KNOW YOURSELF INTERNALLY WALK THROUGH HUMAN BODY CORPUS BUILDING IN NETHERLAND
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
Examples of stupid questions people ask..
1. When people c u lying down, wid ur eyes closd dy still ask:- r u sleepin?
No! Em trainin 2 die.
2. When It's rainin & some1 notices u goin out, dy ask: - r u going out in dis rain?
No,in the next 1.
3. Ur friend calls ur home fone:- Where r u?
At de bus stop!
4. Dey see u wet comin 4m de bathroom:- Did u just hav a bath?
No, I fell in de toilet bowl !
5. U r standin rite in front of de elevator on the ground floor & dey ask:- Goin up?
No, no, em waitin 4 my apartmnt 2 come down & get me.
6. U bring a bunch of flowers 4 ur sweet heart. & dey ask:- r dose Fl.wers?
No baby! Dey r Carrots.
7. U'r on the queue 2 buy tickets de cinema, a friend saw u & ask:- wat r u doin here?
Em here 2 pay my uni fee..!:-D
Friday, December 23, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
A French Woman
interesting leave letters
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Weird Diseases that You Hardly Know
A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. But there are some disease which are very rare that you may hardly know. Such disease not only affect the human in health but makes the appearance of the infected person really worst. Not let's have a look at some of such deadly disease... ( Not for weak-hearted people )
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Why the decline of the West is best for us – and them By R Vaidyanathan, Professor of Finance, IIM Bangalore.
Why the decline of the West is best for us – and them
By R Vaidyanathan, Professor of Finance, IIM Bangalore.
By R Vaidyanathan, Professor of Finance, IIM Bangalore.
Ten years ago, America had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. Now it has no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash. Or so the joke goes.
Only, it’s no joke. The line is pretty close to reality in the US. The less said about Europe the better. Both the US and Europe are in decline. I was asked by a business channel in 2008 about recovery in the US. I mentioned 40 quarters and after that I was never invited for another discussion.
Recently, another media person asked me the same question and I answered 80 quarters. He was shocked since he was told some “sprouts” of recovery had been seen in the American economy.
It is important to recognise that the dominance of the West has been there only for last 200-and-odd years. According to Angus Maddison’s pioneering OECD study, India and China had nearly 50 percent of global GDP as late as the 1820s. Hence India and China are not emerging or rising powers. They are retrieving their original position.
The dollar is having a roller-coaster ride at present.
In 1990, the share of the G-7 in world GDP (on a purchasing power parity basis) was 51 percent and that of emerging markets 36 percent. But in 2011, it is the reverse. So the dominant west is a myth.
Similarly, the crisis. It is a US-Europe crisis and not a global one. The two wars – which were essentially European wars – were made out to be world wars with one English leader commenting that ‘we will fight the Germans to the last Indian’.
In this economic scenario, countries like India are made to feel as if they are in a crisis. Since the West says there’s a crisis, we swallow it hook, line and sinker.
But it isn’t so. At no point of time in the last 20 years has foreign investment – direct and portfolio – exceeded 10 percent of our domestic investment. Our growth is due to our domestic savings which is again predominately household savings. Our housewives require awards for our growth not any western fund manager.
The crisis faced by the West is primarily because it has forgotten a six-letter word called ‘saving’ which, again, is the result of forgetting another six letter word called “family”. The West has nationalised families over the last 60 years. Old age, ill health, single motherhood – everything is the responsibility of the state.
When family is a “burden” and children an “encumbrance,” society goes for a toss. Household savings have been negative in the US for long. The total debt to GDP ratio is as high as 400 percent in many countries, including UK. Not only that, the West is facing a severe demographic crisis. The population of Europe during the First World War was nearly 25 percent and today it is around 11 percent and expected to become 3 percent in another 20 years. Europe will disappear from the world map unless migrants from Africa and Asia take it over.
The demographic crisis impacts the West in other ways. Social security goes for a toss since people are living longer and not many from below contribute to their pensions through taxes. So the nationalisation of families becomes a burden on the state.
European work culture has become worse with even our own Tata complaining about the work ethic of British managers. In France and Italy, the weekend starts on Friday morning itself. The population has become lazy and state-dependent.
