The Earth Day 2012 campaign is designed to provide people with the opportunity to unite their voices in a call for a sustainable future and direct them towards quantifiable outcomes. This year it is 42nd Anniversary of Earth Day and people are becoming frustrated with the failure of governments to take any steps towards protecting [...]
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Tremors in Chennai
Posted: April 11, 2012 in Day 2 DayTags: Chennai quake, earthquake, evacuated, Indonesia earthquake, strike-slip fault, subduction zone, Tsunami 2012, Tsunami alert
Sitting in Office we felt very slight Earthquake tremors.There was a panic situation and people tried to get down. It was very minimal, so people were having fun than taking things seriously. At that point every body was concerned about 5 PM Tsunami Alert.But it was already 5 and I am ALive. We were feeling [...]
We visited the home on Saturday, April 7th. Me and Lavanya started with Cold drinks and Samosa. My mom and wife had helped me out by ordering groceries and snack the previous day. We collected the Snacks, bought few balloons and reached the home. Few of our office colleagues also reached there. We played for an [...]
Drought caused more deaths during the last century than any other natural disaster, and Asia and Africa rank first among continents in the number of people directly affected. There are over 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. This means that 70% more [...]
Lets Celebrate Our Daughters
Posted: March 7, 2012 in Day 2 DayTags: 1000 aborted females, 1000 males, 15–24 years: 1.09 male(s)/female, 2011 Census, 24–64 years: 1.06 male(s)/female, 3, 500 abortions of female fetuses, 65 years and over: 0.908 male(s)/female, 914 females (927 in 2011), at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female, avoid eveteasing, Being a girl, blue collared jobs, Chanda Kochar women president, collective growth., Daughters are considered economic burdens, diversity, fed dry, female achievers, female population, girls and women to eat less than men and boys, high cost of weddings and dowries, Indra Nooyi, International Women's Day, Kiran Mazumdar, March 8th, mothers have killed their daughters, no discrimination, offering discounts and gifts, poisonous powdered fertilizer, prenatal sex determination tests, raping and murder of females, Sex ratio, sons provide income, stop accepting Dowri, the lowest since Independence, total population: 1.08 male(s)/female, under 10 years: 1.14 male(s)/female, unhulled rice that punctured their windpipes, unmarried male population, white collared jobs, women chief minister, women ruling party Chairman
March 8th is the International women’s day but brands have already started wooing them by offering discounts and gifts. Women have now wended their way into white collared jobs like space research and corporate ladder.We have their presence felt even in blue collared jobs as factory workers,driving autos and issuing tickets for buses and trains. [...]
Tourism & Trade Fair 2012
Posted: March 5, 2012 in Day 2 DayTags: 2012 trade fair in chennai in island groun, 2012 trade fare in island ground, 38th India Tourist and Industrial Trade Fair, 45 government stalls, Chennai police, chennai trade fair island grounds, Chilli Bajjis, CMDA, Cooum, Corporation, cultural heritage stalls, Delhi Appalam, Eclipse tour, Education, education as well as entertainment, Forest, Goverment department stalls, handloom shops, Hell City, Highways department, industrial trade fair, Island Grounds, islands ground trade fair, Joy rides, Mudumalai Wildlife Santuary, Navy, Public works, Railways Department, Rligious Board, Slum Clearance Board, tamilnadu government island trade fair, Tourism and Wildlife, Tourist and Industrial Trade Fair - 2011, Trade Fair, trade fair at island ground, trade fair in chennai, trade fair in chennai +island grounds, trade fair in chennai island ground 2011, trade fair in chennai island ground timings, TWAD
I am always exuberant to visit a Tourism and Trade fair in Island Grounds,Chennai as I was 10 years ago.Now even though we have a 6 months baby, I cherish eating Cotton candy,Delhi appalam and Ice cream at the Fair. We visited the 38th Tourism and Trade Fair at Island Grounds.This time it started on [...]
I remember getting list from my mom and buying things from local kirana shop.It was exciting in the beginning and became a boring job then on. Now you cannot say the same as kids are excited to buy from supermarket.We are moving to the culture of Malls,restaurants and supermarkets.Blame it on Sodexho passes or the [...]
Verghese Kurien is celebrating his 90th Bday and he is the founder of the Amul food brand. He is credited with being the architect of Operation Flood. Kurien helped modernise the Anand model of cooperative dairy development and thus engineered the White Revolution in India, and made India the largest milk producer in the world. Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s [...]
We named our cute little princess Kritiarunya. (Varun + Lavanya) First month, we spent getting things right for her.Right diaper.Right dress.Right Bath. I love to see the small face showing hundreds of reaction mostly during sleep.She smiles, gets tensed says Hi in sleep.Some say being gods gift children speak to god. I got to know [...]
