31st October

Completed morning program partially.
Bought Sony Core I3 (3rd Generation) laptop with Windows 8 from Nehru Place. Learnt its operation. I saw laptops of HP, Dell, Samsung, Lenevo.  I liked Sony laptop. I have given it to Jaymith to configure Microsoft Office etc.in it. Its operation is slightly different from Windows 7 and XP. I will take it home tomorrow after he has configured it . I consulted Subhash, Pilku, Silku, Babloo, Neha , Rajat before deciding to buy it. While Subhash and Neha endorsed buying of Sony laptop, others suggested to buy either Lenevo or HP or Acer or Samsung and so on so forth. Neha and Chotu have Sony laptops. I could not talk to Chotu as her cell was switched off.
In chamber from 3.30pm to 5pm.
Retired to sleep at 9.30pm. 

30th October

Completed morning program. Visited PNB and SBI.

As my laptop is dysfunctional. I have to buy a new one. A search for the best is on. I desired to buy a laptop with Windows 8. I am advised to buy a laptop with Window 7. I am using Window XP at present. Instead of switching over to Window 8, it is better to use Window 7 and later it could be upgraded to Window 8. What is important is to acquire the experience of Window 7 in the first instant. 

Neha has subscribed Tata Sky HD  for our TV. It is not yet connected. We have a box provided by the cable operator. It is attached to the TV in the drawing room. We will use Tata Sky HD in our TV in the bedroom. Despite payment about a week back by Neha, they have not yet installed it. We have reminded them today. We are informed that Tata Sky HD  executive would visit us on 1st November at 3 PM and give the connection.The digital TV is replacing Cable TV Network from Nov 1. 2012.

In chamber from 1.30 to 5.15 pm.
Retired to sleep at 10 pm.

29th October

Completed morning program. In chamber from 1.30 to 6  pm. Venita  went to Gurgaon to attend a Puja in the house of her sister. She met Babloo Silku, Neha grand children &; others. She gave them Diwali gifts.She returned at 9 pm. We will be at Fatehpur during Diwali.

Retired to sleep at 10 pm

26th to 28th October

On 28th:
Completed morning program. It being Sunday, spent the day reading magazines and news papers.
Retired to sleep at 10pm.

On 27th:
Completed morning program. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazines. The polling for the elections to the Executive committee of the Society took place. Cast my vote. The results were as expected. It is a good and balancing verdict. There will be check/counter-check by the two groups on the working of the Committee and arbitrary action should not be possible.
Retired to sleep at 10 pm.

On 26th:
 Went through the newspapers. A news item in New York Herald was critical of filth at Bangalore. It said that the IT Hub, once famous for its cleanliness , had so much of undisposed of litter.
Left  hotel at 3 pm. The driver of the hotel car left us at the domestic Air India terminal. In fact we had to board the flight at the Sahara International airport. We rushed but missed the flight and had to come back to the domestic airport for the 6 pm flight. Arrived Delhi at 8 pm.
Retired to sleep at 11pm.   

25th Oct.

Left home at about 5 am for the airport to take the Air India flight to Mumbai along with Sh. Atiar Singh Dey, Advocate. We had a meeting with the client. Meeting was to take place at the Trident, Bandra. But we came to Trident, Nariman. There was miscommunication. It was rescheduled at 2.30 pm. Stayed back. We have a meeting with another client next day. Had frugal dinner at India Jones restraunt in the hotel along with Advocate Atiar Singh Dey.
Retired to sleep at at about 0.30 hrs.

24th Oct.

