Fun redefined this lockdown.

Redefine Fun in lockdown 

Fun can take new meaning when you choose to enjoy it yourself . Generate fun in various things you do, watch , read or listen to .

Easy ways include so many ideas.

1- Listening  to music is one way of enjoying and having fun. I set up my Bose Soundtouch30 after it was bought five years ago. It is now updated and has access to over 100,000 internet radio stations. You can keep changing six presets as you wish. Amazon music also plays on that. If you have interest in Apple Music pay and use it . Premium Spotify also plays on it . These three can give you access to over a few million or now billion numbers and albums. You may listen it on a good headset or just blast it in your room. 

2- Watch TV on any of the DTH packages you have. The channels can keep you glued for hours . Desist late nights and dark rooms to save your eyes. Don’t watch on tiny (13 inches also becomes tiny ) iPads in dark rooms. 

The smart TV can also stream Apple TV on it to get access to Netflix (you can access on 4 screens ) ZEE5,  Amazon Prime movies and music.  Many video creators are also available on FB that you can stream. Hundreds of video creators have mushroomed with short stories and movies. Caution is recommended when viewing few of those. One strange name is ULLU that also has subscriptions and content that needs caution to view with family. I mean horror sex and gory videos.

3- You tube also has its premium version to view unlimited content. I love the amazon music content available on amazon prime subscription (free on airtel thanks earlier )  Internet  browsing comes naturally while searching for nice movies and old songs. 

The music has old songs instrumental numbers and lilting audio of the old Indian Hindi music besides a host of other languages to choose from.

TV, DTH and Apple TV or other providers can drive you crazy and keep you glued for days may be.

Besides music and TV you may choose hobbies like painting on paper cloth or your own walls.

4- Hobbies like painting - My daughter does fabric painting on white or plain inners and also on her bedroom walls.

5- Photography is also fun if you love nature the rains the lightning these days and the sound of thunder to record. Taking good pix from balcony or video from windows of the rains. sunrise or sunset is great fun. Get ready to get wet top if it rains suddenly 

Some may consider it insane lying down on the terrace for fun while you have your iPhone or the camera with you.

6- Recoding time lapse - One seemingly very simple fun is lying supine  on the  terrace and clicking a video on time lapse of 2-3 minutes of the moving dark clouds and nature at dawn or dusk. Both my daughters tried it live last evening. The rains came soon after their Fun.

7- Dancing and singing in your own room to the music is easy and it’s no cost to you.

8-Doing yoga online with help of the SriSri yoga experts is also fun if you love yoga and health practices.

9- Yoga with music is also super great fun.

10- For many chefs in the making cutting vegetables is fun. I now love doing home kitchen Seva after the experience of kitchen Seva at the art of living kitchen while attending silence programs.

Solo fun also includes peeling fruits like pomegranates silently. Cut, peel ,collect the pomegranate pearls of health and watch your hands , dress as it can stain your clothes permanently. I find silently cutting vegetables peeling fruits like mangoes and apple as great fun.

11- Cooking is also fun. I learnt it this lockdown. Ocra cutting and cooking a nice dish was fun. Rolling chapatis is also easy if you love it to support home kitchen Managers. 

I just saw  Subbus Kitchen  on You Tube has reached 100000 subscribers. It provides easy recipes for home cooking. Mostly sweet dishes dosas and good vegetarian delicacies.

12- Singing karaoke is  absolute fun if you have streaming music I hinted in this article. 

13- With some caution eating is also fun. 

Be safe while eating and walk move and practice some exercise as constipation  can not be fun.

14 - Did I miss reading books and poetry. Non fiction and fiction are both worth reading. Many find it fun to read mystery and horror also. Not these days. I would prefer to read and enjoy light romance, self help and maintain peace in the mind.

15- Writing is equally fun if you have been attracting good traffic to your blogs and maintaining to hold the interest of the readers and also to buy items marketed by you online.

The points here are just a small list of items to have fun. I have excluded drinking or having dangerous substances as I don’t define it as fun once it hits you.

