Normal And Abnormal

                (Pablo Picasso) Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain and died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France. He was a world renowned painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer. His name is quite long: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano Maria de los Remedios de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Hubert Blaine + Hubert Blaine + was born on 4 August 1914 in Bergedorf, Germany and died on 24 October 1997 in Philadelphia, USA. He was a typesetter by occupation. It is very difficult to remember his name or call him in his full name. His name is made up from 27 names. Each of his 26 given name starts with a different letter of English alphabet in alphabetical order. These are followed by a single word surname or a 666 letter surname. Name and surname given below: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sher

Hubble Space Telescope  is the one sent by NASA, launched into orbit by space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Hubble orbits about 547 km above earth. It's speed is about 10 km per second. It can take pictures of anything far away. Hubble can be seen from the earth from certain parts only because of its inclined orbit. It has a  length of 43.5 feet, 8 ft diameter and 11,110 kg weight and has six cameras installed. Given below are some pictures taken by Hubble Telescope released by NASA. This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope has observed during its 30 years life time. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and it's neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163,000 light years away.                     ---------------        Hubble sees a

Raj Kiran Hotel, Lonavala A comfortable drive from Mumbai will take one to Lonavala. The greenary on the hills is very attractive especially during monsoon. However the guests who stayed in the hotel Raj Kiran of Lonavala have a eerie experience to narrate. Several guests who stayed here had a feeling of being watched by someone and the presence of someone or something in the room.  This abnormal situation had kept many awake during night. Only one particular room that is close to the reception has this peculiar problem. Since several guests have complained about this weird issue, hotel management has decided not to give this room to anyone unless warranted otherwise. While some people reportedly have seen blue lights near their feet during night, some others have felt that someone was watching them from the room even though they could not find anyone else in the room. Some guests could find that their bed sheets were pulled out by someone but when they wake up they could f

Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad Ramoji Film City is one of the biggest film cities in India. It is also a tourist attraction. Some people however say that there are abnormal things talking place here. There have been incidents of lights falling off on their own, or light men  being pushed off by an invisible force from great heights that has left them injured. Not just these, many actresses have felt something supernatural in their green room. Apparently, the spirits here have a thing for women and they have at times ripped their clothes too. Similar experience had for the guests stayed in the hotel's of the film city too. Doors getting locked on their own or half eaten food in the room if you leave it for sometime are also common. Some guests heard whispers and strange voices while others have found Urdu words written on their mirrors. However officials of the film city never confirmed any of these. The story goes that the film city is built on batt

Bangalore International Airport  established in 2008 in a 4000 acres land in Devanahalli village is the 3rd busiest airport in India after Delhi and Mumbai. There is a story of haunting spread about  this airport. One night, pilots of the approaching aircraft saw a woman clad in a white sari standing on the runway. The crew immediately asked the airport staff to take her away, but when someone reached there she was disappeared. Later many airport employees too had seen this mysterious lady at different parts of the airport during night hours. The scare of the lady spread out to such an extent that the workers in the cargo department refused to work in nightshift there. The officials of the Airport Authority and Air Traffic Control strongly refuted the claims of the vision of the white clothed lady. However those who had seen the so called ghost stand firm in their stories. Though it has been subsided for sometime, air passengers arriving during nights, who heard the story,

Travel beyond time! No human can even imagine; a state with no time. Scientifically we cannot conceive this. Amazingly it is not time alone we miss; space and matter too. A real nothingness! It is certainly possible and we all shall experience this. How we can narrate the experience is something that cannot be explained now. Time, matter and space shall cease at some point.  I do not know whether the existing theories in astrophysics and cosmology shall support this. It may also be possible that some laws may be remoulded or reformed to reject what I say. Whatever it may be it will remain a truth and we all will pass through this in some form. Let us try to draw it on a paper. Make a point at the center of the paper. Draw two lines upwards at 45 degree angle on either side from the point away from one another. It looks like the English alphabet 'V'. Let us imagine that the Big Bang, at the beginning of the universe, took place at the bottom point of the 'V'.

Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan gained popularity in the early 1970s. He became so dominant in the silver screen in the 70s and 80s. His name could bring films to high returns. Suddenly there came a time when number of his films failed consecutively and his production house too doomed. Eventually by 1997 all those led to a total financial collapse. Within a few years he returned to his old slot, most bankable, successful and respected film star all over the world. A good return from a total fiasco. He didn't weep on his failures but boldly walked back to the place he had left a little early. Sandeep Singh Bhinder The well known SS Bhinder was one of the most successful hockey player in India. His international debut was in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Kula Lumpur in 2004. He took over as the captain of the national hockey team in 2009. When he was at his peak, he had the best speed in the world in drag flick (145 km/h). SS Bhinder was seriously injured aft

Shanti Devi was born in Delhi on 11 December 1926. At the age of four she told her parents that her real home where her husband also lived was in Mathura which is about  145 km from Delhi. She further shared three unique features about her husband; he was fair, wore glasses and had a big wart on his left cheek. She also said that her husband had a shop located in front of the Dwarkadhish temple in Mathura. She stated in school that she was married and had died ten days after giving birth to a child. When she was interviewed by her teacher and headmaster she used words from Mathura dialect and divulged her merchant husband's name as Kedarnath. Subsequently the headmaster located the merchant named Kedarnath in Mathura who had lost his wife, Lugdi Devi, ten days after giving birth to a son. Having got these information Kedarnath travelled to Delhi pretending to be his brother. On seeing Kedarnath Shanti Devi immediately recognised him as her husband. As she also knew seve

Rampal and Khilli Devi of Alwar, Rajasthan had a daughter named Manisha. At the age of two when she learnt to speak she told her parents that her name was Suman not Manisha. When she grew up she started gathering more about her past life. She then told her "new" parents that the name of her father was Kamal and mother Santhosh. She further revealed that she stayed in a three storeyed house located near a Kamal Mandir with three brothers. She could also say the colours of her school belt and tie. Surprisingly she said these before even started going to school. She told her grandmother, Mallo, that she had died of typhoid. The news spread around the nearby villages. Two villages named Tejara and Tihli which were 30 km apart in Rajasthan had some relatives of the "old" parents of Manisha. Soon the news reached her "old" parents. Her "old" father Kamal said later, "Someone told us that there is this little girl who could be our Suman

       (The bicycle of the earlier times) Karl von Drains of Germany has the credit of bringing out the first bicycle in 1817. This one had a wooden beam, wooden wheels and leather covered tyres but no pedals, chain or brakes. This version was improved in different forms in Europe. Later in 1860s Porte Lallement and two others developed prototypes with pedals attached to the front wheel. It was called then "bicycles." In 1885 John Kemp Starkey perfected a safety bicycle design that featured equal sized wheels and a chain drive. Edoardo Bianch S.p.A is the oldest cycle manufacturing company in the world. The company was founded in Italy in 1885. Giant Bicycle Ltd a Taiwanese company is the world's largest cycle manufacturer with facilities in Taiwan, Holland and China with sales over 50 countries through 12,000 sales outlets. In 2012, US alone had 143 brands of bicycles. The top three bycyckes are: 1. 24K Gold Extreme Mountain bike with price tag of $1 million.

  (Painting of Saint Catherine Laboure)  (Preserved body of Saint Catherine                               Laboure) Saint Catherine Laboure is the one who reported her first visitation by an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1830 in France. She said she had placed her hands on the lap of the Mother and she spoke to her in an empty chapel. Saint Catherine died in 1876 and her body was buried. The body was exhumed in 1933 as part of her official beatification. It was then found that the body was in perfect state of preservation and the joints were still supple. The body can be found now in Paris as Catherine was alive. However the praying hands are fake. The real hands were severed and kept seperately, in memory of the lap they supposedly rested on.       (Preserved body of La Doncella) La Doncella  died about five hundred years ago in the mountain sides in Argentina. A sharp blow to her head is believed to have killed her. She was left seated with her c

