क्या है, अधिक पोटेशियम वाले खाद्य पदार्थों का आपके BP से संबंध?

कैल्शियम और सोडियम की तरह, पोटेशियम एक खनिज है जो कुछ खाद्य पदार्थों में पाया जाता है। आपके आहार में पोटेशियम की सही मात्रा होने से ना केवल आप स्वस्थ रहते हैं बल्कि आपके हृदय के स्वास्थ्य के लिए यह एक अत्यावश्यक खनिज भी है, इसलिए पोटेशियम युक्त खाद्य पदार्थों को प्रयाप्त मात्रा में अपने भोजन में शामिल करना सभी के लिये ज़रूरी है।

महिलाओं को हर दिन 2,600 मिलीग्राम और पुरुषों को 3,400 मिलीग्राम पोटेशियम मिलना चाहिए, मगर आधुनिक आहार लेने वाले अधिकांश लोगों को अपने आहार में पर्याप्त पोटेशियम नहीं  मिलता है। वैज्ञानिक अध्ययनों से जानकारी मिलती है कि  कम सोडियम सेवन के साथ मैग्नीशियम और पोटेशियम की अधिकता वाले खाद्य पदार्थों का सेवन बीपी को कम करने में काफ़ी प्रभावी होता है और हाई BP के इलाज में एक BP कम करने वाली दवा के समान काम करता है। मैग्नीशियम का मात्र 500 से 1000 mg प्रतिदिन सेवन रक्तचाप (BP) को 5.6 / 2.8 mmHg तक कम कर सकता है। यह भी देखा गया है, हाई BP के मरीज़ जो BP  की दवाएँ ले रहे हैं यदि मैग्नीशियम की अधिकता वाले भोजन लेते हैं तो उनमे उच्चरक्तचापरोधी दवायें अधिक प्रभावी हो जाती हैं। 

हालाँकि दूसरे हृदय रोग जैसे हार्ट-अटैक (कोरोनरी हृदय रोग) और ब्रेन-अटैक (इस्केमिक स्ट्रोक), और हृदय की धड़कन की अनियमितता से रोका या इलाज किया जाने का प्रश्न अभी शोध का विषय है मगर प्रारंभिक साक्ष्य यह अच्छी तरह से साबित करते हैं कि भोजन में प्राकृतिक मैग्नीशियम की मात्रा में वृद्धि से इंसुलिन संवेदनशीलता(insulin sensitivity), हाइपरग्लेसेमिया (high blood sugar), मधुमेह (diabetes), हृदय की माँसपेशियों का मोटा हो जाना (left ventricular hypertrophy), और डिस्लिपिडेमिया (खून में गंदे कोलेस्ट्रॉल की अधिकता) में सुधार होता है। 

वैज्ञानिकों के अनुसार इसका कारण हमारी कोशिकाओं के भीतर सोडियम और कैल्शियम की मात्रा को कम करके उनके बजाये मैग्नीशियम और पोटेशियम की मात्रा को बढ़ाने के साथ ही इसका प्राकृतिक कैल्शियम चैनल ब्लॉकर (बीपी कम करने की एक महत्वपूर्ण दवा) के रूप में काम करना, धमनियों को शिथिल करने वाले प्राकृतिक नाइट्रिक ऑक्साइड को बढ़ाने की वजह से सुधार होता है। 

पोटेशियम की अधिकता वाले भोजन

सामान्यत: आप ऐसी कई चीज़ें खाते हैं जिनमे पोटेशियम भी होता है। मगर यदि आपको अपने आहार में पोटेशियम की मात्रा को बढ़ावा देने की आवश्यकता है, तो अपने खाने में नीचे दी गई सूची से चुनकर भोजन में शामिल करना चाहिए। अधिक पोटेशियम वाले खाद्य को चुनने के लिए कुछ सरल उपाय ताजे फल और सब्जियां है:

ताजे फल 

केले, संतरे, कैंटालूप, खुबानी, अंगूर (सूखे फल, जैसे प्रून, किशमिश और खजूर), पत्तेदार साग जैसे पालक आदि, ब्रोकोली, आलू, शकरकंद, मशरूम, मटर, खीरे, ज़ूकीनी, कद्दू आदि 

फलियाँ (Beans) 

जैसे लीमा बीन्स, पिंटो बीन्स, राजमा, सोयाबीन, मसूर आदि भी पोटैशियम का एक स्रोत हैं 

ताज़ा फलों के रस 

जैसे संतरे का रस, टमाटर का रस, प्रून जूस, खुबानी का रस, तरबूज़ और अंगूर का रस आदि में काफ़ी अच्छी मात्रा में पोटेशियम होता है। 

वसा मुक्त डेयरी उत्पाद

जैसे दूध और दही, मछलियों (टूना, हालिबट, कॉड, ट्राउट, रॉकफिश) में भी पोटेशियम में अच्छी मात्रा में होता।

और अंत में जानिए

किडनी के मरीज़ों को क्या सावधानी बरतनी चाहिए?

यदि आपके गुर्दे (किडनी) की बीमारी है और ठीक तरह से काम नहीं करते हैं, तो आपकी पोटैशियम की ज़रूरतें कम होगी क्योंकि किडनी के मरीजों की पेशाब में कम मात्रा में शरीर के बाहर जाता है और इसलिए आपके शरीर में पोटेशियम की आवश्यकता से अधिक लेवल हो सकता है। इस कारण से, गुर्दे की बीमारी वाले लोगों अपने भोजन में ऊपर दिये गये भोजन को अधिक मात्र में लेने से पहले, अपने डाक्टर से सलाह करना बहुत ज़रूरी है। अमरीका में 2020 से, सभी पैकेट में आने वाले खाद्य पदार्थों में पोटैशियम की कितनी मात्रा है बताना आवश्यक किया गया है मगर भारत में ऐसा नहीं है। हमारे देश में बहुत कम पैकेज्ड खाद्य पदार्थों के लेबल पर पोटैशियम की मात्रा लिखी होती है इसलिए भी आवश्यक है कि  किडनी के बीमारी वाले मरीज़, अपने डाक्टर से सलाह ज़रूर लें। 

दिल की बात: हार्ट अटैक - रेड मीट का सेवन तथा हमारी आँतों के जीवाणुओं के बीच का संबंध!

