tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266524932011-12-29T01:21:11.733-08:00This Page is to have a my View of the Present Situation of Poltics, Games , B(H)olloywood .. Well Any NEWS that makes NEWS from NEWS (North East West South) INDIA and abroad.Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-10313549500254349432010-01-13T01:25:00.001-08:002010-01-13T01:25:44.040-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><div class="mceTemp"><br /><dl class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_28" style="float: left; width: 261px;"><dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Bush or Obama? You decide." class="size-medium wp-image-28" height="300" src="http://www.ryanvanwagoner.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BushOrObama-251x300.jpg" style="border: 3px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" title="BushOrObama" width="251" /><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Bush or Obama? You decide.</span></dt></dl></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;">Via<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Bush_closes_the_gap.html" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Political Wire</a>:<br /></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;">“Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they’d rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that’s somewhat of a surprise and an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for the country’s difficulties instead of giving him space because of the tough situation he inherited. The closeness in the Obama/Bush numbers also has implications for the 2010 elections. Using the Bush card may not be particularly effective for Democrats anymore, which is good news generally for Republicans and especially ones like Rob Portman who are running for office and have close ties to the former President.”<br /></div></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-1031354950025434943?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-4473922408165581912009-08-19T20:25:00.000-07:002009-08-19T20:26:07.221-07:00<p face="comic sans ms" style="color: rgb(255, 64, 64);"><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span style="font-size:6px;">Be Careful when eating apples.</span></a></p><p face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span style="font-size:130%;">Please don't eat the skin of the apple because it's coated with wax.</span></a></p><p face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span style="font-size:130%;">Check before eating any of the fruits.</span></a></p> <p face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span style="font-size:130%;">WAX is being used for preservation purposes and cold storage.</span></a></p><p face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></a></p><p face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span style="font-size:130%;"> You might be surprised especially apples from USA and other parts are more than one year old, though it would look fresh. Because wax is coated, preventing bacteria to enter. So it does not get dry.</span></a></p> <p face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span style="font-size:130%;">Please Eat Apples after removing the wax as demonstrated below, follow this and let know others</span></a></p><a href="http://www.mastiz.net"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);font-family:papyrus;font-size:180%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><img alt="http://i32.tinypic.com/5tzbdu.jpg" src="http://i32.tinypic.com/5tzbdu.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="http://i27.tinypic.com/imjgb8.jpg" src="http://i27.tinypic.com/imjgb8.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="http://i26.tinypic.com/2nko3h0.jpg" src="http://i26.tinypic.com/2nko3h0.jpg" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-447392240816558191?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-41440898227841783032009-06-26T03:29:00.000-07:002009-06-26T03:31:10.993-07:00Chyetanya Kunte, an Indian blogger living in Netherlands, was unhappy with the way a mainstream media journalist reported news about the Mumbai terror attacks and decided to blog his thoughts .Unfortunately, that reaction didn’t go down too well with the NDTV journalist especially Ms Barkha Dutt and their legal team therefore forced this blogger to withdraw the original story and also asked an unconditional apology.The blogger did so, but strong reaction is coming against barkha dutta and in favor of the poor blogger.<br /><br /><img src="http://img.labnol.org/di/CanTheySueYouForQuotingaWikipediaArticle_A59A/barkhadutt.jpg" alt="Barkha dutta" /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iLiDTX5xhv8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iLiDTX5xhv8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Just watch the video ....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-4144089822784178303?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1372399852485581912009-06-22T20:13:00.000-07:002009-06-22T20:15:17.926-07:00<div> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Algerian;font-size:6;color:blue;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: Algerian; color: blue;">On August 7 , 2009<br /> <br /> At 12hr 34 minutes and 56 seconds on the 7th of August this year, the time and date will be<br /> <br /> 12:34:56 07/08/09</span></span></p> </div> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></span> </p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Algerian;font-size:6;color:blue;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: Algerian; color: blue;"><br /> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9<br /> <br /> This will never happen in your life again??!!!!</span></span> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-137239985248558191?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-34098451674535542502009-06-16T21:28:00.000-07:002009-06-16T21:29:27.534-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">Got this interesting Article on the net...<br /><br />Good to be true... :)<br /></span><!--printer_version--><span class="f12"><!-- wml_version_starts --> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">S</span>oaring gold prices, coupled with a craze for being trendy has prompted young women to go in for environment-friendly, cheap paper jewellery. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">And the advantages are many. For one, paper jewellery, made from recycled paper with water, is bio-degradable and non-allergic. It is light, durable, sweat resistant and can withstand normal pressure. Also, normal water contact does not damage it, says an entrepreneur. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">To make it involves a labour-intensive process, wherein each bead is hand rolled, glued and triple-varnished. Women from disadvantaged backgrounds are usually hired to help with production. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">"We use mill made recycled paper, which helps reduce our carbon footprint and helps the environment," Usha Natrajan, managing parter of city-based Mahalakshmi Creations, which is incorporated with 80 entrepreneurs on paper jewellery, told PTI here. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Saying that paper jewellery could be customised in any colour and pattern, which is more economically viable than gold jewellery, she said most of her customers were in the 20-35 age group. "Mostly young girls evince interest in buying the jewellery," she added. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Explaining the method involved in making paper jewellery, Usha said that paper is first manually moulded into beads of different shapes and sizes. Utmost care is taken in bonding, strengthening, hardening, colouring and waterproofing. The paper beads are then adorned with crystals, stones, chatons, kundan, glass beads, polki, semi-precious stones, acrylic beads, and horn beads, she added. She said her company has produced more than 2,000 designs in 40 colours so far . </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">"Special designs are being developed for changing seasons and moods. The range varies from elaborate and detailed designs to basics," she said. She said that prices for a pair of earrings start at Rs 45. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Usha explained that acceptance of paper jewellery is catching on. "We give options to customers, right from choosing the main design base to the beads. We then fix original Swarovski glass beads, cultured beads and pearls.We do not use chemicals in any process while making the jewellery," she said. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Started in a small way in 2006, Usha's company sold paper jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh in its first year. "After that, there has been a steady growth in sales of 40 percent every year," she added. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Sivaranjani, a college student, said she preferred to wear paper jewellery since there are many designs and it is eco-friendly. "It is cheap," she said. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Dermatologists say no research has yet been conducted on the possible effects of wearing paper jewellery, as it is a new entrant into the market. </span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3409845167453554250?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-8493211764240265942009-05-18T20:17:00.000-07:002009-05-18T20:18:16.819-07:00<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;">Over </span></span></span><a href="http://www.mastiz.net" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;">the weekend, I filled up my car's fuel tank, and I thought fuel has become really expensive after the recent price hike. But then I compared it with other common liquids and did some quick calculations, and I felt a little better.<br /><br /><br />To know why, see the results below ? you'll be surprised at how outrageous some other prices are !<br /><br /><br />Diesel (regular) in Mumbai : Rs 36.08 per litre<br />Petrol (speed) in Mumbai : Rs 52 per litre<br />Coca Cola 330 ml can : Rs 20 = Rs 61 per litre<br />Dettol antiseptic 100 ml Rs 20 = Rs 200 per litre<br />Radiator coolant 500 ml Rs 160 = Rs 320 per litre<br />Pantene conditioner 400 ml Rs 165 = Rs 413 per litre<br />Mouthwash Listerine 100 ml Rs 45 = Rs 450 per litre<br />Red Bull 150 ml can : Rs 75 = Rs 500 per litre<br />Corex cough syrup 100 ml Rs 57 = Rs 570 per litre<br />Evian water 500 ml Rs 330 = Rs 660 per litre<br />Kores whiteout 15 ml Rs 15 = Rs 1000 per litre<br />Coffee at a 5*hotel 150 ml Rs 175 = Rs 1167 per litre<br />Old Spice after shave 100 ml Rs 175 = Rs 1750 per litre<br />Pure almond oil 25 ml Rs 68 = Rs 2720 per </span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;">litre</span></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-849321176424026594?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-85257903904824894022009-05-04T22:58:00.000-07:002009-05-04T23:03:50.013-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.igotsomething.com/pod/mexico.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 401px;" src="http://www.igotsomething.com/pod/mexico.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This was one of the images that were flashed with Swine Flu or H1N1.<br />Interesting to note that this virus was originally referred to as swine flu because laboratory testing showed that many of the genes in this new virus were very similar to influenza viruses that normally occur in pigs in North America. But further study has shown that this new virus is very different from what normally circulates in North American pigs. It has two genes from flu viruses that normally circulate in pigs in Europe and Asia and avian genes and human genes. Scientists call this a “quadruple reassortant” virus.<br /><br />Wow!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-8525790390482489402?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-17995229209205183302009-04-27T19:39:00.000-07:002009-04-27T19:40:11.791-07:00<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">What is drawing more eyeballs than the cheerleaders at the season-2 of IPL? Surprise surprise – It’s a BLOG? And that too a mole’s blog.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The “Fake IPL Player”, as he calls himself, claims to be a part of Shahrukh Khan’s team ‘The Kolkata Knight Riders’, and is writing away to glory at the expense of the ‘who’s who’ at IPL. Just a few days old, the blog, </span><a href="http://fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#800080;">http://fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;">, has already managed to hit headlines on all major newspapers and has a fan following that runs in thousands. What's more, the blog has created quite a stir at the Indian Premier League. Reason being, the stories posted are more about dressing room politics, jazzy team owners, who’s dating whom and the players’ off field exploits, than about IPL. Of course with malice towards one and all…all but “Sourav Ganguly, The Lordie”. </span></span> </p> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The fake names used by the blogger to refer to the ‘who’s who’ are pretty creative, yet identifiable. Sample this:</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Lord Almighty - Sourav Ganguly</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Big Sister - Shilpa Shetty</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Babli - Preity Zinta</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Prince Charles of Patiala - Yuvraj Singh</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Havaii Chappal - Greg Chapel</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sandy Baddy babe - Mandira Bedi</span></span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Bevdaa Team - Bangalore Royal Challengers</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span> </p> <p> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The interest generated by this blog, forced the </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">KKR CEO Joy Bhattacharya to come out with a response:<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Poison pen writing of the dirtiest variety, but far too many factual errors. Whoever it is out there is obviously very sick, perverted and has far too little information or insight to successfully pretend to be a part of us," he said.</span></span> </p> <p> <span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">However, the blogger claims that there are frenetic attempts to smoke him out. He goes on to say that, “Laptops hv bn banned. I'net removed fm rooms. But posts wl continue thru SMS, relayed by my bro in India." </span></span> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-1799522920920518330?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-55459112811859864082009-02-11T00:54:00.000-08:002009-02-11T00:55:46.755-08:00<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The whole world is scared of China made "black hearted goods"<br />Can you differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China ? Let me tell! u ... the first 3 digits of barcode 690.691.692 is made in CHINA . Do not ever buy it for your own health.<br /><br />471 is Made in Taiwan<br /><br />This is a human right to know, but the government and related department never educate the public, therefore we have to rescue ourselves. Remember.<br /><br /> </span></span><table class="MsoNormalTable" align="left" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="33%"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">00-13: USA &amp; Canada </span></span></p></td> <td width="33%"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">20-29: In-Store Functions </span></span></p></td> <td width="33%"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">30-37: France </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">40-44: Germany </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">45: Japan (also 49) </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">46: Russian Federation </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">471: Taiwan </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">474: Estonia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">475: Latvia </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">477: Lithuania </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">479: Sri Lanka </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">480: Philippines </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">482: Ukraine </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">484: Moldova </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">485: Armenia </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">486: Georgia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">487: Kazakhstan </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">489: Hong Kong </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">49: Japan (JAN-13) </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">50: United Kingdom </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">520: Greece </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">528: Lebanon </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">529: Cyprus </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">531: Macedonia </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">535: Malta </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">539: Ireland </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">54: Belgium &amp; Luxembourg </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">560: Portugal </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">569: Iceland </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">57: Denmark </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">590: Poland </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">594: Romania </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">599: Hungary </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">600 &amp; 601: South Africa </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">609: Mauritius </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">611: Morocco </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">613: Algeria </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">619: Tunisia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">622: Egypt </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">625: Jordan </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">626: Iran </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">64: Finland </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;">690-692: China </span></span></b></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">70: Norway </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">729: Israel </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">73: Sweden </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">740: Guatemala </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">741: El Salvador </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">742: Honduras </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">743: Nicaragua </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">744: Costa Rica </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">746: Dominican Republic </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">750: Mexico </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">759: Venezuela </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">76: Switzerland </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">770: Colombia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">773: Uruguay </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">775: Peru </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">777: Bolivia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">779: Argentina </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">780: Chile </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">784: Paraguay </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">785: Peru </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">786: Ecuador </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">789: Brazil </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">80 - 83: Italy </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">84: Spain </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">850: Cuba </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">858: Slovakia </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">859: Czech Republic </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">860: Yugoslavia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">869: Turkey </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">87: Netherlands </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">880: South Korea </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">885: Thailand </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">888: Singapore </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;">890: India </span></span></b></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">893: Vietnam </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">899: Indonesia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">90 &amp; 91: Austria </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">93: Australia </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">94: New Zealand </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">955: Malaysia </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">977: International Standard Serial Number for Periodicals (ISSN) </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">978: International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN) </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">979: International Standard Music Number (ISMN) </span></span></p></td> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">980: Refund receipts </span></span></p></td></tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">981 &amp; 982: Common Currency Coupons </span></span></p></td> <td colspan="2"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">99: Coupons </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /><br /><br /><br />With more and more milk products from China and Taiwan having problem. We really got to check where the things are produced. Here is a way to differentiate Taiwan made products and China made products : by looking at first three digits of its Bar Code.<br /><br />If the 1st 3 digits are 690, 691 or 692 - China made<br />If the 1st 3 digits are 471 - Taiwan made </span></span></b><u><span style="color:blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /><br /></span></span></u><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dmeO92RLuXQ/SNu0qIAMNOI/AAAAAAAABuY/h3odKAYmT_I/s1600-h/noname.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a><b><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt;">So please spread the words to everyone...... </span></span></b><br />Nowadays, China businessmen know the consumers do not prefer products "made in china", so they won't show made from which country.<br />However, you may now refer to the barcodes, if the first 3 digits is 690-692 then it is made in China .</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-5545911281185986408?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-30945182554398458812009-02-10T20:12:00.000-08:002009-02-11T00:57:29.039-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecash4free.blogspot.com"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h311/anushri/mastiz/universe.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301388836031322082" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3094518255439845881?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-16703847851714999242009-02-05T22:27:00.000-08:002009-02-05T22:28:44.712-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 36pt; color: red;"></span><b><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:red;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: red;"><br />DO NOT DIAL IF SOME ONE ASKS YOU TO DIAL #09 or #90<br /></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;color:red;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: red;"><br /><br />Please Do Not Dial This When Asked, Please circulate URGENTLY. </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:red;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: red;"><br />New Trick of Terrorists to Frame Innocent People!! </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;color:red;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: red;"><br /><br />If you receive a phone call on your Mobile from any person saying that they are checking your mobile line, and you have to press #90 or #09 or any other number, END this call immediately without pressing any numbers. </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:red;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: red;"><br /><br />Friends, there is a fraud company using a device that once you press #90 or #09 they can access your SIM card and make calls at your expense.. Forward this message to as many friends as you can, to stop it. This information has been confirmed by both Motorola and Nokia. There are over 3 million affected mobile phones.