Dear Rashmi, A small letter I recently sent to Ms Rashmi Bansal.

Dear Rashmi,

I am a decent fan/admirer of your work. And I have read almost all of your books except for few (‘Take me Home’ and Poor Little Rich Slum’)

Recently I saw you mention in Facebook that your book ‘Arise Awake’ is on discount on Amazon and I ordered it right away. And like every other book of yours it is easy to read, informative and worth every penny.

 Your books has helped me a lot in my humble socio-entrepreneurial journey sometime it help me give new information, sometimes it help me subconsciously.

We had one small project on ‘Sanitation’ and you coverage on Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak’s  ‘Sulabh International’ helped me a lot. And infact I met him once to discuss on our work.

Even if it is in small way, your books are helping this Country shape it’s Future. Please keep up the good work and best wishes for your future projects not only in ‘Entrepreneurship’ but also in Fictional/Self-Help if any  J

One small piece of advice/request: You can use your facebook page also to motivate India.

P.S:  I am ok if you like to publish my small note of appreciation in your facebook page.

Tsering Angchok Mayur

Founder: Speak Ladakh

NIDO TANIA

On January of 2014 I was in Delhi for my GATE exam and this unfortunate event happened, a student named Nido Tania from Arunachal Pradesh was murdered in Broad day light. It was said to be a racist attack. Following it there was widespread protest all over Delhi for long and social media uproared crying "Justice for Nido Tania".

I was in one of Candle march to show my solidarity for the cause, thinking this is the least i could do. Some Prof. from North East gave their speech at the end of march.  

And for the cause I with the help of few of my friend I did this piece of work. 

Some of my thoughts and idea on the unfortunate event.

That's me in picture.
editing credits my friend@Stanzin Gyurmet


On a second thought it's also very easy to label one incident with Racism or Hate crime, we should also take it with the perspective that it was a normal brawl between two people which led to unfortunate death of Nido Tania. But it's hard digesting, because only victims know how we are treated by mainlanders in our day to day life every now and then. Chinki, Chowmin and Nepali are few names we grow up with in Delhi, so much that I am deaf to this names.


Some links:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nido-Tania

http://thenortheasttoday.com/nido-tania-death-case-hc-denies-bail-to-accused/

fb Page :  https://www.facebook.com/justicefornidotania

Why, When and How we become animal or worse ????

                                   Why, When and How we become animal or worse ????

Forgive me for writing it up.

Sometime back perhaps few months I happened to watch accidently a video clip I recieved on Whatsapp, where a mob tortures and evetually burns a man alive and recently again I saw a clip in facebook of the same kind but here the victim was a woman. These videos were so disturbing that i had some difficulty with it. (emotionally and mentally)

And just the other day I was with some friends out and a person in maruti 800 was chased by Police vehicle and they eventually caught him. It seems while trying to escape he hit some car (but no caualties). The police caught him and immediately took him inside police car but in no time a mob sorrunded the police car and asked police to bring him outside. This mob was so furious and outraged that I saw a hint of the instincts that I saw in those video clips. If police would have let him outside I am not sure but the consequences seems to be very dangerous. Here among this mob ofcourse includes those people whose car were damaged but majority of them had no clue but curosity of what was happening. And we see such incidents many times in our life.

From this incident I could see police as an institution was key saving someones life (and similarly Judiciary as an institution).

I hope I have not drawn any conclusions here, ofcourse the perpertrator must be given strictest of punishment under the law and thorough investigation but we must let the established systems to act on rather than taking the law in our hands.

Ofcourse we all (or atleast I ) get curious on seeing such incident but we must think before we act.

P.S:  Any video of such if appears on any social networking site I think personally we should delete right then rather than sharing it. Its disturbing and I see no reason to share.

#viewsarepersonal

It is not about !!

It is not about :(

  

No it’s not about getting hurt or the fear of it

I have been hurt on several occasions;

For this hurt will not last forever,

But I am afraid of losing this beautiful prospect

This dream of future I have in my mind.

No it’s not about whose mistake it was

I must have done quite many mistakes in my life;

For I am of course not a saint,

        But I am afraid of losing each other in this blame game

        Of ending a moment of love with hate of lifetime.

No it’s not about fear of losing you forever

And I cannot live without you;

For we may lose someone today but for sure find someone soon,

But I am afraid thinking, what if you are the One !

The one for whom I’ve longed for long(Intuitively) 

The one for whom I can live

And the one who can live for me forever. 

