Normalwali Diwali!

 

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We do not remember days, we remember moments… Cesare Pavese.

Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. Maybe his above quote is the reason why artists (poets or writers) are different from common people as they are not bound by the figures such as day, date, year but the moments they have lived. And the is Diwali exactly we need to follow attitude (or thought process) of the artists as the lockdown era may not be totally over yet & the threat of unknown enemy still looms on the head but no point in counting how many months or weeks or has been wasted in the lockdown or how much losses we have incurred in these months but need of the time is, cherish our survival & normality of life!

In all these months, most of us have lost someone close or have suffered losses in business or got setbacks on the career front in some or other form. Especially, the students had to go through a miserable time with no access to school, college or friends, I just can’t imagine the mindset of them! Though we are not alone in suffering the losses as the first time this war was really world wide & many countries, regions are still fighting the battle is a fact. Our country in a way is blessed with the inborn resilience to the adversities as most people here has to struggle every day for the survival even without the pandemic & I am not taking sides but with vaccination drive & many efforts by Central as well State govt (sorry to say but barring some political figures) as well with our immunity levels we should be thankful to each other’s if not God, for being able to see normality of life so fast. Good part with our countrymen (and women) is, we overcome hard times very fast & the bad part is we forget the lessons those hard times have taught us & the pandemic along with the lockdown era is also no exception to this social law of ours! As on one side, if few people are still worried or afraid of the virus or its variant then on the other side majority of the masses have already started behaving that the war is not just over but won! I am no expert or authority on viruses or pandemics but logically any war can’t be declared as won or over unless you see the last soldier of the enemy is dead or captured. That is my logical definition of winning or ending a war, which isn’t the case here, right? So, it’s always better to take care than to repent & that’s why this Diwali is special as for the first time we will be celebrating but with caution & that doesn’t mean taking fun out of it. It's like driving a car with a seat belt on or enjoying a boat ride with life jackets around our waists, that’s all!

Rather this Diwali try to have as much fun as you can & that doesn’t include burning fire crackers for sure as already, we have enough pollution so why add in more smoke to it! What I meant is, go out in nature or in the open, do shop a lot, not to show-off but to make other business people’s Diwali also happy, keep the markets rolling not by over-spending but by spending righteously, so everybody can be benefitted by each other's spending! The biggest damage lockdown months has done to the society is, not just casualties by some virus but stagnancy in the mindsets of the people which has been reflected in turnover of the trade of every kind. And that’s why this Diwali is special as it's in a way an opportunity for us to relive life in a normal way. And do mind when I say normal, it’s not necessary that we start living just the way life was two years back but normal means whatever necessary care is needed by taking that also we can enjoy & have fun! Most important thing hereafter for being normal is, keep the fear aside by keeping care in place & what better occasion of Diwali, a festival of not just lights but togetherness, happiness, to start the normal life ahead!

Indeed, for many, the life may not be ever going to be the same as every war gift us with the scars which remain forever though the wounds may heal. But just the way a true soldier carries the scars or even a disable leg or hand as a medal of the battle he or she has fought as its sign of his courage & fighting spirit, same way we also should be able to carry our loss in this battle & welcome the festival of light, that is what I call as Normalwali Diwali. And one more thing, don’t restrict your joy, courage, pride, care & happiness etc things to yourself or your closeness rather allow it to flow in every direction & let it reach as many people around as that will be true Normal. To conclude my wishes, I will share my own takeaway of Diwali; when we lit a candle or a sky lantern to welcome the Diwali at the entrance of our home, does that candle or sky lantern brightens only the faces of the residents of the respective home? No sir, the candle or the sky lantern at our home brightens every by-passer’s face which looks at it without differentiating the age, gender, religion or caste of a person or animal, this is what I have learned & its adoption of this philosophy of the brightness, will make the Diwali, a Normalwali, Happy & Green Diwali, so be it, for all of you as well your family & friends! …

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Sanjay Deshpande & team Sanjeevani.

Sanjeevani Dev.

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Plots, Dream of Every Home Buyer...

 

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We all dream of a piece of land which will have our home on it but just a few are lucky to live that dream in reality...

 

Few days back a group of friends asked me specifically about buying a plot around Pune for making their bungalows (yeah still people think on these lines in Pune!), though I said it’s no more a viable proposal  but the thought lingered in my mind. And then one of my media friends also asked my views about buying a plot & making (read as building) own home on it. Then I decided to pen down my views about plotted layouts or say buying a bungalow plot or even buying a piece of land & making own flats on it by three or four person’s (friends) group; which surely is a much viable option in present times to have a good home at good location & at real good price! Indeed, with growing urbanization all around, owning a piece of land is getting tough by the day. And when it’s about a city or region like Pune, then the “own piece of land” dream gets even harder is a fact. Yet it’s not impossible, as all one has to do is think a little smart and be ready for the right opportunity is what I will say!!

Just go back a decade or two, plotting was the buzz word all around & in every suburb or outskirts of Pune and PCMC, and many people have benefitted by buying a small piece of land during that period. But while buying a plot one needs to take more precautions to be taken than a ready possession flat as not all of those who bought the plots during those times were really lucky, is also a fact. 

And the most important aspect one should look for when you are buying a piece of land i.e., a plot, is the legal title along with proper access and documentation.  Most plot buyers just get lured by the concept of buying their own land and location and ignore basic things like title i.e., legal ownership process as well legal documents like 7/12 extract & city survey demarcation. Outcome is, the piece of land shows your name but on record only, while that piece of land is missing in reality from the site when you think of starting to build your dream home on that land of yours!

Then comes the aspect of proper access road, that too right up to the plot as when you try to take your car to your plot you realize the road has been blocked by somebody else while your document is silent about this aspect! In recent times, I have come across many plot owners who have got the plot ownership on their name but the rights of the access road are still with the original landlord. And with the present scene of rise in land prices, no wonder the landlord or his successors are smart enough to take advantage (read as disadvantage or blackmail) of such lacunas in the agreement of the plot & create hurdles in development of your plot! At the same time getting it NA i.e., non agriculture use, in a legal way to get your plan sanctioned from PMC or PCMC is also another aspect which many people overlook while buying a plot and when they realize it’s too late!  Most of such plots (without proper roads etc) have been sold or purchased under “gunthewari” which means illegal layouts. In simpler language, whenever you make a plotted layout of land it has to be in a residential zone as well there are rules for leaving proper open space & road widths in the respective plotting scheme. But in the past (even today) many landlords who are owners of any land just because of ancestral rights, don't bother much about going into the sanction process of plotting as that needs many documents, time & money too, all of which they are not willing to fulfil! Easiest way is to prepare some drawings of the plots, show some road of 6 m width which is sufficient to pass one car & use as much land under the plots, mark the barbed wire fence on site & sell these plots, that’s all! Unfortunately, such plots also get sold because there still are plot buyers who are happy to have any piece of land under their ownership which fits in their budget & they can actually see their name’s board on a piece of land!

Ok, if you are fortunate that even after buying such a plot, you actually can retain it & get possession of the said plot then also don’t forget another important aspect & that is, having proper fencing i.e., a compound wall to your prized piece of land. Because, even after having all the legal aspects properly covered along with the documentation & having physical possession is not enough. Having your all plot boundaries as per demarcation on the site is very important especially when you go for the proper sanctioning process of your dream home. Here many plot buyers try to save on making a good, strong compound wall and pay heavily later for that small saving! Equally important is, keeping periodical check on the status of your plots legal as well use (purpose) i.e., zoning aspect, is also important. It’s because vacant plots even in residential zones can come under reservation such as road or any public use amenity while making or updating existing DP i.e., Development Plan of city or region & it may cause your dream home to vanish into thin air in no time!!

To avoid all such hurdles, it’s always advisable to buy a plot from a properly sanctioned layout from the competent authority (PMC, PMRDA,PCMC etc.) with physical infrastructure such as roads, electricity, water lines etc. in place & ownership documentations! Such legal plots are available but obviously at higher rate per sq. ft. than the raw or illegally plotted layouts but then mostly cheaper deals make you land in trouble in future, this logic is perfectly applicable when its land deals, is what my experience is!!

Indeed, in real estate you earn most when you have your own piece of land but only if it's been bought & protected with all above boxes ticked! So go ahead and, do buy a plot or a home or anything in real estate by using not just your Smart Phone but your own Smartness too...

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Sanjay Deshpande 

Sanjeevani Dev.

Please view my sharing about real estate in Pune at You Tube link below..

 

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Tribute to the Thaliava, "MSD" !

