2/3 of Mumbaikars have to walk kilometers for water

Mumbai, the financial capital of India which generates 5% of country’s GDP is proud of its status as the country’s richest city, but shamefully, two-thirds of its residents have to drudge away for hours a day to obtain as basic a necessity as water even a bucket of water.

According to a study done by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a majority of the city’s population, which lives in slums, are forced to waste their workday or school time to collect the basic commodity of portable water, for their survival.

The study was a part of initiative taken by TISS, to understand the impact of irregular water supply on the people of those slums , which are established after 1995 and do not receive any sort of water supply from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The study which had been carried out on 21 slums communities of the city covering more than 2 lakh people has thrown some alarming statistics.

Since the water supply comes between 8 am to 2 pm, 35% of adult are forced to skip their work where as 69% of children has to skip school in order to collect water. More than 81% of people have to wait in the queue for more than 3 hours before bringing water to their home, carrying the buckets on the head.

Women are left out to be most suffered one from this problem as 87.5% of women population has to engage in a precarious task of traveling on an average of 1.5 km to bring the water buckets of weight 40kg on their head.

Around 81% people has to purchase water to carry out their daily necessity for which a family has to shell out Rs 600 monthly for a daily consumption of 150 litres of water.Only 19% of the residing population has the access to tap water at their homes.

According to Simpreet Singh of the National Alliance of People’s Movement, “People have to buy water from middlemen, who procure it illegally,’’ said Simpreet Singh of. The slum dwellers pay 30 times more than the prescribed rate for water.”

Daily in Mumbai, around 3500 million litres of water is being supplied from various resources. Out of this daily supply, around 700 million litres of water is lost by way of water thefts, illegal connections and leakages, per day in Mumbai.

"Marathon Man" runs 365 Marathons in a Year

As it says, where there is a will there is a way. It was the will of Stefan Engels, rather a strong will which has found its way to establish a unique world record of running 365 consecutive marathons over the course of a year. When it is said so, it’s meant a new marathon in a new day. Now, it is really a wow thing! Isn’t it?

49 years old, Belgian runner Stefan Engels set a Guinness World Record after crossing the finish line of his 365th consecutive marathon on Saturday. He began the extreme physical challenge a year ago in Barcelona. He has run the distance of 9,569 miles over the period of 365 days in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, the U.K. and the U.S.

Stefan, who is dubbed as the “Marathon Man” was diagnosed with asthma when he was a child. He was advised by his doctor not to exert himself and take part in any form of sports.

Stefan was denied by the national army to join them, which was his life dream. Disheartened but not discouraged Stefan thought to do something different in order to achieve his pursuit to take life as a challenge. He chooses something which was not advisable to him; he has set this deviating and onerous challenge for himself to overcome his ailment. He ran his first marathon at 25 and till today he has successfully completed copious marathons and triathlons all across the globe.

Stefan is heedless in deciding his menu. He ate whatever he felt like to have. In comparison of 3000 calories which is averagely lost by a normal human being, Stefan lost 6000 calories everyday. He has to change his pair of shoes after every 25 days as they went chopped off.

While affirming his intention to set an example for others who underestimate themselves, Stefan says, “I wanted to inspire people by showing that if I could run a marathon a day for an entire year, than anyone could run or bike a little each day or do something about their physical problem.”

Previously, it was Akinori Kusuda from Japan who holds the record of running most 52 consecutive marathons. He was 65 years old when he had accomplished this task.

Please dont win World Cup for us

Cricket world cup is going to begin from 19^th February. All over, sports lovers are praying for their home team to win world cup.

Even the media of every cricket sporting nation is backing their nation. But, recently a Sri Lankan newspaper columnist has urged the national team not to win the World Cup.

Newspaper’s columnist Russell Palipane has pleaded Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara not to win the coming World Cup. Palipane feared that if Kumar team wins the world cup then it would help the existing the controversial interim committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to strengthen their positions.

SLC is the country’s richest sports governing body and was recently described as one of the country’s most corrupt organization of the country by former sports minister of Sri Lanka C.B Ratnayake.

