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January 24, 2008
September 28, 2007
RamSetu
The Lord surveyed the Ram Setu and said "Hanuman, how diligently andstrenuously you and your vanara sena had built this bridge several centuries back. It is remarkable that it has withstood the ravages ofthe climatic and geographical changes over centuries. It is indeed anamazing feat especially considering the fact that a bridge at Hyderabad built by Gammon using latest technology collapsed the other day even before theycould stick the posters on its pillars."Hanuman with all humility spoke "Jai Sri Ram, it is all because of yourgrace. We just scribbled your name on the bricks and threw them in the sea and they held. No steel from TISCO or cement from Ambuja or ACC was everused. But Lord, why rake up the old issue now."Ram spoke "Well, Hanuman some people down there want to demolish the bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lot of money and lot ofmoney will be made. They will make money on demolition and make more money onconstruction. "
Hanuman humbly bowed down and said "Why not we go down and present our case". Ram said "Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask usto submit age proof and we don't have either a birth certificate or schoolleaving certificate. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in bullock carts and so we don't have a driving license either. As far as theaddress proof is concerned the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is itself underlitigation for over half a century, If I go in a traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize me but Arjun Singh maytake me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer a seat at IIT under thereserved category. Also, a God cannot walk in dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival. It would make even the devotees suspicious. Soit is dilemma so to say.""I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge.""My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to producethe lay-out plan, the project details, including financial outlay and howthe project cost was met and the completion certificate. Nothing is accepted without documentary evidence in India. You may cough but unless a doctorcertifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present himselfpersonally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that complicated."
"Lord can't understand these historians. Over the years you have givendarshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and stillthey disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth. The onlyoption, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government records straight once for all."Lord smiled "It isn't that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he maylook like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mamaMareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita maiyya when I was in the forest and he said that he won't take a chance of stepping on earthas long as Salman Khan is around."
Hanuman humbly bowed down and said "Why not we go down and present our case". Ram said "Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask usto submit age proof and we don't have either a birth certificate or schoolleaving certificate. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in bullock carts and so we don't have a driving license either. As far as theaddress proof is concerned the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is itself underlitigation for over half a century, If I go in a traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize me but Arjun Singh maytake me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer a seat at IIT under thereserved category. Also, a God cannot walk in dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival. It would make even the devotees suspicious. Soit is dilemma so to say.""I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge.""My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to producethe lay-out plan, the project details, including financial outlay and howthe project cost was met and the completion certificate. Nothing is accepted without documentary evidence in India. You may cough but unless a doctorcertifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present himselfpersonally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that complicated."
"Lord can't understand these historians. Over the years you have givendarshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and stillthey disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth. The onlyoption, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government records straight once for all."Lord smiled "It isn't that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he maylook like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mamaMareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita maiyya when I was in the forest and he said that he won't take a chance of stepping on earthas long as Salman Khan is around."
August 22, 2007
Moon ... we all love you.
Haha..this is really something I read on the Internet.
A University professor has a moonstruck solution to the Earth's weather problems. He wants to blow up the moon - or at least send it somewhere else. "It's the only way to rid the world of scorching deserts and artic winters," says Professor Alexander Abian, a mathematician at the University of Iowa. He claims that by getting rid of the moon, the Earth will then be able to shift into a "more desirable orbit." The suggestion which has been greeted with hoots and hollers from the world's scientific community, has been presented by the 65-year old Armenian-born expert to the American government. Abian suggests strategically placed hydrogen bombs on the Earth's satellite can either blow it apart, or send it careening into outer space, maybe even into the sun. It all depends where you put the charges, he says. "We've been held hostage by the moon for 5 million years, and we've been subjected to violent extremes in weather, not to mention that the planet is slowly becoming a desert. "It's time for a change." The change would make our weather less extreme, turn our deserts into fertile farm land, and make the north and south polar regions livable.
But other scientists disagree, suggesting the professor might be moonstruck. "If you lose the moon, you LOSE THE TIDES. And if you melt the polar caps, you're going to flood the seacosts of every continent," one scientist explains. Another climate expert says blowing up the moon would turn Earth into "a bleak, seasonless planet, not to mention the fact that we would lose the tides." Famed romance writer Barbara Cartland offers the best argument against Abian's plan. Without moonlight, she says, love would flee the Earth. "People long for romance and no professor should be allowed to rob them of it," she says...
and FRANKLY SPEAKING I agree
A University professor has a moonstruck solution to the Earth's weather problems. He wants to blow up the moon - or at least send it somewhere else. "It's the only way to rid the world of scorching deserts and artic winters," says Professor Alexander Abian, a mathematician at the University of Iowa. He claims that by getting rid of the moon, the Earth will then be able to shift into a "more desirable orbit." The suggestion which has been greeted with hoots and hollers from the world's scientific community, has been presented by the 65-year old Armenian-born expert to the American government. Abian suggests strategically placed hydrogen bombs on the Earth's satellite can either blow it apart, or send it careening into outer space, maybe even into the sun. It all depends where you put the charges, he says. "We've been held hostage by the moon for 5 million years, and we've been subjected to violent extremes in weather, not to mention that the planet is slowly becoming a desert. "It's time for a change." The change would make our weather less extreme, turn our deserts into fertile farm land, and make the north and south polar regions livable.
But other scientists disagree, suggesting the professor might be moonstruck. "If you lose the moon, you LOSE THE TIDES. And if you melt the polar caps, you're going to flood the seacosts of every continent," one scientist explains. Another climate expert says blowing up the moon would turn Earth into "a bleak, seasonless planet, not to mention the fact that we would lose the tides." Famed romance writer Barbara Cartland offers the best argument against Abian's plan. Without moonlight, she says, love would flee the Earth. "People long for romance and no professor should be allowed to rob them of it," she says...
and FRANKLY SPEAKING I agree
August 13, 2007
HINDUISM and Preservation of MotherNature
I read this in parts and Frankly speaking I couldnt resist putting it here folks for the world to see and realise.
In Hindu scriptures/History/Folktales there are thousands of instances when the Hills were asked for forgiveness when roads were built over them & Rivers & Seas were asked for permission when man desired to cross them & Trees were asked for forgiveness when a few branches were cut to build their abode by men. Thus this preservation of nature was almost like worshipping of Nature but things were so overdone that people started keeping the Idols of Animals in their Temples & Superstition set in causing great harm to the Culture & we became the Laughing stock of the World as Animal and Stone worshippers. However now the entire World has started taking note of the harm caused by mankind to the plant & Animal life as well as ecology & Environment of the World and now they themselves are trying almost with a religious fervor for protection of Trees, Mountains & Rivers & Seas just as the Hindu had been doing all along & being laughed at. Now it is no longer a secret that everything has life even matter itself & the various Puraans ( although filled with trash by later on mischief makers but still retaining portions of the original wisdom contained in them) are unanimous in giving accurately the life of matter & (half life of radioactivity) & proclaim that after a certain period of time all matter turns in to anti matter or Radioactivity & after the same time period this anti matter turns again in to matter & biological life evolves again & again & again.
In Hindu scriptures/History/Folktales there are thousands of instances when the Hills were asked for forgiveness when roads were built over them & Rivers & Seas were asked for permission when man desired to cross them & Trees were asked for forgiveness when a few branches were cut to build their abode by men. Thus this preservation of nature was almost like worshipping of Nature but things were so overdone that people started keeping the Idols of Animals in their Temples & Superstition set in causing great harm to the Culture & we became the Laughing stock of the World as Animal and Stone worshippers. However now the entire World has started taking note of the harm caused by mankind to the plant & Animal life as well as ecology & Environment of the World and now they themselves are trying almost with a religious fervor for protection of Trees, Mountains & Rivers & Seas just as the Hindu had been doing all along & being laughed at. Now it is no longer a secret that everything has life even matter itself & the various Puraans ( although filled with trash by later on mischief makers but still retaining portions of the original wisdom contained in them) are unanimous in giving accurately the life of matter & (half life of radioactivity) & proclaim that after a certain period of time all matter turns in to anti matter or Radioactivity & after the same time period this anti matter turns again in to matter & biological life evolves again & again & again.
July 15, 2007
More Funny Facts
Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
May 14, 2007
Art: Freedom of sEXPRESSION ?
Hey found this nice sketch on the net...
she looks a bit like Hussain's mum 50 years ago...or maybe the MS University (Vadodara) art students sister....haha
Such good art...wow such good artistry wow
I love this art....
