Worlds 85 richest individuals hold wealth equivalent to that owned by the bottom half of the world's population!!!!

The richest 85 individuals hold wealth equivalent to that owned by the bottom half of the world's population, a report says. Ref: worldwide development organisation Oxfam, titled 'Working For the Few', published ahead of the World Economic Forum meet in Davos.

"Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, undermining democracy and creating a world where the 85 richest people own the wealth of half of the world’s population," Oxfam claimed.

My view is ...
1) these people should be taxed 95%
2) These people's political power should own feeding all people under poverty line.
3) Government should make that mandatory that these people should own each poor country and help eradicate illeteracy in that country
4) Any money in Swiss bank should go to a TRUST which solves water problem thro out the world


Oxfam wants governments to take urgent action to reverse the trend. It is asking those attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) to make six-point personal pledge to tackle the problem.
"It is staggering that in the 21st Century, half of the world's population own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all sit comfortably in a single train carriage," Oxfam Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said.
The report alleged that the richest individuals and companies in the world hide trillions of dollars away from the tax man in a web of tax havens around the world. "It is estimated that USD 21 trillion is held unrecorded and off-shore," it said.
The report further added that in India, the number of billionaires increased tenfold in the past decade, aided by a highly regressive tax structure and the wealthy exploiting their government connections, while spending on the poorest remains remarkably low.


God.. Are you the one who can make wonders????? :) Could you try solving this issue ? heheheh :)

Stay natural and be healthy - Ayurvedic, a holistic approach!

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food!

Every diet system has its own style, plus and minus. And many diets have received attention on health stand point from Atkins to skinny-bitch diet. My belief is to stick with natural way of living as much as you can! 

I have personally tried attest 5 or 6 different diet systems. Typically my day 1 would start with great determination but  wont be able to keep up my enthusiasm by day2. My day3 would be feast day :) That's Vidya's diet style always ! 

Anyways jokes aside, if you want be in healthy regimen consistently, I would say you should stick with your geographical based diet system, which your body attuned for.

In that matter I believe in ayurvedic and try to follow as much as I can. 

Ayurvedic is 5000 year old system, which is still effective & competing with modern science. It is person specific , not disease specific :) that's interesting.. Huh? Basically mindfulness is the key!

It believes your health is based on mind and body, classifies 3 different doshas (vada, pitta & kapha)  and recommends related health habits. I kinda noticed that these different Dosha people fall under rakchasha, manusya, deva gana characters :). Anyways let me talk about that theory later.

For all people, there are some simple rules

1. Raise before dawn ( statistics say that people who wake up early are happy people )

2. Eat only 3 times a day ( give enough rest to your digestive system!)

3. choose your food based on your body type and season! ( that's quiet simple, huh?) 

4. Live in peace ( have you read " heal your body by yourself" by Louise hay?... Exactly!   the same principle applies here too) 

Is it tough to follow? Not at all.. Right?

For any western no-no type of foods, Ayurvedic have remedies

Eg ..milk is not that good , it is inflammatory is western theory . Ayurvedic says to warm the milk ( to reduce lactose intolerance) and add a pinch of turmeric before drinking. 1 tspn of turmeric has anti inflammatory factor of ~1200 and a glass of milk is negative 62. Bingo! :)

If you have constipation problem, western theory says to eat lot of fiber. But Ayurvedic finds out root cause and asks you to treat your digestive system . Try rasam ( cumin seeds, pepper, garlic are main ingredients here,  improving  your digestion) while constipated. You 'll see results :) lol

Ulcerative colititis: western theory says, be gluten free. Ayurvedic has proven method of curing it

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202252/

I can give much more examples, but my idea is just to give little awareness on this. Have a try! Live happy, healthy! It is such a old system, but gold :).

Helping homeless in winter..

Statistics say that there are around 200000 homeless people in America. Feels little sad, to know , that number is on little higher side.

And 4 died last month in Bayarea out of cold. Not a good news :(

Anyways, if you get to see any homeless people in bay area, call 311. Because as per Hypothermia Hotline, all homeless are offered shelter , but  some refused. Those need to be handled by patrols/ professionals only.

Patrols provide them blankets, warm drinks and other clothing to them ,And check or monitor them periodically.
 

For other cities, please call the below number. If your city is not listed below, you can call 211 to find out hypothermia hotline.

• Atlanta: 404-447-3678 for the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless
• Baltimore: 311
• Birmingham, Ala.: 205-252-9571 for the Firehouse Shelter
• Boston: 617-534-2526 for Friends of Boston’s Homeless or dial 311
• Chicago: 311
• Denver: 720-944-1007 for Denver’s Road Home (during business hours)
• Detroit: 1-800-274-3583 and 1-800-343-4427
• Fort Collins, Colo.: 719-632-1822 for Springs Rescue Mission and 970-484-5010 for Catholic Charities-Larimer County
• Kansas City, Mo.: 816-474-4599
• Las Vegas: 702-369-4357 for HELP of Southern Nevada (from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday)
• Minneapolis: 612-879-7624 for St. Stephen’s street outreach team
• New York City: 311
• Philadelphia: 215-232-1984 for the Project HOME Homeless Outreach Hotline
• San Francisco: 311
• St. Louis: 314-802-5444 for the Housing Resource Center hotline (between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Mon-Friday)
• Thunder Bay, Ontario: 807-620-7678 for the SOS team (operates between 2 p.m. and 2 a.m.)
• Toronto: 311
• Washington, D.C.: 1-800-535-7252 for the Hypothermia Hotline

Apple a day keeps doctor in!

Apple a day keeps doctor away is a old saying. In this era, apple a day keeps doctor in!  Do you want reference .. http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9160/12-fruits-veggies-with-the-most-pesticides-2013-dirty-dozen.html


Yes, I was browsing high carcinogen causing foods and found apple is top in list, because of the pesticides, we use in USA. Statistics says that we use 22% of total pesticides, produced thro out world. Ref: http://www.sustainabletable.org/263/pesticides

This said behind aside, I was curious about organic produces, and Surprisingly the news is ... ORGANIC ARE NOT PESTICIDE-FREE or CHEMICAL -FREE, BUT JUST NON SYNTHETIC, WHICH ALSO CAUSES CANCER Ref: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lhom/organictext.html

Whoooahhhh... Now, what option is left out?  I can think of the vegetables and fruits in olden days which comes with worms .. lol.. Where you are responsible for what you eat :) A better choice.. huh ?

Anyways, joking apart, if you have a backyard, make best use of it! Thats what we can do!

You have more reasons to donate!

Before putting forth my thoughts about donation, I just would like to bring some facts about various income level , to make you understand that you propably might be in top 2 to 10% of the society where as people under poverty line is more than 15%.






BTW, I understand there are lot more real poor countries, I ll come to that point little later. Because my thought on that is.. every human will have his own society pressure and may be in a position to keep up that in order to keep up individual's mental health or happiness. Thats not the focus of this post.
Ok, Coming back to the point, in this country, 15% of the people under poverty line whose annual income is under ~11k with household size of 1 &  158k for size of 8.
Other side, more than 4% of people make more than 200k (with household avg size of 3). And there are quiet a lot of folks who make more than 200k with household size 1 too :-). Yes, many of you , reading this might have a smile on your face, knowing where you are.



Now, lets take a case who is making 11k with household size 1. How does he/she will pay rent, gas, insurance and other basic neccessities. Think about their quality of life.. Think about their future.. Think about their financial independence or cushion...

Why not we people lend a hand..Thats one among the most beautiful pleasure.. You may get satisfaction that you made somebody's day.

Be much more kind to the lower class people.. Tip more. Spend a weekend morning in a homeless shelter. If you dont have time for any, there are lot of online sites whom you can transfer funds via  paypal or google check our or something. Give a shot!  :)

Bored to google? I l help you :) http://shirdisaiparivaar.org/annadaanam/

All the best!

Ticketing system with SLA for political leaders in India...

Being a Systems Administrator, can’t help to get amused with my imagination how it will look like to implement ticketing system with SLAs for the Indian political leaders & getting that published to public :)

Somehow, in a commoner view,  Indian Politics is always seen as a horrible unethical show, though there are many interesting leaders sparkle now and then. But these good leaders face much of difficulties to stay as a odd man and may fade away eventually .
To be practical, the corruption can be completely eliminated within a decade in India, if politicians pass a bill on that and follow that effectively. But the higher officials and politicians are the decision makers to pass any bill. And no politician is willing to take that risk , so far.
 Though there could be "n" no of methods be devised to eliminate corruption,  every commoner have many wonderful ideas , methods to get rid of the corruption. There was popular movie named "Indian" (in tamil), which came up with an idea of every department having a compliant box, but where action (for those complaints) should be taken by some other department, in that way there wont be any hesitation to bring justice there. It is a beautiful concept, but never implemented.
 So now, here is one more idea :)
Thro’ out India, there should  be a ticketing tool for the services.

*  Every MLA, MP should have an account in the ticketing system.
* There should be defined SLA (Service level Agreement ) for each service, Say basic needs such as 'Water problem' should be solved within 24 hours. Similarly for other issues...
* All possible issues should be listed in the ticketing system
* Public can add more services to the system thro' voting system via facebook or twitter.
* Public can raise/send  their tickets to this Governing Dept   via telephonic call or mail or email or in person. The ticket can be raised online too
* Every issue should be immediately added to the ticketing system, categorizing as per constituency & Severity
*Resolved issues can be closed ; Time to work on the issue would be measured. Every best time to solve an issue should be appreciated and awarded.
* Ticketing system should be visible online for  public and upto date
* Every MLA/MP should be given enough access/facilities to perform their duty diligently. It is  state/central minister's duty to make sure  on that part.
* The results should be tracked periodically,  bi-weekly, monthly  quarterly,  and yearly.
* Top performing MLA /MPs should be awarded with huge lump sum reward money or a luxurious car or flat or plot. ( Thats the carrot to these bunnies!!!! )
* Worst performing MLA/MPs will have fear of loosing their positions, provided they fail to stick with SLA 3 consecutive times.
* MLA/MP should be dismissed if they fail to stick to the SLA more than 10 times.
* That position should be offered to second front or third front party candidates as per hierarchy.
 Similarly there should be a ticketing system to every state and central minister too. So do as for Chief Minister & Prime Minister!
 I hope there could be many other layman having this idea, wish this is taken into consideration and executed by professionals!
Jai Hind!!!!

I speak Oldest Living language.. Doesnt that make me million times sweeeettttttttttt :-)

One among my bragging points are, that I am from a Dravidan State which kept oldest living language (Ref :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language ) alive till this date , which is 15000 years old !!!!

But the unfortunate fact  is , this information is unknown to most Indians and they debate or expect  that every Indian should speak hindi. Since my childhood, I was reluctant to choose Hindi as my 3rd language, but preferred  to learn German or Sanskrit. Thanks to my roots, who gave me that confidence and influenced me strong!  I just love that aspect of mine and would  pass to my next generation!

I believe Indian Govt should help to keep this language live and encourage Indians to learn this language , which is official language in other countries like Srilanka, Singapore, Medium of education in Malaysia, And native to Phillipines, Mauritius, Andaman & Nicobar islands, Thailand, Indonesia, whereas the origin is TAMILNADU!

Some other interesting facts ...

Ther's only 7 language in world as classical out of 7000 languages

*Classical "Tamil" (Sangam literature ca. 2nd c. BC to 3th c. AD, defined by Tolkkappiyam)
*Classical Greek (Attic dialect of the 5th c. BC)
*Classical Pali (Buddhist Canon used this language from ca. 3rd or 2nd c. BC)
*Classical Latin (literary language of the 1st c. BC)
*Classical Mandaic (literary Aramaic of Mandaeism, 1st c. AD)
*Classical Syriac (literary Aramaic of the Syriac church, 3rd to 5th c.)
*Middle Persian (court language of the Sassanid Empire, 3rd to 7th c.)
*Classical Armenian (oldest attested form of Armenian from the 5th c. and literary language until the 18th c.)

SO  GREAT TAMIL IS MORE THAN 15,000 YEARS OLD IN ITS AGE!!!!!

Do you want proof ... Here you go !

1. MORE THAN 1000 KOREAN WORDS HAVE SAME NAME AND MEANINIG
Ref:   http://hallyuguru.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/kct-korean-connections-tamil/
2.AT ONE TIME WE ALL SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE AT THE PLANET . TOLD THE SCIENTIST ..ALEX COLLIER
Ref:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRghF1pQccA

Now, what a happy face is mine, after expressing it via this blog :) hehehhehe!!!!!

Ms.Khobragade seen from Hofbrahaus!!!!

Recently you would have read enough news about an Indian deputy consulate general posted in newyork, being charged with visa fraud and "strip-searched" & India's agitation on protecting this IFS officer, in name of diplomatic immunity ( which actually applies to embassy officer only, not to consulate officer ref: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25458531 )

My view as a humanbeing on this... ( that's why my I titled rhythmically to sound I neither support India nor USA, but viewed this as someone in the middle, say Germany.) 

Let's say this IFS officer were not  daughter of a powerful IAS officer and not wife of a newyork based American born Indian winery owner cum professor. Do you think ,  India would have raised voice or stood by this officer? If there were no existence of  IAS officer Mr. Uttam Khobragade, this issue wouldn’t have reached Delhi. Why go there? Ms.Khobragade would  have been posted in one of the African countries, instead of USA :). Anyways my idea is not to talk about,  what these high officials can influence in India , but to talk about something in a much simpler form.

The maid, who totally believed her employer and came to a foreign country, leaving  her family& beloved , to make some little money to get rid of her poverty in home country, is soooo pathetic & in need of help from India, I believe.  No human right organizations raised voice on her behalf yet, since India sings "diplomatic immunity" tune. 

It's quiet unfortunate when someone steals hard earned money. This poor lady is looted by the prominent Women-right Advocate... Sad.. Right? 

I would have respected this IFS officer, even if she was charged on a corruption, looting money from another wrongful fellow, but not definitely for a cheap act of stealing wages from her own maid. sorry that I am using a word "stealing" here. But that's what it technically sounds like. How is it ethical to cut down wages for an employee, against the agreement or rule. What kind of life can someone lead in newyork with 3$/hour wages. How pathetic it is???? This is heights of slavery!!!

Every parent has the opportunity to create the society, what they will see when they are old and vulnerable!

A scene, couple of weeks back in San Diego Airport.

While waiting to board, I was observing a cute family, sitting next to me. A sweet 7 year old son with a beautiful mom and a handsome dad. The parents in the scene are very understanding couple, and there is enough love between them. I can say that, looking at the way, they cared for each other.

On the other side, The dad is very much interested in tattooing himself, and got enough tattoo thro out his body, carries a  tattooing magazine.  ( Dont imagine a big guy, in redneck look with Harley motorcycle :), He seems a pretty sensible guy. Mom got a magazine, which is all about Tshirts, with weird (in my old-school eyes) designs, Sexy models on the Tshirts, flaunting their sophisticated physique,  instead of unique designs on T Shirts.

The kid is very curious about each parent's magazine. He wants to know about each tattooing and about these sexy models. I am damn sure, the kid already has enough knowledge in this area, along with much more curiosity left behind the scene. I' ld bet, He' ld become a master in these areas in another 2 years, which in my view, a lot to carry or process in a little intellectual mind.

 On the positive note, The kid is going to understand the art of relationship and idea about love and care. He ll not have any second thought on that, and will not compromise his standards on relationship or marriage. He ld turn out to be an awesome dad or partner, provided he meets the right person for his personality.

 But I am very concerned about his little brain to process  with these sensitive images in magazine. And more concerned about what this kid could leak out to his fellow kids in his school, and how other little kids going to process/pass that information.

Think about this little boy, who may get into a relationship tomorrow, with someone who has been raised in right blend of values. He ld not just pass what he has got in his mind, but would definitely influence the partner, since thats what his belief system is, reason being thats what his mind is being conditioned and convinced with , thro' out his entire childhood. In that way, he would affect another girl (hopefully not a guy ;)) whom he is going to be in relationship with. He also may pass on the right idea of love and understanding between couple. But if his partner is not able to deal his matured intellect on those areas, girl may leave the relationship with scar and fear.  In this way, this kid really will affect the other woman in his future. Lets go to the next step and assume, they will have a kid. The future kid will get inherited with "the same intellect mind" from dad. And story will continue from generation to generation.

This is just an example , where my mind absorbed and looked an exaggerated example on parenting. But there are lot other parents, who are totally on to themselves , selfish,  hypocrites, obsessed about their career or wealth or beauty, too proud of nothing, arrogant and strict in the name of disciplining kids, blowing petty issues out of proportion on any matter, sadists, pampering kids too much, not knowing what the other side of the world into, not having awareness or empathy about poor or sufferers, dominant, still living in male chauvinistic world, on wrong morale values or ethics,  still thinking that wealth or money-making is considered success of the humans, too diplomatic or wicked. My list could go on.. but I hate to put lot of negative words on my blog :) Where is the society going? Parents.. Please take some personal time to see what your child observes from you.

I wont say it is just kids mistake, when they grow up. Any soul on this earth may not be responsible for his/her first 15 to 20 years of life, where parents idea of raising kid supercedes childhood's innocense. And later on thats what becomes kid's school of fabric.

In my view, what parents pass on kid, thats what kids carry on their belief systems. Every parent is capable of either passing on  a virus or right character to the future society. So please be wise enough, be a human!