……And those two first-class Delta ticket are for anywhere in the world….and the 10 grand is to blow when you get there….what a great way to thank the ones helping you….Sara Blakely emptied her bank account and started the company with $5,000 in pocket cash….and ended up becoming a self-made billionaire.
GERDA PHILIPSBORN – THE LESSER KNOWN MAKER OF JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA……And yep…..never heard of her either…..anyway,…..she arrived in India right before Hitler and his boyz….started wrecking shit……she arrived in Bombay on 12/21/32….and her friend and vice-chancellor of Jamia was there to say…what’s up…..and then left for Delhi where she was a staff member of Jamia….on the first of January in 1933…..the first thing she did was….to take care of the small children….personal hygiene, their aesthetics, their learning….she was like….a mom and…. “A MOM!”….this woman was great….she loved the children….she spent her time keeping them neat and clean….a kid get a rip on their clothes…..she would take care of it…..she introduced periodic health-checkups, organized new extra-curricular activities….including theatre, arts and crafts….the writer….Zakir Hasain wrote in a book called…..Talimi Khutbaat…..on March 11th, 1943…. “With your love and dedication, you have created a place in the hearts of entire Jamia, the extent of which you may not realize yourself”……in 1942, she signed the pledge of Hayati Rukn…..the life member of Jamia…..which is taken only by its most dedicated members…..to serve Jamia for a meager salary on not more than Rs…..150 per month….Professor Mohammed Mujeeb….who was the longest-serving vice chancellor of the university….in a piece he wrote about Gerda….published in the Risala e Jamia….November 1970…..he wrote….. “The poor and the dilapidated condition of the Jamia increased her interest rather than discourage her…..the service of Jamia was the last mission in her life and she stuck so firmly to it that no one could separate her from it.”…..Jamia Millia Islamia was more of a movement than just and educational institution….it was the result of relentless and selfless efforts by several individuals….especially those associated with the university in its early years…..it was also one of several schools established in response to the call of non-cooperation by Mahatma Gandhi on October 29th, 1920…..during these times…..it was hard….but many Muslim nationalist leaders….way too many to name right about now…were all for the school to survive and succeed……and there was one person who really contributed the most…..she wanted Jamia to succeed….she wanted it to work…..and her name was…..Gerda Philipsborn…..and she was a German Jew…..her friend Anita Kashyap….wrote an obituary published in the Jewish Advocate…..in 1943 about her friend Gerda….. “It is impossible to describe the complete self-disregard with which she devoted herself to the cause of the school (Jamia)….again one must hope that somebody will describe her life in Delhi for years….how she travelled third-class the length and breath of India to collect money for the school…..how for weeks she nursed a typhoid child in her own bedroom….how in all these years she never left the sweltering heat of the plains during the summer and refused to go to the hills because even in the holidays there was always urgent world to do….how when the first signs of her illness appeared in the year before the war, she refused to go to Europe because she just could not leave the school….and how she was always ready to help others…..never thinking of herself.”….she was affectionately called…aapa jaan (elder or dear sister)…..she joined Jamia 1/1/1933…..and worked there until the last day of her life….April 14th, 1943…..she was only 47…..her wish was to be buried there in Jamia….among her Muslim colleagues and comrades…..according to Syeda Hameed….she was also called….Khatoon e Awwal….. “Jamia’s Woman Number One.”
A GLASS SHORTAGE COULD IMPACT YOUR ACCESS TO WINE…..I seriously don’t think so….if it’s good and comes in a box….cool….if I can drive to France or Italy…..places around Germany….and buy a barrel filled with wine and throw it in the trunk of my car…..cool!
FACEBOOK CHANGES NAME TO “META”……A few Hebrew scholars said….the name means “is dead” in Hebrew…..a feminine adjective…..and I might have to agree with one guys Twitter post…. “Mark Zuckerberg must’ve slept through “Hebrew class.”
AND OFF TO THE WORLD OF THE STUPID…..
The rare “penis plant” just bloomed for the first time in over two decades
A man in Germany goes on trial for castrating men on a kitchen table
Kentucky high school staff members got lap dances from students
Hundreds march to say size doesn’t matter in Los Angeles penis protest
PETA wants Major League Baseball to change the term “Bullpen” to “Arm Barn”
A Chinese millionaire said he withdrew $780,000 and made the bank staff count the notes by hand after the security guards were rude to him
Turkey moves to deport Syrian migrants for eating bananas in a provocative way
A cruise ship with 85 passengers infected with COVID passed through Hungary