May 07, 2007
DNA Bomb ! Whoopz
What I read on the Internet.... the dangerous DNA bomb. Here is a scenario where a terrorist or assassin plans to take out a head of the state. Assassins seek to take down a world leader, but they won''t need to risk using bullets or bombs. Instead, they stand on a receiving line and shake the leader's hand, coming away with a genetic sample—a fleck of skin, a stray hair—that reveals his secret vulnerabilities. Then they engineer a pathogen that will attack only the dignitary. The next time he addresses a crowd; one terrorist simply coughs, releasing the pathogen-loaded virus into the air. It circulates silently, a contagion harmless to all but its target. Within hours, the leader is dead. The DNA bombs can target a specific person.
February 04, 2007
The UN: Success or failure?
United Nations successes are few and limited. The Korean conflict was resolved with a ceasefire, but only because of the USSR’s absence from the Security Council. The repelling of Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991 did not topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who immediately began to defy the UN as soon as the U.S.-led occupying army was demobilized. That same decade, the UN failed to prevent an escalating Balkan conflict, and could not protect its victims. A NATO coalition was required to end the mutual destruction.
In the early 1990s, the gradual escalation of factional fighting in Somalia was met with only half-measures by the UN. Military observers were sent in after an arms embargo proved ineffective. An undermanned force of 3,500 peacekeepers was authorized in August 1992—but only 500 had been deployed by the end of September. Finally, the United States took the lead under Resolution 794, launching a taskforce called “Operation Restored Hope” to secure humanitarian relief efforts.
Attacks on UN forces intensified in 1993, culminating in the shameful killing and mutilation of American, Malaysian and Pakistani peacekeepers operating under the UN banner in Mogadishu. International forces departed in March 1995 as the UN mandate expired, leaving no recognized authority in place. Ultimately, UN humanitarian efforts in Somalia were viewed as a dismal failure.
President Bush has sought to work through the United Nations for a solution in Iraq. The former Iraqi regime had been in defiance of UN resolutions for years, dating back through the Clinton administration. The bickering among leading nations, combined with outright stonewalling, again paralyzed the organization. In the face of international criticism, the United States acted unilaterally with her allies, invaded Iraq and removed Saddam Hussein.
In late summer of 2006, the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon entered a hastily brokered and shaky peace. UN Resolution 1701 called for the disarming of Hezbollah forces in Lebanon as part of the ceasefire agreement. This, in spite of a Hezbollah cabinet minister making clear, prior to the ceasefire, that the terrorist organization had no intention of disarming.
With the ink barely dry on the document, the nations responsible for providing troop contingents to Lebanon for enforcing the resolution balked at their responsibility. The result? Hezbollah remains armed, its influence growing as it awaits the next war against Israel.
Then there is the “Oil for Food” program of the 1990s, which was intended to ease the suffering of the Iraqi population. Serious allegations of profiteering surfaced—not only were Iraqi officials implicated, but the tentacles of corruption appeared to reach to the highest levels of the UN General Assembly.
In the Congo, allegations of sexual abuse by UN staff stretch back for more than a decade. During the operation there, Secretary of State Colin Powell urged that more human rights monitors be put on the ground. In effect, he was asking for UN people to police other out-of-control UN personnel! In June 2004, angry demonstrators stormed the United Nations compounds across the Congo protesting UN peacekeeping forces’ failure to prevent the eastern town of Bukavu from falling to rebels.
On the heels of the Congo are allegations of even more outrageous acts of violence and sex perpetrated by UN personnel in Liberia. Such conduct seems to provide more substance to other charges of corruption, along with calls from many in the U.S. to let the United Nations go the way of the League of Nations. They not only see the UN as corrupt and incompetent, but also as an organization that compromises national security.
One common theme runs through the above accounts. While the UN seems to be rife with incompetence and corruption, the root cause of failure throughout its history is the posturing, competing and self-interested nations all seeking to manipulate facts and events to their own advantage.
Self-interest rules all parties in the UN.
realtruth.org
In the early 1990s, the gradual escalation of factional fighting in Somalia was met with only half-measures by the UN. Military observers were sent in after an arms embargo proved ineffective. An undermanned force of 3,500 peacekeepers was authorized in August 1992—but only 500 had been deployed by the end of September. Finally, the United States took the lead under Resolution 794, launching a taskforce called “Operation Restored Hope” to secure humanitarian relief efforts.
Attacks on UN forces intensified in 1993, culminating in the shameful killing and mutilation of American, Malaysian and Pakistani peacekeepers operating under the UN banner in Mogadishu. International forces departed in March 1995 as the UN mandate expired, leaving no recognized authority in place. Ultimately, UN humanitarian efforts in Somalia were viewed as a dismal failure.
President Bush has sought to work through the United Nations for a solution in Iraq. The former Iraqi regime had been in defiance of UN resolutions for years, dating back through the Clinton administration. The bickering among leading nations, combined with outright stonewalling, again paralyzed the organization. In the face of international criticism, the United States acted unilaterally with her allies, invaded Iraq and removed Saddam Hussein.
In late summer of 2006, the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon entered a hastily brokered and shaky peace. UN Resolution 1701 called for the disarming of Hezbollah forces in Lebanon as part of the ceasefire agreement. This, in spite of a Hezbollah cabinet minister making clear, prior to the ceasefire, that the terrorist organization had no intention of disarming.
With the ink barely dry on the document, the nations responsible for providing troop contingents to Lebanon for enforcing the resolution balked at their responsibility. The result? Hezbollah remains armed, its influence growing as it awaits the next war against Israel.
Then there is the “Oil for Food” program of the 1990s, which was intended to ease the suffering of the Iraqi population. Serious allegations of profiteering surfaced—not only were Iraqi officials implicated, but the tentacles of corruption appeared to reach to the highest levels of the UN General Assembly.
In the Congo, allegations of sexual abuse by UN staff stretch back for more than a decade. During the operation there, Secretary of State Colin Powell urged that more human rights monitors be put on the ground. In effect, he was asking for UN people to police other out-of-control UN personnel! In June 2004, angry demonstrators stormed the United Nations compounds across the Congo protesting UN peacekeeping forces’ failure to prevent the eastern town of Bukavu from falling to rebels.
On the heels of the Congo are allegations of even more outrageous acts of violence and sex perpetrated by UN personnel in Liberia. Such conduct seems to provide more substance to other charges of corruption, along with calls from many in the U.S. to let the United Nations go the way of the League of Nations. They not only see the UN as corrupt and incompetent, but also as an organization that compromises national security.
One common theme runs through the above accounts. While the UN seems to be rife with incompetence and corruption, the root cause of failure throughout its history is the posturing, competing and self-interested nations all seeking to manipulate facts and events to their own advantage.
Self-interest rules all parties in the UN.
realtruth.org
The Global Warming threat
The facts are in: The thermohaline ocean current—which moderates temperatures worldwide, preventing Europe from having a climate similar to Alaska—is slowing. Glaciers in Greenland, Alaska, the Himalayas and the Antarctic Peninsula are retreating. Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during summer is disappearing. Permafrost (permanently frozen soil) in Canada, Alaska and Siberia is melting at an alarming rate. Hurricanes are becoming more numerous and more intense, and sea levels are rising.
MELTDOWN: According to scientists, global warming has caused the Columbia Glacier to retreat seven miles in the last 20 years, leaving calves of ice in Prince William Sound.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, the average surface temperature of the earth has risen by one degree Fahrenheit (°F) during the past 100 years, with accelerated warming occurring within the past 20 years. NASA climatologists state that 2005 was the warmest year in a century, with 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004 next in line.
Few dispute that the earth is growing warmer and that there are signs identifying this. The debate lies in the seriousness of this warming trend, who or what is to blame, and whether there is a direct connection to hurricane frequency and intensity.
The term “global warming” is at the forefront of many minds, and for several reasons. Should we be concerned?
realtruth.org
MELTDOWN: According to scientists, global warming has caused the Columbia Glacier to retreat seven miles in the last 20 years, leaving calves of ice in Prince William Sound.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, the average surface temperature of the earth has risen by one degree Fahrenheit (°F) during the past 100 years, with accelerated warming occurring within the past 20 years. NASA climatologists state that 2005 was the warmest year in a century, with 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004 next in line.
Few dispute that the earth is growing warmer and that there are signs identifying this. The debate lies in the seriousness of this warming trend, who or what is to blame, and whether there is a direct connection to hurricane frequency and intensity.