Dance sing cook eat listen watch and celebrate life .

Life is a celebration even if it’s lockdown. 

Thanks Gurudev SriSri Ravi Shankar who taught finding fun in small events and circumstances. 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bangalore 

murali04@gmail.com

Happiness survey - the customer survey

Happiness Survey - the customer Avatar. Is attached here in the short URL below

https://forms.gle/2f3GD5Sjrrw5EtzH6

Summary of the findings : My Happiness survey customer is Lalithaji ( a lady)

1. My Customer Avatar is Lalitha ji n the age group of 40 and above.

2. A resident of Bangalore, married and a Graduate.

3. Most often happy and cheerful

-though impacted by others words and behaviour.

4. She has a spiritual bend of mind and practises some form of Spirituality.

5. She has taken some workshops focused on her liking and is open to volunteering in the society

Preferably on an environmental project.

6. She is also an android phone user and owns a windows based laptop.

Spoke to two respondents. One of them is a doctorate and a professor in a college. Has spiritual practices and also interested in volunteering for environment projects

Second is a senior banker and has taken the art of living workshop, does spiritual practices may not be possible to volunteer but available for online support of projects.

Assignment 2 submitted by Muralidharan R Nair,

DD Army 3. Internship ( 16 May-4th July, 2020) with Digital Deepak.

Submitted on 26th May, 2020

Summary of findings:

https://docs.google

Creating the customer persona

 Creating the Customer Persona

- Assignment 2 submitted by Muraidharan R Nair, Bangalore.

The second class of the Internship Group 3 began with a quick summary of lesson one assignment. The overall speed of delivery of the assignments was very high. Delays in submission of the assignment occurred only when one thinks time for a perfect presentation is short. Mistakes may occur when the job is done fast and it was discussed that mistakes are a source of future benefits.

The topic of assignment 2 is creation of the Customer persona. A short survey was recommended and a summary of the Customer may be arrived at by analysing the same in a Google Survey or other instruments of survey.

This author has used a survey instrument and ran it to a group of 10 friends.

The findings will be summarised at the end of this assignment.

The present paper is based on the class session on 23r May, 2020.

● The discussion centred round the topic of Marketing.

Marketing is basically a one on one conversation with a prospect for the generation of business of selling a product or service.

The conversation becomes easy and useful when there is trust. The marketer has to ensure that the prospect has trust and only then a transaction can occur.

● The marketer needs to converse with the client in a friendly manner as a true friend who trusts you.

● Communication is best when the talk is authentic, real and one that is relatable by the client.

● Authentic and real conversations can bring real results.

● The better marketer is one who has a wealth of experience, who has proficiency in

language(s).

● Ability to relate to the client and to share wealth of experience allows speed of

connecting with the client or customer.

● An experienced marketer is one who has travelled well, who has more relationships and

good networks of individuals with whom he can relate and do business.

● The good marketer is also one who besides connecting with the audience also is open to

learning new insights in to the topic.

● The marketer needs to focus on who is the real audience. All cannot be connected with.

Having too many in the audience can delay results in business.

● Once the points of marketing are known it is important to connect with the right audience. Connecting to the right target audience can generate good business.

 ● It is nice to connect to the audience with right mental conversations.

● Using simple language is good to connect. Email and messaging directly to the client is more powerful than generic social media posts. Good email skills can enhance marketing abilities.

● When the connection with the customer is personal the transaction of sale becomes easy.

● When communicating in a written Article it is important to keep the flow sharp enough to keep the connection long. Craft the communication carefully to keep the attention of the reader for long. When the interest of the reader is diverted by contents that are meandering or losing focus on the subject at hand the possibility of losing the client is large.

● Instead of keeping communication boring, it is advisable to keep the subject crisp, short and communicate more in the unsaid.

● Once the communication moves away from the centre the subject is lost and the business transaction is sure to fail.

To summarise, Marketing is effective communication focused on the subject , the product in hand and the service. This communication needs to be authentic from real life experience of the marketer. This will allow easy connections with crisp messaging and email to communicate with the right target audience.

