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The Hindu : Life & Style / Metroplus : My Husband And Other Animals — Plant’s poison, man’s potion

2012-01-16T12:27:00.000+05:30

The Hindu : Life & Style / Metroplus : My Husband And Other Animals — Plant’s poison, man’s potion

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Love

2008-02-14T16:34:00.003+05:30

I went through the following article in Times Of India newspaper and found it very ideal thoughts about Love. Hope you too find it good.

Love is a basic emotion, yet you cannot plan to fall in love or create conditions for being in love. It is something over which you have no control. Either you fall in love or you do not. It is ordained. Ramakrishna explains this with the following analogy: "When a huge tidal wave comes, all the little brooks and ditches become full to the brim without any effort or consciousness on their own part”.

However, there are some criteria for judging whether one is in love or not.

The first test is that you do not want exclusive possession of the object of your love. You wish the world to know of your love. You could declare your love from the rooftop. And you wish to do or say whatever makes the person you love happy. M K Gandhi said: "Love and exclusive possession can never go together. Theoretically where there is perfect love, there must be perfect non-possession”.

The second test of love is that there can be no bargain. It does not recognise reward or punishment. Love itself is a merit, and itself its own reward. Beyond itself love seeks neither cause nor outcome; the outcome of it is one with the practice of it.

You love something or someone for its own sake and not because you want or desire a favour in return. Love is not a means to some ephemeral or non-ephemeral end, but is an end in itself. Love is not a response to a certain positive situation. You can go on loving... for when you give your love it comes back millions of times more.

The notion of giving is so consequential to love that "if you do not give it, it goes, it becomes dead, it becomes a dead weight on you. It becomes hatred — it turns into its very opposite. It becomes fear, it becomes jealousy, it becomes possessiveness”, said Osho.

The third test of real love is the annihilation of the ego.

It obliterates the distinction between the self and the other by an unconditional surrender to the other; rather it is a total merger, a complete synthesis with the beloved.

In true love the lover and the beloved are one. The sense of your own identity and individuality vanishes. The other, therefore, does not place a limit on the lover’s freedom; rather, communion with the beloved leads to unbound freedom. It frees us from limits imposed on us by our ahamkara — ego.

The fourth test of real love is that it knows no fear. Fear could be of unfulfilled desires. If your love springs from fear of punishment, or from your desires being fulfilled, then it is no love at all. Love and fear are incompatible, because in love there is no place for desire.

The fifth test of love is that you love what you consider to be the best. Therefore, the beloved person, object, or ideal is unique. It is the highest from the perspective of the lover; from others’ perspective it may not be so. For others some other ideal could be higher than this one. But for the lover the beloved is the best.

The sixth test of real love is that the lover does not so much believe in pedantic and powerless reason which merely argues but is not able to establish a direct contact with the beloved.

The lover gives up the fruitless intellectual groping in the dark, and trusts his own direct experience. He does not give reasons and argu-ments, nor depend upon inference but depends on direct perception and lived life experience.

Courtesy : Times Of India

Do not spread rumours

2007-12-23T15:38:00.000+05:30

One more video from old days of Doordarshan. And the theme of this video is 'Do not spread rumours'. Watch this video and enjoy.

Those sweet days...

2007-12-23T13:08:00.000+05:30

I hope everyone of us can remember this video. It reminds us, our childhood days.
Though it was made more than a decade ago, it is still very relevant to today's world.
Anyway i just wanted to share this video so that all of you can remember you childhood days. Enjoy...

Life is still beautiful, in spite of complications.

2007-12-03T20:42:00.000+05:30

In my last post, i said about Life being beautiful. Let me add more to it here.
I still believe that Life is beautiful, but it has got its own complications. We try being good to everyone. In the process we try to satisfy others' expectations. And finally we mess up with life. We try making one person happy and end up other relationships. I am sure many of us would have faced this problem. But then, facing these problems and overcoming them, are our real challenges. We face criticisms from everyone, for something we haven't done and try to prove our point to them. But sometimes, it is better to ignore criticisms. Because only we know, our intentions are good and honest.
Leading a happy life in spite of these complications, is the real big challenge.
And if we are able to overcome these challenges, life indeed becomes very beautiful.

Life is very Beautiful

2007-11-05T23:14:00.000+05:30

Life, is not one thing but many things. Well, i am still in search of a correct definition for LIFE. And i believe, my search will continue till my death. Its not that i am not getting a definition for Life, but i find a new definition , at every stage.
Whatever the definition, it is very beautiful. We keep facing problems everyday, but still make an effort to live happily, forgetting the sorrow of the past. Isn't this very thought beautiful?

