CULTURAL QA 08-20222-28 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Why do ceiling fans turn onautomatically when the AC is turned off? A1 Gopala Krishnan, Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now Normally when electric power fail, we switchON fan which is having UPS supply. The arrangement you desire is possible but very cumbersome. Better Not suggested Q2 What's the point of bananas? Why dothey exist when they can just not exist? A2 Kevin Thorpe Thu A large part of Africa would starve. Bananas are agood staple food. And I'm not talking about the sweet yellow ones, but ones like matoke. The key part is thatbeing a herb you can grow them on fairly small spots of land. So families tendto have a small matoke plantation. So you may as well ask the same of potatoes. They fillthe same sort of role here. Especially did so in Ireland and look what happenedwhen they all died off. Q3 Which city has a good future in TamilNadu? A3 Sarah,Lives in Tamil Nadu, India(2000–present)Wed My suggestion would be Coimbatore Coimbatore is a greatdestination, and it is the second largest city in TamilNadu. There are fewreasons that it has a great future! Climate Coimbatore has a warmclimate usually. Average temperatures of January is 26 °C, February is 27 °C,March is 29 °C, April is 30 °C and May is 29 °C. Winters are nor too coldneither too hot in the city. The lowest the temperature. Coimbatore receivesheavy to average rainfall in the monsoons and the weather in the winter staysat its best. However, summers can be slightly humid and hot. 2. Career Now coimbatore hasdeveloped lot of career opportunities for employment and business. Most of theIT companies opened up in coimbatore. And business development has grown morerecently and coimbatore is said to be Manchester of South India. It has manytextile industries. Coimbatore is also the city of software and hardware. Now,people recognise it as a hardware capital of Tamil Nadu. Coimbatore has the mostuniversities and institutes. Coimbatore is best for their automation androbotics. This city is awarded as the city with the most growing enterprises. 3. Water The water of Coimbatoreis one of the significant reasons to fall in love with it. Water in Coimbatoreis mainly sourced from the Siruvani dam and is also known as the world’s second-largest source ofsweet water. Many people say that the water of Coimbatore has thebest taste in the entire country. It is said that trees and rocks that fall onits way make the water sweater. 4. Attractions The world’slargest museum of cars is situated in Coimbatore. In this museum, you will find vintage cars that are a great touristattraction. One prominent spot that you cannot miss to afford is Annamalaiwildlife sanctuary. Some important tourists destination of Coimbatore is Coonor(Hill Station), V.O.C Park, Vaitheki Falls, Dandayuthapani Temple, PatteswararTemple, Perur Temple, Arulmig Echanari Vinayakar Temple, Balaji Temple, JainTemple, Lingeswarar, Temple, Saibaba Temple, Koniamman Koil Temple,Horticulture Farms, Tamilnad Agri. In Coimbatore, you can enjoy many hillstations like Ooty, Valparai, Munnar, Anaikatti, Neliampathy and Kotagiri. 4. Cost of living is affordable 5. Coimbatore lists topsafe place for womens to live in India. 6. Coimbatore is the best in class hospitals. You don’t have to go out of the city for treatment. 7. Shopping Coimbatore is also afamous commercial hub and has a great shopping scene. Many things stand out inCoimbatore, including South Indian clothing, spices, and sweets.Coimbatore is also well-known for Saree shopping. It is loved by all and peoplefrom all over India come to Coimbatore for saree shopping. There are more than25000 stores of sarees. The excellent connectivity of the city gives a bettershopping experience. Women can especially enjoy saree shopping. 8. Coimbatore has ranked 7th position in India Q4 How do TTEs in Indian Railways harasspassengers? Are there any personal stories to share? A4 Santosh R 1.2% completed exploringthis Beautiful Country in 3 decades2y A longer answer: I am reminded of twoincidents, one being with an upright TTE and the other one the opposite. In 2017, we were a groupof 14 travelling from Sealdah to New Jalpaiguri and had booked 2AC tickets onthe Kanchanjunga Express which was W/L until chart preparation and as luckwould have it, we got 2 confirmed tickets and 6 RACs (was actually shocked tofind that such a long distance train had just one 2AC compartment). We hadbooked confirmed 2S tickets too for all the W/L passengers as a back up on thesame train and 6 of them eventually seated themselves in the 2S coach. Our RACallocated seats were scattered in the coach, and since it was a morningjourney, the 8 of us huddled around the last coupe where there were 3 otherboys seated and we had 2 RAC seats allocated in the same coupe, hoping to askthe TTE if there was a possibility all the RACs could be seated together. TheTTE had started checking tickets as soon as the train pulled out of Sealdah andI noticed he wastelling another W/L passenger to wait near his seat, i.e., the side lower berthopposite to the last coupe we were huddling in. We had all our IDsout and ready with a print out of the ticket and