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“So many colours t’was a big treat !
The prison was hard but sweet!
The one inside couldn’t wait to get out!
All you had to do was put it in your mouth!”

Who would have known that a chocolate was made or invented for war and mainly for soldiers! Read on!

One of the best chocolates when we were young (er!) were these cute little button like colourful things filled with chocolate in between!
The sweet and colourful and tasty GEMS!

They used to come is so many colours and there were two types of GEMS eaters! One type who were mostly in a hurry were the ones who would take a bunch and just stuff it in the mouth! They would bite the whole bunch and crack open the shell to get the sweet chocolate as soon as possible!

I was the second type at least most of the times! We used to take one GEM and place it gently on the tongue and slowly enjoy the outer sugar and colour coating! After a few minutes of slowly licking and sucking the coating will slowly melt away to reveal first a colourless (or white shell!) and then the dark chocolate! The tongue will first get coated with one colour which could be either red blue or green or other rarer colours if you are lucky and finally it will become brown!
There were also experts who could crack open the shell and chocolate inside separately! Some used to carefully separate the shell from the chocolate inside and eat them completely apart! Oh the joy of getting that perfect thin crust of candy with the rich thick chocolate inside!

Now of course my kids are more interested with the Exported version of Gems or M&M’s! These were the original chocolate candies which as history goes was made for war!

Forrest E. Mars, Sr was the son of the candy giant, Frank C. Mars, the creator of the Milky Way and 3 Musketeers candy bars! Forrest left his father’s company to start his own after their personal war (not the war that lead to the invention but maybe a start nevertheless!) .
It’s said that during his travels, he came across soldiers during the Spanish Civil War eating small pellets of candy-covered chocolate and that’s what gave him the idea to start his own!

Now during the start of the Second World War, sugar was in short supply in the USA and was therefore rationed. However, there was one company that got away with endless supplies of sugar: Hershey!

Hershey Corporation would provide chocolate for the troops (a delicacy and moral booster for them while they were out in the field!). Now Mars knew this and used this upper hand to make his new candy creation happen!

Now one more issue left! How to make the chocolates resistant and melt proof to an extent! Since they were in a war in the tropical climate! The solution: M&M’s patented candy coating! The candy became a hit with soldiers for their convenience and mobility. After the war, the candy still swept the nation and how!

Now each M is the initial of a different person. One is Forrest Mars and the other is Bruce Murrie, son of the founder of Hershey’s! Since it started a tsunami of counterfeit sweets, they printed the letters on the candy as a proof of genuinity! The two sides with the two Ms! Two side reminds me of the awesome portrayal of Two Face by birthday celebrity Tommy Lee Jones though his best is of course Men In Black and The Fugitive!

Now better to stay away from sweets and instead have a sweet dream!
Shubh ratri!

“It was on his face as it dripped down cold
Sweet and a familiar taste which was bold!
Lips were red, a look to make you scream!
Don’t fret! Its just an ice cream!”

In the heat of the of the summer, few things are more refreshing than a frosty, sweet popsicle. Some people just call these ice pops while we used to call them ice cream sticks. Did you know that Popsicles were invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson and named after him! Now that does not make any sense! Must be brain freeze from the ice! Read on!

Now of course the thought of taking an ice cream or any icy treat is out of question and even the imagination makes me sneeze! Plus the calories! Not to mention the raw sugar and the artificial colours and flavours! Oh how did I become so old!

During our childhood though one of the best things about summer were these ice cream sticks! The mango and the orange flavours and different colours were a delight to us when we were young (er!). If our kids get to know what junk we have eaten am sure they will be shocked! How the ice cream bhaiyya would shake off all the flies and take out the ice stick from his old cart! I still remember how some ice cream used to be salty since he used to put salt on ice to make them melt slowly! Even that salty and sweet taste was like nactar!

The proper Ice cream or milk based ice creams like Kulfi were more costly and reserved only for house parties or special occasions only! The go to cheap ice creams were the sticks and later on these flavoured ice filled plastic sheets! You were supposed to bit one end and stick sucking slowly! If you think about the plastic and the storage now you would puke! At that time of course it was a sweet delight!

We have also tasted the iced lollies called the “Chuskies!” which is actually a play on Chus which means suck (of the eating kind!) and that used to come with so many flavours! The fresh crushed ice was a icy delight and the race was to suck the flavour and make it colourless before the ice melts!

