Monday 31 August 2015

Must See - The Other Side of India

In the western media, we often see only one type of Indian image. Crowded, dirty and polluted. The pictures would be often taken from random sewage canals and slums. The problem is that those underbellies exist in every part of the world.

This is not to deny that Shanghai and other great world cities have nicer infrastructure than the Indian metropolises. It is just that we are seeing things in binary instead of shades of gray. Indian cities sure have more than their share of dirtiness. Those are the reality and so are the ones below. The problem is that if only one type of pictures are shown it totally distorts the reality. Here is the other side.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mumbai skyline:


Driving through Mumbai's marine drive.


A few kilometers north, Bandra-Worli sealink that connects traditional Mumbai city with its suburbs:

 


The new Mumbai airport & its environs


The serene Sabarmati river running through Ahmedabad


Jaipur: The land of palaces - now getting modern


The heart of Bengaluru: Vidhan Soudha


Mysore: Bangalore's royal cousin



Heart of New Delhi during the parade


The sparkling clean Delhi metro


Heart of Chennai in lush greenery


Chennai's iconic Marina beach


Chennai's southern skyline - not as good as other Indian metropolis but getting better


Kochi's aspirations to enter as a Tier-1 Metropolis


Hyderabad center around the Char Minar


Rapidly growing skyline of Hyderabad:



Kolkata - the old capital of India



Kolkata's Vidaysagar Setu


Heart of India's former summer capital - Shimla


Gangtok: The serene northeastern city



Jodhpur: India's blue city


Chennai's Anna Memorial


New Delhi's Lotus Temple to rival the Taj


The Yamuna Expressway to Agra.


New 8-laned expressways of Hyderabad


Nashik city :


Chennai's Kathipara junction


India's new highways.


India is moving. Not one or two cities, but the whole nation. By not looking at the pictures above we get the distorted view that India is not progressing. If a media house shows a picture of New York, which of the following would they normally use?
 



Both of them exist in the same city, but we use only one of those pictures as representative. Same for most cities in the world. However, when it comes to the Indian cities, we take only the negative images as default art to portray and that is a travesty to people who are working to build the country. Let's be fair in representing cities of the world as that impacts investments and poverty alleviation. Romantic skylines for one city and a dirty sewer for the other city is not fair.

We need to be real. But, that doesn't mean dwelling in pessimism.

What poetry has to do with math | The Indian Express

What poetry has to do with math | The Indian Express

Shiekh's toilet..... what a shit.....

RELIEVING YOUR BOWELS AND BLADDER IN AFFLUENCE..

From the album of a sick ShiekH in Saudi Arabia.It is believed that this toilet costs USD 5 million + and is insured by an unnamed Insurance company. D I S G U S T I N G.








Sunday 30 August 2015

HIRABAI BARODEKAR- Photo Documentary by NISHIKANT BARODEKAR

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/rIVOVfXxVKQ

Smoke and Fire...The Cameron Air Show ...2014

This doesn't border on crazy, it is crazy!  Air Show in Cameron, MO.
Hold on to your desk chair, best viewed full screen with a HD monitor.
This one is waaaay more than just an airshow!!! GOOD as it gets !!!

Wednesday 26 August 2015

Property left behind by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (Former President of India)

Property left behind by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (Former Presdent of India)                                 
The property left behind by Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam:.

He owned
6 pants(2 DRDO uniforms)
4 shirts(2 DRDO uniforms)
3 suits (1 western, 2 Indian)
2500 books
1 flat (which he has donated)
1 Padmashri
1 Padmabhushan
1 Bharat Ratna
16 doctorates
1 website
1 twitter account
1 email id

He didn't have any TV, AC, car, jewellery, shares, land or bank balance.

He had even donated the last 8 years' pension towards the development of his village.

He was a real patriot and true Indian.... Person with folded handsPerson with folded handsThumbs up sign...

India will for ever be grateful to you, sir..

Is there any politician to compare with him?

