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INTERESTING FACTS …DID YOU KNOW EPISODE 7

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India has 30 million people of Indian origin living outside India

There are enough history books to note that India’s invaders were often more advanced than their local counterparts in warfare and administration. (Article ‘Time to let go’—we are the products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it by RISHI SETH, TOI dated 27.11.18)

A shocking multi-city survey has revealed that 59% of Good Samaritans—public spirited citizens who take accident victims to hospitals—were detained by the police, despite the law forbidding it. (TOI editorial dated 28.11.19)

The GOLDEN HOUR is the first hour after the traumatic injury, when doctor’s say emergency treatment is most successful.

A 2006 Law Commission report claimed that 50% of fatalities can be averted by bringing victims to the hospital within the golden hour.

In 2006 India reported 1.35 lakh fatal accidents that claimed 1.48 lakh lives and 1.21 lakh serious injury causing accidents that required hospitalization.

An Assocham study says most students below the age of  13 carry schoolbags weighing up to 45% of their body weight. This load should not exceed 10% of a student’s body weight (TOI editorial dated  28.11.19)

What we call the Spice route, ferried for hundreds of years, pepper and other condiments from what is now Kerala to Arabia, and from there to Europe.

The Portuguese brought chilies to India some 500 years ago when they landed in Goa.

An English courtier Walter Reigh introduced tobacco and potatoes from America to England in the reign of Elizabeth I.

Central banks like our Reserve Bank of India are a construct of modernity for which there is no specific ancient wisdom. The first one, formed exactly 350 years ago, was Sweden’s Riksbank, followed by the Bank of England (1791). Others soon followed including US and France.

Since the end of the cold war, the Chinese nuclear arsenal is the only one that is both expanding and modernising across the board while those of the US and Russia have dropped dramatically.

Just in the last decade, the number of Chinese missiles that can reach the continental United States has more than doubled.

Today almost 4 out of 10 children in Maharastra are stunted, an equal number are under weight. 15% are wasted or weak or extremely thin, 74% are anaemic. And more than half of infants (6-9 months) don’t even get solids or semi-solids that are needed for growth. And within all of this the tribal children are at the bottom of the heap.

The statue of liberty was unveiled in 1886. It was given to the United States by France to celebrate their enduring friendship during the American Revolution. Over the years it has symbolized the freedom and the democracy of the United States including abolishing of slavery.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking the eggs, say the French

According to the Bureau of Police Research and Development, there are 402 police stations in the country that don’t even have a phone line.  Plus, more than seven years after being conceptualised the Rs 2,000 crore project to digitise crime records and connect nearly 14,000 police stations still remain incomplete.

India is the largest producer of milk in the world, with around 85% of its workforce being small farm holders.

Average internet connection speed for the South Koreans is a blazing 23.7 megabits per second, while Indians suffer at a slow rate of 1.7 megabits per second. 

The names of four domain experts of India are: MS Swaminathan, who worked for the Green Revolution of India, Vikram Sarabhai’s who worked on satellites and Homi Bhaba who worked on building India’s atomic energy capabilities and Sam Pitroda who started the telecom revolution in India.

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Delhi boy death in US exposes truth behind American Dream

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Delhi boy death in US exposes truth behind American Dream

Once, while I was changing a flight in Frankfurt for Mumbai an elderly gentleman came and sat next to me. He was a retired scientist from Bhabha Atomic, Mumbai and was returning after visiting his son in the US. We got around chatting stuff about the US. I thought he would have some great things to say about young Indians working in the US. But contrary to that he appeared to be more on the complaining mode. And, explained in great detail why life was so very stressful there, and at times you felt it was not worth it. Many youngsters want to return home but are unable to do so because of family and peer pressure, as returning to India after a stint in the US is generally perceived as failure of sorts. But surely, all that glitters is not gold if you were to read the column below.

Delhi boy death in US exposes truth behind American Dream

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 4.6.15

Washington/New Delhi: He was born in New Delhi, graduated from University of Pennsylvania, interned at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank and began working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco in September 2014.

Often he complained to his father on phone about “working 20 hours at a stretch.”  He briefly quit his job, but went back to the crushing pressure.

