Towards Resurgent & Responsible India

Kishore Kumar, the singer, composer, poet, actor, director,  today, August, 4 th ; is the birthday of this versatile genius.  Son of Shri Kunjlal Ganguli, a renowned lawyer of Khandwa, and Gauri. Was named Abhas Kumar, which was later changed to Kishore Kumar, as the name sounded like Abbas.  His elder brother actor Ashoke Kumar mentioned in an interview that, when Kishore Kumar was young his voice was hoarse and he used to cough a lot while speaking.  Once he met with an accident and his little finger was severed and cut off, those days there were no pain killers so he cried continuously for days together, which probably cleared his voice.   Ashoke Kumar was already an established, successful actor in Bombay,  Kishore followed him to Mumbai and joined Saraswati Devi (a pseudonym for the Parsi lady composer of Bombay Talkies) as a chorus singer, making his debut in a small cameo in “Shikari” (1946), incidentally produced by his elder brother a...

Continuing our journey of the road of transaction analysis laid by Thomas A. Harris, let’s move ahead from the Child, Adult Parent psychological states and discover what plays in the background in our subconscious whose manifestation are in the form of these states. Very early in life every child concludes ‘I’m not OK’. He makes a conclusion about his parents also: ‘You are OK’. This is the first thing he figures out in his life-long attempt to make sense of himself and the orld in which he lives. This position, I’M NOT OK – YOU’RE OK, is the most deterministic decision of his life. It is permanently recorded and will influence everything he does. Because it is a decision it can be changed by a new decision. But not until it is understood. Transactional Analysis constructs the following classification of the four possible life positions held with respect to one self and others. 1.        I’M NOT OK – YOU’RE OK 2.     ...