MUSLIMS AND ANNA HAZARE’S TIRADE AGAINST CORRUPTION | Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

MUSLIMS AND ANNA HAZARE’S TIRADE AGAINST CORRUPTION | Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

Anna Hazare says bring back the Black Money.

Do u know what willhappen if1,456 Lac Crores comes back.
 
1. India Financially No.1
2. Each district will get 60000 crores & each village will get 100 Crores
3. No need to pay taxes for next 20 yrs.
4. Petrol 25 Rs, Diesel 15 Rs, Milk 8 Rs.
5. No need to pay electricity bill.
6. Indian borders will become more stronger than the China Wall.
7. 1500 Oxford like Universities can be opened. 
8. 28,000 kms Rubber road (like in Paris) can be made.
9. 2,000 hospitals (with all facilities) all medicine Free.
10. 95 crore people will have their own house.
   



PLease take time to read it.
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10 things to know about Anna Hazare 'n Jan Lok Pal Bill.. !

1. Who is Anna Hazare?

An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War

2. What's so special about him?

He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra

3. So what?

This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills.

In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village. 


4. Ok,...?

This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.


5. Really, what is he fighting for?
He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.

6. How that can be possible?

He is advocating for a Bill, The Jan Lokpal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), bureaucrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.


7. It's an entirely new thing right..?

In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit their theft (corruption).



8. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill ! How can that be possible in such a short span of time?

The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed.

Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the JAN LOKPAL BILL. 50%  government participation and 50% public participation. Because you cant trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them.

9. Fine, What will happen when this bill is passed?

A Lok Pal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, that has been going for last 25 years without any result.



10. Is he alone? Who else is there in the fight with Anna Hazare?

Baba Ramdev, Ex. IPS Kiran Bedi, Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and many more.

Prominent personalities like Aamir Khan is supporting his cause.

11. Ok, got it. What can I do?

At least we can spread the message. How?

Putting status message, links, video, changing profile pics.

Did you know this about Libya?

Some other facts (that mainstream media will never disclose) about Gaddafi and Libya

- Loans to Libyan citizens are given with NO interest.

- Students would get paid the average salary for the profession they are studying for.

- If you are unable to get employment the state would pay the full salary as if you were employed until you find employment.

- When you get married the couple gets an apartment or house for free from the Government.

- You could go to college anywhere in the world. The state pays 2,500 euros plus accommodation and car allowance.

- The cars are sold at factory cost.

- *Libya does not owe money, (not a cent) to anyone. No creditors.

- Free education and health care for all citizens.

- 25% of the population with a university degree.

- No beggars on the streets and nobody is homeless (until the recent bombing).

- Bread costs only $0.15 per loaf.

No wonder the US and other capitalist countries do not like Libya.

Gaddafi would not consent to taking loans from IMF or World Bank at high interest rates.

In other words Libya was INDEPENDENT!      That is the real reason for the war in Libya!

He may be a dictator, but that is not the US problem.

Also Gaddafi called on all Oil producing countries NOT to accept payment for oil in USD or Euros. 

Two other leaders that have the courage to speak the truth are Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran and though both are fighting an uphill battle courtesy the cowardly Saudis who'd rather live in luxury while their people wallow in poverty, the battle is intensifying - the hypocrisy of the West is gradually being exposed.

Gaddafi recommended that oil get paid for in GOLD and that would have bankrupted just about every Western Country as most of them do not have gold reserves to match the rate at which they print their useless currencies and cheat the world.

The last time someone had the “NERVE” to make a similar statement was when Saddam advised all Opec countries not to accept payment for oil in US Dollars! Let us wait and watch and pray that this time round, justice and truth prevail.

The cult of busy : Scott Berkun

When I was younger I thought busy people were more important than everyone else. Otherwise why would they be so busy? I had busy bosses, busy parents, and always I just thought they must have really important things to do. It seemed an easy way to see who mattered and who didn’t. The busy must matter more, and the lazy mattered less.

This is the cult of busy. That simply by always seeming to have something to do, we all assume you must be important or successful.

It explains the behavior of many people at work. By appearing busy, people bother them less, and  simultaneously believe they’re doing well at their job. It’s quite a trick.