Tsering Angchok Mayur

28-May-2015

NIT Srinagar 
angchukmayur.blogspot.in

This Disgusting Feeling

This Disgusting Feeling

It’s 12:10 am midnight, I am in my room, not feeling very sleepy yet and not even in a very good mood to watch a movie on laptop. In this dilemma of what should I do with my time, I realized I have not been studying since two weeks, I have some very crucial exams on scheduled in a month and here I am wandering and wasting my time.

So the strange thing it occurred to me why the hell I am not studying, what’s keeping me away from my studies, from my books? Although I have every prerequisites for a proper study, books, food at time, in good health. On narrowing down all the excuses, it occurred that all the excuses I was trying to put were superficial or not reasonable. In short I was not able to find one genuine excuse which should keep me away from my books. So what’s it that keeping me away from books.

I guess this is the same feeling which, the same cause which is not letting hundreds of students study. A virtual barrier or infact a mental barrier which gives this disgusted disliking feeling to even touch our books. Even if we touch the book and leap through some problems/pages there’s this call somewhere inside our mind, a pull down which cry loud in our head stop … stop … Stop studying and we throw away our book away and resort to easier task like whatsapp and facebook.

We must understand that this mental barrier which keeps us away from our books are not worst than our greatest enemy. We are bogged down by this feeling, by this poison. We have become a slave of this disgusted feeling.

There was this analogy, may be in some movie I am not sure, that there are two kinds of dogs in us. Good and Bad one. The more we feed the good dog (Feeling, Stimuli) the stronger it becomes. Now if we let down ourselves again and again ruthlessly by this disgust feeling, which keeps us away from our books, hence from our goals. We are unconsciously feeding this bad dog and making it stronger day by day.

Until one day we become salve of such feeling,

Until one day we wander here and there like a lost soul with no sense of direction and time,

 Wasting our days into months and sometimes even years,

Until one day we have no control over our senses,

Until one day we have surrendered ourselves and gave up.

But winners are those who break such barriers repeatedly each time they occur until that disgust feeling is no more, that pull down is vanished completely.

Moreover it is also found that the monotonous way of our studying 

A story with Vipassana

A story with Vipassana

Vipassana is one of Meditation technique that was actually used by Buddha to get Enlightenment. Before I explain what’s the core philosophy of it, it is important to mention that one of organisation which have preserved this tradition (of meditation) exactly it was around 2500 years back is Goenka organisation. Which at present is operating all around the world completely on Donations from the followers.

It was one of those time when you are fed up with the monotony and you have this big requirement of a refresh, kindof formatting our system, provided all the old drivers are saved J

Joining the Goenka centre is very easy, we have to register in the upcoming course (10 days) in their simple yet effective website. And then we’ll get a confirmation reply from them whether they have seat available or not.

Before we jump to the meditation technique one more important thing to understand is one of Buddhist core philosophy i.e Anicha (In pali) and in Mahayana tradition this philosohpy is called “Impermanent nature of reality” It says .. all conditioned existence without exception is in constant state of flux, in lay man’s language everything in this world is impermanent, in a state of change..Whether it is material or an emotion it is completely impermanent. (It’s a good news!!). One analogy could be a light from a Fluorescent bulbs, to our naked eye it appears to be a constant light but in reality it is blinking at 40 khz per second i.e 40,000 blinks in one second it’s continuously changing but it appears to be constant light to our naked eye.

So cutting further crap lets jump to the core process to which we call Vipassana. It is a meditation technique where we focus on our thoughts; any thought could be a positive or negative one. In our everyday life if a thought is positive (or pleasing) we tend to cling on it for more because it makes us feel good. A positive thought could be a desire for a choclate to thought of some sensual pleasure or something else which makes us become slave of it by clinging on to it, and negative (Unpleasant) thought could be dislike for a particular person, place, thing or a feeling to a thought which is so unpleasant that we better not think of it,  which completely shakes us or takes us into some darkness, so in our daily life when we come across such negative feelings we tend to avoid it.

So when we sit for Vipassana meditation, when these two thoughts come into our mind. Unlike our everyday life neither we cling to positive (pleasant) feeling/thoughts for more nor we avoid or shoo away the negative (unpleasant) feeling. We just let it come to us and observe it. We let it stay, without attaching or detaching from it, knowing both the thoughts can’t stay forever based on Buddha’s (or nature’s) “ Impermanent nature of reality”. We try to be equanimous on this pleasant and unpleasent thoughts (sensations they call) giving a neutral reaction to it.

So in very short this is what Vipassana is all about giving a neutral (equanimous as they call) reaction to these thoughts, living in complete equanimity. So that next time in our mundane life, when we come across both unpleasant and pleasant we can maintain an equanimous life i.e not easily elated or depressed.

So next time when we face serious/shocking news or accident we can have a calmer reaction to it, or when we get this job you always dreamed for we will not get too excited with it and handle it with a calm mind. 

