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Hi all.....Though not very popular among SSC bloggers, I am following
Trivandrum SSC forum from a long time, say 2 years. Now that a
discussion is on whether we need an IIT in Kerala and particularly in
TVM, the answer is yes and no. Before going into the details of the
answer, let me bring some facts to the light.<br />
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China has atleast 100 IIT like institutions while India has a handful of them till now.<br />
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As per my observation, and reality ofcourse, many young researchers
across the world and that too in best universities and institutes, are
chinese people. Many young chinese students are pursuing their masters/
doctorate degress and producing world class research output.<br />
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Not far behind, Indians are the leadres in Microelectroics and IC
technology research in USA. And many other fields to go on......<br />
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BUt, what does this mean to the domestic scenario???<br />
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Simply put, India should have institutes that are comparable in world
standards. China has such institutes. While India have a handfull of
IITs, IISc and newly formed IISERs. <br />
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Coming back, does Kerala need an IIT???? - YES. It really needs and
deserves an IIT. Remember the kind of political pressure Andhra Pradesh
had put on Central Govt. untill it got an IIT in Hyderabad....that too
close to the Telengana region. But AP does not have an IIM till now!!!!
Soon it will come.<br />
<a href="http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/17/stories/2007061708350100.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/17/stor...1708350100.htm</a><br />
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So, now again, does TVM need an IIT??? <br />
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The answer depends on many factors........<br />
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1. Already we have IIST and IISER here. both are building their own
campuses in city outskirts. so atleast 25 + 25 = 50 acres gone.....<br />
Does we have enough land, say, 40 acres to give to IIT if at all it comes????<br />
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2. Earlier, there was a proposal mooted to convert CET into an IIT. But,
it was debated that, the state will loose it's premium engg. college.<br />
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3. Anyway, why not Kerala University make strides in Research on the
lines of IITs???? see Anna University, AMU, BHU, DTU, BITS, VIT
University etc....which are more or less on par with NITs and IITs as
they make top 15 in rankings......comparitively, KU performance is
dismall and see the plight of resaerch scholars in KU as per recent news
articles.....bad to worse.<br />
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So, what is the answer???????<br />
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Do we want to show off that we have an IIT in TVM or do we really want to make strides in resaerch???<br />
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If the answer is former, it depends on the wishful thinking of our
politicians. And if it is latter, we (the students and researchers in
general and, faculty and administration of the above mentioned
institutes in TVM need to take up the task....). In this case, we can
carveout a brand name for KU like IITs in future and we can be proud of
expariate NRKs who make a mark in S&T world wide...... <br />
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Also, it is a welcome move to create a nanotechnology research park n
TVM which can be used by universities and research institutes in and
around TVM......this situation is same as Singapore where NUS and NTU
uses fabrication labs of private companies to do research......bcoz
space is a constraint here too.....<img alt="" border="0" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/smilies/smile.gif" title="Smilie" />, SO, WHY NOT FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE????<br />
Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-12074891317361381142012-02-16T00:53:00.000-08:002012-02-16T00:53:05.525-08:00The Hindu : Cities / Kochi : High-rise buildings, metro not a panacea for Kochi: Corrrea<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/article2895715.ece#.TzzDyU1sQV8.blogger">The Hindu : Cities / Kochi : High-rise buildings, metro not a panacea for Kochi: Corrrea</a>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-7729451085288653542012-01-18T05:31:00.000-08:002012-01-18T05:31:39.378-08:00The Hindu : Education / Issues : Autonomy for pursuit of knowledge<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/education/issues/article2801287.ece#.TxbJodKYbNo.blogger">The Hindu : Education / Issues : Autonomy for pursuit of knowledge</a>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-24378259674237979812012-01-14T08:25:00.000-08:002012-01-14T08:25:54.041-08:00The Hindu : Opinion / Open Page : Why India is not a great scientific power<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article2704625.ece#.TxGsVoPP81U.blogger">The Hindu : Opinion / Open Page : Why India is not a great scientific power</a>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-2707588843423969092011-11-23T00:35:00.001-08:002011-11-23T00:36:21.513-08:00Pervasive phenomena with stark contrasts - One face of india<div class="articleLead" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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Pune shows how the drive towards globalisation can have a peculiarly
Indian flavour. Residential complexes invoke images of foreign lands.
They co-exist uneasily with uprooted rural communities on the city's
margins. <br />
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Driving down from Mumbai to Pune city some 180 km away over the
Expressway one could get the illusion of cruising down a European
autobahn or an American highway. The route has its own language of
imperious communication signs — of speed limits; warnings against
overtaking in tunnels; and advice on lane discipline, with heavy
vehicles being sternly told to stay on the outer lane. But this is
India; even in the most modernised State, the seductive power of speed
is too tempting to resist. Life is dear but speed is so much more fun.
