Want to become a Corona Warrior ?

Are you young and patriotic and clap for the dialogues like --" desh ke liye mar mitenge"  ?  Do you want to contribute for  "AtmaNirbhar Bharat" in real sense and lift up Indian economy ?  If yes, then you need not display your patriotism only by waiving tricolor or shouting "Vande Mataram". You neednot go to border to fight againts enemy.

Here are a few simple steps you can take, to help Indian economy in your own  small way, against the attack of this Chinese virus.

But before that you need to take all required COVID precautions -- Wear mask in public, carry hand gloves if needed and wash your hands regularly, sanitise stuff you take in etc.

1. Donot postpone, but purchase stuff like dresses, footwear, furnitures, electronic gazettes etc from next door shops, which are open now.

2. Donot stay at home and just forward the messages (#Atmanirbhar Bharat, #LetUsBoycottChineseGoods, etc).  Go out and purchase packed food from restaurant around you. Of course clean the package before you open up and eat.

3. Use auto or taxi  and go out in the city  and shop. But  follow govt rule -- Only 1 or 2 in auto/taxi  and follow social distancing at the place you go. Clean your hand regularly using portable hand sanitiser when on the go.

4. Avail the service of house maid, electrician, carpenter etc. Donot hesitate. Just make sure that they are NOT coming from Covid hot spot area. Sanitise them before they enter your place.

5. Get your vehicles serviced. May use service of pick up and drop facility for car service and donot enter the car atleast a day after it has been delivered.

By following above steps,  you  can help quite a few around you  in earning their daily bread and also create cash flow. Just by locking yourself doesnot help.  If you claim yourself as brave young Indian, come out of panic to fight Chinese virus disease.

All these steps could help to reboot Indian economy in a small way and lift up a bit business sentiments. If millions follow these steps with mentioned precautions, overall it helps our country in recovering from economic downturn quickly.

Livelihood is as important as living. Living without Livelihood is as good as Death. 

Losing a Wallet

Fate or feat of losing wallet should have been in my gene. Seems my father got his pocket picked atleast 3 times. I remember my brother missing his purse on one occasion atleast. Some how I did not carry this family tradition so far, untill recently.

I didnot lose nor some one pickpocketed; it just "slipped away" in darkness of evening. The wallet contained some petty cash and half dozen cards -- debit cards, credit card,  Metro Pass, Driving license, etc. Went around the place where my wallet could have given me  a slip, but in vain.

My whole family cursed that "thug(?)"  who would have got this purse.

I swung into action and blocked all bank cards and ordered replacement.

First replacement debit card arrived 3 days after I put a request. A few minutes before that a courier boy delivered a funny looking envelop. It was addressed to my late father !! I was wondering why some one sending this package almost 18 months after passing away of my father. The contents of envelop seem to be accumulated at a corner.

When I opened the package, to my surprise, found all the cards which were in the lost wallet. The person who ever found my wallet took all the money (and leather wallet itself). The gentleman(or lady) would have decided to spend a bit from his/her bounty for couriering the cards, which were of any use.

I donot know should I appreciate and thank that person for honesty and caring nature and thank for taking extra effort to courier it ?  Or it's ok, he got the money and used part of that to return whatever of no use to him.

What do you do if you get back your wallet ?

My Experience @ RTO Bangalore

We think visiting RTO for Driving License related work, always an irritance. Long queue, touts hovering around, long list of documents, arrogant staff, etc etc. We try to take, so called,  easy route -- approaching an agent.

I happen to lose my DL and had to get issued a duplicate one. Decided to go on my own and get new DL, what may come and test my patience and government efficiency.

Thanks to digitisation bug, now most of DL related processes are online.  No need of passport size 3-4 photos and not even to sign any where. Even the form itself appeared online as almost filled, once I enter my lost DL number.

Missing document was an FIR from police station. Surprisingly, Bangalore Police have even made that online and "It works". I could get "Lost Article Report"  in pdf in about 5 minutes max, at the comfort of my home(not visiting police station).

Armed with all these documents uploaded on Parivahan site (https://parivahan.gov.in/parivahan/) and online payment of fees (just Rs. 166) I approached RTO premises early in the morning session.

It took exactly 10 minutes from 1st counter to the last counter and I was out with an acknowledgement slip.  Hurrah.....


There are a couple of corners to trim, but overall I was very much impressed. Strongly recommend educated one to use this simple online route and contribute towards cleaner government process.

Expenditure:
Stationary : 100
Fees  : 216 (166 + 50 for smart card)
Affidavit : 150 (not sure this is required or not. advised by an agent)

If I take agent route, it could cost anywhere 1000 bucks upwards and no less time at RT Office.

Choice is Yours...




 

Fantastic Hidden Truth: We eat what we sow

Are you a pure vegetarian OR do you eat non vegetarian food ?

Do you know the various factors that determine what we eat -- our eating habit ? Are there are any patterns. How does vegetarian and non vegetarian food pattern being determined by society?

Anthropologists have developed so many theories around what we eat.  But I heard an interesting story or theory from a friend of mine emanating form his observation.

The story started after a villager from a tiny hamlet expressed his concern about change in food pattern. Small tea shops located at the outskirts of his village, which also used to serve simple vegetarian snacks, have now been replaced by chicken kabab outlets. You may call it as effect of globalisation or  change in taste of people.

Outlining principle according to my friend is  -- "we eat, what we sow". It was true yesterday and will be so tomorrow.

Main crop of that village was paddy a few decades ago.  With good rain fall and abundant water in the lake, farmers could get a good crop to the need of the village. There was no greed factor. Even during a bad rain year, there was no panic situation; more than enough to get to eat. Agriculture was not considered as business then, it was a profession followed by their ancestors and passed on to them.

