Belum Caves is the second largest cave in Indian sub-continent and the longest caves in plains of Indian Subcontinent. It lies in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. Belum Cave is 3.5 km in length and the second longest cave in India next to 21km long Krem Um Lawan cave in Meghalaya. Belum Caves derives its name from "Bilum" Sanskrit word for caves.
The ninth blood donation drive @ ITPL in association with Sankalp will be held on 21 July 2010. As always, a million thanks to Ascendas and Apllied Materials for all the support being provided to organise the blood donation drive.
The thied blood donation drive @ Logica in association with Sankalp will be held on 30 June 2010. This drive is being held just 4 months after the 2nd blood donatio drive @ the same company!. Kudos to Logica for standing up to address the need of the society
The second blood donation drive @ Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in association with Sankalp will be held on 25 June 2010
Why are we scared of drinking water? Everytime, when we travel, why are we afraid to drink water from railway station filters? Why do we so often come across shouts of “Don’t drink that water!” ringing in our ears? And we take the advice seriously- we pledge our loyalty to bottled water, we distrust the ability of water filters to tame the toughest bacteria, and the money we spend on water during an average day of travel, is more than the daily wages of half of our countrymen!
Why do Hindus put all their sins, filths, ashes and even the carcasses of his pets in the water of Ganga for getting easy salvation? Why was river Ganga given the divine power absolve sins of all humans? Well, the Gods must be crazy. Didn't the Gods know, that man's sin will increase exponentially and one day will come that Ganga will not be able to take it any more?
The ride to success of an illiterate youth from Bihar, who launched a radio station and promoted social messages on polio, AIDS and other issues but was arrested for illegally running it, has found place in school textbooks! The story of Raghav and his 'Raghav Radio' has been published by the NCERT in its book 'Bharat Mein Samajik Parivartan Evam Vikas' (Social change and development in India) for Class 12!
Ms Veenadhari from Mangalore was one of the first HIV victims to openly admit her disease. From a teacher, she turned into a well-known social worker and an ardent activist for the rights of HIV infected. She followed and advocated ayurveda and naturopathy approach to living with the disease .
The Right to Information (RTI) Act, that empowers Indians to obtain any information about government functioning, is slowly shaping up to be 'reactive' in nature. People looking for information have to ask questions, and wait for answers. This model has failed several times (wiki answers, yahoo answers). Making information 'proactively' available (like wikipedia) to people is the only way I can see this idea get implemented.
Canadian Nobel Prize winner and economist William Vickery suggests that a tender should be signed with the second highest bidder, and not the highest one. It takes nothing more than common sense to acknowledge that the highest bidder will compromise with quality to keep the cost minimum. Recently my teacher astonished me with a similar theory. He advocated a new plan for the voting mechanism in India.