<br /><br />You can check this news at CNN web site also.</span></span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-1670384785171499924?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-10496536850305804192009-02-02T21:36:00.000-08:002009-02-02T21:43:42.546-08:00<style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style><div face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="10pt" style=""><div><a href="http://6d08e027.seriousfiles.com"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></a></div><div face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="10pt" style=""><div face="times new roman,new york,times,serif" size="12pt" style=""><a href="http://6d08e027.seriousfiles.com"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></a><div face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="10pt" style=""><div face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="10pt" style="text-align: center;"><div face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="10pt" style=""><div face="times new roman,new york,times,serif" size="12pt" style=""><div face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="10pt" style="color: rgb(0, 64, 127);"><a href="http://6d08e027.seriousfiles.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" ></span></span></a><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" > <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/hydmastipics/SOx88o4CHGI/AAAAAAAAozM/2xIPtOSbDJM/s800/188737image001.jpg" width="650" /></span></a><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" ><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" >1.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Devotees carry a statue of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, for immersion in the sea, on the last day of<br />"Ganesh Chaturthi", in Mumbai September 14, 2008. Clay statues of Ganesh are made two to three months before this popular religious festival in India. The idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied with dancing and singing, to be immersed in a river symbolizing a ritual sendoff on his journey towards his home. (REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe)</span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" > </span></span><div class="bpImageTop" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;font-family:Arial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" >Devotees carry a st</span><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india02_16384757.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 609px; width: 990px;" /></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="blogText bigText" style="padding-bottom: 35px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px;font-family:georgia;" ></span><span class="bpMore"></span></span><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">2.</span>A devotee watches an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, sinking, after it was immersed in the Sabarmati river on the last day of "Ganesh Chaturthi" in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, September 14, 2008. (REUTERS/Amit Dave) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo3"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india03_16397463.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 624px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">3.</span>A rhinoceros which strayed in Kalcheni village, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) west of Gauhati, India, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, hides from wildlife officials. More than 100 wildlife officials tracked the animal using its radio collar after it strayed from the Assam state's Manas National Park on Sept. 1, but could not capture it until Sunday, fearing that if they tranquilized it in the marshy area it could drown.. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo4"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india04_16454519.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 613px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">4.</span>An artisan gives finishing touches to an idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga at a workshop in the<br />northeastern Indian city of Siliguri September 20, 2008. The idols will be used during the Durga Puja festival, a popular religious event for Hindu Bengalis. In Hindu mythology, Durga symbolises power and the triumph of good over evil. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo5"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india05_16283137.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 624px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">5.</span>People carry earthen water pots as they take part in a Jhulelal Chaliha procession in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad September 6, 2008. Thousands of<br />people took part in the 40 day long fasting festival of the Sindhi community, Jhulelal Chaliha, that ended on Saturday with a colourful procession of earthen pots carried by male and female devotees on their heads. (REUTERS/Amit Dave) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo6"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india06_16170785.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 630px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">6.</span>An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier holds position inside a bulletproof vehicle during an encounter at Chinor village on the outskirts of Jammu August 27, 2008. Suspected<br />Muslim militants who slipped across the border from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir killed at least two civilians and an army officer in the Hindu-majority region of Jammu earlier that day, police said. (REUTERS/Amit Gupta) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo7"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india07_16214515.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 651px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">7.</span>Protestors challenge the police during a victory rally in Jammu, India, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Hindus on Sunday suspended their two-month-old<br />protest over allotment of land to a Hindu trust to build facilities for pilgrims in the Indian portion of Kashmir, which had triggered some of the worst violence in the region in more than a decade, officials said. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo8"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india08_16214529.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 598px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">8.</span>A policeman throws stones at protestors during a victory rally in Jammu, India, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo9"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india09_16268935.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 546px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">9.</span>Catholic nuns from the Missionaries of Charity order sing hymns for a special prayer during the eleventh anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata September 5, 2008. Mother Teresa was a Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun who died in 1997, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003 at the Vatican. (REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo10"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india10_16214443.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 639px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">10.</span>A damaged church, seen in<br />the village of Raikia, India, after it was allegedly stormed by Hindu fundamentalists, on August 31, 2008. Indian authorities insisted they had halted deadly clashes between Hindus and Christians in the east of the country that have exposed it to stinging criticism. At least 10 people have died and thousands have fled their homes as a result of the violence in the coastal state of Orissa, with the Catholic church accusing police of failing to protect defenceless priests and nuns. (DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP/Getty Images) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo11"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india11_16233791.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 636px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">11.</span>A Theyyam dancer waits to perform during festivities marking the start of the annual harvest festival of "Onam" in the southern Indian city of Kochi September 2, 2008. The 10-day long festival is celebrated annually in India's southern coastal state of Kerala to symbolise the return of King Mahabali to meet his beloved subjects. (REUTERS/Sivaram V) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo12"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india12_16445205.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 578px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">12.</span>Monsoon rains have caused a great deal of flooding throughout low-lying regions of India. Here, villagers wade through a flooded road near Mithapur village, 67 km (42 miles) west of Ahmedabad, September 19, 2008. (REUTERS/Amit Dave) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo13"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india13_16248527..jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 566px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">13.</span>A man is airlifted onto an Indian Air Force helicopter at a flood-affected village in the<br />eastern Indian state of Bihar September 3, 2008. The floods have forced more than three million people from their<br />homes, destroyed 250,000 acres of farmland and killed over 150 people. (REUTERS/Indian Defence Ministry) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo14"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india14_16285331.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 590px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">14.</span>A flood-affected man waits for food in a flood relief camp at Jankinagar village of Purniya district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, September 6, 2008. Authorities battling a massive deluge in Bihar had issued public warnings of more floods to come and asked villagers not to return home from temporary<br />shelters yet. (REUTERS/Rupak De<br />Chowdhuri) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo15"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india15_16273335.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 623px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">15.</span>Refugees from flooded areas extend their hands to fetch food packets<br />distributed by National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) personnel at Raghunathpur area, Madhepura district of India's northeastern state of Bihar, on September 5, 2008. Rescue workers in flood-hit northern India have brought over 800,000 people to safety, but tens of thousands more were still believed to be trapped, officials said. (DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty<br />Images) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo16"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india16_16249399.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 616px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">16.</span>Workers arrange bottles of drinking water before an air-drop in<br />flood-affected areas at Purniya air force station in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, September 3, 2008. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo17"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india17_16297453.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 639px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">17.</span>Muslim women react to the camera at a makeshift flood relief camp in Araria district town in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, September 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo18"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india18_16234765.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 601px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">18.</span>A Hindu woman has her hand painted with henna during the Teej festival in the northern Indian city of Allahabad September 2, 2008. Hindu women fast and pray for the good health and long life of their husbands during the Teej festival. (REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo19"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india19_16270343.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 600px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">19.</span>Forestry workers look on as a male Royal Bengal Tiger leaps off a boat into the water after being released back into the wild in<br />The Chamta Forest District of The Sunderbans, in India, on September 4, 2008. The tiger was declared fit for release by veterinarians after it was recently rescued from a nearby village. (HO/AFP/Getty Images) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline;">#</a></span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo20"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india20_16387875.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 621px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">20.</span>A mask is<br />shown being put<br />on the back of honey collector Madhusudhan Mondal's head, in Bali, a village in the Sundarbans, India, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. The Sundarbans forest, a remote tangle of unforgiving islands dangling off the eastern edge of India, is home to perhaps the world's largest population of tigers, prone to attacking humans, as well as 4 million people who are among the poorest in India. Locals believe that tigers do not attack humans from the front and wear masks on the back of their heads in the hope of warding them off. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo21"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india21_16431087.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 621px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">21.</span>The Satellite Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India's first moon mission craft is seen from behind glass at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) center in Bangalore on September 18, 2008. Chandrayaan-1, which has almost reached its final stages of preparation before its shipment to its launch centre at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR), in Sriharikota.(DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo22"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india22_16226033.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 494px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">22.</span>A view of the illuminated Golden Temple, Sikhs holiest shrine, in Amritsar, India, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. This year, Sikhs mark the 404th anniversary of the installation of the<br />Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred book of the Sikhs. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo23"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india23_16139079.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 589px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">23.</span>Indian<br />Hindu devotees pay their respects after pouring milk water onto an idol of Hindu God Lord Krishna at the Shivala temple in Amritsar, on<br />August 24, 2008, on the occasion of the "Janmashtami" festival, which marks the birth of Lord Krishna. Devotional songs and dances mark the celebrations of the festival all over northern India. (NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo24"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india24_16137039.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 603px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">24.</span>Hindu devotees, try to form a human pyramid to break an earthen pot filled with honey, milk and curd, as part of festivities to celebrate Janmashthmi, or the birth anniversary of Lord<br />Krishna, in Mumbai, India, Sunday,<br />Aug. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo25"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india25_16141543.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 610px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">25.</span>Young Indian devotees of Hindu God<br />Lord Krishna attempt to make a seven-tier human pyramid in the 'dahi-handi' (curd-pot) contest in Mumbai on August 24, 2008, as part of celebrations of "Janmashtami" which marks the birth of Hindu God Lord Krishna. Scores of Hindu devotees of Lord Krishna partake in the dahi-handi celebration during which a large earthenware pot is filled with milk, curds,<br />butter, honey and fruits and suspended from a height of between 20 to 40 feet. Sporting young men and boys come forward to claim this prize by constructing a human pyramid till the pyramid is tall enough to enable the topmost person to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it. (PAL PILLAI/AFP/Getty Images) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo26"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india26_16234999.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 607px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">26.</span>Engineers prepare to roll-out the Spark, one of General Motors Corp's passenger vehicles, at<br />the company's new plant in Talegaon,<br />about 160 km (99 miles) northeast of Mumbai September 2, 2008. General Motors Corp's most important priority is to turn around its North American business and it will continue investments in emerging markets, its chief operating officer said on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo27"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india27_16384317.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 698px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">27.</span>A relative of a bomb blast victim sits next to their body at a cremation ground in New Delhi September 14, 2008. Police officers trawled<br />slums and criminal hideouts in<br />India's capital on Sunday rounding up suspects after serial bombings in the city a day earlier killed at least 21 people and wounded nearly 100. At least five bombs exploded in quick succession in crowded markets and streets in the heart of New Delhi on Saturday night. </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo28"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india28_16170025.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 552px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">28.</span>A woman works in a rice paddy near Singur, about 50 km (31 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata August 27, 2008. (REUTERS/Parth<br />Sanyal) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo29"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india29_16430669.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 577px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">29.</span>Activists of the People for Animals (PFA) an NGO hold two Dwarf tortoises, which were rescued from a resident in Guwahati on September 18, 2008. The pair were later released into the the Dighalipukhuri pond in Guwahati, the capital city of India¢s northeastern state of Assam. (BIJU BORO/AFP/Getty Images) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo30"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india30_16443747.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 600px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">30.</span>People fish for wood for domestic use at the Naraj barrage on the Kathjodi River in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. The flood situation in Orissa worsened as the government launched a massive evacuation operation to shift the residents of low-lying areas to safer places, according to a news agency. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo31"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india31_16442515.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 594px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">31.</span>Kashmiri Muslim protesters shout pro-freedom slogans during an anti-India protest in Srinagar September 19, 2008. Thousands of Muslims demonstrators shouting anti-India<br />slogans took to streets in Kashmir's main city on Friday and resumed protests against New Delhi's rule in the disputed region. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo32"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india32_16445037.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 585px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">32.</span>A bull and other pedestrians walk past a computer supermarket in New Delhi September 19, 2008. (REUTERS/Desmond Boylan) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india33_16395823.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 626px; width: 990px;" /></span></span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">33.</span>Performers dressed as tigers take part in Pulikali, or tiger dance, during festivities in Trichur city, in the southern<br />Indian state of Kerala, September 15, 2008. The ceremony was organised to mark the end of the annual harvest festival, "Onam". (REUTERS/Sivaram V) </span></span></div></div><div class="bpBoth" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 35px; width: 990px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><a rel="nofollow" name="photo34"></a><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/india_09_22/india34_16446663.jpg" class="bpImage" style="border-width: 2px; height: 589px; width: 990px;" /><br /></span></span><div class="bpCaption" style="padding: 4px 10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">34.</span>A model presents a creation by Indian designer Anamika Khanna on the fourth day of the HDIL India Couture Week in Mumbai on September 19, 2008. India is hosting its first ever haute couture week showcasing over six days, 11 leading designers in a celebration of the<br />country's rich heritage in bespoke<br />fashion. But unlike the bank-breaking, impossible-to-wear creations on show twice a year in Paris that are not even intended for the high street, Indian couturiers say they are offering wearable made-to-order clothes at a realistic price. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images) </span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span class="bpMore"></span></span></div><a href="http://6d08e027.seriousfiles.com"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></a> </div></div></div><div face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="10pt" style=""><div face="times new roman,new york,times,serif" size="12pt" style=""><a href="http://6d08e027.seriousfiles.com"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></a> </div></div></div><a href="http://6d08e027.seriousfiles.com"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></a> </div></div></div><a href="http://6d08e027.seriousfiles.com"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-1049653685030580419?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-30400674755630440502009-01-27T02:26:00.000-08:002009-01-27T02:34:53.052-08:00<p align="center"><a href="http://esms4u.blogspot.com/"><b>The Inauguration of President Barack Obama</b></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://esms4u.blogspot.com/"><br /><span> Yesterday was a historic day. On January 20th, 2009, Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the <span>USA - the first African-American ever to hold the office of U.S. Commander-in-Chief. The event was witnessed by well over one million attendees in chilly Washington D.C., and by many millions more through coverage on television and the Internet. Collected here are photographs of the event, the participants, and some of the witnesses around the world<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>.