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A sense of displacement gathers as one reaches the end of the
expressway; at the Pune end, this merges with the bypass to NH4 to
Bangalore, which skirts the city with various exits into it. The road
surface is more silky-smooth than the expressway's. You look out the
window at the scenery; rain-nourished verdant slopes of the Western
Ghats occasionally marred by billboards now give way to huge hoardings
that compound that sense of displacement. </div>
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‘Heights' of imagination
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Unlike the American highways, hoardings along the bypass leading into
Pune do not tempt you with hamburgers or drive-in motels. They offer
fantasy, a promise to re-order your life by offering you a Swiss chalet,
Spanish haciendas, Thai villas around the city of Pune. </div>
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Globalisation has wormed its way into the city, not just through malls
and coffee cafes or multiplexes — transient experiences of globalised
modernity at best — but through a fantasy of actually owning and
therefore immersing yourself in it.
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What helps fortify the fantasy, and for the sceptic a sense of
disbelief, is the usage of language itself. Developers of residential
complexes eating up rich farmlands for lifestyle homes have begun
reinventing English.
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One can still find residential complexes with indigenous names such as
“Samarth Nagar” but the globalisation bug has bitten deep; developers
cannot resist adding the suffix, “Heights” or “Residency”. But the more
adventurous ones invent in a way that would have made Shakespeare, no
mean coiner of new words, wince.
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Hoardings beckon you to “Capriccio”, “Apostrophe”, “Mont Vert”. The
developers of “Wisteriaa” are taking no chances with the name of a
flower. The extra letter of the alphabet could change fortunes. The
creator of “Euthania” stops short of mercy killing. If that phonetic
resemblance rattles the sensitive home-buyer, “Invicta” should
compensate. </div>
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At a surface level, this play with the English language appears crude
and the work of demented builders. But it expresses the way
globalisation transforms itself into a new creature of post-modernity
that at first sight seems obviously syncretic. </div>
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Degree shops
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This view of two worlds co-existing uneasily at best, and with tension
at worst, is strengthened along the bypass. Behind the hoardings for
Swiss villas lie vanishing farmlands and the first signs of shanty towns
are appearing with garishly painted notices advertising roadside
eateries, car repair garages, tyre treading and clumsily built two,
three-storied buildings posing as office blocks. </div>
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Soon modern, glass-fronted buildings appear and now they express the city's new present and future: academic degrees. </div>
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Once again, as with real-estate, rich farmers have seized the
opportunity to sell their lands to academic entrepreneurs or transform
themselves into chairman and directors of business schools whose
roof-topped neon flash grandiosely at you at night along the bypass.
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Pune seems to parody the opening lines in T.S. Eliot's <i>Burnt Norton</i>: “Time present and time past/ are both perhaps present in time future/ and time future contained in time past.”
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Pune has had a rich tradition of learning and scholarship: Fergusson
College where D.D. Kosambi taught for a while, Deccan College for
ancient Indian history, not to mention Bhandarkar Oriental Research
Institute, Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics where the late
V.M. Dandekar wrote the seminal <i>Poverty in India</i> in the mid-1960s.
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It is still a place for higher education; but not of scholarship. Its
innumerable business and media “study” centres are “degree shops”
without the compensating attributes of reflective or critical study.
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Globalisation has created a huge demand for skills of dubious value but
no one's complaining, not the students who flock to this city from north
and eastern India, not the IT personnel at its high tech parks and
certainly not those kulak-turned academic entrepreneurs promising
degrees and jobs for bloated fees.
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In the bargain, Pune is losing its attribute of rootedness that may not be lamented. </div>
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As a place of learning it always had a shifting population; its small
middle-class was anchored in a community that may have bred Nathuram
Godse but that also gave the country D.R. Gadgil, B.G. Gokhale and Bal
Gangadhar Tilak.
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New gods of modernity
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Now globalisation has created an urban sprawl and a rootless
middle-class; conversely, globalisation has also uprooted rural
communities on its extending margins, coaxing them into petty and large
service trades. </div>
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But the city's transition is not painless: at the margins, violence
against women is on the rise as are burglaries in those fancifully-named
complexes.
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At night, in the newer parts of the city along the bypass, village life
still survives the relentless march of post-modernity and its new gods.