Tuesday 25 August 2015

QUOTES ON ISLAM BY EMINENT INDIANS WHICH CONGRESS PARTY IGNORED

VERY EMINENT INDIANS SPOKE THEIR HEART OUT BUT CONGRESS PARTY NEVER LISTENED…

QUOTES ON ISLAM BY EMINENT INDIANS

Rabindranath Tagore
A very important factor which is making it almost impossible for Hindu-Muslim unity to become an accomplished fact is that the Muslims cannot confine their patriotism to any one country. I had frankly asked many Muslims whether, in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbors to defend their common motherland, I was not satisfied with the reply I got from them.
Rabindranath Tagore

We want to draw a veil over our past to appease the Muslims…. We have done it for a long time. It is time we lift the veil from our eyes.
Lala Lajpat Rai
I have devoted most of my time during the last six months to the study of Muslim History and Muslim Law and I am inclined to think that Hindu-Muslim unity is neither possible not practicable… I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity and desirability of Hindi-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the Muslim leaders,
but what about the injunctions of the Koran and Hadis. The leaders cannot override them.

Sarat Chandra Chatterj
i

If we go by the lessons of history we have to accept that the goal of the Hindu-Muslim unity is a mirage. When Muslims first entered India, they looted the country, destroyed the temples, broke the idols, raped the women and heaped innumerable indignities on the people of this country. Today it appears that such noxious behavior has entered the bone marrow of Muslims. Unity can be achieved among equals…. I am of the view that Hindu-Muslim unity, which could not be achieved during the last thousand years, will not materialize during the ensuing thousand years.

Annie Besant (The founder of the Congress Party)

The inner Muslim feeling of hatred against ‘unbelievers’ has spring up naked and unashamed…. We have seen, revived, as guide in practical politics, the old Muslim religion of the sword…. In thinking of an independent India, the menace of Mohammedan rule has to be considered.

Sri Aurobindo

I am sorry they are making a fetish of this Hindu-Muslim unity. It is no use ignoring facts; some day the Hindus may have to fight the Muslims and they must prepare for it. Hindu–Muslim unity should not mean the subjection of the Hindus. Every time the mildness of the Hindu has given way to barbarism of Islam. The best solution would be to allow the Hindus to organize themselves and the Hindu-Muslim unity would take care of itself, it would automatically solve the problem.
Sri Aurobindo
You can live amicably with a religion whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to live with a religion whose principle is ‘I will not tolerate’? You cannot build unity on such basis. Perhaps the only way of making the Mohammedans harmless is to make them lose their faith in their religion.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
To talk about Hindu-Muslim unity from a thousand platforms or to give it blazoning headlines is to perpetrate an illusion whose cloudily structure dissolves itself at the exchange of brickbats and desecration of tombs and temples….Nothing I could say can so well show the futility of Hindu-Muslim unity. Hindu-Muslim unity up to now was at least in sight although it was like a mirage. Today it is out of sight and also out of mind.
Dr.B.R. Ambedkar
The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt, slavery and enmity.
Ram Swarup
Religious harmony is a desirable thing. But it takes two to play the game. Unfortunately such a sentiment holds no position in Islamic theology.

Shiv Prasad Roy

Pakistan and Bangladesh are their fixed deposits. Those are Islamic states. No one else can lay claim on them. India is a joint account. Plunder it as much as you please.
Francois Gautier
This is a profession of faith of a Muslim: ‘I certify that there is no God other than Allah, of whom Mohammed is the only prophet’, which means in effect: After and before Mohammed, there is nobody else…’Thus the whole religion of Islam is based on negation: nobody but us, no other religion but ours’. And if you disagree, you shall die. This puts a serious limitation to tolerance and from this strong belief sprang all the horrors of the Muslim invasion of India.
Francois Gautier
Let it be said right away: the massacres perpetrated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese in early days of America.
Will Durant
The Mohammedan conquest of India was probably the bloodiest story in history.
Alain Danielou
From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions.

Rizwan Salim

Their minds filled with venom against the idol-worshippers of Hindustan, the Muslims destroyed a large number of ancient Hindu temples. This is a historical fact, mentioned by Muslim chronicles and others of the time.
Rizwan Salim
Savages at a very low level of civilization and no culture worth the name, from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women..…..
 But many Indians still do not seem to recognize that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the earth’s most mentally advanced civilization, the most richly imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.
Irfan Husain
The Muslim heroes who figure larger than life in our history books committed many dreadful crimes. Mahmud of Ghazni, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak, Balban, Mohammed bin Qasim, and Sultan Mohammad Tughlak, all have blood-stained hands that the passage of years has not cleansed. Indeed, the presence of Muslim historians on their various campaigns has ensured that the memory of their deeds will live long after they were buried…..Seen through Hindu eyes, the Muslim invasion of their homeland was an unmitigated disaster.