       (Embalmed remains of Lenin on         display in Lenin's Mausoleum, Red                        Square, Moscow) Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin  was the father of the Russian revolution. He was the first leader of USSR. Leaving aside the political stories we may look into the post life body of the former supremo of Soviet Union. Unlike the normal burial, the body was artificially preserved and made a life-like hybrid monument. Russians have applied fine-tuning preservation techniques that have maintained the look, feel and flexibility of Lenin's body. Lenin when died in January 1924, the Soviet leaders did not want to preserve the body for a long period. Actually Lenin wanted to bury his body by the side of his parents burial place. People envisioned the burial in a closed tomb on the Red Square of Moscow. However the cold winter kept the  corpse in a good condition for about two months as people were continuously pouring over the place. This gave the idea of pr

Joey Chestnut  is the greatest eater in history. He belongs to California, USA. Chestnut holds 46 world records in 46 disciplines. That itself is a world record of world records. Some of his records are given below. 1. Chicken wings - 182 nos/30 mts 2. Hot Dogs - 75/10 mts, July '20 3. Hamburgers: Krystals - 103/8 mts 4. Eggs boiled - 141/8 mts, Oct 2013 5. Pork Ribs - 13.76 lb/12 minutes 6. Funnel cake - 5.9 lbs/10 mts 7. Fish Tacos - 30.6 oz/5 mts, 2014 8. Mutton sandwich - 81.4 oz/10 mts 9. Shrimp wontons - 390/8 mts, 2012 10.Pastrami - 25.07 oz/10 mts, 2013 11.Sakt potatoes - 13 lbs/10 mts 12.Pepperoni rolls - 43/10 mts, 2019 And the list continue ...... KV George kvgeorgein@gmail.com

The Biggest Mango 3.435 kg weight 30.48 cm length 17.78 cm width 49.53 cm circumference Presented by Sergio and Maria Socorro Bodiongan of Philippines on 27 August 2008 Heaviest Jack Fruit. According to Guinness Book of World Records the heaviest Jack fruit found was in Pune, Maharashtra on 23 June 2016. 42.72 kg weight 57.15 cm long 132.08 cm circumference Of late one Johnykutty, Edamulackal, Kollam, Kerala have grown a jack fruit in his backyard with 51.4 kg weight. He is understood to have reported this to Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of Records. Biggest Apple This heaviest apple was grown in Hirosaki City of Japan by Chidati Iwasaki on 24 October 2005. 1.849 kg weight. Biggest Banana 'Musa Ingens' found in the tropical montane forest in New Guinea is the  giant highland banana species in the world. The main trunk of this plant reaches height of 15 metres (49ft) and it's unfurled leaves grow as high as 20 m

(UFO spotted in Banswara, Rajasthan in 2008. Hat-shaped object with a bright under light. - Curtsey: Hindustan Times) During 2014 sightings of UFOs were reported from three different parts of India. A nail shaped UFO had reportedly spotted over Kochi on 29th of October and picture of the same appeared in the media. During the first week of October 2014 a commercial pilot informed to have seen a black and blueish UFO at a height about 26,300 feet over Pune. A number of pictures of the sun set taken at Lucknow on 23rd July claimed to have included the photo of a UFO. None of these reports, however  could get ratified by the scientific community. Local news papers of Chennai carried a news on 23rd June 2013 that the residents of the outskirts of the city had seen a UFO on the night of 20th  June. There was a report on 4th August 2013 that the soldiers of Indian Army had spotted a UFO over Demchock, Ladakh. The Army men reported to have viewed over hundred UFOs over the border

Sighting of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have  been reported from different parts of the world for quite sometime. UFOs are believed to have sent to the earth from intelligent life beings from other planets from outer space. Though the sightings have been told by pilots, defence officials,  voyagers etc scientific community has not ratified those so far. We shall now go through some of the sightings. On December 26, 1980 two US Air Force members reported seeing lights falling on earth over nearby Rendlesham Forest at around 3.00 am. They entered the forest to investigate and saw a metallic object giving off lights and moving around. When local police arrived, they reportedly didn't see any lights, but later discovered markings near the site. After a few days more servicemen went for further investigation in the forest. They have reportedly seen three bright lights in the sky. Later astronomers and researchers disputed the sightings. The airm