हृदय की धमनियों में रुकावट से होने वाले रोग (arteriosclerosis) और पशुओं के लाल मांस के सेवन के बीच का संबंध कई दशकों से विवादास्पद बना हुआ हैं। मगर पिछले कुछ वर्षों में, आधुनिक जीवविज्ञान ने हृदयरोगों के सबंध में जानकारी दी है कि लंबे समय तक से रेड मीट (लाल मांस) को खाने से व्यक्ति को हृदय रोग का ख़तरा सामान्य से कई गुना बढ़ जाता है। मगर अब एक नयी जानकारी प्रकाश में आयी है जो बताती है कि हमारी आँतों में प्राकृतिक रूप से रहने वाले बैक्टीरिया (जीवाणु) तथा होने वाले हृदयरोगों के बीच एक घनिष्ठ संबंध है। नए वैज्ञानिक सबूत बताते हैं कि जब लोग रेड मीट (लाल मांस) खाते हैं तो आंत के बैक्टीरिया (जीवाणु) द्वारा रेड मीट (लाल मांस) को पचाने की अंतिम पायदान पर बनाए गए उत्पाद इस जोखिम में योगदान करते हैं।

हैं ना यह बड़ी अजीब सी लगने वाली बात?

मगर सच यह है कि 1989 से 2002 तक चलने वाले इस अध्ययन में, 65 और उससे अधिक उम्र के लगभग 4,000 से अधिक लोगों से जुटाए आँकड़े, इसी ओर इशारा कर रहे हैं। एक दशक से भी अधिक समय तक चलने वाले इस अध्ययन में यही भी संकेत मिला की मछली, मुर्गी का मांस और अंडे हृदय रोग के जोखिम को प्रभावित नहीं करते हैं! लेकिन रोज़ाना रेड मीट (लाल मांस) का सेवन हृदय रोग के जोखिम को  22% अधिक बढ़ा देता है।

इस अतिरिक्त जोखिम का कारण भी पता लगा। यह इन लोगों की आँतों में बनने वाले 3 महत्वपूर्ण मेटाबोलाइट्स (चय-अपचय पदार्थ) के खून में बढ़े हुए स्तर के कारण था। ये पदार्थ हैं, आंत के माइक्रोबायोटा द्वारा पाचन क्रिया के दौरान पैदा हुए - ट्राइमेथाइलमाइन एन-ऑक्साइड (TMAO), तथा एल-कार्निटाइन (L-carnitine) के पाचन की प्रक्रिया से उत्पन्न मध्यवर्ती मेटाबोलाइट्स (चय-अपचय पदार्थ) जैसे कि गामा-ब्यूटिरोबेटाइन (L-gamma-butyrobetaine), और क्रोटोनोबेटाइन (γ-butyrobetaine) । 

यह तो रही अगस्त 2022 में मिली एक आधिकारिक वैज्ञानिक जानकारी। आगे आप सोचिए कि आपको क्या ख़ाना चाहिए और क्या नहीं!

Ref: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2022;42:e273–e288

क्या है मेरे लिए दिवाली का अर्थ है? हमें इसे क्यों और कैसे मानना चाहिए?

राम और रावण दोनों ही राजा थे; दोनों ही शास्त्रों में विद्वान थे; दोनों ही ज्ञानी और चमत्कारी थे। मगर ऐसा क्या था जिसने राम को पूज्य और रावण को राक्षस बना दिया? वह महत्वपूर्ण अंतर है: अहंकार!

जहां भगवान राम का हृदय देवत्व, प्रेम, उदारता, विनम्रता और कर्तव्य से भर था, वहीं रावण का हृदय लोभ, घृणा और अहंकार से।रावण एक महान वैदिक विद्वान था। अज्ञानी, आलसी या कुरूप नहीं था जिसने उसे बुरा बना दिया। वह शक्तिशाली, मेहनती, मेघवी और सुंदर था। उसका अपना अहंकार, अहंकार और इच्छाओं की गुलामी उसके पतन का कारण बनी। उसे अपनी हर इच्छा को पूरा करने के लिए अधिक शक्ति, धन और सुख की लालसा ही उसे राक्षस बनाती है।

जहां एक ओर, रावण के मन पर सिर्फ़ शक्ति, कामुकता और धन (अर्थ) का संचय हावी रहते थे! वहीं दूसरी ओर, राम का मन हमेशा विनम्र, धार्मिक, और पवित्र विचारों से भरे रहते थे। वे अपनी इंद्रियों के दास नहीं बल्कि उनके स्वामी बनकर उन पर नियंत्रण रखते थे।इसलिए दिवाली, सिर्फ़ श्री राम की अयोध्या वापसी का त्योहार नहीं हैं बल्कि अच्छाई से बुराई पर विजय का पर्व है। इस दिन हमें अपने मन से पूछना चाहिए कि क्या भगवान राम हमारे दिल में आए हैं। क्या अच्छाई, धार्मिकता और नम्रता की ताकतों ने हमारे भीतर की इच्छा, अहंकार और अहंकार की बुरी ताकतों को जीत लिया है? क्या हम अपने जीवन में अर्थ पर धर्म और इच्छाओं पर मोक्ष को चुन रहे हैं?

सामान्य जन हर साल हम अपने घरों को चमकीले मिट्टी के दीयों से सजाते हैं। दीवाली पर हम जो मिट्टी के दीये जलाते हैं, वह केवल हमारी तिजोरियों के बाहर नहीं होने चाहिए। हमें न केवल अपने मंदिर और अपने घर में बल्कि अपने दिलों में भी बुराइयों के अंधकार को अपने जीवन में सत्य, पवित्रता, पवित्रता, देवत्व और शांति के दीपक जलाकर दूर करना चाहिए। यही कार्य हमारे बच्चों और नयीं पीढ़ी को सिखाना सुनिश्चित करना चाहिए जिससे समाज, देश और संसार में इस पर्व का प्रकाश, मानवता के धर्म, नम्रता और दिव्यता के रूप में फैले।

