Tower of Babel to Burj Khalifa(Dubai):Curse or Cure

We humosapiens always aimed for the sky( and landed on the planets !)If you don't know the answer- show the sky.Where is God?(up!)What happens after death?(you go up!!)The upperwaala is also tired of it. It happened to the Tower of Babel,when people started building a tower to the heavens God become angry and destroyed the tower by lightning..not only that,the people started speaking different languages causing confusion ..they left the place and spread across the earth. Now we know the reason for many dialects on earth.It may sound funny to you and me !! but you cannot undermine the truth. The folklores of Lepcha's (Sikkim) and the Tower to heaven,folktales around the world,even the Tribes of Andaman Islands have a similar story of God,flood and language- Their beliefs hold that even before the death of the first man,

... his offspring became so numerous that their home could no longer accommodate them. At Pūluga's(GOD) bidding they were furnished with all necessary weapons, implements, and fire, and then scattered in pairs all over the country. When this exodus occurred Puluga- provided each party with a distinct dialect.

If God divided us through communication barriers(the first divide and rule policy after creating the man and woman !) against building towers by punishing with confusing dialects ,then what will happen if we all communicate in English and use Internet..uniting once again,completing the Circle ?Now rethink about the English medium schools in all corners of the world,even the Chinese are in a hurry to make their kids learn the Queen's language.

GOD cursed Adam and Eve for not abiding by his rules in the Eden by saying "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."Now most of us who use the Internet don't sweat and managed to escape this curse ,scientists working hard in their labs(no sweats)to make humans immortal.

We are alive and kicking the Doomsday predictions of the past .The Sensational News Channels around the world created an impressive prelude( knowingly/unknowingly) to promote the movie 2012 before its release.Sony won,virtually we lost the world and survived to see the 2012- movie ,making Mahesh Bhatt fuming over the lose of Tum Mile !

They build Burjes and towers to show the world that they(others already sweated it out building the structures..) can use the speedy lifts to reach the 158th floor and sweat out to burn calories in the advanced AC gims.. escaping the curse,because God created us in his own image,but the brain of God is distributed among us!! and some who lack the stuff in theirs ..buy a part of it!

Moral of the story:IF YOU CAN'T CONVINCE,THEN DON'T CONFUSE !!

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We reached the moon and found WATER with the US,An Army officer and a Judge trapped in a LAND grabbing case and Airhostess,pilot,Airlines issues in the Mid AIR are some breaking news this year.Oscar rain to Slumdog M and the pain of losing Michael Jackson,Bollywood with great flops and Hollywood flapping its wing with 2012 and Avatar,Nobel to Obama and Venky ,Jaswants Jinnah and Gorkhaland movement hotting up with Telangana announcement,Sikkim suffering the bandhs on NH 31A,Bear menace in Himachal & Sikkim,YSR tragedy a bad omen to Andhra,Andhra Governor N.D.Tiwari going underground with all his clothes during this winter ,Ruchikas case,Aruna's 36 yearold coma and euthanasia issue,gay rights ,Varun Gandhi,Sena,Manus and Media dominated the news this year.

Nanotech,LHC,makkimaar Obama,shoe throwing rebels wasted good chunck of news print leading to Copenhagen talks on Climate change wasting more newsprint to save the coming generation from the global warming and its effects,better ask the leaders to build their houses near the sea shore or shift all State capitals near the Sea to get the sinking feeling. Maldives and Nepal arranged for cabinet meeting under the sea and near a himalayan glacier respectively.Nepal before crawling in to democracy want to be an adult democracy like India.Copying others wont work,you have to invent/discover your own.

Usain Bolt broke records or made records.Mary Kom shouting at the Judges and P.T.Usha's plea

has shown us that how serious we are about Commonwealth Games and other sports except Cricket.Sachin and Baichung's achievement inspired us all this year.

Our Religion;Bollywood,cricket and Politics flourished well with 3 ideots earning 100 crores in four days of its release,number one ranking in test cricket and Mayawati's statues ,New generation politicians irking the old ( Tharoor's tweeting- tweaks,Rahul's dinner in the countryside)

Prabhakaran's(LTTE)end and Sarath Fonseka -the Military chief entering Politics,Kasab denying it,Swine flu,Liberhan Committee leaked report are some of the important 2009 stories.

Many anniverseries like 40th: Man's Moon walk,25th:Indira Gandhi's death,50th:Tibetan Government in-exile etc. were observed in this "International Year of Astronomy".

Now let us leave the history which is going to inspire us in the future and look forward to the"International Year of Bio-Diversity"Andaman and Sikkim are the places in India to look forward to , protect & preserve its Bio-Diversity .Island to highland:flora,fauna,inland,sea,tribal,traditional.....bayo!!!!