Insurance  is a means provided for protection from financial loss. It is generally in the form of a contract, represented by policy under which one receive financial protection or a reimbursement of losses from the insurance firm. There are different types of insurances like life insurance, health insurance, automobile insurance, home insurance, cargo insurance, long-term care insurance etc. As early as 4000-3000 BC so called  bottomry contracts were known to merchants of Babylon. The same bottomry was practiced by Hindus in 600 BC  and in ancient Greece in 4th century BC. Under the bottomry contract, loans were granted to merchants with the provision that if the shipment was lost at sea the loan did not have to be repaid. The interest on the loan covered the insurance risk. However marine insurance was well developed by the 15th century. The first American insurance company was formed by Benjamin Franklin in 1752. By 1820 there were 17 insurance companies in New York alone

The  farmers in India are in struggle for quite sometime. So far the discussions with the central government could yield no result. It is high time for the Indian farmers to sit together and find ways and means to resolve their long pending issues. If the government is not prepared to come out for a fruitful discussion  the farmers have to find answers for their  own questions. The first and prime most thing they may have to understand is that they are the backbone of this country; for that matter farmers are the backbone of every country in the world. Until they stand straight others cannot even stand. It is to be submitted, therefore,  for the consideration of the agitating farmers to call off the nation wide strike after evaluating the following suggestions. At first they may have to relook into all their demands. They may decide what is needed from the government and what they don't need. Primarily what are to be asked to from the government: (i) Free irrigation for

   Naina Jaiswal the multi talented who did graduation at very young age Continued from yesterday Agastya Jaiswal, a 14 years old boy from Hyderabad has completed his BA Mass Communication and Journalism degree from Osmania University recently. He was the first boy in Telangana to pass class 10 at the age of 9 years. Agastya is also a national level table tennis player. He can type A to Z alphabet in just 1.72 seconds. He can tell multiplication tables up to 100. He can also write with both hands. He is an international motivational speaker too. Naina Jaiswal, born in March 2000, in Hyderabad completed her intermediate at the age of 10. She completed her graduate degree at the age of 13 from St Mary's College, Hyderabad. At the age of 17 she began Ph.D. She has won multiple titles in both national and international table tennis championships. Tulsi was born in Patna, Bihar in September 1987. Tulsi was one of the youngest to complete his high school, graduation, masters

     Balamurali Ambati - Guinness Book of World Records holder as the youngest doctor in the world at the age of 17 years and 294 days. Modern  education is widely diversified. What was one mechanical engineering yesteryears has been divided into over six branches. Whole engineering have now bifurcated over 40 branches. This large bifurcation can be found in medicine, arts, commerce etc too. They call it specialisation. With this large open field of education people continue to study till late age and add countless number degrees and certificates to their kitty. We now try to find those who acquired this at very young age. Michael Kearney an American obtained college degree in 1994 at the age of 10 years and 4 months. He bagged the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest one to do the trick. A 9 year old Belgium boy with an IQ of 145 is on track to become the world's youngest University graduate. Laurent Simons is expected to complete the bachelor's degree in

                         Sid Naidu (Continued from 6.12.20) Tushar Jain Tushar Jain is one who had forced to sell bags in Mumbai streets after his father lost everything. He alongwith his father transformed their small bag company into a large bag selling one. Tushar made his firm as High Spirit Commercial Ventures in 2012. They have now become the fourth largest maker and seller of bags and other luggages. "We have emerged as the largest brand in the Indian backpack segment by selling seven million bags last year," says Tushar. The ₹250 crore revenue company with head office in Mumbai has 10 regional offices covering every district in India. Bhavesh Bhatia Bhavesh Bhatia had serious vision problems at the younger days and total vision was lost at the age of 23. He was working as a hotel manager. Then he set up a candle business. He was purchasing wax worth 25 rupees every day and making candles. He named his firm Sunrise Candles. Today Sunrise Candles uses 25 ton

