CULTURAL QA 03202405
Q1 What did you learn from your best friend?
KR What is real friendship? Not travelling in Rail where one meet
someone and you or him off the rail and then forgotten. Good friends exist
as a kid till death parts them apart, singing together as well as fighting
with each other and helping at others’ cost.
The Friendship Between Krishna And Draupadi Doesn’t Need A Societal
Definition
Krishna promotes freedom of thoughts and actions, while Draupadi
demonstrates that freedom through her thoughts and actions all her life.
Krishna promotes freedom of thoughts and actions, while Draupadi
demonstrates that freedom through her thoughts and actions all her life.
This relationship does not require an accord of socially accepted norms. It
does not require physical presence or recognition of a form. This
relationship is an epitome of openness of mind and progressive thinking of
Draupadi and Krishna.
Their knot strengthens after her marriage
A knot of friendship between Draupadi and Krishna gets knit tighter after
Draupadi’s Swayamvara. Krishna is present on the occasion of an archery
contest arranged for her. Draupadi is bequeathed with such a magnetic
beauty that every male looking at her wants to possess her.
Draupadi is a good judge of character and takes note of this distinction of
Krishna’s character. He is someone who is absolved of all kinds of lust and
greed of possession. She appreciates that Krishna values self-respect and
honour of others without a gender discrimination.
Draupadi also starts reciprocating a same kind of behaviour with respect to
Krishna. Although Krishna becomes her brother-in-law after her marriage, he
considers her his friend. He does not consider it necessary to put a layer
of any other relationship between them.
A relationship between them starts blooming like petals of a lotus. This
shows greatness of Draupadi’s character. She is someone who can distinguish
an exceptional behaviour, appreciate it and embed the same in her own life.
Draupadi and Krishna share the commonalities in their respective
appearance. Both of them are considered an epitome of aesthetic appearance.
However, both of them are dark in colour, as against a common canon of
beauty attached to a fairness.
This progressiveness and comprehensiveness of approach on part of Draupadi
and Krishna towards beauty is astounding even for contemporary women. A
contemporary woman should embrace this progressive and comprehensive
approach towards beauty.
Draupadi and Krishna both are the kind of personalities who can withstand
against everything in life. They know how to make their own way and to move
ahead in life. And also, to bring fulfilment to their own life as well as
in the life of others.
Being married to the Pandavas, gives Draupadi the purpose to the journey of
her life. Both Draupadi and Krishna, are enlightened souls and strive to
make both their own and their partners lives meaningful.
A journey of life of Draupadi and Krishna is like a circumambulation. They
together ambulate in a circle of their own life. And bring a motion to all
those who come in a sphere of their life. Together, they create a positive
circuit of a life where Dharma prevails. Draupadi and Krishna together set
an example that life is not about having the best but is all about giving
out the best.
A relationship with Krishna never constrained Draupadi in her role of
dutiful wife. On the other hand, a relationship with Krishna has provided a
new perspective to Draupadi’s marital life. A relationship with Draupadi
has opened a world of womanhood for Krishna. It helped him understand a
woman with a better perspective and in turn, create a new path for women
empowerment.
A relationship with Krishna turned an introvert Draupadi into an extrovert
and helped her understand each of her husbands with a broader perspective.
A wife’s male friend is never looked upon positively in a society. However,
Draupadi treads a new path by taking an initiative to build a positive
relationship of her husbands with Krishna. Draupadi considers Krishna a
benchmark of the perfect man. This helped her work towards bringing
several notch elevations to characters of each of her husbands.
Faith and respect are the foundation rocks of the relationship between
Draupadi and Krishna. Their respect for each other has stemmed from a deep
understanding of each other’s character. The common characteristic between
them is their ability to read the other person with all of their emotions
and to judge on all possible parameters.
Like good attracts good, Draupadi and Krishna form a magnetic relationship.
This great respect has resulted in faith towards each other. This faith
has been strengthened through various episodes of their life, where they
showed a great amount of mutual understanding.
The extreme level of mutual understanding takes a relationship between
Draupadi and Krishna to new heights. Both of them try to understand an
ideology and perspective of each other. In the bargain, both of them with
their progressive thinking set up a new path for feminism.
Krishna is the one whose principles are based on equality. He recognises
Draupadi’s potential and pushes her to excel in all the spheres of life,
irrespective of the constraints put in the society for a woman. Draupadi
appreciates his progressiveness and follows the same path for her life.
Krishna is the one who knows the value of self-respect and honour and
always encourages an act to protect the same for others. Therefore, at the
time of public disrobing of Draupadi, he is the one she seeks. His support
acts as a catalyst in her life and changes old perceptions and sets up new
ones.
