Dr. Anil Kumar Agarwal

Yesterday, all of a sudden my office electricity behaved strangely. The main line indicator was showing that the power supply was there but tube lights and fans stopped their functioning. I asked my assistant why the electricity was not functioning well and inverter was also not working. I thought the voltage of the electricity had dipped down suddenly so that tube lights and fans had stopped functioning but inverter was not getting signals of power brake as very low voltage power was still there.

I told my assistant to go to enquire about the real position of the power supply. He returned after some time and said, ‘The other shop keepers and offices were enjoying full voltage power supply.’ Then I realized that there was a fault somewhere in my office. I cut down the inverter circuit from the main power supply and to my surprise the power supply was restored immediately. One thing I forgot to mention here that I first switched on my stabilizer of AC to check the input voltage of the electricity which I found within normal limits. After that I did the above mentioned task. I repeated the above said procedure and got the same result. Then I realized that the inverter might be faulty.

I sent my assistant to call the mechanic. He left the message at his shop and came back. Today in the morning, the mechanic came to check the inverter. Checking it he told me that there was a fault in the connector of the inverter. I suggested him to replace it with standby. So he returned after sometime with another inverter. When he installed the standby it also behaved the same as the original inverter did. He got puzzled as I was standing there. I smelled his some wrong doing but didn’t say to him anything as I had no other option to call some other one. He promised me to install it back by the next day. Let us hope for the best.

Recently I went to Rohtak, a district of Haryana state in India, to attend a seminar on Homeopathy. Haryana is not a rich state as far as Homeopathy is concerned but two renowned speakers from Mumbai were coming there who might have made the seminar valuable. When I along with my four friends reached seminar place, there was a lively atmosphere which was showing that the seminar would be successful.

Getting our names registered, we were served breakfast. After that we went to the auditorium which was well cooled by ACs. Organizers were waiting for the chief guest to start the program. It was 1, o’clock when the opening ceremonies had come to an end. The delegates had been impatient and annoyed due to this mismanagement but they showed their disapproval only by their facial expressions.

Immediately after that they introduced one of the speaker named Dr.VS (Later on, I will call him only VS). VS started his lecture in a very stylish way with the aid of computer. He explained many things which were related to classical literature of Homeopathy. Some of the thoughts were not accepted by some audience as these were being presented either in a distorted manner or in such a way that couldn’t be digested. It was clearly shown that VS wanted to present the simple things in a complicated form so that the audience would feel that he was quite learned. He showed a statement which was written by Dr. Hahnemann, in which Hahnemann accepted that Homeopathy couldn’t provide you encouraging results. It was semi true as he concealed the real context why and when Hahnemann used this sentence. It was difficult to understand what the speaker wanted to present in front of the delegates. In a nutshell it could be said that his show was not worth attending though he continued his session till late evening. Organizers provided the delegates a good lunch as well as a delicious dinner. They tried their best to show a good hospitality.

Next day the seminar began in time after the breakfast. That day speaker was Dr. A.S. (short name). One of my colleagues in Delhi is her great fan after hearing her one lecture in some other seminar. That time she really performed well; I was also present at that time. She started her lecture by showing some audio – visual aided case records. She tried to explain them with some new idea that was not at all convincing. Some learned delegates asked her to explain the new idea which she couldn’t express properly. Hearing many cross questioning she was about to go in fit of irritation but at the eleventh hour one of the organizers managed the situation by saying that question- answer session would be kept in the last. Two of my companions had become bored with her lectures and were insisting us on going back home. Considering their request we returned to Delhi after having lunch. If her fan had also attended the seminar what would have passed in his heart.

A friend of mine, Dr Khurana, an allopathic doctor, has retired from a Govt. hospital a long back so he is quite aged and well experienced. He has three sons; all are settled abroad in two different countries. His wife died a few years ago so he also passes his most of the time abroad with his sons. He enjoyed travelling frequently from one place to another. When he comes to India he usually comes to my clinic. I have been treating him for his ENT trouble which had been worsened after surgery but now he is in a comfortable zone as far as ENT is concerned.

