#rsisb RollNo.247 Foundation Level 💪 "Work hard in silence; let your success make the noise." — Frank Ocean 🌟 Success doesn't need constant announcements or endless validation. The strongest victories are built behind the scenes—through discipline, consistency, and dedication when no one is watching. Every early morning, every late night, every challenge you overcome, and every sacrifice you make is shaping the future you dream of. Instead of seeking attention for your efforts, focus on becoming better every single day. Let your actions speak louder than your words. True champions don't waste time proving themselves—they spend their time improving themselves. 📈 There will always be people who doubt your abilities or underestimate your potential. Don't argue with them. Don't try to convince them. Keep learning, keep growing, and keep working. One day, your achievements will tell your story better than any explanation ever could. 🚀 Remember, greatness is built through patience and persistence. Every small step forward matters. Stay committed to your goals, trust the process, and never give up because success belongs to those who keep moving forward even when nobody is applauding. 🌱✨ Your future is created by what you do today—not by what you promise to do tomorrow. So stay humble, stay focused, and let your success become the loudest proof of your hard work. 🔥🏆 #WorkHard #Success #Motivation #Inspiration #Discipline #Consistency #GrowthMindset #NeverGiveUp #DreamBig #Focus #SuccessMindset #SelfImprovement #HardWorkPaysOff #KeepGrinding #PositiveThinking #PersonalGrowth #AchieveYourGoals #Hustle #Determination #BelieveInYoursel

Is this you? :-) COMMENTARY by Thomas L. Friedman: I think I’ll plan to go from Kiev to Hanoi more often. It’s only when you go to two seemingly disconnected places that you see the big trends, and one of the big ones I’ve noticed is the emergence of “The Square People.” In 2004, the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington wrote about an emerging global “superclass” of “Davos Men” — alluding to attendees of the Davos World Economic Forum — a transnational, cosmopolitan elite drawn from high-tech, finance, multinationals, academics and NGOs. The Davos Men had “little need for national loyalty” and more in common with each other than their fellow citizens, Huntington argued. They also had the skills to disproportionately benefit from the new globalization of markets and information technologies.

Jawahar Patani writes I think we all should understand that religion is just a set of laws put in place to keep the human under control . Religion is also the beginning of standardisation . Humans also need to have fear of the unknown and therefore it is best to have a point that can be named anything and given the name creator. In the same manner or principle the government's work . Just that this time round we can see, touch, feel , oppose and change .. This is the set of laws that is called a constitution . Now banning is not something new . We had people with different views who were banished from kingdoms and villages and families as well. This is basically to keep control over the different views of people that are above all and these values are the cultural values... now if we all understand that by blasphemy is only there as long as we see and hear it . Otherwise we live on the same planet if we abuse the god of another we are still not struck by fire and brimstone .. We have many gods yet the earth is not destroyed while the same creators ( I say creators because every religion have their own name) make sure the system works without a flaw. So let's not argue . Look for a way that you can bypass the block ... Make it viral and watch you tube from a different host who just borrows the content and let the government continue with that block.

A draft of something I am working on Using Social Media for defusing a problem: What is a problem ? What is Hate ? Hate come’s from disliking something for over a period of time, as the idea of dis likeness deposit’s in people’s minds, slowly and gradually it becomes and converts into hate. People who hate something, block their own mind towards listening anything on that subject, and not just that subject most of the times we will see that the same people also are blocked on many other subjects or dislike them also. I found people who are afraid of one thing, they are also afraid of other similar things. For example i found people who are afraid of Muslims, Jews, media, govt, they were all mostly the same people who found problems of some kind in all these things, not just one, and it all comes from Fear. How to cure it ? Just like a puss in a pimple, which needs to come out, similarly if we can channelize this hate to come out some way where the person can feel that HE SHOWED IT to the other party, hate also defuses it self, I found that when i let people talk bad or take out what they hate in some form on my Facebook wall, they argue and they argue, and if they do not block each other, i have found that they become tolerant of that person eventually, as they see that that person is not that bad as they thought they were, and eventually they become accepting of that person or ideology I have been creating war’s on my Facebook wall, i would write something on my wall as a question, and people of both sides would jump in and start talking and usually 2 or 4 or 6 people start talking and taking sides and they keep on presenting their point of views, and eventually they end up becoming Facebook friends, which changes everything in my opinion, as now their tank of hate is all of a sudden empty, and they are cured and they will no longer fight, I have even found that these same people become more close to each other eventually and become very very accepting of other people. Suggest a friend button: I use the Suggest a friend button, to send people of different school of thoughts to each other, and that means, that if they add each other, slowly they see the story which was being told by the other side to their friends, and now they are seeing what the ENEMY was saying about them, and slowly and the ENEMY is seeing what they are saying, thus both side’s become cautious of how to phrase words as all of a sudden, there are no secrets, and both parties actually UNDERSTAND each other. I do this by making list’s of different people of different subjects in my facebook, and then after labelling one person of a particular school of thought, i would open their profile and send the other school of thought person to them. I also write question on my wall, which would be of an extreme where people would probably talk about,or it would create friction among them, Or provoke them to come on my wall and talk about this i.e., Who do you think does the Land of Israel belong to now ? Jews or Muslims Or Christians or …. ? When this happens, people scream, yell, bring their side of the proof’s and as i said eventually become more tolerant and accepting of the other party. I would say that above is probably the reason, I have been spending so much time on Facebook,

Please feel FREE to argue with any of the post that I make ON MY WALL, so that people including me, can learn your point of view and can correct themselves. You are welcome to use any kind of language you seem fit to do that on my wall.