The term “global warming” is at the forefront of many minds, and for several reasons. Should we be concerned?
realtruth.org
January 27, 2007
January 26, 2007
Affluenza !
Recently I read a thought provoking article about the so called 'Ilness'...AFFLUENZA.
Simply put, affluenza is a harmful or unbalanced relationship with money or its pursuit. Clinically, Affluenza is in the individual as the collective addictions, character flaws, psychological wounds, neurosis and behavioral disorders caused or exacerbated by the presence of or desire for wealth. Globally it is a back up of the flow of money, resulting in a polarization of classes, and loss of economic and emotional balance.
What are the symptoms of affluenza?
In individuals, symptoms of affluenza can include: workaholism; an addiction to chaos; low self-esteem; depression; a loss of future motivation; an inability to delay gratification or tolerate frustration; a false sense of entitlement. Affluenza is frequently accompanied by all manners of addictive/compulsive behaviors.
What causes affluenza?
The assumption that money can, should and does buy happiness -- what is called the myth of the American dream.
We all have our pursuits, our dreams, ambitions...but it shouldn't lead to Affluenza, I feel.
The word AFFLUENZA might be a new name for this... but this thing's been talked about since looooong, Frankly Speaking.
Simply put, affluenza is a harmful or unbalanced relationship with money or its pursuit. Clinically, Affluenza is in the individual as the collective addictions, character flaws, psychological wounds, neurosis and behavioral disorders caused or exacerbated by the presence of or desire for wealth. Globally it is a back up of the flow of money, resulting in a polarization of classes, and loss of economic and emotional balance.
What are the symptoms of affluenza?
In individuals, symptoms of affluenza can include: workaholism; an addiction to chaos; low self-esteem; depression; a loss of future motivation; an inability to delay gratification or tolerate frustration; a false sense of entitlement. Affluenza is frequently accompanied by all manners of addictive/compulsive behaviors.
What causes affluenza?
The assumption that money can, should and does buy happiness -- what is called the myth of the American dream.
We all have our pursuits, our dreams, ambitions...but it shouldn't lead to Affluenza, I feel.
The word AFFLUENZA might be a new name for this... but this thing's been talked about since looooong, Frankly Speaking.
January 09, 2007
The Real Ms Universes
"My new home is beautiful. It's a little bit crowded right now with all the stuff we''ve brought over from SPACEHAB and my shuttle comrades here," she said with her loose hair flowing uncontrollably upwards in the zero gravity of space station.
Apart from some snap shots, she is carrying a copy of Bhagwad Gita, a small statue of Lord Ganesha and a letter written in Hindi by her father, representing her half Indian heritage to keep her company during her six-month stay at the space lab. "We all have a small amount that we can take up on shuttle," she said.
She is Sunita Williams.The real Ms Universe...also Ms India....
alongwith Kalpana Chawla.
Apart from some snap shots, she is carrying a copy of Bhagwad Gita, a small statue of Lord Ganesha and a letter written in Hindi by her father, representing her half Indian heritage to keep her company during her six-month stay at the space lab. "We all have a small amount that we can take up on shuttle," she said.
She is Sunita Williams.The real Ms Universe...also Ms India....
alongwith Kalpana Chawla.
January 06, 2007
Flashback: British Gameplan in India
Before British rule, there was no private property in land in the India! The self-governing village community handed over each year to the ruler or his nominee a share of the years produce.East India Company put a stop to this and introduced a new revenue system superseding the right of the village community over land and creating two new forms of property on land -landlordism and individual peasant proprietorship. It was assumed that the State was the supreme landlord. Fixed tax payments were introduced based on land whereby payment had tobe made to the government whether or not crop had been successful. As one British put itwe have introduced new methods of assessing and cultivating land revenue which haveconverted a once flourishing population into a huge horde of paupers. Indeed the firsteffect was the reduction in agricultural incomes by 50% thereby undermining the agrarianeconomy and self-governing village.
This is a very important piece of information in context to todays' times...the times of Real Estate boom / bubble and it's related negative factors as Politics, Crime, Prices,Urban chaos etc. Imagine if it was still a Self Governing Village/Community base system ! Imagine few Positive factors ! !
This is a very important piece of information in context to todays' times...the times of Real Estate boom / bubble and it's related negative factors as Politics, Crime, Prices,Urban chaos etc. Imagine if it was still a Self Governing Village/Community base system ! Imagine few Positive factors ! !
January 04, 2007
Kumbh Mela 2007
Nearly 70 million Hindus are expected to take a dip in frigid temperatures at the Sangam – the confluence of Jamuna, Ganges and Saraswati rivers – as part of a 42 day religious pilgrimage aimed at washing away earthly sins.
This is the KUMBH MELA(Ardh Kumbh).
Authorities have erected nearly 50,000 green, blue and brown tents and 25,000 makeshift toilets in a sprawling area of 80 square kilometers on the banks of the Ganges.
Nearly 10 million Hindus, led by ash-smeared and naked saints, are expected to bathe on Wednesday --the first day of the festival The main period of bathing during the “Ardh Kumbh Mela” or Half Grand Pitcher festival, would be on six auspicious days, depending on the alignment of stars.
Remember it is the OFFICIAL LARGEST BIGGEST HUMAN GATHERING ON PLANET EARTH ...!
It doesn't get bigger than this.
(More later)
This is the KUMBH MELA(Ardh Kumbh).
Authorities have erected nearly 50,000 green, blue and brown tents and 25,000 makeshift toilets in a sprawling area of 80 square kilometers on the banks of the Ganges.
Nearly 10 million Hindus, led by ash-smeared and naked saints, are expected to bathe on Wednesday --the first day of the festival The main period of bathing during the “Ardh Kumbh Mela” or Half Grand Pitcher festival, would be on six auspicious days, depending on the alignment of stars.
Remember it is the OFFICIAL LARGEST BIGGEST HUMAN GATHERING ON PLANET EARTH ...!
It doesn't get bigger than this.
(More later)
December 31, 2006
The Chocolate history
When Columbus and Cortes returned to Spain the bitter cacao drink of the Aztec culture was introduced to Europe and there it was sweetened to make it more in tune to the European tastes. It became a drink of the elite and wealthy. Within ten years, chocolate was enjoyed throughout the courts in the French aristocracy. Chocolate became known throughout the countries of Europe and in the middle of the 17th century chocolate appeared in England. There it was highly taxed continuing its reputation as a luxury to be enjoyed only by those privileged enough to afford it.Cacao was primarily only for drinking until 1828. Chocolate was prepared as a drink by grinding up the beans into a thin paste and adding spices and sweetening and then adding something to soak up the cocoa butter, which would float to the surface.Coenraad J. Van Houten, a Dutch chemist in that year invented a press which would release the cocoa butter from the bean, leaving the dryer cake that could be ground up into a powder similar to the fat-free cocoa powder we enjoy today.Twenty years later European companies used the presses made by Van Houten to produce the first eating chocolate. By taking what was left after separating the cocoa powder from the butter, the industry saw that they could melt the cocoa butter and combine it with a blend of ground cacao beans and sugar, mix this into a paste and mold it. Edible chocolate was the final product. Chocolate appeared on the market in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century and now nearly one hundred years later is still in harmony with all who love it's unique, rich taste.
December 29, 2006
Where's the party tonight?
Frankly Speaking...I'm also looking for another title for the subject. You give me a title to this...It's CRAZY !
December 22, 2006
Cloning Christ ?
In an apparent bid to see how blasphemous science can get, researchers are delving into theories of whether religious artifacts that are supposed to be linked to Jesus can be used to clone Christ. The Shroud of Turin, for example, if it is actually the burial cloth of Jesus, might contain enough blood stains to capture the actual DNA of Jesus Christ. This DNA could be used to create a clone of what many believe, depending on their religious affiliation, to be the Son of God. Already attempts to clone animals have been successful in the lab, with the famous "Dolly" the sheep becoming the first absolute clone in the 1990s. Human cloning is expected to become a reality as well in the coming decades. Throw all of this together and you have a real dilema if you switch from science to theorizing about religious prophecy. Say the Shroud of Turin really is the burial cloth of Jesus, and that the DNA can be extracted, and that the DNA leads to an exact clone of Christ. Would this fulfill the prophecy of Christ's return? And then we can dig out other artifacts of other Gods and Saints from different countries !! Yeah...bringon the good guys back.......
Frankly Speaking...Not a Bad idea...opinions please.!