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The economic case for creating small states

S A Aiyar Sunday December 20, 2009,

Should India be broken up into smaller states? After the decision to give statehood to Telangana, many analysts want a new States Reorganization Commission.

India today has 28 states. Assuming 20% population growth since the last census, Uttar Pradesh has 198 million people, more than Brazil, Russia or Pakistan. Maharashtra has 106 million, West Bengal 96 million and Andhra Pradesh 90 million. All are much bigger than France or Britain. At the other end of the scale, Sikkim has just 0.6 million people, Mizoram 1.1 million and Arunachal Pradesh 1.3 million. Clearly, statehood has been determined by political expediency, not logic.

Is there an economic case for carving smaller states out of large ones? Some analysts say small states won’t be economically viable. Others believe small states will fare better, since ordinary people will have better access to power elites. Consider the record of three states carved out of larger ones in 2000 - Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand. Ignore data for the first few transitional years. Instead, focus on the average growth rate of gross state domestic product for the last five years, from 2004-05 to 2008-09.

Amazingly, all three new states have grown fabulously fast. Uttarakhand has averaged 9.31% growth annually, Jharkhand 8.45%, and Chattisgarh 7.35%. All three states belong to what was historically called the BIMARU zone, a slough of despond where humans and economies stagnated. Out of this stagnant pool have now emerged highly dynamic states.

Some caveats are in order. The central government exempted industries in Uttarakhand from excise duty, a concession already applicable to other hill states such as Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir and the north-eastern states. Many big industries rushed to Uttarakhand for the tax break, giving the state’s growth an artificial boost. Still, Uttarakhand easily outperformed Himachal Pradesh (8.47%) and Kashmir (5.98%). Remember, Uttarakhand was once considered the poorest, most backward part of UP. After statehood, it has become a growth champion.

Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were the most backward parts of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, which in turn were among the most backward states of India. Yet, after becoming separate states, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have emerged as industrial dynamos. Both have large tribal belts with pathetic infrastructure. In Chhattisgarh, four-fifths of habitations lack road access. Both states have ample minerals like coal and iron ore. But this was not an economic advantage when they were part of larger states. Rather, their mineral revenues were diverted to state capitals. This diversion ended after they became separate states.

Their rapid economic growth has been tainted by massive corruption. Sheer money power enabled an independent, Madhu Koda, to become chief minister of Jharkhand and rule for years. He handed out dozens of mining licences, instead of auctioning them to the highest bidder. Alas, this problem affects the whole of India: Natural resources from coal to the telecom spectrum are constantly gifted to favoured parties instead of being auctioned, and this enables politicians to amass fortunes. But just as the telecom revolution has been good for India despite corruption, so has private entry into mining and processing.

Jharkhand and Chattisgarh are not growing fast simply through mining. They have experienced a manufacturing boom. Read what research firm Indicus Analytica has to show:

"Since 2001, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have moved up into the top 10 (industrial states), displacing Rajasthan and Punjab... The phenomenal growth in these two states has seen the share of manufacturing in their GDP rise dramatically as they have attracted industrial projects. Looking at the share of income that originates in the manufacturing sector, these two states have shown higher levels than Maharashtra, Haryana and Tamil Nadu...Being newer and smaller states, they responded more rapidly than their larger — and in some cases better endowed - neighbours… Raipur in Chhattisgarh has now entered the top 10 districts of India in manufacturing, with two industrial estates at Urla and Siltara".

Now, millions of tribals have been bypassed, especially in remote areas where Maoism flourishes. However, the biggest tribal agitations against giant mining projects are in Orissa. The big Jharkhand projects of Tata and Mittal are in limbo since the state has stalled land acquisition.

The neglect of tribals and consequent rise of Maoism is a blot on the record of Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. The creation of the vigilante Salwa Judum to counter Maoists in Chattisgarh has widely been condemned for violating civil rights.

The two states account for 68% of all Maoist attacks. That’s bad for civil rights and security. Yet, achieving fast growth amidst such insurgency is a major economic feat. It highlights the dynamism created when backward regions become separate states. Hopefully, this economic dynamism will help mitigate the backwardness on which Maoism thrives.

source:SWAMINOMICS(Times of India)

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The White Tiger-Aravind Adiga

Meet Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer… Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape.

His big chance comes when a rich village landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son. Arriving in Delhi with his new master, Balram’s re-education begins, as he learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. As the other servants flick through the pages of Murder Weekly, Balram begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top?

The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram’s journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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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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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

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``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.

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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

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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 !!