Saradyiar Suvechha

This blog will start updating again on 3rd October, Friday

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What is there NOT in Mahabharata...Part 1

1.People say "Ganesh Guha"  in Uttarakhand is the place where this great epic was composed. It can  be visited even today.

2. According to a theory Veda Vyasa was the father of Pandu, Dhritarastha and Vidura.He wrote down what he visualized to be the future of his own sons.

3.The original text composed by  Veda Vyasa was known as Jaya. It was later expanded by two of his disciples. Ugrasrava’s work has come to be known as the Mahabharata as we know it today.

4.What triggered  THE MAHABHARATA- Duryodhana came visiting the palace of the Pandavas in Indraprastha. He was awestruck by the palace of illusions. He mistook a pool for a floor and fell into it. Draupadi found this to be extremely amusing and commented. “A blind man’s son will also be blind”. Insulted, Duryodhana swore vengeance against the Pandavas AND ...the hell broke loose.
*** Picture Courtesy- Star TV

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A Tribute to a legend on a different note:
Lata Mangeskar whose birthday is coming up on 28th September-
1. Started off as an actress and acted in 8 films for 6 years !!!(1942-48)
2. Started singing just to sustain her family after her father's death.
3.Lata's initial rejection was because of her thin voice(nasal voice was the vogue then)
4.she debuted with playback singing for the Marathi film Kiti Hasaal (1942)
5. It is said that Lata didi believes that her voice suits actress Saira Banu's the best!
6. She has been connected to perfumes as well!
 In 1999, the perfume Lata Eau de Parfum was launched.
7.She can draw too!Diamond ornaments(Named Adora) designed by her were  sold @ £105,000(she donated the entire amount)
8.Some say she fell in love with a son of royalty. If so, it must have been a true love for She decided to remain unmarried. LLL-Long Live Lata!

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Mangalayaan-Some less known facts.

On a glorious day ,some glorious points about Mangalyaan:

1.This is India's first Mars mission, and no country but India has been fully successful on its first try. More than half the world's attempts to reach Mars - 23 out of 40 missions - have failed, including missions by Japan in 1999 and China in 2011.
2.The spaceship  travelled780 million-kilometre (485 million-mile) journey to orbit Mars and survey its geology and atmosphere.

3.It will come as close as 227 miles to the surface of Mars.

4.The instruments on the spaceship are mostly solar powered.

5.They are up to understanding the climate there.

6. In addition, it will gather data on Methane(essential for existence of Life)
7.Mangalyaan was developed from technology tested during the Chandrayaan mission(2008-09)

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Maa

A tribute to Goddess Durga:
1.The Sanskrit word Durga means a fort, or a place that is protected and thus difficult to reach.

2.While Shiva is detached from the action, Durga is the doer.Shiva and Durga are regarded as the twofold personalization of Brahman.

3.Maa has three eyes. The left one represents Desire(The Moon), The right eye represents Action(The Sun) and the central eye represents Knowledge(The Fire).

4. Mother's Trident(Trishul)  represents three forces: Satya(inactivity),Raja(activity with ambition) and Tama( Lethargy)

5.Mother sits on the lion with her "Abhay Mudra" which represents Freedom from Fear.

6.While she killed Mahisasura(who had realized Durga's divine power before his death), She placed her Left Leg on his body.

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Nirbhaya- A milestone.

India's cruise missile (being tested) NIRBHAYA is a cruise nuclear-warhead missile which when blasted, takes the form of a plane and when the target is in nearby range, attacks it with a random procedure thus eliminating the probability of it getting stopped by any anti-missile system as its process is itself not defined. In other words-unstoppable.

In the hilly terrains, it gives an advantage as the missile goes from the side of the mountains and attacks the target from the rear side.

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Swachh Vidyalaya

Union human Resource Development Ministry on 11 september 2014 announced to fund Swachh Vidyalaya campaign. The campaign aims to ensure the provision of toilets in all government schools by 15 August 2015. As a part of the campaign, public sector units under 25 Ministries pledged 400 crore rupees for the campaign. Besides, private and public sector companies would be encouraged to built toilet blocks in schools. Tata consultancy services & Bharati Enterprises pledged 100 crore rupees to built toilet to schools.-BIDYUT

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Crony Capitalism

Crony Capitalism and India-By Somik Sarkar

“....One of the greatest dangers to the growth of developing countries is the middle income trap, where crony capitalism creates oligarchies that slow down growth. “

                                                      RBI Governor

Do you agree with that statement ? Do you really thing that crony capitalism is the only reason for the slow down of India’s growth? Do you believe that the corruption is the consequences of the crony capitalism? 1st of all what is “Crony capitalism”?

