History of Indian Tricolor  "A flag is a necessity for all nations. Millions have died for it. Every free nation of the world has its own flag. It is a symbol of a free country. The National Flag of India was designed by Pingali Venkayyaand and adopted in its present form during the meeting of Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, a few days before India's independence from the British on 15 August, 1947. It served as the national flag of the Dominion of India between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950 and that of the Republic of India thereafter. In India, the term "tricolour" refers to the Indian national flag. The National flag of India is a horizontal tricolor of deep saffron (kesari) at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion. The ratio of width of the flag to its length is two to three. In the centre of the white band is a navy blue wheel which represents the chakra. Its design is that of the wheel which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka. Its diameter approximates to the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes. Evolution of the TricolourIt is really amazing to see the various changes that our National Flag went through since its first inception. It was discovered or recognised during our national struggle for freedom. The evolution of the Indian National Flag sailed through many vicissitudes to arrive at what it is today. In one way it reflects the political developments in the nation. Some of the historical milestones in the evolution of our National Flag involve the following:  Unofficial flag of India in 1906  The Berlin committee flag, first raised by Bhikaiji Cama in 1907  The flag used during the Home Rule movement in 1917  The flag unofficially adopted in 1921  The flag adopted in 1931. This flag was also the battle ensign of the Indian National Army  The present Tricolour flag of India The first national flag in India is said to have been hoisted on August 7, 1906, in the Parsee Bagan Square (Green Park) in Calcutta now Kolkata. The flag was composed of three horizontal strips of red, yellow and green. The second flag was hoisted in Paris by Madame Cama and her band of exiled revolutionaries in 1907 (according to some inl9OS). This was very similar to the first flag except that the top strip had only one lotus but seven stars denoting the Saptarishi. This flag was also exhibited at a socialist conference in Berlin. The third flag went up in 1917 when our political struggle had taken a definite turn. Dr. Annie Besant and Lokmanya Tilak hoisted it during the Home rule movement. This flag had five red and four green horizontal strips arranged alternately, with seven stars in the saptarishi configuration super-imposed on them. In the left-hand top corner (the pole end) was the Union Jack. There was also a white crescent and star in one corner. During the session of the All India Congress Committee which met at Bezwada in 1921 (now Vijayawada) an Andhra youth prepared a flag and took it to Gandhiji. It was made up of two colours-red and green-representing the two major communities i.e. Hindus and Muslims. Gandhiji suggested the addition of a white strip to represent the remaining communities of India and the spinning wheel to symbolise progress of the Nation. The year 1931 was a landmark in the history of the flag. A resolution was passed adopting a tricolor flag as our national flag. This flag, the forbear of the present one, was saffron, white and green with Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel at the center. It was, however, clearly stated that it bore no communal significance and was to be interpreted thus. On July 22, 1947, the Constituent Assembly adopted it as Free India National Flag. After the advent of Independence, the colours and their significance remained the same. Only the Dharma Charkha of Emperor Asoka was adopted in place of the spinning wheel as the emblem on the flag. Thus, the tricolour flag of the Congress Party eventually became the tricolour flag of Independent India. Colours of the Flag:In the national flag of India the top band is of Saffron colour, indicating the strength and courage of the country. The white middle band indicates peace and truth with Dharma Chakra. The last band is green in colour shows the fertility, growth and auspiciousness of the land. The Chakra:This Dharma Chakra depicted the "wheel of the law" in the Sarnath Lion Capital made by the 3rd-century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. The chakra intends to show that there is life in movement and death in stagnation. Flag CodeOn 26th January 2002, the Indian flag code was modified and after several years of independence, the citizens of India were finally allowed to hoist the Indian flag over their homes, offices and factories on any day and not just National days as was the case earlier. Now Indians can proudly display the national flag any where and any time, as long as the provisions of the Flag Code are strictly followed to avoid any disrespect to the tricolour. For the sake of convenience, Flag Code of India, 2002, has been divided into three parts. Part I of the Code contains general description of the National Flag. Part II of the Code is devoted to the display of the National Flag by members of public, private organizations, educational institutions, etc. Part III of the Code relates to display of the National Flag by Central and State governments and their organisations and agencies. There are some rules and regulations upon how to fly the flag, based on the 26 January 2002 legislation. These include the following: The Do's:
The Don'ts
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
History of Indian Tricolor
Life's dictionary
Sometimes it may feel like A poem of everything.. .
CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other!
MARRIAGE:
It's an agreement wherein a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master
DIVORCE:
Future Tense of Marriage
LECTURE:
An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either
CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present
COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece
TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which masculine will power is defeated by feminine water-power!
DICTIONARY:
A place where divorce comes before marriage
CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks,nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on
ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before
CLASSIC:
A book which people praise, but never read
SMILE:
A curve that can set a lot of things straight!
