Wah Crazy English..!

Wah Crazy English..!

Recently there was a report which said In India English has become 2nd Major language. Barring Hindi, most people who speak other Indian Languages use English as main language and their mother tongue as secondary or even third language.

Bengali which was first language after Hindi went to third place and gave its 2nd place to English!

In India, 55, 14.00,000 people use Hindi Language while 12, 50, 00,000 people speak English. English Speaking people are twice in numbers in India when compared to Briton.

Though it is funny language we love and speak it even more than Englishmen!

I, still remember my school days. When I was studying in High School my Teacher Mr. Angri Shankara Bhat, of course he was Hindi Teacher used to explain the specialties of English.

'English is such a language where we write one thing and read another whereas in Kannada or any other Indian Language we read what we wrote. For example the word ‘Psychology’ which we prounce as 'Sychology'.

In a funny way he used to say 'navu oduvudu sychology bareyuvudu piskalogy.

In the same way for word 'walking' we read as 'waking' but write as 'walking' (Oduvudu waking, bareyuvudu Walking).

One Interesting mail from my friend B.K. Ganesh, remembered me my school days where enjoyed these funny specialties of English.

I don't know who is the author of this mail or writer of funny write-up below. But definitely it is interesting to read. Pls enjoy it. I thank B.K. Ganesh for forwarding this mail.

UNDONE..!

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England ..We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English could be running the danger of being called verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

We ship by truck but send cargo by ship. We have noses that run and feet that smell.

We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway. And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?

I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN

PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS GERMS!!!

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

Attempt to balance Rural and Urban Development

Attempt to balance Rural and Urban Development

Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa who presented the State Budget 2010-11 on Friday 5th March 2010, attempted to balance the Rural and Urban Growth by providing Rs. 500 Crore to 'Jalasiri Andolana' to built 2 Lakh Water Recharging Units for stabilising agriculture while proposing Rs 600 crore urban infrastructure development programmes.

To improve power supply in rural areas for irrigation pump sets in 126 Taluks, he proposed Rs. 1200 Crore investment grant to Power Supply Companies in 70 Taluks for Nirantara Jyoti Project in the year 2010-11. He said the Project will be materialised in two years.

He proposed to establish 'Antarganga Sookshma Neeravari Nigam' with Rs. 100 Crore investment, Karnataka Mavu Mandali with Rs. 10 Crore, Food Processing Development Corporation with Rs. 10 Crore. He said Agriculture Sciences University will be setup at Shimoga with Rs. 10 Crore, Horticulture Collages will be setup at Mysore, Hiriyur, Shirsi, and Koppal with the assistance of Rs. 5 Crore grant each. He also proposed University of Animal Husbandry at Athani with the grant of Rs. 15 Crores. He said an Institution for Sugar also will be setup at Mandya.

While increasing taxes on tobacco as also slapping a toll of Rs 500 on heavy goods vehicles entering the state to raise revenues, Yeddyurappa, who also holds the finance portfolio, announced reducing VAT on some commodities, including, masala powder vermecilli and schools bags, from 12.5 per cent to five per cent, the state would end the 2010-11 fiscal with a revenue surplus of Rs 51.42 crore.

The Rs 600 crore allocated to the urban development programme "Mukyamanthri Nagarothana Yojane" will be spent on developing seven city corporations, 44 municipal councils, 94 town municipal councils and 68 town panchayats.

On tobacco products value added tax was raised by 2.5 per cent while an upward revision ranging from 1 to 2 per cent was announced on the motor vehicles tax.

The life time tax on two wheelers with selling price of up to Rs 50,000 was raised from eight per cent to ten per cent and vehicles with selling price from Rs 50,000 to Rs one lakh from 10 per cent to 12 per cent.

Additional resources of Rs 249 crore is expected from the changes made in the motor vehicles taxes, he said.

The budget also proposed a toll of Rs 500 on every trip made by vehicles of more than 16 tonne weight in transporting materials, including mineral ores.

Yeddyurappa sought a vote on account for four months till July 31 PTI adds.

As per the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2009-10, Yeddyurappa said, the total revenue receipts are expected to be Rs 55,381 crore against Rs 61,070 crore in the budget estimates.

The RE of total government expenditure was expected to be Rs 60,051 crore against Rs 62,414 crore estimated in the budget.