At temple sites or under ancient trees, Vithoba, Khandoba and Masoba
still reign and bhajans usher in the new morning. </div>
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From: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/ashoak-upadhyay/article2650495.ece?homepage=true </div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-73535458190254293542011-10-16T22:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T22:29:45.672-07:00India goes Solar..........<div class="body">
Over 150 companies have evinced interest in developing
large solar photovoltaic projects of up to 20 MW. These include Reliance
(Anil Ambani Group), Lanco, Moser Baer and the Tatas. </div>
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Also in the race are public sector companies GAIL (India) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.</div>
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Official sources told <i>Business Line</i>
that the request for selection (RFS) were received for 218 solar PV
projects for over 2,500 MW capacity, much higher than the capacity
offered – 350 MW. </div>
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The RFS were invited by the
Government as part of the second batch of Phase-1 of the National Solar
Mission. The last date for submission was October 3.</div>
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NTPC
Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN), the trading arm of NTPC, has been
designated as the nodal agency for sale and purchase of grid-connected
solar power under Phase-1 of the Mission. NVVN expects to call for
discount bids from the shortlisted entities by November.</div>
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What
made this phase attractive was that besides the incentives being
offered by the Government, the Ministry for New and Renewable Energy
revised the guidelines for new grid-connected solar PV projects and
increased the per unit capacity into multiples of 5 MW with the maximum
of 20 MW for FY 2011-12. </div>
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In the earlier round, where
projects with a cumulative capacity of 150 MW were approved, the
maximum capacity stood at 5 MW for each unit. </div>
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Further,
for the second batch of the Mission, the Government has increased the
timeline to achieve financial closure by a month to seven months or 210
days for the bidders from the time of signing the power purchase
agreements. </div>
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Also, the total capacity of such
projects to be allocated to a company, including its parent, affiliate
or ultimate parent or any Group company shall be limited to 50 MW. They
can submit applications for a maximum of three projects at different
locations, subject to a maximum aggregate capacity of 50 MW. </div>
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The
net worth of the company should be equal to or greater than the value
calculated at the rate of Rs 3 crore of the project capacity up to 20
MW. For every MW additional capacity, beyond 20 MW, additional net worth
of Rs 2 crore would need to be demonstrated. </div>
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The
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission envisages the implementation of
the solar programme including utility grid solar power in three phases –
first phase up to 2013 (1,100 MW), second phase up to 2017 (4,000 MW),
and third phase up to 2022 (20,000 MW). </div>
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From the hindu bussinessline dated 16/10/2011 </div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-31622486400399411912011-09-12T02:11:00.001-07:002011-11-19T21:35:45.221-08:00India to have one more satellite launch site<div class="body">
From the Hindu (Archieves)</div>
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Amid requests from various countries for launch of
their satellites, India has decided to set up one more launch site to
expand its capacity in this aspect.</div>
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At a meeting held
by the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary T.K.A. Nair here to review
performance of the Department of Space, it was decided that a
feasibility study would be conducted for a new site, sources said.</div>
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decision to find a new site was taken after the meeting was told that
ISRO has only two satellite launch pads, both of which are affected
during the cyclone season, the sources said.</div>
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The two launch pads are located at Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SHAR).</div>
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During recent years, there have been requests from a number of countries for launching their satellites in India.</div>
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The
meeting was also informed that despite successful launch of GSAT-8 and
GSAT-12 satellites, there is shortage of transponders primarily due to
DTH and communication requirements.</div>
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It was decided that steps should be taken to meet the gap within two years, the sources said.</div>
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At present, Department of Space is leasing transponders and using foreign launch vehicles to meet the needs.</div>
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The
sources said thrust is being given by the PMO on these spheres as part
of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s desire to see boost in scientific
innovation in the current decade.</div>
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Pursuant to Prime
Minister’s keenness, government has decided to push contribution of
private sector in scientific research and development from the current
20 per cent to 50 per cent and undertake a number of other crucial
steps.</div>
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The meeting felt that investments in research
and development in the country is “highly skewed” as 80 per cent of
