Sangato Sudhir सांगतो सुधीर

                                    (Story) "So, shall we get married next month?" Ninad asked, and Sagarika was completely stunned. A silence hung between them for a while. They just sat there, looking at each other. After some time, Sagarika said, "I'll tell you in two days." Ninad, who had been watching her face eagerly, looked a little deflated, but finally said, "Just two days, okay?" Then the two of them walked off in their own directions. (Scene illustrated with the help of artificial intelligence) Sagarika and Ninad had been together since their student days. Studying side by side, their hearts clicked. In today's language, the vibes matched. Slowly the bond grew stronger. They grew closer emotionally. Both confessed their love for each other. After finishing their studies, they both landed jobs in different companies. It had been barely a year since then. Very often, the biggest hurdle for...

 "Phulat phool jaaiche, jagat prem aaiche" ("Among flowers, the jasmine; in the world, a mother's love") — this saying used to be written on the blackboards and walls of many schools. A mother's love is one of the most wondrous things in the world. A mother carries her child in her womb for nine months. She goes through so much physical and emotional pain for it. It is impossible to describe. That is why a mother's love is selfless, asking for nothing in return. A child is, quite literally, a part of her own life. That is why a mother is regarded as the embodiment of God. "Prem deNyaasaathi aai nirmili, aai he devaache roop Sarvaanthaayi dev dhaavel kasa, devaala kaame hi khoop" ("God created the mother to give love; a mother is the form of God. How can God run to be everywhere? He has so much work to do.") This is a song sung by the late Lata Mangeshkar. A mother who loves her child with all her heart is happy when the child is happy...

   'फुलात फूल जाईचे जगात प्रेम आईचे' असा सुविचार पूर्वी अनेक शाळांच्या फळ्यांवर, भिंतीवर लिहिलेला आढळत असे. आईचे प्रेम ही जगातील एक अद्भुत गोष्ट आहे. आईने आपल्या अपत्याला नऊ महिने पोटात वाढवलेले असते. त्यासाठी अनेक शारीरिक मानसिक वेदना सहन केलेल्या असतात. याचे वर्णन करणे अशक्य आहे. त्यामुळे आईचे प्रेम हे निरपेक्ष असते. अपत्य हा आईच्या जीवाचा शब्दशः एक अंश असतो. आईला म्हणून देवाचे रूप मानले जाते.  'प्रेम देण्यासाठी आई निर्मिली ,आई हे देवाचे रूप सर्वांठायी देव धावेल कसा, देवाला कामे ही खूप' असे गीत स्वर्गीय गायिका लता मंगेशकर यांनी गायलेले आहे.          आपल्या अपत्यावर जिवापाड प्रेम करणारी आई अपत्याच्या सुखाने सुखावते आणि दु:खाने कष्टी होते. अपत्यावर संकट आले असेल तर ती ते संकट दूर करण्यासाठी वाटेल ते करायला तयार असते. अनेक प्रकारच्या संकटांपैकी एक संकट असते ते आजारपणाचे. आजारपणावर वेगवेगळे उपचार करून जर ते दूर होत नसेल तर देवावर श्रद्धा असणारी माणसे आपल्या दैवताला नवस करतात आणि आजारपण संपले की तो नवस फेडतात. आईने केलेला नवस फेडणाऱ्या दोन प्रसिद्ध व...

 In mathematics, most problems have just one right answer. Life is very different, and far more complicated. Even when situations look more or less the same, the same question can have several answers, and all of them can be right. What is right or wrong depends on a person's own thinking and on what that person values most in life. This article shares a few examples of exactly that. (Photograph of Dr. Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar, courtesy the internet)          Dr. Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar lived from 1884 to 1937. Through his own study and relentless effort, he brought out the *Dnyanakosh* — a vast series of reference volumes — and faced heavy criticism at times for it. He studied first in Amravati and then at Wilson College, Mumbai, before earning his PhD at Cornell University in the US. Back in India, he joined the University of Calcutta as a professor. In 1920, he married Edith Victoria Cohen, a German Jew. Miss Edith embraced Hindu religion and was give...

 "How poor am l!" - this question arose in my mind. This feeling had never come to my mind before. But today the feeling of poverty had become dense in my heart. Before this, in such a situation, I used to feel encouraged. I used to feel enthusiastic, but today this feeling came to my mind for the first time. I was a little startled. But then I realized that it is true.  "Indeed I am poor!" _(Picture generated with the help of Artificial Intelligence)_ This is from about two years ago. I had gone to Nashik. At that time I went to a book exhibition there. In the exhibition, thousands of books in English and Marathi were displayed. Of those, I had read only a few books, while I had seen some books or at least had some information about them. So a thought suddenly came to my mind that, "Books are wealth. But even though the books I have read so far are many, they are very few compared to the thousands of books here. And if we consider the total number of books in ...