Say cheers.. Its Madras Day today.. !!!

Madars, its a great emotion for all of the chennaiates. Its my home town. I am having all the good memories tied up with my city. 

Some of the glories of my city:

1. Marina Beach - Longest beach in India and world's second longest beach
2. Kapaleeswarar temple, Partha sarathy temple - Ancient temples built around 7th century
3. Mahabalipuram - Main tourist place known for its rock cut architecture
4. St.Thomas church, santhome
5. Metro rail
6. Fort st. George
7. St.Thomas Mount
8. Anna aringnar zoological park

The lists goes on. All are the prides of the people of madras.

So, Do anyone know how this great city formed?

Here's a small recap of formation of madras, today's chennai.

Clean India - Changes start from us..

Many times, I have wondered the childhood. The small ones behaves well mannered than the elderly people at many times. They will teach their parents and their surroundings with simple lessons.

I am sharing you all one recent incident which gave me a big lesson from my small one.

Real Independence day....!!!!

Here, today comes the independence day. Its 69th year. We are starting our celebration. 

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Before 69 years, our ancestors know how precious is our independence. They are born in British-India. Hence, they know the difference and value for the independent India. It is not the case of us. We born in independent India and living in the republic nation. We are celebrating our so called independence. Including Gandhi, we have lot and lot of freedom fighters who have sacrificed their life for the well being of us. Subash Chandra bose, Lala lajpat rai, Bagat singh, Mangal Pande and so on. 

Tribute to our Real Hero...!!!

I am starting this post with a heavy heart. My eyes are filled with tears. Still, I could not believe in the news which I heard. We lost our pride of the nation. Our hope has gone.

The man with positive energy and thoughts, the man who redefined the meaning for dream, the man known for his simplicity,  man of missile, ever busy man, started to take his rest. APJ Abdul Kalam passed away. He is 11th President of India. He is the icon of youth.

Indian Law: Still Alive?

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I started writing this with extreme anguish and rage after reading today's newspaper. Seriously, I have a question striking out in me for a long time that, is Indian law still alive or completely vanished? Else is it only alive for money holders. I guess our law is inversely proportional to the amount of money and power we have in this society and not based on the truth. As our money and power grows, the punishment comes down irrespective of the crime or injustice.

Akshaya tritiya - Give more to Grow more

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The most awaited day for most of the women and business men has arrived. Yes. Today is Akshaya tritiya, one of the auspicious days of Hindu mythology. But now the meaning of the day has been changed as a key day for promoting and selling the products. Starting from the jewellery shop to grocery super markets, everyone started making use of this day for their own business. Does anyone of us think what the day all about is? What is the meaning of Akshaya tritiya? What is the reason behind it as per our Hindu mythology? What is the importance to celebrate it?

Its World Health Day today, Apr 7th

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Today is world health day. Most of us know what are the healthy facts and practices. But are we following all in our day to day life.

As we are in a hurry all days, we will be skipping up our breakfasts though we know it’s not advisable. We are not drinking water properly at regular intervals. Some practise which we follow will be like a myth. For example, from my child hood, I have been taught to have a fruit after a meal we have. But, this is a bad practise which I got to know recently. As fruits digestion is simpler and quicker than the meal, if we are taking heavy digestive item along with simpler digestive one, our digestion system crashes. Like this, we have so many. Due to the media exposure and many good magazines, we are hearing interesting news and facts over our healthy practise.

Is speaking in Mother tongue a shame?

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I have always wondered how sweet our mother tongue is. At all times, I enjoy speaking in mine’s where I can express my feelings very clearly and lively. Mother tongue varies from person to person. But, each and everyone’s are precious for them as everyone’s mother. Expressing our thoughts, sharing our ideas, conveying our views can be done with easiness than in any other language.

Nelson Mandela said, “If you talk to someone in a language which he or she understands, it goes to his or her head. If you talk to somebody in his or her language, it goes to their heart” Our mother tongue is close to our heart. Our mother is special for us though there are many mothers around; our language is special for us though we have many languages to speak.

Another disaster – loudspeakers.

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I myself think I am going deep into socio problems. But, the acts which is happening around us making myself think about it. Our customs whatever we followed before suits these days life style. A drastic change will never happen. But still, some slow change makes big effect in our society.

Come on!!! Lets fight against The low syndrome – Depression

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Some days will be very awesome and keeps the day goes on. But some will be very worse in the starting itself. It was one such bad day for one of my distant relative. Everyone in my family was very traumatized and shocked in hearing that.