It is also feared by the newspaper that World cup win would be exploited the ruling party politician in bolstering their images.

Palipane argued that the current interim committee of SLC, which controls the functioning of game in the country, will make use of a cup victory to cement its hold on office without facing elections.

It’s indeed a bizarre demand by a devoted and ardent follower of a game. If, we need to follow this in our country then I think we should have to urge our entire sports person not to win any sports tournament so that, a lesson could teach to all the corrupted sports organizations of the country.

Bibi Aisha-World Press Photo of the Year 2010

Jodi Bieber, free lancer photographer for Time Magazine has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2010 with the picture of Bibi Aisha, which was published on the front cover of Times magazine’s August edition.

Bibi Aisha is a18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan, who had suffered gruesome violence at her husband’s house, fled away to her parent’s house. Later, obeying the order to a Taliban leader her own husband has sliced off her ears and hacked off her nose.

Aisha, which was abandoned by Taliban, was later emancipated by aid workers and the American military. She is currently residing in USA.

Jodi Bieber is a noted free lancer photographer who is based in South Africa and works for Artist Management. Since 1998, she has contributed numerous spellbound photographs for which she has already won World Press Photo award for 8 times.

The father in law who too was indulged in abusing and torturing Aisha has been arrested. However, the main executor of her heinous affliction and disfigurement, her husband is still not been caught up by the Afghan police.

Aisha is a poised, charming and witty young woman and to commemorate her “The Bibi Aisha Fund” have been formed by Women for Afghan Women (WAW) foundation which is taking care Aisha ever since this horrific act done to her.

He owns 1093 Patents on his name

It was a chilled morning of December. Streets were concealed by the snow which was spilling since last two days. The weather was misty and foggy with too much cold. 

Since the dawn, people in aggregation have started to heap in the Menlo Park and by the noon, park became saturated. People have parked themselves heedlessly at every possible bared place seen to them. 

They were not having a single clue about what they will witness today. With a feeling of anxiety and apprehension, people were rumbling about the contrary out come if any thing goes wrong. 

Suddenly, great crowd fell silent as a man with actuate demeanor stepped forward precociously. The sun which had been obscured all the day, suddenly burst through the clouds and flooded the scene with brightness. 

He took the centermost place and with his quivering hands, he has started to join the filament of wire. After half an hour of humbug with the wire, he was now ready to press the apparatus’s switch.  

Unfamiliar wave of disquiet has erupted in the atmosphere but the anxiety which was their in the air wont able to shaken his posture. In comply with his composure; he was aware of the great importance of this moment and the potential influence his experiment would cast on the world. 

As he pressed the switch, electron energy has started to surge down through the legion of copper wires which were entangled with each other. As soon the current reached to the electric bulb which was connected at posterior end, it provides the electric impetus to it and bulb illuminates after initial shimmers. 

It was the morning of 31st December 1879 and the man who had performed this historic experiment was Thomas Edison. On this milepost, he said,” We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." 

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. He was born on 11th February 1847 in Milan, Ohio. In the period of 84 years of his life he has made 1,093 US patents on his name, as well as many patents in UK, France and Germany.  

Edison was so much passionate for engineering and invention that when he was 22 years old he went to New York. He only had $1 in his pocket. He used to hunt for a job during the day, and at night he slept in the basement of a gold company. He watched everything around him very closely. Some equipment broke down and Edison was able to fix it because he had been watching it work before he went to sleep each night. The owners gave him a job. He improved the machine so much the company paid him $40,000 for his invention.  

Thomas has dominated his life through the positive attitudes towards it. Despite of all the adversities he had faced in his life, he kept on moving ahead. Once he said that,” If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward". 

Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, "Glenmont" in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. 

Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at the Henry Ford Museum. Henry Ford, close friend of Edison sealed a test tube of air shortly after his death, as a memento.  

Truly, Thomas Edison was one the greatest scientist we ever had. He was a man made of his perspiration that’s might be why he said one, “Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration”.

Psychology behind MMS Scandals

It is a matter of disgrace for a university of international rapport that, on googling its name, people has to leave stun when they found news about a MMS scandal on the top of their search, instead of University’s courses details.