</span></span><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_01.jpg" width="530" height="332" /><br /><br /><span> The Capitol is illuminated in the early morning hours before the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">United States of America</span> January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. </span><i>(David McNew/Getty Images) </i></a> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="http://esms4u.blogspot.com/"><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_02.jpg" width="530" height="390" /><br /><br />People gather to watch US President Barack Obama's sworn in as the 44th US president by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. <i>(JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_03.jpg" width="530" height="1321" /><br /><br /><span> This image provided by GeoEye Satellite Image shows Washington D.C.'s National Mall and <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span> Capitol </span><i>(top)</i><span>, in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 taken at 11:19AM EDT during the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken through high, wispy white clouds, shows the masses of people between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. </span><i>(AP Photo/GeoEye Satellite Image)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_04.jpg" width="530" height="320" /><br /><br /><span> A woman looks through binoculars at the Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama as the 44th President of <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span> in Washington, January 20, 2009. </span><i>(REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_05.jpg" width="530" height="319" /><br /><br /><span> President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 44th President of <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span> on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. </span><i>(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_06.jpg" width="530" height="432" /><br /><br /><span> Barack H. Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of USA as his wife Michelle Obama holds the Bible and their daughters Malia Obama and Sasha Obama look on, on the West Front of the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. </span><i>(Chuck Kennedy-Pool/ Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_07.jpg" width="530" height="322" /><br /><br /><span><span> President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span> as the 44th President of the </span><span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">United States of America</span> at the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC.</span><i> (Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_08.jpg" width="530" height="337" /><br /><br /><span> People cheer at <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the Washington Monument</span> during the inauguration ceremony of U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington January 20, 2009. </span><i>(REUTERS/Mark Blinch)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_09.jpg" width="530" height="324" /><br /><br />Spectators in Times Square watch President Barack Obama take the oath of office during his inauguration Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 in New York. <i>(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_10.jpg" width="530" height="334" /><br /><br />Residents of Kibera, one of the poorest quarters in Nairobi gather to watch the inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama in Nairobi on January 20, 2009. <i>(YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_11.jpg" width="530" height="292" /><br /><br /><span> People watch a big television screen broadcasting Barack Obama being sworn in as the 44th President of the <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">United States of America</span> on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 during a ceremony at the Paris town hall in Paris, France. </span><i>(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_12.jpg" width="530" height="375" /><br /><br />Iraqis gather to watch televised coverage of the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama at a cafe in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_13.jpg" width="530" height="309" /><br /><br />U.S. soldiers watch the U.S. presidential inauguration via a webcast from Combat Outpost Keating in eastern Afghanistan January 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong <i>(AFGHANISTAN)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_14.jpg" width="530" height="345" /><br /><br />Cecilia Perez, center, watches the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama with Oscar Rodriguez at her taco stand in Mexico City, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_15.jpg" width="530" height="331" /><br /><br />Villagers of Nyang'oma Kogelo, the Kenyan village where 44th US President Barack Obama's father was born, react as they watch on a giant screen inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama, on January 20, 2009. Thousands of people from around and beyond Kogelo, including foreign tourists gathered at Nyang'oma village to celebrate the inauguration of Obama. <i>(TONY KARUMBA/AFP/ Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_16.jpg" width="530" height="327" /><br /><br /><span> Shoppers watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the Best Buy Store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. </span><i>(AP Photo/Jim Mone)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_17.jpg" width="530" height="330" /><br /><br /><span> People gather for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">United States of America</span> on the National Mall January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. </span><i>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_18.jpg" width="530" height="361" /><br /><br /><span> The Rev. Joseph Lowery gives the benediction during the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">United States of America</span> on the West Front of the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. </span><i>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_19.jpg" width="530" height="364" /><br /><br />US Army Command Sgt. Maj. Julia Kelley, left, of the 229th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, weeps as she watches the inauguration of US President Barack Obama at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.<br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_20.jpg" width="530" height="300" /><br /><br /><span> People attend the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span> on the National Mall January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. </span><i>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_21.jpg" width="530" height="362" /><br /><br /><span> U.S. President Barack H. Obama greets guests after he is sworn in as the 44th president of <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span> on the West Front of the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. </span><i>(J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/ Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_22.jpg" width="530" height="352" /><br /><br />Keith Hart, center, a Vietnam Army veteran, cheers as he watches Barack Obama be inaugurated as president, on television with other patrons of the Oxford Bar in Missoula, Mt., one of the oldest bars in Montana, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Michael Albans)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_23.jpg" width="530" height="353" /><br /><br /><span> Vertie Hodge, 74, weeps during an Inauguration Day party near Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Houston on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 after President Barack Obama delivered his speech after taking the oath of office, becoming the first black president in <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span>. </span><i>(AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_24.jpg" width="530" height="334" /><br /><br />Members of a US Navy Honor Guard stand at attention as US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive at the Presidential Reviewing Stand during the Inaugural Parade January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. <i>(Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_25.jpg" width="530" height="342" /><br /><br />President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle stand with former US president George W. Bush and Laura Bush on the steps of the US Capitol following the inaugural ceremony for Obama as 44th US president in Washington on January 20, 2009. <i>(EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_26.jpg" width="530" height="349" /><br /><br /><span> Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush wave as they board a Marine helicopter at the Capitol in Washington after Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of <span class="IL_SPAN"><input name="IL_MARKER" type="hidden">the United States</span>, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. </span><i>(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_27.jpg" width="530" height="317" /><br /><br />A Marine helicopter with former President George W. Bush on board departs from the East Front of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in Washington, as President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife wave goodbye from the steps of the Capitol. <i>(AP Photo/Tannen Maury, Pool)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_28.jpg" width="530" height="340" /><br /><br />Former President George W. Bush looks out over the U.S. Capitol as his helicopter departs Washington, D.C. January 20, 2009, for Andrews Air Force Base following the inauguration ceremonies for President Barack Obama. <i>(ERIC DRAPER/AFP/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_29.jpg" width="530" height="357" /><br /><br />Mujo Bota and Alamasa Bota, Bosnian Muslims, watch a TV broadcast of the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama with their grandson Ajdin Bota, 10, in the village of Dejicici, near Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina on Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Amel Emric)<!--INFOLINKS_STOP--></i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_30.jpg" width="530" height="327" /><br /><br />Students of the Crested Butte Community School, in Crested Butte Colo. sit on the floor in the main hallway of the school and applaud the inaugural address of President Barack Obama while watching the presidential inauguration in Washington, Tuesday, Jan., 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Nathan Bilow)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_31.jpg" width="530" height="347" /><br /><br />Afghan men watch a television broadcast showing the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, at a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Ahmad Masoud)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_32.jpg" width="530" height="338" /><br /><br />Kenyans who gathered at the grounds of the University of Nairobi to watch in giant screens the inauguration ceremony where Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America celebrate the ocassion on January 20, 2008. Barrack Obama's father was born in Kenya.<br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_33.jpg" width="530" height="346" /><br /><br />40 years after their silent protest at the 1968 Olympics, Gold Medalist Tommie Smith hugs Bronze Medalist John Carlos, and their wives Delois Smith and Charlene Carlos after Barack Obama is officially sworn in as the President of the United States. Photo taken in the Smith room at the Sheraton Boston in Boston, MA. <i>(Boston Globe/Stan Grossfeld)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_34.jpg" width="530" height="330" /><br /><br />U.S. President Barack Obama with his wife Michelle at the inaugural luncheon after he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States in Washington, January 20, 2009. <i>(REUTERS/Yuri Gripas)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_35.jpg" width="530" height="340" /><br /><br />U.S. President Barack Obama talks with U.S. Sen. John McCain after arriving at the luncheon at Statuary Hall the luncheon at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. <i>(Amanda Rivkin-Pool/ Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_36.jpg" width="530" height="348" /><br /><br />President Barack Obama signs his first act as president, a proclamation declaring a national day of renewal and reconciliation and calling on Americans to serve one another, after being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States during the inaugural ceremony in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Molly Riley, Pool)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_37.jpg" width="530" height="327" /><br /><br />A South Korean man reads a newspaper reporting on U.S. President Barack Obama's Inauguration on the subway in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_38.jpg" width="530" height="329" /><br /><br />Pakistani Christian children hold portraits of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama during a prayers ceremony for global peace in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_39.jpg" width="530" height="332" /><br /><br />People wave American flags at the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on the National Mall January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. <i>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_40.jpg" width="530" height="343" /><br /><br />U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk in the inaugural parade following his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. <i>(Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_41.jpg" width="530" height="292" /><br /><br />Sasha Obama waves through the limousine window as she and her sister Malia leave Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_42.jpg" width="530" height="335" /><br /><br />U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta replaces an official picture of outgoing President George W. Bush with that of newly-sworn- in U.S. President Barack Obama, in the lobby of the headquarters of the U.S. Naval Base January 20, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. <i>(Brennan Linsley-Pool/ Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_43.jpg" width="530" height="332" /><br /><br />President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attend the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. <i>(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_44.jpg" width="530" height="312" /><br /><br />Guests at the "Biden Home States Ball" record the moment as President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance at the Washington Convention Center in the nation's capital, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_45.jpg" width="530" height="336" /><br /><br />Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill dance during the Commander in Chief's Ball at the National Building Museum in Washington January 20 2009 . <i>(TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_46.jpg" width="530" height="340" /><br /><br />U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance their first dance at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in Washington January 20, 2009. <i>(REUTERS/Jason Reed)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_47.jpg" width="530" height="328" /><br /><br />People watching President Barack Obama's inauguration via television raise a toast to the nation's new president at Brooklyn's Fort Greene Senior Action Center in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. <i>(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)</i><br /><br /><img alt="The Obama Sworn | Spectacular Pictures" src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/fzmails/obama_sworn_48.jpg" width="530" height="296" /><br /><br />In this handout photo provided by the White House, a folder for U.S. President Barack Obama <i>(the 44th president)</i> is shown, left for him by Former U.S. President George W. Bush on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office of the White House January 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. <i>(Eric Draper/The White House via Getty Images)</i></a> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3040067475563044050?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-55838219860787131922009-01-20T20:17:00.000-08:002009-01-20T20:18:13.927-08:00<table style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(183, 183, 183); border-right: 1px solid rgb(183, 183, 183);" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="756"><tbody><tr><td style="float: right;" valign="top"><span class="f12"><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">My fellow citizens:</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort - even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.<br />To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This is the price and the promise of citizenship.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed - why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">"Let it be told to the future world...that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]." </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.</span></p> <!-- wml_version_ends --> <!--printer_version--><br /><br /></span></td><td width="10"><br /></td></tr> </tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-5583821986078713192?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-71795467439311835812008-12-17T21:04:00.000-08:002008-12-17T21:38:23.646-08:00<a href="http://sweet-jokes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h311/anushri/BUSH.gif" border="0" alt="Bushism"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-7179546743931183581?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-36261157466751171832008-11-27T19:35:00.000-08:002008-11-27T20:09:49.635-08:00Guys we need to wake up... It's is high time that something is done about the terrorist activities .<br />Thing about the 9-11 in US , they took action and no one dared to do it again... Why cannot we do something to PREVENT the incidents .<br /><br />The Mumbai Terror attack is a sad revelation of the same. Attacking the Hotels and killing the innocents High profiles and foreigners (our Guests).<br /><br />This is an operation where all forces like Army, Navy , Air force , NSG ,MARINE Guards, RAF and other teams should do a combined operation. Not to forget the state Police team as they can penetrate the general people.<br /><br />It is time to act now! Enough is enough!<br /><br />Please come up with your comments and suggestions as what needs to be done!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><object><embed src="http://ishare.rediff.com/images/player.swf" flashvars="videoURL=http://ishare.rediff.com/embedcodeplayer_config.php?content_id=519745" name="aplayer" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="322" width="400"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3626115746675117183?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-86639687574831485942008-11-09T19:54:00.000-08:002008-11-09T19:55:48.448-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.equality.ws/images.php?i=40307_00035129.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px; height: 406px;" src="http://www.equality.ws/images.php?i=40307_00035129.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />God Save the Man...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-8663968757483148594?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-58015859871241539772008-11-09T19:52:00.000-08:002008-11-09T19:53:32.138-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.equality.ws/images.php?i=40309_USPresidency.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 800px; height: 522px;" src="http://www.equality.ws/images.php?i=40309_USPresidency.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-5801585987124153977?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-32597307366334868462008-11-03T21:27:00.000-08:002008-11-03T21:29:42.944-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://im.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/train.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://im.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/train.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>If Delhi trains are said to be packed like sardines, then how will you describe this train journey in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>? Though this ordeal appears not to be an everyday affair, the picture is an eye-opener in many ways, seeking questions on security and law and order in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em>Image: Pilgrims cling on to a departing train after attending an annual religious congregation in <st1:city><st1:place>Multan</st1:place></st1:city> on November 2. The annual three-day Dawat-e-Islami congregation concluded with collective <st1:time hour="12" minute="0">noon</st1:time> prayers.</em><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Photograph: Mohammed Malik</strong></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3259730736633486846?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-29831655255540559462008-10-30T21:25:00.000-07:002008-10-30T21:56:31.473-07:00<div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >Recession is coming... make your own judgment, don't panic! Do what is wise.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >The recession looks very eminent. It is really time to take pro active steps to avoid a painful time in the next two years which is how long the is expected to last.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >Suggestions:</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >1. Don't take any loans; buy homes, properties with loans, or even cash. Keep as much cash as possible.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >2. Pay off as much of personal loans, private loans, as debt collection will be hastened.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >3. Sell any stocks you can even at lower prices.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >4. Take money off from Trust Funds.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >5. Don't believe in huge sales forecast from customers, be extremely prudent, lowest inventories, reduce liabilities.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >6. Don't invest in new capital.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >7. If you are selling homes/ properties/ cars, do it now, when you can get good prices, they are going to fall.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >8. Don't invest in new business proposals.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >9. Cancel holiday plans using credit cards.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >10. Don't change jobs, as companies will retrench based on 'last in first out'.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong><em></em></strong> </div> <div align="justify"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;" >Stay cool, wait, and if you took all of the above actions and more, you probably will be better off then many.</span></em></strong></div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><strong><em>This is not a rumor.</em></strong></span></div> <div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><strong><em></em></strong></span> </div> <div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><strong><em>Bear Stearns is the first of many banking and financial institutions that will start falling in the not too future. If Bear Stearns can fall,</em></strong></span> <span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><b><i>so can JP Morgan, Citibank, HSBC, and the whole world. US economy falls, the rest will crumble.</i></b></span></div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><b><i>India and all those self economies will be the most protected, but not gullible.</i></b></span></div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><b><i>Europe may be a little stronger, but not China, another giant place!</i></b></span></div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(96, 0, 161);font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><b><i>Malaysia will see significant impact.</i></b></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-2983165525554055946?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-7865388861618226072008-10-19T20:05:00.000-07:002008-10-19T20:10:12.158-07:00<p>2008 has been a year of events , a global <b>economic crisis</b> was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn worldwide.