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Message for the Day…” Ideal time for Developing the Quality of Forbearance { kshama}…”

September 15, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

For spiritual progress kshama (forbearance) is the real basis or foundation. Great people and countries have lost their glory, prestige, and reputation because of the disappearance of Kshama. Without patience and the capacity for forbearance, one becomes spiritually weak. Such weakness leads to bad feelings, undesirable thoughts, and unbecoming actions. This virtue is best cultivated under adverse circumstances, and one must therefore gladly welcome troubles instead of regarding them as unwelcome. Thus times of distress, and an environment of sorrow and misery offer the ideal opportunity for the development ofKshama. However, because of mental weakness and ignorance, we shun painful experiences and distress. You should not be weak; be brave and welcome troubles. Let them come, more the merrier. Only with such a courageous attitude, you would be able to bring out the kshama hidden within you.

This Cop Jumped Off A 20-Feet-High Bridge In Kumbh To Save A Man’s Life….

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Being a policeman is often synonymous with being brave. We hear various incidents where cops save lives without even thinking twice about themselves.

Meet Manoj Barahate, a 24-year-old policeman, who jumped off a 20-feet-high bridge in Kumbh and saved a man from drowning.

Manoj was on duty with his team (a colleague and assistant sub-inspector) at the ongoing Kumbh Mela in Nashik. He was near the Amardham bridge where the incident happened.

Details of the incident:

Between 3-4 PM, a 45-year-old man came and stood near the railing of the bridge. He was seen muttering to himself. The man lifted one of his legs and jumped off the 20-feet-high bridge.

With stupefied onlookers everywhere, some of them tried to enter the water from under the bridge.

Without wasting any time, Manoj being one of the onlookers took out his mobile phone and wallet and dived. So brave, right?

When asked about his intrepid act, Manoj said,

”There was no other option. That was the only way to save him. I saw that there was no movement in the water after he jumped. So if I would have gone from under the bridge he would have lost his life.”

This act obviously didn’t go unnoticed. Praveen Gedam, IAS officer and Commissioner tweeted about his bravery.

Also, this incident was recorded in a CCTV.

Isn’t this just spectacular? With incidents like these, we can safely conclude that humanity is extant.

News Source: Twitter & MotivateMe

Source…Aparajita Mishra …www.storypick.com

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Indian Railways Will Replace Regular Toilets With Vacuum Toilets & This Is How It’ll Work….

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If you travel by air, you must be knowing about the vacuum toilets that they have. Well, now the Indian Railways is keen to incorporate the same. Earlier, we had told you about Japan modernizing Indian Railways. And now, this!

Indian Railways will soon adopt the concept of vacuum toilets. The trial run was launched in Dibrugarh Rajdhani from September 14 at an estimated cost of Rs 3 Lakh.

The filthy and stinky toilets will soon be a thing of the past as the Indian Railways have launched the vacuum toilets.

The idea of having a vacuum toilet came up in Union Budget 2015 and was announced by Union Rail Minister, Suresh Prabhu.

What is a vacuum toilet?

What’s different in vacuum toilets is their suction system. With that, the faeces and urine are removed with a minimal amount of water (0.5 – 1.5 litres). Other than that, the toilet looks and feels exactly like the toilets used everywhere.

Working principle:

Flush toilets that use a negative pressure (vacuum) to suck faeces away.

Working:

1. When the toilet is flushed, a strong vacuum is created inside the pipe which helps in taking the waste out successfully.

2. The waste is carried along quickly and efficiently using air instead of water.

3. The waste passes through the pump and then discharged to the collection or treatment point of your choosing.

4. And while someone flushes the toilet, a small amount of water is used to hygienically rinse the inside of the toilet bowl.

Time taken: Around 5 seconds.

Another advantage: Since it uses air, so when the toilet is flushed, air is drawn into the toilet from the surrounding environment. Odours, aerosols, and nasty bacteria are removed and literally sucked out of the toilet.

With all of these steps, the stench of the toilets will be a thing of the past.

Indian Railways will soon get a whole new avatar. With Japan’s help pouring in, Indian Railways is ready for the new look. And with that, I cannot help waiting for these changes to be incorporated.

News Source: Daily Bhaskar

Source….Aparajita Mishra….www.storypick.com

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These students launched a GoPro into space in 2013 and only just found it, along with some stunning footage….

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Normally when you send something up in a weather balloon, you expect it to come back down again. But, what if you lose the ability to track your package, and the terrain it lands in is a virtually endless desert up to 80 kilometres away from your original launch location? Gulp.

