Upakarma

ಶ್ರೀಯನಾಯುವ ಬಲವ ಜಯವ ಬೇಡಿರ್ದೊಡಂ |
ಗಾಯತ್ರಿಯನೆ ಪರಮಮಂತ್ರವೆಂದಾರ್ಯರ್ ||
ಧೀಯಂ ಪ್ರಚೋದಿಸೆಂದನುದಿನದಿ ಬೇಡಿದರು |
ಶ್ರೇಯಸ್ಸು ಧೀಮಹಿಮೆ - ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ || 546 ||


“shreeyanu aayuva balava jayava bEDirdoDam” = Even though prayers were done for the bestowal of prosperity, longevity, strength and victory… {bEDirdoDam = bEDiddaroo}

“gaayatriyane parama mantravendu aaryar” = … the Aryans considered Gayatri as the most sacred of all mantras.

“dheeyam pracOdisu endu anudinadi bEDidaru” = And, they prayed daily for the sake of getting enlightenment of the intellect. {dheeyam = mind/intellect – note: loose translation}

“shrEyassu dheemahime – manku timma” = the greatness of the enlightened intellect is that it means true prosperity.



Sri DVG nicely highlights the importance of the Gayatri Mantra in this Kagga.

People looking from outside may well conclude that the Hinduism preaches everyone to run away from life (samsaara). But, that surely is not the case. One actually would be surprised if one were to look at just one of the paragraphs of say, Rudra Chamaka. The Rudra Chamaka enlists a large number of wishes to be fulfilled, both materialistic and spiritual. The wish list is somewhat like this – Let God grant me food,… pleasant voice,… longevity,… well built body,… (such 36 wishes in the first anuvaaka, 38 in the next, 36 more in the next, and 38 more in the next, and 31 specific desires in the fifth, and so on with some 31 in the tenth anuvaaka)…

But, still all over India the one mantra adored by all sects of Hinduism is the Gayatri. Few simple English translations are given below…

"We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; may He enlighten our minds." – Swami Vivekananda.

"We meditate on the effulgent glory of the divine Light; may he inspire our understanding." – S. Radhakrishnan.

So, it is made clear that even though our forefathers prayed for various wants, they stressed on the enlightenment of minds. That alone is true prosperity. If we were to have sufficient intellectual brightness we can achieve the rest by ourselves. It would be nice to note and highlight that, the prayer is universal - in that there is prayer for the grant of enlightenment for “all of us” and not just “for me alone”…

Let us all pray the Supreme Lord to inspire our dhee-shakti!

All the best,

|| Offered, at the feet of Sadguru ||

ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ....

ಹಳೆಯ ಭಕ್ತಿ ಶ್ರದ್ಧೆಯಳಿಸಿ ಹೋಗಿವೆ ಮಾಸಿ|
ಸುಳಿವಿಲ್ಲವಾವ ಹೊಸ ದರ್ಶನದ ಹೊಳಪುಂ ||
ಪಳಗಿದ್ದ ಮನೆ ಬಿದ್ದ ಕುಂಟ ಕುರುಡನ ತೆರದಿ|
ತಳಮಳಿಸುತಿದೆ ಲೋಕ - ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ||




“haLeya bhakti shraddhe aLisi hOgive maasi” = The faith and devotion of old times have vanished.

“suLidillavu aava hosa darshanada hoLapum” = there is no light of new philosophy either (to lead us further)

“paLagidda mane bidda kunTa kuruDana teradi” = the house, which was well known by the blind/lame, has now fallen… (very difficult for them to get adjusted to a new place)

“taLamaLisutide lOka – manku timma” = …likewise, is this world under a lot of pain and confusion.


This is another of Sri DVG’s, (apparently) complaining about the difficulties we are facing. Sri DVG makes is clear that we are not able to follow the old philosophies of bhakti and shraddha (devotion and faith). It is very hard to find people with unalloyed love and devotion towards the Lord. Today we are seeing that the people are no more interested in silent contemplation. More and more of people are being attracted towards the purely materialistic life. Spirituality seems to have reached its nadir…

“We don’t have time for all those things.”; “all those are for after 60’s, not for us…”; “enough of the troubles we are facing right now”… – these are the few commonly heard voices amongst our friends. Nobody is interested in God! This is what is meant by “haLeya bhakti shraddhe aLisi hOgive maasi”…

And, further, do we have any new “light”? There are many theories coming day-after-day… has any one of those satisfied and pacified the minds of humans? Science itself has been producing many many theories, so is it with other fields… but where is the end? So, amidst all this the common man is under utter confusion…

(Few kaggas before and after this put together, give raise to a question – if there were to be a God, a kind, just God – why all this misery and unreasonable suffering and confusion?)

Let us hope to find convincing answers to these and few more questions in the coming poems… More than anything, if we can either get back those ‘haLeya bhakti shraddhe’ or something even better than those (call this hosa darshanada hoLapu, if you wish) – that would give us a sense of achievement!

A Very Special Thanks to my Friend Dwarkanath M N for sharing DVG's Subhashitas with us.

“ Fuck you Bastard, am gonna kill you..do you teach me”???

“ Fuck you Bastard, am gonna kill you..do you teach me”???


ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ನನ್ನ ಆದರದ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರಗಳು… ಏನೋ ನನಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯದು..ನನ್ನ ಕೆಲಸ ಹಾಗೂ ಬೇರೆ “commitments” ಗಳಿಂದಾಗಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಗಮನವಹಿಸಲಿಲ್ಲ…ಕೆಲವು ದಿನಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆಯಿಂದ ಯಾವುದಾದ್ರು ವಿಷಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಚರ್ಚಿಸಬೇಕು ಎಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೆ.

ನಿನ್ನೆ ನನ್ನ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಘಟನೆ ಜರುಗಿತು, ನಿನ್ನೆ (ಶನಿವಾರ, ಜೂನ್ ೧೩) ನಾನು ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರಂ ಕಡೆಗೆ ನನ್ನ Honda active ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೊರಟೆ...ಸುಮಾರು ೧:೩೦ (ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ) IIsc signal ನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಂತೆ………...
IIsc signal ಇಂದ ಬಲಗಡೆ ಗೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕಿತ್ತು..signal ಇದ್ದದ್ದರಿಂದ ಅಲ್ಲೇ wait ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾಯ್ತು..

Signal ಬಿಟ್ಟ ನಂತರ ನಾನು ಬಲಗಡಗೆ ತಿರುಗಿಸಲು ಹೊರಟೆ..suddenaagi..ಒಂದು “Entysor” (ಗಂಡ, ಹೆಂಡ್ತಿ) opposite direction ಇಂದ ನುಗ್ಗಿದರು..ಅವರಿಗೆ red ಸಿಗ್ನಲ್ ಇದ್ದರೂ ಕೂಡ ನುಗ್ಗಿದರು..ತಕ್ಷಣ ನನಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಪಟ್ಟೆ ಕೋಪ ಬಂತು..ಒಂದು ಕ್ಷಣ ಅವರನ್ನು ನೋಡಿದೆ..ಆದರೂ ಸಹ ಅವರು ನುಗ್ಗಿಸಿದರು….

ಆಗ…ಇದು ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಹಜವಾದುದು..ನಾವು ಎಷ್ಟೇ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ಪಟ್ಟರೂ,ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟರೂ, ನಾವು,ನಮ್ಮ ಜನರು..(ಭಾರತೀಯರು) ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ನ್ಯಾಯ ಬದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಬದುಕಬಾರದು ಎಂದು ಧೄಡ ನಿಶ್ಚಯವನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೀವಿ…ಜನ್ಮೇಪಿ ನಾವು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ತಿದ್ದಿಕೋಳ್ಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲ….….

