Thursday, May 31, 2012

India Pakistan Partition 1947 - A sad day in History


WORLD'S BIGGEST MIGRATION OF HUMAN BEING ON EARTH

The Partition of India and Pakistan which took place on 14th August, 1947 is still known as the WORLD'S BIGGEST MIGRATION OF HUMAN BEING ON EARTH, where Over 1 million people migrated from India to Pakistan
Millions left for their promised new homeland with smiles on their faces as trains left both India and Pakistan.
This is a train to Pakistan being given a warm send-off.

                      
In 1947, the border between India and its new neighbour Pakistan became a river of blood, as the exodus erupted into rioting.
These pictures are by Margaret Bourke-White from Khushwant Singh's book Train to Pakistan, Roli Books.
Overcrowded trains leaving for Pakistan following the partition.
  Another image of people on the train to Pakistan.

Over 10 million people were uprooted from their homeland and travelled on foot, bullock carts and trains to their promised new home.
In a couple of months in the summer of 1947, a million people were slaughtered on both sides in the religious rioting.
Here, bodies of the victims of rioting are picked up from a city street.
The massive exchange of population that took place in the summer of 1947 was unprecedented.
It left behind a trail of death and destruction. The Indian map was slashed to make way for a new country - Pakistan.
The street was short and narrow. Lying like the garbage across the street and in its open gutters were bodies of the dead
With the tragic legacy of an uncertain future, a young refugee sits on the walls of Purana Qila, transformed into a vast refugee camp in Delhi.
Men, women and children who died in the rioting were cremated on a mass scale.
Villagers even used oil and kerosene when wood was scarce.

WORLD'S BIGGEST MIGRATION OF HUMAN BEING ON EARTH

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A tour of old Bangalore(50 Years Back) Rare Pics!!

Welcome  into the past. here are some images of Bangalore, generations old, that are apparantly lost in the pages of history. Come, travel with me back in time to the banglore in the days of the raj, when it was still a small cantonment town. the year was 1946. And the place, Namma Bengaluru.
Does this frame look familiar??? It should. This is the BRIGADE ROAD. The left hand side building is still standing, and housed the Ashok Electricals, the Post Office, now it is the LEE and Luis Phillips showroom. The road hasn’t got any bigger, but the traffic and the crowd definitely has.
1955 photo of Vidhana Soudha under construction. The construction began in 1952 and was inaugrated in 1956.
Does this frame look familiar??? It should. This is the BRIGADE ROAD. The left hand side building is still standing, and housed the Ashok Electricals, the Post Office, now it is the LEE and Luis Phillips showroom. The road hasn’t got any bigger, but the traffic and the crowd definitely has.
The above picture is of Hosur Road. the present day electronics, IT and BPO Hub.
This strong stone building is now only known as the Oriental Building( presently houses the LIC) and is at the intersection of MG Road (then called as, South Parade) and St. Marks Road. There apparently was a large circle at this juncture as can be seen in the photograph. The road you are looking at is St. Marks Road.
                               The town hall area….
This is the Mayo hall. It sure looks much more regal than what it does today. It houses the Courts and was apparently also one of the main Police Station jails. I do not believe that the staircase shown in the picture still exists, and the view is supposedly that from Residency Road, only after taking a print out will I be able to compare because the building is so symmetrical.
Observe something?? The licence plate shows BAN565 suggests that there were under 1000 cars in Bangalore in 1946. or in the entire state (then known as the state of Mysore).

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

How Language Created Borders...

I recently saw a beautiful advertisement on television. It was an ad by Idea, featuring Abhishek Bacchan and many other characters. The theme of this ad centered around the idea that linguistic divide is not a barrier instead it can be used to resolve differences. It is a fascinating thought. The India that they try to show in the ad is the India of my dreams.Sadly that is also the India that I might never get to see.
Language was created to bridge the gap between people. It was "supposed" to be the medium of communication. The way through which one man could express himself to others. It was created to spread love. But, hasn't it become another cause of conflict between various sections of society? Tamilians say Tamil is the greatest, Hindi speakers would say Hindi is the greatest of all. The Marathi people have become so obsessed with their language that they are willing to forget humanity for the sake of their native language. What kind of barbaric society have we become? Makes me feel like hating all the languages!