OFFICE:
A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life
YAWN:
The only time when some married men ever get to open their mouth
ETC:
A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do
COMMITTEE:
Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together
EXPERIENCE:
The name men give to their Mistakes
ATOM BOMB:
An invention to bring an end to all inventions
PHILOSOPHER:
A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead
DIPLOMAT:
A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip
OPPORTUNIST:
A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river
OPTIMIST:
A person who while falling from EIFFEL TOWER says in midway "SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!"
PESSIMIST:
A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in OPPORTUNITY
MISER:
A person who lives poor so that he can die RICH!
FATHER:
A banker provided by nature
CRIMINAL:
A guy no different from the other, unless he gets caught
BOSS:
Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early
POLITICIAN:
One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence Later
DOCTOR:
A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Travesty of Justice.........
It is said that “All are equal, in the eyes of law”.
However, how true is it and how fairly is it adopted in India, is questionable. Look at these classic cases, of politicians, sons of politicians, top beauracrats / police officers etc., have got away with impunity after having committed serious crimes against hapless individuals.
These people in high places, have used their power, muscle power, administration, the police and the government (politicians & bureaucrats) to suppress evidences, muzzle the opponents and influence investigating authorities and ultimately managing to go scot free or with minimum punishment despite glaring evidences of their involvement, much to the chagrin & disappointment of the hapless victims and the society at large.
History has been replete with all kinds of controversies which are illustrative of the malaise the Indian political structure is facing in the post-independence period.
Shibu Soren
To understand Indian politics, it would be interesting going through the life and times of Shibu Soren- another rags to riches politician. He who was born in an ordinary tribal family later rose to dizzy heights. He has been a member of the Parliament many a times and has also been a Union Cabinet minister more than once and even got his life-time ambition of becoming the Chief minister fulfilled when he reached this coveted post firstly for a few days, then second time and now in Jan 10, the third time thanks & courtesy the BJP party.
Shibu Soren has a earned nation-wide notoriety for his alleged role in the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) case where there was a reported deal between the Congress and the JMM to save the then Narasimha Rao government during the July 1993 no-confidence motion, in what is popularly known as the JMM bribery scandal. He was ultimately jailed in the bribery case.
He has also been convicted by a Delhi district court in the murder of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha in 1994 and awarded life term which was later set aside by the Delhi High Court in August, 2007 on some technical grounds. The case of his secretary's death was vigorously investigated by the CBI. Jha's skeleton was found in the jungles outside Ranchi almost two years after the killing. Soren first got convicted by a trial court but then managed to secure an acquittal as well. This was a case when Soren was already in the business of power.
But the Chirudih massacre case dates back to a time when Soren was a true revolutionary. He was accused of instigating a mob that killed nine Muslims and policemen in a battle between tribals and non-tribals.
In 2004, he became coal minister in the Manmohan Singh government. He was forced to quit the cabinet in July 2004 after a warrant pending against him in the Chirudih massacre surfaced.
Soren was again made a minister in the central government in October 2004. He quit the cabinet in March 2005 after becoming Jharkhand chief minister. But he failed to prove his majority in the assembly, and had to step down.
Soren was again inducted in the central cabinet in 2006. He had to leave the central cabinet again in October that year after he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his personal secretary Shashinath Jha.
He appealed, and was acquitted by the Delhi High Court in 2007. He has also been let off in the Chirudih massacre case.
But look at the impunity of this person who after having secured bail after spending over a month in judicial custody forced the UPA government to re-induct him into the Cabinet and was given back the same coal ministry. Soon, there was the Jharkhand state elections in 2005. After the results he became the CM for nine days and then resigned after his failure to obtain a vote of confidence in the assembly.
And despite all these badges of dishonor, the man remains completely unperturbed, undisturbed and unaffected as if these are part of a politician’s required bio-data.
DIG Rathore accused of molestation and abetment of suicide of Ruchika
It took 19 years, 16 witnesses, and ten years of court trial to convict S P S Rathore, the former DGP of Haryana, in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. But Rathore was given bail after being sentenced for a six-month jail term and levied a Rs.1,000 fine by a CBI special court.
To unravel the details of the two-decade-long case, we need to travel back to 1990, when budding tennis player Ruchika Girhotra was molested by the then Haryana IGP S P S Rathore and decided to file a complaint against him. But that complaint changed her life forever.
Ruchika was expelled from the tennis club, expelled from her school and harassed repeatedly to take back her complaint. In addition, her brother Ashu, who was also a teenager, was arrested and slapped with several charges of car theft. Her entire family was subjected to repeated harassment, till Ruchika decided to end her life in 1993.
However, the case did not end there. Aradhana, her close friend and a key witness in the case, decided to continue the fight. And Anand Prakash, her father, also joined the cause.
After nearly 450 visits to courts in different cities, Anand Prakash eventually succeeded in getting Rathore convicted. Soon after the conviction, there was a national uproar against the short sentence and treatment meted out in the case, and the untimely death of the young girl.