The final deficit after taking net of public account is likely to be Rs 44.80 crore, while it was estimated to be Rs 43.08 crore in 2009-10 budget.

On the 2010-11 budget estimates, he said total receipts are estimated to be Rs 68,564 crore, consisting of Rs 53,639 crore of revenue receipts and Rs 2,903 crore non-debt capital receipts.

The total expenditure in 2010-11 is estimated to be Rs 70,063 crore consisting of Rs 53,138 crore of revenue expenditure and Rs 16,925 crore of capital expenditure.

The government expects to collect Rs 36,228 crore of tax revenue and Rs 2,820 crore of non-tax revenue. The total central transfers, including taxes and grants, would be Rs 14,591 crore, he said.

The revenue surplus is estimated to be Rs 500.49 crore, while the fiscal deficit is estimated to be Rs 9,708.46 crore, which is 0.15 per cent and 2.96 per cent of the GSDP respectively.

This is in accordance with the stipulations made in the Karnataka Fiscal Responsibility Act 2002 for the current year, he said.

Imput Courtesy: Various sources including PTI. To view the Budget details in Kannada click the image above.

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

Cherkady Ramachandra Rao is No More

Cherkady Ramachandra Rao Passes Away

Eminent Gandhian and progressive farmer who blend the Gandhian way with principles of Masanobu Fukuoka in natural farming, Cherkady Ramachandra Rao (91) passed away at his residence in Cherkady village at Udupi after a brief illness on Sunday 21 February 2010.

He survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.

Cherkadi Ramachandra Rao was born in Kodagu in 1917. He was two when his father and mother died mysteriously within a day of each other. Then he moved to his older sister's house in Dharmasthala and later to Cherkady where another sister had been living.

Mr. Rao's life was shaped at Cherkady where he grew up grazing brother-in-law's cows and helping in his fields. He was sent to a school at the age of ten for two years.

This formative years in school introduced Gandhi to Rao. His teacher Ramachandra Patil had only one subject, Gandhi. He always spoke of his life thoughts and also kept a charkha in the school.Young Rao learnt to spin, there.

Thus in his spare time Rao started spinning the charkha at home. In late teens, he came to Brahmavar to learn weaving and earned his first income at the age 22. Soon he became an accomplished weaver and was also asked to look after the Khadi Board, Moodbidri.

Pursuing the Cherkady way, a blend of Gandhian and Fukuokan principles of Masanobu Fukuoka, the architect of natural farming, Ramachandra Rao was instrumental in finding answers to many of the modern agricultural problems.

He was the recipient of many awards including “Krishi Pandit” given by the State Government in 2002-03.

Having studied onlyup to standard III, though Cherkady did not read much about Gandhi, but understood deeply Mahatma's vision about life. Everyday until his death he worked and lived in simple imbibing Gandhian thoughts.

In his two-and-a-half acre land given by his brother-in-law,the man has experimented with every possible crop from coconut trees, cashew nut, mango trees, ginger, papaya and vegetables.

The call given by Gandhiji to people to produce rice for themselves in 1948-49 when grain production dropped inspired Rao to resign from Khadi Board, Moodbidri and come to Cherkady with a mission to practise Gandhian ideology. Achrya Vinoba Bhave too had a great influence on Rao.

His farming experiment made him discover that the plant grown out of natural nutrients yielded more than the usual variety. He began growing paddy without tilling the land or using other common farming practices without any irrigation. The method named "Sarvodaya paddy cultivation" became popular in the area as the "Cherkady crop". The method is still considered suitable for hilly and dry areas. He also guided Namma Bhoomi, a charitable institution in Kundapur in experimenting with this method.

However, he was also of the opinion that natural farming doesn't mean turning our backs on the scientific and modern world. He understood that natural farming can find its true purpose only when it is backed scientifically.

ALTERNATIVE joins with the family members, his friends and followers in this time of sorrow and prays the God to rest his soul in peace. Let his experiments of simple life and natural farming methods show the way to our farmers in shaping their life and future farming methods.

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

(Imput courtesy: Daijiworld.com, The Hindu, Mangaloremithra, Vijay Karnataka ).

Karnataka Cabinet Nod to Ban Cow Slaughter

Karnataka Cabinet Nod to Ban Cow Slaughter

After its firm stand against Bt -brinjal, Karnataka Government led by Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa took another bold step to Ban Cow Slaughter in Karnataka.