Dr. Younis Shaikh

….eighty million were slaughtered and millions of women were raped…..it was standard practice for Islamic warlords like Ghori and Ghazni to unleash the mass rape and enslavement of hundreds of thousands of women after the slaughter of all males.
An extremely large percentage of Muslims in South Asia today are the progeny of forcible conversions and systematic rape campaigns by marauding Muslim invaders.

Koenraad Elst

..the number of victims of the persecutions of Hindus by Muslims is easily of the same order of magnitude as that of the Nazi extermination policy, though no one has yet made the effort of tabulating the reported massacres and proposing a reasonable estimate of how many millions exactly must have died in the course of the Islamic campaign against Hinduism (such research is taboo). On top of these there is a similar number of abductions and deportations to harems and slave-markets, as well as centuries of political oppression and cultural destruction……
Dr K D Prithipal
Muslims will only live as an oppressive majority and a turbulent minority.
Sardar Ballavbhai Patel
A nationalist Muslim is only a contradiction in terms.

Saturday 22 August 2015

World's Largest Flower Garden - in Dubai

The world's largest flower garden... in the last place you would expect: Rainbow-colored oasis with 45 MILLION flowers is in the middle of a desert
·        The Dubai Miracle Garden features over 45 flower species imported from all over the world
  • A multitude of shaped archways, flowerbeds and structures can be seen at the 18-acre site
  • The colorful array is watered by a system that recycles waste water while avoiding evaporation
Dubai Miracle                                                  Garden is world's                                                  biggest flower garden.                                                  It is situated in the                                                  North West Quadrant of                                                  Arabian Ranches                                                  interchange
Dubai Miracle Garden is world's biggest flower garden. It is situated in the North West Quadrant of Arabian Ranches interchange
This amazing                                                  tourist attraction is                                                  a Guinness Record                                                  Holder for the Largest                                                  Vertical Garden. Also                                                  popular is the heart                                                  shaped flower beds at                                                  the Alley of Hearts
This amazing tourist attraction is a Guinness Record Holder for the Largest Vertical Garden. Also popular is the heart shaped flower beds at the Alley of Hearts
Dubai Miracle                                                  Garden has more than                                                  45 million blooming                                                  flowers with stunning                                                  colour combinations                                                  achieved through 45                                                  different flower                                                  varieties and colour
Dubai Miracle Garden has more than 45 million blooming flowers with stunning color combinations achieved through 45 diff erent species
Bordered by                                                  windmills, this area                                                  provides parking,                                                  sitting areas, a                                                  prayer room and shops                                                  for visitors to Dubai                                                  Miracle Garden
Bordered by windmills, this area provides parking, sitting areas, a prayer room and shops for visitors to Dubai Miracle Garden
The Dubai Miracle                                                  Garden features a                                                  sensational 45 million                                                  flowers over a 18-acre                                                  site, from                                                  breathtaking                                                  flowerbeds to                                                  heart-shaped archways                                                  and adorned castles
The Dubai Miracle Garden features a sensational 45 million flowers over a 18-acre site, from breathtaking flowerbeds to heart-shaped archways and adorned castles
The spectacular                                                  bonanza provides a                                                  colourful oasis for                                                  the eyes of city                                                  workers, who can                                                  escape to the natural                                                  splendour
The spectacular bonanza provides a colorful oasis for the eyes of city workers, who can escape to the natural splendor
In order to                                                  create a fresh                                                  experience for guests                                                  visiting the rainbow                                                  gardens, the displays                                                  are changed                                                  seasonally
In order to create a fresh experience for guests visiting the rainbow gardens, the displays are changed seasonally
These have                                                  included millions of                                                  flowers in the shape                                                  of the UAE's flag,                                                  floral clock, a                                                  Ferrari car with                                                  driver decorated by                                                  flowers, a vertical                                                  buried car zone,                                                  flower apple                                                  structures, artificial                                                  animals, flower boats                                                  and an Islamic Arch                                                  Design
These have included millions of flowers in the shape of the UAE's flag, floral clock, a Ferrari car with driver decorated by flowers, a vertical buried car zone, flower apple structures, artificial animals, flower boats and an Islamic Arch Design
At the moment,                                                  there are 45 species                                                  of flowers in the                                                  garden, which are                                                  imported in from all                                                  around the world
At the moment, there are 45 species of flowers in the garden, which are imported in from all around the world
If the natural                                                  landscape was not                                                  incredible enough,                                                  what makes this                                                  attraction                                                  particularly                                                  impressive is the                                                  unique sub-surface                                                  irrigation system that                                                  recycles waste water                                                  via drip irrigation                                                  while avoiding                                                  evaporation and saving                                                  up to 75 per cent of                                                  water and energy
If the natural landscape was not incredible enough, what makes this attraction particularly impressive is the unique sub-surface irrigation system that recycles waste water via drip irrigation while avoiding evaporation and saving up to 75 percent of water and energy
A fantasy flower                                                  house at the Miracle                                                  Garden, which has                                                  plants growing over                                                  its turrets, doors,                                                  walls and towers
A fantasy flower house at the Miracle Garden, which has plants growing over its turrets, doors, walls and towers
A pathway shaded                                                  by umbrellas at the                                                  Miracle Garden,                                                  provides a colourful                                                  walkway for visiting                                                  guests
A pathway shaded by umbrellas at the Miracle Garden, provides a colourful walkway for visiting guests
Peacock topiary                                                  covered in an array of                                                  colourful flowers at                                                  the largest natural                                                  flower garden in the                                                  world
Peacock topiary covered in an array of colourful flowers at the largest natural flower garden in the world
There is no limit                                                  to the imagination                                                  gone into the design                                                  of the gardens, which                                                  include flowers                                                  streaming like hair                                                  from a giant human
There is no limit to the imagination gone into the design of the gardens, which include flowers streaming like hair from a giant human
Barrels tipping                                                  streams of flowers,                                                  and peacocks with                                                  colourful plumages are                                                  featured in the                                                  creative attraction
Barrels tipping streams of flowers, and peacocks with colourful plumages are featured in the creative attraction 
Even Disney                                                  characters such as                                                  Mater from Cars can be                                                  seen at the Dubai                                                  oasis, of course                                                  decorated with                                                  flowerbeds
Even Disney characters such as Mater from Cars can be seen at the Dubai oasis, of course decorated with flowerbeds
Giant structures                                                  can be viewed in the                                                  park, covered from top                                                  to bottom in an array                                                  of flowers
Giant structures can be viewed in the park, covered from top to bottom in an array of flowers
  