But then again, is "language" the real issue behind the conflict ? Hell No! Language in itself is so great that it does not need this high voltage drama to save it. It is the politicians who use such sensitive subjects to antagonize people and play politics over it. The day they made a decision to divide states linguistically our fate got sealed. Linguistic division created small societies and we got used to being a part of the small societies so much that we forgot everything about our common identity. In this country everyone became a Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi , Madrasi and finding an Indian in this crowd became "Mission Impossible".

There are so many examples one could name that are a bi-product of this linguistic divide. The Tamil Nadu language trouble(Read Dravidian Movement ), the Telangana row, the whole Marathi Manoos crap , U.P. government banning English; our country is full of such issues. A Karunanidhi or Jayalalitha wins an election based on this issue. Karunanidhi recently spent some Rs.480Crores on a Tamil language festival. This is a huge amount to spent on such a cause. Why didn't Karunanidhi think of other means of spending this money. Aren't we a "poor nation"?

All these efforts that every group is making to save their own language, according to me, are murdering the spirit of the language. Why can't we just let certain things be? Its important to save our languages from dying a bad death I know, but can't we do it together as one nation? Does saving one language means killing the other one? What about co-existence? Whatever happened to brotherhood? Where did our sense of oneness go? Why did we let politics enter within ourselves so much that we forgot the difference between right and wrong? Why???

Monday, May 28, 2012

The Life and Lies of Lalu

In the very first class of journalism our broadcasting professor asked us: Who is the one Indian Politician who has made the best possible use of media ? No one in the entire class had a clue. We came up with names such as the Gadhi's or Advani but the answer was Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Recently I came across a blog which was written in the form of an Obituary to Lalu Prasad Yadav called Once there was a man called Lalu. The blog is a tale of Lalu's rise to fame and his not so sad demise. Lalu or the Indian Politics' funny man was one of shrewdest brains of Indian politics. He was the man who changed the face of Bihar from bad to worse and of Indian Railways from a constant looser to a profit making machine. 

He will also be remembered for all the wonderful speeches which tickled our funny bones. But Lalu will always be best remembered the Chara Ghotala or the Fodder Scam which sent Lalu to jail and Rabri,his wife, straight to the CM's chair. 

During his regime most Bihar was living under the light of a LALTEN (lantern) which coincidently was also his party symbol. He lasted in Bihar for 10 long years and with all his devotion he sucked money out of the state and into his bank account. Now if you think that it's selfish act, think twice. Remember the weddings of Lalu's kids? It was a popular saying in those days: the place where Lalu marry's his kids, flourishes. So all the money he spent on those wedding might have been public money, but in the end it was the public who was gaining from it, right?

Well Lalu never thought that he will ever lose his hold on Bihar. Who would have thought that after 10yrs of love the people will forget him? Life was so much interesting in his times. Elections were never peaceful they always entertained people with nice fights. Who doesn't enjoy bit of an action? There was no electricity in the state. No electricity meant no work and full family time. Very bad literacy ratio as the kids never went to school, so more playing time and all-round grooming. 

After all the wonderful gifts he just won 4 seats this time. It seems like Lalu’s era is truly over. Now Bihar is growing and doing better at uninteresting things like GDP’s and NDI’s. Life was much simpler in his time but sadly those are the times no one seems to be missing. This truly is the demise of Lalu, India’s best funny man ever.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Proud To Be an Indian,


