Witness

The search for the name for the newcomer in the family was not an easy task. Firstly I tried google, which gives links to websites with many Indian names. Which to me were quite heard of types. Or they were too much unheard of. Due to sheer enthusiasm for a perfect name I downloaded Mudgala Kosha   which is kind of encyclopedia of sanskrit words / meanings with online search urls. Finally after a lot of proposals and discarding Ashwini and I could agree on Atharv. For this name we didn't need the dictionary at all. Its a known name. Anyways to preserve my time spent here is the list of names that made to the shortlist: अथर्व  अमेय  वरद अमोघ -  A name of Lord गणेश परम - the supreme कराट   m.   N.   of   गण ेश   MaitrS.   [#45905]   [Img:255,2] अ क्षज  /  अ क्ष--ज  m.  a  diamond   [#442]   [Img:3,1] [442]   अ क्षज  /  अ क्ष--ज  m.  a  thunderbolt   [#443]   [Img:3,1] [443]   अ क्षज  /  अ क्ष--ज  m.   N.   of   विष्णु  .  [#444]   [Img:3,1] अद्वय अयाचित अरुष म यूख म ह

Let us say I have a product which I can produce at a rate 10 per day. However there is demand for 15 units a day. Due to higher demand & lower availability, I can find 10 people who are ready to pay more to get my product on that day by paying higher price. So the price of my product will be proportionately higher compared to the delta in demand and supply. ==>What government does is it makes sure there is less money available with the people; so that there is lesser demand so the prices are in control. Keeping fiscal deficit within x % of GDP. So that inflation is low. ==>What RBI does is it makes sure that credit is available at an higher price. So people are discouraged from buying more There is another aspect that is completely ignored in textbook economics. i. I as a producer / consumer have to say pay money as a bribe. So as a producer I ll have to adjust that price in the cost of product. And as a consumer the product costs shoots up by that amou

Power scenario in most of the states of the country becomes grimmest in summer. Main reason for it is that the hydel power grids become dim as the rivers that provide it potent water dry up. Second reason being household energy consumption, that increases as the mercury rises. We know that our cities produce waste that is humongous in nature. And this source is constant. We do face problem of disposing it amicably. We can convert degradable part of this waste into methane which can be used to generate power. And the non-degradable portion can be recycled into usable things. Also, solar energy can be a reliable source at least during summers to augment the power thus generated. More over we can not rely on depleting coal & diesel for long to run vehicles or to generate power. During other seasons when the hydel power generators are operating in their full swing, due to slower degradation we may harvest lesser power from the waste recycling pla

For more than two decades Lalu has been in charge of Bihar affairs. He has been the face that world associates with Bihar. With his recent turn around of the Indian Railways fortunes he been a celebrated hero credited with the Indian Railways success story. So he is now used to be reffered to as successful persona. This almost shadows his failures to develop Bihar despite being responsible it well over a decade and half. This also overshadows the past curruptions charges he and his administrations had faced. Now what Raj Thakery and MNS is doing [it's rightness left to be decided judicial system], underlines Lalu's failures. What he suggests is people from Bihar not to eat into the jobs of people of Maharashtra. If Bihar has not been able to develop itself for over last 6 decades after independence then they should fix it. The fact however is the living conditions, state of infrastructure, law and order, social system and oppotunities in Bihar do not imbibe ambition of stayin

I watched first day last show of Telugu movie : "Parugu - In the name of Love". The movie was releasing in a famous theater [Renuka Prsaanna] of our nearby Galli. The most challenging part was getting tickets for 3, that too in a legal way. As soon as the doors opened at 8:15, everyone [at least 300 of them] started running to the counter. Many jumped from the compound walls. Somehow I was among first 40 in the queue. What to say of those sandwiched moments in the queue; those 10 minutes felt like 10 hours :). Now first things first, title Parugu means run :). The hero of the movie is Allu Arjun. Now shame on you if you do not know who he is. He is a distant relative [i am bad in remembering the relational links:( ] of mega star Chiranjeevi. I understood most of the movie thanks to 2 of my Telugu friends sitting on either side of me. My response to the movie was "typical" and should be a flop. But my Telugu friends had different opinions. They said it will run at l

The music is playing from my earphones and i have got one hour of a battery in laptop. This bearably hot evening i am on my train back to Bangalore from Udgir, my native. Humpi Link express, the train, is passing through some part of Andra Pradesh and its 4:47pm. In many Hindu rituals the priests pronounce the historic name of the area where the ritual is performed. I grew up listening to my being called as "Dandak Aranya". As it used to be called since Aryan time. Integral part of the Aryawarta - what we call Indian subcontinent. The Aryawarta as such is an island in every non-geographical sense, being surrounded by the Himalayan sea in the north and by the Indian Ocean, Arebean Sea and Bay of Bengal on the entire south. The stories from puranas tell the ancient stories related to the area - Dandak Aranya. It used to be a forest inhabiting extremely dangerous animals. This area was considered cursed, may be due to its inhospitality. On this day you rarely find a forest here.

Effect of an action depends on its essentials and a great extent on its timings. Agreed there are absolute and unquestioned truths above & along the flow of time. Though that is not what we regard as time. As far as understanding of time goes there are uncountable human & environmental factors that make it almost impossible to reproduce a great phenomenon exactly same way again or at another place. It is said quite wisely, you always adapt, in a best possible way to any given situation. Folks who are successful are the ones who probably acted upon the best of the understanding of the given situation. There is no reason to believe the implied intension can not be carried out in a situation. Given the intentions do not have fundamental flaws, the environment to make them succeed can be induced. This truly should mean "making things happen" in a broader sense.