ಸರಿ ನನ್ನ ದಾರಿ ನನಗೆ..ಅವನ ದಾರಿ ಅವನಿಗೆ ಅಂತ ನಾನು ಹೊರಟೆ ….ಸುಮಾರು ೨೦೦ ಮೀ ದೂರದಲ್ಲಿ IIsc signal ಬಂತು..ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿದೆ…ಸುಮಾರು ೧೦ second ನಂತರ “Entysor” ಆತ ನನ್ನ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದು…ಜಗಳವಾಡಲು ಶುರುಮಾಡಿದ……ನಾನು ಹೇಳಿದೆ…”ಸರ್ ತಾವು ಸಿಗ್ನಲ್ ಹಾರಿಸಿ ಬಂದವರು, ತಮಗೆ ಸಿಗ್ನಲ್ ಪ್ರಜ್ನೆ ಇರಬೇಕಿತ್ತು”, ಅಷ್ಟೆ….ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಅವನು….

“ Fuck you Bastard, am gonna kill you..do you teach me..do not teach me…first you learn how to ride your 2 wheeler…and you were trying hit me and my wife would have fallen down..fuck you”…..

ನನಗೆ ಎನು ಮಾತಾಡಬೇಕೆಂದು ತೋಚಲಿಲ್ಲ…ಅದು ಬೇರೆ ಅವನು ಜೋರಾಗಿ ಇಡೀ ಜಗತ್ತಿಗೆ ಕೇಳುವಂತೆ ಕಿರಿಚುತ್ತಿದ್ದ…ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಜನರು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ನೋಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು..ನಾನೇ ಏನೋ ತಪ್ಪು ಮಾಡಿರುವಂತೆ….ಯಾಕೋ ಏನೊ ನನಗೂ ಅವನ ಜೊತೆ ಜಗಳ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ತೋಚಲಿಲ್ಲ…ಅದು ಬೇರೆ ಅವನ ಹಿಂದೆ ಅವನ ಹೆಂಡತಿ ಬೇರೆ ಇದ್ದಳು… “embarrassing” ಆಗಿ ಇತ್ತು…..


ನಂತರ ಸಿಗ್ನಲ್ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿತು…ಅವನು ಹೋದ…ನನಗೆ ಏನು ಮಾಡಬೇಕೇಂದು ಗೋತ್ತಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲ…೧ ನಿಮಿಷ ನನ್ನ mind black out ಆಗೋಯ್ತು….

ಬಹಳ ಬೇಜಾರಾಯ್ತು…ಆ ಒಂದು ನಿಮಿಷ..ಭಾರತವನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೋಗ್ಬೇಕೇಂದೆನಿಸಿತು….

”ಭಾರತ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ದೇಶ , ಭಾರತಿಯರಲ್ಲ”…

”ದೇಶ”ವೆಂಬುವುದು ಭ್ರಮೆ…”ಜನ”ವೆಂಬುವುದು ಸತ್ಯ
ಅಳಿಸಿದೆವು ಧರ್ಮವ, ಅಳಿಸಿದೆವು ನ್ಯಾಯವ, ಅಳಿಸಿದೆವು ಸಂಸ್ಕ್ರತಿಯ
ಉಳಿಸಿದೆವು ಅಸತ್ಯವ, ಉಳಿಸಿದೆವು ಅಧರ್ಮವ
ಕೆಟ್ಟೆವು ನಾವು, ಕೆಡಿಸಿದೆವು ಈ ದೇಶವ,
ಕೆಡಿಸಿದೆವು ಈ ದೇಶವ, ಉಳಿಸುವರ್ಯಾರು ಈ ದೇಶವ???

ಕೊನೆಯದಾಗಿ….”I Love India…I hate fucking Indians”…..

ಇಂತಿ….
ರಾಮಾನುಜ…
ವಿ ದ ಪೀಪಲ್….

What I Found These Days

What I found these days

All I need to know in this world is how to safeguard myself, make myself as comfortable as possible..... Ultimately “joy” is what we are searching. That is what we all are doing; only thing we differ is the way we approach.
The modern day wise people (we ourselves) are trying to be wise to question anything before they accept. That is very good.
But how much are we succeeding in finally getting our purpose of joy? We work for money; so that we will be happy with that, satisfy our needs. The basic joy is eating full stomach, sleeping with no tensions & satisfies our eyes, keep myself healthy & smiling.
But not many of us are getting this...... we are forgetting the purpose of our efforts.... I’ll show you how......
Its 7 0r 8 in the morning... I get my alarm shouting after suffering many snoozes. I get tensed looking at the clock... rush into
The bathroom & take a tensed bath, dress up &take out a bag ..............& out of the house, or if possible eat something in hurry so that my stomach does not call me when I am working. Work all the day for someone, not just works but, very hard sometimes. Get back home some time late in the night... & repeat the same every day.
For all the work we do ....we feel proud for enjoying the weekend.
But is that just?
Work for 5 days and enjoy 2 days? Is that the kind of joy we expect?
If we think.... & if we justify ourselves that... joy costs that much.
“Are we getting the right quality of joy?”
Definitely not.... it’s temporary....
So I must have something which lasts for ever & that’s what I am in search of, & I have found the way!!

Its a Ganesh Chaturti day, in the evening, I pass by a road I see a pendal & many chairs arranged under it, with a beautiful stage before it. The things that every body wise infer is...
1. Somebody has done this.
2. They have done this with a purpose
I am wise.... I question ' why do you infer this?'
I will be answered “because it has a system & it’s wise. The chairs are arranged, so, I can’t say they are there by themselves, nor that somebody has done with no purpose.”

So anything which we see with a system will be done by someone for some purpose.
Check out.... if some one asks me “how did this world evolve?”
-I have a scientific answer.....“There were very tiny particles called atoms, in space. By Newton's theory every particle has a gravitational force of attraction & due to that a particle attracted other and then this huge one, attracted similar particles... many similar reactions took place... when a suitable stage reached fusion reactions started . Then from that, similar things went on & our sun came and a planet called earth. Then unicellular organisms ... & then evolution took place & today we are here.
I absolutely have no question of this....that the theory of gravitation is true & we are able to do many things based on that, including the chandrayaan-1.
Look at the world once.... look at the system in this...... its tremendous.... marvelous!!!! There is a system very small..... Like I breathe out CO2, plants O2. I take in what it gives & it what I do. There is very huge system “human body”..... How wonderful it is... I take in food it’s turned to blood.... energy etc. from the food my mom took, my body was created, and from the food I take in, it’s growing..... With the food I take in I can do anything.... the food makes me think! Wish! Sad! Happy!
The blood is so wisely done that no scientist even today is able to produce a drop of blood. No one is able to create life! Though I have a body... I can’t make it live.... in spite of using all my wits!
Look at the system here.... a message from one dendrite to the next
Axon passes in 10 to the power of -27 seconds!!! From any part of body to brain and brain to it back!
So I have to accept that it’s not just a system but indeed a great system!!
When we infer a person & purpose behind a very small system...we definitely have to infer the same to this world!!!
The modern day scientists believe it to be energy.
But I am convinced that energy cannot create everything we have....
Not love, joy, sadness, knowledge, thoughts.....
If you still agree to all, to be “forms of energy” how about life?
Still if you agree it to be a form of energy........
My question - “is energy wise to obey laws?”
Definitely not!
It is just like a mob..... If governed by non it has no system.
If we think......... we can infer that it has to be made to obey law. If a ball up in the sky falls down ... it’s due to gravity... so its making it obey law. But then how does that gravity attract?
Energy???? Of course........ It is a wise energy right??

