Rann utsav!!!
Rann Utsav
is a combo package of three important entertaining sections of the world namely
music, art and dance. All together in the arid lands of Kutch
creates a mosaic of exquisiteness which reflects the identity and spirit of the
region. Kutch is one of those beautiful lands on the lap of mother
India which has preserved its culture and tradition for years
together. During the full moon night of the winters amid the awe-inspiring
and contrasting landscape each year a three day festive extravaganza brimming
with hospitality, vigor and traditional flavor of the area is hosted and known
as the Kutch or Rannutsav.
This three to four day carnival
organized at the various locales within Kutch takes one around the natural
grandiose while introducing the visitor to the indigenous cultural and ethnical
flavor of the people. Semi parched Grasslands of the Banni hosts the most
magnificent display of vernacular architecture as the exhibition platform for
the varied range of arts and crafts of the region. While an array of folk music
and dance performances organized in the shimmering moonlit landscape provides
the most enchanting experience. The colorful fairs held near the beach or the
banks of a lake swings one with the spirit of festivity, fervor and flamboyancy
while the organized tour around Kutch is an ideal occasion to be part of the
region and experience the zeal and uniqueness of the people through a
celebration of life!
It usually starts during the full
moon night in the month of December at the Bhuj city and goes around the
district with a grand finale again being held at the preliminary destination.
This year it falls between 06 Dec.
2014 to 5 March 2015.
Interesting
facts: Kutch or
Rannutsav, a unique manifestation of varied cultural ethos of the region is
known for the ethnic flavor and celebrative zest. This festival provides an
exclusive opportunity to witness the creative ingenuity of the artisans and
craftspeople, assorted array of folk music and performances, mixed
representation of culture and communities, along with a vast diversity in
ecology. All this and much more describe and define Kutch and the people.
Some important facts and history to be known about Indian railways!!!
- The total distance covered by the
14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half
times the distance to moon
- The first train on Indian soil ran
between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853
- IR has about 63,028 route kms. of
track
- IR employs about 1.55 million
people
- It carries over 13 million
passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday
- It runs about 14,300 trains daily
- IR has about 7,000 railway
stations
- The longest platform in the world
is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length
- Nehru Setu on Sone River is the
longest Railway bridge
- 42 Railway companies operated in
the country before independence
- Electric Locomotives are
manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan
- Coaches are manufactured at
ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru
- The national Rail Museum at New
Delhi was set-up in 1977
- People Employed in Indian Railway
are about 1.6 million
- Stations across State Lines are
Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan)
- Classes of travel on Indian
Railway: Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Chair Car IInd sleeper & IInd
ordinary
- Railway Station with all the Three
Gauges is Siliguri Railway Station
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First Passenger Train
Ran On
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16th April 1853
(between Bombay to Thane)
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First Railway Bridge
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Dapoorie Viaduct on the
Mumbai-Thane route
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First Rail Tunnel
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Parsik Tunnel
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First Ghats Covered by
the Rail lines
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Thal and Bhore Ghats
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First Underground
Railway
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Calcutta METRO
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First Computerized
Reservation System started in
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New Delhi (1986)
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First Electric Train
ran on
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3rd Feb' 1925 (between
Bombay VT and Kurla)
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Toilets on Trains were
introduced in
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1891 (1st Class) &
1907 (lower classes)
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Shortest Station Name
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Ib (Orissa)
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Longest Station Name
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Sri
Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu)
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Busiest Railway Station
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Lucknow (64 trains
everyday)
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Longest Run (Time)
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Vivek Express (3715 km
in Approx 71 hrs)
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Shortest Run
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Route between Nagpur to
Ajni (3km)
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Longest Run for Daily
Train
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Kerala Express (3054 km
in 42.5 hrs)
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Longest Non-Stop Run
(Distance)
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Trivandrum Rajdhani
(528 km in 6.5 hrs)
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Longest Railway
Platform in the World
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Kharagpur (2,733 ft in
length)
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Longest Railway Bridge
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Nehru Setu on Sone
River (10044ft in length)
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Longest Tunnel
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Karbude On Konkan
Railway between Monkey hill & Khandala (6.5 km)
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Oldest Preserved
Locomotive
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Fairy Queen (1855),
still in working order
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Indian Railway's
Fastest Train
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Bhopal-Shatabdi (runs
at a speed up to 140 Km/ph)
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Train with Maximum
Number of Halts
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Howrah-Amritsar Express
(115 halts)
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Even our traditional punishments involved science!!!
Friday 29 August 2014
Do you remember when we were studying in our primary and high school education we forget to get our notes, text books, geometry boxes we used to get an unique punishment of holding the earlobes with arms crossed over your chests, bending the knees and then sit and then stand and so on till the time we could here our masterji saying stop. A hundred sit ups will make you remember everything was the thing he said us.
But did you ever think why he might have said that?
This form of punishment has been in practice in our country since the Gurukul time and was given to the students who were weak in studies.
Talking about the logic behind this punishment, it is very interesting to know that this particular posture increases the blood flow in the memory cells in brain and synchronizes the right and left side of the brain to improve function and promote calmness, stimulates neural pathways via acupressure points in the earlobe, sharpens intelligence and also helps those with autism, asperger’s syndrome, learning difficulties and behavioral problems.
Probably we have forgotten this ancient method of increasing memory power but the West is now using is very diligently and they are recommending this posture or exercise to treat many a diseases.
But did you ever think why he might have said that?
This form of punishment has been in practice in our country since the Gurukul time and was given to the students who were weak in studies.
Talking about the logic behind this punishment, it is very interesting to know that this particular posture increases the blood flow in the memory cells in brain and synchronizes the right and left side of the brain to improve function and promote calmness, stimulates neural pathways via acupressure points in the earlobe, sharpens intelligence and also helps those with autism, asperger’s syndrome, learning difficulties and behavioral problems.
Probably we have forgotten this ancient method of increasing memory power but the West is now using is very diligently and they are recommending this posture or exercise to treat many a diseases.
Ancient Astrology and Modern Astronomy Synonyms???
Sunday 8 June 2014
As we go beyond our
culture and traditions we find an important tradition to follow with respect to
start of every task we do is reference to panchanga. Even though people in the
modern days say it as a myth or something which doesn’t comply with modern
science, it still exists. But if we think on its principles we can see that
most of its sayings were found to have been proved in the course of time starting
from the proofs shown by Nicolas Copernicus of sun centred theory to all the
recent time discoveries in astronomy. He are a few basic things to know what
astrology is all about and it’s relation with modern as astronomy.
In antiquity, people noticed that the majority of stars were stationary in respect to each other. They called these stars “fixed”. They observed that there were five visible stars which in contrast to the others, were revolving about the Earth, confined to a narrow line. This line, called the ecliptic, loops around the Earth at a certain angle. In fact, the ecliptic is the same line traversed by the Sun, the Moon and the five visible stars. Gradually astrologers divided the belt of the ecliptic into 12 sections and named each one of them after the fixed stars’ constellations that they observed “behind”
them. Most of them are named after animals, where specific characteristics best describe the energy, emanated from each constellation. This is how the Zodiac was born.
Furthermore, men observed that when a planet passes through a certain section of the Zodiac it triggers certain events. Babies born at this time share the same characteristics. In their constant travel along the ecliptic, planets move from one sign of the Zodiac to another. After some period of time they “return” to the same sign where they were previously. Babies born in different years, but during the time, when a particular planet is passing through the same sign of the Zodiac, also show very similar traits, pertaining to the domain ruled by this planet. For example, Mercury is the planet that rules the mind and communications. In the Greek mythology Mercury is represented by Hermes, who is always depicted as the “winged messenger” of God or in other words he is the intermediate, the one, conducting the communication between Gods and humans. As another example Venus is the planet ruling the harmony, unison and love between people. Greeks called her Aphrodite, the Goddess of love – ideal, familiar and sexual.
So when our ancestors have created this I believe it will have some
meaning in it. If these things are not known to modern day sciences is it the
mistake of our ancestors. But taking the right thing from it and not falling in
a trap or myth is in our hands. Common friends!! When movement of planet will
have an influence on our surroundings why not on us???????
# zodaic
Source: Wikipedia and In house writings.
Our history beyond modern science depicted in an old iron piller!!!
Sunday 25 May 2014
The Iron Pillar of Delhi
The Vedic literatures contain descriptions of advanced scientific techniques, sometimes even more sophisticated than those used in our modern technological world.
Modern metallurgists have not been able to produce iron of comparable quality to the 22 foot high Iron Pillar of Delhi, which is the largest hand forged block of iron from antiquity.
This pillar stands at mute testimony to the highly advanced scientific knowledge of metallurgy that was known in ancient India. Cast in approximately the 3rd century B.C., the six and a half ton pillar, over two millennia has resisted all rust and even a direct hit by the artillary of the invading army of Nadir Shah during his sacking of Delhi in 1737.\
The Vedic literatures contain descriptions of advanced scientific techniques, sometimes even more sophisticated than those used in our modern technological world.
Modern metallurgists have not been able to produce iron of comparable quality to the 22 foot high Iron Pillar of Delhi, which is the largest hand forged block of iron from antiquity.
This pillar stands at mute testimony to the highly advanced scientific knowledge of metallurgy that was known in ancient India. Cast in approximately the 3rd century B.C., the six and a half ton pillar, over two millennia has resisted all rust and even a direct hit by the artillary of the invading army of Nadir Shah during his sacking of Delhi in 1737.\
The pillar was manufactured by the forge welding of pieces of wrought iron. In a report published in the journal Current Science, R. Balasubramaniam of the IIT Kanpur explains how the pillar's resistance to corrosion is due to a passive protective film at the iron-rust interface. The presence of second-phase particles (slag and unreduced iron oxides) in the microstructure of the iron, that of high amounts of phosphorus in the metal, and the alternate wetting and drying existing under atmospheric conditions are the three main factors in the three-stage formation of that protective passive film.
