tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58404664440589090962024-03-05T18:38:15.156-08:00Sanity in an Insane World...satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-6251607859827552432016-04-14T03:20:00.000-07:002016-04-14T03:20:03.159-07:00Meet 'Lakshman Rao' - Novelist cum Tea Seller.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"A writer is born after 50 years of age and gets the real life after his death." -- Lakshman Rao</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
is the real life story of struggle, rejection, unflinching
determination amidst penury and now recognition. This is the story of
Lakshman Rao, a tea seller on pavements of Delhi.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">His
story is bound to teach us a few lessons on persistence, perseverance
and listening to inner voice when the entire world thinks otherwise.<a data-mce-href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/books.india" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/books.india" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br /> </a><a data-mce-href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/books.india" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/books.india" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lakshman Rao</a>
- Author of 24 novels, plays, political essays written in Hindi; had a
life fraught with poverty, obstacles and tons of struggle.But sheer
determination helped him pave </span>way<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
to present fame and very little fortune, after numerous rejections and
decades of dedicated reading-writing on the noisy South Delhi street of
Vishnu Digambar Marg near <a data-mce-href="http://www.hindibhawan.org/" href="http://www.hindibhawan.org/" target="_blank">Hindi Bhavan</a>, while selling tea.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
best part is he is publisher and salesman of his books to numerous
schools and libraries across Delhi. He decided to self-publish his books
after being rudely shooed away by a publisher. They would say, "a<a data-mce-href="http://chaiwallahsofindia.com/" href="http://chaiwallahsofindia.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <i>chaiwallah</i></a> tea seller can't write books".</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So
he would cycle 60 km in mad Delhi traffic to promote his books across
Delhi and then sell tea till 9 PM. After reaching home - a one-room
tenement that he shares with his wife and 2 sons, he would write till
early morning hours.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After all these years of dedicated work, he is finally getting recognition in Indian and world media. Newspapers from '<a data-mce-href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/books.india" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/books.india" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>' to '<a data-mce-href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/the-bard-of-the-tea-stall/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0" href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/the-bard-of-the-tea-stall/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times</a>' have published articles on him. Indian president had invited him to <i>Rashtrapati Bhavan </i>(Presidential
Palace) after reading one of his Novels 'Renu'. Now he is a recognized
man on the pavement where he sells tea as people from all walks of life
stop by his stall to sip tea and take life's wisdom from him. As one
bank manager says, "I feel richer and relieved of life's hassles after a
conversation with him".</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Check out this </span>You Tube<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> video with Lakshman Rao sharing his wisdom >></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of his novels has been translated </span>in<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
English and available on Kindle. He says, even if a single person from
across the world in London reads his work on Kindle; he would be
rewarded! </span>For<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> now he is busy preparing tea at his stall and conceptualizing his next novel.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Surprisingly
for a man with such humble means, barely making under $200 a month to
support his family - has larger than life dreams - his eyes beaming with
satisfaction as he says "I loved <a data-mce-href="http://absoluteshakespeare.com/" href="http://absoluteshakespeare.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shakespeare</a> and wanted to be a writer. Now that people have recognized and read my works, I am a happy man and no sorrows in life".</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>Remember,
here's a man living in abject poverty and few means, saying "he has no
sorrows in life". Perhaps this should be a priceless take for all of us
in an insane consumerist world where nothing is enough to satisfy our
greed....</i></b><b><i><br /> </i></b><b><i><span data-mce-style="color: #6aa84f;" style="color: #6aa84f;">Let's salute indomitable spirit of Lakshman Rao - 'The Novelist'</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Greece:
Sunshine land of sea, shipping, fishing, olives, and; plenty of social
well-being and happiness. Or is it? The answer is both 'Yes' and 'No'.
Yes, for it's past and No, for the present.<br /> An ancient civilization
from the pre-Biblical era, Greece is the cradle of western civilization;
as such the birthplace of democracy, philosophy, and Olympic games.<br />
In modern times, it was a developed country with a high-income economy
and a very high standard of living. Greece was the founding member of
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and development (<a data-mce-href="http://www.oecd.org/" href="http://www.oecd.org/" target="_blank">OECD</a>), member of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (<a data-mce-href="http://www.nato.int/" href="http://www.nato.int/" target="_blank">NATO</a>), European Union (<a data-mce-href="http://europa.eu/index_en.htm" href="http://europa.eu/index_en.htm" target="_blank">EU</a>), International Monetary Fund (<a data-mce-href="http://www.imf.org/" href="http://www.imf.org/" target="_blank">IMF</a>) and the United Nations (<a data-mce-href="http://www.un.org/en" href="http://www.un.org/en" target="_blank">UN</a>). In fact, Greece was the Second largest defence spender after the United States within NATO.<br />
But, now the Goliath is on it's toes; badly battered financially and
socially. But what went wrong? Were the reasons of this debacle internal
or external? These are the questions hounding everyone: considering the
abject misery the greeks are subjected now!Well, it's mostly internal
mismanagement (corruption, over-spending and deceit that has sent Greece
into a downward spiral for almost a decade); with only one major
external factor (gaining Euro as currency that Greece has no control
over).<br /> Since late 90's Greece was getting into fiscal deficits
because of over expenditure by means of rich pensions for retirees,
millitary expenditure, while failing to collect due taxes.Since Greece
joined Euro club and replaced 'Drachma' with Euro in 2001; it was able
to afford loans at a much cheaper rate from International institutions -
awash with cheap loans, it splurged in abundance. For e.g: In 2004
olympics, it spent 8 times more than that of Sydney Olympics. Moreover,
Greece had been indulging in accounting malpractices since long which
eventually helped it gain entry into Euro - by covering it's prolonged
fiscal deficits. Greece had paid millions in bribe to Wall Street banks
including Goldman Sachs to fudge it's books and trick Eurozone community
into believing in it's financial viability.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thus,
most of the blame lies on Greece but not all. Because the markets also
failed to assess Greece's credit risk. Earlier 'Drachma' had been
devaluing periodically to adjust trade imbalances, but that was not
possible now; with Euro as currency controlled centrally by European
Central Bank (ECB) in Brussels. Many including Nobel prize winning
Economist 'Paul Krugman' believe this also a major contributing factor
to the ongoing crisis. Greece Economy is in dire straits - since 2010 it
has received numerous bailout packages from EU and IMF; which largely
goes into repaying earlier debts and less into rebuilding Greek economy.<br /> <b>Following are a brief timeline of debt crisis and bailout packages:</b><br /> 2009, December - Greece's credit rating downgraded.<br /> 2010, February - Govt. announces tough austerity measures and faces public strike.<br /> 2011, July - European Union members channel a bailout package of 109 billion euros. <a data-mce-href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/creditrating.asp" href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/creditrating.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Credit rating</a> downgraded to<a data-mce-href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/15/greece-at-substantial-risk-of-default-say-experts" href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/15/greece-at-substantial-risk-of-default-say-experts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> substantial risk default</a>.<br /> Source: nytimes.com </span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2011, October - Eurozone lenders approve of 50% debt write off in return of further austerity measures.<br />
2012, February - Greek parliament approves of a new round of austerity
measures with a background of violent protests; for 130 billion euro
bailout.<br /> 2015, August - Supposedly a bridging loan as part of 3rd
round of bailout, of 7 billion euros; out of which 4.5 billion Greece
will repay to European central bank and 1.5 billion to International
monetary fund. This will pave the way for future bailout plans.</span><br />
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To sum up Greece is caught in a vicious cycle with no amount of bailout
- able to make a dent in it. Compounding the problem are the harsh
austerity measures (huge increase in taxes, drastically cutting down on
pension, public welfare schemes), and widespread unemployment having
contributed to great social instability. Over these years, Greece has
been witness to many violent protests on the streets of Athens.<br />
Fishing Industry, a major contributor to the GDP and employer to many
fishermen is almost entirely broke; as Greeks can't afford to buy fish.
Many harbors are lying empty and many a fishermen are without trade.
Fishing that has been a Greek trade for thousands of years</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.completely-crete.com/crete-villages.html" href="http://www.completely-crete.com/crete-villages.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Small Fishing Village on Island of Crete</a></span></td></tr>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">since
3,500 B.C is the worst hit for the first time in history. Fishing as a
way of life has drowned with little hope in hindsight.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many
shops in Athens have closed down as there are no buyers. Banks had
become a casualty much earlier. Overall Greece is in a serious economic
conundrum.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /> </b><b>The way out: </b>After
all these years of turbulent trials, with ordinary Greeks being the
worst sufferers for their Government misdoings, there has to be an end
to this tragedy. The only way out it seems is an exit from 'Euro' (<a data-mce-href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grexit.asp" href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grexit.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grexit</a>)
and reintroducing Greek 'Drechma'. This will provide much-needed
flexibility in devaluing it's own currency and making exports cheaper
and competitive. This is bound to infuse stimulus into a shattered
economy and mcuch needed respite to the Greeks.Paul Krugman who had been
an outspoken opponent of single currency in Europe has said " Greek
economy can recover from the severe recession by exiting the Euro and
launching a new national currency, the drachma. ” he wrote in the New
York Times in June.<br /> While it may seem the only solution to the
crisis, Euro Zone member countries are trying their level best to
prevent this from happening. Because this will cause a crisis of faith
in the European Union globally and worse, Euro would lose value against
Dollar.<br /> On a sombre note : Greeks and rest of the world are numb at
irreversible greek tragedy; that is on the verge of turning into a
spectre to haunt us forever, if not reversed soon!<br /> Let us wait and watch when Greece gets fished out and by whom...</span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-26906148239279945342016-04-14T03:19:00.002-07:002016-04-14T03:19:09.451-07:00Are junk food - pornography related; and does one addiction lead to the other?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Apart
from terrorism and pollution, two other things that are posing a major
threat to our wellbeing are: 'Junk Food' and 'Internet Porn'.<br /> Both
are recent phenomena and insidiously deadly. They prey on our primeval
pleasure seeking instincts, making it appear normal.So what are their
similarities and what makes them addictive?<br /> <a data-mce-href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/brain-scans-porn-addicts-sexual-tastes" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/brain-scans-porn-addicts-sexual-tastes"><img alt="Colored MRI Scan Of Human Brain." border="0" class="alignnone" data-mce-src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEicakGK0tx6guZiIojk7xSBCREnJBAVqQ4_rfCxld98ljbYDX9VKCrzVFqHecxTpO5IpX3Dkk558q0ouw1bnhrKF-bri8Z7WO4cZz7Hf4VHfCfnvVHc6nblIv15O3qPfSjlbGM87bb97_xPzWJzCnPc1UktWg4uP54wJLg6zs8_1iJpCKaiTkR2oUdsMn6GmnsnaEvB-d8AVcQtQAg4GdTDaE_4SjciPCWSCzwpIRaF9rsBxc-hsRpHQ-T1bgEcIjd9NeZrlaw6cSYkGeyNCJ0=" src="http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/07/130702_SCI_BrainScanDopamine.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg" height="121" width="200" /></a><b>Dopamine - The link:</b>
Dopamine is a neurotransmitterer that carries signal from one neuron to
another. It's simple reward mechanism in our evolutionary process to
make us reach for food and sex for the survival of our
species.Therefore, Dopamine has always rewarded us with excitement,
stimulation, and satisfaction. In short it has made life worth living
for thousands of years.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But
something is wrong now, that has converted God's reward mechanism into a
deadly curse - and we humans are to be blamed for this. 21st century
has seen a great surge in science and technology in all domains for the
benefit of mankind except for some of it.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /> </b><b>Food Engineering:</b>
It has turned into a menace posing a risk for human health and nature.
