Moral Degradation

 Its more than two months and they are still unaware where and why the lady is ? Shameful  deeds and hunger for power ,lust and wealth lead to such onorous acts .Here a minister's alleged involvement in the nurse's disappearance came up during the questioning of two accused, Baldev Jat and Sohan Lal Vishnoi, who told the Jodhpur police she was abducted at his behest.The whole system fearing to get hold of big man .But suddenly the ball start rolling and a compact disk emerges from nowhere to everywhere from television channels to websites to social networking sites and the talk of the town get geared up.

In a yet another revelation a young politician is accused of harassing and influencing the system to work  unhappy with the attitude of the government the dead lady's father is accusing yet another minister's involvement in subsiding the enquiry of her daughter's death.They say that Jat, the minister ceased the stypand and salary of a husband whose wife didn't obeyed ministers unlawful wish .The daily is shouting !!!

Have the Government lost its moral ? One can blame government for all of society's ills but there is no doubt that economic and social legislation over the past 60 years has had a negative impact on virtue. Individuals as well as politicians lose their moral bearing when they are not held accountable for their actions. The internal moral compass that normally guides individual behavior will no longer function when the state undermines incentives for moral conduct and blurs the distinction between right and wrong.The more government spending is not the

answer to our social, economic, or cultural problems. The task is not to reinvent government or to give politics meaning; the task is to limit government and revitalize civil society.

Watershed Activities :The need of the hour

A drainage basin or a catchment area of a particular stream or river defined by high points and ridge lines ,it simply refers to the area carries water "shed"from the land after rainfall or snow melts.Drop by drop ,water is channeled into soil ,groundwater, creeks , river or stream and eventually the sea water shed may be small consisting of few hectares or huge ,covering thousands of hectares, here the drainage basin acts as a funnel by collecting all the water within the area covered by the basin and channeling it to a single point.


 In a small watershed, the effect of overland flow rather than the effect of channel flow is a dominating factor affecting the peak runoff. Consequently, a small watershed is very sensitive to high intensity rainfall of short duration and to the changes in land use pattern. On larger watersheds, the effect of channel flow or the basin storage effect becomes very pronounced so that such sensitivities are greatly suppressed.


In a rain fed agriculture rural areas, except for a few months ,there are hardly any work opportunities within the village.Hence poor peasants and labourers have to go to towns in search of work.Here wage supported watershed activities can directly help in family welfare ,afforestation and pasture development.Watersheds thus help in generating substantial income ,nursery raising and enhance employment opportunities in horticulture activities and increase soil moisture within three years .Agro based allied income activities like dairy ,goat rearing poultry can encouraged in village and cease decampment toward cities .

Urea and price hike ?

Urea fertilizer, also known as carbamide, is the most important nitrogenous fertilizer. It is a white crystalline organic chemical compound containing about 46 percent nitrogen. It is a waste product formed naturally by metabolizing protein in humans as well as other mammals, amphibians and some fish. Synthetic urea is produced commercially from ammonia and carbon dioxide. Urea is widely used in the agriculture sector both as a fertilizer and animal feed additive, which makes the production of urea considerably high in comparison to other fertilizers.

Urea was first discovered by a French scientist, named Hillaire Rouelle in 1773. But, synthetic urea was started to produce in 1828, about 55 years after its discovery.Urea has the highest nitrogen content, equal to 46 percent. This percentage is much higher than other nitrogenous fertilizers available in the market.Urea can be used for all types of crops and soils. After its assimilation by plants, urea leaves behind only carbon dioxide in the soil through the interaction of nitrifying bacteria. This carbon dioxide does not harm the soil.Urea is readily blended with monoammonium phosphate or diammonium phosphate. But, urea must not be mixed with any superphosphate unless applied immediately after blending, because urea reacts with superphosphate liberating water molecules. This will produce a damp material that is hard to store and apply.

Presently, urea is decontroled by the Government of India so the price hiked about 25% and a bag which costed 450 to 600 zoomed to 1100 .This is because India is the biggest importer of urea and when Indian agencies go to international market the price in the international market zooms up and the Indian government have to import at a higher price and thus sell it costly .To avoid this situation the government have to make a strategy for buying urea and also the middlemen and corruption element should be removed .If it is possible inflation can be ceased a bit as farmer will sell at a lower price.