handwritten RAC seat numbersallocated to each person. After he checked our tickets, I put forth my requestif it was possible to have all of us seats together. He motioned me to wait ashe checked the tickets of the other boys in our coupe. The three of them,probably friends, two of them had RAC 2AC tickets and one had a SL ticket andwere hoping to convince and pay the TTE the difference fare to be seated together.The TTE declined to accommodate the SL passenger in the 2AC coach, saying therewere other RAC and W/L passengers who need to be accommodated first.Unfortunately, their little effort of trying to bribe him too didn't work; thataction of theirs worked in our favour when he asked the other 2 boys to exchange their RAC seatswith ours, and gave us all the 4 seats in the last coupe, we had two in theadjacent coupe, so we were seated together technically. He went onto ask where we were from and a couple of minutes of casual talk and he wentaway. Most of us dozed off almost immediately as we had flown in in a midnightflight to Kolkata and had taken this train at 6:30 a.m. Three hours later, I was wokenup by the TTE, he asked me the ticket print out, and allocated 3 more berths inthe coach, told me these passengers alight at Malda Town, and we cantake those berths. He signed on the print out and asked me to show it to anyother official who might come to check after Malda as he was alighting at Maldatoo. We were confused and wondering if we had to pay the TTE anything forallocating the berths to us. He noticed it and questioned about our confusedlooks, and I asked him if I had to pay him anything. He had a straight answer - the berth is allotted to you since you are the first inline to be upgraded from RAC to confirmed tickets. I am not doing you a favour,it is the rule, and you don't owe me anything. I haven't had many conversationswith TTEs other than the a regular ticket check, and I cherished meeting suchan honest person that day. On the contrary to theabove incident, earlier this year, me and my friend were travelling in the ACDouble Decker Express from Jaipur to Delhi, and there was a Muslim family with2 kids from Tamil Nadu who had visited Ajmer and were travelling back (we heardthem as we were seated right across and we understand Tamil). The TTE came andchecked our tickets and moved on to them. I didn't notice it immediately, butmy friend nudged me to see there was some confusion with their tickets and the TTE was arguingwith them and asking them to pay a fine. They were not carryingproper ID cards for the kids and the TTE had asked them for it, they just hadthe kids' school ID cards with them which was invalid. The TTE was bullish onthem and insisting on a fine, else to deboard them at Alwar which was about 20kms away. We felt it was wrong, and as the TTE moved away, I asked thepassenger if he had an ID on him, and he and his wife were indeed carryingAadhar cards and that the TTE had taken his ID away, and showing a paper clip with a new rule that allpassengers have to carry ID cards, and he felt helpless. I told himthere was no rule as per my knowledge and only my ID was checked when he sawour ticket and not my friend's, and the TTE was picking on him. I opened theIRCTC website, confirmed that the rule that said "One of the passengers inan e-ticket should carry proof of identification" and showed it to thepassenger. I asked him to do same in his mobile and tell it assertively to theTTE that he is correct in producing his ID. As the train halted at Alwar, Iaccompanied the passenger, and he showed the TTE the IRCTC website. The TTErealized that I was helping him and asked me if I knew Hindi and I told him myHindi isn't fluent enough, he showed me a snap of a Hindi newspaper clipping on his mobile which hesaid mentions that all travelling passengers should be having an ID card.He stopped another passenger to read out and translate the same to me inEnglish and the passenger confirmed it. I showed him the IRCTC website, toldhim I have just opened this in my mobile, this minute, and the rule clearlysays "one of the passengers" and not all, and the paper clippingisn't dated, and if it was true and such a rule implemented, there would havebeen an official announcement, and it would have been all over the news, andtheir website would have displayed it first. The other passenger agreed and the TTE fumbled, gave backthe Aadhar card, and walked away, loudly stating everyone should carry IDcards, and I retorted back asking if he has indeed checked "everyone's IDcards" and I got a blank stare. Such a hugeorganization, you are sure to find a sore thumb somewhere or the other anddoesn't mean everyone is same. As passengers, we have to make sure we arefollowing the rules and then stand up if we are harassed or victimized. MY note- The railway rule is all must carry ID andshould be produced to inspecting officers. TTE is asked to verify one’s ID of agroup; Q5 Why are the same type of stones therein railway tracks all around the world? What's special about them? A5 Krishna Kumar Subramanian, Air TransportationIndustry Engineering Specialist Thu This commonly-available “rock” is known as “ballast”and most important is its size. Only a certain specificsize is able