Horoscope

Happy new year

ILet the roaring winds roar
And the wolves be busy with their roar
Everyone wants more and more
Let us follow the open door
Let the wicked continue to tremble
Follow thy route with approach humble
A tiny drop may result in a stream
Let us observe what our souls dream
Let us keep our minds on the alert
And free our hearts from every dirt
Let us not allow our hearts rule the mind
Let us see which way blows the wind
Let us be courageous and brave
So that success becomes our share
Let us spread the message of peace and love
Let us shun the path of hatred now
Let by gones be bygones
Let us work to dusk from dawn
Let us become fragrance of flowers
Which does not wither for years
Let us observe the writing on the wall
As we know pride hath a fall
Let us converge the diverse view
And welcome with smile the year new.

— Hira Lal Genye

II

New years are coming and going
There is some thing special in 2008
We are entering after commendable achievements.
We have become the world champions of 20/20 Cricket 2007
We have made some records in the game.
All these can be boasted about.
Six sixes in a single our by Yuvraj Singh
Longest sixer hit to fastest world baler from Australia.
Sunita Williams six months stay in space.
Sania Mirza grand achievements in women lawn tennis.
Stability in country after many upsets.
successful complicated operation on Lakshmi baby by the team of
Thirty six doctors which was rejoiced and praised by world.
Nation is on the track of improving relations with all neighbors
All these achievements together signal to good omen for 2008
Nation is entering new year with up beat
Nation is prepared to set more records in the coming years.
Yoga culture by Baba Ram Dev has been a new gift to western countries.
All these are infusing new determination.
So that our country becomes an architect of new prosperous and healthy world.

—S. P. Gandotra (Trikuta Nagar)

A Viking's prayer

I'm standing on the ship
Looking out towards the sea,
Glancing at the waters
That soon will carry me.
Beating of distant drums
coming from the battlefield,
A thousand Viking warriors
Their weapons they won't yield.
I hear valhalla's call
Coming yonder from the sky,
My time will soon be up
I know then that I must die.
I call upon mighty Thor
To be always at my side,
So that I may fight bravely
After each oncoming tide.
Let blood be on my sword
Let sweat fall from my brow,
As I go on the battlefield
To strike my foes down.
And if I should be last to fall
Let me die a death with pride,
Then my children will proudly know
A hero is how I died.

—Er. Dilbir Singh

Pious Place

It's a sacred place
Where Maa Saraswati lives
There's large ground
And a big building
A ground full of young children
Some laughing and gigling
While others playing
It's a heavenly situation
Rich and poor's have their union
There is a complete resurrection
And the shapening of character
In every class there is a holy man
A book and marker in his hand
Making the future bright
All around spreading the light
Books lying open on the table
And the two eyes looking on it
Something is attracting us
Knowledge is developing inside
Helping us to become civilized
Situation was really very auspicious
When a sacred situation is confronting us.

