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Dear Wordle I start each morning with frustration… Wordle , a web-based word game has wormed its way into the hearts of players around the world. It was developed by a programmer, Josh Wardle, who named the game Wordle — a twist on his surname. Like the best of things, Wordle was  made with love . Wardle invented the game to play with his partner. In mid-October 2021, Wardle made it public. It became a viral sensation on Twitter towards the end of 2021 when Wardle added an option to share results on social media with a coloured grid that doesn’t spoil the game for others. According to data provided by Twitter , since Wardle released the game in November 2021, there have been 1.7 million tweets mentioning "Wordle" globally. On January 31, 2022, The New York Times Company , the parent of The New York Times, acquired Wordle from Wardle for "an undisclosed price in the low seven figures." The Times stated the game would initially remain free to new and existing users ...

                                 The mystics have compared a man to a ladder. The ladder can be used for two things: You can use it to go upward, and you can use it to go downwards. You use the same ladder for both purposes, only your direction changes. The ladder is the same but the result will be totally different.               The man is a ladder between heaven and hell. That's why it is only human beings who repress, who manipulate, who kill, who try to conquer the natural flow of nature. Only human beings are stupid, And that is because they can be buddhas. Because human beings have intelligence, that's why they can be stupid. Stupidity does not mean the absence of intelligence, It simply means you have not used it. If there is no intelligence, you cannot call a human being stupid.              ...

What we know from history and psychology is that creativity and innovation arise in the time of the crisis. As we know that  "Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."                Covid-19 has been one of the biggest worldwide crises that have shaken the world immensely. According to the experts' predictions, people might have to alter their lifestyles to adapt to this crisis. Having said that, it is important to feed your creative mind and find inspiration during a crisis. But how do you do that? Here, I have shared a few points to make our mindset creative and innovative :) 1. Write down your expectations: Often, we have many ideas but it becomes hard to narrow them down and get to the starting points. So, what works best is writing down our expectations and thoughts on a piece of paper. It helps us to gain clarity and focus on the target. 2. Don't aim for perfection right away: We want to be perfect at something from the st...

Art of Portrait      In today's fast-paced world we don't have time to cultivate our passion. Hence our art is suppressed from within. Today I am going to show some of my artwork through this blog. When I was in elementary school, I used to participate in a lot of drawing competitions. But then while studying in high school, I had to choose between study or art and I chose to study. I never sketched or painted after that. But when I got admission in Engineering, I met friends in Walchand College who juggle well between their studies and passion. In 2019 I started drawing portrait pencil sketches. And slowly made progress in it.  Style: White pencil on black paper using Glass marking white pencil. This is the sketch I did in February 2020 on the auspicious occasion of the birth anniversary of the Great Maratha Emperor, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.  As grid can not be used in this sketch. This sketch is done using the reference of edges of the paper. Once the pe...

  Is 2020 was the year, India supposed to become a superpower? Unfortunately, it got left behind. Always there was hope, if all else failed, the promise of 2020 was there. It offered a target and even offered a plan of action. Through all the ups and downs of the middle years, from 1998, when  India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium  was published,  it became a guide to the future. It offered a strong vision that, as 2020 ends, India would be Superpower in two decades but the dream still survives. Back in 1998, India even could not meet global standards of human development.  Wondering!, how did Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam have such extreme thoughts about India conquering the world? Far from it, in fact, two years then India is not Superpower. Sadly it was an inaccurate prediction, rather year 2020 has been a disaster for India and the whole world. Is still a chance to take this mission in hands of Indians? Let's forget about yesterday, think and thought about today...

  World War II   was one of the most devastating wars that lasted from 1934 to 1945 . The principal belligerents were the Axis power-German, Italy, and Japan and the Allies- France, Great Britain, the United States, the soviet union, and to a lesser extent China. One can’t consider the Holocaust without wondering about the source of Adolf Hitler ’s hatred for the Jews. In “Mein Kampf,” published in two volumes, in 1925 and 1926, Hitler himself explains that he had no special feelings about Jews before he moved to Vienna, in 1908, and that even then, initially, he thought favorably of them. He saw the light only after Germany’s loss in World War I, for which he held the Jews responsibly. During the second half of the 19th century, the Jews’ emancipation throughout most of Europe led to their increasing integration into society and into the modern economy. Hitler’s political theories blended with increasingly technical racial theories that imagined the Jews and other groups li...

Acceptance and responsibility are the keys to peace of mind as well as success. “ Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Yet who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.”      The only one way to have real power in our lives is to take responsibility for them – to own and even claim whatever happens in the situations we are dealing with that and we are only responsible for that.      T hat doesn’t mean that we can control everything that happens to us, that everything that happens is our fault, but we should take responsibility for accepting  t hings the way they are , and the way they are not. Nothing more. If you look at what most of us do, however, we not only don’t accept… we come up with a whole drama around what it means that things happened a certain way.  we don’t have what we want in life because of that wrong and unfair situation....