The State Cabinet on Wednesday 10th February 2010 has approved a new law to ban the slaughter of cows and calves and ensure cattle conservation.

The Bill, which is set to replace the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964, is expected to be tabled in the next session of the legislature.

The Cabinet had constituted a subcommittee under the chairmanship of Home Minister V.S. Acharya to study the drawbacks in the existing law and suggest measures to be incorporated in the proposed Act.

The new legislation will be in accordance with the Central Act and in conformity with Article 48 of the Constitution.

Briefing presspersons on the decisions taken at the Cabinet meeting at Bangalore, Dr. Acharya and Law Minister S. Suresh Kumar said that the new legislation would have guidelines for the transportation of cattle, apart from stern punishment for offenders.

First-time offenders will be liable to a year in prison and a fine between Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 50,000. Those held for a second offence or more will have to face imprisonment of up to seven years and pay a fine between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 1 lakh.

Dr. Acharya said that the judgments of courts in various cases pertaining to cow slaughter and transportation of milch animals had suggested that the law should be in consonance with the provisions of the Constitution. “The larger aim of the new Act is to bring in an effective mechanism and enforcement to curb cow slaughter.”

The State Cabinet has approved a new law to ban the slaughter of cows and calves and ensure cattle conservation. The Bill, which is set to replace the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964, is expected to be tabled in the next session of the legislature.

The Cabinet had constituted a subcommittee under the chairmanship of Home Minister V.S. Acharya to study the drawbacks in the existing law and suggest measures to be incorporated in the proposed Act. The new legislation will be in accordance with the Central Act and in conformity with Article 48 of the Constitution.

Briefing presspersons on the decisions taken at the Cabinet meeting at Bangalore on Wednesday, Dr. Acharya and Law Minister S. Suresh Kumar said that the new legislation would have guidelines for the transportation of cattle, apart from stern punishment for offenders. First-time offenders will be liable to a year in prison and a fine between Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 50,000.

Those held for a second offence or more will have to face imprisonment of up to seven years and pay a fine between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 1 lakh.

Dr. Acharya said that the judgments of courts in various cases pertaining to cow slaughter and transportation of milch animals had suggested that the law should be in consonance with the provisions of the Constitution.

“The larger aim of the new Act is to bring in an effective mechanism and enforcement to curb cow slaughter.”

Infact, 7 Member Constitution Bench of Supreme Court of India has upheld the Ban on Cow Slaughter in the year 2005 itself by its Verdict delivered on October 26, 2005. interested can go through this historical Judgement by clicking the image here.

Several Organisations had continuously demanded the ban on Cow Slaughter in Karnataka. Shree Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji of Shree Ramachandrapura Math, Hosanagar in Karnataka had launched nationwide Gou Grama Yathra recently which got the widespread support from all quarters of society, irrespective of caste, creed and political parties.

He had also setup a Cow Dung and Cow Urine Factory, first of its kind in the entire Nation at Malur in Kolar, Karnataka, with the help leading industrialists. Apart from manufacturing various useful products from Cow Dung and Cow Urine, this factory produces Electricity also along with Bio Gas.

Thanks to Karnataka Government for its bold step in protecting farmers and their backbone i.e. Cows and Bullocks.

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

Governor returns the Sakrama ordinance

Government attempt to bring it ahead of

BBMP elections fails

Governor returns the Sakrama ordinance

Bangalore, Jan 14: Karnataka Governor H.R. Bharadwaj has rejected the State Governments plea to promulgate the Sakrama ordinance and returned it back to the Government on today, January 14 Thursday 2010. With this the Governments attempt to implement the Revised Sakrama Scheme before the BBMP elections has suffered a setback.

Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

This writer wrote an article opposing the implementation of the Sakarma scheme in the Blogs 'SPARDHA' and 'PARYAYA' and wrote a letter to Honorable Governor on 13th January 2010 requesting not to give his assent to the Ordinance and appealed to send it back to the Government. The links to the above said article was also quoted in the letter. (Pls open the links and read letter and articles)

Several Prominent citizens including Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde also opposed the scheme of Akrama Sakrama. Even Political Parties like Congress and Janatadal opposed attempt of Government to promulgate ordinance on Akrama Sakrama.

Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa refused to react on the Governors action while Congress and Janatadal leaders welcomed the Governors action.

