Any visitor looking at Taj Mahal, the symbol of eternal love, would often get lost in the memories of the stories he had heard from his child-hood looking at this structure as well as its image reflected in the pool below.
One of the wonders of the world “Taj Mahal” has a beautiful love story behind its construction. It was built by one of the most powerful emperor in the history of India for the memory of his queen who passed away in her young age. This romantic story along with the rare and beautiful spectacles visible here all combine in to his mind to form a feeling of surprise, nostalgia and a drop of tear for the beautiful queen who passed away early.
It is said that Shah Jahan was so heartbroken after her death that he ordered the court into mourning for two years. Some time after her death, Shah Jahan undertook the task of erecting the world’s most beautiful monument in the memory of his beloved. It took 22 years and the labor of 22,000 workers to construct the monument, which is also said to be the last wish of Mumtaz Mahal. This magnificent monument came to be known as “Taj Mahal” and now counts amongst the Seven Wonders of the World.
This is the true story of the Taj Mahal of India, which has mesmerized many people with its bewitching beauty.
To know more about Taj Mahal and feel the beauty of this magnificient piece of Mughal Architecture visit http://tajmahal.encounterindia.com/
About a week ago, “#09memories” was a ‘trending’ topic on Twitter. I’ve never really done the ‘recap of the year’ thing that much in the past (as much as I do like reading other people’s), but found myself spending the best part of an evening sharing my memories and reading those of others. It seemed a bit of a shame just to let one audience see them in short bursts, so I compiled them into a list to post here – expanding on a few where I felt the 140-character limit didn’t really let me say what I wanted to.
So in no particular order (well, maybe slightly chronological, but only just; actually more emotional than chronological), here are some of my standout memories – both great and not-so-great – from 2009:
• Meeting the adopted little sister I never knew I had for the first time.
• The whole Celebration fam going to Hereford and spending a day with Cynthia, barely three months before she passed away.
• Doing the last DJ slot in the Blue Nun wine bar at the Greenbelt festival.
• Going to MIDEM for the first time in 14 years, and discovering great music from Sonnyboy, Ndidi Onukwulu, Yom, Monica Giraldo & Charlie Winston. Also seeing Duke Special in concert, and celebrating Barack Obama’s inauguration with members of the American Association of Independent Music. MIDEM has a reputation for being all about the business and not so much about the music. But it is possible to find decent music there, if you look hard enough.
• Discovering London’s coolestest venue, the Shunt Lounge… only for it to close 10 months later.
• The Operation Christmas Child trip to Swaziland – and the delighted screams of the kids as they opened their shoeboxes.
• Arriving in Jo’burg airport en route to Swaziland; hearing ‘Viva la Vida’ on the PA system and thinking, “Coldplay? This can’t be Africa.”
• Giving career advice to the Swazi schoolgirl who told me she wanted to be a journalist when she grew up.
• The loud cheer that erupted in our minibus as we drove into Mbabne (the Swazi capital) and saw a branch of Nandos.
• My first lunch in India: Domino’s Pizza!
• Painting and decorating the community centre in a Delhi slum; logging on to the internet and wondering who this Susan Boyle woman was, and why so many of my Facebook friends had become fans of hers.
• Riding an elephant up to the Amber Palace in Jaipur.
• Visiting the Taj Mahal – and not really believing our tour guide’s story about how he’d told Danny Boyle off because “that scene in Slumdog Millionaire made Indian tour guides look bad.”
• Being mistaken for Ice Cube by some of the kids in the slum where we were working.
• A pimp in Nashville offering me girls an’ ting. That’s the last time I stay in a Motel 6!
• Driving a van in Atlanta with no satnav, and introducing my passenger (my 11-yr-old niece) to the world of Bill & Ted and their “be excellent to each other” philosophy.
• Lou at the Bridge Bar in Beckenham.
• Several trips to Paris, during which the Starbucks on Boulevard St Germain became my office away from home.
• Curling up in bed ready for a good night’s kip, then receiving a txt msg saying Michael Jackson had just died…
• … and then receiving another text from the same person two hours later, informing me that Farrah Fawcett had also died (at which point, I responded with “You’re really the herald of good tidings tonight, aren’t you?”).
• Being asked to talk about MJ on Radio 4…
• … then receiving another phone call from Radio 4 a few hours later (after I’d prepared what I was going to say), saying they’d found someone else to do it.
• Discovering a new way to watch TV: reading your friends’ sarky status updates and/or tweets about the show while it’s on. Sometimes you didn’t even need to watch the show in question; the running commentary told you everything you needed to know!
• Jedward, Kandy Rain, Mr. “I don’t know how to spell Daniel properly”, Afro Boy and La Gordita in Miss Frank.
• Cave Austin Girl.
• One of the deepest films ever (Downfall) being turned into a series of often sick “Hitler reacts to…” jokes on Youtube.
• Dizzee Rascal losing what little respect I had left for him with asinine comments about the preparations for the 2012 Olympics.
• The realisation that people actually read my blog!
• My big ‘fanboy’ moment: shaking Nile Rodgers’ hand at Chic’s gig at the Forum (I now use his plectrums to play my guitars – when I can be bothered, that is. I must do more of that – and more seriously – in 2010).
• Watching Baaba Maal, Kano & Bashy soundcheck from side stage at the Royal Festival Hall.
Daby, the 'vibe man'
• Africa Oyé in Liverpool. Meeting and working with Maya; ‘vibing’ with Daby Touré (pictured) and doing the most hilarious interview I’ve ever done (with an extremely well-dressed artist who will remain nameless).
• The last ever Delirious? gig – and meeting Mr. Tommy Sims at the after-party.
• “What would we do? Usually drink; usually dance; usually bubble.” (Yeah, I know; I discovered it in ‘09).
• Seeing certain peeps’ nastier sides come out after certain celebrity deaths. Not nice at all.
• Vampires. Vampires everywhere.
• My first ever purchase of a Hed Kandi CD… oh, wait – that was in ‘08. In a Zavvi shop, just before they all closed. My last ever purchase from a Woolworth’s, and my last ever visit to a Border’s bookshop.
Today was a good day I went shopping for the first time, I mean girlie shopping and I was on a mission for a silk Bandhani dupatta!
Bandhani is a very ancient traditional textile technique of tie and dye practised by people mainly of Rajasthan and Gujarat, the patterns are made up of innumerable dots and weaves respectively. Usually men do the dyeing while women do the tying, which is most painstaking with each dot being as tiny as a pin-head. lifting small portions of the fabric and tightly tie a thread around it. The more minuscule the raised Bandhani – tied textile fabric, the finer the bandhana.
Dupatta is a long, multi-purpose scarf that is essentially a modesty assessory for Asian women and is worn with a shalwar kameez and the kurta, anyway, I found not one but two as it was so hard to decide.
It took most of a very entertaining morning being driven by Rajek in his tuk tuk around Jaipur, there is not a part of Jaipur he doesn’t know and we are getting rather attached to him.