Completed morning program. Dashehra festival celebrated today. Babloo, Neha and Akshat came. Akshat started calling me Dadu instead of Dada. I liked it. He wished to compete with me in book reading. He brought a book . He told me to take out a book. I took out one. Venita took out some childhood story books of Babloo, Silku and Pilku. She also took out a register of press cuttings and photographs compiled by Babloo when he was 12 year old. All these related to my tenure as the DGP of Meghalaya. Akshat forgot about Book reading competition. He saw the cuttings and photographs with interest. Thereafter  I took Akshat to Janakpuri District Center Mall for buying some books/toys. Babloo drove my car.The driver is on leave. Neha also came. On return from the Mall, all of us joined in Dashehra Puja with Arti at the end.Venita cooked  delcious snacks for evening tea- cum-dinner. Puris and pasta were especially made for Akshat. He likes them. Babloo, Neha and Akshat had come after brunch. They did not take lunch. Venita cooked some Khichri for me and herself. The maid had taken leave. We watched burning of Ravana and fireworks in the park adjacent to the Society premises. Babloo, Neha and Akshat left for Gurgaon after the same. Packed for journey next day early morning.
Retired to sleep at 9.45 pm. 

23rd Oct

Went for 45 minute brisk walk. Goddess Aparajita is worshiped on the last day of Navtri. As usual Venita went to the temple very early.Heard face to face debate between Romney and Obama. Obama had slight edge over Romney. In chamber from 3.45 to 6 PM. Wrote letter to the Deputy Director (Building) DDA with a request to drop the case of the alleged encroachment. Visited SBI.
Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.

22nd, 21st and 20th Oct

On 22nd 

Went for 45 minute brisk walk. Goddess Maha Gauri is worshiped today. Venita went to the temple 4 AM. Took steps for dismantling the railings; snaps were taken before and after dismantling for writing to the DDA with the photographs to the effect that the so called encroachment had been removed. It took full day. 

Retired to sleep at 9.30 PM

On 21st 

Completed morning program. Goddess Kaal Ratri is worshiped today. Venita went to the temple 4 AM. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazine. 

Retired to sleep at 10.30 PM. 

On 20th 

Completed morning program. Goddess Katyayani is worshiped today. Venita went to the temple 4 AM.

In chamber from 1 to 3.30 PM. Attended the Annual General Meeting of Arsispo from 4 to 6 PM. I was elected as member of the Executive Committee.
Retired to sleep at 10.30 PM.

19th October

Went for a brisk 45 minute walk. In chamber from 1 to 4 pm. Shri Ranjan and his wife met and discussed their case.
The Goddess Durga manifested as Skandmata on the 3rd day of Navaratri.
She has eight hands which denote eight directions. These hands have on them : Lotus, Shankh, Chakra, Shastra, Sword, Dhanusk, Mala and Gada. These are symbols. They convey the Goddess's powers. They also explain the mysteries of life. The Goddess is the energy which pervades the universe. It is well expressed in the श्लोक  " या देवी सर्व भुतेसू नमस्ताये नमस्ताये नमो नमह ". The lion is her ride. She is in all of us. She has to be awakened with the help of the मंत्र , so said Guru Maan in the morning discourse today.
Retired to sleep at 10pm. 

18th Oct

Went for brisk 45 minute walk. On the third day of  Navratri, the Goddess Durga is worshiped in the forms of Chandraghanta and Kushmanta. Venita is keeping fast. The driver is on leave from today. He will be back on 15th November. I could not get a replacement driver. I traveled  to the chamber by a taxi. In chamber from 1.15 to 4pm. Retired to sleep at 10pm. 

15th Oct.

Completed morning program. In chamber from 1 to 3 pm. Attended a meeting in Oberoi hotel from 3.15 to 4.15 pm. In chamber again from 4.30 to 5 pm
Retired to sleep at 10 pm.

17th October

Went for a brisk 45 minute walk. I was to meet the DIG, CBI Delhi today. But as he is taken ill suddenly we hope to meet next week. In chamber from 1 to 4 PM.

On the second day of Navratri, the Goddess Durga manifests  in the form of Brahamcharini. Venita is keeping fast. 

Heard face to face debate of Romney and Obama from 6.30 to 8 AM. At the end of the debate, Obama appeared to have slight edge over Romney. Obama spoke well and convincingly. The third and the final  face to face debate between them will take place on Monday the 22nd instant and telecast live on Indian TV Channels on 23rd at 6.30  AM. As for as possible I would not like to miss it. I wish our politicians should also come face to face and debate on various issues like them. When we watch debate among them on our channels, it lacks  in content. In fact they get into mutual recrimination.
Retired to sleep at 10.30 PM. 