  If you're considering a visit to these gardens, this is their official website:  http://www.dubaimiraclegarden.com/
 
 


Thursday 20 August 2015

Japanese Ingenuity...Please watch

Very interesting.  Why aren’t we doing this?
 
Save your plastic.

This is one of the most amazing break-throughs in technology ever seen!  Why isn't this being done NOW???

http://www.youtube.com/embed/qGGabrorRS8?rel=0

Sunday 16 August 2015

Real Story

Dilip Kumar himself narrated this incident.
At his peak, the star was travelling by plane. The passenger sitting next was elderly. Dressed in a very simple bush shirt and pant, his apparel projected a middle class. He appeared well educated.
Passengers on the aircraft snatched glances of the renowned Dilip Kumar. Yet, the gentleman appeared unconcerned. He read his newspaper, then looked out of the window. When tea came, he sipped it without any notice of Dilip Kumar who sat with him.
It made Dilip Kumar uneasy. Trying to strike a conversation, he smiled. The courteous man smiled back and said hello. Dilip somehow brought the subject to films and asked,
"Do you watch films?"
The man replied,
"Oh, very few. I did see one many years ago"
Dilip casually mentioned that he himself worked in films.
Man; "Oh, that's nice. What do you do?"
Dilip Kumar; "I am a film actor"
Man; "Oh, wonderful?"
There was no further response.
When the flight landed and both stood up, Dilip Kumar held out his hand,
"It was good to travel with you. By the way, my name is Dilip Kumar"
The man shook hand and smiled,
"Thank you. I am J.R.D. Tata".  