THERE lived a young man. He believed that he had more sufferings, struggles and miseries than others. He always prayed God to change his cross of troubles. He met a sage one day. He asked the sage why God has given him so much of sufferings while others have less of it and live happily. The sage told him. "The troubles are equal in all men but the intensity varies according to the negative energy gathered in each one". The young man countered. "If I get wealth and power I can over come these." The sage advised him. "You can not man. It is easy for you to carry what you have now  than to carry what you desire to." The sage could not appease him and he went away. He continued to pray God to change the cross he was carrying. O ne day an angel appeared before him. The angel said. "God have heard your prayer. He is pleased to change your cross. You can come with me and select a new cross of your choice" The angel took him to a beautifu

(Continued from yesterday) We  Indians too have seen many people climbing to success from bottom line. Let us find a few of them here. Karsanbhai Patel Karsanbhai Patel used to make detergent powder at the backyard of his house in Ahmedabad and was carrying out door to door selling of this by cycle. He was selling this @₹3/- per kg with a money back guarantee. The lowest price of detergents at that time was ₹13/- per kg. And that ₹3/- detergent of Karsanbhai Patel is the most popular household name, Nirma! We all know the rest of the story. Today the company has over 25,000 employees and a turnover of over ₹20,500 crores. Karsanbhai Patel is in Forbes list of billionaires. Patricia Narayan Patricia started her career as a business person 30 years ago selling eateries at the Marina beach. She was battling with a failed marriage, coping with a multiple addict husband and taking care of two children. We may find the growth from her own words. "I started my business with j

Rich  parents' kids may have a rich beginning, a good going and generally a rich ending too. Poor parents' children in all cases may have a poor beginning, in most cases a troublesome going and in many cases a poor ending too. This seems to be a universal theory. However in exceptional cases some sparkle may be found. We shall go through some such realities. Howard Schultz Starbucks executive chairman and former CEO. Howard Schultz is the one who could grow up from humble beginnings. Raised by his truck driver father and stay-at-home mom in a Brooklyn housing project. Schultz described his family as "pretty much destitute." Howard Schultz was the first in his family to go to college. He worked in a housewares company for a short while and then he was introduced to a small coffee chain in Seattle that he eventually purchased and transformed into the Starbucks empire. Ursula Burns Xerox chairperson and former CEO Ursula Burns was the first black female leade

"The purpose of education should not be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge." Debasish Mridha While some people learn whatever possible for a living, some others seek education for a standard living. Education, in short, nothing but acquiring knowledge. In our modern world of high competition, knowledge is the only weapon that makes us stand firm anywhere. Those who possess knowledge  stand head high everywhere. If that is the case of knowledge we shall find here someone who studied for long and acquired more and more degrees to add to their names. Prof VN Parthiban Professor  V N Parthiban, 50 year old from Chennai, holding 145 academic degrees must be the top in the world. Mr Parthiban's visiting cad is like a book overflowing with degrees. His possession include 8 Master of Law degrees, 10 Master of Art degrees,  8 Master of Commerce degrees, 3 Master of Science degrees, 12 Research degrees and 9 Master of Business

                       JK Rowling JK Rowling "I remember 20 years ago not eating so my daughter would eat," said Rowling. "I remember nights when there was literally no money." The author remembered a painful past. Later between June 2016 and June 2017 alone, according to Forbes she earned $95 million. Now  is back up philanthropist, JK Rowling enjoys giving back so much that an estimated $160 million in charitable giving contributed to her fall from billionaire status in 2012. According to Celebrity Net Worth her fortune is back up to $1billion. Harold Hamm Harold Hamm was raised by Oklahoma sharecroppers, who put him to work picking cotton barefoot as a child. He was the youngest of 13 kids. When he was 16 he had to take a job at a gas station to support his home. He is now the founder chairman and CEO of the oil company Continental Resources which has a net worth of $10.1 billion. During the financial trouble he drew inspiration from the fellow reside