Recently, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Delhi, one of the most prestigious university of India was in the news for the wrong reasons. An obscene MMS of its girl student has created a spark on the web.

Entire education spectrum of the nation went in a state of shock, when a MMS showing two hostellers in ‘compromising position’ has rocked the university.

The girl and the boy featured in the MMS are said to be the hostlers and students of School of Language. The video was shot some 6 months back but came to the administration’s notice just a week back.

The film was reportedly shot around six month ago by a couple of students of School of Languages. It is believed that the boy and the girl in the film, who are natives of Bihar, were provided with the equipment for shooting by a student of Computer Science. When other students of the university came to know about the incident, they bashed up the boy who had 'acted' in the film.

As per the Police, the blue film was made by JNU students with the motive to earn money and also suspected the involvement of a pornographic racket.

Reports say the video was shot in a room of Tapti hostel in the University campus, in which a girl was watching a pornographic movie while indulging in the sexual acts that are getting recorded by a camera. A third person was involved in this act, which shoots the movie and later, distributed the CDs.

This is not the first time that such obscene MMS has busted out. The last scandal to hit the varsity was in August 2009, when 19 students were penalized in an incident of ragging. Shocked members of the JNU community said the clip was an eye-opener on the erosion of values in the institution.

Now, the prime question is whether really our values are being eroding or it is relates with the personal moral values of the individuals who are being involved in such type of particular scandals.

Most of the time, such activities are being done for the purpose of intimate carnal delightment or for the purpose of swaggering.

Where as some time, the feeling of enviousness provokes the person to do such things. According to psychologist Dr Kizom, person is intend to do such obnoxious act of publicizing his intimate moment when he found himself jilted and beguiled. And most importantly when he found himself in a plight situation where his partner who has left him is leading a gratify life with some other person.

Getting inside Harvard is easier than city's popular primary school

Business couple, Mr. and Mrs Malhotra are deliberately getting prepare for a momentous occasion. Mr. Malhotra has attired himself in dark grey suit with white color shirt and Satya Paul tie. Even Mrs Malhotra does not want to dress deficiently from her Mr. Right. She has wrapped herself in a blue stripped sari and has applied lustrous makeup.

Its seems as if both of them are preparing for an important business meeting but in reality today is a much more important day for this blissful couple for which they are throwing  a lavish party in one of the city’s extravagant 5 star hotel.

Your guess is wrong, if you are envisaging that today is their marriage anniversary and they are cruising to hotel to commemorate the occasion. Infect, today is much more significant day for them as their only daughter Suhasini has managed to get an admission in city’s prime school. It is indeed an intent moment for Malhotra Couple after the several tensed nights spent by them.

It’s not only Mr and Mrs Malhotra; who has spent last one month with a feeling of conjecture. Infect this is the condition of each and every couple of the town who want to get their tiny tot admitted in the city school.

February is a cruel month for parents of tots in India’s competitive capital—it’s when parents brace themselves as nursery schools release their lists of admissions. You will have a fair idea of the sensitivity of the situation if you go to google and type admission. You will find loads of unhappy comments of parents, who are not satisfy with the school attitudes.

Delhi is estimated to have 1.46 million children aged under four this year and on an average parents have filled up the 10 admission forms of city’s various school with a hope that their ward would manage to get the admission in at least one school. As per the report, this year on an average school got 2000 application for its 100 seats.

According to the Ms Albuquerque, an education expert, “The numbers of applicant are larger in India than anywhere else in the world,”.

Recently, Directorate of Education (DoE) issued a nursery admission guideline in which it has been compulsory for all schools to reserve 25% seats for children for economically weaker sections (EWS). Also, (DoE) has allowed schools this year to frame their own selection criteria based on “just and rationale” means. Though the 25% is reserved but for the rest 75 per cent of seats, schools adopted a points system which parents and experts say is arbitrary in nature. And most of the schools have reserved 50 per cent of the seats meant for general category for sibling or alumni candidates.