 

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“Critics exists to make you realize that you still have got that fire in you, to wipe out their words which were meant to wipe you out” …

By the time you guys will be reading this sharing the IPL  21 named festival must have been over & the Indian T 20 Premier League, may be getting a new champion or ninth time finalists Chennai Super Kings may be gaining their fourth championship title! Whatever the result may be but CSK team has already entered in the finals & awaiting their opponents to be finalized out of the remaining three teams, which will be fighting to get that hot seat in the finals! If you are in India & still wondering about above names then they are from the game of cricket & its limited 20 overs format championship league currently being played in UAE (because of Covid in our country) & above are the names of the teams (just the way clubs in football)! But this writing is not about the game or IPL or T20 (20 over game’s short form) but its about the man who is leading CSK (one of the franchise or club or team) & has taken this team 9th time in the finals out of its 13 editions & I am referring to M S Dhoni who happens to be Team India’s (of course cricket team)!

I am a cricket fan & more than the game I am fan of the players for the way they play this game (or any game actually) & I have been watching, reading, listening (as in my school days it was radio only) to the cricket for nearly four decades now. During all these times many players, some of them are history now & many have become legend in the history of this game, I am sure with due respect to all such names, one name stands differently & that is the subject of this sharing i.e., MSD i.e., Mahendra Sing Dhoni! That way to make career in any game isn’t easy thing as even the icons like Tendulkars' & Kapildevs' get forgotten by the Companies which they happened to be the Brand Ambassadors & unlike in cinema (only if you succeed), the lime light fades very fast in sports. While at the age of 79, Amitabh Bachhan keeps signing new endorsement & if Bachhan is Super Human then with 50 plus age the Khan gang rules Bollywood while Irfan Pathan who once was star of team India, has to declare retirement in mid-30’s as there is no place in any team for him! On such background with no godfather, coming from a small town in Bihar & being able to be most talked player in the country of 130 plus crore population, at the age of 40, that’s what MSD is! But he is not special because he is most talked about, even his retirement from international cricket was discussed the way Mr. Modi’s retirement will be discussed (some are already discussing) & even today he has nearly 35 million followers on Insta & his Club or Team in IPL i.e., CSK page has more than 8 million followers & most of them are there because MSD leads CSK!

And many such things have been written, said, filmed about MSD, with a movie which made more than 100 Crore Rupees business is under his belt, based on his character! Even these all things don’t make MSD special, but the way he has carried himself as a player, as a captain as a leader & as a person, is what makes him not just special but very special. Here are few examples why I am saying so; nearly 15 years back when no body was ready to take rick of leading a team in T20 World Cup (after shameful performance in One Day’s World Cup), the responsibility given to a youngster (though of 27 years then) with long hairs & many thought if this tour was failure (many hoped for it) then they will blame & sack the youngster as remember all big names from Tendulkar, Ganguli, Dravid, Sehevag, Laxman etc. were in their prime then & yet they made MSD captain! Well, we all know what happened then afterwards but right from giving the last over of the final match (that too with Pakistan) to a totally unknown Joginder Sharma to coming ahead of in form Yuvraj Sing in World Cup Final in 2011 & winning the match with a six on last ball, he knew what he was doing & he always believed himself! And more than that not showing any emotions nor trying to be on front when its media or camera but allowing the team to lift the world cup & click themselves by being in background, MSD just started making people know what is being special means!

But age is such a wonderful enemy as on one side it gives you experience then on other side it takes away opportunities to use that experience & even MSD is no exception to this law of the age yet he gives tough fight even to the age at 40’s & that’s why he is special! As nearly 14 years from the T 20 World Cup Final to yesterday i.e., in 2021 when it’s time to lead against one of the best-balanced team in the IPL this year, he led from front & using his every trick which we call experience! Why he is special as last year CSK was at bottom of points tally &was the first team to got disqualify themselves from entering in to qualifying round & this year the very same team was the first to enter in the qualifier round & the captain was sure of it that they will do it! In this year’s entire league matches when batsman’s MSD was struggling to make runs & though the team is winning under captain MSD, there were whispers about future of batsman MSD, we all know that! But we forgot batsman or captain, both lives in one body & mind & that MSD is same & he showed it on the day where it mattered most! In the qualifier with Delhi Capitols team when the match was evenly balanced MSD came out for batting ahead of in form players like Jadeja & Bravo & finished the match single handedly taking his old horse’s team in the finals! This is why MSD is special, as at the age of 40, he knows what he is capable of, he is not afraid to take the challenges head on & still he leads from the front! And don’t underestimate the way he takes on the challenges, he is not a gambler though he sems to play blind a times! Behind the cool, emotionless mind there lies a ruthlessly cunning brain which knows exactly what he is doing! May it be dropping out dearest comrade like Raina in the crucial match or giving opportunity to discarded Uthappa, the brain & the mind goes in hand & makes the body follow! I won’t call it as turning the time wheel back rather I will call riding the time wheel, making the time stop as when you walk or run with any object matching its speed, the object looks like standstill; so has done MSD to the “Time” itself!