Frankly Speaking...Not a Bad idea...opinions please.!
December 21, 2006
December 12, 2006
Worth a thought
I came across this writeup somewhere on the net...
The material prosperity that envelops us is the consequence of application of our scientific knowledge to our lives. The automobiles, dishwashers, super computers, space shuttles, etc could be invented because their inventors and contributors had ideas about it. Thus everything is created out of nothingness or say impulses of energy. The most real yet enchanting example of manmade creation is Microsoft, the brainchild of Bill Gates. The operating system “Windows” is predominantly used in the world. Bill Gates was not born with the thought of Windows or other software and present it to the world at a specific age. The ideas and thoughts were his self-generated. Once Bill Gates’ mother asked him, “What are you doing Bill?”. To which he replied, “I am thinking, mother.” The result of his thinking is above the call of recognition. This only corroborates the truth that the tiny electrical nerve signals CAN CREATE a magical world around us, otherwise how could a monitor, a keyboard and a MSN, come from nowhere?
(We need to thank someone...in fact thank so many )
We are nothing but the Product of Our Thoughts...We become what we THINK !
Worth thinking !
The material prosperity that envelops us is the consequence of application of our scientific knowledge to our lives. The automobiles, dishwashers, super computers, space shuttles, etc could be invented because their inventors and contributors had ideas about it. Thus everything is created out of nothingness or say impulses of energy. The most real yet enchanting example of manmade creation is Microsoft, the brainchild of Bill Gates. The operating system “Windows” is predominantly used in the world. Bill Gates was not born with the thought of Windows or other software and present it to the world at a specific age. The ideas and thoughts were his self-generated. Once Bill Gates’ mother asked him, “What are you doing Bill?”. To which he replied, “I am thinking, mother.” The result of his thinking is above the call of recognition. This only corroborates the truth that the tiny electrical nerve signals CAN CREATE a magical world around us, otherwise how could a monitor, a keyboard and a MSN, come from nowhere?
(We need to thank someone...in fact thank so many )
We are nothing but the Product of Our Thoughts...We become what we THINK !
Worth thinking !
December 10, 2006
December 02, 2006
Read this
"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to
count, without which no worthwhile scientific
discovery could have been made."
~Albert Einstein
"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense".
~W. Heisenberg (German Physicist, 1901-1976)
The Vedanta and the Sankhya hold the key to the laws of mind and thought process which are co-related to the Quantum Field, i.e. the operation and distribution of particles at atomic and molecular levels."
Prof. Brian David Josephson (1940 - ) Welsh physicist, the youngest Nobel Laureate
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
~ Herman Hesse (1877-1962), German poet and novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946,
count, without which no worthwhile scientific
discovery could have been made."
~Albert Einstein
"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense".
~W. Heisenberg (German Physicist, 1901-1976)
The Vedanta and the Sankhya hold the key to the laws of mind and thought process which are co-related to the Quantum Field, i.e. the operation and distribution of particles at atomic and molecular levels."
Prof. Brian David Josephson (1940 - ) Welsh physicist, the youngest Nobel Laureate
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
~ Herman Hesse (1877-1962), German poet and novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946,
November 30, 2006
Depression and Mania
I don't know why I'm putting this topic...but maybe I think many can find it useful.
Depression
Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" mood
Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
Decreased energy, fatigue, being "slowed down"
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
Thoughts of death or suicide; suicide attempts
Restlessness, irritability
Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain
Mania
Abnormal or excessive elation
Unusual irritability
Decreased need for sleep
Grandiose notions
Increased talking
Racing thoughts
Increased sexual desire
Markedly increased energy
Poor judgment
Inappropriate social behavior
Depression
Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" mood
Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
Decreased energy, fatigue, being "slowed down"
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
Thoughts of death or suicide; suicide attempts
Restlessness, irritability
Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain
Mania
Abnormal or excessive elation
Unusual irritability
Decreased need for sleep
Grandiose notions
Increased talking
Racing thoughts
Increased sexual desire
Markedly increased energy
Poor judgment
Inappropriate social behavior
November 16, 2006
funny Facts
Few Funny but Facts I read on the net....
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Dalmatians are born without spots.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
he only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning itshead are the rabbit and the parrot
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Dalmatians are born without spots.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
he only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning itshead are the rabbit and the parrot
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
November 08, 2006
'Life Science" Corporations ? How far...
Recently what I read at purefood.org is worth a mentionhere.The technology of Genetic Engineering wielded by transnational "life science" corporations is the practice of altering or disrupting the genetic blueprints of living organisms--plants, animals, humans, microorganisms--patenting them, and then selling the resulting gene-foods, seeds, or other products for profit. Life science corporations proclaim, with great fanfare, that their new products will make agriculture sustainable, eliminate world hunger, cure disease, and vastly improve public health. In reality, through their business practices and political lobbying, the gene engineers have made it clear that they intend to use GE to dominate and monopolize the global market for seeds, foods, fiber, and medical products.GE is a revolutionary new technology still in its early experimental stages of development. This technology has the power to break down fundamental genetic barriers--not only between species--but between humans, animals, and plants. By randomly inserting together the genes of non-related species--utilizing viruses, antibiotic-resistant genes, and bacteria as vectors, markers, and promoters--and permanently altering their genetic codes, gene-altered organisms are created that pass these genetic changes onto their offspring through heredity. Gene engineers all over the world are now snipping, inserting, recombining, rearranging, editing, and programming genetic material. Animal genes and even human genes are randomly inserted into the chromosomes of plants, fish, and animals, creating heretofore unimaginable transgenic life forms. For the first time in history, transnational biotechnology corporations are becoming the architects and "owners" of life.
Something they should not.
Something they should not.
November 05, 2006
Is there Mind Enslavement ?
A select group of people know they are contributing to the success of creating confusion among the masses of this world in order to conceal their true agenda of which all human beings are a part, willing or unwilling. The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government that is the true ruling power. You are governed, your mind is molded, your tastes formed, your ideas suggested, largely by people you have never met or heard of before. This is the logical result of the way in which society functions today. Vast numbers of human beings must co-operate in this controlled manner if they are to live together in peace and prosperity. Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this conditioning, it remains a fact that in almost every act of daily life, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in your social conduct or your ethical thinking, you are dominated by a relatively small number of people who understand the mental processes and mental patterns of the masses. The real issue or concern is whether or not you are aware of the fact that your freedom has been substituted by mind enslavement....
If you are reading this and going to sit and think about it...then it makes two of us, Frankly Speaking!
If you are reading this and going to sit and think about it...then it makes two of us, Frankly Speaking!
October 31, 2006
A bit on Vampires !
If vampires—corpses that rise up to suck the blood of the living—sound biologically implausible to you, you’re not alone. They exist purely in legend, as virtually all scientists agree.If vampires ever existed in the forms in which movies and books portray them, they would have quickly wiped out humanity long ago, according to physics professor Costas Efthimiou of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla.Popular lore passed down through centuries holds that vampire victims become vampires themselves, and launch their own blood-hunts on hapless humans.
“If vampires truly feed with even a tiny fraction of the frequency that they are depicted to in the movies and folklore, then the human race would have been wiped out quite quickly after the first vampire appeared,” Efthimiou supposed that the first vampire arose Jan. 1, 1600, around the beginning of a century during which some of the first important modern writings on vampires appeared. The researchers estimated the global population at that time, based on historical records, as 537 million.Assuming that the vampire fed once a month and the victim turned into a vampire, there would be two vampires on Feb. 1, four the next month, and eight the month after that. All humans would be vampires within 2½ years. “Humans cannot survive under these conditions, even if our population were doubling each month,” which is well beyond human capacities.
Frankly Speaking, they din't count Fast Days ! !!
“If vampires truly feed with even a tiny fraction of the frequency that they are depicted to in the movies and folklore, then the human race would have been wiped out quite quickly after the first vampire appeared,” Efthimiou supposed that the first vampire arose Jan. 1, 1600, around the beginning of a century during which some of the first important modern writings on vampires appeared. The researchers estimated the global population at that time, based on historical records, as 537 million.Assuming that the vampire fed once a month and the victim turned into a vampire, there would be two vampires on Feb. 1, four the next month, and eight the month after that. All humans would be vampires within 2½ years. “Humans cannot survive under these conditions, even if our population were doubling each month,” which is well beyond human capacities.
Frankly Speaking, they din't count Fast Days ! !!
October 29, 2006
Our modern banking system
This is an interesting bit (David Icke), I read on the Net on the Modern banking system.