contribution comes only from the public sector.</div>
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It
was noted that in advanced and emerging economies, private sector plays a
dominant role in R&D and encourages innovation, the sources said.</div>
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Accordingly,
it was decided that secretaries concerned would jointly prepare a
proposal on private sector investment in R&D by the end of next
month, they said.</div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-58374596673641212112011-08-31T06:55:00.000-07:002011-08-31T06:55:11.062-07:00Benefits of joining IEEE Society......<h2 class="bullet"><a class="nm" href="" id="sect1" name="sect1">IEEE and IEEE Society membership</a></h2><div class="content-101-10-left">Join the world's largest technical professional association via an IEEE and/or IEEE Society memberships. Through these memberships, you can stay current in your chosen technology profession, keep in touch with your peers, and invest in your career advancement.</div><div class="clearit"> <h2 class="bullet"><a class="nm" href="" id="sect2" name="sect2">Benefits of membership</a></h2>IEEE delivers access to the industry's most essential technical information, networking opportunities, career development tools, and many other exclusive benefits to its members.<br />
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Ask any group of individual contributors what they think about the skills, or lack thereof, of engineering managers, and you're liable to get an earful. We turned the question from problem-oriented to solution-focused and asked the denizens of the Systems & Product Design Engineer group on LinkedIn to tell us how they define great technical leaders. </div>
Bill Devenish, a Design News guest blogger and president of The Devenish Group, says: "I have noticed that great engineering leaders are those people who can provide a clear and concise vision. They can read between the lines, take seemingly contradictory requirements, and communicate an objective that everyone understands." <br />
As our imaginary group of jawboning engineers would tell you, technical ability doesn't necessarily confer the skills to oversee people. Bill Losapio, a mechanical engineer in Florida, distinguishes between a good manager and great leader. He says Steve Jobs and Richard Branson qualify as great corporate leaders. However, perhaps counter-intuitively, he believes greatness in an engineering manager is tougher to define. Soft skills are a big part of the latter's charter, he believes, including "less tangible concerns such as ensuring the competence of his department, disseminating knowledge, and stroking feathers that get out of joint." <br />
Chuck Blevins, a design engineer near Huntsville, Ala., says that the best managers he's worked for were not great engineers in the technical sense. "They were certainly great communicators," he adds. "A technical lead needs communication skills but only to other engineers. Managers have to communicate to the whole organization. Good managers and leaders must show confidence in themselves and their teams -- they cannot be risk averse." <br />
If successful managers are made rather than born, consultant Joe Jenney has some thoughts about how they get that way. "When I started out it was easier," he says. "Young engineers were given significant responsibilities; older engineers took time to mentor them. There were many management positions so that capable people could expect a new post with greater responsibility every couple of years." <br />
Jenney, himself a retired aerospace executive and author of <i><a href="http://bit.ly/okIUpS" target="new">The Manager's Guide for Effective Leadership</a></i>, notes that such progressive seasoning is no longer widely available. "I contend that today's young must take responsibility for self training to achieve positions they want," he says.<br />
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Our own always-thoughtful contributing editor Jon Titus believes that true leadership requires both backbone and restraint. "Leaders must listen carefully, even if the speaker has things to say the leader doesn't agree with," he says. "Leaders give their people the tools to do their jobs properly. They keep an eye on projects, but don't micromanage. Leaders stand up for their people and ensure [they] get proper credit."</div>
</div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-87901418762755641552011-08-08T20:56:00.001-07:002011-08-08T20:56:34.968-07:00Meaning of 'Extrovert' from about.com<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Definition: </b>Most people believe that an extrovert is a person who is friendly and outgoing. While that may be true, that is not the true meaning of extroversion. Basically, an extrovert is a person who is energized by being around other people. This is the opposite of an introvert who is energized by being alone.<br />
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Extroverts tend to "fade" when alone and can easily become bored without other people around. When given the chance, an extrovert will talk with someone else rather than sit alone and think. In fact, extroverts tend to think as they speak, unlike introverts who are far more likely to think before they speak. Extroverts often think best when they are talking. Concepts just don't seem real to them unless they can talk about them; reflecting on them isn't enough. <br />
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Extroverts enjoy social situations and even seek them out since they enjoy being around people. Their ability to make small talk makes them appear to be more socially adept than <a href="http://giftedkids.about.com/od/glossary/g/introvert.htm">introverts</a> (although introverts may have little difficulty talking to people they don't know if they can talk about concepts or issues). <br />
