Fast-unto-death for Ganga

Environmental engineer and former IIT-Kanpur professor-turned-sadhu, Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand (formerly GD Agrawal), 81, has not eaten anything for three-and- a-half months. By the time this article will be published, it will be 107 days since he started a fast-unto-death at the Matri Sadan Ashram in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, to protest the damming and pollution of the Ganga.

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UGC relaxes entry rules for Foreign Educational Institutions

            First UGC said that only the top 500 world universities can enter into India..
Within few months, UGC says anyone can enter and sell degrees in India !!? 
What's next relaxation?! 

      Who cares for education?! 

         Government is busy with other critical issues...May be only the "MONEY" part of the education seems to be important for the HRD and the Government.. Not clear...

         Education is one among the priority sector for any Government. But here we are not able to provide better quality education to all. No matter it takes time.. 

         But the situation has further worsened after the privatization of higher education. No effective measure has been taken to curb the money makers in the name of private universities and colleges.

      To add to that now comes the FDI in education allowing everyone to enter into the Indian soil with not much quality regulations. 

   By nature we tend to get attracted by the high rise buildings and colour ful brochures rather than looking at the quality of education.  Here these foreign universities are now going to join hands with our own private universities who very well know how to tweak the systems..

   Here goes the link for more information on the recent amendments to the bill..

UGC relaxes entry rules for Foreign Educational Institutions
University Grants Commission (UGC) has dropped the condition that Foreign Educational Institutions (FEI) has to be ranked in the top 500 institutions in the world to enter into an academic collaboration with an Indian institution.

The India smoking laws

We know that US is the largest cigarette consuming country..
In 1970, in the US, President Nixon signed the law that placed warning labels on cigarettes and banned television advertisements for cigarettes. The last date that cigarette ads were permitted on TV was extended by a day, from December 31, 1970 to January 1, 1971 to allow the television networks one last cash windfall from cigarette advertising in the New Year’s Day football games.
U.S. cigarette manufacturers now make more money selling cigarettes to countries around the globe than they do selling to Americans.

It took almost 40 years for us to bring this law in India...

The Indian Poverty line

The Hindu cartoon on the Indian Poverty line Vs The Government officers Vs the politicians..

Beware of frauds-BBB-Top 10 Scams of the year 2011

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Top 10 Scams of 2011 [Infographic] compliments of Better Business Bureau

Comments on the Draft Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan of India

Rajendra K. Bera, Sunish Raj, Hiten Balsari

Full paper published on Dec 2011 in Journal of Social Science Research- -http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1968313&


We believe that higher education and creation and protection of intellectual property [IP] are critical for economic growth and are keen to know where the country is headed.

China, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, have all spent years building their education and R&D institutions and IP system in a planned manner. In India, the education system has been declining rapidly over the years and there is no robust IP system in place.

The critique also points to other areas to which the authors argue that Planning Commission has not given adequate focus. For instance, the need for job creation at the high end, such as positions for researchers, innovators and professors whose knowledge and skills now drive the global economy, and the need to retain and also attract back to the country high-caliber talent that has gone overseas.

Planning Commission has a “blind spot” toward the information technology sector. They contend that while this industry has put India on the global map by offering high salaries for low-tech jobs, it has “systematically siphoned off the top layer of the educated young population … thus depriving all other sectors of the economy in desperate need of talent.”

Religion and caste system

Nobody is born Christian or Hindu or Muslim... You are born as human. Like you inherit DNA from your parents, you are bound by the society to inherit the religion too. Religion is a tag, some may acknowledge it, some may un-tag it; some may just don't worry about it;Some may create a  business empire out of it.

The same thoughts applies to our caste system.

 Just because we are the advanced version of animal beings on this planet Earth, does it mean we should create all these tags and boundaries?

The Psychology of Color

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Fear the Aliens-Stephen Hawking Universe

Japanese commercial flying-cars

Please appreciate this Japanese invention of flying cars !-You got to give all the credit to such Japanese inventors!

 Keeping all the issues of today in mind - clogged air lanes, the 'green' lobby, fuel costs, etc, trust the Japanese to address all these issues in their own, unique way, all at once. The model shown here costs $5,000/-, about a third of the cost of a basic model Toyota Corolla and, for a single person, affords the speed of flying in urban areas.

The first batch of commercial 'flyingcars' (as they are called) are up for sale and even for test riding (if you are either good at these things or, fed up with life ).