Modern food is processed, laced with synthetic food colors, flavor
enhancers, loads of sugar, salt, and fat that makes us crave more and
more -- with no amount able to satisfy us.Modern food interventions
superexcite our taste buds and create a huge surge in dopamine levels
making us addicted to junk food.<br /> <b>Pornography: </b>I would say
this also is recent even though erotica has existed for thousands of
years. Erotica is a depiction of romantic sex or representation of
nobler sex. Compare that with modern pornography where sex is
aggressive, selfish -- bodies are surgically operated, sex toys,
cosmetics used to add zing. Watching porn videos also creates huge
dopamine surge, overexcites our sex glands and creates the insatiable
appetite for more.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.covenanteyes.com/2008/12/09/breaking-the-cycle-of-porn-addiction/" href="http://www.covenanteyes.com/2008/12/09/breaking-the-cycle-of-porn-addiction/"><img alt="Image result for junk food addiction and porn" border="0" class="alignnone" data-mce-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShyDe8PiAIinUTtMcJKZNBbW8tFj4N4y2otzhyguM-FItNt1nb" height="239" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShyDe8PiAIinUTtMcJKZNBbW8tFj4N4y2otzhyguM-FItNt1nb" width="320" /></a>Porn
addiction leads to social anxiety, isolation, confidence issues;
creates lethargy and drives one into depression. In such a scenario,
it's obvious that one would desire junk food that acts as a companion in
overexciting human brain.<br /> Both junk food and pornography are thus
related and have hijacked humanity to a bottomless pit of desperation,
craving, and irresistible hunger; while posing a risk for the
environment. To get our dopamine fix, we have/are plundering natural
resources and injecting ourselves with supernormal stimuli in the
form chemical food, artificial recreations of perverted sex etc.<br />
Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett argues that supernormal stimulation
govern the behavior of humans as powerfully as that of animals. In her
2010 book, Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their
Evolutionary Purpose,[9] she examines the impact of supernormal stimuli
on the diversion of impulses for nurturing, sexuality, romance,
territoriality, defense, and the entertainment industry’s hijacking of
our social instincts. (<a data-mce-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source: WIkipedia</a>)<br />
How food influences human behavior was well known in ancient Hindu
scriptures since the dawn of civilization. According to Ayurveda, food
is of three types:<br /> 1) Satvik: Food that is fresh, natural, sweet,
less spicy/salty. Such food creates a balanced personality, improves
mental clarity and spiritual awareness.Most vegetarian food consisting
of grains, lentils, fruits, vegetables, clarified butter, milk, nuts and
seeds fall in this category.<br /> 2) Rajasic: Non-vegetarian and other
food items that are heavy, salty, spicy, pungent and sour. Rajasic food
creates a personality of anger, jealousy, greed, power and
prestige.Non-vegetarian food, chili, peppers, other hot spices, onion,
garlic, alcohol, tobacco and caffeine are Rajasic.<br /> 3) Tamasic: Food that is stale, putrid, processed with extreme amounts of salt, sugar, flavor enhancers and preservatives.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most
of modern junk food falls into this category. Such Tamasic food
creates mood swings insecurity, lethargy, cravings, anti-social
behavior.<b> <span data-mce-style="color: #3d85c6;" style="color: #3d85c6;">(<a data-mce-href="http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0388_Effects_of_Pornograp.html" href="http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0388_Effects_of_Pornograp.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Perfectly fits into a porn addict's personality that modern psychologists describe</a>)</span></b><b><br /> </b><b>Verdict! </b>There's
no need to explain further on the kink between junk food -- porn
addiction & vice versa. I am of firm belief that porn addiction
would surely lead to junk food eating as porn addicts spend hours, even
days hooked to porn. They also tend to be socially isolated and suffer
from complexes.Whereas, junk food addiction if not directly related to
porn watching, lays a fertile ground for the other addiction to sprout
by changing body's biochemistry and thus preferences.<br /> <b>Solution: </b>Fixing these issues is fairly simple by changing one's habits and creating new ones. It only needs dedication and patience.<br /> Let it all begin with <b><a data-mce-href="http://www.eatingwell.com/" href="http://www.eatingwell.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">eating right kind of food</a></b>. This is bound to create a conducive environment in the body for generating right kind of thoughts.<br /> Pair the above with some<b> <a data-mce-href="http://www.who.int/topics/physical_activity/en/" href="http://www.who.int/topics/physical_activity/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">physical activity</a></b>. Walking, Running, Working out and Yoga can work miracles by re-energizing lethargic cells with a gust of endorphins.<a data-mce-href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5840466444058909096" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5840466444058909096"><br /> </a><br /> Finally<a data-mce-href="http://www.how-to-meditate.org/" href="http://www.how-to-meditate.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <b>Meditation</b></a><b>.</b>
Last Nail in the Coffin of a Rut Lifestyle. Meditation is like God's
pathway to have communion with inner self and sync with the outer
cosmos. Meditation calms mind by generating positive thoughts of
"compassion, coherence, love, generosity, clarity and care" (Quite
opposite of depictions in Porn Movies!).Just a few minutes of it can
work wonders, Trust Me! <b>Get rid of all crap in life and reclaim the true essence of living that we are all born with and which is our right. </b> </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We
live in a frenzied-chaotic world, where being in a rush always has
become the norm. In a fast paced world with constant flurry of activity,
it's easy to get sucked into this madness. </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /> <a data-mce-href="www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article.../Have-got-hurry-sickness.html" href="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-admin/www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article.../Have-got-hurry-sickness.html"><img alt="Image result for hurry sickness" border="0" class="alignnone" data-mce-src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-pmtvGs7_EY-VzfMyIqjJJFWiv8iiVGxzSiCGFtTBySIR0GxqvQ" height="173" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-pmtvGs7_EY-VzfMyIqjJJFWiv8iiVGxzSiCGFtTBySIR0GxqvQ" width="200" /></a>We
get programmed to be in hurry from early in childhood. It all starts
with wrong teaching imparted by parents and teachers. One is made to
believe that the world is always in a rush and one would lag behind if
he/she spends a little time in quiet; doing nothing. Damn, the world
would pounce on him making him believe that he is a laggard.<br /> At
times we need to hurry especially while living in a big city to keep
pace - to catch that train/bus for work - but still we can find time to
be with self- once we board the train (Unless it is <a data-mce-href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mumbai-killer-local-trains-mishaps-railways-blames-commuters/1/188058.html" href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mumbai-killer-local-trains-mishaps-railways-blames-commuters/1/188058.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: blue;">Mumbai, India!</span></a>). But instead we are instantly glued to our tablet checking emails, facebook updates, news and what not.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Even
when there is no need, also one is hurried - smitten by the 'hurry
bug'. I have seen people who are in a hurry while watching television,
flipping through channels at the speed of light, anxious to glance at
what the other channel might be showing. Let me highlight the term <b>"Might be"</b>.<br />
Might be this, might be that; is a major underlying factor for
hurriedness. Not just TV but "Might be" along with it's close companion
"Hurry" has driven mankind to lunacy. But let's stop and take a moment
to reflect on nature which creates miracles constantly without being in a
hurry: "Flowers blossom, crops sprout, trees get laden with fruits,
list goes on".<br /> So what miracle are we accomplishing by being in a
hurry; and would the world collapse if we miss that party or forget to
put cinderella-like makeup for party, or miss a trivial meeting, a TV
show e.tc.<br /> Before we try to fix this hurry disease, let's look at the <b>underlying reasons:</b></span><br />
<ol>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Greed: </b>This
is evil no 1. Man's greed is insatiable and the line between how much
is too much gets blurred in most cases. In order to satiate this
monstrous greed to acquire more, one tends to cram more work </span>in<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> a day's schedule, to earn more - making himself </span>huiried<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.
Statistics prove that around 60% of our belongings are not needed and
can be easily done away with. Is this sanity to always hurry - acquiring
things - many of which are not needed.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Self-Importance: </b>This
is the evil twin of greed. Many of us have this irresistible urge to
feel important in our circle; let it be family(sibling rivalry) or
society. And keeping oneself busy pampers one's ego even when it may not
be a penny's worth! I have seen people who are miserable idlers without
meaningful work, hobby or a cause; saying they don't have a minute to
spare when invited over dinner!</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Dislike for One's Job:</b>
Dislike for one's job or profession breeds irritation instead of
satisfaction. Nothing like the joy of a job well done and so
is the pain of drudging in the wrong job. This scars the deep crevices
of mind resulting in fickleness, as an escape for the mind.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Procrastination:</b>
Ailment of procrastination has been as long as mankind itself. By
delaying things, they tend to pile up and create metal clutter. A
cluttered mind is an unhealthy mind which would always jump hither and
tither.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Impatience: </b>This
is a 21st-century malady arising out of one or more of the above
factors. We live in a world of instant gratification: fast food, reality
tv shows, pop music, thriller movies, computer games and internet porn.