To ensure that the proposed Sakrama scheme is implemented before the model code of conduct for BBMP polls comes into effect, the State government on 13th January 2010 urged Governor H R Bhardwaj to promulgate an ordinance in this regard.

Bangalore in-charge Minister R Ashok met the Governor at Raj Bhavan and submitted the draft of Sakrama ordinance. He also appraised the Governor on the scheme.

Speaking to the media, he said: “The talk with the Governor was fruitful. He said that the ordinance on Sakrama, applicable to the entire State, is being taken into consideration and accordingly a decision will be taken.”

When asked that why the Bill was not presented in front of the recently concluded winter session of the Assembly, the Minister blamed the Opposition for disrupting the house proceedings and not allowing the Government to discuss the matter.

“Following the disruption of the House by the Opposition, it was impossible to discuss the matter in the Assembly. They did not even let the Speaker’s election process to go ahead smoothly,” he said.

In his meeting with the Governor, the Minister tried to convince the former about the need of passing this ordinance for the benefit of the lower strata of people who are living in perennial fear of losing their properties. “There are nearly seven lakh properties in the City alone that need to be regularised. It is for them that this ordinance is needed,” said Ashok.

In response to questions on whether he was confident of the ordinance being passed by the Governor before the model code of conduct for the BBMP elections come into effect, Ashok said: “We have made a request to the Governor. It is upto him to take a call on the matter.”

Sources in the Government state that while the ordinance was ready much before, there were only small technical changes made to it before being given to the Governor. “Even if it is passed by the Governor on the day of the model code of conduct, it will take only a few minutes for us to publish the ordinance,” said the source.

Learn Permaculture ..!

Learn Permaculture ..!

When the entire world is busy with thinking on the issues before Copenhagen Summit, I received this interesting mail from Mr. Vasudeva, Secretary, IASK i.e. Institute for Indigenous Agricultural Systems and Knowledge (I-ASK), Bangalore.

Mr. Vasudev informed about the course on Permaculture Jan 2010.What is Permaculture?

Vasudeve notes that this is the special course to those who want to make the earth more sustainable. This course enlightens you how you can adopt Permanent Agriculture.

This is two weeks hands on residential Permaculture Design certification course in Mysore (January 4 to 11) and in Punarvasu (Adamaru, near Udupi) (January 12 to 19, 2009). Permaculture (Permanent Agriculture) is about designing sustainable ecological human habitats and food production systems.

If you want to be a certified Permaculture designer the course is two weeks long from Jan 4 to Jan 19, 2010. If you cannot come for the full two weeks, you can still join for one week sessions (without certification) either in Mysore from Jan 4-11 or near Udupi at an organic farm from Jan 12 to 19, 2010, Vasudev says.

Permaculture is an international social movement and design guide for creating sustainable eco lifestyles. One can join an exciting group of people and study how permaculture puts systems together, how to better manage the land you have and educate yourself on things you can do to be a better steward of this planet we call home.

Interested attendees should register themselves before December 26. For details pls click the image above and see the Flyer. You can pass the word around to your eco minded friends too.

For more details contact: Beeja, Mysore

Tel: +91 9900269756 (Ameli)

Email: ameli@beeja.net, iaskindia@gmail.com

Web : http://iaskindia.googlepages.com

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

Fungi

Fungi

Fungi are large group of parasite and decomposers that include mushrooms, molds and yeasts. Once grouped along with plants, the fungi, are now thought to be more closely related to animals and are treated as a separate kingdom.

"I am very partial to mushrooms and use them generously in my cooking (I am not a bad cook at all!). The prized variety of mushrooms is the short lived variety that blooms with the onset of the monsoons available only on the coast' tells Mr. Mohan Pai.

Pls click the image to read more about Fungi.

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

Chalk out Programme to Rejuvenate Soil

Chalk out Programme to

Rejuvenate Soil

Do you think, Jeevamruta, organic fertilizer prepared as per the direction of Subhash Palekar will help to rejuvenate the soil in flood affected areas?

Recently, more than 30,000 people from Sarvajna Nagar and Bytarayanapura Assembly Constituency of Bangalore urged the Karnataka Government to Ban Cow slaughter and to make use of Jeevamruta, organic fertilizer made out of Cow Dung and Cow urine in flood affected areas to rejuvenate the soil which became salty due to heavy rains.

