Sunday, December 01, 2019
Hormones and happiness
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Ponds and farming
Thursday, October 17, 2019
The Mahabharata and it's relevance
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Grow trees with one litre water
Following are the steps that Verma uses to grow trees with just a litre of water:
1. Level the farmland to prevent rainwater from draining away.
2. For 5-6 days after the first rain, plough the fields till one feet deep to remove the weeds and capillaries so that rainwater can seep into the ground and does not rise to the surface.
3. Deep plough for the second time immediately after the rains are over. This will turn the upper soil to a minimum of 10 inches deep in the field locking the water in the soil.
4. A few days after the second ploughing, dig pits of one-feet-deep and 4-5 inches wide.
5. Plant the saplings in the pits and ensure that the roots are at least 20 cm below the surface. Cover the plant with wet mud to keep the moisture for long.
6. Finally pour one litre of water in the pit and allow the plant to grow.
It helps to plant the saplings by September end as the temperatures in Rajasthan are low at this time of the year which allows roots to penetrate as deep as possible. As we enter summer, the top soil surface starts to dry up and the moisture content of the plant moves downwards.
Verma uses traditional methods taught by his father that use less water, “My dad would also fetch the wet mud from the lake and mix cow dung in it. The wet mud would retain the moisture and the cow dung would prevent capillaries from growing.”
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Hydroponic farm
https://www.thebetterindia.com/194171/lifestyle-delhi-hydroponic-workshop-terrace-garden-organic-food/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=lifestyle-delhi-hydroponic-workshop-terrace-24%20sept&utm_term=reshare&utm_content=tanvi
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Bye bye mails from colleagues
From managers:
From colleagues:
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Organic garden
https://www.thebetterindia.com/186488/organic-farming-lakhs-mysuru-vegetables-home-garden/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=ananya
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Friday, June 07, 2019
Barren land farming
https://www.thebetterindia.com/185363/karnataka-woman-organic-farmer-earns-lakhs-inspiring-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=lekshmi
Vertical garden in railway station
https://www.thebetterindia.com/152858/irs-officer-india-railway-station-vertical-garden-ludhiana-punjab/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=reshare&utm_content=tanvi
Shrimp farming
https://www.thebetterindia.com/185106/gurugram-ex-serviceman-earns-lakhs-shrimp-farming-blue-revolution/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=lekshmi
Sunday, June 02, 2019
Biogas to restaurant to profit
https://www.thebetterindia.com/179539/bengaluru-biogas-from-kitchen-waste-bbmp-restaurant-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=reshare&utm_content=jovita
Saturday, June 01, 2019
Rainwater syringe
https://www.thebetterindia.com/184426/kerala-rainwater-harvesting-syringe-innovation-water-conservation-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=tanvi
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Miyawaki forest
https://www.thebetterindia.com/183977/bengaluru-man-green-hero-grows-forest-cubbon-park-inspiring-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=tanvi
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Park out of dumping ground
https://www.thebetterindia.com/183590/maharashtra-waste-free-town-vengurla-govt-officer-inspiring-india/
Friday, May 24, 2019
Bio fuel
https://www.thebetterindia.com/182303/haryana-man-innovation-waste-cooking-oil-biofuel-green-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=tanvi
Water conservation in three steps
https://www.thebetterindia.com/182369/bengaluru-water-bill-saving-rain-water-harvesting-sustainable-homes-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=tanvi
Water purifier@10
https://www.thebetterindia.com/179089/kerala-student-innovation-low-cost-water-filter-organic-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=reshare&utm_content=gopi
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
5 layer of crops in one land
https://www.thebetterindia.com/183068/madhya-pradesh-organic-farmer-multi-layer-earns-lakhs-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=jovita
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Aquaponics farming
https://www.thebetterindia.com/181762/uttarakhand-aquaponics-farm-red-otter-organic-leafy-greens-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fresh&utm_content=jovita
Saturday, May 04, 2019
Water based farming
https://www.thebetterindia.com/169520/chennai-hydroponics-grow-plants-at-home-india/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=reshare&utm_content=jovita
Friday, May 03, 2019
Internet of things to save water
Wednesday, May 01, 2019
Greening an almost desert land
https://www.thebetterindia.com/169271/latur-swades-real-story-water-drought-village-maharashtra/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=reshare&utm_content=jovita
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Organic farming in barren land
https://www.thebetterindia.com/179678/rajasthan-woman-farmer-earns-lakhs-grows-pomegranate-apple/
Friday, April 19, 2019
12 forgotten places to visit in india
https://www.thebetterindia.com/179541/hidden-heritage-sites-india-unesco-offbeat-travel/
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Desert farming
https://www.thebetterindia.com/179101/gujarat-farmer-bhuj-dates-fruit-orchard-israel-india/
Monday, April 15, 2019
Vertical garden
https://www.thebetterindia.com/176722/mysuru-woman-vertical-garden-plastic-bottle-upcycled-tyres-india/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=reshare&utm_campaign=organic
Friday, April 12, 2019
Management lessons from GOT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/francesbridges/2017/07/13/the-8-best-leadership-lessons-from-the-game-of-thrones/#7a45a73d35b1
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Residue free farming
https://www.thebetterindia.com/178816/rajasthan-farmer-earns-lakhs-investment-fruit-natural-farming/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=organic
Friday, April 05, 2019
Organic farming on barren land
https://www.thebetterindia.com/177664/noida-organic-farming-solar-rainwater-harvesting-beejom-india/
Wednesday, April 03, 2019
Growing forrest from barren land
https://www.thebetterindia.com/176908/iit-iim-alumni-quits-job-helps-400-madhya-pradesh-farmers-grow-organic-food-forests/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=organic
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Guerilla gardening
https://www.thebetterindia.com/175951/kolkata-man-grows-forest-green-hero-india/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=organic
Saturday, March 23, 2019
How is destiny created?