That’s what happened to this group of Arizona-based university students who wanted to find out what their GoPro camera would see if they attached it to a weather balloon and sent it to the edge of space over the Grand Canyon.

The team’s video shows they weren’t exactly unprepared for the voyage, either, spending months testing parachutes, calculating wind trajectories, and custom 3D-printing their GoPro camera chassis for its maiden flight.

The GoPro captured some stunning footage during its time in space.

Everything goes swimmingly at first. On launch day the students drive out to their chosen spot, 32 kilometres west of the Grand Canyon. They release the balloon, which swiftly ascends to an altitude of more than 30 kilometres in less than an hour and a half, at which point the Grand Canyon has become more of a grand indentation on the distant orb below.

However, sometimes no amount of preparation can fend off bad luck. As one of the teamrecounts in a Reddit post, due to GPS and data coverage difficulties, their package’s return to Earth didn’t go quite as smoothly as planned:

“We planned our June 2013 launch at a specific time and place such that the phone was projected to land in an area with cell coverage. The problem was that the coverage map we were relying on (looking at you, AT&T) was not accurate, so the phone never got signal as it came back to Earth, and we never heard from it….

The phone landed ~50 miles [80 km] away from the launch point, from what I recall. It’s a really far distance considering there’s hardly any roads over there!”

AT&T may well have been responsible for the group losing their device, but as luck would bizarrely have it, it would later come to the team’s rescue also. Two years after losing track of their GoPro, an employee of the company happened upon the device while hiking in the desert. She was able to identify the SIM card and return the camera – and its valuable recorded footage – to the owners.

An amazing story and an awesome video.

Source….Peter Dockrill..Science Alert…and http://www.businessinsider.com…and http://www.youtube.com

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Have you seen Her …?

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Four-year-old Santoshi has been missing since July 26, 2015. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets a family, desperately searching for their daughter.

The first of our national series on Missing Children.

IMAGE: Four-year-old Santoshi went missing on July 26, 2015. Photographs: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com

She was doing what most children her age do — playing.

Only, four-year-old Santoshi Kesari’s playground was the area under a flyover that rose over the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, while her father sold tiny packets of mixed spices nearby for a living.

The area opposite the Mankhurd railway station, north-west Mumbai, located on what is known as the Harbour Line (the Mumbai railway system is divided into three lines — Western, Central and Harbour — to enable it to serve the sprawling city), is generally crowded.

During peak hours, it is so jam-packed with people getting in and out of the station that even regular pavement vendors like Santoshi’s father would not notice something amiss.

That is what seems to have happened on July 26, 2015; no one noticed when Santoshi went missing. Not even her hapless father or grandmother, a pavement vendor who sells cheap fake jewellery.

IMAGE: This was where Santoshi was playing before she went missing.

According to data provided by the Mumbai police, from 2010 to 2014, 9,275 girls have gone missing in Mumbai of whom 9,011 have been traced. Two hundred and sixty-four girls still remain missing.

One hundred and two girls went missing in Mumbai in July 2015. Eighty-four of them have been traced. Santoshi is still missing.

Her father Kailash Prasad Kesari and mother Kiran are in a state of shock.

Kiran, a thin lady who cannot hold back her tears each time she mentions her daughter, says, “We call her Chotu (little one) at home.”

Finding the tiny spot on the pavement where they sell their little packets of masala (mixed spices) under the flyover opposite Mankhurd station is easy; everyone has heard of the missing girl.

We met Kiran at the Ambedkar Nagar colony, just off the highway. The lanes leading to the Kesari home are barely wide enough to let one person pass at a time.

IMAGE: Kiran Kesari, with her youngest child clinging to her knee, stands in the narrow lane leading to her tiny home.

Santoshi had recently been admitted to the nearby municipal school, where her siblings study. Santoshi was in Class 1; her elder sister in Class 8 and her elder brother in Class 7.

They would go to school together and return home together. Santoshi had attended school for barely 15 days before she disappeared.

Santoshi’s teacher had been warned not to let her out alone as they had to cross a railway track on their way home.

Kiran cradles her youngest, a two-year-old daughter, in her arms as she speaks about her daughter. “Santoshi is very smart for her age. I used to send her to buy small items whose total price did not exceed Rs 50. She also used to go to the local Hanuman temple alone and come back safely.”

Her voice breaking, she adds, “She talked to everyone. More people knew her around here than they knew me.”

IMAGE: The pavement is lined with vendors. The Kesari family sells their masala packets next to Kiran’s mother, who sells artificial jewellery.