A second round of investigation revealed that Rathore had been protected by successive CMs of Haryana, especially former Haryana chief minister Chauthala, though he promptly denied it. This apart, Rathore influenced CBI officials and cops probing the case and asked them to turn a blind eye to the incident.
Now, fresh complaints are being pressed against Rathore for attempt to murder, abetting suicide, and it remains to be seen how the retrial will take shape.
Bitti Hotra, son of Orissa Police Officer, accused of allegedly raping a German Tourist
BB Mahanti, one of the senior most police officers of Orissa, is accused of helping his son, Bitti Hotra – a rape convict – jump parole and evade police arrest, after a fast track court in Rajasthan convicted his son for allegedly raping a foreign German tourist.
The court later issued a fresh non-bailable arrest warrant against the senior Mohanti on October 3, 2007 viable till November 15, after the Orissa police sought more time. The court has also directed the Cuttack district collector to prepare a list of the property of the senior IPS officer for forfeiture.
B B Mahanti and his son suddenly went into hiding when the duo saw the long hand of law catching up with them.
Unable to trace the senior Mohanti, the Cuttack police issued a public notice to the absconding officer on Dec 07 last year, declaring him a “proclaimed offender” who has been evading arrest since May 28, 2007. He subsequently surfaced and managed to get a bail and subsequent let off. However his son is still underground and efforts are on by the Police to track him and arrest him Rourkela, Puri, Sambalpur in Orissa, Bangalore, Andhra Pradesh, Putapurthy, Delhi and Calcutta.
All six ABVP students acquitted in Ujjain professor murder case
Professor Sabharwal, was the head of the political science department of Madhav College, Ujjain, died in August, 2009, after violence in the college over student union elections when he was allegedly beaten up by the ABVP activists. Later, he died in a hospital. The incident was captured on tape by media television crew and widely aired on all national TV Channels.
However, nearly three years after they were accused in the murder of college professor H S Sabharwal in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, six ABVP activists were acquitted on Monday by a court in Nagpur for lack of evidence.
“The prosecution has failed to put up evidence to prove its case and hence the court acquits all six accused,” Additional Sessions Judge Nitin Dalvi said in his brief statement today in the court.
The case was transferred from Ujjain to Nagpur court vide a Supreme Court order in March 2008 in view of the fear that investigations could be tampered with in Madhya Pradesh, which has a BJP government and all accused reportedly belonged to ABVP, the party’s student wing.
While the accused hailed the judgement as “justice done since we knew we were innocent”, the late Ujjain professor’s son Himanshu has decided to challenge the judgment in the Supreme Court. “My father died once again today. The verdict is disappointing but not unexpected since the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh successfully managed to sabotage the case,” he said.
“The prosecution agency was never serious about the probe,” he said. “The entire evidence was suppressed and the case was rendered mere eyewash. If the police would have been serious, they could have built an unassailable case.”
In all 69 witnesses were presented before the court, but all key witnesses, including three policemen, turned hostile, weakening the prosecution case.
This despite the fact video evidence in the form of media CDs that had witnesses saying they had seen the assailants doing the act.”
All these examples makes us wonder if there is real justice in India and is it a Traversty of Justice in this country. These high placed people have made a mockery of Justice and its unfortunate that the Judiciary system has not been able to check these cases and runs the risk of losing its credibility in the eyes of the people. Its one thing to hide behind the law “contempt of court”, when challenged but to be seen as fair and to restore its credibility, the Judiciary system has to unveil itself from the protectionism and rise to the occasion.
How often we have seen petty thieves, silent demonstrators and common man being thrashed, handcuffed and paraded in public by the police and then languishing in jail. How many politicians or high profile people have been convicted and senteced to punishment and really served their sentence in jail. Hardly any.
India has a long history and tradition of upholding “nyaya, dharma and needhi”. Will the present Judiciary system rise to the occasion, only time will tell.
Its in its own interest that the Judiciary lives by the principles of :
*All are equal before law and no one is above law
*Justice delayed is justice denied
*Justice must not only be done, but percieved to have been done
At the current state of affairs, Im afraid the Indian judiciary is not living upto these principles. Its time that the Judiciary realises this and rises to the occassion to instill some confidence in the people of India in the judiciary system.
Meanwhile its heartening to note that the media is filling in the gap and publicly trying these villains and mounting pressure on the Government, the administration and the Judiciary to relook at these cases and bring these perpetrators of justice to book and ensure punishment is commensurate to their acts of commission or omission. Its also heartening to note that the Government (Home Minister) is waking up and willing to reopen these cases and ensure proper justice is meted out to the victims.
Looks like P Chidambaram and Arnab Goswami are the last hope for the common man in their battle for “nyaya, dharma and needhi”.
Friday, January 1, 2010
How to spot an Indian
Ø Everything you eat is savored with garlic, onions and chillies.Ø You try and re-use gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
Ø You are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the airport.
Ø You arrive one or two hours late to a party, and think it's normal.
Ø You peel the stamps off letters that the postal service missed to stamp.
Ø Your toilet has a plastic bowl next to the commode.