Last night I was searching something in GOOGLE based on Indian culture and values. Suddenly I saw a website containing some amazing facts related to India, which were really informative and interesting. I have decided to collect more and then published by this blog. I hope you would like it and at last you will say; “Jai Ho” !!!
1. The name “India” is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshipers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name “Hindustan” combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
2. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
3. India exports software to 90 countries.
4. Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
5. Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
6. The World’s first university was established inTakshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. TheUniversity of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
7. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.(a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987).
8. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidatedAyurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
9. 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. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India’s wealth.
10. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit ‘Nou’.
11. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart in 5th century that time taken by earth to orbit the sun 365.258756484 days.
12. The value of “pi” was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as thePythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
13. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BC during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
14. IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Chandra Bose and not Marconi.
15. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
16. According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 BC, a beautiful lake called Sudarshana was constructed on the hills ofRaivataka during Chandragupta Maurya‘s time.
17. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
18. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
19. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians establishedHarappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
20. The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population.
21. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
22. India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
23. India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.
24. India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
25. India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.
26. The first six Mogul Emperor’s of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.
27. The World’s First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ‘ 80-tonne ‘ piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
28. India is the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).
29. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called ‘Mokshapat.‘ The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowry shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e. good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
30. The world’s highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
31. India has the most post offices in the world!
32. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people!
33. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. (Source: Gemological Institute of America)
34. The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
35. Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
36. Islam is India’s and the world’s second largest religion.
37. There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
38. The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
39. Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively.
40. The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
41. The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world’s largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
42. Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
43. India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
44. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
45. India is the world’s largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
46. India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
47. India is the world’s largest democracy.
48. Varanasi, also known as Banaras, was called “the ancient city” when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
UPDATED ON 14/12/2010.
49. Most historians agree that the first recorded account of plastic surgery is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts.
50. India has the world’s largest movie industry, based in the city of Mumbai (known as the “City of Dreams”). The B in “Bollywood” comes from Bombay, the former name for Mumbai. Almost all Bollywood movies are musicals.
51. With 150,000 post offices, India has the largest postal network in the world.
52. India is the world’s largest producer of dried beans, such as kidney beans and chickpeas. It also leads the world in banana exports; Brazil is second.
53. The earliest cotton in the world was spun and woven in India. Roman emperors would wear delicate cotton from India that they would call “woven winds.” Mogul emperors called the fabrics “morning dew” and “cloth of running water.
54. India is the birthplace of chess.l The original word for “chess” is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning “four members of an army”—which were mostly likely elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers.
55. Hindi and English are the official languages of India. The government also recognizes 17 other languages (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali, Manipuri, Konkani, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu). Apart from these languages, about 1,652 dialects are spoken in the country.
56. India’s pastoral communities are largely dependent on dairy and have made India the largest milk-producing country in the world.
57. India has the world’s third largest road network at 1.9 million miles. It also has the world’s second largest rail network, which is the world’s largest civilian employer with 16 million workers.
58. India experiences six seasons: summer, autumn, winter, spring, summer monsoon, and winter monsoon.
59. India is the world’s largest tea producer, and tea (chai) is its most popular beverage.
60. The Taj Mahal (“crown palace”) was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666) for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631). This architectural beauty has been called “marbled embroidery” for its intricate workmanship. It took 22,000 workmen 22 years to complete it.
61. The first and greatest civilization in ancient India developed around the valley of the Indus River (now Pakistan) around 3000 B.C. Called the Indus Valley civilization, this early empire was larger than any other empire, including Egypt and Mesopotamia.
62. After the great Indus Civilization collapsed in 2000 B.C., groups of Indo-Europeans called Aryans (“noble ones”) traveled to northwest India and reigned during what is called the Vedic age. Aryans spoke and imported Sanskrit into India, which is the mother of all European languages. The mingling of ideas from the Aryan and Indus Valley religions formed the basis of Hinduism, and the gods Shiva, Kali, and Brahma all have their roots in Aryan civilization. The Aryans also recorded the Vedas, the first Hindu scriptures, and introduced a caste system based on ethnicity and occupation.
63. Alexander the Great invaded India partly because he wanted to solve the mystery of the “ocean,” which he had been told was a huge, continuous sea that flowed in a circle around the land. When he reached the Indian Ocean, he sacrificed some bulls to Poseidon for leading him to his goal.
64. Greek sculpture strongly influenced many portrayals of Indian gods and goddess, particularly after the conquest of Alexander the Great around 330B.C. In fact, early Indian gods had Greek features and only later did distinct Indian styles emerge.
65. Chandragupta Maurya (340-290 B.C.), a leader in India who established the Mauryan Empire (321-185 B.C.), was guarded by a band of women on horseback.
66. When the first independent prime minister of India, pacifist Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), was featured in Vogue, his distinctive close fitting, single-breasted jacket briefly became an important fashion statement for the Mod movement in the West. Named the Nehru jacket, the prime minister’s coat was popularized by the Beatles and worn by such famous people as Johnny Carson (1925-2005) and Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)

