---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'N Sekar' via iyer123 <iyer...@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 9:31 PM Subject: [iyer123] Re: [KeralaIyers] CULTURAL QA 02-2024-19 To: <keralaiy...@googlegroups.com>, Patty Thatha < thatha_patty@googlegroups.com>, Iyer <iyer...@googlegroups.com>
Thanks. Q 5 I have read that Chanakya advised that: "Enemies and Fire should be destroyed and extinguished fully; the enemy if left to live, can regroup and fight again and a small fire left without being extinguished fully, can become a flame. There us no room for mercy when dealing with fire and your enemies". But because of this advice some call him cruel. We have read how Prithviraj let go Gauri Mohd when he could have killed him but because of his misguided generosity, Gauri Mohd regrouped and defeated Prithviraj later. Leaders need to be ruthless when it is justified. N Sekar Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:47 AM, 'gopala krishnan' via KeralaIyers <keralaiy...@googlegroups.com> wrote: CULTURAL QA 02-2024-19 All the below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 19-02-2024. Selected quora answers generally interesting are included .Still they need not be 100% correct answers. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 19-02-2024. Q1 How do foreigners who have settled in India feel about India? This question is only for foreigners. Kenneth Ednap, Studied Building Design at Federation University Australia Updated 6y I am a Scottish Canadian. I have been living in India for 3 years now. It’s quite different when I compare the life style of Canadians but there are a few things I like and dislike living here. Very crowded. India has a huge population. The streets, roads markets are very crowded. It’s suffocating at times. I personally have NEVER faced any sort of racism by anyone, though many of my friends living in India who are from foreign lands have advised me to be ware. I do manage to understand Hindi and can speak little of it to get things done. India is great if you are rich, In fact it’s better than the west. Things are so VERY CHEAP! Everything is so cheap. You can have a great life if you save up money and invest in this country. Pathetic Pollution. It has gotten worse over the years. I live in a small rural area, this does not effect me as much, but the cities have gone bad. Health Care. Quite affordable. Back in Canada, we got a lot of Indo-Canadian doctors and health care is free. In India they have great doctors (Private, not public), it’s very cheap to get medical treatment and they have great hospitals (Private hospitals, are expensive, but cheap for me) . The locals however, find health care to be expensive, and government hospitals to be insufficient. Overall I’ve not had any major problems here, just small annoying things which are quite manageable. I do miss Canada, but I wouldn’t mind living here and having a royal lifestyle for a few more years Q2 What are some small things that matter a lot? A2 Anaam Banjara,Lives in Earth Updated 4y Smile back when your mother gives you an extra chapati. Thank your teacher for no reason. Smile at the street food shops. Specially those run by 1 or 2 poor people. Refill the pen and use. Buy food for poor people. Or give yours to street animals. Be kind to everyone. Smile at your office's peons. It makes them feel they are valuable. Thank the driver while getting down. Wrap books from newspaper. Lift the puppy out of the drain. Give the cake, cold drinks and other stuffs to a poor person rather than playing with it on birthday. Hug your grannies for no reason. Stroke the street cow gently. Be polite when elders shout even if they're wrong. No human in world has PhD in understanding any other human's exact condition. Buy from poor vegetable/flower/artwork seller without any bargain. Edit : I am really thankful for the love everyone has shown! Q3 What is your best joke about corruption? A3 Benjamin Murphy,It's all just a great big joke to you, isn't it?7mo The Minister of Transport from Mossacklandia was invited to visit the Republic of Fonseca to meet his counterpart. He was driven along a bumpy road to a palatial house - the private residence of the Minister of Transport of Fonseca. “What a beautiful house you have here” said the visitor, “How did you pay for it?” “That was easy,” replied the host, “The Ministry of Transport built the road that you drove here on, but I used half of the funding to build this house for me and my family.” The next year, it was the turn of the Minister from Mossacklandia to host a transport summit. The Minister from Fonseca got off the ‘plane, and was invited to step on board a helicopter that flew him across the jungle to an amazing castle, complete with swimming pools, roller-coasters and an ice-rink. “I like your house”, he said, “But why is it in the middle of the jungle?” The Minister from Mossacklandia replied “I copied your idea, but instead of using half of the funding for the road, I used all of it.” Q4 What are some interesting facts? A4 Charan Penumudi, Student at Medical College (2019–present)3y 1.You can still get pregnant if you're already pregnant. It's called superfetation. 2. Without the pinky finger you would loose 50% of your hands strength. 3. A cloud can weigh 1 million pound. 5. The world's largest traffic jam lasted for 11 days (In CHINA). 8. Natural occuring violet colour eyes exist. 10. Hearing is the fastest human sense. A person can recognise a sound in as little as 0.05 seconds. 11. The average woman has 17 square feet of skin when she is not pregnant. This stretches to an unbelievable 18.5 square feet by the ninth month of pregnancy. 12. During the mummification process, Egyptians would usually remove the brains through the nose. 13. 20% of all the plastic surgeries taking place in the world is from south korea. 14. There is a punctuation mark called “interrobang” by combination of question mark and exclamatory mark.? + !=‽ 15. Your brain activity is as unique as your fingerprints. 16. The colour which we see when we close our eyes is known as EIGENGRAU which is different from black. 