Sarvshreshth Gupta was just 22 when he was found dead in the parking lot next to his San Francisco apartment on April 16, under circumstances yet to be explained by authorities. And now an on-line essay by his father Sunil has stirred a debate on the stressful working conditions in the US financial sector. In recent months, there has been a string of deaths allegedly related to work pressure on Wall Street.

In the moving essay titled ‘A Son Never Dies’, posted after a month after his death on website Medium (and later withdrawn), Sunil offers an insight into the kind of pressure his son faced at his job. In his last conversation with his father, Sarvshreshth said he had not slept for two days and was working alone while everybody else had left the office. Sarvshreshth Gupta’s tragic story serves as a cautionary tale at a time of the year when scores of Indian parents are visiting the US to see their children graduate from American universities and begin chasing the much-ballyhooed “American Dream.”

A FATHER REMEMBERS

“Papa I do not get enough sleep. I work 20 hours at a stretch.” During certain weeks, he was working on weekends too.

I protested, “Son, you will ruin your health,” He would say, “Come on Papa, I am young and strong. Investment banking is hard work.”

From mid-Jan, he started complaining. “This job is not for me. too much work and too little time. I want to come back home.”

–Excerpted from SUNIL GUPTA’S ONLINE ESSAY, ‘A SON NEVER DIES.’

#OPPOSITION BLAMES PM FOR DENTING #INDIA’S PRESTIGE BY DISCUSSING #SCAMS WHILE #ABROAD

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TOI 30.4.15 –times view and counter view and now #VOTER’S VIEW

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#Congress leader #Anand #Sharma the other day was blaming PM for denting India’s prestige abroad by discussing scams. His contention was Prime Minister represents the entire country and not just the BJP and so he should not have spoken about scams.

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As a voter I would like to ask this person Anand Sharma where was he when all these scams were being committed and why couldn’t he think of country’s prestige then. For happenings of scams are more embarrassing than discussing scams abroad.  He then, was also a cabinet minister and could have ventured into stopping of some of these scams which he didn’t and is now trying to give moral lectures in his much arrogant tone and tenor.

The UPA ministry should thank itself that they committed these financial crimes in India which is a soft state, for had they committed such crimes in China or the US many of them would have been behind bars by now and some even executed by the state.

That apart the other view point is: The world and more importantly the investors need to be told that the erstwhile dirt and filth created by UPA is now being cleaned up, only to entice investors to invest in India, so what is wrong in that. In fact it was only because of the corrupt UPA regime that the honourable Prime Minister had to break traditions and talk of sanitizing India from corruption.

In this day and age of strong media presence every country knows what is cooking in any other countries backyard and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has only done the country proud by telling the world that a neat and clean India has now arrived for them.

Leaders like Anand Sharma should show some maturity and not behave like if I may repeat the Hindi proverb: Khisyani billi kahmba noche. Rather, they should take moral lessons on how to be an honest person, like an Indian voter.

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ALLURING MIRAGE OF RAJ ESTATE-LUDHIANA, A SHORT STORY BY KAMLESH TRIPATHI

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ALLURING MIRAGE OF Raj estate-Ludhiana

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  •  ‘Papa ji, my friend who recently went to Toronto was telling me around ten to fifteen lacs, when his Parents are still supporting him till he finds a job. O-O Daddy ji, it is very, very tough these days.’ replied Mandeep.
  • Soon the ambience at home deteriorated. Fun, cheer, smiles were replaced by gloom and suspicion. Rapid degradation followed in interpersonal. The boisterous evenings that saw all the three brothers clanging their glasses, nibbling rich snacks in the lawns of the Kothi had turned turtle.
  • Mandeep, had married a girl of Canadian origin without informing his Parents. Jasmeet invited Jasvinder and Sukhbir for his wedding to a Tamilian software engineer but they refused to attend.
  • A gloom had set in around the clan. Rajs were now past sixty … senior citizens. Some even had health problems. Banto, had recently informed Gurdeep that Upinder and Lovely had visited PGI Chandigarh a couple of times. Perhaps, between them someone was not well.”

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