On a hot summer day walking back to our house chatting with friends and later on showing our red or more orange tongue and lips were some of the unforgettable memories of the ice cream wala!

Even during holidays, the familiar ring of the bell of the cart of Ice cream wala would send us rushing behind him before the favourite varieties get over!
The other day I found my kids having a similar iced stick which was at least ten times the price of normal ice cream and proudly they exclaimed that it was, “The Popsicle!” If only they knew!

Now coming to The Popsicle! The story is that Frank Epperson had been stirring a drink with a stick but forgot it on the porch on a cold and icy night and it froze!
When he found it later, it was a frozen treat with its own handle and thus history was made. We have also done this so many times! Put the ice cream stick in a cup of juice and freeze it and voila! An icy treat!

But that was when he was 11, so it didn’t go anywhere and by the time he patented the idea as an adult, no one else had thought of it so he named them Eppsicles! That name and the treat did not go together for obvious reasons and his kids agreed!

No one wanted to eat an Eppsicle, and they never called it that!
Instead they called them popsicles because they were pop’s cicles, as in “Hey pop, make me one of your cicles.” So even though it’s not his given name, their pop took their advice and changed it! He was not only Frank he was also their Pop! Speaking of Pop reminds me of the dad of all cop shows CID starring the birthday celebrity Shivaji Satam!

Now take some warm water and sleep!
Shubh ratri!

“He was asked what he hankered!

His lips moved but no words were uttered!

Like the parched earth waited for the sweet rain!

He just wanted someone to take away his pain!”

Most of my snaps in social media will have me wearing a shade or sunglasses! It is not because how someone once said that the more My face is covered, the better it looks! The reason is different! 

Do you know what is common between Julius Caesar, Napoleon, JFK, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Sunil Shetty, SRK, Mahesh Babu, Manoj Bajpayee, Serena Williams, Hugh Jackman and Me!

No, it is not that we all are hated or loved by many (which is still true!) but all of them (us!) suffered from this debilitating condition which may actually be one of the commonest symptom in the world!

In fact at any given time period it is the third most common disease in the world!

Do not worry! It is not depression (though again it may be there!); but the correct answer is Migraine!

If you actually talk about headache as such then almost every one has had a headache in his or her life at some point! Migraine of course is much more debilitating and though it is a diagnosis of exclusion, it is very exclusive!

There are some forms of Migraine which can even happen without headache and can cause even hearing loss or dizziness!

Migraine is one the oldest ailments known to mankind. Some of the earliest cases of painful headaches were recorded by the ancient Egyptians and date back as far as 1200 B.C. 

Much later, in around 400 B.C., Hippocrates referred to the visual disturbances that can precede a migraine such as flashing lights or blurred vision, which we call aura. He also described the relief felt by sufferers after vomiting! 

The credit for migraine discovery, however, was given to Aretaeus of Cappadocia who described in the second century the one sided or unilateral headaches that are typical of migraines as well as the associated vomiting and the windows of time between migraines that are symptom free. 

The word migraine was derived from the Latin word “hemicrania” meaning “half” (hemi) “skull” (crania). This term was first used by Galenus of Pergamon to describe the pain felt across one side of the head during a migraine. He also suggested that the pain originated in the meninges and vasculature of the head. 

In addition, he pointed towards a connection between the stomach and the brain due to the vomiting that seemed to be related to migraines.

In 1979, Moskowitz, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, proposed that migraines result from an interaction between the trigeminal nerve – involved in detecting sensations from the head and face – and the thin, pain-sensitive “meninges” membranes that surround the brain. He demonstrated that migraine attacks were triggered when trigeminal nerve fibres released chemicals called neuropeptides that caused the blood vessels of the meninges to dilate, resulting in inflammation and pain. He suggested that blocking the action of these neuropeptides could provide a new type of treatment.

Another breakthrough came when Goadsby, together with Edvinsson, a professor of internal medicine at Lund University in Sweden and the president of the International Headache Society, identified the key neuropeptide involved in triggering these attacks: calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)!

Goadsby and his colleagues have been awarded the Brain Prize for their research into the cause and treatment of migraines. The prize, worth 10 million Danish kroner ($2 million Cdn), is awarded yearly by the The Lundbeck Foundation in Denmark for outstanding and ongoing research in neuroscience! 

Now that is serious money which can keep at least some headache away!

For all the seriousness and debilitation migraine causes, you must also understand that this is one condition whose attacks can be prevented if you can get to know the triggers! 