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Extrovert behavior seems to be the standard in American society, which means that other behavior is judged against the ways an extrovert would behave. However, extroverted behavior is simply a manifestation of the way an extrovert interacts with the world. Extroverts are interested in and concerned with the external world.</div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-26139511291606423602011-07-01T03:39:00.000-07:002011-11-19T21:32:37.532-08:00Transportation woes of Kerala<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
hahaha...........the main problem is, we Keralites don't know what we want exactly for a transportation point of view. Earlier, a north - south expressway was mooted. Now, we are locking horns with NHAI to reduce the width or something like that. Also, we thought of a high speed rail link from TVM to Kasargod. Always we talk about things that won't happen really. The truth is, neither we don't know whether to implement as scheme nor we don't know which one is the best. <br />
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Always scientific studies are conducted for the project. But the final proposal will be in the favor of bureaucrats only. So, what is that exactly we want for a better transportation?????<br />
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The core needs of the project are:<br />
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1. non polluting<br />
2. high speed and reliable<br />
3. limited access<br />
4. affordable<br />
5. should carry large volumes of traffic including containers<br />
6. non interruptive and efficient<br />
7. less accident prone<br />
8. least area should be consumed<br />
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the probable solutions of the above points are,<br />
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1. electric trains are best<br />
2. high speed electric trains (HSET)<br />
3. HSET or a limited access expressway<br />
4. HSET with various types of classes viz. AC, non AC, and general<br />
Buses are not affordable in Kerala.<br />
5. Again electric trains. they can carry the ultimate amount of containers. Container trucks are not suited to Kerala.<br />
6. Again HSET. expresswayrailwas are not suited to Kerala.<br />
7. HSET. highways in Kerala are famous for accidents.<br />
8. HSET. GoK is in tussle with NHAI for reducing width to 30 m.<br />
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So, what is the conclusion??????<br />
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A state like Kerala should not waste land and money for a 45m wide highway. let the NHAI decide where to go for 45m and where for 30m with least possible eviction. Then, we can go for a high speed rail link that is tailor made only for Kerala like the case of Air India express. GoK can hold a 45-50% share of a newly formed JV with Indian Railways for running HSETs in the State.<br />
What more, it will be obvious to get a new zonal HQ in Kerala for Kerala!!!!!!<br />
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New HSETs can be proposed for running from Nagarcoil in the south to Mangalore in the north covering the two extreme boundaries of Kerala. <br />
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Two tracks should be laid in addition to the existing rails in all lines to run the new trains.<br />
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The tracks should be like the ones for a metro rail: concreted basement with extra long rails.<br />
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All district HQs along with 2 or 3 additional stations in each district should be the boarding and alighting points. Trains can run at an average speed of 90kmph. Top speeds can go up to 120kmph.<br />
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the existing NHs can be used for intra district movement and not for long distances. Even if they are NHs, they don't serve the purpose of a NH in Kerala unless we go for a 45-60m wide roads consistently. <br />
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Moreover, our economy is highly dependent on oil prices. So, minimum container trucks should ply on the highway.<br />
<br /></div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-85162998174384554512011-06-09T02:48:00.000-07:002011-06-09T02:55:36.624-07:00Feast your eyes with this green collection.............<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKgHNxIVZElPdxj19gOPeTXEipZ2haXGA7_8rKzN9Np-h0e3Qitwk3AepdFsIW1SGLFoKj70l6mrm8ryhawIBKTO3PudxB0ZlUERzRvt760c487pYVKIcGfZLNgnKS7DDcHde1lRsdrk/s1600/DSCF3987.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKgHNxIVZElPdxj19gOPeTXEipZ2haXGA7_8rKzN9Np-h0e3Qitwk3AepdFsIW1SGLFoKj70l6mrm8ryhawIBKTO3PudxB0ZlUERzRvt760c487pYVKIcGfZLNgnKS7DDcHde1lRsdrk/s320/DSCF3987.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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From its inception as Vellore Engg. College in 1985, it has made many strides in engineering education in various fields of electrical, mechanical, computer science, Infotech., Biotech and Management education. Now, it also has a school of languages and humanities and advances sciences. Nanotechnology is also added as a masters program 4 years back. Many sponsored R&D projects are undertaken by its faculty. Research is given high priority in academics and hence teaching is oriented towards doing things practically. Its ECE and Mechanical UG programs are accredited by ABET, USA. It is one of the first institutes in India to start a nanotechnology program sponsored by DIT, Govt. of India.<br />
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Many eminent visitors have planted saplings in this campus to mark their august presence in numerous events and cultural programs. The Hon. Chancellor, Dr. G. Viswanathan is an eminent educationalist himself and is the sole driving force in the process of making VIT a global University that ranks among the top 100.<br />
