<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36895990</id><updated>2026-10-11T04:33:29.685+05:30</updated><category term="Professional Conduct"/><category term="Samsung galaxy s3"/><category term="newroom"/><title type='text'>Balaji Damodaran</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36895990/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Balaji Damodaran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04511255803568499399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36895990.post-7966492940350965135</id><published>2014-03-29T20:23:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2014-03-29T20:23:30.838+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Cold-Stone-Hearted-Woman</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; It was a very small elegant beautiful hut on the side of a single road which can fit only one vehicle with four wheels. Vehi-cles often shared two side wheels whey they overtook or when their path crossed in a journey. The small beautiful hut on the sides of this small road housed a lovely couple with two sons and three canine family members. It was a poor but lovely family. The lady of the house was a very talkative woman but was also a very kind, caring and supportive wife for a crippled, bold, humble and well mannered husband. The man of the house, husband of a kind hearted talkative noisy woman, father of two young bright active and intelligent sons, was a government school watchman. The house was a makeshift arrangement for this modest family and it was lo-cated just outside the school gate and besides this main road which was moderately busy.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;This humble family adopted 3 canines (you may call them dog but don&#39;t dare to do so in front of any of this family mem-bers) namely PETER, RAM and MULLA.. These three canines have not only occupied a major portion of their hut but also a major portion of their heart. These three canines in return paid back their love by assisting the man of the family during night shift in his duty as security guard of government school. In addition the family owned two Panthers (motor cycle brand with peculiar sleek de-sign and noise) which were their commuting vehicles. People can easily identify from the sound that someone from Guard’s family is on wheels, such was the uniqueness of the Panther’s sound. The whole family travels on panther in all possible combination, hus-band and wife, husband and kids, father and son, son and mother, father and canine, son and canine as riders and pillion riders re-spectively but the rider was always someone who had a verifiable driving license. Humans from the family as riders and the canines (PETER, RAM and MULLA) as pillion riders was such a adorable scene for the villagers to admire and talk about.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;In addition to being a helping hand and a additional walking leg to the guard, RAM, PETER and MULLA were great friends of the lady of the house. At times they are her stress busters. She yells at them, orders them, hugs them, feeds them, talks to them on her lonely days. They were always competing for her love and attention. She had been a very rational lady and always shared one-sixth of love and affection to those who lived in that humble but beautiful hut. She has always been a warm lady with kind heart in contrast to her noise talkative outlook which often deceives anyone his is meeting her for the first time. People always have this opinion about her—talkative, noisy cold hearted woman. People have been harsh and mean to her because of this miscon-ception. She never cared and was not even aware of it. All she cared was dividing her love and attention into one-sixth and distribut-ing it equally to the co-habitants of her palace.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;On a beautiful Sunday, the man of the house, the Guard of the school, got his weekly off and wanted to take his family for an outing. Husband and eldest son on one Panther, wife—the lady of the house and youngest son on another panther, with the village people noticing them by unique Panther’s noise left for a family outing leaving their canine family members at home. They decided to go for a movie in nearby town. Their sons wanted to watch the movie for two reasons, one because all their friends have already watched the movie and boasting about it in school, secondly their most admired and favorite teacher who is like a mentor to them talked highly of that movie saying that this particular movie teaches young people about love and compassion. It was a good movie and the family enjoyed the movie as well as the whole outing trip. On the way back home they had a nice chat with each other and the significant part of that chat went like this;&lt;/div&gt;
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Eldest son: Nice movie and good to know about Love and Compassion.&lt;/div&gt;
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Father : Good that you guys enjoyed the movie and the trip.&lt;/div&gt;
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Youngest son: Yeah, good movie. But don&#39;t you guys think we should also have love and compassion in our house too?&lt;/div&gt;
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Mother: What made you to ask such question? We always have love and compassion at our house.&lt;/div&gt;
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Younger son: Do you think so? Then why do people in our village call you “noisy-cold-hearted-lady”?&lt;/div&gt;
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Mother: Who say such things to you about me? (She was really shocked to hear such things from her son)&lt;/div&gt;
