Monday 23 July 2012

dear  all

Pranab dada has finally become the 13th President of India For a veteran politician becoming (retiring)  the President in the fag end of his career is an achievement indeed:

The President of India has always been a decoration excepting few presidential actions on selecting the majority party, or giving clemency to a death convict or sending back a bill for scrutiny etc;

Over the years has any President pulled up the government for misgovernance. Rastrapati Bhavan has always been a retirement home and many have written on abolishing  this post  as long as the so called Head of state is teethless;

Anyway the President and his family can now enjoy a series of international visits and let us wish him a good enjoyable life:
Sanyasi

Tuesday 10 July 2012

Dear all

In my earlier articles i had made a clarion call for Manmohan singh to manmohansingh to save his face. The TIME magazine coverage of him as an underachiever , even though is guided by the US corporate interest, brings in the topic  of policy paralysis  into a world wide debate. I think he needs to now resort to a major cabinet reshuffle and put his credentials back on place
Sanyasi

Friday 6 July 2012

Dear all

This trailing article  of my friend Priya is worth reading. Please think now , as how biased is our media: I had always writen that our media nightingales and gandharvakumars always danced to the tunes of corporate and political money, and blatently failing on its role as the fifth estate. Do share this message of  her and let us all salute Major Pitambare:

Jai Hind:

 
Sanyasi

Doing my bit .
MESSAGE TO OUR GREAT NEWS CHANNELS!
I got the mail below from a friend of mine and am but all efforts would go waste if this mail doesn't reach THE MEDIA ......and give these guys something to think about..!! Really what a shame...

By the time you guys read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cr...emated with full military honors.

On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels- 'Sanjay Dutt relieved by court'. 'Sirf Munna not a bhai' '13 saal ka vanvaas khatam' 'although found guiltyof r possession of arms, Sanjay can breathe a sigh of relief as all the TADA charges against him are withdrawn'!
In some other news channel , Parliament was mad at the Indian team for performing badly ; Shah Rukh Khan was replacing Amitabh in KBC and other such stuff . But most of the emphasis was given on Sanjay Dutt's "phoenix like" comeback from the ashes of terrorist charges.
Surfing through the channels, one news on BBC startled me. It read "Hisbul Mujahidin's most wanted terrorist 'Sohel Faisal' killed in Anantnag , India .. Indian Major leading the operation lost his life in the process. Four others are injured.

It was past midnight , I started visiting the Indian news channels, but Sanjay Dutt was still ruling. Sanjay pleaded in the court saying 'I'm the sole bread earner for my family', 'I have a daughter who is studying in the US and so on. .. how he went to every temple and prayed for the last few months. A suspect in Mumbai bomb blasts, convicted under possession of arms ...was being transformed into a hero!.
Sure Sanjay Dutt has a daughter; Sure he is not a terrorist ,sure he went to all the temples;Sure he did a lot of Gandhigiri but then.......... ..
Major Manish H Pitambare got the information from his sources about the terrorists' whereabouts. Wasting no time, he attacked the camp, killed Hisbul Mujahidin's supremo and in the process lost his life to the bullets fired from an AK47. He is survived by a wife and daughter who is only 18 months old.

No news channel covered this since they were too busy hyping a film actor …….since he made “better news” .They also concluded that his parents in heaven must be happy and proud of him.
The parents of Major Manish are still living and they have to live rest of their lives without their beloved son. His daughter won't ever see her daddy again!

So guys, please pass this message around so that the media knows which news to give importance to!It is a matter of shame for us that the news of the death of this Army Major was given by a foreign TV channel !
Priya Pillai
 

Wednesday 4 July 2012

Dear all

Yesterday night my daughter who is in class 6 called me and asked about the God particle. It was very difficult to explain to her as at that age the knowledge of particle physics is far off. This is excerpts from the mail that I sent her, from what i understand from  the 4th July CERN announcement; Do read it out to your child if of the same age group:

From studying physics you know that the 118 elements in the periodic table like Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen etc  is made up of atoms which has a mass, and hence weight, and it can move. These properties of atoms are measurable and quantified and hence we believe that it exists even though we can’t see them with our eyes. These small balls of one element say like oxygen can join or form a bond  with another element like hydrogen and can change into  a different substance or a bigger ball  like water . This bigger ball of water  we call as water molecule. Thus we have all the elements in the universe joining with each other elements forming big balls or molecules of many things that we see and use whether it is your table salt or chalk powder.
However  if we start taking a molecule, say that of water, we know that it is made of the bonding or mixing up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. Now if we want to break this bonding, we can mix water molecules   with the molecule of, say, calcium carbonate which is nothing but your chalk. These molecules react to each other and one of the elements say hydrogen atom escapes out in its original gas form.
From the above we know that the materials and substances that we see and use in our daily life are made up of molecules which are made of a combination of many atoms of the elements. However, scientist by their experiments have found and proved that the atoms can also be divided and inside an atom there is another small ball called the nucleus (which has protons and neutrons. Protons are positively charged  and neutron have no charge) which is surrounded by negatively charged particles called electrons. They also found that the nucleus can further be broken into protons and neutrons. The components of an atom -  electrons, protons and neutrons are called as sub  atomic particles. Scientists also found that sub-atomic particles posses energy in them, and this energy cannot be seen but experienced like the heat energy and electric energy. We know that that the electricity which gives us light and makes our machines work are coming from these subatomic particles.
So how does a particle like an electron or a proton give energy? Scientists in particularly Albert Einstein found that the matter or mass which is seen and experienced as a particle is created from a large amount of energy. And by breaking these particles, the mass in it can be converted back to energy. So they developed machines called accelerators which will shoot one particle like a gun into another particle and break it into energy. This reaction was termed as nuclear reaction. While doing such experiments, the scientists found that while breaking the smaller particles of protons and electrons, along with the formation of energy, there are many other still smaller particles  formed which they named as quarks.
Quark is an elementary particle which matter is made of. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never directly observed or found in isolation; they can only be found within baryons or mesons. Mesons are hadronic subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark, bound together by the strong interaction.
An Indian scientist called Satyendranath Bose found that it is a mistake to presume that all such sub atomic particles have mass which can be converted to energy, but there are some other type of particles which exists as an energy field  but is a cause for providing a mass to other particles. He wrote about this to Einstein and he agreed to this thought and those imaginary particles were called Bosons to honour Bose. Later a scientist named Peter Higgs in 1954 found that among many bosons there is a type of boson which is the most elementary particle existing in an energy state which was named as Higgs field. Thus the Boson- Higgs  particle was considered as the basic element which gave matter its mass from an energy state and hence resulted in creation of the matter and hence the Universe.  Later a person called Leon Lederman wrote a book on Higgs Boson and named it God Particle which became popular.
The European Organisation of Nuclear research called CERN headquartered in Geneva in Switzerland announced on 4th July that the bosons which was till now only theoretically known was discovered in the accelerator .
The significance of the god particle was first postulated by our old Rishis in the Sankhya philosophy. This philosophical thought mentions about Prakriti (Mass/Universe ) and Purusha(Energy State/ Consciousness )  as the basis of the universe. The Prakriti is according to them was formed from the Purusha through a  basic element called as thanmatra, which we today discovered as Boson- Higgs Particle.
Sanyasi