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Moral: "Don’t draw conclusions until you know all the facts".

1. Keralites Mother Tongue is MALAYALAM (You can spell it from right to left & left to right)
2. Malayalam is second most spoken language in the Gulf!!
   
3. You will find Keralite farm workers, artisans, technicians, manual labourers, illiterates and semi-literates all migrating to all parts of the Globe.
4. When they start most of them only know their mother tongue. Through hardwork, drive, enthusiasm, tenacity, persistence, Humour sense they learn the trades and many languages viz. Hindi, English, Arabic, Marathi etc. to sustain them.
5. It is true that none of them speak Queen’s English. Most of the world does not.
6. Kerala is the only 100% literate state in India.
7. Kerala was rated as the most baby friendly state with the lowest infant mortality rates and the best Health Care Model by UN.
   
8. It is only in Kerala a movement of selling commodities by a channel known as MARGIN FREE has been started. ( Example: A bottle of Horlicks in every state in India being sold for 112Rs including taxes is being sold in these Margin Free shops for only Rs.100 !!! ....Amazing isn’t it ???)
9. Kerala is the only state where a Hindu, Muslim & a Christian family live side by side / in adjacent villas without any fear in perfect harmony, unlike other places in this world where we find community enclaves because the minority community is afraid of the majority.
10. Most of the recent Hindi movies have Scene to Scene copies from Kerala ( MALLU!!) movies. Including the latest Billu Barber!!!

1. Present Indian Defense Minister is from Kerala. – Mr. A K Antony
   
2. Present Indian Foreign Secretary is from Kerala - Mr. Shivshankar Menon
3. Present Chief Justice of India is from Kerala - Mr. K.G. Balakrishnan
4. The Chief of ISRO and the man behind "Chandryaan' , the Indian Space program is from Kerala - Mr. G Madhavan Nair
5. Present National Security Adviser (NSA) to the Prime Minister is from Kerala – Mayankote Kelath Narayanan (M K Narayanan)
6. Inaugural Chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is from Kerala – Mr. Radha Vinod Raju
7. Present Principal Secretary to Prime Minister is from Kerala – Mr. T K A Nair More
8. The only Indian to contest for the UN Secretary General's Position is from Kerala. - Mr. Shashi Tharoor Follow on twitter
9. The chief of Staff to UN Secretary General is from Kerala - Mr. Vijay Nambiar
10. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi all had their Private Secretaries hailing from Kerala.
11. The last Indian representative to the Miss Universe contest was a Keralite.
    

Guys!

Here is a little story which I got from the 'ever inspiring' Pravs World. I loved it. Read it below.

Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. One day, he went for a trip to some distant areas of his country.


When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet were very painful, because it was the first time that he went for such a long trip, and the road that he went through was very rough and stony. He then ordered his people to cover every road of the entire country with leather. Definitely, this would need thousands of cows’ skin, and would cost a huge amount of money.


Then one of his wise servant dared himself to tell the king, “Why do you have to spend that unnecessary amount of money ? Why don’t you just cut a little piece of leather to cover your feet?”


The king was surprised, but he later agreed to his suggestion, to make a “shoe” for himself.


There is actually a valuable lesson of life in this story:

“To make this world a happy place to live, you better change yourself - your heart; and not the world.”

I found this very interesting and touching!! Planning to do something like this when i get married!! :). Happy reading!!

Priya married Hitesh this day. At the end of the wedding party,

Priya's mother gave her a newly opened bank saving passbook.

With Rs.1000 deposit amount.

Mother: 'Priya, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your marriage life. When there's something happy and memorable happened in your new life, put some money in. Write down what it's about next to the line. The more memorable the event is, the more money you can put in. I've done the first one for you today. Do the others with Hitesh. When you look back after years, you can know how much happiness you've had.'

Priya shared this with Hitesh when getting home.  They both thought it was a great idea and were anxious to know when the second deposit can be made.

This was what they did after certain time:

• 7 Feb: Rs.100, first birthday celebration for Hitesh after marriage
  
• 1 Mar: Rs.300, salary raise for Priya
  
• 20 Mar: Rs.200, vacation trip to Bali
  
• 15 Apr: Rs.2000, Priya got pregnant
  
• 1 Jun: Rs.1000, Hitesh got promoted ..... and so on...
  

However, after years, they started fighting and arguing for trivial things. They didn't talk much. They regretted that they had married the most nasty people in the world.... no more love...Kind of typical nowadays, huh?

One day Priya talked to her Mother:

'Mom, we can't stand it anymore. We agree to divorce. I can't imagine how I decided to marry this guy!!!'

Mother: 'Sure, girl, that's no big deal. Just do whatever you want if you really can't stand it. But before that, do one thing first. Remember the saving passbook I gave you on your wedding day? Take out all money and spend it first. You shouldn't keep any record of such a poor marriage.'

Priya thought it was true. So she went to the bank, waiting at the queue and planning to cancel the account.

While she was waiting, she took a look at the passbook record. She looked, and looked, and looked. Then the memory of all the previous joy and happiness just came up her mind. Her eyes were then filled with tears. She left and went home.

When she was home, she handed the passbook to Hitesh, asked him to spend the money before getting divorce.

The next day, Hitesh gave the passbook back to Priya. She found a new deposit of Rs.5000. And a line next to the record: 'This is the day I notice how much I've loved you thru out all these years. How much happiness you've brought me.'

They hugged and cried, putting the passbook back to the safe.

Do you know how much money they had saved when they retired? I did not ask.  I believe the money did not matter any more after they had gone thru all the good years in their life.

