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He took on the whole British Empire and literally told them to get out of our country!

Though crowned a Knight, he preferred to be an Bharatiya!

That is the amazing story of Sir Sankaran Nair.

An amazing lawyer and well read too who started small and down south in Madras way back in 1880. Till 1908, he was the Advocate-General to the Government and an Acting Judge from time to time. In 1908, he became a permanent Judge in the High Court of Madras and held the post till 1915.

In his best-known judgment, he upheld conversion to Hinduism and ruled that such converts were not outcasts. He founded and edited the Madras Review and the Madras Law Journal!

In the meantime, in 1902, the Viceroy Lord Curzon appointed him Secretary to the Raleigh University Commission. In recognition of his services, he was appointed a Companion of the Indian Empire by the King-Emperor in 1904 and in 1912 he was knighted!

All was going well till one inhuman act by the British changed it all forever!

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre is one of the biggest crimes committed by the British Empire when this Major and General shot at a meeting of unarmed people including women and children.



Sankaran resigned from the Viceroy’s Council in the aftermath of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre on 13 April 1919.

Sankaran believed in India’s right to self-government. In 1919, he played an important role in the expansion of provisions in the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which introduced a system of dyarchy in the provinces and increased participation of Indians in the administration. Following the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh, he resigned from the Viceroy’s Council in protest.

In 1922, Sankaran published Gandhi and Anarchy, a book in which he spelt out his critique of Gandhi’s methods of non-violence, civil disobedience, and non-cooperation.

He also accused Michael O’Dwyer, who was Lieutenant Governor of Punjab at the time of the massacre, of following policies that led to the deaths.

O’Dwyer sued Sankaran for defamation in England, expecting the English court to side with him. The trial before the King’s Bench in London went on for five and a half weeks. It was the longest-running civil case at the time.

The 12-member all-English jury was presided over by Justice Henry McCardie, who made no attempt to hide his bias toward O’Dwyer. The jury sided with O’Dwyer by a majority of 11 against 1, the lone dissent coming from the Marxist political theorist Harold Laski.

Sankaran was ordered to pay £500 and the expenses of the trial to the plaintiff. O’Dwyer said he would forgo the penalty if Nair apologised. Sankaran the nationalist who was not scared refused it on his face which was like a slap to the real criminal!

The trial had a resounding impact on the British empire in India. At a time when the nationalist movement was gaining momentum, Indians saw in the judgement the clear bias of the British against them and an effort to shield their own!

The trial and the massacre made the country united and made them realise that our country is only for Indians! The British Empire would always put themselves first!

The freedom we achieved is thus a collective of all these great nationalists, many who were not even mentioned in our textbooks! 

Then again everyone knows the first man to climb Mt Everest! The other one was also very much the first! Tenzing Norgay!

Praying for the poor souls martyred in Pahalgam…

Heartfelt condolences…

This was a remixed version which became popular and is still in use!

But it was not the original!

Edison and the light bulb!

The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light!

To credit one person as the sole ‘inventor’ of the light bulb would be a disservice to close to over 20 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Edison’s version.

Then again, there is a difference between the first and the best!

Three things made Edison’s bulb the best at the time; an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum and a high resistance that made power distribution from a centralized source economically viable.

But if you talk about earliest light bulb then that was close to 80 years before Edison which was in 1802 by Humphry Davy. Davy experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. His invention was known as the Electric Arc lamp. Unluckily it was short and well, not that sweet!

Over the next seven decades, other inventors also created “light bulbs” but no designs emerged for commercial application.

Some notables were like the British scientist Warren de la Rue who in 1840  enclosed a coiled platinum filament in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it. The design was based on the concept that the high melting point of platinum would allow it to operate at high temperatures and that the evacuated chamber would contain fewer gas molecules to react with the platinum, improving its longevity! It did work but this was really costly! Platinum does not grow on trees you see!

Then ten years later an English physicist named Joseph Wilson Swan created a “light bulb” by enclosing carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. The development of better vacuum pumps made his invention better and more effective so much so that In 1878, Swan developed a longer lasting light bulb using a treated cotton thread that also removed the problem of early bulb blackening.

On July 24, 1874 a Canadian patent was filed by a Toronto medical electrician named Henry Woodward and a colleague Mathew Evans. They built their lamps with different sizes and shapes of carbon rods held between electrodes in glass cylinders filled with nitrogen. This was really good!
Which is why Edison who was more a successful businessman bought their patent!