Late Dr. Kalam - Former President of India

DD Podhigai telecast an interview with Mr P M Nair retired IAS officer who was the secretary to Dr Kalam Sir when he was the President. Mr Nair had authored a book titled "Kalam Effect".  A summary of the points Mr. Nair spoke in voice choked with emotion is given below. 
 
1. Dr Kalam used to receive costly gifts whenever he went as it is customary for many nations to give gifts to the visiting Head of state. Refusing the gift would become an insult to the nation and an embarrassment for India. So, he received them and on his return, Dr Kalam asked the gifts to be photographed and then catalogued and handed over to the archives. Afterwards, he never even looked at them. He did not take even a pencil from the gifts received when he left Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
 
2.  In 2002, the year Dr Kalam took over, the Ramadan month came in July-August. it was a regular practice for the President to host an iftar party. Dr Kalam asked Mr Nair why he should host a party to people who are already well fed and asked him to find out how much would be the cost. Mr Nair told it costs around Rs. 22 lakhs. Dr Kalam asked him to donate that amount to a few selected orphanages in the form of food, dresses and blankets. The selection of orphanages was left to a team in Rashtrapathi Bhavan and Dr Kalam had no role in it. After the selection was made, Dr Kalam asked Mr Nair to come inside his room and gave him a cheque for Rs 1 lakh. He said that he is giving some amount from his personal savings and this should not be informed to anyone. Mr Nair was so shocked that he said "sir, I will go outside and tell everyone . People should know that here is a man who not only donated what he should have spent but he is giving his own money also". Dr Kalam though he was a devout Muslim did not have Iftar parties in the years in which he was the President.
 
3. Dr Kalam did not like "yes sir" type of people. Once when the Chief Justice of India had come and on some point Dr Kalam expressed his view and asked Mr Nair, "Do you agree?"/ Mr Nair said "No sir, i do not agree with you". The Chief Justice was shocked and could not believe his ears. It was impossible for a civil servant to disagree with the president and that too so openly. Mr Nair told him that the President would question him afterwards why he disagreed and if the reason was logical 99% he would change his mind.
 
4. Dr Kalam invited 50 of his relatives to come to Delhi and they all stayed in Rashtrapathi Bhavan. He organised a bus for them to go around the city which was paid for by him. No official car was used. All their stay and food was calculated as per the instructions of Dr Kalam and the bill came to Rs 2 lakhs which he paid. In the history of this country no one has done it. Now, wait for the climax, Dr Kalam's elder brother stayed with him in his room for the entire one week as Dr Kalam wanted his brother to stay with him. When they left, Dr Kalam wanted to pay rent for that room also. Imagine a President of country paying rent for the room in which he is staying. This was any way not agreed by the staff who thought the honesty was getting too much to handle !!!.
 
5.  When Kalam sir was to leave Rashtrapathi Bhavan at the end of the tenure, every staff member went and met him and paid their respects. Mr Nair went to him alone as his wife had fractured her leg and was bed ridden. Dr Kalam asked why his wife did not come. He replied that she was in bed due to an accident. next day, Nair saw lot of police men around his house and asked what had happened. They said that the President of India was coming to visit him in his house. He came and met his wife and chatted for some time. Mr Nair says that no president of any country would visit a civil servant's house and that too on such a simple pretext.


Monday 10 August 2015

Most Interesting Unknown Facts.

 Most Interesting Unknown Facts You Should Know

1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
3. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses
every letter in the English language.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. Ants never sleep!
6. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
7. Coca-Cola was originally green.
8. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
9. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
10. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing
desert sand.
11. There are only two words in the English language that have all
five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
13. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
14. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
15. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects
their heart and nervous system.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.
21. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,
your heart stops for a millisecond.
22. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
23. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
24. “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
25. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck
and die.
26. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius
28. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
29. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.
30. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and
laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
31. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
32. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
33. A snail can sleep for three years.
34. All polar bears are left handed.
35. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
36. Butterflies taste with their feet.
37. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
38. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
39. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
40. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
41. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
42. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
43. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
44. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have
over million descendants.
45. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times
46. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
47. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
48. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.