this is the t-shirt gifted to Obama by his Chinese counterpart during his recent visit to china.
Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) .
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
"Nepal" a clash of titans
Whenever I read something about Nepal it always appears to me a "clash of titans". Two heavy weights, INDIA and CHINA fighting behind the smoke screen to build influence on the small Himalayan country.
India always had an upper hand in this fight because of its deeply rooted religious ties. Most of Nepal’s leaders have had some or the other connection with India. A Treaty signed in 1950s gave a formal face to the long relations between the two countries; this not only helped India in securing its borders from the Hungary Dragon but also defined Nepal’s political and economic future.
India suddenly woke up in 2008 when Nepal underwent a political turmoil, realising that China had played its game and India’s influence was under danger. The new Maoist PM was sworn-in and talks of equality in relation with India were in the air. Maoist (read China) had already played a very intelligent game.
This new era of the clash of titans was actually stared back in 2001 when the royal massacre took place and Prince Gyanendra was made the king of the Himalayan kingdom, and that’s were China started its war against India to gain influence on Nepal.
As a full proof strategy, which Maoists had already standardised in India In 60s and 70s, of targeting poor and the youth. It first filled the mind of Nepalese youth with an anti-India pseudo-nationalism then poured in the so called revolutionary ideas of social justice and nationalism. And finally country was pushed into Maoist’s insurgency. Then the final trump card was played by pushing the country to end the 200 years old monarchy and hold a so called free democratic process. At this point very strategically Maoists joined the main stream democratic process. All this while Indian Intelligence agencies horribly failed to take proper account of the situation, being well assured of its influence on Nepal. Finally Maoists won the election and new PM Prachanda soon after joining the top office made his first international visit to China. This sent policy-makers in Delhi into a tailspin and alarmed India went into a major damage control. Finally recently Indian attempt succeeded after the Maoist PM resigned. But the war of the influence by the two biggies doesn’t seem to get over soon. With a new PM elected by the Nepalese parliament adds up a new chapter in this story.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
–Albert Einstein
Friday, June 20, 2008
आरज कीया है.....
जानम ज़रा पलट कर देखो जीगर हम भी रखते हैं ।
अगर तुम ६० पैर चलते हो तो हम ९० पैर चलते हैं ।
वाह वाह वाह !!!
Monday, June 9, 2008
How insensitive our socity has become....
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Friday, May 23, 2008
a patna away from ganga..... near Doon river USA
Patna, East Ayrshire
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patna, population 2298, is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
It was established in 1802 by William Fullarton, to provide housing for workers on the coal-fields of his estate. Fullarton's father had worked as an employee of the British East India Company, and the town takes its name from the city of Patna in India.
Patna lies south east of Ayr on the A713 to Castle Douglas just north of Dalmellington between the villages of Polnessan and Waterside at the junction with the road to Kirkmichael and the River Doon flows through the village.
Patna Primary School is a general, non-religious school. A catholic primary school is in Waterside, named St Xaviers Primary School that is attended by pupils from as far as Dalmellington and Bellsbank, to Maybole. A secondary school, Doon Academy, is located in the nearby village of Dalmellington
Patna has at its advantage, a small library, a games hall, a football field, numerous country walks and a golf club and the river Doon is popular with local fishermen. Patna has it's own Petrol Filling Station which also retails Quad and Dirt Bikes including the popular Kazuma Brand along with a selection of Wulfsport Clothing and Safety Gear.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
a unfortunate side of IISc
I find it unfortunate and I am sure any sane person will definitely will also find it unfortunate. Three suicides and one failed attempt of suicide. These are not the figures of some jail in
Can’t institute take more proactive stand in being little more sympathetic towards the student community, instead of looking at them as slaves and blaming them always for everything?
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Be a good grand father to live longer...
Ref: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17650472
Selection for long lifespan in men: benefits
of grandfathering?
M. Lahdenpera¨ 1,*, A. F. Russell2 and V. Lummaa2
1Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland
2Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Life-history theory suggests that individuals should live until their reproductive potential declines, and the
lifespan of human men is consistent with this idea. However, because women can live long after menopause
and this prolonged post-reproductive life can be explained, in part, by the fitness enhancing effects of
grandmothering, an alternative hypothesis is that male lifespan is influenced by the potential to gain fitness
through grandfathering. Here we investigate whether men, who could not gain fitness through
reproduction after their wife’s menopause (i.e. married only once), enhanced their fitness through
grandfathering in historical Finns. Father presence was associated with reductions in offspring age at first
reproduction and birth intervals, but generally not increases in reproductive tenure lengths. Father
presence had little influence on offspring lifetime fecundity and no influence on offspring lifetime
reproductive success. Overall, in contrast to our results for women in the same population, men do not gain
extra fitness (i.e. more grandchildren) through grandfathering. Our results suggest that if evidence for a
‘grandfather’ hypothesis is lacking in a monogamous society, then its general importance in shaping male
lifespan during our more promiscuous evolutionary past is likely to be negligible.
Monday, December 10, 2007
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Friday, December 7, 2007





these are not the pictures of some secluded small industrialized town of India where probably government don’t have much reach to tackle the issues like pollution. It's Burnpur, west bangal situated on New-Delhi to kolkata train route every day thousands of government diplomats must be cross this station and definitely few of them will be from pollution control boards of the states and concerned agencies in central government but it`s pitiable that no body could see this heavily polluting "ISCO steel plant". Blowing a stinky red smoke in air and standing up straight laughing o our system. This year only TERI was given noble peace prize for getting Global warming a recognized problem in the world. but sad what we preached this world could not practice ourselves….. and above all saddest part nobody is bothered….
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