Ø All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
Ø You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
Ø You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
Ø You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch .
Ø You live with your parents even if you are 40 years old. (And they like it that way).
Ø If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing whose daughter has run with whose son and feel it's your duty to spread the word.
Ø You only make long distance call after 11pm.
Ø If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
Ø When your parents meet Indian for the first time and talk for a few minutes, you soon discover they are your relatives.
Ø Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs while talking.
Ø You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting dirty.
Ø It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.You List your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no matter what she looks like.
Ø You're always interested to know/interfere in others' personal matters, what they are doing, where they are going, etc.
Ø You have really enjoyed reading this mail because you know some, or most of them, applies to you!
Ha ha ha Hoz It?
The saddest story of the century - Indians succeed in countries ruled by whites, and fail in their own.
If we were to sum up our performance in the 20th century in one sentence. Indians have succeeded in countries ruled by whites, but failed in their own.
This outcome would have astonished leaders of our independence movement. They declared Indians were kept down by white rule and could flourish only under self-rule. This seemed self-evident The harsh reality today is that Indians are succeeding brilliantly in countries ruled by whites, but failing in India . They are flourishing in the USA and Britain .
But those that stay in India are pulled down by an outrageous system that fails to reward merit or talent. Fails to allow people and businesses to grow, and keeps real power with netas, babus, and assorted manipulators. Once Indians go to white-ruled countries, they soar and conquer summits once occupied only by whites.
Rono Dutta has become head of United Airlines, the biggest airline in the world. Had he stayed in India , he would have no chance in Indian Airlines. Even if the top job there was given to him by some godfather, a myriad netas, babus and trade unionists would have ensured that he could never run it like United Airlines.
Rana Talwar has become head of Standard Chartered Bank Plc, one of the biggest multinational banks in Britain , while still in his 40s. Had he been in India , he would perhaps be a local manager in the State Bank, taking orders from babus to give loans to politically favoured clients.
Rajat Gupta is head of Mckinsey, the biggest management consultancy firm in the world. He now advises the biggest multinationals on how to run their business. Had he remained in India he would probably be taking orders from some sethji with no qualification save that of being born in a rich family.
Lakhsmi Mittal has become the biggest steel baron in the world, with steel plants in the US , Kazakhstan , Germany , Mexico , Trinidad and Indonesia . India 's socialist policies reserved the domestic steel industry for the public sector. So Lakhsmi Mittal went to Indonesia to run his family's first steel plant there. Once freed from the shackles of India , he conquered the world.
Subhash Chandra of Zee TV has become a global media king, one of the few to beat Rupert Murdoch. He could never have risen had he been limited to India , which decreed a TV monopoly for Doordarshan. But technology came to his aid: satellite TV made it possible for him to target India from Hong Kong . Once he escaped Indian rules and soil, he soared.
You may not have heard of 48-year old Gururaj Deshpande. His communications company, Sycamore, is currently valued by the US stock market at over $ 30 billion, making him perhaps one of the richest Indians in the world. Had he remained in India , he would probably be a babu in the Department of Telecommunications.
Arun Netravali has become president of Bell Labs, one of the biggest research and development centres in the world with 30,000 inventions and several Nobel Prizes to its credit. Had he been in India , he would probably be struggling in the middle cadre of Indian Telephone Industries. Silicon Valley alone contains over one lac Indian millionaires.
Indra Nooyi was born in Chennai and did her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She held product manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and textile firm Mettur Beardsell. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 and earned a Master's degree in Public and Private Management. Graduating in 1980, Nooyi joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and then held strategy positions at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri.[8] She joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was named president and CFO in 2001 before going on to become the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of of PepsiCo, one of the world's leading food and beverage companies.
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad is an Indian entrepreneur, consultant, and management expert. Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan.He is one of the recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Sammaan awards in 2009 and was conferred the Padma Bhushan, an Indian civilian award, the same year. In 2009 he was named the world's most influential business thinker on The Thinkers 50 list.
Sabeer Bhatia invented Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $ 400 million. Victor Menezes is number two in Citibank. Shailesh Mehta is CEO of Providian, a top US financial services company. Also at or near the top are Rakesh Gangwal of US Air, Jamshd Wadia of Arthur Andersen, and Aman Mehta of Hong Kong & amp; Shanghai Banking Corp.
In Washington DC , the Indian CEO High Tech Council has no less than 200 members, all high tech-chiefs. While Indians have soared, India has stagnated. At independence India was the most advanced of all colonies, with the best prospects.
Today with a GNP per head of $370, it occupies a lowly 177th position among 209 countries of the world. But poverty is by no means the only or main problem. India ranks near the bottom in the UNDP's Human Development Index, but high up in Transparency International's Corruption Index.
The neta-babu raj brought in by socialist policies is only one reason for India 's failure. The more sordid reason is the rule-based society we inherited from the British Raj is today in tatters. Instead money, muscle and influence matter most.
