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This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Ichha Sharma.Today is the 6th of March and here are this week's headlines.In the biggest news today, India condemned a security breach incident during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's trip to the UK, saying it deplored “the misuse of democratic freedom by such elements”. According to a purported video of the incident circulating on social media platform X, a man with the tricolour is seen rushing towards the car in which Jaishankar is seated. A group of protesters with pro-Khalistan flags can be seen shouting slogans even as the policemen stationed at the spot block the man and take him away.In another news making headline, Several members of the Jain community have knocked on the Madhya Pradesh High Court's doors after a family court in Indore denied them relief under the Hindu Marriage Act. First Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Dhirendra Singh recently refused to grant divorce to a couple who practice the Jain religion under provisions of the Hindu Marriage Act, observing, “Jainism is a religion that opposes the fundamental Vedic traditions and beliefs of Hinduism and is not based on Vedic tradition, whereas Hinduism is entirely rooted in Vedic tradition.”In news from the North, following an order by the district administration on 28th of February, authorities have sealed 11 madrasas in Dehradun, citing non-registration with the state madrasa board or the education department. In January, before the local body elections, the state government ordered a verification drive and data from Dehradun was made public. The Dehradun District Magistrate, Savin Bansal, had stated that Sadar Dehradun tehsil had 16 unregistered and eight registered madrasas, Vikasnagar tehsil had 34 unregistered and 27 registered ones, Doiwala had one registered and six unregistered madrasas, and Kalsi had a single unregistered madrasa.In other news, a 27-year-old from Hyderabad who was pursuing higher studies in the United States was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Wisconsin, US in a suspected robbery at the local store where he worked part-time. Gampa Praveen Kumar, the deceased, was a native of K- sham-pet mandal in Telangana's Rangareddy district. He was a second-year MS in Data Science student at the University of Wisconsin. Kumar had gone to the US in August 2023 after completing his BTech in Hyderabad.In global news, Tropical Cyclone Alfred lashed parts of eastern Australia today, with early winds and rain leading to schools being closed, public transport halted, and residents looking for alternatives to sandbags by buying potting mix to reduce the impact of flooding. Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall early Saturday along the Queensland coast, somewhere between the Sunshine Coast region and the city of Gold Coast. Alfred is expected to become the first cyclone to cross the coast near Brisbane since Cyclone Zoe hit Gold Coast in 1974 and brought widespread flooding.This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express

This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Ichha Sharma.Today is the 5th of February and here are the headlines.A military aircraft from the United States carrying over 100 deported Indian immigrants landed at Amritsar's Shri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport this afternoon. The deported individuals include 25 women, 12 minors, and 79 men. In addition to the deported Indian nationals, the aircraft also had 11 crew members and 45 US officials on board. Besides Punjab, the deported individuals are from Haryana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra. Among the deportees, 33 are from Gujarat, while 30 belong to Punjab.Two deportees each are from Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh, while three are from Maharashtra.Meanwhile, the high-stakes Delhi election is underway in 70 Assembly constituencies. In the triangular contest between the AAP, the BJP, and the Congress, the ruling party aims for a third consecutive term, while the saffron party hopes to make a return to power after 25 years, and the grand old party strives to make a comeback. As of 1 pm today, the voter turnout stood at 33.31 per cent. Meanwhile, police force was deployed in large numbers outside a polling booth in Seelampur after the BJP alleged fake votes were being cast.In other news, India and the US are expected to start negotiations for a free trade agreement in the coming weeks as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to travel to the US to meet President Donald Trump between the 12th and 14th of February. The Prime Minister, who will travel to France and co-chair the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris between 10th - 11th of February, is also expected to travel to Marseille on 12 of February. From there, he is likely to travel to the US to meet President Trump.In another news headline, After submitting a Letter of Intent to host the 2036 Olympics last October, India is learnt to have opened an “informal” dialogue with the Commonwealth Games Federation to host the centenary edition in 2030 — 20 years after the country first held it. Officials involved in the process told The Indian Express, that unlike 2010, when the Games were hosted in New Delhi, Ahmedabad has emerged as the frontrunner, with Bhubaneswar also in the mix. On the sidelines of the National Games opening ceremony in Dehradun, Commonwealth Games Federation president Chris Jenkins also met Indian Olympic Association president P T Usha where the possible Indian bid was discussed.Meanwhile, OpenAI founder Sam Altman during a fireside chat today said that India is the second biggest market for ChatGPT, where it has tripled its user base in the last year. Altman is on a whirlwind world tour and landed in India late on Tuesday night. He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, along with a number of the country's start-ups and venture capital funds. During the chat Altman said, quote, “India is an incredibly important market for AI in general and OpenAI in particular. It is our second biggest market, we tripled our users here in the last year.” This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by the Indian Express

Sana Durrani, originally from Bhopal, is an educationist. She has overcome challenges to broaden her horizons, motivated in part by her 15-year-old son. Over the past few years, she has gained diverse life experiences, enhancing her perspective. She successfully organized the annual Military History Seminar at Welham Boys' School, Dehradun, for four consecutive years, deepening her understanding of the subcontinent's history, geography, demography, and cultures. Currently serving as Knowledge Officer at an educational institute, she is focused on developing Military History as an academic vertical. Her goal is to contribute to nation-building by fostering a broader worldview among future generations.

On the 1st Episode Season 4 of our podcast “Talk in the Town”, we spoke to Ms. Retu Chatterjee & Mr. Anoop Nautiyal - Members of the Dehradun Citizens Forum [DCF]. This civic group of 400 residents is leading efforts to address Dehradun's pressing urban, social, & environmental challenges while championing a Green Agenda for the city. The DCF recently organised a "Mayor Samvad" on 18th January 2025 to advocate for sustainable urban policies in the upcoming Dehradun Municipal Corporation election, which is part of the Uttarakhand Municipal Elections. This event brought together mayoral candidates to present their visions for Dehradun's future & sought their commitments to citizen-driven demands, such as better waste management, pollution control, & to "think green." Our first guest, Retu Chatterjee is a seasoned entrepreneur in the hospitality sector. Ms. Chatterjee has spent over 18 years advocating for environmental & social causes, along with promoting sustainable urban development. Our second guest, Anoop Nautiyal is a social activist, & environmental advocate. Mr. Nautiyal is committed to conserving Uttarakhand's natural resources & empowering communities for a sustainable future. To go through the Urban Green Agenda for Uttarakhand prepared by DCF, visit: https://lnkd.in/d257Z_Ec

Four-generation strong family-operated Bookstore.Come and experience the joy of reading at our Book Cafe with a warm cup of coffeeThe English Book DepotThe Bookstore is owned by the firm M/s Narian Dass and Sons and provides an unmatched experience for book enthusiasts. Visit us, have a cup of coffee, and immerse yourself in the pages of your next favourite book. The Book Shop has been a cherished institution for book lovers in India for almost a century. It was founded in 1923 in Ferozepur and has been a popular destination for readers of all ages. Now located in the heart of Dehradun, and since 2002, it has become even more exciting with the addition of a cafe. In 2010, EBD acquired Book Cafe, further enhancing the customer experience. In 2020, we established the Learning Forward India Foundation to promote lifelong learning for everyone. Whether you're a regular customer or a first-time visitor, The Book Shop provides an unmatched experience for book lovers. Visit us, have a cup of coffee, and immerse yourself in the pages of your next favourite book.Snehlata at EBD Since 1971"I understand that "Brewing Knowledge" means a lot to you. It's not just a blog about books and authors; it's a platform that inspires and encourages people to keep learning and growing. I truly believe that knowledge should be shared generously, and I appreciate your efforts in making that happen. Let's cherish #BrewingKnowledge and share the wealth with others." Snehlata at The English Book Depot, India's premier bookstore since 1923.Do visit the store at www.englishbookdepot.comMeet and GreetWe love Meet-and-Greets with authors; last week, we hosted Karan Madhok, who was promoting his latest book, Ananda.Besides the factual and eye-opening research into every aspect of the narcotic, the author contemplates the concepts of freedom, creativity, spirituality, and paranoia associated with the drug and examines the upsides and problems of decriminalizing ganja in India. Ananda, the first significant study of cannabis in India, is entertaining and enlightening. It is the perfect introduction to an integral aspect of the country that has often gotten a bad rap and is imperfectly understood.Karan Madhok's Debut novel, A Beautiful Decay, was published in 2022. His creative work and journalism have appeared in Epiphany, Sycamore Review, Bombay Review, Slam magazine, Fifty Two, The Caravan, and Scroll, among other places.Video credit: Viral Bug Films This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.gsi.in/subscribe

Existential threat for ReadingRashmi and Sandeep discuss reading habits, education, and the evolving nature of learning. Sandeep Dutt is an educator and bookstore owner who was born in a bookstore! His life and love revolves around the 101 year old The English Book Depot at Dehradun in India. Founder of Good Schools Alliance, and inspires people to read, reflect and build strong relationships #JoyOfLearning.Key Takeaways* Reading is valuable for focus and micro-focusing skills, but shouldn't be overemphasized at the expense of service, skills, and sports* Traditional schooling models are being challenged; new approaches like Dutt's "Good School Alliance" offer alternative learning methods* The digital age is changing how we absorb information, requiring adaptation in teaching and learning strategiesTopicsThe Role of Librarians and Teachers in Promoting Reading* Librarians are crucial in attracting students to libraries, more so than the books themselves* Teachers should be seen carrying and engaging with books to inspire students* Principals, especially in India, often don't read enough, setting a poor exampleHome Environment and Reading Culture* Having books visible at home, even before a child is born, can foster a reading culture* Many Indian homes lack books outside of school materials, hindering reading habit development* Dutt emphasizes reading both physical books and digital contentEvolution of Learning and Information Absorption* The human mind is adapting to process more stimuli and information from various sources* Reading is evolving beyond traditional books to include digital media and experiential learning* The importance of stillness and focus in the midst of constant digital stimulationDutt's Good School Alliance Initiative* Created a cohort-based model working with 25 schools annually* Offers online reading rooms, reflection spaces, and relationship-building opportunities* Provides affordable access to reading sessions for schools, teachers, and studentsThe Future of Education and Reading* Traditional schooling models and exam-focused systems are being questioned* Emphasis on service, skills, and sports alongside academic study* Reading viewed as a tool for developing focus and attention to detail, rather than an end in itselfFor more about Sandeep and his life visit www.Sdutt.comAnd, yes, please subscribe to the Mentor magazine by LXL Mentor Magazine - Lxl IdeasMentor Magazinehttps://www.mentor.lxl.inA dynamic platform for school principals and educators in India and the Middle East, Mentor Magazine facilitates exchange of ideas, best practices, the conversation in this post is for exclsive use of a post in the magazine and is copyright protected.For more about the Good Schools Alliance, please visit: www.GoodSchoolsAlliance.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.gsi.in/subscribe