Our Dreams, are HIS Dreams, too.

2007-09-14T00:16:00.000+05:30

When God gives us dreams, He shares them with us. Whatever we consider our dreams, are actually His dreams and He gives us the capability to realise them. The part we are required to play is to ensure the optimum usage of the capabilities bestowed upon us. And once we have played our part with utmost honesty and effort, we need to let go, step aside and let God step in to fulfill our dreams. After all, they are His dreams, too.

Inspired by Chak De! India

2007-09-07T17:13:00.001+05:30

Towards the end of the story in the Bollywood film Chak De! India when the hockey team returns triumphant, ready to relish all the attention, coach Kabir Khan is conspicuous by his absence. He prefers instead to go reclaim a home he had left in disgrace many years earlier. Why does Kabir not wish to bask in his moment of glory, after erasing the stigma that he carried for years?

It took him seven years - after a failure saw him shunned, ostracised and branded a traitor - to gather the strength to redeem himself. Taking up an unlikely challenge, he met with cynicism and indifference. He met further resistance from the very individuals he tried to shape into a team. His past record, integrity and judgment were all questioned. Even the players who seemingly believed in him succumbed to peer pressure; he saw the team apparently united for only one goal, that of ousting him. Confronted with this, yet refusing to do things differently, he all but walked out. The innuendo and slander continued even after that storm blew over. At many points, the opposing teams were the least of his challenges.

All through this, Kabir did not question his fundamentals or his approach; neither did he become vicious in his responses. Whether officials or players applauded or smirked, he stood his ground. He was no longer concerned about disdain, once he believed in what he was doing. And he was equally unconcerned about gathering adulation after having proved himself. He had, simply put, outgrown the need for both.

Rudyard Kipling wrote of treating triumph and disaster just the same, but that is easier said than done. The moments that test our reactions are when the anchors that hold our sense of selfworth are forced loose. These are moments when we can only look within to know that we are right, while few seem to agree and most are indifferent. Those moments tell us whether our consciousness has grown in strength, or whether the absence of support breaks us.

Explaining verse 38 in the Gita's second chapter, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan describes the man who has discovered his true end of life: "Though everything else is taken away from him, though he has to walk the streets, cold, hungry and alone, though he may know no human being into whose eyes he can look and find understanding, he shall yet be able to go his way with a smile on his lips, for he has gained inward freedom". The strength to know no one in whose eyes he could find understanding, and yet go his way without wavering, is the strength that Kabir Khan displayed. It is the strength we need if we are to live without being at the mercy of world opinion. That strength comes from within, from understanding our real nature.

Rejection and failure can spur us to know ourselves, to go beyond the world's parameters of praise and criticism. Kabir was unfairly made to bear a cross for seven years. It could happen to any one of us. One of the unfair verdicts ever was given to the man who was literally nailed to a cross. But He faced crucifixion with courage, and He was the one who had the strength to get resurrected. If we know and believe in ourselves even when the rest find it convenient to crucify us, we would have the strength to resurrect ourselves, too.

Courtesy : http://spirituality.indiatimes.com

Effects of SEZ

2007-06-29T17:37:00.000+05:30

Some of my friends and myself had a discussion on Effects of SEZs. Finally Naren(one of my friends) summarized the points. I hope this would help many of us to ponder upon SEZ.

A unified thought was in support of SEZ’s and more than that no farmer is left outside the consideration. Agriculture is the backbone of economy but we need to develop and design our biceps,wings……….. and not leaving the hair-style,too. Cant live without backbone but cant live only with the backbone.

The economic war is on. We could see the value of money rising in an unimaginable graph. As the India , the union of states, grows we need to see each state develops in the same average. The states like Bihar and orissa are yet to face their revolution in the industry phase. The emergence of WB as an economic or industrial state would uplift the state and thus the country.

But our concerns are much about the Farms and Farmers. Where would they be ended.? Or from where would they start again.

The uninteruppted flow of idea from u guys would never stop as it deeply comes from the inward feel. Those that are discussed till now are “zummarised” for our “look back” conveninece. Thanks guys.

Solutions:

Minimal level of farm lands could be acquired. The complete space needed could be seen that it doesn’t covers much of farm lands.

Providing more space for agro industries. These could buy the products of left out farms and hence the demand for the agro production is increased.

Proper inspection and disposition methods for the sewages of the indsutry. Conserving the Ganga basin is highly important.

Proper education to the people about the need of SEZ’s.

Proper and intense education to promote the scientific methods of farming. If the productivity of the protected farm lands increase, that may meet the agri needs.

Proper and varied education to those who lost their farms to take some other mean of living. Providing them all necessary inputs. If cattle breeding could be the next possible, the loans could be availed to do so and etc.

A political suggestion:

Despite govt itself acquiring the lands, it could leave it to the industries to convice the people with their own compensations. As those companies are exempted from numerous tax exemptions they would certainly come with a bigger compensation. Govt could say that it would “sign” only if the people are convinced with packagae. Those who are in deadly interest in investing here in SEZ ( there is a big list of exemptions for those companies) would certainly give a convincing package. Govt could politically free from giving the same.

But---------- as any other english movie ends with a way of opening the next part. Here is the question. May just feed some thought before this weekend.

Is SEZ’s are the other form of Colonisation. (colonisation – political /economic hegemony over other country for the economic purposes)

Are we looking the undeveloped snaps of those “East India Companies” in 17^th century as SEZ’s.????????

The foreign companies are allowed to own our land and such a lot and lot of exemptions for them from the tax and many rules framed in Constitution are given.

Do we have to take a second look on SEZ’s befor things go beyond our hand?????

I would like to thank all my friends who were part of this discussion.

After 100 years...!

2007-06-06T23:17:00.000+05:30

Few things that can be expected after 100 years...

1. (politician in an election rally. The crowd is full of today's majority caste people...)
Neta : "If you vote for me, i will bring in quota for you people. those people have enjoyed the quota for more than 100 years, while we haven't got any benefits at all. It is high time we also get quota and get it's benefits."

2. Population statistics in 2107 AD;
ST : 36 %
SC : 30 %
OBC : 22 %
BC : 8%
OC : 4%

Quarter-life Crisis

2006-10-17T20:54:00.000+05:30

Being a twenty-something

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at wat ur studying or ur job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.

Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone! but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you're doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you are scared just to be a contender!

What you may not realize is that every one reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your friends... maybe it will help someone feel like they aren't alone in their state of confusion...

Its called "Quarter-life Crisis." nothing is constant......except change.
what’s life without a few risks? Keep playing the game !

Courtesy : Misc

Gone are the days

2006-09-22T15:12:00.000+05:30

Gone are the days!!! My Friend...

When
The school reopened in June,
And we settled in our new desks and
benches!

When we queued up in book depot,
And got our new books
and notes!

When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet
managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.
We learnt writing with
slates and pencils, and
Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips!

When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to
Color pencils and finally sketch pens!

When we started calculating
first with tables and then with
Clarke's tables and advanced to
Calculators and computers!

When we chased one another in the
corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms
Drenched in sweat!

When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,
Playgrounds,under the trees and even in cycle sheds!

When all the colors in the world,
Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!

When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,
Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!

When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,
And Neckties and socks rolled into balls!

When few played "kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,
While others simply played
"book cricket" in the
Confines of classroom!

Of fights but no conspiracies,
Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!

When we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,
In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks!
When few rushed at 3:45 to
"Conquer" window seats in our School bus!
While few others had "Big Fun", "peppermint",
"kulfi", " milk ice !" and "sharbat !" at 4o Clock!

Gone are the days Of Sports Day,
and the annual School Day ,
And the one-month long preparations for them.

Gone are the days Of the stressful Quarterly,
Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most
enjoyed holidays after them!

Gone are the days Of tenth and twelfth standards, when
We Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!
We learnt,
We enjoyed,
We played,
We won,
We lost,
We laughed,
We cried,
We fought,
We thought.

With so much fun in them, so many friends,
So much experience, all this and more!

Gone are the days
When we used to talk for hours with our friends!
Now we don't have time to say a `Hi'!

Gone are the days
When we played games on the road!
Now we
Code on the road with laptop!

Gone are the days
When we saw stars
Shining at Night!
Now we see stars when our code doesn't Work!

Gone are the days
When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!
Now we chat in chat rooms.....!

Gone are the days
Where we studied just to pass!
Now we study to save our job!

Gone are the days
Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!!
Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!!

Gone are the days
Where we shouted on the road!
Now we don't shout even at home

Gone are the days

Where we got lectures from all!
Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....!!

Gone are the days
But not the memories, which will be
Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and

Ever and ever and ever .....

Gone are the Days.... But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!!

NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE ,
DONT FORGET TO
LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL
EXISTS.....