At independence we were justly proud of our politicians. Today we regard them as scoundrels and criminals. They have created a jungle of laws in the holy name of socialism, and used these to line their pockets and create patronage networks. No influential crook suffers. The Mafia flourish unhindered because they have political links.
The sons of police officers believe they have a licence to rape and kill (ask the Mattoo family). Talent cannot take you far amidst such rank misgovernance. We are reverting to our ancient feudal system where no rules applied to the powerful. The British Raj brought in abstract concepts of justice for all, equality before the law. These were maintained in the early years of independence. But sixty years later, citizens wail that India is a lawless land where no rules are obeyed.
The lack of transparent rules, properly enforced, is a major reason why talented Indians cannot rise in India . A second reason is the neta-babu raj, which remains intact despite supposed liberalisation. But once talented Indians go to rule-based societies in the west, they take off. In those societies all people play by the same rules, all have freedom to innovate without being strangled by regulations.
This, then, is why Indians succeed in countries ruled by whites, and fail in their own.
It is the saddest story of the century.
Monday, September 7, 2009
India Shining
In a way, I feel that is exactly what we are living in
I don't think any other generation has lived through so much
of changes occuring in their Lifetime and mindset and outlook
in such a short span of time and with such long strides
Come to think of it
30 years back, there was B/W TV with just one channel
Doordarshan
(Remember this LOGO)
Today we can watch any channel from anywhere in the world
on the internet, while having a video chat simultaneously
To someone from that era (we ourselves actually ),
today's times would be nothing less than a sci-fi scenario
20 years back, even divorce was taboo
Today, live in relationships are becoming passe
We are actually getting ready to be bored with it
20 years back happy and gay figured in chidren's poems
as words denoting the mindset of happy innocent children
Today, ... .... O Boy ... Parents would want their
child to be happy but not GAY
Technology has made life so much comfortable
The Cell phone with the cheapest rates anywhere in the world
has connected indians like nothing else ....
If the Green revolution freed us from carrying a beggin bowl,
the telecom revolution erased distances in a flash ..
And RELIANCE, whatever their internal squabbles,
made the cell phone affordable to the local sabziwala ...
From Guduvancherry (There is actually a place by that name in Tamilnadu)
to Mumbai, From Kashmir to Kanyakumari
INDIA started to talk and boy, India have a lot to say
Walk while you talk to SMSing the janta for their views
(even though it has created a controversy for the
students in college),
What an idea Sirji became the byeline
for all pathbreaking innovations
Computerisation removed the serpentine queues
allowing anyone with the knowledge of basic internet usage
to book their tickets online ... Away with the agents ... to draw cash whenever they want ... Away with the cashier at the banks ...
to India and the consumer revolution began ...
With no middleman to inflate the prices, India
now wore branded clothing and Brand India became
INDIA SHINING although it did nothing for the politico
The Common Man .. the man on the street aka R K Laxman's
dhoti clad check coated Indian became the epitome of
"Saala Main to saab ban gaya" whether willingly or not
is a different issue (Don't be a spoilsport now )
All of which could not be imagined even 10 years back ..
Ok, so what there is still corruption, the metro still tilted over in Delhi
due to shoddy work, there is the flu now and increased materialism
But, In the best of time or the worst,
From Global economic giant to Nuclear superpower
to IT hub to outsourcing of BPOs & KPOs
India is where the action NOW is......
Remember I love you
In the storms of life remember,I Love You....
When you're suffering, remember,I'm there too....
When you think you're all alone,And you feel you can't go on ~Oh, beloved child, remember, I Love You!
When the sunrise comes, in glory,I love you..
When the stars fall in surrender,I love you...
When the dusk is red in splendor, And the evening breeze is tender, Oh, my dear beloved, remember,I love you!
I can speak in a million ways to any human heart All you need is that tenderness that sets your soul apart. I've a million ways to tell you if you open up the door. And I'm longing so to always tell you more...When you hear the music swelling - I love youDon't you know?
When each bird call, you are telling - I love you...
Yes, love you so!
And when evening shadows fall-
Then I love you most of all -
Precious Child, you must remember,I Love You!
Yours truly
GOD
Sunday, August 23, 2009
How to celebrate Ganesh Chathurthi
A life-like clay model of Lord Ganesha is made 2-3 months prior to the day of Ganesh Chaturthi. The size of this idol may vary from 3/4th of an inch to over 25 feet.On the day of the festival, it is placed on raised platforms in homes or in elaborately decorated outdoor tents for people to view and pay their homage. The priest, usually clad in red silk dhoti and shawl, then invokes life into the idol amidst the chanting of mantras. This ritual is the pranapratishhtha. After this the shhodashopachara (16 ways of paying tribute) follows. Coconut, jaggery, 21 modakas (rice flour preparation) , 21 durva (trefoil) blades and red flowers are offered. The idol is anointed with red unguent (rakta chandan). Throughout the ceremony, Vedic hymns from the Rig Veda and Ganapati Atharva Shirsha Upanishad, and Ganesha stotra from the Narada Purana are chanted.For 10 days, from Bhadrapad Shudh Chaturthi to the Ananta Chaturdashi, Ganesha is worshipped.