Then in 1878, Thomas Edison filed his first patent application for “Improvement In Electric Lights” and by Nov 4, 1879, he filed another U.S. patent for an electric lamp using “a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected … to platina contact wires.”

Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including using “cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways,” it was not until several months after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last over 1200 hours!

This discovery marked the beginning of commercially manufactured light bulbs and in 1880, Thomas Edison’s company, Edison Electric Light Company began marketing its new product; the light bulb!

Then again when you see the result, no one cares about the journey which is actually really important! Of course for people like B R Chopra with the magnum opus Mahabharata; his journey and the final result will be remembered for a long time!

SHubh ratri…

There are teachers and there are teachers!
Now anyone who teaches you something is a teacher right!? That is an oversimplification!

When you see the classification of teaching styles or teacher world over, you may have three or four! Did you know we have six!

That was a teachable moment!

For ages we have been accustomed to the didactic method of teaching. In most schools at the primary and secondary levels this is the way you have been taught while later on you get on to the socratic method!

So then what are Didactic and Socratic?

Well, the socratic is eliciting information from students through a direct line of reasoning. The tutor endeavors as much as possible to avoid giving information away. The Socratic Method involves a shared dialogue between teacher and students. The teacher leads by posing thought-provoking questions. Students actively engage by asking questions of their own. The discussion goes back and forth and then knowledge is gained or shared!

The didactic tutoring style has the tutor beginning with an explanation of the material the student should learn followed by questioning that plays more of a role of drawing the student’s attention to the information that the tutor has already explained rather than eliciting this information from the student.
Basically in Didactic teaching, teachers create structured lessons that focus on lectures. Teachers can use different teaching methods depending on the needs of their students, their personal preferences and other factors. Didactic teaching is often well-suited for teaching basic subjects and instructing students who thrive with structured directions.

The didactic method works at the lower level when the teacher in effect knows everything! When a teacher knows everything then it means that he or she can only be as good as the teacher while in Socratic method the teacher may try to make the student even better than the teacher!

Now of course in school you have a combination of these two techniques and a new one is called the heuristic method.

A heuristic method of teaching is an instructional approach that emphasizes the use of problem-solving and discovery-based learning as well as experience-based learning  to facilitate student learning. Heuristic basically means any method or process that helps in problem-solving, self learning, and discovery. Heuristic teaching approach means the teacher acts as more than an instructor  and encourages students to explore concepts, ideas, and problems. Teacher poses open-ended questions, encourages student participation, and guides students towards the results.

Now coming to our old age classification of teachers seen in the Gurukools!

The classification here is based on the effect the teacher has on you!

If your teacher gives you direct and new knowledge but no explanation then he or she is an Adhyapak!

If the teacher gives you both knowledge and information which means that he or she explains them some more then he or she is an Upadhyaya!

Then there are teachers who after giving you knowledge and information, give you or teach you new skills then he or she is an Acharya!

Then you have those who are very knowledgeable in a subject and they can give you deep insight into that subject; he or she is then a Pandit!

Then again you meet teachers who make your own thoughts come out and give you a goal or a vision! Make you follow your vision and shows what you can do in a visionary manner! Those gems are called a Dhrista!

Finally the teacher who awakens your wisdom and leads you from darkness to light like Krishna did to Arjuna. The one who makes you realise that you have knowledge and you can now understand that even though you are knowledgeable, you are simply a speck in the big Universe!  The one who makes you bright, knowledgeable but humble in spite of the knowledge is called the GURU!

So you do see that the teacher is defined not only by his or her teaching, but also by what he or she can make you achieve! Now if you are in a cop show then you cannot get a better senior and GURU like Shivaji Satam!

Now remember  your Gurus and Acharyas and sleep!

SHubh ratri…

Many times when you would be scrolling your social media feed, you would come across an image!

On that it would be written, if you see a horse you are something and if you see a giraffe you are something else! Of course many times I would see a monkey and wonder what that means!

Jokes apart! Yes that was a joke! I do not see monkey all the time! Sometimes I see frogs too!

If these results are pushed into the feed of a psychologist or a psychiatrist he or she would gently touch his or her chin and say, Huh! Then of course the psychoanalysis would start!

