Facebook Memes & Jokes

Facebook - The most popular and ubiquitous social networking site is a great repository of cards on jokes, memes and funny cartoons spread across diverse topics and issues. Quirky one or two-liners, poetry, cartoons or memes -meaningful and funny descriptions on real pictures, drawings etc. make up a lot for the humorous side of the page. Informative, educational as well as funny these jokes & memes have earned a distinct place among the mass public. They educate and alert the people about silly mistakes, stupidities or ignorance in life. Sarcastic and critical, 

they trickle the humor out of the most sad and depressed of the people. For example- The clown here as shown (left)

humorously growing and evolving from a programmer in the first stage then a coder lastly to a software professional quite dramatically describes an obedient person cut to his work fully, gradually. Another one (top) jokingly prescribes a rat killer potion to do away with a hungry neighbour, aka rats jumping in one’s stomach. Take the next one (right), the year 2024 -ended a while ago had 366 days, being a leap year. One can very easily pass over the fact of a total of 366 days instead of the usual 365. Beneficial jokes like this make good mood among the millions of users logged in here.

Credits due to the creators of such useful art. Be it Companies, individuals or part-time contributors, they have made browsing the app more informative, happy, humorous and the same time amply vetting out public expressions better.

The impact of these varies from people to places to tastes and opinions. What may sound humorous to one may irritate someone or escape notice of any other. Sometimes controversy erupts owing to objectionable depiction of characters or incidences. Some have been deleted after peer supervision or court orders. Examples of public riots and violence have also been reported on many Memes or Posts. In short Memes & Posts are popular and thought-provoking at the same time. 

Facebook being such a popular medium, Memes & Jokes whatever be their effects and response do create vibes healthy to public opinions, tastes or feelings. More deeper analysis of issues will provide more stuff for such creativities. The future of Memes & Jokes would surely be more complex, sophisticated and clearer. Use of AI apps to create jokes and graphical posts will be a step further. Wish more smarter and beneficial Memes & Jokes to brighten the days of its users and admirers. 

The Smartphone

A wallet-sized, sleek, hand-held device that gives instant text, voice communication as well as all the information at our finger-tips. A device so ubiquitous with almost all our daily uses that we can’t do without it now-a-days. The smartphone is basically an electronic device that enables the user to use apps for everything viz - making phone calls, sending/receiving text messages, checking social-media updates, making video-calls, checking bank a/cs, doing online shopping, learning/training, gossiping etc. very instantly and elaborately. A long development from the traditional landline phones which could be used for voice calling only, the smartphones have evolved into versatile, multi-tasking devices making communications easy, personal as well as fast. It can work as a watch, a TV, a landline phone, a calculator, a PC, a camera, a video-recorder, a notecopy, an ATM, a music-player, a video-player all-in-one. Apart from dialing people for private or professional purposes, we can connect live with video-calls, send receive, text messages, as well as exchange pictures, files-text documents, spreadsheets, projects, PDF files,  alongwith videos to almost every person on anywhere on the earth. The uses are so easy that even children, people with basic literacy, without any special knowledge can communicate with it. Our connectivity has become so fast, instant as well as voluminous that the world has become much faster, closer as well as interconnected soon. Messages, documents, files, pictures or data which hitherto took weeks, days or months can now be sent/received instantly at our finger tips.

Smartphones are somewhat a mix of the hand-held phones and the computer. Features of the computers like sending/receiving email, use of apps for all kinds of activities like typing documents in MS-Word, Notepad, or Spread sheets like MS-Excel, photo-editing, graphic designing, using browsers for websites, reading PDF (Portable Document Format) files, Video-calling, Selfies using Cameras etc. have transformed the lame looking feature phone into a very smart device that is used so often. Some describe them as miniature computers. It has a touch-screen 5”, 5.5” or 6” -7” in dimension with two switches to increase/decrease volume and power buttons usually. A USB port type C now-a-days is used both charging as well connecting the device through USB with PCs, Digital Cameras etc. alongwith Cameras both on the front for selfies and back for taking pictures. In the inside it has a motherboard, a Chip to process popularly Qualcomm Snapdragon, Apple A15, AMD Ryzen, Samsung Exynos etc. ROM and other smaller chipsets. It has a slot for one or more SIM cards and Memory Card for expanding memory. Most popular Smartphones globally are iPhones 15, 14, 12, Samsung Galaxy S24, A15, A54, Vivo Y56 5G, Oppo A78 etc. The connectivities are provided by telecom companies that enable the phones to connect by satellite communication through mobile towers, broadband lines etc. Popular telecom brands include Airtel, Reliance, Vodafone-Idea, BSNL etc. offering 4G or 5G connectivities.                 
 

