Emotional Manipulation - Signs

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-signs-youre-dealing-with-an-emotional-manipulator_us_58a732fae4b026a89a7a2a2b
2. http://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversion-tactics-highly-manipulative-narcissists-sociopaths-and-psychopaths-use-to-silence-you/
3. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/power-in-relationships/200905/are-you-being-gaslighted

On boundaries: http://markmanson.net/boundaries

On sensitivity: 

http://denmarkguy.hubpages.com/hub/Highly-Sensitive-or-Touchy: Feels like walking on eggshells with highly sensitive (touchy) people. 

Additional reading:

1. Phrases that show lack of confidence: http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/7-phrases-that-scream-lack-of-confidence-and-make-you-look-weak.html
2. Phrases to avoid in salary negotiation: https://www.fastcompany.com/3068323/career-evolution/nine-words-and-phrases-to-avoid-when-youre-negotiating-a-salary
3. Gaslighting, narcissism etc: http://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversion-tactics-highly-manipulative-narcissists-sociopaths-and-psychopaths-use-to-silence-you/

A Dishonest Promise Better Than A Honest Non Promise

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/19/opinions/donald-trump-and-the-psychology-of-blame-klitzman/index.html

Why Finland's Schools Are The Best

http://www.smh.com.au/national/this-is-why-finland-has-the-best-schools-20160324-gnqv9l.html

Crop Photo Online

Nice sites to crop picture online (and free)

1. http://resizeimage.net/
2. http://croppiconline.com/en
3. http://www141.lunapic.com/editor/

When To Su Su

A friend sent me this video (in Tamil with English subtitles).

Absolutely beautiful - a father answers a teenage daughter's question about her relationship with a boy in her school.

It isn't often that I see a nice video in a vernacular language. And you are blessed if you can hear it in Tamil.

Serial Killers

Woman killer Kempamma from Karnataka born in 1965: http://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mallika.htm

And this is Anand Kulal / Mohan Kumar from Karnataka born in 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohan_Kumar_(serial_killer) and https://grabhouse.com/urbancocktail/most-dangerous-serial-killers-of-india/

South Indian Movies Too Crass And Loud

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/baahubali-2-the-ghazi-attack-enthiran-raees-kaabil-jolly-llb-2/1/885084.html

Strong Woman

https://www.powerofpositivity.com/10-reasons-men-cant-handle-strong-woman/

Learning From Polyamorous Relationships

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_you_can_learn_from_polyamory?utm_source=GG+Newsletter+Feb+15%2C+2017&utm_campaign=GG+Newsletter+Feb+15+2017&utm_medium=email

Card Transactions

Insuring card transactions: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2017/02/14/e-commerce-merchants-can-get-card-transactions-guaranteed/#5732cc0b4ecb

When  the car or bike has a problem: https://yourstory.com/2017/02/gobumpr-girish-mathrubootham/ and GoBumpr.com

EliteMatrimony.com And A Woman's Desire For Freedom

https://www.facebook.com/sreemoyee.kundu/posts/10154165445032751

Excellent Career Advice - A Conversation

A friend and I got into a discussion about an article on Linkedin.

Me: One of the things that i think about often is this... How much can we change ourselves... We often read articles which encourage us to : Network more, not get stuck in a lousy job, learn more stuff, be more honest and so on. Ever wondered why some of us naturally network more, some learn new stuff and increase their breadth, while some go into depth of a new subject....why some turn out to be clever, some are innocent and so on.... How much do we learn to change our behavior ? How effective are articles such as the one sent... I mean the points mentioned in the link may very well be true... But if any of the points is just not us...can we mold ourselves or imbibe it? 

A Friend: I consider these points as multiple objectives which the author thinks need to be considered for moving in a better direction. No one can follow all these to high  degrees (even the author) as everyone is different. Probably the author may be taking aid of others in pursuing some of these. 

So, for me it is just some of the points which I could look into and  see which of these I could adopt and to what degrees . When we see people around us we don't  see them doing well in all these areas but many still have carved a niche with what they are doing .They do what they are good at or they have their priorities clear.                        

Reading and self paced learning is something which I find can lead to progress in other areas/objectives. As learning makes us ready to participate in new discussions leading to development of networks and growth.                        

Learning for me is an acquired skill which for some is easy to acquire whereas for others it may take more time. Sometimes people may stop trying to learn because they find time taken is more than expected. 

Another friend: And unlearning is the most difficult part of learning...

How Google Filters Out Blog Posts

http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/02/google-filter-blog-posts/

Virtual Memory

http://www.androidauthority.com/what-is-virtual-memory-gary-explains-747960/

Angel Investing Connects Startups With Capital

http://www.forbes.com/sites/christinawallace/2017/02/13/angel-investing-deep-technology-and-science-startups/#5c91a4cf578f - Swati Chaturvedi

Cloud Divorce

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-couple-link-up-via-web-to-get-divorce-in-15-mins-1122817

Kanpur Leather Economy, Intellectual Property, Engineering Cloud Software, Death Of Commercial DB

1. Kanpur Leather Economy: http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/the-slow-death-of-kanpur-s-leather-economy-and-up-s-job-crisis-117021100176_1.html
2. Intellectual Property: https://qz.com/906776/india-sucks-at-protecting-intellectual-property-according-to-the-us-chamber-of-commerces-2017-ip-index/
3. Engineering software moves to Cloud: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-09/engineering-software-finally-starts-moving-to-the-cloud?cmpid=GP.Tech
4. Death of commercial databases: http://seekingalpha.com/article/4044813-death-commercial-database-oracles-dilemma

Elections - PM,CM, MLA, MP etc

How are the Prime Minister, President, Chief Minister, Member of Legislative Assembly & of Parliament elected? And what are they? 

1. https://www.quora.com/How-the-president-and-prime-minister-in-India-are-elected 
2. http://www.elections.in/election-faqs.html

What Values Do We Promote

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-companys-culture-who-you-hire-fire-promote-part-1-sepah

Jonita Gandhi

BTSA candidate: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/Time-to-break-up/article17281300.ece

A friend explained. When the ? is the size of an agarbatti, a tumbler or a tray it implies an A, B or C respectively.

Rather unfortunate that the lady was snapped when she wasn't fully dressed.

Additional reading:
http://Calmisc.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-btsa-and-stba.html

Having More Options

Apparently having more options make us evaluate risks differently - https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw2pbxsTk&source=gmail&ust=1486785548493000&usg=AFQjCNEmJgaWSIeX_STGVlXZnEu-twnP7Q

Lies

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/whats_good_about_lying?utm_source=GG+Newsletter+Feb+8%2C+2017&utm_campaign=GG+Newsletter+Feb+8+2017&utm_medium=email

CBSE Class 12 Schedule: 2017

http://cbse.nic.in/newsite/attach/datesheet%20of%20class%20XII%20exam%202017.pdf

Searching Images By Content - AI

http://www.androidauthority.com/facebook-ai-image-search-747264/

Multi Level Marketing Scam

https://tricksbot.com/social-trade-plan-review-india-mlm/ - Another Ponzi

World's Most Innovative Economies

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/2w18ON3pDEXfn9igV3M8iO/The-worlds-most-innovative-economies.html - No forget it. India hasn't made it to the top 100.

Bail Bond

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/bail+bond

Getting Potable Water From Seawater

An  Indian teen does it. 

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/Indian-American-teen-finds-way-to-turn-seawater-potable/article17200032.ece

Additional reading:
Self sufficient house: http://www.thebetterindia.com/85088/solar-suresh-chennai-tamil-nadu-biogas-rainwater-harvesting-organic-garden/

Roja Rastogi

My first plant - a rose

First Rose

After the floods

Additional reading:

1. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/12/when-all-is-said-and-done.html
2. https://scroll.in/roving/824161/in-north-bengal-tea-estates-now-come-in-the-size-of-kitchen-gardens - Small tea gardens in North Bengal

Crap in its original form

https://www.facebook.com/mj210591/photos/a.125522417594894.28414.125156660964803/651823231631474/?type=3

Whatsapp Encryption And Anti Spam And Other Thought Provoking Articles

Now this is great stuff

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/how-whatsapp-is-fighting-spam-after-its-encryption-rollout/


Additional reading:

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-02/how-to-cure-jet-lag-tips-on-eating-exercising-sleeping - reason and possible cure for jet lag
2. https://scroll.in/pulse/828470/women-in-cervical-cancer-trials-have-died-for-the-sake-of-research-methodology Cervical cancer and drug trials
3. https://scroll.in/article/828192/the-padmavati-row-puts-the-spotlight-on-glaring-loopholes-in-indias-education-system - How important is knowledge
4. https://scroll.in/article/828201/migration-conundrum-india-is-on-the-move-for-work-but-why-is-that-still-not-reducing-inequality Migration of Indian workers

Amazon Better Than Walmart

http://fortune.com/2017/02/02/this-is-what-amazons-jeff-bezos-understands-and-walmart-doesnt/ Nice article

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawahar_Navodaya_Vidyalaya - "alternate schools for gifted  children in India" as per the link. Comprised largely  of students from rural areas. And these schools are residential. They are in every state except Tamil Nadu (because of something to do with Hindi). There is one school in each district.
2. http://www.nvshq.org/display_page.php?page=Facilities%20for%20Staff%20and%20Staff%20strength
3. http://topyaps.com/facts-about-jawahar-navodaya-vidyala students from class 6 to 12.

Nucleus Accumbens

It's in the brain and is related to rewarding events like food, sex. It is related to dopamine (and to oxytocin?)

1. http://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/blog/2014/6/11/know-your-brain-nucleus-accumbens
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_accumbens

Education In India

Some Statistics about education effectiveness in rural India: http://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/Govt.-to-assess-learning-outcomes-in-schools/article17131206.ece

Quote from the link:  

Pratham's recent Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) for rural India documented the deficit in learning levels among school children.

The proportion of Class 8 students who could solve a three-digit by one-digit division problem was 43.3% in 2016 and that of class3 students who could perform a two-digit subtraction 27.7%.

Among Class-3 students, 32% could read simple English words. The proportion of Class-8 students who could read simple English sentences was just 45.2%.