As the two consecutive results lists has already been out and the results announced by schools so far, throws an impression that admission is a prerogative of those who have a sibling in the school or those who has fulfilled the criteria of being alumni. For instance, all the 77 candidates selected by a reputed school in Vasant Vihar have secured points either under the sibling or alumni category. Similarly, 54 of the total 56 short listed candidates at a school in East of Kailash are qualified under these two categories.

“I had applied in 22 schools in south Delhi, but couldn’t manage to get even in one,” a furious parent, writes on an online parents forum.

Kate Darnton, an American parent of nursery school-aged children who moved to Delhi said that the odds of getting into the Ivy League Harvard University were better than getting into the city’s most popular primary school.

An IIT engineer who has opted to stay in the country while expressing his grief, said “I am among those poor parents whose child asks every morning, "Dad, to which big school I’ll go?" I literally have no answer to my son except blaming myself for choosing India to stay after completing my IIT. "

Ashok Ganguly, former CBSE chairman who developed the 100-points system three years ago, describes this whole crisis as a “demand and supply disequilibrium“. He says,’ How could you manage this huge demand. There has to be some sort of crisis. But the best way is that to adopt a uniform selection criteria which will make parents know where they stand.”

The crux of this entire problem is that while Delhi has about 2,500 public and private primary schools, elite parents do target just the “top 20 private schools of the city”. There are always local schools where one can get admission, though they might be not as reputed as the 'reputed" schools.

Best way is to restrict the admissions to schools on the basis of areas you live. Rich or poor school numbers should be on the basis of numbers of children living in the area. This is the way it is done in the USA.

Dismayed and deceived from the admission procedure, parents came out on the roads to protest against violations by schools and the serious crunch of seats in the general category. This is for the first time in the history of nursery admissions in the city, that harried parents dressed up in black protested outside the office of the directorate of education on Wednesday evening. Parents have asked the officials to intervene in this chaotic situation.

An enraged parents whose son doesn’t able to get admission in any of the 15 school they have applied for, while expressing their dishearten feeling says,” Honestly speaking mismatch in the demand and supply is not an acceptable justification for this problem. The government should be accountable for this short supply. In a country where primary education is a right to a every single child, government should monitor the admission procedure. Government is more interest in setting up the investing bodies for the various scandals which has quaked the country recently but it seems as if the issue of this short supply in primary education in capital of India is not in their priority list.”

Government must have to take some exigent steps immediately so that transparent system could be established in the country’s education system.

Enumerators will ask you! "Kitne Admi Hei"

The second phase of biggest census operation of the history has kicked off on 9th February 2011. The second phase of 15th Census of world biggest democracy will carried in next 21 days. Census in India has been conducted since 1872 but this is for the first time that biometric information will also be collected.

The first phase of the operation for Housing and House listing census has already been conducted through out the country. The house listing is done because there is no complete address system in India and each and every structure is being listed so that when the enumerators go to head counting, they know exactly where to go and what to count.

This mammoth exercise which will covers all the 1.2 billions Indians is estimated to cost Rs 2,209 Cr to the nation’s treasure. To accomplish it successfully more than 25 lakh officials are especially trained.

Enumerator, this is what these especially trained official called as will fanned out across the country to collect the most important and reliable statistics which will help our government to project its next 2 consecutive five year plans and also help numerous corporate houses to stratagem their projections and market forecast.

President of India, Mrs Pratibha Singh Patil has become the first Indian to sign off a 29-point questionnaire listing income, religion, education, access to basic utilities and other topics. After her enumeration, president asked every Indian to take part in the country’s census wholeheartedly and considering it as their National Duty.

More than 7,000 towns and 6, 00,000 villages across the country including Jammu & Kashmir will be covered during the exercise.

The elephantine decadal exercise is undertaken to create a database on demography, economic activity, literacy and education, housing and household amenities, urbanisation, fertility and mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, language, religion and migration.

For the first time, officials are stepping beyond the demographics and economic activity and would collect details like ownership of mobile phones, computers, internet access, and availability of treated or untreated drinking water.

Also, for the first time after post independence, caste based data will also be collected. Previously caste based census was conducted in Kerala in 1968 by the Communist government.

