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She greeted me like we were old friends, purring and wrapping herself round my legs, “Hey,” I said, “I don’t know you!” But from her friendly gestures I realized that, that didn’t matter and all she wanted was to know me.
She was a stray, and I’d seen her quite often sleeping on cars and on the warm seat of a scooter in the colony. Lately I’d realized she’d made a landing on my staircase her home, and would look with sleepy eyes as I walked up to my terrace garden.
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It was a narrow bridge one climbed from once a lazy station, onto the road above.
Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai was hardly used previously, except by mill workers of old, going to work or returning to their homes. And then in the last twenty years the whole area changed: The old mills were demolished, towers, housing thousands of offices appeared and the area turned from a sleepy location to a business hub, but the thin narrow bridge remained.
Till one day over two score commuters were killed in a stampede on that inadequate bridge!
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Venkatesh Kumar Singh & Dr. Anjani Devi*
When debating ideology and its relevance, the idea of Gandhi and his values always appear as a topic of serious debate and discussion. However, the legacy of Gandhi has admirably been taken over by various global personalities which including Martin Luther King, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and Aung San Suu Kyi. The universality of his ideas continues to provoke interest even after more than half a century after his assassination in 1948. Once Gandhi himself has said, “You can kill Gandhi but not Gandhism”. He was a social worker in a true sense in terms of fighting against the existing evils in society and advocating for creating a just society. Though he was not a professional economist and did not formulate any formal model to be adopted by India as a developmental strategy, we can still develop Gandhian perspective towards planning and growth strategy on the basis of his speeches, works, and views presented on various occasions.
Read more: Debating the Relevance of Gandhian Model in Contemporary Era
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Here’s something special on Valentine’s Day:
We seem to think the best relationships are between like-minded people, but not necessarily at all. Instead of changing your wife or husband to your way of thinking what about trying to accept the difference and harmonize your relationship?
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A few years ago a friend came to me with a brilliant idea which required him resigning from his job and setting up business. The scheme seemed well thought off and it was some years later we met again and I found him still plodding on in his old job.