A Noble For Mother

Four hours after receiving the news that she had been selected for the Rs.1520000 Nobel Peace Prize,Mother Teresa,Calcutta's "living saint",quietly rode a streetcar wearing a Rs.18 white sari with a blue border and headed for the "Writers' building ,the communist state' secretariat.There she humbly sought an interview with the ever busy chief secretary ,the not so busy peons,unaware that they were talking to a Nobel laureate,brusquely ordered her to "come back later".

Towards the evening ,as tickers in newspaper offices of the city brought the Oslo datelined news,the city bent over backwards to pay homage. However,the sense of pride was largely justified.Mother Teresa,with her Slavonic English and broken but crisply colloquial Bengali,belonged to Calcutta.She could not have helped it because perhaps in no other city is poverty so glaring .No other city ,perhaps ,needs Mother Teresa as much as Calcutta does.

"Its the victory for the poor",was all she said with her wrinkled face resting on her gnarled hand.

Baba Amte :"भिती असते तिथे प्रीति नसते"

Born in Wardha ,Maharashtra ,in 1914 a self made man true to the Gandhian ideals,he accepted the life of a labourer instead of being called land lord for 450 acres of land.He might not be a "Baba"of worshiping but certainly "Guru" for future generations.


Moved towards Vinoba Bhave for its Gandhian philosophy during freedom struggle Murlidhar Devdas Amte learned Bengali to comprihend Tagore's "Geetanjali" to understand pain across all languages.In 1942 Baba took Sadhna tai and family at a new place at Anandvan where service was not provided to the leprosy patients but by the leprosy patients to thousands of visitors and guests.


Baba Amte what he was called because of his inspiration to the People of Punjab in terbulent years of 1984 to 1986 and than he stayed with the masses to strengthen them at the banks of Narmada for a decade to selfless help in the fight against foolish Sardarsarovar dam project.


Baba was physically unwell during his later days due to Spondylosis,in 2007 ,he was diagnosed with Leukemia .On 9th February 2008 Baba Amte breathed his last breath and was buried instead of cremated as per his last wish.Opon Amte's death the 14th Dalai Lama said "Amte's demise is a great loss to all of us.I am an admirer of Baba.I vividly remember my visit to his thriving community of handicapped people at Anandvan in 1990".


Baba Amte was awarded with neumores awards and titles Gandhi had conferred on Amte the title Abhayasadhak for his fight against leprosy .Indian government with 

• Padma Shree, 1971
• Padma Vibhushan, 1986
• Gandhi Peace Prize, 1999 and many more by other institutions .

Dream come true.

The duskey sky in the evening stopped to drink in the beautiful skies the sunset had created.Last few months back  a friend and I walked along the edge of a hilltop forest while a wild wind rushed through the trees and I wondered if the whole wood would blow away. And then, just a day later, we walked through a hilly terrene  where the softly falling rain made the earth smell sweet.


The trees stood quiet and still, large droplets splashed to the ground from the leaves or trickled down the bark, darkening the trunks .The beauty of rain ,the isolated patch of our farm near the town with hilly terrane and streams running sideways with huge ,tall,witthered tree trunks around tempt to hug .it’s like entering another world under the dusky evening skys.


The moon and sun both tussling for their space in the space with twinkles awaiting for there glare the roudy clouds with a lightning blade now and than bring my friend closer to me .The cool breeze with tiny droplets and husk around .I always wanted to be a part of it and today it was the dream come true for me .

Truth and lie !

"Truth always triumphs" the meaning for "Satyamev jayte " which we use to see after almost all the movies ended in the last decayed on doordarshan every Sunday before the 8:45 news .Even in the court scenes there were Satyamev jayte " written behind the judge and even in Ramayana and other epics truth was glorified. We were reminded by our parents to follow it ,saying at last the person who doesn't leave truth and right path leads good life and he is remembered forever.


Now after a decade ,does all those things lost there flair ? as we see almost everyone climbing up the ladder of success through dishonest means .Even the study conducted by University of San Francisco says only 31 people out of 13000 could identify in nearly all cases when someone was lying .People who lie react differently when they lie so there is no set pattern. They can feel afraid, guilt or excitement while lying, it really depends on the person.


So in a age of quick money and using one's shoulder to climb to the top the borderline between telling the truth and lying is something that is hard to come  with even at a young age.The thrill and excitement of telling a lie also sometimes tempt a person to tell a lie for no reason .


Telling a lie and telling a truth both are just telling a sentence but truth has a contentment in it whereas a lie bring a guilt and bad consequences with it so it is only the person who speak and the moment the word or sentence is uttered have the right and responsibility for it .