All the village activities ,  not called as economy or commerce, were developed around paddy field. Apart from rice, paddy products included puffed rice and various other sub products. Small industries rotated around paddy and employed local villagers.

Village borders were dotted with a few small thatched roofed tea stalls. Common scenes in all villages across India. Along with tea, a simple snack made up of puffed rice was a popular serve. Since paddy was the main crop, puffed rice made from paddy, was a natural simple snack. These outlets were a convenient stop for peasant folks returning from fields after a hectic day.

Over the period the whole demography of the village changed. So also agricultural practices. For multiple reason crop yield reduced. Farms were sold or villagers moved to different business. Main crop changed from paddy to  maize. It requires  less water and effort to grow. Quick yield is guaranteed and so also Return On Investment --- a good cash crop for dwindling farm community.
Man does not eat maize as staple food here. Most of the maize corn are being used to prepare food for chicken. Number of poultry farms around increased. Naturally chicken eaters increased and chicken kababs  and other such dishes attracted a good crowd to those outlets. So all those thatched roofed shops changed to permanent stalls and puffed rice snacks were replaced by chicken dishes.

In principle -- if you grow paddy, you eat puffed rice ; if you grow corn you eat chicken.

So, we eat what we sow !!!

Best Gift for child

What is the best gift you can give to your child -- love, education, pocket money, cell phone....?


According to me -- it is teaching them how to become independent. Rather allowing them to explore and learn by themselves  and hence imbibe some amount of adventurism.

In city life, we work in the reverse way. Over protect our kids.

Shall give you an example. Many parents are hesitant to send their kids outside their home, to a stationary shop, just across the street to purchase, say a pen. Funny excuses are being put --  Traffic is heavy, it is not secure, he/she may be  cheated, our maid/servant can go and get it, etc.  Add to that, a strong defense being made about the capability of their kid -- "you know he ordered online a shoe worth of Rs. 5000 for his dad ? these kids are very smart!".

In the cocoon of their home world, the children are unable to develop skills like -- socialisation, observation, confidence, etc.

Crossing the road and purchasing a pen itself is not the goal. All along this transaction, one learns or exposes himself/herself to quite a few life lessons.

1. How to cross a road itself is a skill in Indian cities.
2. Observe different kinds of people on the street and their behavior.
3. Interaction with a fellow human in the shop and understand/observe language/slang he/she uses and how shop keeper manages the shop.
4. Arrangement of the shop, different materials available over there, etc.
5. Finally the shopping -- getting the pen and exchange of money.

Don't you think that  life is full of such transactions ?-- going to an unknown place, interacting with different set of people, observing the opportunities available to us other than the ones thrown at us, adapting to the situation, crossing the life smoothly with some success and a few setbacks.

 

Let us make our children independent naturally. That should be part of our daily home work, assignment, exam and grading.

This will bring ownership in education and confidence among children.

What do you think ?

HOW TO TREASURE ENVIRONMENT AND EDUCATE ABOUT TREE GROWTH TO CHILDREN

What do you do on world environment day ?

Plant one sapling, deliver a lecture, write a report/blog, conduct/participate in painting competition or  quiz. What do we do to our environment rest of the year ?

How are  you making our children aware of importance of trees ? Showing them a video/film or giving a boring lecture ??


My son told me an eye opening anecdote, which he'd heard from his teacher, related to Bhutan.

In Bhutan, school handovers  each student (in lower classes)  a sapling. Students have to plant and maintain the respective tree. He/she will be graded or get marks based on growth of the plant, till 10th grade or so.

Just think what kind of wonder it can make.

Kids understand the plant, its growth, etc. very well. Need not read books to know this or draw and redraw  diagram of this tree in Biology/Botany classes. The topics like, use of that plant, problem to grow such plant, etc. needn't be mugged to pass the exam, but get real practical knowledge. At the end of the day, a tree is grown and sanctity of the environment is maintained.

What a nice education system !!! A genuine way of Environment Protection !!!!!

REAL REASON BEHIND BREXIT

Following are the real reasons behind The Great Britain leaving European Union.

A. British are  the most intelligent community on this earth. They always want to align with future, rather than past or present.
B. They were not getting any benefit from aging and struggling EU -- neither money nor power.
C. Britain didnot have much muscle to decide which way to go, if they were to continue with EU.
D. Now the main reason -- The British wants to be part of Indian Dominion, as a its 30th state. Intelligent Brits found following  reasons to be part of India,

1. India is the prospering economy now, as it was a couple of centuries back.
2. Anyway The Great Britain has sizeable population of people with Indian origin, including quite a few politicians. English people have good taste for curry.

3. Many Indian Industrialists have already owning/purchasing  big British industries/properties -- TATA, Mittal, etc.
4. Indians just run to England, whenever they are in need. England is very hospitable to all those -- Mallyas, Lalit Modi's. British never expressed any concerns about such immigrants. On the other hand they donot want to deport such Indians, even at the request of Indian government. They love Indian emigrants so much.
5. Indian constitution has provision to provide special status to a state (like article 370 for Kashmir). Britain (it will not be called as The Great Britain then) could become such special autonomous state within Indian Dominion. So British people can continue to enjoy special privilege.
6. Brit youth will have more job opportunities than what EU could have provided.

On the other hand, it will be win-win situation for India as well.
i) India will get automatic entry into NSG, US Security Council, etc.
ii) India will also become a developed country, without any effort from Indian government.

So, Prime Ministed Narendra Modi might stop visiting London, as it will be just a state capital.

You never know, David Cameron's son/daughter or  grandson/grand-daughter would become the Prime Minster of The Great Indian Dominion one day ?



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