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Younger son: People in the village and my friends at school.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;By then they were approaching their destination—Their Home. From distance they can see their house and RAM, PETER and MULLA. On seeing them the three canines got exited and started barking with matching decibels of the two Panthers. The three started running towards them on the road as the family was nearing the house on their Panthers. The lady of the house was shouting at the canines for two reasons. One, obviously she was upset about her younger son’s comment earlier, second she was worried about the safety of the canines on the road because of approaching vehicle at high speed. They were meters away from their house when the horror suddenly happened in front of their eyes. As she feared the drunken rookie on a speeding lorry hit and ran, leaving RAM, PETER and MULLA lying on pool of blood. The three canines were fighting for life on the side of the road near the hut.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The visibly shocked family parked their noisy Panther on the side of the road and ran towards their severely wounded ca-nines . The Guard and his both sons held RAM, PETER and MULLA respectively on their lap and were worried and crying with the lady of the house no-where around them. Within minutes people gathered around them and everyone noticed the lady of the house emerging out of the hut with water in a small vessel. To everyone&#39;s surprise and with her family members watching she poured water on RAM, PETER and MULLA and within minutes the three died of chocking in water and blood. Everyone gathered around them were hell shocked and were murmuring—cold-stone-hearted woman. The younger son looking straight at the eyes of her mother said angrily “ See, you are really a cold-stone-hearted woman” and ran away crying in to their house, with his elder brother tailing him to the house in an effort to console him.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;She too was saddened by what happened but only she knew there was no chance for them to save RAM, PETER and MULLA and only thing she can do is not let them suffer in pain. By pouring water on them she made them suffer less. She looked at her husband for comfort not opinion from him. Her compassionate crippled husband with his limping leg approached her, under-standing his wife’s intention behind the act gave her a comfortable hug and took her to their hut. The gathered crowd dispersed with murmur and gossip. Later, the Guard with the help of his lady and sons buried RAM, PETER and MULLA adjacent to their hut.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;None of them had dinner that night. The younger son was still angry at his mother, went to sleep early along with his brother. The man of the house, the Guard noticed his lady weeping in the corner of the house. He approached her and consoled her by saying “you did the right thing by pouring water on RAM, PETER and MULLA as they were severely wounded and no way any-one could have saved them. Since you were close to RAM, PETER and MULLA, you couldn&#39;t see them suffer like that and you smothered them by pouring water”. She was very happy to know that her husband understood her true intentions but was still wor-ried and weeping. She said “Now, I have proved that I am actually a cold-stone-hearted woman to our sons. They will never love me again” and she started crying. Her husband hugged her again and said “from tomorrow when your love and affection for them in-creases from 1/6th to 1/3rd, they will understand that you are a lovely person and it is the opinionated society and gossiping people who are stone-hearted and cold, not you”. On hearing this she felt very relieved and went to sleep after sending her husband for night shift at the school gate.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The limping Guard never felt he was crippled in his life because of such a kind lady in his life. Today sitting at the school gate alone at night with tears in his eyes, he felt crippled without RAM, PETER and MULLA by his side.&lt;/div&gt;
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one of India’s world heritage site declared by UNESCO. A very nice place
depicts the amazing architecture and advanced social life of the people. The
temples were neatly designed and raised on a platform using marble stones, and
the sculptures on the temple walls were of sandstone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;What was my purpose to visit the
temple? One of my roommates was getting married at Khajuraho, and he said I can
look at this site too after the wedding. Also there was a Taboo attached to this place and I love to do what is generally considered as Taboo. So I have made a plan of attending the
marriage and site seeing this ancient temple site. As usual, the
procrastinating guy in me made a terrible plan and made this trip almost
impossible. However, all thanks to the guys “PUNE RAIL SEVA” who book emergency
train tickets. They are very reliable in last minute train booking, and till the
date whenever I approached them; they never failed me to get a ticket. I
recommend them to anyone living in PUNE for emergency train ticket.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;On reaching Khajuraho, took a
share auto to the temple site. I was the 13&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; passenger in the share
auto, and I guess PIAGGIO originally designed the auto for four people. The
auto driver was reluctant to start the auto as he was visibly upset to see only
13 people whereas his expectation was to pack minimum 20 people in the auto.