This is the first in a new series of posts intended to give some more practical advice to would-be travellers; thoughts will mainly be drawn from my experiences of travelling, particularly India and Nepal, but if you have any suggestions then let me know. I’d love to hear your opinions so please leave a comment.
Wherever you’re going and however long you’re going for, the chances are that you’ll be taking at least one of the following: a laptop; a mobile phone; a digital camera; or a camcorder. This applies whether you’re heading to New York on a two-day business trip or spending a month trekking through the jungle in Borneo.
I even keep taking photographs when I'm in the picture...
So you’re going to need extra power, particularly for your camera, when you’re away. A lot of digital cameras run off lithium-ion batteries which often have quite disparate performances in terms of how many pictures they’ll take before they conk out. The best ways to conserve power are to keep the camera turned off when you’re not using it and try and resist the temptation to keep looking back through your photos where possible.
If you’ve got a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, or you have a mobile phone or laptop with a rechargeable power source, then you’re going to need a power adapter. The top-end brands such as Samsonite are very reliable but you’ll pay at least about £13 (especially if you commit the cardinal sin of waiting to buy one in the airport departure lounge) for a worldwide adapter; Sainsbury’s do a version for about half the cost which is just as good, or you can find one online at a reasonable price.
Me snapping a Jain temple at Ranakpur, India
One thing to remember, though, is the likelihood of access to power where you’re going. In North America and most of Europe, for example, you can expect wall-plugs in even very basic accommodation, but in parts of Asia by contrast you can struggle. In this case, your best bet is to be as well-prepared as you can: when I went travelling in the summer this meant buying a new camera which took AA batteries and charging two mobile phone batteries before I went and then being very sparing in the use of my phone, turning it on once or twice a day.
Cameras which take AA batteries, such as the Fujifilm model which I went for, mean that you can be much more flexible. However, they do tend to wear out the batteries very quickly (I’d get through a new pair of batteries every day, taking around 100 pictures), so your best bet is to get some camera batteries like these; the difference they make to battery life is incredible, lasting around a fortnight (c.1200 photos).
CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Two recent newspaper articles about climate change in the far distant
future, say 2500 or so, (titled, respectively, “How much more proof is needed for people to act?” and “Ignoring the future — the psychology of denial”) emphasized the importance of facing major issues that will have an impact on the future of the human species.
Climate change is indeed an issue that is on everyone’s mind, and while Israel seems to be far removed from the experts who recently made their way to Copenhagen to try to hammer out blueprints to prevent global warming from having a Doomsday impact on humankind, Israel will also be on the front lines of these issues. Why? Because Israel will not exist as a country by the year 2500. Everyone there will have migrated north to Russia and Alaska.
Despite most observers’ belief that solutions lie in mitigation, there are a growing number of climatologists and scientists who believe that the A-word — adaptation — must be confronted head-on, too. The fact is — despite the head-in-the-sand protestations of deniers like former Alaskan Governor Sara Palin in the US — that we cannot stop climate change or global warming. The Earth’s atmosphere has already passed the tipping point, and in the next 500 years, temperatures and sea levels will rise considerably and millions, even billions, of people from the tropical and temperate zones will be forced to migrate in search of food, fuel and shelter. This includes the people of Israel.
By the year 2500, Israel will be largely uninhabited, except for a few stragglers eking out a subsistence life in the Golan Heights. The rest of the population will have migrated north to Russia’s northern coast or northern parts of Alaska and Canada to find safe harbor from the devastating impact of global warming.
Okay, how do I know all this, you ask? I don’t know. I am just saying that we all must be prepared for the worst-case scenario.
By the year 2500, most likely, Israelis en masse will have left the country for faraway northern regions to find shelter in UN-funded climate refuges in places such as Russia, Canada and Alaska. Israeli climate refugees will join millions of others from India, Vietnam,Thailand, Japan and the Philippines. It won’t be a pretty picture.
When I asked a professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei if this was a possible future scenario for Israel and other nations in the Middle East some 500 years from now, he said it was very possible, and that these issues needed to be addressed now, if only as a thought exercise, and even if it all sounded like a science fiction movie script. When I asked acclaimed British scientist James Lovelock if such a scenario for Israel was likely, he said to me in an e-mail: “It may very well happen, yes.”
We humans cannot engineer our way out of global warming, although
scientists who believe in geo-engineering have offered theories on how
to do it. There are no easy fixes. Humankind has pumped too many
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the result of the industrial
revolution that gave us trains, planes, automobiles and much more,
enabling us to live comfortable and trendy lives — and now there is so
much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that the Earth cannot recover.
Israel, like the rest of the world, is doomed to a bleak future filled with billions of climate refugees seeking shelter in the far north, and
in places like New Zealand, Tasmania and Antarctica in the far south.
Meetings in Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro and at the UN in Manhattan
will not stop global warming.
What we need to focus on now is preparing future generations for what
our world will become in the next 500 years and how best to survive
it.
For the next 100 to 200 years or so, life will go on as normal in
Israel in terms of climate change and global warming issues. There is
nothing to worry about now. For the next 100 years posh department
stores will hawk their trendy items, computer firms will launch their
latest gadgets and airline companies will continue to offer passengers
quick passage here and there, to the Maldives and to Manhattan, for
business and for pleasure.
But in the next 500 years, according to Lovelock and other scientists
who are not afraid to think outside the box and push the envelope,
things are going to get bad. Unspeakably bad.
Those of us who are alive today won’t suffer, and the next few
generations will be fine, too. The big trouble will probably start
around 2200 — and last for some 300 years or so.
By 2500, Israel will be history, and so will be all the nations of Africa,
Asia, the Americas and Europe.
We are entering uncharted waters, and as the waters rise and the
temperatures go up, future generations will have some important
choices to make: where to live, how to live, how to grow food, how to
power their climate refugee settlements, how to plan and how to pray.
*
Danny Bloom is a Jewish writer based in Taiwan where he blogs daily
about climate change and global warming at his “Northwardho” blog.
Myanmar is buying twenty MiG-29s from Russia. Myanmar bought its first twelve MiG-29s in 2001. This new sale will earn Russia some criticism, because Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a military dictatorship with a very bad international reputation. But Russia is desperate to keep the MiG-29 from fading away. To that end, Russia also ordered 24 MiG-29Ks for its sole aircraft carrier, to replace the Su-33s that currently serve on the ship. However, most of the current news about the Mig-29 has been bad.
Malaysia, for example, admitted that it is getting rid of its MiG-29 fighters because the aircraft are too expensive to maintain. It costs about $5 million a year, per aircraft, to keep them in flying condition. Three years ago, Malaysia bought two more MiG-29s, in addition to the 18 it got in the 1990s. Two of those were lost due to accidents. Malaysia has since ordered 18 Su-30 fighters, and will apparently order more to replace the MiG-29s. Malaysia also bought eight F-18Ds in the 1990s, and is getting rid of those as well. Russia has offered better prices on maintenance contracts for new Su-30s, in addition to bargain (compared to U.S. planes) prices.
