I got all the answers right in this Quiz without googling.
You can also try and see how you score.
It's a quiz about cities.
Education should be fun. This surely is :)
It's informative and interesting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbwr239
Here's wishing you Happy Quizzing and Happy Sharing.
Cheers
Aparna
Sunday, 17 November 2024
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Pyaar
Nice song with nice music, nice lyrics and sung nicely by Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik
Music has been given by Nadeem-Shravan
Lyrics are by Sameer
Pyaar Aaya Aur Zyaada from the movie Barsaat (2005)
Enjoy :)
Aparna
Thursday, 7 November 2024
You'll Like This
A Pic
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/aa47/live/75a30de0-96b2-11ef-99af-372359b57a36.jpgA Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArolURVjx_Q
And some Quotes :-)
It's a strange society that assumes it has the right to tell people whom they should love and whom they shouldn't. - Bruce Springsteen
People write whatever they want; they just want to fill up the space. 95 percent of the things that were written about me were false. - Asma Rehman
Being a celebrity is like taking an exam every second of the day. You’re judged 24/7. - Dimple Kapadia
There was far more interest in my face and figure than there ever was in my intellect. This is one reason that I have loved ageing—it has evened the scales. - Zeenat Aman
Racing thoughts supersede racing horses with their speed. - Aparna Chatterjee
It is always the simple that produces the marvellous. - Amelia Barr
Data is the new oil. - Clive Humby
A genius is someone who makes more and better use of their subliminal thought processes than the rest of us. - Frederic Myers
I adored my mother and from an early age was driven by a desire to make her happy and proud. She wasn’t a pushy person, but some innate discipline coupled with my Catholic school upbringing fostered in me the need to be the best at whatever I do. As a child, I excelled at school. I was head girl at Saint Joseph’s Convent and later won a scholarship to the University of South California. - Zeenat Aman
Happiness or success cannot be pursued, for both can ensue only as a by-product of our dedication to a cause greater than us. - Viktor Frankl
I am not denying the creativity of designers nor the skill it takes to create fine clothes, but what I am protesting is the obsession with appearance and couture that I see around me. In a world brimming with wonder and suffering, fashion should bring us joy and utility not turmoil and self-obsession. - Zeenat Aman
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. - Amelia Barr
People get bored and forget. Why do they drop in and want to hear about what happened and when? Weak and withering, why am I supposed to repeat every trivia? Genuine interest, or a vicarious pleasure in death and disease? I want to put everything down on a piece of paper. I can offer it to them to read. - Bibek Debroy
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. - Amelia Barr
I have led a life of breathtaking highs and profound lows. There is nothing I regret, and nobody that I owe. Any shame or fear that has ever dogged me has long evaporated. - Zeenat Aman
You can’t live a life without thinking how stupid you were and what a mistake that was, and how self-sabotaging that was. I’ve been in therapy for a long time, and my therapist kept me from some of my more self-destructive impulses to do with substances and bad relationships and stupid behaviour. And having kids has also kept me on the straight and narrow. - Hanif Kureishi
There’s always tension between a mother and her daughter. The mother is saying something that she thinks is good for the daughter and the daughter will rebel because she believes she knows better. Only when a daughter becomes a mother does she understand where her mother was coming from. - Dimple Kapadia
My sons have been abroad after graduating from school, more American now than Indian. “Will I hop onto a plane?” For what? You know precious little about India. You will be less of a help and more of a hindrance. There will be a time to hop onto the plane. Not yet, not now. Not in time for the last hug, but in time for the funeral rites. At best, send money, if needed. It was no different for my parents and me. However, that was spread across different cities in India. This is transcontinental. - Bibek Debroy
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself. - Wei Wu Wei
Everything we know in aviation, every rule in the book, every procedure we have, we know because someone somewhere died…We have purchased lessons…with blood. - Sully Sullenberger