The choice of the audience and time used for communication is important for the transaction success. It is good to be focused on the topic at hand, keep it crisp and make it short to ensure outstanding results.

Assignment submitted by Muralidharan R Nair, internship group3 26 May, 2020

Work, Life and Me time can be balanced by Breathwork

Problems have a habit of being carried from business (work) to home (personal life )and vice versa. 

Very smart human beings know to switch off and on the two parts of life. Switching off is an art one needs to learn by practice of yoga, pranayama and meditation. 

Breathwork is key and asanas also allow you to reach home and wash your hands and feet and sit on the haunches and bow down in the manner Muslims pray. Bow down and touch your forehead on the floor and spread both your hands forward palms on the floor for a few moments. If you have difficulty spread the legs a bit under the belly or beside it. 

This allows to switch off the office and let the energy flow out of your to the earth and relax for a few minutes. Bingo you feel relaxed and ready for the family. I would suggest that hugging kissing and holding your kid or wife close as a sign of welcoming yourself home is good after the few moments of bowing down and clearing your energies.

The third dimension besides work, life is the Me time. Though the home is sometimes considered personal (it is not personal when the home is for a group of parents, kids and you) Balancing the three does require mind work and chiefly breathwork and no courses give effective inputs on mind management. 

It is now documented that breath plays an important part in separating the three - work-life and me-time balance is achieved by breathwork 

It is good to meditate daily and use the breath to balance the three dimensions and ensure rest and sleep. 

 

Muralidharan.R Nair 

Art of living Bangalore

Lockdown diaries and insights  (revised)

Air travel for domestic airlines opened.

Travel in Lockdown is a new nightmare 

Indian domestic flights  have just opened up. The plans were speeded up for opening the Indian skies to domestic Airlines. It’s the hurry insisted upon by the companies who feared closure of further delayed. The speed with which it was launched gives scope for lots  of new experiences and learning.

Airlines travel won’t remain a great luxury any more. The preparation and actual experiences will be unique and sharpened awareness of the issues related to such closed and small group travel will become mandatory.

Critics will have a gala time finding faults in the process and the mistakes that are sure to be made. Mistakes can be costly not just for the one making it but for all Co passengers and the crew of the airlines.

Indians are sure to learn to travel light  as there would be lot of difficulties involved in tugging along or pulling the baggage.

Security checks will be more strict and scrutiny will be tough. Touch and contact of passengers will have to suitably planned with use of long handled equipments of scrutiny.

Thermal screening will require high precision machines . There were issues of passengers taking tablets before journey to escape being traced with fever or illness .

The focus of the security team scanning baggage will require further sharpened awareness of the risks of carrying items of soiled clothes and medical items on board.

Cabin baggage will require further screening on entry into the plane.

Airlines may have its own thermal screening for accuracy to ensure the readings are not missed or skipped or bribed for passing through at the entrance of the airport. 

First time errors are bound to be highlighted by ruthless story tellers and professional liars among the press that is waiting to declare failure of every activity of the government and its agencies.

Drinking water on the plane will have further challenges. Carrying own bottles from home may be a good option as services on the airport will have challenges of serving without touch and touching glasses or water stations. Water station designs will have to suitably modified for remote sensor linked water supply.

Many will require guidance for self check ins as even the well trained can be caught napping.

Service on the food courts will require highly trained and focused staff and agents. Hygiene standards and packaging will also need very precise high quality service to ensure safety of all passenger using the facility.

Remaining starving for over 150 minutes will be a challenge for diabetics and needy who may be allowed to carry limited safely packed dry food.

New customer service norms may need invisible agents , as also distant ones and safely situated or willing to give instructions from afar to avoid touch. breath, cough or sneezing close to passengers. 

The health norms of the airlines staff will undergo drastic change and daily check ups tests will be the key to their excellence at work.

Those allergic to food smells and smoke or scents can be in great trouble in front of the service agents and security agents.