"When you fall, in any way, Don't see the place where you fell, Instead see the place from where you slipped."

Life is about correcting mistakes!

NB:- This is an article I stumbled upon while browsing the internet. You can find the actual blog entry here. Are You Living Like a Prostitute?

Severn Suzuki speaking at UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio De Janeiro, June 1992. Really Inspiring and Touching!



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1. Work towards highest fuel efficiency for a given class of engine and car sizing.
2. Work towards fossil fuel free automobile of the future: 
• Solar power + fuel cell 
• Electric
• Ethanol or bio-diesel
• Hydrogen.
3. Continuously aim to decrease the overall weight of the automobile systems enabling higher payload capability through state of the art structural design.
4. Designing the power plant to accept 100% bio-fuel, ethanol and emulsified fuel.
5. Design to cost and quality
6. Design of safety systems for providing high-level passenger Safety.
7. Constantly increasing the electronics, communication and control in the automobile systems for realizing high reliability, self-healing and fail-safe system.
8. Robotic Car

• Improvement in Combustion Efficiency: For getting better control and precision over combustion and emission, we have to work on direct injection of gasoline for better exhaust characteristics. Gasoline direct injection permits combustion of ultra-clean fuel air mixtures under diverse operating conditions and hence can deliver higher performance with lower fuel consumption and lower emission.
   
• Improvement in Diesel Engines: One of the important aspect of diesel engines is, the NOx (Nitrogen oxide) and particulate matter in the emission which has to be overcome by use of advanced combustion technologies which will reduce both. Indian Automotive Engineers have to work on this area and to offer the system for use in all types of diesel vehicles.
  
  
• Alternate Fuels: While it is important, to continuously improve the efficiency of internal combustion engines, scientists have to concentrate on development of alternate fuels and renewable energy sources. The future generation cars and trucks have to use bio-diesel, ethanol and hydrogen. Bio-fuels are renewable and can be produced in short notice as against fossil fuels which have been produced over millions of years.
  
  
• Emulsified Fuels: Emulsified fuels are found to give much better emission reduction towards reduced particulate and Oxides of Nitrogen emission reduction along with fuel saving that it is now implemented in most of the developed countries. In India, we are now successfully burning in a boiler in an industry emulsified diesel fuel with 25% water straight away saving 25% of the diesel fuel. The emulsified fuel costs 20% cheaper than the diesel fuel. If one such small boiler using emulsified fuel can save 40 litres of diesel in a day and equivalent amount of cash spent on the fuel, please think about the huge fuel savings and the cost benefits for over thousands of boilers and several external fired equipments running with oil in India. The savings for the country in oil import bill will be over 20% the present level. While combusting emulsified fuels for industrial firing needs no modifications it needs encouragement and educating the users. For automobile applications, TATA Need to work with Hydro drive emulsification technology and IIT Madras to experiment and introduce the emulsified fuels in the Diesel cars and diesel vehicles. Emulsified fuels will cut emissions and will bring down the operating costs including captive power generation costs. This singular research area alone has the potential to make TATA Motors to produce and market the most competitive commercial and passenger vehicle within the next two years.
  
  
• Hydrogen powered fuel cells: Hydrogen powered vehicles are almost zero emission vehicles. We have to progressively move into fuel cell vehicles within a few decades.
  
  
• Alternative Power Plants: Substantial research is required in battery technology to provide a reliable, low-weight, high density and cost effective battery to the large Indian rural population. Simultaneously, there is a need to work on hybrid electric vehicle for containing the growing environmental emission in big cities. Challenge for researchers will be in the development of drives, control electronics, transmission and low weight high capacity batteries.
  
  
• CNT Based Solar PV Cells: Our scientists have to take up this challenge and come up with the development of a CNT based PV cell with an efficiency of at least 50% within the next three years so that it can go into the commercial production within five years. In addition, they can also take up the development of organic solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells and third generation solar cells. The automobile specialists should work with these energy experts to get the solar cells with 50% efficiency which can be effectively used in solar power driven vehicles. 

1. Leader must have a vision.
2. Leader must have a passion to transform the vision into action.
3. Leader must be able to travel into an unexplored path.
4. Leader must know how to manage a success and failure.
5. Leader must have courage to take decisions.
6. Leader should have Nobility in management.
7. Every action of the leader should be transparent.
8. Leader must work with integrity and succeed with integrity. 

With hard effort and single-minded devotion, you can make possible what seems impossible.

That is what an 18-year-old has shown in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. With not enough to eat, and no money even to burn the midnight oil, in a village with hardly nine hours daily power supply, the boy managed to secure 453rd rank in the IIT entrance exam. However, he has won only half the battle yet.

At Garikapadu village in Khammam district, the IIT entrance rank holder, Narasimha Rao, is a labour under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme.

With the daily wage of Rs 80, Narasimha wants to repay dues for borrowing books from a reference library. Even at work, his thoughts revolve around science.

''When I am working in the field also, I think of questions in physics. I just can't understand how these mobiles work? How the waves travel?'' says Narasimha.

Narsimha's mother Lakshmi can't tell what exam her son has passed but the labourer parents say their son has made them proud.

''My boy said he would buy me a gas stove to cook after he gets a job. I know he is grown up now. My eyes burn when we burn wood,'' says Lakshmi.

Narsimha managed to get coaching in an IIT institute in nearby Vijaywada with the financial support by some elders in this village. Now the 18-year-old has to attend counselling at IIT Madras on June 18, for which he does not even have travel expenses.

''After I am settled in life, I promise to pay back the money. I will be so thankful,'' says Narasimha.

Source : NDTV.com

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