Winter 2009

Unidentified objects in the Sky-Sikkim

Published and some unpublished photos:Use your imagination and make intelligent guesses!!!

Nothing is new under the Sky,it may be man made or alien made(find out the right meaning of Alien).Any unidentified flying object is called UFO.yes!! you are right sir!!!

भाषा अनेक

आज से मैं इस ब्लाग में हिन्दी और नेपाली भाषा का प्रयोग करने कि सोच को साकार करने जा रहा हूँ।इस द्वारा यह ब्लाग कि सम्पर्क ज्यादा लोगों से होने की आशा हैं।अब मुझे हिन्दी /नेपाली में लिखना आसान हो गया हैं।यह कैसे हुआ ..मत पूछिये! इफ़ देर इस अ विल ,देर इस अ वे !!! आजकल हम ज्यादा अंग्रेजी का प्रयोग कर रहें हैं और हिन्दी को कंप्युटर से दूर रखना चाहते हैं। बहूत से ऎसे बातें हैं जो हिन्दी में सही तरह से व्यक्त किया जा सकता है और अंग्रेजी में नहीं।अब तक तो आप समझ गये होंगे की मैं क्या कह रहा हुँ। दॆर आये दुरुस्त आये...!

आज का जोक :

बंता :तुमने अपनी पत्नी को जन्मदिन पर हीरे की अंगूठी क्यों दी ? वो तो कार चाहती थी ना ?

संता : पर मैं नकली कार कहां से लेकर आता ?

(आज की दैनिक जागरण से)

अब अन्दमान सिक्किम हिन्दी, नेपाली , अंग्रेजी र தமிழிலும் எழுதலாமே!!! तमिल्मा पनि...

Coral Islands and Coconuts

First let us understand what is a coral,Corals are rock kind of things formed by the micro organisms living in the sea.Colonies of this micro creatures live together and secrete lime(calcium)around them increasing the coral reefs...after thousands of years they reach(above) the sea level and form reefs like the moon crescent ,filling the gap inside w

ith sand of their own origin. Lucky floating coconut, lands on the sand and stays rooted and grows to make a coconut jungle in a century.The coconut wastes creates soil over the sand.Traders find these islands good for a overnight stay and to have some tender nut drink.

How and Why these coconuts float? (simple, God made it like that!)let us try to understand...Coconuts are high quality design packages,containing water,the white coconut "meat",the shell,the husk and the finished outer layer.The buoyancy due to the husk carries the nut around the world through the ocean currents,hence you (also Darwin)find these trees in all the islands .People found the oil from the nut useful,the husk made into coir can be used to make mat ,ropes etc.We use to burn the shells to heat the age old iron boxes.My father taught me to make rings(for fingers)from the hard shells!

Only this much today....thanks to the cough and cold !!!!

HORSE SENSE

"If a statue has a person on a horse with both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one leg in the air, the person died of wounds from a battle and if the horse has all four hooves on the ground, the person died of natural causes."

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HAPPY DIWALI

चलना हमारा काम है

गति प्रबल पैरों में भरी

फिर क्यों रहूं दर दर खडा

जब आज मेरे सामने

है रास्ता इतना पडा

जब तक न मंजिल पा सकूँ,

तब तक मुझे न विराम है,

- शिवमंगल सिंह 'सुमन' (ShivMangal Singh Suman)

An Island in Sikkim:TEERANG

Suggest a name to this island.This island is formed on the confluence of Rangpo and Teesta river at Rangpo.

65,000 years ago in the Andamans

illus: andamansikkim

``The initial settlement took place 65,000 years ago in the Andamans and in ancient south India around the same time, which led to population growth in this part,'' said Thangarajan. He added, ``At a later stage, 40,000 years ago, the ancient north Indians emerged which in turn led to rise in numbers here. But at some point of time, the ancient north and the ancient south mixed, giving birth to a different set of population. And that is the population which exists now and there is a genetic relationship between the population within India.''

