India's Second Everest!

INDIA'S SECOND EVEREST!

Yes, India has a second world-beater peak. Indeed, it's a physical peak - the Everest of showing-off. Before it showing-off cars (3-car owners looking down on 2-car owners; 2-car owners looking down on 1-car owners; everyone looking down on no-car owners), foreign brand clothes, breed dogs etc. to each other in the neighbourhood is nothing. It's a single family home that rises 25-stories on a Mumbai landmark, making it eligible for entry in the Guinness Book of Records.

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Modern India Rope-Trick!!?

Modern India Rope-Trick!!?

How many times since Independence has an international agency, recognizing India''s talent potential, predicted that in the next ten to twenty years she would be the fastest developing country?

When will the people realize that only a just and caring society (not pretensions and showing-off; not propaganda and self-promotion) which upholds the basic ideas of humanity for all her people can become truly developed?
There's no easy Rope-Trick Climb to Development.
Failure to learn historic lessons makes it difficult for India to rise much higher than her  135^th rank among 185 countries in the Human Development Index rating of UNDP. Obviously, growing economic or military power is not enough. That is why Russia, yesterday’s superpower and the first country to send a manned satellite into space (Yuri Gagarin in the first Sputnik) still remains a developing BRIC.

It's left to us to decide how long we want to remain a BRIC.

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India's Flying Draincovers!

India's Flying Draincovers!

Where my son lives in the US five 2-storey houses make a circle. And there's a common circular driveway. A drain manhole there has a heavy cast iron cover which says Made in India.

How did India-made draincovers fly West? What spurred exports? Well, it's a curious story. A Mystery. As well as History.
Under British rule the police were under English officers. Every city had cast iron covers over the manholes of drains. Then came Independence. British rule ended and the English left the country. The dawn of freedom. Soon the iron draincovers started vanishing, leaving gaping holes. When replaced they vanished again in a day or two. Slum-dwellers and other poor carried them away and sold them. People died stumbling into the holes in the dark or in rains.

A strange fact is that though Indians differ in language, clothes and  customs, the basic attitudes are similar across the country. So in city after city the draincovers vanished. And state after state decided to give up iron draincovers and use concrete covers instead.
The result was that the iron-cover manufacturers were hard-hit. Their manufacturing facilities fell silent. With no hope of getting business, they realized there was only one way to survive. They would have to explore and find an export market.

So...we must be ever-thankful to the draincover thieves for spurring unforeseen exports for the country.

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Your Winter's Sunny HeartWarmer

Your Winter's Sunny HeartWarmer

I wish A Most Happy New Year to all brave explorers wandering in Bloggyland!

On such chilly days you surely need a sunny heartwarmer - no less than a bodywarmer. But please don't overload on Scotch, rum etc. The side-effects may prove to be your year's biggest headache.

To be sure of highly beneficial effects only you can do no better than download Dreams of One Country by Jagjit Daniel (and John) from Amazon.com. A preview? Click here: www.amazon.com/dp/B00EMOAMQM and then on the book's cover picture. In this panoramic history-based novel you will discover a heartwarming love story.......which inspires a virtual miracle: the heart-warming people's March to a united Ek Desh India...to begin building a truly modern and enlightened country. A Century 21st nation!

Yes, it's left to each of us to help make those Dreams come true.

So here's wishing you all A Warmhearted Year too! 

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India RadioShow Showers(-Off)!

India RadioShow Showers(-Off)!

RJ:  I'm RJ. Rohit Maldar. Thanks for calling!  What's your name?

RC: I'm Rohini Crorepati.

RJ: Oh! What a...what a thrillingly attractive name! Where are you now?

RC: In my Mercedes. Stuck in a traffic jam. I'm driving  to work. 

RJ:  You have a Merce? Wow!

RC: Yes. The latest and biggest.
RJ: But is it okay...for our kind of roads and traffic?
RC: Oh yes. It goes smoothly through all the potholes, piles of garbage, leaking water mains and overflowing drains. And I can break traffic rules freely. Police just look at my car, bow and wave me on. Isn't it wonderful?

RJ: Oh, absolutely! So where do you work?

RC: My beautification clinic. It's Asia's biggest. I turn every woman into a beautiful woman.

RJ: Really! You can make any woman beautiful? Even...my wife?

RC: Why not? I'll make her a top beauty.
RJ: Forever? I want her top permanently beautiful.
RC: No, no, forever is impossible. For a while. At least...till she reaches home again.

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Hi-Tech + Lo-Science = Chaos

Hi-Tech + Lo-Science = Chaos

Technology is advancing fast, virtually at the speed of 'an Apple a day.' And for many the mobile has virtually taken on the role of an essential 5th limb. There are many compulsive or nonstop mobile-tappers.
Yet ignoring modern science is a widespread reality. Too few know (or care to know) that we - our solar system, sun and planets - are nothing more than a speck of sea sand in the unimaginable vastness of the universe. That there are many millions of galaxies, each with many millions of suns. That light travelling at the speed of 186,000 miles a second takes more than a 100 years to cross the Milky Way, our galaxy...which is one of the smaller galaxies. That there's every possibility of life existing in varied forms - some even more hi-tech or civilized than us - in innumerable places across the universe. The orbiting space telescope has so far located about 300 suns with planets where life is possible. Of them, the nearest to us is 25 light years away.
Great scientists (like Einstein) have shown all things that happen in the universe happen by scientific laws - laws that affect everything down to the subatomic particles. Understanding those laws is man's greatest adventure. Scientists always keep asking questions. They question their own findings, seeking more or better proof.
On the other hand people ignoring science have no questions to ask. (Of course, they tap hi-tech mobiles!) And no doubts. They assume all things happen 'magically.' They are absolutely sure what is right and what is wrong. They are absolutely sure who is right and who is wrong. They flaunt their self-righteousness as though they have the highest wisdom.
And the consequences are obvious. Around the world, meaningless pettiness and meaningless meanness produce meaningless chaos. 

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Lawless(ons): MindQuakes - 2

Lawless(ons): NewIndia Needs MindQuakes, 2

Here's a recent example of another attitude hindering India. 'Watch the action,' said my friend at the wheel. We were waiting at red lights. A traffic cop was arguing with two motorcyclists he had stopped for some infringement. The cop took out his ticket book. A biker handed him two hundred rupee notes. The other followed suit. The cop's ticket book went back into his pocket. He patted the lawbreakers' shoulders and sent them off with a smile.

India has more laws than most countries, but not many upholders of law. Every law is an opportunity for gain for those with authority - the greater the authority, the greater the opportunity for gain.

Where is India headed? Can a country with little respect for laws become one of the world's truly modern developed nations? India needs MindQuakes.
Or...do we prefer a world leader achievement in bribe collecting?

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Are you ready for an Amazing novel on Amazon?

An unforgettable love story that inspires the people's March to an Ek Desh India lights up Dreams of One Country by Jagjit Daniel (and John). Check it out on Amazon.com. If the transforming India Revolutionary Theme appeals to you, download the novel on any device - I-phone, pad or computer.