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MEMORY IMPROVING METHODS

Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury

Guinness book of World Record Holder

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First edition: May, 2007

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Translators : Arvinder, Vivek

Technical consultant : Suyesh Prashant

Cartoon : Bijan

Research : Rekha Singh, Jolly Dintis

Typing and designing : Shankar Singh Koranga

Cover design : Shekhar Kashyap

Special inputs : Neerja Roy Chowdhury

Web editor : Vijay Bhinder

Coordinator : G. K . Saroj

495/-Media comments on Author's

-The Hindu, 27 July, 2006

Biswaroop has got the brains and memory to restore everything.

-Mid Day, 29 July, 2006

                                                                                                        

                         

Chowdhury, who has found a place in Guinness Book of World Records, virtually stormed Bhubhaneswar when students and parents made a beeline to hear him at a demonstration.

-The Time of India, 15 Nov, 2006

He is the master of memory who can remember hundreds of name after one reading.

-The Hitvada, 19 August, 2006

Man with strongest memory attempts world record.

- Lokmat Times, 18 August, 2006

Germany has been defeated once again. This time round is not Italy but India. Memory expert Biswaroop broke the record of Germany’s Michalela Bochvaldova.

-The Pioneer, 21 July, 2006

                                                                                                                                             

-D.D. National (Subah Savere), 2 August, 2006

                                                                                       

        20 July, 2006

        

- DD News, 25 July, 2006,

                                     

-E.TV, 21 July, 2006

Media Comments on world's first memory movie 'Yaad Rekhenge Aap'

                                                                                                                                                              

First ever Masala film “Yaad Rakhenge Aap”. -H.T. Lucknow, 4Dec, 2004 f                                                                                                                                                                             

'First – ever masala film 'Yaad Rakhenge Aap’. - Hindustan Times, 4 December, 2004

-Hindustan Times, 5 December, 2004                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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                      

Memory Guru Launches film.

-The Asian Age, 9 April, 2005

First film that can boost your memory.

-Deccan Chronicle , 9 April, 2005

                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Advance Memory Technique will shown in this movie 'Yaad Rakhenge Aap' -In mumbai channel, 23 April, 2005

                                                                                         

                                                    

Memory of students increased by watching 'Yaad Rakhenge Aap' the first memory movie of the world. On an average, their memory increased by 94%.

-The Times of India, 14 August, 2006

'Biswaroop is a memory genius with a penchant for breaking records.'

-Indian Express, 18th May, 1997

'Biswaroop knows how to make the grey cells work'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury claimed that the users will double their memory after using Mnemonic Pen

—Hindustan Times, 29 Nov., 2003

                               

-Ludhiana News Line, 18 April, 2003

      Memory Man, Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury

Zee News, 20th April, 2003

                                   

                                                         

                         

Magical memory

-The Statesman, 8 January, 2004

With year of research & hard work, Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury has created the Mnemonic Pen & he says using it could cut down the study hours putting by students.

The Statesman, 8 January, 2004

Memory workshop is tailored to suit the critical need of individuals of every age group

-Hindustan Times, 28 Jan., 2004

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

MEDIA COMMENTS ON BISWAROOP’S INVENTION

                          

                         

Pen to improve memory. -Newstime, 18 April, 2003 Bad memory? Buy a Mnemonic Pen.

-The Pioneer, 18 April, 2003

Pen to double your memory.

- The Hindu, 18 April, 2003

       

                             

                                                              

                           

                       

                                                       

Biswaroop invention, the Mnemonic pen which helps students to memorise.

- The Hindustan Time, 17 April, 2003

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

India ds Memory Man Biswaroop                             

— Zee TV, 20 April, 2003

Biswaroop’s latest invention is the Mnemonic Pen “This will help people double their memorizing speed.

-Indian Express 15th May, 2003

Person can hope to improve their memory by using a Mnemonic Pen invented by Biswaroop

                                                                                            

                         

INTELLECTUAL’S FEEDBACK ON BISWAROOP RESEARCH

'In fact education system has created pressure on students in which Memory techniques by Biswaroop can provide some rescue'

-Dr. A.K.Sharma Former Director of NCERT (On the occasion of the release of “Dynamic Memory Methods”)

'The greatest mystery of life is our ignorance about human brain. Infact the brain is not a dustbin, but a gateway for some higher attainment. This demonstration by Biswaroop is an assurance that not everything is lost in the civilization'

Justice M.N. Venkatachallieh Former Chief Justice of India

'Biswaroop’s memory technique is surely a help to over burdened students'.

Prof. Dr. G.R.Sunder Registrar, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan

'Biswaroop’s technique should be a part of school curriculum'.

- Kiran Bedi Senior IPS

…. To my respected parents who are the inspiration behind my creative writing….