On that fateful Sunday, Santoshi left home at 9 am. “She spent the entire day playing under the bridge,” says her aunt.

Santoshi ate lunch with her father at his pavement stall. When she didn’t return home for dinner, Kiran went looking for her daughter. The last the vendors on the pavement recalled seeing Santoshi was around 7 pm.

Soon, the entire family was searching for the little girl.

Finally, they went to the Mankhurd police station and filed a missing person’s complaint. “By the time we reached home, it was 3.30 am,” says Kiran.

Kailash, who sells masala packets worth Rs 400 to Rs 600 a day, makes a daily profit of Rs 100 to Rs 150 with which he looks after his family. His dependence on this daily income has prevented him from launching a hunt for his young daughter.

The family, meanwhile, is still searching for Santoshi and has spoken to everyone they know.

“People advised us to pray to God. We have prayed at the temple. We have prayed at the masjid,” Kiran sobs for her missing child.

IMAGE: The Kesaris hope someone will find Santoshi and bring her home.

They have even visited the Mumbai police commissioner’s office to register their complaint. They were told to inform the Chembur police station, located near Mankhurd, as well. “I did that,” says Kiran. “I have also registered Santoshi’s details with the Women and Child helpline.”

Two years ago, she says, her husband brought home a child he had found crying alone on the road. It turned out that the eight-year-old boy was from Kanpur; he had been abandoned in Mumbai.

Kiran looked after him for 15 days, till his relatives turned up.

“Today, my child is lost. I hope someone is feeding her and will bring her back. I cannot sleep when I think of her,” she sobs again.

“We have faith in God. He will bring our baby back.”

Meanwhile, opposite the Mankhurd Railway station, at a tiny police office, Santoshi stares out of a missing poster.

Below follows this hopeful announcement: Anyone who sees this child can call her father Kailash on his mobile, 86523 23154, or Head Constable Gaekwad at the Mankhurd police station, at 8452051092.

A Ganesh Nadar / Rediff.com

Source…www.rediff.com

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Message for the Day….”Real Truth and Power are both inside your Heart….”

September 14, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Sathya Sai Baba

Study of books alone will not enhance your capability; they will merely provide you with superficial or bookish knowledge. This obviously is not enough. Real capability and strength come by tapping the Inner Power latent in you. All that is outside is artificial. Real truth and power are both inside, in your heart. It is the heart that must be strengthened, but, unaware of this fact, people become furiously active in the external world, only to get lost there. There are many types of food catering to the needs of the gross body but what about food for the heart? That food can be obtained only when you turn your head toward God. You must understand the subtle linkages here – food, head, and God. Thus, along with the acquisition of worldly knowledge, you must also give importance to culture and refinement.

Google and Indian Railways Will Soon Provide Free WiFi at 400 Railway Stations ….

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Isn’t it great when we get to access the internet for free while waiting for flights at some airports? Very soon, we can experience the same luxury at some railways stations as well. According to reports, Google is partnering with Indian Railways to set up WiFi hotspots at 400 key stations across the country.

Indian Railways sure seems to be taking the lead when it comes to the country going the digital route. If all goes as planned, a recent move will turn 400 railway stations in the country into high speed WiFi zones.

Tech giant Google will partner with the Railways to make this initiative possible. All in all, this is happy news for the millions of passengers who travel on Indian trains every day.

Photo Credit: Robert Scoble/Flickr

Google is collaborating with the state-run RailTel Corporation of India, a PSU which has a pan-India fiber-optic network that runs along railway tracks in both urban and rural regions. RailTel will work with Google on the platform and infrastructure development.

According to a report by Telecomtalk, this project will be given shape with the help of Google Fiber, a technology which is well known among tech enthusiasts for providing fast broadband services in USA.

This initiative is being called ‘Project Nilgiri,’ and the first phase will involve setting up WiFi hotspots across selected railways stations.

Once everything is in place, users will be able to access high speed internet, free of cost, for the first 30 minutes at the stations.

For this, their mobile number will be verified with the help of a one time password sent via text message. After 30 minutes the speed of connection will reduce but connectivity will remain.

The project will be carried out in phases and it is expected that the first phase will be completed in about four months from now.

Photo Credit: Himanshu Sarpotdar/Flickr

The second phase will involve working on providing WiFi access inside moving trains. As of now, Indian Railways provides WiFi inside some moving trains like Rajdhani Express, with the help of satellite communication technology.