Eswara Chandramouli Post- Private education in India

With the universities and colleges/affiliated colleges etc increasing left and right and then varirtes of subjects -it is time that the educationists pool their talents and find ways by which the imparting edu with values is more important than mere taking a degree in one subject or other.The attempt to bring Academic excelllence is the result of the quality of the teacher/teaching community and not because he is a son of the promoter of a private college/university or realted to him.eswaraa -pic that u see is me and my wife Vijaya under the the founder Harward at harward university when we jsut went inside to see the university(MIT and HArvard).(the universtiy even today is strict and the rules are clear on thes choice of professors etc with academic excellence.

Story of Ibexes

They(Ibexes ie equivalent of our mountain Goats) love going up the walls of the dam because they can eat the moss and lichen and then lick off the salt of the wall surfaces!That is the attraction!

 But an advise to these Goats (goat likes)-hi Goats -pl be assured that is not the way that you are designed by NAture to evolve -and there is no (natural)shrubs that grows in mountains ! so if you are licking that salt (because you like it!) you will pay the penalty too -yr next generation cant stand that climb etc due to the excessive salt(moss and lichen etc that grows in unnatural settings) intake ! Any way these goats wont listen and so solution (by the Naturalists!) is to take the few and rehabilitate them in its Natural settings!
P.Credit-Easwara Chandramouli








Do you see below these goats climbing the steep wall of the dam!

Wild life and Evolution

Preserve wild life-Dont destroy animals habitats-they are our behavioural models (as they are more consistant in exhibiting traits/behaviour!)and no wonder our ancestors divinised them and kept them near Gods -evolutionary scientists also say the aim of evolution is to create perfect human beings as ultimate model and are we allowing this to happen! As contrast see angry elephant posted!

Amazing Burma

AN AMAZING SCENE IN BURMA

What's so special about this?

• This is a

picture of a rock formation near a lake in Burma . The photo can only be

taken on a specific day once a year when the sun rays touch the rocks at

a certain angle.

• Tilt your head to the left and then look

at it again ….

Creative China

This transport bus model is from china.The bus is huge with a gap(width) at the bottom so large to enable small cars pass thro!- (while) the bus is moviing!). Optimizing the available resources for ever increasing population/traffic congestion.

Should India learn more from China than the west?

Chola Creativity

A stance that will promote creativity !!!

I saw in Discovery channel a programme on how Raja Raja Chozhan might have been motivated to construct the Brahagadeeswara temple and how the huge 36 tonnes rock might have been moved on the top of the temple vimhana etc.The narration was in Tamil. 

Seeing such creative programmes also opens the mind !

P.Credit-Easwara Chandramouli

Brand Bengal

We have many veterans (from our past !) who live beyond body and they live for ever - and they exist for ever ! Please see the RBI's launch of the new 150 rupees coin celebrating the occasion of Shri Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary. Launched the 150 Rupee coin in the memory of Nobel Winner Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Newly launched coin is about 40 mm in diameter and It's weighs is about 35 grams. The 150 Rupee coin contain Rabindranath Tagore's image on one side and on another side it will contain the image of Ashok Stambha.

 BENGAL has produced many veterans like Sri Ramakrishna,Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo etc and may we all remain blessed to have more such veterans in the future too not only from BENGAL but from our Nation as well as from the entire Globe ! P.Credit-Eswara Chandramouli

China's High-Speed Trains

This photo taken on June 27, 2011 shows a high-speed train preparing to leave the railway station in Beijing for a trial run to Shanghai. A top railway official tried on June 27 to ease safety concerns over the key high-speed rail link between Beijing and Shanghai, just three days ahead of the line's much-anticipated official launch

P.Credit -Easwara Chandramouli

Tokyo Skytree- Tokyo Towers

Tokyo Sky Tree  at 2,080 feet, this tower will be the world’s tallest when it opens in the spring 2012 , according to guinness World records. Tokyo Skytree stands 111 feet above the current record holder,China’s Canton tower, and is designed to with stand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake.The building will function as a broadcast tower and tourist attraction, with two observation decks and an enclosed walkway with a360-degree view of  Tokyo.
JWT Trends-

Turn your Plastic waste into oil

Fuel From  waste plastic - New technologies make it possible to convert used plastics—such as nonrecyclable grocery store bags and e-waste—back into oil, a process that several companies will commercialize in 2012. not only does this keep plastics out of landfills, it’s also cheaper to produce than traditional oil. “It seems almost like science fiction, but the technology is now here,” says Greg Wilkinson of environmental consulting firm Third Oak associates. Virgin Atlantic plans to test synthetic fuel derived from steel mills’industrial waste. JWT-Trends for 2012