INDEX

1. How to read this book?... 21

2. Preface ... 23

3. Concentration ... 28

4. Chain Method (Shopping List) ... 34

5. Shape Method (Appointments etc.) ... 41

6. Kiran Method ... 53

i) Vocabulary ... 67

ii) Country / Capitals ... 75

iii) Country / Currency ... 77

iv) How to learn the names of Countries and Parliaments? ... 79

v) Objective type questions by Kiran method1 ... 83

vi) Objective type questions of Biology ... 87

vii) Objective type questions of Commerce ... 92

viii)Books and authors ... 94

ix) Diseases and concerned body parts... 96

x) Minerals and places ... 99

xi) Inventions and Inventors ... 107

xii) Scientific terminology ... 110

7. Tera Kya Hoga Kalia Memory Improving Methods ... 113

i) Practice for Kalia method ... 129

ii) Dates and events ... 139

iv) How to memorise a map? ... 151

v) How to memorise a calendar? ... 156

8. Ek Machhar method ... 191

i) Road Maps ii) Formula iii)Equations iv) Symbols 9. Submarine method for theory in points ... 209

10.Akbar and Disco dancer method ... 215

11.Sabu method for Biology diagrams ... 222

12.Adda Method for diseases ... 225

13. Chain-Kiran method for rivers and their routes... 229

14. Chain Kalia Method ... 231

15.How to learn flow chart, programming etc... 234

16.How to learn chip diagram ... 239

17.How to learn speeches... 245

18.How to learn mathematical tables ... 249

19.How to learn square roots ... 254

20. How to learn anything and everything ... 259

21.Use of Kiran method ... 262

22.Basanti method for examinations ... 264

23.Kabhi Alvida Na Kahna to your dreams ... 273

24.Open your Tera Kya Hoga Kalia- memory training centre ... 284

TO READ

HOW

THIS BOOK?

You are about to embark upon an adventure of self-discovery. After you have read this book, you will be able to realise your hidden potential. So, before you begin, here are some helpful tips.

Watch the VCD given in the accompanying kit. It will help you understand the book better.

Do not skip or leave any chapter. The given examples may or may not be relevant for you but each example will help you grasp the memory techniques which in turn shall help you understand the next chapter.

It is better if you read one chapter at a time and practice the given examples thoroughly before you begin the next. In order to understand the book properly, do not be in a hurry to finish it.

Concentrate on the contents and read carefully. You may even take a month to finish the book.

PR

EF

ACE

What do you know about Tera Kya Hoga Kalia- Memory Improving Methods? Are you surprised at the title? Eh! It’s natural. How can a dialogue from a film be related to memory improving techniques? Before I explain the relation between the two, I want to ask you a question.

‘Tera Kya Hoga Kalia’ is a dialogue from which film?

i) Zanjeer ii) Kalia iii) Sholay

iv) None of these

97% of the readers knew the answer even without looking at the options. 2% of the readers would have remembered that the dialogue is from the film ‘Sholay’ after reading the options and just 1% would perhaps not have any idea about it.

There would be many readers who might not have seen the film ‘Sholay’ but I am sure even they have heard the dialogue many times.

Again, the same question arises. What is so special about this dialogue ‘Tera Kya Hoga Kalia’? How can it help open the rusted locks of our memory? Or how will it help in sharpening our memory? Actually the magic secret lies within the words of the dialogue. If we delete the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) from the dialogue, the rules or secrets of memory techniques are hidden in the remaining consonants. With the help of these rules you can easily remember long number tables, telephone numbers, birthdays and anniversaries etc. Very often in your student life, you have to remember complex scientific equations, formulae and important historical dates. Those of you who are pursuing professional courses like C.A. have to memorise sections, cases, formulae etc. with the help of our memory improving techniques they can easily learn all this in a very short time. O.K. let me give you a memory test first. If I ask you to memorise hundred digits from the table given on page 26, how much time will you take? It is likely that you may not even be interested in answering my question. For the simple reason that you may think that this is almost impossible. It is not easy to memorise so many digits. If some of you are ready to take this challenge, you will perhaps take an hour to complete this exercise. If you are asked to repeat the digits after sometime, you might get confused and you might forget many times. If you are asked to repeat the digits in the reverse order? I think, you cannot even imagine achieving this feat. And you would perhaps insist that it is impossible to learn so many digits in the reverse order.

Once you have learnt the rules of Tera Kya Hoga Kalia Memory Improving Methods (TKHKMIM), you will automatically get the answers to all these questions. Because after you have learnt these rules, you will be able to keep all these digits and numbers secure in your memory for ever. Whenever asked, you will be able to give the exact reply. You would be able to repeat the digits even in the reverse order or from any where for that matter.

You must be thinking that I am making rather tall claims. But I can assure you that Tera Kya Hoga Kalia Memory Improving Methods will go a long way in improving your memory because it is on the basis of these very techniques that I have secured an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest memory in the world.