All these conspire to steal joy of living in the present - "without
any external stimuli".</span></li>
</ol>
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.slideworld.com/notes/2768516.jpg" href="http://www.slideworld.com/notes/2768516.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" data-mce-src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjFE-V41Ex4F1d7RnoVEP0l7veYT8cj_XuRiAtCcwnvGyM8rceovHhcRGU7c4oqdXEaVyTOgPW0JMUxjij7ErC_trdq6tv1b7ZDEQnfxZKrzcxg23LlZJdhDxCyWnN4d_0yC_FMGHxEIUBnZQ=" src="http://www.slideworld.com/notes/2768516.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>List of remedies for combating this sickness:- </b> </span><br />
<ol>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Let Go:</b>
No matter what, we can't fit everything in a day's schedule. And the
world won't go for a toss if less important activities are sacrificed at
the altars of health and peace of mind. Therefore "Let Go" of less
important things and don't bother with </span>nitty-gritty<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of everything under the Sun.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Plan, Organise and proritise:</b>
Now that we have learnt to let go, it is important to plan and organise
our chores like a funnel - "Most important : Important : Less Important
: Least Important" and allocate time accordingy. Least important
activities can be done away with entirely in the event of time
constraints. Being organised would save us of many a troubles
and time expense like misplacing important stuff and spending a fortune
(of time) in locating it.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Stop or Minimise Watching TV: </b>Oof!
Television! The world would be such a quiet and beautiful place without
this piece of crap. TV creates restlessness by bombarding us with tons
of advertisements, eating into a chunk of our time and affecting our
sleep. Remember a sleep deprived mind is a "Monkey Mind".</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Brisk Walk: </b>Walking
slowly and steadily whenever one can afford to can have a tremendous
therapeutic effect. It definitely would subside mental chatter that
makes us feel busy even when one is not.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Early Rising:</b>
Animals, birds and beasts, all rise with sunrise, barring human being.
But we were not always like this. In fact for most of our evolutionary
history(approx. 99.9% of over 1,00,000 years), we too were like the rest
in waking up early but for the past century. Early
rising saves a lot of time, helps to plan and organise for the day
better; thus reducing the need to be in a hurry for the rest of the day.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Meditation:</b>
Ah! This is like a breath of fresh air. It heals jagged nerves, soothes
and calms a chopped mind. Just a few minutes of it can work wonders by
making us better decision makers, forging conducive relationships,
improving overall health & persona, achieving our goals and
innumerable other benefits. Most importantly meditation helps us connect
with our own inner placid self and get answers to many of life's
perplexing issues. Try it dilligently every day without fail and you
would never be the same again. I swear!</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Stop Eating Junk Food: </b>Yup!
It's junk food which is devoid of any nutrition, laden with toxic
chemicals(flavour enhancers, preservatives, thickening agents etc etc.)
that deceive our taste buds and wreck our body, making it a fertile
ground for many of modern maladies. Most importantly such food makes us
restless by exciting our nerves, makes us irritable(body reacts when
deprived of nutrition -
http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/fast-food-nutrition-junk-foods-effect-on-your-body.html)
and makes us more prone to violence
(http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/violent_behavior_and_junk_food)</span></li>
</ol>
<br />
Admit that the world has changed drastically over past century and we need to keep pace.<br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But
actually in hurrying we loose the race by committing costly mistakes in
our jobs and fixing them over again, risking safety, getting ill with
huge medical bills, dying prematurely in accidents or sickness. Remember
the adage:<b> “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” </b></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /> One can be<b> quick</b>
and get the job done smartly and efficiently without mental
hurriedness. This would surely create a better person inside and lead to
a meaningful contended life..</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We humans have gotten uglier in the way we eat, what we eat and how we eat. Whole food (grains, fruits, vegetables, </span>nuts<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and seeds) is out and ready to eat is in, with instant noodles being the no. 1 monster. <b>To
put it simply they have oodles of fat, salt - peppered with toxic
chemical preservatives and flavor
enhancers. </b></span><br />
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a data-mce-href="http://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/the-dark-side-of-instant-noodles-what-makes-them-harmful-766902" href="http://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/the-dark-side-of-instant-noodles-what-makes-them-harmful-766902"><img alt="Toxic Noodles" border="0" data-mce-src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwUlRosdox9zG90lfOtLQj2CNijypRNZskytG-GJnlCx_n7soW" height="170" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwUlRosdox9zG90lfOtLQj2CNijypRNZskytG-GJnlCx_n7soW" width="297" /></a></dt>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I remember back in my school days, occasionally </span>vans<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
of Maggi noodles disbursing bowls of steaming hot noodles outside the
gate for free and kids, famished-hungry after a grueling day at school
devouring that junk, impatient till reaching home and savor mother's
home cooked nutritious meal. I would wonder why is Maggi offering
noodles to well-fed kids instead of poor ones starving on the streets.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It
took me years till I grew up to understand that was advertising gimmick
to induce kids who can trouble their parents to feed them more of that
crap.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now let's dive straight into why one should immediately stop eating instant noodles. This would benefit one's health, </span>planet<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and national economy as well, with reduced health costs and more national productivity.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Studies
conducted in South Korea and Malaysia(two large Noodle eating
countries) have found large number of people consuming instant noodles
to be suffering from <a data-mce-href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/metabolic-syndrome/basics/definition/con-20027243" href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/metabolic-syndrome/basics/definition/con-20027243" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Metabolic Syndrome,</a> which essentially means a bunch of illnesses ranging from<b> </b>high
blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, renal failure, excess body
fat, abnormal cholesterol levels - thus increased risk of diabetes and
heart disease. <a data-mce-href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812121642.htm" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812121642.htm" target="_blank">Hyun Joon Shin,</a>
MD of Harvard school of public health said in a press release “This
research is significant since many people are consuming instant noodles
without knowing possible health risks.”</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Meaning instant noodles are an assault on </span>human<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> body causing </span>host<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of metabolic illnesses, plus certain ingredients raise </span>risk<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of cancer and devastating neurological disorders. So what's in this toxic food that </span>cause<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> all these?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Following are the list:</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1.
Salt: The World Health Organization recommends a maximum of 2000mg of
sodium per day (equivalent to 5g of salt) for adults. Most instant
noodles contain more than 100% of an adult's daily sodium intake just
from a single packet.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then, what about the rest of day's meals and snacks?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Fat: Most of </span>instant<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> noodles are processed in Palm oil after being steamed. Oxidized Palm Oil causes organ toxicity of heart, kidney, </span>liver<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and lungs.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3.
MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate): This one devil should send jitters down
one's spine. It lurks everywhere: restaurants, cafeteria and mostly in
processed foods. MSG makes food super tasty without laboring a dang!
It's dirt cheap and easily available to be used generously! MSG <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">is an excitotoxin, maeaning it overexcites nerve cells to the point of damage or death leading to brain dysfunction.</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It potentially causes varied neurological diseases including Alzheimers and Parkinson's.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Look how smart the food industry is to disguise MSG with pretty terms like:</span><br />
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<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gelatin</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP)</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yeast Extract</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malted Barley</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rice Syrup or Brown Rice Syrup</span></li>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So watch out!!</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. TBHQ (Tertiary butylhydroquinone): Used as food stabilizer is mentioned as an </span>anti oxidant<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to hide </span>it's<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> true identity. Causes vision disturbances, affects human behavior, increases tumor risk.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5.
BPA (Bisphenol A): Used in plastic packaging of food items that is
known to leach into ingredients contained within and cause hormonal
disturbances.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Years earlier, Malaysian health officials had issued a </span>warning :<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> "Eating instant noodles can cause or increase </span>risk<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of heart disease, stroke, and kidney damage because of ingredients such as thickeners, stabilizers, sodium, and preservatives".</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adding to the above list, there was a recent "Lead" scare in Indian Maggi Noodles detected by <a data-mce-href="http://www.fssai.gov.in/" href="http://www.fssai.gov.in/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fssai </a>(Food Safety Standards Authority of India) in which abnormal quantities of lead was found in </span>maggi<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> noodles. Now that's what is called "Topping on Ice"!</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bountiful
Mother nature has literally thousands of foods, herbs and spices
offered to us. Can't we idiotic humans stop processing, modifying food
items and eat them whole and natural, the way nature supposed it to be.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
simple recipe that has most nutrients and 10 Min's to prepare: Cook
some rice in a pressure cooker. While the rice is cooking, chop and
saute assortment of vegetables (Carrots, Green Peas, Onions, Garlic,
Tomatoes, Beetroot, Cauliflower, Mushrooms) in Olive or any oil of your
choice. Sprinkle salt, pepper, Indian spices or Soya sauce. Top it over
once </span>rice<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is ready and </span>have<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> a nutritious meal in 10 mins. Have lemonade instead of Soda with it.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You may make it </span>non vegetarian<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by adding little chunks of chicken, 2 poached eggs and prawns, shrimps.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lastly empty kitchen cabinet of those toxic stuff Noodles into garbage bin! Yeah....</span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-52459716245015402022016-04-14T03:17:00.000-07:002016-04-14T03:17:03.785-07:00Raksha Bandhan - "Rakhi" - Thread of love and protection...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Today,
Hindu Holy festival of Raksha Bandhan was marked with the sublime love
of sisters for their brothers accompanied with prayers for their
well-being. In return, brothers vowed to protect the sister. Thus, the
name Raksha (Protection) Bandhan (Knot). This legendary festival dates </span><span data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">back to 6,000 years.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
best thing is, not just biological sisters who tie 'rakhi' on the
brother's right arm - but also someone not biologically related, with
some emotional bonding, </span>like<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;"> a
neighbour, relative, even a batchmate or colleague! Raksha Bandhan also
forges inter-religious harmony as many Muslim women tie the sacred
thread on Hindu men addressing them as brothers. Compare this to the
lonesome western world, where such social belongingness is non-existent
and might be envied!</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thus
beyond biological perspective; Raksha Bandhan enforces a platonic
relationship between men and women. Aren't such festivals indeed pious
and holy? Now, this festival is all the more significant in the modern
world mired by insatiable greed, lust perpetrated by insane consumption
and pornography, where </span>man-woman<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
relationship is reduced to animalistic base instincts of lust and hate!