आम तौर पर सभी दिवाली के दिन पिछले साल के खातों को बंद कर अपनी बैलेंस शीट का आँकलन करते हैं? मगर क्या हम अपने मन की कमजोरियों और अच्छाइयों, अपने अच्छे कामों और स्वार्थी कार्यों का आकलन का क्या? हर व्यवसायी हमेशा अपनी बैलेंस शीट की जांच करता है: उसने कितना खर्च किया है और कितना कमाया है। उसी तरह हमें अपने जीवन की बैलेंस शीट का भी आकलन करना चाहिए। हम सभी को पीछे उस साल को देखना चाहिए, जो बीत गया। हमने कितने लोगों को चोट पहुंचाई? हमने कितने को साथ अच्छा किया? हमने कितनी बार अपना आपा खोया? हमने जितना कमाया, कितनी बार दिया?
जैसे हम अपनी हम नया सोना या पैसा पूजा की थाली में भगवान को देते हैं, आइए उसी तरह हम अपनी अच्छाइयों, अपनी कमजोरियों, अपनी जीत और अपनी हार को उनके पवित्र चरणों में रखते हुए, सब कुछ उन्हें सौंप दें। और फिर, पुराने द्वेष और कड़वाहट के बिना, नए सिरे से एक खाते की शुरूआत करें।

दिवाली पर अपने प्यार और स्नेह के प्रतीक के रूप में उपहारों का आदान-प्रदान करते हैं। दुर्भाग्य से, हम उपहारों के आदान-प्रदान का कारण भूलने लगते हैं। हम परमेश्वर में, अपने आनन्द को महसूस करना भूलते जा रहे हैं; हमें भौतिक उपहार ही याद रहते हैं। हम सोचते हैं कि एक 'उपहार' एक ऐसी चीज है जो एक बॉक्स में आती है जिसके चारों ओर फैंसी रैपिंग पेपर होता है। हम अपने बच्चों के लिए संपत्ति खरीदते हैं, खुद को धोखा देते हुए सोचते हैं कि हमने अपने माता-पिता के कर्तव्यों को पूरा किया है। हालाँकि, हमारा कर्तव्य है कि हम अपने बच्चों को प्यार, मूल्यों, सच्चाई, संस्कृति, परंपरा और आध्यात्मिकता की एक मजबूत नींव दें, जिस पर वे अपना जीवन बना सकें। हमारा कर्तव्य "सबसे पहले राम के गुणों को हमारे घरों और हमारे जीवन में वापस लाना है"।

आईए हम सभी संकल्प लें, कि अपने बच्चों को भौतिक उपहार देने के अलावा, हम अपने घरों को प्रेम, आध्यात्मिकता, सच्चाई, एक दूसरे की मदद करने की मानवीय संस्कृति और धर्म से भर देंगे, इस वर्ष परंपरागत उपहारों के अलावा राजा राम की वापसी पर सत्य, अखंडता और देवत्व की वापसी का, शांत और पवित्र वायुमंडल का उपहार भी एक दूसरे को देंगे।यही हमारे समाज, देश और विश्व के आज और कल की पीढ़ी के लिए दिवाली का सच्चा, शाश्वत सनातन उपहार होगा।

शुभ दीपावली

Mahatma Gandhi's One of Last Social Thought: How To Melt "Your Doubts and Your Self"! (1948)

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. 

Recall the face of the poorest, and the weakest man, or a woman, whom you may have seen, and then ask yourself;

• If the step you're contemplating will be of any use to him or her. 
• Will he or she gain anything by it? 
• Will it restore his or her control over his or her own life and destiny? 
• In other words, will it lead to freedom for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Then you will find that "your Doubts and your Self" shall melt away."

*One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.

Source: Mahatma Gandhi [Last Phase, Vol. II (1958), P. 65].

कोरोना से हमें क्या सीखना चाहिए

कोरोना की वैश्विक महाआपदा के बीच सिर्फ़ भारतीय समाज ने ही नहीं बल्कि समूचे विश्व को स्वयं के स्थापित मूल्यों को एक बारपुनर्मूल्यांकन करने के लिए बाध्य होना पड़ा है। यह बात बिल्कुल स्वभाविक है। जब-जब, कोई व्यक्ति, समाज, राज्य, देश अथवा मानवजाति किसी भी कठिन दौर से गुजरते हैं, तब-तब उन सभी को पुनर्मूल्यांकन की इस प्रक्रिया का हिस्सा बनना होता है।

पिछले 100 सालों में ऐसा नहीं कि वैश्विक अस्थिरता का दौर पहली बार आया है; बीमारियों, आर्थिक मंदी, और 2 विश्वयुद्ध कुछ ऐसेदौर रहे हैं जिनसे सारा विश्व एक साथ जूझा है। SARS वाइरस की आपदा भी पिछले 30 सालों में लगभग 3 बार मानव जगत कोअपनी चपेट में ले चुकी है।मगर इस बार जितना आतंक शायद आज से 102 साल से पहले, यानि की 1918 के स्पैनिश-फ़्लू के दौरान ही आया होगा। इसके अलावा और भी कई आपदाएँ हैं, जिनसे मानव जगत पिछले 70-80 सालों से जूझ भी रहा है और छोटी-मोटी सफलताओं को छोड़ दें तो सही मायनों में लगातार हार ही रहा है।

दुःख की बात यह है कि, इन अधिकांश आपदाओं का सीधा सम्बंधसम्पूर्ण मानवता के भौतिक विकास से जुड़ी हुई है। स्पष्ट कर दूँ कि मेरी इस बात से यह निष्कर्ष निकालने की गलती ना की जाए कि मैंआधुनिक विज्ञान से जनित भौतिक प्रगति का विरोधी हूँ। बल्कि, इसके विपरीत मेरा मानना है कि सम्पूर्ण मानव जगत ने बहुत मेहनत सेजो वैज्ञानिक खोजें और प्रगति की है, वह अतुलनीय हैं।

वैदिक ऋषियों से लेकर अब तक अनेकानेक वैज्ञानिकों ने हमारे असंख्य देहिक, भौतिक और आत्मिक प्रश्नों को जानने में बहुत सी सफलताएँ अर्जित की हैं। मगर पिछले 2500 वर्षों में मानव जगत में एक अभूतपूर्व परिवर्तन आना प्रारम्भ हुआ है और वह है, लालच और दूसरे की प्रगति को हिंसा द्वारा नष्ट करने अथवा हड़पने की प्रवृत्ति। फिर पिछले 1500 वर्षों में धर्म और पथों के नाम पर हिंसा का बढ़ाहुआ दौर आया। पिछले 700-800 सालों से से आधिपत्य कर (अ) सभ्यताओं ने लूटने की प्रक्रिया शुरू की है।