So finally concluding on this, “god exists”... because a wise thing (world with great system) cant happen, it has to be done.... & if there is wit behind ....a purpose also exists.


How ever tired we are....... if we sleep & get up we feel relaxed... something has happened during my sleep! I have not done that! I was sleeping!
“I” did not sleep.......... but someone made me do..... Because all I can do is just lying down.... close my eyes....that all! But that not sleeping! Because I am myself terming them as lying down, closing eyes etc...... If “lying down” is sleeping we must not say “I was lying down for a long time but I did not get sleep...”
After closing eyes someone gets into action.
Even if I close my eyes ... I can see! Feel! Live..... In the dreams!! its just like a movie.... just as a movie will be shot & produced out by some one ...even this must have somebody doing it!!! How can I watch a movie which is shot by nobody?????
How??
After all I did not expect the dreams.....

Even when we are awake, somebody other than us is behind
Our actions... I'll show you how...
When we walk we just walk... but what exactly happens?
It is that I make the wish to walk....& the wish transfers to the brain & the brain orders to lift the leg... then the cells in the leg region receive the message....lift the leg up....then sends back the message
To the brain that the leg is lifted then again the brain asks the leg to move forward then the leg tells back that it has moved, and then the brain sends a message to keep it down.
This is how we move a step..... Imagine walking for a kilometer!!!
If I am doing this, I must know each step to happen, they should happen at my will... do they??...sometimes we can imagine some steps to happen, if we have learnt science.... but how does a child or an animal know all these things?? Then, don't they do any actions??
My heart beats 70 times a minute.... how many times have I done that?? I breathe.... how many times have I done that??? Do I digest my food? How many times we have done that? Once? Twice? Thrice? no... I am not doing all... I am not...
Imagine me walking on my own..... I am standing on the track of a Mumbai local train.... train comes suddenly... meeting starts in my leg whether to send message to brain or not! When will I move??
Things happen out of my control & I will be moved aside... “I will be saved”.
I am just staying in this body with god. He is doing all these things... it’s for sure. But why are we not thinking of all these things?? Why don't we accept god?? Please do answer for this.......
So I am convinced that god exists and the purpose for the world is not what we think, it is...

-K LAKSHMEESHA

( For We The People)

Nakki Lake, Mount Abu, Rajasthan

Goverment need not clean our lakes, we need to follow the signs!

ಕೊಡಚಾದ್ರಿ ನಾ ಕೊಳಚಾದ್ರಿ ನಾ…? ಯಾಕೆ ಹೀಗೆ???


ನಾನು ಮತ್ತು ನನ್ನ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರು ತುಂಬಾ ದಿನಗಳಿಂದ ಕೊಡಚಾದ್ರಿಗೆ ಹೋಗ ಬೇಕೆಂದು plan ಮಾಡಿದ್ವಿ…
ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲ್ರಿಗು ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗುವಂತೆ ಮಾರ್ಚ-ಜೂನ್ ೩೦-೨ ರಂದು ಹೋಗಿದ್ವಿ.

೩೦ ರಾತ್ರಿ ೧೦:೫೦ ಕ್ಕೆ ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರಂ ಬಿಟ್ಟ್ವಿ. ಯಂದಿನಂತೆ ನೆಲಮಂಗಲ ರಸ್ತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ traffic jam ನಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಕ್ಕ್-ಹಾಕೋಂಡ್ವಿ….ಸುಮಾರು ೪-೪.೫ ಘಂಟೆಗಳ ಕಾಲವಾಯ್ತು ನೆಲಮಂಗಲವನ್ನು ಬಿಡುವುದಕ್ಕೆ…ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಯಾಣದ ವಿಷೇಶ ಯೇನಂದ್ರೆ ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರಿಗೂ route ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ವಾಹನ ಚಾಲಕನಿಗೂ ಸಹ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಹಾಸನದ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೋಗೋಣ ಅಂತ ಹೋರ್ಟ್ವಿ….

ಹಾಸನ ತಲುಪುವಂತೆ ಗಾಡಿ ಪಂಚರ್ರ್.. tyre ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಪ್ರಯಾಣವನ್ನು ಮುಂದುವರ್ಸಿದ್ವಿ..ಆದ್ರೆ ತಿರ್ಗಾ ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪುನಃ ಪಂಚರ್ರ್… ಸರಿ ಹಿರೇಬಯಲೂರಿ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಪಂಚರ್ರ್ ಹಾಕ್ಸಿ..ಮುಂದುಹೋರ್ಟ್ವೀ


….ಎಲ್ಲ್ರಿಗೂ ಹೋಟ್ಟೆ ಚುರ್ರ್..ಅನ್ತಿತ್ತು..ಆದ್ರು ಹಾಗೆ ಹೋರ್ಟ್ವೀ…ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಹೋರನಾಡು ಸುಮಾರು ೨೦ ಕಿ.ಮಿ ಇತ್ತು…ಸರಿ ಅಷ್ಟು ದೂರ ಹೋಗಿದಿವಿ ಅನ್ನಪೂರ್ಣೇಶ್ವರಿ ದರ್ಶನವನ್ನು ಮಾಡೋಣ ಅಂತ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಸ್ನಾನ ಮಾಡಿ ದೇವರ ದರ್ಶನವನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿ ದೇವರ ಸಾನಿಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಊಟ ಮಾಡಿ..ಕೊಲ್ಲುರಿಗೆ ಹೋರ್ಟ್ವೀ..



ಕೊಲ್ಲೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ದೇವರ ದರ್ಶನವನ್ನು ಮಾಡಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲ..ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಕೊಡಚಾದ್ರಿಗೆ ಹೋದ್ವಿ..ಮೋದಲೇ ಅಲ್ಲಿ PWD Guest House ನಲ್ಲಿ Rajshekar ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕರಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದ್ವಿ..ನಾವು ರಾತ್ರಿ ೧ ಘಂಟೆಗೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೋದಾಗ..ಆಗ ಅವರು ನಮಗೆ ಊಟವನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಿ ಉಪಚರಿಸಿದರು…ಬಹಳ ಚನ್ನಾಗಿ ಸತ್ಕರಿಸಿದರು….ಅಲ್ಲೆ ಮಲಗಕ್ಕು ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರು…



ಮರುದಿನ ಮುಂಜಾನೆ ೫-ಘಂಟೆಗೆ ಎದ್ದು ಸೂರ್ಯೋದಯ ವನ್ನು ನೋಡಲು ಬೆಟ್ಟವನ್ನು ಹತ್ತಿದ್ವಿ…ಆದ್ರೆ ಮೋಡಭರಿತ ವಾತರವಣದಿಂದ ರವಿಯನ್ನು ನೋಡಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲ….