You go to a bank to borrow 'money'. Or you think you do. In fact, the 'money' is merely figures typed into your computer account. It does not exist, except as figures in a computer program. The banks are allowed to 'lend' at least ten times what they have on deposit - but this 'deposit', too, is only figures on a screen. There is no 'money', it's all an illusion.But in return for 'borrowing' this created-out-of-nothing 'money' you must sign over your property, land or business, which is then owned by the bank until you have paid them back the nothing they 'loaned' you, plus interest. If you don't pay back the nothing the banks get your property, land or business.And even while you are paying back the 'loan' this property - YOUR property - is considered an asset of the bank and they can 'lend' ten times its value to anyone else who wants a loan. In any other language it is called 'fraud'.
Frankly Speaking...it does set me thinking. True , in a way.
You go to a bank to borrow 'money'. Or you think you do. In fact, the 'money' is merely figures typed into your computer account. It does not exist, except as figures in a computer program. The banks are allowed to 'lend' at least ten times what they have on deposit - but this 'deposit', too, is only figures on a screen. There is no 'money', it's all an illusion.But in return for 'borrowing' this created-out-of-nothing 'money' you must sign over your property, land or business, which is then owned by the bank until you have paid them back the nothing they 'loaned' you, plus interest. If you don't pay back the nothing the banks get your property, land or business.And even while you are paying back the 'loan' this property - YOUR property - is considered an asset of the bank and they can 'lend' ten times its value to anyone else who wants a loan. In any other language it is called 'fraud'.
Frankly Speaking...it does set me thinking. True , in a way.
An Underground New World Order ?
'What is wrong with this world? Why all those civil wars, why all this chaos and disaster? Why can't people just live together in peace? When conflicts arise, why is it so hard for the United Nations and other parties to stop the killing, despite peace negotiators and ambassadors? Is it that man is basically evil? Is it just human behavior? Lots of questions. When we look around, it may seem like man is basically evil, but that is not true. Man in general is good and tries to do good whenever he can; this can be proven. Evil is implanted and distributed from a very high level - above governments and out of sight from ordinary people, by the few who think power is the ultimate freedom and that it is okay to achieve it by any means. All this chaos, genocide, ethnic cleansing and disaster has a genuine purpose. It is very carefully planned by a few men behind the scene, high up in the society, high above any power structure that the ordinary citizen knows about. It is a planned take-over to create a One World Government with those people on top, making the rest of us into their slaves in a Super Socialist State ...!"
Read on the Net
Read on the Net
October 19, 2006
TajMahal or Tejo Mahalaya ?
Contrary to what visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation Moghul emperor Shahjahan commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur. The Taj Mahal, should therefore, be viewed as a temple palace and not as a tomb. That makes a vast difference. You miss the details of its size, grandeur, majesty and beauty when you take it to be a mere tomb. When told that you are visiting a temple palace you wont fail to notice its annexes, ruined defensive walls, hillocks, moats, cascades, fountains, majestic garden, hundreds of rooms archaded verendahs, terraces, multi stored towers, secret sealed chambers, guest rooms, stables, the trident (Trishul) pinnacle on the dome and the sacred, esoteric Hindu letter "OM" carved on the exterior of the wall of the sanctum sanctorum now occupied by the cenotaphs.
For detailed proof of this breath taking discovery, you may read the well known historian Shri. P. N. Oak's celebrated book titled " Tajmahal : The True Story".
For detailed proof of this breath taking discovery, you may read the well known historian Shri. P. N. Oak's celebrated book titled " Tajmahal : The True Story".
October 13, 2006
The Human Race...GONE !
Recently I read on The Times an eye opener article.
If MAN were to vanish from the face of the Earth today, his footprint on the planet would linger for the mere blink of an eye in geological terms.
Within hours, nature would begin to eradicate its impact. Only radioactive materials and a few man-made chemical contaminants would last longer — an invisible legacy.
Homo sapiens has managed just 150,000 years on Earth, and his earliest — debatable — ancestor only six million. By contrast, the dinosaurs populated the planet for 165 million years.
Man’s environmental footprint would, according to a report in New Scientist, begin to deteriorate almost immediately, with light pollution the first to go as power stations ceased to provide energy.
By tomorrow, street lights and house lights left on by their former occupants would start to go out. Streets and cultivated fields would be the next to go. Within 20 years village streets and rural roads would have vanished under a matting of weeds; fields would be overgrown within months. Urban streets would take a little longer, but even in huge man-made sprawls, such as London and Birmingham, plants would have taken over in about 50 years.
Buildings would decay rapidly. Wooden structures would collapse first, assaulted by bugs and grubs. All such homes would be gone in a century.
Glass and steel tower blocks that create city skylines would mostly fall down within 200 years. Brick, stone and concrete structures would last longer. With exceptions — the pyramids are already 3,000 years old — by the next millennium there would be little more left than ruins.
“If tomorrow dawns without humans, even from orbit the change will be evident almost immediately,” Bob Holmes, of New Scientist, said. “With no-one to make repairs, every storm, flood and frosty night gnaws away at abandoned buildings and within a few decades roofs will begin to fall in and buildings collapse.” Wildlife would thrive in the absence of Man. Most of the 15,589 threatened species will begin to recover immediately towards historical populations.
Carbon dioxide emissions wouldcontinue to cause climate change for another 100 years, but after 1,000 years all would be back to pre-industrial levels, with all man-made traces vanishing in 20,000 years.
If, 50,000 years hence, an alien archaeologist were to land on an Earth without Man, it might be quite frustrated by the paucity of evidence that we were here at all.
Frankly Speaking I consider 50,000 years also a pretty loooong period.
If MAN were to vanish from the face of the Earth today, his footprint on the planet would linger for the mere blink of an eye in geological terms.
Within hours, nature would begin to eradicate its impact. Only radioactive materials and a few man-made chemical contaminants would last longer — an invisible legacy.
Homo sapiens has managed just 150,000 years on Earth, and his earliest — debatable — ancestor only six million. By contrast, the dinosaurs populated the planet for 165 million years.
Man’s environmental footprint would, according to a report in New Scientist, begin to deteriorate almost immediately, with light pollution the first to go as power stations ceased to provide energy.
By tomorrow, street lights and house lights left on by their former occupants would start to go out. Streets and cultivated fields would be the next to go. Within 20 years village streets and rural roads would have vanished under a matting of weeds; fields would be overgrown within months. Urban streets would take a little longer, but even in huge man-made sprawls, such as London and Birmingham, plants would have taken over in about 50 years.
Buildings would decay rapidly. Wooden structures would collapse first, assaulted by bugs and grubs. All such homes would be gone in a century.
Glass and steel tower blocks that create city skylines would mostly fall down within 200 years. Brick, stone and concrete structures would last longer. With exceptions — the pyramids are already 3,000 years old — by the next millennium there would be little more left than ruins.
“If tomorrow dawns without humans, even from orbit the change will be evident almost immediately,” Bob Holmes, of New Scientist, said. “With no-one to make repairs, every storm, flood and frosty night gnaws away at abandoned buildings and within a few decades roofs will begin to fall in and buildings collapse.” Wildlife would thrive in the absence of Man. Most of the 15,589 threatened species will begin to recover immediately towards historical populations.
Carbon dioxide emissions wouldcontinue to cause climate change for another 100 years, but after 1,000 years all would be back to pre-industrial levels, with all man-made traces vanishing in 20,000 years.
If, 50,000 years hence, an alien archaeologist were to land on an Earth without Man, it might be quite frustrated by the paucity of evidence that we were here at all.
Frankly Speaking I consider 50,000 years also a pretty loooong period.
October 12, 2006
The Rise of the Machines
Just last century – you remember it well, across the chasm of the crash – the PC was king. The mainframe was deposed and deceased. The desktop was the data center. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were nonprofit googoos babbling about searching their 150-gigabyte index of the Internet.
Today Google rules a total database of hundreds of petabytes, swelled every 24 hours by terabytes of Gmails, MySpace pages, and dancing-doggy videos – a relentless march of daily deltas, each larger than the whole Web of a decade ago. To make sense of it all, Page and Brin – with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Barry "QVC" Diller's Ask.com hot on their heels – are frantically taking the computer-on-a-chip and multiplying it, in massively parallel arrays, into a computer-on-a-planet.