That boy was found very depressed after his maths exam. Though everyone spoke to him positively and encouraged regarding his exams, he was not ready to admit all their words. Actually, his mind which is already in depression is not ready to accept it. Without knowing the adverse effects of his depression, his family members were very normal and concentrating into their work.

 That day morning, suddenly when his mother was searching for him, found him lying still. Then she realized that he took some insect pills and attempted for suicide. She screamed in fear and called all others. Everyone rushed to nearby hospital and admitted there. We could see numerous feelings there.

Some were crying, praying to god, peeping into the ICU ward. Then, doctor came out with a good sign. He got relieved from critical stage as his stomach is cleaned doctor said. Some what the situation came to be controlled.

But this incident is widespread now. We are hearing many stories like this. For simple reasons, committing or attempting to suicide is becoming normal and common now. It’s all because of depression.

Depression, a predominant syndrome, is prevalent across the world in the current situation. Growing needs, over expectation, pressurized and stressful situation are some causes leading to this syndrome.

Depression is nothing but a state of low mood, hindrance to our growth, aversion to our day to day activities. Many say it’s like living in a black hole. A survey says one in every four people is depressed. The rate of committing suicide has also increased which is directly proportional to the depression.

Are you the one?

Are you having any one or more symptoms of these?

·         Filled with negative thoughts

·         Thinking not worth living

·         No good sleep

·         Either over eater or not feeling to eat

·         Low concentration – Easy work taking long time

·         Very disturbed, hopeless

·         More irritable, short-tempered, or aggressive than usual

If you get yes for more than 2 questions, then you are also the one of the victim of depression.

Depression is not a medical disease which can be cured with medicines. It’s a Psychiatric syndrome.  

Prevention is better than cure

First of all, our attitude and lifestyle needs to be changed to get rid of depression.

                                   

Here are some of the simple few tips which I have consolidated to make our self enjoying each and every moment pleasant.

Develop Positive thoughts:  Positive and optimistic thoughts play a key role in molding us as a good and better citizen for a family and society. Positive attitude need to be build in our character so that everything will be good for us.

Last day in life: How awesome will be the Last day in company or in college. Our feeling will be enjoying to the core as the day won’t repeat. The same feeling should be followed in our life too. This is our last day. No day will be repeated. So, be happy. Enjoy each and every moment as all will be a sweet surprise.

Top of the world: Wow. What an awesome moment when we are in top of the world. Assume our self to be in the top of world. See everything in a positive and optimistic manner.

                                        

Listen to music: Pleasant music has a power to change every moment positive. A good habit of listening to pleasant and music motivates our self in an optimistic way.

Postpone any feelings:  Any feeling it may be. Say, anger, happy or sad, express it to all after 5 minutes. You could definitely find a difference. Our anger, anxiety or happiness, if we control it for say 5 minutes, the actual expression would be lost and we will come to a stable state. This will bring a big difference in our day to day life. Some will jump in over joy and lost out in anger. Both are very extreme. Controlling these kinds of feeling will make us steady in the entire situation.

Not going to take anything:  Be a third person in all the cases. This does not mean that we should not do anything or try. As Geetha says, “Do your duty. Don’t think about the fruit.” It is our duty to perform the task. But we should not rely on the results. Even if we resulted with negative, we would have learned something over the task we performed. Also our hard works always pays for us.

Eat chocolates:  Most of us don’t know the fact that dark chocolates are a kind of medicine for our depression. When you are sad, try eating dark chocolate. For sure, you will find some difference. You will become somewhat motivated and regain your positive feelings.

Be ready to enjoy the life rather than complaining.  Each and every day is like a thriller movie. We are not aware that what’s going to happen next. So every day, it’s a new experience to us. Get ready to face it.

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Hey What a fantastic day today.. Its International Day of Happiness. Yahoooooooo.. Observing these specials days makes us even more joyful, wonderful and makes our life go on. Happiness, a positive emotions or feelings, takes various forms in different people. For some people, playing games are happy, some considers music to be happy, some likes to be alone with their books. Of course, I have my own different way. Please don’t laugh after hearing my happiness..  Happiness for me is trying different variety of cuisines both in cooking or in eating.. ha ha ha.. I am sure there will be many of them who follow me in happiness.. Is that true?  Hmm.. I could hear yes from many sides. J 

Keeping this aside, can we dig some more info about this day?