ಆದರೆ.. ಕೊಡಚಾದ್ರಿ ಎಲ್ಲರು ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಸಾರಿ ನೋಡಬೇಕು…

ಅಬ್ಬಾ!!! ಸಹ್ಯಾದ್ರಿ ಮಾತೆಯ ಮಡಿಲಲ್ಲಿ ,ಅವರ ಮಕ್ಕಳಂತೆ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದ,ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಆಗು-ಹೋಗುಗಳು…ಮರೆತು ತಾಯಿಯ ಮಡಿಲಲ್ಲಿ ಮಲಗಿರುವಂತೆ ಇತ್ತು…ಆ ಮೋಡಗಳು-ತಾಯಿಯು ಮಗುವನ್ನು ಅಪ್ಪಿಕೊಂಡು ಮುದ್ದಾಡುವಂತಿತ್ತು..ಅವಳು ಉಟ್ಟಿದ್ದ ಹಸಿರು ಸೀರೆ…ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ವಿಸ್ಮಯವಾಗಿತ್ತು…




ಕೆಲವು ಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ನಾವು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಮರೆತು ಯಾವುದೋ ಲೋಕಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದಿವಿ ಅನಿಸುತಿತ್ತು…..ಯಾಕೋ ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಏನೋ ಕಳೆದು ಕೋಂಡಿದ್ದಿವಿ ಅನಿಸುತಿತ್ತು….ಈಗ ಕೂಡ ದೃಶ್ಯವನ್ನು ನೆನಸ್ಕೋಂಡ್ರೆ ಕಣ್ಣಲ್ಲಿ ಅಳು ಬರುತ್ತೆ…ಅಮ್ಮಾನ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬಂದ್ವಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಿವಿ ಅನ್ಸತ್ತೆ..:(…..

ಆದ್ರೆ ಬೆಟ್ಟವನ್ನು ಇಲಿಯುವಾಗ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಹಲ್ಲ ಇತ್ತು..ಸುಮ್ಮ್ನೆ ಹಾಗೆ ಬಗ್ಗಿ ನೋಡಿದ್ವಿ…



ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಜನ ಕಸವನ್ನು ತುಂಬ್ಸಿದ್ದ್ರು…chips packet cover,pepsi-cola bottles,water bottle..ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ…ಅದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿದಾಗ ಬಹಳಾ ಬೇಜಾರಾಯ್ತು…ಯಾಕೆ ನಮ್ಮ್ ಜನ ಹೀಗೆ???
ಕೊಡಚಾದ್ರಿಗೆ ಹೋಗುವಂತ ಜನರು ಎಲ್ಲ್ರು ಓದಿರುವವರು..ಓದಿರೊವ್ರೇ ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರೆ..ಹೇಗೆ???
ಸುಮಾರು IT ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡೋವ್ರೆ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗೋದು..ಅವ್ರು ಸಹ ಅವಿದ್ಯಾವಂತರಂತೆ ಆಡ್ತಾರೆ…ಯಾಕೆ??? Company ಇಂದ US,Europe ಅಥವಾ ಬೇರೆ ದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಬಂದ ಮೇಲೆ ಅವರು ಎಲ್ಲ್ರಿಗು ಹೇಳ್ತಾರೆ ,ಅಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಾ clean..roads,busstands…ಆದ್ರೆ ನಮ್ಮೂರಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ನಾವು ಹೋಗಿದ್ದ್ ಕಡೆಯಲ್ಲಾ chips packet cover,biscuit cover,popcorn..paper..ಎಲ್ಲ ಕಸವನ್ನು road ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಕಿ ಖುಷಿಯಾಗಿ ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋಗ್ತಿವಿ ಯಾಕೆ??? ಹೋದ ವರ್ಷ ಜೋಗ್ ಗೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ ಅಲ್ಲು ಕೂಡ ಹೀಗೆ…ಊಟದ ಎಲೆ,plates,icecream cover…ಯಾಕೆ ನಾವು ಹೀಗೆ? ನಾವು ಬದಲಾಗಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿದ್ದಿವೇ????

ಬಹುಷಃ ನಾವು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನೆ ಅಗಾಗ ಈ ಮಾತನ್ನ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸ್ಕೋಂಡ್ರೆ…”ಯಾಕೆ ನಾವು ಹೀಗೆ”????
ನಮ್ಮ ಸಹ್ಯಾದ್ರಿ ಮಾತೆಯನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಿ ಮುಂದಿನ ಪೀಲಿಗೆಗು…ಅವಳನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಬಹುದು!!!

ಸಿರಿಗನ್ನಡಂ ಗೆಲ್ಗೆ…..
ನಮ್ಮ ನಾಡು ಕರುನಾಡು
ರಾಮನುಜನ್ ಮೇಲ್ಕೋಟೆ
ವಿ ದ ಪೀಪಲ್
We The People

A BUNCH OF HIPPOCRITES OR AN ENTIRE NATION OF THEM

One first note the headline or caption of this article would arouse the passion of patriotism among readers and I may earn a lot of brickbats for criticizing my own nation & society, but let me put it straight the article means no offence to anyone its just to create self awareness.

I read a news report a few months ago of a terrible incident that took place in Metro. A 12-year-old boy whose bicycle was damaged by a car(apparently an imported one) that was part of a wedding reception. When the kid asked for compensation so that he could repair his cycle, the people in the party took offence, beat him up and burnt him to death in a nearby field. The story was buried in the regional pages, and hardly generated any public outcry. A few days later, there was a story of a 2-year-old child who had been trapped in a borewell - a common occurrence across the country. Incidents like these capture the public imagination, and the media obligingly provides a minute-by-minute report of the rescue efforts.

Another incident that occurred a couple of weeks ago, to be specific 29 march 2008 when a national news broadcaster came up with a outrageous breaking news “DELHI: COMMISSIONERS DOG FOUND”, now please is our commercial and economic activity so dead that this has to be the breaking news. There are millions of dogs wandering on million streets in the nation. Seems like the dogs too are privileged like humans...”Commissioners dog” ,”celebrities” then come stray dogs & comman man.Can we stoop so low just for TRP ratings.





BREAKING NEWS!!!





I wondered at these two occurrences and reached an uncomfortable conclusion. We Indians are a nation of hypocrites. Our inconsistencies are not always in such stark and horrific terms, but in thousands of other ways, small and big.

Let me begin with a list of our great thinkers ,so called corporate heads, they get MBA from a prestigious American University, whose founder made his money by profiting from India's colonization or n years of work experience with MNC consulting firms. They fly business class, even though they profess to work on issues concerning the urban poor, illiteracy, and poverty.

I myself am not too far behind, after taking part in save water campaigns I guiltily let the water run when I shave because I find the sound of running water soothing small drops, but still, then comes my wastage of water when I am washing and cleaning, I do so without any tabs and try to wash it away by telling I am a cleanliness freak. There might have been may other situations where I have said one and done the opposite I am no saint too.

Here is some celebrity bashing, the king of bollywood who swore by our national game hockey to rake some moolay during his movie “CHAK DE –INDIA” release, turned out it was just for TRP and collections in BOX office. When the time came for real improvement of the game he chose CRICKET giving the exact opposite statement as to which game he loves..

There are more examples, but this is not some lecture or a sermon session. The point is that I don't want to sound like a sermon giving morally high headed bloke; I just want be frank on the challenges we have as a nation.

Hypocrisy is a big issue in most societies, but it's a particularly problematic one in India.

We believe that "mamatha"-a mother's affection-is a sacred emotion, worship women as goddesses and yet inflict horrors upon our women. We take bribes, and then hope to wash away our sins by thrusting thousands down the hundis of our temples. We speak of compassion, but show little for the the old man standing clinging on to a pole in a crowded public transport. We study "moral science" in our schools (whoever coined that phrase should be given a special award) and were tested to see if we got all the spelling right when we have the essence itself wrong.
We learn about civics and citizenship, and yet are often asked why we have such a strong sense of family, but such a poor sense of a larger community:


“How can our homes be so clean, and our streets so littered with garbage”?