Most of the MiG-29s provided satisfactory service. Malaysia was long a users of U.S. aircraft, so they have been able to compare Russian and American warplanes. The Russian aircraft cost less than half as much as their American counterparts. The Malaysians find that an acceptable situation, even though they face better trained pilots flying F-16s in neighboring Singapore.
The MiG-29 entered Russian service in 1983. Some 1,600 MiG-29s have been produced so far, with about 900 of them exported. The 22 ton aircraft is roughly comparable to the F-16, but it depends a lot on which version of either aircraft you are talking about. Russia is making a lot of money upgrading MiG-29s. Not just adding new electronics, but also making the airframe more robust. The MiG-29 was originally rated at 2,500 total flight hours. At that time (early 80s), Russia expected MiG-29s to fly about a hundred or so hours a year. India, for example, flew them at nearly twice that rate, as did Malaysia. So now Russia is offering to spiff up the airframe so that the aircraft can fly up to 4,000 hours, with more life extension upgrades promised. This won’t be easy, as the MiG-29 has a history of unreliability and premature breakdowns (both mechanical and electronic).
In the last year, Russia grounded has grounded its MiG-29s several times, in order to check for structural flaws. Compared to Western aircraft, like the F-16, the MiG-29 is available for action about two thirds as much. While extending the life of the MiG-29 into the 2030s is theoretically possible, actually doing so will be real breakthrough in Russian aircraft capabilities.
The Indians are going to take up the Russians on their upgrade offer. But the Malaysians are going to go with the more highly regarded Su-30. Malaysia expects to have all its MiG-29s out of service in about a year. If they can’t be sold, they will simply be scrapped. Algeria, and several other nations, have turned down the MiG-29, which has acquired the reputation of being second rate and a loser. Russia, however, wants to preserve MiG as a brand, so it is not solely dependent on Sukhoi for its jet fighters. At this point, it looks like an uphill fight. MiG and Sukhoi are now both divisions of a state owned military aircraft company (United Aircraft). Technically, the MiG division is bankrupt. Sukhoi is profitable. Stratfor.
Dec 3 2009 For a town of a thousand temples, a sex scandal and one that involves a priest, has come as a shocker.
Kanchipuram, about 75km from Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India, is yet to recover from the brazenness of 36-year-old S. Devanathan, who allegedly played out his “unholy” acts in the sanctum sanctorum of the Maheswarar Temple.
According to the Times of India police picked up the man in first week of November after they got hold of a CD showing his sexual exploits within the temple’s precincts.
Copies of the CD had apparently sold like hot cakes in the town previously only famous for its temples and silks.
With the media splashing salacious details of his relationships with a series of women, apparently from varied socio-economic backgrounds, the issue continues to rock the local community which comprises weavers and families associated with the management of the temples.
With some of the women now accusing the priest of rape, the case that was initially based on obscenity was transferred on Tuesday from the town’s police force to the district crime branch for investigation.
Clearly, what’s made the incident sensational are its voyeuristic and exhibitionistic aspects which seem out of place in a small town known for its orthodox traditions.
Police say the priest allegedly threatened and sexually assaulted at least 30 women.
Among the victims who approached the police is a 30-year-old woman, Malar (name changed), wife of a school teacher, living close to the temple.
She complained that priest had drugged her before raping her inside the temple.
She alleged that the priest had blackmailed her by recording footage of their sexual act on his mobile phone, and forced her to have sex with him on several occasions later.
Malar accused the priest of threatening to tell her husband about the relation if she failed to ‘co-operate’.
The priest would apparently visit her house requesting for milk to do prayers, as a way of communicating his desire to meet her at the temple.
“We have questioned Malar and recorded her statement,” Siva Kanchi police inspector S Pattabiram told the Times of India.
“There are many more victims to be questioned,” Pattabiram said.
Devanathan, a father of two teenaged daughters, surrendered to the police after being on the run for two weeks.
The accused was held under police custody and brought to court on Tuesday where his remand order was extended until Dec 14.
The priest faces several charges, including defiling a place of worship.
When he was brought to the court, a crowd of angry women besieged the police vehicle and attempted to beat Devanathan with broomsticks and slippers.
Forty-seven of them were arrested and later released.
The scandal was uncovered when Devanathan’s mobile phone was jammed.He took the phone to a technician for repairs.
The man, later identified as Senthil Kumar saw the video clips while fixing the phone and decided to cash in on the 19 episodes of instant porn-movies.
He has also been arrested and also detained under remand.
- TOI,The Hindu
Photo Source: The Hindu, Tamil Nesan
Montage by Hassan Bahri
What a decade it has been. When I actually stopped and considered some of the great films the past ten years has produced I was surprised. For all my griping and preferences for older movies and disappointment with some of the unsavory turns many modern films have taken, I was happy to recall that I did in fact enjoy myself at the theater this decade. Looking back, I’d say that the films that came out helped define and shape their decade. The were a product of and reflection of their time that helped inform the rest of us what our world was and was becoming.
The following is my list of my personal favorite films to emerge between 2000 and 2009 (naturally it’s limited to only the films I saw and perhaps I may find more gems that I missed). *My list’s order is almost entirely arbitrary…it was just how I was feeling that day.
10. Richard Linklater is one of those fascinating filmmakers that’s not afraid to experiment. “Waking Life” (2001) is a lyrical dream of a meandering existential conversation with delirious rotoscoped animation. It latches onto your retinas and does not let go until your brain has been forced to ponder the musings of the ever-changing line-up of characters.
9. An unexpected surprise occurred when Christopher Nolan directed this small neo-noir flick and told it backwards…it turned out to be brilliant. Perhaps the film solely hinges on a gimmick, but the gimmick never gets old and they never run out of twists. Guy Pearce stars as a man with five-minute memory who is slowly tracking down the man who murdered his wife and destroyed his world in “Memento” (2000).
8. My next pick reminded me why I needed to watch more documentaries. Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman’s exploration into the world of India’s red light district and into the lives and minds of the offspring of prostitutes is at once shattering, engaging, informative, and heartfelt. Briski goes to India to document the prostitutes but finds an even more fascinating subject in their children. She gives them all cameras and let’s us watch what develops. If at the end of “Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids” (2004) you still feel nothing, then you have no heart.
7. My next pick is on pretty much everyone’s list, but deservingly so. Andrew Stanton’s “WALL-E” (2008) from Pixar was a welcome treat for sci-fi fans, comedy fans, and even romance fans. WALL-E is so irrepressibly likable that’s it’s no wonder he captured the hearts of so many. A janitor-esque robot cleans an empty planet earth until EVE shows up and changes his life. The film absolutely elates.
6. Everyone loved “No Country For Old Men” so much (myself included) that they completely overlooked another Coen Brothers masterpiece from this decade: “O Brother, Where Art Thou” (2000). Say what you like, this was one of my favorite movies of theirs. Based on Homer’s “The Odyssey” and set in the Depression era American South this breezy comedy features three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson) on a strange adventure to find fortune. The movie also features a great bunch of Southern folk songs.