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Stay tuned for some excellent pics of VIT and its green miracles.......alternately visit www.vit.ac.in for more insights into the University affairs.Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India12.9165167 79.13249859999996312.813943700000001 79.054092099999963 13.0190897 79.210905099999962tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-49078027005186265992011-05-31T05:14:00.001-07:002011-05-31T05:18:23.890-07:00Dusty tales.........As I see it, there is hectic construction activity going on in the city and suburbs. the population ogf TVM will have a phenomenal impact on it.......from a mere 1million city population, it can jump to 1.5 million in next 3-4 years as lots of IT, Electronics, R&D, Education and related service industries are coming in a big way........ Also will the no. of motor vehicles be increasing drastically...........including heavy vehicles and of course traffic due to VISL will hit the pollution levels to a new high.......As many cities have witnessed rapid development at certain stages, they succumbed to pressure due to population, lack of natural resources, pollution, waste, sewage...etc....It is good to have high speed data cables landing in Trivandrum including Reliance FLAG that act as catalyst to IT and ITeS development......but also it should be ensured to have high speed road corridors for traveling from one end of the city to another very fast. Moreover, some of our roads in the city dosen't have proper footpaths or shoulders so that dust will not be generated. Our ever increasing vehicle population is causing dust pollution and is a cause of immediate concern......Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-76039097381264579232011-05-30T05:18:00.000-07:002011-05-30T05:18:36.488-07:00Back from Hyderabad......Hi all, after a lull in research and yoyo in fun, I'm back recharged to troubleshoot the research problems at hand. This time, the trip was a good one in terms of experiences and some not so nicely eye opening facts. The dusty air and the grump of metro buses onto my face has dipped my spirits..........But I traveled a good 150 Kms inside the city in 3 days! The metro buses are low floor and have rear engines. this the worst thing.......Atleast 100 tonnes of Carbon dioxide is released into the air every day in Hyderabad! Add to that the odd 8 million population using ACs, refrigerators, Coolers, etc to add to the Carbon footprint by emitting CFCs. As a whole, I visualize this city as a Carbon producing factory. If this city is like this, we can imagine about Mumbai and Delhi........they are the forefathers of Hyderabad in generating Carbon dioxide........Disastrous..........isn't it? So, can we do something about reducing such carbon emissions?? Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-51885506921339433022011-05-23T02:39:00.000-07:002011-05-23T02:39:15.646-07:00Upcoming.........1. CNTs - the new wonder material!<br />
2. Conserve - What?Why?How?Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-92111953659080800812011-05-21T03:00:00.000-07:002011-05-21T03:00:45.571-07:00Simple ways to save on electricity bills.......1. Use solar inverters in houses.<br />
2. Buy an electric scooter and charge with solar inverer - free charging!!! only initial costs involved<br />
3. Cook with electric cooker - power from solar inverter.<br />
4. Use solar gyesers - power from solar inverter.<br />
5. Only Fridge, Washing machine, Oven and AC take power from the EB.<br />
6. Use LCD/LED TV - low power and can be connected to solar inverter.<br />
7. Use laptop/ PC with LCD monitor - connect to solar inverter<br />
8. Use wind mills/solar power to take water to overhead tank.<br />
9. So, 80% of power in houses is free. Why are we not using it??<br />
10. Lastly, think of building an electric car....with low costs......a mechanical engineering based car is on the way to market that consumes no pertol/diesel at all. Moreover, Hybrid petrol/electric cars are already in markets. But they are very costly (3-10 times compared to conventional cars).Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-3412690919486713752011-05-11T04:28:00.000-07:002011-05-11T04:32:47.802-07:00Technology for everything-from polluting to depollutingIt is the duty of man and the society to protect its ecological balance. We have come across many reports of people taking laws into their hands and acting as they wish. Yes, exploitation was and is the motto of the self centered man. Man, through ages learned to harness energy for his needs, from a simple lever system to complex gear systems to even more complex micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) that can convert one form of energy to another. Inventions of electricity, the telephone, radio, steam engine etc have steered the economic growth and subsequent prosperity of nations and societies. however, the concentration of this development, was ironically confined to nations who fought each other for power and resources. most of modern day electronics technologies are invented during the two great world wars. And still, man yearned for more power and hence dawned the nuclear age......preceding all the ages: namely ice age, stone age, iron age and copper age. Now is the turn of the new 'Nano revolution'. Nano-meaning one billionth of any measurable quantity, is the new buzz word among academia and industrialists alike. this technology, Nanotechnology, has taken root at the last century itself-measuring of the nano second and nano second precise devices. Now, it is more pertainent to nano meter. This big technology encompasses all disciplines of science. Scientists are leveraging on this technology for finding solutions to the ever increasing complex problems and issues of this globalized society- from health care, cosmetics, space science, automotive and yes...as depollutants in water treatment, air purifying, restoring of the ozone layer and what not-everything that man has exploited from the nature. <br />
