India's First Solar Panel Train!
Manufactured by ICF Chennai goes on the tracks!
Well done! ICF CHENNAI
Let's make this a norm for all trains and achieve 'solarization' of all trains by 2020!
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Bitter Sweet Sugar
This is quite shocking and worthy of taking up in all forums.
It is an established fact that the liver produces all the sugar required by the human body. Then why do we need to keep taking it externally?
The sugar industry has misrepresented / concealed facts deliberately to protect their own economic interests.
Monday 27 November 2017
Note From The Blogger
Hello to all those visiting my blog!
I am happy that certain snags which prevented upload of images in my blog posts has been resolved!
This now clears the publishing of many posts which have been pending for a while.
So happy viewing! And please do send your reactions queries. My email is
trancework50@gmail.com
Shakir Virpurwala
@SHAKTISH
Realistic Art
Amazing realistic Art!
A lady is sleeping on the floor.
But thats not true...
It is actually a Rangoli (painting done on the ground using coloured powders) by artist Ketan Patil
Mumbai's First AC Suburban Local
Mumbai's First Suburban Local started running from Churchgate to Borivali yesterday i.e 27 November 2017.
This is a long awaited development and Mumbaikars hope to see all Suburban locals both on the #CentralRailway and #WesternRailway running with AC rakes soon.
Funds for Shivaji s statue would be better utilised in this project.
We also don't require Bullet trains as much as upgrading and making the present railway network more comfortable, efficient and safe.
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Monday 20 November 2017
Lobbying in Washington by PM’s chosen ‘babus’
Improved ratings? Modi’s top Gujarat babus in PMO “worked out” strategy to lobby ........
Read more here
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/lobbying-in-washington-by-pms-chosen-babus
Sunday 19 November 2017
Dear PM Modi, Can You Answer These 13 Questions In Your Next Mann Ki Baat ?
Posted by Mrunal Mathuria in Politics, Society
November 13, 2017
To
The PMO
Shri Narendra Damodar Modi
South Block
Raisina Hill
New Delhi – 110011.
Date: November 13, 2017
Respected Sir,
As a noble Indian citizen, I would like to share my concerns with you. I would also feel satisfied if you could address them at the earliest.
There is this one thing that I don’t understand about the RSS’ and the BJP’s ideologies and thought processes behind prioritising issues. Since I was born in 1995, I don’t get how you expect me to support you for solving the problems of the 1950s and still fight over them, even though I wasn’t even born then? I am a part of this democracy – and I want to contribute to solving problems which we Indians face on the ground, and not win a debate on who won or ditched us in the past.
We are not one of those ‘poor Indians’ who are exploited by your propaganda of diverting people’s attention from core issues on mainstream and social media. We are not one of those who will daydream about India’s glory abroad, while the situation on ground is only worsening and nothing’s being done about it.
We agree that the Congress was corrupt and that the nation gave you a chance. It is equally fair for you to say that you should be given a fair amount of time to be judged for your actions – as compared to the 60 years of the Congress. But at least be brave enough and accept that you have committed some serious and crucial mistakes in administration, rather than being staunch about it and forcibly justifying them. By singing laurels on media and crushing the criticism, you are proving yourselves to be a serious threat to our democracy.
Dear PM Modi, your claims don’t matter to me at all if you aren’t able to answer these questions which have been troubling me.
According to human psychology, there can be two possible reasons for your actions. Either you are trying really hard – and that is why you are too scared to apologise for your actions, assuming that you won’t be forgiven by Indians, or you are serving vested interests by trying to manipulate people and crushing internal criticisms.
Whatever the reason might be, you and God are the best judge for your actions. If you are a firm follower of Hinduism, you may possibly imagine the result of your actions as described in the third adhyay (chapter) of the Bhagwad Gita, in which Krishna says:
“One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.
On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his active organs in works of devotion, without attachment, is by far superior.
Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction.
One who is, however, taking pleasure in the self, who is illumined in the self, who rejoices in and is satisfied with the self only, fully satiated – for him, there is no duty.
As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, similarly the learned may also act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path.
Let not the wise disrupt the minds of the ignorant who are attached to fruitive action. They should not be encouraged to refrain from work, but to engage in work in the spirit of devotion.
One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results.
Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with mind intent on Me, and without desire for gain and free from egoism and lethargy, fight.
Those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not practice them regularly, are to be considered bereft of all knowledge, befooled, and doomed to ignorance and bondage.”
So, leaving the question to your judgement and consciousness, I am eagerly waiting for your reply to any of my foremost concerns.
1. The path on which you are leading us – where do you see India in the next five years?
2. Why are you silent over your followers celebrating Gauri Lankesh’s murder?
3. Why are your critics facing threats to their lives?
4. Why are the farmers angry even when you have supposedly implemented various schemes for their benefit?
5. Why isn’t the ease of doing business creating new business opportunities?
6. Why are there so many unskilled Indians even after the initiation of Skill India?
7. Why is the condition of government schools and hospitals not improving?
8. Why are many middle-scale and small-scale businesses running cold or shutting down?
9. What is the mantra behind Ambani, Adani, Jay Shah and Baba Ramdev achieving tremendous profits?
10. Why are we taking a loan from Japan for the bullet train project, even though black money was recovered by demonetisation?