Arvind Kejriwal of AAP is practioner of Vipassana, atleast that we can make out by his calmness, Abhinav Bindra (Indian famed shooter) is also very old practiioner of Vipassana, SECMOL Sonam Wangchuk also practice Vipassana, Priyanka Gandhi Vadara and there are many who are serious practioner of Vipassana.

Gulmarg ! 28th-March-2015

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets.I did (Doing) what I wanted to do.You can't expect more from life. 

~~ BRUCE LEE

Beautiful quote by Bruce Lee, with Little editing :) 

With Roomies of  No. 6  NIT Srinagar. 

At first when I came to know six of people have to stay in one room it was not less than any shock. When you come with expectation/plan to take single room and make a good use of it. It was indeed a big shock. But later in disguise it turn out to be one of great moments of my life. 

Here is the list of room no, 6 people... Bastards :-P 

Syed Aamir from Kashmir- Anantnag---- https://www.facebook.com/syed.aamir.7?fref=ts 

Amit Chaurasia from Bihar--- https://www.facebook.com/amit.chourasia.5?fref=ts

Manmoohan Gupta from Nepal---- https://www.facebook.com/manmohan.gupta.9406?fref=ts

Asif Bajran from Jammu----   https://www.facebook.com/asifxda?fref=ts 

Ratul Basumatry from Assam -- https://www.facebook.com/ratul.basumatary.54?fref=ts 

and Tsering Angchok Mayur from Ladakh. :) 

Coming back to college life(Innocence) after almost three years of job experience (Reality) is beautiful you have this slightly different (Broad I wish to say) perspective of life. 

And thats Mr. Manmohan the Sincerest guy of Room No. 6

Kolkata

10-Feb-2015

KOLKATA !! Feels like Modern History still breathes here. Any one here... Any suggestions most welcome

15-Feb-2015

Back to Delhi feels like home unusually,alive and sound like never before ! As Baba Ramdev once said on yoga in his peculiar tone traveling is also "Karad ki vidya hai, karne sey hota hai "

It gives you a different feeling/perspective when you try to cover most part of India in one go(In one breath as i would like to say). It is amazing to see such a diverse country and still developing and still there people have this this Indianess in them.

Kolkata was like seeing past, present and future fused into one.Amazing !!
How I wish i could cover NEast also but definitely someday. 
I thank my good friends because of whom i could make it Ankit Vohra Amit Shukla Maisam Ali and Linzi Sarkar from bottom corner and every part of my heart.

13-Feb- 2015

On my way back to Delhi from Kolkata, traveling in train in India is more like going for a war than just a journey sometimes. No wonder why many of my friends go for railway as first priority when they clear engg. services, for many ladakhis commuting in train is completely an alien thing. I had no idea that there is hell of a difference b/w then sleeper, 3tier AC now 2T AC.

Viewsarepersonal 

@Park Street Kolkata 

Mighty Famous Old Hawrah Bridge Kolkata 

Outside Mother's house . IMPERMANENCE !!

Victoria Memorial Kolkata. If you skip this part you have skipped the whole Kolkata.
In retrospect it is much better to give one full day to Victoria Memorial 

Eden Garden stadium. 
Looks like many event of Indian cricket history is created here.

Sholay bike ... not one, many of them running.

Famous Flurrys of Kolkata 

Random 

Somewhere near Mother's house.
On asking where Ladakh is the guy with the phone
in 'Jammu & Kashmir'. they asked me for taking their picture, I said with pleasure. Kid was curious and Open. I saw some good future of India in him.

Famous Biryanni. Last Lunch @Kolkata 

kashmir once again :)

KOLKATA !

Back to Delhi feels like home unusually,alive and sound like never before !

As Baba Ramdev once said on yoga in his peculiar tone traveling is also "Karad ki vidya hai, karne sey hota hai " smile emoticon

It gives you a different feeling/perspective when you try to cover most part of India in one go(In one breath as i would like to say). It is amazing to see such a diverse country and still developing and still there people have this this Indianess in them.

Kolkata was like seeing past, present and future fused into one.Amazing !!
How I wish i could cover NEast also but definitely someday.
I thank my good friends because of whom i could make it Ankit Vohra Amit Shukla Maisam Ali and Linzi Sarkar from bottom corner and every part of my heart.

St.Paul Cathedral Kolkata

Handpull Rickshaw... Very common in Kolkata. It reminds of slavery... but it's what they know and feeds their stomach.

f you skip this part you have skipped the whole Kolkata.
In retrospect it is much better to give one full day to Victoria Memorial

Mothers House 

History in present... Kolkata Tram since 18XX