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UN releases stamp on Mahatma Gandhi

United Nations, Oct 3 (PTI) Marking the International Day of Non-Violence, the United Nations has released a stamp of Mahathma Gandhi on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary.

United Nations Postal Administration, the world body's postal agency, released the one-dollar stamp designed by a world famous Miami-based artist Ferdie Pacheco, with the Father of the Nation in red, blue and gold. Also the envelopes marked with the stamp and the United Nations' seal were on sale.

Several UN envoys, present at a function organised by the Indian Mission to celebrate his 140the birth anniversary, reiterated the influence of Mahathma Gandhi's life.

"In many ways, Mahatma Gandhi previsioned the UN. Much of the work that we do in the area of human rights owes its genesis in the struggle against racial discrimination, which he focused on," Hardeep Singh Puri India's ambassador to the UN said.

TSUNAMI AGAIN...

A tsunami triggered by a strong quake in the South Pacific has killed more than 100 people in several islands.

At least 77 people were reported dead in Samoa, more than 25 in American Samoa and at least six in Tonga.

Residents and tourists fled to higher ground as whole villages were destroyed. Boats were swept inland and cars and people out to sea.

The 8.3-magnitude quake struck at 1748 GMT on Tuesday, generating 15ft (4.5m) waves in some areas of the islands.

The Samoa islands comprise two separate entities - the nation of Samoa and American Samoa, a US territory. The total population is about 250,000.

A general tsunami warning was issued for the wider South Pacific region but was cancelled a few hours later.

Read more..... BBC CLICK> Pictures...Nz herald..

GRAPHIC DESIGNS

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KAMAL: Ulaga naayagane....

It’s going to be 50 jubilant years since the unforgettable ‘Kalathur Kannamma’ hit the screens on this very day (1959). Wondering why that’s so important?

That’s because the day also marks the 50th anniversary of Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan in tinsel town. It was with this film that the iconic actor made his debut as a child artiste. Kamal has indeed come a long way since then.

On his 50 year long journey which was filled with roses and thorns, the versatile actor says, "I am happy with the fact that people have been kind to me, including my teachers, my technicians and even my critics. I consider myself as being fortunate and lucky".

The actor further says, "It is just like a dream. I feel as if I have just begun my journey." Thanking all those who have walked along with him in his momentous journey, Kamal says, "I wonder what I have achieved. There are miles to go before I sleep."

Here’s wishing the megastar star all success!

source: indiatimes

PUJA WISHES

PLACE

Ex-Nepal prince Paras 'linked' to Dawood's fake currency racket

The revelations came during the interrogation of two Nepali nationals caught by the Madhya Pradesh ATS, while trying to smuggle in the fake currency notes into India.

The two men named this man, a prominent minister's son Yunus Ansari as the conduit between King Gyanendra's son Paras and India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, who between them have been pushing crores of fake currency into India.

Reports suggest that Dawood looks at the printing and manufacture of the fake currency, while Paras is responsible for the transit of the money from other countries into Nepal and then it's flow into India.

Paras, the son of the former Nepal king, who has now taken refuge in Singapore, used his influence to ensure the money reached the transit points on the India-Nepal border without any hitch.

source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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PLASTIC SURGE !

The late seventies brought all kind of household goods in plastic Now we can't live without it.Early morning brush to the mosquito repellant container ,it is there.It made our life easier.But when we were kids we never seen anything plastic.The pens ,spectacle frame,LP records were made of a different material called the shellac.We use to fish with the nylon lines.Everything was packed in containers of Tin or wood .Shirt buttons first appeared as plastic,then came the ballpoint pen.The containers we use to store were Horlicks bottles with tin lids,Brookbond Green Label coffee tins.

.We suffered a lot due to the saline humidity,everything made of tin and iron rusts fast near the sea,as we lived close to the sea.Painting the tin containers,the cycle ,the hinges etc.,was the only cure for rust,now you know the secret of my inclination towards colour.