In Mahabharat, #Karna asks Lord #Krishna - "My mother left me the moment I was born. Is it my fault I was born an illegitimate child?
I did not get the education from Dhronacharya because I was considered a non-Kshatriya.
Parshu-Raam taught me but then gave me the curse to forget everything since I was a Kshatriya.
A cow was accidentally hit by my arrow & its owner cursed me for no fault of mine.
I was disgraced in Draupadi's swayamvar.
Even Kunti finally told me the truth only to save her other sons.
Whatever I received was through Duryodhana's charity.
So how am I wrong in taking his side?"
Lord Krishna replies,
"Karna, I was born in a jail.
Death was waiting for me even before my birth.
The night I was born I was separated from my birth parents.
From childhood, you grew up hearing the noise of swords, chariots, horses, bow, and arrows. I got only cow herd's shed, dung, and multiple attempts on my life even before I could walk!
No army, no education. I could hear people saying I am the reason for all their problems.
When all of you were being appreciated for your valour by your teachers I had not even received any education. I joined gurukula of Rishi Sandipani only at the age of 16!
You are married to a girl of your choice. I didn't get the girl I loved & rather ended up marrying those who wanted me or the ones I rescued from demons.
I had to move my whole community from the banks of Yamuna to far off Sea shore to save them from Jarasandh. I was called a coward for running away!!
If Duryodhana wins the war you will get a lot of credit. What do I get if Dharmaraja wins the war? Only the blame for the war and all related problems...
Remember one thing, Karna. Everybody has challenges in life.
LIFE IS NOT FAIR ON ANYBODY!!!
Duryodhana also has a lot of unfairness in life and so has Yudhhishthir.
But what is Right (Dharma) is known to your mind (conscience). No matter how much unfairness we got, how many times we were disgraced, how many times we were denied what was due to us, what is important is how you REACTED at that time.
Stop whining Karna. Life's unfairness does not give you license to walk the wrong path...
Always remember, Life may be tough at a point, but DESTINY is not created by the SHOES we wear but by the STEPS we take...
Friday, March 22, 2019
Bio gas plant at home
https://www.thebetterindia.com/175796/how-to-portable-biogas-plant-at-home-jharkhand-india/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=organic
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Rain water harvesting, tanker independence
https://www.thebetterindia.com/174824/pune-rainwater-harvesting-water-conservation-hero-maharashtra/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=organic
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Sustainable water model
https://www.thebetterindia.com/92434/a-r-shivakumar-rainwater-harvesting-bengaluru-karnataka/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=reshare&utm_campaign=organic
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Biogas in rural india
https://www.thebetterindia.com/174765/bihar-farmer-free-electricity-biogas-plant-woman-india/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=organic
Sustainable apartment complex
https://www.thebetterindia.com/143646/mumbai-apartment-recycles-8000-kg-waste-own-organic-food/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=reshare&utm_campaign=organic
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Heart surgery remedy
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Recently, one person was admitted to a nursing home at Dharwad, due to severe chest pain. He had an earlier attack in 2012 and was under treatment. The doctors now suggested Angiography.
Upon undergoing Angiography at multi speciality Hospital Doctors diagnosed multiple blockages for which Angioplasty was ruled out and instead, suggested 'Bypass Surgery'.
That evening, he was brought home as doctor suggested his heart being very weak, bypass could be performed only after 10 - 15 days.
Meanwhile, after discussing the matter with relatives and close friends, fresh information came from a family friend.
A new treatment known as-"Chelation Therapy" has been introduced into the Indian medical theatre.
With this therapy, a patient who has to undergo by-pass need not do so.
Instead, the patient is given about 30 bottles of IV fluids in which certain medicament are injected. The medicine cleans the system and removes all blockages from the heart and the arteries. The number of bottles given may increase depending upon the age-factor and health of the patient.
Cost per bottle may be around Rs.1,500/- .
Currently, only a few doctors in India specialise in this field
One of them is DR. C Shashikant (Dharwad)
He has a list of patients who had to undergo by-pass from major hospitals; but, instead after undergoing the new treatment, they are absolutely fine and are leading a normal life.
Doctor's details for your info are:
Dr. C Shashikant
"SPARSH" Cardiac Rehabilitation & Research Center.