The data centers these companies are building began as exercises in making the planet's ever-growing data pile searchable. Now, turbocharged with billions in Madison Avenue mad money for targeted advertisements, they're morphing into general-purpose computing platforms, vastly more powerful than any built before. All those PCs are still there, but they have less and less to do, as Google and the others take on more and more of the duties once delegated to the CPU. Optical networks, which move data over vast distances without degradation, allow computing to migrate to wherever power is cheapest. Thus, the new computing architecture scales across Earth's surface. Ironically, this emerging architecture is interlinked by the very technology that was supposed to be Big Computing's downfall: the Internet.
Frankly Speaking...it's going be ON and ON.
Wired.com
Today Google rules a total database of hundreds of petabytes, swelled every 24 hours by terabytes of Gmails, MySpace pages, and dancing-doggy videos – a relentless march of daily deltas, each larger than the whole Web of a decade ago. To make sense of it all, Page and Brin – with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Barry "QVC" Diller's Ask.com hot on their heels – are frantically taking the computer-on-a-chip and multiplying it, in massively parallel arrays, into a computer-on-a-planet.
The data centers these companies are building began as exercises in making the planet's ever-growing data pile searchable. Now, turbocharged with billions in Madison Avenue mad money for targeted advertisements, they're morphing into general-purpose computing platforms, vastly more powerful than any built before. All those PCs are still there, but they have less and less to do, as Google and the others take on more and more of the duties once delegated to the CPU. Optical networks, which move data over vast distances without degradation, allow computing to migrate to wherever power is cheapest. Thus, the new computing architecture scales across Earth's surface. Ironically, this emerging architecture is interlinked by the very technology that was supposed to be Big Computing's downfall: the Internet.
Frankly Speaking...it's going be ON and ON.
Wired.com
October 07, 2006
Woodpecker's head...Ha Ha
A scientist who studied the anatomy of the woodpecker's skull to find out why it does not suffer from headaches after banging its head against a tree trunk 12,000 times a day has won an alternative Nobel prize.
Ivan Schwab, of the University of California, Davis, has joined the pantheon of scientists whose research has been deemed quirky enough to win an "Ig Nobel" - an alternative to the genuine Nobel prizes.
Dr Schwab's study, published earlier this year in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, pointed out that woodpeckers hammer a hard surface up to 20 times a second at 1,200-times the force of gravity without suffering concussion, detached retinas or any of the other symptoms of "shaken-baby syndrome".
"For us, life's headaches are common enough, but what if you spent your life battering your head against a wall?" he asked.
I wonder....
He should have also tried my head examination too
Ivan Schwab, of the University of California, Davis, has joined the pantheon of scientists whose research has been deemed quirky enough to win an "Ig Nobel" - an alternative to the genuine Nobel prizes.
Dr Schwab's study, published earlier this year in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, pointed out that woodpeckers hammer a hard surface up to 20 times a second at 1,200-times the force of gravity without suffering concussion, detached retinas or any of the other symptoms of "shaken-baby syndrome".
"For us, life's headaches are common enough, but what if you spent your life battering your head against a wall?" he asked.
I wonder....
He should have also tried my head examination too
September 25, 2006
about Chikungunya.
Chikungunya is a relatively rare form of viral fever caused by an alphavirus that is spread by mosquito bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The name is derived from the African word meaning ‘that which bends up’ in reference to the stooped posture developed as a result of the arthritic symptoms of the disease. The disease was first described by Marion Robinson and W.H.R. Lumsden in 1955, following an outbreak on the Makonde Plateau, along the border between Tanganyika and Mozambique, in 1952. Chikungunya is not considered to be fatal. Chikungunya virus is highly infective and disabling but is not transmissible between people.
The virus is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on a person infected with the chikungunya virus. Monkeys, and possibly other wild animals, may also serve as reservoirs of the virus. Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to other humans when they bite. Sudden severe headache, chills, fever, joint and muscle pain are the commonest symptoms & Some can suffer for joint pain for months. Children may display neurological symptoms.
Analysis of the recent outbreak in India ,has suggested that the increased severity of the disease may be due to a change in the genetic sequence, altering the virus' coat protein, which potentially allows it to multiply more easily in mosquito cells.
The virus is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on a person infected with the chikungunya virus. Monkeys, and possibly other wild animals, may also serve as reservoirs of the virus. Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to other humans when they bite. Sudden severe headache, chills, fever, joint and muscle pain are the commonest symptoms & Some can suffer for joint pain for months. Children may display neurological symptoms.
Analysis of the recent outbreak in India ,has suggested that the increased severity of the disease may be due to a change in the genetic sequence, altering the virus' coat protein, which potentially allows it to multiply more easily in mosquito cells.
September 12, 2006
Atom Bombs and Satyagrah
In 1905, Albert Einstein formulated his Special Theory of Relativity. According to this theory, mass can be considered to be another form of energy. According to Einstein, if somehow we could transform mass into energy, it would be possible to "liberate" huge amounts of energy. During the next decade, a major step was taken in that direction when Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr described the structure of an atom more precisely. It was made up, they said, of a positively charged core, the nucleus, and of negatively charged electrons that revolved around the nucleus. It was the nucleus, scientists concluded, that had to be broken or "exploded" if atomic energy was to be released. In 1934, Enrico Fermi of Italy disintegrated heavy atoms by spraying them with neutrons. However he didn't realize that he had achieved nuclear fission. In December 1938, though, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman in Berlin did a similar experiment with uranium and were able to verify a world-shaking achievement. They had produced nuclear fission (they had split an atom)- 33 years after Einstein said it could be done mass was transformed into energy. On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"In the course of the last four months, it has been made probable - through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilard in America - that it may become possible to set up nuclear chain reactions in a large mass of uranium... And this new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs... A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory." He urged Roosevelt to begin a nuclear program without delay. In later years Einstein deplored the role he had played in the development of such a destructive weapon: "I made one great mistake in my life," he told.
In December 1942 at the University of Chicago, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi succeeded in producing the first nuclear chain reaction.In August 1942, during World War II, the United States established the Manhattan Project. The purpose of this project was to develop, construct, and test the A-bomb. On May 31, 1945, sixteen men met in the office of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. The sixteen men were there to make decisions about a weapon the average American had never heard of - the atom bomb. They picked future targets for "The Bomb." They were not talking about "just another weapon." What they were discussing was "a new relationship of man to the universe," as said by Stimson. Humankind, the Secretary seemed to be saying, was at the most critical turning point in its entire recorded history.
Parallel to these events during these datelines...the 'Satyagrah" and 'Non Violence" movements were practiced in India.
What more should I say ?
"In the course of the last four months, it has been made probable - through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilard in America - that it may become possible to set up nuclear chain reactions in a large mass of uranium... And this new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs... A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory." He urged Roosevelt to begin a nuclear program without delay. In later years Einstein deplored the role he had played in the development of such a destructive weapon: "I made one great mistake in my life," he told.
In December 1942 at the University of Chicago, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi succeeded in producing the first nuclear chain reaction.In August 1942, during World War II, the United States established the Manhattan Project. The purpose of this project was to develop, construct, and test the A-bomb. On May 31, 1945, sixteen men met in the office of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. The sixteen men were there to make decisions about a weapon the average American had never heard of - the atom bomb. They picked future targets for "The Bomb." They were not talking about "just another weapon." What they were discussing was "a new relationship of man to the universe," as said by Stimson. Humankind, the Secretary seemed to be saying, was at the most critical turning point in its entire recorded history.
Parallel to these events during these datelines...the 'Satyagrah" and 'Non Violence" movements were practiced in India.
What more should I say ?
September 04, 2006
India and China
A strange anomaly has appeared in Google Earth images of China recently. The site based in the very remote Huangyangtan region, appears to be a small-scale model of a piece of territory
complete with snow-topped mountains, streams and valleys. According to comparative data gathered by members of the online community where the image first appeared, the rectangular simulation bears an uncanny resemblance to 450 kilometres of INDIAN territory occupied by China, in the Karakoram mountain range.
Though likely man-made, little is known about this strange model, including its purpose. Some have suggested a military purpose, but what that may be is anyone's guess. Whatever the reason for it, the model is immense and must have taken a great deal of time to create. The Huangyangtan site has a three-kilometre perimeter.
Frankly Speaking....what do you think ?
complete with snow-topped mountains, streams and valleys. According to comparative data gathered by members of the online community where the image first appeared, the rectangular simulation bears an uncanny resemblance to 450 kilometres of INDIAN territory occupied by China, in the Karakoram mountain range.