Lepidocrocite and goethite are the first amorphous iron oxyhydroxides that appear upon oxidation of iron. High corrosion rates are initially observed. Then, an essential chemical reaction intervenes: slag and unreduced iron oxides (second phase particles) in the iron microstructure alter the polarization characteristics and enrich the metal–scale interface with phosphorus, thus indirectly promoting passivation of the iron[18] (cessation of rusting activity). The second-phase particles act as a cathode, and the metal itself serves as anode, for a mini-galvanic corrosion reaction during environment exposure. Part of the initial iron oxyhydroxides is also transformed into magnetite, which somewhat slows down the process of corrosion. The ongoing reduction of lepidocrocite and the diffusion of oxygen and complementary corrosion through the cracks and pores in the rust still contribute to the corrosion mechanism from atmospheric conditions.
The most critical corrosion-resistance agent is iron hydrogen phosphate hydrate (FePO4-H3PO4-4H2O) under its crystalline form and building up as a thin layer next to the interface between metal and rust. Rust initially contains iron oxide/oxyhydroxides in their amorphous forms. Due to the initial corrosion of metal, there is more phosphorus at the metal–scale interface than in the bulk of the metal. Alternate environmental wetting and drying cycles provide the moisture for phosphoric-acid formation. Over time, the amorphous phosphate is precipitated into its crystalline form (the latter being therefore an indicator of old age, as this precipitation is a rather slow happening). The crystalline phosphate eventually forms a continuous layer next to the metal, which results in an excellent corrosion resistance layer. In 1,600 years, the film has grown just one-twentieth of a millimetre thick.The next main agent to intervene in protection from oxidation is phosphorus, enhanced at the metal–scale interface by the same chemical interaction previously described between the slags and the metal. The ancient Indian smiths did not add lime to their furnaces. The use of limestone as in modern blast furnaces yields pig iron that is later converted into steel; in the process, most phosphorus is carried away by the slag. The absence of lime in the slag and the deliberate use of specific quantities of wood with high phosphorus content (for example, Cassia auriculata) during the smelting induces a higher phosphorus content (> 0.1%, average 0.25%) than in modern iron produced in blast furnaces (usually less than 0.05%). One analysis gives 0.10% in the slags for 0.18% in the iron itself. This high phosphorus content and particular repartition are essential catalysts in the formation of a passive protective film of misawite (d-FeOOH), an amorphous iron oxyhydroxide that forms a barrier by adhering next to the interface between metal and rust. Misawite, the initial corrosion-resistance agent, was thus named because of the pioneering studies of Misawa and co-workers on the effects of phosphorus and copper and those of alternating atmospheric conditions in rust formation.
Balasubramaniam states that the pillar is "a living testimony to the skill of metallurgists of ancient India". An interview with Balasubramaniam and his work can be seen in the 2005 article by Veazy. Further research published in 2009 showed that corrosion has developed evenly over the surface of the pillar.
It was claimed in the 1920s that iron manufactured in Mirjati near Jamshedpur is similar to the iron of the Delhi pillar. Further work on Adivasi (tribal) iron by the National Metallurgical Laboratory in the 1960s did not verify this claim.
OM- AS ITS ACCEPTED BY NASA!!!!
Sunday 13 April 2014
Om is a mantra and mystical Sanskrit sound of Hindu origin (geographically India), sacred and important in various Dharmic religions such as Hinduism Buddhism, Sanatana Dharma and Jainism. Om (also spelled Aum) is a Hindu sacred sound thatis considered the greatest of all mantras.
The sound of sun is always considered as the most sacred in most of the religions of the world. But unfortunately human ears can hear only between 20-20000 Hertz. The sound of the sun is much lower or higher in frequency than we humans can hear. Could this sound of the sun be the part of universal language system? Recently NASA has recorded the actual sound of the sun in deep space. The compressed the inaudible waves of sun to facilitate the human ear to hear it. The sound of the sun resembles the word "OM" as it is prescribed in hindu vedas.
How did the ancient hindus know this mantra if it couldn't be heard by human ears?. Could they have pierced into universal consciousness and received it? Human language and language of universe cannot travel faster than speed of sound. But language as a set of information can be sent at the speed of light as we hear it in a radio. As NASA's descovary concluded saying our language was transmitted as a powerful energy and could thus be at the speed of light squared , cubed and so on and could thus made it possible to those ancient hindus to have linked the sacred voices of sun
The syllable Om is composed of the three sounds a-u-m (in Sanskrit, the vowels a and u combine to become o) and the symbol's threefold nature is central to its meaning. It represent several important triads:
The three worlds - earth, atmosphere, and heaven
The three major Hindu gods - Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva
The three sacred Vedic scriptures - Rig, Yajur, and Sama
Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSlnHxGFNfs
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