Friends forever....... and ever!

We humans deliberate over religion, caste and animals dont even have a language, yet they manage to connect!

A pelican and a dog - best of friends. News of friendship between the two species is spreading across continents like wide fire. According to locals, these friends eat, sleep, swim - spend all their time together.

We humans can surely take a lesson or two from their bond of friendship!

You're barely a bullet away!

 

Thanks to Anurag Kashyap's movie 'Gangs of Wasseypur', the expanding menace of illegal 'desi' arms has again been brought to light.
Our country has numerous locations where merely a staff of 2 are making multiple guns a day!

With this comes the crucial question: In our country, how many people are in possession of such harmful weapons?

Nobody has the answer..... Maybe the person next to you has a gun!

A rendezvous with the 19th century

Looking back, our country has a long story to narrate. Every artifact discovered by our archeologists, gives a picture as to how life was way back then.

200 years old utensils, 150 years old jewellery, 100 years old footwear - These alongwith some rare artifacts can be seen in the pictures. It is courtsey such exhibitions that people understand how their ancestors lived, years ago.

Quite interesting to actually think, how did people live in the 10th century or 15th century or even closer, 19th century!

Heat-escapers find shelter under the shade of god

Scorching heat is making people go religious!

With the mercury rising, everybody wants to experience pleasant weather.
This is making people head to the hills and one of the popular destinations this year is Badrinath in Uttarakhand.

Badrinath, known as abode of Lord Vishnu was always popular as a Hindu religious site but is now catching the fancy of heat-escapers and atheists.
Majestic view of Ganga on way to Badrinath, the valley, the temples, the view of Badrinath temple - enough to plan a must-visit to this holy town.

IF they had the chance.....they would not be child laborers!

 

Innocents face harsh realities.
Millions continue to work as Child Labourers.
Were they given a choice?
Did they decide to work 10 hours a day for a meagre Rs.50?

These children are merely trapped in their poverty cycle. Born to poor parents, many have to work in factories / units to sustain their family's. Right to education made mandatory is good but the execution lacks spirit. Centre and State fight over sharing expenses, without realising that it is only the government that can help them, break out of this vicious cycle of 'Born Poor, Continue to Stay Poor'.

 

 

It's always the commoner paying the price..... The Illegal Liquor Traffic

Who’s to Blame for the damages caused by India’s Illicit Liquor Industry?

Central Govt is busy blaming the states. State Govt claims action is being taken. Police often comes in scene, post a tragedy. So who is keeping a tab on this trade?

Are the people consuming bad liquor to be blamed? Are the ones making this liquor to be blamed? Are the affected families to be blamed? Are the authorities to be blamed? The question yet again remains unanswered, who is to be blamed - people for their lack of knowledge and desire to escape from the realities or authorities for not being in control...........

Builders shake hands with Saviours

Country's first private fire unit in Haryana's millennium city

Yet again highlighting the advantages of Public-Private-Partnership, DLF builders have forayed into fire services with the help of Haryana's fire department.

'DLF Fire Services' become not only country's first private fire unit, but also boast of having the highest hydraulic platform in the country. With a hydraulic platform of ninety metres, DLF fire station could easily qualify for the most advanced fire unit of the country.

 

Tiger sanctuary meant to shelter, turns bloody!

Rampant poaching is making Jim Corbett National Park lose its wild cats.........

Who said, habitat loss is the single largest threat to the future of wild tigers in India?

Well, that was of the past. It is now evident that we are losing more tigers to poachers and not just to nature. Tigers' bones, skin, teeth is costing them their lives.

In the recent weeks, more than half a dozen wild cats have been killed. Can such rampant poaching be possible without the assistance of Corbett's staff? Where are the forest guards? Corbett staff is definately answerable but is anybody even questioning them?

 

Shelter homes, Shattered dreams

Who would have thought of life at Govt run shelter homes being full of torture, harassment and abuse? This is reality for a lot of children......

Haryana yet again is getting infamously famous for being hotspot of 'Child Servitude'.

Children at Government run shelter homes are full of stories on how they have to go through mental and physical trauma. The Authorities seem to be completely oblivious to this state of thousands of children.

Government accepts negligence in keeping a check on shelter homes but is acceptance enough?

The tale behind Debasnan Purnima -----

The deities are escorted out of the temple's sanctum sanctorum and taken for a ceremonial bath.

Altogether 108 pitchers of aromatic and herbal water are fetched from Suna kua of the temple. The well remains unused till next year's bathing ceremony. Thereafter the deities are decorated in elephant attire symbolizing the incarnation of Ganesha.

The gods would remain out of bounds for devotees for a fortnight as the deities supposedly fall 'sick' after taking the grand bath. The deities, whose daily rituals are tantamount to the living style of a human being, would undergo treatment by the shrine vaidyas (ayurveda doctors) during this period.

The deities recuperate from 'fever and appear before pilgrims with a rejuvenated look on the occasion of nabajouvan darshan (rejuvenation) the same day.

Since the reigning gods remain inaccessible for 15 days, pilgrims can have darshan of the representative gods of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra in the temple during this time.