This time he returned from Australia about a week ago. He came to my clinic today to see me as well as to collect his medicine from my clinic. I always welcome him warmly and he also tries to respond in the same fashion. He told me that he was going to Moscow just after three days. I gave him his due medicines and offered a cup of coffee too. We were discussing the present situation of India as well as comparing Indian living condition with Australia and some European countries. I told him that British had given us nothing. Then he replied that they gave us one very precious thing without disclosing the name of that valuable. Having heard his comment I asked him about the thing. Then he said in one word, ‘English’.

Now I enquired of the meaning of English from him; I said, ‘Do you mean it English as a language.’ He nodded his head positively. I was amazed hearing his reply. I told him that my views were rather different from him. He tried me to convince that without English how we could get education and our country progress. Now I have understood about his superficial thoughts. I asked him a question; Can you tell me how Japan, Germany, Russia and even China have developed their countries rather better than English speaking countries. Now he was obliged to think on my thought and said, ‘I have never thought at this point; now I feel that English is a curse for us rather than boon. No country can do its development without using its own language.’

Khajuraho is a place, situated in Madhya Pradesh in India that is admired by most of the Indians as well as the foreigners. It is popular for its temples which were made say about more than ten centuries ago. These temples are superb and show how Indian culture and science were so much rich even at that time. This is the perfect evidence of the advanced India. Due to its ancient value it has got the status of ‘World Heritage’. I had the strong desire to visit this place a long since. Last month the desire had been fulfilled as I got the chance to visit it.

Khajuraho is quite far off from Delhi. There was no direct train for Khajuraho from Delhi till some months ago. Now the Govt. has started a direct train for Khajuraho from Nizamuddin railway station, Delhi. Previously people used to get down at Mahoba or Harpalpur station when they took the train from Delhi. From either of these two stations, people hired a taxi or took the bus to go to Khajuraho. Presently, there is an air-port also which provides people another mode of transport.

I and Mira took the train, U P Sampark Kranti, which departed at right time. In the morning, at about 8 o, clock, the train arrived at Khajuraho. We got down from it. The station was small but rather neat and clean. Khajuraho is a small place so that people of the area know each other well. They were polite in behavior as I felt. We visited most of the temples by auto-rickshaw. The temples are divided in three or four groups. Out of them western group had the maximum number of temples and were at the same campus while temples of other groups were scattered. The houses in the town were mostly single story but quite tidy; which give the impression that the residents were fastidious. Most of the sculptures were ruined. The gardens around temples were also well maintained so they were also enhancing the beauty of these monuments. Some of the sculptures were erotic as the place is more popular for this world wide.

In the evening, we left Khajuraho and went to Jhansi by train. We arrived there at mid-night and went to the hotel which was already booked for us. Next day in the morning, my friend, Dr. Srivastav along with his friend came to our hotel to take us to Orcha. Orcha is a popular place for its temples. There is a popular Ram temple where devotees pray Lord Rama in the form of King; this is the only temple in India where God Rama is worshiped as a king. The temple was attractive and there is an interesting story behind it. Seeing it we came back and told them to drop us at Jhansi fort.

The fort was surrounded by a thick stone wall and the area of it was about fifteen acres as was told. We saw every spot of the fort. It rained while we were visiting it so the weather became very pleasant and cool. We enjoyed a lot there and admired too. We also visited the museum that was equipped with audio-video help. We came back to the hotel and after half an hour my friend came to take us to his house for lunch. His wife welcomed us warmly and served a delicious food. We did a lot of gossips and saw his library too; it was rich with some rare collections. We went back to the hotel to take some rest.

In the evening, Dr. Srivastav took us to Datiya. It has a popular ‘Devi’ Mandir’. We visited it and took the ‘Darsan’ of the Goddess. The temple is called a ‘Sidh Peeth’ too. We came back to Jhansi. My friend and his wife again insisted us to take dinner at their home. They invited us so affectionately that we couldn’t refuse their call. Having had the dinner we returned to hotel, took our luggage and went to the station to take the train for Delhi.