5. Very seldom to pictures, performances, and music come together so well to recreate another time and life. Andrew Dominik’s film, “The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford” (2007) got a bum rap for being a lousy cowboy action movie, which is a shame because the movie is really a very intricate and pensively paced character study. Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck play their roles well and for the patient and attentive the movie will prove to be a very fascinating and rewarding experience.
4. It’s obvious French animator Sylvain Chomet’s style and sensibilities will not be for everybody, but I guess they were for me. “The Triplets of Belleville” (2003) rekindled my hope in animation. Chomet gives us the world as we’ve never seen it: an absurd and bent caricature of the world we live in. When bicyclist, Champion, is shanghaied during the Tour-de-France to America by the French mafia, only his Grandma and dog, Bruno, can save the day…as long as they get some help from a trio of aging Vaudevillian sisters.
3. My next pick is another one that showed up on a lot of best-of-the-decade lists. It’s Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s terrifying drama about growing up in Rio de Janeiro’s gang-run streets, “City of God” (2002). Rocket must hone his skills and passion for photography and keep his wits about him if he wants to stay alive long enough to become a success against the odds.
2. Alexander Payne’s “Sideways” (2004) may seem modest, but for 126 minutes it’s everything it needs to be. Paul Giamatti, Thomas Hayden Church, Virginia Madsen, and Sandra Oh are all fascinatingly real characters that we alternate from being repulsed and intrigued by…yet we still catch ourselves rooting for them. Explorations into the rituals of male bonding, mid-life crises, and wine never have been so “quaffable but far from transcendent”…maybe not.
1. The best fairy tales not-for-kids come from the twilight hallucinations of Mexican director, Guillermo del Toro. “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) sets young Ofelia against the evils of Fascist Spain amidst communist uprising and wicked stepfather and also against the slime of a twisted fantasy that is woven by a mossy, old faun who insists that she is the princess. Del Toro marries monsters and magic with taut, emotional drama like no other.
Whew. I guess it was a good decade. For personal edification consider some other great movies from the aughts.
“Oldboy,” “Amores Perros,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “The Departed,” “Mulholland Dr.,” “Bronson,” “Let the Right One In,” “The Incredibles,” “The Saddest Music in the World,” “Spirited Away,” “In Bruges,” “The Wrestler,” “Eternal Sunshin of the Spotless Mind,” “Team America: World Police,” “Requiem for a Dream,” “Babel,” “Howl’s Moving Castle,” “Ghost World,” “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “American Movie,” Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” “Crimen Ferpecto,” “Munich,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Ratatouille,” “No Country for Old Men,” “Amelie,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Up,” “King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters,” “The Machinist,” “Gosford Park,” “Michael Clayton,” “Adaptation,” “Minority Report,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” “Kung-Fu Hustle,” and the list goes on.
Some unexpected incident can change the course of history.
M.K. Gandhi was just a practicing lawyer in South Africa, where a number of Gujaratis were doing business, as all citizens of the British Empire were free to move anywhere in the empire, where the sun never sets.
Gandhi was loyal to the Crown, he even fought against the Boers, who refused to be part of the South African Union under the empire, when liberal opinion in England was sympathetic to the Boers, simple peasants settled there. When he was kicked out from the first class compartment of the train by an uncivilized Englishman, Gandhi became so upset that he started a movement against the rulers there.
Suppose this sad incident never happened. He would have continued his practice there.
At that time, militant anti- British movements were sprouting in parts of Punjab and Bengal, which could have spread to other parts of the upper India. The Indian National Congress, founded by a British spy, to divert the opposition to the Empire along harmless channels, could not have succeeded in stemming the tide of revolution, under heroes like Bhagat Singh.
During the second world war, Subhas Chandra Bose would have led armed guerilla fight against the government, here itself, and seen the dawn of freedom, as without our help, the British cannot fight against Japan, which was a big power. We could have easily disrupted the rail lines and made troop movement impossible.
The obnoxious treaty of 1947 woud never have been signed. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh would be one nation, led by Bose and Azad.
“Its all about who punches whom first”, opined my brother in law as he drove us to the Hyderabad Airport in his family’s new Fiat Lenia. It doesn’t matter whose fault it was. If you’re the first guy to get out of your car, walk over to the other guy, and land a left hook, you’re making the point that you weren’t the guilty party. And with that you begin the argument on superior footing. Perhaps your fit of rage may convince the other guy it was his fault, even if neither party is quite sure. And that way you can start asking for insurance or cash compensation before the other guy gets a hold of his senses after the shock of a wreck.
The discussion began, as i wondered aloud about the sense in buying a nice new ride with law enforcement and car insurance enforcement so poor in India and getting your doors scratched as common as a power outage in New Delhi.
Car insurance isn’t as simple in India as it is (usually is) in the United States. With the rule of law not enforced as well, there’s no guarantee you’ll get compensated if someone else dings your new ride, or that the offender will even be punished if they don’t have the money or the insurance to cover the damage they’ve done to your vehicle. So, essentially you try your best to not hit anyone else, and to stay out of the way of the ignorant drivers that may be swerving into your lane when they’re not supposed to. And you pray to the lord that you don’t have to deal with the argument that follows most car accidents.
Option A (I don’t have hard evidence, but perhaps 5% of the time): You get into a wreck with another party that has insurance and is half-way civilized. You can agree on whose fault it was, exchange insurance information and be on your way. The assumption being that you’ll call your insurance companies and the offending party’s insurance will pay for the damage to the car/health of the other participant in the accident. You get your dinged car fixed in 4-5 days and are back on the road. The police may or may not need to get involved, your discretion, just like in the States.
Option B (Far more likely): You’re rear ended by an underage truck driver from a remote village in Bihar who was busy getting a handjob from the temptress he picked up for a cool 200 bucks ($4) on the ride to New Delhi while downing a full-sized bottle of Kingfisher Beer (the local favorite) and driving his rickety truck into the bumper of your brand stinking new ride. The man has no car registration paperwork or driver’s license. He’s probably never even heard of car insurance.
Firstly, he could just turn out to be a thug. In that case, having a civilized discussion is out of the question. The more buddies he has with him, the worse your odds of getting out of there in good health. In such situations, travelling with your own goons is highly advisable to make it a fair fight.
Perhaps he’s not got thuggish tendencies and is instead apologetic. You can ask him for his insurance paperwork. If he has none, you can make a rough estimate of the damage to your car and ask him to compensate you on the spot. Assuming again that he doesn’t have any money, since he spent his last 1000 ($20) at the brothel, the liquor store and gas station, you can drag him to the nearby police station.
Lucky for Mr. underage truck driver, the cops really don’t give a shit. They might offer to “register a case”, in which case for some strange reason they seem to want to impound both the offending truck AND your new ride. While you put your life on hold, your vehicle may just sit at the police station indefinitely, until the slacker cop gets around to registering your case, or what seems more likely, you get sick of waiting and just make a deal with the truck driver so you can get the hell out of there in time. The cops asking for a “car release fee” to get your car out of the station is also likely.