Welcome to Top of the Morning by Mint, your weekday newscast that brings you five major stories from the world of business. It's Monday, November 18, 2024. This is Nelson John, let's get started. Stock markets have been brutal of late. Investors have lost a cumulative ₹50 trillion over the past seven weeks, during which the Nifty and Sensex have fallen 10% from their peaks. Ram Sahgal reports that foreign investors are pulling out in hordes. Poor Q2 results across the board haven't helped, either. Analysts have remained optimistic of a rebound but are worried about the long-term sustainability of the bull runs that we have seen until a couple of weeks ago. A tax on crude oil and fuel exports is being scrapped soon. Rituraj Baruah, Gireesh Chandra Prasad and Utpal Bhaskar report that this tax was originally imposed in 2022 following a surge in prices after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out. As oil prices have remained low, the union government wants to reduce and eventually eliminate it entirely. This decision will benefit oil companies in India, allowing them to compete globally. The RBI's crackdown on unsecured personal loans has led to a reduced demand for off-roll workers in the banking sector. Shayan Ghosh and Devina Sengupta report that the in-house shift of KYC norms has also affected this type of employment. These roles typically did KYC, loans sales and loan collections. While the RBI's change aims to increase compliance and prevent money laundering, it may inadvertently push borrowers towards unregulated money lenders.  India's roads are dangerous. A road accident in Dehradun last week resulted in 6 deaths and one critical injury. Sumant Banerji writes that 171,000 people died in road accidents in 2022 alone—accounting for nearly 12% of global road fatalities. Key causes include speeding and careless driving, which account for more than 87% of incidents. Unsurprisingly, two-wheeler riders are the most vulnerable. Despite these startling facts, education on road safety remains inadequate. More than 60% of India's domestic textile demand is for cotton. In a humid country like ours, it's not difficult to see why. Things are different across the world. Man-made fibers such as polyester are much more common in countries such as. China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, which already cornered a lion's share of that market. N. Madhavan writes about these man-made fabrics, their endless potential, and the limitations in the Indian manufacturing and consumer verticals that might prevent them from succeeding like their East Asian counterparts. The government, for its part, has announced a PLI scheme for these fabrics that exceeds ₹10,000 crore. It has already found takers for nearly double that amount. But will it work? 

In this episode of Eyeway Conversations, we delve into the inspiring journey of Abrar Ahmed Bhat from Kashmir, a visually impaired individual who has overcome immense challenges to transform his life and the lives of others around him. Born blind with retinal detachment, Abrar faced a difficult childhood marked by financial instability, limited access to educational resources, and a lack of awareness regarding his condition. Despite these obstacles, he found the strength to change his perspective on life with the help of friends and mentors. Abrar shares his turning point when he joined the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH) in Dehradun, where he learned essential skills like mobility techniques, Braille, and digital literacy. This marked the beginning of his journey toward independence and empowerment. Through sheer perseverance, Abrar pursued further education and training, eventually securing a position at Punjab National Bank. He discusses his experiences as a visually impaired professional, the challenges he faced during the 2016 Kashmir unrest, and his rise from a sub-staff role to a Customer Service Associate. Abrar is passionate about digital literacy and actively conducts workshops to empower visually impaired individuals, particularly in Kashmir, with tools like screen readers and accessible devices. Abrar's story is not just one of personal growth but also of community impact. He emphasizes the importance of NGOs and the government in creating opportunities for skill development, education, and employment for visually impaired individuals. He also touches upon the role of sports, particularly blind cricket, and the importance of making books and educational resources accessible in regional languages like Urdu. Join us as we explore Abrar's journey of resilience, empowerment, and advocacy for the visually impaired community, especially in conflict-ridden Kashmir. This conversation sheds light on the potential for visually impaired individuals to lead independent, fulfilling lives with the right support and resources. Show Notes: Key Topics Discussed: Abrar's early life and challenges growing up blind in Kashmir. The lack of educational resources and awareness in Kashmir during his childhood. His turning point at NIVH Dehradun, where he gained mobility and digital skills. His journey from education to employment at Punjab National Bank in 2016. The psychological and logistical challenges during the Kashmir unrest in 2016. The importance of digital literacy for the visually impaired and the workshops Abrar has conducted across Kashmir. NGOs and government roles in providing opportunities for visually impaired individuals. The role of sports, particularly blind cricket, in the empowerment of visually impaired individuals. Accessibility initiatives in educational resources, including the availability of J&K Board textbooks in digital formats. Key Takeaways: Abrar's story highlights the importance of mentorship, education, and resilience in overcoming challenges. The need for digital literacy and accessible educational resources for the visually impaired. The role of community organizations and the government in empowering disabled individuals with skill development opportunities. The impact of accessible technology and the need for further initiatives in regional languages like Urdu. Contact: Eyeway Helpdesk: 1-800-5320-469 Learn more about the Score Foundation: https://www.scorefoundation.org.in Tune in to this episode for a heartfelt conversation about the power of resilience, empowerment, and the possibilities for visually impaired individuals in India.

Taxi scams and dangerous mountain roads a plenty, in this hellish episode that covers a journey we don't want to repeat in a hurry! Cab drivers falling asleep whilst listening to a live performance of TRIPOLOGY? How rude! Travelling in a group has its perks, and one of those is splitting costs to help extend the ol' travel budget. However, private vehicles and taxis aren't always safe and stress-free, as we found out on our journey from Dehradun in Uttarakhand, to Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. Stay tuned for the second half of the episode, where Alun introduces a cheeky and potentially unhygienic edition of ‘Tripological Reasoning' that we're sure will resonate with many of you! We'd love to hear from you! Send a message to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tripologypodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/tripologypodcast Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@tripologypodcast⁠ Join our Patreon: patreon.com/tripologypodcast Feel free to recommend the podcast to family & friends (all of them). Please rate the show and help us grow! It makes a HUGE difference. Thank you for your continued support. It means the world.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Ranjona Banerji is an independent journalist with over 35 years in the print media. She currently writes about the media, politics, social and gender issues. She lives in the Himalayan hill town of Dehradun where disappearing greenery is a major concern. Twitter is @ranjona GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Brandon is a geopolitical analyst and author of 'The Shadow War ; Iran's Quest for Supremacy, plus several other books. Brandon is an educator who lectures leaders in the US Military, academia and business communities on the current trends in geopolitics and high technology research.

Carmen Reddy brings you the wildest What The Heck stories of the day. This morning we take a look at Kittammal from Pollachi who is defying age norms and entering a deadlifting contest in a sari. Hitting closer to home, Ajay Gupta and his brother-in-law Anil Gupta, were arrested for their alledged involvement in the suicide of a prominent builder from Dehradun, India. Webpage

The Department of Justice and Correctional Services says it is communicating with Indian authorities following the arrest of Ajay and Anil Gupta. State capture accused Ajay was arrested along with his brother-in-law Anil Gupta in Dehradun, India, for allegedly abetting the suicide of a prominent businessman. Satinder Sahni, who died after leaping from an eight-storey building, implicated the pair in his suicide note. For more on this Elvis Presslin spoke to the Department's Spokesperson Crispin Phiri

The Department of Justice says it will hold engagements with officials in India following the arrest of Ajay and Anil Gupta on Friday for their alleged involvement in the death of a man in that country. Speaking to journalists at YESTERDAY's ANC rally at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola clarified that Gupta family members had indeed been arrested in India, but they were not the ones South Africa issued a warrant of arrest for. Reports say Ajay Gupta and Anil Gupta were arrested on Friday for their alleged involvement in the death of a prominent builder in Dehradun, India. South Africa however wants Rajesh and Atul Gupta, who left the country for Dubai, and are facing numerous investigations of large-scale corruption. Bongiwe Zwane spoke to our  International Editor Sophie Mokoena  to discuss this development....

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, May 19, 2024: Discourse by Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj

The Another Election Show caravan has reached Uttarakhand. In this episode, Atul Chaurasia sits down with the leaders of political parties' youth wing, journalists and students of DAV College in Dehradun to understand the undercurrents in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. We particularly gauge the mood in the Haridwar Lok Sabha constituency, which earlier recorded volatile political scenarios, and has mostly been held by the BJP. In the current polls, BJP's former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and Congress's ex-CM Harish Rawat's son Virendra Rawat are in the fray in Haridwar. Also contesting are Umesh Kumar, a journalist-turned-politician standing as an independent candidate, and BSP's Jalil Ahmed Qasmi. Notably, the constituency has significant Muslim and Dalit voters.Atul is also joined by senior journalist Jai Singh Rawat, Baramasa editor Rahul Kotiyal, and senior journalist Pradeep Sati. From the Uniform Civil Code to unemployment, Ram Mandir, migration for jobs, and the infamous Ankita Bhandari murder case that rocked the state – what are the major issues plaguing Haridwar and Uttarakhand? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ready for another big adventure, Dustin Nere reunited with a good friend at the Delhi airport for a 2-month adventure in the Himalayas. Apart from booking flights, reserving a hotel for the first few nights, and reserving bikes in Dehradun, they had no real plan. They knew of only a couple of notable places that Dustin had read about, and they hoped they could connect the dots. To make things more interesting, they began the journey with two other Americans who were visiting India for just two weeks. In the first week, they experienced bike troubles, landslides and altitude sickness. They made poor decisions and they learned valuable lessons. Photos and links related to this episode can be found in the show notes.  Adventure Rider Radio and RAW are the longest-running adventure motorcycle and travel podcasts and we remain committed to bringing you new and exciting episodes every Thursday. Never miss an episode, be sure to FOLLOW the show on your favourite podcast app. Have a show idea or suggestion, send us an email. We'd love to hear from you! If you can, we'd love to get your support, please visit the Support page on our website. Thank you for listening!

Ready for another big adventure, Dustin Nere reunited with a good friend at the Delhi airport for a 2-month adventure in the Himalayas. Apart from booking flights, reserving a hotel for the first few nights, and reserving bikes in Dehradun, they had no real plan. They knew of only a couple of notable places that Dustin had read about, and they hoped they could connect the dots. To make things more interesting, they began the journey with two other Americans who were visiting India for just two weeks. In the first week, they experienced bike troubles, landslides and altitude sickness. They made poor decisions and they learned valuable lessons. Photos and links related to this episode can be found in the show notes.  Adventure Rider Radio and RAW are the longest-running adventure motorcycle and travel podcasts and we remain committed to bringing you new and exciting episodes every Thursday. Never miss an episode, be sure to FOLLOW the show on your favourite podcast app. Have a show idea or suggestion, send us an email. We'd love to hear from you! If you can, we'd love to get your support, please visit the Support page on our website. Thank you for listening!