I now believe the opposite to be true. Or the near opposite. Here’s why:

• Time is the singular measure of life. It’s one of the few things you can not get more of. Knowing how to spend it well is possibly the most important skill you can have.

• The person who gets a job done in one hour will seem less busy than the guy who can only do it in five.  How busy a person seems is not necessarily indicative of the quality of their results. Someone who is better at something might very well seem less busy, because they are more effective. Results matter more than the time spent to achieve them.

• Being in demand can have good and bad causes.  Someone with a line of people waiting to talk to them outside their office door at work seems busy, and therefore seems important. But somehow the clerk running the slowest supermarket checkout line in the universe isn’t praised in the same way, it means they’re ineffective. People who are at the center of everything aren’t necessarily good at what they do (although they might be). The bar of being busy falls far well below the bar of being good.

• The compulsion to save time may lead nowhere. If you’re always cutting corners to save time, when exactly are you using the time you’ve saved? There is this illusion some day in the future you get back all the time you’ve squirreled away in one big chunk. I don’t think time works this way. For most Americans it seems most of our time savings goes straight into watching television. That’s where all the time savings we think we get actually goes.

• The phrase “I don’t have time for” should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day. If you can’t do something it’s not about the quantity of time. It’s really about how important the task is to you. I’m sure if you were having a heart attack, you’d magically find time to go to the hospital. That time would come from something else you’d planned to do, but now seems less important. This is how time works all the time. What people really mean when they say “I don’t have time” is this thing is not important enough to earn my time. It’s a polite way to tell people they’re not worth your time.

This means people who are always busy are time poor. They have a time shortage. They have time debt. They are either trying to do too much, or they aren’t doing what they’re doing very well. They are failing to either a) be effective with their time b) don’t know what they’re trying to effect, so they scramble away at trying to optimize for  everything, which leads to optimizing nothing.

On the other hand, people who truly have control over time have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. They have a sense of priorities that drives their use of time and can shift away from the specific ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy. These people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or to relax, more often then the rest, but that may be a sign of their mastery not their incompetence.

I deliberately try not to fill my calendar. I choose not to say Yes to everything. For to do so would make me too busy, and I think, less effective at what my goals are.  I always want to have some margin of my time in reserve, time I’m free to spend in any way I choose, including doing almost nothing at all. I’m free to take detours. I’m open to serendipity. Some of the best thinkers throughout history had some of their best thoughts while  going for walks, playing cards with friends, little things things that generally would not be considered the hallmarks of busy people. It’s the ability to pause, to reflect, and relax, to let the mind wander, that’s perhaps the true sign of time mastery, for when the mind returns it’s often sharper and more efficient, but most important perhaps, happier than it was before.

The Green Thing

In the queue at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That is our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. T he store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. T hey walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.

But she was right. T hey didn't have the green thing in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby's cloth-diapers because they didn't have the throw-away kind. T hey dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her day.

Back then, they had one T V, or radio, in the house - not a T V in every room. And the T V had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you.

When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. T hey used a push mower that ran on human power. T hey exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she’s right, they didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But they didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or rode the school bus instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

~Author Unknown

Clients have started focusing on growth: Infy CEO

Infosys’ Q3 results might have disappointed the market, but its CEO and MD S Gopalakrishnan sees no reason to be unhappy. He says the next financial year will be a normal one for the Indian IT services industry which is reflected in the clients’ budgets. In an interaction with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra and Pradeesh Chandran ,he details the strategy the company has put forth for the coming financial year. Edited excerpts:

Your client addition during the quarter at 40 was quite healthy. Which are the growth spots?

We are witnessing all-around growth. But we are actually optimistic about North America, especially the US, and the rest of the world. We have some short-term concerns about Europe. We are pro-actively investing in Europe as we believe the region will be a very important market for Infosys in the medium to long term because the aggregate IT spending there is actually equivalent to the US. Most of your clients have finalised their budgets.

What are the messages you are getting from them?

These (budgets) are slightly up or may be, in some cases, flat, which is actually positive. Otherwise, we believe it's a normal budget cycle, which to me indicates that the year is going to be normal. We are also witnessing spending on the discretionary side. Companies have started focusing on growth as compared to costs during the downturn. 

Which are the industry segments you believe to be future growth drivers?