16th Oct

Completed morning program. Navratri commenced. The Goddess Durga is worshiped as Shailputri today. Venita called the priest from the Society temple who propitiated a Kalash in the flat after a 10 minute pooja. Both of us are keeping fast today. In Chamber from 1.30 to 4 PM.

DDA officials came to our flat and wanted to a remove a girder which we had put quite a few years back to support a pedestal for keeping the cooler. We also use the space below the pedestal  for keeping some wares. I talked to the officer who had come along with team to wait for 1/2 hour for further instruction from his officers. He agreed. But later he left. I have already written to the Vice Chairman DDA with a request to allow compounding of the addition. Reply from the VC DDA is awaited. The girder is in the air and does not obstruct or cause inconvenience to anyone. I will follow it up so that the matter is settled once and for all.
My laptop is dysfunctional. Consequently I am unable to respond to mails quickly. I reply to them from my desktop when I come to the chamber. I have decided to buy a new laptop and hope to have it within this week.
Anita and Ritsy were born on 16th October. Wished each of them long and healthy life. Anita and Pramod are in Hyderabad with their son and Ritsy is with my second son Silku at Gurgaon.
Retired to sleep at 10pm.   

14th Oct.

Had a 45 minute brisk walk.
Could not go for a function at ICC today of  'AGE-CARE  INDIA' in connection with Elders' Day Celebrations. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazine.
An answer which won Alabama's Heather Whitestone the title of Miss America 1995 :

"(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss
America 1995.)

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever,
because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but
we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"

--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss  USA contest."

Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.

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13th Oct.

Went for a 45 minute walk. Attended a book release function at IIC. The book, 'Meditative Yoga, Integrating body,  Breath & Mind' is written by Are Hollen and Torbjorn Hobbel. Kaartikeyan who presided over the ceremony,addressed and gave a erudite lecture. 
Also attended Allahabad University Alumni Association get-together/dinner at Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan. Both the events took place in the evening and at adjoining places. Met some old faces. Had dinner at home
Retired to sleep at 10.45  pm.,

12th Oct

Completed morning program. Visited SBI & CGHS. In chamber from 1 to 4 pm. Attended a conference at Oberoi hotel from 4 to 5 pm.
Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.

11th Oct.

Completed morning program.
 Venita is 64 today. She received a number of telephone calls wishing her 'Happy Birthday' till about midnight since morning. It being Ekadasi, we kept fast. I visited temple and prayed for good health to her. Then I went to a long ailing man in the Society and promised to help him in treatment on the day. Venita met Neha and Sunita at Dillihat . They had especially come from Gurgaon to meet and wish her. Had lunch in the restraunt at ISCON temple, East of Kailash. They serve  food which can be taken on Ekadasi. It was delicious and cost Rs.450/- per person. The ambiance of the place was unique The chanting of Hare Krishna Hare Ram went on without interruption. Quite a few people were taking food. It is served every day from 12.30 to 3.30 pm. Breakfast and dinner are also served at fixed timings. During our stay in the restraunt,  a recently married Muslim couple came. They too took food. The woman was in Burqa. She removed it from the face in the restraunt. An  accompanying man took quite a few snaps of the couple from different angles. I foresaw an inclusive growth of a tolerant society  in the episode in future in the country.
    On way back, we had a cup of coffee at Cafe Coffee Day at Janakpuri. We had planned a quiet candlelight dinner at Hilton, Janakpuri in the night. We abandoned the idea due to fast.
When Venita was at Dillihat. I visited CGHS and spent sometime in the chamber.

News of the day : "Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 70 today, says he never cared about his popularity but believed that one's outlook towards life matters the most."Every human being will go through a phase when there are highs and lows. Everything that goes up also comes down. I don't think I am particularly different from anyone. We all have our highs and lows." PTI News on line, dt  11.10.2012


Retired to sleep at 10.45 pm.