That is where the shades come in! If like me, your trigger is the sunlight then shade away! Other triggers are some stuff which you can avoid, meals which you should not skip and sleep which you must have complete and good! Most of the time, hydration is the key and hiding from sun normally helps! Every person has his or her own Migraine trigger and recognising that it the key! I always say though that only those with a good head can have headache so having Migraine may make you a person with a great head! Tackling any condition and getting over it is the real deal which reminds me of birthday celebrity Nara Chandrababu Naidu. 

Now do not strain at the screen for long since even that can cause headache and ironically that headache shows you do not have ‘Head’!

Shubh ratri!

“She could have gored him he would not care

When it comes to emotions, it was all bare!

The heart was broken he had enough

The venom of her words were the most tough..”

Henry was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, the ninth child of Zachariah and his wife Lydia.

In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called “spherical case” ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air. He successfully demonstrated this in 1787 at Gibraltar!

He intended the device as an anti-personnel weapon!

In 1803, the British Army adopted a similar but elongated explosive shell which immediately acquired the inventor’s name! 

Until the end of World War I, the shells were still manufactured according to his original principles.

The ammunition invented by him used to cause multiple injuries and were a big cause of concern for the trauma surgeons all over the world! So much so that any injury with such an ammunition was a death sentence for those unfortunate enough to get hit by it!

You must have certainly heard the name of this time of ammunition or injury even if you are not a trauma surgeon or even a war veteran! In fact the name is so common that it is a part  of the dictionary and general vocabulary!

Henry’s full name was Henry Shrapnel!

Yes! The name of ammunition is shrapnel! 

Shrapnel of course by definition refers to fragments of something that has exploded, usually a bomb, but could even be from a gunshot or some other explosion that has sent pieces of dangerous debris flying. Those pieces are shrapnel!

Modern anti-personnel bombs are made using this concept, devices filled with things like ball bearings or nails that maim and kill in a much larger area than a single explosion by itself would! And you thought only bullets kill! Shrapnel and words can do much worse! 

In 1814, the British Government recognized Henry’s contribution by awarding him £1,200 (equivalent to £89,299 in 2021) a year for life! Due to some circumstances, he was not able to receive it apparently! Not everyone can be rich you see in spite of inventing literally a bomb! Being rich brings to mind Birthday celebrity Mukesh Ambani!  Of course he shoots up the stocks rather than bombs which is much better!

Now have a look at your Reliance stocks or Mutual funds and sleep peacefully! 

Shubh Ratri!

“She was told to meet the great Sage to get endure her fear!

It was so profound that none could bear!

The Sage used to live in a mountain near the clouds you can spy!

Little did the sage know that she had the fear of the sky!” 

Aries (incidentally my sun sign!); was the Greek God of war! A formidable God and powerful one at that! So imagine how his son would have been! Now when I say imagine, I do not mean take up your phone and do a Google image search since this is not about him but his son!

Well his son was a frightening and formidable guy! In fact he was so scary or fear inducing that warriors would paint his picture on their shields to give their enemies a real fright and to get them to run away in terror!

Sounds familiar! Not yet? Well, his name was Phobos!

Yes! The above reaction resembles someone terrified of something! Or as we commonly call it; PHOBIA!

Apparently the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates in one his works called The Seventh Book of Epidemics described a condition in a man named Nicanor.

Whenever Nicanor went out drinking, he would get terrified of the flute played by the musicians. As Hippocrates wrote, “When the piper began to play, the music immediately threw him into such a great fright, that he was not able to bear the disorder of it.” Now whether he was scared of the flute music or the shape may not be known since he used to be scared on it only at night or maybe he was just scared of 

But as we saw above since Hippocrates did not meet the God Phobos he didn’t actually come up with the term!

It took a Roman doctor to name that after the Greek god! The Roman was Celsus, who used the word hydrophobia (literally, water fear) to describe someone who seemed to have a horror of water! This is commonly seen in a particular disease and may not be that common now but any medical student who sees this one case would never forget it in his or her life! The pathognomic feature of this is that water or even cole air would induce severe painful spasm so much so that the patient would be terrified of it! The trademark of the dreaded Rabies!

Now, you will also think about Celsus and wonder if the unit of temperature in named after him! Well no! This temperature scale was invented and named after Swedish scientist Anders Celsius! ‘I’ is very important sometimes! But that is a story and blog for another day and I to save you from the phobia of blogs I would not overwhelm you with more details on Celcius!