Experts say that there are about 100 crore microbes in one gram of Soil. And stomach of Cow is sea of microbes. One Gram Dung of Local breeds or Deshi Cow (Indian Cows) contains 200 to 500 crore microbes. When mixed, microbes of Cow Dung and Soil support each other and start multiplying.

Some scientists say soil has no life. But really it is not so. Microbes in the soil made it alive one.

Hundreds of farmers used this Palekar method in their fields and succeeded in increasing the the yield.

Hence it is high time to make use of this system to rejuvenate the soil in flood affected areas. And Government should chalk out a plan to feed the Jeevamruta to to soil in flood affected areas at least once in 15 days, till next rainy season, so that it will rejuvenate with full of microbes by next cultivation time.

Vijay Karnataka has published a timely article on this in its issue 22 October 2009. Pls read the article by clicking the image above and read some more information in http://paryaya.blogspot.com (Cow Protection / Gou Samrakshane Section)

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

Save 1,147,995,904 Indians.

Save 1,147,995,904 Indians.

Tomorrow (14 October 2009) the GEAC meets to decide on the environmental release of GM i.e. BT Brinjal. We all know by now that GM is irreversible, dangerous and unpredictable. That it could change the world as we know it.There is just a day that separates us from this horrible technology.

Call Mr. Jairam Ramesh the environment minister on 011-24361727 or 011-24363958(If you’re calling from outside India, dial +91-11-24361727or+91-11- 24363958) and leave a message if you cannot get through to the minister, that you do not want GM to be allowed into this country. And that you are no labrat.

Pass on this message to all your friends. If a call can save a life, its worth making.

‘IAMNOLABRAT’ Team

http://www.iamnolabrat.com/

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G. KRISHNA PRASAD

Sahaja Samrudha

'Nandana', No-7, 2nd Cross,

7th Main, Sulthanpalya, Bangalore-560 032 Phone: 080-23655302 /

9880862058

India Won 7th Nobel Prize on 7th October 2009..!

India Won 7th Nobel Prize

on 7th October 2009..!

It sounds interesting. Because India won its 7th Nobel Prize on Wednesday, 7th Of October 2009. Yes! Indian born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a senior scientist at the MRC Laborartory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, England, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with two others, the Nobel Committee announced on 7th October 2009.

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

The two other scientists, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with V Ramakrishnan are Thomas E Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel). They all are working with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge.

Born in 1952 in Chidambaram, Tailnadu, Ramakrishnan shared the Nobel Prize with Thomas E Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel) for their "studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

Ramakrishnan earned his B.Sc. in Physics (1971) from Baroda University and his Ph.D. in Physics (1976) from Ohio University.

He moved into biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he took a year of classes, then conducted research with Dr Mauricio Montal, a membrane biochemist.

Let us remember the Great Sons of India who made Indians feel proud by winning the Nobel Prize which is the most respected award the world over.

Here is the list of Those Indians who won this prestigious award and let us salute them...

1) Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). Tagore was born and lived in Calcutta for most of his life. He was one of modern India's greatest poets and the composer of independent India's national anthem. In 1901 he founded his school, the Santiniketan, at Bolpur as a protest against the existing bad system of education.

The school was a great success and gave birth to Viswabharati. He was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Gitanjali"; for the English version, published in 1912. The noble citation stated that it was "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." In 1915, he was knighted by the British King George V. Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 following the Amritsar massacre or nearly 400 Indian demonstrators.

2) Sir C.V. Raman (Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman) (1888 - 1970).
Nobel Prize for Physics (1930). C V Raman was born on 7th Nov. 1888 in Thiruvanaikkaval, in the Trichy district of Tamil Nadu. He finished school by the age of eleven and by then he had already read the popular lectures of Tyndall, Faraday and Helmoltz.

He acquired his BA degree from the Presidency College, Madras, where he carried out original research in the college laboratory, publishing the results in the philosophical magazine. Then went to Calcutta and while he was there, he made enormous contributions to vibration, sound, musical instruments, ultrasonic, diffraction, photo electricity, colloidal particles, X-ray diffraction, magnetron, dielectrics, and the celebrated "RAMAN" effect which fetched him the Noble Prize in 1930.

He was the first Asian scientist to win the Nobel Prize. The Raman Effect occurs when a ray of incident light excites a molecule in the sample, which subsequently scatters the light. While most of this scattered light is of the same wavelength as the incident light, state (i.e. getting the molecule to vibrate). The Raman Effect is useful in the study of molecular energy levels, structure development, and multi component qualitative analysis.