Such is the attachment to the smartphones these days that people prefer to connect via them instead of direct communication. Greetings, wishes for festivals,  personal achievements, marriages, invitations etc. are done through text or decorative and attractive posts/cards sent though them. Taking selfies and 

posting them instantly, updating are common now-a-days. Smartphones have made communications very personalized and quick these days. We can communicate no matter where we are - while in a bus/train, shopping malls, offices, bedrooms, streets anywhere. Alongside these,  accidents, mishaps have also increased. People texting, busy over phones are more prone to road accidents on streets and lanes. Many also died taking selfies in risky places like a high mountain-top, running streams, rivers or alongwith animals like crocodiles, snakes, etc. Added to that our privacy also seem to be at risk due to them. Smartphones are hacked leading to loss of money, access to private pictures, videos or the traps of scamsters for lucrative financial profits, jobs etc. Smartphones are also costly. Popular phones often cost a good fortune to own. In addition physical and in person communication have decreased leading to tense relationships, digital divide, seclusion etc. 

With more features like the use of AI in apps, use of phones as remotes for car locks, switches, transparent devices, health-monitoring devices etc. coming , technology will transform them into smarter ones to accomplish more. The basic point would be to use them for the benefit of all instead of harm to one and all.

Gandhiji and his movement of Ahimsa

Mahatma Gandhi, our Father of the Nation was one of the brightest luminaries of Non-Violence, Truth & Peaceful Resistance and Humanism not only in India but in the rest of the world. Born in 2^nd October, 1869 to Karamchand and Putli bai Gandhi in Porbandar, Gujarat, he was named as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in his childhood. A frank, fearless and honest young lad he did his schooling in Porbandar and then in nearby Rajkot. He was sent to study Law in England and joined as Barrister in 1891. There too he abstained from alcohol, meat very vigourously.

 Two years later in 1893, he moved on to South Africa to fight a legal suit for a Gujrati merchant there. He was thrown out of the train in Peitermaritzburg for the colour of his skin despite having a valid first-class ticket for his seat. This was his first encounter with apartheid and racial discrimination. It was just a small instance of what was prevalent then in South Africa towards the black, brown or non-white people. This shook him and made him struggle against the colonial rule there. He participated, organised in activities opposing the laws for the blacks and the Indians there that made them unequal in almost matters of life like employment, land or agriculture, marriages, social and political rights etc. He was successful in not only uniting people for their cause but also helping change some of the laws existing at that time. He set up the Pheonix Farm to shelter homeless and sick people and often took care of them himself. Upon his return to India in 1915, he was appalled at the British colonial slavery, misery, poverty, discrimination and the atrocities on the people.

He decided to join the India’s freedom struggle and not pursue his legal career. He regarded Gopal Krishna Gokhale as his Guru under whose guide he got the path and zeal for the struggle for India’s freedom. Initially he fought for the rights of the labourers and farmers. His first peaceful and non-violent struggle bore fruit in Champaran, Bihar when he made the administration change the rules on profit from Poppy cultivation and the heavy taxations on it. Later he organised many peaceful and non-violent 

protests and agitations like the Civil Disobedience Movement, Non-cooperation movement, the Dandi March against salt tax, Swadeshi movement for the boycott of foreign goods, Khilafat movement, Quit India movement etc. His method was to protest for one’s rights by defeating the mighty British government by the force of the powerful will without resorting to physical force, till the last. That is, he alongwith the freedom fighters continued receiving the lathis, sticks and bullets of the government then without forcibly hitting back. By this he compelled the government to concede to many of their demands. He wanted to break the morale of the oppressive rulers by non-violently receiving their punishments.

Satyagraha-as he called it was a struggle for truth. According to him this satyagraha or the pursuit of truth was essential for an individual, a nation or a struggle to powerfully move towards its destined goals and place. Ahimsa or non-violence was the best path accordingly in satyagraha.Ahimsa or non-violence was a means to defeat an enemy from the core rather than physically. It was a weapon readily available as well one that 

could unite the Indian masses fight against the mighty British. He experimented with all his principles – satyagraha, ahimsa and all. Both, he said were sides of the same concept. He managed to get back the rights of the people with these principles very efficiently. His idea of non-violent or passive resistance inspired freedom fighters all over the world from Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, South East Asia’s and African freedom movements and many others.