MR Nagar
Dharwad 580001
Mob: +919481723663
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Sunday, July 01, 2018
Khushwant singh learnings
Very nice article by Late Khushwant Singh. Preserve this .😊
How To Live & Die
I’ve often thought about what it is that makes people happy—what one has to do in order to achieve happiness.
1- First and foremost is good health. If you do not enjoy good health, you can never be happy. Any ailment, however trivial, will deduct something from your happiness.
2- Second, a healthy bank balance. It need not run into crores, but it should be enough to provide for comforts, and there should be something to spare for recreation—eating out, going to the movies, travel and holidays in the hills or by the sea. Shortage of money can be demoralising. Living on credit or borrowing is demeaning and lowers one in one’s own eyes.
3- Third, your own home. Rented places can never give you the comfort or security of a home that is yours for keeps. If it has garden space, all the better. Plant your own trees and flowers, see them grow and blossom, and cultivate a sense of kinship with them.
4- Fourth, an understanding companion, be it your spouse or a friend. If you have too many misunderstandings, it robs you of your peace of mind. It is better to be divorced than to be quarrelling all the time.
5- Fifth, stop envying those who have done better than you in life—risen higher, made more money, or earned more fame. Envy can be corroding; avoid comparing yourself with others.
6- Sixth, do not allow people to descend on you for gossip. By the time you get rid of them, you will feel exhausted and poisoned by their gossip-mongering.
7- Seventh, cultivate a hobby or two that will fulfill you—gardening, reading, writing, painting, playing or listening to music. Going to clubs or parties to get free drinks, or to meet celebrities, is a criminal waste of time. It’s important to concentrate on something that keeps you occupied meaningfully.
8- Eighth, every morning and evening devote 15 minutes to introspection. In the mornings, 10 minutes should be spent in keeping the mind absolutely still, and five listing the things you have to do that day. In the evenings, five minutes should be set aside to keep the mind still and 10 to go over the tasks you had intended to do.
9- Ninth, don’t lose your temper. Try not to be short-tempered, or vengeful. Even when a friend has been rude, just move on.
10- Above all, when the time comes to go, one should go like a Person without any regret or grievance against anyone.
Read it...it mean a lot
Friday, June 22, 2018
Cancer cure
Life was a dream for Amit Vaidya, who soared high financially and professionally till he was diagnosed with cancer when he was 27.
Amit Vaidya lived the American dream. A Gujarati, born and brought up in the US, with a Ph.D. in economics, he worked in the entertainment industry’s business department. “It was an active but not a healthy lifestyle as I was an overachiever,” says Amit. His dreams “were shattered” when a few months after his father’s death he was diagnosed with first stage gastric cancer. “The fall was great as I had risen to great heights when I was 27.”
Opting not to do surgery, he went in for “aggressive chemo radiation” in New York. Two years later he went into remission.
Within two months of his recovery, his mother was diagnosed with grade three brain tumour. “Nothing worked and I lost her too. Away in a foreign land, being the only child, I felt lonely and a scan showed my cancer had returned after 18 months. This time it showed up in my liver. Nine months later, in 2011, reports showed I was not responding to treatment and the cancer had spread to my lungs too,” he says emotionally.
Doctors told Amit that his life too was just a matter of time. “Not wanting to burden my friends, I started planning my funeral.
Soon he planned a trip to India. An aunt also told me about an Ayurvedic hospital in Gujarat that claims to cure cancer in 11 days for just a rupee! Having nothing to lose I wanted to give it a shot.”
So off he went and explains that the treatment was disciplined with yoga, meditation and he was made to drink a mix of _“desi cow milk, curd, ghee and gobar, go-mutra. I was to drink it on an empty stomach. For years everything tasted like saw dust because of the chemo. It was easy to drink something that smelled and tasted as it should. Others there were traumatised by this. I kept faith and did it diligently. I saw no change but felt no worse either.”_
Scans showed that the cancer “had not spread”. Amit then went back to the hospital and lived there for another 40 days. Reports showed the cancer had decreased. “Wanting to continue the therapy,” Amit stayed with a farmer, who opened his house to Amit. _“He offered me a tiny shack on his farm, a cot, a goshala with desi cows, a well and a toilet. I continued the therapy and after months was able to walk. Over time, walks became jogs, jogs became runs and I started finding joy in my mind. The villagers had time for me, which was the best gift I got, especially when I needed time to heal.”_
After 18 months Amit claims he is cancer free and decided _“on planning to live his life instead of planning a funeral. I now talk to people about my journey and that healing is possible. I make time to spend with cancer patients. It is all free. I have started an NGO called Healing Vaidya.”_
He does not plan on going back to the US as _“this country has given me much. I have learnt that people here don’t value what it can offer.”_
Amit has written "Holy Cancer - How A Cow Saved My Life" (Aditya Prakashan, Rs. 495) which was launched in the city recently. The book is available in book stores. For more log on to healingvaidya.org
Also available with amazon and Flipkart.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/a-journey-from-death-to-life/article7558731.ece
Vaidya is referring to *RM Dhariwal Cancer Hospital at Valsad* - *Gujarat* where Panchagavya is the treatment and charges are Re. 1- only
Friday, April 27, 2018
Quick workouts
20-Minute Arm Workout:
20-Minute Lower Body Workout:
10-Minute Core Workout:
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Pressure Doesn’t Have to Turn into Stress
Pressure Doesn’t Have to Turn into Stress
Nicholas Petrie
MARCH 16, 2017
https://hbr.org/2017/03/pressure-doesnt-have-to-turn-into-stress
When I was in my late twenties, I was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. I returned to Japan, where I was working, and tried to forget about it. The tumors returned a year later, this time in my liver. After a long search, the surgeons found a new procedure to remove them, but I knew this was, again, perhaps only a temporary fix. I was a mess for the next six months. The hardest part of my illness was my constant anxiety about it coming back.