3) Dr. Hargobind Khorana
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology (1968)

Dr. Hargobind Khorana was born on 9th January 1922 at Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). Dr. Khorana was responsible for producing the first man-made gene in his laboratory in the early seventies. This historic invention won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968 sharing it with Marshall Nuremberg and Robert Holley for interpreting the genetic code and analyzing its function in protein synthesis.

They all independently made contributions to the understanding of the genetic code and how it works in the cell. They established that this mother of all codes, the biological language common to all living organisms, is spelled out in three-letter words: each set of three nucleotides codes for a specific amino acid.

4) Dr. Subramaniam Chandrasekar

Nobel Prize for physics (1983)

Subramaniam Chandrashekhar was born on October 19, 1910 in Lahore, India (later part of Pakistan). He attended Presidency College from 1925 to 1930, following in the footsteps of his famous uncle, Sir C. V. Raman.

His work spanned over the understanding of the rotation of planets, stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. He won the Nobel Prize in 1983 for his theoretical work on stars and their evolution.

5) Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
Nobel Prize for peace (1979)

Born in 1910, Skoplje, Yugoslavia (then Turkey) and originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa dedicated her life to helping the poor, the sick, and the dying around the world, particularly those in India, working through the Missionaries Of Charity in Calcutta. The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.

Missionaries of Charity provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers. Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997.

6) Dr. Amartya Sen
Nobel Prize for Economics (1998)

Amartya Sen (born 1933) was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded to him in 1998 for his work on welfare economics. He has made several key contributions to research in this field, such as to the axiomatic theory of social choice; the definitions of welfare and poverty indexes; and the empirical studies of famine.

All are linked by his interest in distributional issues and particularly in those most impoverished. Whereas Kenneth Arrow's "impossibility theorem" suggested that it was not possible to aggregate individual choices into a satisfactory choice for society as a whole, Sen showed that societies could find ways to alleviate such a poor outcome.

And the Seventh Man who won the Nobel Prize is Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.

There are few others connected to India also won the prestigious Nobel Prize.

They are:

1) Ronald Ross.
Born in Almora, India, in 1857 Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria.

He received many honours in addition to the Nobel Prize, and was given Honorary Membership of learned societies of most countries of Europe, and of many other continents. He got an honorary M.D. degree in Stockholm in 1910 at the centenary celebration of the Caroline Institute. Whilst his vivacity and single-minded search for truth caused friction with some people, he enjoyed a vast circle of friends in Europe, Asia and America who respected him for his personality as well as for his genius.

2) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai, 1865 (then Bombay in British India), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.

He remains the youngest-ever recipient and the first English-language writer to receive the Prize. British writer, Kipling wrote novels, poems and short stories -- mostly set in India and Burma (now known as Myanmar).

3) Abdus Salam.

Abdus Salam (1926-1996), born in undivided Punjab and a citizen of Pakistan, and shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, with Steven Weinberg, for his work on electroweak unification, one of the important puzzles of modern theoretical physics. He was a visionary and an advocate of science in the third world. He founded the International Center for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, Italy, which has nurtured world class physicists through workshops, fellowships and conferences.

4) V.S. Naipaul (1932- )

A British writer, V.S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul) was born in 1932 in a family of north Indian descent living in Chaguanas, close to Port of Spain, on Trinidad.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. In awarding him the Prize, the Swedish Academy praised his work "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories." The Nobel Committee added: "Naipaul is a modern philosopher, carrying on the tradition that started originally with Lettres persanes and Candide. In a vigilant style, which has been deservedly admired, he transforms rage into precision and allows events to speak with their own inherent irony."

The Committee also noted Naipaul's affinity with the Polish-born British author of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad: "Naipaul is Conrad's heir as the annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings. His authority as a narrator is grounded in the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished."

5)14th Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama ((Born on 6 July 1935 at Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet).

Former Head of state of Tibet and active leader of Tibetan Resistance towards PRC. Escaped to India when the PRC took over Tibet. Although legally a citizen of Tibet and hence indirectly China, he is head of Tibetan Government in Exile which is stationed in India. He got Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for efforts for Tibetan Freedom through Non-Violence and Spreading Global Peace through Buddhism. Also during Prize Distribution, Head of Prize Committee commented that the prize was a part of tribute to memory of Mahatma Gandhi. Tenzin travels widely, in an effort to promote peaceful ideals.

