Muzakkir Ghulam Mohiuddin Bijli

  A war is never an answer to any issues. The recent war happening between Russia and Ukraine is not called for. Whatever the reason or whoever the instigator still I think a war is not a solution by any means. I really hope there are no more wars. This blog though is not on this topic. War started in Ukraine with Russia attacking. News channels across the globe flashed this news. While these news channels kept projecting the visuals etc I remember two words being commonly said in all. One was the word siren and the other bunker. So, whenever the city officials felt that there might be some airborne attack nearing a city the sirens went up. As soon as the sirens went up, the people need to be prepared for the eventualities and need to be moving themselves to safe places. For this they had the bunkers. Many of these bunkers, the channels described, were from the World War II era. In some cities where there were no bunkers or they were not available nearby, I could see the news...

  This photograph of mine won the first prize in the photography competition held as a part of a virtual national convention of Architects (NATCON) named Transcend. It came as pleasant surprise and the things and coincidences that happened along with that were quite surprising. Thought I will share those coincidences as a short blog. The main reason behind writing this is that though these are small things but these matter a lot and these small little things make life interesting and keeps everyone moving. With the positive vibes these create, we may be able to achieve something beyond our own reach. On World Photography day I thought I will complete this blog which I was aiming to write for so long. The spark: In 2018 I took some kids in my family to the Palace in Thanjavur, a palace where the descendants of the Marathas still live. On the way from my house to Palace I was just building up the interest in them talking about the history of the place to the limited extent wh...

  ( With focus mainly on architecture course) March 2020, everywhere corona is spreading and government announces a strict lockdown. A lockdown which kept on extending for many more months and it was even longer in the education field that institutions have not yet reopened again. In certain places they did open for a brief period but again due to advent of the second wave now everything has moved back to online mode completely in academics. When the lockdown was announced, among many there, I was one for sure who was not so well versed with the online class setup etc. All of a sudden these things cropped up and at first it was difficult to even digest it was possible to teach in this mode especially teaching architecture. No way was I convinced that online was a mode of teaching at all but when there was no other way the whole teaching fraternity, I would say, embraced this under compulsion due to existing conditions. I think everyone is doing what they can within their c...