THE TOTAL COMES OUT TO BE 73000000000000 cR. = 73 LAKH CRORE RUPEES

1992 - Harshad Mehta Sec Scam - 5000 Cr.
1994 - Sugar Import Scam - 650 Cr.
1995 - Prefereential Allotment Scam - 5000 Cr.
Yugoslav Dinar Scam - 400 Cr.
Meghalaya Forest Scam - 300 Cr.
1996 - Fertilises import scam - 1300 Cr.
Urea Scam - 133 Cr.
BIHAR FODDER SCAM - 950 Cr.
1997 - Sukh Ram Telecom Scam - 1500 Cr.
SNC Lavalin Power Project Scam - 374 Cr.
Bihar kand scam - 400 Cr.
C.R.Bhansali Stock Scam - 1200 Cr.
1998 - Teak Plantation Scam - 8000 Cr.
2001 - UTI SCAM - 4800 Cr.
Dinesh Dalmia Stock Scam - 595 Cr.
Ketan Parekh Sec. Scam - 1250 Cr.
2002- Sanjay Agrawal Home Trade Scam - 600 Cr.
2003 - TELGI STAMP PAPER SCAM - 172 Cr.
2005 - IPO Demat Scam - 146 Cr.
Bihar flood relief scam - 17 Cr.
Scorpene submarine scam - 18,978 Cr.
2006 - Punjab's City Centre project Scam - 1500 Cr.
Taj Corridor Scam - 175 Cr.
2008 - Pune Billionaire Hassan Ali Tax default - 50,000 Cr.
Satyam Scam - 10000 Cr.
Army Ration Pilfrage Scam - 5000 Cr.
2-G Spectrum - 60000 Cr.
State Bank of Saurashtra Scam - 95 Cr.
Illegal monies in Swiss bank - 71,00,000 Cr.
2009 - Jharkhand Medical Equipment Scam - 130 Cr.
Rice export scam - 2500 Cr.
Orrissa mine scam - 7000 Cr.
MADHU KODA SCAM - 4000 Cr.

THE TOTAL COMES OUT TO BE 73000000000000 cR. = 73 LAKH CRORE RUPEES

iT ALL STARTED AFTER THE INDIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS. wE MAY BLAME ANYONE FOR THIS BUT THE REALITY IS ONE IN TWO INDIAN VOTES FOR OR HIMSELF IS CORRUPT.

Lets Drive the CHANGE

Hi friends,

Today we would like to tell you about a bureaucratic turned politician whose 30 years of service has been against corruption and injustice. Single handily he has fought against the system and yet survived through it. Now after his retirement the war continues for him.

In 2004 he contested the parliamentary election as an independent candidate from Pune and received over 60,000 votes without any infrastructure or organisational support and without adequate time.

Work Experience :
Management experience (Asia, Africa) in United Nations multi-disciplinary rural development projects included monitoring, report writing, training, liaising with NGOs and national governments and the formulation of funding proposals for UN agencies. In India, appointments were at secretariat and field levels and in rural and urban local bodies. Work pertained to physical and social infrastructure (watershed improvement, health etc.), rural employment, tribal development, land reforms, anti-poverty schemes, famine relief, drought recovery, resettlement of urban slums, project displaced persons and political refugees, and governance reform.
There was a focus on creating mechanisms for client participation in planning, execution and monitoring. Detected wide spread corruption. But the continuous effort to combat corruption met with limited success in the long term.
Main areas of interest :
Governance
Gender
Rehabilitation
Poverty
Social Mobilisation

CASES EXPOSED:

Whenever Bhatia detected corruption and initiated action against the culprits protected by the establishment, he was transferred. In subsequent postings when he raised the old issues and asked for action against offenders, he was told that this was no longer his concern. Transfer is an instrument not only of harassment but also of silencing protest within the system. Bhatia's protests and findings remained suppressed and law breakers walked away unpunished, unassailable and stronger than before.