I was never an exceptionally brilliant or intelligent child. If I look back towards my school and college days, I can see the image of a student who would be sitting with a book, racking his brains for hours trying to learn his lessons. It would take me hours to learn even the smallest chapter and that too would be forgotten soon after. Sitting in the examination hall, I would try hard to remember what I had supposedly learnt so well, but to my utter dismay, my mind would be totally blank. After leaving the examination hall, I would start recalling in bits and pieces what I had learnt so well before entering the examination hall. But you do not have to worry or panic, you have TKHKMIM. With the help of these techniques you can learn complex details in 2-3 hours which normally would have taken about 8 hours for you to learn properly.

Have you ever tried to analyse what percentage of your brain is actually put to use? Scientists believe that on an average we tend to use just 2-3 percent

of our brain. Whatever this percentage might be, a major portion of our brain remains unused all our lives.

After the death of renowned scientist Einstein research scholars operated upon his brain in an attempt to dissect how he became such a great scientist. And they were shocked at their findings. Just 8% of Einstein’s brain had been active all his life. The gist of the matter is that 92% of the brain of as eminent a scientist as Einstein was inactive and unused throughout his life. God or nature has endowed us with such a brain that by using it to the utmost point we can give more than twelve times better scientific results than what Einstein did.

Tera Kya Hoga Kalia Memory Improving Methods can help us utilise our

brain in a much better way. Now our Kalia shall help you awaken even the dormant areas of your brain and utilise these to the maximum. Kalia can make interesting even the most drab and uninteresting subjects. Till now the characters from the film ‘Sholay’ – Jai, Veeru and Gabbar were just entertaining you but now they will also help you in your studies, make you learn your lessons in much less time and help you score good marks in your exams.

Before we proceed, we have to ascertain the level of your memory. For this you have to learn a 100 digits table (from left to right) given below in fifteen minutes. Just see how many digits you can learn in fifteen minutes

3 5 9 6 8 3 0 1 3 0 5 5 9

6 5 8 7 4 5 0 2 1 2 0 3 6

5 8 7 9 4 5 2 1 0 2 9 6 5

4 2 3 6 9 8 7 4 2 4 9 1 3

5 4 9 0 3 1 0 5 4 0 3 9 8

7 0 2 5 7 3 9 6 1 2 7 8 5

6 1 0 3 8 5 0 9 6

Fill the box below with the digits that you were able to learn in fifteen minutes. This will tell us how ready you are to begin the adventurous journey of memory improving techniques with us.

I assure you that with Kalia’s help and support you will be easily able to learn your Maths, Social Studies, Sanskrit, Geography, Hindi, English etc. But before this you must know what ‘concentration’ is? How does your brain work? Or what are the things that connect easily with your brain?

In the next three chapters, we shall address all these issues from the seventh chapter onwards, Kalia will be with you like a true and trusted friend.

Now let us learn what is concentration? What are the benefits of concentration? Often your parents and teachers tell

you-Pay proper attention to your studies, otherwise you may fail.

Concentrate on your studies.

Improve your concentration power.

The question is how to concentrate? What activity of the mind helps us concentrate? If you want to understand concentration clearly, you will have to know the rules of concentration.

For this you will have to remember an incident or a moment of your life, when you were able to concentrate completely, you were fully attentive and thoroughly immersed in that moment. For example

Don’t you watch a movie with full concentration?

Do you hear the knock at the door or the telephone ring while watching your favourite TV serial?

The major reason behind total concentration is ‘interest’. Yes, it is our interest in a film, in a match or in a TV serial that helps us to concentrate. The interest arrests our attention and we are able to concentrate. We cannot concentrate on the areas that we are not interested in. For example, the long answers that you have to learn, you find them uninteresting and spiceless. Hence, your concentration wanders and you cannot learn even after hours of struggle.

Now the question arises, how do we feel interested in certain subjects and find others uninteresting. To know the answer to this question, you will have to answer a simple question. Why do people start crying while watching a movie? Yes, you guessed it right; they get carried away in the rush of emotions. They start feeling that those heart felt emotions on the screen are their own feelings. The mental and the emotional state of the narrator gets connected to their feelings and a state of identification is achieved. It is this process of identification with the emotional state of the character that moves you to tears. In the previous chapter you tried to learn those 100 digits. Did you feel emotionally attached to these? Obviously not! Because they are just dry and meaningless digits and

they do not arouse our interest. We can relate or identify with things only if we feel interested in them.

Try to remember an incident or a moment of your life in which you were completely immersed. Your memory of such days or moments will be crystal clear. For example, the day when you received a prize on the stage for the first time? I daresay that even after many years, those moments are still firmly etched in your memory.