—Miss Kiran Kanchan
Machhlian Nagbani

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7.Which nation hosted the first cricket World Cup in 1975?
8.Name the skipper of Australian cricket team?
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4 Baseball
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FAIZAN ALI TRAMBOO, DODA
Q: Why don’t women go bald?
A: Because they don’t have beard or mustache, which is mainly due to hormones present amongst the females.
SURAJ DEV, BISHNAH
Q: Sweetest part in life is to carry all the memories in life, but toughest part is to say good bye to person who is behind these memories. Comment?
A: Your assertion is very much true because it is hard to say good-bye to a person who has remained associated in your sweetest memories, but the life still goes on which is based on stark realities of life and beyond the imagination of any person. Our memories towards any person or happening are of our own and that way we must be spared of any controversy of the sorts.
VINAY KUMAR, JAMMU
Q: Every person with a clever son believes in heredity. Comment?
A: Your question warrants diversities of answers. Because if a son of an average person shows his skill at some qualifying moment, the father would like to take the credit of having fathered such a brilliant son and may proclaim the idiom of “like father; like son”, which won’t work, because that the father may have been seeking to project himself as extra-ordinary for the achievements having been made by his son, but there would be a very few takers of his this proclamation.
PRABHAT KUMAR JHA, JAMMU
Q: What, according to you, is the perfect definition of “Maturity”, as was being used as a tag with adults?
A: The word ‘maturity’ in question, has various connotations, the answer to which is very difficult to answer. The word maturity in itself cannot be defined in a single word, because the females after attaining puberty at a very tender age of 14 to 16 years can conceive, but the aftermath of that is not so lucrative, because, that tender age is meant for growth of a female. The maturity in question should always be viewed as mental maturity viz the age when a girl is ready to become a mother, that too after 18 years of age, which is the age considered as legal. Again the legal age of fathering has been fixed at Plus 21. But I am of the view that neither a girl at 18 is ready to become a mother, nor a Man at 21 mentally prepared to father a son or daughter. The word “MATURITY” in this question holds enough of weight, which must be taken into consideration by all concerned.
VINAMRATA SHRIKANT, KATHUA
Q: How despite stiff opposition and party rivals Patel and Mehta, Modi became victorious which warrant a probe as to why he won the majority?
A: It is said that nothing succeeds like success. Since electorates have given their version in favour of Modi in Gujarat, we should accept the same in its entirety and introspect as to where from the strings slipped away from the hands of Congress Party and prepare next strategy from the very beginning that too from very much today, because tomorrow never comes and it has all along been the today for making better utilization of the day.
RAMA GUPTA, BISHNAH
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YOGESHWAR SHARMA, JAMMU
Q: Now-a-days Coaching Centres were growing like mushroom. What role these coaching centres have been playing in the present education system?
A: There is no doubt that coaching centres have mushroomed particularly in Jammu province, but the main question arises as to why the students were more excited to get themselves enrolled in such institutions. The students must have a check about the activities of such institutions and only after ascertaining the pros and cons of such teaching shops.
ROHINI K GUPTA, REHARI
Q: When true knowledge is attained, the the concerned is no longer affected by the consequences of his past and future sinful deeds. Comment?
A: The true knowledge always pertain to the truth and it the truth which prevails alone. Attaining truth amounts to realization of God and the God is with such a person, he or she need not be afraid from any consequences.
SUNEEL SINGH, BCE UDHAMPUR
Q: The teacher is known as builder of the nation, then why the people and even the students don’t pay due respect to their teachers?
A: Because the teacher of today is also a human being like other people of the society and the salary being paid to him in lieu of his services falls too short, that is why the teacher gets inclined towards private tuition to earn an extra buck to meet his other obligations, which otherwise were not being accomplished in his meager salary.
PAARAS KOTWAL, DODA
Q: Why parents prefer the admission of their wards in private or public institutions?
A: Because they have come to the conclusion that highly educated and trained teachers in Government schools, who consider that none can dislodge them from job even after dismal performance unlike the private institutions where the teachers are required to produce better results that too after receiving far less salary as compared to Government school teachers.
DEEPAK SINGH, JAMMU
Q: Can India become a super power?
A: At one point of time India had been a super power that is why is still considered as Gold Sparrow and it has still enough of potential to become the same in the near future. I am of the opinion that if all the potentials available in the country were put together and sustained efforts made by all quarters, I am sure that India can regain its lost pristine glory.
RAJESH MANHAS, DODA
Q: Why the BCCI, the governing body of Cricket Game in India has not conducted any international cricket match in Jammu and Kashmir, where lakhs of admirers of the game are there in Jammu and Kashmir?
A: You may not be aware of the affairs of the things that BCCI had fixed a one day match to be played at Srinagar, where the audience displayed banners with slogans like “Indian dogs go back” and the like and the match had to be abandoned, while another one-dayer to be played at Jammu got washed away due to rains.
J K KAUL, JAMMU
Q: What are your resolves for the coming year 2008?
A: In the coming year I am not going to make any resolve but would like to all my problems at the mercy of God Almighty and request Him to guide me at every step of my life, because after all He is the Judge of Colours.
ASHRAF KATOCH, PARISTAN
Q: No one knows of what he is capable of until he tries. Am I right?
A: Every person in his individual capacity knows that he can create wonders but due to lack of sponsors his talents goes waste for obvious reasons.
RICHI SAXENA, JAMMU
Q: Success is the basic factor for getting inspired but failures may too land us on the same path of inspiration. Isn’t it?
A: Your assertion is very much true, but its impact depends upon the individual nature of different persons. Those with strong determination take the failure as challenge and start afresh with doubled vigour, while others, not so determined, lag behind and sometimes end up their lives, for not having enough courage to face the defeat.
ARUN SHARMA, JAMMU
Q: If you find something tough, don’t run away, instead, work hard and become the toughest. Comment?
A: Facing any challenge coming in the way of life is a key word for for any person who wants to excel in life, because running away from the challenges makes a person at the first out-set an absconder and then the proclaimed offender. Hence all challenges coming in life should be accepted and faced accordingly.

QUESTION FOR YOU:
Name the animal which remained associated with witchcraft in the middle ages?

1. To all from Gulshan Gupta: ‘‘ Present yourself with confidence that will contribute to success ’’.
2. From Asha Raina to all: ‘‘ Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves, don’t accuse the sun of partiality ’’.
3. To all from Ashwani Kumar: ‘‘ To love oneself is beginning of life long romance”.
4. From Raman Gupta to all: ‘‘ Life is not having and getting but a being and becoming ’’.
5. To all from Aditya: ‘‘ Weigh your success by what you sacrified in order to achieve it”.
6. From Shyam Lal Mehra to all: ‘‘ If you do not wish to be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing”.
7. To all from Aagosh Tondon: ‘‘ One can enhance human potential by creating pure and positive consensus ’’.
8. From Ashwani Kumar to all: ‘‘ What matters is not to add years to life but to add life to your years”.
9. To all from K K Gupta: ‘‘ The ship of democracy which has weathered all storms may sink through the mutiny of those on board”.
10. From Usha Rani to all: ‘‘ On the path of success never ignore the common people because you pick great things from small”.
11. From Deepak Singh to all: ‘‘ Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life”.
12. To all from Gurpartap Singh : “ The weak can never forgive, because forgiveness is the attribute of the strong’’.
13. From J K Koul to all: ‘‘ The friend is one that knows you as you are, understandable, accepts you, and allows you to grow.”

BEST MESSAGE

The award of rupees 100 for this week’s best message has gone to MONIKA MISHRA, R/O 87, R.N. STREET, JAMMU-18OOO1 for message to all: ‘‘ If through some error yesterday was lost in grief, do not lose today by keeping it in your memory”. Congrats.You have to collect the prize money from the EXCELSIOR office within week’s time.

Haresh Singh