This is ultimately percolating into social relationships, wrecking
havoc in society.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
such scenario, this festival of inter-gender pious love, where even
strangers can forge such a platonic relationship is an evolved festival
transcending mean confines of bodily desires - into a spiritual plane
of conscious human love-affection.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Such concept also resonates with most of </span>world<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> religions, not just Hinduism - where men and women are broadly addressed as brothers and sisters.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thus
on the eve of Raksha Bandhan, let us vow to look at women with respect
and get their reverence in return - for no society can ever thrive
without conducive man-woman relationship......</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;"><br /> </span></i><i><b><span data-mce-style="color: #0b5394;" style="color: #0b5394;">I dedicate this article to Meenakshi and Jina who happen to be my surrogate sisters.</span></b></i></span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-81441036330486589742016-04-14T03:16:00.003-07:002016-04-14T03:16:33.405-07:00Internet Porn and Child Abuse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At
times, one might think we are living in the best of times of
technology, e-commerce, global trade, increased awareness of human
rights, education and gender equality.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But </span>also<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> present age has come with its set of challenges ranging from </span>environment<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to moral degradation. Most people go on with their daily life oblivious of an imminent lurking danger until hit by it.</span></div>
<span class="mceItemHidden" data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yes,
I am talking of Internet porn. This social cancer has infiltrated so
deeply, that it has started posing threat to human sanity. We may very
well say that society is getting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError">pornified</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rapidly and things that were unthinkable and repulsive are slowly gaining ground in dark alleys of human consciousness.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.constantinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ChildPorn.jpg" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ChildPorn.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" data-mce-src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEihyphenhyphen2r4q8SCS9cUo08D_hsflNzXqKrbiY6KBRct5VaFhnXFuW-N8OPQJPhui8MAewx6YZmWCwl_cir1QUXz4Cynvg8YNIpbXNmb7zBiBCTqBXSK6a582RvJnMY72g4a1XyhzyjIfcaXOoiPlOzrAPVkgVSpW_K9U29t5qEvJSwbPMdeItt0qci0mg=" src="http://www.constantinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ChildPorn.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a><span class="mceItemHidden" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Rape,
molestation and murder of children has become common occurrence. Child
porn that started in 1980's was immediately thwarted and it remained
silent for a decade. But with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden">later</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>widespread
internet usage, it grew as internet chat rooms, forums, social
networking sites all provided safe heaven for pedophiles and wannabe sex
offenders to get together and propagate their perversion.
<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not
just that, these people with sadistic intent are grooming children to
make them feel it is normal to have sex with grown up adults. As a
result many such videos depict children participating without any
resistance. Plus many children fall prey to forceful sex, whose videos
are also shot and widely distributed online.Both ways</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As
a natural process intended for procreation, love and family gets
MACABRE, human society is paying a heavy price and helplessly watching
morbid crimes. Such sick phenomena that originated in West has blown
over full-fledged to Eastern countries who in their ignorance and deep
reverence for western success, start believing that this might be all
right. But these backward nations are paying even larger price because
of lack of law enforcement.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://media.graytvinc.com/images/353*198/child+porn.mgn.jpg" href="http://media.graytvinc.com/images/353*198/child+porn.mgn.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" data-mce-src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgX7R0dAr6PlPyty6AwDEFXhDdyfVUt2ELS6kvJy7SLeWb2VsSMUeEzhrP1FsJpJ7_X-CNz-iSkwO00zupqOMz42XbEN80jnJgXwRPWAdQszdK5GeN4roenD_iL8QHECSsev7KRC5hfByIDR9Lki-1zAmUSXQgL_Ckamzvm=" src="http://media.graytvinc.com/images/353*198/child+porn.mgn.jpg" height="111" width="200" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">United
States might have largest number of perverts, serial killers and
lunatics where these people have become part of recent folklore but such
individual sickness is gaining momentum in Cambodia, Vietnam, China,
Middle East and India.</span></span><br />
<span class="mceItemHidden" data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Over past decade, India has witnessed cases where 2-10 year old kids<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenGrammarError">were raped</span></span>,
murdered and even their flesh eaten. One shudders even on hearing all
this. But unlike U.S, little to nothing happens in India with deterring
prosecution.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those
children who survive sexual assaults, get traumatized for the rest of
their lives. Unable to make sense of any of this, they suffer from low
self-esteem and turn to child abuse later in their lives.Most infamous
serial killers like Ted Bundy are testimony to this fact.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Internet porn has also blurred parent child relationships leading to rape by fathers, uncles and brothers in many cases.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Governments
world-wide have enacted tough laws on child pornography and few
countries like India and China have banned it all together. Muslim
countries in middle east have some of the toughest barbaric laws, where
possessing or distributing such material is punishable to death.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
think strictest of punishments are the only solution to this 21st
century global endemic, because internet porn is a large beast to tame
through softer humane laws.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">People’s
president, Nuclear-Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) Scientist,
Author of 17 books, Recipient of three of India’s highest civilian
awards – Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, and Bharat Ratna and man of
many facets, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Kalam a.k.a A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
On 27th July </span>2015,<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
completed his earthly journey and departed for eternity, leaving behind
grieving millions, forever bereft of his inspiration and guidance.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Born
into a poor family of wooden boat owner on the island of Rameswaram,
Tamil Nadu, India, sold newspapers as a kid to help his family. Kalam
was an average student like others of his age. But what set him apart
was his strong desire for learning, hard work and perseverance. A
dreamer of all sorts, he dreamt big and put his thoughts into action.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">His life was riddled with poverty, </span>failures<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
and numerous obstacles but he persevered and became hugely successful
as a scientist, president and humanitarian. Optimism was his DNA and
there was not even a speck of negativity in his words, deed or thought!</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He
can be quoted saying “Why be afraid of difficulties, sufferings and
problems? When troubles come, try to understand the relevance of your
sufferings. Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.”
This </span>is what personified<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Kalam and his own life stands testimony to this.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A man of humble stature who dreamt big and inspired a nation to do so, brought India into </span>top<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> league of nations in nuclear science, space and defense research.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
man of frugal living and high thinking, Kalam shunned power and
aristocracy. His compassion transcended communal, class and social
divides. A country where corruption and loot is a pride, Kalam didn’t
even own a house. After leaving office as President, he rendered himself
to teaching at the finest institutions in India. He loved to inspire </span>youth<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of this nation and also breathed his last at a lecture in Indian Institute of Management, Shillong.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of his famous quotes goes by “<em><strong>I have no belongings in the worldly sense. I have acquired nothing, built nothing, possess nothing—no family, sons, daughters.”</strong></em>”</span><br />
Subsequent<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
outpouring of grief not just within India but among world leaders from
over a dozen nations from Russia, America, Canada, Middle East and Asia
proves the world felt deprived of a great soul not just a genius
scientist and leader. Rest in Peace Sir, Abdul Kalam. You were a beacon
of light and forever are for countless Indians in life and
thereafter…….. <a data-mce-href="http://indianairforce.nic.in/" href="http://indianairforce.nic.in/"><img alt="Kalam-Modi" class="alignnone wp-image-350" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prime_Minister_Narendra_Modi_pays_homage_to_former_President_APJ_Abdul_Kalam.jpg" height="185" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prime_Minister_Narendra_Modi_pays_homage_to_former_President_APJ_Abdul_Kalam.jpg" width="279" /></a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em><strong>We
are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give
wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.” –
A.PJ. Abdul Kalam.</strong></em></span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-18070099135626113792016-04-14T03:15:00.003-07:002016-04-14T03:15:35.878-07:00Why should German cars and suv's be banned in India ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Let’s
start with the fact that India is a developing nation where millions
live in abject poverty. India's GDP might have risen greatly over the
past few decades and </span>average<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> wealth of an Indian might have increased 3.5 times, but that doesn't make India a rich country.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">70%
of Indian population lives in rural areas and out of the remaining
living in Urban India 17% live in a slum. That amounts to a humongous 68
million; which is even bigger than entire populations of many European
countries.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Now let’s look at hunger statistics (http://www.indiafoodbanking.org/hunger):</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">India is home to the largest undernourished and hungry population in the world</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1/6th of our population is undernourished</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">190 million people go hungry every day.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Can
we still say that India is a rich country or on its way to becoming one
and that our population is our asset? Can hungry/malnourished people
ever be an asset to any nation?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thus, India is largely poor even if it might have achieved tremendous strides on technology, education, and business fronts.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Now let’s come to the point. With the dawn of new economy, many Indians are now able to afford the luxury, that was </span>earlier<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
only domain of the uber rich & famous. India’s luxury car market
has risen more than 10 times over the past decade. And so has </span>spate<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of </span>high speed<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
drunk driving, hit and run cases increased. And in a country like INDIA
with high corruption Index, most of these fat (rich) beasts succeed in
delaying the trial by months even years and finally reducing their
sentences largely.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Following are a brief timeline of hit and run cases of a nation aspiring to be an economic superpower:</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1999:
The first time I heard of a BMW hit and run. That time India was
beginning to taste luxury car market and a BMW car used to be </span>talk<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> of the town.</span><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">This case of ****** Sanjeev Nanda studying in </span></span>USA<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
happened to be on vacation in Delhi. Son of a Bitch after a late night
binge with friends and driving home ran over a police picket. The impact
was so severe that body parts of many policemen were strewn on the
streets. Rascal Nanda got out of the car and instead of showing any
compassion to few survivors at the gory scene fled the spot and later
washed the car of blood stains. 14 years of trial and walks a free man
with just 2 years in jail making a mockery of the Indian judiciary. What
a terrible insult on injury for the families of victims.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2002: The most </span>high profile<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of all, Bollywood /movie star Salman Khan, mows down 5 people at Bandra, Mumbai. After years of </span>trial<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
was acquitted by Bombay High Court in 2015. Subsequently the acquittal
challenged by the state govt. and now the case is in Supreme Court of
India.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="download" class="alignnone wp-image-266" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/download.jpg" height="171" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/download.jpg" width="300" /></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">2006:
Alistair Pereira runs over his SUV on 15 construction workers sleeping
on a pavement at Carter road, Mumbai and kills 7 of them. Walks away
with just 3 years imprisonment.</span><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">2015: <a data-mce-href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/popup/2015/6/1206pg04-mumbai-pics2.jpg" href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/popup/2015/6/1206pg04-mumbai-pics2.jpg">Janhavi</a></span><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/popup/2015/6/1206pg04-mumbai-pics2.jpg" href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/popup/2015/6/1206pg04-mumbai-pics2.jpg"> Audi crash</a>.
