January 2009
NEWS AND VIEWS
News: Mumbai has around 70,000 stray dogs according to THE WEEK.
Views: Animal lovers including Madam Maneka Gandhi to note.
“Marriages are made in heaven, so are the thunder storms and hurricanes.”
– - Anonymous
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INDIAN REPUBLIC TURNED 60
Every year January 26 is a date all Indians living in India as well as all over the world celebrate to salute the fore fathers who fought for our freedom and the constitution made by Indians for the Indians.
Generally, the Republic Day is celebrated in the National Capital, New Delhi with a parade witnessed by the President of India with a invited Head of State from any friendly country of the...
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go...”
– -Carl Sagan
VIP'S WISHLISTS
Kiran Bedi (Former IPS Officer): “The future generation of the country should not remain job seekers. Children should be turned into job creators and providers and only such a trend could pave the way for a better and healthier India.”
Vrundha Bhaskar (Co-ordinator of Children Movement for Civic Awareness): “Democracy now has become ‘far from people’, ‘off people’ and ‘buy people.’ The public are allowing themselves to suffer at the hands of an inefficient and corrupt Government. It is the citizens’ responsibility to ensure that the Government work.”
S. Ramadoss (PMK founder leader): “A phone call from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will bring about a ceasefire.”
Dalai Lama (Tibetan Spiritual Leader): “Nowadays, terrorism carried out by invisible sources, is very difficult to control or handle.”
“When someone share something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have...”
– Chinese proberb
NEWS AND VIEWS
News: Central Government’s initiatives for the development of science in India include the creation of 30 new Central Universities, five new Indian Institutes of Science, Education and Research, eight new Indian Institutes of Technology, and 20 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology.
Views: Are there really enough scientists and engineers of suitable caliber to staff so many new institutions?
News: Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has donated Re.1 crore from his personal finances towards the setting up of a corpus fund for the cultural festival ‘Chennai Sangamam.’
Views: Do the Income Tax officials aware of it? How the crores are earned to donate so liberally?
News: The arrest and judicial remand of Mr. B. Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju and the Chief Financial Officer Srnivas Vadlamani of the Satyam Computer Services Limited might be the start of an effective legal process to bring to justice and self-confessed perpetration of the biggest corporate fraud in Indian History.
Views: Satyame Jayate!
News: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren resigned following his defeat in the Tamar Assembly by-election.
Views: People’ voice prevails; that is democracy!
News: The former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Absullah, took over as President of the National Conference, a position he handed over to his son, Omar Abdullah, in 2002. The change has taken place after Mr. Omar became Chief Minister on 5 January 2009.
Views: Family politics!
News: A purely electric car with a range of 400 km on a single charge, claimed to be the first of its kind, was launched at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit (USA) on 12 January 2009. The car developed by Chinese automaker BYD Co., Ltd., and name ‘e6,’ drew much attention from both the industry and the media at its debut at NAIAS.
Views: Gas stations have to be altered to power stations in future.
News: Pakistan continues to make every effort to defuse tensions in South Asia and has repeatedly stated that it is prepared to extend its cooperation to he Indian Government concerning the Mumbai incident.
Views: Is it a serious statement or simply a casual joke?
News: Four persons were killed over 275 sustained injuries in ‘jallikattu’ held in villages in Tiruchi and Pudukottai districts of Tamil Nadu.
Views: Keeping he traditions of heroism even by giving human life! Great!
News: There is a renewed push in recent years for building dams in Himalayan region, including in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bhutan, which could lead to the highest concentration of dams in the region.
Views: As glaciers melt, water in the rivers will rise and dams would be subjected to much higher flows, raising concerns of dam safety, increased flooding and submergence.
News: When he is sworn in on 20 January 2009, Tuesday Mr. Obama will inherit two foreign wars and the worst economy since the 1930 Great Depression with the budget deficit forecast to hit more than a trillion dollars this year of 2009.
Views: What a great burden Obama has to bear as the President of the United States of America?
News: Caste is a social evil, divisive and a curse that must be eradicated if India is to prosper.
Views: Caste is very strong bond. While individuals are related by families, castes link the families. Castes transcended the local limits and networked the people across.
News: In the aftermath of the Satyam Computer Services debacle, practically every commentator has pointed a finger at the failure of corporate governance standards at a company that has been India’s fourth largest exporter of information technology (IT) services and a winner of an award on corporate governance to boot.
Views: From now on awards such as the one on corporate governance, best business person of the year and so on will have every little value even in the narrow contest of enhancing a company or its principal officer’s brand value.
“A calm and detached mind is the gate to true happiness.”
– - Remez Sasson
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RUINING RUMORS
Rumors are sometimes as dangerous as terrorism.
An incident in North Indian temple was caused by a rumor of a landslide.
The incident had taken away the innocent lives of more than one hundred pilgrims – mostly of children and women who went to pray their Goddess.
Very often we hear rumors in every walk of life.
Even in an office we work, we do hear rumors about the manager, colleagues and...
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– - Buckminster Fuller
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THE GREAT MAN FROM BENGAL
West Bengal is one the best States of India that preserves the unique culture of Bengalis.
Bengalis are very particular in speaking their own language with another Bengali.
In fact, it is one of the sweetest languages of India.
Most of them know Hindi in addition to Bengali.
It is an added advantage for them to spread and migrate to all the States in North India.
Good number of aristocratic...