Said deal with a truck driver could mean a payment of the only 500 bucks ($10) the truck driver can muster, while you’ve sustained 40,000 bucks ($800) of damage.
The fact that the offending driver doesn’t face any financial or jail-time consequences, means that the discomfort he’s supposed to feel to deter him from future shenanigans on the road, never happens. He’s back out on the road, without facing any of the consequences, and soon enough he’ll be ramming into another unfortunate soul’s brand stinking new ride.
Administering discomfort, or social justice i suppose, is the state’s responsibility. Individual citizens haven’t the time nor the money to hire the goons to teach the young kid a lesson, do they?
I’m also learning that its “illegal” for anyone to drive around without third party liability insurance. I’m probably not far off in guessing that more people don’t have Liability Insurance, than do.
By Brooks Yeager
Executive Vice President for Policy,
Clean Air-Cool Planet
It’s 11 at night in Copenhagen, and the word is that President Obama has finally sewn up a deal. It took more effort, of a more personal kind, than perhaps he might have expected. He had to scrap his schedule, stay longer than he planned, cajole Wen Jiabao one on one, and finally crash a private consultation among the leaders of China, India, and Brazil, but he got what he came for – a climate change accord with China and India included.
It’s not a deal that will make many happy. The goal of halving global emissions by 2050, reflecting the minimum cuts science says are necessary, is absent – a high price to pay to get a Chinese target that will be subject to international review. There is no schedule to make the accord legally binding. The American emissions target was not what the Europeans wanted, and even the European emissions target – the strongest laid down — failed to satisfy many advocates.
It appeared at the end, that the choice was between a weak deal with China and India included, or a stronger deal without them. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown talked openly about going without China as late as 5 p.m. this afternoon. Perhaps that helped soften the Chinese negotiating stance – we may never know the full answer.
What we do know is that this political accord has laid a new foundation for global action on climate change. It is the first time that all major emitters have articulated national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However halting and difficult this step has been, it is a turning point in the international community’s approach to what is now seen as the overriding global environmental issue of our time.
Tiger Woods was devastated by his own father’s philandering, according to his high school sweetheart. Dina Parr, who dated Tiger Woods during high school and for one year in college. According to Parr, Woods’ father Earl had an affair with at least one woman, and Tiger “would be so upset” as a result. Woods has previously been alleged to have slept with mistress Jamie Jungers the night his father died. Woods would call Parr from the road during the summer to talk about his parents’ relationship:
“He would just call crying and say, ‘My dad is with another woman,’ and that would be all he could say,” she says. “He would be so upset, so I just tried to be there for him and listen to him.” Woods was famously close to his dad, Earl, who died in 2006.
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God, do I love maps. From Strange Maps: the new Turkish empire?
- A whole generation of French and Low Countries children are coming to terms with their fathers being Nazis. How widespread is this still? Aside from the rapes that occur in a lot of developing world conflicts, I think maybe the last time this happened on any kind of scale was Vietnam. But willingly?
- I think one of the most amazing things about the relative coherence of such a massive country as China is just how many ethnicities it manages to contain. China Hush has ‘family portraits’ of all 56 ethnic groups in the country. But why Russians?
- Russia and India are jointly developing a 5th generation fighter. This certainly took many by surprise, but this kind of thing always reminds me of Charlie Wilson’s take on India: “He considered them hypocrites, professing neutrality while firmly ensconced in the Soviet camp for decades.” Old habits die hard?
- A pun on the Germans: “after World War II, they were gelded. They came into money but they lost their balls.” Is martial prowess an innate part of being German?
- Jeez, you send 30,000 troops to Central Asia and all of a sudden you’re Lyndon Johnson. Rep. David Obey, George McGovern, and Thomas Johnson and Chris Mason are all on the same wavelength. I have a couple problems with this. Johnson and Mason correctly point out that Vietnam saw much more of a contribution from coalition and allied forces, to the tune of roughly 70,000 troops. Wonderful as the NATO contingent of 17,000 is, it’s not nearly enough to accomplish anything of significance. At the same time, though, we are decidedly not fighting an offensive war. The emphasis on COIN and nation-building (i.e., ‘hearts and minds’), leads to a much different conflict than Vietnam. Sure, you can try to shoehorn the Strategic Hamlet Program in as a comparison, but the similarities just aren’t there.
There’s also a different attitude surrounding the civil-military-media relations. Martin Herz had probably the best summary of how the military lost the media war during Vietnam, and the same thing is not about to happen in Afghanistan. Besides the real-time ability to correct misconceptions and outright deceit, our ability to verify the veracity of atrocities and the like is much better than before. In the Esquire piece on UAVs I linked to before, there’s an amazing anecdote about a strike on an insurgent who’d been shelling an American position. After his car exploded, other insurgents came up and removed the mortar and other weapons – making it appear like an attack on a civilian. Yet the whole process was caught on film from unmanned aircraft thousands of miles overhead. This is a different war.
- The New York Times idolizes the monolithic Pashtun identity (“The War in Pashtunistan“). The ‘ethnic characteristics’ are something to be mindful, but I think you’ll find most people to be “fiercely independent.” In the ‘real’ Central Asia, perhaps there’d be a Pashtunistan. Or a Pathanistan.
- A North Korean tea party of Yentes? The center cannot hold…
- So often, ethnicity is defined as a shared language. But if languages are dying out at a record pace (half are about to become extinct), what happens to ‘ethnic’ identity? It could either bring people closer together, or just inflame tensions because now they’re able to understand what those lousy Chulym-speakers are saying.
Portraying Israeli tourists as a bunch of promiscuous, stingy, drug addicts and peddlers, a new book published by a church-affiliated organization in Goa is likely to ruffle many feathers.
Jews mourn the anti-Jewish terror in Mumbai, that killed six people inside a Jewish center.
The 96-page work, ‹Claiming the right to say no: a study of Israeli tourist behaviour and patterns in Goa» has been authored by 11 seminarians or priests-in-grooming. It has been published by the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP), an arm of the Roman Catholic church in the state.
Based largely on an undercover survey carried out by priests-in-grooming, it likens tracking down Israelis in the state to a cat and mouse game.
In the opening chapter, brother Myron Jeson Barretto says: «On third evening we went to Anjuna. We got the news that the Israelis have moved to Arambol. And we had to follow them as the cat follows the rat».
Roman Catholic Bishop of Goa, Filipe Neri.
Officially released by the Goa archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao Sunday, the book critiques the behaviour of Israeli tourists. Its copies are available for sale at several church-supported outlets.
«The night here never ends. They (Israelis) just party with trance music and get intoxicated with drugs and alcohol. They kiss and touch each other openly. They also appear to switch partners», brother Manuel D’Souza says.