In the UK, the situation is worse with drunkenness becoming a common problem. Parents do not have control over children and the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation in London said: “There are all signs of arteriosclerosis of a culture and a civilisation grown old. Me has taken precedence over We and pleasure today over viability tomorrow.” (The Times: 8 September ).
Married couples make up less than half (45 percent) of all households in the US, say recent data from the Census Bureau. Also there is a huge growth in unmarried couples and single parent families (mostly poor, black women). Society has become dysfunctional or disorganised in the West. The government is trying to be organised.
In India, society is organised and government disorganised. Because of disorganised society in the West the state has to take care of families. The market crash is essentially due to the adoption of a model where there is consumption with borrowings and no savings. How long will Asian savings be able to sustain the western spending binge?
According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal (10 October 2011), nearly half of US households receive government benefits like food stamps, subsidised housing, cash welfare or Medicare or Medicaid (the federal-state health care programmes for the poor) or social security.
The US is also a stock market economy where half the households are investors and they have been hit hard by bank and corporate failures. Even now less than 5 percent of our household financial savings goes to the stock market. Same in China and Japan.
Declining empires are dangerous. They will try to peddle their failed models to us and we will swallow it since colonial genes are very much present here. You will find more Indians heading global corporations since India is a very large market and one way to capture it is to make Indian sepoys work for it.
A declining West is best for the rest and also for the West, which needs to rethink its failed models and rework its priorities. For the rest—like us—the fact that the West has failed will be accepted by us only after some western scholars tell us the same. Till then we will try to imitate them and create more dysfunctional families.
We need to recognise that Big Government and Big Business are twin dangers for average citizens. India faces both and they are two asuras we need to guard against. The Leftists in the National Advisory Council want all families to be nationalised and governed by a Big State and reform marketers of the CII variety want Big Business to flourish under crony capitalism. Beware of the twin evils since both look upon India as a charity house or as a market and not as an ancient civilisation.
R. VAIDYANATHAN
PROFESSOR OF FINANCE
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
BANNERGHATTA ROAD
BANGALORE
INDIA_560076
TEL: 91-80-2699-3086
FAX:91-80-2658-4050
E-mail:vaidya@iimb.ernet.in
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Brilliant Answers by student but the teacher gave him '0' marks only
Brilliant Answers by student but the teacher gave him '0' marks only
Q- In which battle did Tipu Sultan die?
A- His last battle !
Q- Where was the declaration of independence signed?
A- At the bottom of the page !
Q- What's the main reason for Divorce?
A- Marriage!
Q- river Ganges flows in which state?
A- Liquid state !
Q- When was Mahatma Gandhi born?
A- On his birthday !
Q- How will u distribute 8 mangoes among 6 people?
A- By preparing mango shake....
Q- In which battle did Tipu Sultan die?
A- His last battle !
Q- Where was the declaration of independence signed?
A- At the bottom of the page !
Q- What's the main reason for Divorce?
A- Marriage!
Q- river Ganges flows in which state?
A- Liquid state !
Q- When was Mahatma Gandhi born?
A- On his birthday !
Q- How will u distribute 8 mangoes among 6 people?
A- By preparing mango shake....
Thursday, November 17, 2011
ECONOMICS
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Who is behind Anti nuclear protest at Koodankulam !!!!!
Probe and expose the ploy
Missionary hand in the Kudankulam protest
By Adhitya Srinivasan
Much noise has been made over a nuclear reactor that was slated to operate out of Kudankulam in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. On the face of it, the protest appears to have been a simple clash between human safety and environmental interests on the one hand and energy and developmental concerns on the other hand. The local residents had been organised to implore the government to scrap the nuclear project in Kudankulam and to have it transferred to another location. But was the Kudankulam protest really as simple as that? A careful analysis reveals that there is something more than meets the eye.
First, the facts: The Kudankulam Nuclear Project began pursuant to an Inter-Governmental Agreement which was entered into between the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi and the then Soviet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988. During the construction phase of the nuclear reactor, there was little protest and no uprising against the Project. Several years after the project was first initiated and shortly before the reactor became operational, protests broke out in Kudankulam, demanding that the government recognises the right to life and livelihood of its citizens and that the nuclear project be scrapped completely and permanently.