On the 11th day, the image is taken through the streets in a procession accompanied with dancing, singing, to be immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual see-off of the Lord in his journey towards his abode in Kailash while taking away with him the misfortunes of all man. All join in this final procession shouting “Ganapathi Bappa Morya, Purchya Varshi Laukariya” (O father Ganesha, come again early next year). After the final offering of coconuts, flowers and camphor is made, people carry the idol to the river to immerse it.The whole community comes to worship Ganesha in beautifully done tents. These also serve as the venue for free medical checkup, blood donation camps, charity for the poor, dramatic performances, films, devotional songs, etc. During the days of the festival.
Swami Sivananda Recommends
On the Ganesh Chaturthi day, meditate on the stories connected with Lord Ganesha early in the morning, during the Brahmamuhurta period. Then, after taking a bath, go to the temple and do the prayers of Lord Ganesha. Offer Him some coconut and sweet pudding. Pray with faith and devotion that He may remove all the obstacles that you experience on the spiritual path. Worship Him at home, too. You can get the assistance of a pundit. Have and image of Lord Ganesha in your House. Feel His Presence in it.
Don’t forget not to look at the moon on that day; remember that it behaved unbecomingly towards the Lord. This really means avoid the company of all those who have no faith in God, and who deride God, your Guru and religion, from this very day.
Take fresh spiritual resolves and pray to Lord Ganesha for inner spiritual strength to attain success in all your undertakings.
May the blessings of Sri Ganesha be upon you all! May He remove all the obstacles that stand in your spiritual path! May He bestow on you all material prosperity as well as liberation!
Monday, August 17, 2009
Young Green Coconut Water can prevent H1N1
Pls take young green coconut water daily. Former associate professor of ecology at Universiti Malaya has authored several books on complementary therapy called, 'Ecological Healing System'.Dr Palaniappan said his 33 years of research had shown that high acidity in the body resulted in loss of immunity, thus making people more susceptible to viral diseases like Influenza A (H1N1).Hence, to prevent acidity, it was essential to consume alkaline food and drinks that could neutralise excess acid in the body.
Dr Palaniappan recommends coconut water, which is alkaline, and therefore could be used as a herbal medicine for the prevention of H1N1.For example, he said, those who felt feverish and developed a burning sensation while attending to a call of nature because of extreme acidity, could neutralise it by drinking coconut water, twice a day, for three days. He also recommended orange, lemon and pomelo which, despite containing citric acid, were very rich in potassium and therefore, would not disturb the body's immunity.
According to Dr Palaniappan, excessive physical activity like running a marathon should be avoided as it produced acid due to excessive metabolic activity.Similarly, he said, keeping late nights without adequate sleep and working without proper rest could also increase the body's acidity which in turn, lowered immunity and made the body vulnerable to viral attacks.Dr Palaniappan' s blog:
Did you know ?
- Coca Cola was originally green.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. "Spades" King David; "Clubs" Alexander the Great; " Hearts" Charlemagne; "Diamonds" Julius Caesar.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
- If a statue of a warrior on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes. - What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. All invented by women. - Honey This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death
- Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'
- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tounge print is different
- And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Bank account of Life
Imagine there is a bank that credits your accountEach morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every “evening” deletes whatever part of theBalance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course !!!
Each of us has such a “bank” It’s name is TIME. Every morning, It credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, Whatever of this you have failed to Invest to good purpose.It carries over no balance, It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, The loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the “tomorrow.” You must live in the presenton today’s deposits. Invest it so as to getfrom it the utmost inhealth, happiness, and success! The clock is running. Make the most of today.
- To realize the value of ONE YEAR … ask a student who failed a grade.
- To realize the value of ONE MONTH … ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
- To realize the value of ONE WEEK … ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
- To realize the value of ONE HOUR … ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
- To realize the value of ONE MINUTE … ask the person who missed the train.
- To realize the value of ONE SECOND … ask the person who just avoided an accident.
- To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND … ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called … The Present!!
History behind Independence
Independence Day Also called Swatantrata Divas (Hindi)The countdown had started much earlier. It was on February 26, 1947, when the British Government made an important announcement of policy. It declared, its intention to quit India by June, 1948, and appointed Lord Mountbatten Viceroy of India to arrange for the transfer of authority from British to Indian hands. This momentous declaration had already evoked hearty enthusiasm all over India. Mountbatten assumed office on 24th March, 1947, and on 3rd June broadcast the famous declaration laying down the method by which the power will be transferred.
Read on ...the History behind India's Independence...
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUyQGJJK9ID6ZGRnamJ2ZjNfMTcxZHJ3cDc4aHI&hl=en
Monday, August 10, 2009
Who’s the weaker sex ?