हाल ही के वर्षों में (19-20वीं शताब्दियों में) व्यापार और बाज़ार पर क़ब्ज़ा और 21वीं शताब्दी में बायलॉजिकल और इलेक्ट्रॉनिक हमलों से सूचना तंत्र पर आधिपत्य कर मन एवं अंतरराष्ट्रीय जल संसाधनों के आधिपत्य के लिए विश्वव्यापी लड़ाइयों का दौर शुरू होने जा रहा है। ऐसे में, यदि गौर से देखें तो पाएँगें हमने अपने ज्ञान से सिर्फ़ भूमिगत, धरा पर रहने और पैदा होने वाली ही वस्तु को, जल और वायूमंडल को सिर्फ़ दूषित ही किया है जिसके फलस्वरूप बीमारियाँ और आनुवंशिक त्रुटियों, डिप्रेशन, केन्सर, हार्ट अटैक, ब्रेन-ट्यूमर और सड़क दुर्घटनाओं से मानव लगातार जूझ रहा है, मगर जीत से दूर ही होता जा रहा है। ऐसे में मुझे लगता है, हमें अपने ऋषियों की जीवन शैली और ज्ञान से सीख लेकर प्रकृति से सामंजस्य बनाकर एक बार पुनः सीखना होगा।

यही बात कोरोना की महामारी ने हमें यही सिखाने का प्रयास किया है और हम, यदि अभी भी नहीं चेते तो बदलते वातावरण से अब जिस महामारी के दौर में जगत प्रवेश करेगा, वह शायद मानवता के अंत का प्रारम्भ भी हो सकता है।

योग वसिष्ठ सार (आत्म-गीता)

आत्म-गीता विरक्त चित्त और नित्य पर्वतों में विचरने वाले आठ सिद्धों ने कही, जो राजा जनक ने सुनी | इस आत्मगीता के उच्चारणसे आत्मबोध प्राप्त होता है |

१। द्रष्टा जो पुरुष है और दृश्य जगत है।

२। उस द्रष्टा और दृश्य के बुद्धी से मिलाप में आनंद होता है।

३। इष्ट के संयोग और अनिष्ट के वियोग का आनंद चित्त में दृढ़ होता है।

४। द्रष्टा, दर्शन और दृश्य को वासना का त्याग करना चाहिए| जो दर्शन से प्रकाशित होता है और जिसके प्रकाश से यह तीनों (द्रष्टा और दृश्य और बुद्धी) प्रकाशित होते हैं।

५। सम्पूर्ण-आनंद आत्मतत्व से उदय होता है | उस आत्म-तत्व (आत्मा) की हम उपासना करते हैं| जो निराभास और निर्मल है, जिसमे मन का अभाव है, वह अद्वैतरूप है|

६। अद्वैत आत्मा, द्रष्टा, दृश्य दोनों के मध्य में है और अस्ति नास्ति दोनों पक्षों से रहित सत्ता है यही सूर्य आदिक को भी प्रकाशता है|

७। जो ईश्वर सकार और हकार है, सकार -जिसके आदि में है और हकार -जिसके अंत में है। वह अंत से रहित, आनंद, अनंत, शिव, परमात्मा सर्वजीवों के ह्रदय में स्थित है।

८। जो हृदय में स्थित वह ईश्वर है उसे त्यागकर, जो देवों को पाने का यत्न करते हैं, वे पुरुष कौस्तुभमणि को त्यागकर और रत्नों की इच्छा करते हैं |

९। जो सब आशाओं को त्याग देते हैं उन्हें फल प्राप्त होता है। अर्थात जन्म-मरण आदि दुःख नष्ट हो जाते हैं और फिर नहीं उपजते|

१०। जो पदार्थों को अत्यंत विरसरूप जानता है और स्वयं को आशा रूपी विषबेल से बांधता है, वह दुर्बुद्धि, गर्धभ है -मनुष्य नहीं| जब-जब विषयों की ओर  दृष्टी उठे उसे अपने विवेक से नष्ट करो। जब इस प्रकार शुद्ध आचरण करोगे तब संभाव को प्राप्त होगे और उससे आत्मपद को प्राप्त होकर अक्षय अविनाशी हो जाओगे|

Lord Shiva and Quantam Physics

First of all, I wish you all – A very Happy Mahashivratri (The Day Lord Shiva Married Parvati or in True Sense Prusha Had Communion With Prakariti).

Last night, when my brain was hanging somewhere between sleep and consciousness, I felt - an extreme surge to write my views on Lord Shiva and The Cosmic Connection of Advaita Vedanta. This state of my mind was perhaps resul...ted from a brief informal chat on Lord and His Cosmic Dance that frequently take place between me and Dr Anand Prakash in the chatter-room (situated in the middle of the ICU-OT complex at SGPGI), where all consultants intermittently take small breaks during, which we watch News, movies, songs, take lunch and coffee or tea etc., following a Minimally Invasive “Concomitant Open-Heart Surgery along with Minimally Invasive Laparoscopic removal of a infected gall bladder in a 18 year old unmarried girl.

Modern Science and Metaphysics seem to be polar opposites of each other. The pioneers of Quantum Mechanics, c.f Max Plank, Neil Bohr and Albert Einstein, however, believed it to be otherwise. Their groundbreaking theories and experiments, are astoundingly close to what is described albeit cryptically in the annals of Vedic philosophy especially Rig-Ved.

Neil Bohr, who was a Danish physicist and Nobel laureate, once said - “I go to the Upanishad to ask questions,” reveals a lot about his respect for the ancient wisdom of India.

Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian-Irish physicist who was also awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933 for his famous wave equation, wrote in his book "Meine Weltansicht" (Translation: My view of the world) - “This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; Tat Tvam Asi, "तत्त्वमसि", translated as "Thou art that," That thou art, That art thou, You are that, or That you are, or You're it. This is one of the Grand Pronouncements in Vedantic Sanatana Dharma that originally occurs in the Chandogya Upanishad. In simple terms it can be explained as -This Is You. Or “I am in the East and the West, I am Above and Below, I am this Entire World.”

This is nothing but a मुंदक (Mundaka) Upanishad mantra which pronounces the connectivity of all living beings as in We Are All But ONE or Continuum of “Unity-in-Diversity”. In Vedanta this -unity and continuity are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics and is consistent with the Vedanta concept of “All in One”. This is what Schrodinger got the Nobel prize for in 1933 while referring to each particle in the universe as a wave function.