Courtesy : Misc.

Its all in our Perception

2006-09-06T15:23:00.000+05:30

Imagine you're in London's Heathrow Airport.... While you're waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies.

Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling bag and pull out your box of shortbread cookies.

As you do so, you notice that the gentleman starts watching you intensely. He stares as you open the box and his eyes follow your hand as you pick up the cookie and bring it to your mouth. Just then he reaches over and takes one of your cookies from the box, and eats it! You're more than a little surprised at this. Actually, you're at a loss for words. Not only does he take one cookie, but he alternates with you. For every one cookie you take, he takes one.

Now, what's your immediate impression of this guy? Crazy? Greedy? He's got some nerve?! Can you imagine the words you might use to describe this man to your associates back at the office? Meanwhile, you both continue eating the cookies until there's just one left. To your surprise, the man reaches over and takes it. But then he does something unexpected. He breaks it in half, and gives half to you. After he's finished with his half he gets up, and without a word, he leaves.

You think to yourself, "Did this really happen?" You're left sitting there dumbfounded and still hungry. So you go back to the kiosk and buy another box of cookies. You then return to your seat and begin opening your new box of cookies when you glance down into your traveling bag. Sitting there in your bag is your original box of cookies -- still unopened.

Only then do you realize that when you reached down earlier, you had reached into the other man's bag, and grabbed his box of cookies by mistake. Now what do you think of the man? Generous? Tolerant? You've just experienced a profound paradigm shift. You're seeing things from a new point of view.

Is it time to change your point of view? Now, think of this story as it relates to your life . Seeing things from a new point of view can be very enlightening. Think outside the box. Don't settle for the status quo. Be open to suggestions. Things may not be what they seem. Unless and until, one realize about the fact, no one will change his/her view of thinking in spite of lot of external factors.

.........Every Point has 3-sides; Your Side, My Side & the Right Side.

To understand either the Other's Side or the Right Side, one needs to
leave His Side.........

Courtesy : Mail forward

Is God Partial?

2006-07-14T14:38:00.000+05:30

Special prayers and offerings at the Sree Krishna Temple in Guruvayur on Thursday(July 14 2006)marked the beginning of purification rituals for the Sabarimala Temple.
The process is being followed in view of the claim made by Kannada actress Jayamala that she had entered the sanctum sanctorum of the hill shrine and touched the idol of Lord Ayyappa.Now the Parihara Kriyas or remedial measures will be held in 50 temples across Kerala and would be completed within two years.

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Does GOD really doesn't want women from entering temples. People here are just mad.
Same people say that GOD is 'just' and treats everyone equally. Did GOD change his mind anytime for them. These people act to be very holy and do crazy things in name of Him.
'Womenhood' is thought to be the Godly feature. Then why discriminate women.
In this regard i would surely support women.
And why are muslim women not allowed into the mosques. They are not given same rights as their counter-parts.WHY?

I want all women to ask 'WHY?' against this discrimination.
Its high time they fight for these fundamental rights rather than fighting for 33% reservation.

We Need to Support People Like Her

2006-06-16T10:33:00.000+05:30

An enlightening example

EXCELLENCE: Renuga Devi of Karur.
Eager and haltingly, she runs her hands on the dotted lines of the Braille book and at the end of a search lasting a minute or two, her face lights up. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - , I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference,'' recited R. Renuga Devi, who has just celebrated her 15th birthday which was a pretty special, coming as it does after her sparkling show in the recent SSLC examinations, in which the visually challenged student of CSI Girls Higher Secondary School here secured 445 out of a possible 500. And not many in the State like her would have surpassed her total.

Renuga Devi was not just reading out a poem but was succinctly pointing out the sort of stuff she is made of.

Resilience seems to be her middle name, as one finds that she not only had to contend with the visual challenge but also had to weather other socio-economic factors to achieve what she has.

Her parents, R. Ramamurthy and Kanthimathy work as casual labourers in a bleaching unit at Balambalpuram near here and they all reside in a nearby shed, the air filled with the strong odour of the chemicals.

Visually challenged since birth, Renuga Devi, undaunted by the obstacles, was determined to score pretty high marks in the SSLC examinations.

The task before her was simply colossal. First she would attend regular classes where she would listen the teachers.

Then she would meet her resource teacher under the Integrated Education Programme, G. Beula, to get the English lessons transcribed into Braille besides tape recording the lessons in Tamil.

