Does Celebrities in India have freedom to express their opinion or not?

First Sharukh Khan and now Amir Khan came in the news for showing their concern over the situation of intolerance created in India.

Amir Khan Amir had attended the award function and there journalist asked him about his view for intolerance created in India.

Amir replied that his wife Kiran was concerned about the situation and sometimes asked that whether they could shift to another country. This statement was deliberately distorted by the media and many people started condemning Amir.

Amir further said that all those people who were calling him anti-national, he would like to say that he was proud to be Indian, and he did not need anyone's permission or endorsement for that.  He said that many people shouted obscenities at him for speaking his heart out, it gave him sad feeling that it only proved his point. The people who had stood by him, he would like to thank them.

Amir said that he would like to protect India, beautiful and unique country and would really stands for it. said that all Indians had the duty to protect India’s integrity, diversity, in its culture, languages, religion and history. India’s tolerance, love, sensitivity in its emotional strength.

I would like to end my statement with a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, it's a prayer really :

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, Where knowledge is free, Where the world has not been broken up into fragments, by narrow domestic walls... Read More

Global warming is bringing climatic change

Global warming is the condition when there is an increase in the surface temperature of the Earth due to Greenhouse effect.

What is Greenhouse effect?

Greenhouse effect means solar radiation that reaches the Earth's atmosphere. Around 1/3 of the solar energy that reaches the top of Earth’s atmosphere is reflected directly back to the space. The remaining 2/3 is absorbed by the ozone layer (O3) layer surrounding the earth surface, keeping the Earth warm.



There is a presence of greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone trap the energy to sustain life. However with the increase in air pollution caused due to human activities such as vehicular pollution, emission from factories & industries, burning fossil fuels, agriculture are increasing the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. These harmful gases tend to trap extra heat, and causing the earth's temperature to rise.

Scientists are greatly concerned about the increasing pollution that in turn increase the temperature and thus bring the climatic change.

Consequences of Green House Effect

• Depletion of ozone layer
• Rising temperature
• Melting ice
• Rising seas
• Furious storms
• Deforestation
• Ocean acidification
• Smog pollution
• Sea level rise
• Forest fires
• Severe drought
• Floods
• Changes in the nutritional level as the CO2 level increases and other nutrients decreases.

Apart from this, it threatens our health and If serious steps are not taken soon... Read More

Dengue: Causes, Symptoms and prevention

Dengue is the infectious disease that is caused by dengue virus. This virus is transmitted by the bite from the Aedes aegypti female mosquito. It usually bites during a daytime, i.e., after sunrise and before sunset. This mosquito can bite at any place whether inside or outside of the home.
It is estimated that around 50-100 million people get infected by Dengue virus per year worldwide.
These mosquitoes generally breed in water containers and rarely fly more than 200 meters from the breeding site. It has been researched that these mosquitos do not breed in creeks, swamps, pools or other bodies of water.
The main causes of Dengue are as follows:

• The increase in the urban population that led to more sites for mosquitoes to develop.
• International travelers who are travelling from the areas where dengue already spread to the areas that are not infected by dengue virus.
• Environmental Changes that led Aedes mosquitoes to survive in the winter months.

How Dengue spread?
Dengue does not spread either of human interaction or mosquito bite alone, but it spread with the help of both the mosquito and the human. Initially, female Aedes bites an individual who has been infected with a dengue virus, the mosquito thus become a carrier of the virus. If the same mosquito bites some other individual, those individuals also get infected with the dengue virus.
What are the symptoms of Dengue?

1. High fever that can last for 3 to 7 days
2. An intense headache and pain behind the eyes
3. Muscle and joint pain
4. Loss of appetite
5. Diarrhea and vomiting
6. Severe abdominal pain
7. Rashes on the skin
8. Rarely bleeding from the nose, gums or skin
9. Irritability, restlessness

What is the treatment of Dengue?
There is as such no antiviral treatment available for the Dangue. However to control fever and pain, a patient can take paracetamol. It is advisable not to take Aspirin especially for the children under 12 years of age unless specifically recommended by a doctor... Read More

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1. The scholar cannot shine without the blessings of genuine spiritual master even though, he has acquired knowledge by studying innumerable books. This scholar can be compared to an illegitimate child who is not honored in a society.

2. We should do acts of kindness to repay the favors of others in a same coin. We should return evil for evil in which there is no sin, for it is necessary to pay a clever man in his own coin.

3. The thing that appears to be impossible can be attained by religious austerity as nothing can surpass austerity.

4. Greediness is considered as worst vice. Defaming the other person is considered as worst sin. The person who has a clean heart does not need to go for pilgrimage. If one has a good nature than there is no need of other virtues. If the person has a fame than there is no need of other ornamentation. There is no need of the wealth for the person of practical knowledge. And if a person is dishonored, it is considered worse than the death.

5. The sea is considered as reservoir of all jewels and the father of the conch shell, and the Goddess Lakshmi is considered as conch’s sister. Still the beggars carry conch for begging alms from door to door for alms. It is thus true, what the person is doing is important than the status of hid parents or siblings.

6. The man who is powerless became saint, one without wealth needs to lead the life of celibacy.

7. There is poison in the fang of the snake, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion but the wicked person is completely saturated with the poison.

8.  The woman should take the permission from her husband for keeping fast or practicing any rituals, otherwise it can shorten her husband’s life, and she goes to hell.

9. A woman does not become pious by offering charity, by observing fasts, or by drinking sacred water, as by drinking the water used to wash her husband’s feet... Read More