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बटाट्याची चाळ अजून उभीच आहे. ऊन खात, पाऊस पचवीत, समोरच्या नवीननवीन इमारतींना तोंड देत उभी आहे. खिडक्यांचे आणि कठड्यांचे लाकडी गज अर्ध्यांहून अधिक उडालेले आहेत. जिने आपली पायरीसोडून वागायला लागले आहेत. भल्याभल्यांचे पाय येथे घसरू लागले आहेत. भिंतींचे पोपडे उडाले आहेत. रंग तर कित्येक वर्षांपूर्वीच उडाला. खूप वर्षं झाली त्याला. आज जो रंग भिंतींना दिसतो ती छटा कुठल्या डब्यातून येणार्‍या रंगाची नाही. हा अनेक वर्षं अनेकांनी पुसलेल्या बोटांतून, टेकलेल्या डोक्यांतून, धुरांतून तयार झालेला रंग आहे. त्या बटाट्याच्या चाळीच्या या गमतीजमती!

बटाट्याची चाळ
Author: पु. ल. देशपांडे
Publisher: मौज प्रकाशन

बटाट्याची चाळ अजून उभीच आहे. ऊन खात, पाऊस पचवीत, समोरच्या नवीननवीन इमारतींना तोंड देत उभी आहे. खिडक्यांचे आणि कठड्यांचे लाकडी गज अर्ध्यांहून अधिक उडालेले आहेत. जिने आपली पायरीसोडून वागायला लागले आहेत. भल्याभल्यांचे पाय येथे घसरू लागले आहेत. भिंतींचे पोपडे उडाले आहेत. रंग तर कित्येक वर्षांपूर्वीच उडाला. खूप वर्षं झाली त्याला. आज जो रंग भिंतींना दिसतो ती छटा कुठल्या डब्यातून येणार्‍या रंगाची नाही. हा अनेक वर्षं अनेकांनी पुसलेल्या बोटांतून, टेकलेल्या डोक्यांतून, धुरांतून तयार झालेला रंग आहे. त्या बटाट्याच्या चाळीच्या या गमतीजमती!

बटाट्याची चाळ
Author: पु. ल. देशपांडे
Publisher: मौज प्रकाशन

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal is a biography of the celebrated technology leader who put a cell phone, computer and the Internet all in your pocket in the form of the iPhone. There were many other innovations that the high-tech rock star and face of the personal computer developed over the years. Although he had many gifts, he was at times his own worst enemy.

There were two things that were obvious to Paul and Clara Jobs about their son, Steve, from the time he was a little toddler: he was very bright and he hated to listen or obey anyone. Those traits followed him throughout his life and career. As a young man living in the heart of the technological age that was on the verge of exploding, Jobs felt right at home. From a young boy on, Steve loved electronics and devices. He took them apart and put them back together with great joy and excitement.

As he matured, he became friends with a number of other young boys in the neighborhood who had a similar love of technology. Once of these boys was a few years older and worked at Hewlett-Packard that was located in the Santa Clara Valley where they lived. Steve Wozniak was a true technology nerd who just instinctively knew how to create electronic devices and make them work. He was a brilliant inventor and computer whiz. Steve Jobs had dropped out of college after one semester and had no real technology background. However, he had a bearing about him that impressed people. He was hired by Atari with other college drop-outs like himself. The president of the company noticed him and asked him to develop a new game for the company. Since Jobs didn’t have the expertise to create the game, he snuck Wozniak in who developed the game.

Jobs and Wozniak formed Apple Computer Company in Jobs’s garage. Wozniak created the technology, they both assembled them, and Jobs sold them. Sales and marketing the electronic devices that Jobs loved was his strength. Wozniak later recognized that while he did the majority of creative work, he could have never sold them like Jobs did. They needed each other. The little company grew when an investor saw its potential and invested in it. The company was the pioneer in the personal computer. As the company grew and they moved to an actual office building, Jobs was always on patrol criticizing his employees and driving them to work harder and faster. He would ridicule the jobs programmers were doing although he didn’t know the first thing about it.

Jobs was a man who did think and behave “different.” He was obsessed with food and diet and with the appearance of the computers and devices that his company made. While he wanted them to perform, he would select style and appearance over functionality.

Apple Computer became Apple, Inc. and became one of the biggest forces in the advancement of technology. It created the world that everyone lives in now – personal computers, iPhones, iPods, iTunes, iMacs and iPads. Steve Jobs’s goal had always been to change the world. He met that goal and then some and made a tidy $7 billion dollars along the way.

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for nonspecialist readers with no prior knowledge of scientific theories.

In A Brief History of Time, Hawking writes in non-technical terms about the structure, origin, development and eventual fate of the universe, which is the object of study of astronomy and modern physics. He talks about basic concepts like space and time, basic building blocks that make up the universe (such as quarks) and the fundamental forces that govern it (such as gravity). He writes about cosmological phenomena such as the Big Bang and the black holes. He discusses two major theories, general relativity and quantum mechanics, that modern scientists use to describe the universe. Finally, he talks about the search for a unifying theory that describes everything in the universe in a coherent manner.

The book became a bestseller and sold more than 10 million copies in 20 years. It was also on the London Sunday Times bestseller list for more than four years and was translated into 35 languages by 2001.

A brief history of time
Stephen Hawking

स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकरांच्या अस्पृश्यताविरोधी भूमिकेचा अभ्यास करताना धनंजय कीर यांचे लक्ष डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या ‘उद्धरेत आत्मनाम्‌ आत्मानम्‌’ हया ध्येयाकडे गेले आणि त्यांनी आंबेडकर चरित्रासाठी साधने जमवण्यास सुरुवात केली. त्यांचे लेखन पूर्ण होत आले तोवर बाबासाहेब आजारी होते. तरीही कीरांना आपल्या मनातील अनेक शंकांचा खुलासा करून घेता आला. अशा रीतीने सावरकर आणि आंबेडकर चरित्रांसाठी त्यांनी दस्ताऐवज, त्यांचे समकालीन सहकारी यांचा आधार जसा घेतला त्याचप्रमाणे प्रत्यक्ष चरित्र नायकांचीही पसंती मिळवली.

दरवर्षी विक्रीचा उच्चांक गाठणार्‍या डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या या चरित्र ग्रंथाची दखल घेतल्याशिवाय अभ्यासकांचा अभ्यास पूर्ण होत नाही. यामध्ये सनावळया आणि संदर्भग्रंथांच्या उल्लेखाने निवेदन जड होणार नाही याची कीर यांनी काळजी घेतली आहे. बाबासाहेबांच्या लेखनाची सूची, बाबासाहेबांवर झालेल्या लेखनाची सूची, यासोबत आंबेडकरांचा संक्षिप्त जीवनपट या पुस्तकात समाविष्ट आहे त्यामुळे अत्यंत माहितीपूर्ण व चरित्रात्मक राजकीय साहित्यामध्ये मोलाची भर घालणारा हा नवीन रूपातील ग्रंथ आंबेडकरांच्या अनुयायांना, अभ्यासकांना आणि सर्वसामान्य वाचकाला आवडेल असा आहे.

डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर (मराठी)