Though likely man-made, little is known about this strange model, including its purpose. Some have suggested a military purpose, but what that may be is anyone's guess. Whatever the reason for it, the model is immense and must have taken a great deal of time to create. The Huangyangtan site has a three-kilometre perimeter.
Frankly Speaking....what do you think ?
September 03, 2006
Just do it
Forty-odd years ago the most respected and certainly one of the most famous authors in America offered to teach a class in one of the ivy league colleges. The university notified its alumni of the course, which was to be in creative writing. The response was far beyond wildest expectations. So many students wanted the benefit of this great man’s knowledge that the college auditorium had to be used as a classroom. The semester began and the great day was at hand.
The auditorium was filed to overflowing. All the students, pencil and notebook in hand, waited in hushed and excited anticipation. The famous man strode out to the lectern, leaned upon it, looked out upon a sea of faces intent on what he was about to say. He took of his eyeglasses, huffed on them gently, wiped them for a bit, seeming to heighten the almost electric energy in the air. He replaced his spectacles carefully, cleared his throat, and then asked a question: “How many of you truly want to be writers?”
One could have strolled across the auditorium on the tips of the upraised hands. Not a single arm remained upon the owner’s lap. The great man was quiet for a long moment. He walked to the center of the stage, stopped, placed his hands arrogantly upon his hips and commenced to speak: “Then why aren’t you at home writing?”
With that Sinclair Lewis turned, strode of the platform, out of the auditorium, of the campus, and was never to be seen at that university again.
That was the entire creative writing course.
Frankly speaking...I totally agree (With experience)
All things in life are really quite simple (Mostly ). It is people who complicate.
The auditorium was filed to overflowing. All the students, pencil and notebook in hand, waited in hushed and excited anticipation. The famous man strode out to the lectern, leaned upon it, looked out upon a sea of faces intent on what he was about to say. He took of his eyeglasses, huffed on them gently, wiped them for a bit, seeming to heighten the almost electric energy in the air. He replaced his spectacles carefully, cleared his throat, and then asked a question: “How many of you truly want to be writers?”
One could have strolled across the auditorium on the tips of the upraised hands. Not a single arm remained upon the owner’s lap. The great man was quiet for a long moment. He walked to the center of the stage, stopped, placed his hands arrogantly upon his hips and commenced to speak: “Then why aren’t you at home writing?”
With that Sinclair Lewis turned, strode of the platform, out of the auditorium, of the campus, and was never to be seen at that university again.
That was the entire creative writing course.
Frankly speaking...I totally agree (With experience)
All things in life are really quite simple (Mostly ). It is people who complicate.
August 31, 2006
You're addicted to Internet if.....
You get a tatoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 2.01or higher."
All of your friends have an @ in their names.
And even your night dreams are in HTML
You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.
Your dog has its own home page.
You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
Your phone bill makes your dad go crazy.
You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
Frankly speaking.....I don't mind
All of your friends have an @ in their names.
And even your night dreams are in HTML
You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.
Your dog has its own home page.
You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
Your phone bill makes your dad go crazy.
You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
Frankly speaking.....I don't mind
August 26, 2006
Faith forever
Last Sunday in many cities/towns of India once again the frenzy was on."Gods drinking milk". A day prior to that there was another happening which caught the peoples' attention and they thronged in hundreds to a city sea beach in Mumbai when it was reported that the sea water had turned SWEET in taste.And yeah guys, hundreds confirmed this after tasting and packing in bottles.Even the TV News confirmed for one full day.The next day late night hundreds gathered around temples, big and small, in city after city around whole of North India to witness and offer milk to Gods.And almost more than half confirmed on camera/to TV news reporters that 'Yes...it is positive.The milk is being consumed by the idols"
Believe it or not.Laugh or smile.Joke or respect....
Now in come the 'Rationalists','Scientists' or the Non Believers. And there is a queue on TV Talkshows to assert and stop the people from "Blind' Faith.And once again the divisions take place...FAITH V/S SCIENCE.
My point here is, in this series of happenings( Whatever my own personal belief being put aside) is that everday millions and lacs of Indians or for that matter in any country of the world, we put daily offerings in Temples(Home or outside) in the form of Laddus,Sweets,Flowers etc. with a belief that it is being offered to God.We daily light Divas/Candles/Incense Sticks in thousands the world over with a belief,faith and conviction that it reaches our individual God,Ishwar,Allah,Saint etc.Then what problem is there when one fine day if there is a chain reaction all over to offer Milk to each's God and be a part of a National/Allround Mass ritual or practice ! I see no harm. Forget the science or logic behind all this...see it as a MASS PRAYER when in one moment thousands offer the same offering to their individual Gods.There are all chances of creating a Mega Vibration , a Mass Appeal, a Gigantic Prayer ritual.Till there is no scandal of Money being charged through such practices or people taking to any other practice behind all this....I just see this as a Moment to REJOIN AND REJOICE ...together.Take it as a one fine accidental/incidental day of MASS PRAYER to our Gods.Believe me guys ...it will be very positive and let's drop the endless discussions on the BIIIIIIIIG SCIENCE.
Believe it or not.Laugh or smile.Joke or respect....
Now in come the 'Rationalists','Scientists' or the Non Believers. And there is a queue on TV Talkshows to assert and stop the people from "Blind' Faith.And once again the divisions take place...FAITH V/S SCIENCE.
My point here is, in this series of happenings( Whatever my own personal belief being put aside) is that everday millions and lacs of Indians or for that matter in any country of the world, we put daily offerings in Temples(Home or outside) in the form of Laddus,Sweets,Flowers etc. with a belief that it is being offered to God.We daily light Divas/Candles/Incense Sticks in thousands the world over with a belief,faith and conviction that it reaches our individual God,Ishwar,Allah,Saint etc.Then what problem is there when one fine day if there is a chain reaction all over to offer Milk to each's God and be a part of a National/Allround Mass ritual or practice ! I see no harm. Forget the science or logic behind all this...see it as a MASS PRAYER when in one moment thousands offer the same offering to their individual Gods.There are all chances of creating a Mega Vibration , a Mass Appeal, a Gigantic Prayer ritual.Till there is no scandal of Money being charged through such practices or people taking to any other practice behind all this....I just see this as a Moment to REJOIN AND REJOICE ...together.Take it as a one fine accidental/incidental day of MASS PRAYER to our Gods.Believe me guys ...it will be very positive and let's drop the endless discussions on the BIIIIIIIIG SCIENCE.
August 23, 2006
Even the Big Guys stumble at times!
I read somewhere...
Sometimes even the biggest companies start to behave in self-defeating and even insane ways:
Shell outraged Europe by seeking to dump the Brent Spar oil platform in the North Atlantic, and lost millions when its customers boycotted its pumps.
IBM made the biggest loss in corporate history -- close to $5 Billion in a single year -- by fumbling the market for PCs it had itself created.
Coca-Cola tried to change the taste of the best known brand on Earth, with disastrous results.
McDonalds sued two unknown vegetarian protesters for libel and became bogged down in the longest libel suit in British legal history: a two-year PR nightmare.
Perrier tried to cover up the long-concealed truth about the purity of its product, and lost its market leadership when the truth finally came out.
Hoover came up with a promotional plan so clever it couldn't fail -- and lost $50 million.
Usually these corporate disasters are written off simply as errors of judgement; poor management, 'pilot error'.
Sometimes even the biggest companies start to behave in self-defeating and even insane ways:
Shell outraged Europe by seeking to dump the Brent Spar oil platform in the North Atlantic, and lost millions when its customers boycotted its pumps.
IBM made the biggest loss in corporate history -- close to $5 Billion in a single year -- by fumbling the market for PCs it had itself created.
Coca-Cola tried to change the taste of the best known brand on Earth, with disastrous results.
McDonalds sued two unknown vegetarian protesters for libel and became bogged down in the longest libel suit in British legal history: a two-year PR nightmare.
Perrier tried to cover up the long-concealed truth about the purity of its product, and lost its market leadership when the truth finally came out.
Hoover came up with a promotional plan so clever it couldn't fail -- and lost $50 million.
Usually these corporate disasters are written off simply as errors of judgement; poor management, 'pilot error'.
August 22, 2006
Englich iz a funy language !
There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple...
Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on
parkways?
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can
work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
Frankly Speaking ,English is a funny Language !
Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on
parkways?
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can
work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
Frankly Speaking ,English is a funny Language !