I remember a scene in the movie Deewar (plz don’t ask what is it, its Bachhan’s movie) where gang’s boss Iftekhar assigns young Bachhan a task of rescuing some consignment from the Police as well rival gang, Bachhan does it. And post that when Iftekhar goes to meet Bachhan with his aide, while watching Bacchan lazing in the chair from outside of his cabin, Iftekhar tells to his aide, “Iss ladkeko dekh rahe ho, ye ekdin jarur kuch Banega, isliye nahi ki jo kaam maine isse bataya ye usne kar dikhaya, par isliye ke isse malum tha ki wo ye kaam pura karega”! Well, bit difficult to translate Salim-Javed’s words in English but in nutshell, Iftekhar praised Bachhan for not just completing the task but for the confidence as Bachhan knew that he will complete the task!

Yesterday after the match when media asked CSK coach Stephen Flaming about the move of sending out of form Dhoni ahead of inform Jadeja, Flaming told to the media, “We discussed about it (himself & Dhoni) & when I looked in the eyes of MSD when he said he will go for bat, the eyes told me that he will win the match for us”, do I need to still write why MSD is special!

Many of you will say its too much of glorification & after all it’s a game why a man like me past 50 should waste my time & others by making them read about some silly games near retirement player & I wont object as you have every right to say this! Let me tell you watching, reading, observing persons like MSD is like sitting in open classroom of life management! People spend millions of rupees & years to get management degrees in the top rated Business Schools’ & keeping due respect for them, MSD is one Business School by himself! Whatever I have shared all above about MSD is not just some time-pass watching him lift the ball in the stands for six (partly yes) but the way he controls himself along with his team has taught me many things, though not even one third of it I am able to yet adopt by myself, I am still trying! That way millions of fans watch MSD in the game as a captain, as a batsman, as a wicketkeeper, enjoys their team win & goes happily to home or switch of the TV after the match but real MSD makes his place in the mind & heart of people like me who may not be able to play the game of cricket anymore but keeps getting tips from him for the game of life, which is on forever; that’s why MSD is very special for me!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

Sanjeevani Dev.

Please view my sharing about real estate in Pune at You Tube link below...

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Wild Life Week , Wild Life & People!

 

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“I am not worried about the tigers, as tigers have survived many enemies & it will be there even after next hundred years; I am worried about the humans, as they don’t need any other enemy to wipe of themselves” … Anon.

Whoever this Anon guy is, I appreciate his views about ability of tigers to survive & ability of humans to wipe of themselves but the only issue is including the tigers ever specie other than the humans can’t speak or put forward their problems so some humans only have to do that job & may be that’s why we have to celebrate WildLife Week!  Wildlife Week is annually celebrated across India between 2nd to 8th October with an aim to protect and preserve the flora and fauna of India. The first Wildlife Week was observed in 1957.

Wildlife Week will be celebrated in tune with the theme of World Wild Life Day 2021 which is, “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet”, as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of Indigenous and local communities with historic ties to forested and forest-adjacent areas. Between 200 and 350 million people live within or adjacent to forested areas around the world, relying on the various ecosystem services provided by forest and forest species for their livelihoods and to cover their most basic needs, including food, shelter, energy and medicines.

 

Roughly 28% of the world’s land surface is currently managed by indigenous peoples, including some of the most ecologically intact forests on the planet. These spaces are not only central to their economic and personal well-being, but also to their cultural identities.”

Well, I used different font for above para because this information I took from our Environment & Forest Dept’s  web-site about Wild Life Week (Which they have taken from UN’s web site about wild life day) but even if we are doing something wrong as copying till we are doing for a good & right cause that’s ok! And no wonder minds at the UN (United Nations) have understood this basic fact that no forests or wildlife can be saved if we don’t save humans which are part of those forests. That way wildlife & forests can’t be separated out as by me wild life is every other species than humans barring dogs & cats & cattle like species whom we consider as domestic & use them for our benefits! A sparrow is wild life, a butterfly is wild life, an earthworm is wild life, a rat snake is wild life, a mahseer fish is wild life & so is a tiger or an eagle or a rhino! And all these species need some privacy & their own space just the way we the humans need which we call forest which can be desert, an ocean, a river or trees or grass land depending upon the specie, which we call (or say consider) as the forest or say habitat & combinedly the species & habitat makes wild life!