Annual functions are organised every year in schools and colleges, but you would remember only that particular function clearly in which you also participated. As a viewer you may forget the programme, but the one in which you were a participant will be secure in your memory for ever because you were a part of that event. Those moments have become a part of you.

Just imagine for a while that you are going on a road. Suddenly a ball comes in front of you. It is possible that you may not even notice it. But if you turn suddenly and spot your younger brother playing amongst the children at the corner, you would feel interested in the game. It was your brother who deliberately directed the ball towards you with his bat. Won’t you want to stop and watch your brother play? Won’t you want to know his score and that who is actually winning the match?

Why did you feel interested in that game of cricket? It is, because of the presence of your brother. As compared to cricket matches between other nations, why are we more passionately involved in India – Pakistan matches? It is because we are able to identify and relate ourselves with the teams of India and Pakistan. They are a

part of us; the players are from amongst us. Obviously, we are more interested.

It has often been observed that the human mind absorbs new information only when it somehow matches the information that is already stored there. This is known as Association law or the rule of

Association.

Now let us see how the law of Association can be applied to your studies. How this law can help add punch and zing to your dull studies. How it can help you remember events, dates and digits in no time and make the process delightful as well.

Besides, from the seventh chapter onwards the art of Memory Improving Methods will be with you. It is generally said that with a good companion, the journey of life becomes delightful. I am almost certain that with Kalia the journey of this book will not only be adventurous and interesting but will also be full of entertainment. Memory is divided into three stages

-(i) Learning

(ii) Memorising (Keeping secure in memory) (iii) Recalling at the right moment

If you memorise an answer once, there is no guarantee that you will be able to keep it secure in your memory for a long time. Even if you do remember, you are not sure if you will be able to recall the details when you need them the

most. You must have observed that students forget their answers the moment they get the question paper. They recall clearly having revised the same answer just the night before or even early that morning. But despite this they cannot recall the answer. The moment they come out of the examination hall, they suddenly recall the entire answer.

The fact is that they had not really forgotten the answer. It was lodged in a corner of the mind. Normally, many students have to grapple with this problem of memory-loss.

For example if you meet someone in the market, the person wishes warmly and comes forward to meet you. You strongly feel that the face is very familiar but you are not able to recognise and place him. You rack your brains trying to figure out where you have met that person, who he is, how do you know him etc. During the conversation you may remember a number of things associated with him but you are still not able to recall his name. Your hesitation doesn’t let you ask his name and meanwhile the person leaves. Many days later you suddenly remember the name of that person at home. This happens because you had actually not forgotten his name in the first place. It was there in your mind. But you could not recall it at the right time. Remembering and recalling at the right time are two different aspects of the mind. With the help of Tera Kya Hoga Kalia Memory Improving Methods you can learn and memorise in less time, retain for a long time and recall at the right time.

Another secret lies in ‘Imagination’ or ‘Visualisation’. Imagining a thing or an event once is equivalent to speaking it twenty times. The nerves that connect

the eyes to the brain are twenty times more powerful than the nerves that connect the ears to the brain. Hence what you have seen once remains in your memory much longer than what you have just heard.

Let us take the example of a dog. The mental set-up of a dog is such that by smelling or sniffing something, he can store it in his memory and remembers the smell for a long time. Smelling or sniffing is a very important part of the memory system of a dog’s brain. A dog does not have any other option but his sense of smell and memory retention are very strongly connected.

A human being, on the other hand, has a strong retention power of the things that he has seen or visualised and absorbed in his mind completely. Watching an event leads to much easier retention as compared to listening or reading about it. You must have felt several times in your life that you remember faces but forget names. Has it ever happened that you remember a persons name and not his face? Although with increasing age many changes occur in the face but despite that we do not forget faces. This is because we see the face and we hear the name. Seeing something leads to permanent memory. When you visualize something or I should say when you see something with your mind’s eye, remembering long essay-type answers, word-meanings etc. becomes an easy task.

From the seventh chapter onwards Kalia would help you in the process of ‘visualisation’. Dull learning is soon going to change into fun-learning. Be ready for the fun.

How many of you have seen the film Zanjeer. Do you remember the hero and the heroine? Even if you have not seen the film, you still know the meaning of the word zanjeer. Don’t you? It is a chain, a ‘link’ that connects two different things; let us take the example of a cycle. When you start paddling, you can see that it is the chain that transfers the energy from one wheel to the other. Anything that physically links two different things together is called a chain. Prisoners are also made to wear chains.

The rules of association and imagination shall be used in the chain method as well.

Chain

Let us suppose you are reading and revising sitting in your study room, or for that matter, sitting anywhere – in the house, in the car or in the lawn. Now close your eyes for a while and imagine that you are in the kitchen. Try to visualize how and where different things are placed in the kitchen. Where is the rack for dishes, where is the gas-stove etc. Now, imagine the setting of your drawing room. I am sure you can easily visualise all the details. This happens because the entire setting of the drawing room is there in your mind. It is so familiar that you see the entire room in your mind in the fraction of a second. With your imagination you have connected and related to all the details in a very short while.