There were two news reports in the newspapers today that are interesting reading and makes us sit up and think.Around 3000 harassed hubbies have come together and formed an association and are going to organize a conference of “Harassed Hubbies”. Wow, we always thought that women were always harassed. Whenever we talk of harassment, physical relationship, abuse, breakaways or morality its always the men who are seen as the “bad boys”. If one were to glance the TV, or browse the newspapers or go through the litigations filed in the Courts of Law, it’s always the men who are allegedly “guilty” and rarely do we point fingers at a women.
The other news report is of a lady filing a complaint of “Rape” against her jilted lover. Understand that the lady was in a “live-in” relationship with a guy for about six months. As long as the going was good, it was a “live-in” relationship and “consensual sex”. When the going got bad and they had to part, it becomes a “rape”. What an irony? One can understand that a “rape” can happen one night, but how can it happen for 6 months. It certainly takes two hands to clap, isn’t it?
Recent reports have indicated that 40% of the marriages in Metro India are heading towards divorce. Interestingly most of them break up within the first year itself. It certainly takes two hands to clap.
With the globalization of the country, influence of the western world, education and financial independence of women and the influence of the media and the daily dose of television serials, women can no longer claim to be “satya savitri - all virtuous”.
The press, the police, the administration and the society at large are quick to pounce on the hapless “man” and pronounce him guilty even before he is heard and the investigation is completed.
The Indian society is heading towards a cultural change and the pressure to remove the artificial mask (that all of us wear) is increasing day by day. Morality and virtue are a thing of the past. It’s all about opportunism and opportunistic relationship in any relationship.
After all this one wonders “who is the weaker sex” !
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
For once you are right BCCI
For once the BCCI has taken the right stand in opposing the WADA drug testing mandate by the ICC. No one denies that we need to live in a drug free world. That sports has to be competed on a level footing and not on aided performance enhancement drugs.However it is too much to put someone on a constant, oh no ! permanent surveillance 24/7, 365 days a year. You are right Srinivasan, its an infringement on the civil liberties of an individual and an unconstitutional act. The "whereabouts" clause, invades the privacy of an individual.
Our sportsman may be professional sportsman but they are not the slaves of the administration. Its time the sports administrators treated sportsman as a human being and not a robot, spinning the fortune wheel.
No one is against drug testing and cheating in international sport. Random dope tests are welcome and needs to be enforced strictly. Random tests even during non playing days is also acceptable but to expect a sports person to be on permanent surveillance is not acceptable. More over in a vast country like ours and with such a huge fan following and commercial interests, how can a sportsman predict where he will be each day for the next 90 days. Its impracticable. The penalty to be levied in the event of missing out a drug test is too huge and disproportionate to the acts of ommission.
May be there are 500+ sports federation the world over who have signed this agreement, may be all other cricketing nations have agreed to this unreasonable demand, but BCCI has done the right thing to oppose this draconian and unreasonable rule. We dont need to fear anyone. Let not BCCI cow down in front of ICC. BCCI has done the right thing in backing its players and protecting the interests of its players.
For once let India challenge and lead the rest of the world.
The Rakhi Swayamvar Non Reality Show
What a great Soap Opera it was. The Rakhi swayamvar Realty show. A few clowns went through the motions of a "Swayamvar" and a billion fools watched the show in rapt attention. No wonder NDTV Imagine recorded the highest TRP ratings in recent times. Do we believe that Rakhi is going to marry Elesh ???In ancient India, Swayamwara was a practice of choosing a life partner among a list of suitors by a girl of marriageable age. In this practice, the girl's father was conducting the Swayamvara. A list of suitors used to arrive at the girl's home and ask for her hand. After evaluating the completion of various heroic tasks assigned, the girl used to identify husband of her choice and garland him.
Oh what an illustrious predecessors Rakhi had in selecting an eligible suitor, Seeta, Draupadi, Damayanti and Sanyogita are a few to name who found their husbands in the Swayamwaras.
It was all a natak, a soap opera put forth by the Television producers cashing in on the gullible public, who are ever so ready to sink into a hollow dream. After all these gruelling days of selection process, after going thro the motions of an engagement and exchange of wedding rings, Elesh informs that he is not yet ready to tie the sacred knot. He needs time to settle his business, marry off his sister, make some money and then marry Rakhi. Meanwhile he will date her from Canada. What a farce this looks like. Do you think he can continue to engage Rakhi from thousands of miles away and keep the Marriage Engagement warm. Its anybody's guess....
Merely offering varmalas and exchanging a ring is not all about marriage. Its much more than that Rakhi & Elesh.
Its time the people of India realised that life is more real than the reel life. The television producers must be laughing their way to the bank to encash their coffers.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Yes "Memsahib"
Its going to be around 62 years since we got our independence from the British Raj, but are we moving towards a "US Raj". Why do we time and again bend backwards to placate the US. Two historical blunders by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently makes one to wonder so.Where is the need to rush into a dialogue with Pakistan. Time and again they have rubbed salt into our wound. As PM Manmohan Singh agrees to look at the possibility of resumption of the peace process with Pakistan, many in India look at the move as a climbdown. Till July 17, India’s public stand vis-à-vis Pakistan was firm- no talks till terror is tackled and perpetrators of 26/11 are brought to justice. That changed in Sharm el Sheikh.
