Just after birth of Independent India, the world’s largest merger and acquisition activity, 560 small
princely states merged into the Union of India. Hardly any blood was
spilt, nor any bullet fired.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Self-Improvement-161: Sometimes...
Sometimes
you are the toxic person.
Sometimes
you ar the mean, negative person you are looking to push away.
Sometimes
the problem is you.
And
that does not make you less worthy.
Keep
on growing.
Keep
on checking yourself.
Keep
on motivating yourself.
Mistakes
are opportunities.
Look
at them, own them, grow from them and move on.
Do
better, be better.
You
are human. It is okay.
- Unknown
A Thought for Today-690: Michael Althsuler
The bad news
is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot - Michael Althsuler
Monday, November 20, 2017
Self-Improvement-160: Anyway...
Not
everyday is a good day. LIVE anyway.
Not
all you love will love you back.
LOVE anyway.
Not
everyone will tell you the truth. BE HONEST anyway.
Not
all deals are fair. PLAY FAIR anyway.
Courtesy: Power of Positivity
A Thought for Today-689: Power of Positivity
Never judge someone by the opinion of others.
Courtesy: Power of Positivity
Courtesy: Power of Positivity
Saturday, November 18, 2017
India Watch-25: What makes a gentleman?
An American woman asked Swami Vivekananda:"Can't you wear proper clothes to look like a gentleman?"
Swamiji smiled and said: "In your culure, a tailor makes a gentleman; but, in our culture, it is character which makes a gentleman."
Swamiji smiled and said: "In your culure, a tailor makes a gentleman; but, in our culture, it is character which makes a gentleman."
Facts and Figures-87: Sharks
Sharks have existed on Earth for more than 400 million years. That is longer than TREES
A Thought for Today-688: All about TIME
Time is free,
but it is priceless.
You can't own it,
but you can use it.
You can't keep it,
but you can spend it.
Once you have lost it,
You can never get it back.
Courtesy: Brightside
Friday, November 17, 2017
A Thought for Today-687: What appreciation does...
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected - Unknown
Monday, October 16, 2017
Self-Improvement-159: Never blame anyone ...
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you Happiness. Bad people give your Experience. Worst people give you a Lesson and best people give you Memories.
Friday, October 13, 2017
India Watch-24: 560 princely states merge to form the Union of India
Just
after birth of Independent India, we executed the world’s largest merger and
acquisition activity, when 560 small princely states joined (merged) into the
Union of India. Hardly any blood was spilt, nor any bullet fired.
Eyecatchers-189: Major Tax Fugitives of India
Cities
with the richest tax fugitives
The
Times of India has published an infographic in its column of Oct.12, 2017 the following,
quoting the Income Tax Dept as its source:
Under
its ‘Name and Shame’ policy, the income tax department publishes the list of
income tax and corporate tax defaulters. So far it has named 96 defaulters.
They all have tax arrears above Rs 1 crore, but are either not traceable or
their assets are inadequate to cover the tax dues. Hyderabad was the last known
address of 24 of these 96 defaulters, followed by Ahmedabad and Mumbai.
Tax
defaulters and Tax arrrears:
Excerpt
from The Times of India, Oct.12, 2017
Grateful
thanks to The Times of India
Facts and Figures-86: Employment in IT in India
As of the year 2012, IT sector in India provided direct employment to 2.8 million and indirect employment to 8.9 million individuals. Considering the consistent growth of about 13% per year on workforce and revenues, we can assume that by the end of 2016 the entire IT sector will have close to 4.6 million direct employees and 14.5 million indirect employees in the sector.
Source: Quora.com
Grateful thanks to Quora.com
Source: Quora.com
Grateful thanks to Quora.com
Self-Improvement-158: Ikigai
Ikigai
Ikigai
is a Japanese concept that means "a reason for being." It is similar
to the French phrase Raison d'être. Everyone, according to Japanese culture,
has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self.
Such a search is important to the cultural belief that discovering one's ikigai
brings satisfaction and meaning to life. [Examples include work, hobbies and
raising children].
In
the culture of Okinawa, ikigai is thought of as "a reason to get up in the
morning"; that is, a reason to enjoy life. In a TED Talk, Dan Buettner
suggested ikigai as one of the reasons people in the area had such long lives.