But the poor guy has to give-in to the demands of the impatient 13 people, who
were cursing him already to start the auto. It was a 10 rupees ride to the
Kahuraho bus-stand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;From Khajuraho bus-stand one can
hire auto/bike/bi-cycle or walk to reach the different temples around Khajuraho
bus stand. There are a total 22 temples in three groups – the Southern group of
temples, the eastern group of temples and the western group of temples of which
the western group of temples were declared as world heritage, and they are main
attraction. The Jain temples in the eastern group are very elegant ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;I hired an auto, and the auto
driver was sort of kind guy (found out later he charged me double for the ride
sensing my Hindi accent, Rs 600 for usually Rs 300 ride) to guide me around the
temples. He, first took me to the southern group of temples, which had three to
four temples one of them is called Chatbhuj Mandir. The temple architectures were
very meticulous and so detailed. “&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The architecture of the temple can be summarized
as symmetry and perfect repetitions.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; All temples have a central
deity or Moorthi with well decorated walls and on a raised platform with steps
leading to the deity. However, non-of these temples are visited by people for
poojas or darshan. They are very neat and clean but people don’t worship in
these temples for some unknown or may be known reason.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;I could see most of the tourists were
foreigners or NRI and very few Indian tourists were visiting the place. There
was one Indian NRI couple, few Koreans, Americans, Mexicans and Spanish. There
was this Indian NRI student with her classmate named PETER from Scotland. She
said she brought him on a cultural trip to India, and she was so so bad with
Indian history and Indian Epic, especially Mahabaratha that she was simply
blabbering to this poor PETER from Scotland. (I am no good at these epics but
if somebody says Mahabaratha is based on LORD RAMA, I can say he/she has zero
knowledge in the subject). I was growing impatient with her blabbering which at
some point she sensed and said sorry in private not wanting to appear silly to
her friend PETER from SCOTLAND. I don’t understand why people don’t keep shut
if they don’t know things. Sometimes some people try to be louder in a group,
so they can appear to have more knowledge than the rest of the group. Anyway,
she was an overenthusiastic kid sportive enough and open to correct herself. On
the back of the temple, there were these local guys who were offering marijuana
to this POOR PETER. However, he politely denied their offer and shared a
cigarette with them. Then we moved to the last two temples in the southern group
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happened to me at southern temple. With the usual group, we were looking around
the temple, and I came across this couple who looked Indian in their retired
age and on seeing them using the same type of hired auto as me, I just asked
them how much they paid for the auto. The old guy replied suddenly with an
American accent “300 bucks” which brought a loser feeling inside me. There are
general indicators to identify Indian in a group. One is making others feel
BAD. The old guy asked me back how much did you pay for your ride? “Rs 600” I,
replied. Suddenly, he started bursting out in laughter with his wife and said
the most terrible thing “Don’t worry; there is no point in regretting now. You
already paid double to the autowala and lost your money, just enjoy the ride.&quot;
I was talking to myself inside, “&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;this bloody accent oldie is definitely INDIAN;
he knows exactly how to make you FEEL BAD in a situation&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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conversation and asked me “What did that uncle tell you about auto fare?” I
replied that he charged me more than what the uncle paid for his auto, for which
he had a very logical explanation. He said he is guiding me on the site by
taking me to all small temples first and then to the main site of attraction
later which he said other autowalas will not do for Rs 300. And most interestingly,
he said he is teaching me the importance of patience and slowness in seeing the
temples of khajuraho which I understood from his crude words was a complete
metaphor for lovemaking. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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of temples where Jain temples were located. My only thoughts when visiting
these Jain temples were “why on earth somebody will place Jain temples next to
these erotic temples of Khajuraho?” It clearly indicates that there existed two
kinds of people with two extreme thoughts, one embracing SANYASAM and other
embracing LIFE’s SIMPLE PLEASURES. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6aa84f;&quot;&gt;Legend says that these temples were built to
prevent the influence of Jainism on youths of that period. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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of temples, which is actually the UNESCO site. It was very well maintained with
lush green lawns. Another legend says that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6aa84f;&quot;&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Moon
GOD fell in love with a beautiful daughter of a priest. One night Moon GOD came
down to earth attracted by her beauty, seduced her, had a passionate night and
in the morning promised her that she will have a SON who will rule the whole
earth and the Moon GOD went back to sky. As promised SHE did have a son, who established
CHANDRA DYNASTY which had an advanced society in India. To honor his mother’s extramarital
affair he built these temples depicting erotic pictures and hidden side of
human desires and wanted his people to talk about what was considered as taboo&lt;/i&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;
I am not a historian and leave the responsibility of verifying the authenticity
of these legends to the historians. The artistic way of expressing human
desires has to be appreciated and everyone should visit this place once. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;These are the only temples in
INDIA where you can see people were more interested on the walls of the temples
than the central deity!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;It was a normal Saturday night
 and I share this room here at Pune with the most HEADSTRONG GUY* I have ever
 met in my life.That night Surprisingly he was in listening mode (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;so
 unnatural&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;) and I was
 in a philosophical mode (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;which you develop the moment you
 see anybody younger to you listening to you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;), so a small conversation started.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bala:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Hary,
 What do you think the purpose of life?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Hary:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt; Bala, I
 have been thinking of the same after shifting the room with you, and it has
 been a taunting thought which I am finding difficult to find a suitable answer
 for. What do you think of the same question. (He expected me to give a boring
 and lengthy answer but there was a seriousness in him).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bala: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;DUDE, I
 think there are only two things about which one can be very certain in life, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Birth and Death. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;All you have to do is just to find a way to time
 pass in-between. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;So
 life is just a time pass between Birth and Death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;(I said this with the flow without any thought but
 later we realized that would fit for the &quot;perfect answer&quot; we were
 looking for the &quot;purpose of life&quot;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;That
 small conversation left me with a deep thinking and made me to list out these
 crazy things one can do to &quot;TIME PASS&quot;. Some of them I practiced,
 some of them I practice and some I wish to practice…..&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Treat people
     with courtesy and respect and involve them in all your crazy activities
     however bad they are to you. Eventually they will see&amp;nbsp; the point in you and join you.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start a
     virtual business, make them believe in your idea and give them a suitable
     position in that company like CEO, President whatever they want to be.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Learn HTML
     and WEB designing….believe me you don’t have to be a computer programmer
     to do this…visit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codecademy.com/&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;codeacademy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.coursera.org/&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;coursera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt; websites they have easy guidance
     for novice…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lend a
     hearing ear to your friend who is in bad mood and needs a pep talk. Take
     him/her out and make them feel good.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tell your
     friend, &quot;Let us make a movie using only our mobile camera&quot; and
     move away when he starts thinking &quot;you are really crazy&quot; but
     still prove him wrong by making a movie on him.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Get into a
     ugly fight and argument with your roommate and stop talking to him for
     months.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     abusing your house-broker for looting your money.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start doing
     exercise for a week and give free advise to your roommates like &quot;you
     have trained ROCK in body building&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Make cold
     coffee at room and offer it to your roommates (secretly wishing they do
     not want).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Keep alarm
     early in the morning and do not wake up. On top of it wake your roommate
     from sleep and ask him to stop it. (It is good if the alarm is set at 4
     am, 5 am and 6 am continuously and keep funny alarm sounds)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     preparing food with your own recipe when maid is on leave and feed them
     with the worst food they tasted in their life.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Compliment
     your maid for her food (dirty minds be careful what you are complimenting
     for otherwise you will end up in jail). We have a maid, when I
     complImented her for her new earring, she was blushing and&amp;nbsp; started preparing nice food for us from
     next day. The other day I saw her using lot of oil in food (she uses 1
     liter oil in 3 days) and I showed her my recent medical report showing
     &quot;avoid oily foods&quot;. She said I will reduce oil. But to make her
     understand the seriousness of it, I said &quot;Mousi, Mujhe Shaadi karna
     hai&quot; (I meant I am not yet married so please use less oil in food).
