The Next Generation has arrived. Gukesh Dommaraju, Gukesh D. Gukesh, 18, the World Champion. Chess. Youngest. Earlier in this year, he won a team gold and an individual gold medal at the 45th Chess Olympiad. Gukesh discontinued full-time schooling after Class 4, and father gave up his job as ENT surgeon to be with Gukesh. According to Magnus Carlsen: Gukesh is a book player; almost never makes mistakes. He has aggressive style, resilience, quick calculation skills under time pressure.
He started to work on Chess at 7. He won the under-9 Asian school championship, under-12 world youth championship. He won five gold medals under-12 Asian youth championships – individual classical, rapid, blitz, team rapid, blitz. He became grandmaster when he was 12. The second youngest in history at that time, now he is the third youngest. Abhimanyu Mishra is the youngest grandmaster in history now. In the 44th Chess Olympiad, he got individual gold, and team bronze. He became the third youngest to pass 2700 rating, 2750 rating. Viswanathan Anand was top ranker in India for 37 years. In 2023, Gukesh surpassed him. Incidentally, Anand is his mentor.
Gukesh became the third youngest to qualify for a Candidates tournament. Only Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen were ahead of him. He won it and qualified for the World Championship match. He was the youngest to do so. Meanwhile, he won individual gold and team gold at Chess Olympiad 2024. He entered the world top-five. He became the youngest World Chess Champion, winning 7.5-6.5 against Ding Liren. ON TOP OF THE WORLD.
It appears we are progressing on “One Nation, One Election”. Lok Sabha would be considering two bills – making the terms of Lok Sabha and state Assemblies simultaneous; making similar amendments for Delhi and other Union Territory Assemblies. On introduction of the bills, they may be referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee. Synchronising local body polls, for now, is put aside. If ONOE is passed, and if the Lok Sabha or a state Assembly gets dissolved before its term of five years because of a loss of majority on the floor of the House, fresh “midterm elections” will be held and the new government will last only for the remainder of the full term of the Lok Sabha, referred as “unexpired term”. ONOE effectiveness may be 2029 or 2034. The assemblies will have truncated tenures till 2029 or 2034, through dissolution in 2029 or 2034. Midterm elections still may be there for truncated terms. Two-thirds majority is required to get these through. In Lok Sabha and in Rajya Sabha. Current numbers are not adding up in any House. Lot of pushing, pulling is required. It is expected to save a lot of money in conducting elections, and electioneering. It also saves election time. Overall, the calculation is that GD would increase by 1-1.5% GDP. Hope these calculations are right.
Irrespective of our occupations, ages, work places, et al, all three kinds of people – emotionally sensitive, resilient, and suppressed – face emotional stress chronically, or some time or the other; and they need to find ways to handle their emotional stress. These ways involve reaching out – pouring our issues to select band of understanding friends; speaking to ‘friends’, to avoid emotional burnout; seeking out ‘optimistic’ friends. Do we have trusted, trustable friends? Sensitive, willing, and optimistic. Can we reach out, seek and speak up with them? Can we respond, reciprocate fairly, sensitively, and willingly – by being together, by offering hope, faith, promise, love? Can we be proactive?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing. With HPFL. In N? sthaayibhaavayoga for 7L.
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