Prakash Kumar

Reflections on the journey through 2023 have been a profound learning into the complexities of life, akin to navigating through a maze of professional, personal, emotional, sentimental and familial challenges. As I sit here in the final week of the year, the external facade of control belied the internal maelstrom that persisted, known only to the depths of my own being. At times I enjoyed this inner struggle to come out of the situation. Throughout this tumultuous but remarkable year, I endeavored to employ every learned life skill and experience to weather the storms, yet often found myself in the throes of inner turmoil, occasionally erupting into harsh external manifestations. While there were moments of brilliance, quietness, and remarkable events, the overarching narrative was one of enduring internal strife, conflict, and confusion.The solitude which I was used to was no where. In the midst of this chaos, I grappled with the struggle to exist in the present moment, wrestling wi...

     Wednesday, 5th August 2020 will go in the World History and more particularly in Indian History for several centuries as the moment of triumph for the believer and worshiper of Sri Ram as the foundation was laid for grand Ram temple at the same place where it existed till 1528.    1528 was the year when Ram temple was demolished at Ayodhya and Babri Masjid was erected on the same land. It was a most cowardly and sinister act in the human history done during initial Mughal rules (1527-1761) in India. The Hindu faith were compromised , tormented through this act to send a subtle message to the majority Hindu community that their religious freedom , dignity  at stake with advent of alien muslin rule in the country. It was a moment of shame, fear, angst and frustration for the Hindu community in India and of their utter helplessness to stop such action. It left a strong imprint on the heart and mind of Hindus and it passes generation to generatio...

       I remember adoption of National Health Mission (NHM) 2017 after merger of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) 2005 and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) 2014, which presents a holistic approach to improve health care services in the country. It envisage the "Continuum of Care " and seek to end the fragmentation of health care services across the country by increasing access to health services, improving quality of health service from Primary Health Centre (PHC) to Tertiary level and significant lowering of the cost of health care delivery by leveraging digital technology. NHM 2017 vision is to build comprehensive health ecosystem on the latest digital architecture and technologies.      It visualizes use of digital technology at all level, component and stakeholders. Care providers to care takers, testing to diagnostics, education to training, medicines to vaccines and above all building a system where mobility of data, record and diagnosi...

    I have keenly watched and notice that selfishness increases with the age. I mean selfishness to certain aspects of material life. Selfishness towards one's  health in old age should certainly increase with the age. But here I mean overly self- centered, self serving, stingy to others both emotionally as well as materially. As if life start revolving around few. The opposite of selfishness is self sacrifice who supports and help others.       It bothers me because my understanding since childhood was that with age one become experienced, exposed,matured and practicality of life makes one to understand the meaning of human life better and also the mortality. Life is not immortal and everyone has to depart and this should teach us more compassion, more support to others, more giving and helping. This is my understanding of  life maturing with the age ,inculcate the sense of giving  and preparing yourself to depart on a happy and giving note....

     The recent China-India conflict in the midst of pandemic Corona has confused many strategic thinkers as well as common people like us about its timing, need and its overall effect on the India-China relations and the  World order.      The way Chinese economy has grown in last four decades was unthinkable and it put China as the number two economy in absolute dollar terms but on the basis of purchasing power parity it already surpassed USA to become number one. And not only economic , militarily also China has advanced very rapidly.       The economic prosperity has helped China in reducing its poverty in record time and also raising the living condition of its citizens almost comparable to middle income countries. The World envy the growth and power of China and in return China seek to be treated as world power by rest of the world. Both are right in their perception, those who are envying China is also being threatened by the...

Corona lock down has given ample time to watch some excellent movies. I thoroughly enjoyed watching these movies from Bollywood to Hollywood and also Iranian, Swedish,Korean, Argentine, Marathi and Lebanani. Hope you may have watched all or some movies from my favorite list. If not then watch during your free time . 1.The Secret 2.Parasite (South Korean) 3.Contagion 4. No Strings Attached  5. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood  6. Beautiful Boy 7.Family Katta (Marathi) 8. A Star is Born  9. Half Ticket (Marathi) 10. Chhichhore (Hindi) 11. Saving Private Ryan 12. Jalebi (Hindi) 13.In to the Wild 14.The Secret in their Eyes (Argentine) 15.Forrest Gump 16.A Separation (Iranian) 17. Godfather I 18. Panga (Hindi) 19.Battle for Incheon : Operation Chromite (South Korean) 20.Detective Byomkesh Bakshi (Hindi) 21.Once Upon a time in America 22.Django Unchained  23.Prisoners  24.October 25.Infinity  26. Capharnaum (Lebanani) 27.Whiplash 28.. The Pursuit of Happyness...