Then I met a man who changed my outlook. Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. He taught me everything he’d learned, and as I started applying it, my anxiety subsided, even though my situation didn’t change. In fact, the cancer came back about five years ago and remains relatively stable in my liver. But I no longer worry about it. Derek became my mentor, and over the past 10 years we have trained thousands of leaders to overcome their stress.
The process starts with understanding that stress is caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them. In the workplace, many people blame their high anxiety levels on a boss, job, deadlines, or competing commitments for their time. But peers who face the same challenges do so without stress. Derek and I often meet executives who have high levels of pressure but low levels of stress, and vice versa.
Pressure is not stress. But the former is converted to the latter when you add one ingredient: rumination, the tendency to keep rethinking past or future events, while attaching negative emotion to those thoughts. Of course, leaders must practice reflection — planning for the future or reviewing past lessons — but this is an analytical, short-term process, with positive fallout. Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being. Chronic worriers show increased incidence of coronary problems and suppressed immune functioning. Dwelling on the past or the future also takes us away from the present, rendering us unable to complete the work currently on our plates. If you ask ruminators how they are feeling, none will say “happy.” Most feel miserable.
To break this stress-inducing habit, Derek and I recommend four steps:
Wake up. People spend most of their day in a state called “waking sleep.” This is when you pull into the office parking lot but can’t remember the drive there, or when someone in a meeting asks for your opinion but you’ve missed the last few minutes of conversation. Since all rumination happens during this state, the first step is to break out of it. You can do this physically: Stand or sit up, clap your hands, and move your body. Or you can do it mentally: Connect with your senses by noticing what you can hear, see, smell, taste, and feel. The idea is to reconnect with the world.
Control your attention. When you ruminate, your attention gets caught in an unproductive loop, like a hamster on a wheel. You need to redirect yourself to areas in which you can take useful action. Here’s one exercise we encourage executives to use: Draw a circle on a page, and write down all of the things you can control or influence inside of it and all of the things you cannot outside of it. Remind yourself that you can care about externalities — your work, your team, your family — without worrying about them.
Put things in perspective. Ruminators tend to catastrophize, but resilient leaders keep things in perspective for themselves and their teams. We tell people to try three techniques: contrasting (comparing a past stress to the current one, i.e., a major illness versus a missed sale), questioning (asking yourself “How much will this matter in three years’ time?” and “What’s the worst that could happen?” and “How would I survive it?”) and reframing (looking at your challenge from a new angle: “What’s an opportunity in this situation I haven’t yet seen?” or even “What’s funny about this situation?”)
Let go. The final step is often the hardest. If it was easy to let it go, we would have done it already. We find that three techniques help.
The first is acceptance: Acknowledge that whether you like the situation or not, it is the way it is.
The second is learning the lesson. Your brain will review events until it feels you’ve gained something from them, so ask yourself, “What have I learned from this experience?”
The third is action. Sometimes the real solution is not to relax, but to do something about your situation. Ask yourself, “What action is required here?
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Israel and how it fights desertification
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Another amazing example of RWH
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Curing cancer the natural way
Please share this post as much as possible.
*Eating Fruit on Empty Stomach*
Cancer patients shouldn't die..
This will open your eyes ! Read to the end and then send it on to all on your e-list. I just did !
Dr Stephen Mak treats terminal ill cancer patients by an "un-orthodox" way and many patients recovered.
Before he used solar energy to clear the illnesses of his patients, he believes on natural healing in the body against illnesses.
See his article below.
"It is one of the strategies to heal cancer. As of late, my success rate in curing cancer is about 80%."
"Cancer patients shouldn't die.
*The cure for cancer is already found - *its in the way we eat fruits.*"
"It is whether you believe it or not."
"I am sorry for the hundreds of cancer patients who die under the conventional treatments."
*EATING FRUIT*
We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths.
It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know *how* and *when* to eat the fruits.
What is the correct way of eating fruits?
*IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS!*
*FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH*
If you *eat fruits on empty stomach*, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.
*_FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD._*
Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit.
The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so due to the bread taken before the fruit.
In the meantime the whole meal of bread & fruit rots and ferments and turns to acid.
The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.
So please eat your fruits on an *empty stomach* *or before your meals !*
You have heard people complaining :
Every time I eat *watermelon* 🍉 I burp, when I eat *durian* 🍈 my stomach bloats up, when I eat a *banana* 🍌 I feel like running to the toilet, etc.. etc..
