CULTURAL QA06-2022-07 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Atrain's sleeper coach in India has 72 seats. Generally, we see around 10-13such coaches (S1, S2). Why do the seats in IRCTC for a sleeper coach remain200-250? A1 Rishabh Thakur Lives in Bengaluru,Karnataka, India (2007–present)Sun Short Answer: StationQuota. Long answer: On anormal long route train, intermediate stations have quotas of their own. Lets Suppose that atrain travels from A-B-C-D-E. Many passengersmight book from A-C. So, If you look for tickets between C and E, you will seethose seats as available. But the same is nottrue when you look between A and E. that’s the reasonRailway allows you to have reservation between different pairs of stations withan option to change the Boarding point. Other than that,few other seats are reserved for Ladies Quota, 25% is reserved for Tatkal quota and few seats(8 per bogie) are reserved for RAC.TTE’s also have few seats assigned to them. As a result, youwon’t see the expected number of seats online ever. My note- 25% Tatkal quota appears too much. .Tatkal isfor emergency travel. Tatkal is charged more. I think this percentage canbe reduced to 10%, Q2 Whenparents have a child born with Down syndrome, does this mean the parents aregenetically related? A2 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Fri No. Down’s is due to a chromosome duplication,not a recessive gene. The duplication isn’t something which the parents arecarrying with them, but something which happens on the spot as their bodiesgenerate (slightly mutant) eggs or sperm. The risk of having a baby with Down’s Syndrome increasesif the parents are older, or the father has done a lot of sunbathing withoutputting sunscreen on his balls. If it’s true andnot just some weird meme that some US Republican politician has beenencouraging his followers to expose their balls to UV tanning, they’re going tobe in a world of pain when it comes to having kids. Q3 Why soloworship of Lord Karthikeya (also known as Skanda/Murugan/Subramanian) declinedin North India despite being popular during the times of Ramayana/Mahabharataup until Gupta period? A3 Balaji Viswanathan follower of theDharma22h In ancient India, 6key sects existed each centered on a key deity: Shaiva Vaishnava Shakta Ganpatya Saura (worship of Sun god) Kaumara (worship of Kartikeya) In the south, allthe 6 worship forms still exist although connected in various ways. Ganpatyaand Kaumara is often connected with Shaiva traditions while Saura is sometimesconnected with Vaishnava traditions or with advaita traditions. Various partsof the south have one of these 6 as the dominant tradition. One hypothesis is that, due to a variety of invasionsnorth lost many of these traditions leaving it with only 2 of the six (Shaivismand Vaishnavism) along with a weaker form of Shaktatradition. The distinctworship of Ganpathy, Kartikeya and Soorya is mostly gone as the religion wasforced to consolidate under 1 or 2 traditions to be able to survive the invaderonslaught. Q4 Do Inecessarily need to disclose all medical history while getting my motherinsured? A4 Prasanna Bhalerao M. Sc. inElectronics & Physics, Fergusson College, Pune6h Yes. Full disclosure is necessary.Otherwise the insurance claim may be rejected later. The downside is that ifyour mother had too many medical complications in the past, the providers maynot be willing to cover her or else the premium will be very high. In thiscase, it is a judgement call: Many employersoffer parents' insurance, all pre-existing conditions covered and notwithstanding, premium paid by the employee. This is the best recourse, ifavailable. Judge how muchhospitalisation will be required for your mother in the future. If the risk isless, you may wish not to go for insurance but explore starting a medicaltreatment goal plan via SIP route. Having a ₹5000~10000monthly SIP, in 5 years, this will be a tidy sum after 5 years. But contributeeven after 5 years. If God permit (and may it be true), your mother is neverrequired to be hospitalized, this money will be yours after her death (may shelove long). Q5 Dopeople in old age eat less yet eat frequently? A5 Mani Shankar Former HR &Administration at Private Sector; Public Sector. May 30 I am a senior citizen and my eating pattern for the lastmany years had been like this. The day starts witha cup of hot filter Coffee by 6.00 a.m. I eat my breakfast which is mostly inthe form of a full vegetarian meal by 9–9.30 a.m. that consists of plain rice, Dal, onevegetable curry, spicy Sambar that has at least 3–4 vegetables and ends withcurd Rice. I have my tea at 3.00 p.m. with some light snacks.Dinner is sparse mostlyeaten by 6.45–7.00 p.m. that consists of 1 chapathi or 2 dosa or 2Idli. I never miss to eat one seasonal available fruit daily. Give a gap of2.5–3 hours after dinner and go to bed by 10–10.30 p.m. and wake up by 5–5.30a.m. Quantity and frequency of eating has definitely come downfor better digestion. I avoid junk food and carbonated drinks. My weakness is for fried