I had been looking forward for it ever since I had joined Tridha.
It is special because we have to perform a 3 HOUR DRAMA nonstop. We have a 2 hour class for it in class8 where the school teaches us how to act out different emotions and takes us to watch several plays. Then the teacher decides a drama from the past, writes the script and we have to enact it. 
        The aim of class VIII play is to make the children responsible. Here we had freedom to decide our costumes, the props, the stage, the dialogues; almost everything. It is almost a 2 months project.
Unfortunately this year we had a time duration of only 3weeks to perform the drama. 
              The story this year was a combination of 2 dramas linked together; as we had shortage of roles. First was the Greek play called "OEDIPUS REX" by Sophocles which is quite ancient and the second was Henrik Ibsen's "STOCKMANN ; THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" from the 1800s. Both the plays had no similarities except that both were individual fights for Truth. This was another challenge we faced, as both were written in contrast time periods. 
                   We were really inquisitive to know our roles which were to be given by next week looking at our personality and acting. I, having no experience of wearing a mask, was sure to get some good ,side role. BUT what came to my fate was completely unexpected. I had been allotted the role of a major villain. My heart skipped a beat when I heard this. The character was of a rich, arrogant, higher class Mayor; who was concerned about himself and his money. It was a real challenge to play the role and rather much more fun. Our teacher only instructed us to imagine the character, feel it in your self and act it out. I tried putting my best in the role; walked and talked in real life like the character. And indeed it made my performance better on stage as I had been comfortable wearing the mask till then. One of the props I used during the play, was my Aaji's wooden stick.The moment our teacher told me, I was going to need a stick; the first picture that came to my mind was Aaji's stick. During the practice and the actual play, it completed my character and turned as a blessing for me.I always had faith that she was watching my play from above.
After the play we went to Ajoba's house to meet him & return the stick. He was very happy to see me in my three piece suit and make up.
                  The drama was good on the final day although we faced quite a lot of difficulties with the sound and our dialogues as we didn't have enough practice with them. Overall the experience taught me that being someone else is as complex as being yourself. 

Spring blossom

Last week we visited our favourite place Jijamata Udyan .Everyone welcome us,we clicked some photos in front of zoo.As soon as I entered the zoo I  saw two common mormon were playing .I tried a lot to click photos but they ran away because they were charged .On the right hand side we saw a Brwniya .Two big baobab trees are there,they can store a large amount of water in their trunk.While walking many birds welcome all of us .I thought that I was not walking I was flying in the air because after seeing the plants and birds my mind was full with joy.we played at slide area.there are lotus flowers .There was striped tiger(butterfly) ,indian cupid and common castor.There are big birds,I make video of them.Ishwari and her all friends collected flowers,leaves .Like every year kingfisher was there on the same place to show It's love about our shibir friends .

लसण्या 

कुंती 

सीतेचा अशोक 

powder puff

rat killer

कैलासपती 

common leopard on Lantana

bee on gulbakshi

 

 

striped tiger

           We all enjoyed this meaningful visit very much .I enjoyed it more than the  last year.

या रविवारी 5 वाजता पार्ले येथे उत्तूंग संस्थेने टिळक मंदिरात कार्यक्रम ठेवला आहे. या कार्यक्रमाच्या जाहिराती लाोकसत्ता, म.टा.मधे आल्या हाोत्या. हा संगीताचा कायर्यक्रम आहेच. पण विशेष म्हणजे यात जीवनगाौरव पुरस्कार इब्राहिम अल्काझी यांना देण्यात येणार आहे. अल्काझी हे भारतीय नाट्य दिग्दर्शक. माझ्या एका ज्ञानी पण खडूस भावाच्या मते त्यांना नाटकातलं जे कळतं त्याच्या करंगळीएवढं विजयाबाई मेहतांना कळतं. यावरून अंदाज घ्या.
He is a legend. His position in Theater world is like Ravi Shankar in music or Birju Maharaj in Kathak.
Dont miss this programme.
Entry is free.
  
 

Our House Garden

Hi Everyone,
We wanted to share our small house garden with you all.
Few  pictures are here:

                                                    Hey you Humans, Stop cutting Mangroves!!!
We say we need to protect ourselves from natural disasters like tsunamis, floods, draughts, etc. But what measures as an individual have we taken so far to protect ourselves? Nothing at all!
If we really do care about our well-being, then we can start by protecting what is already there with us..
And those are the Mangroves!
Sadly, man has been destroying these precious gifts from nature in the name of development and greed. Most of us must have heard of a quote that goes like, “God helps those who help themselves”. The same can be applied to our present situation. If we can plant, protect and save the remaining mangroves today, very soon a day will come when the mangroves will return their favor by providing us with the much needed protection from natural disasters like tsu-nami and floods. Sometimes we cut the mangroves because we think that these precious plants are of no use. But sur-prisingly, the fact is that they are one of the most beneficial organisms as they also help us by restricting the salt water from entering our city areas and thus protecting Mumbai.
The cutting of mangroves should be stopped or we might have to face the wrath of either God or Nature very soon. The wrath of God can come in the form of a punishment and the wrath of nature can come in the form of natural dis-asters..
And all this might happen only because of a very crucial and important element or organism missing from the environ-ment. So lets protect the mangroves before its too late, for nature and ourselves!
THE STUDENT WA

माराराष्ट्र निसर्ग उद्यान फेरफटका
विद्यार्थ्यांच्या पर्यावरण प्रकल्प निमित्ताने महाराष्ट्र निसर्ग उद्यानाला आज भेट
 दिली तेव्हा फुलपाखरे पहिली, त्याच बरोबर पळस २,३ ठिकाणी पूर्ण फुलेलाल आहे
 उंदिरमार पण  फुललेला आहे