German physicist Werner Heisenberg’s was awarded the Nobel prize in 1932 on “Uncertainty Principle”, which states that we cannot measure both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time. Interestingly, this is also a reflection of the Advaitic Vedantic aphorism of rope and snake; “ When a snake is seen in the place of a rope, only the snake is seen as real. But is it INDEPENDENTLY REAL?”

Albert Einstein, the considered Father of the Theory of Relativity and the developer of Quantum Mechanics also believed in the “Unity of the Universe”. In his book, entitled - The World as I See It, Einstein wrote “I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling are the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research”.

American scientist and inventor, Nikolo Tesla, - a contemporary of Thomas Alva Edison was the one who understood very clearly the inextricably intertwined link between quantum physics and the spiritual concepts of the ancient world. In his seminal book – “Man’s Greatest Achievement”, Tesla wrote, “All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all The Space (The Akaasha or The Ether), which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana (The creative force), calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena.”

Mr Tesla and Swami Vivekananda, also shared their views. Swami Vivekananda, once wrote - “Mr Tesla was charmed to hear about the Vedantic Prana and Akaasha and Kalpas, which according to him are the only theories modern science can entertain. Both Akaasha and Prana are produced from the Mahat (महत्) or the Universal Mind and also the “Cosmic Ideation”, which refers to the first principle evolved out of the union of Purusha (Male Principle) and Prakriti (Female Priciple). It is actually the “Universal Intelligence” variously called as Divine Thought, Mahâbuddhi, or Ādi-Buddhi. Mahat (महत्) in reality is “The Third Logos” or the “The Manifested” out of the Synthesis of the Seven creative rays, the Seven Logoi. Mr. Tesla firmly believed that he could prove and demonstrate through maths that – “Force and Matter” are reducible to Potential Energy but failed due to financial reasons but until his end he continued to believe in the concept of “Free or Zero-point energy”, well elucidated in Advaita vedanta principles of universe and its creation.

|| महाशिवरात्रि की हार्दिक शुभकामनाओं के साथ ||

Self-Observation (Meditation) Practice - The Challenge-Made-Easy for a Beginner.

A complete well balanced health as defined by WHO's (1948) constitution is - "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." In May 1984, the 37th World Health Assembly took the historic decision to adopt resolution, which made the "spiritual dimension" part and parcel of WHO Member States' strategies for health but sadly failed to add it to the overall definition of health. Even to have a perfect physical and mental health is also not sufficient.

We may not be able to admit openly but the fact remains that many amongst us aren't happy the way they are and the way we conduct ourselves. Secretly, we regret our actions, reactions and given a chance many would like to be an improved version than they are in their current physical or emotional states. Physical well-being (or improved fitness levels) require a lot of dietary discipline and regular physical training sessions. However, we often read and see in News that many with perfect bodily health (national and international sport-persons and cine stars) engage themselves acts unworthy and sometimes punishable by law. How does that happen?

To be able to create a better version of ourselves if first are able to see (visualize, observe) what we’re doing. Meditation is one such method of self-observation that empowers us with an ability of an objective observation -an observation that is not so easy, in fact quite difficult. But hold for a second. Here I am not saying that mediation is difficult but objective observation about ourselves without meditation is. Meditation practice -done regularly makes everything not only easier but very easy overtime.

An honest self-observation (meditation) practice is an opportunity for real self-transformation for every practitioner. This is their chance to be the change in the world you’ve hoped to see in everyone else as was said by Mahatma Gandhi.

Read further, if you are feeling interested to know about in simple terms; how your regular meditation practice makes thing easier for you.

Regular practice – Meditation is more than a mental skill and like any other physical or artistic skill a regular practitioner gets better at it. Practice make a person perfect. So is also true to the minds’ who are learning to practice -meditation. If you’re not regular at observing yourself (thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions etc.) in an impartial manner (equanimity) and on a regular basis, it won’t be easy for you to still your mind, which is continuously creating thoughts, emotions, reaction to physical and mental stimuli from around and even beyond.

Awake but unaware – Most of us whilst we are fully awake and alert remain at most times in a state of unawareness to hundreds of thoughts, feelings and emotions generated in our minds and bodies. Let me give you an extreme example; Try to recall, when you are very anxious or emotionally charged with anger etc. your heart races, body parts shake and what you think or say are mostly or totally beyond your awareness. However, once the precipitating cause of extreme turbulence is over and mind gains some stillness, you immediately begin to become aware of everything happening inside and outside to your body and what you have said or done. Something similar happens in our daily lives as well even when we are neither angry nor emotionally charged but at our natural best. This is what I call, as in that state of “Awake Unconsciousness”. The good news is with regular practice of meditation self-observation; this will change sooner or later. This varying degrees of natural unconsciousness (unawareness) will change over time as you try to observe yourself more and more. You will begin to sense that “everything within” is like a ripple in a water body which is getting created, rises and then fades down to disappear. This is the state of awareness, one achieves. It’s quite an experience to be able to see (observe) what will come up next.

Self-imposed unconsciousness: There are times, when one may want to avoid to face a situation both; physically or mentally. Most refer these as escapists. Those who adopt this method are actually imposing up on themselves -a state of unconsciousness towards a reality that exists but they do not want to face. This happens with everyone sometimes or the other. Some of you may recall at the peak of examination stress, you will go to sleep or waste time calling your friend or engage in some other time wasting activity to escape the stress but eventually get more stressed out after a few hours once the period of the escape is over. Similarly, one may have certain feelings about a situation that they don’t even want to admit to themselves. This is when period of self-observation within oneself (meditation) helps. It helps that person to develop that courage required to face whatever it is that the person was running away. Overtime this habit of self-observation helps to find or develop one’s own strength to see it, accept it, feel it or let go the fear of unknown.