Coming back to Phobia! It was of course left to dear Sigmund to give it some psychoanalysis. 

In 1895 he noticed that while some things squick (gross out) most people at least a little (such as snakes, death, or getting sick), other things only bother a few people!

Years later, Freud wrote about a little boy named Hans who, after being terrified by a horse in the street, developed a strong fear of horses! 

Other researchers of the time also began to speculate that phobias were distinct mental condition and of course they all had the phobia of not been taken seriously!

The first relatively modern use of the word phobia wasn’t until 1786, when (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) an unknown writer in the Columbian Magazine defined the word as meaning “A fear of an imaginary evil, or an undue fear of a real one.”

But it wasn’t until 1947 that phobias became a separate diagnostic category in the International Classification of Diseases and finally in the 1960s, it was observed that phobias basically divide themselves into three rather different kinds or categories: agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias. 

Of course if you take a list of the most common phobias there will be so many lists that you will develop a phobia of lists! One such list states how Glossophobia is the number one phobia in America and is the fear of public speaking, with 25% saying they’d prefer to avoid speaking in front of people! Now look at this; Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words.

Also in case you are not yet phobic, Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia! All right then, settle down; if you have phobia see a doctor but I am sure it will be the nursing assistant who will comfort you more! Talking of Nurse reminds me of Lalitha Pawar! Then again am sure after her eye injury she would have had a phobia of injury which in case you want to know is called traumatophobia!

Now turn off the light if you do not have fear of the dark and sleep!

Shubh ratri!

“He reached the top and was told to stop for a while!
He looked back contended and said with a smile!
This mountain was the tallest one and so high!
But my dear, my limit is not this hill but the sky!”

There are some who have already done great stuff or invented an amazing thing or even won the Nobel prize! Surprisingly just when you thought that they would take the win and get on, they try to get another Nobel! Or at least work for it!

Read about one who got Gold and still persisted to discover diamond!

Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a young lad at the time who received his doctorate maxima cum laude from the University of Ghent at the age of 21 and taught there until 1889, when he went to the U.S. and joined a photographic firm.

Then he invented Velox! This was a photographic paper that could be developed under artificial light! Velox was the first commercially successful photographic paper.
It was a slow, silver chloride paper which could be handled before exposure even under weak electric light or yellow gaslight. In a photographic darkroom it could be handled under a bright yellow safelight! This was gold for the photography industry and how! Later in 1899 Baekeland sold his company and rights to the paper to the U.S. inventor George Eastman for $1,000,000!

So now you will think he took the money and enjoyed! He of course did but then he went on to invent another material which has changed the course of tech and created a whole industry!

During that time, chemists had begun to recognize that many natural resins and fibers were polymers!
So Baekeland’s initial intent was to find a replacement for shellac, a material in limited supply because it was made naturally from the secretion of lac insects.
HIs first attempt was a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called Novolak, but it was not a market success, even though it is still used to this day!

He then began experimenting on strengthening wood by impregnating it with a synthetic resin rather than coating it!
By controlling the pressure and temperature applied to phenol and formaldehyde, he produced a hard moldable material that he named Bakelite deservedly after himself!

It was the first synthetic thermosetting plastic produced, and Baekeland speculated on “the thousand and one … articles” it could be used to make!
Bakelite is manufactured in several forms to suit varying requirements. In all these forms the fundamental basis is the initial Bakelite resin!

Bakelite has a number of important properties. It can be molded very quickly, decreasing production time. Moldings are smooth, retain their shape, and are resistant to heat, scratches, and destructive solvents. It is also resistant to electricity, and prized for its low conductivity. So basically if you think of a thermosetting plastic then the first one is the Bakelite which is a dependable and strong material! Dependable also is the sobriquet of birthday celebrity Sanjay Suri!

Now set the temperature to a comfortable setting and sleep!
Shubh ratri!

This poem inspired by the very soulful song by the Journey called, “Still she cries!”

“All she wanted was to see him before she left!
Keeping her emotions in check she was adept!
She remembered all about him, all the joy and tear
He may not remember anything was her greatest fear…”


This effect is so part of our lives that it will blow your mind away!

Fiona Broome a well known writer and researcher told about her experiences and thoughts about Nelson Mandela and how he dies in the prison in the 1980s. So what you would ask?