Yesterday, in the afternoon at 5 I sat on the couch and was reading a book. I felt as if I was oscillating along with the sofa. Experiencing it I told Mira in high volume that there was an earthquake. She thought that I was telling it to her just as fun as my voice was quite calm. So she didn’t pay much heed to my information. After a while I turned the TV on, a breaking news was flashing at the bottom of the TV screen. She then realized that I was telling her truth. Later, the same was confirmed by Vaibhav and Sambhav, my sons.

Vaibhav works in a company where all are Indians and even the MD of the company is Indian. When the earthquake was experienced by the employees in the office, their boss suggested them not to come in panic, just sit at their respective seats and do their work as they do usually. On the other side, Sambhav works in a multinational company where they have set norms for every hue and cry. When the employees of his company experienced earthquake a siren started buzzing and all the employees came out of the building.

These two different types of behavior in the same situation show that the culture of the Indian and the foreign company is quite different. It is difficult to say which one is correct. Only time proves that at one time one is correct and at the other time second may be correct.

The real brave man is the one who reaching home in intoxicated state and having seen broom in his wife’s hand says, ‘Oh darling, you are still cleaning the house.’

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Preeto – Raja, lives in neighborhood, got ninety seven percent marks in mathematics.

Santa – Really! But where had the remaining three marks left?

Preeto – Our Bunty has got the remaining three marks.

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A husband – If you continue wasting the money in this way, soon we will beg.

The wife – No problem, I have got enough practice after begging every morning and evening.

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A wife – When you unveiled my face at honeymoon, how I was looking.

The husband – If I hadn’t recited ‘Hanuman Chalisa’, I would have died.

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Wife – When you take local brand of spirit, you call me ‘Paro’. When you take imported brand, you say to

me darling. What have you taken today?

Husband – Today, I haven’t taken anything. You devil!

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Husband – I was so foolish that I married you.

Wife – Yes, I knew it but I thought you would be changed.

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Husband (roared) – I will neither wash clothes, utensils and nor any other house hold work since after.

Wife  –  OK. Don’t do but first you come out of under the bed.

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Newly married boy – let us make a love.

The girl –  No.

The boy – Why don’t it?

The girl – I promised my mother that I would leave all the wrong doing after my marriage.

A lover to his girl friend – Say such thing which makes my heart beating fast.

The girl friend – My father is coming after you taking a shoe in his hand.

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Anna phoned his wife, ‘Listen!  I can’t come home. Somebody has stolen steering, breaks, clutch from my car.’

After one hour, he again telephoned to his wife, ‘I am coming. By mistake, I sat on the back seat of my car.’

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During examination days: Yesterday, I realized, ‘When I open my book I get such a sound sleep that I have never experienced in my life.

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Buy milk products prepared in our farmhouse because they are 100% pure. If anybody proves our claim wrong, he will be rewarded by 1000 rupees. The proof our honesty is that we have rewarded twelve people till now.

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There are so many farmhouses scattered all over Delhi. They may be in hundreds and the real figure is not available even with the Govt. There are about thirty farmhouses registered for commercial purposes. Here the meaning of ‘commercial’ is that it can be used for performing marriages and functions. Some of the farmhouse owners have converted the land in a beautiful garden along with a boundary wall around it. A concrete structure has also been erected with a big hall which is used as a dinning hall or performing other events as per the needs. In the open ground, a huge temporary ‘Shamiana’ is also installed for meeting the demand of the host. In nutshell, it can be said that a farmhouse land is used like a banquet hall.

In reality the farmhouse means that a place which is used for growing crops and rearing animals. If farmhouses in Delhi are not being used as for its specific purposes, they should be closed down. If the farm house owner use it for some other purpose, he must first go to the concerned authority to get the land use changed. After getting the NOC from the competent authority, he is eligible to use the piece of land for some other purpose.

According to MCD, only 38 farm houses are registered for commercial activity. A question arises whether the MCD is competent to change the land use or not. It is evident that the majority farm houses in Delhi are being used for marriages and other type of functions that is really illegal. The Govt. must take some concrete steps to stream line them.