What is 1906?

 

What is 1906?

No, it is not only a year. It is not only the year after Einstein espoused his Special Theory of Relativity. It is also a toll free number in India.

We called 1906 yesterday when we suspected a gas leak as we plugged a newly filled gas cylinder with our gas stove.

1906 is an emergency number to attend to cooking gas leak issues. This help is provided irrespective of whichever Gas company one is a client of, and without charge. The gentleman at the other end of the phone assured us that our problem will be fixed by our Gas Agency within the next two hours. In the meantime, he told us to take precautionary measures like disengaging the gas cylinder from the stove, opening all windows, and placing the errant cylinder outside the house.

Help arrived within thirty minutes of our call, and the problem was fixed. It was truly immediate and extraordinary service.

We forget to acknowledge the small ways in which our country is marching forward. It is truly remarkable. Only a few years ago, realistically, we would have to wait for two to three days before such a problem could be fixed. But imagine, in the meanwhile, how would a home with such a gas leakage problem cook its meal?

My country is changing, and for the better.

Today's date is a Pythagorean Triplet

 

Today’s Date:

4² + 3² = 5²

More about shadows

 Someone sent me this image, almost as if as a rejoinder to my post below:

https://hunterfiftyfour.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-we-know-shadows-pain.html

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This image had this message embedded:

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Then I thought: what about sunrise?

No, the opposite is not true. Small men cast big shadows during sunrise too. 

Shadow is not a function of a man's real height. 

Rewarding traffic rule followers versus punishing honest traffic-fine payers

 

I got this leaflet as a Social Media forward:

Well, Bengaluru police is way forward. It is waiving 50% of traffic fines to folks charged with traffic violations but who have not paid their traffic fines as yet. The scheme is open till 12th of September 2025.

50% waiver

This means that while the Swedish police is rewarding folks who follow traffic rules, Bengaluru police is punishing folks who are 'honest' traffic fine payers.

Do we know the shadow's pain?

 

Is there a shadow of the shadow?

Can there be a moon eclipse?

When there is a new moon?

We know all the science reasons,

We know about crossing of ecliptic plane,

But do we know the shadow's pain?

Leave a sign, my love

 

Leave a sigh in the wind,

When I'm away from you.

Leave a sign, my love.

And, when we meet on the road,

Leave a heart torn asunder.

Leave a sign, my love.

Chrysalis over heart was half formed

 

The moon was only half full,

The eyes were half full too,

Chrysalis over heart was half formed,

And the memory went bust.

I only remember

The shower of the stardust,

Don't remember 

The shower of  rust.