Ein Blick in die Vergangenheit für die Heilung von heute Herzlich willkommen zu eine außergewöhnliche Podcast und zu Online-Vortrag über “Das alte Wissen des Ayurveda” mit dem renommierten Experten Professor Doktor Sunil R. Parab vom Doon Institute for Medical Sciences in Dehradun, Indien. Begleitet uns auf einer faszinierenden Reise durch die Grundlagen und Praktiken des Ayurveda, einer der ältesten Heilungstraditionen der Welt. Dieser Vortrag ist Teil des Projekts “Theorien und Praktiken der Heilung im internationalen Vergleich”, das darauf abzielt, verschiedene Ansätze zur Heilung in einem interkulturellen Kontext zu erforschen und zu diskutieren. Unter der Leitung von Frau Doktor Petra Vogler bietet dieser Vortrag eine einzigartige Gelegenheit zum interdisziplinären Austausch zwischen Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, beruflicher Hintergründe und kultureller Kontexte. Taucht ein in die reiche Tradition des Ayurveda und entdeckt, wie dieses uralte Wissen uns heute bei der Erhaltung von Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden unterstützen kann. Verpasst nicht die Gelegenheit, von einem der führenden Experten auf diesem Gebiet zu lernen und euren Horizont zu erweitern. Sei dabei und lasst Dich von der zeitlosen Weisheit des Ayurveda inspirieren! Herzlichst, Patricia

It's been one year, 12 months, 365 days since the My Good School Retreat 2023. Time may pass by, but memories never really fade away. They stay with us forever and may even be longer than some people. Tune into 2 Girls 1 Mic as Simar and Oshi delve into another beautiful and hearty conversation with Monisha Datta and Yashraj Sharma and have a blast from the past. Join them as they walk down memory lane and revisit their time in Dehradun at the Doon Girls School. The Khan farm, nature, and the people discuss it with Monisha Datta. Feel free to leave comments as you join us in this hearty and engaging discussion. Please leave us comments in the comment s ction! We would love to read them. A special thank you to Sandeep sir and My Good School for giving us this fantastic opportunity!  Hosts - Simar Kaur Oshi Singh, and Yashraj Sharma Guests - Monisha Datta Sponsored by My Good School --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/learningforward/support

Winners of the GIVEAWAY of Anmol's book - Wanderings in the Land of Mist - A complete story of Mussoorie!  : Arjun Harish & Vijaya Bhat This week, The Musafir Stories speaks to founder of Kannur City Heritage Foundation, Muhammed Shihad as he takes us to Kannur!   Today's destination: Kannur, Kerala Nearest Airport: Kannur international airport (CNN) Nearest Railway Station: Kannur Railway station, CAN Packing: Pack light clothes for humid weather Time of the year: Dec-Feb Length of the itinerary: 3-4 days Itinerary Highlights:  Shihad talks about the history of Kannur, previously known as Canonore and its significance as a port city.  We talk about the Mapilla bay, the origin of its name and the various travellers who visited including Marco Polo, Fahien and Ibn Batuta We also discuss the St. Angelo fort, the history of all the three colonial powers who rule there and a recent discovery of cannonballs in the premises.  Shihad also talks about the St. John's anglican church which is nearby and the rich archives it holds.  Our next stop is the Arakkal museum as we talk about the only muslim sultanate of kerala, their allies, the matrilineal system of succession they follow and much more.  Finally we chat about the mouthwatering cuisine of Kannur as well as the cultural festivities like Theyyam.   Links: Whatsapp: +91 8377024979 Email: mail@cityheritage.in Link to website: www.cityheritage.in Link to Kannur City Heritage's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/city_heritage/ Link to Shihad's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore_with_shihad/ Photo by s.hri on Unsplash Follow the Musafir stories on: Twitter : https://twitter.com/musafirstories?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themusafirstories/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musafirstoriespodcast/?hl=en website: www.themusafirstories.com email: themusafirstories@gmail.com Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @‌IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with your folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Jens Stilhoff Sörensen is Lecturer in Peace and Development Studies / International Relations. He came to the School of Global Studies in 2007 and is also a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). He received his doctorate in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Jens has previously (1994-2000) worked for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sida, the OSCE (Organisation for Security- and Cooperation in Europe) and EUMM (European Union Monitoring Mission). Jens founded the research network INDESENT (International Development-Security Network) in 2007 and has been a member of the Swedish Research Council's advisory group on civil society research since 2010. Jens has lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia for several years. Jens is a representative for 'Academic Rights Watch', a new organisation with the objective to promote and monitor academic freedom. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Ranjona Banerji is an independent journalist with over 35 years in the print media. She currently writes about the media, politics, social and gender issues. She lives in the Himalayan hill town of Dehradun where disappearing greenery is a major concern. Twitter/X: @ranjona

More than 500 people lost their lives in human-wildlife conflict between January 2000 to December 2023, as per the data gathered by the forest department. In 2023 alone, more than 20 persons died of conflict with leopards in the state. The state's Living with Leopards programme is trying to mitigate these conflicts. The programme that originated in Mumbai's Sanjay Gandhi National Park kicked off around 2016 when several non-profits such as Titli Trust, Wildlife Conservation India along with the forest officials sat down and discussed the problem. The programme that was piloted in three clusters in Pauri, Tehri and Almora districts depends on the co-operation of villagers. It is a behavioural change program that teaches people how to live peacefully with leopards. Instead of conflict, the focus here is on coexistence which takes place through sensitization and involvement of various stakeholders.  Sudeshna Chowdhury tails forest officials to find out how they are co-opting villagers into this programme and trying to reduce human-animal conflict. She also speaks with Sanjay Sondhi, Trustee of Titli Trust, NGO, Dr. Koko Rose, deputy project director with Jyca project in Dehradun, Dhananjai Mohan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Uttarakhand, Dharam Singh Meena,  Uttarakhand's Additional Secretary Forest and Environment, and Diksha Bijlan Bhatt, range officer, Maniknath range.See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

GIVEAWAY ALERT: Listen to the episode and answer 3 simple questions linked in the URL below: https://forms.gle/V383GKghqBfarsNi6 This week, The Musafir Stories speaks to columnist and author, Anmol Jain, as we discuss his book Wanderings in the Land of Mist - A complete story of Mussoorie!  Today's destination: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand Nearest Airport: Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun (DED) Nearest Railway Station: Dehradun Railway Station, DDN Packing: Pack warm clothes Time of the year: All year round, except monsoons Length of the itinerary: 3-5 days Itinerary Highlights:  Anmol provides an overview of the origins of Mussoorie, the founding fathers and how the town was established We also talk about some of the folklore around Lord Balram and his abode in the Bhadraj hills, as well as the temple that still stands.  We talk about Landour, its origins, the convalescent depot, the cantonment and some of its important locations.  We then talk about the important personalities of Mussoorie and their connection to Mussoorie, including  Capt. Young Sir George Everest Jim Corbett General Dyer  We talk about Mussoorie's infamous title of the “Pleasure capital of the Raj”, the wild parties and the separation bells.  We talk about the urban legends and haunted stories, including the human oil extractors and dancing mistress.  We speak to the evolution of brews and breweries in Mussoorie, including the IPA and VAT 69 We close the episode with some remarkable stories that deserve to be in the movies! Links: Link to buy Anmol's  book:  https://www.amazon.in/Wanderings-Land-Mist-Complete-Mussoorie-ebook/dp/B0CG6M5L8C https://rupapublications.co.in/books/wanderings-in-the-land-of-mist-the-complete-story-of-mussoorie/ Link to Anmol's website: https://anmoljain.in/ Link to Anmol's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anmolj_75/ Link to episode on Landour: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jyTU9Q4fQK8AIkB0mBqbM?si=K_qBTWhzRAKbRKlCRbKrRg Photo by Soham Kalghatkar on Unsplash Follow the Musafir stories on: Twitter : https://twitter.com/musafirstories?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themusafirstories/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musafirstoriespodcast/?hl=en website: www.themusafirstories.com email: themusafirstories@gmail.com Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @‌IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with your folks!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Silkyara tunnel, in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district, has been in the news since November 12, when one of its under-construction sections collapsed, trapping 41 workers. After the rescue of these workers, this entire episode has been portrayed as a story of triumph.  But, why exactly did the tunnel at Silkyara collapse? The 4.53-kilometre-long tunnel between Silkyara and Barkot is part of the larger Char Dham project. What does the Silkyara collapse tell us about the Char Dham Project in the central Himalayas? In this episode of the Suno India Show, reporter Sneha Richhariya speaks to  Himanshu Arora, Anish Nal, Jaya Singh, Ira Chauhan and Ruchi Singh Rao, all members of Citizens For Green Doon- a Dehradun-based civil society group, which along with others have fought a case in Supreme Court against the Char Dham project and the rampant construction under it. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

TOI's Shivani Azad, activist Renu Paul and former director of the People's Science Institute in Dehradun, Ravi Chopra, discuss the impact of big infrastructure projects in the state of Uttarakhand.