This is the case of a female corporate lawyeGadkar working as legal
Vice-President of Reliance Industries (one of India’s largest
corporations). Bitch after getting drunk 3 times the permissible limit
at a corporate party; hit the road in her brand new Audi car and kept
driving on the wrong side at high speed with blaring music. Until she
rammed into a small Alto car with a family inside who were returning
after a little celebration </span>for their<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">
son scoring 90% in college exams. 2 members and the driver were killed.
The high profile corporate bitch robbed a family of their genuine
little joy. While the Alto car was reduced to a pulp, the evil Bitch was
safely cocooned inside the airbag of Audi, absolutely unscathed. Here’s
photograph from the crash site.</span></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Similarities
in all the four cases cited above are all these culprits were on the
wheels of luxury cars/SUVs after getting drunk at late night parties.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In
a country still reeling under a spell of overpopulation, poverty, crime
and hunger; luxury cars and SUVs are a mega mockery. Those ignorant,
foolish Indians who ogle at these ugly luxury toys plying the streets,
while taking pride that India is on the road to greater prosperity
should do a reality check instead. Those days of my childhood when the
only car on the streets were the legendary Ambassador or Maruti 800
such incidents were unheard of.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So
are these Cars to be blamed? The answer is a big NO. Rather weak
judiciary delivering near to nonexistent justice, Indian infrastructure
and government’s failure in checking exploding population growth
(resulting in unspeakable poverty and homelessness).</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lastly, these Luxury cars are a grim reflection of rich-poor divide which is ever widening D:<</span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-477805082816172692016-04-14T03:15:00.000-07:002016-04-14T03:15:06.058-07:00Marriage: A looming threat to planetary well being.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Let's
start by saying that this institution of marriage has turned into a
nonsensical farce. It might not have been a hundred or thousand years
back but today it definitely is.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Before we delve any further we need to have a closer look at human evolution and at which point did this social farce creep in.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As
we all know that humans evolved from apes approximately 2.8 million
years ago and spread throughout Asia & Europe around 1.3 million
years ago. All these years humans had been hunter/food gatherers, in
which males got sex from females in exchange for food and the kids were
tended by the mother solely. Polygamy without any commitment was the
order of the day in those times. But with the invention of agriculture
some 10,000 years back, humans started settling down into small agrarian
communities.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">This heralded a new era in human evolution as it gave birth to culture, religion, arts and sciences of various kinds. </span>Thus<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> ownership of land, property and families began. As society evolved, </span>institution<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> of marriage was established to ensure smooth governance of families. </span>By and large<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> it was invented to regulate primeval sexual instincts in </span>man woman<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> relationship into a social order for common good. <strong>Still the underlying reasons were the same SEX and FOOD. </strong></span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">But over the past hundred </span>years<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">
drastic changes have occurred in technological, social and
environmental fronts which have rendered marriage largely unnecessary
and in some cases disastrous!</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Unnecessary
because women have grown economically independent of men and feminist
movements have been generated to establish women rights. This has only
bloated female ego resulting in ego clashes inside </span>household<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">, ultimately ending in divorce. Divorce has meant double tragedy for </span>man<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> because he parts with his property as well as kids.</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Feminism has meant humongous social tragedy because kids from single parent households as have become a norm in </span>US<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">
and now gaining momentum in India, grow up into emotionally unstable
insecure adults. Need I say the most infamous serial killers came from
single parent households.</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Apart from social aspects, let’s focus on environmental impact of marriage. From an Indian </span>context<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> I may humbly say that marriage is posing a major catastrophe for </span>survival<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> of our planet, even greater than nuclear armament or world war. It’s easy to figure out why. </span>Answer<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> is <strong>OVERPOPULATION</strong>(check my article here: <a data-mce-href="http://etherealinsights.blogspot.in/2012/08/menace-of-over-population-has-always.html" href="http://etherealinsights.blogspot.in/2012/08/menace-of-over-population-has-always.html">http://etherealinsights.blogspot.in/2012/08/menace-of-over-population-has-always.html</a>).<strong> </strong>In India being single is a social taboo and marriage is a compulsion of sorts. And the moment marriage happens, </span>instant<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> countdown for reproducing kids begin. Adding fuel to this outdated social custom is </span>fetish<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">
for a male child which ultimately leads to numerous child births until
the birth of a male child. Most people including the learned, aware
masses take great joy in all this farce without taking cognizance of the
threat overpopulation is posing to the planet.</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In
a country like India where people are swarming like insects everywhere,
marriage is bound to be rebuked by the thinking people. With population
increasing at galloping speed, a major tragedy is underway in few
years, when nature would cull half the masses by unpleasant means...</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">So no marriage means no compulsion to have kids which </span>is<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> also good for the planet. </span>Thus<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> we may safely conclude that marriage can be done away with for common good as it has lost its purpose.</span></span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-53193927368429396112016-04-14T03:13:00.002-07:002016-04-14T03:13:18.556-07:00Myopic Humans!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Let’s
confess that we humans are very myopic. Our everyday activities are
indicative of this myopia. We have evolved into such a demoniac species
who have devoured the planet - wildlife, trees, rivers- and just
everything under the sun. We just fail to see that all life is
interconnected and we just can’t afford to isolate ourselves and live
well.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">But </span>unfortunately<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
that’s the way we have turned out to be. Most of our institutions
including business, education, religion and customs are all human
centered with scant regards for their planetary repercussions. </span>Most<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
scary example would be that of stock markets. Jesus! If our planet is
destined to be doomed, these evil institutions are at the forefront.
They fuel insatiable greed for profits at any cost. The planet and
people go to hell.</span><br />
By the way<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
what these profits are? They are a mere man-made definition of wealth
generation by exploitation. Exploitation of resources, people and
everything. By ravaging the planet are we generating wealth or creating
mass poverty with few deep pockets of wealth. This is resulting in
poverty induced terrorism, social unrest, and pollution induced natural
calamities. But our myopia is preventing us </span>to see the larger picture<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Now
let’s come to social myopia. We humans have infested this planet while
on the other hand thousands of species have and are going extinct every
second. Damn it!! We are more than 7 billion and still counting at an
ever increasing speed.(<a data-mce-href="http://www.worldometers.info/world-population" href="http://www.worldometers.info/world-population">http://www.worldometers.info/world-population</a>)
Was I wrong in saying that we have infested this planet like maggots?
In India which is on its way of becoming the post populous country,
marriage is almost a compulsory social norm. And if someone stays single
everyone around him/her worries if people don’t marry what would happen
to </span>human<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
race? Jesus Holy Christ!! This is myopia in its extreme. These fools
simply don’t acknowledge that surge in human population and their
activities have resulted in </span>extinction<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of innumerable species and vast swathes of forests.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">I will end this with pessimistic prediction, that we won’t take back foot or reverse our gear. </span>Finally,<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">
mother nature would balance things out through a major cataclysm. This
won’t be pleasant for sure but most of the myopic population would be
extinct with their eyes wide open!!</span></span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-39684773909690341672016-04-14T03:12:00.000-07:002016-04-14T03:12:02.434-07:00Poem - Enticing rains.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a data-mce-href="http://www.budapest.com" href="http://www.budapest.com/"><img alt="Budapest Rains" class="wp-image-46 size-medium" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rains-Budapest-300x225.jpg" height="225" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rains-Budapest-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a></dt>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beautiful rains have finally arrived as they pour with all their vigor & splendor,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instead of dancing with joy, my heart sinks in sorrow.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As my brows brood into a furrow,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I wonder how long the rain would last…</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">for the climate change wrought in by man,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">has wrecked havoc, as unseasonal rains now bring menace instead of exuberance.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As trees get slain and the poor butchered,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mother earth remains deeply annoyed but sobered.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Would man’s insatiable greed ever halt?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For if it goes unprecedented, how long would mother nature last.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And how long would the rains last….</span><br />
Thus,<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> as I brood I remain aghast!</span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-7668634987097924042016-04-14T03:10:00.003-07:002016-04-14T03:10:42.679-07:00Bane of consumerism!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>The Bane of consumerism! >></strong> Let's start by addressing consumerism as </span>crack<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
cocaine of modern civilization and equally a bane as well. We as humans
or thinking beings have been enslaved by smart marketers and their
corporate agendas to the extent that we have surrendered our reasoning,
intellect and everything that sets us apart in the animal kingdom to
them.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Consider
an average day and keep count of the no. of ads in a pocket diary or a
tablet that are bombarded on our fragile mind through various
mediums(TV, Newspapers, Internet, Hoardings, Billboards). The figures
would surely amount to tens of dozens and the havoc they must be
wrecking on an individual's mind.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Most
of these ads serve just one purpose. It's not tapping into an
underlying need but to create wants that are absolutely unnecessary. In
the process humans turn into zombies dancing to the tunes of
advertisers/puppeteers. This disease afflicts us to such an extent that
one starts thinking the only way to stay happy and abreast with society
is by possessing as much material objects as one can.</span></div>
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Society<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">
also starts respecting the one who has maximum possessions to flaunt.