Earlier this year, it was also reported that Google will set up its biggest facility outside of the US in Hyderabad. According to an agreement signed with Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao, Google will invest Rs. 1,000 crore in the approximately 7-acre campus in the state.

Source….Tanaya Singh …www.the betterindia .com

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No More Dirty Tracks. Vacuum Toilets in an Indian Train for the First Time …

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Think about your last train journey. Did the whiff of stench from the toilets make you cringe every time the door to your AC coach opened? Did you hate having to use the stinking washrooms?

With Indian Railways working around the clock to improve sanitation facilities for commuters, that stench might soon be a thing of the past. Spanking new vacuum toilets have been installed in the First AC coach of the Dibrugarh Rajdhani train at an estimated cost of Rs. 3 lakhs. The trial run began today.

Photo Credit: Fabio Campo/Flickr

Vacuum toilets are currently used in aircrafts. In the train toilets, the excreta is sucked out with the use of minimum water (0.5 to 1.5 litres), and the waste hence collected is discharged in closed drains at railway stations. These eco-friendly toilets consume much less water as compared to the normal toilets used in our trains currently. The toilets will also prevent erosion of rail tracks, as no discharge takes place.

Indian Railways has also been working with bio toilets. So far, 17,388 conventional toilets have been replaced with bio toilets and the plan is to replace 17,000 more by the end of this year. The bio toilet system utilizes anaerobic bacteria which consume the waste material and convert it into water and gas. The water is passed through a chlorine tank and is discharged as clean water on the tracks, while the gas evaporates.

Some Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains also have Controlled Discharge Toilet Systems (CDTS). With the help of this system, disposal of waste at railways stations can be prevented as the waste is discharged automatically when the train gains a minimum speed of 30km/hour.

Railways has floated global tenders for installing vacuum toilets at a cost of Rs. 25 crores. According to a senior Railway Ministry official, multinational companies from Germany, USA, Denmark and Spain have shown interest in manufacturing and installing these toilets. The plan is that 80 such toilets will be installed initially on a Shatabdi Express train. One toilet will also be installed at New Delhi railway station.

Source…Tanaya Singh ….www.thebetterindia.com

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How This Mumbai Boy is Helping Out His Mother After His Father Died….

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“I want to do something, anything to help my mother,” says a young boy on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. Dressed in a “Gangnam Style” t-shirt, a smile on his face and a newspaper in his hand, his story is short but will tug at your heartstrings.

“My father passed away, so now it’s just my mother and me living together,” he says. His age is unspecified but he’s clearly very young – here’s what he does every day before going to school, to help his mother out as best as he can.

“Every morning, from 7am to 8 am, I deliver newspapers in the area, after which I go to school,” he says, a job that earns him Rs. 1000 per month. “And although it’s not a lot… I want to do something, anything to help my mother,” he adds.

If that hasn’t melted your heart already, he goes on to say, “She’s the best — and her aloo sabzi is world best!”
It’s hard not to feel proud of this bright young boy. Read his entire post below:

Humans of Bombay

“My father passed away, so now it’s just my mother and me living together. Every morning, from 7am to 8 am, I deliver newspapers in the area, after which I go to school. I make 1000 Rupees a month from this, and although it’s not a lot…I want to do something, anything to help my mother. She’s the best — and her aloo sabzi is world best!”

Source…www.ndtv.com and http://www.facebook.com….humans of Bombay

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” Things that Make Me a Proud Indian….”

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Author and management guru Virender Kapoor tells us why we need to look for inspiration within our country.

We celebrated Independence Day on August 15.

Republic Day is more than four months away.

Most of you must be wondering why we are suddenly being so patriotic and talking about India.

Do we really need to wait for a special day to be reminded of our country’s rich heritage and culture, asks author and management guru Virender Kapoor.

Better still, do we need to wait for an international organisation like the UN or an expert to certify our merits, he wonders.

Be it medicine, arts or culture, India is a miraculous country that is constantly inspiring people from across the globe and touching their lives every other day.

Here, Kapoor, founder of Management Institute for Leadership and Excellence and the author of Winning Instinct: Decoding the Power Within and Innovation, the Einstein Way, tells us why we must take pride in our home country and its legacy, every single day.

1. Indian music

India has a rich tradition of both classical and folk music that date back to centuries.

Our songs, including some of the film albums of the 60s and 70s are high on content and our lyrics are phenomenal.

We have a wide variety of instruments and compositions too.

In the percussion, we have the tabla, sarod, tambura, mridangam; in wind instruments we have the flute, bansuri, shehnai, nadaswaram, each rendering a unique feel to the music.