What kind of discoveries await us in the world of homeopathy and the adventures it leads to?   In this episode, we interview Nate Schwartz, a homeopath from Berlin. Hear about his exciting adventure with 20 colleagues as they search for a healing plant believed to have been extinct for 2,000 years. It's a story of dedication and commitment like no other. Tune in to hear the full story of Nate's remarkable journey.   Episode Highlights: 04:40 - Nate's early exposure to homeopathy 06:50 - Homeopathic love story 12:15 - Homeopathy in India 14:19 - Teaching homeopathy to beginners 17:31 - Funding for film projects 21:44 - Triturating plants on location 23:38 - Extinction of a Healing Plant 27:45 - Healing Plants of Antiquity 32:10 - Triturating ancient Boab tree 35:46 - Bryonia as an adaptogen 37:02 - Organopathic remedies and their benefits 42:01 - Materia Medica project and literature 43:29 - Collecting cured cases and remedies 47:39 - Questioning Stereotypes and Hering's Law 50:06 - Drawing on the Right Side 54:08 - Gems used in trauma post-COVID   About my guest: Nate Schwartz was born in Tucson, Arizona in the United States in 1977. He grew up in America and came to Germany on a scholarship to teach at one of the new Universities of former East Germany. After teaching there and in Berlin and then a year of teaching English in Japan, in 2003 he started to study homeopathy and healing full-time in Berlin. His studies took him to Italy and then to India, where homeopathy is taught alongside conventional medicine and Ayurveda medical colleges across the country. There he began many years of study in Dehradun with Dr. Ravi Roy. During that time he began to study yoga, astrology, numerology, and healing with gemstones with the Johari family in Haridwar. Since 2007 he has been practicing homeopathic medicine in Berlin as a “Heilpraktiker” — conducting provings of homeopathic medicines as well as training professional homeopaths. He lives with his lovely Kiwi wife and two small children in Berlin.   Find out more about Nate Email: nathanaelschwartz@yahoo.com   Support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast by making a $5 once-off donation at www.buymeacoffee.com/hangout   Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies   Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eugeniekrugerhomeopathy/   Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s   Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom

The Survey of India in Dehradun, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla, and the National Library of India in Kolkata have been without a chief for over a year. But administrative life goes on.----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/3-institutions-headless-for-a-year-indian-research-scholarship-has-an-institutional-problem/1724435/

Bhogpur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand: June 11, 2023: Discourse by Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj

Last time we spoke about the aftermath of the battle for Attu. The American victory over Attu meant the end of the Aleutian campaign for the Japanese, Tokyo decided to pull everyone out. Over 6000 Japanese needed evacuation from Kiska and it would be very tricky for the Japanese to get past Admiral Kinkaids blockade. Then we finished up the West Hubei offensive, with a part of it being known colloquially as the Rice Bowl Campaign. The Japanese had brutalized the Chinese, but we're stopped short of invading Chongqing or Sichuan. Thus for the Chinese it was a victory, but at the same time the Japanese had secured exactly what they wanted, stealing vast amounts of property, notably rice. Vessels left Yichang and sailed further west through the riverways acquiring large sums of goods to help the China war cause. Today we are diving back into the south Pacific. This episode is Operation Cartwheel starts rolling Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  So honestly for awhile now we have been hitting the North Pacific and China theaters, which certainly was a change of pace, but as you can imagine these events do not simply move along in a vacuum. Yes a lot was going on in the other theaters and this episode is going to be tackling a lot of different events so buckle up buckos. First we are going to talk about Operation Cartwheel. The ULTRA intelligence that brought Yamamoto's death was not the only information the Americans received in April. A lifeboat bearing a list of the names of 40,000 active Japanese officers washed ashore after the battle of the Bismarck Sea. Using this Cryptographers were able to match each name to radio signals from Japanese army units, ensuring General MacArthurs intelligence remained as operationally up to date as it could be. At the same time William Bull Hasley showed to on April 15th to Brisbane to meet with MacArthur and the two hit it off. Halsey would later write this about their first encounter. “Five minutes after I reported, I felt as if we were lifelong friends. I have seldom seen a man who makes a quicker, stronger, more favorable impression. He was then sixty-three, but he could have passed as fifty. His hair was jet black; his eyes were clear; his carriage erect….My mental picture poses him against the background of these discussions; he is pacing his office, almost wearing a groove between his large, bare desk and the portrait of George Washington that faced it; his corncob pipe is in his hand (I rarely saw him smoke it): and he is making his points in a diction I have never heard surpassed. “ Both men would hammer out a plan on April 26th, it was a revision to MacArthur's Elkton plan, this one would be known as Elkton III, but it was soon to be coded as Operation Cartwheel.  The plan consisted of 13 amphibious landings in just 6 months with MacArthur and Halsey providing maximum support to each others efforts. The first phase of the plan would see MacArthur seizing Woodlark and the Kirwina islands while Hasley invaded New Georgia. Phase 2 would commence 2 months after the start of the offensive where MacArthur would capture Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen. Phase 3 would be the seizure of the Shortland islands and Bougainville in the south pacific. In December MacArthur would seize Cape Gloucester in Western New Britain and shortly after that they would seize Rabaul. Halsey's forces would knock out Japanese air bases on Buka, allowing MacArthurs men to clear the northwestern half of New Guinea. By January of 1944, MacArthur and Halsey figured they would be ready for the final assault on Rabaul which was their ultimate objective for victory. MacArthur resisted sending details of their joint plan to Washington, probably fearing the Europe first obsessed chiefs of staff would veto their ambitious thrust. He told them only that he anticipated that the first move toward Woodlark and Kirwina would start in June. However this was too slow for Admiral King. King wanted his protege Admiral Nimitz to begin a thrust into the central pacific, heading through the Marshalls in November and proposed shifting the Marine 1st and 2nd divisions, the ones that fell under MacArthurs and Halsey's command to help with the Marshalls offensive, this alongside two bomber groups promised to General Kenney. MacArthur was very pissed off and he sent a distressed message to George Marshall damning the entire central Pacific strategy as a quote “unnecessary and even wasteful diversion from what should be the main pacific strategy”,  that being MacArthur's own.”. He added in “from a broad strategic viewpoint, I am convinced that the best course of offensive action in the Pacific is a movement from Australia through New Guinea to Mindanao. Air supremacy is essential to success, for the southwestern strategy where large numbers of land-based aircraft are utterly essential and will immediately cut the enemy lines from japan to his conquered territory to the southward. Pulling any additional heavy bombers groups would in my opinion, collapse the offensive effort in the southwest pacific area…in my judgment the offensive against Rabaul should be considered the main effort, and it should not be nullified or weakened ”. But King was adamant. There would indeed be a thrust through the central pacific led by the navy with its main axis passing through the Marshalls and Marianas towards Japan,which might I remind you listening, bypasses the Philippines. It of course was a strategy completely at odds with MacArthurs. Marshall supported King, as did the other Joint Chiefs. But in the end MacArthurs whining forced King to relent on the transfer of the two marine divisions and the bomber groups, thus MacArthur revealed his timetable for operation Cartwheel. He told them he planned to take Kiriwna and Woodlark in the Trobriand Island around June 30th. The advance on New Georgia would start on the same date, and in September the First Cavalry and 3 Australian divisions would begin operations against the Madang-Salamaua area. Meanwhile MacArthur's 43rd division would invade southern Bougainville on October 15th, while the 1st Marines and 32nd division would invade Cape Gloucester on December 1st.  For all of these amphibious landings, there were no serious problems when it came to shipping and landing craft….that is for Nimitz designated areas. However at the beginning of 1943, MacArthur had practically no amphibious equipment nor experts in these types of operations. The only units available to him were the Army's engineering special boat brigade which had very few small craft. The man who would be responsible for the amphibious assaults during much of the coming campaigns was to be Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey. On January 10th, 1943 he took command of the forces that would later be designated the 7th Amphibious force. Barbey from the offset established good relations with MacArthur…because well anyone who worked with MacArthur had to. He had nearly nothing to work with in the beginning, but started with establishing bases at Toobul Bay, near the mouth of the Brisbane river and Point Stephens. MacArthur had requested more small craft and transports as early as mid 1942, but because of the European and central pacific being a priority, little had come his way. Before the equipment came, MacArthur was receiving American and Australian troops, so he got Barbey's team to improvise. They began training the troops in debarking from larger ships down cargo nets to smaller landing craft. However Barbey had no attack transports (APA), which was the key to this kind of operation. To solve this they rigged nets from cliffs, boy that must have been fun. The first Landing ship tanks LSTs and Landing craft tanks LCTs would not arrive until mid january, and on Easter Sunday 13 Landing craft infantry's LCI's were delivered, giving them very little time before the first operations were to begin to train the crews on how to use them.  Now on the other side Halsey had his own three phase operation. Part 1 saw the invasion of New Georgia, part 2 was the seizure of Buin and Rekata Bay if possible and last 3 was the seizure of Kieta and the neutralization of Buka. Phase 1 was codenamed Operation Toenails. Halsey described the operation to Nimitz as “a infiltration and staging operation”. The operation would see simultaneous landings at Wickham Anchorage to hit its landing craft base; Segi point for its airfield site; Viru Harbor for its small craft base and Rendova Harbor which would serve as a new base to stage troops for a future attack upon Munda. This would all occur on June 30th. The main force assigned to Operation Toenails was General Hester's 43rd division. Admiral Turner and his Task Force 31 were in charge of the amphibious landings while Admiral Fitch would toss 1182 aircraft to give them aircower and Admiral's Ainsworth and Merrill's Task force 36 would provide further naval support. On the other side, interservice coordination between the Japanese Generals and Admirals remained intermittent and largely ad hoc, when it was not hostile. General Imamura's 8th area army HQ at Rabaul stood above Hyakutake's 17th Army, comprising 3 divisions spread over the SOlomons and New Britain, and General Hatazo Adachi's 8th Army had 3 divisions on New Guinea. Troop reinforcements were arriving in Rabaul bolstering the garrison at one point to 90,000 men. Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka remained in command of navy forces at Rabaul and held responsibility for the defense of the central solomons. Admiral Mineichi Koga had succeeded the slain Yamamoto as commander in chief of the combined fleet, based at Truk. Nowhere in the theater was there a blended command, the army and navy had to coordinate their operations through a meticulous process of “nemawashi / digging around the roots” for a consensus. The Japanese moved new air units into the theater, including more of the elite carrier aircrews that had trained and honed their skills prior to the war, but the loss ratios in air combat was ruining them.  As a result of the devastating loss during the battle of the Bismarck Sea, the Japanese were forced to change plans. USAAF and RAAF aircraft based at Port Moresby and Milne Bay had slaughtered an entire convoy of Japanese transports attempting to land troops in the Lae-Slaamaua area using a new technique called “skip bombing”. Imperial General HQ set up a joint Army/Navy investigation board to study the disaster, seeing the IJA accused the IJN of being too focused on the Solomons rather than on New Guinea. The Army argued New Guinea was vital for the national defenses and proposed that if a retreat became necessary, it would be as a direct result of the navy's lack of support. If this were to happen they would have to pull back and create a defensive line from northwest New Guinea to Timor. The Navy's representatives argued that the Huon Peninsula must be held or its loss would swing open the western gate to Rabaul, forcing the combined fleet to withdraw from Truk. Well the fighting eventually resulted in an ultimatum with both sides agreeing the army/navy operations should focus on eastern New Guinea. It was decided that both the army and navy would literally operate as one unit, because that would go well. The Central solomons were still under the overall responsibility of the 8th fleet, now commanded by Vice Admiral Baron Samejima Tomoshige with some IJA units placed under naval command according to agreements made between General Imamura and Admiral Kusaka. It seems the Japanese could get along once and awhile, as just like Halsey and MacArthur, Imamura and Kusaka developed a deep friendship. Both of their staffs ate lunch together once or twice a week, where southeast area affairs were discussed informally and their respective staffs got to know another personally. Kusaka went on the record to say Imamura was a very great person. Many army units would be sent to reinforce the New Georgia defenses and by late May the bulk of the 229th regiment arrived to Munda, and the 13th regiment went to Vila by late June. Imamura placed both regiments under the command of Major General Sasaki Noboru's southeast detachment who responded directly to Samejima. Samejima's first orders were to arrange the responsibilities between General Sasaki's southeast detachment and Admiral Ota's 8th combined SNLF, seeing Sasaki in charge of Munda and Ota in charge of the Enogai and Bairoko area's. If the situation arose, command would be unified under the senior officer on New Georgia, General Sasaki. Ota would also have responsibility for coastal artillery defense, radio communications, and barge operations. Admiral Koga in his new role as commander of the combined fleet, preemptively sent move of his forces back to the home islands in preparation to reinforce Attu. But as the fate of the Aleutians became sealed by late May, Koga decided to concentrate the combined Fleet at Truk, so it would be primed and ready for a decisive naval battle with the Americans. Without the aid of Koga's carriers, Kusaka had launched another air counteroffensive after I-Go, this one taking place in June. The aim was yet again to prevent the Americans from invading the central solomons . Kusaka began tossing waves of Bety's against American shipping east of San Cristobal and night raids over guadalcanal. Simultaneously he also unleashed Operation SO; a major offensive to smash allied air power in the Solomon islands; and operation SE: which targeted airfields and shipping. He sent 105 Zeros to sweep and bomb the enemy airfields with a new type of gasoline bomb. Operation SE began with 25 Val dive bombers attacking US shipping in the Guadalcanal-Tulagi area and Operation SO began on June 7th with 81 Zeros led by Lt Commander Shindo Saburo assaulting the Russels. However the Russel group ran right into 104 allied fighters who shot down 9 Zeros. A follow up attack was made on the 12th with 74 Zeros led by Lt Miyano Zenjiro, this time the Japanese lost 7 fighters but took down 6 American. As usual the Japanese pilots made wild claims, stating the first attack saw 41 American fights shot down and the second attack 24.  Kusaka launched the main attack of Operation SE on June 16th led by Lt commander Saburo consisting of 24 Vals and 70 Zero escorts who swung south of the Russells, turning at Beaufort Bay. Yet again they were intercepted, this time by 74 allied fighters over BEaufort Bay and the ensuing ari battle rolled over the mountainous spine of guadalcanal. This time the Japanese lost 15 Zeros and 13 Vals while only shooting down 6 allied fighters. The Japanese lost first rate pilots such as Lt Miyano who had scored a total of 16 kills during the war. Again Japanese veteran pilots were being bled dry severely affecting the nation's airpower. Despite their waves being intercepted nearly every time, the Vals were able to press through with their attacks and managed to hit the cargo ships Caleno and LST-340. But such results were hardly worth the cost, so Kusaka began to urgently request reinforcements. The carrier Ryhuo would lend her bombers to replace the lost ones, arriving on the 2nd of July. The losses taught the Japanese pilots some bitter lessons and never again would the fly over guadalcanal during daylight as the American CAP was far to powerful. Over in New Guinea, General Blamey was laying out his plan for the capture of Lae, codenamed Operation Postern which was approved by MacArthurs headquarters. Before the allies would invade Woodlark and Kiriwana, MacArthur proscribed the seizure of Lae and the Markham and Ramu valley. The Markham operations were to be based on Port Moresby while the north coast operations would be staged from Buna and Milne Bay. The invasion of Woodlark and Kiriwana islands codenamed Operation Chronicle would be entrusted to Lt General Walter Kruegers 6th army. The islands northeast of the Papuan coast would allow the allies to have air bases closer to Japanese targets in the Solomons and around Rabaul, thus Blamey had devised his plan to secure the northeastern part of New Guinea. The first phase of his plan was Lae and the Markham and Ramu Valleys; the 2nd phase was to seize a shore base within 60 miles of Lae, he chose Nassau Bay. Nassau Bay would help with the supply problems in the Wau-Mubo-Bobdubi area, as all the supplies were being flown in from Port Moresby. The mountains were serious obstacles for transport aircraft, not to mention the Japanese fighters that could spring out of nearby Lae. Taking Nassau Bay would greatly shorting supply lines for allied troops fighting in the Salamaua region and also allow a junction to be made with General Saviges forces operating at Mubo The 162nd American Regiment led by Colonel Archibald MacKechnie would help hit Nassau Bay, they would be known as the MacKechnie force. They would seize the high ground around Goodiew Junction and Mount Tambu and the ridges running down therefrom to the sea, allowing the Australians to link up with the 15th brigade at Bobdubi and the American landing force at Nassau. D-day for the Nassau Landing was set for June 30th and it was all going to act as a feint, hoping to lure Japanese forces from Lae to Salamaua.  Now the last time we left off in New Guinea, General Savige had launched a limited offensive against the Japanese at Mubo and Bobdubi ridge. General Nakano was certain Salamaua was the main allied target and this prompting him on the 29th to order Major General Chuichi Muroya to lead the 51st division to fortify it. In the process Muroya's men expelled Warfe's commandos from the northern ridge. To the east of Mubo, Brigadier Moten was trying to take the Pimple, but his 17th brigade would be performing more patrolling than actual attacks throughout the later half of May. Eventually Savige would relieve the exhausted 2/7th battalion with the 2/6th battalion led by Lt Colonel Frederick Wood who would begin an advance on May the 27th. Meanwhile Nakano had brought more reinforcements to defend Mubo and launched a strong counterattack in early May, nearly breaking through towards the main Australian camp at Lababia ridge. On May 23rd Nakano received two battalions of the 66th regiment and began to work out a plan for assembling supplies and ammunition in the Mubo area to prepare for an offensive. Men would move at night in a single file along the narrow jungle trails carrying the materials by hand, through mud and rain. The main train was a slope on Komiatum ridge known to the Japanese as Regret Hill as the hard working soldiers became more exhausted with each passing day marching along it. The Japanese sought to clear out Lababia ridge as far as Guadagasal, thus securing Mubo. On June 3rd, allied patrols discovered Nakano had reoccupied Markham point which forced Savige to keep the bulk of the 24th away from the action at Bobdubi and Mubo. From their camp at the bank of the Markham Savige ordered patrols to investigate the Nadzab area. On June 14th, a 3 man patrol came across friendly natives at the village of Gabsonkek who informed them of the Japanese activity in the area. They said "that the Japs come to the village every day between 10:00 and 12:00 hours taking everything in sight—pigs, fowls, fruit, etc., without paying; they take native girls back to Lae if they can catch them. The guides would not proceed farther to Ngasawapum because Japan man come up Big Road, cut us off", and they would not go to Narakapor because they claimed there were too many Japs and two big guns". The patrol went back to camp by the 18th informing command. A second patrol was made, led by Lt Dave Burke who forded the Tabali River to get to Nassau Bay. Their report indicated the area was suitable for landing and road construction. To further prepare for the American landings, the Australians began building a footbridge over the Bitoi River and blazed a track up to Bitoi Ridge. On Lababia Ridge the main defensive position withdrew to a junction on the Jap Tracks where it would be easier to counter enemy encirclement attempts. Reports came in from forward platoons that there was considerable enemy activity along the Komiatum-Mubo track. This was Nakano's 66th regiment carrying the food and ammunition in preparation for the upcoming offensive. In response to this, Savige ordered Brigadier Frank Hosking of the 15th brigade to assume command of the Bobdubi ridge area and to begin harassing the Japanese supply route. Meanwhile the 58th/59th battalion relieved the 2/3rd independent company at Hote and a party of Warfe's commando's were sent to attack the Komiatum-Mubo track. However disaster struck as the Australians ran into their own booby-traps on June 16th suffering a number of casualties. By June 20th, the commando's established ambush positions along a ridge near the junction of Stephens Track and the Komiatum Track. They successfully ambushed some Japanese later that day, killing a few men and capturing valuable documents about the arrival of Nakano's 66th regiment. However by this point Nakano's units were already assembling in front of Lababia ridge and the offensive was about to begin. Now we gotta finish up the episode talking about some developments in India. After the disastrous first Arakan Campaign, Marshal Wavell was to receive a promotion, and by promotion I mean he was kicked upstairs as they say, succeeded Lord Linlithgow as the new Viceroy of India. But until then he began looking into training his forces in jungle warfare as the bitter lessons learned at Arakan proved the men were very unprepared. Wavell also wanted to investigate what the hell had happened during the disaster, so he sent Major General Roland Richardson in late May to head a infantry committee at New Delhi for the task. The committee's report about the Arakan campaign found the troops fighting spirit was fundamentally sound, but the major problems that affected their combat performance were more about the over expansion of the army in India. The army mobilization had been rushed, they barely met basic training and the supplying of their sheer numbers was a catastrophe. There were also issues regarding their low status, inferior pay for the infantry, which further deprived them of skilled and well educated recruits.  Yet above all else the Infantry committee found their lack of jungle training to be the most egregious issue. As observed “This is the most urgent problem facing us, and one which requires prompt and energetic action if results are to be produced in time for the winter campaigning season.” The lack of jungle training severely undermined their ability to fight efficiently and ultimately led to the breakdown of infantry battalions in the Arakan. And of course there was the ever present unseen enemy, that of malaria, alongside an assortment of other ailments that were wreaking havoc on the men. But many of these problems could not be tackled until June 20th, when General Claude Auchinleck was officially appointed as the new Commander in Chief in India. For General Slim this was excellent news and certainly worked in his favor alongside the sacking of Irwin. The “Auk” as he was called, had always been a Slim supporter and was the one who recommended him to Wavell for advancement when Wavell was Commander in Chief of the middle east back in 1941. The Auk had wanted to retain Slim in the middle east and fought hard to dissuade Wavell from taking him over to Burma. Churchill never held Wavell ever in high regard and was tired of his quasi-academic effusions and preferred a “fighting general” in Burma. Alongside the Auk, Irwin was replaced with General George Giffard, and Slim had this to say of the replacement.  “The new Army Commander had a great effect on me. A tall, goodlooking man in the late fifties, who had obviously kept himself physically and mentally in first-class condition, there was nothing dramatic about him in either appearance or speech. He abhorred the theatrical, and was one of the very few generals, indeed men in any position, I have known who really disliked publicity . . . But there was much more to General Giffard than good taste, good manners and unselfishness. He understood the fundamentals of war – that soldiers must be trained before they can fight, fed before they can march, and relieved before they are worn out. He understood that front-line commanders should be spared responsibilities in the rear, and that soundness of organization and administration is worth more than specious short-cuts to victory” Auckinleck went to work from the offset of his new command by improving the welfare, health and feeding of the Indian army to foster improved morale. General Giffard as the new commander of the Eastern Army had Major General Temple Gurdon to oversee some reforms for training and the development of new doctrines. A lot of effort was made to conduct intensive collective training under jungle conditions. The men would train near Nasik, Ranchi, Dehradun and in the Jhansi-Nowgong-lalitpur region. Commanders low to high were given a chance at handling units to improve standards of staff work, practice combined army tactics and build team spirit. Auchinleck also initiated a policy of active patrolling at Assam and Arakan to gather intelligence and maintain touch with the Japanese as to destroy the feeling that they were super soldiers.    I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. A lot of chess pieces were moved around the board this week. Bitter lessons had been learnt in multiple theaters of the war and now it came time to reorganize and try new things to ultimately bring the war against Japan to a closer end. 