If you tied your hands up for a day and had to spend the day without their use, you’d see what they mean to you. - Hanif Kureishi
Irreparable loss at the age of 70, when life’s productivity is as good as over? In another ten years, what social value will I bring? Can it be measured, quantified, imputed for? I give up the thought, too complicated. There are lives my life has touched, improved, even bruised. If they get to know, they may remember, with fondness and bitterness. Such people don’t write obituaries. - Bibek Debroy
There are incidents in my life that the public cling to and that are dredged up again and again. I am aware of these, and becoming increasingly immune to them. My life is not defined by a few bad days that transpired many decades ago, and I need neither sympathy nor defence. I am content in myself. - Zeenat Aman
The universe propels our evolution at a pace in proportion to our passion for uncovering purpose and meaning in our lives. - Anil Bhatnagar
Time is the only currency you spend without ever knowing your balance. Use it wisely. - Tiny Buddha dot Com
The nature of the world is transient. Fame, money, love, good times and bad—these will come and go. I found my inner mettle when I accepted this truth. The only thing that is in my control is my attitude. Life is just what you make of it, and mine has been magnificent. - Zeenat Aman
With renunciation life begins. - Amelia Barr
I don’t feel like reading, even when I can. I don’t feel like watching TV, even when I can. The same boring news, the same boring high-decibel debates. It all seems so transient and puerile. But so am I, transient and puerile, a dot that might have been wiped off. In that event, what would have happened? A few condolences, perhaps even from important people. “Irreparable loss.” Perhaps a posthumous Padma Bhushan or Padma Vibhushan. A few obituaries. - Bibek Debroy
Nobody lives forever. Our time on this planet is finite. Don't waste your time worrying about stuff that isn't that important. Focus on the things that are important, focus on your family, the people in your life. Do that thing that you've always planned to do one day, why not do it today. - Sir Chris Hoy
It is always the simple that produces the marvellous. - Amelia Barr
Data is the new oil. - Clive Humby
A genius is someone who makes more and better use of their subliminal thought processes than the rest of us. - Frederic Myers
I adored my mother and from an early age was driven by a desire to make her happy and proud. She wasn’t a pushy person, but some innate discipline coupled with my Catholic school upbringing fostered in me the need to be the best at whatever I do. As a child, I excelled at school. I was head girl at Saint Joseph’s Convent and later won a scholarship to the University of South California. - Zeenat Aman
Happiness or success cannot be pursued, for both can ensue only as a by-product of our dedication to a cause greater than us. - Viktor Frankl
I am not denying the creativity of designers nor the skill it takes to create fine clothes, but what I am protesting is the obsession with appearance and couture that I see around me. In a world brimming with wonder and suffering, fashion should bring us joy and utility not turmoil and self-obsession. - Zeenat Aman
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. - Amelia Barr
People get bored and forget. Why do they drop in and want to hear about what happened and when? Weak and withering, why am I supposed to repeat every trivia? Genuine interest, or a vicarious pleasure in death and disease? I want to put everything down on a piece of paper. I can offer it to them to read. - Bibek Debroy
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. - Amelia Barr
I have led a life of breathtaking highs and profound lows. There is nothing I regret, and nobody that I owe. Any shame or fear that has ever dogged me has long evaporated. - Zeenat Aman
You can’t live a life without thinking how stupid you were and what a mistake that was, and how self-sabotaging that was. I’ve been in therapy for a long time, and my therapist kept me from some of my more self-destructive impulses to do with substances and bad relationships and stupid behaviour. And having kids has also kept me on the straight and narrow. - Hanif Kureishi
There’s always tension between a mother and her daughter. The mother is saying something that she thinks is good for the daughter and the daughter will rebel because she believes she knows better. Only when a daughter becomes a mother does she understand where her mother was coming from. - Dimple Kapadia
