Blog Being Truthful is So Simple In day to day personal life and at work place, I have often noticed how people routinely make excuses with their spouses, relatives, friends, superiors, equals and subordinates on false pretexts to skip a responsibility, meet, avoid a situation or to cover their delays and inefficiencies. Way back from my memories working at Meerut, I […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020March 22, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog Be Honest In Acts And Deeds If a person is honest with his (or her) integrity beyond doubt, he doesn’t have to be loud mouth giving certificate to self all the time. It’s a new trend that a new breed of politicians are doing it from the public platforms time and again as if only they and their handful (opportunist!) supporters […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020June 1, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog Be Fair and Transparent During my long years in government service, I have so often noticed this typical syndrome of being opaque and biased in dealings among many officers. While climbing the ladder of material success in terms of promotions and increments, the ingredients of arrogance and ego in persona keep increasing while the levels of trust and accessibility […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020June 1, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog Avoid Being Reactionary A majority of human beings, by sheer instinct, are reactionary in nature. This perhaps also comes from their social upbringing and ethos. We always tend to remember that so and so he, she or they have done this good or evil to me or my people and this has to be returned back either in […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog Arrogance & Ego: Worst Enemies During my long years in bureaucracy, I have always found it intriguing how the basic attributes of a person can change overnight with a change in portfolio. I have seen how people who were at junior and middle levels so sociable and accessible, show sudden change on the same parameters in senior appointments that surprises […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog Academicians Take Plunge in Ayodhya Dispute Ayodhya dispute is perhaps the longest and most complex civil suits in the annals of the legal and judicial history of India if not in world as it dragged almost seventy years in various courts including the Supreme Court of India, where it was pending for the last eight years. While hearing petitions, the apex […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog A Tribute to The Guide Dr SC Baugh was my research guide for the doctorate degree in science. He is no more having passed away nearly three decades back: A teacher and scientist who was utmost sincere, forthright and honest to the core. Besides, he was a perfectionist who would repeat and revise an experiment and/or a draft umpteen times […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020October 16, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog A New Dawn for Indian Muslim Women As an Indian, today I really feel very happy and elated for the Muslim women of the country who have finally won a long battle against social inequality, discrimination and exploitation continued for centuries in the name a religious code. A constitutional bench comprising of five supreme court judges in a majority verdict today banned […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog A Historic Day for Muslim Women 30 July 2019 can indeed be called a historic day because after over two years of socio-political battle and bickering over the abolition of the medieval and retrograde practice of triple talaq (divorce) prevalent in Muslim community in India, the Bill was finally passed by the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of Indian Parliament to abolish […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blog A Friend in Need is a Friend indeed He is a senior executive in a multinational firm, very active on social media and often spends several hours in interacting / chatting with his friends, the list of which runs into thousands. I remember a few weeks back he told me that he has over fifteen hundred friends on Facebook alone. Similarly on Twitter, […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 3, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Swamp Monarch The twelve-horned prince moves with wild graceThrough the misty reeds and marsh’s silent spaceThe morning dew and fog becomes a shifting veilAs the golden sunlight awakes the wetland trail. A golden crown of pointed antlers shines so brightWhen the marshland ruler steps quietly into lightThrough the misty reeds his amber coat will gleamAn untamed and […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Parochial He lives within his barriers of a narrow mindWhere envy grows and reason stays confined;A wounded vanity, disguised beneath disdainTurns every kindness into some offence again. He awfully strives to make his own notion reignWith a noise of hollow words and loud disdainAnd when he cannot equal those he enviesHe throws his sludge at the […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 24, 2026August 24, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Wood Frog Speaks I am but a little frog of the dense forest floorWhere Arctic blizzards terribly howl and roarThough winter wages a deadly, frozen warBut I am the master of the harsh winter’s moor. And ice surrounds the life that lies unseenAs I burrow beneath the forest’s fading greenMy heartbeats stop, no longer do I breatheMy liver […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 22, 2026August 22, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Stranded in The Grey You pacified your heart and reached the shoreLeaving me stranded in the midstream roarYou found your peace and left the tide behindLeaving a raging whirlwind storm in my mind. The wise proclaim the storm will fade awayYet shadows linger on, lengthening the greyThe world preaches its easy text, “move on”But twilight stretches, mocking at the […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Megalomaniac’s Shadow With his swollen pride, he builds a castle of airDemanding every soul around to clap and adoreWearing a crown of borrowed light and false heightHe judges all with sheer arrogance and blind might. He ignores wise advice and fights with friend or foeHis ego casts a shadow where warmth cannot growFor his cravings of praise, […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Swamp Monarch The twelve-horned prince moves with wild graceThrough the misty reeds and marsh’s silent spaceThe morning dew and fog becomes a shifting veilAs the golden sunlight awakes the wetland trail. A golden crown of pointed antlers shines so brightWhen the marshland ruler steps quietly into lightThrough the misty reeds his amber coat will gleamAn untamed and […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Parochial He lives within his barriers of a narrow mindWhere envy grows and reason stays confined;A wounded vanity, disguised beneath disdainTurns every kindness into some offence again. He awfully strives to make his own notion reignWith a noise of hollow words and loud disdainAnd when he cannot equal those he enviesHe throws his sludge at the […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 24, 2026August 24, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Wood Frog Speaks I am but a little frog of the dense forest floorWhere Arctic blizzards terribly howl and roarThough winter wages a deadly, frozen warBut I am the master of the harsh winter’s moor. And ice surrounds the life that lies unseenAs I burrow beneath the forest’s fading greenMy heartbeats stop, no longer do I breatheMy liver […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 22, 2026August 22, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rajnigandha Touch Now I get tired too soonSo I’m afraid of going farBut all this does not meanI’ve abandoned walks forever… And yes, I often feel lonelyEven amongst my own peopleBut all this does not meanI have stopped caring for all… I often remember our friendshipI still care for our relationshipBut how much I do,I have stopped […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh November 16, 2020October 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Greed For Power Among all temptations in life of a man, perhaps the greed for power is the strongest one. The obvious reasons appear to be that when one is empowered, all other luxuries and antiquities of life automatically fall in line. Hence it is not surprising that people craving for the power adopt and exploit all overt […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh November 7, 2020September 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Fairy Tale Like a fairy descended from the paradiseShe was beautiful no less than Snow WhiteLike an angel she was generous and kindThe flowers bloomed whenever she smiled. She was standing my way with open armsAnd I knew well this was real not a dreamYet kept struggling to overcome my inertiaAnd in the process I rendered her […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh October 21, 2020February 10, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked