Begarry on Red Lights

It was my last day of holidays in beautiful, subtle and fast moving capital. My journey from Safdarjung Enclave to Paharganj side of the station in youth public transport -Autorickshaw was a memorable one and left a deep imprint on my heart.

My eyes got struck on a very young girl putting her hands in dirty sweat shirt pockets to resist the chilling weather of late December near India gate crossing and she looked dazed. I assumed the loss of direction as a reason to be confused, but later discovered a voice coming somewhere from behind and cleared all my doubts and presumptions. A group of poor ladies sitting in the left pavement of the crossing screamed 'maang'. A 5 year old poor girl was getting trained to beg on the red light by a mixed group of elder girls and ladies. The little poor fellow didn't know the next step after begging in front of an Esteem Car. The voice came again at a much higher volume and she begged in the next car. After reaching to the group of ladies, she was beaten up by one of those and she started crying silently.

The touching moment didn't end here itself. My autorickshaw moved a bit ahead and she came again to beg in front of me. Her tears vanished within 10 seconds and mine started to flow out. I was flabbergasted to see how tears of a small girl vanish within 10 seconds and how strong she was made by begging on these streets.

On the way back to IIT Kharagpur via Rajdhani Train, the whole scene haunted me and provoked me to think. First thing to hit my gray cells was a bollywood movie 'Traffic signal' truely depicting the same story witnessed by me. It touched me even more after i reconciled the whole story.

It was in the past, when beggars used to beg to fulfill their basic needs. After realization of the fact that Indian sentiments and emotions led them earn a lot of money, many poor entered this field. Even this was not enough, and big people realized this untapped sector and made this business very well governed by marketing, distribution and demand-supply models of business. All red lights and traffic signals were scanned by beggars and hawkers. The demand increased with a huge expansion in the market and so did the supply making India a country of most number of beggars in the world. Even the famous video on YouTube - 'a girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes' had a girl describing India with beggars when it came to global concerns.

If, we the people of India, don't realize it today that if we all stop giving money to beggars the demand -supply model will crash and beggars will be free from people running this business and controlling them.

By the way, on the next red light, i saw a small boy selling Harvard Business Review edition for Rs. 450!!!

Will my children be happy?

I always thought, that i would give all the joy to my children and never let smiles go away from their faces.

I always used to think, that i would never lie to my children.

I always keep on thinking, that i would teach them principles which i also follow in life and every other good person does.

But wait, will i be able to do that. I am afraid to raise kids in this world?

Will i be able to tell them, don't fight over an object while big leaders across the globe are fighting for what not?

Will i be able to tell them, don't throw waste on road or pollute the world while i myself is afraid to breathe this poisonous air?

Will i be able to tell them, go and play in sun while i am afraid of ozone layer depletion.

Will i be able to tell them, share things with others while rich cannot share 500 bucks on poor's education?

Will i be able to tell them, be a responsible, non-corrupt, honest and sensible leader?

Will they be able to see the brightest of the flowers or lions or giraffes?

Will they be able to see Taj Mahal as white as it is now?

No, i feel worried, i have to do something to change my children's future, if not mine.

Don't you all feel worried.

Either change the world or don't have kids!!!

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Work starts from brain but finishes at your heart

Have you ever thought whether you work from brain or your heart? Tough question to answer though but think again and find the answer.

I will give you a small hint. Suppose, someone told you to google and research on a particular topic, the work starts with your brain mapping all the keywords required for the search. Have you ever realized that you stop searching until your heart says, yes heart. The experience you gain trains your heart or the hearty side of your brain to stop searching as you feel that the search has been saturated.

Quickness or brain is required in today's era, but youngsters fail to gain experience or heart which plays an important role.

Was There Big Bang..........Who created first particle......who created the creator?

I would like to answer in my way of understanding.

1) Was there Big Bang?
Yes there was a big bang. Still 2% the remains of heat and sound of big bang have been traced by two scientist in US by detecting heat and sound in all directions and taking the intersection which was not governed by any law of physics.

Everyone knows the fact that galaxies are drifting away proving that there was a singular matrix of matter called the big bang. Putting Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle in the boundary conditions of that matter prove a massive explosion at a rate greater than speed of light.

2) God? The first fundamental particle of big bang, Higgs Boson (Science Nomenclature) or the god particle is god according to me.