My sons have been abroad after graduating from school, more American now than Indian. “Will I hop onto a plane?” For what? You know precious little about India. You will be less of a help and more of a hindrance. There will be a time to hop onto the plane. Not yet, not now. Not in time for the last hug, but in time for the funeral rites. At best, send money, if needed. It was no different for my parents and me. However, that was spread across different cities in India. This is transcontinental. - Bibek Debroy
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself. - Wei Wu Wei
Everything we know in aviation, every rule in the book, every procedure we have, we know because someone somewhere died…We have purchased lessons…with blood. - Sully Sullenberger
If you tied your hands up for a day and had to spend the day without their use, you’d see what they mean to you. - Hanif Kureishi
Irreparable loss at the age of 70, when life’s productivity is as good as over? In another ten years, what social value will I bring? Can it be measured, quantified, imputed for? I give up the thought, too complicated. There are lives my life has touched, improved, even bruised. If they get to know, they may remember, with fondness and bitterness. Such people don’t write obituaries. - Bibek Debroy
There are incidents in my life that the public cling to and that are dredged up again and again. I am aware of these, and becoming increasingly immune to them. My life is not defined by a few bad days that transpired many decades ago, and I need neither sympathy nor defence. I am content in myself. - Zeenat Aman
The universe propels our evolution at a pace in proportion to our passion for uncovering purpose and meaning in our lives. - Anil Bhatnagar
Time is the only currency you spend without ever knowing your balance. Use it wisely. - Tiny Buddha dot Com
The nature of the world is transient. Fame, money, love, good times and bad—these will come and go. I found my inner mettle when I accepted this truth. The only thing that is in my control is my attitude. Life is just what you make of it, and mine has been magnificent. - Zeenat Aman
With renunciation life begins. - Amelia Barr
I don’t feel like reading, even when I can. I don’t feel like watching TV, even when I can. The same boring news, the same boring high-decibel debates. It all seems so transient and puerile. But so am I, transient and puerile, a dot that might have been wiped off. In that event, what would have happened? A few condolences, perhaps even from important people. “Irreparable loss.” Perhaps a posthumous Padma Bhushan or Padma Vibhushan. A few obituaries. - Bibek Debroy
Nobody lives forever. Our time on this planet is finite. Don't waste your time worrying about stuff that isn't that important. Focus on the things that are important, focus on your family, the people in your life. Do that thing that you've always planned to do one day, why not do it today. - Sir Chris Hoy
Saturday, 12 October 2024
Shubho Bijoya :-)
Embed from Getty Images
Though sometimes we don’t get along very well-we have never been on beautiful terms ever for that matter — we have always been together. And the credit is hers and not mine. I can assure you that she is a very kind and tolerant woman. And she has been a great daughter-in-law to my parents, cared for and looked after them. - Raj Kapoor
There was turmoil in our marriage but, at the end of the day, we both realised that we could neither live with each other nor without each other. Today, I realise that a celebrity’s life is like an open book. I regret the days when we didn’t talk with each other. I suppose that is what is called maturity. - Krishna Raj Kapoor
When I sit back at the end of the day, I feel very sorry for all the pain that I have given you. How can I bring those days back for you? But show business is such that a woman has to be understanding because there are constant emotional involvements, because the work is such. A lesser woman would have deserted me long ago. It is Krishna who has made my home. Unhone mera ghar banaya, basaya, sajaya aur sanwara (she made my home, inhabited it, adorned it, and cared for it). - Raj Kapoor
I am curious to see how machine learning impacts the future of our relationships. Can AI succeed in replicating human affection? Assuming you are in a relationship with a virtual being that always agrees with you, how will you deal with conflict and hurt, emotions that make us human? - Muna Khan
It is easy to mock people who use apps like Replika. But at the heart of it, this is a story about loneliness, a growing epidemic that technology is attempting to solve, and profit from. If social media has profited from keeping us glued to their platforms, often at the expense of personal relationships, why blame other platforms from trying to cash in and also address a need? - Muna Khan