The
word ikigai is usually used to indicate the source of value in one's life or
the things that make one's life worthwhile. Secondly, the word is used to refer
to mental and spiritual circumstances under which individuals feel that their
lives are valuable. It's not necessarily linked to one's economic status or the
present state of society. Even if a person feels that the present is dark, but
they have a goal in mind, they may feel ikigai. Behaviours that make us feel
ikigai are not actions we are forced to take—these are natural and spontaneous
actions.
In
the article named Ikigai — jibun no kanosei, kaikasaseru katei ("Ikigai:
the process of allowing the self's possibilities to blossom") Kobayashi
Tsukasa says that "people can feel real ikigai only when, on the basis of
personal maturity, the satisfaction of various desires, love and happiness,
encounters with others, and a sense of the value of life, they proceed toward
self-realization."
Excerpt
from Wikipedia.
Grateful
thanks to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
A Thought for Today-685: Thornton Wilder
Seek the
lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day - Thornton
Wilder
Q&A-1: What percentage of the human body is bacteria?
What percentage of the human body is bacteria?
Jun 13, 2012
Thursday, October 12, 2017
India Watch-23: The Right to Vote
We are the only
nation in the world which gave every adult the right to vote from its first
day. In the US the world’s second largest democracy this right was given more
than 150 years after their independence.
Courtesy: Facebook
Eyecatchers-188: 2015 floods recharged Chennai's groundwater, but polluted it
2015
floods recharged Chennai's groundwater, but polluted it
Ram
Sundaram | TNN | Oct 12, 2017, 08:08 IST
Researchers
collected water samples from 22 spots along the adyar after the floods and in
April 2016.
The
2015 floods may have recharged aquifers across the city, but it con taminated
the groundwater with bacteria and chemical ions, a re search by Anna University
has found. Bacterial counts and chemical ions in groundwater samples collected
across the city exceeded Bureau of Indian Standard's (BIS) recommended limits,
concludes the research recently published in `Nature'.
Researchers
found presence of V Cholerae and S Typhi among other pathogens, which can cause
cholera, typhoid, urinary tract and respiratory infections. These pathogens,
when isolated from groundwater, have shown resistance to widely prescribed
antibiotics like ceftriaxone, doxycycline and nalidixic acid.
Continued
showers during the last fortnight of November 2015 and unprecedented rainfall
on December 1 in the catchment area of Adyar inundated the bank of the river
the next day . Samples were collected from 22 areas along the river soon after
the floods and six months later in April 2016.
The
research team during field visits found that several wells located on either
side of the banks were flooded in December 2015 and in all the bore wells, the
annular space between the casing and discharge pipe was not securely protected
with water tight seals. One of the researchers, professor L Elango, said this led
to the direct entry of surface water into the ground through the annular space.
The
top few meters were highly weathered and turned into regolith, layer of
unconsolidated solid material covering the bedrock, and a thin layer of
alluvium (3m to 5 m) formed in some regions along the river, the research paper
observed. "This supported sorption [a process by which a substance becomes
attached to another] of contaminated urban run-off carrying sewage, water from
industrial and domestic sources, printed papers, metal, batteries, oil and
paint," said G Gowrisankar, who was also a part of this study .
The
team compared the groundwater quality with drinking water standards specified
by BIS and suggested that groundwater not only in flood-affected areas, but
also in some non-affected locations were unsuitable for direct domestic use.
Concern for water quality based on chemical constituents was mainly due to
calcium (>200 miligraml) and sulphate (400 mgl) as they exceeded the BIS
limits.
The
study found that the total bacterial count (TBC) in groundwater was high in
most of the affected locations. The runoff carrying domestic sewage entered the
contaminated Adyar river and increased microbial counts in groundwater of
affected areas. In non-affected regions, it was comparatively lower.Though
these pathogens isolated from the groundwater showed resistance to antibiotics,
namely ceftriaxone, doxycycline and nalidixic acid, they were sensitive to
others including chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, and tetracycline,
the report concluded.
Courtesy:
The Times of India dated
Grateful
thanks to Mr.Ram Sundaram, TNN and The Times of India
Facts and Figures-85: Sivakasi Fireworks
SIVAKASI FIREWORKS
NOT SPARKLING!
No. of fireworks manufacturing units in
Sivakasi: 800
Annual Business Turnover: Rs.4000 crore
No. of people engaged in manufacturing
fireworks: 1.75 lakh
Courtesy: The Times of India
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