In this episode we celebrate World Environment Day and dive into the challenges of tourism, waste management, and plastic pollution in tourist destinations. Join me as I chat with Shomita Bhattacharya, a former Waste Warriors expert, who shares her experiences tackling the garbage problem in Dharamshala, Dehradun, and Rishikesh. Together, we explore the waste issues faced by tourist hotspots and discuss effective strategies to address them. Get ready for an interactive and enlightening conversation! Contact Shomita at - https://www.instagram.com/shomitrash/ Share your thoughts and feedbacks anshul.akh99@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DailyPassenger/videos Twitter: https://twitter.com/passenger_v2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daily.passenger/ Blog: https://dailypasseneger.com/

Vikas Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand: May 21, 2023: Discourse by Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj

Vikas Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand: May 21, 2023: Discourse by Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj

Som aur Pragati Gurgaon se Dehradun by road jaa rahe the. Uss road trip par unke saath strange baatein ho rahi thi. Unhein sunsan raaste mein mila ek Dhaba, jahan woh khana khane ke liye ruk gaye. Bas yahi nahin karna tha unhein, kyunki iske baad unki zindagi mein aaya ek toofan... Kaise nikle woh uss toofan se... aur kya nikal bhi paye.... Jaanne ke liye suniyen rongte khade kar dene wali kahani, Road Trip. CREDITSBhoot Bhulaiya: A Horror PodcastProduced By: Kommune IndiaStories By: Jatin BhasinVoice Artist: Anuj GurwaraScript Written By: Deepti MittalAudio Production: 3D HeadroomEpisode Supervised By: Ikroop Chamba

“We need to be flexible in such a way that we keep our learning and development in line with the demand of the market.”Today's episode of The Shape of Work podcast features Saarthak Chandna, Senior Executive - HR Talent Partner and Special Project at Cognizant- a IT Services and Consulting Company.Sarthak completed his B.Tech in Computer Science from DIT University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He worked in Wipro and Crossbow Labs as a Project Engineer and Quality Assurance Engineer respectively. Later he joined St. Xavier's Institute of Management (XIM Bhubaneswar) where he finally decided to pursue his dream of doing an MBA. Post Graduation he worked as an HR Intern in companies like L'Oréal and Roots Company. He currently works at Cognizant as a Senior Executive where he focuses on talent management process, employee engagement and so on.Episode HighlightHow can we create a positive work culture?What are the strategies to ensure that technology supports the goal of the organisation?What steps should we take to continue learning and adapting as the digital landscape evolves?Changes that will occur in the HR industry in the futureFollow Saarthak on LinkedinProduced by: Priya BhattPodcast Host: Riddhi AgarwalAbout Springworks:Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation building tools and products to simplify recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, and retention. The product stack from Springworks includes:SpringVerify— B2B verification platformEngageWith— employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company cultureTrivia — a suite of real-time, fun, and interactive games platforms for remote/hybrid team-buildingSpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, andSpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking system.Springworks prides itself on being an organisation focused on employee well-being and workplace culture, leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.

The town of Joshimath in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district is sinking. More than 700 houses are known to have developed cracks and nearly 150 families have been moved to safer locations. The Uttarakhand and Central governments are scrambling to deal with a problem that is now a full-fledged crisis. Teams of scientists have been deployed to investigate reasons behind the sinking of the town. For years, friends of the Himalayas have been warning that unchecked building activity, including the construction of dams, could jeopardise the lives and livelihoods of people not just in Uttarakhand but impact those living in downstream areas. Ravi Chopra, founder director of the People's Science Institute, is one of those who has been watching the impact of so-called development on the Himalayas for more than three decades from his perch in Dehradun. Last year, he resigned as the chair of a high-powered committee to study the impact of expanding the road network to service the many shrines in Uttarakhand. Ravi has just returned from Joshimath and he has joined us to discuss what's happening there. 

Anne Hockett calls herself a gut geek and a lifelong learner - and, she is so much more than that. Anne's story is a powerful testament to our spiritually human capacities of resiliency, adaptability, and deep capacity to return to trusting in the unknown and the knowing that comes from deep within. Anne's background is in public health and medicine. She is a proponent of western medicine. But when she found herself diagnosed with a major cardiac diagnosis and prognosis with little hope for a long life, she turned toward eastern medicine and alternative modalities. With these, she began to heal. Anne found herself with a new capacity for knowing things about people just by looking at them, things that one hundred percent of the time turned out to be true and supportive of that person's healing. Anne did the Hoffman Process in 2016. Through doing the Process, she found the ability to love herself. She left the Process with a deep understanding of who she is without the degree of shame she had around her shadow patterns. Anne tells us her experience of open-heartedness and lack of judgment during the Process allowed her to be able to know them much more than simply as ideas. She now feels them because she received them during her Process. One other big result from doing the Process was solidifying her knowledge of her life purpose. More about Anne Hockett: For over four decades, Anne's work has concentrated on the healthcare field. She has applied her work experience, research, and teaching skills in Asia to better understand how modern medicine and traditional, gentle, natural approaches can be most effectively integrated. Since 1983, Anne has worked in a variety of capacities with children and adults with physical and emotional needs. She specializes in the care of those managing cancer and heart disease, but her practice has broadened considerably over the years. Prior to moving to Asia in 1989, Anne worked with the Ford Foundation, The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. She has a Master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Anne also has a variety of training and certification credentials in other health care and healing modalities including homeopathy, Bach Flowers, therapeutic yoga, plant-based medicine, healing breath work, meditation, guided imagery, past life regression, hypnotherapy, and Reiki. She's years into a Ph.D. she might never complete in plant-based medicine and also halfway through excelled training in Functional Medicine. You can learn more about Anne at YouHealing.org. As mentioned in this episode: Shadow patterns Rishikesh is a city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, located in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India. Pacemakers and 'pacing' Near Death Experience (NDE) Other healing modalities explored by Anne: Reiki BodyTalk Harvard Study on crying and good health Anne's exercise: "In a world without judgment, what is the most self-loving thing for you to do, right here, right now?"   https://media.blubrry.com/the_hoffman_podcast/content.blubrry.com/the_hoffman_podcast/Liz_and_Anne_Hockett_Podcast.mp3

Womeniya, an all female music band from Dehradun is a power packed combination of four women musicians who have fought against set traditions of society and family; and have not hesitated to take risks to realise their dream of pursuing a career as female musicians. Sudeshna Chowdhury brings you their story. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

National general secretary Santhosh's visit to Dehradun was attempt by high command to assess if BJP is losing ground in Uttarakhand after Ankita Bhandari murder, it is learnt.----more----Read the article here: https://theprint.in/politics/dhamis-delhi-trips-bl-santhosh-in-dehradun-is-bjp-getting-anxious-about-uttarakhand/1155219/

The third incredible novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective. Bombay, 1950 The monsoon has started and as Bombay grapples with rain-induced chaos, a new case arrives at Malabar House. A man has been found frozen in the foothills of the Himalayas, near the town of Dehra Dun, his face crushed. The case is handed to the unflappable Inspector Persis Wadia and the man is christened 'The Ice Man' by the national media. Who is he? How long has he been there? Why was he killed? As Persis and Metropolitan Police criminalist Archie Blackfinch investigate the case, they uncover a trail left by the enigmatic Ice Man that leads directly into a decades-old conspiracy. Meanwhile, two new murders send ripples of fear through Bombay. Is there a serial killer on the loose? Dark, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest. Book one in this series, Midnight at Malabar House, won the CWA Sapere Books Historical Dagger and was an international ebook best seller.

This week, The Musafir Stories speaks to Surya Raju who was the very first guest on the podcast when we started more than 5 years ago talking about her experience on the Kedarkantha Trek! Today's destination: Kedarkantha, Uttarakhand!Nearest Airport: Dehradun Airport (DED)Nearest Railway Station: Dehradun Railway Station (DDN)Prerequisites - Permit requiredPacking - Pack trekking gear and warm clothesTime of the year - DecemberLength of the itinerary: 6 daysItinerary Highlights: Surya talks about the USP of the trek, as well as the difficulty level and preparation required. The railway head for the trek is Dehradun from where the trek company takes the team to Sankri, the starting point of the trek. Sankri is a small village that serves as the base camp for a lot of treks including Harki Dun, Rupin pass along with Kedarkantha trek. It is situated at about 200kms from Dehradun and some buses ply to this little village. The first day's trek involves trekking for about 5 hours and camping at the Juda Ka Talaav - a high altitude alpine lake. This is the first pitstop and provides some wonderful views with the stunning alpine lake surrounded by trees and some dense forests. The stop is a great chance not just to rest and recoup from the first day's trek but also acclimatise with the altitude and get to know your trekking group. The next day's trek is fairly easy and the team gains relatively less in terms of elevation. The destination of the second day's trekking is the Kedarkantha base camp. The team not only rests here, but also prepares for the snow trek with microspikes to ensure grip. The final day of trekking starts very early in the morning, as early as 1AM when the team sets off for the Kedarkantha peak. This is the most strenuous of days given that the team has to not only summit the peak but also return to the base camp at Sankri. The trek involves an ascent in sub zero temperatures on very narrow ridges and severe conditions. However the views once you reach the summit are worth every bit. One gets a view of neighbouring Himalayan peaks including Nanda Ghunti, Swargarohini, Kalanag peak, Gangotri and Yamunotri ranges amongst others. The descent involves taking the same route back to the Kedarkanta base camp followed by a descend to Sankri, usually through a different route. Links:Surya's podcast: Travel Rope - You Inspire Me - https://open.spotify.com/show/7vkwapzVBv2adt3qCjcLzlSurya's blog - https://travelrope.comSurya's's Twitter - https://twitter.com/travel_ropeSurya's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/travelrope/Surya's Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/thetravelrope/Surya's episode on Sikkim with The Musafir Stories: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YI3FaVMG1QqCQOC6rdRr3Image Credit - Photo by Vivek Sharma on UnsplashFollow the Musafir stories on:Twitter : https://twitter.com/musafirstories?lang=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/themusafirstories/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musafirstoriespodcast/?hl=enwebsite: www.themusafirstories.comemail: themusafirstories@gmail.comYou can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/featuredDo follow IVM Podcasts on social media.We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram.https://twitter.com/IVMPodcastshttps://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/?hl=enhttps://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts/Follow the show across platforms:Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon MusicDo share the word with you folks!