Along with the decennial census operation, the Government is also preparing the country's first ever National Population Register (NPR), which is designed to be a comprehensive identity database of all usual residents of India.

The NPR will include details such as the name of the person, father’s name, mother’s name, spouse’s name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, current marital status, education, nationality as declared, occupation, present address of usual residence and permanent residential address.

The database will also contain photograph and ten finger biometry of persons above the age of 15 years.

Once the NPR database is finalized, the next task would be assigning every individual a Unique Identification Number (UID) by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The UIDAI will undertake biometrics based de-duplication and assign UID numbers to each resident. The cleaned database along with UID number will form the final NPR database.

So, let’s pledge to provide correct information to the enumerators so that proper development plans could be carried out in the country.

Mahatma Gandhi tops the Time's list of top 25 Political Icons

What is common between Father of India, Mahatma Gandhi and Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar? 

Both of them have been listed among the ‘Top 25 Political Icons’ of all time by Time magazine. The list has been released on the 100th birth anniversary of the late US president Ronald Reagan. 

Only two leaders from India are managed to take the position in the list. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Mao Zedong, the father of modern China, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and Mystery of Beauty the Cleopatra are also been included in the list. 

The reason for which every Indian could feel proud is that Mahatma Gandhi has topped the list of 25 all time great political leaders. Gandhi’s efforts which ultimately led India to achieve its independence led him to the top of the list. 

Characterizing Mohandas Gandhi as a figure “few will ever forget”, the magazine has credited for the inspiration paving the way for other social movements including America’s struggle for civil rights. 

The 16th century Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, a figure who has ruled the country for more than 40 years and was largely culpable for unifying the scattered Indian diminutive kingdoms of northern India, also finds a place in the aristocrat list. 

Magazines has applauded Mughal ruler and says him a pioneer in the ethos of pluralism and tolerance whose unbiased administration has formulated the values of the modern republic. 

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra who allegedly committed suicide by succumbed herself from an venomous asp in order to saved herself from get captive by the victorious Roman Octavian, nephew of Julius Caesar. The mysterious beauty of all time that has been known for the luxuries of her fabled kingdom has also been included in the list. 

As said by Mahatma Gandhi,” Silence is the strongest speech. Slowly and gradually world will listen to you.” Today, world has not only hear him but acknowledged too.

Wear your fashion statement and cheer Team India

The extravaganza of world cricket is about to kick off from 19th February 2011.People of entire   world have set their eyes on this event.

Big corporate and Multi National companies have laid no stone unturned to milk this mega event, which would be perhaps one of the biggest cricket show, where 11 countries will fight for establishing their supremacy in the world of cricket for next four years.

Indian markets are flooded with kinda of stuff promoting the world cup. Players with painted bodies and tattooed shoulder can be seen on television advertisements. Clashes between big brands have entered into the last phase to proclaim their dominance in the world of endorsements and advertisement.

Here is good news for all fashion conscious young lovers of the game. International fashion designer Paul Smith has designed polo shirts exclusively for Indian cricket team. The exclusive collection is supposed to be hit in the market by the end of this month. People can grab these exclusively grafted t-shirts from Paul Smith’s stores in Delhi and Bangalore.

Being himself a sports enthusiast, Paul is very much excited about his latest designed T-shirts. He says” it’s a matter of honour for him to design this Tshirt for team India. I’m sure, that the world Cup will be a great hit.”

This is not for the first that Paul has designed something for sports fraternity. He has showed his creativity before also when he dressed the English football team for recently held FIFA world Cup.

What is good about these T-Shirts is that Paul has ensured to maintain the integrity aspect. He is well know of the fact that Indians are very patriotic when it come to a game which is been followed as a religion in the country therefore he has used sky blue colour for T-Shirt which will come with an Indian flag motif on the right and have an embroidered roaring tiger also.

Now, when an additional tag of Paul Smith is been added to this mega event, it will be worth to watch all the matches of Team India in stadium as now you have a fashion statement with you to carry.

Goa-Dreamland for Indian Child to be born

Goa, the land of shinny beaches fringed by exotic palm tree and breathtaking sightseeing could be a dream land for anyone’s sojourn.