3) How did Boson particle come into Existance?

A tough question to answer as well as tough to answer in a way people understand it. Let's ask ourselves first that all the matter we see must have come from somewhere, tonnes and tonnes of mass. Was that boson particle too massive. Conservation of mass is not a complete story but conservation of mass and energy makes it complete. There was energy around the boson particle which interacted and still keeps on interacting.

4) Where did energy come from?
Energy doesn't come from anywhere. It is present and always fascinates the humans, be it gush of sound in midnight from the window scaring someone or motion of big galaxies around the world.

5) Biggest question is not WHAT WAS THE START. It is WHAT IS THE END OF UNIVERSE.

According to me the boundary of universe is not where matter ends but where energy ends. As we know energy cannot end anywhere, thus scientist say that energy is wrapped forming the shape of universe to be wrapped.

6) Is science anti-religious or vica versa?

Science believe in ghostly powers just like religion believes in atoms and energy. The single word to describe anything and everything is 'ENERGY' and thanks to Aristotle for coining this fabulous word.

I hope it suffices 5% of your queries and if it does so, i will be grateful to my answer.

Hot Topic: Reservation for General Category

Though the title is funny for readers who are Non-Indian Residents, but it has turned to be one of the possibility to happen in India. With almost 49% reservation given to SC (Schedule Caste), ST (Schedule Tribes) and OBC (Other Backward Classes) as shown in Exhibit 1.

Exhibit 1


The list of OBCs given by the Central Government of India (click here) shows more than 200 castes/sub castes/ synonyms mentioned in the list.

1 Sep, 2007: Government Survey revealed that 40.94% of the Indian populations consists of OBC, 19.59% SCs, 8.63% STs and 30.80% are so called general category.

According to the survey, 91.4% of STs, 79.8% of SCs and 78.0% of OBCs were in rural areas. Conversely, 8.6% of STs, 20.2% of SCs and 22% of OBCs were in urban areas, while 37.7% of 'others' lived in India's towns and cities.

This means 31.9% of OBCs are living in rural areas, but Mr. Arjun Singh got to a figure 27% not raising the net reservation to 50% or else India would be laughed upon.

Lets solve the equation for people living in rural areas: 91.4% of 8.63% + 79.8% of 19.59% + 78.0% of 40.94% + 62.3% of 30.80% is equal to 74.6%.

According to this survey 74.6 % people must get reservation if rural living standards is the criteria.

Instead of giving reservation government must give compensation in senior secondary, under graduate and graduate studies to financially deprived people.

HEY TELL OUR POLITICIANS TO IMPLEMENT THIS 49.5% RESERVATION IN THE PARLIAMENT ALSO!!!

Some Advertisements have one element missing.....common sense

In this era, where only two things are populating the Television Sets - Advertisements and SMS us.
SMS us is one of the advertisement and money making strategies where people can express their views.

But this is a forum to express your views on Advertisements. Express your concern, views, comments, suggestions over some funny, object-less or common sense less ads.

Here are some of the examples:

1. The Fan Ad in which a bar dancer bijli falls down, and then fan is turned on to save bijli. If some other fan was turned on and then this fan is turned on to save bijli, then the whole scene is understood and would have turned to be a very good ad.

If you try to understand the notion, they are trying to say that if u turn on the fan, then more power will be saved compared to keeping ur fan turned off......HOW STUPID CAN IT BE.

2. Sabhi dentist har din colgate aur pepsodent dono istamal karte hain.......I think that's why dentist say 'Brush your teeth twice a day'.....ek baar pepsodent se aur ek baar colgate se.

3. See this ad i saw somewhere on net......the company is trying to say they will sell their product after atleast 150 years...















Some awesome banned commercials:

1. This is one of the ad of Pepsi Vs. Coke series......I loved this ad alot where pepsi beats coke really well.....To see what all does one kid do to get a can of pepsi....click here to view video on youtube

2. A Banned beer commercial where one guy sitting in a bar hallucinates great things after drinking a bottle of beer and tries to order one more for more sexy hallucinations.....click here to view video on youtube.

3. Another banned beer ad where jennifer aniston wants two beer bottles from a mart, but her height is short and a guy helps to lift beer from the high shelf. To see what does man do after lifting the bottles of beer......click here to view video on youtube.

Will be putting more of these kinds.......

If you have any of these kinds, do write in the comments.