We both started at 18

We both left home at 18.
You cleared JEE,
I got recommended.
You got IIT,
I got NDA.
You pursued your degree,
I had the toughest training.
Your day started at 7 and ended at 5,
Mine started at 4 till 9 andSome nights also included.
You had your convocation ceremony,
I had my POP.
Best company took you andBest package was awarded,
I was ordered to join my paltan With 2 stars piped on my shoulders.
You got a job,
I got a way of life.
Every eve you got to see your family,
I just wished i got to see my parents soon.
You celebrated festivals with lights and music,
I celebrated with my comrade in bunkers.
We both married,
Your wife got to see you everyday,
My wife just wished i was alive.
You were sent to business trips,
I was sent on line of control.
We both returned,
Both wives couldn't control their tears,
but
You wiped her but,
I couldn't.
You hugged her but,I couldn't.
Because I was lying in the coffin,
With medals on my chest and,
Coffin wrapped with tricolour.
My way of life ended,
Your continued.
We both left home at 18.-

Whats app UPI feature


WhatsApp has begun testing itspayment service in India. The feature is available to a select number of users at the moment.

WhatsApp’s payment feature is based on the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) platform. The official roll-out for general public is expected to be announced very soon. But if you don’t wish to wait for that long, there’s already a workaround to get theWhatsApp UPI payment feature right away.

The process of getting the payment feature is very similar to WhatsApp’svoice calling feature, which debuted approximately three years ago. So, if one of your friends who already has received the UPI update on their WhatsApp, you can ask them to invite you to seed the feature.

Note that the feature is only available to the mobile version of the application and not on WhatsApp Web. Also, the payment interface supports UPI services from all major banks including HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Yes Bank, and Airtel Payments Bank.

Here’s the step-by-step guide on what you have to do to enable WhatsApp UPI feature on your phone:

1. Users who already have the feature need to go to their friend’s profile on WhatsApp.



2. Once there, they simply need to tap the attachment (paper clip-shaped) button.



3. This will prompt them to see the payment option. They need to tap the payment option.



4. This will give them an error, saying that their friend doesn’t have WhatsApp UPI feature just yet. But in reality, they have just enabled the WhatsApp UPI feature for their friend.



5. Now, you can go to the settings section within the app where you will see the payment option yourself.



6. You can now invite your friends in a similar fashion.

Note that WhatsApp hasn’t officially rolled out the feature for everyone yet. But considering that it has already made its way to the recent beta versions for both iOS and Android, the feature is most likely to be announced very soon.

Analysts say WhatsApp enabling UPI feature could be the biggest boost to the digital payment landscape in India. Ahead of WhatsApp’s payment service, the popular digital wallet platform Paytm introduced a messaging service on its platform. Called Paytm Inbox, the messaging service is similar to WhatsApp’s and also lets users send and receive money.

Apart from Paytm, Hike and Truecaller have also introduced peer-to-peer money sharing feature on their platforms. Google late last year joined the mobile commerce segment with Google Tez, which also lets you make and request payments vis-a-vis friends. Google in December last year revealed the platform had gone past140 million transactions, and has over 12 million monthly active users.

WhatsApp, however, has an upper hand over the competition considering the massive user base in the country. The platform has more than 200 million users in India, one of its biggest markets in the world

Parents - A blessing


Pls read this and get your children also to read it.

One young man went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.

He passed the initial interview, and now would meet the director for the final interview.

The director discovered from his CV that the youth's academic achievements were excellent.

He asked, Did you obtain any scholarships in school?
The youth answered "NO".

Who paid your school fees?
"My Parents ", he replied.

"Where do they work?"

"They worked as clothes cleaners.”

The director requested the youth to show his hands.
The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.

"Have you ever helped your parents to wash the clothes?"

"Never, my parents always wanted me to study and read more books. Besides, my parents can wash clothes faster than me.

The director said, "I have a request. "When you go home today, go and clean your parents hands, and then see me tomorrow morning."

The youth felt dejected.
When he got back home, he asked his parents to let him clean their hands.
His parents felt strange, and happy. With mixed feelings,
they showed their hands to their son.

The youth cleaned their hands slowly. He shed tears  as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his parents hands were much wrinkled, and there were so many bruises on their hands.
Some bruises were so painful that they winced when he touched them.

This was the first time the youth realized that it was these pairs of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fees.

The bruises in the hands were the price that the parents had to pay for his education, his school activities and his future.

After cleaning his parents hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for  them.

That night, parents and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.

The Director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes, when he asked:

"Can you tell me what you did and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, I cleaned my parents hand, and also washed all the remaining clothes'! "I now know what appreciation is.
Without my parents, I would not be who I am today".

By helping my parents yesterday, I realized how difficult and tough it would have been for me to get through school on my own. I have come to appreciate the importance and value of helping one’s family.

The director said, "This is what I am looking for in a manager.
I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life.”

“You are hired.”

A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wanted, would develop an "entitlement mentality" and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of his parent's efforts.

If we are this kind of protective parents, are we really showing love or are we destroying our children instead?

You can let your child live in a big house, eat a good meal,  watch on a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them partake in it.

After a meal, let them wash their plates and bowls together with their brothers and sisters.