After so many years of clinical practice I have often realised that most patients need someone to talk to and more importantly someone to listen! Most importantly they actually need a consultation of the mind kind.
Social media tries to show how people have perfect lives when in fact if it was true then they actually would not have time for social media since their social life would be so busy!

Now coming back to the images; many times you would see at least in movies and TV on how people with some mental issues are presented with cards and the psychologist would then go on to assess him or her!

That test is called the inkblot test! Now it is so famous but when it was created, the creator had so much difficulty in publishing them that he would have had to go in for a consult!

So in 1921, after studying 300 mental patients and 100 control subjects, in Hermann Rorschach wrote his book Psychodiagnostik, which was to form the basis of the inkblot test.

After experimenting with several hundred inkblots which he drew himself, he selected a set of ten for their diagnostic value.

Although he had served as Vice President of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society, Rorschach had difficulty in publishing the book and it attracted little attention when it first appeared.

It has been suggested that Rorschach’s use of inkblots may have been influenced by German doctor Justinus Kerner who, in 1857, had published a popular book of poems, each of which was inspired by an accidental inkblot.

The usual Rorschach test employs a series of ten bilaterally symmetrical inkblot cards, of which some are black or gray, and others could contain applications of color.

The test taker is asked to provide their perceptions or perspectives on the presented ambiguous inkblot images.

This test was designed to look for patterns of thought disorder in schizophrenia and has evolved to include other areas, like personality, emotional disorders, and intelligence.

The Rorschach has been standardized using the Exner system and is effective in measuring depression, psychosis, and anxiety!

Apparently it has been found that historically the Interpretation of inkblots was central to a game called  Gobolinks! Using interpretation of “ambiguous designs” to assess an individual’s personality is an idea that goes back to Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli!

Apparently Rorschach never intended the inkblots to be used as a general personality test, but developed them as a tool for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. It was not until 1939 that the test was used as a projective test of personality!

It’s basically, you are given an image and asked; what do you see!?
Your answer give some insights into your personality and thought process!

So be very careful on what you say though the idea is to actually say the first thing that pops in your mind!

Same thing with the sketch! It’s sketchy since am under the weather but it’s Mukesh Rishi!

Shubh ratri…

Do you know what is a Building failure?

Just when you though failure cannot get a non living thing!

Everyone knows about the concrete Jungle and though it is a sad thing to realise that we are replacing the nature with concrete buildings, have you ever wondered how the buildings stay!?

Although the rates may vary, we add somewhere around seventy thousand new commercial buildings and one million new homes each year!

The amount of constructions which happen in every place would simply blow your mind!

Now you may feel sad that there are so many buildings and not nature, you must also be glad that when in trouble you have them!

Recently there was a sandstorm in our area and most of us were happy and protected by this concrete tree! Be in hot or cold, they keep you safe!
Even in Minor quakes, they are the ones who keep you safe!

At the end of the day, the basic dream of any average person is to at least have one place he or she can call home!

Then again you have such massive buildings like the Burj or even Mukesh Ambani’s Antlia (which was apparently costlier to build than the Burj!) and have you ever wondered the amount of planning and thinking which would have gone into making these huge structures!?

What if a part of the building has an issue which is crucial to the structure? Any error can actually lead to calamity!

That is called the building failure!
“building failure” —defined as a partial or full collapse of a functioning structure-is exceedingly rare, especially for skyscrapers. According to a 2003 Ohio State University study, the United States experiences an average of just twenty serious “building failures” per year. That’s an annual avoidable failure rate of less than 0.00002 percent!

With the advent of AI and computers, the rate would now be much lower!

Of course most of the time the rate is kept low due to computers and proper planning; but as Atul explains in his Book The Checklist Manifesto; the core of everything is the Checklist!

As Atul explained that although buildings are now more complex and sophisticated than ever in history, with higher standards expected for everything from earthquake proofing to energy efficiency, they take a third less time to build than before and they are more safe! All because of the checklists made and followed at every stage! With every checklist in place, the whole complex building steadily comes in place and fits together like a jigsaw puzzle!

Speaking of Antilia; here’s Mukesh!

Now don’t worry! Building failure is very rare so relax and sleep!

Shubh ratri!

One of my first blog I had written several years back! Now updated!