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari "Next, British, French and German scholars wedded the linguistic theory about the industrious Aryans to Darwin’s theory of natural selection and posited that the Aryans were not just a linguistic group but a biological entity – a race. And not just any race, but a master race of tall, light-haired, blue-eyed, hard-working, and super-rational humans who emerged from the mists of the north to lay the foundations of culture throughout the world. Regrettably, the Aryans who invaded India and Persia intermarried with the local natives they found in these lands, losing their light complexions and blond hair, and with them their rationality and diligence. The civilizations of India and Persia consequently declined. In Europe, on the other hand, the Aryans preserved their racial purity. This is why Europeans had managed to conquer the world, and why they were to rule it – provided they took precautions not to mix with inferior races. Such racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but it’s about time we coined it. Among today’s elites, assertions about the contrasting merits of diverse human groups are almost always couched in terms of historical differences between cultures rather than biological differences between races. We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus European right-wing parties which oppose Muslim immigration usually take care to avoid racial terminology. Marine le Pen’s speechwriters would have been shown the door on the spot had they suggested that the leader of the Front National go on television to declare that, ‘We don’t want those inferior Semites to dilute our Aryan blood and spoil our Aryan civilization.’ Instead, the French Front National, the Dutch Party for Freedom, the Alliance for the Future of Austria and their like tend to argue that Western culture, as it has evolved in Europe, is characterized by democratic values, tolerance and gender equality, whereas Muslim culture, which evolved in the Middle East, is characterized by hierarchical politics, fanaticism and misogyny. Since the two cultures are so different, and since many Muslim immigrants are unwilling (and perhaps unable) to adopt Western values, they should not be allowed to enter, lest they foment internal conflicts and corrode European democracy and liberalism."

Socrates, 399 BC On a day in 399 BC the philosopher Socrates stood before a jury of 500 of his fellow Athenians accused of "refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state" and of "corrupting the youth." If found guilty; his penalty could be death. The trial took place in the heart of the city, the jurors seated on wooden benches surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Socrates' accusers (three Athenian citizens) were allotted three hours to present their case, after which, the philosopher would have three hours to defend himself. Socrates Socrates was 70 years old and familiar to most Athenians. His anti-democratic views had turned many in the city against him. Two of his students, Alcibiades and Critias, had twice briefly overthrown the democratic government of the city, instituting a reign of terror in which thousands of citizens were deprived of their property and either banished from the city or executed. After hearing the arguments of both Socrates and his accusers, the jury was asked to vote on his guilt. Under Athenian law the jurors did not deliberate the point. Instead, each juror registered his judgment by placing a small disk into an urn marked either "guilty" or "not guilty." Socrates was found guilty by a vote of 280 to 220. The jurors were next asked to determine Socrates' penalty. His accusers argued for the death penalty. Socrates was given the opportunity to suggest his own punishment and could probably have avoided death by recommending exile. Instead, the philosopher initially offered the sarcastic recommendation that he be rewarded for his actions. When pressed for a realistic punishment, he proposed that he be fined a modest sum of money. Faced with the two choices, the jury selected death for Socrates. The philosopher was taken to the near-by jail where his sentence would be carried out. Athenian law prescribed death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock. Socrates would be his own executioner. "What must I do?" Plato was Socrates' most famous student. Although he was not present at his mentor's death, he did know those who were there. Plato describes the scene through the narrative voice of the fictional character Phaedo. "When Crito heard, he signaled to the slave who was standing by. The boy went out, and returned after a few moments with the man who was to administer the poison which he brought ready mixed in a cup. When Socrates saw him, he said, 'Now, good sir, you understand these things. What must I do?' 'Just drink it and walk around until your legs begin to feel heavy, then lie down. It will soon act.' With that he offered Socrates the cup. The latter took it quite cheerfully without a tremor, with no change of color or expression. He just gave the man his stolid look, and asked, 'How say you, is it permissible to pledge this drink to anyone? May I?' The answer came, 'We allow reasonable time in which to drink it.' 'I understand', he said, 'we can and must pray to the gods that our sojourn on earth will continue happy beyond the grave. This is my prayer, and may it come to pass.' With these words, he stoically drank the potion, quite readily and cheerfully. Up till this moment most of us were able with some decency to hold back our tears, but when we saw him drinking the poison to the last drop, we could restrain ourselves no longer. In spite of myself, the tears came in floods, so that I covered my face and wept - not for him, but at my own misfortune at losing such a man as my friend. Crito, even before me, rose and went out when he could check his tears no longer. Apollodorus was already steadily weeping, and by drying his eyes, crying again and sobbing, he affected everyone present except for Socrates himself. He said, 'You are strange fellows; what is wrong with you? I sent the women away for this very purpose, to stop their creating such a scene. I have heard that one should die in silence. So please be quiet and keep control of yourselves.' These words made us ashamed, and we stopped crying. Jacques-Louis David, 1787 The Death of Socrates Socrates walked around until he said that his legs were becoming heavy, when he lay on his back, as the attendant instructed. This fellow felt him, and then a moment later examined his feet and legs again. Squeezing a foot hard, he asked him if he felt anything. Socrates said that he did not. He did the same to his calves and, going higher, showed us that he was becoming cold and stiff. Then he felt him a last time and said that when the poison reached the heart he would be gone. As the chill sensation got to his waist, Socrates uncovered his head (he had put something over it) and said his last words: 'Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget.' 'Of course', said Crito. 'Do you want to say anything else?' 'There was no reply to this question, but after a while he gave a slight stir, and the attendant uncovered him and examined his eyes. Then Crito saw that he was dead, he closed his mouth and eyelids. This was the end of our friend, the best, wisest and most upright man of any that I have ever known" References: Plato's description appears in: Tredennick, Hugh (translator)The last days of Socrates : Euthyphro, The apology, Crito, Phaedo / Plato (1959); Freeman, Charles, The Greek Achievement (1999); Stone, I.F., The Trial of Socrates (1988).