     She gave a smile and continued with her work. Next day she complained to
     my roommate that &quot; I asked her to marry&quot; (Never thought wrong
     use of language would land me in such a trouble&quot; But later I had to
     explain her &quot;I have no plans of marrying her!!!&quot;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     growing plants in the middle of the room and annoy your friend by telling
     them we need more oxygen in the room!!!.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     cycling with your friend and make him lose weight, in the process you too.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     swimming with your friend and make it a group activity.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     teaching to kids around your place and see the excitement in their face
     (Like they met Einstein …..it happens only if you are true and involved
     with them while teaching).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     drinking &quot;Redbull&quot; with other guys while they booze and start behaving crazily as
     though you have boozed…&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Start
     reading books completely not relevant to what you are doing currently in
     life and start discussing with your friends. Make them do the same….(I
     convinced the HEADSTRONG GUY to do that !!!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bring
     delicious food and share it with your friend and when they say &quot;No, I
     am dieting&quot;, tell them to do the dieting on your behalf, you eat on
     their behalf.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ask your
     friend to give his bike on rent and tell him a detailed explanation
     &quot;why he has to put petrol on it&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Prepare to do list…strike out all the
     items when in actual you have accomplished only one task…repeat the same
     …..it has a psychological effect on your peers and friends when they see
     it….&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stock Maggi
     and milk packets at room and sell it with 100% profit to your roommates
     when the shopkeepers go on indefinite strike….&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;When your
     friend takes you for a treat order all the delicious and most costly foods
     in the menu and when served just taste a bit and say Dude just realized I
     am having a stomach update!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Crack a joke
     and laugh on your own joke in-front of all your roommates, till they end
     up laughing with you.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Commit to
     you friend for going out and end up not showing up there and not even call
     to inform them that you wont be coming.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15px;&quot;&gt;NEVER EVER LOSE YOUR CURIOSITY AND&amp;nbsp;CHILDISH CRAZINESS IN LIFE....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;*(HEADSTRONG GUY - Before meeting him I
 thought I was the most headstrong guy in the world. He made me look so small
 at our first conversation and I was not so pleased to see &quot;my personality
 inside him&quot;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;Got a Bike this week which has been my long pending wish!(Damn my procrastination) Hmmm... started cycling with the new one. Kinda facing problem with the gears but should get adjusted to it soon. This is my way of going green and moreover it should help me reach office which is now at cycling distance!!! It is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bsahercules.com/Product-Features.asp?pid=274&quot;&gt;Hercules Drift Roadeo&quot;&lt;/a&gt; I would recommend this model to anybody looking for bike in pune. I got it from a shop named Bedke cycles near Rhatani Fatta ( I dont know how to spell it Phatta or fhatta) or if you are looking for some real sports bike then RIDE at Aundh should be good but be prepared to burn ur pocket ( they have got cycle starting from 17k to 1.75 lacks). Thanks to my friend Advait who also happened to be my colleague for helping me to get this bike.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Courier New&#39;, Courier, monospace;&quot;&gt;Coming back to the Doomsday, It is 16.51 in my clock. So I got hardly one hour to live. Oh man what am I going to do in this one hour? Keep guessing will post back from heaven!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/feeds/9218383142135470803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/2011/05/doomsday-and-my-weekend.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36895990/posts/default/9218383142135470803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36895990/posts/default/9218383142135470803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/2011/05/doomsday-and-my-weekend.html' title='Doomsday and my weekend!'