In the chain method, we would take the help of the technique of visualising and connecting. Now, with the help of these two techniques try to remember the following shopping list. There are a few articles given in this list and by connecting these names to one another, we can easily remember all of them through visualisation.

Cap Toothpaste Bucket Mobile Books

Tomato Car Biscuit Cold drink Sugar

Read jacket Pen Bed sheet Calculator Dog food

Asian Paint Computer Bike CD Lux

VISUALISE: You are wearing a big

cap and brushing your teeth with

toothpaste. There is a bucket full of water in front of you.

While taking out water from the bucket, you drop your mobile in it. You think of fixing the mobile and open a book. As you open the book you see pictures of red tomatoes on each page of the book. You pick up one tomato and as you chop it, a car comes out of it. The car is loaded with biscuits. You drive the car but it runs out of petrol. You go to the petrol station but the attendant fills cold drink in the car instead of petrol.

After the car is filed with cold drink, it moves at a high speed and you are unable to control it. It rams into a bag of sugar. You scream for help and some people who are wearing red jackets come to your rescue. You find a beautiful blue pen in their pocket. You start drawing and painting with that pen on a white bed sheet of your house. A customer comes to buy the pen and you try to tell the price with the help of a calculator. Suddenly, a white dog comes running, snatches the calculator and swallows it.

As you chase the dog it falls into a drum filled with Asian paint. The dog is red when it comes out of the drum. Now the dog starts operating a computer and a bike comes out of the computer. The wheels of this bike are in the shape of a CD

You want to clean the CD and start washing it with lux soap. While you are rubbing the soap, a chocolate comes out of it. The moment you throw the chocolate like a ball onto a cricket bat, it goes into the shirt pocket of your friend. He gets annoyed and starts throwing potatoes on you. You catch the potato and squeeze it, and hey presto! White vanilla

ice cream comes out of it. You thoroughly enjoy the delicious ice cream.

We have just created a visual, or I should say, made a mind-picture. In other words, we have visualised a sequence. Now if I ask you what came out of the pocket of a man in red jacket? You will easily recall that it was a blue pen. If I ask you what the car was loaded with. You will immediately tell me it was loaded with biscuits. This is the consequence of visualising and imagining things in different vibrant colours. Clear imagination leads to clearer and more secure memory.

Now fill the list given below in a proper serial order. You will be able to judge if you have learnt the chain method.

See how the chain method helped you in linking different things together and you were able to recall everything in the blinking of an eyelid.

Now let us talk about the shape method. Once you have understood this method, you will have an easy access to Kalia. In fact, the techniques of generating interest, concentration, imagination and connection etc. are all various means of reaching ‘Kalia’. Now, with the shape method you will learn how to remember digits with the help of shapes connected to them.

If you visualize the digit 1, don’t you feel it resembles a stick? In the same way the digit 2 is like a duck, 3 is related to the shape of a heart, 4 to a chair, 5 is related to a hook, 6 to a hockey stick, 7 to a lamp post, 8 to spectacles, 9 to a lollypop, 10 can be visualised as a bat and a ball.

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Fill these shapes in the blanks given below. You can analyse if you have been able to remember these shapes clearly or not.

1 ……….. 2 ……….. 3 ……….. 4 ……….. 5 ……….. 6 ……….. 7 ……….. 8 ……….. 9 ……….. 10 ………..

Now, let us come to number 11. It looks like a road. Doesn’t it? And the number 12 resembles the shape of a cap.

These shapes can help you memorize information related to the numbers. For example let us presume for a while that you are going to be very busy tomorrow. You want to know and remember the time of all your appointments without consulting you diary.

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1.00 Have to deposit the telephone bill 2.00 Pick-up uncle from the Airport 3.00 Shopping

4.00 Get camera repaired

5.00 Exchange books at the Library. 6.00 Go to meet aunty

7.00 Pick-up brother from the railway station 8.00 Meet the Principal.

9.00 Go to the dentist 10.00 Board meeting

11.00 Atal Bihari Vajpayee coming for dinner 12.00 Watch favourite TV serial.

Now, in order to remember the list of appointments, let us connect the digits to their shapes. We have to establish a clear connection between the two. Here we shall make use of the technique of visualisation or creating a memory-picture. Try and have a clear visual picture. Thinking in bright vibrant colours can be of great help in this exercise.

You have to deposit your telephone bill at one o’clock. The digit 1 resembles a stick. Imagine that you are calling up your friend but instead of using your finger to dial the number, you are using a stick.

At 2 o’clock you have to pick-up your uncle from the airport. The digit 2 resembles a duck. Imagine that you are flying on a duck and going to the airport.

You have to go shopping at 3 o’clock. The digit 3 resembles the shape of a heart. Imagine that you are in your favourite shop. To your surprise you find that instead of goods the shop is filled with hearts and the shopkeeper is selling hearts.

At 4 you have to get your camera repaired. The digit 4 resembles the shape of a chair. Imagine that you kept your camera on a chair in the house, the camera broke into pieces and you find these pieces lying on the chair.

At 5 you have to see the librarian and get some books exchanged. The digit 5 resembles a hook. Imagine that you are using a hook to reach the books lying on the top shelf in the library.

At 6 you have to go to see your aunty. The digit 6 resembles a hockey stick. Imagine that you are playing hockey with your aunty at her house.

At 7 you have to go to the railway station to pick up your brother. The digit 7 resembles a lamp post. It would be fun to imagine that you have climbed a tall lamppost and looking towards the railway station to check if the train has arrived or not?

At 8 you have an appointment with your principal. The digit 8 resembles the shape of spectacles. You can visualise that you are giving an expensive pair of Ray Ban sunglasses to your principal as a gift.

At 9, there is an appointment with the dentist. The digit 9 looks like a lollypop. Imagine that you tooth started aching after eating a lollypop. Create a memory picture that when you met your dentist even he was eating a lollypop and to your surprise he started cleaning your tooth with a lollypop!

There is a Board Meeting at 10. Number 10 reminds you of a bat and a ball. Create a memory-picture that you are sitting with important people and there are lots of bats and balls lying in centre of the table. Everyone is talking about these bats and balls.

At 11 you have invited Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee to dinner. The number 11 resembles a road. Make a memory picture that you have got the roads cleaned because of the ex-prime minister’s visit. There are security arrangements also. Mr. Vajpayee comes and expresses a desire to dine on the road itself.

At 12 you have to watch your favourite TV programme. This number resembles a cap. Make a memory-picture that you have kept your cap on the TV The moment you switch on the TV you see a newsreader. She picks up your cap from the TV and wears it.

You have just seen how, with the help of imagination, we could easily remember the entire time schedule of the day. Fill in the blanks given bellow and test your memory.

1.00 ……….. 2.00 ……….. 3.00 ……….. 4.00 ……….. 5.00 ……….. 6.00 ……….. 7.00 ……….. 8.00 ……….. 9.00 ……….. 10.00 ……….. 11.00 ……….. 12.00 ………..

See, how correctly you filled in all the blanks! But if I pick up a digit from the middle and ask you a question, would you be able to reply? What time do you have to meet the dentist? Is it at 9 or 10? The moment I uttered the word ‘dentist’, you thought of a lollypop, didn’t you? And of course, you remembered that your appointment with the dentist was at 9.

If I ask you, what time you have to pick up your uncle from the airport? You will immediately recall the memory picture that you made – going to the airport sitting on a duck and you would remember that you had to go at 2 o’clock. When do you have to go to get your camera repaired? This question will immediately remind you of the broken pieces of camera on a chair and you will remember that you had to go at 4 o’clock.

We have related 1 to 12 to different shapes. Now let us imagine a shape for 0. We can relate 0 to a bald person, for example, Anupam Kher. So, the shape method code for 0 is – ‘bald’. We shall use all these codes in the calendar method.

It often happens that we face extreme difficulty in learning long winding names, scientific terms, words of a new language or currency names etc. If we have to learn a new unknown word, we have to repeat it many times. Despite this we find it hard to memorise and tend to forget the new word altogether after some time. Human brain is like a huge reservoir but still it takes in only those words that are already there in it in some form or the other. Or in other words there should be a three dimensional picture related to the word, a kind of familiarity or association with the word i.e. some sort of mind picture.

But the fact is that we have to learn new, even unfamiliar words. Now I am going to explain to you how you can use the technique of association and visualization to keep long difficult words safe and secure in your memory for a long time. We are going to use the Kiran method for this purpose. The word Kiran (KIRAN) reminds us of the name of a girl or the rays of the sun. It also reminds us of K.. K.. Kiran from the film “Darr’. You remember how the hero used to utter the name of the heroine in these broken letters? Whenever we break a word into different letters or just take a pause in between, it can change the meaning of the word completely and a new mind

picture emerges. Doesn’t the word ‘Kiran’ make you feel as if a key is running? Words have this remarkable characteristic. If you approach them intelligently they lend themselves to learning easily. We can extract a familiar mind picture out of every alien word. This method can help you memorise words much faster and you may retain them in your memory for the rest of your life. The Kiran method can also be called P.M.S. or ‘personalized meaning system’ method.

