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India's Nuclear Energy Dreams Over

First the Japan Earthquake and now the Explosion at French nuclear plant of Marcoule. Enough evidence of the mental havoc that a Nuclear Project can wreak. I am not sure after all this it will be a smooth sail in India to go ahead with the proposed energy capacity expansion through the nuclear route.

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R.I.P. Jag Mundhra

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Social entrepreneurs covered in I have a dream

I bought the audio cd of the book(here is the paperback version) by mistake but Flipkart refused to replace it with the book- so much for their famed customer service. This coming after they refused to replace the phone which was not working on delivery - had to take it to the MicroMax service center myself. Flipkart - bad service :-(

So I am forced to listen to the audio CD. I feel that 4 of the stories are very boring may be because of the haphazard stories or because they are way too long :

1. Parivaar Ashram (Vinayak Lohani)
2. BPA (Bhushan Punani)
3. Akansha Foundation (Shaheen Mistry)
4. Pratham

Here is the list of Social entrepreneurs and their ventures covered in I have a dream.

1. Sulabh Internaional (Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak) - Needs no Introduction.
2. Conserve India (Anita Ahuja) - Something about helping rag pickers.
3. Avishkar (Vineet Rai) - A venture fund for socially relevant causes.
4. RangSutra (Sanjoy Ghose & Sumita Ghose) - Connecting village artisans to markets.
5. DesiCrew (Saloni Malhotra) - Rural BPO
6. Ecosphere Spiti (Ishita Khanna) - Travel,adventure & Eco-tourism in Himalayas, started with Sea-buckthorn
7. Selco (Harish Hande)- Solar energy systems on a mass scale.
8. Pipal Tree Ventures (Santosh Parulekar) - Providing vocational training for the skills in the construction industry to unemployed youths in the rural area.
9. Project Chilika (Dinbandhu Sahoo) - Seaweed cultivation/Ocean farming in Orissa. Taught villagers ocean weed farming as opposed to aqua farming(fish cultivation) as it doesn't destroy ecological balance.
10. Super30 (Anand Kumar) - IIT JEE coaching for underprivileged.
11. Mirakle Couriers (Dhruv Lakra) - A courier agency that employs low-income deaf adults. Dhruv also worked in Dasra - an NGO and Merrill lynch before. Also got Echoing Green fellowship and N.C.P.E.D.P. Shell Helen Keller Award 2009.
12. Shreesh Jadhav - Monk, Belur Math
13. Parivaar ashram (Vinayak Lohani) - A residential place for orphans,tribals and children of prostitutes. Supported by (Ramesh Kacholiya) Mumbai Group of Friends.
14. Madhu Pandit Dasa - President of ISKCON Bangalore
15. Goonj (Anshu Gupta) - Through systematic collection, sorting and delivery Goonj reaches every scrap of waste clothing from urban India to someone out there. To use with dignity, wear with pride.
16. Parivartan (Arvind Kejriwal) - Needs no Introduction.
17. Blind People's Association (Dr. Bhushan Punani)
18. Akanksha Foundation and Teach for India (Shaheen Mistry) - Teaching the less privileged.
19. Pratham(Madhav Chavan) -  a network of non-governmental organisations that promote primary education for disadvantaged children.
20. Association for Democratic Reforms (Trilochan Sastry)

Not enough Oxygen in India

JODHPUR,Rajasthan:(September 03, 2011) Three patients lying on ventilator support at the intensive care unit of MDM Hospital in Jodhpur died on Friday morning as their oxygen supply ended abruptly.

Kurnool, Anddhra Pradesh(September 03, 2011) : Eleven infants have died in two days at the Government General Hospital at Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, allegedly due to a defective oxygen supply system.

Speed Post vs. Other Couriers

1. Coverage - more than any other courier. They cover every place with a PIN code in India.
2. Service in Tier 2/3/4 cities - better/faster than others.
3. Service in Tier 1 cities - time is pretty much the same but the problem is they don't call the addressee before going/delivering. In big cities where both husband/wife are working and many people live alone - you can't go without calling. Here is where private couriers score against them. It results in many failed delivery attempts and increased the delivery time.
4. Prices : lesser than others.

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Rice creates more equality in society than Rotis

Almost everyone from North India can identify with a common household scene which plays out nearly every day. Man/men of the family are feasting on Rotis while the woman/women are running around preparing and serving them. Once the men finish, women start eating. And while men get readily prepared/hot Rotis, women are content with mildly hot/cold Rotis.

Now replace Rotis with Rice. Unlike Rotis - each of which is prepared/cooked separately, Rice is cooked at the same time for every one. Every one eats together, the same quality, the same degree of heat. Hallmark of a harmonious, liberal and equal society.

Could it be one of the reasons/ramifications that Southern Indian states have better living conditions/liberty for women than the Northern states :-)