One of the book’s stated objectives is to «understand how the conflict in Israel/Palestine creates the exodus of people in form of tourists” to places like Goa and also tries to “understand patterns of tourist behaviour in Goa, because of their recent military experiences».
Brother D’Souza states in his chapter «The Sababa experience»: «Can you imagine young boys killing people. They (Israelis) go mad while in the services. The government sends these people to relaxation hubs. One of them is Goa».
«They (Israelis) are a nuisance to everybody in and around Palolem (a popular beach in south Goa). Their dominating nature and other monkey business drives away other tourists. So why do we need them?», brother Onasis D’Cruz says in one of the chapters, accusing Israelis of creating tourist ghettos in the state.
«In Vagator, there is a beach which is called as «Israeli beach», just below the 9 Bar. Non-Israelis are frightened to come over to this place,» Brother Mario Fernandes says.
Tourists from Israel, along with those from Britain, Russia and Germany, top the number of tourists arriving in Goa every tourist season. Out of the two million tourists coming to the state each year, nearly 450,000 are foreigners.
Source: MyGoaProperty.com
South Asia Mail, an Independent Internet daily, and IANS.
My comment:
26th of November 2009, six Jews were killed inside the Chabad center in Mumbai, in the worst terrorist attack on Indian soil.
Now, the Catholic Bishop of Goa does his best to spread more anti-Jewish sentiments in Goa, the most popular hang out for Israeli Youth in India.
To accuse Israeli youth is easy. But the Bishop has to take a deep look in the mirror.
Who are the Goans who provide alcohol, drugs, sex and rock & roll to the tourists from Israel?
(Audrey) Just when you think things are starting to get boring in the world, India comes up with a crazy idea: let’s make a new Indian state. India currently has 28 states, and it may soon have 29. The government announced a few days ago that it’s going to seriously move forward with the idea to create Telangana. Telangana is currently a region in southern India that is part of Andhra Pradesh. Here you can see it’s location in the country—
As I said, Telangana is currently within Andhra Pradesh, a well-established state. But some in Telangana want to change that, notably one big-wig politician in the area by the name of K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who went on a nearly 2-week hunger strike in order to promote the issue. In short, he got thin and sick, the Indian government got scared, and now we’re seriously looking at state #29. But take a look at what Telangana will carve out of Andhra Pradesh. See any immediate problems?
That’s right, Hyderabad is going with Telangana. Hyderabad is the capital of Andhra Pradesh, a city of several million, known for its pearls, has some great tourist spots, is part of the tech boom, and is sometimes called Cyberabad… in short—it’s culturally, politically, and financially important. It isn’t leaving Andhra without a fight, that’s for sure.
The central government is already hedging so maybe Telangana state will die on the vine. A few who aren’t sure have decided to fight fire with fire and have begun their own hunger strike against Telangana. I can’t say I have any stake in this one way or the other, but let me note something for both sides—hunger strikes may have a long, time-honored history in India, but they also have a long, time-honored history of being ineffective. This goes all the way back to Gandhi really, the master of the art. Gandhi famously went on a hunger strike to protest Partition, which of course happened anyways. So, whether you’re pro-Telangana or against, don’t take the outcome too hard, alright?
In my last post I touched on one criticism of existing explanations for ethnic violence in India: almost all analyses in reality only touch on Hindu-Muslim violence while ignoring (more prevalent) caste violence. Today I want to touch on another criticism: ignoring almost two hundred years of British colonialism.
When reading some of the foundational works on ethnic violence in India (see my last post), you almost get the feeling like colonialism didn’t happen. This is not to suggest that writers like Brass, Wilkinson and Varshney are necessarily wrong to ignore colonialism and instead focus on recent developments. But to me, this is the difference between proximate and underlying causes. I’m interested more in the latter.
For example, Varshney explains variations in ethnic violence today by referring to the character of associational life in India. Where interethnic organizations exist, communal peace exists. Where they do not, communal violence often occurs. The underlying (surprisingly unasked) question here is: what explains why interethnic associations only sprang up in certain areas?
My hypothesis is that interethnic associations preliminary sprang up in the princely states (areas of colonial India governed by native princes instead of British administrators), whereas ‘divide and rule’ (allow me to indulge some of my Hindi training to write this in the Devanagari script: फूट डालो, राज करो. There, now I feel like I learned something) policies in the British provinces (areas of direct British administration) led to interethnic associations. Although the British provinces contained somewhere between 60-75% of the population, former British provinces today account for 90% of all Hindu-Muslim violence (I’m expanding this analysis to include caste at the moment).
So part of the ‘value added’ of my dissertation will be to utilize a comparative historical framework to seek the underlying causes of ethnic violence in India. More to come later…
This video is tribute of sorts to tea production in Assam, a state in India, arguably the tea capital of the world. Assam is one of the two places in the world – along with southern China – that has native tea plants and over two-thirds of the state’s workforce is employed in the tea industry. Every tea drinker should be familiar with Assam and its contribution to the tea world because what happens there has a lot to do with your leisurely tea drinking time.
I am contemplating creating a Asian Arts Club in the Minneapolis area – I wonder if there is anyone who would be interested in joining. I would like to meet once or twice a month, to enjoy various movies/television shows and music or just about anything to do with South Asian culture (As discussed here on Daydreaming Lotus. ie: Korea, Japan, China, India) I’d be open to other cultures too. I think it would be interesting. I wonder if I can drum up some interest?
K Mohanachandran Nambiar, Times of India 3 December 2009
UDUPI: Newly discovered rock engravings at Buddhana Jeddu in Udupi district have evinced keen interest among research scholars engaged in archaeology.
It is a significant and unique rock art site near Neralakatte, on the right side of the Kundapur-Kollur main road, in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district, said Prof T Murugeshi of Ancient History and Archaeology of MSRS College, Shriva. He said that during exploration in Buddhana Jeddu, apparently a significant name in the vicinity of Karkunje panchayat, his team had noticed Buddhist remains and a few engravings in the Bhimana Paare.
The team comprised Sridhar Bhat, a noted field explorer working in Kamala Bai High School, Kadiyali, Prof Prashanth Shetty, lecturer in history, Milagres College, Kalyanpur, Prof. Jayaram Shettigar, research scholar, Govinda Pai Research Centre, Udupi. Raghavendra Amin and Sri Naveen, artists from Kalamandir in Udupi.
Murugeshi said the Bhimana Paare, a grazing area of Buddhana Jeddu, is located in the reserve forest. The engravings were partially exposed due to erosion of the overlying deposit. “We have conducted three expeditions during three different seasons in the past couple of months, and exposed more then 10 engravings so far,” he said.
The pictures comprise three animals (cattle), three human figures, one embryo, abstract geometrical designs, cup marks and a number of footprints. Murugeshi said he had brought them to the notice of Dr Rajan of Pondicherry University and Dr A Sundara, retired professor and famous pre-historian of Karnataka. Rajan has identified them as petroglyphics, after seeing the first set of pictures. Sundara observed them to be important and comparatively significant.