With the help of this method you can easily remember the names of different places where minerals are found. If I say the word, ‘coal’, you would immediately visualise ‘coal’ but if I say, coal is found in ‘Raniganj’, you would not be able to visualise ‘Raniganj’ because the mind has no picture of ‘Raniganj’. There are many other similar words. Let’s have a look at the chart given

below-Steel Raourkela Cement Katni

Brass Utensils Muradabad HMT Factory Pinjore Coal Jharia

The moment we hear words like steel, cement, brass and H.M.T. factory, we immediately strike a mental note of familiarly. But when we say Raourkela, Katni, Muradabad, Pinjore and Jharia, no mind picture comes to our rescue. With the help the of Kiran method we can easily create a mind picture of these words as well. Let us see some examples and try to understand this method.

Coal-Raniganj

Kiran Method: Rani-ganj / Rani Mukherjee-ganji. Imagine that the actress Rani-Mukherjee is bald. Yes, make a memory picture that Rani Mukherjee has gone bald. She appears totally bald on the posters of the film ‘Bunty aur Bubbly’. You ask her the reason of her baldness and she says that someone burnt her hair with coal.

Steel-Raourkela

Kiran method: Raourkela/ Rao-kela. Make a memory picture of ex-prime minister Shri

Narsimha Rao, eating a banana (Kela). You hurriedly try to tell him that the ‘kela’ is made of steel but before he is able to hear what you are saying, he has already broken all his teeth trying to eat the steel ‘kela’.

Cement – Katni

Kiran method: Katni/ Cut-knee. Make a mind picture that you have cut your knee. You go to the doctor for a dressing. Instead of using a bandage he plasters your knee with cement. Your legs become so heavy with cement that you walk back with great difficulty.

Brass Utensils – Muradabad

Kiran method : Muradabad/ murdabad. Make a mind picture that people are going in a procession, thumping at the brass utensils and shouting murdabad, murdabad!

H.M.T.- Pinjore

Kiran Method : Pinjore/ Pin-Jor (Join). Imagine that you are in a watch factory. The workers are telling one another to join, pins, they are saying ‘Pin-Jor, Pin-Jor’ and make watches.

You have learnt to use the kiran method. Now if I want to know what is found in Raniganj and Muradabad, Where is cement made? I am sure you would refer to the interesting memory pictures in your mind and reply immediately.

Coal is even found in Jharia. You can make a memory picture of bushes (Jharhian in Hindi) and imagine that you burnt all the Jharian (Bushes) with coal in front of your house and cleared the ground.

Use your imagination in such a way that you are able to create meaningful and familiar memory pictures of different things. Make special use of your favourite characters and situations and memorise in a serial order.

If I ask you to think of the name of a country, say – Bulgaria. If we break this word by the Kiran method, what do we get? Bull-gia, i.e.

‘bull-gir gaya’ (A bull fell) . If we have to join another word ‘Sofia’ with it, what do we do? We break the word Sofia… into ‘sofa’… and you get your memory picture – a bull has fallen on the sofa in your drawing room. Have a clear memory picture and you can never forget that, ‘Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria’.

Kiran method brings you so close to your answers that there is no scope of confusion left. Names of different countries, capitals, currency or constitution, anything can be clearly memorised with this method. Even complex chemical equations and biological terms can be easily remembered with this method. Break those words repeatedly till you get a familiar picture and a meaning. Let us have a look at some of the examples given

below-Germany / Germ-many / Many germs Iran / I-ran / I am running Israel / Is-reel / Coming by this rail

Japan / Ja-pan / in Hindi Ja-Pan-la (Go and get pan) Malaysia / Mala-sia (Stich)

Spain / S-pain / Severe pain

Sweden / Swe-den / Sweet-den / The den is sweet Denmark / Den-mark / Mark of a den

See how we have broken these words and derived new words out of them. Now let us try and break the names of the parliaments of these countries. For example ‘Diet’ is a word used for Japan’s parliament. Now imagine that one of the parliamentarians is telling someone ‘go-and-get-pan’ (Ja-Pan-Le-aa) because I am ‘dieting’.

Spain – Madrid Spain / Severe pain

Madrid / Mad

Kiran Method : A person is getting mad due to pain.

Germany – Bundestag

Germany / Many germs Bundestag / Bun-dus-tag

Kiran Method : There are ten (dus) buns in a tag and many germs are there in them.

Now let us try and remember the names of a few countries and their capitals.

Country Capital

Angola Luanda

If you break these names, what do you get?

‘Aag-ka-gola’ (ball of fire) and ‘Lo-anda ' (Have an egg) Now imagine

a shopkeeper hands over eggs to you and says, “Lo-anda” but when you hold it in your hands an ‘aag-ka-gola’ comes out.

Coun try Capital

Grenada St. George

Imagine that a saint has attacked president George (Bush) with a grenade and you are trying to save him.