The Lions Club of Karur Majestic had got her tape recorder and some cassettes, besides a few Braille books. Mrs. Beula also prepared the teaching material for Renuga Devi.

She goes home to play the tapes and imbue the lessons in her mind.

All the labour recurred day after day and at the end, she took her examination with the aid of a scribe.

Her efforts have now borne fruit as she came out with flying colours. She has scored 90 and above in Tamil, Mathematics and Social Science.

Renuga Devi, whose preferred subject is history, hopes to become a civil servant one day. While she is determined to achieve that, her immediate priority is to score heavily in the higher secondary examinations too and then become a teacher. "Renuga Devi is also deft in undertaking woollen works, flower vase arrangement, weaving plastic wire fancy bags.

India Today

2006-06-08T10:18:00.000+05:30

Read the following Story and One Word that can Explain the Whole Story...

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long building his house and laying up supplies for the
winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The
grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in
the cold.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MODERN VERSION...

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for
the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold
and starving.
BBC, CNN, EURO-NEWS, NDTV, FOX NEWS show up to provide
pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video
of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled
with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can
this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to
suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticizes the
Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of
the grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking
support to thegrasshopper.

Opposition MP's stage a walkout.

Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal
and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention
of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with
effect from the beginning of the winter.
The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA
and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,
his home is confiscated by the Bush Government and
handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered
by BBC,CNN, AAJ TAK and NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice".

Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN
General Assembly...

Got The Answer...???

YES... You Got It Right...

Some call it RESERVATION n Some call it QUOTA!

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(Thanks to Adarsh for the story)

Quota Issue

2006-05-23T13:53:00.000+05:30

RAGING ISSUE: See the picture above. It was a pro-reservation congregation at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on Monday.
Can u find atleast a countable number of young educated people in this picture? No not at all. It is very much evident that politicians who fight for reservation can only pull a crowd comprising of uneducated people, who easily fall prey to the words of these dirty politicians.

Its good to see that anti-quota fighters are very strong in their deed.If each and every student raises his/her voice against every evil happening in our country,then one day these politicians won't be able to survive.

Come on...Lets fight together against these dirty politicians.

Are politicians good?

2006-05-18T18:20:00.000+05:30

What do u think about few politicians in TN who say they are pro-Tamil
Don't u think all his statements are just political stunts, to woo the votes.
It is because people like him and few other politicians that, even today people of TamilNadu are not able to know the importance of National Language 'Hindi'. I am myself from TamilNadu, but just because of these thoughts i don become an anti-tamil.

I just want to expose the problems faced by Tamilians residing outside TamilNadu.
Because we don know Hindi,we just cant communicate with people and basic living becomes difficult.

I don mean to say that Tamil should be optional, but both Tamil and Hindi should be made as compulsory languages in schools.

And another issue: reservation.

See...it does help in few parameters but not entirely. We are in 21st century and still the politicians are playing dirty games with Castes and religions.
we need to reserve the seats on economic basis.How does catse based reservation does justice.
For eg: A temple priest is generally a brahmin and falls under FC. But he doesn't earn more than evn 5000 rupees in a month. And u expect him to fight for his son under open quota.

Great GodFather of Gujarat(NM)...
He is the biggest threat to secularism in India,who is always mooting communal violences.

Well...there are lot more politicians who do lot more bad than good to society.

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2006-05-06T23:59:00.000+05:30

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Good MCA Colleges In TamilNadu

2006-04-21T20:11:00.000+05:30

The list includes only Engineering colleges and Universities

1. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

2. Anna University, Chennai

3. NIT Trichy, Trichy

4. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

5. Thiagaraja College of Engineering, Madurai

6. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

7. Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

8. SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

9. Vellore Institute of Technology(VIT), Vellore

10. Velammal College of Engineering, Chennai

Good Emerging Colleges:

1. Kumaraguru College of Technology(KCT), Coimbatore

2. Amrita Vishwavidyapeetam, Coimbatore

All the good colleges are not included. So do help me in identifying good MCA colleges.

NIshikanth N

Free Rice In TamilNadu

2006-04-20T10:35:00.000+05:30

All eligible cardholders to get 10 kg rice free

Jayalalithaa clarifies on earlier announcement

SEEKING VOTES: Chief Minister Jayalalithaa addressing an election meeting at Allinagaram on Wednesday.

THENI: The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday clarified that all eligible cardholders could draw 10 kg of rice free and payment would have to be made only for further drawals.

