How Seeds and Chemicals are leading to the plight of Framers in Vidharbha, MS, India

The vicious cycle of Seeds and Chemicals


Solution : Seed Bank


Water harvesting methods

NGOs like ICRISAT are doing a great job
http://www.icrisat.org/


Food Crises

Glimpse of Sweden

Was in Sweden last week regarding some work. Got some glimpse of the lifestyle there. I along with my 3 colleagues went there and took out some time in the evening after work. So mostly got a very few time. Thanks to Peter who took honest efforts to show us the place around. We went to a place called Gothernberg in the west southern part of sweden. It took us around 12-13 hours to reach there from Japan.
If I draw a vertical line in the center of India, then both Sweden and Japan are equidistant from that line. Want to write more but will get back to this article when time permits.

Following are the snaps.

Have some fun with your snaps !

If you have Internet Connection, Browser and a webcam then you can generate following results and can use these snaps in any of your "Web presence Sites" or can take the hard copy of it from your nearest photo developer store or you can just take it for fun to share with your family/friends.

You can have following fun with your snaps.

Clear :


Filter:
(You can select any one of it by clicking on one option amongst them.)


Distorted:
(You can select any one of it by clicking on one option amongst them.)


Scenes:
(You can select any one of it by clicking on one option amongst them.)


Frames:
(You can select any one of it by clicking on one option amongst them.)


So how do you do this ? The answer is pretty simple and straightforward ! MAC users must be quite aware of a built-in software called Photo Booth. This is its brother on internet which works both on MAC and Windows. So the process is as follows.
1. Fire Up your Browser
2. Go to this link.
3. It may ask you "Can I use Camera" Allow or Deny...? Choose `Allow`(at least it asked on MAC,)
4. Then you will see your snap on your screen. Then experiment with the right vertical strip on the right side.Try Different
options and select your options like Clear, Filter, Distort, Scenes and Frames. Select your fav among it and then press "Camera" mark to take snaps.

When you are through taking the snap, you have three options to do,
1. You can save it to pulic Gallery
2. You want to download the taken snap
3. Print it to full page
4. Delete it

We will most of the time like to download, so download it and see the result. Use the snap then where ever you want, print it and have fun.So take some snap and share with me too if you like.

Technology like this one can really bring some fun in our lives.

The Speeds of the trains !

Was just wondering about the high speed trains(Long distance)in the world. In the process discovered some amazing facts about the high speeds train in the world ranging in the speeds.

First of all I started with the search on our Indian trains.
Bhopal Shatabdi Express from Bhopal-New Delhi is the fastest train in India with the Commercial Speed (i.e., total distance covered divided by total time taken, including scheduled stoppages) of around 89.49 kms/h. The same train has recorded a top speed of 150kms/h recently. Mumbai Rajdhani is second highest in India with the commercial
speed of 86.76 kms/h.

Feel the speed of Bhopal Shatabdi Express crossing a station.


Get a glimpse of Mumbai Rajdhani passing by on the tracks.


Then moved towards the international scene and discovered as follows.
"MagLev" (MAGnetic LEVitation) of Japan is the fastest train under the sun which set the highest record speed of 581 Kms/h (Commercial Speed : 501 kms/h).

See this video to meet MAGLEV in person :


A normal Airbus A380 has a speed of aroung 900Kms/h.

Not all trains in Japan run with that speed. The average speed of long distance journey with Shinkansen (a.k.a Bullet Trains) is from 130 to 300 Km/h. Like for explample the distance between Tokyo and Osaka (like Mumbai to Delhi) is baout 550 km and with shinkansen it takes around 2.5 hours for the journey.

Who are the competitor to Japan`s Maglev then in the whole world. The Maglev is number one in the world using the unconventional track (magnetic-levitation), but in the uncocnvetional (non-magnetic) tracks its French TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) recorded a test speed of 574.8 Kms/h.

There are few more intresting trains in Italy(Direttissima: 254 kms/h), Germany(Transrapid 08 : 501 km/h), Taiwan (THSR: 335.50 kms/h) and South Korea (KTX : 300 kms/h).

So lot of latest technology is helping human being to reach to their destinations as fast as possible.

Man simply started with the invention of a wheel, then bullock/horse cart, bicyle (Speed : 15 km/h), then automated mopeds, then Cars, then Trains, then Planes, then Rockets and going towards making of time machine. May be soon in the near future the dream of human being "With the press of a button I am in India, With the press of button I am in Japan or anywhere else in the world " may come true. I don`t know that will we be able to witness that era. But whats wrong in hoping of such time since we have evidence of human progress in that direction.

Where are we in the whole cosmos ?

(Read this if you have uninterrupted peaceful 5 minutes with you. Will suggest you to see the below video in full screen mode.)

Ever thought where do our home/family/pets/friends/beloved stand as compared to whole earth ?Ever thought about where this earth came from ? What is the the comparitive size of the earth as compared to other space entities ? I am sure must have thought about it atleast once. So, as we go on searching about the answers, it turns out that earth is just a tiny little particle in the galaxy.



How can we compare it with other planets, stars? Well we can do it by observing the snaps of it from all possible distances from the earth. I guess the farther we will be able to send our spacecrafts from the earth the greater will be our understanding to understand the whole cosmos. Till that time enjoy the snaps in above video.