Clearly, I am talking in general-there are most of us who would justifiably take offence at being called hypocrites, and for good reason. But they are a minority today.
Every day, in every field-business, politics, social work or sports— across the length and breadth of this country, millions of us indulge in acts of hypocrisy that collectively add up to an epidemic.

Aren’t we the same nation that:
- Never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
- Invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta
- Developed Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
- Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development,
India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the
Early 17th Century
- When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago,
- Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)

It seems that there was some noble past, a link between thought and action, where values were cherished. The signs are there: in the sublime music, in our dance forms, in the incredibly sophisticated material about human spirituality, and so on. So, how can a country with so much collective wisdom and spirituality be broken in so apparent a fashion?

It feels that we lost our way somewhere along the line. What is left today is only a frustrating glimpse of greatness into a life that was, leaving more questions than answers.

We have lost a sense of individual agency in our thoughts and actions. Like children of overachieving parents, we seem overwhelmed by the legacy of great ideas in our society. It's almost like we need to come over this complex thoughts that have settled upon our consciousness, and find morality for ourselves and then to society. To realize that words like "honesty" and "caring" and "respect" are most powerful when acted upon and, not lectured about or written about.

But if we have the perspective to consider our actions, and the courage to correct ourselves, we can rekindle the greatness that our society seems to have once had. And maybe rediscover our moral compass, one person at a time.

I’d like to end with a few notes about my nation by a few great men.

Albert Einstein said:

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,Without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”

Mark Twain said:

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of humanSpeech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandMother of tradition. Our most valuable and most constructive materials in theHistory of man are treasured up in India only”.

French scholar Romaine Rolland said:

“If there is one place on the face of earthWhere all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest daysWhen man began the dream of existence, it is India.”

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said:

“India conquered anddominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a singlesoldier across her border.”

All the above is just the TIP of the iceberg, the list
could be endless.

WELL SOMEONE SAID THE WORD “I” IS GREEDY ,WELL IAM GREEDY FOR MY NATION TO GROW,SO ALL YOU I’S JOIN AND MAKE OUR NATION.

Readers kindly oblige this article is inspired by a book written by a social columnist, social worker and former employee of a MNC.


Not My Job!


Cheers,
Akshay Balachandra
We The People

"CTRL + P Paper to PAUPERED"

"CTRL + P Paper to PAUPERED"


One of the most important things that go unnoticed when wasted is PAPER. We don’t feel the pinch as most of us in the corporate world pay for it directly. —after all, paper is pretty cheap— But having more ethical values about it would make it a lot easier to save it.

People take it very Easy & Ignorant, while taking the Print Outs. This may be due to:

1) Lack Of Awareness (Though Most Of them are Well Educated!!!)
2) Care-Free Attitude- (after all, paper is pretty cheap, Company Shall Bear the Expenses!)How People Mis Use Paper….
1) Take Unnecessary Print Outs
2) Print Outs of E-Books (And it is also Not ethical to take print outs of E-Books)
3) One Sided Print Outs

Most of the times, the printed materials are not used once it is read. Later they are found in the Bin or lying in a corner.

Paper accounts for more than half of all municipal solid waste (a.k.a. trash). Anything we can do to save paper will help reduce the amount of trash going into landfills, and it will also reduce energy use and pollution associated with manufacturing, transporting, and recycling new paper products. Perhaps most importantly, when we save paper, we reduce the need to cut down trees to make new paper.

How best can we reduce the Usage of Paper……???

OK, by now we know that the "Paperless Office" is a myth. Infect, computers seem to have actually increased our use of paper. So at least we shall make an attempt to minimize the Usage of Paper.
All we need to do is, be cautious before doing Ctrl+P.

Review Drafts Using On-Screen Tricks

One can often get "screen blind" after looking at a document on the screen for a long time, and reviewing a printout allows one to catch errors that would have gone unnoticed. An on-screen trick that will allow We to review your document from a seemingly different perspective is to temporarily change the font size of the text (typically making it larger). This makes the words easier to read and shifts things around a bit, giving your eyes a new view of the document. If We have already implemented formatting that a change in font size would mess up, try increasing the apparent font size by setting the zoom to a higher percentage (or set it to "Page Width").

Print Pages, Passages, or Sections

Sometimes We may need a printout of only part of a large or medium-sized document. Perhaps We need to review one or two pages of a many-page document, or maybe We need just one section of a large spreadsheet. We may find the printing options in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint helpful in your quest to review your work but also minimize the number of pages We print.

• Microsoft Word: To print only the current page—i.e. the page where your cursor is—select Edit/Print, click the "Current Page" option button, and then click OK. Or We can print a range of pages by clicking the "Pages" option button and entering the range of pages We want to print (e.g. 4-5).

• Excel: The above "page range" approach will also work with Excel. Alternately, We can select a range of cells in your spreadsheet; then when We go to print, click the "Selection" option button on the print dialog. If We do this, it's a good idea to then do Preview to make sure the printout will be what We expect. If it's not, We can use the Setup option from within the Preview frame to tweak the page orientation, the margins, or the "Adjust to" percentage to get the printout arranged the way We want.

• PowerPoint: The following options on the print dialog will help We print only the pages We want:
o clicking the "Current Slide" option button will limit the printout to just the slide We are currently viewing;

o Clicking the "Slides" option button and filling in a slide range will limit the printout to a range of slides.

Use Double Sided:
Anytime We have to print or make photocopies, always try to do so double-sided. Most copiers today have features that will allow "one-sided to two-sided" copying, and many laser printers allow "duplex" printing. Check with your office geek if you're not sure.

If your printer does not allow double-sided printing, We can do it manually using Microsoft Word's printing features:
• First print the odd pages;
• then flip the printed pages over and put them back in the printer;
• Then go back to Word and print out the even pages.

Print “Two Up”

Some computer software—such as Microsoft Word—allows the printing of two reduced-size pages on one sheet of paper. (We can usually print even more pages per sheet, but once We get beyond two, things get very hard to read.) The "two up" printouts look sort of like the pages of a book, and they cut your paper use in half. We can even use double-sided printing in combination with two-up printing to cut your paper use by 75% compared to "normal" one-up, one-sided printing. Again, check with your office tech-support person if We have trouble figuring out how to use any of these options.

Print Again on the Blank Side

If you have paper that was printed on one side that is staple-free and wrinkle-free, We can use it again for making draft printouts. If We have a personal ink jet, We can keep your draft paper in the same in-printer stack as the clean paper and just flip the stack around, depending on whether We need a final printout (on virgin paper) or a draft (on once-printed paper). If We share a laser printer at the office, We may be able to agree to use the #2 paper drawer for draft printing.

Use Obsolete Print outs for Note Paper

For paper that still has a blank side but isn't pristine enough to go into the printer for one last round of printing, We can still get more out of it by using it for taking notes at meetings and whatnot. A clipboard is a convenient way to create a scrap-paper notepad. If you're a hard-core paper saver, We can cut old printouts into fourths or sixths and make a stack of them to use for writing notes and phone messages. Both methods will reduce the number of new note pads and message pads We need to buy.

Cheers,
Akshay Balchandra
Ramanujan Melkote
Sudheer Keshav

Magic Box???

With almost less than 30-60 days, Bangalore International Airport Start operating, yet there is no proper Connectivity! Probably Bangalore International Airport is the only International Airport without proper connectivity!!!!

Airport which is almost 35 kms from Bangalore Kempegowda Bus stand, has raised many questions and fear in the minds of People. Actually it might take more time in reaching Airport from the city center, than traveling in the Air.