Once in a year we use to paint the Trunk boxes and smoke design it .As plastic revolution took off,we saw a lot of plastic waste washed away by the sea on its shore..then came the recycling business,shore combers started scavenging for plastic waste which were sold for Rs.4 per Kilo.I even stumbled upon plastic bullets containing ammunition inside it with aluminium capsules,US army emergency food packets consisting peas,butter,paper matches,cigarette making stuff,coffee powder,sugar etc on a water proof black packet.The cold war was at its peak.Fifty cans of Foster beer ,we drank to the hilt..in those days, we can't think about it in India.

I used Reynold pens,gas lighters which reached us through the sea before we liberalised our economy.Coils of nylon ropes from the sea used to tie the cattles.The sea when roars during the monsoon brought toys for us "made in Hongkong" the militery fighters holding guns ,crawling with guns,monsters etc.We children started searching for toys on the shores.The sea brought surprises for us,sometimes a big dead sperm whale,small star fish or an abandoned Burmese Trawler,Buddha statue floating on a bamboo pantoon with lots of soiled Burma rice packets with Buddhist scriptures.

This friendly sea broke all its limits and my faith one day.....you know when it happened..the whole world knows it!!! THE TSUNAMI.

I survived it to tell this story about plastics !!!

TUNE IN....and FLIP ON !!!

Now let me tell you how i am listening to news and read the magazine.Two years ago it was different,I tuned my radio to listen to my favourite BBC service..the reception depended on the place where i am...with all the ionospheric disturbances and thanks to our own power supply system(which i once thought a rival to radio broadcast derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the noise didnot allowed me to listen even the local news.

Now thanks to(i don't know how long it will continue !!!) the internet.Now i can listen to my BBC without the lightning disturbing it on my laptop, connected to my home theatre system.The net radio is the ultimate thing for the listener,buffering may cause a little bit broken listening in dial up connection ,but the quality is superb.You need a good broadband connection to listen to the high quality 125kbs or more broadcasts.Now you can also broadcast via shoutcast.

Reading a magazine or newspaper is becoming virtually similar to the real one...click here to see yourself(pull the pages using your mouse),it is environment friendly.

STOLEN GENERATION of Australia

In school, I read about the Australian Rabbit problem in a chapter in my English Syllabus(CBSE),today when I was surfing the channels on my Tv I noticed a movie called RABBIT PROOF FENCE,and I watched it ..A simple movie about the stolen generation, of which we often come across in news papers, a true story of three half -caste aboriginal kids who escape from the camp and reach their homes,a long journey followed by a tracker(aboriginal experts who track down any thing on the wilderness easily using all their five and the sixth sense).

(my five year old son was weeping like anything after watching this movie.)

.Here we see a lot of tribal girls who were kept as maid-servants , their masters should watch this movie to understand them better,because once i witnessed that a maid servant of this kind was beaten roughly on the road-with charges of stealing money ,and brought back to the masters home while fleeing.

Any NGOs listening !!

Disturbing Trend

Disturbing Trend

A class VI student commits suicide,Class V students arrested for molesting a class mate..this kind of news in daily papers disturbs me. Where are we going?In this screenage of mobilephone,TV ,Balika Badhu,Kids Reality Tv shows ,movies and exposure to news channels which work hard to get the women audience by indulging into family affairs...doing family panchayat on the TV studios and beaming it into our homes, brings closure the private lives of people .The Television is a strong media and if not used carefully they will create negativity in the minds of kids who cannot think rationally. I may be wrong blaming only the TV.

Parents, school and peers play a vital role in shaping the children’s future. Now it is not a adolescence problem, it is small kids who get angry easily and expect more from others and dream of those role models from media.

