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रेशमी डोर में बँधे चलते रहे,

भरोसे से .

नींद टूटी,

भरोसा टूटा,

देखा तो……..

डोर भी टूट गई थी .

A reward is on offer to the next couple to give birth to a son after no boys were born there for 12 years.

The Polish village of Miejsce Odrzańskie is now under scrutiny from experts to see if there is a deeper rooted issue or if it is just an anomaly.

Head of the local (mostly female) volunteer fire brigade Tomasz Golasz said: It has been going on for several decades. I came to the village, took a local girl for my wife and we had two daughters.

‘I would like to have a son but it’s probably unrealistic. My neighbour also tried and has two daughters. I don’t think women give birth to boys here.’

Mayor Rajmund Frischko has been looking through the village’s history to find out if there has been a similar incidence in the past, according to  The First News.

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/07/26/town-no-boys-born-12-years-offers-reward-next-mum-son-10466176/amp/

Exhausted Russian taxi drivers may soon be forced to take breaks. Yandex.Taxi, the largest taxi service in the nation, will install devices in all their cars that use facial recognition technology to identify tired drivers, reports Bloomberg

https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/08/facial-recognition-will-catch-sleepy-taxi-drivers-in-russia/?utm_campaign=fullarticle&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=inshorts&guccounter=1

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Located in Germany, The Stuttgart City Library is the public library which comprises of the central library, 17 city district libraries, and two bookmobiles. For all those who don’t know, back in 2013, it received the national award as Library of the Year in the country. 

The Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart library’s new building features a simple cube-like design and a minimalist white interior, which opened its doors in 2011. It has about 11,500 meters of floor space and all sides are equally 45 meters in length just like a cube. The library stands tall at 40 meters with 9 floors. 

https://m.delhiplanet.com/article/with-9-floors-pristine-white-interiors-unique-cube-shape-the-public-library-stuttgart-is-a-modern-art-wonder/28821?utm_campaign=fullarticle&utm_medium=referral&utm=infinitescroll&utm_source=inshorts

आँखों से छलकती ख़ुशियाँ जब,

पीछे छुपे ग़म को ढक लेतीं हैं ….

धूप-छांव, धुँध-धुआँ और

बे-वजह मुस्कुराहट भरी

रिश्वतों के पीछे.

ख़ुशियों ….के जन्मदिन…के

कुछ पल जश्न से मना लेते हैं…..

जश्न तो हम आज भी मनाते हैं.

कुछ भूले बिसरे नज़्म गुनगुनाते हैं.

एक आदत थी तुम्हे देखने की बजम में.

पर जश्न-ए-ज़िंदगी हार गई मौत से .

The moon might now be home to thousands of planet Earth’s most indestructible animals. 

Tardigrades – often called water bears – are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150C and frozen to almost absolute zero.

They were travelling on an Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon in April.

And the co-founder of the organisation that put them there thinks they’re almost definitely still alive.

The water bears had been dehydrated to place them in suspended animation and then encased in artificial amber. 

“We believe the chances of survival for the tardigrades… are extremely high,” Arch Mission Foundation boss Nova Spivack said.

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/newsbeat-49265125

Do not wait;

the time will never

be ‘just right.’

Start where you stand,

and work with whatever

tools you may have

at your command,

and better tools will be

found as you go along.

George Herbert

यह सच है कि

काव्य ……कविता …

एक दर्पण है,

जो विकृत को भी सुंदर बना देती है .

पर दरअसल ख़ूबसूरती तो

देखने वालों के नज़र में होती है .

यह तो अपना नज़रिया है

कि हम क्या देखना चाहते हैं.

वरना कड़वाहट, कटुता भरी

कविताएँ भी रची जाती हैं.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley