πTHE DAILY OBSERVER-31: 04 July 2020 / 04:04 π
When Mercury is in retrograde and misinterpretation is the reigning deity, maybe complete mauna is the best policy. But then a newsletter can neither be a blank sheet or a table of events in serial order as they occured. One may not be able to live up to everyone's expectations all the time, but that does not mean giving up. The TDO takes the ups and downs of life in its stride and carries on. Alfred chose to start the day with a Trump joke while Navnit closed with the inspiring story of self-made engineer Pratap from Karanataka. Rajbir posted the story of a gay officer of the Indian Army at the same time. It certainly takes all kinds to make the world. Sanjay Mishra is saying it with flowers these days.Lovely photos of Krishna Kamal from him and Satish. Saxy surprised with a spiritual tale of Buddhist monks apart from his usual jokes. Satbir said good morning with a message - be like a lamp and illuminate without prejudice, followed by a joke.Shiv suggested ways to deal with negative thoughts. In reply to a query by Saxy, Prabhat Jha says the situation in Nepal will change in a week's time.Shiv turned the spotlight to the Chinese situation by posting an article and Murali posted his comments on it along with another article.
Sawant posted a video of Mrs Mahadik, brave lady who joined the Army after her husband's death and passed out of OTA recently. A short 55 sec video post by Pitamah contains the message of the day issued by a WHO official. Murali and Satish endorsed this. In the process, Satish laid for public inspection his own thought process. Go through this interesting exchange between him and Vidur and see for yourself whether you are reading what you are thinking or reading what you are seeing ! Nice to see Sirohi interacting beyond his morning greeting messages. Vish spoke of the Black Lives Matter problem and many sympathised. Seems only SBT felt the tremors in the NCR. Nirbhye posted a story on human remains of a war hero with a message to all. Arun posted a video on protected Tata vehs for the Army.Then came the news about Covid vaccine. Rajbir spoke of faulty foodgrain distribution . Vidur suggested Amartya Sen's book on the subject while Nathani replied to it in great detail. Luthra posted about developments in the last 48 hrs. Shiv posted a video featuring Col RSN Singh and invited opinions.
Alfred mentioned that the group was getting cold.Let's hope that is not the case - there is no gag order so do feel free to voice out your feelings. Sawant posted the video of Biswajit singing at 82 yrs.Alfred posted a message containing the points made in the PM's Ladakh speech.Hitech Murali repeated a video of a Rafael landing. That was Friday. Welcome Saturday.
DISCLAIMER: All the characters and incidents mentioned above are fictional. Any resemblance to real-life is coincidental.
Happy weekend folks !