Detached vs Attached or Equanimity – Our brain generates between incredible 50,000-70,000 thoughts per day. That’s an average of 2500 – 3,300 thoughts per hour or between 35 and 48 thoughts per minute. Is anyone of us is capable of being aware of such massive Tsunami of thoughts in our brains? No wonder, such a mind is busy all the time dealing with them unable to identify, which are useful and beneficial thoughts as it is entangled in its own hindering web. Now there could be 2 ways to deal with this entanglement (hindrance); one that we are able to stop generating thoughts and second is, we become strong enough to with stand them. It is indeed possible that one may be able to reach a level of mental stillness that number thoughts that are generated are regulated but until such stage is reached one can prevent “getting caught up” in the flow of thoughts by simply observing them then getting involved in them.  Please note a very fine line exists between “what you’re thinking about” versus “what thoughts you’re observing”. * (See section on how to do meditation)

Unexplained experiences aren’t harmful – Initially many practitioners experience physical sensations or emotional feelings in varying forms (pleasant or unpleasant); c.f. some heaviness, lightness, an unexplained emotion, a thought, an intention, a desire one wasn’t aware they had. If this happens, don’t get alarmed or stop your practice. Simply turn your mind towards observing that feeling, emotion or sensation and wait like an observant cat waiting for a mouse out of its hole. Be an observer and not a player. Sometimes these experiences may even test your commitment as we may have the tendency to judge ourselves. It sometimes tests courage when someone encounter something unpleasant. It is important to remember to you are to remain an observer and a participant of the experience of any kind. Sooner or later, the mind starts to observe even an unpleasant experience with complete equanimity without any attachment or detachment after it has learned to embrace all that it sees or experiences around or within.

Desire or expectations – Very simply, the whole idea of practicing self-observation (meditation) is to remain observant at all times. Then where is the question of any kind of desire or expectations from this practice? Keep your mind and soul open and ready to discover on your journey of self-realization through self-observation.

It will be helpful to every prospective practitioner to know about some of these important aspects of self-observation (meditation) practice as you take your initial steps. Always remember, the time when it all seem difficult, it is at that time you need to practice, anyhow, somehow. The real joy is in the seeing and not escaping!

How to do Meditation:  Meditation can be practiced anytime of the day and anywhere. However, the best times are; early morning on an empty stomach after you have freshened up or before retiring, in the night. Always try to give this activity your full attention. Believe me, meditation becomes easier if you make it a habit during regular daily activities as well. It is an awesome activity because you can do it any day, anywhere all the time, even while walking. Self-observation does not necessarily require having free time unless you are using it, in your sitting meditations.

* Initially when you start to sit still and trying to observe your own thoughts and later even finer bodily sensations, you may find that mind has wandered. Don’t hate it, don’t even try to control it -just observe it. It will come back like an obedient child. Slowly and slowly, your mind will become more and more obedient and shall stay in one place for longer periods. You’ll also begin to become familiar with the difference between being “caught in the thoughts” versus observing them. You will also be able to measure your own success when you’re observing more than getting caught in the web of your thoughts and sensations.

THE FULL STORY IN SHORT OF NEET VS. CORRUPTION, DECEIT AND LIES

It was in the year 2010, when bench of Supreme Court Justices R V Raveendran and Patnaik attempted had strived to bring together the MCI and CBSE on the same page for conducting NEET. The bench was convinced that a single entrance test would save poor and meritorious students, by sparing them the physical and financial stress of having of travel from one city to another to appear in multiple entrance tests in the hope of bagging a MBBS, BDS or MD seat in a college. The NEET was also welcomed by students and parents because of transparency and the respite it offered from the ordeal that the aspiring doctors had to endure until last year when they had to file multiple applications and shuttle between cities across the country to take entrance tests medical colleges would hold with no co-ordination among them. It had also curbed the room for the promoters of several medical colleges to extort hefty capitation fees.

However, a three-Judge bench constituted of Chief Justice Altamas Kabeer (on his last day before retirement), Vikramjit Sen and A R Dave (Justice A R Dave did not agree and, in a strong dissent, stressed that there was no proper discussion on the draft majority verdict which appeared to have been rushed) by 2 to 1 majority struck down the NEET as unconstitutional and ruled that the Medical Council of India (MCI) had no power to regulate admissions to 271 medical colleges, 138 run by government and 133 under private management offering 31,000 MBBS and BDS as well as 11,000 MD seats.

Notably, Mr Altamas Kabeer was widely criticized and even speculated as being handsomely bribed (now most hail as one of the worst and in most likelihood most corrupt justice that India has ever had) disappeared in thin air soon after dealing a body blow to NEET following his retirement.  They also quashed the only NEET examination held in the year 2013 making thousands of agonized students and their parents suffer financial and anxiety burdens.

The majority judgment on Thursday took away what was actually given four years ago by another bench of Justice R V Raveendran (since retired) and Justice A. K. Patnaik after long deliberations during which it had focused on the benefit of single-window entrance test for all medical colleges.

Incidentally, what Justices (Retd) Raveendran and Patnaik had expressed in 2010 found reflection in Justice A. R. Dave's dissent note as well in differing with the views of Justices Kabir and Sen.

Against a 173-page judgment by the CJI, Justice Dave penned a 35-page dissent note that was totally ignored by everyone in the country then. He said; Justice Dave said; some medical colleges, who are more in profiteering business rather than in the noble work of imparting medical education, take huge amount by way of donation or capitation fees and give admission to undeserving or weak students under one pretext or the other. Further, "if only one examination in the country is conducted and admissions are given on the basis of the result of the said examination, in my opinion, unscrupulous and money minded businessmen operating in the field of education would be constrained to stop their corrupt practices and it would help a lot, not only to the deserving students but also to the nation in bringing down level of corruption said Justice Dave in his dissent note."

Frankly, this situation of implementation of a corrupt decision being implemented with impunity despite registering a dissent in writing,  I also have faced (as perhaps by many others in this country) despite writing to the highest authorities (in my case President and the Chancellor -Governor of UP). But Alas.... :-( समरथ को नहीं दोष गोसाईं ! Almighty, Save The Nation. Jai Bharat.

Yes, I did Watch It (India's Daughter-Nirbhaya, the fearless)

I am probably as guiltier as hundreds of thousands of my fellow Indians of committing an offence by watching a controversial and banned (in India) documentary film in which an unrepentant criminal heart, convict Mukesh Singh (awaiting decision on his appeal to stay execution) and his defenders bares all.

For Leslee Udwin, the director of “India’s Daughter” documentary took nearly 2 years. It was produced for one of UK TV channel, BBC Four. It directed by Leslee Udwin was to have its worldwide premiere on the International Women's Day i.e. on Sunday March 8, 2015. However, after the Indian governments ban, which was also held up by Delhi’s high court (on air as well as on the internet), BBC decided to air the film 3 days prior i.e. on night of Wednesday, March 5, 2015 in the UK.