We speak of quality time with the kids. Ask any parent they will say that they are spending a lot with their kids, but how ...with the mobile on and talking to friends and the TV going ,computer running..yes this QualiTV time is not what they want!

Now the children are more intelligent than what we were at their age. They are aware of anything and everything of it.The educational system is numerical and not geometrically designed,what I mean is,not according to ones ability and talent but in a standard set of subjects a child should pass.It is like pushing all kinds of shapes and sizes inside a fixed cylinderical shape.

Let us role- play like a kid for a day in our home..be creative and learn about them...be a child once in a month...There is a kid in everyone of us, let us bring it out and become playful with our kids.

‘A child,’ said William Wordsworth, a famous poet, ‘is the Father of Man’

WILLING SHILLING FRAUDS !!!

The organised frauds or the individual con man target the greedy, over-ambitious,vulnerable men and women with their glib talk and presentation.The Conman (read confidence man)deploy shills(person who endorse,convince their schemes to others,their dedication directly/indirectly towards the conman is natural ,as they are decoys)who finds and lists vulnerable,influencial people around him.Get Rich Quick schemes are planned with perfection .

Even they take advantage of religion,high moral values,social responsibilities,childrens welfare,natural disasters etc.

Confidence game or trick is played by building trust.Human nature of greed,jealousy,expectations are projected by the con man to influence.

They will bombard,brainwash the people wo are willingly or unwillingly attracted towards their schemes.They will organise some programmes and present cheques /awards to the shills to show their credebility in public.

BUT they know..that they cannot influence a honest Man !

We often hear about Signature Frauds..then why dont we change this signature based faith ?Is their any alternative to this seal- signature dependence?

High Altitude Sikkim

WEBSITES; you must see

BHUVAN(The Indian google earth)
FRAUD WATCHERS
VISUAL BODY

http://www.fraudwatchers.org

http://www.visiblebody.com

http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in

BEWARE OF ONLINE SHOPPING.

Online buying has its own problem,I don't have any experience of online buying,but today I discovered the truth. My nephew sent me a Philips grooming Kit from Singapore,(so that I can avoid the barbers!),but he is not ready to speak about the price. I searched some online(indian) stores for the price.See the picture,judge yourself.(I don't want to give a lecture to a person like you !)

उत्तर कोरिया का जहाज़ भारतीय सीमा में

भारतीय कोस्ट गार्ड ने उत्तर कोरिया के एक संदिग्ध जहाज़ को पकड़ा है जो बिना इजाज़त भारतीय जल सीमा के अंदर अंडमान और निकोबार द्वीप समूह के पास रुका था.

पीटीआई के मुताबिक सेना और ख़ुफ़िया ब्यूरो के अधिकारी जहाज़ की जाँच कर रहे हैं और इनमें सफ़र कर रहे लोगों से पूछताछ की जा रही है.

ये कार्गो जहाज़ चीनी लेकर उत्तर कोरिया से मध्य पूर्व जा रहा था जब कोस्ट गार्ड ने इसे देखा.

एजेंसियों के अनुसार कोस्ट गार्ड के अधिकारियों ने बताया है कि बुधवार को ये जहाज़ हट बे द्वीप के पास बिना अनुमित के रुका और जब इसे संदेश भेजने की कोशिश की गई तो जवाब नहीं आया.

इसके बाद कोस्ट गार्ड ने जाँच करने के लिए अपना जहाज़ भेजा लेकिन उत्तर कोरिया का जहाज़ आगे बढ़ना लगा और तब भारतीय कोस्ट गार्ड को हवा में गोली चलानी पड़ी.

जहाज़ में उत्तर कोरिया के 39 लोग सवार थे. अंडमान और निकोबार ट्राइ कमांड के पीआरओ अधिकारी का कहना है कि मामले की छानबीन जारी है.

चिंता

उत्तर कोरिया के जहाज़ों को लेकर अकसर चिंता इसलिए जताई जाती है क्योंकि ऐसी आशंका रहती है उत्तर कोरिया मिसाइलें और परमाणु सामग्री ऐसे देशों को भेजता है जहाँ हालात स्थिर नहीं है.