to give stability to the track ties (sleepers). The specifications listvarious kinds of rocks in ballast and the size range needed. Q6 What’s something from the 1820s thatneeds to make a comeback in the 2020s? A6 Ernest W. Adams,School taught me tohate history, but now I love it.Mon Use of industrial hemp for sacks, rather than plastic. It weighs more, which is a drawback, but it's biodegradable and doesn'tpollute. The demand for hemp went down when ships no longer needed it for rope,and it was further harmed by the paranoia about marijuana. We need to bring itback. Q7 How do you get your blood sugar up? A7 Anshu Rana,Lives in India(2015–present)3h One way to raise blood sugar levels is to eat foodsthat contain carbohydrates, such as bread, pasta, rice, cereal, and fruit.Consuming these foods causes the body to release insulin, which helps tomove sugar from the blood into the cells, where it is used for energy. Another way to raise bloodsugar is to drink fruit juices or sugary drinks. These drinks causethe body to release glucose into the blood, which raises blood sugar levels. Q8 What are the 7 stages of diabetesreversal? A8 Dr Maluk Mohamed,Co-Founder, VicePresident (Research) &Head -India at Twin Health (2018–present)Aug 17 Reversal stages were defined as Stage 0: HbA1c < 5.7% withoutmedication for > 1 year, Stage 1: HbA1c < 5.7% withoutmedication for < 1 year, Stage 2: HbA1c < 6.5% without medication, Stage3: estimated HbA1c (eA1c) between 5.7 and 6.4% without medication, Stage 4:estimated HbA1c (eA1c) between 5.7 and 6.4% with metformin monotherapy, Stage5: dual oral therapy, Stage 6: > = 3 medications Q9 In which part of Chennai do you live?What is its speciality? A9 Sairam Sampath, Lives in Munich,Germany Updated 2y Perambur! Welcome to North Chennai. A small history beforewe begin: Perambur is situated 4 kms away from Chennai Central railway station,in North Chennai. Perambur means the place with has lot of Bamboos. (Perambu +oor : Bamboo + place). BeforeBritish rule, this place was known for its Bamboo forest. The forestwas situated near “Huzur gardens” area which now habitats famous Company-Simpson’s Co. Ltd, a Diesel engine manufacture and is a dream company formechanical engineers. What’s Perambur famous for? Let’s see one by one. INTEGRAL COACH FACTORY. The world’s largest Railwaycoach manufacturing company. The Vande Bharath Express, known as Train 18 whichwas built under Make in India initiative, had its coaches manufactured here. Perambur railway station is second oldest railwaystation in the city after Royapuram. Also, the area has aRailway Hopsital, owned and operated by Southern Railways. The ICF area is notable for its railway museum and Haslot of railway housing colonies. The area is full of trees, pleasant and calm. The area is most loved spot to exercise inthe mornings by its residents. It’s because the area and roads are so calm, andsided by lot of trees. Residents of neighbouring areas also come here. Once Imet a team of boxers who had came jogging here all the way from Marina beach! Second, Chennai Floods. Interestingly, duringfloods of 2015 the Perambur area wasn’t affected and was considered the safestplace. Literally,Entire people of Perambur United to help the people who were affected duringthat time, by contributing whatever they were able to and byvolunteering across the city. The experience we had really was phenomenal . Thenetwork we built still remains intact. Third, Have you seen this in movies? This is called Binny Mill of Binny & Co, a famous cinema shooting spot, was actually a textile and shipping mill. Anyhow, the dilapidated mill is being demolished andSPR City - A smart city by SPR constructions, is being built. Once completed, This will have the tallest residential building inChennai having 50 Floors. The smart city has mall, school and everything. Perambur is an emotion. North Madras is love. The transport, people, amenities and such peculiar things make itincredible. Q10 What is the meaning of "GangHut" written in Indian Railway stations? A10 Subramaniam DuraisamyVTue Gang Hut is the residence / resting place of gang menwho are the also called the foot soldiers of the Indian Railways. The gangmen’sjob involves Carrying heavy steelrailway track parts.Tighten the nuts and bolts of the tracks.Ensure the Railwayline is free of stray animals and humans.Signal an oncoming / ongoing trainwith colored flags. Their job - as you can guess- is very hazardous. They run the risk of getting run over by trains, bitten by snakes,exposed to variations in weather. On an average 1% of India’s population usethe Railways every day. Its because of them, we are able to travel safely inthe trains. Keeping in mind therisks, the Indian Railways have announced a set of new measures to ensureprotection of these people. New jackets, raincoats Modern tools. And an improvised ganghut with all the modern facilities All the above QA arefrom Quora website on 27-08- 2022. Quora answersneed not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R.Gopala krishnan on 28-08-2022 -- 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 thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1114908718.582999.1661653881074%40mail.yahoo.com.
