R Ashwin: Ever evolving. Discovered/invented, pursued, practiced hard. Ending is good. It begins a new good. It ends an existing burden. A new burden may start mounting up. :). Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote to Ashwin: Jersey number 99 would be sorely missed. May you find ways to continue contributing to the game that you dearly love.
Maharashtra: CM Devendra Fadnavis – Home, Non-renewable Energy, Law, General Admin, Info; Eknath Shinde – Urban Dev, Housing, Public Works; Ajit Pawar – Finance, Excise. Manik Rao Kokate – Agriculture. Pankaja Munde – Climate Change. Jay Kumar Gore – Rural Development, Panchayatraj.
Winter Solstice. 22 December. Shortest day of the year, 11 hour 5 min 35 sec, at Hyderabad; and the longest night. From this day, the day increases and the night decreases. All this happens because of the tilt of the earth.
21 June, yoga day. 21 December Mediation day. On the eve of Winter Solstice. Promoting meditation – mindfulness, peace, health. For ‘inner peace, global harmony’.
Meditation. Dhyaana. Meditative practice. Thinking deeply. Focusing mind, heart on one thing, only on one thing. Mental exercise. Logic relaxation. Suspended logical thought processes. A triad: technique, logic relaxation, self-induced state. Focused but detached attention, awareness, visualization; Kindness, compassion; open; investigation, contemplation. With postures, asanas or otherwise. Clear, calm and stable state. Not judging the process. Meditation reduces stress, fear, anxiety, depression, pain; enhances peace, perception, self-concept and wellbeing.
Can we keep the phone away 8 hours a day? go flight mode, have WIFI off, be away from all wireless wearables. Can we go with speakers on calls? Can we stop keeping phones in pockets? Can we avoid ear air pods? Can we avoid keeping laptops on our laps? Can we keep monitors as far as away as possible?
Mathematics day, 22 December. Mathematics year, 2012. 1729. 10^3+9^3. 12^3+1^3. Ramanujan’s number. Ramanujan’s conjectures. Ramanujan’s notebooks: 351 pages, 256 pages, 33 pages. Lost Notebook – 87 pages. Srinivasa Ramanujan. Arguably the greatest mathematician of all time. Child prodigy. 32 year wonder, genius. Ramanujan was awarded Bachelor of Arts by Research degree for his work on Highly composite numbers. He was elected to London Mathematical Society; then to Fellow of the Royal Society. Youngest Fellow and only the Second Indian to get admitted. Elected a Fellow of Trinity College. Ramanujan’s method of work is a process of mingled argument, intuition and induction. He is comparable with Euler or Jacobi. If we rate mathematicians, scores, out of 100, may be like this: Hardy 25, Ramanujan 100. His glory came after his departure. Films: The man who loved numbers; the man who knew infinity; Ramanujan; The genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan; Srinivasa Ramanujan – the mathematician and his legacy; Ramanujan (the man who reshaped 20th century mathematics); First class man; A disappearing number; The Indian clerk.
Human potential is infinite. Can we tap it? We have to spot prodigies, and let them turn into geniuses, of varying degrees, intensities, dimensions. Many of us could be that. Can we let them flow in their natural usefulness, relevance, purpose?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing. With useful geniuses. In N? Viswadheeyoga for 7L.
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