Actually all this will not arise if you *eat the fruit on an empty stomach.*
The fruit mixes with the putrefying of other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat !
Greying hair, loss of hair, balding, nervous outbursts and dark circles under the eyes all these will *NOT* *happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.*
There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange 🍊 and lemon 🍋 are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter.
If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the *SECRET of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.*
When you need to drink fruit juice - *drink only fresh fruit juice,* *NOT* from the cans, packs or bottles.
*Don't* even drink juice that has been heated up.
*Don't* eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all.
You only get its taste.
_Cooking destroys all the vitamins._
But eating a *whole fruit* is better than drinking the juice.
If you should *drink the fresh fruit juice*, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.
You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse or detoxify your body.
Just eat fruits and drink fresh fruit juice throughout the 3 days.
And you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look !
*KIWI fruit:*
Tiny but mighty.
This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. _Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange._
*APPLE:*🍎🍏
An *apple* a day keeps the doctor away?
Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby _helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke._
*STRAWBERRY:*🍓🍓
Protective Fruit.
*Strawberries* have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & _protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging and free radicals._
*ORANGE :*🍊🍊
Sweetest medicine.
Taking 2-4 *oranges* a day may _help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer._
*WATERMELON:*🍉🍉
Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which _helps boost our immune system._
They are also *a key source of lycopene the cancer fighting oxidant.*
Other nutrients found in *watermelon* 🍉 _are Vitamin C & Potassium._
*GUAVA & PAPAYA:*🍑🍑
Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their _high vitamin C content._
*Guava* is also rich in fiber, which _helps prevent constipation._
*Papaya* is rich in carotene; this is _good for your eyes._
*Drinking COLD water or drinks after a meal = CANCER*
Can you believe this ?
For those who like to drink cold water or cold drinks, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold water or cold drinks after a meal.
However, *the cold water or drinks will solidify the oily stuff that you have just eaten.*
_It will slow down the digestion._
Once this *'sludge' reacts with the acid*, it will break down and be *absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food.*
_It will line the intestine._
Very soon, *this will turn into FATS and lead to CANCER !*
_*It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.*_
Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.
A cardiologist says:
if everyone who gets this msg & share it to other people you can be sure that you'll save at least one life.
So lets do it! 😃😄
Friday, March 17, 2017
Save water and generate electricity at the same time!
Pumped hydro - another renewable source
Friday, February 17, 2017
Letter from Bill gates to Warren buffet
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Disposing toxic waste
The toxic waste that we generate on the planet can be probably dumped onto another planet once ISRO crosses the threshold to launch satellites at dirt cheap prices at road travel prices.
Waste can be packed into small cannisters made of lead or other similar material that can withstand long distance travel. These cannisters can then be launched using mechanical giant catapults into outer space.
Each cannister should be labeled with a number and the direction and angle recorded. In absence of any matter in space the object would continue to gain momentum until it reaches the gravitational field of a stronger star that starts pulling it towards itself.
If there is life on thst star and if the canister manages to reach the surface of the star undamaged it'd be great. If it is a more intelligent life form than us,, they'd be able to analyze the content and might even figure out where we are judging from the direction.
The only catch is that if there is no life form ever out there and once the canister reaches the outer peripherals of universe (if ever there is any outer oeriphery), it might rebound and start coming back at an even greater speed, a slight miss in direction might see it come back towarda Planet Earth in a million years or so.. So imagine a day once generations much in future wake up to see tiny objects enlightening the sky and missiles being fired to destroy them..
These were random musings in a bus.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
A DOG AND A DONKEY
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Indian Railways and the Classes
A train journey from Bangalore to Delhi by Rajdhani takes close to 32-34 hrs with an entire one day thrown in. Naturally it becomes boring, sometimes especially if you are traveling alone, so the only place you seek refuge in is either books or some music.
Well this time around in search of company, I happened to go the Pantry car to grab an extra cup of tea and there I sat down to chat with the TCs (Ticket Checkers as they are popularly known). Chatting with three of these TCs for around an hour gave me a good insight into the behavior and way of living of people who travel across different classes in the Indian railways, this was from the perspective of those TCs but nevertheless a very good one, something which took my thoughts back to the STP lessons in my MBA Marketing classes.
A typical Indian railways train is a long serpent making its way through the various terrains of our country, the wagons or bogies as they are more typically known number close to 20, add and subtract a few numbers on either side depending on the booking schedule and festive seasons. The segmentation is done on the basis of various categories of classes it has and they are five in number:
- General category
- Sleeper
- 3rd AC
- 2nd AC
- 1st AC
Till here you all too know the same facts, now for some change from the eyes of TCs.
General Category: Utter chaos, everyone talking to everyone else present, total mayhem in place.. Try hard to decipher the common thread of conversation and you wouldn’t find any. Privacy, space for the other person all are alien words here. Travel in this class if you want to get a first hand experience of how to travel with the masses(I believe the campus recruits at HLL each year have to travel in this section too as a part of their initial trainings, they do travel with truck drivers in their zones that’s for certain) You want find unruly young guys here because they don’t have any space to show their antics.