The richest state of India is now the best place for a child to be born. According the latest estimation done by sample Registration System (SRS) and data released by the Registrar General of India, it is found that Goa is having the least Infant Mortality Rates (IMR) of 11 which means that in the state 11 deaths are reported per 1000 live births.

According to the report, it is estimated that India’s infant mortality rate has dropped by 3 points from 53 during 2008 to 50 infant deaths per 1000 live births during 2009.

Kerala is second best state to be born after Goa, which is followed by Manipur, Puducherry and Daman & Diu.

Madhya Pradesh is found to have the worst IMR of 67 and considered to be the worst place for any child to be born.

Various reasons are found to be responsible for the IMF, which has improved substantially over the years. Programs like program like paying to pregnant women to deliver their child in a hospital helps tremendously in proving the situations.

Respective state governments have started various rural programs to educate women about pregnancy. It is because of all such initiatives that the IMR of rural India is managed to drop from 58 to 55.

4th February-World Cancer Day

According to the report of World Health Organization (WHO) released in 2007, Cancer is perhaps the leading cause of total death in world which causes around 7.9 million deaths worldwide (13% of all deaths).

With an aim to generate the awareness among world citizens towards this deleterious disease and to support International Union Against Cancer, each year on 4^th February World Cancer Day is been organized to promote the ways to ease the global burden of cancer.

Biologically, cancer can be defined as an aberrant growth of a cell or an organ due to a specific stimulus (carcinogen). It has been reported that this growth is an erratic one, which continues to grow even after the cessation or withdrawal of the stimulus.

According to the WHO, cancer is the second leading cause of death in developed countries. Around 2.5 millions people die in developed countries due to cancer, which is approximately 21% of all their mortality. Whereas in developing countries, cancer ranks third as a cause of death as annually 3.8 million people die due to this disease.

Though, no specific cause is known till yet for this deadly disease but consumption of tobacco, alcohol, infections and hormones malfunction are thought to be major contributor towards the occurrence of common cancers all over the world.

In India, cancer is one of the ten leading cause of death which kills more than 3 lakhs of people annually. At any one point of time, approximately 1.5-2 million cancer case are been reported in the country among which 7 lakhs cases are reported as new cases.

Though, there are many reasons which are responsible for causing cancer but prominently it has been found that the habit of excessive tobacco chewing do the major damage. According the report of WHO, it is estimated that 91 per cent of oral cancers in South-East Asia are directly attributable to the use of tobacco.

In a country where majority of its youth population is been engaged in the habit of tobacco chewing it is estimated that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention.  

It is worth to appreciate that Indian government along with other reputed health organization of the country is working intently to kill the demon of cancer. However, some additional instant stern steps are also required to be taken.

It is commendable that government has directed every tobacco shopper of the country not to sell tobacco to the minors. All the sellers are instructed to display the statutory warning also.In spite of all this it can be easily noticed that hawkers are still not hesitating in selling tobacco products to the minor. To check this, a need of a strict rules either in form of monetary fine or legal sentence is required. Merely by hanging the warning board as an exhibit won’t work out, government should have to take some strict steps so that selling of tobacco to the minors can be stopped.

Another factor which catapulted the growth of this disease in the country is the lack of proper medical facility in the country. According to WHO, there are approximately 60 million health workers in world. Still, more than 50 countries are facing health worker crises. In India, nearly more than 15 lakhs patients require facilities for diagnosis, treatment and follow up at a given time.

According to a study, it is found that about 30% of cancer deaths can be prevented if cancer patients can be diagnosis at the initial stage of the disease. On cancer day, we should pledge to spread awareness about this baleful disease which has more than 100 forms and can be occur in any part of human body.

Wannabe be a responsible politician! Rush to ISB,Hyderabad

This might look like a yet another script of Prakash Jha’s new political driven celluloid where an abroad returned agile dude, well equipped with dexterous management skills joins the dirty pool of Indian politics.