It is only betrayal and confusion. The government has shattered the hopes and expectations not just of the Mumbai victims’ families but of the whole nation.
The Pakistan Government has been going flip flop on its commitment to prosecute the perpetrators of the Mumbai Terror attack. They recently acquitted JuD chief Hafiz Mohammed Sayeed. And yet the Prime Minister is in a hurry to resume dialogue with Pakistan in the name of composite dialogue.
Where is the need and what are you going to talk on other than terrorism "Mr. Prime Minister". Do we really need trade, cultural exchanges, sports encounters, tourism more than tacking "Terror".
The talks have been resumed to please US, on the eve of the visit of Hillary Clinton. And there is the oft repeated certificate from "Memsahib". The US has not pressurised India to return to the dialogue table with Pakistan, says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and added that she was "very impressed" with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's discussion with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Egypt.
Even a child can read between the lines Prime Minister that we have bent backwards to please "Memsahib" at the cost of the country.
The second incident involves around climate change negotiations.
Has India blinked in the climate change negotiations? This seems to be the case as at the Major Economies Forum meeting in Italy, India has gone back on some of its key principles -- like a refusal to accept emission caps -- that it held to be non-negotiable till just before the G-8 meet in Italy.
In the course of some tough negotiations, India appears to have bent a bit in the face of pressure from industrialized countries, and the biggest compromise at the MEF was to accept that all countries would work to reduce emissions in order to not let global temperatures rise more than 2 degrees above pre-industrialisation levels.
Again, has this has been done to please the "Memsahib", only time will tell.
Our penchant for pleasing "Uncle Sam" is growing day by day. What a climbdown from the lofty Non Aligned Movement of the Iron Lady of India, late Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
Dr. Singh, you have been a disappointment, a let down and seem to be sandwiched between two ladies.
WOW.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?
Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?
Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when we transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists?
In what other language do thay call the third hand on the clock the second hand?
Why is it called a TV set when you get only one?
Why - in our crazy language - can your nose run and your feet smell?
Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane:If olive oil is made of olives, what do they make baby oil from?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian consume?
A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings.But fingers don't fing and grocers don't groce.If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?
If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that the preacher praught?
If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, why are shameless and shameful behavior the same?
English is a language in which you can turn a light on and you can turn a light off and you can turn a light out, but you can't turn a light in;
In which the sun comes up and goes down, but prices go up and come down.
In which your nose can simultaneously burn up and burn down and your car can slow up and slow down, in which you can fill in a form by filling out a form and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on.
English is a crazy language.
What is it that when the sun or the moon or the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible?;
and why when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I shall end it?
Definition of a Kiss
Prof .of Economics
Kiss is that thing for which the demand is aways higher than the supply.
Prof. Of Accountancy
Kiss is a credit because it is profitable when returned.
Prof. Of Algebra
Kiss is infinity because two divided by nothing.
Prof. Of Geometry
Kiss is the shortest distance between two lips.
Prof. Of Physics
Kiss is the contraction of mouth due to the expansion of the heart.
Prof. Of Chemistry
Kiss is the reaction of the interaction between two hearts.
Prof. Of Zoology
Kiss is the interchange of salivary bacteria.
Prof. Of Physiology
Kiss is the juxtaposition of two orbicularisoris muscles in the state of contraction.
Prof. Of Dentistry
Kiss is infectious and antiseptic.
Prof. Of Philosophy
Kiss is the persecution for the child, ecstasy for the youth and homage for the old.
Prof. Of English
Kiss is a noun that is used as a conjunction, it is more common than proper, it is spoken in the plural and it is applicable to all.
Prof. Of Architecture
Kiss is a process which builds a solid bond between the two dynamic objects
Prof. Of Comp.Science
What is a kiss? It seems to be an undefined variable
Gayatri Mahamantra
Here is "pratipadartha" correct meaning of Gayatri Mahamantra as per Madwa Tradition.
Om bhuh= full of auspicious qualitites
bhuvah= the creator
svah = the Lord of Lakshmi and full of bliss
tat = the well known and universally present
savitr = the creator, sustainer and destroyer
varenyam = the one fit for praise, full of bliss and full of knowledge
bargah = seated in Suryamandala, all round protector, the lifter from the cycle of births and deaths and the giver of moksha
devasya = full of blissful qualities
dimahi = we mediate
dhiyo yo na pracodayat = the one who guides or propels our intellect
dhiya = intellect
nah = of us
praccodayat = let be the preraka or the guide
Reference : Sadachara Sangraha Published by Sri Krishna Raghavendra Trust of T Nagar Chennai.