Buckling under pressure, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, abandoned her earlier stand which favoured the Kudankulam Project and agreed to pass a resolution in the State Cabinet calling for the Centre to stop the project. Typical of the Central Government in recent times, no minister has articulated the government line consistently or clearly. Union Minister V Narayanaswamy, while visiting the protest venue, proclaimed that people’s safety comes first. The Prime Minister first formed a group of experts to address the various concerns raised by the protestors. Few days later, the PM wrote to CM Jayalalithaa, seeking her support for the ‘implementation of the project’.
Now to the protestors. The protest began at St. Lurdes’ church. One of the first leaders to arrive at the protest venue was the local DMDK MLA Michael Rayyapan. On the very first day itself, a number of Catholic priests and nuns undertook an indefinite fast. The Bishop of Thootukudi, Rev. Ambrose was quick to arrive at the protest venue. In fact, the Church has backed the anti-nuclear reactor protest to the hilt. The National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) initiated an email campaign. The Church of South India (CSI) denounced the move to set up a nuclear park at Kudankulam. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) called for the decommissioning of nuclear reactors.
It is nobody’s case that the only protestors were Church affiliates but the overt institutional backing of the Church is undeniable and is reflected in the sheer preponderance of Church personalities among the protest leadership. This is something which a person no less than Dr Subramanian Swamy has alleged. The protest – its timing, leadership and institutional backing all raise uncomfortable questions which must be answered. As a sovereign nation we must demand that they be answered.
The first question relates to the timing of the protest. Why protest now, months before the commissioning of the nuclear reactor and not during the construction period? Leaders associated with the protest claim to have been prompted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and the recent blast at a French nuclear reactor. Hence, they say that there is nothing strange about the time of their protest. Ridiculous! Were the protestors not aware of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 which had taken well before construction of the Kudankulam nuclear reactor even began? Forget Chernobyl. Were the protestors not even aware of the devastating Bhopal Gas Leak in 1984?
The truth is that Fukushima was an afterthought. An organised protest pre-construction or even during the construction period would allow the parties involved in construction to cut their costs. A protest after the construction is completed makes this impossible. Two questions arise: Whether there was an ‘invisible hand’ that had calculated the timing of the protest to not only damage Russian civil nuclear credibility but also to make it impossible for Russia to recover costs of construction? Was the Church and its leadership used as a front for this protest?
The next question that arises is why is the Church playing a more than proactive role in the Kudankulam protest? Rev. Ambrose says that the protest “has nothing to do with the Catholic Church in particular”. This is a bogus claim.
In a brilliantly researched book, “Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines”, authors Rajiv Malhotra and Aravinda Neelakandan demonstrate how US and European churches participate actively in fostering separatist tendencies among the Dravidian and Dalit communities on the basis of identity. Their research tracked the money trail from Western churches and church affiliates which begin by claiming to be for “education”, “human rights” and “leadership training” but which end up in programmes designed to instigate anger among the youth and provoke them to shun their Indian identity. The researchers have also noted that the latest manifestation of these programmes is ‘Dravidian Christianity’ which thrives on fabricating political and cultural history.
In this context, it becomes very easy to understand the role of the Church in organising the protest. The Church was probably hoping to kill two birds with one stone. An abundance of money from the West by itself is not enough for conversion and separatist activity. Money needs to be accompanied by credibility and in organising the protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Project, the Church hoped to acquire credibility. Secondly, the Kudankulam project would have brought development to the region in terms of employment opportunities and other trickle-down benefits. At the very least, the people of Kudankulam would have a greater supply of electricity. The Church probably apprehended that it would be difficult to organise conversion and separatism in a developed region where people were well-occupied and hence, the project must be opposed vehemently. Why else would the protestors demand that the project be scrapped completely even if all safety concerns are addressed?
The wise men in the Department of Atomic Energy suspect that the Kudankulam agitation was orchestrated with the blessings of foreign powers. They have asked the Intelligence Bureau to investigate into the funding behind the protest. The Intelligence Bureau would do well to make an honest inquiry an alert the nation to the nature of such external threats. In the meanwhile, one wonders if there would have been any protest in Kudankulam if the nuclear reactor was American or European and not Russian.
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