Dial M.D.M for Murder! The Murderous Deadly Meal!

There are few things that make my country worst of all. First the appalling population and other is the bureaucracy. Majority of the vast population are living below poverty line and undoubtedly it is government’s duty to provide them with the basic necessities, health and education for these people. Instead of serving the purpose most of the bureaucrats are busy serving their own purpose. In every case administration failed to provide comfort to the weaker class. The Mid-Day-Meal tragedy is one of such cases where show that the government is least bothered about the welfare of poorer. The teachers of every government school in India, be it in south or north behave as they are running a business of their own. The incident in Bihar is not the first one and with the worthless arrogant peoples sitting at the top this will be not the last one too.

The Midday Meal

The Midday meal (MDM) Scheme being given to children to attract them to schools is not being run properly. The menu is not being followed in some schools while in others the food is being served in an unhygienic way. Sub-standard meal is being given to schools. The government is running various schemes to generate interest for education among the students under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The children are being motivated to come to school by giving them mid day meal, scholarship and uniforms but laxity of district administration and the basic education department is rendering the government slogan 'Sab padhe, sab badhe' meaningless.

The Disasters

Bihar

Chhapra, 16th of July, schoolchildren from a government school in Bihar complained that the midday meal they were served by the school tasted bad. They ate it anyway, because they were hungry, and could not be sure that they would get another opportunity to eat that day. The food was filled with concentrated pesticides. 23 children died and even more fell ill. This happened because of the complete lack of oversight and accountability in the implementation of the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS), for which the state government is to be blamed. In addition to this failure, more children died because of the lack of available antidotes at health clinics.

A forensic report confirmed the presence of poisonous pesticide in the mid-day meal served to the students of the school where 23 children died after taking the contaminated food.

Orissa

The findings justify the rise in incidents of children falling ill after having free lunch in schools reported from Cuttack, Sundargarh, Ganjam, Malkangiri and Balangir districts recently. Government authorities, however, said enough checks and balances had been put in place to ensure quality meals for the children.

These are a few of many such incidents tell the story of terrible human ignorance towards the others. It is time for our beloved bureaucrats from macro to mega levels should change their perspective. They should learn to treat everyone as human being and worth a life as good as anyone in the earth.

!!!The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. - Bertolt Brecht!!!

Rocking BOSEs! Ha .. Ha!!

So many things which prove the extreme egotism of human being. So, when it comes to feel proud for others achievements our dimensions keep shrinking on situations. We definitely will feel proud for the achievement of  peoples from our planet if there is an another planet to compete with us. The dimension keep reducing as per our desire, from our country to state, then to city and so on. Today, being a Bose myself, I will be always feel proud of other namesake too. Today it is all about Amar G. Bose, because he was a real achiever. Being in the computer field many times when people ask for the suggestion for what type of speaker or sound system they should buy, my advise always was “if you can afford then go for BOSE”.

There were many Bose who made me proud for the lastname which I shared with them and A. G. Bose was one of them.

Amar Gopal Bose

Amar Gopal Bose was born in 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father Nani Gopal Bose was a revolutionary freedom fighter who emigrated from Calcutta. Amar Bose was interested in electronics right from his childhood and used to make small electrical toys to supplement his family's income. He did his schooling Abington Senior High School and graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in the early 1950s. He also completed his Ph.D. from MIT.

While doing graduation from MIT in 1950s, Amar Bose purchased a new stereo system. But he was disappointed with the performance of the speakers. Despite their impressive technical specifications, the speakers failed to reproduce the realism of a live performance. This led Bose to start working on stereo speaker. He aimed to design a speaker that would emulate the concert hall experience in the home. Amar Bose's early patents won him great respect within the industry. But Bose needed capital to do further research and begin production. Amar Bose received financial support from MIT professor Y. W. Lee and in 1964 he founded Bose Corporation.

In 1968, Amar Bose invented the 901(R) Direct/Reflecting(R) speaker system. They were one of the first stereo loudspeakers to utilize the space around them instead of reproducing sound as if in a vacuum. Bose's 901(R) speakers remained an industry benchmark for 25 years. Amar Bose also captured the car stereo market, with systems that transformed the on-the-road listening experience.

His products can be found in Olympics stadiums, the Sistine Chapel, NASA Space Shuttle, and the Japanese National Theatre. Amar Bose was also a professor of electrical engineering at MIT for many years until he retired in 2000. Amar Bose featured on the 2006 Forbes Billionaires list with a personal wealth of $1.2 billion.

Amar Bose has 98 patents in sound technology.

!!!The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household. – Amar G. Bose!!!

!!!The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.  – Amar G. Bose!!!

Free Fall!

During the years when I drawn my salary in dollars, the rupee dollar relation was around one-to-ten. Throughout my brief  tenure when I provided BPO jobs, exactly between  late nineties and early 2000, a dollar cost 45 Rupees. However after 2010 dollar surges ahead and now standing around Rs. 61. Why and how Rupees falling?

Rupees V/S Dollar

In 1947, the exchange rate was 1 dollar equal to 1.00 Rupee but with the introduction of 5 year plans government needed foreign funds and started devaluing Rupees. It further devalued after Indo-China war.

Growing differences in our imports and exports is making the different. India spend more then earn concerning dollars, because whatever we are selling are fetching less dollars and what we are buying, are demanding more dollars from us. Due to large population, India’s imports are increasing and exports are decreasing. That means we earn less dollars compare to what we spend. Another reason for declining dollars is restricted FDI policies. There are many sectors in which FDI is restricted such as retail, insurance, defence etc

India's imports of gold and silver are a major reason for the rupee's slide. However, with a lower rupee value, key sectors like Information Technology, Pharmaceutical and Textiles will benefit from a higher dollar value as bulk of their revenues come from overseas markets.

Rupees against Dollar since 1947

Year	Exchange rate Rupees v/s Dollar
1917	0.07692307692
1925	0.10
1947	1
1952	4.750
1966	7.50
1975	10.409
1980	7.887
1985	12.369
1990	17.504
1995	32.427
2000	45.000
2006	48.336
2007 (Oct)	38.48
2008 (June)	42.51
2008 (October)	48.88
2009 (October)	46.37
2010 (January 22)	46.21
2011 (April)	44.17
2011 (September 21)	48.24
2011 (November 17)	55.3950
2012 (May 23)	56.25
2012 (June 22)	57.15
2013 (May 15)	54.73
2013 (June 12)	58.500
2013 (June 27)	60.73
2013 (July 08)	61.14

!!!The love of economy is the root of all virtue.- George Bernard Shaw!!!

The Eavesdropper V/S Whistleblower!

One have to agree that whatever USA accomplish always does it in style and so I am not surprised when they did it again. In the name of security and cyber scrutiny they caught spying on other counties. US, the mother of all trouble is back in the business or rather caught red handed while doing old business. However, snooping and sniffing remind me to a four legged animal but never imagine any human being at that position, specially not from a thirsted one. After Wikileaks this time around they are facing the challenge within, as whole thing blown up by a very own insider, who is himself an employee of the NSA. While on medical leave in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, leaks the details how USA spying on other countries within USA that included Indian embassy in USA. I wonder, is USA suffering from inferior complexity?

Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden  is a US former technical contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who leaked details of top-secret US and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.

Snowden grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1999, Snowden had moved with his family to Ellicott City, Maryland, where he studied computing at Anne Arundel Community College to gain the credits necessary to obtain a high-school diploma, but he did not complete the coursework.  Snowden  worked at a US military base in Japan and reportedly had a deep interest in Japanese popular culture and had studied the Japanese language. He also said he had a basic understanding of Mandarin and was deeply interested in martial arts, and he listed Buddhism as his religion.

In May 2013, Snowden was permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. On May 20, Snowden flew to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. He was staying in a Hong Kong hotel when the initial articles revealing information about the NSA that he had leaked were published. Among other specifics divulged,

Snowden revealed the existence and functions of several classified US surveillance programs and their scope.

Snowden explained his actions saying: "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things [surveillance on its citizens]. I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded."

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows

Making a fortune off of snooping

Corporate execs at firms like Booz Allen and Carlyle make fortunes doing "systematic snooping" for the government. These execs have a vested self-interest in pumping up demand for their snooping services - and they're indeed, the Washington Post reported, pumping away.

This past April, the Post notes, Booz Allen established a new 1,500-employee division "aimed at creating new products that clients don't know they need yet." This new division is developing "social media analytics" that can anticipate the latest "cyber threat."

In other words, this new unit will be figuring out how to get the federal government to pay up even more for investigating whom we "like" on Facebook.

Manhunt

An international manhunt has been under way after Mr. Snowden fled the U.S., initially to Hong Kong, and then on to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where he has been stuck in legal limbo in the international transit area.

After China, Russia also rejected a asylum plea from Snowden and now he holed up in the transit area in Moscow as Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, told Reuters that Snowden was in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and had not crossed through passport control into Russian territory.

Snowden asylum plea outright rejected by Brazil, Finland, India, Poland when still pending with following countries :

Austria, Ecuador, Norway, Spain, Venezuela, Bolivia, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Switzerland and Russia.

It is like enjoying a prime time movie with a pack of popcorn, I am luving it!

!!!A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill!!!