The more, the higher respect one commands in social jungle of </span>apes<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> under </span></span>garb<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of human skin. </span>Line<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> between needs and wants start obliterating as wants somehow occupy their place as needs in our subconscious.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Insatiable
greed takes center stage in our lives as everything else takes a
backseat. Broken households, mental illnesses, high crime rates,
lifestyle diseases, </span>surge<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
in suicide rates in developed and developing economies are a fallout of
consumerism as we start identifying ourselves more with inanimate
objects and less with lively things. Let em be relationships, nature,
wildlife and everything that encompasses life in general. That's when
life itself is reduced from a spectacle to mere spectre that keeps
haunting us.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Consumerism is so sly that it takes us on a ride of buying perversion without we even being </span>aware about<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
it. As we keep emptying our wallets and our soul into corporate
coffers, our inner void keeps on increasing thus blurring our sense of </span>well being<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. Happiness turns ever elusive as nothing satiates insatiable </span>wants planted<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> inside.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Shouldn't
we as thoughtful creatures delve inside, stop being guinea pigs and
start caring for mundane yet priceless things designed by
nature/evolution that indeed define human happiness!!</span></div>
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-21464445018418779972016-04-14T03:10:00.000-07:002016-04-14T03:10:13.593-07:00Poem - Lonely Cuckoo in Urban Jungle.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<pre><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This poem was born out of my pain for that lonely cuckoo who would give me company during morning 5 O'clock Pranayam(Meditation) on the roof-top.</span></pre>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lonely cuckoo in urban jungle,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Singing songs of melancholy,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Missing its flock and their sonority,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For those days when morning air would reverberate with their melody.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is a far cry now as urban honk fills the air,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Neither can it find its groove nor its mates to pair.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Still perched on the high rise, hoping for a real jungle,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where it might dance with the clouds and sing with flair...</span></div>
satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-55937240982914144182016-04-14T03:07:00.000-07:002016-04-14T03:07:24.116-07:00Poem on Enigmatic Europe..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="Turkish Airways" class="size-medium wp-image-460" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/18072010674-300x225.jpg" height="225" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/18072010674-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><em><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The
following poem was composed on a Turkish Airways return flight from
Paris to Mumbai, is based on my impressions of the European cities I had
explored: </span></em></strong></span><br />
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a data-mce-href="http://www.lifenlivin.com/enigmatic-europe-poem/" href="http://www.lifenlivin.com/enigmatic-europe-poem/"><img alt="Prague Castle" class="wp-image-441 size-medium" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DSC00582-300x225.jpg" height="225" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DSC00582-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;">Prague Castle, Czech Republic</span></dd></dl>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wandering down those eerie streets on a chilly night,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hunting for a shelter cozy and tight. </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Seems like an elusive seductress exuding ghostly aura,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As I gasp in awe, at the splendour of <strong>Praha (Prague).</strong><strong><br /> </strong></span><br />
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;">Venice, Italy</span></dd></dl>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">City by the sea under sun,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Of gondolas, canals, frolic and fun.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Feels so warm and nice,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In this timeless city of <strong>Venice.</strong></span><br />
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;">Munich, Germany</span></dd></dl>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Iconic city of German engineering,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Running seamlessly like a </span>fine<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> tuned machine.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crown of Bavaria with BMW its jewel,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Where time is god and punctuality practised as religion,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So perfect, clean and green, that am in love with <strong>Muenchen.</strong></span><br />
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;">Amsterdam Harbor, Netherlands</span></dd></dl>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Air heavy with smoke of dope,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Harbour bellowing with ship horns,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Red light district oozing in exuberance with booze flowing on its streets.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Beguiling and teasing,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bicycling paradise and fun Mecca.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So tolerant, cosmopolitan and liberal,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">That night ambience feels surreal while biking in <strong>Amsterdam.</strong></span><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong><br /> </strong><strong><br /> </strong></span></span><br />
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;">North Zurich Lake, Zurich, Switzerland</span></dd></dl>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Picturesque city by the lake,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With fancy cars plying its streets and splendid mansions dotting skyline,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sitting on piles of riches and so expensive that I deride,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thank God, it doesn’t cost to breathe in <strong>Zurich</strong>!</span><br />
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a data-mce-href="http://www.lifenlivin.com/enigmatic-europe-poem/" href="http://www.lifenlivin.com/enigmatic-europe-poem/"><img alt="Roman Colosseum, Rome, Italy" class="wp-image-446 size-medium" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DSC01227-300x225.jpg" height="225" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DSC01227-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;">Roman Colosseum, Rome, Italy</span></dd></dl>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Epitome of Roman wealth and might,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">With the </span>colosseum<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> as its icon of indulgence,</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">That had taken away its upright prudence.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">History drips in the city of <strong>Rome.</strong></span><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Paradise of music and museums,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An art lover’s manna,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is enchanting <strong>Vienna.</strong></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So ancient and captivating,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Its Pizzas delicious, mouth watering,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">And glancing at it from the </span>top<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> of the fuming <strong>Mount Vesuvius</strong> is enthralling.</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With the ruins of <strong>Pompeii</strong> beside,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For <strong>Naples,</strong> my heart starts praying,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To save it from the Mount’s furor and might.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Has gotten better by getting rid of its dreary past relating to Hitler,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Democracy all pervasive with people so helping and friendly,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">That one wonders this was once world war epicenter.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Change is what <strong>Berlin</strong> means.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Split into two by the mighty River Danube,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Emerging out of communist past while thriving in the </span>modern<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> present.</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Landscape that is mesmerizing and riveting,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A city so welcoming and caring.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">That it feels like home in <strong>Budapest.</strong></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sparkling metropolis teeming with life,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Pride of France and cradle of the </span>renaissance<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Victim of its own success, fast losing its sheen,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With illegal immigration on the rise.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eiffel tower standing tall and watching it all in stoic silence,</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">while Gustavo Eiffel is shedding </span>tear<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and turning in his grave.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">WHO SUFFOCATED WITHIN THE CONFINES OF MARRIAGE.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">WHO COULDN'T AFFORD TO SLITHER IN MARITAL SWAMP.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MAYBE I AM THAT IMPULSIVE OCTANE,</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">WHO FAILED TO BE INERT HELIUM IN THE LAB OF MARRIAGE.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MAYBE AM TOO HONEST TO MYSELF,</span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">TO FOOL AROUND THE OPPOSITE SEX.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /> </span><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">BUT surely I am brave enough to disregard social diktats and live life on my terms in my turf.....</span></span></div>
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-67816713759623789612016-03-28T22:15:00.003-07:002016-03-28T22:15:38.670-07:00Beware of Pervert Elders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Disclaimer: </strong>This
article is not meant to vilify elders but to bring awareness in not
blindly obliging them just because of their old age. There are
undoubtedly few elders who are exceptions to this rule.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Indian
elders have always been revered like demi- Gods. Perhaps because such
values get inculcated in early childhood or perhaps such cultural norms
have existed since time immemorial, nonadherence to which would most
likely invite social ostracization. Nonetheless, that’s the way Indian
society has always been. Which is just fine.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">But
I have a problem here. My problem is the rampant abuse of this social
credo by these very elders. I am talking about sexual perversion amongst
oldies. There are off course exceptions but rising cases of sexual
infatuation in elders for young girls and boys is a cause of alarm which
largely remains hushed up and goes unreported. As someone who has
always questioned this status quo, I have been cast aside as a lunatic.
After all, who would want a rebel whose statements might make people
question this age old norm?</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://http://www.lifenlivin.com/" href="http://http//www.lifenlivin.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-467"><img alt="pervert elders" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-467" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/imagesq.jpg" height="249" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/imagesq.jpg" width="203" /></a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">But
thanks to the internet that I can now safely express myself now. I
don’t deny the fact that experience is the best teacher in the
University of Life and as one matures he/she tends to gather more of
life’s wisdom. This wisdom shared properly might be of tremendous help
to young masses who might be flummoxed at the crossroads of life. But
let me add a caveat that most humans fail to gather that coveted wisdom.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Since
most humans live unconsciously like a herd of cattle, they end up
wasting their human existence. All that happens as they age, that they
become a bundle of accumulated ignorance, whims and pent up desires. </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The
more their time continues to expire the more desperation breeds inside
to satiate their perversion. It might take the form of vulgar jokes with
young or angrily lashing out at others and in some extreme cases sexual
molestation and even murder.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Following are a few cases to prove my point:</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Old man booked for molesting a girl on a flight:</strong>
Few months back a businessman named Rabindra Jhunjhunwala of 62 on a
flight from Mumbai to Bhubaneswar was reprimanded at Bhubaneswar airport
after the flight landed. He had been constantly touching a young girl
throughout the 2hr flight seated in his front seat.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brave girl kept quiet through the ordeal but the moment flight landed, <a data-mce-href="http:// www.lifenlivin.com" href="http://%20www.lifenlivin.com/" rel="attachment wp-att-470"><img alt="Sexual molestation Indigo flight" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-470" data-mce-src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/images-1-300x168.jpg" height="168" src="http://www.lifenlivin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/images-1-300x168.jpg" width="300" /></a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">she hit back at the old man while recording it on her mobile and later files a case with the airport police.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here are the videos shot from her mobile (Worth watching!) </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD1XfpJZ338" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD1XfpJZ338" target="_blank"> Inside the flight </a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd57UDCn-aA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd57UDCn-aA" target="_blank">At airport waiting lounge publicly apologizing for hispervert act </a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Here's
another appalling case of a techie from Banagalore who endures sexual
abuse from her maternal uncle to educate herself as she was very poor,
