Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts for the Days of January 2022

 01 Jan: Life is nearly always routine, and that’s why the really successful are those who not only have mastered their routine but also enjoy it.

02 Jan: While motivating others, we should ask ourselves if we are doing enough to keep improving.

03 Jan: If you are the walking and talking type, there are very good chances that you would be leading a healthy life.

04 Jan: Weigh your words carefully before you express them in public, but even then be prepared to be surprised by the response they could elicit.

05 Jan: Whatever be you age, for your mother, you are her child to love, to care for, to worry about. And thank God for this! 06 Jan: It is a relief that the Indians who have more faith in Chinese and Pakistani propaganda than in the word of their own government and armed forces are in a small minority.

07 Jan: Only five hundred protesting farmers on a flyover forced the prime minister of the world’s biggest democracy to go back just a score of kilometers short of his destination. Yet another victory of India’s ”thriving” democracy?!

08 Jan: * In these terrible times when we do not know for how long we will be able to ward off the contagion, it is very necessary to keep up our individual and collective spirits. ** We should always try to give forward more than what we have received from others.

09 Jan: When you get unasked for help and that from an unexpected quarter, your faith in the goodness of fellow human beings goes up by a few notches.

10 Jan: It is imperative that India decoupled its economy from the Chinese even if it means walking out of the World Trade Organization, which in any case has been benefitting China most ever since that nation was allowed to join it in 2001.

11 Jan: It is a painful irony that during the treatment of COVID-19, we Indians have to use made-in-China thermometers, oximeters, and oxygen concentrators, also medicines based on active pharmaceutical ingredients imported from China.

12 Jan: The Indian government, academia, industry, even common citizens, all have to work concertedly to make ’Made in India’ a badge of honour.

13 Jan: Technological institutions must take it upon themselves to help industrial units in their areas of operation in significantly improving their productivity, including resource-efficiency, and the quality of their products.

14 Jan: This is for sure that we will come out stronger from these testing times.

15 Jan: Whatever be your age, don’t stop learning because you might have learnt enough for up to now but not for the rest of your life.

16 Jan: No pressure group, howsoever well-organised and well-funded, should be allowed to challenge the primacy of a democratically elected government.

17 Jan: Build the ship of your life so strong and even-keeled that it will remain afloat and upright even in a perfect storm.

18 Jan: India must express its gratitude to the Oxford University and AstraZeneca whose anti-COVID-19 vaccine manufactured under licence by the Serum Institute of India is the mainstay of the nation’s colossal vaccination effort, by far the biggest in the world.

19 Jan: Humanity ought to rise against extreme cruelty towards animals even if it is sanctioned by some religion.

20 Jan: Outwardly, you may be doing something for others but in reality, you are doing it for yourself. Therefore, in your own interest, you should do it well.

21 Jan: Reclaiming India’s religio-cultural symbols and restoring them to their pristine glory is not majoritarianism, it is giving a necessary strength to the idea of India.

22 Jan: We should be satisfied only when we are making making our best efforts to do something good or to become good ourselves.

23 Jan: Today’s real heroes are those entrepreneurs who have become rich by using honest means and who truthfully pay all their taxes.

24 Jan: Death is the definite destination of life and it is largely up to us whether we would reach there smiling or crying.

25 Jan: While working, whenever you are getting bored or tired, just think that something necessary is getting done through you and you will find fresh energy and enthusiasm flowing in.

26 Jan: The minimum punishment for railway service aspirants who destroyed its property in Bihar would be to debar them for life from railway jobs.

27 Jan: Until someone finds a shortcut to success and many demonstrably succeed using that, vision, integrity, self-discipline, perseverance, and hard work, and more hard work will continue to hold the ground.

28 Jan: Let us face it - it is only our inflated ego and our lethargy that are coming in the way of our becoming a better version of ourselves everyday.

29 Jan: Even if you consider all political parties and candidates bad, don’t avoid voting; vote for the combination you find least bad.

30 Jan: About 1.4 billion people live in India and are benefited by the security and and a host of facilities it provides but, in reality, the nation belongs only to them who consider themselves and declare themselves Indians first and foremost, anything else later, they could be following any religion.

31 Jan: Advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, should be used more and more to reduce to a great extent the opportunities for corruption, also to speedily catch the corrupt, be it in the legislature, executive or judiciary.