Krishna often encourages Draupadi to live a life without the pressure from
the society. As a result, Draupadi, follows her instincts and achieves the
best in her life. Krishna and Draupadi have together bring new perspective
to woman empowerment. One that says, there is nothing but growth and
development in life without gender bias.
Krishna promotes freedom of thoughts and actions, while Draupadi
demonstrates that freedom through her thoughts and actions all her life.
One can say that on the chess board of Mahabharata, Krishna is like the
king, the hero of the game who plays limited moves. On the other hand,
Draupadi is like a queen, the female hero who actually brings momentum to
the game with a vast range of moves. At the end Mahabharata tells us that
there is a victory on Pandavas side with Krishna as a king and Draupadi as
a queen.
Krishna is a social leader who brings a revolution in the social values
through his discourse of Bhagwat Geeta. Through the Bhagwat Geeta, he
explains principles of life by churning out the knowledge of Vedas. Krishna
elucidates the Bhagwat Geeta to Arjun on the brink of Kurukshetra war to
provide a holistic solution to his dilemma.
Although the Bhagwat Geeta is discourse to Arjun, Draupadi’s husband,
Draupadi has in reality practiced its principles. Through the principles of
life, Geeta provides guidance on self-exploration of a human being. Krishna
explains three ways of self-exploration – behavioural, emotional and
intellectual.
A behavioural way of self-exploration emphasises a discipline of action to
perform duties without consideration of personal desires. Draupadi has been
dutiful throughout life in all her actions. As a daughter, she has been
able to fulfill the desire of revenge of her father by being a cause of
internecine war in the Kuru clan. And as a wife, she exemplifies a faithful
companion to all five husbands.
As a daughter-in-law, she works in tandem with her mother-in-law for the
betterment of a family. And as a mother, she successfully integrates good
values in her children and takes all decisions in the interest of the
well-being of her children. As a queen, she works hard towards bringing
peace and happiness in the life of her kingdom. She follows her instincts
and acts without being attached to the results of her deeds. In nutshell,
she lives behavioural principles elucidated by Krishna.
Draupadi seeks self-exploration at intellectual level through her continual
quest for wisdom of life. A journey of Draupadi’s life is on the path of
achieving wisdom of life. She explores things around her with openness of
mind and takes learnings along the way of life and transforms her learnings
into the wisdom of life.
Through this wisdom Draupadi gives meaning to her life and the world
around. With an axe of wisdom she is able to cut through slices of reality
and look at the fruits of the results with a detached approach. Draupadi is
able to do an analysis of a situation and a synthesis of the events that
take place around her. This application of principles at intellectual level
helps Draupadi to move ahead in life.
A foundation of the emotional way of self-exploration is a faith in the
positive energy of life. Draupadi showcases strong faith in this and faces
all the difficulties with equanimity of mind, without being demoralised.
She has strong faith in the power of thoughts. Throughout her life Draupadi
tries to attain “oneness” with Krishna’s thoughts because she believes
these will help her surpass all hindrances and achieve her goal. This
connect brings completeness to Draupadi’s character and makes her life a
beautiful and complete picture.
And Krishnarjuna is a different type which I will discuss later. K
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Q2 What are the characteristics of an intelligent person?
KR What is intelligence in Vedas?
In his work Panchadasi (section 6) Vidyaranya swami speaks about the four
preliminary conditions of Brahman. They are unassociated intelligence,
intelligence associated with Maya, intelligence of the intellect, and
intelligence associated with the gross bodies. (4 types). These four
manifest in the macrocosm as Isvara, Brahman, Isvara, Hiranyagarbha, and
Virat respectively. Virat is the world. Hiranyagarbha is the cosmic Self.
Isvara is the Supreme Lord and Brahman is the Supreme Self, who is not
subject to any modifications. Just as everything in a painting rests upon
the canvas, everything in creation rests upon the Supreme Brahman. Just as
the different images in the painting share the same canvas and are
identical with it, all beings in creation share the same intelligence of
Brahman, which acts as the substratum. He also explains what Avidya means.
Accepting the worldly existence as the supreme object of life and mistaking
it as related to Brahman is an error or ignorance. It is removed only by
knowledge. True knowledge is perceiving Brahman as the source of all and
the underlying truth of all. Suck knowledge destroys ignorance. With such
knowledge one becomes aware of the impermanence of things and the
transience of mortal life.
A brief note on Panchadasi: Panchadasi is a medieval work on the Vedanta.
It was authored by Swami Vidyaranya who lived in the 14th century and
served as the teacher and family priest of Bukka Raya. Prior to his
renunciation, he was known as Madhava, Madhavarya, Madhvacharya, and
Madhavamatya. Swami Vidyaranya was a great proponent of Advaita, the
philosophy of non-duality or monism. Panchadasi reflects his belief in the
unitary nature of existence and Brahmas as the only reality.
All other intelligence like 10000 will not buy 20000 phone etc are
baseless intelligence review.
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Q4 Who are the craziest/most awesome Indians ever?
KR The question is framed illogically though I welcome the right
person exposed by Mr G. Yes, as we write Indian though many are only NRIs.
Paul is also one such. We lose track of real intelligence. The sad aspect
is-should it be happening even in the BJP regime? And also remember there
are excellent village scientists who were not recognised by the world; but
a Stanford is a Stanford for Marconi; Navy red tapism is a pitiable
chapter; yet the best element rarely seen from Mr G. I am happy sir K
Rajaram IRS 5324
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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 19:22
Subject: [iyer123] CULTURAL QA 03-2024-05
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CULTURAL QA 03-2024-05
All the below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 05-03-2024.
Selected quora answers generally interesting including jokes are included
Still they need not be 100% correct answers. I am only a compiler.
Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 05-03-2024.
Q1 What did you learn from your best friend?
A1 Gopalkrishna Vishwanath, Willing responder to survey questions 5y
I learned that there are no permanent best friends.
Over a period of 69 years I have had so many persons who could have been
called ‘best friend’.
Many are untraceable. I am totally out of touch with them.
No one became an enemy. Most simply moved away due to circumstances.
Some retained contact for some time and then slowly we forgot all about
each other.
There were some instances where, due to the power of the internet, I
located some long lost “best friends”. It was not of much use. Too much had
happened in the intervening years and they were now not the same persons I
used to know earlier.
Last year I went to BITS Pilani, for our Golden Jubilee Alumnii meet. All
the 1967 batch graduates planned to meet there.
120 out of the 300 from the 1967 batch gathered there for a three day bash.
I met old ‘best friends’ whom I had not seen for half a century. Many were
unrecognizable. With some I could rekindle the old spark and with some it
was not possible.
Reasons were two fold. One was some of them had moved up in life to a
totally different economic bracket. They were big, important people and
also powerful and rich compared to my modest middle class status. I felt
the difference. They were of course polite and cordial but there was a
glass wall between us and while renewing old contact, I could not breach
that barrier. I was wary of being snubbed if I tried to take a liberty that
I could freely take in the past. They too did not encourage me to get more
familiar. We of course exchanged phone numbers and email addresses but
neither contacted the other after the meet was over.
The second reason was that with some of them, too much had happened in
their lives. Tragedies, deaths, loss of money, health issues, divorces or
other family problems had affected them during these last 50 years and it
showed in the lines of worry and weariness on their faces and they did not
want to discuss them. All they could do was to shake hands with me and talk
formally. These were certainly not my old ‘best friends’.
The only best friend who remained my best friend all these 43 years is my
wife.
Q2 What are the characteristics of an intelligent person?
A2 Chauhan Babu Nath,Sun
An intelligent person who earns Rs 10000 never keeps a phone worth Rs 20000.
An intelligent person does not buy a car or house bike on loan.
An intelligent person will not waste time on Facebook, WhatsApp, Netflix.
An intelligent person will not argue with anyone on social media on social
and political issues.
An intelligent person never depends on just one source of income.
An intelligent person does not waste money on expensive clothes, expensive
car, expensive watch and other expensive things and invests that money.
A wise person does not share the private matters of his home with everyone.
An intelligent person is very punctual.
Intelligent people take care of their health.
It is through mistakes that a man becomes wise, a wise man never makes the
same mistake twice.
Q3 Can you tell a Viral Story in Nigeria?
A3 Rutty,11h
A beer company was hiring a taster, Someone to taste the beers before they
are taken for selling. So they placed adverts and one afternoon, a man
walked into the manager's office asking to be employed.
The manager tried to figure out how he could drive him away but couldn't
come up with an idea, so he decided to give him a trial. He ordered his
secretary to give him a glass of wine 🍷
He took a sip and said, "It's Red wine, Varietal, three years old, grown on
rift valley, matured in steel containers."
"That's correct!" The manager exclaimed, "Well give him another one let's
see." So he was given.
He took a sip again and said, "It's Guinness, a combination of barley,
roast malt extract, and brewers yeast brewed around Thika road in Nairobi,
Kenya 2 years ago"
"Incredible!" said the manager.
Now the manager went closer to the secretary and whispered to her saying, "Go
get some of your urine in a cup let's see if he will get that."
So the man was given the cup of urine. He took a sip, turned to the manager
and said, "Female urine, 26 years old, 2 weeks pregnant and if I'm not
given this job, Sir I will tell your wife who is responsible for the
pregnancy"
Both th manager and the secretary fainted 😁
The man got the job✌
Q4 Who are the craziest/most awesome Indians ever?