If one is brutally honest and self-critical with own self, one has to admit that despite the dreary pace and bland storytelling, the film based on the December 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape, did manage to highlight some of the societal ugliness in its own mirror through the interviews of the convict, his defending counsels, victims parents and few others. It was also successful in making us think up on the hard hitting realities about how the minds of young generation is getting shaped in the new surging but deprived of basic education, amenities and opportunities India. To me, it was extremely successful in managing to kicked up a storm kick up a countrywide storm of controversies (helped enormously by governments ban) and in wetting eyes if not pouring out waters through the eyes of most viewers.

One major controversy was about the Indian bureaucracy’s role in granting permission for allowing to film in prison by a foreigner and the BBC. It’s known that Ms. Udwin’s application to Tihar prison officials was submitted on July 22, 2013 seeking permission to "interview convicts of cases related to atrocities against women". Home ministry officials granted the permission on their own in some kind of haste without taking officials from I&B and foreign ministries in the loop as per the protocol. This haste element is apparent the home ministry officials ignored its own 2012 circular mandating background security checks on foreigners (media persons as well as researchers, criminologists, researchers, NGO officials engaged in prison welfare activities, prisoner’s country embassy staffs, and those wishing to celebrate Christmas and other festivals) visiting Indian prisons. This all was done prior to the installation of Modi-led NDA government came into being.

The real saga began after HM Mr. Rajnath Singh banned the telecast of the film in India and requested BBC for a worldwide and internet ban on its telecast. Having failed to achieve cooperation hours before the telecast of the film in the UK, the governments standing counsel served a notice to the BBC on behalf of DG Tihar prison, claiming 1. That filmmaker Udwin had consented to the condition that the documentary would not be used for commercial purposes accusing her for selling films commercial rights to the channel BBC Four, and thus breached her contract, and 2. That the final print shall be sent to the prison authorities before screening. Tihar officials also claim to have sent a request to her for vetting of the documentary on November 2014.

Ms. Udwin however, contest this and claims that she got permission for the interview, from home ministry, Tihar prison authorities and the convict Mukesh Singh and followed all the instructions, and even shown the raw footage to the prison authorities. Prison The home ministry, in its haste to approve British filmmaker Leslee Udwin's application to shoot interviews of gender crime convicts inside Tihar jail, ignored its own 2012 circular mandating background security checks to be run on foreigners seeking to visit Indian prisons.

According to home ministry sources, a set of guidelines was issued in December 2012 to regulate movement/visits of foreign visitors inside Indian jails. These norms specifically state that background checks should be done on all foreigners applying for prior permission to visit jail premises.

READ ALSO: Nirbhaya revisited, but not this way, please

The foreigners visiting Indian jails may not only include mediapersons or filmmakers, but also criminologists, researchers, embassy staff, workers of NGOs engaged in prisoners' welfare, or those seeking to just celebrate festivals like Christmas on jail premises. "Their applications are received from time to time ... the guidelines were issued to standardize the parameters for their access to Indian prisons, and one of the key conditions laid down was to verify the antecedents of the foreign visitor before giving the permission," said a home ministry official.
READ ALSO: Ban only made video go viral

The official added that the background check could have been done by the Intelligence Bureau, with the help of R&AW, or even Delhi Police in Udwin's case. "Though the decision on Udwin's application may well have been positive after the background check, the fact that this parameter was not fulfilled by either the home ministry or the Tihar jail authorities, is a lapse," said the official.

READ ALSO: India's Daughter neither vulgar nor offensive

Meanwhile, the Union home ministry is also verifying how Nirbhaya rape convict appeared for the interview in normal clothes and not in jail uniform. As per prison rules, a convict must only wear prison uniform on jail premises.The home ministry, in its haste to approve British filmmaker Leslee Udwin's application to shoot interviews of gender crime convicts inside Tihar jail, ignored its own 2012 circular mandating background security checks to be run on foreigners seeking to visit Indian prisons.

According to home ministry sources, a set of guidelines was issued in December 2012 to regulate movement/visits of foreign visitors inside Indian jails. These norms specifically state that background checks should be done on all foreigners applying for prior permission to visit jail premises.

READ ALSO: Nirbhaya revisited, but not this way, please

The foreigners visiting Indian jails may not only include mediapersons or filmmakers, but also criminologists, researchers, embassy staff, workers of NGOs engaged in prisoners' welfare, or those seeking to just celebrate festivals like Christmas on jail premises. "Their applications are received from time to time ... the guidelines were issued to standardize the parameters for their access to Indian prisons, and one of the key conditions laid down was to verify the antecedents of the foreign visitor before giving the permission," said a home ministry official.
READ ALSO: Ban only made video go viral

The official added that the background check could have been done by the Intelligence Bureau, with the help of R&AW, or even Delhi Police in Udwin's case. "Though the decision on Udwin's application may well have been positive after the background check, the fact that this parameter was not fulfilled by either the home ministry or the Tihar jail authorities, is a lapse," said the official.

READ ALSO: India's Daughter neither vulgar nor offensive

Meanwhile, the Union home ministry is also verifying how Nirbhaya rape convict appeared for the interview in normal clothes and not in jail uniform. As per prison rules, a convict must only wear prison uniform on jail premises. The home ministry, in its haste to approve British filmmaker Leslee Udwin's application to shoot interviews of gender crime convicts inside Tihar jail, ignored its own 2012 circular mandating background security checks to be run on foreigners seeking to visit Indian prisons.

According to home ministry sources, a set of guidelines was issued in December 2012 to regulate movement/visits of foreign visitors inside Indian jails. These norms specifically state that background checks should be done on all foreigners applying for prior permission to visit jail premises.

READ ALSO: Nirbhaya revisited, but not this way, please

The foreigners visiting Indian jails may not only include mediapersons or filmmakers, but also criminologists, researchers, embassy staff, workers of NGOs engaged in prisoners' welfare, or those seeking to just celebrate festivals like Christmas on jail premises. "Their applications are received from time to time ... the guidelines were issued to standardize the parameters for their access to Indian prisons, and one of the key conditions laid down was to verify the antecedents of the foreign visitor before giving the permission," said a home ministry official.
READ ALSO: Ban only made video go viral

The official added that the background check could have been done by the Intelligence Bureau, with the help of R&AW, or even Delhi Police in Udwin's case. "Though the decision on Udwin's application may well have been positive after the background check, the fact that this parameter was not fulfilled by either the home ministry or the Tihar jail authorities, is a lapse," said the official.