Well, Nelson Mandela did not die in 1980! After serving 27 years in prison, Mandela became president of South Africa from 1994–1999 and he actually died for real this time in 2013!

For many people the first thing was true for a long time! This collective false memory is called the Mandela effect! The way we remember things in one way while the truth is something else!
In psychology it is called a collective false memory!

This is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation, and source misattribution have been suggested to be several mechanisms underlying a variety of types of false memory.

There are several examples in the net which you can search in your leisure but these are ones which absolutely amazed me!

The main one which even I remember as everyone does is the Monopoly man the official mascot of Monopoly! I had written a blog on this couple of days back and I distinctly remember him to have a monocle! While in truth, the official picture and images do not have him with any monocle! Mind blowing!

Remember the famous line from Snow White: ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?’” Grab a chair and sit! The actual line is, “magic mirror on the wall!”

Remember Bugs Bunny and the cartoon logo called Looney Toons!?; well; it has always been spelled as Looney “Tunes.”!

Now the shoe brand which is very famous and known! Called the sketchers! Well, it has no “T”! It is written as “Skechers”!

Now remember the Pokeman character, Pikachu and his black tail which is like lightning!? Well, there is no black end! LIke the cold play song goes; “It is all yellow”!

Just a couple of more to make you question reality!

Did you ever notice that there is no hyphen in between “Kit” and “Kat,”! It’s just Kit Kat!

One of the most famous lines in the star wars was a line which is remembered wrongly! And enacted like that! It was not Luke, I am your father! “No, I am your father,” is the correct line!

Now the penultimate! The famous line by Hannibal Lecter which we all know! In fact Will in Will and Grace also tells it like how we remember! We remember Hannibal Lecter saying, “Hello, Clarice,”! Hold your horses! The actual dialogue spoken by him was, “Good morning.”!

The final one is something I always believed in! The mandela art! I used to think it is named after Mandela because it used to make him pass time in prison! I am not alone! It is not! In fact it is Mandala!
In Sanskrit language, mandala means “circle.” Traditionally, a mandala is a geometric design or pattern that represents the cosmos or deities in various heavenly worlds. “It’s all about finding peace in the symmetry of the design and of the universe,”!

Well, at least the finding of peace in art is true! Which I do by my sketch and blogs however busy the day was! That makes me a good boy and not bad boy! Bad boy reminds me of Birthday celebrity Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence! Another Mandela effect for me was that I remember Martin as War Machine in the first Iron man while in fact it was Terrence Dashon Howard! Say what!?

Now forget all these and listen to Still She cries! Lovely song and lyrics which may put you to sleep!
Shubh Ratri!

“The proof was there for everyone to see!

He was as guilty as one can be!

Red handed was the way he was caught!

That is the power of a screenshot!”

The other day I was supposed to upload a photo on my kid’s ID card portal and I had to send that snap! Unfortunately the snap was high resolution and size and the web was not accepting it! Then all I did was open the photo in my gallery and take a screenshot! That reduced both the resolution and size!

Screenshot to the rescue once again! I have lost count of the number of times the screenshot has saved me! Bills, photos or text which I need in an instant, I take a screenshot and access it immediately!

One of the best inventions of the mobile era is definitely the Screenshot! This is a tool which is indispensable now and one of the most commonly used command in the phone! 

If you like a particular image or web page just shoot it! Of course it is used for screen grabbing pieces of text and other communications which may be used for evidence or blackmail! I use the screenshot when I get a bill or make a payment or a transfer of money. The best thing about screen shot is the ease and availability and the situation now is that you cannot imagine using the phone without taking a screenshot!

Many apps do warn you when someone takes a screenshot while many apps freeze the screen so that you cannot take the screenshot! 

This is so similar to the Print screen of the desktop computers!

This option was so useful and the fact that most computers had a shortcut key to this function will tell you of its fame and use!

Initially of course Print screen or screen shots were used to take a screen grab as a proof for gamers of their high scores! So when these functions were not available many used to use an external camera! So the first screen shot was actually shot by an external camera! Of course many cameras were not able to ‘read’ the screen so you needed special ones or good ones to do the job!

The first keyboard historically that had a dedicated Print Screen key was for the keyboard for the original IBM PC which was in the 1980s! The camera were with an oscilloscope camera – a special polaroid camera with a hood that fitted over the screen on a storage scope!

