How to prevent diabetes ..

By proper fibrous, green, beans, peas food intake, exercises and reducing excess weight, the risk of getting type 2 diabetes can be reduced by half..

http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Diabetes

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Christ and 43 other deemed Universities to be derecognised ??

It was shocking to hear on NDTV two days back that the Central Govt has recommended to the Supreme Court that none of the 44 deemed universities who were given two years grace time to prove their credibility to get recognition, have proved their worth. The recommendation was that these Universities should be derecognised.

Now it is upto the Supreme Court to give its final verdict on Nov 22 which could go either way after its careful study of the matter.

Some serious questions that need to be answered are

1. Do these deemed universities deserve any consideration, with so many mad parents and students running after them to secure admissions for their wards through the front and back door ?

2. Who are the final losers ? What will happen to these students whose future hangs in a balance ? Will they get accredited with state universities?

3. Will these universities try to get accreditation from the state government as a state private university ?

4. To avoid the rot in the education system, should these universities be permitted to continue with their so-called innovative methods of delivery of knowledge to the needy students ?

With 600 million of people below 27 years of age in India, conservatively considering that about 20 % of this ( 120 million) can be accommodated in the colleges for higher education, do we have so many Universities and educational Institutes to help in this step of nation building ?

We need to find a solution to this crisis soon ..

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Internet users in India, climbs to No 3 in the world ..

Top Internet users of the world .. ( not starting a piss fest ..)

1. China   485 million

2. USA    245 million

3. India    121 million ( Dec 2011)  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jC5EXMtLq7wc15no2wbytMqQp2zA?docId=CNG.4307f27c234fe9dcea92d70e06b1cd62.3c1

At 866 m mobile users India is just 85 m users behind China ( as of Oct '11). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use

The question on everyone's lips is : How long can US continue its dominance of the communications / Internet scene in the world ? When will companies like Google, yahoo, Facebook come up in India. It is not that far ..

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iPhone and Blackberry limping ?

First it was iPhone sales dipping by 10 million behind Samsung for the last quarter .. Now Blackberry's RIM is worth less than its assets ! (shares quoting at $18.59 compared with book value of $ 18.92 .. after the recent fiasco )

With major players dropping by the wayside, Samsung and Google's Android is the clear winner in the smartphone market !

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A song for Irom Sharmila ..

A song for Irom Sharmila from manipur who on Nov 4, 2011 will complete 11 years of hunger strike against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5yMgxvA1Bo

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We are 7 billion ... let's celebrate !!

While it took 250,000 years for the first billion population on planet earth, it took just 12 years to move from 6 billion to 7 billion.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/10/world-population

With decreasing fertility of women of the world to less than 2.1 children per woman, the ideal replacement rate, by 2050, we can expect the world population to cross 9 billion and remain steady. We will have a crowded and stable world then ..

During our generation from 1960 onwards, the world population has gone from 3 billion to the present 7 billion. And most of us will live long enough (till 2030, due to increased life expectancy of 65 years, which means on an average we cannot expect to live on this planet for more than eighteen to twenty years) to see world population increase to 8 billion in 2025..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

It took 250,000 years for the world population to reach 1 billion in 1800, just 125 years to move to 2 billion in 1925, 35 years to move to 3 billion in 1960. 14 years to move to 4 billion in 1974, 13 years to move to 5 billion, 12 years again to move to 6 billion and another 12 years now to reach 7 billion on 31 October 2011.

Our children would have reached 50 - 60 years by the time world population reaches 9 billion by 2050 !!

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Thrimoorthikal of Kerala, T M Varghese, Pattom Thanu pillai and C Kesavan

According to Hindu religious beliefs, the Universe has the thrimoorthi of the Creator, the Preserver and the Destroyer in Bhrama, Vishnu and Shiva (the scuplture is from Elephanta caves, 10 kms off Mumbai) ...

The Trimurti, Bhrahma, Vishnu and Shiva,
Elephanta cave carving ..

The three great political and social leaders of Kerala (Thirukochi) during the time of freedom-struggle and formation of the Indian Union are as below.

These leaders led the freedom movement among many others and were active in political life till the addition of Malabar under the states re-organisation and the formal christening by the name Kerala.

These leaders  were impeccable in their value systems, life, principles and ideals which they upheld during their life time.

( L to R) T M Varghese, Pattom Thanu Pillai and C Kesavan after the swearing in ceremony in 1948.

T. M. Varghese, (April 22, 1886 - Dec 31, 1961) my maternal uncle, was the first home minister of Kerala under the Chief Ministership of Pattom Thanu Pillai. He died about three years before I was born ..

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