After a long over haul of the Earth's ecosystem and stressing it to the core for many decades, man has thought of giving something back to mother nature........sustainable living. And he goes on to explain it as a eco friendly practice as if he is maintaining the eco-system from his birth. In future, there will be hundreds of words coined for describing this concept of saving nature. So, what is the use of saving it if he already destroyed it himself? The answer is, the nature has started responding to our deeds in unpleasant ways for us. And for hopefully stopping such un-pleasentries in future, man need to give a support to nature for its balancing act. So, in a nut shell, man is doing everything for his needs and welfare and not for the preservation of nature. Scientists do extraordinary research and publish their work in NATURE journal; actually they fail to see the science of the nature itself! So, what is that we gain in long range by killing our co-beings?? By long range, I mean a few generations. Again man is forgetting that he are betraying their grand children of at least the basic necessities of potable water and pure air. It will go into book chapters if I go on describing the wishful doings of humanity and its impact on nature. As a final remark, I would like to tell everybody who read this article that we should remind of ourselves that whatever we do in thought, deeds and actions, we should take the natural needs of the nature and ourselves. It is the most healthiest way of living by adopting natural practices and following nature closely. Ayurveda is a great science developed by our forefathers that has natural medications for every disease we have now. We should be ready to spend some time for our nature thoughts also. Let the brain ponder on the realities and let the heart tell the way forward...A hearty natural for everybody.............. Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-68130069342155497902011-04-18T05:08:00.000-07:002011-04-18T05:09:40.456-07:00A Megecity with a mega Green cover.......<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the time has come for the elections and census of India-2011 to be released soon, people are finding themselves in a more globalized economy of India-now a global power with a population of over 1.6 billion people. the number of million plus cities are ever increasing with nearly 35 cities as per latest data, and Mumbai-the second largest urban agglomeration in the world after Tokyo, followed by Delhi and Kolkatta having population more than 1 crore (10 million). Not far behind are the metros of Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad having 8,9 and 8.5 million people respectively.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the more peculiar aspect is the emergence of tier-II cities as growth engines of the economy whose populations are ranging from 2 million and above. they are the new brand of Indian urbanscape where hip and classy middle class is spread upon. Cities like Coimbatore, Dhanbad, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Gwalior, Kochi, Bhubaneswar, Mysore, Mangalore, Vizag, Vadodara,Vijayawada, Thiruvananthapuram, Thane, Aurangabad, Rajkot, Surat, Indore etc are the new urban centers having their urban populations of 2 million or more. they are showing high industrial progress in IT, ITeS, Auto, Manufacturing, Logistics, Pharma, Textiles and Research hubs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another brand of tier-I cities, that are would be metros of the future are- Pune, Ahmadabad, Nagpur, Lucknow, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Patna with populations ranging from 4.5 million onwards. these are also the aspiring Global cities of the future.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However, the growth of alternate technologies that address the green issues of these cities is not there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">will be continued..... </span>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-67283148866415457482011-04-08T07:45:00.000-07:002011-04-08T07:45:58.866-07:00Sarpa kaavu....ecosystem of it's own...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1jQpnYwJvh1TullDgAlj04hshhHEDss0HqTmtiWC2XRVby6veDdUkgQbBEAdmy1iN08i-hPASbKvvFAnn5pi1iqLKVHfVTQyKGwUJVPujiE5IopEnqX-_hUBUzw8biuZfpZpieY-h3Ag/s1600/Sarpa-Kavu-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1jQpnYwJvh1TullDgAlj04hshhHEDss0HqTmtiWC2XRVby6veDdUkgQbBEAdmy1iN08i-hPASbKvvFAnn5pi1iqLKVHfVTQyKGwUJVPujiE5IopEnqX-_hUBUzw8biuZfpZpieY-h3Ag/s400/Sarpa-Kavu-2.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyhow, another point is that with the IT boom occurring in state, many people are finding employment....a good thing to happen....but it should not be IT alone that provides employment in a large scale. All round balancing of society is needed by providing avenues for <b>development in agriculture, electronics, renewable energy, research and development relevant to current societal issues, future technologies, dairy farming, handicraft development, textiles and development, coir based industry, and others that makes up a healthy society. </b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unlike other metro cities in India, our cities have a natural gift of conservative development combined with tradition, and linking of past with the future. Unique capability of having villages survive without rapid urbanization is very very important. That's what we have.....So, it is highly necessary to maintain this status forever as the max. population that for example, Trivandrum can hold without stressing on nature is 2.5 million people...... (by 2050) and after wards, it declines and decreases....</div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-25402238045003475412011-04-05T05:24:00.003-07:002011-04-05T05:24:15.215-07:00Posted in SSC forum -Where will the green cities go?????[QUOTE=Tri Man;75518481]With massive urbanisation,the Green cities like Trivandrum,Chandigarh,Nagpur,Mysore,Mangalore... will be in great places to live.This will inturn reflect a healthier living with fresh water and air.<br />
Bangalore,once used to be a Green City.But due to uncontrolled urbanization the city has turned into concrete jungle.[/QUOTE]<br />
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But, we need controlled urbanization here. It seems that Kowdiar and Vellayambalam, and even Vazhuthacaud and Sastamangalam are saturated now (means that are aptly utilized) in development. Explosive development like in Bangalore will destroy Trivandrum forever.......its signs have already started now......<br />