We are expecting significant growth in verticals like retail and BFSI. Even the spending pattern is different for each of them. In retail, investment can be seen in digital consumer and digital marketing since a number of advertisements are moving toward digital medium from print. In banking and capital market, the investment is going towards mobile commerce, mobile technology and risk management. M&A continues to be the driver for expenditure by banking firms. This is the third time this year you have revised the guidance.

Is the phase of volatility still on?

We said we would be cautious in the guidance, recruitment and capacity building. But if growth opportunities come, we will grow faster. This year, we saw that opportunity came and thus revised our guidance upwards.

What factors impacted your volume growth this quarter? It was 3.1 per cent compared to 7.2 per cent last quarter and 7.6 per cent in Q1.

We achieved a good volume growth of more than 5 per cent in the last three quarters. Normally, you would expect a budget flush in the last quarter of the calendar year. This year, however, most companies exhausted their budgets in the early part of the year, which is why the spending got impacted this quarter.

That is just a short-term phenomenon. Your focus had been the Fortune 1,000 clients.

Of the 40 clients we have added this year, several of them are Fortune 500 companies and Global 1,000 clients. Our model is that when arelationship starts, it starts small and then we start building it, which usually takes 12 to 18 months time. This is quite normal. Most of our top 10 clients started small, and those accounts have grown subsequently. This is why our repeat business is very high, around 97 per cent.

But are the project sizes getting smaller? Is this going to be a trend?

It is a relative term. In this quarter, we saw project sizes becoming shorter, partly because clients have spent most of their budgets in the early part of the year. Secondly, in an uncertain environment, clients don't make long-term commitments. While the overall programmes are actually quite large, the commitments were made for shorter periods - three to six months. Sometimes, projects might be given to multiple suppliers. That is something we have to live with or we have learnt to live with.

Markets have reacted very sharply to your financial performance this quarter?

I don't want to comment on the market.

Source: Business Standard

Positive psychology in Buddhism

Saturday, August 28, 2010

A CENTRAL tenet of Buddhism is that we are not helpless victims of unchangeable emotions.

In the words of Buddha himself, "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world."

It's an idea that's in line with current thinking in psychology. In fact, this simple philosophy – that changing the way we think can change the way we feel – underpins the very practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), an approach widely used in clinical psychology and counselling, as well as stress management programs.

CBT emerged in the 1970s, and according to the University of Technology Sydney's Dr Sarah Edelman, who wrote a book on the subject entitled ‘Change Your Thinking’, it was originally developed to help people recover from problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, anger and self-sabotaging behaviours.
"But its principles are just as relevant for managing the upsetting emotions that arise and disrupt everyday life," says Edelman.

However, while psychologists stress actively challenging negative thoughts and replacing them with more optimistic ones, Buddhists focus more on detaching yourself from all thoughts to create a state of stillness conducive to ultimate self-understanding, or enlightenment.

For Buddhists, the key method of achieving this is meditation – which usually involves fixing our attention on a body part, the breath, a mantra or an inspirational picture – to arrive at a state where we are not distracted by our thoughts.

And psychologists agree that quite aside from any spiritual connotations, meditation is a powerful tool.

Research has shown that practicing meditation regularly – and being more 'mindful', that is, focused on the present moment – has beneficial effects for a range of conditions. These include stress, anxiety, depression, poor sleep and coping with chronic pain. It also has other health benefits like reduced inflammation, improved immunity and lower blood pressure.

Most methods suggest meditating for about 20 minutes twice a day, although many people will find it useful to start with five to 10 minutes twice a day and to build from there.

Experts describe meditation as "a method to make the mind relaxed and peaceful. Tranquility gives rise to clarity from which understanding and wisdom grow."

This wisdom allows us to observe that negative emotions such as anger and desire cause all of our problems. However, by applying antidotes, it's possible to free ourselves from their harmful influence.

So for instance, to overcome anger, Buddhists cultivate the practice of patience. To counteract desire – say for wealth,status or a lover – one reflects upon the impermanent and transitory nature of life and everything in it.

Similarly, positive behaviours such as acting in a kind and loving way, or as Buddhists say, practising 'loving-kindness', give rise to joyful experiences and we should therefore try to cultivate them.
-- Buddhism and Happiness

Loud music makes you dumb!

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Gifting an iPod or an MP3 player to your child for scoring good grades in an exam may fetch that smile and those brownie points but you could be causing a lot of damage in the entire process.

According to a recent study that has been making ripples across health circles in the US, one out of five American children has developed hearing loss to varying extents. With earphones constantly glued to their ears, iPods and MP3 players are the most obvious culprits. Our own teens can barely be recognized without a cellphone or an iPod attached to their ears like an extra appendage.

The city’s ENT specialists believe constant exposure to loud music is the single-largest reason for hearing loss. Dr Sharad Bhalekar, an ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon with D Y Patil Hospital in Nerul, feels, “The ill-effects of noisepollution can be seen in people subjected to prolonged exposure to high noise decibel level of more than 80dB (A) Leq (energy mean of the noise level).

Apparently, this number seems to have increased three fold in the past 15 years. Sadly, while others are a lot more sensitive, almost every teenager just has to walk around with his personal music to make a cool statement or risk being considered and outsider. What these kids don’t realise is hearing loud music constantly can create hearing loss which in turn hampers language and...intellectual development!

Going by the statistics of the young getting deafer and, concurrently, dumber, it just isn’t funny. So, the next time you see a teenager walking around with his or her ears plugged into earphones, it might make sense to stop and drop that warning. It won’t be easy or even pleasant – but someone’s got to do it.

Watch that anger

Dismiss it as a personality trait but those white flashes can do much damage to your health. Here’s why you must control your anger

Mumbai Mirror Bureau

     

Posted On Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 03:59:48 AM

Anger is a natural human emotion, no doubt. At times, venting out your frustration is good, but knowing how to control it is equally crucial. How you react to a certain situation mirrors your level of maturity and problem-solving skills. Psychologist Alina Philip tells you why you must control those unwanted bouts of rage. •  The immediate effects: When you lose control, your body is the first to bear the brunt. Your blood pressure shoots up and your breathing becomes faster. It’s almost as if you were gearing up for a physical fight. In some cases, the high BP also leads to sudden headaches. And in the long run, the elevated blood pressure can lead to increase in the chances of heart attack. As the body temperature goes up, one may also experience sweating. • Tiredness: Expression of anger needs energy. As a result, it saps up your reserves and you feel tired. In the process, the level of stress hormone shoots up, further aggravating that ‘down and out’ feeling. You may feel ‘in control’ while expressing anger, but spend some time in that state and the depleting energy levels will hit you. As a result, your productivity takes a nose-dive and work suffers. • You cannot sleep: With so much negativity in your head and some riled up souls around you, getting a good night’s sleep is almost impossible. And even if you manage to fall asleep out of sheer exhaustion, the quality of it will be nowhere close to what your body (and mind) needs. Lack of sleep and anger works in a cyclical fashion. When you are angry, you don’t sleep well. And lack of sleep leads to a foul state of mind which can trigger anger. Insomnia and other sleep disorders come with their own share of health problems. • Depression: Being in a constant ‘worked up’ state can lead to depression. And that can set off a series of potentially harmful behavioral patterns such as smoking and excess drinking. Sometimes, people prone to anger use it to fight that feeling of depression and helplessness. Anger is not your natural and healthy state of mind, and when it turns into a regular phenomenon, ill effects are bound to follow. • Alienation: Losing your cool occasionally is one thing, but flare-ups become an everyday phenomenon, the ones on the receiving end will start distancing themselves. You are then in the danger of becoming socially ostracized. In the office environment, you will lose respect of your subordinates and your boss will view you as someone who has no control over his/her emotions. • Wrong decisions: Anger sends rationality for a toss. You are too caught up reacting to the immediate and lose focus of the true nature of the problem. In fact, when one ought to be channelizing energies towards solving the problem, you will be doing just the opposite. You cannot see the issue from a different perspective and there are high chances that you may end up taking the wrong decision.  Even studies say so…  Researchers from the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) in Baltimore have found that people who are angry and aggressive face a greater risk for heart attack and stroke. These people showed a greater thickness of the carotid arteries in the neck, a key risk factor for heart attack or stroke, compared with people who were more easygoing. The researchers write that "when the Type-A behavioral pattern was dissected into its constituent parts, hostility and anger emerged as the dominant predictor of coronary artery disease."  Get a grip on your anger  Get a grip on your anger with these asanas, says yoga expert Yogesh Chavan 1. Dirgha Shwasan (Deep breathing)  Sit comfortably with an erect spine, take a deep breath while expanding the stomach, then exhale deeply while pulling your stomach inwards. Continue for two to three minutes. Effect: Anger subsides gradually and it steadies your thinking process and relaxes you. When you deep breathe, more oxygen is supplied to the body. More oxygen means more nutrition that stops the usual shallow and speedy breathing experienced during anger. 2. Jivha Shitali (Tongue cooling) Sit comfortably and take your tongue out of the mouth. Shape your lips as if you would be saying the alphabet "O". In the process, this rolls the tongue into a pipe-like formation. Inhale through this tongue formation and close the mouth after pulling the tongue inside. Hold this breath inside for 15-20 seconds. Exhale through the nose while making a plain humming sound. Repeat about seven times. Effect: It cools you down, relaxes the brain and normalises heavy breathing. When you are angry, your body temperature goes up. The cool air provides counters this problem. 3. Bhramari Pranayam Breathe in and out through the nose. While exhaling, make a humming sound. Repeat the process about seven to eight times. Effect: The sound vibrations created are radiated all over the brain. The sound creates moderate vibrations as if massaging the brain and other delicate organs situated in the skull. It relaxes and removes stress.

Online campaign backfires

Traffic dept’s facebook page used to shame corrupt cops

Users post photographs of policemen taking bribes, riding without helmets on online forum

Ashutosh Patil

     

Posted On Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 04:20:55 AM

Mumbai police is losing face every day on a Facebook page it recently created to allow Mumbaikars to post pictures of traffic offenders. On the page, which carries an unofficial tag but is maintained and monitored by senior police officers, people are posting pictures of cops accepting bribes, riding bikes without wearing helmets, and even relating in detail cops' corrupt ways and their misbehaviour with motorists. One of the pictures posted on the Facebook page Alarmed by the negative feedback, which defeats the page’s stated objective of getting people involved in policing of Mumbai roads, the traffic department has begun initiating action against errant cops. “Let people post these pictures and comments on Facebook. We will not turn our face away from our own failings. We will start initiating action against cops whose pictures or vehicle numbers appear on the page,” Deputy Commissioner, traffic, Nandkumar Chowgule, said. Chowgule, just a glance at the Facebook reveals, will have enough material to act against his men. Here are a few samples: Rahul rakh posted this picture 1. Rahul Rakh has posted a picture of a traffic cop accepting a bribe from a man. He, however, does not mention any details and signs off with a lament, “what to say, guys...” 2. Suchitra Ghosh relates an incident of Saturday night when she and her friends were made to get off a rickshaw “by drunk cops driving a police van”. Suchitra says the cops were so drunk, “they could not even stand straight.” 3. Ankita Karandekar reports on the page “a cop at Kurla station (having long moustache) who collects money from autorickshaw drivers everyday.” Joint Police Commissioner, Traffic, Vivek Phansalkar said, “We will take cognisance of all these pictures and comments. We will take action against these men.” Just last week, Joint Commissioner, Law and Order, Rajnish Seth, referring to some uncomplimentary pictures of policemen appearing in newspapers. Calling it a “shame”, the notice asked policemen to make sure their conduct in public is exemplary and does not bring disrepute to the department. Karadekar Ankita a cop at kurla station(having long strange mustache) ......collects money frm all the autorickshaw drivers out there...."everyday" and encourages them to break rules... Ramanathan Swaminathan Man, this is a fantastic way to reach the cops. basically, the cops i find are just standing at a distance away from the signals so they can catch some one to make their days money. in fact, i asked the police man standing little away why he should stand there instead if he stood on the signal, i am sure the motorists... Uday Sripathi The "Licensed Thieves" of Mumbai, our beloved traffic police. It's like the Government giving them a salary and asking them to loot and steal the citizens money. Amardeep Hora Imagine the money collected at traffic violations without receipts would be such a large amount (lacs per day,may be more), that traffic police department will have enough money to raise their salaries like our MP's