Security check without close touch or groping can be challenging for the security officers who need to be alert for terror groups or anti national elements waiting to create more trouble in the country .Carrying items banned on flight will  need closer sophisticated automated check in movement to the counter for check in.

Wish and pray all airlines work in close coordination with police,health officers, doctors, government officers and the airlines top officers and make this opening up a success for all.

Some states have not logged in to the new tightened security norms and Mumbai is one centre not prepared to get in line for this service. It may  join later keeping in minds it’s unpreparedness.

Hope safe airports safe players and easy 

Travels becomes a reality soon once international travel begins soon.

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bamgalore murali04@gmail.com

Lockdown diaries 

25th May 2020

Digital deepak internship - class 1 on 16 May 2020 learning

Class 1 at Digital Deepak  Internship batch 3

The class 1 on 16th May for Internship group 3 was all about — setting a goal, basics or marketing, writing and communication skills to create a niche for monetizing the written content online. It also emphasized the need to have an overall understanding of economics profits and the economy at large . The focus will not be on traditional marketing but Integrated Digital marketing that has good Content at the centre of Blogging, Email marketing, paid advertising, copy writing, search engine optimization, selling online and personal branding.

Communication and good writing skills requires a good degree of knowledge of English with proper diction when speaking and immaculate grammar when writing on a blog to attract new visitors to the blog Collecting emails of visitors to the blog and create a selling product to sell and bring an income of a crore and half in three years.

Focusing on the target makes the journey exciting and knowledge of economics related to the economy how money grows in a business and policies that would allow selling of class products and services will support the journey to success.

Marketing and understanding economy of profits and income will increase ease of selling a product and planning and achieving success in enhanced income and sustainable progress and growth in business.

Passion ,talent and market opportunities coupled with a deep intense longing for success can accelerate results and the process of reaching targets on your personal journey.

Following up talent also will require writing good blogs on topics of interest to the reader and catch and retain interest in visiting your blog frequently.

The product you plan to sell and monetize your skills of selling writing and creating trust in the product you wish to sell and bring repeat customers through referrals f existing users over a long period.

Creating a personal brand would require an intense desire to succeed and bring financial results to match the goal set in the area of money, success and accelerated growth. The personal branding would include few essential skills of reading speaking and writing.

It is good to read English books that inspire focused working towards the goal. Famous books that inspire positivity, entrepreneurship stories of success and bestsellers will enhance knowledge of English.

Watching inspiring movies also adds value to the knowledge of English. Current serials broadcast on television and streamed on Amazon Prime and Netflix also add value . Ability to think and write , speak in English will be easy if you can regularly read topics online. Ensuring , brevity of content will increase knowledge of the economy , writing and creating wealth through digital marketing , email skills and learning other related skills in the shortest period of time.

To summarize, good content is king, good grammar and English will attract repeat visitors to the blog you choose on a subject you are burning to sell and succeed in a given framework of allied digital work to reach success .

Looking forward to learning the techniques of integrated digital marketing to achieve the goal of abundance success and sustained growth over a period of time.

Meditation has benefits that are growing

Meditation and few of its benefits 

Meditation many tell me is about concentration but Sri Sri RaviShankar the guru of joy says meditation is doing nothing.

Meditation is just relaxing doing nothing. It’s said three pre requisites for enjoying meditation are 

1. Just for few minutes of Meditation , I want nothing. 

2. Just for this short time I do nothing 

3. I am nothing 

Once you have begun meditation the joy is in accepting the sounds around you, not resist any sensation or feelings in the body or thoughts. It’s just about accepting all the thoughts and let it go 

Even listening intently is an action of doing something or connecting to  concentration. You need not be intent of listening instructions. Just relax.

Just relax observe your mind settling down and doing nothing at all 

Once you know meditation is about doing nothing ,wanting nothing ,you may check the benefits of meditation.

Top  benefits include complete relaxation . 

Maybe slip into deep rest that  is aware of the sounds and instructions 

One does not sleep during meditation but slip into a state that is so close to sleep but aware of the sounds.