And so in 26 years of service (excluding the training period and service in the United Nations), Bhatia was removed from his post (transferred) 26 times.

For more details you can refer to http://www.arunbhatiaelect.com/

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Indian Politics - A Family business

At present parliament of India is full of relatives more than ever before. Fathers and sons, Mother and daughters , wives of the politicians , widows, uncles and nephews of the politicians . Has democracy in India become a monarchy ?

A few years ago, when standards of behavior in the parliament of india were nose-diving – what with acrimony, physical demonstrations, un-parliamentary language and constant shrill bickering, a perpetual partisan divide and even occasional exchange of physical blows becoming the order of the day – former BJP prime minister Vajpayee wished that politics of india would live up to the age-old ideal of vasudeva kutumbikam (universe is a family ). In present scenario it seems that vajpayee's wish has come true, and at list Indian politics has become a family business or a family affairs.The biggest winner of the 2009 general elections was not the UPA but rather the dynasty in India.

Over the years, many young faces from political families have entered the parliament with free ticket to Politics – Rahul Gandhi , Rajeev Gandhi , Priyanka Gandhi , Uddhav Theray , Raj Thakeray , Sameer Bhujbal, Nilesh Rane, Milind Deora, Priya Dutt, Varun Gandhi, Jyoti Mirdha, Deependra Hooda – to name a few.

At present, 27 Members of parliament in Lok Sabha belong to political families proving my point that Indian politics has become a family affair, where parliamentary seats are heirlooms to be passed on. Grass root Leaders and young leaders with no patronage matter little, and given the huge money and muscle power involved in elections, non-family upstarts can only dream of power from the sidelines. All this has reduced politics of India to a kind of family business where merit is not valued and there are no opportunities for Common man.

Politicians from rich family background don’t understand the problem of common man as they are habitual of sitting in ACs and they know only how to do business and Make money. With this mindset they earn lots more but never understand difference between Politics and Business i.e. Social Work Vs Work for Earnings.
When i see present politicians of India i find most of them coming from or some way related to the prominent political families of India. Its make me think that whether the Indian politics has become such a family affair in India.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Remembering the diarist of Partition horrors

May 11 marks the birth centenary of the modern Urdu writer, Saadat Hasan Manto. Born in India in 1912, he died in Pakistan 43 years later. Manto's most enduring literary legacy were his stories — some just a few lines long — on the violence against innocent Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs in the aftermath of Partition.

His stories were about the Punjab in 1947. But they could be about Delhi, 1984, or Gujarat, 2002. The Hindu presents three of his stories-

1. Prior Arrangement

The first incident took place near the barricade. A constable was immediately posted there.

The very next day, another incident took place in front of the store. The constable was shifted to where the second incident had taken place.

The third incident happened near the laundry at midnight. When the Inspector ordered the constable to move to the new place, he took a few minutes before making the request: “Please depute me to that spot where the next incident is going to take place.”

2. Concession

“Please don't kill my young daughter in front of me...”

“OK...let's accept his request...take off her clothes and push her to the other side..”

3. Sorry

The knife ripped the stomach open beyond the navel, and the belt was cut. All of a sudden, the attacker was full of regret. “Oh...I have committed a mishtek.”