The word “crony” means “ally” or “companion” and capitalism means “a privatize economic system”
As a whole we can say that the “crony capitalism” is an economic system where some businessmen and government personals get together and run a government. In that case those businessmen get some extra advantages from government in taxation where common people don’t. So now you can imagine the effect rather bad effect of this system. India ranks 6th in the top 10 billionaire chart but still we can’t eradicate poverty from our country, still children in our country did not get the basic demands like food, clothes and education.

Since our independent there are thousands of scam has been registered and still counting. Recently the coal scam ( 1856 billion) and the 2g spectrum scam ( 1766.45 billion) , this two national scam are one of the biggest scam in our country . If someone went through the whole report can easily understand how some government personals and government organization and some private company had played the major role in this scam.As a result we the common people have to suffer. Government compensates this money from us. We all aware of the hike on mobile phone bills after that 2g scam , now we have to bear this coal scam as well.

 Now we belong in a society where if you don’t have money, you can’t live even if you have money you have to pay hundred of taxes that makes you feel that unbearable. But this politicians businessmen cut shorted all the money and transfer to their foreign account. According to CBI report that Indians have $500 billion of illegal funds in foreign tax havens, more than any other country. The Swiss bank has denied though, and said the amount is INR 92.95 billion.

Let’s take the word of Swiss bank authority, so now with this amount of money (INR 92.95 billion)
The government would easily deal with those long lasting economic problems in our country. Even that helps to increase the GDP rate as well Now our owner able prime minister is not the 1st one who voiced against Indian black money. There has been no. Of committees are formed from our independent but the result is not up to the mark. Now in this situation we could hope for something good in this time.

 Now some political points of view regarding crony capitalism.
 Jane Jacobs described it as a natural consequence of collusion between those managing power and trade, while Noam Chomsky has argued that the word "crony" is superfluous when describing capitalism. Since businesses make money and money leads to political power, business will inevitably use their power to influence governments. Much of the impetus behind campaign finance reform in the United States and in other countries is an attempt to prevent economic power being used to take political power.

 Sources :  Wikipedia, Times of India, The Hindu

By  Raghuram Rajan

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Every drop of it!

Worldwide, around 10,000 people die every day due to lack of clean drinking water. According to WHO in India alone, around 2000 people die every day due to lack of clean drinking water, and out of this, children under the age of five are most vulnerable. But a Canadian scientist, Dr.David Manz,to solve this problem in India, invented and designed an amazing tool that could solve this problem. He developed a low cost Bio-sand water Filter that effectively removes all the dissolved particles and pathogens  from the water. This slow purifying process  manage to remove up to 98% of bacteria, 100% of viruses, 99% of parasites, amoebae, 95% of heavy metals and 93% of arsenic. This low cost Bio-sand  filter, is locally manufactured and can also help the local community with various livelihood option. And, all of that just Rs. 3,000 and works for 30 years. It is easy to maintain and filters 84 litres of water daily.  BIDYUT

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Birth of Modern Science in India

Several academic institutions, such as Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784, the Indian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1876 and many others were created. All these generated a greater awareness of science in the country and eventually led to the birth of modern science in India between 1890 and 1940.
However, the end of the last century and the first 50 years of the present one was a period of renaissance of science for India. Renowned scientists like Sir J. C. Bose, C. V. Raman, S. N. Bose, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, the father of India's nuclear power,Dr. Har Govind Singh Khorana etc. became well-known for their notable scientific researches in various fields and brought name and fame for the country.

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Indian Dance- classification

Sangeet natak academy classifies dances into the following types

1. Bharatnatyam:tamilnadu,bharat muni

2. Odissi:Orissa,oldest surviving dance form

3. Manipuri:from Manipur and is the most significant dance form of the world

4. Kathakali:karela,adorned by heavy make up

5. kuchipudi:Andhra Pradesh

6. mohiniattam:kerala,love and devotion towards gods

7. kathak,northindia

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