Addressing an election meeting at Allinagaram, she claimed that the media had distorted her earlier announcement, made in Andipatti on Monday, that 10 kg out of the 20 kg a cardholder is eligible for would be supplied free of cost through the public distribution system.

She said that there was no condition that a cardholder should pay for 10 kg and get 10 kg free.

She made it clear that a small family of four members need not pay for rice, if 10 kg sufficed for it for a month. It would be enough if the card was produced at the shop while drawing free rice.

Ms. Jayalalithaa announced that centres to produce biofertilizers, organic pesticides and micronutrients would be started at block and panchayat levels, if the AIADMK were voted back to power. These centres, she said, would strive to fill the gap in supply and demand.

Special schemes

They would create two lakh employment opportunities, with one member from an unemployed family getting work. She said special schemes would be formulated to make Tamil Nadu the production hub of organic farm products.

Narmada River Issue

2006-04-18T21:31:00.000+05:30

Medha Patkar ends fast

Challenge is bigger, she says

PHOTO: S. SUBRAMANIUM

WITH AFFECTION: Narmada Bhachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar breaks her fast by having fresh lime juice being offered to her by one of the activists as CPI leader A.B. Bardhan (left) looks on at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Monday.

NEW DELHI: "The fight is not over [yet]. This challenge is deeper, larger and bigger," Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar said on Monday at the Jantar Mantar dharna site after breaking her 20-day-old fast. She had undertaken the indefinite hunger-strike for getting justice for the displaced families of the Narmada valley.

Along with her, Jamsingh Nargave and Bhagwatibehn also gave up their fast.

A frail-looking Ms. Patkar accepted juice from a displaced tribal from the Narmada valley.

Government "happy"

Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz said he was "happy" that Ms. Patkar had given up her fast. The tension had now been defused and the Supreme Court could take various points of views into consideration.

He said nobody in the Congress or the Government was against raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam, but proper rehabilitation of displaced families was equally important. That was why the Government sent a Group of Ministers to Madhya Pradesh to assess the situation. "Even the court has said that rehabilitation should be done in the letter and spirit of the Narmada award and its orders."

Ms. Patkar said the Supreme Court had not stayed the construction of the dam and left it to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "The State had not responded favourably to a non-violent people's movement. We urge the Prime Minister to invoke the authority vested in him by the Supreme Court, the Constitution and his own commitment to development with a human face. He must not bow down to the fascist and communal forces and must intervene to ensure that the poor affected by the dam's construction get justice."

Thanks all

She was persuaded by former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, journalist Kuldip Nayar, Rajinder Sachar, B.D. Sharma, Amar Nath, Surendra Mohan, CPI leader A.B. Bardhan and Swami Agnivesh to give up her fast. The support given by actor Aamir Khan, Rahul Bose and writer Arundhati Roy "had done more than our fast," she said.

Ms. Patkar thanked the doctors at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences for not forcibly giving her intravenous drip despite her failing health. "And, that is why my blood is strong even today."

The NBA and displaced families would return to the valley in two days and prepare for the next phase of struggle arising out of the Supreme Court order.

Virus... Help Please...

2006-04-18T09:58:00.000+05:30

Hello Everybody,
I have a got a problem in my PC where, whenever the internet is on, a warning message box pops-up. It says" Your system has got serious registry errors. Repair the registry from www.registry32.com".

Similarly different sites are displayed for every pop-up. All the websites lead to same home page...

please some one help in removing this virus...

Thank You,
Nishikanth N

Cricket Game

2006-04-18T09:51:00.000+05:30

1. Brian Lara Cricket 2005 is a very good cricket game. It has got extremely good graphics.

It consists of 3 countries for demo version. We can chose any two teams for a 6 over match. It allows to change team. The playing options very easy. The graphics is lot better than EA Cricket.

It can be downloaded from

www.codemasters.co.uk

In fact this site consistes many other good games. It has got games of all sports in this world.

For downloading BLC(Brian Lara Cricket), there are two demo versions. One with Commentery and other without commentery.

Some of the requirements:

Minimun 256MB RAM,
Direct 9x graphics.

2. EA Sports Cricket.

Here the demo consists a match between Australia and England. England has 3 overs and around 25 runs to win. There is no other game. It has good movements of players with emotions. But the graphics are not as good as Brian Lara Cricket.

You can Download at

http://www.download.com/Cricket-2005-demo/3000-7414_4-10410004.html?tag=lst-0-2

Thank You,
Nishikanth N

Sites for downloading Songs

2006-04-18T09:44:00.000+05:30

Tamil Songs

Hindi Songs