that the uncle was paying for her education..</strong></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/crime/Techie-endures-sexual-abuse-by-uncle-only-to-educate-self/articleshow/46706373.cms" href="http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/crime/Techie-endures-sexual-abuse-by-uncle-only-to-educate-self/articleshow/46706373.cms">http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/crime/Techie-endures-sexual-abuse-by-uncle-only-to-educate-self/articleshow/46706373.cms</a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Retired army doctor held for chopping wife into 300 pieces. </strong>Bound
to send tremors down the devil's spine, this story is of Somnath Parida
who gets into an affair with a young girl to pep up his boring retired
life. The girl later starts blackmailing the doc for money to keep their
affair secret from his wife. Later wife suspects something hanky-panky,
upon which the butcher doctor slices her into 300 pieces and lives with
dismembered parts for days until his arrest.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/odisha-army-doctor-chops-wife-body-into-300-pieces/1/284761.html" href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/odisha-army-doctor-chops-wife-body-into-300-pieces/1/284761.html">http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/odisha-army-doctor-chops-wife-body-into-300-pieces/1/284761.html</a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This high profile case of Anuksha Shankar</strong>,
daughter of world-renowned Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar disclosed after
her father’s death that a close family friend had been molesting her for
years as a child. She couldn’t reveal this to anybody because her
family trusted him blindly.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2278240/Anoushka-Shankar-sexual-abuse-Ravis-daughter-breaks-silence-trauma-suffered-hands-family-friend.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2278240/Anoushka-Shankar-sexual-abuse-Ravis-daughter-breaks-silence-trauma-suffered-hands-family-friend.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2278240/Anoushka-Shankar-sexual-abuse-Ravis-daughter-breaks-silence-trauma-suffered-hands-family-friend.html</a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In yet another case a 82-year-old man rapes a 15 year old girl twice who also happens to be his relative. Unbelievable!!</strong></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-mce-href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/crime/shocking-82-year-old-man-rapes-teenage-girl/" href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/crime/shocking-82-year-old-man-rapes-teenage-girl/">http://indianexpress.com/article/india/crime/shocking-82-year-old-man-rapes-teenage-girl/</a></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I
can go on and on citing endless stories of elderly sexual perversion
that average young human mind can’t comprehend. My blood boils when I
see parents forcing kids to trust elders without consideration. </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Even
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan in his popular show “Satyameva Jayate(Let
truth triumph!)” had also prepared an episode on this topic.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Therefore,
we need to safeguard our children from elderly Sexual predators by
making them aware, instead of forcing them to blindly oblige everyone.</span></div>
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<span class="mceItemHidden"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />India: The ancient most civilization that has been a spiritual torch-bearer over millennia has also been overshadowed with evil spell of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-color: green; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">self proclaimed</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>god men for centuries. One common thread that ties all these god men are Sex and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-color: green; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Ill</span>gotten money. In recent days 2 such creatures<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/radhe-maa-accused-of-insulting-goddess-durga/1/458883.html" target="_blank"><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Radhe</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ma<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a> aka <span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span>Sukhvinder<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Kaur</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Sidhu</span> </span></span>of Mumbai and<a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/no-relief-for-odisha-godman-sarathi-baba-on-independence-day-sent-to-jail/" target="_blank"><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Sarathi</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Baba<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span>aka<span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Santosh</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Raula</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Odiaha</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are hugging news headlines.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com//images/2015/8/78263e79-775c-4ab3-aadc-983d43fefc55wallpaper1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.hindustantimes.com//images/2015/8/78263e79-775c-4ab3-aadc-983d43fefc55wallpaper1.jpg" height="113" style="border: 0px;" width="200" /></a><b><u><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Radhe</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ma:</span></u></b> Educated till 10th Std. gets married in adolescence and starts spiritual discourses. Moves into a rich Mumbai business family from her village in Punjab. Recently accused of impersonating revered Indian deities, dancing in fashionable clothes and obscenity with followers.</div>
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<b><u><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Sarathi</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Baba:</span></u></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was a much bigger parasite preying on impoverished people of a poor state (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odisha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Odisha</span></span></span></a>). This man a school dropout who claimed that he is God himself as reincarnation of supreme<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna" target="_blank"> Lord Krishna</a><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span> had his bogus empire to the tune of Crores of rupees. In a way he had close connivance with the corrupt state govt. He had money invested in Ponzi schemes, real estate as well as Sex and extortion rackets. Till he was busted after a photograph of him clad in blue denim and ray-ban glasses in a Hyderabad hotel with a girl surfaced; he was, indeed treated like God by illiterate masses of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Odisha</span></span>!!</span></div>
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<a href="http://media.newindianexpress.com/Sarathi-Baba.jpg/2015/08/17/article2978314.ece/binary/original/Sarathi%20Baba.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://media.newindianexpress.com/Sarathi-Baba.jpg/2015/08/17/article2978314.ece/binary/original/Sarathi%20Baba.jpg" height="200" style="border: 0px;" width="153" /></a>Subsequent public outrage ensued which the Government tried to hush with brute police force. Thanks to relentless investigation and broadcast by one news channel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.zeekalinga.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zee Kalinga,</a><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">baba</span></span>, police department and the state government were all brought to books. After Crime Branch investigation started, in no time lid blew open and accounts of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Sarathi's</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>misdeeds were oozing out. Baba's empire of deceit and fraud came crashing down. The fraud man <span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-color: green; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">was charged</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with multiple counts of Indian Penal Code and sent to prison.</span></div>
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Following are a list of his ill-gotten wealth uncovered in just 10 days:</div>
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<span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span>300 plots across<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Odisha</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and neighboring states.</span><br />
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10 crore rupees and still counting in 12 bank accounts.<br />
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3 large bungalows.<br />
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Dozens of luxury cars and buses.<br />
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Pounds of gold and silver.</div>
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<span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span>Remember all this in one of the poorest states of India(<span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Odisha</span></span>).</span></div>
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Last year another such old man named<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaram" target="_blank"><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Asaram</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">Bapu</span></span></a><span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-color: green; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">was jailed</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for raping minors at his ashram. Similarly the list is endless.</span></div>
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But all this fiasco raises one pertinent question, why India's serious obsession for such people? A land with rich spiritual heritage (science, arts, philosophy) are part of main stream culture, what could have gone wrong?</div>
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Answer is simple. Its miserable life of an average Indian. With a an ever-increasing population putting tremendous crunch on resources and infrastructure, rising unemployment, huge social/family expectations are all proving huge drain on citizen's mind.</div>
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<span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span>With little or no respite in sight, many seek escape in frivolous religious activities. Such masses easily fall prey to some preachy hypocrisy by a scoundrel parading as a guru. Thus only getting into vicious cycle multiplying their drudgery<span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">manyfold</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the end.</span></div>
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<span class="mceItemHidden"><span></span>This has always been and will continue<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom-color: green; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: default;">to be</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as these tetra headed monsters keep sprouting one after another, as miserable social living coupled with a long history of cultural superstitions keep providing fertile grounds for such men to flourish.</span></div>
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<b>HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY</b></div>
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-3735197764372381712012-09-06T13:21:00.003-07:002012-09-08T13:05:55.489-07:00Cola Wars in Europe, Pepsi Vs. Coke and how David wins over Goliath!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Global Cola market is more or less an Oligopoly market with two major players, Coca Cola and the other Pepsi. Smaller players have either surrendered to these juggernauts or have been simply ousted from their respective markets.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pepsi's rising status in late 1970s and 1980s: </span></b></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By 1976<b> </b>Coca Cola was faltering because of increased clout of Pepsi in US market when growth rate of Coke dropped from 13 percent to a meager 2 percent. Adding to Coca Cola's woes came the Pepsi challenge tests that showed a clear preference to Pepsi taste over Coke taste. Coca Cola in defense conducted it's own taste tests but alas it produced the same results of preference to Pepsi over Coke. By 1979, Pepsi was closing on the gaps faster by Coke leading with only 2.9 Percent over Pepsi whereas it was leading over Pepsi by 14 percent a decade before. What was baffling and worrisome to Coca Cola was it was outspending Pepsi in advertisement expenditures by $100 Million more while it's share was dwindling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this time of upheaval by 1980's Coca Cola was getting ready to welcome it's new head on board, Roberto Goizueta. Goizueta son a of a wealthy Cuban sugarcane plantation owner had studied at Yale university who mastered English by watching Hollywood movies in short span of time. With Fidel Castro seizing power in Cuba and advent of communism, Goizueta fled cuba with $20 in his pocket to the US in search of better fortune and found his niche in Coca Cola. He was to be the man who ushered in a new era for Coca Cola with his business acumen and proved a tough nut for Pepsi to deal with.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Introducing a New Flavor for Coke in 1980s: </span></b></h4>
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Despite superior advertising and distribution, Coca Cola's diminishing market share was intriguing. Taste was suspected to be the culprit and Coke was relaunched in the market in a much sweeter flavor to regain its hallowed lead over Pepsi. But such a desperate business decision backfired on Coca Cola with nationwide protests over such a Coca Cola decision with thousands of new protestors joining each day echoing similar sentiments of Coke ditching them and hurting the national sentiments with Coke sales plummeting further and cheering Pepsi all the way through. But Pepsi's gloat was short lived when Coca Cola alarmed with it's blunder made a smart turn around by launching the original Coke alongside the new flavour which helped it regain its popularity and it's sales soon soared! Coca Cola kept making heady progress till 1997 in international markets with Pepsi's market getting constantly eroded by a hard driving Coca Cola.</span><br />
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By 1997 the era of legendary Goizuerta was over and new chairman Douglas Ivester had taken over. In June health scares started spreading after Belgian children became sick after consuming contaminated Coke. Soon after hundreds of sick people in France were blaming their illnesses on Coke consumption. France imposed ban on Coke cans from Dunkirk plant in Belgium. Soon Germany and Luxembourg also imposed selective bans on Coca Cola products in their countries until health scare subsided. Some 14 million cases of Coke products eventually were recalled in the five countries, and estimates were that Coke was losing $3.4 million per day in revenues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally Coca Cola swung into action for an uphill task of clearing it's name of the contamination scares and rebuilding trust in European markets that involved a personal apology message from the new Chairman, a special consumer hotline, free 1.5 liter Coke distribution in 4.37 million households. By the time Coca Cola was getting over it's crisis a new problem started staring over it from Pepsi's side.</span><br />
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Pepsi had less than 10 percent share whereas Coca Cola was omnipresent with more than 50 percent share in Europe with the rest 40 percent share fragmented among many smaller players. Coca Cola was anyways ahead of Pepsi across the globe, not just Europe but here the difference was phenomenal and most importantly due to Coca Cola's interference in twisting consumer's tastes with its tactics.</span><br />
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Having stated that, the question arises how did Coca Cola manage to pull off this behemoth task at all? Well the answer lies in Pepsi's business diversification into snacks along with it's beverages, something that would make Pepsi bleed in the hands of Coca Cola in future.</span><br />