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1788 On this day, Horace Walpole wrote about the powerful impact of rain on the garden. He wrote, My verdure begins to recover its bloom.. in this country, nobody pays his debts like rain. It may destroy your flowers, but you cannot complain of want of fruit; cherries, apples, walnuts, are more exuberant than their leaves.   1893 Birth of Dorothy Thompson, American journalist and radio broadcaster. She is remembered as the First Lady of American Journalism. In 1934, Dorothy was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany. In her final book, The Courage to Be Happy (1957), she wrote: I am inclined to think that the flowers we must love are those we knew when we were very young, when our senses were most acute to color into smell, and our natures most lyrical.   1933 Birth of Oliver Sacks, British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. I once watched a video featuring Dr. Oliver Sacks, who practiced medicine in NYC across from the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). In the video, Oliver reflected on the garden and its meaning. I've cobbled together a few of his inspiring thoughts. Here's what he said: I think of this garden as a treasure. First, it's a haven. In a noisy, crowded New York, we need a haven; we wander around, and time doesn't matter too much. When I worked at the hospital opposite the garden, I used to come in every day. Specifically, I would come in after seeing my patients but before writing up my notes. And, I would walk around the garden and put everything out of consciousness except the plants and the air. But, by the time I got back, the patient's story would have crystallized in my mind [and then] I could then write it straight away. But I needed this sort of incubation in the garden, and to go for a walk in the garden; that sort of thing is an essential thing for me in writing. I think nature has a healing effect; the garden the closest one can come to nature. The garden has affected me and does affect me in various ways; it's not just the pleasure of walking around but [also] the very special virtues of the library and the museum and the fact that, in some ways, this is a university as well as a garden. I just feel very comfortable in the garden, and whenever people come to New York from out of town or out of the country, I say let's go to the garden. I would like to quote a couple of lines from a TS Eliot poem: Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit.   In his book, The River of Consciousness, Oliver wrote, While most of the flowers in the garden had rich scents and colors, we also had two magnolia trees, with huge but pale and scentless flowers. The magnolia flowers, when ripe, would be crawling with tiny insects, little beetles. Magnolias, my mother explained, were among the most ancient of flowering plants and had appeared nearly a hundred million years ago, at a time when “modern” insects like bees had not yet evolved, so they had to rely on a more ancient insect, a beetle, for pollination. Bees and butterflies, flowers with colors and scents, were not preordained, waiting in the wings—and they might never have appeared. They would develop together, in infinitesimal stages, over millions of years. The idea of a world without bees or butterflies, without scent or color, affected me with a sense of awe.   2021 On this day, India's first cryptogamic garden, with nearly fifty different species, is opened.  Cryptogams are non-seed-bearing plants. These primitive plants do not reproduce through seeds, for example, algae, bryophytes (moss, liverworts), lichens, ferns, fungi, etc. The garden is located in the Deoban area of Dehradun in Uttarakhand and is situated at 9000 feet and spread over three acres.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Botany for the Artist by Sarah Simblet ("Sim-blit") This book came out in 2020, and the subtitle is An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants. In this book, Sarah Simblet takes you on an inspirational journey of creativity and botanical art as she demonstrates how to draw virtually every type of plant. As Sarah writes in the forward, This book was inspired by my love of gardening, a desire to know more about the structures, forms, and lives of plants, and an opportunity to spend a whole year exploring wild landscapes and the fabulous collections of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Oxford University Herbaria. These collections generously gave or lent me hundreds of pieces of plants to draw or have photographed for this book. Botany for the Artist features around 550 species, chosen to represent almost every kind of plant and habitat on Earth. Gorgeous, unfamiliar exotics are celebrated alongside more common plants, to show the beauty and wonder of the bird-of-paradise flower and the pavement milk thistle, tropical forest fruits and the orchard apple, giant pine cones, and tufts of city moss. Fungi, and some species of algae, are not scientifically classified as plants, but are featured here because they are fabulous to draw and fascinating in themselves.   Then Sarah points out the exponential understanding of a plant that occurs when you draw it. She wrote, Drawing is a... direct and universal language, as old as humankind.  If you spend just one hour drawing a plant, you will understand it far better than if you spent the same hour only looking at it. There is something in the physical act of drawing, the coordination of the hand and eye, and the translation of sensory experience into marks and lines that reveals an entirely new way of seeing.  Artists know this, but it is something we can all experience if we draw. And time spent drawing is a revelation, regardless of the results.   Finally, Sarah's book is written in a very friendly tone. She encourages artists to just get started and to use live specimens. She wrote, Books of advice, classes, and looking at the works of other artists will help you greatly, but you can also learn how to draw simply by doing it. The first step is to simply have a go. I always draw from real plants-never photographs -- because plants are three dimensional and were once alive, even if they are no longer. They are physically present, and can move, change, and challenge the person drawing them. An artist's relationship with their subject is always innately expressed in their work... Throughout this book, Sam Scott-Hunter's photographs reveal subtle insights that could not be captured in drawing. They also magnify many details so we can look very closely Into them. I have drawn most plants life-size, for comparison, and also to convey the excitement of giant-sized objects. This diversity is just one characteristic of the vast kingdom of plants that surrounds us all, and it is always there, just outside our door, waiting to be explored.   This book is 256 pages of botanical drawings - from exotics to mosses to towering trees. Join Sarah on an illustrated tour of the plant kingdom and deepen your powers of botanical observation, understanding, and appreciation.  You can get a copy of Botany for the Artist by Sarah Simblet and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $18.   Botanic Spark 1824 Mary Russell Mitford writes to Benjamin Robert Haydon to describe her garden: My little garden is a perfect rosary - the greenest and most blossomy nook that ever the sun shone upon. It is almost shut in by buildings; one a long open shed, very pretty, a sort of rural arcade where we sit. All and every part is untrimmed, antique, weatherstained, and homely as can be imagined - gratifying the eye by its exceeding picturesqueness, and the mind by the certainty that no pictorial effect was intended - that it owes all its charms to "rare accident."   The previous day, Mary wrote to her dear friend, Emily Jephson (July 10, 1824), and shared her thoughts on the garden as a form of power and fulfillment for women. She wrote,  I am so glad you have a little demesne (dih-MAYN) of your own too;  It is a pretty thing to be queen over roses and lilies, is it not?   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

On Cock and Bull, we are joined by Amit Doshi, Kajol Srinivasan and our poor co-host Silverie (Antariksh). Cyrus today gives us an update on his replacement driver, shares a great(?) parking hack for Mumbaikars and Silverie shares what to do if you are about to be caught by cops. They also talk about Kajol's rickshaw driver getting a challan (fine) for not wearing a helmet apparently, tech issues in the studio and the fashion statement that Amit is making today. Akshay Kumar apologising to his fans about endorsing Vimal Elaichi Pan Masala, him facing public backslash for doing the ad campaign in the first place, Amit and Cyrus' chewing supari in their younger days, and Akshay Kumar deciding to give the money he earned from Vimal Elaichi to a worthy cause. They also discuss whether banning these kinds of products is a good thing or whether people just always find a solution for all the banned stuff. Also, did you know that George Harrison of The Beatles had a song called 'Dehradun'?. Tune in for this and much more.You can follow Kajol Srinivasan on Instagram at @lolrakshakYou can follow Amit Doshi on Instagram at @doshiamitYou can follow Antariksh on Instagram @antariksht: https://instagram.com/antarikshtDo send in AMA questions for Cyrus by tweeting them to @cyrussaysin or e-mailing them at whatcyrussays@gmail.comDon't forget to follow Cyrus Broacha on Instagram @cyrus_broacha(https://www.instagram.com/cyrus_broacha)In case you're late to the party and want to catch up on previous episodes of Cyrus Says you can do so at: www.ivmpodcasts.com/cyrussaysYou can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios

What does a 12th century treatise on the life of a medieval king in Karnataka have in common with 1st century Sangam literature from Tamil Nadu, that describes the ancient food practices of the Tamil people? And do they have to do with Dashavatars of Vishnu? This week, in the fifth episode of the series Fabulous Foods, we travel from Udupi in Karnataka to Madurai in Tamil Nadu, and dive into the fascinating history of the dosa, its origins and evolution. Tune in, and discover where one can find the 'authentic' dosa and what life lessons does this humble and beautiful food hold for us. Till then Check out the other episodes of "The Great Migration"Bhojpur, Sexuality and Migration Songs :- https://ivm.today/3LQvFQCMoney Orders, Dehradun and Transatlantic Slave Trade :- https://ivm.today/34UHdlnChettiars, Burma and Fiery Dragons :- https://ivm.today/3JOMfyAGujaratis, Uganda and The Last King of Scotland :- https://ivm.today/33HernsThe Malayalis of Pakistan :- https://ivm.today/3Hk67YQSindhis, Crocodiles and Abida Parveen :- https://ivm.today/3BRlRRWYou can check previous episodes of 'Podcasts from Nowhere' on IVM Podcasts websitehttps://ivm.today/3xuayw9You can reach out to our host Utsav on Instagram: @whywetravel42(https://www.instagram.com/whywetravel42)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee   Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1621 Birth of Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician. He was a friend of John Milton. In addition to writing The Garden - one of the most famous English poems of the seventeenth century - he wrote this little garden verse: I have a garden of my own But so with Roses overgrown And Lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.   1824 Birth of Dietrich Brandis, German forester and botanist. He's remembered as the Father of Forestry in India, the Father of Modern Forest Management, and the Father of Tropical Forestry. Concerned about the unregulated destruction of the forests in India, the British wanted people in India to help manage and protect the trees. In 1856, Dietrich left his botany professorship in Bonn (where his father had been a professor) for a civil service position managing the teak forests in Burma. Eight years later, Dietrich was in charge of all the forests in India. In Carl Alwin Schenck's Birth of Forestry in America, there's a fascinating story about how Deitrich inventoried the Teak trees in the forest. [He rode] an elephant, on such trails as there were, with four sticks in his left hand and a pocketknife in his right. Whenever he saw in the bamboo thickets a teak tree within two hundred feet of his trail, he cut a notch in stick number 1, 2, 3, or 4, denoting the diameter of the tree. It was impossible for European hands, dripping with moisture, to carry a notebook. At the end of the day, after traveling some twenty miles, Brandis had collected forest stand data for a sample plot four hundred feet wide and twenty miles long, containing some nineteen hundred acres. He continued his cruise for a number of months, sick with malaria in a hellish climate. Moreover, he underwent a trepanning operation (brian surgery), and for the rest of his life, he carried a small hole filled with white cotton in the front of his skull. But he emerged from the cruise with the knowledge needed for his great enterprise. Dietrich established modern "sustainable" agroforestry principles that are still followed today. For two decades, Dietrich measured, itemized, and chronicled the forests of India. He started forest management schools and created training protocols for his employees. In 1878, Deitrich founded the Forest Research Institute in the Doon Valley in Dehradun. Styled in Greco Roman architecture, the building is beautiful and is the largest purely brick structure in the world. Sir Joseph Hooker recognized Deitrich's work and named the flowering-plant genus Brandisia in his honor.   1848 Birth of William Waldorf Astor, American-British attorney, politician, businessman (hotels and newspapers), and philanthropist. In 1891, a tall, shy William Waldorf Astor moved to Britain after declaring that "America is not a fit place for a gentleman to live." After over a decade living in England, William bought a run-down double-moated Hever Castle, which was Anne Boleyn's family home four hundred years earlier. Between 1904 and 1908, William oversaw the installation of the extensive gardens designed by Frank Pearson to surround the castle. William diverted water from a nearby river to make a 35-acre lake to make his vision a reality. It is said that eight hundred men hand-dug and stomped on the clay soil to make the bottom of the lake. Mature trees were harvested from Ashdown Forest and transplanted at Hever. Two mazes were installed. Topiary chessmen were pruned for the chess garden. Thousands of roses were brought in for the rose garden. But, the most impressive Garden at Hever was and is the Italian Garden, which features colonnades, classical sculptures, antiquities dating back to Roman times, and a loggia. There's also a long pergola on one end that features cool dripping fountains the entire length. Even today, it's staggering to think the whole project was completed in four short years.   1924 Birth of Leo Buscaglia, American author, motivational speaker, and professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. Leo believed education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. Leo learned to Garden from his father, and he once wrote, To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden. Leo was a self-help guru who preached love so much that he became known as "Dr. Love." He once wrote,  A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. He also wrote, There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Passions by Carolyne Roehm   This book came out in 2021 at the end of the year in December, and this is actually a collection of three books. All three books feature Carolyn's passions: flowers and gardens, feminine touch (which is all about how Carolyn loves to decorate), and furry friends, which of course, shares Carolyn's love of animals, especially her pups.  I have to say that I love the book sleeve for these books slip into because the artwork is reminiscent of Maria Sibylla Merian. Carolyn writes, I hope that this little trio of books about the joy that I found in flowers and gardening, feminine allure and feminine style and the love of furry friends delights and inspires you as it has me.  When I think about this book set, I think about it like a gift - a little book set to gift - so if you're looking for something special for yourself or a friend, this little set of books should be at the top of your list. The photography in all of these little books is absolutely stunning; it's all Carolyn Roehm. If you're a Carolyn Roehm fan, if you love her home in Connecticut or if you've watched any of her styling videos on YouTube, then you will immediately recognize the deeply saturated hues and the stunning compositions that she puts together with flowers and exquisite objects in her home. The balance of color, form, and architecture - all the incredible details that she pulls together - is just drop-dead gorgeous. This book is 240 pages of Carolyn Rome's passions - her favorite things - flowers and gardens, feminine allure and design,  and furry friends.  You can get a copy of Passions by Carolyne Roehm and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $34.   Botanic Spark 1962 On this day, a landscape worker hit a line connecting President Kennedy's White House to the Strategic Arms Command, the line vital to launching a nuclear attack. The project was led by Bunny Mellon, who was in charge of designing a new rose garden outside the President's office. Robert Kennedy once reflected on Bunny in the Garden, saying, Often during cabinet meetings, we would see her out there in the rose garden – a little figure with a bandana on her head.  One of Bunny's first tasks was to find a gardener to implement her designs. She selected a man named Irvin Williams, who was a government gardener at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. After Bunny brought him to the White House, he would stay on as the head gardener for almost fifty years. In early talks for the rose garden redesign, the Park Department voiced concerns about hitting underground lines. Bunny's plan called for large magnolia trees, which after some debate, were eventually ordered. But on this day, the underground line was cut during ground preparation. Bunny recalled that the problem was handled calmly and that she was never reprimanded. Bunny found the perfect magnolia trees for the White House over by the Tidal Basin overlooking the Jefferson Memorial. Once again, the Parks Department said "no" (due to costs). But Irvin Williams supported Bunny's idea, and he made arrangements to have the trees brought to the White House.  The roses included a yellow rose from the state of Texas called the Speaker Sam rose in honor of the late speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, a bright red variety from the World's Fair, a white rose name Frau Karl Druschki, and pink Doctor roses. Twenty-four days after the underground line was hit, the Garden, complete with magnolia trees and roses, was unveiled to the public. The updated rose garden was an instant success. The artist and friend of the Kennedys, William Walton, later wrote, [President Kennedy's] pleasure in that garden was infinite.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, Garden every day.

What connects the assasination attempt of King Jospeh 1 in Portugal, the ban on the Konkani language in Goa and a story about a young Lord Krishna, whose bravery provided the name of a famous waterfall? And how does it have an impact on almost all our culinary practices as Indians? This week, in the fourth episode of Fabulous Foods, we discover an unlikely music and storytelling tradition which is fast disappearing from our landscape. Tune in, and discover how this tradition encapsulates primal emotions felt by women, and how does it become a benchmark to evaluate countries we travel to.Special thanks to Heta Pandit for her important book, Grinding Stories Retold: Songs from Goa https://champaca.in/products/grinding-stories-retold-songs-from-goa?variant=39553068695587Check out their YouTube channel for more such songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChcxBGuuS423ga3EOQRkINATill then Check out the other episodes of "The Great Migration"Bhojpur, Sexuality and Migration Songs :- https://ivm.today/3LQvFQCMoney Orders, Dehradun and Transatlantic Slave Trade :- https://ivm.today/34UHdlnChettiars, Burma and Fiery Dragons :- https://ivm.today/3JOMfyAGujaratis, Uganda and The Last King of Scotland :- https://ivm.today/33HernsThe Malayalis of Pakistan :- https://ivm.today/3Hk67YQSindhis, Crocodiles and Abida Parveen :- https://ivm.today/3BRlRRWYou can check previous episodes of 'Podcasts from Nowhere' on IVM Podcasts websitehttps://ivm.today/3xuayw9You can reach out to our host Utsav on Instagram: @whywetravel42(https://www.instagram.com/whywetravel42)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

Why is the spice Nutmeg being mentioned in India's foremost treatise on military strategy? Why is it mentioned in a tri-fold collection of Sanskrit poetry about politics, erotic passion and renunciation? And what does it all have to do with the tiny cluster of islands in the southeastern Indian ocean, part of modern day Indonesia? This week, in the third episode of Fabulous Foods, we trace the journey of two tireless travellers, Nutmeg and Mace, and how they went on to become mainstays in global cuisines. Tune in, and discover the fundamental differences between the use of nutmeg in the east and the west, and what lessons do they hold for a world recovering from the pandemic.Till then Check out the other episodes of "The Great Migration"Bhojpur, Sexuality and Migration Songs :- https://ivm.today/3LQvFQCMoney Orders, Dehradun and Transatlantic Slave Trade :- https://ivm.today/34UHdlnChettiars, Burma and Fiery Dragons :- https://ivm.today/3JOMfyAGujaratis, Uganda and The Last King of Scotland :- https://ivm.today/33HernsThe Malayalis of Pakistan :- https://ivm.today/3Hk67YQSindhis, Crocodiles and Abida Parveen :- https://ivm.today/3BRlRRWYou can check previous episodes of 'Podcasts from Nowhere' on IVM Podcasts websitehttps://ivm.today/3xuayw9You can reach out to our host Utsav on Instagram: @whywetravel42(https://www.instagram.com/whywetravel42)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

Sidharth Routray is the first known Ironman from the state of Odia in India and he takes pride in being a trendsetter. Odia and its people are one of the most beautiful and culturally rich regions in India. He is also an avid mountaineer who has done peaks like Mt. Aconcagua, Mt. Denali, Mt. Orizaba, Mt El Plomo, and over 200 others. He is a proud former student of the prestigious National Defence Academy of Dehradun. Currently working as Head of Digital Marketing in San Jose, the Silicon Valley of USA. We get behind the scenes on his amazing journey of personal loss and revival, and how endurance sport has enriched his life. 0:00 Intro and background 3:21 Who is a Payika 6:41 Flashback, early days of endurance /mountaineering 9:05 How to determine location w/o GPS 9:56 The organic farming journey 10:42 Life in LA mountaineering restart 12:12 The Bicycling bug 14:21 Hitting refresh 16:34 Balancing family 18:38 The Triathalon journey 21:58 Breaststroke in the half iron 25:32 Training for full Iron man and time management 29:09 Discipline is not a bad word 32:35 Role of spirituality in endurance 35:15 Summiting the highest peak in South America 40:02 3 weeks to an Ultraman 47:56 Overcoming lows 52:33 What next in the journey 54:08 The fun Q&A round 1:04:07 The last word

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, September 22, 2019: Discourse by Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj

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Raghav Juyal is an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor and television presenter. He has been called King of Slow Motion for his surreal dance moves in slow motion style and for his reinvention of the Slow Motion Walk in India. Please support my work: 1. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anuragminusverma 2. BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Anuragminus 3. InstaMojo:(UPI/Gpay/PayTm) : https://www.instamojo.com/@anuragminusverma/ 4. PayPal (ONLY People living outside India can pay through it) : https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AnuragMinusVerma?locale.x=en_GB In this very fun and lucid podcast we talked about Reality shows, Raghav's journey from Small town to Mumbai industry, NCB and Drugs controversy in Bollywood, his love for hometown Dehradun, his views on celebrity culture and so much more. Raghav's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/raghavjuyal/?hl=en Context for Bhangarh, the haunted place story mentioned in podcast: https://youtu.be/m8NRAxX4_xI