The geometrical design, comprising spirals of a particular pattern, grabs attention and is perhaps unique. It is comparable to a similar design of the Mesolithic age from Russia, he added.
The Buddhana Jeddu rock art site is the first of its kind in Karnataka, where the engravings are found on surface-level stone. Murugeshi said he was grateful to Nagesh Poojary and his family, and Manjunath Poojary, Karkunje panchayat member Shekar Poojary and forest gaurds of the local area for the successful archaeological expedition.
Stop India from Exporting Terrorism to Nepal!
By NOISEmaker avash (25, M, Nepal) NOISEmail avashStop India from Exporting Terrorism to Nepal!
India has been creating economical and political problems for Nepal for the last 58 years since it has become independent from the British. Nepal wanted to become a trade-free zone like Singapore, but India pressured it to abandon the idea. It wanted to turn to market economy 20 years ago but India forced it to have high- custom tariff. India is building dams in the border area to flood Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha, so no tourist will visit this submerged area.
Nepal has to endure Indian arm- twisting because it is landlocked, using Indian ports for sea cargo. It took ten years to convince India to allow Nepal to link India ports with railways and another three years for the train to start service. Even after 15 years, the railway link is not functioning properly. India has denied Nepal right of transits numerous times and dictates its terms on Nepal economy, and as a result it is now one of the poorest countries in the world. Now the Indian foreign minister is threatening Nepal.
India has been exporting terrorism to its neighboring countries to keeps these countries in line. Terrorism has been the nature of Indian politics. According to very credible numbers published by human rights groups and the Punjab judiciary, the government of India has murdered more than 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, in excess of 200,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947, almost 75,000 Kashmiri Muslims since 1988, and tens of thousands of Assamese, Tamils, Manipuris, Dalits, and others. In 1994, the US State Department reported that the Indian government paid out over 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for killing members of the Sikh minority.
clpo13 “Who wants to bet that the government won’t really help with this situation? I mean, it’s Nepal. Who cares? (Note: I do, but the feelings of myself and a few others don’t necessarily reflect on our dear old governmental leaders.)”
“Nepal”
An Indian Prime Minister was killed in office resulting from hobnobbing with terrorists. Former Prime Minister Rajib Ghandi supported one of the deadliest terrorists, LITTE, against Sri Lanka and as result was killed by them. In 1985 it armed and trained Ramraja P. Singh in India to conduct various terrorist activities in Nepal where several innocent civilian were killed.
After fourteen years of corruption and misrule by corrupt politicians, the King of Nepal has taken a popular step and assumed direct rule. The result has been positive. With the popular support of the general public, peace is returning to the country. Kathmandu has seen four months without bombing or innocent people being killed. This is the first time in a decade that three months have gone without any kind of forced strikes in Kathmandu and other towns. Gradually the situation is normalizing in the countryside.
Nepal has a chance of getting out of the grip of India. India is supporting terrorist Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) to fight against the Nepal Army. It is repeating the same story it did with Sri Lanka. Recently several terrorists who have red corner notice from the Interpol have been reported holding meetings with the Indian Intelligence Agency and Politicians. India is planning to arm and train terrorists to teach Nepal a lesson.
You can help Nepal in this hour of crisis. Please sign and forward below e-mail to President George W. Bush and a copy to Vice President Richard Cheney. Their e-mail addresses are:
President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Here is the letter:
Dear President Bush,
After fourteen years of corruption and misrule by corrupt politicians, the King of Nepal has taken a popular step and assumed direct rule. The result has been positive. With the popular support of the general public peace is returning to the country. Kathmandu has seen three months without bombing or innocent people being killed. This is the first time that three months have gone without any kind of forced strikes in Kathmandu and other towns. Gradually the situation is becoming normal in the countryside.
India has being exporting terrorism to its neighboring countries for decades. It trained and armed LITTE in Sri Lanka, MQM in Pakistan, and Ramraja Singh in Nepal. Now India is training and arming Nepal Communist Party (Maoist), a terrorist organization. Several Maoist terrorist leaders who have red corner notice from the Interpol have been reported being with high-ranking Indian Intelligence Agency officials and politicians. Huge amount of Indian currency and India- made automatic rifles have been recovered from this terrorist in Nepal.
Please declare India a rogue terrorist. Support the state of Nepal and put a sanction on this country.
The Ancient spiritual wisdom of human fealty believe that the earth is the Qusar-E-Batool ( mother ) of all living creatures . The inflammation of the blood cell was inflamed with the sensory stimulation of supreme beings to enrich human life with water to learn wisdom of God (Rab). The acids reactor of the human brain have the same system of reproducing energy from five major acids the way five white blood cells are reproduced to keep material body healthy is based on theology.
The Ancient spiritual rituals of washing hands, mouth, face, feet five times a day and harvesting was part of many different cultures in Multan (City of Cure) for health.
Abu prays to his God (Rab) five times a day and each time asked heavenly light . What is Health
Answer is a Gift.
The Ancient Spiritual Wisdom of seven days is no longer exist in today’s matters of civilizations symbols of “greed”. The main cause of the entire problem in this world is the true knowledge and important of rituals to enrich human brain.
The Sun God ritual celebration for Sunday. The God of Luna celebration on Monday. The Tiw God ritual celebration on Tuesday . The Divine day of Odin was Wednesday. The God of Thor ritual celebration was done on Thursday . The God of Frigga was the most important and ritual celebrations were done on Friday. The God of Suturan celebration on Saturday. The web feet pigeons was the special symbol of peace and riding on bull or oxen by holding horns was the sport to keep people busy and happy.
We Americans are considered to be the world leader in the knowledge through experience, investigation, studies and discoveries in all major fields except intercepting sensory stimulation from the gravity of supreme being who has wireless sensor to intercept sound of heart in the depth of the ocean water. It is true that the phenomena of life is stuck in the pressure of gravity which is losing pressure due to temperature change and the balance. The wireless sensor of supreme being is driving all life on this earth. We call it Soul (Ruh)Rab-ul-alameen.
Blessing on Humanity from Ajmal Mehdi (Imam) and Adam Mehdi (Jesus Christ) of humanfealty the father and the son with Holy Spirit!
The soul (Ruh) that originate new thoughts or Illusions in mind of a holy man calls spiritual knowledge which in not very common in our material society. True spiritual knowledge is not recollection of our memory or part of unconscious. Human Faith members believe that the Earth cannot exist without a matter of nature and environment which is created by God and the creator welcome back each soul and all Illusions those were originated in the mind to enrich humanity in order to advance life of human kind in the past and in future .
We also believe that faith is a function of knowledge and that Sense of Illusion comes threw soul in to the certain part of human brain therefore study of brain would be very beneficial for all beliefs and our doctrine shows that the Supreme Being love’s you no matter what language and name you use for Prayer. Human Faith is Abrahamic monotheistic faith and know that God is the creator and overseer of the universe at all the time and all Illusions.
