Anand Varma

IT professional. Tennis Fanatic, Voracious reader, wannabe writer, wannabe teacher.

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

One of the most beautiful versions of Hotel California I have ever heard. It's magical.😱
The Eagles - Hotel California - | Moyun

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back. He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something.

The animal dove and Enzo followed. At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives. Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an “almost human cry” (describes Enzo). A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.

The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant! The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off.

Enzo Maiorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and communicate with the animal world, he will never be able to know his true role on this Earth.”~

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said

We are at our best when we serve others.”

[It's Ahmad @AhmadX_Official]

In 1879, in a modest village in Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, a peasant woman named Mubarka Khafaji married Ibrahim Atta, a farmer who survived on daily wages.

Life was already difficult. Then, while Mubarka was still in the final months of pregnancy, financial pressure led her husband to divorce her.

She returned to her mother and brother and moved to Alexandria, Egypt, where she gave birth to her son, Ali Ibrahim Atta.

She had every reason to surrender to hardship.

Instead, she made a decision: her son would receive the education and future she herself had never been given.

Mubarka could barely make ends meet. She worked on the streets of Alexandria selling cheese to provide for Ali. She could have sent him to work as a child, but she chose sacrifice over surrender.

She enrolled him at Ras El-Tin Primary School.

After he completed his primary education, his father came to take him away, intending for him to stop studying and begin working.

But his mother refused to let poverty decide her son’s destiny.

In a remarkable act of determination, Mubarka secretly moved Ali from the roof of their home to the neighboring roof and escaped with him to Cairo, Egypt.

There, she enrolled him at the Khedivial School in Darb El-Gamamiz and found work with a family so she could continue paying for his education.

Ali studied relentlessly.

His mother’s sacrifices eventually opened a door neither of them could have imagined.

In 1897, he entered medical school.

In 1901, he graduated as a doctor.

Years later, Sultan Hussein Kamel, the ruler of Egypt, became seriously ill. Doctors struggled to determine what was wrong with him.

Then Dr. Othman Ghaleb recommended Dr. Ali Ibrahim.

Ali successfully performed the difficult operation.

His reputation changed overnight.

He was appointed chief surgical consultant and personal physician to the Sultan and was given the title Bey.

In 1922, King Fuad I elevated him to the title Pasha.

Then came another historic achievement.

In 1929, Dr. Ali Pasha Ibrahim became the first Egyptian dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Fouad I University, now Cairo University. He later became president of the university.

In 1940, he was appointed Egypt’s Minister of Health.

That same year, he founded the Egyptian Medical Syndicate and became its first president. He also served in the Egyptian Parliament.

But behind all those titles doctor, Bey, Pasha, dean, university president and minister stood a woman whose name history could easily have forgotten.

Mubarka Khafaji.

An uneducated rural woman.

A divorced mother.

A poor street vendor.

Yet she refused to let poverty become her son’s inheritance.

She could not give him wealth.

So she gave him opportunity.

She could not give him a privileged upbringing.

So she gave him education.

And ultimately, she helped raise a man who would leave a lasting mark on Egyptian medicine and public life.

The lesson is bigger than one family:

Sometimes the person changing history is not the one standing on the stage. It is the mother who sacrificed everything so her child could reach it.

Respect to every mother who becomes a child’s first teacher, strongest supporter, and school of life. ❤️

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

दिल्ली की BJP सरकार के एक मंत्री वीडियो में एक नौजवान को थप्पड़ मारते दिख रहे हैं।

उसका गुनाह? वो वीडियो बना रहा था।
मंत्री के सामने सड़क खोदकर दिखाई जा रही थी, और उसके हाथ में कैमरा था।

ये उस सत्ता का चेहरा है जिसे अब वोटर से डर लगना बंद हो गया है।

सड़क पर सवाल पूछो - थप्पड़।
पेपर लीक पर सवाल पूछो - लाठी।
संसद में सवाल पूछो - माइक बंद।

ये लोग ऐसा इसलिए करते हैं क्योंकि इन्हें अब ये डर ही नहीं कि चुनाव इन्हें हटा सकता है। वोट चोरी यही ख़रीदती है - सिर्फ़ नतीजा नहीं, उसके बाद आने वाला अहंकार भी।

जो सरकार जीत को पक्का मान लेती है, उसे आपकी रज़ामंदी नहीं चाहिए - आपकी ख़ामोशी और अंधभक्ति चाहिए।

[Shekhar Dutt @DuttShekhar]

People were made to hate Congress

There was this mass campaign that congress is corrupt

And the bjp got into power to punish the corrupt

I voted for bjp
My entire family did

But then no one, who was accused of corruption, was ever found guilty and sent to jail

Most accused switched parties
They are still in power

But the hate for the congress continued
It felt unreal

The brain started feeling the hate was manufactured

So much so that right or wrong didn’t matter
What mattered was whom do you hate

The right or wrong got converted to love or hate

The loved ones stopped getting asked for accountability

All the accountability was for the ones being hated

The one that was being loved was always right
And the one being hated always wrong