                      Oprah Winfrey         $90 million Montecito Home                    of Oprah Winfrey We  all must have heard about people became very rich from very poor background. What is needed for poor one to become rich. The simple answer would be hard work. I don't think any poor can make himself rich by hard work. A rikshaw puller, if work hard he can eat a few more rotis but cannot become rich. Then, someone may say it must be luck. Not at all! There is nothing like luck that make one rich. Luck is nothing but the right effort at the right time at the right place. There may be some  who have become rich by criminal activities. They are not rich but sheer criminals with no peace of mind. Then it could be said success. What is success? Success is an accomplishment of a goal. Success cannot be found overnight. It is a final point one reaches after a long pursuit; may be at the end days of life. Is there nothing then that make a poor rich? Yes, the

     (Hubble Space Telescope Image) (Continued from yesterday) Astronomers  at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands announced early this year about their new study suggesting there are some 50 billion free floating planets in our Milky Way galaxy. It is calculated that about quarter of Milky Way stars have lost one or more planets. These planets are free floating in our galaxy. A few decades ago no one thought about these rogue bodies. Now millions of galaxies put together the numbers of these are mind blowing. Collisions among planets and their host star are common. This happens in more than three per cent of planetary systems. Scientists think that our own solar system might have lost one or two planets, probably less massive than Neptune, earlier in its youth. The ejection of planets from their home planetary systems might be more common in denser star clusters ( The Trapezium star cluster is considered a 'looser' cluster), since more frequent encounters b

     There are planets that do not rotate around any star as our earth rotates around sun. Instead of revolving around any mother star they move around the space alone. Scientists have so far discovered about 10 such planets. Astronomers in Hawaii have recently located a free floating celestial body which is about 100 light years from earth and the closest to us so far identified. Scientists could present probable cause for the formation of the stray planets. If there are several massive planets in a star system, their gravitational fields come into conflict, and a large one may repel a smaller one from the star system. In our solar system Jupiter and Saturn are the largest planets and in comparison others are much smaller in size. Therefore, their gravitational fields do no come into conflicts. If there are two or more planets like the Jupiter one of them should have been repelled. The recently discovered object looks like a blue point which indicate that the atmosphere o

It  is the most precious thing for us now. It is our own! All that we have is because of it. Without this we are none. We have not bought it, but came to us. We cannot turn down it or wait for it. Such great thing of ours now belonged to our near and dear little while ago. Little more time behind it belonged to our neighbours, our friends and our enemies. Some more time ago it belonged to unknown people, well known people, scholars, writers, teachers, priests or thieves. Years ago it belonged to kings, people we worship, people who harmed us a lot, people who made history, it belonged to wild animals and birds, our pets and the list goes on and on. What is it? It is nothing but the air we have breathed in a little while ago. It is in us. We are alive because of it. We cannot be alive without this. We believe that it belong to us,  yes, only for a little while. Everyone had it earlier thought it was theirs. In fact it belonged to none. Our beautiful and healthy body too is n

Clairvoyance  is the power or ability of seeing something beyond the natural vision or gathering something to the mind other than through normal senses. Clairvoyance is a French word having the meaning "clear seeing". A clairvoyant is believed to be using his Spiritual Eye rather than the normal eye. This spiritual eye is the 6th chakra  or 3rd eye which is considered as an energy center in the mid brain. Clairvoyance is the spiritual ability of the 6th chakra.  A clairvoyant is a normal person. Anyone with proper training and regular practice can become a clairvoyant. Psychic experiences are quite broad. Psychic experience includes everything from clairvoyance (clear seeing) to telepathy (hearing communication without someone speaking out loud) to channeling (bringing a spirit into your body) to clairsentience (feeling what someone else feels) and such other states. Psychic training gives us tools and resources to listen to the needs of our soul and feed our spir