Jai Shree Ram
Veer Bhogya Vasundhara
This blog contains random rants of an average Indian
Monday, January 22, 2024
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Book Review [166] : The Courage To Be Disliked
'The Courage to be disliked' by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga is a book inspired by Adlerian Psychology. I bought it from Amazon after seeing it as a best sellers and 'Over three million copies sold worldwide' written on top of it. I have read many self help books but i will not rate this book in my top 5 books.
I gave sufficient time and energy to read this book but it failed to inspire me. I think i am at fault in getting some thing meaningful from this book. The few concepts that can be useful in one's life:
- Separation of tasks
- Feeling of community
- Having confidence in others
- Horizontal relationships
- We always have a choice to chose our destiny
- Cribbing over past is not right
- Everything is a complex of inter personal relationship problems
- Praise and Rebuke are manipulative tools
- Respecting boundaries are important
This book is written in a dialogue form and this has put me off. At many places it reeks of boredom and banal megalomania.
Time Pass Read (5/10)
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
My reading list of 2023
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Satyamev Jayate - Promise fulfilled and Justice delivered
On 15th Dec 2022 about 0815 PM Khekhra Police station of district Baghpat got the information that a 6 year old kid Shaurya Daagar had been missing since 0515 PM while coming from coaching in Fakharpur village. Police immediately started the search operation. Entire village also joined this.
We then switched our focus on close family members of the kid and interrogated them and verified their statements and soon we found a clue. Based on that we recovered the body of the kid buried in a field. He was killed within 10 minutes of his kidnapping and body was buried with his school bag. The motive behind this kidnapping/murder was to demand ransom from recently retired grandfather of the kid.
We arrested all three killers (Vineet, Akshit and Danny) on 20th Dec 2022. Vineet and Akshit were Shaurya's family members. Vineet was the son of the brother of Shaurya's grandfather Jagveer Singh. We did a thorough scientific investigation and filed the chargesheet within 24 days.
Local media reporter Devendra Chauhan did an excellent video coverage of the workout and captured the emotions perfectly. This video was recorded immediately after recovering the dead body of the kid.
I have never seen entire district coming together like one family and in many villages the food was not made and people did not eat anything. In many villages people gave 'shradhanjali' to the kid by lighting candles and taking processions. There was so much outrage on social media as well as on streets in this case. We took it as a challenge to ensure speedy justice in this case.
The trial started in March and after many arguments and cross examinations finally on 15th December 2023 Honourable Court
found accused Neeraj alias Danny and Vineet guilty on exactly the same
date when kid was murdered and on 20th Dec 2023 Honourable court awarded
them life imprisonment on the same date when his body was found. God
works in mysterious ways. The remaining accused will be prosecuted as a juvenile.
My entire team - Additional SP Manish Mishra, SO Khekhra Ravindra Rana, SOG incharge Ravendra Palawat, CO Vijay Chaudhary, Inspector Tapeshwar Saagar and all ranks of Baghpat Police deserve lot of appreciation for the hardwork, commitment and patience they have shown.
Entire prosecution team of Baghpat deserves a lot of credit and so does the Baghpat Police for monitoring this case so diligently. For me it will remain proudest and most satisfying day of my little more than 8 years of Police career. Faith in team and law always gives favourable results.
On 26th Dec Shri Jagveer Singh (Dadaji of Shaurya), his Nanaji and few villagers came to my office in Bijnor and gave me a Shaurya photo frame memorabilia. It was a very emotional and heart wrenching moment for us all. This is far far greater than any award or appreciation that i have received so far in my life. I pray to God that no family should see tragedy like this.
#SatyamevJayate
Friday, December 01, 2023
Bijnor Diaries : Kartik Poornima Mela
'Vidur Kuti Ganga Snan Mela' during Kaartik Poornima is of huge significance for people of Bijnor. This year it started on 23rd Nov and completed on 27th Nov (on Kartik Poornima). We made elaborate arrangements for this Mela and it was never boring. I actually enjoyed being part of this Mela. A large number of people from all castes and almost all age groups came to attend this Mela. As per my conservative estimates about 3-4 lakhs people took dip in Ganges. There were shops and there were shivirs and there were camps. Many thousands made their own tent and stayed in Mela for 3-4 days. There were buffaloes, cattle and there were tractors too. There was no fight, no rush and no drama. All came with faith in mother and mother showered love to all without any discrimination. On one side of Ganga ji is Muzaffarnagar district. According to Mahabharata, Mahatama Vidur crossed Ganga ji from Hastinapur Kingdom and lived his life in a Kuti (Cottage) on the bank of Ganga ji (in Bijnor) when the war started hence it is called Vidur Kuti.
Apart from this great Mela there are other melas too in Bijnor viz Balabali Ganga Mela (Mandawar PS) and Nangal Ganga Mela (Nangal PS). These two melas are also at the bank of Ganga ji and are north of Vidur Kuti bordering Haridwar district of Uttarakhand.
Narnaur Mela in Chandpur PS area (Jaleelpur Block) is also a big mela. This borders Hastinapur. As Ganga ji shifted its course so now this Mela is organized in the territory of Meerut but this time Bijnor Police did all the arrangements.
People of Bijnor are very friendly, humble, polite and religious. It gives an immense sense of satisfaction to work among them and try to make their lives little more comfortable. After all blessings of mother Ganga is always there for all of us.