     Gandhi Setu (bridge), the lifeline bridge connecting Patna with North Bihar is one of the longest river bridge in India on the Ganges. It was planned in 60s , construction started in 72 and finally two lane western flank was completed in 1982. Before this bridge the common mode of transport was with passenger  steamer from Pahleja Ghat on Hajipur side and Mahendru in Patna and also a ship for carrying vehicles runs from Pahleja to LCT ghat in Patna. And by road only connection was through a bridge on down stream  Ganges in Mokama (Rajendra Setu) opened in 1959,75 km from Patna. The Ganges during that time used to be flowing through out the year.       I fondly remember that Indian Railways used to run regular double storey medium size steamer from Pahleja to Patna. Pahleja ghat was railway and bus terminal on northern side connected from Muzaffarpur and Sonepur side. The other company which runs both passenger and vehicle steamer was of ...

Corona is teaching very important lessons in all  walks of life and it is going to effect each of us in some  or other way. We already started talking of new normal post corona where there is going to be excessive focus/shift on new emerging digital technology armed with AI and robotics. IOT would get further boost. Some sectors like banking & finance , education, process automation, home entertainment,mechanized production, online marketing ,healthcare,transportation will see major change. Work from home (WFH) is going to be new normal for many sectors and this big shift in work from home or remote working with newer technology/interface without physical presence will give new boost to women employment. In all likelihood share of women workforce in WFH is going to increase exponentially and it will help in reducing the gender gap in many important sectors. So it is time for Women to gear up world wide for increased share in work force post Corona.

I don't know how many times I miserably failed in building a good  descent portfolio due to several reasons, mainly  not enough information, slow in reaction, emotional attachment etc.  This year also my pre-corona portfolio was battered badly and I tried to shuffle it but again the shuffled portfolio were poorly selected. After too much back and forth finally I decided to do it again and this week picked seven stocks out of 20  with glancing whatever the information available on net for long term , minimum two years. It is a mix of large , medium and small cap companies with moderate risk. My choices are: 1. Bharat Dynamics (large) : Public Sector  2.Jubilant Science (medium) 3. Torrent Power (medium) 4. Deepak Nitrite (medium) 5. Birla Soft (small) 6. IRCON (small ) : Public Sector 7.Garden Reach Ship Builders (small) : Public Sector

I don't have any memory of such a wonderful summer at Patna in last three decades. Through out the season the weather was so pleasant and tolerable that during this period only 3-4 days in third week of May there was some discomfort due to heat. Otherwise the weather was pleasant. There were several days when in fact one do not require even fan forget about cooler or air conditioner. It is easy to notice its  linkage  with complete lock down due to Corona which gives the much needed breathing space to our environment.   Less pollution, less movement, less toxicity in air  and also less outing, it all added to this once in a life time feeling of natural tolerable summer. It certainly remind me of our childhood days in 70s without cooler/A.C and also absence of consistent electricity to run fans. Summer were manageable without too much fuss till late 80s or early 90s but suddenly after the opening of Indian economy in 92 and rush to cities situation got out of control ...

They are not self centred but they have planned so much for themselves that they don't see others need. They are also not bad but they want so much goodness for themselves that nothing left for others . They are also not unwilling to help others but they require much more help themselves first. They see others priority but they put their priority much before that . Their intention is not doubtful but first of all they want to fulfill their need . At the end they only look for people who help them and don't require any sort of help in return. They are the people who knows the current time much better than any other. 

Leaving Patna after a gap of 66 days on 8th august . It seems it was one of the longest continuous stay at Patna since 1997  , not even crossed ganga bridge forget about out of the state. The hallmark of this stay will be always remembered for quality and quantity time with amma,beenu and naina and some very close relatives and friends . Heavy rains on some day made water logging in front of house but everything was just fine. Another feature of this stay was regular golf and morning and evening yoga with no non veg food since 30th April. During this period tried to make naina understand lot of things and she started reciprocating and seeing the points . Beenu also started going to yoga classes and liking it . This slow pace of life was only possible due to voluntary sabbatical since 1st July 2016 . Initially I thought that I will back to work from 1st July 2017 but it automatically got extended with good going at Patna . Now like all good phases of life it seems this phase also c...