Very soon our politicians, who can be viewed on national prime channel seen brawling with each other and smartly displaying their acrobatic skill by catapulting the chairs and sound piece at their fellow politicians would join a short term course in one of the prestigious management institution of the country where they can be look forward to get tips on effective and responsible leadership. 

The Hyderabad based Indian Business School (ISB) is going to offer a short duration capsule courses to our politicians.

These courses are specially designed for our elected representatives which will be conducted quaternary in a year at regular intervals.

In reply to the question that why ISB has thought to start such a unique course?Deepak Chandra, Deputy Dean of ISB said” Recently, we have successfully conducted a short programme, which was spread over three days. Around 44 members of the legislative assemblies (MLAs) from 11 States had received specialized training on various aspects of leadership as part of an initiative funded by the Bharti Group”.

“Apparently, the successes of the first of its kind training programme for the people’s representative motivated us to decide in favour of regular courses”. He further added “This programme was highly successful and we thought we should definitely work with politicians to take our expertise to them.”

“The feedback from the participant has made us to realize that such training is critical for politician” the deputy Dean said.

“We have now decided to extend this programme to four capsules a year at regular intervals. And also working on a portfolio of programmes on education/training relevant for other segments of the Government as well,” he said.

During the programme, a cross section of experts from ISB and outside will focus on how to make a legislator more efficient,” Deepak Chandra explained.

Besides providing insights into successful leadership through a case –based approach, ISB would also teach the politicians on ways for effective participation in discussion in the House.

“Hence, we will be guiding the elected representatives in sourcing information on any particular issue from a plethora of sources,” the Deputy Dean added.

It’s indeed a unique management programme which should be attended by each and every politician of the country. However, it could also be possible that at the end of each programme, all big national political parties would come to ISB for craving the best potential trained politician to consort them.

Want to get Married? Call Dactyloscopist

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven and it is believed that couples are chosen by their destinies.

According to Hinduism, marriage is a scared relationship which binds an unknown boy to an unknown girl into a life long relationship of husband and wife. It is believed that marriage is not a relationship of one birth rather; it glued two souls into an inseparable bondage of many births.

All Hindu marriages are fixed according to the Vedic nakshatras. A representative of Brahmin caste, the highly treated caste of Indian society is called in inspects the horoscopes of the prospective husband and wife. Marriage is fixed only after the proper match is found by the astrologer, who generally concern prospect’s Janampatri for his Vedic calculations.

But, if we lay our faith in the latest study done by the Crime Record Bureau of Haryana Police then in future, we might need to call an expert dactyloscopist to examine the fingerprints of prospect bride and groom.

According to a study done by the Crime Record Bureau of Haryana police, couples with matched fingerprints are found to have a better compatibility.

After analyzing the finger prints of 500 odd couples, the fingerprint bureau of Haryana’s Crime Record department has concluded that the married couples with similar fingerprints leads to a happy and pleasurable life. There posses a feeling of understanding and cooperation among the couples who bears identical finger prints.

On the contrary, couples with distinct finger prints have a stained relationship. A situation of chaos prevails in the life of such couples as they keep on complaining & fighting with other, sometime even on miniature issues.

According to the statement of additional DG of Haryana police Layak Ram Dab, around 30% of the married couples from the samples collected have found to have identical ridges and they are leading a happy married life.

If such is the case, then future marriages would have be taken place in the chemical lab of dactyloscopist and instead of embrocate your hands with pristine water (this is traditional hindu ritual where the hands of bride and groom is sanctify by water) he will treat your hand with Ninhydrin and in place of asking you to take seven pheras (In traditional hindu rituals bride and grooms are ask to take seven round around the sacred fire) he will ask you to place your hands under his magnify glass so that he can verify whether you are compatible to marry with your wannabe.

Therefore, next time when you set to choose a perfect match for your marriage then please ensure to wash your hand with a stringent so that a neat and clean hand print can be traced out.

Every dog has its day! Here,even has temple too

There is a saying that “every dog has its day”. But 57 kms away from the city of Bangalore, there is a small village in Ramnagaram district named A V Halli where dogs are not only having their days rather they have a temple for them also.