August 17, 2006
Flashback India
Listed below are a few recent past told prophecies or visions by some of the prominent personalities of our time. A bit from the past but so true,correct and thought provoking...something to think upon....think seriously.
"Power will go to the hands of rascals ,rogues and freebooters.So many future Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw.They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts.They will fight among themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles."
Winston Churcill on the eve of India's Independence.
"The rate of Hindus will decline in a strictly linear fashion and calculated logically it would take less than 420 years for the Hindu race to disappear completely from the face of India."
Col.UN Mukherji in 1909 refering to Census results of 1881/91 and 1901.He made this remark as a correction to 1891 Census commissioner's O' Donnell's prediction that Hindus would die out in 620 years.
"The Partition will be cause of Four Wars with Pakistan."
Mahatma Gandhi.
"While Mohmmaddans multiply like anything, the numbers of Hindus are dwindling periodically."
Swami Shradhanand 1926 refering to Census report 1911.
"Something has to be done to prevent the population explosion in India or it would hamper efforts made to make India an economically independent nation."
Industrialist JRD Tata to Jawaharlal Nehru.
"Jeh,but population is our strength."
Jawaharlal Nehru 's reported response to JRD.
Frankly Speaking.........wish we had listened to it then ! And though valuable time might be gone, there is always a Better Tommorow.
"Power will go to the hands of rascals ,rogues and freebooters.So many future Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw.They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts.They will fight among themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles."
Winston Churcill on the eve of India's Independence.
"The rate of Hindus will decline in a strictly linear fashion and calculated logically it would take less than 420 years for the Hindu race to disappear completely from the face of India."
Col.UN Mukherji in 1909 refering to Census results of 1881/91 and 1901.He made this remark as a correction to 1891 Census commissioner's O' Donnell's prediction that Hindus would die out in 620 years.
"The Partition will be cause of Four Wars with Pakistan."
Mahatma Gandhi.
"While Mohmmaddans multiply like anything, the numbers of Hindus are dwindling periodically."
Swami Shradhanand 1926 refering to Census report 1911.
"Something has to be done to prevent the population explosion in India or it would hamper efforts made to make India an economically independent nation."
Industrialist JRD Tata to Jawaharlal Nehru.
"Jeh,but population is our strength."
Jawaharlal Nehru 's reported response to JRD.
Frankly Speaking.........wish we had listened to it then ! And though valuable time might be gone, there is always a Better Tommorow.
August 13, 2006
Tears too are Liquid
While I fully side with the UK/USA authorities in their precaution campaign due to the latest "Terrorists Threat" and raising their Security levels to Yellow,Orange,Red,Slightly more red,Dark Red,Blood Red .....whatever, I am filled with a few doubtz of my own.After the last months Train Bombs here in India (200 killed) and the constant killings of so many innocents in and around Kashmir by the SOBs called #&#*@(")#>
what if we had raised our Security standards to such high levels by banning Liquids on planes... including Milk bottles,Perfumes,Shampoos,Gels,Colognes etc ?! Would they have co operated,endorsed,supported, backed openly...our 'Threat Perception" ?
I just want to tell here one thing ...all you guys out there>
"MY SHAMPOO IS INNOCENT"
what if we had raised our Security standards to such high levels by banning Liquids on planes... including Milk bottles,Perfumes,Shampoos,Gels,Colognes etc ?! Would they have co operated,endorsed,supported, backed openly...our 'Threat Perception" ?
I just want to tell here one thing ...all you guys out there>
"MY SHAMPOO IS INNOCENT"
Few Facts
1. Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience! 2. Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
3. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
4. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
5. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
8. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
Will keep adding more as I get to learn more !
3. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
4. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
5. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
8. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
Will keep adding more as I get to learn more !
August 09, 2006
New Cola Ad Campaigns ?!
After the recent findings by an Indian institution about the 'Pesticide Residues' present in soft drink brands like Pepsi,Coke,Limca,7Up etc....such ad campaigns are likely to crop up.
Now they(Authorities and Companies) are arguing whether it within the 'Permisable' limits or above/below that in the contents of the bottle !
Bloody hell.....the shocking thing is 'THEY ARE THERE" ! ! !
And as popular remarks go that these Brands are better off as Tiles Cleaners/Stain removers ...so be it.
Frankly Speaking I think it would be better that way...atleast that would be cheaper than the expensive Soaps/Detergents and Formula X,Y,Z Cleaning agents.
August 04, 2006
My point of view
Isaac Newton only claimed that gravity was an attracting force between all objects because that's the way things appear --objects fall to the Earth or approach each other when floating in outer space. So Newton understandably claimed that it must be some type of attracting force emanating from objects,but he gave no scientific explanation for this force. Why does it attract and not repel? How does it cause falling objects andorbiting planets without drawing on any known power source?
Einstein was so dissatisfied with our lack of understandingabout gravity even two centuries after Newton that he inventedan entirely new theory of gravity as a warping of "four-dimensional space-time" known as General Relativity Theory.But this theory is even more mysterious and unexplained, and also suffers from the same problems as Newton's gravitationalforce theory. What is "four-dimensional space-time" and whywould the mere presence of matter warp it?
Where is the apparently unlimited power source for it all?
And, despite both Newton's and Einstein's attempts to explain gravity, we are still mystified by it today. Scientists are searching for "graviton particles" within the atom or "gravitywaves" rippling through deep space, hoping for some sort ofphysical verification for one gravitational theory or another.Meanwhile, they are inventing even further theories of gravity,such as Quantum Gravity and String Theory.
Frankly Speaking 'Gravity' is a complete mystery in our science even today
Einstein was so dissatisfied with our lack of understandingabout gravity even two centuries after Newton that he inventedan entirely new theory of gravity as a warping of "four-dimensional space-time" known as General Relativity Theory.But this theory is even more mysterious and unexplained, and also suffers from the same problems as Newton's gravitationalforce theory. What is "four-dimensional space-time" and whywould the mere presence of matter warp it?
Where is the apparently unlimited power source for it all?
And, despite both Newton's and Einstein's attempts to explain gravity, we are still mystified by it today. Scientists are searching for "graviton particles" within the atom or "gravitywaves" rippling through deep space, hoping for some sort ofphysical verification for one gravitational theory or another.Meanwhile, they are inventing even further theories of gravity,such as Quantum Gravity and String Theory.
Frankly Speaking 'Gravity' is a complete mystery in our science even today
July 29, 2006
A UN Survey ?
A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN.
The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"
The survey was a huge failure.
In Africa they didn't even know what 'food' meant.
In India they didn't know what ~honest" meant.
In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant.
In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant.
In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant.
In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant And
In the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant.
This joke has been on Net Circulation since long....
and Frankly Speaking....I feel it's close to the truth !
The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"
The survey was a huge failure.
In Africa they didn't even know what 'food' meant.
In India they didn't know what ~honest" meant.
In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant.
In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant.
In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant.
In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant And
In the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant.
This joke has been on Net Circulation since long....
and Frankly Speaking....I feel it's close to the truth !
July 28, 2006
A Historic letter !
Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department:
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station. This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report! to papers."
Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption "Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Any guesses why this letter was of historic value? It apparently led to the introduction of toilets on trains.
FRANKLY SPEAKING...a historic letter.
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station. This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report! to papers."
Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption "Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Any guesses why this letter was of historic value? It apparently led to the introduction of toilets on trains.
FRANKLY SPEAKING...a historic letter.
July 27, 2006
Two/Too OverHyped females !?
I read somewhere.......
in one of the popular magazines, Mallika Sherawat recently commented, "I think these are the same people who go, Sania Mirza's only number 32 in the world! But hey you "......." she's laughing all the way to the bank and has gone where no Indian woman has gone before. She's has been on center court and I have walked the red carpet at Cannes and Toronto. Win or loose we have been there and you are struggling with your thesaurus to find new derogatory words. But now, on saying this, would I offend those linguistically challenged gossip columnists posing as journalists whose writing is worse than my acting?"
Well FRANKLY SPEAKING I agree......
in one of the popular magazines, Mallika Sherawat recently commented, "I think these are the same people who go, Sania Mirza's only number 32 in the world! But hey you "......." she's laughing all the way to the bank and has gone where no Indian woman has gone before. She's has been on center court and I have walked the red carpet at Cannes and Toronto. Win or loose we have been there and you are struggling with your thesaurus to find new derogatory words. But now, on saying this, would I offend those linguistically challenged gossip columnists posing as journalists whose writing is worse than my acting?"
Well FRANKLY SPEAKING I agree......
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