Road connectivity to the airport remains an issue and obviously the single largest concern. The NH-7 which is the only highway that links the city and the airport is already choked with heavy vehicular traffic. NHAI did quite well to accommodate huge traffic from Hebbal Flyover. But the real problem lies till we reach Hebbal Flyover. Almost all Junctions within the city are Jammed!

To overcome this, BBMP came out with the idea of "Magic Box”. Magic Boxes are immediate replacements for Underpass.




These Boxes which are 4.5 mts Wide, can accommodate 2 Four -Wheeler/ 1 lorry/bus...and almost all the Magic Boxes have the Concept of u -Turn, myself traveling daily through the Cauvery Theater Magic Box,
1) U-Turn is very narrow
2) Magic Box is too small
3) Magic Box will be tested During Rainy season


Magic box is an ideal solution for smaller junctions. It is very compact, has anyone imagined what will happen if a bus breaks down inside the magic box??

But no one here has a foresight, a true example of this was when the work started for Cauvery Junction, the BWSSB pipes were dug up, on enquire BBMP came up with the most outrageous reply (you can only expect from them) “we did not know about this”!!!
Well for this they take home the award under the category - “THIS IS NOT MY JOB”.



Magic Box At Cauvery Theater.


Now after enough of cribbing on traffic lets move to the other amenities. After proudly declaring that the whole junction from High ground police station to Hebbal would be signal free, lets see where a common man stand. What if a man has to cross from BDA complex to the road that connects Vasanthnagar, similarly at other junctions. Can now the question be asked where the pedestrian skyways are?? Or is it expected after a couple of senior citizens and school kids are killed in these junctions.

Next in the list of complaints would be street lighting. Well the traffic woes kind of end at Hebbal flyover but lighting problem would start from here. No street lights either at the center on the road divider or on the sides. Where is the safety? (Somebody said Bangalore is a safe place, I don’t know for residents or thieves) This issue gets a mention because there are residential layouts on both sides of NH & from Hebbal to almost Devanhalli or BIAL (if not already existing will come up soon).When will street lighting be provide?? Maybe we will have to wait for another set of elections, new BBMP chief’s etc .Huh!!

The great town planners or city planners came up with the equation BANGALORE = SINGAPORE but with a minor correction minus basic amenities.

Can anyone show me public restrooms or toilets on either side of the road on the entire stretch. Imagine the plight of women, children and handicapped people (I am trying to ignore the men!!). Another unanswered question.

Well at the end of it just one simple question We need to ask.
o DID THE BIAL POP UP OVERNIGHT??
o Wasn’t it planned and the implementation started 6 long years ago!!!
o The deadline date was then fixed as 30 march 2008.
But We guess BBMP realized it & started the work in January 2008.
 What were they doing from 2003 to 2007??
 What do we call this gracious ignorance or over confidence??

11 MAY 2008 = “DEAD”LINE!!!!


-
Akshay B
We The People.

Summer’s on So What’s the Fun ?

So the topic this time would be what to do this summer to save Electricity?

Don’t get shocked.. I am not asking u guys not to switch off your Fans but you guys can put it to better use.

Just take some time out to read this one !!

Some use too much, but some have no electricity at all

Those of us living in cities are so used to electricity we take it for granted. We feel a big gap in our lives when the power cuts and loadshedding begins. But actually, a lot of rural India still doesn’t have electricity! More than half of all the houses in India do not have any electricity. According to the 2001 census only 44% of rural households are electrified.

While 99% of villages in Himachal Pradesh are electrified, only 26% of villages in Jharkhand and 50% in Bihar have electricity.

Now that summer’s here we’re all getting ready to face more and more power cuts. Candles are kept handy and people are wary of using lifts. This year the government has warned that there will be even more power shortages throughout the country and has asked everyone to cut down on their use of electricity.

Of course we should save electricity because there isn’t enough to go around. But there are also other sound reasons why you should cut down on how much electricity you use.

We think of electricity as being a particularly clean form of energy because when we use it for trains, TV sets, computers or electric lights, it doesn’t give off any smoke or have dangerous waste products. But the process of making electricity is certainly polluting, whether it is done by coal-fired thermal power plants or diesel generators. Electricity-generating power plants release a lot of carbon dioxide, and we know that carbon dioxide emissions are causing climate change. Nuclear reactors may not be polluting in this way but their environmental problems may be worse, as we saw in the Chernobyl disaster. Hydropower, which was once thought of as being harmless, is now seen as having its own problems. These include the fact that the dams needed to produce hydropower block rivers and get people kicked out of their own land.

So using less electricity can only be a good thing. Let’s see how you can do this.

What uses the most electricity in a home?

To find out, we first need to understand a tiny bit about electricity. When electric energy in the form of a current flows in a wire and meets with resistance, it does ‘work’. Electric power is the amount of work done by an electric current in a time period. This is measured in units called ‘watts’. Our appliances convert this work into heat, light or mechanical energy. Converting electricity from one form into another is what uses it up and we pay for what we convert. We know how much we are using because most electrical gadgets have the number of watts they use written on them. As an obvious example, a 100-watt light bulb uses 100 watts! An air conditioner uses about 3500. The more the watts, the more electricity a machine uses.

One simple rule is that converting electricity into heat or mechanical motion uses up more of it then turning it into sound or light energy. The household appliances that use up the most electricity are air conditioners which convert electricity to mechanical energy. This mechanical energy is used to pump, compress and expand a coolant gas, which is then used to cool down a room. The next biggest electricity user is heaters, both room heaters and water heaters which convert electricity energy to heat energy. This is done using a metal’s natural resistance to electricity to make it hot and pass this heat to the room or to water. Then come washing machines which mechanically agitate water and clothes to clean them. Many washing machines also have built-in heaters to warm the water.

The way to save electricity in these machines is obviously to turn the machines off! But since this is not always possible we can try and reduce the energy conversion process. We can understand this by looking at refrigerators which also work like air conditioners and are left on all the time. Yet they don’t use that much electricity because of the closed area inside the refrigerator and the insulation and sealing. Once the storage space inside the refrigerator is cool a thermostat shuts the motor down until the temperature rises, when it switches on again. Refrigerator and insulation technology has improved so much that modern ones actually use little energy compared to those of just a few years ago. But even in these, if you left your refrigerator door open, it would use a lot more electricity than an AC. In fact if a fridge door is opened and closed more often than usual, as when you have guests, you will see the electricity bill will go up. So to use less electricity, an air conditioned room can be sealed and properly insulated from outside heat and then the AC would need to do far less work to bring the temperature down.

This is also true of a water heater. Every time it is switched on it heats up the water and some of the surrounding metal container. If you could for example have everyone who was using hot water use it one after another and then switch it off, you would only be heating water instead of the metal casing. In any case, tank type storage water heaters waste electricity because they keep the water hot all the time, even when no one needs it.

Fans work differently, they don’t actually bring the temperature down, they just mechanically blow the air around, providing a cooling breeze. So they do use electricity but not as much as air conditioners.

What is perhaps surprising is that the most obvious sign of electricity – lights -- don’t actually use that much electricity. But ordinary incandescent bulbs, because they work by heating a filament inside the bulb, use a lot more energy than do tubelights. And in the long term this energy saving will be noticeable. TVs too don’t use that much electricity, since energy is just being converted to light in cathode ray tubes. But you don’t use the TV with the sound off, and that’s what uses up most power, the speakers which convert electricity to sound. Computer monitors use just as much as TV sets do and in the long term you can save a lot of power by using LCD screens which use about a third less electricity as compared to the standard cathode ray ones. Computers themselves use tiny amounts of electricity.