17. Did you ever realise that “Brain has named itself as brain” 😜. Q5 What are the examples of presence of mind by Chanakya? A5 Pranesh Srivastava, Studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Graduated 2017)Updated 6y Location : Takshashila Situation : Two students are waiting for Aacharya Chanakya to arrive. Aacharya is walking towards them when his foot is pierced with a thorn of a road side shrub. He takes the thorn away and while the students are watching goes to a nearby shop and purchases Mattha ( a cold sweet drink made using curd). And then he proceeds to put the entire glassful in the shrub itself. His students , surprised at the turn of the events , move forward to greet him and the following conversation takes place. Student: We were deeply disturbed that your foot got pierced by a thorn and we could not do anything. Aacharya Chanakya: It is not important what happened. How I reacted is the important part. Student: That is what we were discussing. We could not understand it. Aacharya Chanakya: The thorn was a problem. I had to destroy it by its roots so that it can never grow back. So I put Mattha in it which will serve as an invitation to the ants that will come now and destroy the shrub from the roots itself. This philosophy of destroying each and every problem from the root up was what led to the series of events that put Chandragupta Maurya on the throne of the Magadha Empire with absolutely no resistance once he ascended it . Because Aacharya Chanakya not only destroyed the existing Nanda empire but also made sure that no powerful ruler was in a position to fill the power vacuum thus created except Chandragupta Maurya. That would be a tale for another day. Edit : This incident has been mentioned in various books/ tv series with slight variations. The above answer has been taken from Chandragupta Maurya TV series. Q6 What are some of the greatest examples of presence of mind? A6 Ashwin Maloo, Studied at MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur (Graduated 2018)Updated 6y This man is an epitome when question comes of presence of mind.ABRAHAM LINCOLN. When Abraham Lincoln became the president of America, his father was a shoemaker. And, naturally, egoistic people were very much offended that a shoemaker’s son should become the president. They were aristocrats, who thought it was their birth right to be in the highest government post. A shoemaker’s son? On the first day, as Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, just in the middle, one man stood up. He was a very rich aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family.” And the whole Senate laughed; they thought that they had made a fool of Abraham Lincoln. But Lincoln – and that type of person is made of a totally different mettle – Lincoln looked at the man and said, “Sir, I know that my father used to make shoes in your house for your family, and there will be many others here… because the way he made shoes, nobody else can. He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes, he poured his whole soul in it. I want to ask you, have you any complaint? Because I know how to make shoes myself; if you have any complaint I can make another pair of shoes. But as far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father’s shoes. He was a genius, a creator, and I am proud of my father!” The whole Senate was struck dumb. They could not understand what kind of man Abraham Lincoln was. He had made shoe-making an art, a creativity. And he was proud because his father did the job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard. And even though he was the president of America, he was ready to make another pair if there was any complaint. The man looked silly. Lincoln insisted, “You have to speak! Why have you become dumb? You wanted to make me a fool, and now, look all around: you have made a fool of yourself.” What an inspirational personality he was. We have to learn that every work should have equal respect in society, Be it president or a shoemaker. Thanx for reading. Source:-Abraham Lincoln: On Being the Son of a Shoemaker Editing 1: Some are suggesting that lincoln’s father was not a shoemaker. I don’t know if Osho’s book has presented a wrong anecdote. I found it very motivational and was very much relevant to the message which I wanted to convey:-”We have to learn that every work should have equal respect in society,Be it president or a shoemaker” Q7 What is the funniest joke you've been told that you still think about to this day? A7 Ren Lexander,13h The first thing to understand about this joke is that it is not a joke about race - it is a joke about language. And a warning - this joke may forever alter your response to a particular word… A Chinese man goes to London for the first time. He takes a pile of yuan into a Branch of the Bank of England. The teller count it out and says in a very English accent says: “Ninety-two pound 15 pence.” The Chinese man nods and smiles. “Velly good.” A few days later, the man goes back to the same bank and hands over the same size pile of yuan to the same teller. The teller counts it out and in the same very English accent says: “Ninety pounds 30 pence.” The Chinese man’s eyes widen. “Wha!!?? Few day ago, get more!!!” The teller looks at him and says: “Fluctuations.” The Chinese man’s eyes widen even more. “Well, Fluct u English too!!!!” So… since I heard this joke, any time I hear the word “Fluctuations” I automatically think/say “Well fluct u English too!!” -- On Facebook, please join https://www.facebook.com/groups/keralaiyerstrust We are now on Telegram Mobile App also, please join Pattars/Kerala Iyers Discussions: https://t.me/PattarsGroup Kerala Iyers Trust Decisions only posts : https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrust Kerala Iyers Trust Group for Discussions: https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrustGroup --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KeralaIyers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to keralaiyers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/keralaiyers/540905035.2305415.1708325215181%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/keralaiyers/540905035.2305415.1708325215181%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iyer123" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to iyer123+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/837659849.3568799.1708363902075%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/837659849.3568799.1708363902075%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- 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/CABC81ZcSUy0sV8txD%3DPrQkwqrn__NAv2Vr9sFLYMQxWOKbawuQ%40mail.gmail.com.