It might appear aberrant to you but it’s true that the people of this village trust their canine god profoundly and have made a temple to worship him.

People of this village have a strange faith in their canine god and it is believed by them that they will save them and their village from all sorts of trouble.

Dog God is famous by the name of ‘Sri Naayidole Veerappa’ among his followers. The popularity of Sri Naayidole Veerappa could be imagined from the fact that his temple has been made next to the temple of the village deity ‘Sri Veeramasti Kempamma’ as dog god is trusted to be the most trusted lieutenant of the goddess.

The Dog god is considered to have some celestial power which guides villagers to cope up with each and every problem entered in the village.

But it is not this factor that makes the Dog God so much important; rather it is the immense faith and devotion which his followers’ possess in their hearts towards him that makes the entire thing more significant.

Like devotes of other Hindu gods, devotes of Dog God too follows the tradition of naming their first child after him. In case male child born, he will be named as ‘Veerappa’ and if the girl child is born then she is named ‘Veeramma’.

Dog god has able to bring a substantial transformation in the mindset of the villagers towards the social evil of caste system also, as the priest appointed for performing the daily religious rituals for the Dog God belongs to “Dalit” caste.

Whatever the reasons would be for the faith of A V Halli people in their Dog God, but this is true that god has some celestial connection with dog that’s why both of them are 3 letters word and can be read reversely with each other as GOD – DOG.

Chinese New Year 2011:The Year of Rabbit

At my office, all my Chinese friends have left for their native country to celebrate and welcome their traditional New Year 2011.

According to the Chinese Zodiac which revolves in every 12 years, the Chinese New Year is on 3^rd February 2011. The Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year because of the fact that it is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements and usually occurs in the month of January or February. This year the Chinese New Year will starts on February 3, 2011 and continues till January 22, 2012.

Each Chinese Year is symbolically represented by an animal. This Chinese Year 2011 is the year of the rabbit.

With the first New Moon day of the New Year, Chinese’s New Years starts which will ends on the full moon days exactly after the 15 day later. This period of 15 days, which are full of fun and frolic is called as the Lantern Festival which is being celebrated with great enthusiasm.

New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are celebrated in flamboyant way. Chinese believe in maintaining semblance between their present and past.Therfore, it has been ensured that the ancestors should duly remember as they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune. On New Year eve all the family members which doesn’t includes married daughters and their families gathered together and take part in religious ceremony. To let the old year go, at midnight people use to open their home’s every windows and doors.

At night, People take part in ceremonial parade carrying lantern in their hands. Such parades are been organized through out the country to welcome New Year. Chinese people generally prefer to wear red clothes and symbolical red masks. Chinese masks are the inescapable traditional aspects of Chinese culture and country people ensure to involve them in their every function. Being one the favorite colour of Chinese, red color used extensively in the preparation of mask. Red colour is used by Chinese so capaciously in their all celebrations that it appears as if every thing would hide under red fabric.

Taoist ‘White Cloud Temple’ at Beijing fraught by the people on the Chinese New Year ’s Day as they come from all around the country. As followed as an old tradition, Chinese tie their New Year wish to a "wishing tree” at the temple with a hope that this will bring prosperity to them.

A famous ancient custom call ‘Hong Bao’ which means Red Packet is interestingly practice on the day of Lantern Day in which married couples offer money to children and unmarried couples, usually in red envelopes. This is probably their way of passing good luck to the next generation.

Though there are many dishes which are favorite to be cooked on the New Year eve’s but the most famous dish which is specifically included in the traditional buffet on New Year eve is “Jai”. It is a combination ginkgo nut, black moss, dried bean curd, bamboo shoots, vermicelli and scallion. Chinese people love to offer traditional dishes to their guests.

Chinese people are very presumptive and they try to avoid doing few things on the New Year Eve like they don’t wash their hair, they avoid greeting people who are in mourning, they don’t drop their chopsticks and they avoid saying number four as number four is Chinese homonym for death.

I don’t know how my friends are celebrating their New Year but where ever they would be; I would like to say them” Gung Hey Fat Choy" which means "Wishing You Prosperity and Wealth".!