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vijay replied to the topic Depression in old age .
Acute Stress, lack of certain vitamins especially vitamin B 12, leading a lonely life, leading an idle life, long term medical problems, rejection by children, are some of the reasons which can bring depression in old age. These days good psychological advice and medicines can help overcome depression.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic smartphone or desk top .
Those who have graduated from desktop to laptop to smartphone will find desktop to be better esp, for users who are say more than 55 to 60 years and above in age. However the future belongs to smartphones. Salesof desktop and laptops are falling every year appreciably.
9 years ago
Lopamudra replied to the topic Saffronizing education .
First of all one needs be clear about what extinct means.It means wiped out or defunct. Sanskrit is not commonly spoken or used as a medium of instruction in colleges or universities or even used in offices but how does it make the language extinct ? If a language has vast treasury of important information which one needs to refer to in various fields, most common of which is Ayurveda, then it is very much in use and can not be dismissed as dead. The alkaloids derived from those medicinal plants mentioned in the vedas are used in various modern day allopathic medicines as well, in addition to ayurvedic and homeopathic medicines. With increasing chronic aliments of modern day, various medical practitioners are referring to those scriptures. Any what about vedic sciences ? Are they too lifeless ? If not, how does one make use of them without the use of Sanskrit ?
9 years ago
chinmoymukherjee replied to the topic Saffronizing education .
Poor monkey!! But unlike her human counterpart
she hasn't pursued a killer project to kill her own
daughter and bury her! She was capable of feeling
her loss and of emoting them!! You would be all
more amused Ram Mohan Roy,Vidyasagar,Tilak,
Vivekananda and even your iconic hero Nehru
never took such a demeaning view of this language.
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
rambabu wrote:
You are right. It were I who mistook it. David Cameroon said that Koh-I-noor will not be returned to India during his recent visit to India.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282104/The-Koh-noor-diamond-stay-Britain-says-Cameron-rules-returning-gem-India-final-day-visit.html
Actually, Kohinoor is not an issue either with Britain or India. The main issues are combating terrorism, mutual cooperation in commerce and cultural affairs.
True...I concur, these issues have become even more grave now with the recent ISIS attacks on Paris. THe whole of Western and Asian world needs to be united as one to combat this growing menace. Issues regarding property and wealth rights can be sorted out at a later date.
Absolutely so ! Terrorism is the biggest threat we have today and while the Arabian nations go all out to fund terrorists when problems arise hey expect the western world to take care of the mess they have created like it happened with the refugees.Now it is the terrorists who came in the guise of refugees that have executed this terror strike in Paris...We in India have similar problems which is made worse by our greedy and power hungry politicians ..
9 years ago
Lopamudra liked a reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
rambabu wrote:
You are right. It were I who mistook it. David Cameroon said that Koh-I-noor will not be returned to India during his recent visit to India.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282104/The-Koh-noor-diamond-stay-Britain-says-Cameron-rules-returning-gem-India-final-day-visit.html
Actually, Kohinoor is not an issue either with Britain or India. The main issues are combating terrorism, mutual cooperation in commerce and cultural affairs.
True...I concur, these issues have become even more grave now with the recent ISIS attacks on Paris. THe whole of Western and Asian world needs to be united as one to combat this growing menace. Issues regarding property and wealth rights can be sorted out at a later date.
Absolutely so ! Terrorism is the biggest threat we have today and while the Arabian nations go all out to fund terrorists when problems arise hey expect the western world to take care of the mess they have created like it happened with the refugees.Now it is the terrorists who came in the guise of refugees that have executed this terror strike in Paris...We in India have similar problems which is made worse by our greedy and power hungry politicians ..
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Saffronizing education .
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
The very fact that it is in use , whether it is in rituals or by scholars, it is very much around as a language and used by some on a daily basis ! There is a also a Sanskrit news report in DD channel ! The present government wants to revive Sanskrit which is a very positive step but the opposition and Congress sympathisers see saffron even there !
Thanks for accepting the reality of Sanskrit being an extinct language though indirectly saying that 'present government wants to revive Sanskrit." What is 'revive'. This is to give life to some thing that is dead. They are trying to 'revive' because the language is 'extinct'. Moreover, mere use in slokas and mantras for rituals is hardly a manifestation of a living language. Any way, if some people want to announce that Sanskrit is living language though neither understood nor read nor spoken in any state nor used in any office nor a medium of instruction anywhere, let them do. I am simply amused. What is the sense in saying that this language is a matter of research and so this is living. That way even old stamps are there in collectors' album. What does that mean?
You have the right to be amused but one cannot revive things that are dead, one can only revive something that has been neglected through years of disuse and infuse new life into it, which is what is being done by the present government.In fact even the previous government had done the same effort or else we wouldn't have Sanskrit as a second language in almost all government run Central and state board schools since the time of Independence. ...
9 years ago
rambabu liked a reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Saffronizing education .
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
The very fact that it is in use , whether it is in rituals or by scholars, it is very much around as a language and used by some on a daily basis ! There is a also a Sanskrit news report in DD channel ! The present government wants to revive Sanskrit which is a very positive step but the opposition and Congress sympathisers see saffron even there !