CEO of Andhra Pradesh:CHANDRABABU NAIDU

what we REALLY know about our former chief minister CHANDRABABU NAIDU.N ............????????????
Upcoming Graduates, Grduates, IT people, Govt & Private Sector Employees all should know about the great leader who is the real person behind the today's ANDHRA PRADESH ( IN EACH N EVERY SECTOR)
* He served as the Chief Minister of the State for a record holding of 9 years (1994–2004)
* The state's youngest assembly member and youngest minister at 28
* During his tenure, Chandrababu Naidu was the West's favourite Indian
* The governor of Illinois created a Naidu Day in his honour.
* He also won numerous awards including 'IT Indian of the Millenium' by India Today
* Business Person of the Year by Economic Times, member of the World Economic Forum's Dream Cabinet and South Asian of the Year by Time Asia
* He also held post of chairperson of the "National IT Panel" under NDA govt
* He was described as one of the Hidden Seven working wonders around the world by Profit, a monthly magazine published by Oracle Corporation, US
* Unlike the Congress government, he firmly believed in not giving away the freebies to people and instead asked them for short-term sacrifices for a better future.
Most of his schemes would be focusing on a better administration, better infrastructure, better awareness, better education and better Job opportunities to the people
* Chandrababu Naidu, has called for short-term sacrifices to turn Andhra Pradesh into an Asian tiger in his era.
* Naidu is the first politician in India who has very clearly focused on delivering economic results. It's the first time a grassroots politician in India has believed
that good economics and good governance is good politics
* He was the first Chief Minister in India, who computerised the Government functioning and maintained a Government portal.
* He was called as "CEO of Andhra Pradesh"
* Both CNN and Time gave widespread coverage to Naidu's way of functioning, CNN said, In just five years, he has turned an impoverished, rural backwater place into
India's new information technology hub
* Time magazine quoted, Naidu has shaken up the states moribund administration into the most efficient civil service in South Asia. On this regard Time has awarded as
South Asian of the Year
* As an alternative to the old politics, Naidu delivered enhanced infrastructure, education, plus basic and high technology. This attracted large-scale private
investment which eventually generated rapid industrial growth in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
* Naidu's was soon referred to as cyber-savvy Chief Minister by BBC ,
* Naidu's crave for IT and administration, has got him international attention. Many leaders like Tony Blair , Kofi Annan , Bill Clinton , Goh Chok Tong visited him
in Hyderabad.
* Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates wrote a letter to Naidu , "I'm excited about the information technology initiatives taken by the state. I am personally excited about your Information Technology Vision Group for Andhra Pradesh. As a software technology leader, I believe we can contribute to this group. If you agree, I would be happy to nominate one of my senior managers to participate in this group,' the letter said
It was also believed that, the Current Growth in Gujarat by Narendra Modi are on the lines of Andhra Pradesh inspired by Naidu.
* Naidu is considered to be the person who provided the biggest boost to information technology amongst all politicians in India
* The industry remembers him as the chief executive of Andhra Pradesh who put Hyderabad onto the global map
* Naidu also lobbied hard to snatch the International School of Business from Mumbai to Hyderabad, upsetting Bal Thackeray.
* By the end of his second term in 2004, He could create more than 3,00,00 Jobs from the IT Sector alone. Which further created a ripple of indirect employment
opportunities across the state. The population of Hyderabad doubled from 1995 to 2004, reflecting the growth of the City.
* It was also believed that, the Current Growth in Gujarat by Narendra Modi are on the lines of Andhra Pradesh inspired by Naidu.
* He become an important figure in Indian politics both at the state level and national level in his era

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Paan Singh Tomar

From great athelete to dangerous dacoit, his biography is really shocking ..it tells us that how system treats its sports heroes except cricketers .. paan singh tomar was the wonderful athelete then he was forceed to become deadly dacoit..these pics are real and rare pics of the great runner who was killed in police encounter later..

Story:

