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Myth Shattered!

My father often talked about the phenomenal success of a film of his times. The title of the film was Achhut Kanya. It was perhaps the first movie of legend actor Ashok Kumar with an actress Devika Rani in the lead. Once a song of this film, Main ban ki chidiya banke ban ban bolun re was being telecast. I had stopped by the TV to watch it. The set-up, the song and the acting looked so funny to me. Above all, the heroine, Devika Rani, looked so rustic, pastoral and illiterate to me that I broke into a laugh. [...]

2021-01-19T10:54:43+05:30

The Chief Guest Behavior

Chief Guests at various functions, convocations, meets and seminars are often political leaders or celebrities or men of accomplishments. People curiously observe their behavior during the proceedings of the events. During elite functions, a chief guest needs to be fully alert and live up to the image he or she carries in the public. Humbleness and alertness of chief guests has a magnetic effect on the people. Once, during an event of a gymkhana club, the chairman of an organization was the chief guest. As he occupied his chair on the dais and viewed the audience, he found a senior [...]

2021-01-19T10:53:55+05:30

A Good Deed Pays Back

Gurgaon has become the job capital of North India. Most of the MNCs have their corporate offices located in Gurgaon. Fresh MBAs prefer to join the corporate offices of companies instead of branch offices as the corporate office culture adds to their vision, provides extra exposure and enhances their ‘market value’. Whosoever gets posted in the corporate office considers oneself lucky. Young postgraduates, on their first posting, opt for a PG but soon get fed up by the restrictions imposed by PG owners, dreary cabins, tasteless food and sky high charges. So they make a group of two or three, [...]

2021-01-19T12:18:35+05:30

RCC Structure Constructions Through Slip-Forming

With the ever increasing pressure on construction engineers to devise ways and means to build sky-scrapers in shortest possible periods, Slip-form technique has acquired wider use in vertical construction. The main advantage of this technique being a significant cut in the construction time, it is more and more being used for construction of tall chimneys-both vertical and tapered, silos, bridges piers, shaft type buildings, water tanks and storage bins.

2020-12-28T15:50:19+05:30

Engineering Crosswords

His foray into the literary world began back in 1988 by way of writing technical articles for a local publication. An engineer by profession and a writer at heart, Jagvir Goyal's three new books would hit the stores early next week. Among the ones to be released are two books on crosswords and one on short stories in hindi, "The hra Hua Pratibimb". And with that the number of books to his credit goes up to ten.

2020-12-28T15:47:57+05:30

‘Love You Dad’ By Jagvir Goyal Released

"LOVE YOU DAD", a book written by Jagvir Goyal, an engineer of Lehra Mohabbat Thermal Plant, was released here today. The book is a compilation of 15 stories, most of which are true. This helps in developing reader's interest, says Goyal. An old man prepares himself for death; a renowned doctor saves a child et suffers from guilt; a son takes his old parents to pilgrimage and gets the biggest jolt; a devotee of Krishna loses heart to someone devoted to him, a son's wish to see his father sitting at a railway platform remains unfulfilled.

2020-12-28T15:40:09+05:30