Thanks for accepting the reality of Sanskrit being an extinct language though indirectly saying that 'present government wants to revive Sanskrit." What is 'revive'. This is to give life to some thing that is dead. They are trying to 'revive' because the language is 'extinct'. Moreover, mere use in slokas and mantras for rituals is hardly a manifestation of a living language. Any way, if some people want to announce that Sanskrit is living language though neither understood nor read nor spoken in any state nor used in any office nor a medium of instruction anywhere, let them do. I am simply amused. What is the sense in saying that this language is a matter of research and so this is living. That way even old stamps are there in collectors' album. What does that mean?
You have the right to be amused but one cannot revive things that are dead, one can only revive something that has been neglected through years of disuse and give it life which is what is being done by the present government.In fact even the previous government had done the same effort or else we wouldn't have Sanskrit as a second language in almost all government run Central and state board schools since the time of Independence. ...
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to chinmoymukherjee for his/her reply to the topic Saffronizing education .
Where knowledge fails and ignorance completely engulfs one's mind we can expect all sorts of absurd views! A few Indians love to create history without reading it!! Now a few words on contemporary developments which so compellingly highlight how important it has become to learn this language along with other old languages like Tamil and others.With the establishment WTO the need to protect India's intellectual property (IPR) under TRIPS under traditional knowledge (TK) and technologies, it has become a bread and butter issue for India spurring fresh efforts to develop digital database running into 34 million pages with a few IIMs leading a pivotal role.There are
an estimated 22,60000 medicinal formulations alone to be protected to safeguard our economic interests against bio-piracy.All we know how Turmeric and Neem were nearly robbed of us by others claiming wrong geographical indicators (GI) and we had to turn to authentic Sanskrit texts to save us the day. So a little bit of old stamp does help!!
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
rambabu wrote:
You are right. It were I who mistook it. David Cameroon said that Koh-I-noor will not be returned to India during his recent visit to India.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282104/The-Koh-noor-diamond-stay-Britain-says-Cameron-rules-returning-gem-India-final-day-visit.html
Actually, Kohinoor is not an issue either with Britain or India. The main issues are combating terrorism, mutual cooperation in commerce and cultural affairs.
True...I concur, these issues have become even more grave now with the recent ISIS attacks on Paris. THe whole of Western and Asian world needs to be united as one to combat this growing menace. Issues regarding property and wealth rights can be sorted out at a later date.
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar liked a reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic Depression in old age .
Acute Stress, lack of certain vitamins especially vitamin B 12, leading a lonely life, leading an idle life, long term medical problems, rejection by children, are some of the reasons which can bring depression in old age. These days good psychological advice and medicines can help overcome depression.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic smartphone or desk top .
Those who have graduated from desktop to laptop to smartphone will find desktop to be better esp, for users who are say more than 55 to 60 years and above in age. However the future belongs to smartphones. Salesof desktop and laptops are falling every year appreciably.
9 years ago
Lopamudra replied to the topic Saffronizing education .
First of all one needs be clear about what extinct means.It means wiped out or defunct. Sanskrit is not commonly spoken or used as a medium of instruction in colleges or universities or even used in offices but how does it make the language extinct ? If a language has vast treasury of important information which one needs to refer to in various fields, most common of which is Ayurveda, then it is very much in use and can not be dismissed as dead. The alkaloids derived from those medicinal plants mentioned in the vedas are used in various modern day allopathic medicines as well, in addition to ayurvedic and homeopathic medicines. With increasing chronic aliments of modern day, various medical practitioners are referring to those scriptures. Any what about vedic sciences ? Are they too lifeless ? If not, how does one make use of them without the use of Sanskrit ?
9 years ago
chinmoymukherjee replied to the topic Saffronizing education .
Poor monkey!! But unlike her human counterpart
she hasn't pursued a killer project to kill her own
daughter and bury her! She was capable of feeling
her loss and of emoting them!! You would be all
more amused Ram Mohan Roy,Vidyasagar,Tilak,
Vivekananda and even your iconic hero Nehru
never took such a demeaning view of this language.
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
rambabu wrote:
You are right. It were I who mistook it. David Cameroon said that Koh-I-noor will not be returned to India during his recent visit to India.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282104/The-Koh-noor-diamond-stay-Britain-says-Cameron-rules-returning-gem-India-final-day-visit.html
Actually, Kohinoor is not an issue either with Britain or India. The main issues are combating terrorism, mutual cooperation in commerce and cultural affairs.
True...I concur, these issues have become even more grave now with the recent ISIS attacks on Paris. THe whole of Western and Asian world needs to be united as one to combat this growing menace. Issues regarding property and wealth rights can be sorted out at a later date.
Absolutely so ! Terrorism is the biggest threat we have today and while the Arabian nations go all out to fund terrorists when problems arise hey expect the western world to take care of the mess they have created like it happened with the refugees.Now it is the terrorists who came in the guise of refugees that have executed this terror strike in Paris...We in India have similar problems which is made worse by our greedy and power hungry politicians ..