A4 Abhishek Singh,Studied at Army Public School, Jammu Cantt.9y
Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj
· A J Paulraj became the 2nd Indian in the world to win the prestigious Marconi
Prize for developing the MIMO techinology.
· That Wi-Fi router at your home, office, school, or the 4G phone that you
use? All of those devices utilize the MIMO technology which was pioneered
by him.
· An India-born engineer-scientist AJ ‘Paul’ who was disdained by the
Indian system despite his yeoman contribution to the country's naval
defence, and whose subsequent work in the United States is at the heart of
the current high speed WiFi and 4G mobile systems, has been awarded the
2014 Marconi Prize, a Nobel equivalent for technology pioneers.
· The Marconi Prize, whose previous winners include world wide web pioneer
Tim Berners-Lee, Internet legend Vint Cerf, Google search maestro Larry
Page, and cell phone inventor Martin Cooper, comes with a $ 100,000 prize,
but prestige and recognition worth a lot more for these people who are
already millionaires. Uncommonly, the Marconi Prize comes just three years
after Paulraj was honored with the other major Telecom technology award -
the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medalfor his work on theoretical foundations
of MIMO.
· The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing advancements in
communications awarded by the Marconi Foundation The Prize includes a
$100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture, and honorees are called
Marconi Fellows. The Society and Prize are named in honor of Guglielmo
Marconi
, a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio.
· Also known as A J Paulraj, he is the pioneer of a breakthrough wireless
technology known as MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) that
dramatically increases performance of wireless systems. MIMO is now core
technology in latest WiFi and LTE systems.
· Arogyaswami J Paulraj was born in Pollachi near Coimbatore, India. He
joined the Indian Navy at age 15 through the National Defence Academy,
Kharakvalsa and served the Navy for 30 years. Paulraj received his
bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Naval College of
Engineering, Lonavala, India, and his doctorate in electrical engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the Dept. of Elect. Engineering,
Stanford University.
· The story goes that in 1970, Stanford Prof. Thomas Kailath, a brilliant
and influential systems theorist who is himself a Pune-native, visited IIT
Delhi to lecture on non-linear estimation. Inspired by Kailath's lectures,
Paul went on to make fundamental advances in the area much to the Indian
Navy's benefit. In 1971, after the war with Pakistan exposed shortcomings
of the Navy's (British origin) sonars leading to the loss of a Naval ship,
Paul led a successful project to redesign the sonar adding many new signal
processing concepts. Three years later the new technology was widely
deployed in the fleet.
· Paulraj was issued a patent for the MIMO concept in 1994. He faced
skepticism from industry and funding sources and practical application of
the technology was not seen until the early 2000s. Among the obstacles,
digital transmission was needed to fully exploit the potential of MIMO, but
the U.S. wireless industry was still predominantly analog at the time.
· However, Paulraj persisted and held annual workshops at Stanford on the
technology that eventually helped interest in MIMO and spatial multiplexing
take hold.Paulraj’s MIMO technology is now crucial to local area and mobile
wireless communications. MIMO allows both higher data rates and wider
coverage areas. MIMO technology involves using multiple antennas at both
the transmit station and the receive station. Paulraj first developed the
idea of MIMO in 1992 while at Stanford University.
Awards and Honours
· Visiting / Honorary Professorships
· Imperial College, London
· Beijing Institute of Post and Telegraph, Beijing
· Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
· Paulraj is the author of over 400 research papers, two text books and a
co-inventor in 59 US patents.
· He is a fellow of seven scientific academies including the US National
Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering
Sciences. He is a fellow of IEEE and AAAS.
· During his 30 years in the Indian (Navy) (1961-1991), he founded three
national level laboratories in India and headed one of India’s most
successful military R&D projects – APSOH sonar. He received over a dozen
awards (many at the national level) in India including the Padma Bhushan,
Ati Vishist Seva Medal and the VASVIK Medal.
Professional Awards
· 2014 Marconi Prize and Fellowship
· 2011 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal [ The Bell Medal is the highest
IEEE honor for achievements in telecommunications sciences and engineering.]
· 2011 Pan-IIT Technology Leadership Award
· 2010 Padma Bhushan (Civilian National Award - India)
· 2003 IEEE SP Society Technical Achievement Award
· 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
1985 Scientist of the Year (Awarded by Government of India)
· 1983 Ati Vishist Seva Medal (National Award, Military - India)
· 1982 VASVIK Gold Medal (Industry Innovation - India)
· 1974 V.K. Jain Memorial Gold Medal (Navy Award - India)
· 1974 Vishist Seva Medal (National Award, Military - India)
· 1973 CNS Medal (Navy Award - India)
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