READ ALSO: India's Daughter neither vulgar nor offensive

Meanwhile, the Union home ministry is also verifying how Nirbhaya rape convict appeared for the interview in normal clothes and not in jail uniform. As per prison rules, a convict must only wear prison uniform on jail premises. The home ministry, in its haste to approve British filmmaker Leslee Udwin's application to shoot interviews of gender crime convicts inside Tihar jail, ignored its own 2012 circular mandating background security checks to be run on foreigners seeking to visit Indian prisons.

According to home ministry sources, a set of guidelines was issued in December 2012 to regulate movement/visits of foreign visitors inside Indian jails. These norms specifically state that background checks should be done on all foreigners applying for prior permission to visit jail premises.

READ ALSO: Nirbhaya revisited, but not this way, please

The foreigners visiting Indian jails may not only include mediapersons or filmmakers, but also criminologists, researchers, embassy staff, workers of NGOs engaged in prisoners' welfare, or those seeking to just celebrate festivals like Christmas on jail premises. "Their applications are received from time to time ... the guidelines were issued to standardize the parameters for their access to Indian prisons, and one of the key conditions laid down was to verify the antecedents of the foreign visitor before giving the permission," said a home ministry official.
READ ALSO: Ban only made video go viral

The official added that the background check could have been done by the Intelligence Bureau, with the help of R&AW, or even Delhi Police in Udwin's case. "Though the decision on Udwin's application may well have been positive after the background check, the fact that this parameter was not fulfilled by either the home ministry or the Tihar jail authorities, is a lapse," said the official.

READ ALSO: India's Daughter neither vulgar nor offensive

Meanwhile, the Union home ministry is also verifying how Nirbhaya rape convict appeared for the interview in normal clothes and not in jail uniform. As per prison rules, a convict must only wear prison uniform on jail premises.officials wanted to question Ms. Udwin but she left the country late on Wednesday March 3, 2015 without joining the probe on her contest and official claim of why only one convict interview was in the documentary whereas to interviewed half-a-dozen other convicts of gender violence. Another noteworthy fact that the convict Mukesh in film was not wearing regular jail uniform but normal cloths also needs an investigation. In any case, whatever may be truth behind the India’s government position or Ms. Udwin’s claim would eventually come out but would hardly serve any purpose because by then brass-earners would have made enough out of the razing likely long-term controversy.

After I began watching through a web link sent to me by a friend on Whatsapp messenger. I was literally shaken and shell-shocked to know, as to what goes on in the mind of a death convict awaiting decision for stay on execution. Then a surge of question filled my mind raising serious doubts on the effectiveness of justice and centuries old reprimand systems of term-confinement in jails or even death penalty, has any lasting reparative effect on the mind of a convict. I felt that it’s time that we seriously put our heads together to redefine our age old definition of human-rights to allow us to incorporate new and freshly conceptualised, developed and employ, techno-savvy psycho-social tools to treat these sick-social psychopaths endangering the lives of many innocent? We must come to terms with the reality that some of these social-psychopaths, who are found to be incurably sick at the time of their trials or identified during the course of their confinement are given the mercy of relieving their suffering souls from the world that they have not chosen to come but have been (mis)placed and (mal)developed to suffer.

My second shock came when I watched legal but evil misogynists and offensive defenders; ML Sharma and AP Singh the defending counsels who seemed to be sermonising on the Indian value system and culture.

The icing on the cake in the documentary was with typical British subtlety that worked around the subject of extreme gender violence as an eye opener to a self-critical and analytical viewer and at the same time kicked up in the most soft spot of a so called contemporary nationalists with oxymoron statement by counsel M L Sharma; "We have the best culture. In our culture, there is no place for a woman.”

I’m certain that BBC team is well aware of typical emotional sensitivities and arrogantly unthinking political outfits (within or outside the Indian government) and thus chose Dr. Maria Misra, probably the only face to provide the British perspective, albeit with subtle mildness. Unlike most, BBC documentaries, this one puts more facts without much personal or British interpretation but rather leaving it to the viewers, probably intentionally. Fact that is noteworthy about the documentary that it has vividly exemplified the contradictions between India’s new women asserting against the gender discrimination and her long suppresed quest of societal independence and deeply entrenched views of law keepers, who are unquestionably narrow minded patriarchal men self proclaimed law keepers of the indian value system. However, it never attempts to touch up on providing or pointing towards a solution.

After I finished watching my mind had several questions lurking; if the defence lawyer solemn duty is to defend the accused by shining light on evidences that may have been overlooked or intentionally twisted by the victim’s lawyers, or is it that they must also be convinced of the explanations for which the crime was committed by the accused/convict. If latter is the case, than I can’t help but shiver with the prospect of frightfully harrowing beginning in some of the legal eagles minds. I am so far shocked to see the abject silence (except Delhi bar council meeting late last night) of “our so called judicial honchos, law-makers and even enlightened socialites against these defenders of the law on various platforms and mediums. This one documentary should be watched by everyone to learn how the minds of serious offenders and their defenders work. Imagine if these men can speak like that to an international audience what they might be thinking and doing in their social spaces.

I am totally at a loss with what I saw and heard from parents of Nirbhaya in the documentary what is reported in the media reports. But I express my most sincere solidarity with one of Nirbhaya’s mother comment on the raging debate in media and even in the parliament. She said; Talking in Parliament does not help. Why are the convicts not been hanged yet? How will the campaign 'Beti Padao, Beti Bachao' (educate, save our daughters) work, if the daughters are not safe enough to be alive?" It was sad to note that she had only expressed her helplessness at those outrageous comments of the defence lawyers and that says it all of her faith in the government, judiciary and society at large.

My harshest criticism of Udwin’s documentary is that four other men, who violated Nirbhaya didn’t get to face the camera and her questioning leaving a lot in her editing studio for us to know about the mind actors in  don't get a word in even though they were reportedly interviewed.) Yet, by the end of the film, all we have is a superficial understanding of these men. Ms. Udwin in her documentary ignores to highlight and explore the reasons and its effect of custodial death of convict Ram Singh which could have been revealing.

It also doesn’t touches up on effects of torture of social isolation and shame, which is perhaps more painful to the victim and her family then even the death penalty to the accused and his family in this country.

In the end, if nothing else this entire saga shall and must forever serve as a testimony to the short-sightedness of lawmakers on one hand and futility of ban on its telecast in the age of social media. In fact the governments ban only served to create an atmosphere any film or book producer / writer/ publisher would want. It made it to go viral! I am looking for one who could find anything in this film that is either vulgar or glorifies rape.