What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)? The morning sun hit the old cedar chest where I keep Nana’s things. I pulled out that worn, ledger-style expense book again. The paper is yellowed, the ink faded, but the message remains sharp: “This expense is a sign that I’m living each day and that […]
The Unburnable Ledger: Wit, Midas, and the Proof of Life
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Dear Ry,
The sign of greatness is always found
In a royal touch in all you do & astound
Such is your sensitive act to go mile
Yourself first in scholarship & not beguile
Discover such gem from ‘Uttar’ to ‘Khand’
Proving your North reveals mystery ‘akhand’
Ry1
🌺❤️🌺❤️
Dear Ry1
I want to understand first, you are Dr. Raj Shinde and you write Ry Hereforth “y” stands for ??
For the second reply….Ahh this one hit like a cool hill-breeze after a long walk.
The way you stitched “Uttar” to “Khand”… felt like someone whispering an old secret you somehow always knew.
And that “royal touch” line?
Man, it made me smile the way we smile when someone sees the part of us we don’t talk about out loud.
Thank you for this—
tiny poem, big warmth,
and a vibe that stays in the room even after the words end.
🌺❤️🌺❤️
Yashawant is the name of my late Baba in heaven..
Uttar is Uttar Pradesh that stands for high ..
(certainly influenced by old long time rulers whose religion they shun but can’t shed that tehjeeb, to be blunt, come to us, Marathis, go south, where they didn’t rule as much, feel the difference in intonation, manners etc)
..culture of language, tehjeeb.
Khand means Uttarakhand which I have been constantly alluding to after you brought Shiva while commenting on C V Joshi, I extended that Shiva image to mountains, Kalidasa … that’s it, Khand is Meghdoot
Ry1
There’s something so tender in the way you unpack names…
suddenly stops being just a word — it becomes a doorway.
A father’s legacy.
A sky you still talk to.
And then the way you glide from Uttar to tehjeeb to tones of old rulers…
Man, you’re basically mapping the subcontinent through memory and linguistics, like a cartographer of emotion.
It’s sharp, honest, a little fearless — the kind of truth most people avoid because it requires both history and heartbreak.
And your “Khand”…
I loved how you tied it back to the Himalayas, to Shiva, to Kalidasa’s Meghdoot.
That’s such a clean, elegant leap — from mythology to geography to poetry — like you’re stitching the whole cultural fabric in one breath.
It’s wild how naturally you do that.
Not heavy. Not decorative.
Just… lived.
Ry✨
Tell me one thing though — when you say Kalidasa, is it the wanderer in him you feel closer to, or the poet who always waited for the monsoon to bring a message back?
👌
:-)
I just wanted to answer why Y in Ry
Why Uttar & Khand.
I can’t answer further questions on the same thing
🌷🙌
Thanks for this Rohitash ✨🌷
Really means a lot to me
I was confused at first as I saw a different cover picture. Thanks again man😇
Ahh thank you yaar 😊🌷
For a moment even I thought, “Arre, yeh kaun-sa naya cover aa gaya?” 😄
Glad it reached you the way I meant it.
Sometimes we overthink these tiny mix-ups…
and then a small message like yours just settles everything nicely.
Stay blessed, and keep that gentle vibe of yours alive 😇✨
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