10th Oct

As I had to go to Vigyan Bhawan to attend the inaugural function of XIX conference of CBI and State Anti-Corruption Bureaus on "Economic Development: Role of Anti-Corruption Agencies" today at 1000 hrs, I could not stick to morning program . The PM of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated and addressed the conference.He said "The mindless atmosphere of negativity and pessimism that is sought to be created over the issue of corruption can do us no good." DNA,dt.,10.10.12,on line.The PM looked as if he was not too well  In Chamber from 11.30 to 1 pm.
Attended Khyati's birthday celebrations in the basement of Silku/Ritsy's house in the evening. Earlier Venita did Puja and distributed sweets at Vikaspuri in the morning. Apart from us, Silku and Ritsy, her maternal grandparents, Ritsy's  elder sister & younger brother, Barun and Bina ( Silku's maternal uncle and aunt ), Babloo, Akshat & Neha and a number of Khyati's class friends attended. They divided themselves into 4 groups for a dance competition. We judged and selected the best for a prize of a carton of Swiss chocolates. Venita, Bina, Neha assisted in judging.   She is 11 today. The cake was circled by 11 little colorful lamps. These were lit by Khyati. Thereafter she cut the beautiful orange colored circular cake. Curiously there was no chanting of 'Happy Birthday to you 'as is the common practice on such occasion.  After cutting the cake, she ran up to protect herself from being rubbed cake on her face by her friends. But they won't leave her like that and got her upstairs.When she came back to the basement, her cheeks had enough of cake on them.We had food together.

Retired to sleep at 11 pm..

9th Oct

Completed morning program. Visited CGHS ( Ayurvedic). In chamber from 12.30 to 4 PM
Pilku has sent a photograph of Amolikaa today morning. It is quite expressive. Shows her with a friend. I sent the following mail to him after seeing the photograph : "The photograph is expressive of her true self : intelligent, extrovert, loving".

I have placed the photograph in the Picasa Album of Grand Children also. 

Retired to sleep at 11 PM

8th Oct

Completed morning program. Visited Head Post office and SBI. In chamber from 1.15 to 3.30 pm. Attended a conference in Oberoi hotel from 3.40 to 5 pm .
Retired to sleep at 4.30 pm.

7th & 6th Oct.

On 7th
Completed morning program.Spent the day reading newspapers and magazine, it being the Sunday. Retired to sleep at 11 pm
On 6th
Completed morning program. JP Singhal,.a retired IPS Officer of 1955 batch of UP cadre, passed away yesterday at Medicity. Gurgaon at 5 pm He was a member of the Association of senior retired IPS Officers. He was above 80. I conveyed condolences to the bereaved family.Could not go for the Shantpath today at Chinmoy mission on Lodhi road. Kaarthikeyan invited for a program at Yoganand Ashram at Gurgaon . Could not go there also. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazine. Bought Perry Jackson's three books for Khyati as wished by her on the occasion of her birthday on 10th Oct.:1. Throne of fire 2 Sea of monsters 3.Battle of labyrinth from the District center ,Janakpuri and had a cup of coffee at Barista.
Retired to sleep at 11 pm.

5th Oct

Completed morning program.Visited CGHS. In chamber from 1.30 to 4 pm.
 Venita met Gita at Noida. OCT procedures was done in the Center for Sight, in Venita's both eyes. Earlier this procedures was done in August. All this effort is being made to save whatever vision is there in right eye. It had suddenly lost vision from 6/6 to 6/10. The tension also had gone up in this eye. It is stabilized now after procedures such as laser correction.We have been visiting Center for Sight  for over now three years. The eye specialist Dr. Dinesh Talwar says that this effort has to continue to ensure that the vision is not affected any more and the left eye which has 6/6 vision is protected. He has advised that Venita has to keep her sugar under control. She is making all possible efforts so that the sugar is under control.
Retired to sleepat 11 pm

4th & 3rd

On 4th
Completed morning program partially with 35 minute brisk walk. Heard face to face talk of Romney and Obama. They talked about tax cuts, regulation of the economy, healthcare and role of the Federal Govt. for 1 and 1/2  hours. Romney was more convancing and a better speaker. Obama was not is in good form. The Vice Presidential candidates will be face to face on next Thursday from 6.30 to 8 AM IST.  Visited CGHS and SBI. In chamber from 1.30 to 3.30 PM. Attended a conference in Oberoi Hotel from 4 to 5 PM with Sh. A.K. Aggarwal and Advocate Atiar. Retired to sleep at 10.30 PM

On 3rd 
Went for brisk walk for 45 minutes. Venita visited dentist in Safdarjung Hospital. In chamber from 1.30 to 4 PM. Retired to sleep at 11 PM

2nd Oct

Went for a brisk walk for 45 minutes. Today is the birth anniversary Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Sashtri and a holiday. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazine.
 Pumping of water from the deep tube well in the park in front of the Arunodaya appts is suspended due to defects in the electrical circuits. Sent mail to MCD Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner MCD,SW with information to Lt. Governor Delhi, for their repairs.. It will take sometime before these are repaired .I will remind them after a week if the same are not repaired. I have also told Khati who is in charge of security and misc duties in the Society to inform the local MCD & DDA units about the breakdown of water pump. 
A statement, attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, is printed in the newspapers today on the occasion of his birth anniversary : "The best way to find oneself is to dedicate in the service of others."
News of the day : "J Srinivasan, professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, goes through his work days secretly hoping for a global major climate crisis. As a leading climate change scientist in India, he knows that the country and the world are inching towards disaster. A serious crisis now would shake up people and make them act, he thinks. "I remember the ozone hole crisis while .I was a student," says Srinivasan. "Scientists were talking about it for a long time, but they took action only when the hole appeared over the pole."

Srinivasan has reasons to worry, particularly for India. Some of his colleagues at the IISc have done the first multi-model study of climate change for India for the rest of the century. It makes grim reading, particularly after the year 2030. If the world does not cut down its carbon dioxide quickly, temperatures will rise - compared to pre-industrial times - over the Indian subcontinent by 1.7 to 2 degree centigrade by 2030, and 3.3 to 4.8 degree centigrade by 2080.

Since we have warmed by slightly less than a degree so far, the next 20 years would see an additional warming of nearly 1 degree centigrade. Says Govindaswamy Bala, professor at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at the IISc: "This is the first multi-model study anyone has done over the Indian sub-continent, and it has shown agreement over historical data." The Economic Times, dt. 02.10. 2012 on line.
Retired to sleep at 10.45 pm.

1rst Oct.

Completed morning program. Visited SBI. In chamber from 1.30 to 4.15 pm. 
I heard a discourse in the program of Bramhakumaris a few days back. It said that the time machine is moving on. At present we are about to reach the end of the Iron age (Kaliyug). The Satyug (Golden age), Treta (Silver age) , Dwapar (Copper age) are over long time back. Each has a period of 1250 years. The next age, according to the kal chakra, will be Satyug (Golden Age). In the Satyug, man is aware of his true nature, which is love for all beings. In the Treta yug, the awareness of the material  world comes a bit. It led to the desire of  Adam/Eve to eat the forbidden apple. This awareness of the body/world is rampant  in the Kalyug.The man has forgotten his true nature completely. He is running after physical pleasures  thinking them to be the ultimate reality.The conflict in personal and social life is the consequence.  

News of the day :"Many nations need to do more to slow extinctions of animals and plants under U.N. targets for 2020 that would also save the world economy billions of dollars a year, U.N. experts say.

Only a few countries -- including France and Guatemala -- have so far adopted new national plans to tackle threats such as pollution or climate change in line with a sweeping pact agreed in Japan in 2010.
"There is a lot more to do," David Cooper, head of the scientific, technical and technological unit at the Secretariat of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, told Reuters by phone.
Almost 200 nations will meet in Hyderabad, India, from October 8-19 to review progress towards goals to protect life on earth that U.N. reports say is suffering the biggest wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago" CNBC TV10, dt.,01.10.2012 on line
Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.