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March 5th 2016.

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Peek-a-boo into a young Mommy's life! Her journey into motherhood. To do with her day to day stuff & routine, and fuss!

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#BicycleAngels “Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone.

156A) recipient of help, a livelihood bicycle.

“Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.”

Nanjappa Iyer (35)

Idli seller.

Nanjappa is from Karnataka. His family owns some quantity of land and they cultivate it only before the monsoons. He could not school post the fourth class because he had to earn a livelihood. He attended to cows and goats until he grew older and had to migrate to Mumbai to increase his livelihood prospects. Agriculture was never able to sustain his family. They are a family of 5 brothers and one sister. His parents continue to cultivate their land when the rains are kind.

Nanjappa migrated to Mumbai about 15 years ago, and being uneducated he landed a job as a domestic help to a leading film actress then. He continued to work at a few homes over the years, and had some very good employers, one of whom was a media personality Karuna S, and he said she was a very good employer and helped him when he needed some help.

Rarely have we assisted someone who has been in a profession for less than a day or two. Nanjappa is one of them. There are no rules in life. Neither to success nor failure nor kindness. So we broke ours. He came across to us as someone sincerely desiring to be independent, a man owning his own business, however humble in nature. An idli wala.

Idli wals, they serve the people who serve us – The taxi driver, the autorickshaw driver, street vendors, security guards of societies who guard us, gardeners, shop keepers who do not carry lunch from home on some days and are stuck behind their shop counters longer than day light hours….. scores of people invisible to most of us.

I thought, maybe I can empathise with Nanjappa's need to do what he loves, at any cost. Leave a secure home job to peddle his skills on unknown streets. My own father left a secure job with the Indian army after 6 years because he wanted to be independent and write lyrics and sing songs. Though he attributed his superb sense of discipline and his habit to be able to live happily without much fuss about material things to his Army days, and he even wrote some of the most amazing film songs on our beloved armed forces, he left his Army job to be on his own, answerable only to his calling of wanting to write songs. A few angels helped my father when he left the Army and was penniless in Bombay for nearly a decade. Girish Thakker became Nanjappa’s angel, by buying him a new bicycle on the second or third day of his own first attempt at his own business. We felt we must help him.

Why did Nanjappa decide to sell idlis, because he loves to cook. Just as my father loved to write and took a leap of faith in himself and his talent to live that love daily. It served him well. Very well.

I believe, we must strive to get rid of dependency with the passage of time, pick up skills that will help us branch out become our very own tree. Dr B R Ambedkar said, “Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.”

Thank you Girish Thakar for donating this bicycle to Nanjappa Iyer. Nanjappa contributed nearly half its cost.

And thank you to Kohinoor Cycles (http://kohinoorcyclestores.blogspot.com/) Siddharth Vora (https://www.facebook.com/siddharth.vora.58?fref=ts) for the good discount and service he provides us.

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Nagaland's music band ‪#‎Abiogenesis‬ ‪#‎MoaSubongAbiogenesis‬‪#‎ArenlaSubong‬ with ‪#‎OpangJamir‬ ‪

Nagaland's music band ‪#‎Abiogenesis‬ ‪#‎MoaSubongAbiogenesis‬‪#‎ArenlaSubong‬with ‪#‎OpangJamir‬ ‪#‎DirectorsDiaries‬

THANK YOU DEAR Mr EARTH and Mr INDIA INTERNATIONAL, Mr Youth icon "Opang"

Authors, writers, painters, composers just like Tortoise. Live their lives in shells.

I came here with nothing. No 'contacts', no recommendations. The only wealth I had was within. My confidence. ‪

I came here with nothing. No 'contacts', no recommendations. The only wealth I had was within. My confidence.

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Love #MakarandDeshpande

My excitement sharing our book with him clearly shows!!! I love‪#‎MakarandDeshpande‬ Love his theater plays. smile emoticon

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#DirectorsDiaries' Brazil trip, with my dear rider friend #NicolasVanCauter So much love! Thank you Nic.