The search goes on…

Everyone’s searching for something or someone. The whole purpose of every living being is search. For animals it can be the search for food and water while for humans it is for that and everything else. Everyone gets up in the morning only Because of the need for search.
It can be new ways to make money or a new project or even a new job!
If nothing else it’s just a search for a new meaning to life while for some it may be even a wife!

The politicians are also always searching. When in power they search for solutions to problems while in opposition they search for problems to solutions!

Doctors and health professionals are always searching for ways to make the patient’s life easier while patient’s nowadays use GOOGLE to search and make life as difficult as possible for the doctor!! Add to it you have the AI now and you know the only intelligence with that Patient is artificial!

Many astronomers are searching for a human life in any other planet while many of us are constantly searching for a humane life in earth!

Children usually search for new things to get in trouble while parents are searching things to keep them away from trouble!!

They of course join forces together everyday to search for that elusive TV REMOTE which I feel is the biggest mystery. Even more than the Bermuda Triangle! The places remote goes and is found is probably why it is called Remote!!

Every other day there are those researchers who are trying to find a cure for your maladies from a common cold to cancer while there are those who deliberatily smoke and VAPE and it is like they are inviting trouble of the C kind!

My biggest search every morning is for that rare entity which is the pair of the sock in my hand!!

I will always get one but finding the pair is an arduous task indeed!
Every night I would remember tucking the sock with it’s pair and in the morning it would adulterously pair with another sock of a different colour, length and type in a cozy embrace!

Separating them I would then call out to my wife to see if she has seen my brown sock (emphasis on the colour racism is in our genes!!)
She would then ask me to see THERE!!

Now THERE is a place often mentioned by the mother or the wife!
It’s very clear when they utter it but when we hear it then it becomes an enigma!! Only bravehearts and possibly a guy in a hurry would ever dare to ask where’s THERE??! Which I did since I was the latter!

She mentioned something about the sock drawer! I did not want to admit that I did not know that a place called sock drawer exists! So I said it’s not there!!

The next step of the search begins here.
You place the sock in your hand (none in the sock drawer!!) On the table from where you know for sure that the sock would not dare escape!
You see socks have an inherent pride!

So I go inside and search in my cup board when after five minutes my wife would call out those magical words (no it’s not I love you!!)
It is I FOUND IT!! I run with happiness only to realize that she found the sock which I had kept on the table so safely!

My sadness then equates to the person who has just been told that you have come first only to be told later that it was a mistake!! I would then reluctantly start the search again giving my wife a look of an injured lion who just lost his kill!!

Then in the wee corners of the drawer I would find that sock just trying to escape! My search of the day has ended!
Many times people have asked me how I can come to work everyday smiling!(they of course are polite enough to not to say that I was mad or crazy!!)

Mostly I wouldn’t say anything but think of the search that ended in a victory today!! I found the pair!!

Of course that’s only till another search begins!! For you and me!

One search did result in a good end! Got a great movie to watch! Chava! Vicky gets into the heart and soul and takes you there!

Do check it out!

Shubh ratri!

Did you have a severe case of acidity or the bloating the last time you had that tasty but spicy and maybe tangy snack!

Well, you can do many things but I am sorry to say that you may not be able to go to space! So if you have booked that ticket to Mars via SpaceX, you may want start the refund process before your next snack!

Apparently there are many who want to go and live on Mars!

NASA wants to send humans to the red planet by 2030, and SpaceX wants to get there even sooner, with plans to have people there by 2024!
When I wrote this line in 2021! I had hope!

Now it is 2025 and since as far as I know, no one has reached or started living in Mars; I am sorry to say as the flight announcer in the airport; due to unavoidable circumstances, you flight to Mars is delayed!

Mars is a favorite theme in Hollywood, with movies like The Martian and this year’s Life exploring what we might find once we finally reach our celestial neighbor, but most of them aren’t addressing the biggest questions — once we get there, how will we survive long-term?

In fact most of the Aliens when our thought process was limited to our solar system were called or Known as Martians!

Now you must also understand that the atmosphere of Mars is mostly carbon dioxide, the surface of the planet is too cold to sustain human life, and the planet’s gravity is a mere 38% of Earth’s!

Plus, the atmosphere on Mars is equivalent to about 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere at sea level! Of course these are the challenges on living on Mars! But the issue is the travel! Even if you get business class seats, it is no fun ride in space!

There are numerous challenges to eating in space and low gravity conditions! The biggest challenge is not only to eat but also the the primary issue of getting the food from the package into astronaut’s mouth!

Over long periods in space, muscle mass and bone density can decrease by up to twenty per cent. This loss may not hinder astronauts while they are in orbit, but their weakened bones can prove fragile when they return to Earth, increasing the risk of fractures. Exercise and foods rich in calcium like yoghurt are therefore essential. Of course if your plan is for Mars, then it may be safe and cheaper to book the one way ticket!

As fluids act differently in space, an astronaut’s sense of taste is changed. On Earth, body fluids generally settle towards our feet. In reduced gravity, these fluids move freely in our bodies, creating a similar feeling to a head cold or blocked sinuses and leaving many foods tasting bland! You of course have to recycle your Urine since water is limited and the usual stretching space would make a monkey in a cage on a zoo feel like a king!

Most importantly, it is a long way to Mars, so apart from the regular words which are banned in flights like Bomb or terrorist or Hijack; an added banned sentence is, “Are we there yet?!”

Then again it may be actually better to make pollute the Earth less so that people do not feel like migrating to Mars! Start with no smoking!

Speaking of which you must drop that ticket to Mars and read about Richard Doll!

It may be day in Mars but it is night here on Earth! So sleep!

Shubh ratri!

Do you know what is the The gateway drug effect?

If you did not know that then you probably would have also believed that Vaping is ok!

read on!

There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are toxic!

Now unfortunately there is another evil which is like the stepping stone to the cigarette and has been found to be as dangerous as the cigarette! But why would a device which does not emit tar be dangerous!?

Remember that lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors when confronted with a case, thought it a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence! It’s like how many doctors have seen a case of Rabies! (I have!)

Mechanisation and mass marketing towards the end of the 19th century popularised the cigarette habit, however, causing a global lung cancer epidemic!  Even when many studies saw the link cigarette manufacturers disputed this evidence, because they had the money and lots to lose!

It is the same with e cigarettes!

In fact the propaganda was so strong that as far as in 1960s, many used to dismiss the association of smoking with lung cancer! In spite of the fact that there were so many evidence and observations to the contrary!

Now even though there are some evidences that vaping is bad; the real issue is the gateway drug effect!


The gateway drug effect is also called the stepping-stone theory or escalation hypothesis, or progression hypothesis!

This is a comprehensive catchphrase for the often observed effect that the use of a psychoactive substance is coupled to an increased probability of the use of further substances.

Possible reasons for the connection include environmental influence, impulsive people seeking both soft and hard drugs , alterations in the brain due to earlier substance exposure, as well as similar attitudes of people who use different substances, and therefore experience a “common liability to addiction”.

In simple words you can understand that this is like a STEPPING STONE! The next step has a very high probability to be smoking!

Irony is that the e cigarette was the device made to assist in the stepping down of addicts from smoking to non smoking and now there is a high risk of it becoming the stepping stone to full blown smoking!

Now the greatest fact about humans is that everyone is unique just like everyone else! So this may not be applicable to everyone who takes the first step! Which is why ‘every step’ is important! If you stop with the spark then you will not be the reason for the fire!

For all that talk about e cigarettes; a special dedication to the great first stated about the fact that when the rate of smoking increases; the rate of lung cancer increases! Dr Isaac Adler in his classic book called the Primary Malignant Growths of the Lungs and Bronchi!

An ode to the legend!

Now do not smoke or Vape! Just have warm water and sleep!

Shubh ratri!

The greatest aspect of any democratic or civilised court is that the rules are made in such a way that the whole system is there to make sure that even if ten guilty walk free, no innocent must be prosecuted!

The root of the whole system then is the attorney client privilege!

The attorney client privilege is a crown jewel of the legal profession.
Attorney client relationship refers to the disclosure of potential sensitive information from clients to their attorney and law requires that an attorney does not reveal or disclose such information or communication between them to any third party.

The Act in many countries lays down some exceptions like a communication made in the furtherance of any illegal purpose; and any fact observed by an attorney in the course of his or her employment that shows a crime or fraud has been committed since the start of his or her employment!

Of course that definition and exception is the legal jargon which is often misused! Imagine that a client has committed the crime and then he or she mentions this to the lawyer! The lawyer now is actually bound by the attorney client privilege to keep it as a secret or else he or she would lose his or her license to practice!

In the novel “The Firm by John Grisham” this was the greatest irony faced by the lawyer who finds out that the Firm he is working for is actually a money laundering center for the mafia! The issue here is that although the right thing to do is to report them at the cost of his life or safety to the FBI and lose his license to practice or keep his and his conscience silenced!

The origins of attorney–client privilege trace back to medieval England, where the king presided over trials and relied on attorneys to present cases. Because attorneys were considered officers of the court, they were expected to fully disclose all relevant information. However, as legal representation evolved, courts recognized that forcing attorneys to reveal client confidences undermined justice. This led to a principle that even the king could not compel an attorney to disclose privileged communications!

Now, remember that if you are the client, it is your privilege. You can break it at any time either by assertively waiving it, or by talking about what you talked about with your attorney to anyone else, in front of anyone else, or publicly!

Many professions in fact have such attorney client privileges!

This includes the medical profession also. Which is why you absolutely cannot disclose any details of the diagnosis or findings of any patient to anyone, forget posting it on social media unless you get a formal permission from either the patient or his or her guardian!

Of course if you make sure to hide the identity of the patient and only present the important clinical finding then that is still valid! But before you place anything else on the net for everyone to see, make sure you know the attorney client privilege! Since here the privilege is of the client and not of the attorney  or the professional!

Finally you as a professional also have the right to reject a client which is your professional right! Most of course do not use this right though since privilege comes with responsibility while art comes with no boundary!

A speck of colour on a black and white sketch on world art day! The skin tone has been added by the iPhone camera…

Now use your privilege as a human and sleep!

SHubh ratri!

Your computer is stuck! The printer is all red light! The screen is frozen!

It is an all out war zone out there!

You call tech support and he or she will listen to your rattling your problems for some time before suggesting this!

It is the same with your old phones or even smart speakers!

All you need to do most of the time is Restart!

One tech article explained this in a very simple way in which he said imagine you start on a long journey and then you get lost in between! Then it is always better to go to a familiar place or position! Then you can restart your journey again!

The tech world also works in a similar way! When you restart the computer or the phone; the devices basically starts from the very beginning! This is familiar territory!

It is the same with most of the devices! Our RoboVac when it gets stuck somewhere, all you need to do is start at the very beginning!

There is this nifty little device called the amazon echo auto which gets nutty sometimes! You scream at it and it does not work! Even the troubleshooting wizard in the guide book says; switch off your device for ten seconds and restart! And lo! Like magic it works most of the time!

Even the onboard computer of your car gets crazy sometimes! There also the first thing you do is turn everything off and restart again! And most of the time it does work!

There are situations in which the heart also starts beating so fast especially the ventricles; so much so that the beat is high but there is no blood getting pumped out! We call this situation V-FIB or ventricular Fibrillation. The treatment here is the electric shock! What it does is to immediately STOP the heart! Then in a favourable outcome, the heart restarts! Hopefully returning to the normal rhythm!

The idea of time is actually relative and this is a universal phenomenon! The time being divided into years and days and hours is only for our own convenience! But for as far as civilization is there, we do have a single year which is 365 days and then some! Before the whole shift of the calendar to January, it was April which was the first month!

Which is why we have the April fools day! That is also a human creation! But even now, many parts of the country and the world; celebrate this month with different specific dates as the new year! It is of course a personal choice when you want to celebrate your new year though!

The aim of new year is only to reset! Whatever issues, troubles, fights and problems (all are more or less the synonyms of the same thing by the way!) which you have in your life, this day or month is your chance to restart! Start afresh! Take a breath (continue doing it of course!) and begin a new year!

Since today is the new year for Kerala which is the Vishu; made a quick sketch of the legendary artist from Kerala Raja Ravi Varma! And since it is a new year we would like to wake up in the morning and see prosperity on a tray! Fruits, grains, laxmi and god! We also gently wake up our children and closing their eyes take them to the temple where they open their eyes to see the VISHU KANI! Vishu Kani is also the money we get from our elders! It is usually a token amount but you feel so nice getting it!

So have a look at the bright yellow flowers which are symbol of happiness and joy and reset! Start your year with a smile! 

Happy Vishu once again!

Shubh ratri!