Normal And Abnormal

All politicians and government officials of our country are clean in all respects, it is said. None of them have any dirt in their hands. People and media  frequently come up with strong allegations against some of them. However, none of these allegations could be proved with the support of documents and witnesses. Better, therefore, to stop raising any allegations against them henceforth. It is also be ensured by our law making machinary that a law to be formulated that no one should raise any allegations against the elected representatives and government officials. If raised, it would be bound to be proved undoubtedly; failing which such complainants should be severely punished. This will surely find an end to unwanted corruption allegations in our country. Alongwith this another law may be formulated by all our elected representatives together that anyone in our country proved to have involved in any monetory corruption, irrespective of the value of it, should be sen...

People  who are working on different fronts can be primarily categorised into two groups. One is those working for the sake of work, nothing more than that. The other is those who want satisfac1tion for their doing. Such ones, if do not get satisfaction shall leave the work and move away. The former category shall continue to work until the scope of work is left. Whatever efforts we may put on something, but if it does not fetch any contentment, many of us may not be able to continue with it. Hence contentment is an essential return expected by many who put their efforts for anything. There are another category of people whose ultimate aim is not contentment alone but they find something more by sharing their contentment with the near and dear ones. And what they attain from this is happiness. Happiness is, therefore, derived from sharing our contentment with others. It is a state of ECSTASY. Then comes peace. Peace is not man made, it is divine. While many ...

        Waste to Energy plant in Delhi  We  Indians, surprisingly may not have the sense of cleanliness as required by our environment. Whether it is village, town or city heaps of waste can be found anywhere. There is no effective methods for collection of waste from houses and public places. When there are countless number of boards found at different places saying: 'Don't throw waste here', it is difficult to find any board anywhere saying 'Put waste here'. If places are allocated and proper boards are put people may reach there and dump their waste there. According to available source the amount of municipal solid waste (waste that comes from homes, businesses and other community activities) in India was above 1,70,300 tons per day in the financial year 2022. Over 50% of these waste is combustible. This shows that over 85,000 tons of combustible waste are available with us every day. The following countries in the world are generating electr...

Curry leaves  are indispensable part of Indian cuisine. This is widely used in southern and western coast of India. It is also used in other parts of Asia too. In Combodia and Indonesia it is dried and used as flavour for food items. Curry leaf plant is a native of Indian subcontinent. It is commercially planted in India. Of late Australia has started large cultivation of this plant. While it is a household plant in Kerala, large plantations can be found in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and other parts of India.  During the 1980s there were number of large plantations in Guntur region of AP. Many women reach these plantations early in the morning from nearby villages. They pluck the leaves and fill the bags tied on their backs. Many trucks were found parked on the side roads to carry the leaves to Chennai market. Murraya koenigii is the botanical name of curry leaf plant. It belong to the Rutaceae family. Other members of the family are, Rue, Citrus and Satinwood. The...

       Clean water in a German town According to global health index 2024 the healthiest countries are: Spain, Italy, Iceland, Japan, Switzerland and Sweden.  India ranks 39th in the list. Oman, South Africa and Costa Rica are the lowest in the health index.  Cuba has the highest number of doctors per 1,000 population with 8.4 (2023). In the year 2023, in the case of least number of doctors per 1,000 people, Somalia was placed on top with 0.20 doctors per 1,000 people followed by Niger with 0.30 and South Sudan with 0.40. Guinea Bisau, Monaco, Nauru, Aserbaijan, Cyprus and Belarus are the countries with highest number of hospitals per capita in the world. Taiwan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Germany and Ireland are the top countries in the world who provide insurance coverage to most of their people. The cleanest countries in the world as per EPI index 2024 are:  Estonia, Luxembourg, Germany, Finland, UK and Sweden. In the same EPI ...

Natwar Lal was the greatest con man India has ever seen. He had sold Taj Mahal thrice, Red fort twice, Rashtrapati Bhavan and Indian Parliament with its 545 members once to foreigners. Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava alias Natwar Lal was born in Siwan, Bihar in 1912 and died in 2009. There may be over hundred stories of intelligent cheating by this great con man. During the later years of his life when he was in Pune jail a letter was received from his wife from the native place. She wrote that she had no money for the daily needs and was in short of food too as there was no money to engage someone to delve the land for some cultivation. So she asked him to send some money immediately to deploy some workers to dig and set the land for different crops. As usual the jail officials read the letter and given to him. Nutwar Lal gave a reply to this letter saying that anticipating this situation he had kept large quantity of gold in a bag in their land just one foot below the ground l...