In the mobile world in a deviation of sorts; Apple introduced the first screen shot in their iPhones first in the year 2007 and it took the Androids four years to get this important function in their phones in 2011! Now of course the standard volume key and power button keys screenshot is the norm! 

In addition to this you can use you can use three finger screenshot in most Android phones including one plus! The path to activate this is Settings – additional settings – screenshot – three finger swipe.

In iPhone you can simply tap the back of the phone two times for screen shot and three taps for camera! Works mainly with iPhone 14 and later and this path is Settings-Accessibility – touch and back tap. 

Samsung phones and tabs have a nifty swipe screenshot which is really cool! 

You can say hi Bixby and tell to take screenshot or simply swipe with your palm right to left on the screen👍 and you can activate this by Settings -advanced- motion and gestures- palm swipe!

Now talking about screenshots; one of the guys who ‘shot’ to fame in the ‘screen’ for all the right reasons in birthday celebrity Remo D’Souza!

Now delete those screenshots which you took of those ‘chats’ and sleep and let others sleep peacefully!

Shubh ratri!

“The wise owl should have just looked away!

But the zeal to teach is a big sway!

If only he could have thought without a doubt

Do not try to teach those who cannot be taught!”

The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labors by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers!

Later on sociologists derived the term mass intelligentsia to describe the populations of educated adults, with discretionary income, who pursue intellectual interests by way of book clubs and cultural associations, etc. 

A group of Intelligentsia who are like the top and who create new revolutionary ideas are called avant-garde! Since the 20th century, the art term avant-garde comprises of that comprises novelists and writers, artists and architects et al. whose creative perspectives, ideas, and experimental artworks challenge the cultural values of contemporary bourgeois society. 

The French military term avant-garde (advanced guard) identified a reconnaissance unit who scouted the terrain ahead of the main force of the army. In 19th-century French politics, the term avant-garde (vanguard) identified Left-wing political reformists who agitated for radical political change in French society. 

In the mid-19th century, as a cultural term, avant-garde identified a genre of art that advocated art-as-politics, art as an aesthetic and political means for realizing social change in a society. 

So intelligent radical and almost military group of people who like to bring change in a society are Avant- Garde!  Ultimately, despite criticism, avant-garde works are often considered necessary to break new ground and move the needle in the long run in terms of artistic expression and creative freedom! These are the group of people who come up with new revolutions and new limits! One intelligent and brilliant scientist is birthday celebrity Sivan Kailasavadivu who is recognized for his groundbreaking efforts in developing cryogenic engines that are crucial for launching massive payloads into space. He is also known as the Rocket man! 

Now do the intelligent thing and sleep!

Shubh Ratri!

“The gun was shocked at that order to shoot

It had seen no threat to boot

All it saw was the killer with the animalistic zeal

Then it felt happy that it did not have a heart to feel”

He was born in Murree, in the Punjab province of British India, which is now in Pakistan on 9 October 1864.

He spent his childhood in Murree and Shimla and received his early education at the Lawrence College Ghora Gali, Murree and Bishop Cotton School in Shimla!

He also briefly studied medicine, at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

He was also fluent in a number of Indian languages as well as Persian.

With all these qualifications you would assume that the person would love India and Indians or at least have some compassion to the country in which he was born.

Even if that was not there since he was in army, every human being however bad or strict or following orders; would never harm any person who is unarmed.

Now some army folks can still think of unarmed people as a risk, but even then no human would ever harm women and helpless children who were at his mercy when he actually had no risk to his or any one else’s life.

The thought process which would have gone in his mind when he ordered his battalion to shoot a peaceful gathering of unarmed men, women and innocent children actually makes him more worse than many dictators of his time. 

The only reason the number  of people killed even though is more is in the range of 400 to 1000s is that the ammunitions were over. The more concerning factor was that he did not even allow the injured to be treated or rescued by declaring martial law. 

One of the most despicable acts in the history of India was done today several years back by one born in India. And to think that this rank was actually a temporary post given to him and if he had not shot a single person, no one would have said a thing! 

In the list of most cruel people ever to have lived, his name must always be there at the top;  R. E. H. Dyer…Jallianwala Bagh massacre still hurts…

Sorry for the melancholy; maybe you can lift yourself and feel a little better if you see some movies starring the birthday celebrity Dinesh Hingoo! And follow my mantra for all these; FORGIVE but never FORGET!

Say a prayer for those brave women who tried to protect their kids with their body and life.

Shubh Ratri…