11. Why are people still unemployed even after you have allegedly created 7 crore jobs?
12. Why are people still defecating along railway tracks even when parts of India have become open-defecation free, by your own admission?
13. What, according to you, is nationalism – and how should I show my love towards the country?
I hope (and believe) that I can admire your humble and responsible gesture, by reading your reply at the earliest.
Your noble Indian citizen,
Mrunal Mathuria
mathuriamrunal@gmail.com
+919967324164
The author is young social activist from Mumbai who wants to get his concerns addressed by PM Modi.
Youth Ki Awaaz is an open platform where anybody can publish. This post does not necessarily represent the platform's views and opinions.
Monday 6 November 2017
Please sign this petition
HAD ENOUGH?Over the last year, you've quietly suffered Government overreach into your personal finances like never before...But while the Politicians are busy creating new laws for you, they're exempting themselves from the same laws...It's time to demand Politicians live like the rest of us!
Every day brings new announcements about how you and all honest, tax-paying Indians must adhere to draconian new rules and regulations regarding YOUR own money.
Money you worked hard for.
Money you have saved for years.
Money you have set aside for your kids and retirement.
The purpose?
To bleed so-called 'black money' out of the system.
To your credit, you have borne it all with admirable patience.
You stood in queues for hours every day.
You felt awful as you dipped into your kids' piggy banks to meet contingencies.
You didn't question why Aadhaar should be linked to your PAN and income tax.
You took it on the chin...for 'nation building'.
That's because Mr Modi's fight against black money is to catch the big crooks. It's a good fight...and you were just doing your part. After all, the goal is to quash the black economy once and for all.
Right?
Think again...
In the fight against black money...where everything you and I do is linked to an Aadhaar number...in other words exposed to the government...there's a privileged class that's being left out.
The politicians.
More precisely, the political parties.
Here are the facts:
You and I have been getting emails and smses almost every day asking us to link our Aadhar card to our bank accounts. We have also been getting smses asking us to link our Aadhar card to our mobile numbers.
It is almost impossible to carry out any transaction with the government without an Aadhar card.
At the same time, you can still donate money to a political party anonomously.
Why is that the case?
Why can't the Aadhar card be linked to every donation made to a political party as well. What is stopping the government from doing that?
In fact, to take this argument even further, why are political parties allowed to collect donations in cash, in this day and age.
If the idea is to encourage digital transactions, why can't PM Modi and the BJP, set an example on this front and ensure that the BJP takes only digital donations.
Yes, dear reader, in the fight against black money, a key beneficiary has been left out...the 1,866 political parties.
They enjoy privileges you and I don't. It's a biased war...and we're fighting it on behalf of often corrupt political entities.
Yet no one is doing anything about it.
I am Vivek Kaul, editor of Vivek Kaul's Diary.
I have dedicated my life to taking up the issues that matter most to you and your future. Even if the issues involve the powers to be.
My only commitment is to you. Period.
That's why I have decided to call on you urgently:
Please sign this petition which requests the President of India to make issue instructions, on 8th November, the Anti-Black Money Day, that all donations made to political parties must carry an Aadhaar number.
We must sound a great cry across India to ensure that every concerned citizen gets behind this move.
It's not complicated. And we can do it very quickly if we create a huge 'buzz' on the internet with the petition.
All we need is the President of India to set this in motion.
I firmly believe that, with your help, it is possible. Please forward this message to all your friends and ask them to also pass it on. This message - and our petition - could spread like wildfire.
But we must act immediately; it is very important.
Anonymous funding of political parties is the cause, at least partially, the cause of many of this country's ails.
But a clean, transparent funding process guarantees a better polity...
So please sign this petition to request the President of India to make it mandatory to link all political donations to Aadhaar.
Then pass this message on to inform your relatives and friends of the mess we are in and encourage them to support the movement.
I will personally send the signed petition to the President of India one day before Anti-Black Money Day, this Tuesday, the 7th of November 2017.
My hope is that the President will listen to you and the thousands of our fellow countrymen who sign this petition, and announce our new initiative on Anti-Black Money Day, to wipe Black Money from politics, once and for all... and have politicians follow the same laws they make for you and I.
PETITION TO LINK POLITICAL
DONATIONS TO AADHAAR
Dear Mr. President
This Wednesday, the 8th of November 2017, marks the one year anniversary of demonetisation.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has declared the day, "Anti-Black Money Day."
What better day, then, to announce a brand new initiative to eliminate Black Money from where it does the most harm to our country: politics.
For too long, cronies have used Black Money to influence and undermine India's democracy.
It's time to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the people of India know who funds our political parties.
That's why, this Wednesday, the 8th of November 2017, I ask you to begin taking steps to make it mandatory for all political donations to be linked to Aadhaar and eliminate Black Money from politics.
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