It’s on 28 June 2012, the United Nations (UN) declared March 20 to be observed as the International Day of Happiness. This day recognizes that happiness is a fundamental human goal, and calls upon countries to approach public policies in ways that improve the well being of all peoples.

UN is enforcing all the countries not only on their economic growth, but also on humanity and their well being. Happy man can make their family, friends and society happier which is crucial in this modern world.  Additionally, the UN acknowledges that in order to attain global happiness, economic development must be accompanied by social and environmental well being.

One more quick question .. Do you all know which country is known for the happiest people in the world? Well.. It’s Bhutan, The Himalayan kingdom. Another interesting fact about this country is its GNH. Usually, in all the countries, there will be an index to measure the economic growth. That is Gross national product. Whereas in Bhutan, National prosperity is measured in terms of Gross National Happiness Index. The GNH rejects the sole use of economic and material wealth as an indicator of development, and instead adopts a more holistic outlook, where spiritual well being of citizens and communities is given as much importance as their material well being.

So, what are you waiting for still.. Lets celebrate this day with lots of fun and enjoy with all our family, friends, relations and make our society happy and feel better..

Agree....? J

World House Sparrow Day - March 20

Ah.. Today is the day for our cute house sparrow which we used to notice when we were all young. But now as we are into our new modern age (!!) with malls erupted, mobile towers erected, one of the species we missed is mainly the house sparrow.

I still remember when I was very young around 6 years, and staying with my granny’s house, I will be hearing the chirping sound of the sparrow which will be coming inside our home, standing near our windows, and so on. Our granny’s house is surrounded by a vacant land on both sides. So, the sparrows were enjoying a lot there. Those sparrows will be a part of our life that time. Even one day if we didn’t hear that sound, we all will be missing it. We won’t be lonely at all with those sparrows.

 I and my sister used to keep food and water for it. With the cute sound, it will come and have it. While having, it will see us which we will assume our self that they are saying thank you to us. We will be so happy. But days went running. Suddenly we felt we are lost those sparrows as people started occupying in the vacant land surrounded by our house. Slowly it got migrated to some other house we thought.

This will be the prominent story happened in most of your life too. Same happened in the world. As we are all seeing our India becoming a shiny city with all tall malls and sleek apartments, we missed to see this cute chirping little bird.

Now an organisation called the Nature Forever Society, headed by Mohammed Dilawar, and a band of sparrow adopters came forward to protect these gentle sparrows in India today. The organisation initiated Common Bird Monitoring Programme (www.cbmi.in), an innovative project to monitor common birds. So, hence on World Sparrow Day was launched in Mumbai, India in March 2012.

Also, Ex Chief Minister of New Delhi - Ms.Sheila Dikshit, in order to enhance the awareness of these bird’s life and habitat, declared House sparrows as the state bird of New Delhi.

Awaiting to hear the birds sound all over soon.. Happy World Sparrow day.. J

Is Plus 2 a turning point in life?

Absolutely not. It is our society which made this as a culture. I do accept Education is a light of our life. But without light also, we can survive. Plus 2 exams are becoming very critical for all the students due to which nowadays no one is undergoing plus 1 properly. Most of the schools are very curious about their plus 2 results. So, they are all starting their plus 2 portions as soon as possible and creating a lot of pressure in the students. Students who are in teenage need to undergo this stage which has become inevitable in our society. Pressures from all the sides begin to reach the students in the early stages of plus 1. Only few know to tackle this problem easily. But lot of others will be suffering without knowing how to handle due to which they end up in low marks or skip the exam even though all the questions may be familiar to them. It is the society which has created this situation.

        We have many role models to quote here who didn’t undergo all these exams but still they are in successful levels. Bill gates, Sachin Tendulkar all are some of the living examples.

        What is the real need in this topic now? There is a vital need now. In this exam season, we are going through at least 2 or 3 issues in the newspaper that a student committed suicide in fear of plus 2 exams, a student attempted to suicide in fear of plus 2 exams, or a student committed suicide as he didn’t do well in the respective exam. Is this a good sign in a society? Is there no life after a failure in an exam alone?  For sure, all the students writing the exam could not reach state first or school first. So, do the rest of the students are unfit to live in the society.   

       It is in the hands of our society, teachers, parents and school who need to train their students and explain them that it is their talent and knowledge which is going to make difference in the society and not their marks alone. All have their own talent and interest. They need to be motivated in that and they should not be treated only because of their marks.

What you all say.. is that right?