But if you don’t switch them off, even these tiny amounts of electricity add up. One of the most wasteful ways we use electricity is the ‘standby’ or ‘sleep’ switch that is found on nearly all entertainment appliances or computers. That’s the little light on your TV or stereo system that stays on when the rest of the device is switched off, ensuring that when you next turn it on you can use the remote without having to turn on the mains switch. These tiny light bulbs and their accompanying circuitry may use little energy but are left on nearly all the time in nearly every home that has TVs. In the UK it was calculated that each year two power stations worth of electricity is wasted by these standby bulbs.

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Anti-Cracker Campaign

"Stop or reduce quantum of bursting crackers"

Diwali is round the corner and people must be busy shopping for clothes, sweets, candles, diyas and other puja materials at a feverish pace. But the shopping list also include crackers. This is a point to ponder for our public, which should be made aware of the ill-effects of bursting crackers during a festival associated with joy, peace and prosperity.
Though there are many NGOs,TV campaign,Schools, thriving hard to Educate the Children,yet Many People ignore the aftermaths of bursting crackers.Every Year people buy crackers worth 700 crores.And secondly Cracker Manufacturing involves child Labour,which effectively means we could have built 100 Primary schools!
We are not totally against bursting crackers.But there are few regulations,to be followed strictly!.Unfortunately "We" dont bother..:(
Order of Hounarable Supreme Court

1)Banned the manufacture of any cracker, which emits sound of 120 decibels and above, the sound made by a jet taking off five feet away.

2)The order asked manufacturers to print details of chemical composition of the crackers as well as the date of manufacture

3)Ban on Child-Labour

But........
The sound levels of Different Crackers were recorded:

Atom Bomb - 144.9db
Serial Cracker - 142db
Thunderbolt - 140db
Kingfisher Shell - 141db
Hydro Bomb - 122db (Source: NDTV)

Also,Medical experts say that high decibel levels can cause hearing damage, which can be permanent. It can also lead to an Increase in the blood pressure and cause seizures and convulsions in young children and the elderly.

Do we really bother while buyin the crackers? But we certainly do while Buying Medicine!
Finally...Diwali should not be associated with crackers. It should be celebrated with sweets, lights and colour. We should remember people who have sacrificed their life for the country and donate money towards some social cause instead of wasting it on crackers.

Wishing you all Happy and Safe Deepavali
Cheers,
Ramanujan
Sudheer Keshav

A Word...

A WORD


I was sitting on a sea shore. Many waves came down & went away just like that. I thought, “Even my life is like this, it is ‘born’ now and ‘dead’ the next moment.
What is the meaning of my life??

I can’t say anything! I have no answer.
Now I started to think, how can I make my life meaningful?
My life is a wave….ok. Now I want to make it special. If I want to make a ripple in a bowl special, it must be strong, in the sense, the stone I throw must be thrown strongly. Now coming to my life, which is the point where I can make my life strong?

The answer is obvious, the point is ‘young age’. Ok now I know, I have to do something, what shall I do??
Now if I think what have I taken, or what has the nature given to me, I get the answer in thousands. I cut the trees and built my ‘sweet’ home, used ‘fast’ vehicles and polluted the air as much as I could. Polluted everything I saw, as if I created them.

Nature has given me all the things to live. It has given food, cloths, shelter, air, water, beauty and most importantly ‘LIFE’.
But what have I given to the nature?
Well, if I ask this question finding an answer to this question will be a mysterious adventure, and I can say “I have given nothing”. It’s an embarrassment that we do not feel embarrassed to say this but feel proud instead.

Come on man this is not the way u do. When u have taken something from someone, you give something else to them. That’s why we are called humans. That is called humanity and it’s the identity of mankind.

Now I am clear, I have to give something to the ‘NATURE”.
But nature is too big, my contribution is of no matter. It’s ‘too big’.

I have an idea we can contribute to our nation. It’s in our reach.
So, lets work for our nature and so our nation and finish our duty, and repay our debt to Mother Earth, Mother India.


Cheers,
Lakshmeesha.K (for We The People)

We The People Thanks Lakshmeesha K contribution to the Blog.We also request All other Readers to Pitch in with their Ideas and Suggestions.

Lane Discipline...What???

LANE DISCIPLINE



Wow we guys are all such talented riders and drivers !! Cheers to us for driving so well and making Bangalore traffic so easy to drive with. Now what is this Lane ? which we stress upon so much and why do we need it ? ?

Let us come to practicality, imagine a scenario where we all live in !! BANGALORE
Whats the advantages of driving in lanes ?

1. Saves TIME which is the most important factor while automobile or else we all could have gone walking 
2. Saves FUEL, when we drive in lanes we don’t need to use the clutches/ brakes often.
3. Driving becomes much easier, I mean hassle free.

But coming back to Bangalore, where lanes are not specified, the driver needs to auto judge himself as to where he intends to drive/ride.

Wheres the LANE???




The problem with Bangalore is that the roads are narrow at most of the places making the drivers to follow irregular lanes. But this cannot be an excuse for not driving properly.

Another issue is that the lanes are not clearly marked in most of the roads which cause haphazard lane changing of vehicles. So again here too we have to be a self judge and not change lanes to find that our Car gets Kissed by another vehicle.
After a simple survey of most of the roads, we came to the conclusion that most of the Bangalore roads lie between the range of 40ft-25ft.
Me and my friend Ramanu drafted this simple idea of driving in lanes in Bangalore successfully. We think this would satify most of the problems that all face.

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The Problem
NO LANE DISCIPLINE which causes GREAT Driving Problems !!
Solution--
What the People need to do ??
2 Wheelers : DON’T Overtake cars from the right. Stay as far as possible on the left side of the road ( NUGGUSBEDI ). Just because you are the proud owner of a 2 wheeler don’t just sneak into any gap wherever u get. Have some concern for others when you ride your bike.
4 Wheelers: Drive as far as possible on the right extreme of the road. Only if the road is wide enough to make 2 lanes for cars and other 4 wheelers. Don’t overtake 2 wheelers from the left side !! A lot of motorists do this. Don’t change lanes unnecessarily, unless u have to take a left or a right turn, Use appropriate indicators wherever necessary to change lanes

Remember Murphy’s Law of lane Change
“ if u change your lane while driving, the lane you left will move faster than the one you are in !! “

Auto Rick’s : You guys are a major backbone of transport in Bangalore, Neevu Nuggusbedi !! follow your lane of either the right most corner or the left most corner of the road, so that u guys are also not disturbed when driving.
Buses: A usual trend in bus stands is that the bus coming behind overtakes the bus already standing in the bus stand, to hinder his path. Follow First IN First OUT policy, it makes the traffic look neat and move neat.

Trucks and Other Vehicles: Don’t show your muscle to Cars and other vehicles. The main purpose of having transport vehicles is to move goods not scare away other vehicles. Pls ensure all the indicators are in working condition.

What the Government needs to do ??
This time it’s the people who have to take the initiative to drive in a disciplined manner but the Govt has to also play its part In making this a success
This was what the Govt Promised to do !

But as usual the Govt has failed.
Some other small steps what the govt can ensure:
1. Draw Appropriate lanes On roads using Reflective Stickers
2. Accurately knock down illegal prop. Protruding in the roads and make roads uniform in width.
3. making the Left half of the road more even by filling up all the Dug up Potholes by water dept/ Telephones etc, so that the 2 wheelers do not use the left lanes]
4. Banking newly laid roads properly so that there’s no waterlogging and vehicles resort to use only one lane of the road.
5. Making Strict rules of having Trucks/ Lorries having timings for entering/ leaving particular places.
6. Providing more “ Change Lanes” sign boards at wider roads.