<br /></p><p>These included <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_price_increases_since_2003" title="Oil price increases since 2003" class="mw-redirect">high oil prices</a>, which led to both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_price_crisis" title="2007–2008 world food price crisis">high food prices</a> (due to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture#Agriculture_and_petroleum" title="Agriculture">dependence of food production on petroleum</a>, as well as using food as an alternative to petroleum) and global <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a>; a substantial <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis" title="Subprime mortgage crisis">credit crisis</a> leading to the bankruptcy of large and well established <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_bank" title="Investment bank" class="mw-redirect">investment banks</a> as well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_bank" title="Commercial bank">commercial banks</a> in various nations around the world; increased <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a>; and the possibility of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_recession" title="Global recession" class="mw-redirect">global recession</a>.</p><p>Lehman Brothers was wiped out and AIG and ML got near about crashed.</p><p>Sensex Crashed and people lost jobs..</p><p>The world looked as if it has become a one big market where almost everyone involved directly or indirectly. Strangely that's the truth of the day.<br /></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-786538886161822607?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-67405894119908614552008-10-09T21:18:00.000-07:002008-10-09T21:22:43.925-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1947: Independence and Partition</span><br />Muslim refugees crowd onto a train near New Delhi during the bloody Partition of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Some 15 million people are displaced and an estimated 500,000 killed in the savage violence sparked by Britain's division of its former colony.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_jRjk7zI/AAAAAAAAEMQ/cZ432MwB7fo/s1600-h/2.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1952: Towards Socialism</span><br />The Congress Party, headed by India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, triumphs in the young nation's first general election. Nehru establishes a five-year plan for agricultural reform, committing India to a socialist path to development.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_jcpA70I/AAAAAAAAEMY/RSYKVMAavYI/s1600-h/3.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1962: India vs. China</span><br />Reinforcements head to the front after China steamrolls India's unprepared defenses, seizing a chunk of Kashmir that it holds to this day. The defeat is a dark moment in India's young history and a political blow from which Nehru never recovers. Battling ill health, he dies two years later.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_jetvamI/AAAAAAAAEMg/9-vwISv0pA4/s1600-h/4.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1965: The Second Kashmir War</span><br />Housewives and students take target practice in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), responding to a government call to arms during India and Pakistan's second major conflict over the disputed Kashmir region. The Second Kashmir War ends indecisively with a U.N.-mandated ceasefire.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_jteshBI/AAAAAAAAEMo/xgESCJyWXnQ/s1600-h/5.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1971: Independence for Bangladesh</span><br />Indian troops are hailed as liberators as they enter Dhaka, East Pakistan, during India and Pakistan's third major conflict. The war ends with a decisive Indian victory and statehood for East Pakistan, which becomes known as Bangladesh.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_T89ScoI/AAAAAAAAELg/lUr6fXEKyvg/s1600-h/6.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1975: The Emergency</span><br />Beset by growing political disorder, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, declares emergency rule. Thousands are detained during India's flirtation with authoritarianism, but the experiment is short-lived: the Emergency is lifted in 1977 and subsequent elections sweep Gandhi and the Congress Party out of power.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_T8Do0yI/AAAAAAAAELo/1zwXjqzM-Lw/s1600-h/7.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1983: A Win for India</span><br />India wins the Cricket World Cup for the first and only time in the cricket-obsessed nation's history, beating tournament favorites West Indies in the final.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_UCM8nuI/AAAAAAAAELw/mufw9jqlTl0/s1600-h/8.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1984: Gandhi Assassinated</span><br />Indira Gandhi, returned to power in 1980, is killed by her own Sikh bodyguards, leading to anti-Sikh riots in Delhi where thousands die. She is cremated by her son Rajiv (second from left) and daughter-in- law Sonia (in sunglasses) — a Prime Minister and future head of the Congress Party, respectively.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_UZeIRlI/AAAAAAAAEL4/4y04PmNOobk/s1600-h/9.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1992: The Destruction of the Babri Masjid</span><br />Far-right Hindu activists raze a 16th-century mosque, the Babri Masjid, in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, claiming it had been erected on top of a Hindu temple. The destruction sparks religious riots throughout India.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_UXf9CsI/AAAAAAAAEMA/jUNyDAnuQq8/s1600-h/10.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">1998: A New Nuclear Power</span><br />With its new Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (third from left) in attendance, India shocks the world by detonating a nuclear weapon beneath the remote Thar Desert on May 11; two weeks later, Pakistan replies with a weapons test of its own. The prospect of two antagonistic nuclear powers on the subcontinent raises fears of nuclear war, especially after India and Pakistan clash again over Kashmir less than a year later.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_GuR0_pI/AAAAAAAAELA/xnnL0ppnes0/s1600-h/11.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">2002: Gujurat Burns</span><br />After a train carrying Hindu pilgrims is allegedly set on fire by Muslims, a brutal backlash in the western state of Gujarat results in the deaths of nearly a thousand people. The riots, carried live on television nationwide, spark an outcry against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose officials in Gujarat are accused of being complicit in the violence.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_Gy-gvJI/AAAAAAAAELI/bmGDXvO0j8Y/s1600-h/12.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">2003: The World's Back Office</span><br />India's fourth-quarter GDP growth hits double-digits, thanks to bumper crops and growth in IT and outsourcing. The 10.4% rate is the fastest among emerging nations.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_HD3YJhI/AAAAAAAAELQ/o2sHT8QUH08/s1600-h/13.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">2004: New Faces and Old</span><br />Under Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a resurgent Congress Party sweeps the ruling BJP out of power. Manmohan Singh, a former Finance Minister who spearheaded India's economic reforms, is appointed Prime Minister.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FvbGRwTkbdQ/SKO_HE0P8uI/AAAAAAAAELY/JJ6NXYI5qx0/s1600-h/14.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img alt="" style="text-align: center;" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">2007: The Sky's the Limit</span><br />In early July, the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex Index eclipses the 15,000 mark for the first time. The milestone means India's markets have soared fivefold in five years.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2008: Nuclear Deal with US</span><br />In the month of Oct 2008 PM Manmohan Singh signed the very Special Nuclear Deal with US and other countries also followed. A significant deal for India.<br /></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-6740589411990861455?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-85399350735057451272008-09-13T10:44:00.000-07:002008-09-13T10:50:17.046-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="widget-item-control"><span class="item-control blog-admin"><span class="quickedit"></span></span></span><!-- google_ad_section_start --> <a name="6743557806997874606"></a>Serial blasts rock Delhi</div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> <div align="center"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245531357437851202" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PpjF4DL4HYY/SMve-kJBdkI/AAAAAAAABRk/_-VG2zhP03o/s400/photo1.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="center">An Ambulance carrying wounded people drives away following a blast at connaught place in central New Delhi. (AFP Photo)<br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245531360965416594" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PpjF4DL4HYY/SMve-xSD1pI/AAAAAAAABRs/LXvhx8eAbmU/s400/photo2.jpg" border="0" /> </div><div align="center">People carry an injured woman after a bomb explosion in New Delhi. (AP Photo)<br /></div><p><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245531365217213010" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PpjF4DL4HYY/SMve_BHxGlI/AAAAAAAABR0/AQfWyNwrtYQ/s400/photo.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p align="center">Bomb explosion rock Barakhambha road in New Delhi. (AP Photo)<br /></p><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245531368771301506" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PpjF4DL4HYY/SMve_OXIMII/AAAAAAAABR8/r_Qtnwt-uNw/s400/photoCA22K882.jpg" border="0" /> <div align="center">A security official inspects a blast site in New Delhi. (AFP Photo)<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245531369298656274" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PpjF4DL4HYY/SMve_QU2_BI/AAAAAAAABSE/qIYVhB1AFsE/s400/photoCAW5T2TX.jpg" border="0" />A man lies on the road, after a bomb explosion in New Delhi. (AP Photo) </div></div>Five explosions rocked three crowded markets in Delhi on Saturday evening, leaving at least 18 people dead.<br />The blasts at Ghaffar market in Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash (M-block) took place in a quick succession, police said.<br />The first blast took place at Ghaffar market in which at least 20 people were injured. They were rushed to nearby RML Hospital.<br />Immediately after that, two explosions took place in Connaught Place in which at least 10 people were injured.<br />Another explosion rocked M-Block market in Greater Kailash-I.<br />The impact of the blasts in Karol Bagh could be gauged by the fact that an auto was thrown up and got caught in the electrical wires.<br />Senior Police officials including Joint Commissioner of Police Karnail Singh rushed to the spot in the central district and were assessing the situation.<br />SIMI has claimed responsibility for the blasts and has termed them as 'Operation Bad'.<br />Earlier, in an email to media organisations, Indian Mujahideen, the terror outfit that had claimed responsibility for the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts, said it had carried out the serial blasts in Delhi. It threatened that there would be nine blasts in all.<br />Sarojini Nagar market, scene of the pre-Diwali eve blasts in 2005, in which more than 60 people were killed, has been evacuated.<br /><br />What is happening..? Why does the Terrorist gain from killing Innocent people. This is real BAD (Bangalore,Ahmadabad,Delhi).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-8539935073505745127?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-28186530536793714342008-09-10T03:42:00.000-07:002008-09-10T03:46:12.227-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn14699/dn14699-1_850.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn14699/dn14699-1_850.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><p>Protons have made their first complete lap of the <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/large-hadron-collider" target="ns">world’s most powerful accelerator</a> to cheers and high fives from assembled physicists.</p> <p>At 1025 (local time) scientists sent a single beam of protons in a clockwise direction around the full 27 kilometres of the <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19926711.300-large-hadron-collider-the-wait-is-over.html">Large Hadron Collider</a> at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.</p> <p>The journey began at 0930 when LHC project leader Lyn Evans and his team launched protons into the ring. Progress was made in short steps of a few kilometres, so that physicists could learn how to steer the beam, which is travelling at 99.9998% the speed of light.</p> <h5>Steering particles</h5> <p>The LHC's tunnel is filled with absorbing devices call <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collimator" target="NS">collimators</a>, which block the beam every few kilometres. Evans and his team removed the collimators one by one when they were sure that they could steer the protons precisely.</p> <p>The machine worked better than anyone expected. It took only 55 minutes for physicists to steer beams around the full 27km, and the LHC worked on its first go, far better than anyone dared to hope.</p> <p>Earlier Evans said that he did not know how long it would take his team to circulate the beam.</p> <p>"It took us 12 hours to circulate a beam around the Large Electron Positron Collider," says Evans. The LEP Collider was the LHC's predecessor that was shut down in 2000.</p> <h5>Giant freezer</h5> <p>Physicists working on two of the giant experiments – CMS and ATLAS – have seen sprays of particles in their detectors as protons smashing into the collimators next to the detectors (<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn14699/dn14699-1_850.jpg" target="ns">see image, top right</a>).</p> <p>The day was not without its dramas, however. During the night, part of the cryogenic system that keeps the ring chilled to 1.9 kelvin (just above absolute zero) failed.</p> <p>The ring has to be cold for the powerful magnets to work. Physicists managed to fix the problem overnight and started the day's tests on schedule.</p> <p>Evans hopes initially to circulate the beams many times in the clockwise direction. The team will attempt to repeat the test later today, but sending protons around in the opposite direction.</p> <p>However, it will be several weeks before physicists accelerate two proton beams travelling in opposite directions to their full energy of 7 teraelectronvolts, and smash them head on.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-2818653053679371434?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-66514611072545687432008-09-08T00:30:00.000-07:002008-09-08T00:39:44.424-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jTgn-0n_b9k/SMTVDzgsbnI/AAAAAAAAGMQ/CJ6mJWXGsGk/s1600-h/p.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jTgn-0n_b9k/SMTVDzgsbnI/AAAAAAAAGMQ/CJ6mJWXGsGk/s400/p.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243550127509761650" border="0" /></a><br />The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator complex, lying in a 17-mile loop under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics.<br /><br />The collider is currently undergoing commissioning. Initial particle beam injections were successfully carried out August 8-11, 2008. The first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008. The first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after October 21, 2008 (so, if any, Oct. 21 will the date to be be concerned, not Sept. 10).<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadro...</a><br /><a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html" rel="nofollow">http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/...</a><br /><a href="http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/" rel="nofollow">http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/</a><br /><a href="http://www.misunderstooduniverse.com/France_Builds_Doomsday_Machine.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.misunderstooduniverse.com/Fra...</a><br /><br /><br />Though I am not a physicist, and do not claim to understand half of what's been written about the LHC, a number of very intelligent scientists say that any strange effects (black holes, antimatter, etc.) should be miniscule and short-lived. That said, scientists have been wrong before, so I'll be hiding under my desk.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-6651461107254568743?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-70077963365151690472008-09-04T01:55:00.000-07:002008-09-04T02:11:14.256-07:00<h1 style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt 10px 1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">October 17 2008 , A Normal day.. Well think again!</span></h1><br />According to many reports and scientific research it may have the sun rise continuously for 36 hrs (1.5 days). During this time the US countries will be dark for 1.5 days. Strange but might be true.<br />It will convert 3 days into 2 big days. It will happen once in 2400 yrs.<br /><br />According to Wiki Oct 17 has always been eventful (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_17">WIKI</a>)<br /><br />I feel it is a hoax. I never saw the 27th August Moon Mars (Double Moon).<br /><br />For it to happen just for the day, the Earth would need to slow down its rate of spin. Not possible for a body as massive as the Earth, without destroying itself as the energy from angular momentum changes so abruptly.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span>Well whatever will happen I will love to witness as it happens once in 24oo yrs ;we have already seen one happen some 2400 yr back ......</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-7007796336515169047?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-65868932104568334452008-08-28T01:28:00.000-07:002008-08-28T01:31:39.098-07:00<p>Found this Article on the net. Couldn't believe it ...<br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>PATNA, India (Reuters) - A state government in eastern Indian is encouraging people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span><p></p><span id="midArticle_0"></span> <p>Authorities in Bihar, one of India's poorest states, are asking rich and poor alike to switch to eating rats in a bid to reduce the dependence on rice. They even plan to offer rats on restaurant menus.</p><span id="midArticle_1"></span> <p>"Eating of rats will serve twin purposes -- it will save grains from being eaten away by rats and will simultaneously increase our grain stock," Vijay Prakash, an official from the state's welfare department, told Reuters.</p><span id="midArticle_2"></span> <p>Officials say almost 50 percent of India's food grains stocks are eaten away by rodents in fields or warehouses.</p><span id="midArticle_3"></span> <p>Jitan Ram Manjhi, Bihar's caste and tribe welfare minister, said rat meat was a healthy alternative to expensive rice or grains, and should be eaten by one and all.</p><span id="midArticle_4"></span> <p>"We are very serious to implement this project since the food crisis is turning serious day by day," Manjhi, who has eaten rats, told Reuters.</p><span id="midArticle_5"></span> <p>In Bihar, rat meat is already eaten by Mushars, a group of lower caste Hindus, as well as poorer sections of society.</p><span id="midArticle_6"></span> <p>(Writing by Melanie Lee; Editing by Paul Tait)</p><blockquote></blockquote><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-6586893210456833445?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-35428443277691884312008-08-26T23:47:00.000-07:002008-08-26T23:50:50.348-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jTgn-0n_b9k/SLT5FeZr3NI/AAAAAAAAGIY/G2yJwVGgBZ8/s1600-h/image001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jTgn-0n_b9k/SLT5FeZr3NI/AAAAAAAAGIY/G2yJwVGgBZ8/s400/image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239086138994187474" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Cartoon explains it all....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3542844327769188431?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-92208927267096116832008-08-18T23:21:00.000-07:002008-08-18T23:34:52.326-07:00<span class="headline"></span>Several experts from across the globe are predicting that the earth is likely to end by the year 2012. The reason could be a human effect or natural disaster. From Chinese theories to scientific predictions the most likely date is the year 2012. <div align="justify"> SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it’ll be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it’ll be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012. <div><strong><br />Reason one: Mayan calendar</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div>The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things -- building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it’s likely they’ve got the end of the world right as well.</div> <div><br /><strong>Reason two: Sun storms</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.</div> <div><br /><strong>Reason three: The atom smasher</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Scientists in Europe have been building the world’s largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it’s properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They’re predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.</div> <div><br /></div> <div><strong>Reason four: The Bible says it</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div>If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn’t bad enough, religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between good an evil, has been set for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the <em>Chinese Book of Changes</em>, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.</div> <div><br /></div> <div><strong>Reason five: Super volcano</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Yellowstone National Park in United States is famous for its thermal springs and old faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple -- it’s sitting on top of the world’s biggest volcano and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we’re many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.</div> <div><br /></div> <div><strong>Reason six: The physicists</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div>This one’s case of bog -- simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berkely University have been crunching the numbers. They’ve determined that the earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they’re claiming that their calculations prove that we’re all going to die, very soon. They are also saying that their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 per cent; and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.</div><br /><div><strong>Reason seven: Earth’s magnetic field</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div>We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun’s radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call North and South have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so -- and right now we’re about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is under way, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.</div> </div><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />google_ad_client = "pub-8157388712851950";<br />/* 120x90, created 8/18/08 */<br />google_ad_slot = "4063804577";<br />google_ad_width = 120;<br />google_ad_height = 90;<br />//--><br /></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"<br />src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"><br /></script><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-9220892726709611683?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-32152817336874180812008-08-11T23:59:00.000-07:002008-08-12T00:19:18.816-07:00<span class="KonaBody" align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px;">The final shot from Abhinav Bindra's rifle may not have been heard outside the packed hall in the Beijing Shooting Range Complex on Monday morning. But its bang was loud enough to lift the spirit of a billion-plus Indians back home. ( <a href="http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/3352976.cms" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"> Watch </a> )<br /><br /> No individual gold has mattered so much to so many people in the history of Olympics. It was a medal for Abhinav; it was redemption for India. Never again will anyone be able to point a smug, sardonic finger and say: "No Indian is good enough to win an individual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_medal">Olympic gold</a>."