Is the Englishman bad because he is an Englishman? Is it that everyone with an Indian skin is good? If that is so, there should be [no] angry protest against oppression by Indian princes. India can gain nothing from the rule of murderers—no matter whether they are black or white. Under such a rule, India will be utterly ruined and laid waste. - Mahatma Gandhi
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
I don't always take the right decision. I make the decision and then make it right. - Ratan Tata
If it’s possible to be in films without taking your clothes off or killing people with machine guns, I seem to have indeed managed. - Dame Maggie Smith
If you want things to be done well, do it yourself instead of depending on others, provided you are confident you'll do it well. - Aparna Chatterjee
I read a long time ago that men who love their women, make them bloom! I think there's a lot of truth to that statement. - Anjana Bhalla
That is, after all, what companionship is about: knowing the other person, listening to them and being listened to. - Muna Khan
If you find happiness with someone today, you are lucky. One does not know what lies in store in the future. Today, life is what you make of it… the age-old notion that you have to be married to be happy and settled, no longer holds true now. And marriage is a bond, which not always keeps you bonded for life. - Zarine Khan
Weather is like Life, always full of vagary. - Aparna Chatterjee
I don’t want you going down the road of bitterness. It leads to hell. - Anthea
How can a loving, omnipotent God permit disease, war and suffering? - Anon
Empathy and kindness are the greatest strengths a leader can possess. - Ratan Tata
Wishing you all Happy Vijaya Dashami, Happy Dussehra and Shubho Bijoya with some quotable quotes from this illusory world of Moha-Maya :-)
You don’t forget your first love. Psychologists say it is because it is a life-changing experience and one that can impact your brain, leaving an imprint on its sensory parts. By the same token, you also don’t forget your first break-up. These experiences are the first intense emotions we go through. - Muna Khan
Nobody is invincible. And it’s vulnerability that makes you human. - Shabana Azmi
Respect! Though you can’t demand respect, you have to earn it. Love keeps changing. Romance is the first thing that disappears with marriage. But you have to keep working at it – it’s a process of constant adjustment. Togetherness, friendship, interest in each other, and giving space to your partner is paramount. That can only stem from respect. - Shabana Azmi
Anyone who has looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. - Otto von Bismarck
It is not merely wine or bhang that makes one drunk; a mad idea also can do so. - Mahatma Gandhi
Any use of technology that undermines the richness of human relationships must be presumed suspect, especially if it encourages passivity rather than creativity. If a form of technology is proving deleterious to your relationships with others, you have to have the guts to drop it. Don’t be afraid to walk away. It is vital to remain technology’s master, and not become its slave. - John Rhodes
You don’t forget your first love. Psychologists say it is because it is a life-changing experience and one that can impact your brain, leaving an imprint on its sensory parts. By the same token, you also don’t forget your first break-up. These experiences are the first intense emotions we go through. - Muna Khan
Nobody is invincible. And it’s vulnerability that makes you human. - Shabana Azmi
Respect! Though you can’t demand respect, you have to earn it. Love keeps changing. Romance is the first thing that disappears with marriage. But you have to keep working at it – it’s a process of constant adjustment. Togetherness, friendship, interest in each other, and giving space to your partner is paramount. That can only stem from respect. - Shabana Azmi
Anyone who has looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. - Otto von Bismarck
It is not merely wine or bhang that makes one drunk; a mad idea also can do so. - Mahatma Gandhi
Any use of technology that undermines the richness of human relationships must be presumed suspect, especially if it encourages passivity rather than creativity. If a form of technology is proving deleterious to your relationships with others, you have to have the guts to drop it. Don’t be afraid to walk away. It is vital to remain technology’s master, and not become its slave. - John Rhodes
If you treat me like an option, I'll leave you like a choice. - Anon