Last But not the Least “ Please give us proper roads …. Or else we would not have fought this way for only one half of the proper road “
Final Word: This Simple problem of lane discipline is very easy to follow


When these ants can do it we humans can definitely do it !!


It’s a collective effort from both the ends, from the citizens and the Govt too, but the Citizens have to play a much greater role in this particular aspect.

Cheers

Sudheer & Ramanujan!!

THE GREAT INDIAN “ SPITTING” COBRA

THE GREAT INDIAN “ SPITTING” COBRA


The six fundamental rights in India are
1. Right to equality
2. Right to freedom
3. Right against exploitation
4. Right to freedom of religion
5. Cultural and educational rights
6. Right to constitutional remedies
But people forget to mention one most important fundamental right which they use so very often

“Right to Spit “

Photo Taken from Hindusthan Times-Dated 11/09/2007 Mumbai Edition
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Spitting upon another person, especially onto their face, is a universal sign of anger, hatred or contempt. It is possible to transmit infectious diseases in this way.In London, transport workers who deal with the public have recently been given equipment to collect saliva when they are spat upon by irate passengers. The police can then analyse the DNA of the offender.It is normally considered rude, and a social taboo. It is sometimes considered a competitive and fun activity amongst youths.

But wait....

We don’t stay in any of these countries, we stay in India where spitting might be inculcated by anyone just because the “ snake god “ spits , hence I spit !!

The problem – very obvious spitting
and not just spitting , spitting here and there all places, not seeing it might just hit anyone’s head, true Russel’s Viper Style spitting. And we feel very happy after spitting as if we achieved a great feat in life.

The solution to this : very simple don’t spit

But that’s useless, we all still spit don’t we ?

So what we have to do ?

Control our spit. “Stop eating Gutkhas and Pan masalas “ which further bring in a tendancy to spit and cause more diseases like mouth cancer. Only if u have a mouth then arises the prob of spitting. Eating all these Gutkhas will ensure ur mouth will have cancer shortly and u cannot spit. Hence Gutkha baba Zindabad !!
Another simple solution is look for places where u can ideally spit without causing any harm to anyone. In a side or some place away from easy access. Now that does not mean we start spitting around on walls and corners making them dirty.
Spitting is even a great talent. Don’t waste such good talent in India. There are some places whereby spitting is a competitive sport, with or without a projectile in the mouth.
For example, there is a Guinness World Record for cherry pit spitting, and there are world championships in Kudu dung spitting.

What the Government has to do about spitting ?

The government has to spit out some serious action against the spitters. They need to impose a ban of atleast Rs 1000 on the cobras so that they stop spitting in public. If not atleast that they must install use and throw paper bins which can collect all this venom and burn it off at some unmanned location.

Final word : Not spitting is really a great thing the citizens do for the country. And for all the spitters who spit pan masala and other super stuff, pls continue to do that, Atleast this way let india’s population reduce !! thank u

Cheers,

Sudheer & Ramanujan !!!

NO PARKING

No parking means a place or a road reserved for only movement of traffic and not any vehicle to stop completely.
The formal meaning goes this way
NO PARKING: This sign is erected where parking is not allowed but vehicles can stop for short duration to allow passengers to get into or get out of the vehicle. The sign should be accompanied by suitable kerb or carriageway markings.

An Addition to this symbol is the NO PARKING OR STANDING symbol.


Lets Define It
NO PARKING OR STANDING: This sign is erected where vehicles are prohibited to stop even temporarily.


Now lets add some colour to the blog . Defining Picture of the week !!
Place taken : Jayanagar 4th block Opp RV Dental College, Bus Stand
Time: 5:30 in the evening

The Picture says it all . What else can we say. If our lawful police was doing its duty this vehicle should have been right away in the nearest police station which is about 100 yards away. But unfortunately which was not done so. Instead they pick 2 wheelers which do not occupy space as much as these big vehicles .


THE PROBLEM : Lack of parking space, Parking Congestion


Time for some GYAAN on parking
CARS
There are 2 kinds of parking for cars
a) Horizontal Parking : Parking your cars horizontally or Angularly as we usually do it. This kind of parking is mainly useful when there’s less space for parking but the roads are wide enough to take the length of the car.
b) Vertical Parking: Parking your cars one behind the other is an example for vertical parking, Although this occupies more space when parking. We use

Please note that u need more practice with driving to park your cars vertically rather than parking them horizontally.


BIKES
What Parking Strategy can u employ for bikes ? ? ?
Well if you people were thinking that it what would be the ideal ideas to park a bike? The solution is really simple

Park your bikes on main stands in crowded places .

Are u thinking how this is going to work ? ?

An ideal bike takes just about 2 feet in width to park. But so called smart people always flamboyantly try to park it on their side stands which occupies 2.6 feet to park. If the parking space length is about 20 feet, only 7 bikes can be parked on side stand where as 10 bikes on main stand !!

More Pics....ARE WE EDUCATEDS?



THE SOLUTION :
What should the Citizens Do ??
Respect the “ No Parking” Signs more and abide them.

An alternative for them would be that they should park their cars a few yards away from their destination and walk till the destination which would result in some steps towards parking decongestion.
Respect the style of parking. Follow the order of parking If the parking is either vertical or horizontal meaning not to change the order in which it is parked.

What the Government can Do ? ?

Build more Multilevel Parking Spaces. Saying this is so easy. But implementing this is really tough. The Govt has to implement it only on new constructions. But to do it our Govt has to take sound advice from designers all over Europe where this plan is implemented excellently.Temporarily allocate Litigated land for parking in major busy junctions, so that the traffic and the parking scenario gets eased a little bit. The Govt gets a lot of parking revenue from vehicles every year which goes unaccounted. This unaccounted money can be diverted into an Accounted channel this way. With the renewal of insurance of vehicles each year they must have a fixed parking charge associated with the vehicle each year and collect it with the insurance when it is paid.
With this model, the, Govt is also saved of getting huge money cheated, which can be used for the betterment of the current state of affairs.With this We would like to conclude this week’s Problem of dealing with “ No Parking” .

Hope we find a better solution with more ideas from the readers’ end too.

Regards,

Sudheer & Ramanujan

What " WE THE PEOPLE " is about

Hello Friends and fellow readers,

Let me introduce myself and my friend to you all. I am Ramanujan & my friend helping me with this initiative is Sudheer. We have succeeded in our technical acumen as engineers. As frustrated citizens of Bangalore we decided to start this hoping that it would help the city/state/nation.

With this blog what we would like to do is to create Awareness & Discipline in people for small deeds of theirs' which causes either an inconvenience to others or damages public property, or against their own hygiene.

These deeds are knowingly or unknowingly done by all of us, but its upto us to correct/rectify them. A simple example of this is Spitting or Urinating in Public Places........ Lots more of such small things to come.

The Simple way that we adopt with this blog is a Question and answer method or a Problem and Solution Method,with the problem we will provide an evidence each week with the related problem.

Every week we will deal with an issue related to such simple problems where even U Readers could give us more suggestions and the other users by following these could implement them in their everyday life.

The readers could also pitch in with evidence too .


Finally pls ask this question to yourself " what you did for the country and not what the country did for you ", so that we make it a better place for all to live in.

Regards,

Ramanujan & Sudheer