In all this, logic suffered
India suffered

12 years, rush to today, the influencers are asking girls to keep an airgun to keep themselves safe

Ministers are seen slapping on camera and say they are justified in slapping, people who hate opposition are defending the minister

Honest IAS officers are pushed to margins for catering to people and for not catering to the egos of ministers

The wealth concentration in the hands of a few is peaking at the expense of not sharing the fruits of apparent growth with masses

Our top institutions enjoy the least trust
Raids on political opponents is a given
And the social unity at its lowest

All because people stopped seeing right as right and wrong as wrong and started seeing things as either being done by the one they love or the one they hate

Love was always right
Asking question to the loved ones became wrong

I don’t really know what’s the way out
Our votes now might not matter
Our dissent is being called anti national

The times seem only to become bleaker

And the only way to stop it is to hold the ones you love accountable .. they are more than the ones you love.. they are the government

And a lot of change can come if the ones who love ask questions

That’s the most nationalistic and loveable thing you could do for our country 🙏🙏

[Fauna Natural @MiguelM73104161]

Chicago- If You Leave Me Now (1976) 🥀🎶❤️

[Love Music @khnh80044]

One of those songs that really makes me miss the 80s🎵💖

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

41 years later… this song still feels more powerful and relevant than ever ✨❤️

[Love Music @khnh80044]

No matter how many versions exist, Elvis’s will always be the one for me❤️

[Hoops @Hoopss]

Security guard threw Candy at students to Win tug of war. 😂

[ElevateYourMind @leantolearn]

Life is a process

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

Today wasn't a game, it was cinema 🤩

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

It's never too late to change your views and make a difference.
Gurudas Banerjee was a prominent Indian academic and the first Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University. He was devoted to his mother, who was extremely orthodox, and would personally fetch 'Ganga Jal' for her every morning.
When she was dying she called Gurudas and made him promise that Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, somebody whose views she had bitterly opposed for most of her life, would be present and play a prominent part in her last rites.
Vidyasagar was at that point the most hated man in orthodox society for championing and piloting through the Widow Remarriage Bill and his presence there caused a huge furore. But he went and that formidable lady's final gesture went a long way in making his cause more acceptable in orthodox households.
The amazing Vidyasagar's birth anniversary today.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री डॉ. मनमोहन सिंह जी की जयंती पर उन्हें सादर नमन।

अपनी विनम्रता, ईमानदारी और दूरदर्शिता से उन्होंने देश की अर्थव्यवस्था और सामाजिक न्याय को नई दिशा दी। भारत के निर्माण में उनके ऐतिहासिक निर्णय और अमूल्य योगदान हमारा सदैव मार्गदर्शन करते रहेंगे।

[Gems of BJP @Gems_of_BJP]

You can’t simply talk about Dr Manmohan singh without mentioning his biggest ever achievement.

It was the sub prime crisis of 2007 that pushed the world in recession. It was the biggest recession after the great depression of 1929.

But MMS single handedly saved India from it by letting the fiscal deficit slide and gave purchasing power to people. To this date, economists of the world read about it in their thesis.

An ungrateful and illiterate audience that we had ‘criticised’ him for taking the fiscal deficit to 6% of GDP instead of applauding him in successfully tackling such a big recession.

On his birthday, let the whole nation know that they owe an apology to arguably the best economist India had witnessed.

[Mansoor Khan | ಮನ್ಸೂರ್ ಖಾನ್ @MansoorKhanINC]

There was a time when Dr. Manmohan Singh was a student at Cambridge, living on a scholarship so modest that he sometimes had to skip meals or survive on a sixpence Cadbury’s bar.

He went on to graduate with First Class Honours in Economics. Decades later, Cambridge honoured him with an honorary Doctor of Law degree.

From struggling to afford a meal to helping reshape India’s economy, his life was a reminder of what education, perseverance and public service can make possible.

Remembering former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh ji on his birth anniversary.

[The Rebel @TheRebel_IN]

🚨THIS ONE HURTS 💔🙏

Dr Manmohan Singh would have turned 94 today, and the contrast is painful 😔

Cambridge. Oxford. RBI Governor. Finance Minister who opened up the economy in 1991.
He never had to hide a single degree.

He never promised 15 lakh in every account.
He never ran from the media.
He sat in open press conferences and took every tough question.

He never used agencies to scare the opposition.
He never needed propaganda films about himself.
He spoke less and worked more.

Bro, they mocked him as "silent" for 10 years, and today we can't even get one press conference 😡

In 2014 he said, "History will be kinder to me than the contemporary media."
He was right.

Miss you, sir.
🙏🇮🇳❤️

[Music transcends @ngoclinh62w1]

Decades may pass, but this song still hits like the very first time. 🔥🎶

[Music Jim 🎩🪄 @MusicJim2]

Prince 🎩🪄 Purple Rain ( 1985 )

Prince released the classic tune Purple Rain on September 26th 1984 💜

Here is a fantastic live Version!

#Prince