GOLDEN JUBILEE: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

I had never imagined that our Fiftieth (Golden Jubilee) wedding anniversary will be celebrated in Ajman(UAE) though there were options: either in India(Bengaluru) where my elder daughter Anjali lives, In Male(Maldives) where my younger daughter Aparna lives or in Ajman where my son Ashish lives. Children had to take the decision and finally choice fell upon Ajman. Both my wife and I were slightly hesitant to propose anything from our side till the afternoon of date 14th June,2017 approached and both of us were overjoyed to see the celebration going off so well and so immaculately planned. It was only after the celebration was over, we came to know that all the three(children) were in constant touch with each other for the last two months planning things and seeking each other’s advice and guidance. Our well-wishers and friends were contacted both in India and abroad and their Video and Text-messages procured. The room where the jubilee-celebration was to be solemnized was decorated beautifully with a big cake and other eatables lying on the center table. Arrangements to live-telecast the occasion on YouTube were made by grandson Aryaman along with his younger brother Ayaan. Son Ashish and his wife Roma were too busy in giving the final shape to the function: arranging the gifts, receiving the guests, adjusting the music system, decorating the walls etc. etc. While the party was on in the back ground of light Indian music, cameras and lights blinkering and atmosphere of gaiety all around, I started thinking in my mind: we the couple celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary certainly deserve to celebrate. We have managed to survive a half century of life's ups and downs together. Not many people make it through the first five years, let alone ten times that number. We have left a legacy that can't be measured in terms of material possessions. We have given our kids the best of ourselves and made them aware enough to realize their duty towards their Mom and Dad.

Spending half a century in love, togetherness, commitment and strength with one person is a wonderful experience and an unmatched gift of married life. No other gift can match this rare and invaluable gift.

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Dr.Shiben Krishen Raina
Writer,Translator and Professor,
Currently in Ajman(UAE)

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Advantages of Mobiles

Broadly speaking, each and every technology has its own merits and demerits and use of mobile phone is no exception. When you take its positive role into consideration, more especially its impact on students, the use of a mobile phone has far-reaching benefits and advantages. Fact of the matter is that mobile phones came into existence for emergency purposes. If students have a mobile phone, then it’s easy for them to contact anyone when the need arises. For instance, if a student has some problem in school, or in the street after school, he/she can contact their parents immediately. Likewise, a student with a phone can contact police at any harmful and challenging situation, or contact fire brigade if they find fire somewhere, or even they can call any useful department stores or buying-shops as per needs. So, the mobile phone is one of the best solutions for any emergency situations. That is one of the most constructive uses of mobile phone.

Now take the question of mobiles as knowledge benefactors. Our parents and grandparents had no mobiles. They studied and got knowledge only from their teachers, prescribed course books etc. Things have changed now. Internet helps us much more than olden days. Previously, the library would help the students to gain some extra knowledge and now the whole library is in the students’ pocket in the form of a mobile phone which serves more or less as a great knowledge treasure/reservoir. You can search anything by the stroke of your fingers and get the great explanations and answers with the help of this cute device ie mobile phone. Here also students are advised to surf more good stuff on their phones rather than waste their precious time on depraved and unreadable stuff. Needless to mention here, through mobile phones one can search lots of good stuff, but at the same time he can search lots of bad stuff as well. Survey says that nowadays almost all the students are addicted to porn videos and some other porn activity websites. That’s really bad. That is why we see lots of student addicted to consuming of cigarettes and drugs etc. and thus becoming a focus of bad habits and eventually a threat to society. What our these none-too-matured students see on these harmful sites, they try to imitate in their real life. This is one of the major flaws for the rise of this mobile technology. Parents need to constantly check and keep on close vigil on their children who use their mobiles either during night hours or when their parents are away to work. Pass wording and asking the children to use and surf the mobile phone in their presence will definitely solve the problem. 

For elders, also the excessive use of mobile phone may not be fruitful and desirable in the sense that it, in the long run, it makes the user mobile-dependent. Survey says that modern mobile-user is all the time terribly addicted to watching of Face Book, Mails, You Tube, Instagram, Twitter. Whats App and other social networking sites. This diminishes the ability of actual human communication and sociability resulting in a void in our modern-day society. Thus, the excessive use of mobile phones not only hamper the routine study of students and elders both but add to their distraction for other worthy social pursuits. Needless to mention here, it is more or less also a major cause of eye-disease spreading there days all over.

In short, excess of everything is bad. So use of mobile phone, too, should be limited to the extent it suits our time, suffices our immediate needs and makes us intelligent and aware enough about the work we are interested in.