#DirectorsDiaries' Brazil trip, with my dear rider friend #NicolasVanCauter  So much love! Thank you Nic.

#ChristTheRedeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot.

The face was created by the Romanian artist Gheorghe Leonida. The statue is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, not including its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.

The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio.

A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is listed as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

The directors’ Beginnings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbvst-mhOw

The directors’ Convictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQgoJwP1sd8

The directors’ on Cinema & Filmmaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8bnPI95HCs

Happy sharing our little book with you. :))) Kanika Kedia

I am so happy sharing our little book with you. :))) Kanika Kedia

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‪#‎GaataRaheMeraDil‬ A tribute to ‪#‎AnandBakshi‬ ‪#‎DirectorsDiaries‬ by ‪#‎RakeshAnandBakshi‬ presented to the two singers:

‪#‎GaataRaheMeraDil‬ A tribute to ‪#‎AnandBakshi‬

‪#‎DirectorsDiaries‬ by ‪#‎RakeshAnandBakshi‬ presented to the two singers:‪#‎SunilMehta‬ and ‪#‎TusharParekh‬.

In this photo: ‪#‎VisheshParekh‬ Vishesh Parekh and Anand Desai‪#‎AnandDesai‬ presenting the copies of the book to the two winners.

The directors’ Beginnings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbvst-mhOw

Thank you ‪#‎ShobharayGupta‬. Maharashtra Media Services. Happy reading.

Thank you ‪#‎ShobharayGupta‬. Maharashtra Media Services. Happy reading.

‪#‎DirectorsDiaries‬

Glad u appreciated her. Especially since you an Editor. Thank u.

Hi Nikhil Sonatkar​ Glad you read our book. And appreciated her. Especially since you are a film Editor too. (Akhil Multimedia and Cinematographer/Editor/Director) Thank you. :) 

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Youth icon #OpangJamir Mister India International 2012 Mister Earth 2011 Nagaland Youth Summit 2016

Congrats Opangtongdang Jamir Metsubo (#OpangJamir) 

Actor and Former Mister India International 2012. And Mister Earth 2011. 

To be felicitated at Nagaland Youth Summit Feb 2016, for being a youth icon.

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The directors’ Beginnings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbvst-mhOw

Directors' Diaries: I realized our generation is used to getting thing...

Directors' Diaries: I realized our generation is used to getting thing...: ..... And hence, while reading, I realized one thing that our generation is used to getting things easily in life and living a ...

I realized our generation is used to getting things easily. Living sheltered life. We find ourselves falling apart when life is not all that blissful.

..... And hence, while reading, I realized one thing that our generation is used to getting things easily in life and living a sheltered life, and hence we find ourselves falling apart when life is not all that blissful. It's invigorating to read about how Farah Khan and his brother survived after their parents' separation on a tiny fee of rupees five that they used to charge to the players for renting their room for card games. Vishal Bhardwaj performing at food festivals to earn a livelihood. As far as filmmaking is considered, I am sure that it will definitely inspire and motivate all the budding filmmakers to start rolling their cameras and say ACTION!

Read full review: http://portablemagick.blogspot.in/2016/02/directors-diaries-rakesh-anand-bakshi.html?m=1

Directors' Diaries: Happy Birthday to the fabulous dear ‪#‎LouisBanks‬...

Directors' Diaries: Happy Birthday to the fabulous dear ‪#‎LouisBanks‬...: Happy Birthday to the fabulous dear Mr Louis Banks.  ‪#‎ LouisBanks‬ We love you. ‪#‎ DirectorsDiaries‬

Happy Birthday to the fabulous dear ‪#‎LouisBanks‬ ‪#‎DirectorsDiaries‬

Happy Birthday to the fabulous dear Mr Louis Banks. ‪#‎LouisBanks‬
We love you.