Though sometimes we don’t get along very well-we have never been on beautiful terms ever for that matter — we have always been together. And the credit is hers and not mine. I can assure you that she is a very kind and tolerant woman. And she has been a great daughter-in-law to my parents, cared for and looked after them. - Raj Kapoor
There was turmoil in our marriage but, at the end of the day, we both realised that we could neither live with each other nor without each other. Today, I realise that a celebrity’s life is like an open book. I regret the days when we didn’t talk with each other. I suppose that is what is called maturity. - Krishna Raj Kapoor
When I sit back at the end of the day, I feel very sorry for all the pain that I have given you. How can I bring those days back for you? But show business is such that a woman has to be understanding because there are constant emotional involvements, because the work is such. A lesser woman would have deserted me long ago. It is Krishna who has made my home. Unhone mera ghar banaya, basaya, sajaya aur sanwara (she made my home, inhabited it, adorned it, and cared for it). - Raj Kapoor
I am curious to see how machine learning impacts the future of our relationships. Can AI succeed in replicating human affection? Assuming you are in a relationship with a virtual being that always agrees with you, how will you deal with conflict and hurt, emotions that make us human? - Muna Khan
It is easy to mock people who use apps like Replika. But at the heart of it, this is a story about loneliness, a growing epidemic that technology is attempting to solve, and profit from. If social media has profited from keeping us glued to their platforms, often at the expense of personal relationships, why blame other platforms from trying to cash in and also address a need? - Muna Khan
Is the Englishman bad because he is an Englishman? Is it that everyone with an Indian skin is good? If that is so, there should be [no] angry protest against oppression by Indian princes. India can gain nothing from the rule of murderers—no matter whether they are black or white. Under such a rule, India will be utterly ruined and laid waste. - Mahatma Gandhi
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
I don't always take the right decision. I make the decision and then make it right. - Ratan Tata
If it’s possible to be in films without taking your clothes off or killing people with machine guns, I seem to have indeed managed. - Dame Maggie Smith
If you want things to be done well, do it yourself instead of depending on others, provided you are confident you'll do it well. - Aparna Chatterjee
I read a long time ago that men who love their women, make them bloom! I think there's a lot of truth to that statement. - Anjana Bhalla
That is, after all, what companionship is about: knowing the other person, listening to them and being listened to. - Muna Khan
If you find happiness with someone today, you are lucky. One does not know what lies in store in the future. Today, life is what you make of it… the age-old notion that you have to be married to be happy and settled, no longer holds true now. And marriage is a bond, which not always keeps you bonded for life. - Zarine Khan
Weather is like Life, always full of vagary. - Aparna Chatterjee
I don’t want you going down the road of bitterness. It leads to hell. - Anthea
How can a loving, omnipotent God permit disease, war and suffering? - Anon
Empathy and kindness are the greatest strengths a leader can possess. - Ratan Tata
Monday, 7 October 2024
Happy Birthday, Mummy 🤗
24 and on the road,
My life has been hectic
As people come and go
New memories are cherished
Some old friendships have
perished
Tucked into my bed
I reflect on my life….
But no matter the
hardship
No matter the joy,
I always know there is
someone
Who makes time for this
boy.
One call away
And she listens to what I
say,
Might not agree on
everything
But that's okay.
I love her to bits
Though I’m not the best at
expressing it
I love you Mummy.
Thank you for loving me.
Happy Birthday 
Photo + Poem © Rajarshi Chatterjee
Friday, 30 August 2024
Onset
With the
Ending of
Summer
And the
Onset of
Autumn,
Days are
Getting shorter,
So I tend to look
A little bit longer,
Lest I miss some
Daytime wonder.
During darkness,
Not much to view
On cloudy nights,
So I wait to see
The moon and
Stars on starry
Nights, though
Overcast nights
Don't put me off
Much, since I have
The nights to ponder.
Summer
And the
Onset of
Autumn,
Days are
Getting shorter,
So I tend to look
A little bit longer,
Lest I miss some
Daytime wonder.
During darkness,
Not much to view
On cloudy nights,
So I wait to see
The moon and
Stars on starry
Nights, though
Overcast nights
Don't put me off
Much, since I have
The nights to ponder.
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