<br /><br /> Hockey's eight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_medal">gold medals</a> notwithstanding, the last coming 28 years ago, this is the first time that an Indian has won an individual gold since modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_national_field_hockey_team">Olympics started in 1896</a>. There is no greater joy than listening to the sound of the national anthem on the world's biggest stage. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3215281733687418081?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-30035686754655083312008-08-01T02:11:00.000-07:002008-08-01T03:26:47.261-07:00<span class="img_comments_right"> <img alt="Photo of 1995 solar eclipse" title="Photo of 1995 solar eclipse" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/230903main_SolarEclipse1995_226.jpg" align="bottom" border="0" width="226" height="170" /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">This photograph shows the total solar eclipse of Oct. 24, 1995, as seen from Dundlod, India. <b><br />Credit:</b> Fred Espenak/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/230904main_SolarEclipse1995_HI.jpg" title=""> Larger image</a><br /></span><br /></span>Save the date Aug. 1, 2008, to watch a total eclipse of the sun. NASA Television will share this stunning visual treat with observers around the world in a live streaming webcast, thanks to a partnership with the University of California at Berkeley and the Exploratorium.<br /><br />On August 1, a total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The eclipse will sweep across Earth in a narrow path that begins in Canada’s northern province of Nunavut and ends in northern China’s Silk Road region at sunset.<br /><br />Watch NASA TV’s streaming live webcast of the event from 6 a.m. (EST) until 11 a.m. (EST). The eclipse coverage is part of the Sun-Earth Day celebration, an annual event that strives to share the many ways in which the sun interacts with Earth and the other planets in our solar system.<br /><br />An eclipse of the sun occurs when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun. When the moon’s shadow falls on Earth, people within that shadow see the moon block a portion of the sun’s light.<br /><br />The moon’s shadow has two parts, an umbra and a penumbra. The umbra is the “inner” part of the moon’s shadow. The penumbra is the moon’s faint “outer” shadow.<br /><br />During a total solar eclipse, like the one that takes place August 1, the moon appears to cover all of the sun for observers located in the moon’s umbral shadow, also known as the “path of totality.” Those viewing the eclipse from the moon’s penumbral shadow see the moon cover a portion of the sun.<br /><br />At the moment of totality, when the sun is totally obscured by the moon’s shadow, the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the solar corona, becomes visible. It’s a seldom-seen sight coveted by experienced eclipse watchers and an awe-inspiring vision for first-time viewers. The solar corona extends farther than 620,000 miles from the sun’s visible surface and reaches temperatures up to 2 million degrees.<br /><br />Be sure to catch the event August 1 on NASA TV’s streaming live webcast and celebrate this magnificent sight, courtesy of our nearest neighbors, the sun and moon.<br /><br /><span class="f12a">It will begin at 4:03 pm in Delhi. It will last for about two hours with maximum impact at 5.02 pm. In the rest of the country, the partial eclipse will be visible a few minutes later.</span><br /><br />So make sure you see it online or offline.. :)<br /><br />You can see now ... <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/">http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-3003568675465508331?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-42352352284048488332008-07-30T03:33:00.000-07:002008-07-30T03:36:39.654-07:00<h2>Rama Setu: a man-made structure</h2> <p>Rama Setu has two dimensions. One is a geological feature, almost like a collapsed canyon below the ocean. The other is a structure clearly evidenced by bore-well studies, built between two layers of sediments. This built structure is the bridge, the setu. Setu in all bharatiya languages means: artificial bund. Hence the name Setubandha. The English word ‘bund’ comes from the bharatiya word ‘bandha’. In Kambaramayana in Tamil there is a separate sarga titled Setubanda padalam. The construction is described vividly in 85 s’lokas by Valmiki and also in sculptures of Prambanan, Indonesia. The earlier sarga also refers to Rama unleashing an arrow which strikes a volcano and tsunami erupts. Hence, the geological fact of mannar volcanics found in the Rama Setu region. There are coral reefs only west, south-west of Rama Setu and NOT in the Bay of Bengal Park Straits side. This demonstrates that the geological feature was a divide between two seas of the Hindumahaasaagar, Indian Ocean.</p> <p>kalyanaraman</p> <p><strong><img src="http://kalyan97.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/31slid1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="31slid1.jpg" /></strong><strong><img src="http://kalyan97.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/31slid2.thumbnail.jpg" alt="31slid2.jpg" /></strong><strong><img src="http://kalyan97.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/31slid3.thumbnail.jpg" alt="31slid3.jpg" /><img src="http://kalyan97.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/31slid4.thumbnail.jpg" alt="31slid4.jpg" /><img src="http://kalyan97.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/31slid5.jpg" alt="31slid5.jpg" /><img src="http://kalyan97.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/31slid6.thumbnail.jpg" alt="31slid6.jpg" /></strong></p> <p><strong>‘Adam’s Bridge a man-made structure’</strong></p> <p>July 31, 2007 <strong>Reportage: Shobha Warrier | Photographs: Sreeram Selvaraj</strong></p> <p><a href="http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid1.jpg">http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid1.jpg</a></p> <p><a href="http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid2.jpg">http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid2.jpg</a> <strong>Image: Dr Badrinarayanan feels the Sethu Samudram Project could pose a threat to corals in the region.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid3.jpg">http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid3.jpg</a> <strong>Image: An ancient map charts the original route of the Ram Sethu.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid4.jpg">http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid4.jpg</a> <strong>Image: The presence of loose sand substantiates the stand that the Ram Sethu is not natural.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid5.jpg">http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid5.jpg</a> <strong>Image: Photographs of the Adam’s Bridge taken by NASA.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid6.jpg">http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid6.jpg</a> <strong>Image: Dr Badrinarayanan underlines the need for a comprehensive study before progressing ahead with the project.</strong></p> <p>In our series on Ram Sethu and the Sethu Samudram Canal project, we had earlier interviewed world-renowned tsunami expert <a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/22inter.htm">Dr Tad S Murty</a> and <a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/04spec.htm">Dr Kalyanaraman</a>, a researcher on the subject.</p> <p>This time, we discuss the feasibility of the project with Geologist <strong>Dr Badrinarayanan.</strong></p> <p>Dr Badrinarayanan was former director of the Geological Survey of India. He was also former coordinator of the survey division of the National Institute of Ocean Technology, Ministry of Earth Science, in Chennai.</p> <p>As a geologist who has done studies on the geological aspects of the area where Sethu Samudram Canal Project is being undertaken, Dr.Badrinarayanan puts forth some interesting findings on the area in an interview to <strong>Shobha Warrier.</strong></p> <p><strong>As a geologist, how do you describe Ram Sethu? Is it a man-made structure or natural formation?</strong></p> <p>It is not a natural formation; the top portion of it appears to be a man-made structure. To understand what I am saying from the geological point of view, you have to get to know several things.</p> <p>What is known as Adam’s Bridge is originally a natural grade divide separating the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean to the south. So, the geological aspects are different on either side.</p> <p>About 18,000 years ago, we had Ice age when the sea level was lower by 130 metres than what it is now. Due to de-glaciation, the sea level rose.</p> <p>Around 7,300 years back, there was major flooding and the sea level rose to 4 metres more than what it is today. This has been verified by several researchers throughout the world. But the bridge that connects India and Sri Lanka is different; it is not just a sand dune.</p> <p><strong>Have studies been done on this particular phenomenon?</strong></p> <p>We (Geological Survey of India) were asked to carry out surveys for locating the Sethu Samudram Canal project by the project authorities in 2004-05.</p> <p><strong>Any startling revelations?</strong></p> <p>When we reached near Adam’s Bridge, there was sudden rise in the land level. From about 10-12 metre, it rose one metre to half a metre. So, our vessel could not go and survey the area. In some areas, we did survey using small boats.</p> <p>The northern side of Adam’s Bridge is the rough Palk Bay, which is prone to periodic cyclonic storms, and the tranquil southern side is the Gulf of Mannar, which is unpolluted and pristine.</p> <p>Corals grew in the tranquil Gulf of Mannar but not in the turbulent Palk Bay as they grow only in tranquil waters. There are about 21 islands full of corals in the Gulf of Mannar side but not even a single coral on the northern side of Adam’s Bridge.</p> <p>I would say no proper geological survey was done in the area. Normally before any major engineering project, GSI conducts engineering geological study, geological study, geo tectonic study, seismic study, etc so that we will know whether the project is safe or not.</p> <p><strong>You mean no such studies were done before this project?</strong></p> <p>Earlier, GSI had done some drilling but only at the deeper level of about 180-200 metres, but they have not mentioned anything about what was happening at the top portion.</p> <p>We did a study from NIOT on our own connecting between Rameswaram and the international waters. We did around 10 bore holes along the Adam’s Bridge alignment. Four of the bore holes were along the islands (where sands go on shifting) and six in the water.</p> <p>Everywhere, after top 6 metres, we found marine sands on top and below that was a mixed assemblage of corals, calcareous sand stones, and boulder like materials. Surprisingly below that up to 4-5 metres, again we found loose sand and after that, hard formations were there.</p> <p><strong>How do you explain the presence of loose sand?</strong></p> <p>It shows the structure is not natural. I will explain. Corals are found only on rocks and such hard surfaces. Here, below the corals and boulders, we are getting loose sand, which means it is not natural.</p> <p>And, on top of the loose sand, which was formed when the sea level was low, our divers found boulders. Boulders normally occur on land and they are a typical riverine character.</p> <p><strong>Does that mean the boulders were brought there from somewhere?</strong></p> <p>That is exactly what I am saying. The boulders are not in-situ. They are not a marine local formation. We feel somebody dumped the boulders to use it as a causeway. The boulders on top of the loose sand are transported to that place. As they are found above loose sand, it is quite obvious that they were brought and dumped there by somebody.</p> <p><strong>How old were the boulders?</strong></p> <p>I told you earlier that 7,300 years ago, sea level was 4 metres above what it is today. In Rameswaram, Pamban, Tuticorin, etc, we see old corals on the land, and they are not raised by any geological process. It happened because sea level was higher (at the time they were formed). We did dating on them and found that they are 7,300 years old.</p> <p>From 7,300 to 5,800 years ago, the sea level was high. From 5,800 to 5,400 years ago, the sea level was low. Again, from 5,400 to 4,000, the sea level was higher by 2 metres than what it is today. That is why we are getting two sets of corals at two levels. Dr P K Bannerji has carried out a lot of studies on the raised corals and his papers have appeared in reputed international scientific journals. His arguments are backed by very good scientific data.</p> <p>So, either between 5,800 to 5,400 years ago, or (some time since) 4,000 years ago, somebody appeared to have brought all the boulders and dumped them there. All the aerial pictures show that Adam’s Bridge is 2 to 3 kilometres wide. On the eastern side, it is high. So, anyone could take advantage of the raised portion and must have dumped these boulders so that he could cross the bridge.</p> <p><strong>How do the boulders look, and from what were they made?</strong></p> <p>The shape of the boulders and the type of material clearly indicate that this is a man-made structure. We saw similar rocks on Rameswaram islands and also in Pamban. On either side of the railway bridge, you can see these formations as well as the raised corals. There are indications of quarrying also there.</p> <p>All these things lead us to believe that 2 to 2.5 metres of packed rubble or material appears to be a modern day causeway. For 30 km, nobody dumps materials like that. Obviously, it was dumped to use it to cross the sea. Moreover, they are compact and light.</p> <p>It is also quite obvious that the boulders were used to cross over because in all the bore holes we made in the entire stretch of Adam’s Bridge, we saw the same material. It appears like a rock-filled structure.</p> <p>If it is a geological phenomenon, you will find the oldest formation below and the newer ones on top. I would rather call it an anthropogenic (pertaining to the effect of human beings on the natural world) causeway rather than a bridge.</p> <p><strong>What else have you learnt from the studies you have conducted along Ram Sethu?</strong></p> <p>We have found that geologically and geotectonically, this area is very sensitive. Many people are not aware of it. All around the north, there are spots where there is very high temperature below. When we drilled, we encountered hot springs of 60 to 70 degrees Celsius.</p> <p>Whenever there are earthquakes in Sri Lanka, we get the vibrations in the Indian side also. That means a major fault is running there and it is very sensitive. This area is also known to have earth quakes and they had happened one or two centuries back. To the north and the south, there are indications of old volcanoes.</p> <p><strong>Because of these hot springs and presence of volcanic zones, do you feel if disturbed, it will affect the equilibrium of the entire area?</strong></p> <p>What you said is correct. That is why, before venturing into anything, you have to make a comprehensive study. This area has attained some sort of equilibrium over many centuries, and all the drilling and blasting of rocks may activate the fault and may trigger seismic activity or earth quakes.</p> <p>It may also trigger other events, which may be very detrimental. That is because the hot water from the north, which is blocked by the Adam’s Bridge, will come to the south and will disturb the coral islands. The result will be the destruction of the corals.</p> <p>Not only that, whenever there is a major tsunami or cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, it is blocked by the so called bridge. Out of 18 depressions in the Bay of Bengal at least six turn into cyclones.</p> <p>When we interviewed the tsunami expert Dr Tad S Murty, he said if not for the bridge, the entire southern part of Kerala would have been affected badly.</p> <p>Yes, it would have completely affected the entire south India. We were the people who suggested it. We had done a study, of course not knowing tsunami is coming, and felt the structure will prevent the Tuticorin area, the southern part of Kerala and all the coral islands from getting affected.</p> <p>The calm tranquil water in the Gulf of Mannar full of coral islands is because it is protected all around. Why do you want to destroy it when nature has blessed you with something so beautiful? This is the first declared marine national park in the country.</p> <p>Another point I want to make is, some dams trigger earth quakes. There is a possibility it can happen here also. So, it is prudent on part of the government to study all these aspects before taking a major decision.</p> <p><strong>Do you feel the construction of Sethu Samudram project was initiated in a hurry without conducting proper study?</strong></p> <p>I think so. This portion is not like any sand dune. This is a very sensitive heat flowing area. I feel the Geological Survey of India should be asked to do a survey.</p> <p><strong>Was the Geological Survey of India not asked to do a study on this project?</strong></p> <p>No. Nobody has carried out any survey at all. We only did a survey to locate the alignment. So, but what is needed is a comprehensive study.</p> <p>What has been formed over centuries by nature cannot be disturbed. In foreign countries, even a hundred-year-old structure is preserved and this looks like it is thousands of years old. No doubt such a canal is essential but not at the cost of nature. We are definitely for progress but our progress should be sustainable.</p> <p><a href="http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid1.htm">http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/31slid1.htm</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-4235235228404848833?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-82055551373170894052008-07-25T03:31:00.000-07:002008-07-25T03:34:11.475-07:00Following is a chronology of some recent major bomb blasts in the country:<br /><br /><ul><li>July 25,2008: Seven Blast in Bangalore in a span of 15 minutes leaving 1 woman dead. <br /></li><li>May 13, 2008: Eight blasts rock Jaipur in a span of 12 minutes leaving 65 dead and over 150 injured.</li><li> January 2008: Terrorist attack on Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur kills eight.</li><li> October 2007: 2 killed in a blast inside Ajmer Sharif shrine during Ramadan, in Rajasthan.</li><li> August 2007: 32 dead, 35 hurt in Hyderabad 'terror' strike.</li><li> May 2007: A bomb at Mecca mosque in Hyderabad kills 11 people.</li><li> February 19, 2007: Two bombs explode aboard a train bound from India to Pakistan, burning to death at least 66 passengers, most of them Pakistanis.</li><li> September 2006: 30 dead and 100 hurt in twin blasts at a mosque in Malegaon, Maharashtra.</li><li> July 2006: Seven bombs on Mumbai's trains kill over 200 and injure 700 others.</li><li> March 2006: Twin bombings at a train station and a temple in Varanasi kill 20 people.</li><li> October 2005: Three bombs placed in busy New Delhi markets a day before Diwali kill 62 people and injure hundreds. </li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-8205555137317089405?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-56501237952280189112008-07-23T19:53:00.000-07:002008-07-23T19:59:43.844-07:00<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 64, 127); font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif;"><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="telectroscope-1.jpg" src="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/05/23/telectroscope-1.jpg" class="mt-image-none" width="450" height="300" /></span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">The Telectroscope was built by artist/inventor Paul St. George and connects New York and London via a massive tunnel you can look through and see out the other end. </span></p> <blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;">"The Telectroscope started off as a totally unintentional hoax in the 1870s," explains St George, who is the leading expert on this forgotten backwater of Victorian technology. "It came about through an error. A French editor misread a report about the invention of a thing called the Electroscope - which is all to do with static electricity - and called it a Telectroscope. He also misinterpreted its purpose. "The fascinating thing is that his misunderstanding of what it did - to communicate face to face over a vast distance - really caught fire.</span></blockquote> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Needless to say there is no such massive tunnel. The end portals were just made to look like they're heading through the earth. In actuality, they're connected via "fiber optic cabling, and an HD camera and projector on either end provide live streaming video. But who really cares, you can still look in one end of this device in New York and see out the other in London. You'll find one end next to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the other across the pond, next to Tower Bridge."</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">I've got to admit, it's a pretty neat art piece.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">So yeah, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EVERYONE! Have fun and be safe. But not <em>too</em></span> safe (the firework war is still a go).</p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">A couple more pictures of the thing after the jump.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="telectroscope-2.jpg" src="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/05/23/telectroscope-2.jpg" class="mt-image-none" width="450" height="242" /></span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"></span></span></p> <p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="telectroscope-3.jpg" src="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/05/23/telectroscope-3.jpg" class="mt-image-none" width="450" height="300" /></span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><br /><img alt="telectroscope-4.jpg" src="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/05/23/telectroscope-4.jpg" class="mt-image-none" width="450" height="300" /></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-5650123795228018911?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-79452581139595651062007-10-04T00:25:00.000-07:002007-10-04T00:39:58.140-07:001) Qus. : What are you doing?<br />Ans.: Business.<br />Tax: PAY PROFESSIONAL TAX!<br /><br />2) Qus. : What are you doing in Business?<br />Ans.: Selling the Goods.<br />Tax: PAY SALES TAX!!<br /><br />3) Qus. : From where are you getting Goods?<br />Ans.: From other State/Abroad<br />Tax: PAY CENTRAL SALES TAX, CUSTOM DUTY &amp; OCTROI!<br /><br />4) Qus. : What are you getting in Selling Goods?<br />Ans.: Profit.<br />Tax: PAY INCOME TAX!<br /><br />5) Qus. : Where you Manufacturing the Goods?<br />Ans.: Factory.<br />Tax: PAY EXCISE DUTY!<br /><br />6) Qus. : Do you have Office / Warehouse/ Factory?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax: PAY MUNICIPAL &amp; FIRE TAX!<br /><br />7) Qus. : Do you have Staff?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax: PAY STAFF PROFESSIONAL TAX!<br /><br />8) Qus. : Doing business in Millions?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax: PAY TURNOVER TAX!<br /><br />9) Qus. : Are you taking out over 25,000 Cash from Bank?<br />Ans.: Yes, for Salary.<br />Tax: PAY CASH HANDLING TAX!<br /><br />10) Qus. : Where are you taking your client for Lunch &amp; Dinner?<br />Ans.: Hotel<br />Tax: PAY FOOD &amp; ENTERTAINMENT TAX!<br /><br />11) Qus. : Are you going Out of Station for Business?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax: PAY FRINGE BENEFIT TAX!<br /><br />12) Qus. : Have you taken or given any Service/s?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax : PAY SERVICE TAX!<br /><br />13) Qus. : How come you got such a Big Amount?<br />Ans.: Gift on birthday.<br />Tax: PAY GIFT TAX!<br /><br />14) Qus. : Do you have any Wealth?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax: PAY WEALTH TAX!<br /><br />15) Qus. : To reduce Tension, for entertainment, where are you going?<br />Ans.: Cinema or Resort.<br />Tax: PAY ENTERTAINMENT TAX!<br /><br />16) Qus. : Have you purchased House?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax : PAY STAMP DUTY &amp; REGISTRATION FEE !<br /><br />17) Qus. : How you Travel?<br />Ans.: Bus<br />Tax: PAY SURCHARGE!<br /><br />18) Qus. : Any Additional Tax?