It is not  because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in the right way.

Let them understand, that no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow grey, same as the parents of that young man.

The most important thing is for your child to learn how to appreciate the efforts of others, and experience the difficulties of hard labor, and learn the ability to work with others to get things done.


Instagram new algorithm

                                                 Instagram Algorithm

As you probably know, Instagram's algorithm is a nearly unsolvable puzzle and right when we think we've solved it, it changes again. Staying in the loop is harder than ever, as many changes are no longer being regularly announced on Instagram'sblog, but rather just being updated in a buried folder in their Help Center. There's some good and bad with these changes. How people interpret these changes is to each their own. I am writing this to inform you of what I've read and/or heard, not to impose my own opinions on you. That said, here are some of the most recent changes you might expect to see on Instagram, along with changes you can make to increase your exposure and get ahead before your posts get buried and unseen. To be clear, remember that this is mostly speculation and rumors. I cannot vouch for the validity, but I figure it doesn't hurt to gather information if it's floating around, right?



1.)Algorithm / Post Exposure

When you post something on Instagram, it may only be exposed to 10% of your audience. I believe this would mean that it gauges the interest of your audience to determine whether or not it should be shown to the rest of your followers. If your brand new post gets enough engagement right off the bat, it would then be released and shown to the remaining 90%. So if you've been wondering why one post gets 1/10 of the engagement of another post, this could be why. 

You know last year when people started forming "pods?" These pods are groups of people who have agreed to boost engagement for the group by liking and commenting when a member of the group announces that they have a new post. Well guess what? This might not be a loophole. This could actually be one of the reasons so many people were getting shadow banned. 

Business Accounts: If you're promoting your business in any way and represent yourself as such, rumor has it that the best thing you can do now to ensure your work is seen is to switch over to a business account if you're not already on one. This is another rumor from people are are "in the loop" on Instagram's new algorithm game. The plus is that with a business account, you will also be able to check additional stats, which can be very helpful when determining your audience's prime times.



2.)Engagement

Instagram is now thought to be restricting exposure based off of YOUR engagement. Now, you might want to respond to comments left on your posts within 60 minutes. Otherwise, your post's visibility might gradually decrease.

You know those comments from bots? The emojis or comments like "Great pic!" "Love it!" and "Nice!" supposedly now do not count as engagement. The plus is that they'd be filtering out these pesty accounts and increase genuine comments. This is good to know for us as well, because too often, we're also the ones that comment with "Love this!" Here's a good new practice: In order to count as engagement, comment with 4 words or more. 

Good to know: Instagram stories helps you pop up more, so definitely utilize this feature. The stories that are shown first are accounts that you engage with the most, so give people a reason to see you first!





3.)Captions

Ohhh hashtags. These are incredibly convenient, but also a little tricky. Although you can use up to 30 hashtags in a post, this can now be picked up as spam. Spam = shadow banning. It's been up in the air for a while about what the sweet spot with hashtags are, but people say that they seem to have better luck with about 5 unique hashtags.

Don't use the same hashtags over and over! Switch these up or it will look like you're a bot, which means spam, which means shadow banning.

Here's the big one: Hashtags that you post in the comments of your post will no longer display under search results. You must now include hashtags in the body of your caption.

Another big one: Do NOT edit your caption for 24 hours after posting. This oldcu significantly lower your chances for it to be seen.

Piggybacking that last one: Do NOT delete your post and then repost it. Same reason as above. 

Random note: When you pick hashtags, I suggest using tags that have high search results, but not SO many that they're too popular and your post will immediately get buried in all the others that are being uploaded like crazy.



4.)New Features

You know the Explore Feed? It's a specially curated collection of posts from people you both follow and don't follow, most of which you don't already. It's shown to you specifically based off of your interests that Instagram picks up from your hashtags, who you follow, posts you like, and your searches. Well, Instagram is now rolling out an addition of these posts to your regular feed. Yep, you read that right. Strangers will be popping up in your feed. 

You can now follow hashtags. Rumor has it, your profile might be favored if you're following hashtags. So follow your favorites!




That concludes my update for you all. Hopefully you gathered some new information that will help you moving forward this year. Until next time!

Don't blame Indian education system

                                        Don't blame education system




In my previous post I talked about education in India and why Indian students are going abroad to study. I got a comment on a post about these situation and it made me change my view about education in India and lead me to write about this.
First of all everyone will blame our indian education system right ? Everyone claims that there is rotting system but in how many subjects u could rot ? Does your rotting works in maths in cbse where questions r totally different. Till tenth you are exposed to different subjects and some subjects you like and some  don't. The only things that is missing is practical application but if you go deep in cbse rules  there are enough practicals which schools don't follow.

Imagine a project is given to you and you would get marks for that and how we do that ? Google it and it's done. Do we go to libraries to read about that. not only practical application but knowledge is important tooo.
We rot that's our mistake..... what was CCE ? All about personality development. Debates should be there and all that kind of things that we need.but what was being done in that time of CCE ? what did teachers do ?
Fault is not in the system but in the applicators.

We and our teachers don't follow such things.
At the end the we come to the conclusion that we dont need to blame the education system everytime.

You can read out the previous posts about the education system in India