Sleeper: Some order here, people would still be talking around to everyone present but the action would now be restricted to the same coupe, eight people or less engaged in conversation at the same time. There is some common thread, with the vagaries of nature pouring in too to add more action. Here you would find young guys eager for some action, they include the unreserved category people trying to find an inch of space here and there adding to the chaos. Two or three Antakshari sessions in progress in the same bogie is not something unusual.
3rd AC: Ah, the cooling effect is in now.. The vagaries of nature are no longer there as you are shielded by tinted windows on both ends. Conversation between fellow passengers becomes less frequent here as people talk in toned down voices, action is very much restricted to the same coupe and as compared to earlier where one or two were outside the conversation, here at a time only 2-3 people would be engaged in at the same time. One more interesting parameter comes into play here, in the earlier two classes you would find large gatherings of people playing Antakshari or discussing loudly over certain topics , in short enjoying life as it is. That phenomenon is absent here because people pay that lot extra money to get some solace, silence and privacy. Loud talking or chaos here results in TC coming in and reining you in.
2nd AC: The last but one runk of the ladder. Privacy is re-inforced this time by the presence of curtains. On one side you have four people behind the curtain and on other side two people. This class is popular with newly married couples as they find the side which has two seats to be very romantic and private too. Here people hardly talk to each other, nevertheless you would still find some exceptions here and there. An interesting feature of this class is that the TCs have to take extra care here of the passengers and their whims… why? Its because during night time the passengers draw in the curtains and sleep, now if any passerby accidentally hits someone sleeping with his hand or elbow, people raise a din over here because they want that the curtains provide total disturbance free zone, this is not the problem in other classes as none of them have curtains and in the first ac its closed compartments as a whole.
1st AC: Isolated islands in the wagon. Four people each in each isolated island. If people inside the coupe know each other then they talk else there is no point of talking. Each person is lost in his/her thoughts and wants total mental solitude as well. Loud talking, group talking etc etc is out of the question here. Welcome to the elite class.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Swedish Incident
The time was Feb 2006 and I was working out of the Volvo IT premises in Skovde, Sweden.
Quite close to my apartment where I used to stay with two of my fellow Minds, there was a large building on a small hilltop, we could never figure out what was it for as when we used to leave for office in morning it used to be dark outside and when we used to come back in the evening then also it used to be quite dark and hence we missed out on any human activity that
took place in and around the building.
It so happened that one day one of our Swedish colleagues invited us over to his home for lunch and he came to pick us up, after picking us he was briefing us on the various landmarks in the area and in the process he pointed out to that building and said that’s the "Gymnasium". I was like Wow, such a huge gym! Man these guys are something, they really are too much of fitness conscious.
So, the next day I left from office early so as to go to this gymnasium and inquire about their working times and membership charges and all. I parked my cycle at the foot of the hill, climbed the stairs and started searching for the entrance. There were many doors and as is the case with Automatic doors they open from inside only and from outside if only I know the code. So now started my process of testing each door .. In vain.. Now I resorted to next step, of peeping into various rooms and searching for a human soul… again in vain… I was beginning to think that whats wrong with these people, they build such huge gymnasiums with no-one in rooms, no information signs outside when I noticed light coming from one of the rooms.
I peeped in through the Window and hallejulah there were 3-4 pretty girls inside, now this was an even better incentive for me to become a member.. I started tapping the window first slowly then frantically… As my fairy godmother would like it, the prettiest girl of the lot looked up… I was like "Yes, meri to nikal padi"… Now with the help of sign language I started conveying that I want to come inside, she walked over to where I was standing and opened the window and spoke to me… left me wondering why did I resort to sign language in the first place? She asked me to come over to the door on the other side and she would open the door for me.
In the excitement I circled the wrong side of the building and when I didn’t find her there then I realised it must be on the other end.. By the time I reached there, to my utter grief she was no longer there instead she had stuck a broom in the door so that it doesn’t close and I can go in…
Well I picked the broom and entered the premises, my eyes were frantically searching for the girl when a huge gentleman came into the view.. Greetings exchanged and then he says "Ah! You must be the gentleman for whom the young girl was waiting over here, your girl has left and she must be in one of the rooms"
By this time I was like going crazy, God what sort of Gym is this, I have seen everything but where is the equipment?
I told the gentleman.. Sir, I think there is something wrong here in what I know, firstly, that lady isnt my lady(though I'd loved to say the other way) and secondly I want to join this gymnasium. The gentleman reacted in a way as if something real hard stuck him. He said.." You look as an educated person to me" I replied yes I am, I have done my Masters and I am working with Volvo right now. Then he replied "Then why do you want to join the gym?" I replied "To stay physically fit" He wore a puzzled look for sometime and then burst out into peals of laughter. Seeing him laugh so hysterically I also started smiling, though I was completely unaware of the reason.