Besides the close to sleep feeling it also brings a degree of calm in the mind 

Many times the mind goes to rest without causing any feeling , thought or action during the time of meditation.

Meditation guided by a teacher or a guru is the best format.

The length of meditation can be between 10 minutes to a good 30 or 40 minutes of total rest relaxation and silence.

Thoughts can be reduced to a state of near zero thoughts.

Feelings may arise in the nature of total happy sensation of now worries or no words to speak.

Meditation can bring a rhythm  of rest regularly . You may sleep off after the period of meditation. This is a pre sleep relaxation.

Meditation reduces worries and brings peace to the mind body breath.

Breathing can be regularised after meditation.  

Meditation can bring a degree of thirst and taking a glass of water after meditation is recommended. One before meditation is also good.

Sitting in a peaceful environment enhances the value of rest and you may go to sleep after the Instructions .

Meditation before meal is recommended. It allows a rested mind have  food with total attention and awareness allows good digestion and health 

Meditation before lunch also enhances the digestion of food and allows sustainable food health.

Managers who meditate also share about ability to make proper decisions at work after meditation

Mediation also increases calm decision making ability.

Teams enjoy working when they do meditation at mid day to increase productivity and bring about a peaceful work atmosphere. 

Meditation allows the endocrine glands to work well and balance blood pressure and stress at office.

Meditators are known to be happy smiling and compassionate team players who can enhance results at work by just being peaceful and soft in their dealings 

When you meditate it also brings peace of mind and cool decisions that add value to the daily work situation.

Meditators radiate peace. happiness, joy and love in their teams and close near and dear ones in and out side office.

Meditation also impacts the vagus nerve ,the happiness nerve in making one happy and joyful at all times 

Good meditators make the work around them a celebration and companies find their businesses and customers happy all the time 

Meditation in these times of CoVID19 has stabilised families who meditate twice or thrice a day besides their own practise of yoga pranayama and  sudarshan Kriya a rhythmic breathing technique.

All views are result of daily practise of sudarshana Kriya and also teachings of Sri Sri Ravi shankar 

Last 50 days sri Sri has lead over 100 Meditation sessions that have reached 1.2 to 2.5 million people who have taken the session each day .

This large audience are happy and able to maintain peace within the family,  mutual respect and compassion towards each other.

This sustainable peace and a celebrative  mood is the result of daily meditation on these stressful and anxiety inducing days 

Consistent daily Meditation also reduces stress , you can bid goodbye to depression ,anxiety and panic attacks.

These are two links to meditation daily at 12:00 noon and 19:30 hours Indian Time lead by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar  

https://youtu.be/xHfe5gGObxA

LetsMeditate Now link for noon 

Refresh for the evening 

Let happy days be a daily event 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bamgalore 18:05:2020

Day 54 of lockdown #Meditation  #silence #faith #breath

Meditation has benefits that are only growing

Meditation and few of its benefits 

Meditation many tell me is about concentration but Sri Sri RaviShankar the guru of joy says mediation is doing nothing.

Meditation is just relaxing doing nothing. It’s said three pre requisites for enjoying meditation are 

1. Just for few minutes of Meditation , I want nothing. 
2. Just for this short time I do nothing 
3. I am nothing 

Once you have begun meditation the joy is in accepting the sounds around you, not resist any sensation or feelings in the body or thoughts. It’s just about accepting all the thoughts and let it go 

Even listening intently is an action of doing something or connect concentration. You need not be intent of listening instructions

Just relax observe your mind settling down and doing nothing at all 

Once you know meditation is about doing nothing wanting nothing you may check the benefits of meditation.

Top  benefits include complete relaxation . Maybe slip into deep rest that  is aware of the sounds and instructions 

One does not sleep during meditation but slip into a state that is so close to sleep but aware of the sounds.

Besides the close to sleep feeling it also brings a degree of calm in the mind 

Many times the mind goes to rest without causing any feeling , thought or action during the time of meditation.

Meditation guided by a teacher or a guru is the best format.

The length of meditation can be between 10 minutes to a good 30 or 40 minutes of total rest relaxation and silence.