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax: PAY EDUCATIONAL, ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL &amp; SURCHARGE ON ALLTHE CENTRAL GOVT.'s TAX !!!<br /><br />19) Qus. : Delayed any time Paying Any Tax?<br />Ans.: Yes<br />Tax: PAY INTEREST &amp; PENALTY!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-7945258113959565106?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-6854589505015435922007-03-02T21:31:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:34:08.712-08:00Feel the Holi... Song for you..<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhwIFbB5iuo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhwIFbB5iuo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-685458950501543592?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1159954538666657792006-10-04T02:33:00.000-07:002006-10-04T02:35:38.863-07:00<span class="gmail_quote"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br /><span class="gmail_quote"></span> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><img src="http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=emb&amp;view=att&th=10dfc80cf663504d" height="185" width="420" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:#001fe2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 31, 226);">When <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gulli-Danda</span></b> &<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Kanche</span></b> (marbles) were more popular than cricket.<br />When we always had friends to <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">play aais-paais </span></b>(I Spy), <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">chhepan-chhepai</span></b><br />& <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">pitthoo</span></b> anytime ... </span></span><br /><span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br />When we desperately waited for '<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yeh Jo Hai<br />Jindagi</span></b>' (Doordarshan serial)</span></span> <span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br /><br />When <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">chitrahaar</span></b>, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">vikram-baitaal</span></b>, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dada Daadi Ki Kahaniyaan</span></b> were so fulfilling.<br />When there was just one Tv in every five houses and...<br />When Bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were worrying if papas will get back into the train in time or not when they were getting down at stations to fill up the water bottle ...</span></span> <span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br /><br />When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the '<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yeh Jo Hai Jindagi</span></b>' day ...<br />When <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holis </span></b>& <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Diwalis</span></b> meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and sweets and moms seeking our help while preparing them ...<br /><br />When Maths teachers were not worried of our Mummies and papas while slapping/beating us ...<br />When we were exchanging comics and stamps and <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chacha-Chaudaris</span></b> & <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Billus</span></b> were our heroes ...<br />When we were in <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nanihaals </span></b>every summer and loved flying kites and plucking and eating unripe mangoes and leechies ...<br />When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked for and ' <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">ek do teen chaar</span></b>' and '<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rajani</span></b>' inspired us ...</span></span> <span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br /><br />When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees ...<br />When left over pages of the last years notebooks were used for rough work or even fair work ...<br />When '<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chelpark</span></b>' and '<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Natraaj</span></b>' were encouraged against 'Reynolds<br />& family' ...</span></span><br /><span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br />When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud and making 'kaagaj ki kishtis' ...</span></span><br /><span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br />When there were no phones to tell friends that we will be at their homes at six in the evening ...</span></span><br /><span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br />When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored '<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Antardesis</span></b>' and 5 paise machli wale stamps at home ...</span></span><br /><span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br />When we remembered tens of jokes and were not finding 'ice-cream & papa' type jokes foolish enough to stop us from laughing ...</span></span><br /><span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br />When we were not seeing <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">patakhes</span></b> on <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Diwalis</span></b> and <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">gulaals</span></b> on<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Holis</span></b> as air and noise polluting or allergic agents ... </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:#001fe2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 31, 226); font-weight: bold;">The list can be endless ... </span></span></b><span style="color:#001fe2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 31, 226);"><br />On the serious note I would like to summarize with ...<br />When we were using our hearts more than our brains, even for scientifically brainy activities like 'thinking' and 'deciding' ...<br />When we were crying and laughing more often, more openly and more sincerely ....<br />When we were enjoying our present more than worrying about our future ...<br />When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak ...<br />When sharing worries and happiness didn't mean getting vulnerable to the listener ...<br />When blacks and whites were the favorite colors instead of greys ...<br />When journeys also were important and not just the destinations ...<br />When life was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time and opportunity to enjoy the sceneries from its open and transparent glass windows instead of some<br />super fast's second ac with its curtained, closed and dark windows ... </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:#001fe2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 31, 226); font-weight: bold;">I really miss them ... don't you?</span></span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-115995453866665779?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1152775766226418452006-07-13T00:27:00.000-07:002006-07-13T00:33:46.436-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >A letter to the Terrorist from INDIANS</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >Dear Terrorist,</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >Even if you are not reading this we don't care. Time and again you tried </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >disturb us and disrupt our life - killing innocent civilians by planting </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >bombs in trains, buses and cars. You have tried hard to bring death and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >destruction, cause panic and fear and create communal disharmony but </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >everytime you were disgustingly unsuccessful.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >Do you know how we pass our </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >life in Mumbai? How much it takes for us to earn that single rupee? If you </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >wanted to give us a shock then we are sorry to say that you failed </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >miserably in your ulterior motives. Better look elsewere, not here.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >We are not Hindus and Muslims or Gujaratis and Marathis or Punjabis and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >Bengaliies. Nor do we distinguish ourselves as owners or workers, govt. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >employees or private employees. WE ARE MUMBAIKERS (Bombay-ites, if you </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >like). We will not allow you to disrupt our life like this. On the last </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >few </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >occassions when you struck (including the 7 deadly blasts in a single day </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >killing over 250 people and injuring 500+ in 1993), we went to work next </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >day in full strength. This time we cleared everything within a few hours </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >and were back to normal - the vendors placing their next order,</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >businessmen </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >finalizing the next deals and the office workers rushing to catch the next </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >train. (Yes the same train you targetted)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >Fathom this: Within 3 hours of the blasts, long queues of blood donating </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >volunteers were seen outside various hospital, where most of the injured </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >were admitted. By 12 midnight, the hospital had to issue a notification </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >that blood banks were full and they didn't require any more blood. The </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >next </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >day, attendance at schools and office was close to 100%, trains & buses </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >were packed to the brim, the crowds were back. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >The city has simply dusted itself off and moved on - perhaps with greater </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >vigour. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >We are Mumbaikers and we live like brothers in times like this. So, do not </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >dare to threaten us with your crackers. The spirit of Mumbai is very </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >strong </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >and can not be harmed.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >Please forward this to others. U never know, by chance it may come to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >hands </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >of a terrorist and he can then read this </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >message which is specially meant for him!!!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >With Love,</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" >From the people of Mumbai (Bombay) INDIA</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-115277576622641845?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1151986095692074452006-07-03T21:03:00.000-07:002006-07-03T21:15:52.263-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">When God Laughs? </span><br /></span></h2> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">1.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when he see China exports swell to $782b and Indian exportslanguishing at $85b from $33b in 1996 yet Indian politicians and theirblind followers tell the world India shall over take all countries inGDP by 2050.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">2.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Indian exports of electronics goods & transportequipment are just $1b &amp; $4b annually i.e. 0.1% to 0.5% of theworld trade yet India claims to be an Industrial Power. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">3.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when a person who dont want to die, instead ofusing Sorbitrate that cost few paise is in his pocket, prays to the god to come down from heavens to save him. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">4.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when attacked by allergy instead of taking Avil tablet,which cost few paise buy tins of Chawanprash for whole family worth Rs.500 per month. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">5.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when government hires Win Chadda and Quotrochi to advise on defense procurement than itsown generals. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">6.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Indian trains and fighter aircrafts crash every weekand government is happy in distributing a couple of lakhs rupees eachto the victims. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">7.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when qualified and capable persons are defeated in elections to unqualified criminals, corrupt and dishonest. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">8.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when 50% of Indians are hungry and starving yet political parties launch Shinning Campaign. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">9.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when 14,000 bank accounts are opened bearing same addressjust to facilitate allotment of IPO issue to an individual. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">10.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Indian government with poverty everywhere incountryside, plan to transfer most of Himalaya waters in North of Indiato South of India even if farmers in Ganga basin dontget water for irrigation and unmindful of the fact that god deliverstwice more rains in TN than North Indian states. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">11.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Ambanis are caught bribing the government every yearand even open regular exchanges to pass off international calls aslocals yet government approve more subsides and incentives to Ambaniseven as state owned companies are made to die. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">12.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when a person has septic wound in his bottom who does notapply Soframycin ointment costing Rs.10/- for a tube that last 2 yearsbut goes to a yogi to cure it. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">13.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people are starving and hungry but the grains in government stores are rotting and eaten by rats and insects. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">14.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people touch the feet of Pirated &Commercial god men and seek their blessings. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">15.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people marry for Dowry and burn the bride for dowry. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">16.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when wives register fake criminal cases against all her in laws. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">17.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when children see rape stories and adult movies as universal on television. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">18.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when parents encourage children to participate in antakshri of cheap songs and dance to vulgar item numbers. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">19.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> Godlaughs when Ganguli doesnt want to retire gracefully from cricket but insist on staying in the team in spite ofdeclined poor form and millions come on street to campaign for his inclusion in the team. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">20.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people in India enjoy sports not by playing but watching on TV Sachin or Sehwag play cricket.. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">21.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when eminent people on astrologers advise use back door for entry/exit. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">22.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when rivers are encroached by slums and builders and rainwater forms large lakes in residential colonies. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">23.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when for every bag of genuine seed, fertilizer &pesticide, 4 bags of spurious seeds, fertilizer and pesticides are soldto farmers. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">24.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when interest rates to buy Mercedes car is 5% but Auto-Taxioperators are charged 120% interest by money lenders and license tooperate Taxis cost 2-3 times cost of vehicles. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">25.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Lok Sabha dismisses corrupt MPs and Supreme Court servenotice to the speaker of Lok Sabha on the petition by corrupt MPs. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">26.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when 2 liter bottle of Coke cost Rs.43/- but a liter of full cream milk cost only Rs.17/-.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">27.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when orchard owners get Rs. 4/- per kg for their annual Apple crop that is retailed in Delhi for Rs.40/- per kg. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">28.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when indigenous accurate electricity meters that last over25 years but cost Rs. 400/- each, BSES RIL buy Electronics meters fromChina that can be easily rigged to run fast for Rs. 2500/- each thatmay last few years.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></strong></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">29.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when people build big houses with black money and use 5-10air conditioners but reversing the meters to show no consumption when50% of villages and over 80% of rural household have no light in theirhomes.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">30.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people train their sons and daughters to be Commission Agent than scientist, doctor, engineer or inventor. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">31.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when parents of infant childrenappear for interview to get their children admitted to kindergartens. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">32.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when school bags of children weigh more than their body weight. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">33.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when schoolchildren get up at 6AM to go to school while their parents reach office at 11AM. (Even parliament sessions begin at 11AM)</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">34.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when people build houses on 100% of plot area with basementsbut forget to build garages then buy many cars to be parked in front ofhomes of others and insist on parking it anywhere they please. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">35.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when in Punjab a bottleof locally brewed bear cost more than a bottle of country liquor.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">36.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when people have to reserve seats two months in advance fortravel in trains for even short to medium distance like Delhi to Agra /Ambala/Chandigarh . </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">37.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when most often time required to buy reservation ticket in trains is more than the journey time. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">38.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs whenair travel is cheaper than Rajdhani train. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">39. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when a person is required to explain his purpose to a Chaprasito meet a Minister or a Secretary or even a lowly class-II officer.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">40.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when MP is illiterate but his chaprasi is a graduate. </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">41.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when state of Punjab is not connected by direct rail link to its capital Chandigarh that may cost $10 million.<font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">42.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when India run trains on worn out tracks that need urgentrepairs and cause derailments every week but plans new track parallelto it at huge cost. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">43.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when lowest value exports of iron ore and such minerals havetripled in few years blocking the ports and holding back important highvalue import and exportgoods for days. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">44.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when full payment is released in advance but not a grain of urea is shipped by the foreign exporter. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">45.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when bricks and stones areshipped in containers and export incentives are released to non-existing firms. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">46.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when earthlings claim they have direct link to the god. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">47.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when peoplesell their body and soul to their employers for life. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">48.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people cook their food in Olive Oil and command others to grow Jatropa Oil to run their cars. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">49.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> Godlaughs when holy Ganga is polluted with sewage and industrial waste and all efforts to clean it fail. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">50.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people collect donations in the name of public service to enrich themselves. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">51.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people go on padyatra after Phoolwati. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">52.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people offer Direct To God service on earth. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">53.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people grow Mango tree in their back yard but preach others to grow Jatropha. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">54.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> Godlaughs when people to have mortgaged their soul to earthlings claim to have direct links with god. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">55.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when useless people dont want capable to succeed. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">56.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when dubious people rule and get undeserved honors and let S.K. Dubey die. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">57.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people who are ready to stab others to please their masters. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">58.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people mix Dalda in Desi Ghee. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">59.