Moai Moais are informal social groups that form to provide support to its members. Moai means “meeting for a common purpose” in Japanese and originated from the social support groups in Okinawa, Japan. According to research, Moais are one of the leading factors of the longevity of lifespan of the Okinawan people, making the region among the highest concentration of centenarians in the world. I love the concept of Moai because I believe we need these social groups for our personal well-being now more than ever. Demanding careers, family life and an increasing tendency to live our lives online can lead to social isolation. According to author Shelley Provost, “Moai can serve as an extended family where social and emotional needs are met — managing a crisis, reducing stress, connecting emotionally and, at times, assuaging grief. Essentially, a moai is a group of people who “have your back” and commit to all aspects of your well-being.” This is similar to the Buddhist idea of “itai doshin”. In Japanese it, roughly translated, means “Many in body, one in mind.” It’s a way of thinking about our place in society that I see as the antidote to narcissism. It argues that even a small group of well meaning people can be influential in creating happiness and peace in their community. Building a Moai takes time, effort and a certain amount of vulnerability. But it can begin with a simple act such as a dinner party among acquaintances. Start building your Moai here or whatapp or real life #moai

*Minorityism is Highly Hazardous* *Dr Ved Pratap Vaidik* Ashwini Upadhyay, a noted Supreme Court lawyer, has approached the apex court with a sensational prayer. In his petition the senior advocate has alleged that using minority tag as a ploy public reserves are being plundered in many states. Those who are majority in certain states claim minority status in the same state saying at the national level they are a minority. In Jammu and Kashmir Muslims are in majority, but it’s strange, they continuosly enjoy all the facilities of minorities in that state. It is absurd, the Hindus, Jews and Baháís of Jammu and Kashmir, who are the real minorities in that state do not get any facilities entitled for the minorities. Same is the case in Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal, Lakshadweep, Manipur and Punjab. Majority communities in these states are granted all facilities of the minorities citing the flimsy reason that these majority communities are minorities as per national enumeration. In his petition, Upadhyay has urged the Apex Court that the minority status should be decided at the state-level so that those are entitled for minority status could get justice. Upadhyay has every right to argue so, but dividing the nation or part of a nation on the basis of religion, language, community or caste is hardly any prudent resolution. Any such move can only prove counterproductive to our national interest. For the benefit of the people at large, the special status awarded on the basis of numbers should be taken away both at the state and national levels. In 1947 India was partitioned on the basis of religion. In our democratic and secular India these days caste has become a dominant factor in politics and elections as well. In 1947 our mother land was cut into two separate pieces of land, and if the current tendency continues at the same pace, by 2047 we may witness India split into hundred or even more fragments. This is dangerous. Maharashtra and Karnataka have used loose provisions of our constitution to divide the population into majorities and minorities on religious and linguistic lines. Backing Ashwini Upadhyay’s petition, Government of India has also cited the same constitutional provisions. For sure, our constitution allows this. But it is the duty of a nationalist government to exhibit will and valor to repeal any such provision(s) that could threaten our unity as a nation. The government in power also needs to provide every citizen of the country the necessary preferential treatment as per their requirements and not on the basis of caste or religion. 30.03.2022 By Ved Pratap Vaidik

Plato visited his teacher Socrates and said, "You have been spreading false information about me in the market place." Socrates asked, "What have you been telling people?" Plato answered, "You have been telling people about me." Socrates stopped him and told him to think about the situation, analyze it, and then decide if he should tell him the information or not. He asked Plato to consider three criteria, the truthfulness of the information, the morality of the information, and the usefulness of the information. If the information met all three criteria, then he could tell him, but if it did not, then he should keep quiet. Plato argued that the information was true but Socrates pointed out that it may not be useful or moral to spread it. This conversation highlights the importance of considering the truth, morality, and usefulness of information before spreading it.