/><author><name>Balaji Damodaran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04511255803568499399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-doJG2gE8eAM/Tdek6Pb2aII/AAAAAAAAAEQ/OQatdUczsaE/s72-c/drift-zm.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36895990.post-7589833731734397261</id><published>2010-05-25T16:27:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-15T12:34:37.423+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Moral Stories - Herd mentality</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mCA4TTohX60/TGeRYiTwIRI/AAAAAAAAAD4/9EPA-mukJG4/s1600/survivorU_following_the_herd.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mCA4TTohX60/TGeRYiTwIRI/AAAAAAAAAD4/9EPA-mukJG4/s320/survivorU_following_the_herd.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;You are not an Indian, if you have not grown-up listening to stories. Your childhood is filled with all types of stories; especially moral stories. I too have grown up listening to lot of them. These stories play a major role in shaping up our character as we grow and mature.This is my favorite story which was told in one of my moral classes in school. &quot; There was a classroom full of students in a school and a teacher was walking outside the class by the window. Suddenly, he was interrupted by a banana-peel thrown out of the window by a student. Infuriated at this act he enters the classroom and ask the students, &quot;Who has done this mischief?&quot;. As typical of our herd mentality nobody came forward either accepting the mistake or pointing out the culprit. The teacher got more infuriated at this and asked the whole classroom to stand on the bench. With some murmurs the whole class stood on the bench except one BOY. On seeing him, the teacher shouts; how dare you not listening to my words when everybody else is obeying my orders? The boy replies politely, Dear Sir first-of-all I have not thrown the banana-peel and secondly,&quot;WHY SHOULD I FACE THE PUNISHMENT FOR SOMEBODY&#39;S MISCHIEF? On hearing this the teacher felt moved by the Boy&#39;s courage and asked the whole class to sit down. The moral of the story is, &quot; Forgo the herd mentally and try to stand-up and show your character if the situation demands even if you are alone &quot;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Nice story, but what bothers me is the culprit is still left to enjoy! What moral is this?&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/feeds/7589833731734397261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/2010/05/moral-stories-herd-mentality.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36895990/posts/default/7589833731734397261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36895990/posts/default/7589833731734397261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/2010/05/moral-stories-herd-mentality.html' title='Moral Stories - Herd mentality'/><author><name>Balaji Damodaran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04511255803568499399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mCA4TTohX60/TGeRYiTwIRI/AAAAAAAAAD4/9EPA-mukJG4/s72-c/survivorU_following_the_herd.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36895990.post-2272855889450119634</id><published>2010-03-27T15:34:00.007+05:30</published><updated>2010-03-31T17:20:34.315+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Earth Hour 60 - Burden on our infrastructure!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mCA4TTohX60/S63Wg4W30jI/AAAAAAAAADA/RU1ZGC98iAA/s1600/Earth_Hour_CMYK_sm_TM_LR.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; nt=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mCA4TTohX60/S63Wg4W30jI/AAAAAAAAADA/RU1ZGC98iAA/s320/Earth_Hour_CMYK_sm_TM_LR.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Earth Hour 60! -&amp;nbsp;As my understanding goes it is an&amp;nbsp;initative to create awareness about the global warming. But I am little bit cynic about it because of the doubts came to me aftermath of my google-eyed hours. In simple&amp;nbsp;words,&amp;nbsp;During earth hour every participant switch-off&amp;nbsp;the lights in&amp;nbsp;their premises to show their support for the cause.&amp;nbsp;My question is what happens to the electricity which are not used during this hour. Are they going to be wasted? How&amp;nbsp;strong are our power grids during this one hour to&amp;nbsp;cope up with&amp;nbsp;huge amount of load? One may say that power generation during this period at power plants are optimized (low production due to low demand) as per the reduced demand. But is it practically possible for a nuclear power plant or thermal power plant to reduce to say 25% capacity and return back to 100% capacity within an hour?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Or do we have the smart grids that can divert the surplus power to rural grids (assuming Earth Hour 60 is not that well advertised in rural areas - I am against it) which usually meets 75% energy demand can meet say 90% for an hour. Assuming our power plants are working with the same productivity during this one hour, our power grids has to be technically strong enough to distribute the surplus power or else it will damage the entire infrastructure of power grids as all the power grids are inter-linked nationally! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;As per my friend who is working in a thermal power plant says, the maximum capacity of a coal based power plant in India is only 30% ie 70 gm out of 100 gm coal is just converted to ash instead of power.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Electricity once generated it has to be used immediately otherwise you are bound to lose the energy. It can be stored by some technologies listed at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.electricitystorage.org/ESA/technologies/&quot;&gt;http://www.electricitystorage.org/ESA/technologies/&lt;/a&gt;. Again we are talking about THE ONE HOUR which leave less options.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I think my friends in utility industry can clear me of my doubts and I wish to be logically proved wrong for any of my typewritings above. Finally Is it possible to live off-grid in future? Anybody listening there? &lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/feeds/7916054881191751618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/2010/03/historic-womens-bill-shameful-conduct.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36895990/posts/default/7916054881191751618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36895990/posts/default/7916054881191751618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balajidamodaran.blogspot.com/2010/03/historic-womens-bill-shameful-conduct.html' title='Historic women&#39;s Bill - Shameful conduct!'/><author><name>Balaji Damodaran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04511255803568499399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36895990.post-6973004803114032141</id><published>2010-03-05T22:31:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-03-27T15:40:33.291+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Small Things - Big Impact!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Yes small things have big impact. Most of the time it is only the garland of small efforts that leads to big success. Only If we managed these small efforts&amp;nbsp;can reap big fruits. Today as usual a normal day with mix of thoughts but there is one special thing that happened today that made my day. Yes it was the &quot;Small appreciation of words&quot; by my colleague which&amp;nbsp;made me feel happy and since it was very unexpected&amp;nbsp;it has its own merits and weights.&amp;nbsp;There are certain people in&amp;nbsp;life&amp;nbsp;whome you can never satisfy. People like younger sisters (Greatest critics yes I do have one!), always-hungry-for-performance&amp;nbsp;Bosses, very critical colleagues. The moment you get good words from such people you lived your day. After-all, success is something&amp;nbsp;which means to the people you are sorrounded everybody else is&amp;nbsp;just worldly! So just striving to&amp;nbsp;satisfy these small people in my life!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Those who might have watched the budget session must have sensed the same. Somebody is presenting a budget which is going to benefit/affect 100 crores of people. It is natural as a multicultural society there is always a difference of opinion on anything which is proposed for the public. I do agree with that. But the way we put forward or express our disagreement is definitely not in the spirit of the social benefit. See the way our own elected representatives presenting themselves in the house of Parliament. What is the need for shouting and walking out if you do not agree with someone’s view in the parliament that too when the whole Indian society is watching you on the TV? There is a clear difference between disagreement and non-cooperation. When are we going to understand it? When are we going to stop shouting? Ironically, we find shouting as one of the necessary skills for the political gains even in our daily mundane transactions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Secondly, how does a speaker controls self and conducts the house in such a state of apathy? They should be really appreciated for their patience. How anybody can make a good decision with clear thought which is going to affect 100 crores of people with such a state of mind? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;We need to improve a lot as a society and there are lot of problems to be faced to achieve what we have been denied during those colonial years. These things cannot be achieved by simple shouting especially at places where we need to make good and smart decisions. Hope the new generation politicians will understand this and will learn this good lesson from their seniors. Jai Ho!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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