Paan Singh works in the Army while his (wife and mother) live in Morena. He surprises his seniors in the Army with his athletic skills. Though he was not interested in sports, he joins the sports division because there was no limit on diet. Picked for the 5000 meters race’s training, he was persuaded to run for the 3000 meter steeplechase by his coach. He participates in the Indian National Games and wins the gold medal in the steeplechase event 7 years in a row. In 1958 he participates in the Asian Games at Tokyo, but couldn’t win because of inability to adjust with the Spikes given to him in the final event only. He feels frustrated when not allowed to go the borders in 1962 and 1965 war because sportsmen were not allowed to fight in the wars. In 1967, he participated in the International Military Games and wins the gold medal in the steeplechase. 
His elder brother from his native place visits him and tells about illegal acquisition by Bhanwar Singh, his relative. Paan Singh retires from the Army to settle his family disputes, despite being offered a position as the coach in the army. On arriving home, he tries to resolve issue with Bhanwar Singh. He seeks help from the District Collector and local police station, but no help is provided. His son gets beaten badly by Bhanwar Singh and his goons. Paan Singh then orders his son to rejoin army and stay away from the dispute. Bhanwar Singh and his goons try to kill Paan Singh and family. His family manages to escape but his mother gets killed brutally. Paan Singh decides to avenge his mother’s death. He becomes a baaghi who wreaks havoc in the Chambal Valley. He forms a gang and continues to add new members. He starts kidnapping people for financial support.He uses Police dress and police vehicles.He soon becomes notorious in Chambal Valley area. After gaining enough power and money, he murders Bhanwar Singh and his goons. 
One day, Paan Singh and his gang stay in a village. The village sarpanch informs police about Paan Singh’s gang. The police attacks the compound where Paan Singh is staying. Paan Singh manages to escape, but his elder brother is killed. To avenge his brother’s death, he kills the sarpanch and 8 other people. The interview with the reporter ends here and the interview is published in the newspaper and causes a sensation. The police continues in its search for Paan Singh Tomar, who decides to lay low for a while. He meets his family and his coach in the army who requests him to surrender. Paan Singh refuses to surrender on the principle that while he was a sportsman holding a national record, nobody came to help him with his problems, and the moment he turned a rebel, everyone wants him to be arrested. When the gang reconvenes after a month’s hiatus, one of the members who had turned a police informer betrays the gang and gives them away to the police. A shootout ensues where all members of the gang, including Paan Singh are killed.

Monday, May 7, 2012

My prime ministerial candidate

Who is Dr Subramanian Swamy? 
Current Janata Party National President, Ex Law Minister of India, 5 time Member of Parliament, Ex Harvard professor, Ex IIT Delhi professorA person who fought for law and order during Indira's emergency rule. He is the one who convinced Jayaprakash Narayan to jump into politics. A person who campaigned against Emergency in USA and many other countries and helped in creation of strong pressure on Indira Gandhi from other countries.A person who prepared the complete blue print of India's economic liberation reform which was later implemented by successive govt.A person who succeeded in stopping Islamic banking from coming to India. (Islamic banking is unconstitutional under RBI law)A person who fought for Ram setu cause and won.A person who, single handedly succeeded in preventing TN govt overtaking very famous TN templeA person who exposed India's biggest scam – 2G Spectrum Scam and sent A Raja and any others to tihar Jail. He is about to send Sonia Gandhi, P Chidambaram, Robert Vadra, M Karunanidhi also in Tihar for 2G Scam.A person who filed that case against Electronic Voting Machine froud and won the case. After this case court gave instruction to Election commission to make necessary changes in EVM machine to prevent such frauds. Congress Won 90 Seats in 2009 election by Electronic Voting machine fraud.A person who removed the LTTE terrorism from the soul of our country when he was in Government.A person who is fighting with Baba Ramdev to bring back black money of India.A lone warrier of Indian who is fighting alone for every cause for the national interest. A politician who never supported any corrupt politican and always fought with corrupt.
Born on September 15, 1939, Dr. Swamy is today a nationally known leader, who is widely respected for his conviction and commitment to furthering democracy and market economy. Infact, the Reform programme which Dr. Swamy had been promoting for nearly two decades has become today the mainstream thought and ideology in the country. Currently he is the President of the JANATA PARTY, a party founded by Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan in 1977. A look into his past achievement can provide some insight into what makes him so different from his political contemporaries. He is a political leader with a difference. Presently he represents the historic city of Madurai in Lok Sabha, his faith term in Parliament, elected in 1998.
Academic Background:
Dr. Swamy has impressive scholarly credentials, having earned a doctorate in economics from the prestigious Harvard University in 1964, after having worked with Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets, and jointly authored papers with another Nobel Laureate, Paul.A Samuelson.
At Harvard, Dr. Swamy taught Economics for a number of years (1963-69, 1971, 1985-86). From 1969-91, that is, for 22 years, Dr.Swamy was professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, till he resigned the post in 1991, while he was Cabinet Minister for Commerce, Law & Justice. Dr. Swamy is a linguist and is proficient in Tamil, Hindi, English and Chinese. Before going abroad for Ph.D. at Harvard, Dr.Swamy completed his Master in Statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. It is here, that he challenged the authenticity of research done by ISI director Prof. Mahalanobis. For his scholarship, he was invited to enroll for Ph.D research at Harvard.

http://janataparty.org/president.html



Saturday, May 5, 2012

A story of extraordinary grit.

"Late Dasrath (in pic) had undertaken a Herculean task, perhaps unequalled in recent human history"
  Late Dashrath Manjhi - the mountain man, who 'single-handedly' carved a 360-foot-long (110 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) road by cutting a mountain of Gehlour hills, Gaya district, Bihar, with a hammer, chisel and nails working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. This passage reduced the distance between Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 70 km to just 7 km.
 Every morning, for 22 long years, a frail, diminutive man, barefoot and clad in a loin cloth, would trudge two kilometres to a hillock of solid rock and chip away at it with a hammer and chisel. Bemused onlookers thought he had lost his mind, and he was an object of great fun for village urchins. But the women of the village, young and old, admired him, for his was a labour of love. His twenty two years of hard work was inspired by his love, his wife.
 Dasrath eked out a living as a farm hand, toiling in the fields of local landlords on bare subsistence wages. One day, in the early '60s, his wife Phaguni fell ill and Dasrath set off with her to the nearest hospital. She died on the way. If only there was no hill blocking the road to the town, Dasrath would have made it to the hospital in time, and perhaps his wife's life would have been saved.
  The situation would have brought about a feeling of resignation or fatalism in the average man—as if God had himself put this giant obstacle in the path of his ailing wife. Dasrath's response was different and radical—at once unthinkable and stunningly simple. He decided to alter geography with chisel and hammer. To cut a road through the huge mass of rock.
 After 22 years of back-breaking, single-handed toil, Dasrath finished in the mid-'80s.
  Many advised him to place a request to the state government for building a road but his voice counted for nothing with the state government. Dasrath himself remained a humble, self-effacing man, doing nothing to attract publicity for his titanic feat of endurance. It didn't even bother him that the Limca Book of World Records misrepresented his achievement by giving wrong statistics that significantly reduced the size of the rocky hill he cut through, chip by chip.
 The recognition that had been denied Dasrath during his lifetime finally came after his death in 2007 at the age of 80. Dasrath was given a state funeral at his village, his body draped in the tricolour and men in uniform serving as pall-bearers.


http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?235441

GREAT MAN...

Immediately after partition of India, a meeting was organized by Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru to select the first General of the Indian Army. Leaders and Army officers were discussing to whom this responsibility should be given.
In between the discussion Nehru said, "I think we should appoint a British officer as a General of the Indian Army as we don't have enough experience to lead the same."
Everybody supported Nehru because if the PM was suggesting something, how could they interfere?
But one of the army officers abruptly said, "I have one point, sir."
Nehru said, "Yes, gentleman. You are free to speak."
He said, "You see, sir, we don't have enough experience to lead a nation too, so shouldn't we appoint a British person as first PM of India ?"
The meeting hall was quiet.
Then, Nehru said, "Are you ready to be the first General of the Indian Army ?"
He got the golden chance to accept it but he denied and said, "Sir, we have a very talented army officer, my senior Mr. Kariappa, who is the most deserving among us."
The army officer who raised his voice against the PM was Lt. General Nathu Singh Rathore, the first Lt. General of the Indian Army."
During the 1965 War, Field Marshal Karippa's son an IAF Pilot was shot down in Pakistan .
He was captured and interned as a POW.
Since they had worked together before independence, Ayub Khan informed Kariappa that his son would not be kept in a POW Camp like the other Indian POWs.
But Kariappa politely declined the offer, saying every soldier in the Indian Army was his son.
That is the Professionalism and Character the Military is made of .................
How many today will speak like this??