9 years ago
Lopamudra liked a reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
rambabu wrote:
You are right. It were I who mistook it. David Cameroon said that Koh-I-noor will not be returned to India during his recent visit to India.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282104/The-Koh-noor-diamond-stay-Britain-says-Cameron-rules-returning-gem-India-final-day-visit.html
Actually, Kohinoor is not an issue either with Britain or India. The main issues are combating terrorism, mutual cooperation in commerce and cultural affairs.
True...I concur, these issues have become even more grave now with the recent ISIS attacks on Paris. THe whole of Western and Asian world needs to be united as one to combat this growing menace. Issues regarding property and wealth rights can be sorted out at a later date.
Absolutely so ! Terrorism is the biggest threat we have today and while the Arabian nations go all out to fund terrorists when problems arise hey expect the western world to take care of the mess they have created like it happened with the refugees.Now it is the terrorists who came in the guise of refugees that have executed this terror strike in Paris...We in India have similar problems which is made worse by our greedy and power hungry politicians ..
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to usha manohar for his/her reply to the topic Saffronizing education .
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
The very fact that it is in use , whether it is in rituals or by scholars, it is very much around as a language and used by some on a daily basis ! There is a also a Sanskrit news report in DD channel ! The present government wants to revive Sanskrit which is a very positive step but the opposition and Congress sympathisers see saffron even there !
Thanks for accepting the reality of Sanskrit being an extinct language though indirectly saying that 'present government wants to revive Sanskrit." What is 'revive'. This is to give life to some thing that is dead. They are trying to 'revive' because the language is 'extinct'. Moreover, mere use in slokas and mantras for rituals is hardly a manifestation of a living language. Any way, if some people want to announce that Sanskrit is living language though neither understood nor read nor spoken in any state nor used in any office nor a medium of instruction anywhere, let them do. I am simply amused. What is the sense in saying that this language is a matter of research and so this is living. That way even old stamps are there in collectors' album. What does that mean?
You have the right to be amused but one cannot revive things that are dead, one can only revive something that has been neglected through years of disuse and infuse new life into it, which is what is being done by the present government.In fact even the previous government had done the same effort or else we wouldn't have Sanskrit as a second language in almost all government run Central and state board schools since the time of Independence. ...
9 years ago
rambabu liked a reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Saffronizing education .
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
The very fact that it is in use , whether it is in rituals or by scholars, it is very much around as a language and used by some on a daily basis ! There is a also a Sanskrit news report in DD channel ! The present government wants to revive Sanskrit which is a very positive step but the opposition and Congress sympathisers see saffron even there !
Thanks for accepting the reality of Sanskrit being an extinct language though indirectly saying that 'present government wants to revive Sanskrit." What is 'revive'. This is to give life to some thing that is dead. They are trying to 'revive' because the language is 'extinct'. Moreover, mere use in slokas and mantras for rituals is hardly a manifestation of a living language. Any way, if some people want to announce that Sanskrit is living language though neither understood nor read nor spoken in any state nor used in any office nor a medium of instruction anywhere, let them do. I am simply amused. What is the sense in saying that this language is a matter of research and so this is living. That way even old stamps are there in collectors' album. What does that mean?
You have the right to be amused but one cannot revive things that are dead, one can only revive something that has been neglected through years of disuse and give it life which is what is being done by the present government.In fact even the previous government had done the same effort or else we wouldn't have Sanskrit as a second language in almost all government run Central and state board schools since the time of Independence. ...
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar said thank you to chinmoymukherjee for his/her reply to the topic Saffronizing education .
Where knowledge fails and ignorance completely engulfs one's mind we can expect all sorts of absurd views! A few Indians love to create history without reading it!! Now a few words on contemporary developments which so compellingly highlight how important it has become to learn this language along with other old languages like Tamil and others.With the establishment WTO the need to protect India's intellectual property (IPR) under TRIPS under traditional knowledge (TK) and technologies, it has become a bread and butter issue for India spurring fresh efforts to develop digital database running into 34 million pages with a few IIMs leading a pivotal role.There are
an estimated 22,60000 medicinal formulations alone to be protected to safeguard our economic interests against bio-piracy.All we know how Turmeric and Neem were nearly robbed of us by others claiming wrong geographical indicators (GI) and we had to turn to authentic Sanskrit texts to save us the day. So a little bit of old stamp does help!!
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
rambabu wrote:
You are right. It were I who mistook it. David Cameroon said that Koh-I-noor will not be returned to India during his recent visit to India.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282104/The-Koh-noor-diamond-stay-Britain-says-Cameron-rules-returning-gem-India-final-day-visit.html
Actually, Kohinoor is not an issue either with Britain or India. The main issues are combating terrorism, mutual cooperation in commerce and cultural affairs.
True...I concur, these issues have become even more grave now with the recent ISIS attacks on Paris. THe whole of Western and Asian world needs to be united as one to combat this growing menace. Issues regarding property and wealth rights can be sorted out at a later date.
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar liked a reply to the topic Koh-i-noor Diamond - Legal Challenge against Queen Elizabeth.
9 years ago