snacks that I occasionallydo take and my preference is for ‘Mirchi Bajji’ that is very famous inHyderabad. I love to eat ice creams that I indulge whenever my grandchildren gofor it. I never miss mymorning walk even now despite the knee joint pain that I manage with someKerala oil massage. My note- It is told old people eat less since they feelfull after 2-4 handful of rice or 1-2 chapatis,iddalies etc. Thereis shrinking in small intestine is said ro be the cause. Q6 How didthe British rulers and army manage to capture the Indian subcontinent and keepit under their control for such a long time? A6 Balaji Viswanathan History buff May11 Two things: The British rulewas not a walk in the park for them — In decades post taking control of India,the East IndiaCompany went bankrupt after being booted out in the revolt of 1857.The crown that took over did a little better but in a few decades it they werenearly bankrupt too. It was a story of struggles, revolts, rebellions andprotests that marked throughout the colonial period. The British rule was in the interest of some powerfulinterests within India. Some Muslim rulers (such asHyderabad Nizam) supported the British as the alternative was a Hindu Maratha empiretaking over them. Similarly some Hindu landowners in Bengal and elsewhere wereafraid of Muslim nawabs and thought the British ending the Muslim rule wasbeneficial to them. There were also internal politics. For instance when BengalNawab Siraj elevated a Hindu as the Diwan, his Muslim nobles under Mir Jafargot angry and sided the British, bringing a key victory at the Battle ofPlassey. The East India Company entered India in 1600 and for 150years didn’t get involved in wars or major conflicts.They grew to become the most powerful and wealthy company ever. Then they got involved due toa major succession war that happened post the collapse of the Mughal empire. The Mughal empiresurvived for over a century with a relatively moderate rule. Religiouspersecutions against the Hindus and Sikhs while existed was not horrific forthe first century. However, the last major emperor — Aurangzeb — went too farin the religious persecution causing a rise of Hindu rebels across India. Inthe north, the Sikh movement grew to up a powerful para-military group underGuru Gobind Singh and under Raja Ranjit Singh became a major empire. In thecentral and south India, Maratha empire under Sivaji grew as a rebellion andbecame one of the largest empires. The Gorkha empire in Nepal and other Hinduempires rose up this time. However, none ofthem had as much time and resources as the Mughal empire to bring unificationto the country. It is in this period of chaos that the British rule becamepalatable for many local landlords of the country. They were anyway payingtaxes to someone above and what is the difference if a Turkic origin guy getsit or some white guy from far. For some powerfulgroups was also a lot of money to be made from the global trade enabled by theBritish rule. The Tatas, Birlas, Tagore family and many prestigious families ofmodern India made their fortunes in the opium drug trade with China. With somuch money made by a few, they didn’t have as much interest in ending theforeign rule. Then there weresome educated elites who wanted peace and use the time to reform the societywithin. There was a Hindu renaissance movement that was happening in Bengal andother places and its leaders had priorities on social reform and didn’t wantrebellions and chaos. Thus they cooperated with the British. For some of theseelites, the access to modern universities and high paying jobs, besides peacewas a good incentive. The people mostimpacted by the British rule was the poor Indian peasant — who were dying inmillions in multiple famines. But, the poor peasant had no power and typicallynever rebelled. Until Mahatma Gandhi brought their issues to the fore in theearly 20th century with Champaran Satyagraha no one cared about their opinions. Finally, the issuethe Indians care most about is religion. They don’t like anyone imposing theirreligion. The Anglican church didn’t have much of an interest in imposing theirreligion on Indians. While there were many evangelicals who were entering andconverting people in India, that was not at mass scale and not very overtlysupported by the government.The Mughals were able to rule long because for themost part they stayed away from forcibly imposing their religion. When they didso, under Aurangzeb, the empire collapsed. The British tried to stay away fromreligion and survived a bit. But, in 1857 religious issue (of beef/pork used ingun cartridges) was central to bringing down the East India Company. In the 20th century, Gandhi was ableto peacefully harness the religious energy for his protests. Q7 How do Iinvent a railway signalling system? A7 Prasanna Bhalerao Knows abouttrains.7h News for you: A Railay Signaling System hasalready been invented. We had the old semaphone signaling systemworking by means of cables, levers and pulleys: Then we switched to electric signals (trackswitching was still manual by means of levers):And now we have electronic signals(same as above but everything electronically/digitally controlled): The modern bullet trains even have the signal datarelayed directly to pilot/driver’s cabin (at speeds of200 kph and above), the driver cannot view tracksidesignals: If you meant,how to improve these, you can look for a job in a company such as Seimens intheir R&D department. Q8 Why isthe direction of an electric current opposite to the directions of the flow ofan electron? A8 Venkatacharyulu Khandavilli May 24 Discovery of 'electron' was much later than the discoveryof effect of 'electricity’. Initially it was not knownthat electron flow was the exclusive contributor of electric current in theexternal (load) circuit of the 'Lechlanche cell’. 'Property of attracting some objects' was discovered& named as electricity. It was thought to be dueto acquairing some 'charge’. As nothing else was known to be existing, it wasconsidered as positive electric charge. When effects of electricity arediscovered, they were thought to be due to this, only known charge, positivecharge. When primary cell was invented, flow was there & it was thought tobe due to positive charges. Much later electron was discovered & thecurrent, externally flowing was consisting of the flow of electronsfrom negative electrode to positive electrode. But already, the belief was strong that, ‘current', i.e.flow of 'positive charges’ is from +ve electrode of 'cell' to 'negativeelectrode’. As the actual,physical flow of negatively charged electrons from ‘negative electrode' of cellto ‘positive electrode' (in the external circuit) is in effect same as the'imaginary’ flow of (some) positive charges from positive electrode to negativeelectrode, with full knowledge the traditional theory was maintained. Q9 Dobatteries have a higher voltage? A9 Dan O Brien, former RetiredScientist / Chartered Engineer Answered 13m ago A cell is achemical device with a fixed voltage .. ranging from 1.1 V to 4.2 v . Bycombing the cells in series we make a battery of cells ..hence the typical car batterycomprises 6 lead acid cells each of about 2.2Vs ,giving a total of 13.2 whenfully charged. Lithium cells, when fully charged produce about 4.2to 4.4 v and when fully depleted 2.6v , with an average of about 3.6 v in theirrange. So a laptopcomputer might use a string of 6 cells in series to give a fully chargedvoltage of 25 v, and an average of 22.0 v . The voltage does vary alittle with temperature Q10 Somepeople claim that the available medications in India for Parkinson’s patientscan bring back or recover the loss of brain cells. How true is this? A10 Ken Saladin Former professor ofhistology (microscopic anatomy)Sat When adult brain cellsare lost, they’re gone forever, unfortunately. I don’t think you could findanything in the parkinsonism literature or neuroscience to support what somepeople might claim for those drugs. There’s tons ofmisinformation and pseudoscience pushed on people desperate for any hope of acure for this disease. One has to be discerning to separate thelegitimate research (which is abundant) from the quackery (which is even moreabundant). Q11 What aresome little known hygiene tips? A11 Mathew P. Vanderburg May 28 Clean your anal area well when you shower. There are a lotof bacteria there.When you brush your teeth, brush your tongue. If you are a man and have neverhad a circumcision, cleansethat area. If you are a woman,clean the lower part of your breasts as, if you do not, it can smell bad. Change the pillowcases every week, small insects can growthere, including fleas and lice. Don't let your car smell bad. For you it may smellnormal because you are used to it, but for others, it can be inconsiderate andvery unpleasant. Be careful where you wash your clothes. There arepeople who wash clothes with excrement residues. For more peace of mind, alwaysput enough soap. When you eat in arestaurant, don't treat the staff badly: you run therisk of them spitting on your food as revenge. Q12 Why doesAmul's Lassi not spoil for 6 months, the Lassi of the house turns sour on thesecond day? A12 Anbazhagan Ambrose M.Phil. inLiterature & Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Graduated 2000) Sat Ultra High Temperature (UHT) treatment and Tetrapak :)Makelassi in industrial process Homogenize at veryhigh pressures, typically 2000 PSI. Homogenization will fat molecules smallerand evenly distributed. Then rapidlyincrease the temperature to 135 deg C and hold for 5 seconds and rapidly cooldown to 20 deg C. Allbacteria dead. ALL. Basically very high temp pasteurization, possible only withindustrial machinery. Then asepticpackaging in Tetrapak.It is possible to make lassi at home that will last aweek. But it is not worth the effort. Easier to buy Rs. 15 Amul lassi :) All the above QA are from Quora website on 06 -06- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on07-06-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/47932098.39634.1654565288419%40mail.yahoo.com.