Then he said.. Young man, you follow the British english right? I said yes, I do.. He said that’s the point .. In British english Gymnasium refers to a place where you work-out whereas in Swedish English it stands for a high school.. And that’s why I was wondering that since you have already done your masters why do you want to come back to the school…
Then he took me to one of those patio windows and showed me the real fitness gyms down the road, this time he led me to the door and ensured that I left safely.
All in all… I came back very disappointed, my joy of being a member of such a huge gym was washed out and my dreams of that pretty girl didn’t even survive beyond one meeting :-( I hope that gym and that girl are doing well, as for myself I and gym continue to play hide-and-seek with each other as always..
Monday, December 03, 2007
Delhi traffic.. Saddi Dilli
Driving on Delhi roads is much more tough and stressful than Formula-1 racing because over there you have only one type of competitors fighting for the same space – cars, albeit of different make but still cars. On Delhi roads you have as much variety as you would find in a local vegetable market. Small to large, cheap to costly you name it and you have the variety.
For the uninitiated who are unacquainted with Delhi traffic, they might find this all gibber and gabber and would dismiss this article with a shrug saying “Big Deal, same is the situation in all the major metros in India”. But no dear friend, you have to be in Delhi, sit in the driver’s seat and drive around any major or minor road and you would get a first hand experience of what I am driving to.
There are exceptions everywhere and so are here, please don’t include the green heartland of Delhi – Sir Lutyen’s Delhi in this category.. reasons? All other conditions kept the same the security is so tight in this area that as this is a VIP zone that try any of your circus acts here and you wont pass by the next two traffic signals, you would be intercepted by one of the famed Delhi cops beforehand. Trust me when I say this, you’d rather prefer to wait in the serpentine queue for another 10 mins rather than risk having a confrontation with the Delhi cops because they wont distinguish if you are a software engineer or a vice-president. The result of which is that they wouldn’t hesitate even a second to man-handle you and talk to you in such a rural and harsh language resulting in you praying to god that why wasn’t I born as a snail so that I could retreat into my shell this very instant.
Coming back to the main subject, Delhi traffic.. Delhi has by and large the widest streets/roads in the entire country.. No second opinions on this. And Delhi would soon be the city to have the largest number of fly-overs in the entire continent. Still, venture out at any time/hour onto the streets of Delhi, be it the arterial ring road or the by lanes and sub lanes you would never find them devoid of traffic snarls. In short, there is no predictable time when I can venture out and reach my destination in a relatively shorter amount of time. Now why is this so? Primarily because of the various players we have on the Delhi roads.. So I’d give you a vivid description of these players now.
Buses: two types, the state run DTC(Delhi Transport Corporation) and private buses.
The state run DTC buses would keep on rolling on the left side of the street in their lane.. rickety and smoke emitting, they are relics of a by-gone era.. not from the times of Raj though. They are the least of a disturbance as you can overtake them anytime you want, they wont run you down on red-lights because once they stop at signals it takes an equivalent of electric shocks to bring them to life again.
Private buses – Ah!! These are the notorious, street robbers, gangsters, bullies… call them n number of names and they wont suffice. In Delhi these buses make the Page3 headlines each day with the number of people they ran down the previous day on Delhi roads. Popularly known as the Red Line or Blue Line buses, they are operated by private owners who do an excellent job of packing people like sardines in a can in the bus. They are very customer friendly, give them a hand and they would stop for you bang in the middle of the road with a screeching halt, the customer friendliness ends here.. Try haggling with them over the price of tickets and you might find yourself either thrown out of the door or beaten black and blue by the conductors and driver. You might wonder that I am over- exaggerating, ok take a sample size… visit the Delhi Edition of TOI and Hindustan times online for just five days and you would very well get it if I am exaggerating or not.
Cycles, Rickshaw pullers, four wheeled carts and 3 wheeled luggage carts – These guys are the uncrowned kings of Delhi roads primarily because they don’t need a “License To Drive” and hence they do not have any fear of the law what-so-ever. These chaps drive their respective vehicles with such a major disdain bang in the innermost lane, that they very well act as bottlenecks to choke the incoming traffic and smoothline the outgoing traffic. These guys are simply crazy, they change their lanes at the last moment by just lifting their miniature hands a little bit, no consideration at all for the vehicles approaching from the back… screeching sounds of brakes also acts as no deterrent for them. And Dare you, yes Dare you touch even their royal wagons with your peanut vehicle, they’d make sure you don’t leave the place with 2000 bucks less in your pocket.
Two – Wheelers( Motor cycles, scooters) :- These guys are the equivalent of F1 drivers in the motorcycle racing. They live in the truest spirit, nothing can stop them on Delhi roads. If there is a long traffic jam in front of them, they would either mount their vehicle on to the middle partition or take it straight on the sidewalks and wroom wroom they’d start racing again. The act of driving your two wheeler zig zag between vehicles standing on a red light is an art typical in Delhi. I tried emulating the same in Chennai twice/thrice, my pillion friends closed their eyes and started chanting that very instant, that was the last time they sat behind me on any vehicle.