Good thing is, not just our govt but govts’ (read as rulers) across the world are recognizing (though slowly) this fact about wild life conservation that only if we will protect & conserve the people around the forests or habitats then the wild life can be protected! And that’s why Wild Life Day’s as well Wild Life Week’s theme song on the tune of progress & growth of people around the forests & through the conservation of wild life!  But when it comes to progress or conservation of the people around & in the forests what’s the scene on the front around us? Keeping due respect to the efforts of the forest dept which is supposedly responsible for the conservation of the wild life, the scene is not much encouraging is a bitter fact! And we can’t blame forest dept (I mean only forest dept) for that as they are one of the most neglected dept by the Mai Baap govt is another fact! Right from not getting a powerful personality as a minister of the dept (barring last term, where finance minister was handling forest dept) out of some seventy odd years nearly sixty plus years the dept has some no entity as its minister. If you don’t believe me, then tell me the name of our State’s current forest minister; well, none other than the CM himself is heading it, not because he has full charge of it but nobody is ready to take that dept as a cabinet minister! And as the CM has many other important works to do along how you can expect he will give full time to the forests & people around it? So, the forest dept itself doesn't have a full-time captain & we expect them to take care of people around forests, “point to be noted, My Lord’; lol.

Ok let’s go ahead with captain-less forest team as the team has got fighting spirit; when we say conservation of the people around the forests or their growth & prosperity or support them, how we are going to achieve it, is the question, right? One way is, pay them directly as we are not referring to just core areas of project tiger where you relocate people & pay them compensation but we are referring to buffers of the protected forests as well thousands of habitats in each district of the State where people live in & around the forests or the habitats which are homes for the wild life.  How can these people survive if we don’t allow any development such as industry or urban planning as they are directly in conflict with the conservation of the wild life! But the State doesn't have money & we all know any type of free money finds its way to wrong avenues, which again will make these people enemies of the wild life. So, the only way is using this wild life for the growth & prosperity of the people around the forests & that way goes through tourism!

But again, on one side we speak about growth of people around forests via tourism & all our policies (as well attitude) of the concerned authorities (govt depts) are 180 degrees opposite of this solution of conservation of the wild life through tourism!  Because in tourism, we need a place to stay for the tourists, vehicles & allied services with tourist friendly staff all of which the so-called environmentalists’ hails as destruction of wildlife & so are our wildlife tourism policies made! But it's these tourists which bring money to the places where wildlife survives (still) & it’s this money which will help local people to not only survive but prosper & for that they only will have to save & conserve the wildlife around them! Recently I had been to one such place of forest near Pune & met the locals as well as forest staff & their demand was, please build resorts around here so tourists will come & the local boys will get jobs as for now either they have got nothing to survive or leave their village & go to Pune for job. And this scene is all around the most forests of the Country but what we do is, any small incident, even if death of a deer happens, we close down the tourism activity in that area, causing hundreds of local people go without earning, does forests dept’s salaries are holdup or deducted in such case, is the question I wanted to ask?? This doesn’t mean neglect deaths of wild animals, this means applying a logical approach to the problem, is what I meant! My only appeal to the environmentalists or so-called wildlife conservationists is, it's easy to write columns in newspapers (mostly urban or city) or posting on Insta & Facebook about damage to the wild life & ban tourism type comments, but have you even gone & stayed at such places which are mostly rural & cut-off from all civic luxuries of the life? If not, then do that & see how difficult life is without money or any such support around the forests & then write your columns of banning or restricting wildlife tourism. Do mind, most tourists come to forests to see & enjoy nature, not to destroy it! And we can have controlled proper tourism which has been successfully done at many places like Africa as well Brazil & certainly we also can do it but target should be more tourism & not to curtail it! Wildlife tourism has biggest potential in future & can be the best way to make forests & people around the forests to survive & prosper together; all we need is a bit positive approach of city people to achieve it & that’s why, Wild Life Week needs to be celebrated more in the Metros’ & Cities’ than in the forests as there lies the future of the wild life!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

Sanjeevani Dev.

Please view my sharing about real estate in Pune at You Tube link below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4xX7eopH5o&t=5s

 

Please do visit my blog links below to read about real estate & home buying! 

https://visonoflife.blogspot.com/2021/09/choosing-right-home.html

http://jivnachadrushtikon.blogspot.com/

 

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