Thoughts can be reduced to a state of near zero thoughts.

Feelings may arise in the nature of total happy sensation of now worries or no words to speak.

Meditation can bring a rhythm  of rest regularly . You may sleep off after the period of meditation. This is a pre sleep relaxation.

Meditation reduces worries and brings peace to the mind body breath.

Breathing can be regularised after meditation.  

Meditation can bring a degree of thirst and taking a glass of water after meditation is recommended. One before meditation is also good.

Sitting in a peaceful environment enhances the value of rest and you may go to sleep after the Instructions .

Meditation before meal is recommended. It allows a rested mind have  food with total attention and awareness allows good digestion and health 

Meditation before lunch also enhances the digestion of food and allows sustainable food health.

Managers who meditate also share about ability to make proper decisions at work after meditation

Mediations also increases calm decision making ability.

Teams enjoy working when they do meditation at mid day to increase productivity and bring about a peaceful work atmosphere. 

Meditation allows the endocrine glands to work well and balance blood pressure and stress at office.

Meditators are known to be happy smiling and compassionate team players who can enhance results at work by just being peaceful and soft in their dealings 

When you meditate it also brings peace of mind and cool decisions that add value to the daily work situation.

Meditators radiate peace. happiness, joy and love in their teams and close near and dear ones in and out side office.

Meditation also impacts the vagus nerve in making one happy and joyful at all times 

Good meditators make the work around them a celebration and companies find their businesses and customers happy all the time 

Meditation in these times of CoVID19 has stabilised families who meditate twice or thrice a day besides their own practise of yoga pranayama and  sudarshan Kriya a rhythmic breathing technique.

All views are result of daily practise of sudarshana Kriya and also teachings of Sri Sri Ravi shankar 

Last 50 days sri Sri has lead over 100 Meditation sessions that have reached 1.2 to 2.5 million people who have taken the session each day .

This large audience are happy and able to maintain peace within the family,  mutual respect and compassion towards each other.

This sustainable peace and a celebrative  mood is the result of daily meditation on these stressful and anxiety inducing days 

Consistent daily Meditation also reduces stress , you can bid goodbye to depression ,anxiety and panic attacks.

These are two links to meditation daily at 12:00 noon and 19:30 hours Indian Time lead by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar  

https://youtu.be/xHfe5gGObxA

LetsMeditate Now link for noon 

Refresh for the evening 

Let happy days be a daily event 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bamgalore 18:05:2020

Day 54 of lockdown. 

Gratitude to all who keep us going happily

Things to be grateful for 

Was sitting and wondering on the 50 plus days of lockdown what am I grateful for ?

Let me start with essential services . We have been lucky precisely each day designated the BWSSB supplies Cauvery water in the city suburbs and makes life easy. We collect boil the water and store it to drink with cumin seeds or ginger .

The second best gift of this time has been the solar water supply. We have Disol an early manufacturer and supplier of industrial solar nearing systems. Every single day I have enjoyed warm water that I mix cold water to take a bath early morning . The whole family has enjoyed in four bathrooms perfect supply of hot /warm water 

The gas supply has been immaculate Thanks to the BPCL and Indane. Book and pay today next morning the cylinder is  on our door step. The best service company in this lockdown.

Grateful foe the supply and slots of contact deliveries made on time by Big Basket that has kept its service quality with few hiccups in the beginning of the lockdown.

Am also thankful for new suppliers of vegetables and fruits online and supplies in less than 4 days. Prystine has supplied quality sanitizers. The scent is amazing lemony and lingering in the house.

Amazon has been a slight let down but thanks it supplies the happillo walnuts and dry fruits in less than twenty four hours.

I can’t thank enough the electric supply by BESCOM thanks dear engineers .

These are all suppliers of services closer to home and the kitchen all useful for the food on the table each day night on time .

Can’t thank enough family for keeping us focused and happy with meditation.

Thanks to Sri Sri for providing daily meditations virtually three times a day. It’s been a life saver this lockdown . Will write a separate piece on the meditations.

