Life is all About Balance

Who doesn't experience ups and downs in life?

It is our ability to maintain the balance through these ups and downs which sees us through.

Health, career, family, friends, relationships- all throw challenges at us. Can we be like the proverbial rock? Steady and unmoved despite life's trials and tribulations?

Nature gives us the strength. All we need to do is observe Nature's creations around us. Changing seasons, tides on a beach, seed-sapling-plant-flowers-back-to-seeds, rock formations- tell us to persevere. 

Here are some of our stories on maintaining the balance in our life.

Hiking to Rediscover Yourself - hikers from 7 to 70 years together!

Boulders Speak - How MBA students love adventure? Boulders and obstacles- learn to climb one at a time.

Taming the 2nd Wave with your Mind - Derive strength from Nature. Corona too shall pass.

Never Say Die- Learning from an uprooted tree

Lessons from A Forest - many lessons for life as a Business professional or otherwise!

Balancing Rocks

Our picture of balancing rocks near Secunderabad in India, attracted more than 200 readers. The captions contest received 33 entries listed below.

Sl.	Name	Caption for KBG-60 Contest
1	Prabhat Jindal	Nature's Beauty in its own way
2	GR Sreenivasan	Symbolizes primordial principle of eternal balance as found  in nature.
3	Bharat Ladha	Balance- the true management of life.
4	Rashmi Bhargava	Life is all about balance
5	NK Potti	I am patthar, khada on patthar. Tej hava aying. Naa hilloing na jhilloing. Jaise theyy.
6	BC Jayaprakash	FAMILY FROZEN IN TIME. Right side appears to be a man and the left a woman carrying a child on her lap.
7	Usha Balagopal	Sentinel… I am watching!
8	Shashi Kant Mundra	हम दो हमारे दो
9	Anon1	Dil maange more!
10	R@P	Pious soul undisturbed and unmoved by ever-rising waves. .......
11	Anon2	Head above shoulders, I stand tall!
12	Veeky Baths	Life is all about Balance!
13	Rekha Bhargava	कभी ऊपर कभी नीचे कभी झूला कभी चट्टान आशय सिर्फ़ एक है संतुलन जीवन की पहचान ।
14	Ajai Bhumri	तबला बजे दीन दीन और 1 के ऊपर तीन तीन
15	Amandeep Kaur	Rock n roll 🤭
16	Ajai Bhumri	Balancing is an art, more you practice easy it becomes .
17	Avinash Tiwari	Mian bibi picnic par.
18	Sujata Das	Life is a matter of balance.
19	Narendra Soni	पलकों की ठंडी सेज पर सपनों की परियां सोती हैं ऐसी भी बातें होती हैं, कुछ ऐसी भी बातें होती हैं
20	Vinod Dhanuka	Tiny and Big
21	Vinod Dhanuka	Tinake Ka Sahara
22	Manju Khetan	एकांत मे स्वतंत्रता है।
23	Ritu Bhargava	Life is a balance between inner peace, happiness and sorrow.
24	Poonam Bhargava	Wish we could also balance the boulders of our life so well!
25	Nidhi Bhargava	Balancing is an act, a tact & a fact of a beautiful life
26	Ranajit Sen	Nature's feat
27	Rajendra Singh	We are joint family. No force on earth can separate us.
28	Anon-3	The rock formation here strongly resembles a seated mother and child figure. So my caption is, "Mother & Child".
29	Mukul Bhargava	I rock!
30	Vinay Prasad	Balance your mind! You will need no support!
31	GB Sethi	Nature the Great Sculptor.
32	Radhika Sareen	When a Family is rock solid...
33	Vaibhav Gupta	Every rock plays a vital role to stand so tall...

Winners

The Jury has selected four winning captions. We are delighted to introduce the winners along with their creative captions. Congratulations to all the winners of KBG-60, the 60th edition of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad online caption contest.

Bharat Ladha: Bharat has won the KBG Caption Contest earlier too. An engineer from BITS Pilani, he lives in Vidisha MP in the lap of Nature. His caption 'Balance- the true management of life', was matter-of-factly!

Nand Kumar Potti: An alumnus of NIT Trichy, Potti is a former Commander of Indian Navy. Known for being a hands-on marine engineer, he made a mark wherever he worked. His youthful caption was appreciated by the Jury.

Ajai Bhumri: Ajai lives in Canada and loves to paint. An engineer from IIT Roorkee, he was an ace rower and sportsman. His rhythmic caption in Hindi conveys the multiple layers of rocks balancing each other! Ajai has won the KBG contests earlier too.

Nidhi Bhargava: Nidhi is no stranger to KBG readers. She creates designs with paper, jute, cloth or anything reusable. An environmentalist, she loves to be with Nature. Her caption conveys the importance of balance in our lives.

Once again, we thank all the participants and congratulate the winners. Your support has kept the KBG Contest going!

We also thank both the Jury members Manik Srivastava and Neeta Bhargava for their continued support to KBG Contests.

Talking of balance, life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving! See the PQ of school children going to school on bicycles in Pilani India.

We end the story with a quotation by Sogyal Rinpoche who said that 'The key to  finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.' We have created a PQ- picturesque quote- using the picture of an Ajwain leaf in our garden in Secunderabad.

Nature's slideshow continues to cheer us! You just have to view it by putting your cellphones or devices away for a while.

Thanks for browsing.

Hope we have helped you to maintain balance in your life!

    - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/21st July 2021

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