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Once upon a time, Hyderabad was also greener in par with Bangalore, with gardens, water bodies, lakes, The Moosi river etc......today, everything is eaten by the land sharks (bigwigs in real estate) ......so it is now a city of bleeding hearts people (rather than working class people) from a pensioners paradise. <br />
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So, we, the people should decide on the fate of our city.....Do we want to maintain the quote 'Ever green city of India' or Go for a concrete jungle with depleted ground water and temperatures of 40-45 degrees in summer???????????????<br />
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Strict lobbying from residents and agencies in core areas of the city should be there to ban new constructions in CBD residential areas after certain threshold..........(the same lobbying we do for attaining VISL or T3. Why not for our wellbeing???) <br />
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Even if I'm correct, I may sound foolish.....one may ask who is interested in greenery if he can mint money out of hot land property.......here the govt. turns deaf and dumb (even goes to become the law and order of the town by being blind to such things.........)<br />
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So, where will TDF and the likes go or do at this point ???Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-46803688177487332222011-03-28T21:42:00.000-07:002011-04-08T07:39:15.034-07:00Kerala roadways-posted in SSC<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">[QUOTE=mohammedirshad06;74384325]Kerala cannot simply throw people out like that. Because Malayalees never digest injustice and can take the matter to any level, unlike other people.... Our social parameters are different.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But the issue is that, the process will run so slow that, by the time 45m road gets implemented, it will be for 90 m necessity. So there is no point at all.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I believe, NHAI and Kerala Govt must consider allowing private agencies to Built and Operate a super expressway over proposed 45m road, which can be constructed along with the construction of ground NH.... The super expressway above NH naturally will have width of around 30 m, which can cater a 6 lane bi-carriage way exclusive for light vehicles wishing for a high speed ride with just 8 or 10 exit/entry points</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Along with the move, I believe Kerala must consider Hi-speed rails and ferry as alternatives, just how Japan did. As Japan is too densely populated like Kerala, they too forced to consider such options.... A high speed coastal ferry would reduce much of coastal roads pressure.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But I feel we lack quality leadership. I won't say we lack talents, but no talent is strong enough to risk for leadership.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Kerala has its own history of doing things all alone, when denied by Central Govt. The classic example of Cochin-Nilambur Railway Line should a case-study for our current leaders. As when Central Govt of British India denied a railway line for Kerala citing possibility of poor patronage, the Cochin Maharaja sold his personal jewels and temple properties to finance for its own railway line, which now became one of the most congested railway line of Indian railways.....</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If our current Kerala rulers follows the actions plans of old Kochi Rajas, surely we could have more facilities than now.....[/QUOTE]</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You are absolutely right brother... To have able leaders, we, the people should cultivate a sense of leadership and responsibility first as the leaders are no one but one among us. From ages, societies that are highly civilized, had great leaders....Japan, Germany(now), Canada, US and most of Europe.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But Indians basically lack a sense of pride among themselves. they get carried away by novelties that are not relavant to our cultural traits.....(Vinaasha kaalee vipareeta budhi). For example, if our govt. sets a rule that people should not spit in public places, we seldom do it! But we are forced to obey the same rule elsewhere like Singapore and the likes. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sri Lanka, Pakisthan, Bangladesh and Nepal are mute followers of India. They are not cultured even up to the Indian mark. Big countries were once upon a time, barren lands. Men called enterprenuers sowed the seeds of plants that gave money and started a new religion called Economy and Market. Our problem is, our assets are oddly distributed among us. That is why basic necessities are not reaching common man and hence, farmers are dying like anything!!!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is it useful if a leader shouts in a loudskeaker that he will protect the people and plunders them actually??</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or is it not shameful of us to get away from the social responsibilities???</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IF WE ARE REALLY RESPONSIBLE, AND ONE AMONG US IS A PERSON WITH LEADERSHIP QUALITIES, REST ASSURED THAT WE AS A SOCIETY OR A COMMUNITY (AND NOT AS AN INDIVIDUAL) ARE PROSPEROUS.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>If people are 100% perfect, leader will be 101% perfect. Because, he is the gem of a man among others.</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>But, we are nowhere near a percent and our leaders are crippled to become 1% perfect. </b> </div>Uma Sathyakamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11224468389071314697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939119584200559402.post-76349953286847417082011-03-28T00:06:00.000-07:002011-03-28T00:06:47.878-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/7448/3580246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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