इसी वजह से उत्तर कोरिया के जहाज़ो को अकसर रोका जाता है और जांच की जाती है.अपने परमाणु कार्यक्रम को लेकर उत्तर कोरिया और बाक़ी देशों के बीच बातचीत टूट चुकी है.

मई में उत्तर कोरिया ने कई मिसाइल परीक्षण किए थे और 25 मई को भूमिगत परमाणु परीक्षण भी किया था जिसके बाद उस पर संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने प्रतिबंध और कड़े कर दिए थे.

रॉयटर्स के मुताबिक 1992 और 2003 के बीच चार ऐसी घटनाएँ हो चुकी हैं जब उत्तर कोरिया के जहाज़ों को इस शक के कारण रोका गया था कि उनमें विनाशकारी हथियार बनाने के लिए कलपुर्ज़े भेजे जा रहे हैं. source:BBC

KUSH HAI JAMANA PAHLI TAARIK HAI !!!!

POWER and TOWER:two ideas

ONE:The simple act of replacing light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) can cut your electricity bills; and, it can also help fight global warming.

CFLs, which look like mini tube lights, consume only one-fifth of the electricity used by ordinary light bulbs. This would reduce power demand and levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as coal consumption for power generation would be less.

TWO:The idea of using microwave energy to cook food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experiments showed that microwave heating could raise the internal temperature of many foods far more rapidly than a conventional oven.

TRAIN:Andaman & Sikkim Railway Project

Port Blair, Jul 20 : People in Andaman and Nicobar have started to look forward to their first ever rail-link in the Union Territoty after the Railway budget.

The matter connecting Port Blair with Diglipur Island, linked through ra

il, was raised by the lone MP from Andaman and Nicobar Bishu Pada Ray in Parliament recently.

''I met Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and she assured me of all possible steps in this regard discussing it with the Prime Minister and Finance Minister for clearance,'' Mr Ray told mediapersons here today.

''Earlier the matter was dropped saying the rail-link in the UT is not economically feasible but I have given an example of the rail-link between Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla, which is 292 km long, and was constructed without looking at the economic feasibility aspect. I have demanded to consider rail-link in Andaman on the same ground adding both the present road and sea links are time consuming,'' he added.

--- UNI

GANGTOK, July 24 (PIB): The Railways have set a target of December 2015 for the completion of Sevoke-Rangpo rail project for which plan outlay has been fixed at Rs 10 crore in 2009-10. The final location survey contract has already been awarded. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways, E Ahamed informed about the sections that have been completed during the last five years in North East States. These are Samuktala-New Bongaigaon of New Jalpaiguri-New Bongaigaon Gauge Conversion (61 kms), Alipurduar-Bamanhat Gauge Conversion (80 kms), Manu-Agartala of Kumarghat-Agartala New Line (89 kms) and Senchoa-Silghat Gauge Conversion (62 kms). In all, 16 projects fully/partly in North Eastern Region are in progress which includes New Maynaguri-Jogighopa, Sevoke-Rangpo. Gauge conversion is also on which includes New Jalpaiguri-Siliguri-New Bongaigaon.

Solar Eclipse in Sikkim

COLOURS OF THE SUN:sun sahiba sun !!!

Nadhiya ke paar..
neeche chu(river) oopar baadal.
ghanan ghanan....
surya ka magic !!!
tv mey dekho...dekha.
bhoond bhoond mey....
Baadal nahi hata!
Rangpo mey garmi ke samay humidity(nami) bhi saath saath!!!!

SOME PHOTOS

THE BRICK SMOKERS
LIFE CYCLE
HOME ALONE

LIFEBOAT
Home schooling for Samanta.
Light and Shadow
Fishermen's Ordeal
British Legacy