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#RonyGhosh @ #GrandPhilharmonicOrchestra UK; aka Film Producer :) The man with many hats!

#RonyGhosh @ #GrandPhilharmonicOrchestra UK; aka Film Producer aka Marketing Man :) The man with many hats! - Dreams Bazar Films and Co-Founder at No Boundaries Entertainment & Media.

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Rony Ghosh Please do help our little book reach out to your film buff pals in the UK. :)))

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#BicycleAngels 154A) recipient - If God were in my fingers, I would fold them in prayer for you.

154A) recipient of help, a livelihood bicycle.

If God were in my fingers, I would fold them in prayer for you.

Mahadev Kanojia (40)

Dhobi (Laundry service)

Mahadev was recommended to us by one of our past beneficiaries. Manoj is from UP. Nearly every Dhobi I met was from UP. He resides at Khar Danda in Mumbai. His earlier two generations were dhobis too. His father could not afford to educate him beyond the 5th or 6th Class, so he arrived in Bombay in 1988, when he was 11-12 years young, to help his father.

Being the eldest son, so it was first his responsibility to hold the reins of the family’s livelihood along with his father. Even his mother worked alongside, ironing.

Mahadev has three children, all sons. The youngest is in school and the eldest will soon be graduating from college. His family, his brothers and he, continue to own a small piece of land back in the village, but none of them want to seed it. The rains being unpredictable, they find the occupation, agriculture, uncertain to pursue as a lifelong occupation. That is one problem we will be faced with in coming decades. Dwindling numbers occupied in agriculture.

It is feared that in the coming years, agriculture land will be rare and very expensive to own, considering large amounts of agri land is being converted to commercial and residential. Corporations will run agriculture and employ qualified people to farm and they will sell produce at astronomical rates. Characters like farmers, the kisaan, will belong only in ancient period films. Museums will display attires worn by farmers one upon a time. ;)

I asked Mahadev, does he believe in God and his miracles, and has be witnessed even one?

He replied, laughing 'at me', “Yes, of course, I do believe in God. (Naturally making me feel I asked him a ridiculously low-life question.) Everything I have is because of Bajrang Bali. Every Saturday, I offer him oil at his temple near my house. He fulfils my heart’s wishes.”

For the Mahadevs’ of our world, their heart’s wishes are not owning a ‘rock’, but: an education for his children, enough meals through the day so that hunger does not become a clock reminding him he has not eaten as yet, his family live in peace with each other, his livelihood be secure, his health remain good so that his hands and feet can help him keep a roof over their head and keep their kitchen warm.

I asked him, would he believe in his Bajrang Bali, God, if his heart’s wishes had not been fulfilled?

Now Mahadev laughed the loudest, and said to me in a tone as though he was seated under the banyan tree and we mortals were at his feet looking up at him, “Sab icchayein thodi na puri hoti hain, Saab.” (You don’t get it. All prayers are not answered.)

He smiled then. He was at peace. I smiled back. He left. And he left me in peace too.

Anyways. I hope most of our prayers come true. And I decided to share a prayer I had once written:

If God were in my fingers, I would fold them in prayer for you.

If God were in my home, I would light it up like Diwali for you.

If God were on the roads, I would ride my bike for you.

If God were in my words, I would write a story for you.

If God were in nature, I would paint a landscape for you.

If God were in notes, I would compose a melody for you.

If God were in medicine, I would heal a heart for you.

If God were in sea waves, I would surf the Oceans for you.

If God were in mighty mountains, I would summit them for you.

But God is in you too, so stay close to me.

Thank you for your friendship, respect, and love.

For my loved ones I prayer.

This bicycle was donated by Vaibhav Jhalani. Thank you Vaibhav. And Mahadev contributed half the cost of this bicycle.

And thank you to Kohinoor Cycles (http://kohinoorcyclestores.blogspot.com/) Siddharth Vora (https://www.facebook.com/siddharth.vora.58?fref=ts) for the good discount and service he provides us.

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