Happy days and gratitude been the key to the positivity and health in the family 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Lockdown diaries 

15:05:2020 Bangalore 

Things are sure to move forward in India

Fifty days and are things looking up ?

The lockdown has reached the end of version3.0 and many states will see lockdown4.0 in some new form and stricter rules to be followed. 

Who would need maximum care and mandatory stay at home instructions?  

Those above 60 and 65 will have to be indoors safe secure and healthy.

Lessons learnt from the lockdown 1 to 3 are 

a. States that first asked the migrant labour and workers in homes farms,  shops and factories to leave the state when they were asked to stay out in places will not see them return soon. The labour from UP will surely never return.

b. Delhi will never see Bihar migrants and workers again for the simple reason that they were humiliated and asked to leave fraudulently . Some died attempting the impossible option of walking home in intense heat, dust and hungry in some cases.

c. UP was daring in getting back its students stuck in some states with the CM being old  to send buses to pick them.

d. UP could get maximum new employment options with planned projects and quick implementation of the same. In this case the labour may never go back to the states where they had been evacuated from. 

e. It seems the workers who were transported back home by Haryana would like to return to their original places of work.  This speaks volumes of their experience in that  state.

After 50 days are we even ready to open up transport sector ? The cancellation of trains upto 30th June scares me. Without  railways functioning normally it’s not possible to move  populations between states in large numbers. Some states are not ready to take back more trouble for their over burdened hospitals and treatment staff .

Delhi appears to have taken the risk of opening up without proper back up of facilities for labour who need to stay close or inside the work places.

Mumbai is a case study in challenges of managing hospitals and managing PR of the CM. 

The CM has chosen to silence critics media and opponents by filing multiple cases and running between HC and Supreme Court with no easy victories. 

The next few days will decide the future of India’s health system , economy and state governance. Declaring packages for MSMEs and Micro sectors won’t be successful without RBI and bankers pulling up their socks. With bankers killing demonetisation through strange methods this package would fail with corrupt bankers and their lethargic ways of dealing with unsecured loanees. I am sure they will scuttle this idea of handing out doles without security. 

Karnataka and UP have put in place some credible systems to trace quarantine and treat with care and some states has chosen  playing with data and dodging statistics to misguide readers.

Prayers and faith are needed in days ahead for the safety of the population in India. Resolute leadership will be needed for good days and strong support from financial institutions. 

Muralidharan R Nair

51st day of lockdown 

Economic packages Bangalore 

15th May 2020

50 days and are things looking up ?

The lockdown has reached the end of version3.0 and many states will see lockdown4.0 in some new form and stricter rules to be followed 

Who would need maximum care and mandatory stay at home instructions 

Those above 60 and 65 will have to be indoors safe secure and healthy 

Lessons learnt from the lockdown 1 to 3 are 

a. States that first asked the migrant labour and workers in homes farms,  shops and factories to leave the state when they were asked to stay out in places will not see them return soon. The labour form UP will surely never return.

b. Delhi will never see Bihar migrants and workers again for the simple reason that they were humiliated and asked to leave fraudantly. Some died attempting the impossible option of walking home in sin heat dust and hungry in some cases.

c UP was daring in getting back its students stuck in some states with the CM being cold to send buses to pick them

d UP could get maximum new employment options with planned projects and quick implementation of the same. In this case the labour may never go back to the states where they had been evacuated from 

e. It seems the workers who were transported back home by Haryana would like to return to their original places of work.  This speaks volumes of their experience in that  state.

After 50 days are we even ready to open up transport sector ? The cancellation of trains upto 30 June scares me I’d flat on railways functioning normally won’t allow large scale movement of populations between states. Some states are not ready to take back more trouble for their over burdened hospitals and treatment staff .

Delhi appears to have taken the risk of opening up without proper back up of facilities for labour who need to stay close or inside the work places.

Mumbai is a case study in challenges of managing hospitals and managing PR of the CM 

The CM has chosen to silence critics media and opponents by filing multiple cases and running between HC and Supreme Court with no easy victories. 

The next few days will decide the future of India’s health system , economy and state governance.

Karnataka and UP have put in place some credible systems in place to trace quarantine and treat with care and some states playing with data and dodging statistics to misguide readers.

Prayers and faith are needed in days ahead for the safety of the population in India. Resolute leadership will be needed for good days 

Muralidharan R Nair 

New Life and Change welcomes you

Life on a frozen lane , Change ahead 

So many on the fast lane 

So many on a jet plane

Have all landed on a frozen path

All life is at a stand still path 

Some have calmed down

Some have cooled down

Some have learnt silence 

Some feel it’s penance 

Silence is pure gold

Yap  yap is now bad and  old 

Days ahead point to a new life 

May be same home, same wife 

Some wish to change life 

Change to a new life 

Get out of the old life 

And choose to revolt in life 

Change is sure on us point blank

New is shot at you point blank 

If you accept it’s going to be good 

If you resist you may become dead wood 

Choose with faith , all that is new 

Choose quickly , all that is upon you 

New home, New life, new times 

New habits ,new food , just accept its good 

Accept , Be happy , keep your smiles 

They will take you far and miles 

Enjoy this moment 

Be bold welcome all good 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Tried a hand at poetry 

Day 51 of lockdown  14-05-2020 

The Idiot box and the iPhone

The Idiot  box and the iPhone

The love with this two gadgets has increased exponentially 

Screen time has averaged close to over 10 and 11 hours that is close to all the waking time. 

Last few days after a meditation when sri sri again asked to keep smartphones away at least one hour after waking up in the morning.

I have a new routine in the morning. Wake up at 5:10-30 am and take a quick shower or just a good wash. 6:00 am is meditation on Channel 779 DoorDarshan India which goes international. 

6:30 at the end of the meditation I take a cup of hot /warm water with a spoon of ghee . Six surya namaskars I manage and enjoy the short body stretches within the twelve asanas. I have learnt to live without the talk time upto 8:00 am some days . 

Take a nice walk round the terrace and reach 1.1-3 km and move on to a bath, Sadhana and breakfast  by 9:15 am 

I am happily surprised I have not opened the TV after 6:30 am for the last one week I believe . 

Famous among  channels , Romedy Now was a top favorite . I saw Guess who ,The good the bad and the ugly , Meet Dave in parts and in whole.  I’m so happy I have kept the phone away for a talk for long .

Movies Now plus is too violent for my taste specially gory bloody scenes . Romedy portrays mostly nice love stories that depict all’s well that ends well like stories.

That urge to sit flat on the floor and watch movies has gone and I prefer writing or reading and listening to music .

One good job I did was get my Bose SoundTouch30 working and setting up preset internet radio and enjoy music on Bluetooth and WiFi. Listen to morning Bollywood retro channel and suno1024

The latter is a channel that is famous in UAE and has ads from Dubai.

I listen to light retro songs while walking on the terrace for about 45 minutes while reading bits of e-newspaper news and the the channel -FM radio on the net .

Normal times I would have chosen some FM on the mobile phone .The joy of listening to the Bose system sounds is out of this earth . All this requires proper use of WiFi and data that costs reasonable today in India.

The new normal will be offices with all CCTV and online work from home will keep you on camera full time . You won’t be able to bluff about health or sick kids or non existent parents for leave .

Life surely is going to a new level of technology filled moments for zoom and google meet . Some prefer the traditional Skype and now Microsoft team. The later is  for office teams to work .

Keeping a phone or laptop separate from office will now have a premium value for home and relations.

Am sure in the next less than five years corporates would have less meetings at office except for cutting cakes celebrations or drinks parties.

You can’t drink eat online only order stuff online.

Life looking forward is going to be exciting and data will be a cost factor in all homes.  Kids and adults will have to regulate and love life away from the gadgets. 

Sleep well , Stay safe keep gadgets off when you rest or keep them away from the bedroom 

Muralidharan R Nair 9-05-2020 

Lockdown day 46 Bangalore India