When I was young, I used to be inspired by Bob Dylan and Cliff Richards.

Today, it is heartening to see international composers collaborate with Indian musicians and artists for a song. International musicians are using sitar and guitar in a song.

Composers like AR Rahman are working for international productions.

It speaks a lot about the importance of Indian music and regard for our artists.

2. Indian food

India is a land of diversities and we have countless flavours and delicacies which are unique to the state and area it belongs.

If the western countries take pride in their types of breads, we can boast about producing 100 different varieties of parathas, kulchhas, rotis, naans and appams from our kitchens.

If you were to look at continental or any western food for that matter, it is mostly bland because they use limited ingredients. You can have it for one day or one week and then you’ll want to try something else.

Back home in India, we use multiple masalas and ingredients in a single recipe. The addition of every masala gives a unique flavour to the recipe and most of our spices have high nutritional value.

The spices we use — turmeric, cardamom, black pepper — each have health benefits too.

Today, thanks to people like master chef Vikas Khanna, people in the western countries are taking special interest in Indian food and appreciating it too.

If you happen to travel the world, you’ll realise how popular our Bengali sweets are.

3. Indian films

Every year, we make about 1,000 plus films in more than 20 different languages. So what if our films have not won an Oscar?

Our artistes have won it for designing the costumes and music.

Our purpose, audience and reach is different from theirs.

We have come a long way since we made our first film Raja Harishchandra in 1913.

If we look at the entire package — our content, story telling and execution has improved by leaps and bounds.

The performances of Indian actors have been appreciated world over.

We have actors like Irfan Khan, Rajkumar Rao whose performances are at par with international actors.

Our films make crores of rupees too, which is why foreign investors and film makers want to collaborate with us.

We have made films on low budget with bold subjects and social messages as well — which is why our films are appreciated at international film festivals.

4. Yoga, pranayam and meditation

Like it or not, the credit goes to Ramdev Baba for bringing yoga into your drawing room and making it so popular.

In fact, the science of physiotherapy finds its roots in yoga. The postures, the techniques are all inspired from yogic mudras.

People world over are slowly realising the fact that if you spend 15 minutes of your day doing yoga, pranayam and meditation, you will cut your medical bills tremendously.

5. Ayurveda

India is the birthplace of Ayurveda, one of the five elements of alternative medicine AYUSH — Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy.

Today, Ayurvedic medicines and home remedies are fast becoming the most sought after route in alternate medicine.

If you go to Germany, you’ll realise that Germans swear by Vicco products because there are no side effects.

The use of herbs and oils in Ayurveda rejuvenate the body and transform you into a healthy human being.

6. Unity in diversity

The next time you say how good and better the United States of America is, you must not forget that we are United States of India.

In America, they speak a single language across the country.

Can you think of any other country in the world that has so many different states and languages?

In India, the co-existence of the diversity in food, tradition and culture is a lesson for the world to see and learn from.

7. Managing more with less

Ever since we are young, we are taught to manage more with less.

Most of our students start their education with limited resources, yet we go on to become successful doctors, engineers and researchers.

We may not have a library as big as the Oxford which is believed to be the size of seven football fields, but we make the most of what we have in our home country.

We have produced people like Satya Nadella (CEO, Microsoft) and Verghese Kurien, founder of White Revolution who are ideal icons of excellence and success for the world.

8. High resilience

During our growing up years, we are taught certain values by our parents.

We know the importance of humanity, kindness, hospitality, tolerance and spirituality.

Despite the negatives surrounding us, and the deprivation of resources that most of us have grown up with, the strength of our values make us highly resilient.

This resilience is perhaps one of the primary reasons how we gifted Buddhism to the world.

9. Jugaad

It may be debatable that jugaad is a temporary and quick fix solution to problems.

According to me, jugaad is a skill to improvise and innovate already existent solutions.

Necessity is the mother of jugaad.

The word jugaad originated in Punjab when a group of people created a multi-function tractor in less than Rs 25,000.

The point is, jugaad is an Indian skill — of being street-smart and having the attitude to survive any difficult situation.

As told to Divya Nair/Rediff.com

> More career advice from Virender Kapoor here

Lead image used for representational purposes only. Credit: PTI Photo

Virender Kapoor is the former director of Pune’s Symbiosis Institute of Management and the founder of Management Institute for Leadership and Excellence.

He is also the author of Winning Instinct: Decoding the Power Within, Leadership: The Gandhi Way,A Wonderful Boss: Great People to Work With,Passion Quotient and Innovation, the Einstein Way.

Source….www.rediff.com

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