We know that the human embryos were created by the creator to keep us wise and biodiversity with color of our skin, color of hair, color of eyes and with multiculturalism to keep us engaged in action of bitterness and gift of tongue for the sound of cry. It is time to be wise enough to understand purpose of human life and certain inheritance of human genes. Therefore, knowledge of certain medical condition is the key to establish system of life that is inflamed with the sensory stimulation of supreme beings to enrich human life . The pain full condition that affecting our family values and humanfealty is not understanding human spiritual and materialistic view of life in today’s fusion society.
Human faith has that ancient wisdom with modern way of managing spiritual and materialistic view of life. The festival of life can be celebrated with wisdom of human faith knowledge. It advocates spiritual and moral principles on very high scales for the longest term in human history.
Human faith teaches not only moral values it can give realistic purpose of achieving complete fulfillment of internal life. Our method of understanding both the universe and life is based on unlimited confidence in individual by teaching respect of human life and God (Rab-Ul-Aalameen).
Human fealty is Ajmal Mehdi and Adam Mehdi monotheistic faith and knows that God is the creator and overseer of the universe at all the time and all matters. Saint Human Faith and Adam Mehdi(Jesus) the father and son do not support culture of
Atheism,
Adulterer,
Drinkers,
Smoker’s,
Drug users ,
Money lover ,
Racist,
Sexism,
Assaulters,
Murders,
Thieves ,
Gamblers ,
The waves of fresh air with small particles full of wisdom and oxygen of (Rabi) are in the air it is just matter of time when they touch the brain to change the heart. Human Faith is heavenly light of knowledge restriction on sacred light is eclipse on humanity and blasphemy. The Divine Affirmations of human faith are the commandment of God (Rab) of Humanity (Rabi). The crime against the Divine laws is blasphemy and great disrespect for our God (Rab) of humanity (Rabi).
IN GOD (Rab) WE TRUST WE HAVE FAITH IN HUMANITY (Rabi)
IIMs are the top institute for Management in the country and recognized worldwide for producing Masters in Business Administration.
In our country, it is very difficult to get into these institutions. There is a single joint competitive examination called CAT (Common Aptitude Test) held every year. This year the organization planned to scrap the OMR based paper test and have a complete online test. The contract for the job was given to Prometric. The tests were planned in some selected cities and applicants were given an option to book a preferential slot in the available testing dates. The aspirants from all around the country booked their slots and made their train reservations (These have to be made three months prior to journey date to secure a berth). On their allotted slot time, the applicants sat in the examination centre for two hours and gave their exams but some unlucky ones couldn’t give their exam because either the connection was slow / not working, their was a virus problem or the applicants didn’t follow the instructions well (as quoted by Prometric’s CEO & IIM-Ahmedabad Director). Throughout the duration they were ordered to sit and not given any possible reason. This went on throughout the testing period at many centers. Many applicants were unable to give in their exams due this reason. Seeing the failure of the newly adopted testing system (which was tested as the organizers say), the IIM management & Prometric called on a joint press conference, here the Director of IIM-Ahmedabad, who is on board as Independent Director of many eminent companies in our country, point-blankly said that the applicants would be given a specific date for their exam and everything now is in GOD’s GRACE. The blame was being tried to put on the applicants for the failure saying that they didn’t know how to use the computer.
Listening to these responses, I couldn’t stop wondering that these are the people who will teach us management and make us a responsible manager. If God’s GRACE is the solution they can offer for this failure and play blame game to shove-off responsibility from their shoulders. Then I think it’s better if I let go of my dream of joining an IIM and think on something more productive.
Coming back to the issue of failure of this new testing system, I think it would be a good Case-Study that I would like to take-up when I join a good management institute (That actually practices what it teaches). Also I think if these people have little integrity and morality left, they should accept their responsibility and provide suitable compensation to the applicants affected due to their mismanagement.
Have you been to Pacific Rim before? If not, the 1st place you need to visit is India because this is a brilliant place for visitors like you. For approximately 5,000 years now, India has been celebrating life and all its pleasures. If you find exotic, colourful, and puzzling places unusual, this is the best place for you. Despite the changes and diversities in India, the country is still a picturesque and a unique visitor destination. If you would like a journey travel in India, start packing your things now and catch the subsequent flight. You will find a unique civilization and culture in India.
In fact, the nation’s civilization is among the oldest in the planet. The imagination of holiday makers is always captivated of India’s legends and culture. There are multiple legends to inform and if you listen to them, your imagination will certainly run wild. You can get in contact with the neighbors so that you can learn more about their culture and way of living. By doing so, you may make new mates there. An brave soul would also like to visit monuments and you can find lots of them in India.
Enjoy the intricate splendor of mosques, churches, temporal structures ( bridges, step-wells, and tanks), and canopies found in the different regions of the country. Remember to visit the pink town ( Jaipur ), blue city ( Jodhapur ), golden city (Jaisalmer), and romantic town or the lake town ( Udaipur ). You can find all these towns by going with a Rajasthan tour. Ask a tourist guide about their trip schedules so you can also join them. Aside from the complicated architectural structures in India, you can also find adventure in the tropical jungles, resorts, the Gangetic Plains, golden beaches, and the powerful Himalaya. Beautiful beaches can be discovered in Goa, as well as independent cultures. There are multiple local spots that you can select from, so take care that you select one that you can get the maximum excitement ever.
Spa and ayurveda resorts can be found in Kerala. There are wonderful resorts and beaches there. If you are on a beach holiday, the ocean, sand, and palms of Kerala can give you life’s greatest adventure. resorts and beaches there. are also welcome If you travel to the Himalayan ranges in India. If you’re a sports lover, you can join the Himachal tours. You can enjoy trekking along with other travel to the Himalayas. If wildlife fascinates you and captures your you can check out India’s safari.
There are national parks that you can visit all over India where you can see different sorts and the in-demand tigers. Another place that you can visit is Mumbai where you can find Haji Ali, Hyderabad’s Charminar, the beautiful gardens and valleys of Kashmir, Rajasthan’s rustic beauty, Ooty, Manali, Shimla, and Uttaranchal. If you’ve been to India before, maybe these places are already familiar to you.
But for your next trip, why don’t you organize your tour destinations so you can enjoy the vacation there?
By planning ahead, you can save time and cash because you may know the right places to go to. Make the most out why don’t you arrange your tour destinations so you can get very expensive but if you visit a place like India, everything is worth it. You won’t regret visiting such a gorgeous place and you will have the best journey travel in India.
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• The Operation Christmas Child trip to Swaziland – and the delighted screams of the kids as they opened their shoeboxes.
• Giving career advice to the Swazi schoolgirl who told me she wanted to be a journalist when she grew up.
• Painting and decorating the community centre in a Delhi slum; logging on to the internet and wondering who this Susan Boyle woman was, and why so many of my Facebook friends had become fans of hers.
CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Two recent newspaper articles about climate change in the far distant
Dec 3 2009 For a town of a thousand temples, a sex scandal and one that involves a priest, has come as a shocker.
By Brooks Yeager