Try and participate in your memory pictures i.e. you should be present on the scene as a character, as if you are talking to the characters in the picture. This will help in making the picture more secure in your mind. Let us take the example of another

name-Kiran method

Country Capital

Hungary Budapest Hungry Buda-paste

You can easily visualise a hungry old man (Buda) eating ‘paste’. You can easily simplify many difficult subjects in this manner. Let us take the example of some chemical reactions?

Nelson Cell Manufacture of NaOH

Nelson Mandela Nao (Boat)

Does the word ‘Nelson’ strike a note of familiarity in your mind? Yes, you think of the South African leader ‘Nelson Mandela’. It is likely that some of you do not know about Nelson Mandela. There is no need to worry or panic. We can think of some other option. The mind has an unlimited capacity. It can offer endless options. In such a situation your fertile mind can make this picture – Nal (Tap) ka son or a baby tap.

Kiran method

With the action of Nelson cell you get NaOH.

Kiran method: Create a memory picture that Nelson won a boat (NaOH – Nao in Hindi) competition and you are giving him a trophy. Take a good look at the picture given in the book. It will help you create similar memory pictures.

Parkes process Manufacture of Ag (silver)

Park Aag (Fire)

Create a mind picture that the park in front of your house in on fire (Ag-aag) and you are shouting for help – Aag, Aag, help, help. If you already known that Ag stands for silver then you can create another mind picture as well. Imagine that all trees, swings and benches in the park in front of your house are made of silver.

In this chapter you will learn how to improve your vocabulary using the Kiran method. This surely is a very important chapter. English has come to acquire the status of a very important language in today’s world. All of us want to speak English and to improve our vocabulary. In this method you will break new words into different parts and you will get some old words hidden in the new ones and then you can relate or connect them with their meanings, for

example-1. Word - Tranquil Meaning - Peaceful Tranquil Peaceful Train and queen _

Imagine: All the queens are sitting in the train. One of them does not get a seat in the train so she goes on the roof of the train and takes a seat there. She feels very happy and says, “Wow! I am peaceful here. Nobody can disturb me here.” 2. Word - Vassalage

Meaning - Dependence Vassalage Dependence

Vessel age Depending on others

Imagine: A vessel has become aged and has to depend on others for support. 3. Word - Jocund

Meaning - Jolly Jocund Jolly Joke Jolly

Imagine: joker made the atmosphere jolly with his joke. Kiran method

Kiran method

4. Word - Callow Meaning - Immature Callow Immature

Kalu (A boy) Immature

Imagine: Your servant Kalu is very immature. 5. Word - Lambent

Meaning - Having a gentle glow Lambent Having a gentle glow Lamp Light glow

Imagine: The lamp in your room has a light glow. 6. Word - Gormandize

Meaning - To eat in excess Gormandize To eat in excess

Gora man on diet Eating extra

Imagine: When a gora (Fair) man is on diet, he eats too much. Kiran method

Kiran method

7. Word - Garner

Meaning - To gather in a storage place Garner To gather in a storage place Gardner Storing in a store

Imagine: A gardener is storing all the flowers in a store. 8. Word - Circumsolar

Meaning - Moving around the Sun. Circumsolar Moving around the Sun. Circus-solar (Sun) Moving around the Sun.

Imagine: In the circus, all are moving around the Sun. 9. Word - Cistern

Meaning - Tank for storing liquid Cistern Tank for storing liquid Sister Tank

Imagine: Your sister in sitting on the water tank. Kiran method

Kiran method

10. Word - Clandestine Meaning - Done in secret Clandestine Done in secret Candles and wine Done in secret

Imagine: The candles are drinking wine secretly. Kiran method

11. Word - Malevolence Meaning - Ill will

Malevolence Ill will Male violence Ill will

Imagine: Male violence has an Ill will.

12. Word - Circumspect Meaning - Careful Circumspect Careful Sir and specs Careful

Imagine: Sir is very careful about his specs.

13. Word - Ambuscade

Meaning - Hiding for surprised attack Ambuscade Hiding for surprised attack I am in bush for cat Hiding for surprised attack

Imagine: You are hiding in a bush to attack cat. Kiran method

Kiran method

14. Word - Assiduous Meaning - Hard working Assiduous Hard working Ass Hard work

Imagine: Ass is a very hard working animal.

15. Word - Exorcise

Meaning - To deliver from evil spirit Exorcise To deliver from evil spirit Exercise Evil spirits

Imagine: You are exercising and all the evil spirits are running away from you.

16. Word - Floe

Meaning - Sheet of floating ice Floe Sheet of floating ice Flow Sheet of floating ice

Imagine: A sheet of floating ice is flowing towards you. 17. Word - Foment

Meaning - To bathe with warm water or medicated lotions Foment To bathe with warm water or medicated lotions Foam To bathe with medicated lotion

Imagine: You are bathing with a medicated lotion that is producing lots of

foam.

Kiran method

Kiran method

Kiran method