If you have reached so far, then I’d say I am tired of punching out, see you sometime in my neighboring car on one of the Delhi roads and then we too would wroom wrooooom.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Where do we stop
When in India most professionals (IT or non IT) want to go abroad as a part of their jobs. For a significant chunk, US is the mecca.. one has to go there at least once. I am no exception. So after reaching here I realise there is wealth, abundance of wealth all around.. New York is bloody huge with massive companies in terms of numbers not employee heads. After coming here you start thinking, you should be here i.e. you should move your base here and earn dollars. You get married and get your spouse here too, both start working and start getting dollars. With the passsage of time your life style changes and expenses increase. So even if you manage to save 20K USD per year, its a big deal by Indian standards but not in US, here it's peanuts.
Then why are you here in the first place? You come here far from your country, start working here much to the anguish of your near and dear ones and finally after 4-5 years you are cribbing..
I think cribbing is the birth-right of every mortal, it begins from child hood itself.
When a person is child, he is always eager to go into the next class and be more big. In the final years of school he wants to be in college so fast so that he lives an independent life. Once in college you start missing your school days and all the fun. Final years of college, students worry about their PG, once in PG you worry about Jobs.
Got a new job, the excitement lasts only for few weeks, only that is the time when the new company is all rosy and everything from reception to vending machines all is great. Few months in the org and the same company now sucks big time and start looking out for change.... and so it goes on and on.
If not each one of us starts dreaming about being a Bill Gates and start enjoying life with the current levels, happiness would prevail at large.
Now this is a preacher at work, the big question is would I practice what I preach? As of now, I dont, I hope I do it in future but am not sure...
Wish me Luck :)
Friday, March 23, 2007
Hi I am back
For people who havent read the earlier post please read the post earlier to this and come back to this again. Because its then that what I am saying would make relevance.
I had read the story of 1000 marbles a long time back. Once I had read the story I thought about it for some time and then stored it in one of the folders in my mail-box. But recently, I have felt the need to revisit it again. The primary reason being that more than 4 months in Singapore now, I wasnt doing much apart from my work, reading, music and watching occasional TV.
I felt I was wasting away the weeks of my life, more predoominantly the weekends. Its then i decided that let me make a conscious effort to make productive utilisation(apart from cooking, ironing clothes and all) of all the weeekends that come my way because otherwise most of my weekends I spend just doing mundane tasks or dozing off.
So for the past 3 weekends, I have been trying to move out the confines of my house, and doing somethign extra. the first weekend I had been for the IIT Singapore Alumni Association Holi celebrations. The next weekend I went to donate blood. Last weekend nope didnt do anythign out of house but was at home customising my new lap with new warez to suit my needs.
Today being Saturday, the first day of the weekend, I am writing this article, reading a MCKC report on Latin America. After this I have to read up on some stuff for my D80. Once I am done with the same I have to download some photo tools for my beloved camera.
So, friends Romans and fellow country men what are you guys doing this weekend to make it more productive as compared to just eating, drinking and sleeping?
Enjoy....
See you soon.
Rohin
A Thousand Marbles
Its after a long time I am making a post this time again its not my words but someone else's words which I am copying here to enable all of you to read it. They are real good. Just take 5 mins to read thru it and after that dont forget it, remember it..
A Thousand Marbles
By Jeff Davis
I’m a Ham radio operator and spend some time working with radios and electronics. So when I heard this story it really made me think! I hope that you will find some application in your own life as well...
A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the basement shack with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning, turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time? Let me tell you about it.
I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know, the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whomever he was talking with something about “a thousand marbles.”
I was intrigued and sat down to listen to what he had to say. “Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you’re busy with your job. I’m sure they pay you well but it’s a shame you have to be away from home and your Family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter’s dance recital.”
He continued, “Let me tell you something Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities.” And that’s when he began to explain his theory of a “thousand marbles.”
“You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.”
“Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900 which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now stick with me Tom, I’m getting to the important part.”
“It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail,” he went on, “and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy.”
“So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to roundup 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right here in my workshop next to the radio. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away.”
“I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.”
“Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday then God has blessed me with a little extra time to be with my loved ones...”
“It was nice to talk to you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your loved ones, and I hope to meet you again someday. Have a good morning!”
You could have heard a pin drop when he finished. Even the show’s moderator didn’t have anything to say for a few moments. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to do some work that morning, and then go to the gym. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. “C’mon honey, I’m taking you and the kids to breakfast.”
“What brought this on?” she asked with a smile.
“Oh, nothing special,” I said. “It has just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. Hey, can we stop at a toy store while we’re out? I need to buy some marbles.”
Friday, December 22, 2006
Steve Job's Speech in Stanford Ceremony
| This is an amazing speech by Steve Jobs in Stanford University's graduation ceremony! | |
Friday, November 17, 2006
Life Re-defined
"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. Whats that a Bonus?!?! I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first get that out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. you get kicked out for being too healthy. Go collect your pension then when you start work you can buy a gold watch on your first day. you work for forty years until you are young enough to enjoy your retirement. you drink alcohol, you party and you get ready for high school. you go to primary school you become a kid, you play you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back where you spend your last nine months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa and room service on tap. Then you finish off as an Orgasm!!!! Amen"
And here is a classic to finish it……
"Looking at a cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away"