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Historic Yathra commenced from Kurukshetra...

Historic Yathra commenced

from Kurukshetra...

108 days Historic Yathra for protection of Cows, 'Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yathra' was started amidst holy Sanskrit hymns and Vande Gou Mataram slogans from the gathering at Kurukshetra, Haryana on Wednesday, 30th September 2009 (on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami).

Speaking on the occasion Shree Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji of Shree Ramachandrapura Mutt Hosanagar said that 'Dharma Yuddha was took place for Seeta Matha in Threta Yug, while Dharma Yuddha was held for Bhoo Matha in Dwapara Yugh and now in Kaliyug we have to start Maha Sangram (Great Fight) for the protection of Gou Matha.

Killing of Cows will lead to the destruction of entire human population. Several breeds of Indian Cows have already disappeared due to killings of Cows. Some breeds of Indian Cows are in the edge of extinction... If we won't fight for the protection of Cows even now, we would not remain eligible to seek excuse of Gou Matha also, He said.

We won't look towards politicians for protection of Cows and won't beg them to save Indian Breeds of Cows. We came to you. Governments have to hear what people say. So this movement should become peoples movement, Shankanaada of Kurukshetra must echoed in every nook and corner of the country, He said.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad president Ashok Singhal, RSS leader Bhayyaji Joshi, Sadhvi Rithambara, Moulvi of Uttara Pradesh Chote Mia Mouliddin Saheb and others present on the occasion.

Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yathra will cover 20,000 K.Ms in the country during its period of 108 days. 4000 Public functions would be held during the Yathra period and 15,000 Upa Yatharas also will be held in support of main Yathra. Total length of Yahtra route would be 10 Lakh KM's including the Upa Yathras.

Apart from Shree Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji, Shree Vishwesha Thirtha Swamiji of Pejavara Mutt Udupi, Sadhvi Rithambara, Shree Shree Shree Ravishankara Guruji, Ramdevji Baba, Mata Amrutanandamayi, Acharya Vidya Sagar, Bala Gangadhara Swamiji of Adi Chunchanagiri Mutt and several other saints will participate in the yathra at various points.

Non Chemical Agri expert Padmashree Kutti Menon, former director of CBI Joginder Singh and many others also participate in the yathra.

Kamadhenu Havan, Gayathri Havan and Puja to the Chariot for Yathra 'Gou Ratha' were held earlier on 28th and 29th September under the leadership of Shree Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji.

During this yathra Signature Campaign also will held and Yathra intended to collect more than 50 crore signatures and memorandum with these signatures would be submitted to President of India on January 20th 2010.

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Proud moment to India: Chandrayaan founds water on Moon..!

Proud moment to India:

Chandrayaan founds

Water on Moon..!

BANGALORE/MUMBAI: This is the moment we should be proud. Yes, It is a giant leap for India's space programme and the biggest scientific discovery of the 21st Century.

India's maiden Moon Mission, Chandrayaan-1 has found water, a discovery that scientists say will upend thinking about space and boost research. And, of course, it has helped shake off the failure tag from the Rs 386-crore Chandrayaan-I project that was aborted last month.

India's own Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on board the country's maiden lunar craft had discovered water on the moon, a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA's probe that was also aboard Chandrayaan-1, India's top space scientist G Madhavan Nair said here on Friday. ( Watch Video by Times Now)

India's first lunar mission had made a "path-breaking and real discovery" by establishing the presence of water on the moon, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Nair said.

While expressing pride in the achievement, Nair added: "But the water is not in the form of sea or lake or puddle or drops. It is embedded on the surface in minerals and rocks."

Apart from India's MIP, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) of NASA on board Chandrayaan-1 confirmed the presence of water. The lunar mission had to be aborted Aug 30 after it lost radio contact with Earth.

According to Nair, the "quantity found is much larger than expected".

On whether water can be extracted, Nair said: "Yes, we can. But one tonne of soil may yield half a litre."

Nair said MIP picked up signals about the presence of water as it journeyed down to land on the moon surface.

"One of the main objectives of Chandrayaan-1 was to look for the presence of water. Our MIP confirmed it."

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(Imputs from ISRO and various other sources)

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