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Big fast food chains such as McDonalds, Burger King and Dominos offer Coca Cola exclusively. Whereas Pepsi's strong hold lied with it's formerly owned companies Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC.. Pepsi alleges that Coca Cola got Pepsi comletely eliminated through independent food service distributors to the former chains that by offering Pepsi they would only be helping their competitor. This gave Coca Cola unprecedented power to control prices and even eliminate competition all together. In past Coca Cola hadn't enforced such exclusive contracts but in 1997 owing to increased competition from Pepsi it asked these distributors to adhere to its terms or else they would be entirely cut off from Coca Cola supply. By then Coca Cola had been such a success with cult following that not obliging to Coca Cola's conditions would have proved detrimental to these fast food chains business. So they relented.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This sent jitters in Pepsi's top level management. As 90% of fountain business came from dispensers in fast food business, loosing out entirely to Coke didn't make much of a sense. Apart from this in bottled Cola market, Coke was way ahead of Pepsi in all but most markets. Therefore loosing out to Coke in fountain dispensing business sounded like death knell to Pepsi. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1999 and filing of Anti Trust Laws by Pepsi against Coca Cola in Europe:</span></b></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In late July 1999, European Union officials raided offices of Coca-Cola and its bottlers in four countries in Europe—Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Britain—on suspicions that the company used its dominant market position to shut out competitors. According to Pepsi, Coca Cola had adopted unfair trade practices to restrict reach of Pepsi to consumers through soda fountains and food chains. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This allegation from Pepsi came at a time when Coca-Cola was still trying to recover from the contamination problems, which was a cruel blow.</span><br />
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The major suspicion was that Coke was illegally using rebates to enhance its market share.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The several types of rebates under investigation were rebates on sales that boosted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coke’s market share at the expense of rivals, and rebates given to distributors who</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">agreed to sell the full range of Coke products or to stop buying from competitors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coca-Cola’s huge market share in most countries of Europe fed the concern.</span><br />
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Pepsi also filed a complaint with Italian regulators who were soon to act and discovered Coca Cola had violated anti trust laws by abusing its dominant position through rebates, bonus and discounts with retailers to entirely get rid of Pepsi in Italian market.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coke in the New Millennium:</span></b></h4>
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Coke cheered with growth rate of 18 percent between 1990 and 1997 till its growth rate fell to just 4 percent while Pepsi outperformed its ace rival in overall growth if not in Cola business!</span><br />
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With the dawn of the new century and increased health awareness, popularity of carbonated beverages were fizzling out. Pepsi so to say kept abreast with changing times with non carb drinks such as Tropicana juice, Gatorade sports drink, and Aquafina water which were billion-dollar beverage brands plus had its Frito-Lay Division with snack foods such as Lays, Doritos, and Baked Crunchy Cheetoswhile while Coca Cola was still firmly entrenched in Coke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>October,2004 and Pepsi wins over:</b> </span></h4>
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Finally after 5 years of probe the European Union arrived at a settlement that would result in Coca Cola change it's sales practices, end exlusivity agreements with food service distributors and allow competitors products in Coca Cola's refrigerators for up to 20% space, all of which had made Coca Cola acquire 50% of the gigantic 17 Billion Euro carbonated drinks market in Europe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adherence to these reforms would spare Coca Cola of any fines and further legal wranglings, that Coca Cola willingly accepted.</span><br />
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And Finally David wins over Golliath!</span><br />
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-22117991028958011662012-08-28T01:02:00.004-07:002012-08-29T07:54:14.381-07:00Menace of Over Population<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Menace of over population has always bothered me. On top of that religious encouragement by preaching children are gifts and messengers of a holy god, that population control is a sin plus government inaction irks me a lot.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOEyOMDoLm9-QFdlGdVgWnHtABz56Sd2eazSNl5DmoBDH2uWAg9HVzE4t0RUjh2LKF3G589KkcNxzLz_4K4iHX5WSEtW1R0st38o423RW6b5XZZ1e3P0YRxxT1vq4spE26E4SeEFfYw9hF/s1600/pp.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOEyOMDoLm9-QFdlGdVgWnHtABz56Sd2eazSNl5DmoBDH2uWAg9HVzE4t0RUjh2LKF3G589KkcNxzLz_4K4iHX5WSEtW1R0st38o423RW6b5XZZ1e3P0YRxxT1vq4spE26E4SeEFfYw9hF/s1600/pp.JPG" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The statistics are alarming. In just 200 Years there has been a phenomenal increase in population from 1 Billion in Year 1801 to more than 7 Billion in 2011. If that is not serious enough to ring alarm bells, then we are into some deep and very serious trouble!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Governments and Religious institutions have their agenda to propagate if the earth is over populated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lets have a closer look:</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><u><span style="background-color: white;">RELIGION:</span></u></b> </span>Now this is the greatest shit of all time. As man evolved from being a hunter gatherer to a social animal with the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago, he started settling down. This gave birth to the monster of ORGANISED religion. Stray practices that had always existed dating back to the lower paleolithic era of archaic homo sapiens started getting more organised and monstrous since within last 5000 years. Religious scripts from Egyptian pyramids are among the oldest ones discovered dating back to 2400 BCE.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All said, each religion competes with the other for world domination with population expansion of their stupid followers. There are 2 ways to accomplish this 1) Conversion 2) Procreation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ISLAM follows the 2nd approach mostly and the former through brute force (at least a few hundred years ago in India/Asia) and CHRISTIANITY is more into conversion through financial incentives and also to an extent uses the 2nd approach.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But both are against birth control. I remember a funny statement of the Pope sometime back during his visit to South Africa that Condoms are the real reasons for AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Can a man sound more hilarious and stupid??</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surprisingly the second most populated country India where I reside is a predominantly HINDU nation but Indians just love procreating at the slightest sexual recreation.Here HUMANS breed like MOSQUITOES. People swarm everywhere in this densely populated country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><b><u>GOVERNMENTS:</u></b> </span>Agenda is simple and short. More number of people meaning more poverty and illiteracy in third world. This would perpetuate more of social strife creating a fertile ground for politicians to deceive masses and earning votes would be much easy and cheap.(Sad that electoral politics is succeeding in a prosperous country like America and that explains why an environmentalist like Al Gore lost to a rogue oil tycoon Bush).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><u>Corruption index in densely populated countries barring very few exception<span style="background-color: white;">s </span></u></b><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>(Source: Wikipedia)</u></b><b><u>:</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">MEDICAL SCIENCE:</span></u></b> It's simple to understand that advancements in medical sciences along with being a BOON are also proving a BANE for mankind by completely eradicating many epidemics/pandemics that used to get rid of millions annually and increasing life expectancy at the same time. This is the greatest irony of recent times. Thus proving to be a contributor to endemic population growth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now lets face some hard facts and still if this is not alarming enough we as a species are doomed in deep filth:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Projections of population growth by 2050 is 9 billion while some estimates indicate it could touch 12 billion! Currently its growing at 74 million per year! India is major culprit being a major contributor along with few other African and Latin american nations. The parody is the whole nation was celebrating with pride recently that the 7Th Billion child was born in India while I was feeling ashamed. This I would say is national BUFFOONERY!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Living in a highly overpopulated country like INDIA, I cringe at the sight of overcrowded trains and buses. There's a long queue everywhere one goes. People people and people! Its a ocean of people here. Human life is so cheap now a days that I hardly find any difference between people swarming in a busy market or flies buzzing over a dump yard. I have seen people falling on tracks from running trains in MUMBAI because of fights jostling for space in seriously overcrowded compartments. In BANGALORE a man near my house was murdered for a gallon of water because the city reels under water scarcity for most parts of the year. Its the same city that was tagged as Garden City 40 Years back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But still INDIA celebrates it's overpopulation and hails it as an asset while corruption, scandals and sky high inflation have marred the political and economic landscape of this country. Recent Coal Gate scam which followed the 3G telecom scam amounts to a whooping <img alt="INR" height="10" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg/7px-Indian_Rupee_symbol.svg.png" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" width="7" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; white-space: nowrap;">1,060,000 </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Crore">crore</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; white-space: nowrap;"> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="United States dollar">US$</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; white-space: nowrap;">191.86 billion)!! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; white-space: nowrap;">This is mind boggling and sends me into a tizzy!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A UN report 2 years back indicated direct correlation between rise in starvation and rise in terrorism.Glance at this chilling article. <a href="http://www.cfr.org/africa/failed-states-world-terror/p4733">http://www.cfr.org/africa/failed-states-world-terror/p4733</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To sum up mankind is in dire straits and if urgent measures aren't taken for this population explosion we as a species are doomed. UN report 2070 figures are astounding at 12 Billion and it says then population growth would start stabilizing because of decrease in fertility rates. But in this present scenario do you think we would survive this population mayhem till 2070? You think and decide!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I gasp in awe, at the splendour of <b>Praha.<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So perfect, clean and green, that am in love with <b>Muenchen.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-21348789409127677872012-08-26T12:20:00.000-07:002012-08-26T12:20:45.445-07:00Best Bullshit Story of all time.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, you guessed it right. It's the same old Fuckin' RELIGION! What a fuck invented by mankind to FUCK itself UP! Divine gift of reasoning and logic that only man is gifted with in the Animal Kingdom somehow goes down in a religious gutter for the religious BIGOTS, who are nothing but super IDIOTS and can also be turned into beastly IDIOTS by their holy shitty god men to plunder and butcher their fellow men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now here are some goodies for you to relish if you happen to be an agnostic like me or even an atheist :</span><br />
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-6842999751127253752012-08-26T07:05:00.003-07:002012-09-11T12:25:58.916-07:00Pathetic Indian performance at the London Olympics.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pathetic performance of India at the Olympics should serve as a stark reminder of where does India stand in International sports arena! While we rejoice with pride and pomp in India winning Cricket world cup, the world might be pitying us </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the Olympics. As long as cricket mania doesn't subside amongst Indians, India is bound to score badly in Olympics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Olympics are the real barometer to measure sports mettle of a nation not cricket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘Cricket’ along with it’s stupid cousin ‘Bollywood(Indian Movie Industry)’ which are staple entertainment of Millions of Indians are indicative of the fact that India as a nation has very poor taste. Cricket is simply “Rubbing a HARD BALL against MALE BALLS before BOWLING” and Bollywood is “An actress running with her BALLS (oops! BOOBS) bouncing before KISSING a jackass actor” AND the crowd spins into EUPHORIA in both cases!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To quote George Bernard Shaw on cricket "Eleven fools are playing and eleven thousand fools are watching (Hundred Eleven Million Fools in case of India!)" How true because in the nation of it's birth (England), it has entirely lost luster but has gained cult following in third world banana republics like ours!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">India is yet to evolve and arrive...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile my Waving Salutes to Sushil, Saina, Mary, Gagan and Vijay who have real BALLS to ride against the wave and earn Olympics Pride on their own accord !!!!!!</span><br />
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-64610742005700877602012-08-26T06:58:00.002-07:002015-08-28T22:46:47.457-07:00Einstein Quote.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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satyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13669756663820097355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840466444058909096.post-49601694213783057942012-08-26T06:51:00.002-07:002015-08-17T08:28:00.715-07:00Coffee experience so unique!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Sipping on Irish Coffee in a Cafe Coffee Day but what's unique about this ordinary coffee outlet is the way it is situated overlooking a verdant hill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sipping on a hot coffee amidst clouds is heck of an experience!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This beats my earlier experience with a Star Bucks cappuccino on a shivery night in Munich, Germany while waiting for my train to Paris, France when a hot coffee made all the difference between sheer pleasure or stupendous torture..</span><br />
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