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughswhen godmen who live in posh air conditioned home, eat Cadburychocolate with nuts, basmati rice with imported dals, drink Nestle Milk& Bisleri Water, preach others simple living in huts, meal of bajreki roti in a day and drink polluted water and claim starving is goodfor health.</span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">60.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when godmen who sell truck loads of desi medicines to cure others rush to AIIMS hospital whenever they feel sick. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">61.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when nephew of an Indian prime ministers is thrown out of arunning train and he doesnt know of it for many days. Then someinnocent person is caught, tortured and made to confess the crime. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">62.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when reserved seats of medical doctors in train are forcibly occupied by trainee policemen who uponobjection by doctors teach them rule of law by throwing them out of running train. </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font> </span></span></div><font> </span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">63.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when one of the poorest countries in per capita GDP imports most of the gold produced in the world. <font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">64.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when women wear gems & jewellery to night weddings and get robbed and killed. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">65.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when businessmen and women carry cash and jewellery in trains and make train robbery lucrative business. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">66.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when on mere suspicion of petty theft a teenage child ishung upside down from a tree but there is no similar punishment for topcheats who re-route international calls to cheat public sector telecomcompanies in $billions. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">67.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when Chief Minister is forced to resign on high court orders and his illiterate spouse is appointed CM instead. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">68.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when roads of poor quality are built just before monsoonrains only to develop big potholes within days of heavy rains. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">69.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when people are not given correct information of departureand arrival of trains and flights when they are invariably late.</span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">70.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when travel in overnight trains cost more than day trains. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">71.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when Rs. 1568 crores is granted to RIL last year alone for exporting petroleum productsthat neither earn any taxes to the government nor create any new employment. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">72.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when Mukesh Ambani father of corruption and unethical businesses is inducted in to IMM board in India . </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">73.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when RIL operate many legal and hundreds of clandestine entities but are yet to take its first patent. </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font> </span></span></span></div><font><font> </span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">74.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when bulk domestic tariffs approved for BSES Mumbai are substantially more than retail domestic tariff.<font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">75.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when combine harvested worlds best grains in Punjab arespread on the ground in procurement markets to be infected by insectson day one itself reducing its value and necessitating pest treatment. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">76. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when Mani Shankers over a year long diplomacy to bring Iran /Kazakhstan gas through 3000 km pipeline fails but RIL is allowed toHorde huge gas reserves in Krishna Godavari basin discovered for threeyears.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">77.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people prefer Swiss Banks to Indian Banks to deposit money. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">78.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when to see off or receive an adult going to or returningfrom foreign country van loads or even busloads of relatives accompanyhim to the airport. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">79.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when mom and pop storeowners disguise as common customerstakeaway good percentage of merchandize for sale in departmental storesfor subsequent release in their retail stores. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">80.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when barricades for Republic Day parade in Delhi on Rajpath are erected and removed over 3-4 months period. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">81.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when young students in thousands are brought toDelhi for republic day parade weeks ahead of their final exams. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">82.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Saudi Airlines and Khazakistan Airline jets flying inopposite directions are made to collide in mid air with high precisionin free airspace by air traffic controllers but courts find pilots ofairlines to be blind & responsible for crash. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">83.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when guilty enjoy freedomand some hired poor men under go jail sentence. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">84.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when witness turn hostile and BMW car becomes Tata truck. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">85.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when leaking trail of BMW leads to the residence of the offender and courts ignore physical evidence.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">86.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when run over injuries caused by a BMW and Tata truck are entirely different which courts also ignore. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">87.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when only BMW could have run at 150 kmph speed to silentlyapproach the barricades leaving no time for policemen to escape to 90kmph maximum speed of noisy Tata Truck.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">88. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when wheelbase of BMW and Tata truck are different, tire sizesand Tata truck has four rear tires but courts ignore it inspite of public criticism. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">89.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when to benefit food stall owners, passenger train onplatform is given green signal to move on to main line on which superfast express is rushing in at 120 kmph to hit it from behind.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">90.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when hardened criminals find jail as secure luxury hideoutto carry out their criminal activities in carefree and relaxed manner.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">91.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when home minister of India needs maximum security.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">92.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when a civil engineer Vinod Goel formed fake unknowncompanies, secured contracts to build four sections of NHAI, tookadvances of Rs.64 crores on the strength of forged bank guarantee anddisappeared even as late SK Dubey objected to this policy in memo to PMthat was leaked.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">93. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when policemen are largely engaged in collecting Hafta for their superiors than keep an eye onthieves, pickpockets, snatchers and molesters.</span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">94.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Fire Service tenders arrive at fire site one hour afterthe call but carry no water in their tanks or hoses leak. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">95.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when on the advice of APJK, people in expression of deepestloyalty to India , uproot their Mango plantations and plant poisonousJatropha in place that no animal, bird or fishshall eats. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">96.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when public representatives call police district heads torelease criminals in police custody or register fake cases againstpolitical opponents. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">97.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when 50 seaters bus is operated on newly built broad gaugerail lines between Merta Road & Merta City in Rajasthan that blocknormal traffic for hours in a day at several placeson route every time it operates. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">98.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when cabinet ministers convert residential bungalowsallotted to them in to dairy farms. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><font><font><font><strong>99.</strong>God laughs when government aided four-story primary school withthatched roof enrolling over 500 children had only a narrow entrance,no playground catches fire and hundreds of children are burnt alive. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">100.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when government figures released and reported are mostly in percentage thanactual amount leaving the readers guessing. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">101.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when an Indian PM advocates drinking own urine as practicedby him to stay healthy and live long, which is purer & nutritiousthan municipal water. </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span><font><font><font><font><strong>102.<font> </span></strong><font>Godlaughs when two youngsters force their way in to a private party at midnight, on not being served after closing hours shot the bar tender atpointblank range in the presence of over hundred celebrities including topcops, and walk away and police arrives when pool of blood was washedclean, all eyewitnesses claim they neither saw the shooters and heardthe gun shots and after 7 years court let the shooters free. </span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">103.<font> </span></span><font></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font>Godlaughs when migratory birds carrying avian flu virus die ontrees, infect poultry killing hundreds of birds but a hatchery paymoney to the farmers to quietly burry the dead birds or pack them ingunny bags & throw them on roadsides and government wakes up onlywhen some local newspaper carry the news of dead poultry birds.<font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">104.<font> </span></span><font></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font>God laughs when most new trains in India originate from Bihar for it has cheap labor to clean and service trains.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">105.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when a session judge in India is promoted to the High Courtof the State (Equivalent California Supreme Court) within three days ofletting off an accused who shot dead the victim in the presence fewhundred celebrities. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">106.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when bombs as lethal as hand grenades are made in homes ofJabalpur that retail for Rs.10/- only ($0.2) andpeople can buy it as easily as grocery and police is so used tohandling them that it count bombs on office tables of police stationwith bare hands. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">107. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when bar a girl is shot dead by son of a prominent politician atacelebrity party attended by hundreds of rich and famous includingcouple of servicing top policemen but police is called after 43 minutesafter cleaning the blood stains and changing pant and shirt of thevictim who is first taken to a private nursing home then to a distantprivate hospital when super specialty government hospital is just 5 kmon the main road. The victim is pronounced dead on arrival at thehospital and after 7 years court find no evidence to convict theaccused and accomplices. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">108. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when students toiling day and night to get 90%marks in exams has slim chance of admission to medical and engineeringcolleges but 50% of the seats are reserved for donation candidates whomay not get even 40% marks. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">109.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when faced with closure of poultry farms in view of bird flucases, agriculture minister eat chicken publicly and chicken farmersserve chicken curry free to promote chicken meat and eggs.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">110.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when people of average abilities even after retirement continue to get extensions clandestinely regularlydepriving promotions to younger and better qualified. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">111.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when government has no money to promote Indian inventors buthas budget of over $100b mostly spent on wages of its staff whospecialize in harassing public. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">112.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when most of $1b or so R&D budget is entirely consumedby government Scientists for discovering things or doing thingsalready known to the world for years. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">113.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when top executives who did little in their 35-40 yearsservice carrier are found to be indispensable by Indian government postretirement until crippled or recalled the god.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">114.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when a popularly yogi prescribes mixture of equal measure ofginger, lemon and onion juices as eye drops to cure shortsightedness. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">115.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when 65-80 yearsold leaders who did little in their prime years promise to make India a developed country by year 2020. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">116.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Indian exports is merely $85 and imports $100 percapita but claims it shall overtake countries that have over $3000 percapita exports by 2050. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">117.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when Indian population has already crossed 115 crores or 1.15 billion but Indiacontinue to tell the world in most conferences to be a nation of 100 crore people. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">118.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Doaba region of Punjab has three jewels Bhakra, Pongand Thein dams but waters of thesedams are not available to Doaba region for drinking or irrigationpurpose and electricity is provided for only 4-5 hours in a day. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">119. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when Pakistan , Haryana and Rajasthan are waterlogged fromexcessive irrigation but continue to get Indus waters flooding most oftheir command area. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">120.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when Punjab in India produces 15% of foodgrains but isallocated 1% of river waters of India . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">121.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when politicians eat grilled chicken publicly to dispel fears of bird flu but are not bothered by the riskto poultry labor or butchers or cooks.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">122.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when people can gulp marijuana in gallons in public but fortaking out of India a pouch of raw marijuana could land them in jail. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">123.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when politicians of notorious kind are protected by blackcats but public are to self-protect from rabid street dogs.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">124.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when a final law student stalks a lady class mate, rape andmurder her and his police officer father use his influence to derailthe process of law, is discharged by courts and is licensed to practicelaw.<font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">125.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when brides these days neither contributes economically tothe household, hire maids to do cleaning and washing chores, play rummyand tambola in the afternoon kitty party, breakfast is made by motherin law and dinner is ordered from hotel are not even willing to bear asingle child but are quick to send all her in laws to jail on dowrycharges. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">126.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when a respectable lady objecting to teasing of her daughterin law was shot in the neck in front of police headquarter in broaddaylight but policy effects first arrest after 28 days when the victimdied. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">127.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when Indian companies promoted gas explorationoff Myanmar coast but pipeline shall take the gas to China . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">128.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Ambanis were caught red handed in the act of re-routinginternational calls as locals cheating state owned telecoms inthousands of crores but are let off with Rs. 100 crore penalty but a350 sq.yard. guest house owner who objects to Rs.4.5 lac bill isslapped theft case of Rs.20 lac instead (more than construction cost)and put in jail.<font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">129. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when criminals give list of their crimes registered with policethan achievements in public service in affidavits to electioncommission who allow them to contest elections and there is littlepolice action after they get elected.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">130. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when there is a university in the name of Rajiv Gandhi but his followers seek a seat in Harvard University . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">131. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when a law to be introduced in India shall prescribe nonbail-able 5 year term for slapping ones child but accused in murderconspiracy arereleased on bail in 24 hours.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">132. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when a corrupt magistrate issues arrest warrants in the name ofPresident, Prime Minister and Chief Justice Of India on the basis ofbogus documents which is widely practiced abuse of law to settle civildisputes. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">133.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when high fashion outfits that cost over $1000 come with loseand weak threads/ strings that fail on the ramp before TV cameras andbecome headline news for three days on all Indian channels who censoredthe exposed area but its MMS was out next day without censor. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">134. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when for medical entrance exams in Chennai, candidates scan the23 page question paper in 6 minutes, e.mail it to qualified team ofdoctors who solve the questions in 30 minutes and answers wereconveyed to the candidates who tick mark the answers and 27 candidatesfrom Chennai were selected for 100 seats in India . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">135. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when medical students of GTB Medical College and Hospital inDelhi dug up tents in the hospital compound and organize three nightsloud music party unmindful of the disturbance to over 500 patients whenroad vehicles outside cannot blow horn for 500 meters distance. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">136. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when Mumbai was drowned in floods caused by a drain called MithiRiver that runs through the heart of Mumbai due to clogging andencroachments is now dredged by dumping stinking toxic waste on roadsides along the river. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">137. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs whenIndia is food deficit country farm trade deficit is about $3b and percapita food availability is the lowest in the world but is in theforefront in creating trouble at WTO negotiations. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">138. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when lawyers two factions of Bar Association Of Faridabad nearDelhi took out fire arms and shot 25 to 50 shots seriously injuringscores of lawyers. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">139.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlawyers when Chief Minister of Delhi claimed 0.2 million girls weretrained last year in Self Defense which is four times more than numberof Delhi Police strength. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">140.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when an unauthorized clinic surgically took out the kidneyof the patient on pretext of infusing blood in to the patient and thepatient dies but autopsy couldnt determine the cause of death.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">141. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when Delhi discoms collect regular bills but at times raiseinflated bills on challenge by consumer slap theft case and extortpenalties that are more than cost of construction of the buildings andsend consumers to jail. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">142. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when in Rajasthan school textbooks an article based on poetGopal Vyas informs Donkeys to be superior and more useful than Indianpoliticians. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">143. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when an Indian Prime Minister obliges his constituents by introducing 420Express that leave his constituency at 4:20 AM and return at 11:30 PM. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">144. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Sikh Prime Minister brought up in Amritsar in Punjab is elected to the Rajya Sabha from Assam . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">145. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when ex. Chief Minister of Delhi and his followers sealed closedoffice of Municipal Corporation Of Delhi and threatened to seal theresidences of Supreme Court andHigh Court Judges. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> </span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">146.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when government expenditure on healthcare has slipped to0.9% of GDP compared to 16% in developed countries and doesnt allowdeductions for health care in income taxexcept for life threatening ailments like cancer or heart attacks butbusinessmen are allowed substantial deductions for travel andentertainment expenditure. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">147. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when government of India provides Uneven Playing Field forindustry, coined tax dodges by Business Standards, of Rs. 1,58,000Crores or $35b compared to $5b FDI. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">148. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God<strong> </strong>laughs when FDIlast fiscal was $6b, 85% of it was contributed by Mauritius . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">149. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when a barking dog Bhuri is shot in the eye survives but her 30 years old owner dies of shock followed by heartfailure.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">150. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God<strong> </strong>laughswhen in India friends of animals prevent capture of stray dogs andthere are pet dogs that bark and but no dog trainers to serve theirowners. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">151.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when large number of the legislatures of Bihar assembly sleeps during Governors address. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">152. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when through fake companies operators buys Rs.10/- share forRs.1/- and then jack up the share price to Rs.200 Rs. 300 over coupleof years and book the amount as long term capital gain that attract notax. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">153.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when few high fashion garments slipped during fashion show,the government of Maharashtra state generally indifferent to criticalissues like bird flu, power shortage, exploitation of farmers andfloods has ordered high power enquiry to investigate the cause of slipand confiscated the malfunctioning dresses for examination.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">154.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when high power enquiry overnight concluded there was noconspiracy in slip of model dresses and termed these as accidents butfail to notice model were not wearing undergarments. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">155. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when Maharashtra Government may introduce Ordinance or Bill inthe assembly to regulate fashion shows that will make it compulsory forModels to wear under garments and bureaucrats shall implement it andprevent future accidents. <font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">156.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when opposition leaders doubted the investigation completedin 16 hours in slipping of dresses case during a fashion show anddemanded reinvestigation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">157.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when annual incremental increase in exports is only $21b andtoo due to low value added goods like jewelry or petroleum products yetthe government pat its back.<font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">158.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Dr. Manmohan Singh led government announcedreservations for backward classes in private companies and all premierinstitutions sacrificing merit.<font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">159.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when government of India extends 50% reservation in privatecompanies and institutions of higher learning assuming as if peopleotherwise getting through were of any merit. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">160.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when government is happy promoting garment industries thatis growing at a rate of 25% assuming importing nations will needdressing up at ever increasing rate for ever. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">161.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Delhi High Court fed up with failure of the MunicipalCorporation to keep roads free from stay cattle, asked public to catchstray cattle and get rewards of Rs. 2000/- for each cattle. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">162.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Walmart revenue is $315b and there are over 20companies in the world that have more revenue than Indian annualexports of $101b yet Indian government feels proud of its achievements.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">163. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Polyester chips are cleared by Indian customs as computer chips or potato chips to evade taxes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">164.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when delay in release of export data is attributed to errorsin data forwarded by customs and commerce ministry need recheckingbefore data is released. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">165.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when a Prime Minister in democratic India couldnt get elected topeoples parliament called Lok Sabha from his real place of residence. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">166.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when government of India extends 50% reservation to private companies and even higher educational institutions. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">167.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when 50% seats in Private Science Technology, Medicine, Lawand Management Collegesare already set aside for Donation candidates and now 50% shall bereserved for backward castes- what shall be the merit and credibilityof our institutions of higher learning?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">168. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God<strong> </strong>laughswhen there is no reservation at primary and secondary school level andmillions of children prepare to get admission in institutions of higherstudies on merit but discover 50% or more seats go to DonationCandidates & Now Reserved For Backward Caste. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">169. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when mediocre politicians coin<strong> </strong>policies that<strong> </strong>ignore merit, dont value merit. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">170.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when name of a person determines his status in society not his knowledge or character or caliber or skills. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">171.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when politicians who introducereservation policy to bring equality send their mediocre children to foreign universitiesand dont marry their sons and daughters in backward caste families.<font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">172. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when politicians solicit votes on caste lines and think ofbackward caste just before elections and do nothing after getting theirvotes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">173.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when government desires 50% reservation in private companies but only at shop floor worker level not inmanagement. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">174. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when<strong> </strong> Bihar government<strong> </strong>unableto provide health care to its people appoints Ram Dev to presicribeYoga treatment for all ailments including cancer and AIDS. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">175.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Bina Ramanis, prime witness in Jessica Lal murder casewas cross examined three years after the murder in the presence of mainaccused with 13 topcriminal lawyers, 9 co-accused and crowd of hostile press and only apublic prosecutor was assisting her. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">176.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when the casualty figures in BrandIndia Exhibition fire quoted by press is 45 that may go up to 100 but opposition leader quoted the figure of 500. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">177. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs<strong> </strong>whenfire tenders arrived in 30 minutes after the fire had completelyengulfed the entire exhibition area and most tenders were in badcondition and water pressure was too inadequate to even reach the firezone. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">178.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs whenit was public that was carrying the fire hoses to the fire zone andnone of firemen were equipped to fight fire like gas masks, not evenhelmets and fire axe.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">179.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laugh when large exhibition area had only one common entrance andexit that trapped the public in the inferno learning nothing fromsimilar incidences at banquet halls and schools etc. This againreflects poorgovernance. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">180.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Swiss Knifes could have cut open tents in seconds atdifferent places releasing the ill-fated consumers at Brand IndiaExhibition providing quick exits. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">181.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when electric and electronics gadgets are sold incombustible tents than regular shops and malls that also provide aftersales service. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">182.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when in India fire tenders are effectively used to disperserallies and demonstrations but reach mishaps sites after the fire hascaused most of the damage often without water. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">182.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when victims of fire tragedy who escaped death but now fight cockroaches in burn wards of Delhi hospitals. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">184. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when state administration deployed bulldozers at midnight hours without carrying out any crime sceneinvestigation to clean up the dead to save the cost of their cremation and avoid payment of compensation. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">185.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"> God laughs when state government orders judicial inquiry after Bulldozing the evidence. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">186.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when Bollywood filmmakers glorify and justify murder ofcriminals even in court itself by film heroes but when their sonconvicted and jailed, film producerclaim he should not have been in jail for a single day even as his sonavoided conviction for several criminal cases. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">187. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">Godlaughs when mother of a film hero collapses on the very first day herson is put in jail but experience no such shock when her son crusheshomeless sleeping on roadside and in films kill scores of baddies or istortured to death. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">188.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">God laughs when first assignment of elite IAS on joining service is SDMposting that put entire district administration under his control likehea</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-115198609569207445?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1150263007715126412006-06-13T22:29:00.000-07:002006-06-13T22:32:23.590-07:00<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Use RTI, Don't pay bribe</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > *You need not pay bribes any more in this country. Now you have an effective alternative - Right to Information. Use the RTI Act. Often, it works faster than bribes, says the right to know crusader group, Parivartan. * * *</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > Wherever you have a legitimate work pending, you have filed all the documents, you have completed all formalities, you have a genuine case, which the official ought to do in his normal course of duty but is not doing either for expectation of bribe or merely laziness. We call it extortionist bribery.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > For instance,</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - You made a complaint to the police but they are not registering FIR; </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - You want to know balance in your provident fund account. You have retired and want to claim your PF but the authorities are not responding to your letters;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - You are a government servant and have been transferred out against the transfer policy. The Government is not responding to your requests to transfer you back;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - You are a government servant. Your requests for claim of medical reimbursements are not being heeded to;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - You have a faulty electricity meter in your house. But the authorities are not replacing it despite repeated requests;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - The sewer is choked in your locality for some time but the authorities have not responded to repeated requests;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - You have applied for</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > * passport</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > * any type of license</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > * Various certificates i.e. marriage, death, birth, caste and so on;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > but things do not move;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > - You sought correction in your water, electricity, telephone bills but the authorities do not oblige;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > If your work is unnecessarily held up in a government department, use the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Do not pay bribe.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > File a requisition under the RTI Act demanding to know: </span><br /><br /><script><!-- D(["mb","i.e. when did the application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period? \n \n2. Names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on the application and who have not done so? \n \n3. What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken? \n \n4. By when would the work be done now? \n \nIn normal circumstances, such communication would be thrown in a dustbin. But if a formal requisition is made under the RTI Act, the public information officer (PIO) representing the government or semi-government establishment (called the public authority in the Act) is obliged to give the desired information within 30 calendar days (or refuse it by citing specific exemptions from disclosure listed in the Act). \n \nIf the PIO does not answer within 30 days, he can be fined and his salary can be deducted. Now, it is not easy to dodge these questions. \n \nYou ask what is the progress made on your application. The government officials cannot write back and confess that they have not acted on your application for many months. That would be admission of guilt on paper. \n \nYou ask for names and designations of the officers who by their brief in their establishment were supposed to take action on your application but had not done so. \n \nIf the government provides names and designations of the officials, their responsibility gets fixed. Any officer is most scared of fixing of responsibility against him in this manner. \n \nThe experience so far is that, as soon as such requisition is received from a citizen under the Right to Information Act, files move at an amazing speed and usually the pending work is done even before the 30-day deadline for giving information on the status of the application under the RTI Act. \n \nThis message is sent in compliance of the new email Bill HR 1910. Under Bill HR 1910 passed by the 106th US Congress on May 24, 1999, this message cannot be considered Spam as long as we include the way to be removed. Per Section HR 1910, Please type REMOVE in the subject: line and hit reply button.",1] ); //--></script><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > 1. Daily progress made on your application so far. i.e. when did the application reach which officer, for how long did it stay with that officer and what did he/she do during that period?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > 2. Names and designations of the officials who were supposed to take action on the application and who have not done so?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > 3. What action would be taken against these officials for not doing their work and for causing harassment to the public? By when would that action be taken? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > 4. By when would the work be done now?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > In normal circumstances, such communication would be thrown in a dustbin. But if a formal requisition is made under the RTI Act, the public information officer (PIO) representing the government or semi-government establishment (called the public authority in the Act) is obliged to give the desired information within 30 calendar days (or refuse it by citing specific exemptions from disclosure listed in the Act).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > If the PIO does not answer within 30 days, he can be fined and his salary can be deducted. Now, it is not easy to dodge these questions.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > You ask what is the progress made on your application. The government officials cannot write back and confess that they have not acted on your application for many months. That would be admission of guilt on paper.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > You ask for names and designations of the officers who by their brief in their establishment were supposed to take action on your application but had not done so.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > If the government provides names and designations of the officials, their responsibility gets fixed. Any officer is most scared of fixing of responsibility against him in this manner.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;" > The experience so far is that, as soon as such requisition is received from a citizen under the Right to Information Act, files move at an amazing speed and usually the pending work is done even before the 30-day deadline for giving information on the status of the application under the RTI Act.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-115026300771512641?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1149746219375469872006-06-07T22:52:00.000-07:002006-06-13T22:33:07.800-07:00<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b>"In a particular constituency, if a voter has dislike to all of the candidates competing there, then he can show his dislike to all of them by registering for 49'O. </b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b><br />Steps for doing this :<br />1. while registering the name by the time of voting, convey the booth officials that "I want to go for 49'O".<br />2. Register your signature in the 49'O form available there. </b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b><br />Done. </b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b><br />Now, if the number of 49'O count is larger than that of the winning candidates total vote count, then a re-election is called there. </b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b><br />More than all, the shameful fact is, this 49'O is available ever since 1960, but it is in no way conveyed to the people.<br />Neither the government communicate this, nor did the election commission. As long as the people are unaware of this one, the political parties are enjoying by winning the election and ditching our country. </b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b><br />To stop this disaster to continue further, we don't need to take a sword and fight against the government. </b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b><br />Just help every citizen to know that they have such a powerful weapon which can be used for ensuring their welfare. </b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 79, 117);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><b><br />None of the media will be ready to publish this 49'O. Let us do this by ourselves.</b></span></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span class="sb8"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span class="sb8">Communicate this information with all your family, friends, neighbors as<br />much as you can and let them know their right.Please send this information or link to everyone you know and request them to spread it across to everyone.Convey this information to as many people you know.Not only, we get a satisfaction that we have done a good service for our country's welfare.This is very well equal to what our patriots have done for the independence of our country.Very less time left before the next election drama.<br />Before that lets make sure that everyone speaks about this word "49'O".</span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-114974621937546987?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1145613569385095692006-04-21T02:54:00.000-07:002006-05-01T21:52:09.273-07:00Sensex Dream Run has created a wave of a Sort...<br />Everyone is talking about it...<br />MySelf being a Software Guy have also started discussing SENSEX with my friends!<br /><br />It is really amazing to see the Markets booming and sensex Rolling the Bulls and Bears<br /><br />The way it is going I feel it wont be long before it reaches 15K Mark!<br /><br />Good For INDIA ;) For me I am still Confused between Bulls and Bears!!<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/683/1311/1600/Bullorbear2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/683/1311/400/Bullorbear2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-114561356938509569?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26652493.post-1145612892637365612006-04-21T02:42:00.000-07:002006-05-01T21:40:05.126-07:00I have taken a Well discussed/debatable and Hot topic!<br />My View about the Reservations in Private Sector as well as in <span id="misp_compose_1" class="hm">IIM's</span> <span id="misp_compose_2" class="hm">IIT's</span><br /><br />As I am a Software Engineer Logic Plays an Important Role. So Logically and Practically it will be a Poor Decision to Make Reservations<br /><br />Reservation in <span id="misp_compose_3" class="hm">IIT</span> /<span id="misp_compose_4" class="hm">IIM</span> will deteriorate the Level of these Esteem institutes,as only Students with Merit should get a chance and not by luck or reservation.<br />Rather then Reservations people who are considered so called <span id="misp_compose_5" class="hm">OBC's</span> should be given FREE Education till 12th,given Scholarship if they are really good in Studies! And then the are welcome to Join <span id="misp_compose_6" class="hm">IIMs</span>,<span id="misp_compose_7" class="hm">IIT's</span> when they Pass it on their Merit and not <span id="misp_compose_8" class="hm">thru</span> some Reservation Quota!<br /><br />If Reservation are Passed for these Institutes will there be Reservations for<br />1. The Indian Army, Navy, Air force<br />2. Indian Cricket team<br />3. Miss India Contest<br />and the list Goes on....<br /><br />It is really SAD that we are facing this Question at the time when INDIA is going great Guns in all fields!<br /><br />I ask the Government why they never thought of doing something for so called <span id="misp_compose_9" class="hm">OBC's</span> for so many years ?. For the last 60 years for 50 years Congress dominated the political Arena and still did nothing for these people! Now when they are loosing Hold , they are trying cheap pol tics to get the vote bank!<br /><br />Do they thing by Reservation in Jobs, Educational Institutes will help those people who really need help ?? The Powerful will still take the jobs and the needy will remain where they were !<br /><br />In Short I OPPOSE RESERVATIONS<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26652493-114561289263736561?l=indian-speaks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anurag Bhatiahttps://profiles.google.com/108220294600393420201noreply@blogger.com0