Education - Don't Make Fish Climb Trees

A friend sent me this very interesting video. I wish I had the URL, so I would have only provided the link instead of embedding the video.

There Is The Ranking

http://indianexpress.com/article/education/iisc-iits-among-top-indian-institutes-in-times-world-university-rankings-2016/ : Ranks of educational institutions. The IIT's are along with the men's medals in Olympics - largely absent.

Pakistan is happy to have moved up from rank 126 to 122 out of 138 countries. https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/153314-Pakistans-ranking-in-GlobalCompetitiveness-Index-improves while India movies up 16 notches from 55 to 39 (did they miss a 1 before 39?).

Should we focus on having improved since last year as Pak seems to have done? Or should we talk like Baba Ranchhod Das: RRRanking isn't everything.. Marks should not be put up in the notice board for all to see etc.

I am confused.

Additional reading:
https://scroll.in/article/827844/most-founders-of-startups-worth-over-1-bn-are-from-stanford-harvard-and-the-iits: Most billion dollar startups are from Harvard, Stanford and IIT's.

Do Trees Scream

An interesting thought: http://scroll.in/article/817330/do-trees-scream-or-strategise-how-do-they-live-in-forests

Tools To Download And Modify Videos From Net

There are plenty of tools over there to download from youtube. Downloading of youtube videos should be fast, small in size and simple enough to do repeatedly.

One such tool, free of course, is savefrom.net. If you add the extension to chrome then you will see a button below the youtube video which you can use to download the video in different sizes and quality. 

I have found it useful.

1. http://in.pcmag.com/web-sites/41642/feature/how-to-download-youtube-videos
2. http://www.usmanalitoo.com/top-5-websites-online-videos-downloader/ (which includes http://en.savefrom.net/

Use video converter to reduce the size of mp4 files. The links are a good read.

DVDVideoMedia (https://free-video-to-audio-converter-eg.en.softonic.com) converts video files to audio files as a batch.

Key To Baldness

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160921-the-benefits-of-going-bald

Alok Sagar And Kejriwal

A friend sent me a video on Alok Sagar (see this video also).

Arvind Kejriwal is also from IIT. I wonder if there is any otherr similarity between the two.

Another KGP student (added on 7th Jan 2017): Sundar Pichai: http://www.abplive.in/india-news/what-even-the-boss-of-google-cant-do-476009

Additional reading:
http://calmisc.blogspot.com/2016/01/arvind-kejriwal-odd-even-car-date.html

Door Step School

A friend sent me this video about Door Step school. Isn't it nice? Wouldn't it be great if every child had access to education and some life skills?

Additional reading: http://calmisc.blogspot.com/2011/04/bihar-and-iit.html

Guy Cry Films

Apparently there is a genre of movies called Guy Cry films as against Chick Flick movies. Interesting. Good Will Hunting is a Guy cry film as per the wiki link.

Does Allah Ask For This? See Pictures

http://khaleejtimes.com/international/rest-of-asia/horrific-blood-streams-in-dhaka-after-eid-al-adha-sacrifices

Even if there were no bloody rivers, is it necessary to have this kind of rituals with cattle during Eid or turkey in Thanksgiving (and any other similar ones)?

Bad News First

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155304373823009&id=837878008&refid=28&_ft_=qid.6329377963155668398%3Amf_story_key.426326560447927055&__tn__=%2As

DigiLocker - Why It Is Not Popular Yet

http://scroll.in/article/816076/the-digilocker-was-supposed-to-cut-down-paperwork-but-less-than-0-1-of-indians-are-using-it

Overflowing Garbage In A Residential Area In Kotturpuram

This was on 12th Sep 12, 2016 outside ABCD park (opposite Heritage). What makes me wonder is how come the common man doesn't even know whom to contact to address this issue. Which telephone number to call where he gets a ticket which is tracked to closure.

Another beautiful place in Chennai which is usually in similar conditions is D'Monte Colony in Alwarpet near Park Sheraton (Adyar Gate) Hotel.

Grandpa We Are In The Wrong Plane

http://ovshake.blogspot.in/2014/12/worst-commercial-of-2014-lufthansa.html

Right Order For English Adjectives

http://scroll.in/article/815924/beware-the-bad-big-wolf-why-you-need-to-put-your-adjectives-in-the-right-order. As per the article, adjectives have to follow this order: Opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose.

Why The World's Muslim Population Is Growing So Very, Very Quickly

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/09/where-and-why-the-median-age-for-muslims-is-so-low/

We are losing Kashmir to Islam: Ten ways to counter radicalisation in India: http://www.firstpost.com/india/we-are-losing-kashmir-to-islam-ten-ways-to-counter-radicalisation-in-india-2997302.html

Karwar

http://blog.poonamparihar.com/2014/02/coastal-india-in-photos-karwar.html?m=1


Additional reading: 

• http://thrillingtravel.in/2015/06/things-to-do-in-karwar.html
• On Sadashivgad: http://karwar-ramdas.blogspot.in/2007/06/histroy-of-sadashivgad.html?m=1

Gold Price Movements In Last 10 Years

http://deshgujarat.com/2012/04/25/gold-prices-in-last-ten-years-in-gujarat-from-rs-4300-to-rs-29280-for-10-gram/

WheelChairs And Battery Operated Cars In Railway Stations For Senior Citizen And Disabled Persons

http://www.irctcstationcode.com/book-battery-car-railway-station/

http://www.irctc-logins.in/2015/11/irctc-e-wheelchair-booking.html

Cloudy With A Chance Fogg Of In Sinaia

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1149585005108303&id=105181532881994&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.in%2F&locale2=af_ZA&_rdr

Advertisement video Ayush Mehra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0xpS0dL3o

Additional reading:
http://primariacomarnic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Comunicat-delegatie.pdf

Baby Sign Language

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BabySignLanguageUpdateAt14Months.aspx

Blogger Stats Could be Incorrect and Overoptimistic Because Of Bots

http://www.themilelongbookshelf.com/2014/03/discussion-how-accurate-are-your.html#.V8gW8ph97IU

http://davebuesing.com/google-analytics-spam-traffic-bots/

http://nellieandco.blogspot.in/2015/08/blogger-stats-vs-google-analytics.html

Why Don't Muslims Migrate to Pakistan From India

The poor are least likely to migrate: http://www.riazhaq.com/2016/06/why-dont-indian-muslims-migrate-to.html

Updated on Feb 1, 2017: 
Christian women in Pakistan: http://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/christian-women-under-terror-grip-in-pakistan/525797/

Healing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Rj3DLIRiY: Focus on the breath. Think of the breath. Inhale and exhale slowly