the positive side of the world

Well, in the starting I abused Sanjay for creating embarrassment for his reputated and noble father. I was about 14 yrs ago when he was arrested and sent to jail. As the case went on I gradually turned soft on Sanjay but I knew he broke the law and he will be punished and he must be punished. I felt happy when Judge said that he is not a terrorist even then I knew that he will get the punishment for his crime. Its hard to see such a versatile entertainer behind the bars but I don’t think it is unfair or any type of injustice.
I want to discuss what this guy,whom India Today says “Mother India ka kabhi bada na hone wala bachcha” gave us. Few days back my little niece was talking me and she told me that she likes Gandhiji. i asked what she likes in Gandhi ji, she told me that he is so nice man. then i asked her what she knows about him. she told me about slaps on face and so on. i said he said this because he was not so strong to answer the slap. Now she told me that he was not weak and it was his way to make the other guy good. I knew it all, I knew<, Gandhi is not name of majboori but he is a majbooti which we cant understand because we are so weak to understand. I knew all this because I read a lot of books, but my niece knew it because she saw the movie of Munna bhai(wahi bachcha jo kabhi bada nahi hoga according to India Today). She is not 8 and she knows this philosophy of making people good. I don’t know all those who learnt about Gandhi in Munna Bhai classes, will keep it with them or not but atleast they knew a little. I rememeber few years back many college going youths were not clear about Gandhi and his identity. I smiled a little when i knew that Sanjay is sent to Yarwada jail where Mahatma spent much of his time. Infact for a long time i was thinking about postive punnishments and these days just because of the appeal of Sanjay i felt the need of such punnishments more. As we could have used his appeal for some purpose for our society.

What New Delhi stands for you? May be the capital of India, may be center of power, may be the city of so called big people but to be very sure from today thousands of people from every corner of India and world will remember it as a place where they shared their dreams with people like them around the world. They are going to remember New Delhi as the place where they shared their pains and rose their weak voices strongly. The difference is- they are participating in India Social Forum(ISF) 2006.
The ISF is third event organized by WSF-India; Asian Social Forum-2003 and the WSF-2004. Building another world: visions for the future'' -- as the theme suggests -- focuses on engendering dialogue, optimism and hope, by creating a space that will enable a greater mobilization of resources for an alternative future within India, Asia and Africa.. The event started on November 9, 2006 with a grand gathering of more than 60,000 people on the exhibition ground near JLN Stadium. The excitement, the joy and sense of belongingness with the ISF was more than visible in the gathering. People were there to say something about themselves, about others perhaps for the first time in their life. Every action and every scene was telling the truth that it is a self motivated gathering from grassroots.
The show began with folk music when Ramdayal Munda with his people from Jharkhand made a cultural presentation which was followed by a poetry reading session by renowned Urdu poet Shahryar. It was an all women panel to inaugurate the event showing the concern of the WSF for women empowerment. When weak but firm voice of Irol Sharmila of Manipur made the declaration that she will keep on her fast till the People of Manipur get justice, everyone in the ground was moved. She has refused food, water and medical attention, since November 2000, to protest Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. Tulsi Mai Munda, a tribal leader of Orissa talked about dreams of a better status of women in India. While Eileen Kuttab, activist from Palestine, narrated her experiences while working with the women in her country. She had been at the forefront of the Palestinian struggle and women's movement during the days of the first Palestinian Intifada. Medha Patekar, the NBA activist, Wahu Kara, a global social justice campaigner from Kenya, discussed about the impacts of Goobalization. Ruth Manorama talked about her efforts to break the upper-class, upper-caste image of women's movement in India.
It was a dreamy evening where everyone was there to share dreams which contained simple wishes, the wishes which has the capacity to change the world. The small dreams which are powerful enough to make the world happier and pretty. At the end of the function when the small fog particles started to make the sight diminished, the dreams were getting clearer and the faces were getting brighter. You dont need some thing extra to read the clear message in their eyes saying- Yes! Another World Is Possible.

Limonene is an oil in orange peel and can be used to make polymers US scientists have discovered a way to make plastics from orange peel, using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Cornell University researchers created a novel polymer using CO2, an oil present in orange peel and a catalyst that speeds the reaction along. The team hopes CO2 could one day be collected for making plastics instead of being pumped into the atmosphere.
Details of the research appear in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. What's exciting about this work is that from completely renewable resources, we were able to make a plastic with very nice qualities Professor Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University Plastics are polymers, long-chained carbon-based (organic) molecules. Limonene is a carbon-based compound that makes up about 95% of the oil in orange peel and is used to give household cleaners their citrus smell. Geoffrey Coates, a professor of chemistry at Cornell, in Ithaca, and colleagues used a derivative of this oil called limonene oxide as one of the building blocks for their polymer. The researchers used a helper molecule, or catalyst, to get the limonene oxide to react with CO2 and form a new polymer called polylimonene carbonate. Renewable resource This polymer has many of the characteristics of polystyrene, which is used in numerous disposable plastic products. "Almost every plastic out there, from the polyester in clothing to the plastics used for food packaging and electronics, goes back to the use of petroleum as a building block," said Professor Coates. "If you can get away from using oil and instead use readily abundant, renewable and cheap resources, then that's something we need to investigate. "What's exciting about this work is that from completely renewable resources, we were able to make a plastic with very nice qualities." Coates' team is interested in using carbon dioxide as an alternative building block for polymers in industry. The gas could be isolated and used to produce plastics such as polylimonene oxide. CO2 is the principal greenhouse gas caused by human activities, and is emitted by fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

The best way to help developing nations is to recognise that development is "of the people, by the people and for the people", says a Bangladeshi entrepreneur. Iqbal Quadir, Grameen Phone founder in Bangladesh, told experts gathered for TED Global in Oxford that aid strategies for the last 60 years had failed. Technologies such as mobiles empowered people because they connected them. This, he said, fuelled productivity much more than the top-down aid approach. Mr Quadir had the idea for Grameen Phone, a way to get mobile telephony into Bangladeshi villages and rural areas, 12 years ago. Since then,..............Since then, the company has grown to more than 3.5 million subscribers, with more than 115,000 phones in villages across the country. Talking at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Global conference, a top US event being held in Europe for the first time, he criticised aid for developing countries that benefited authorities over the people themselves. "The only way we can depend on each other is if we connect with each other. Connectivity leads to dependability which leads to specialisation and then productivity," he said.
What was key about a technology as simple as the mobile in a rural village was that people's voices, not just those in authority, were heard. The next step, he hoped, would be to get wireless internet via mobile devices into villages. But he warned of jumping on the technology bandwagon. "If everyone can talk, it is more egalitarian," he told the BBC News website. "But we should not jump ahead too much and say just because the First World has internet, then the Third World should, too. There is a fundamental beauty in just a phone," he said. The Grameen Phone scheme has had a big impact is on the lives of women. Known as Grameen phone ladies, these women provide villagers with a vital link to services such as hospitals and to relatives both at home and abroad, in a country with the lowest number of phones in South Asia. "A woman with a mobile becomes important in a village," he said. "This changes the power distribution." Energising growth He said the success of Grameen Phone had had a huge impact on people's lives in areas where there is poor infrastructure, but that there were bigger problems to address, such as the lack of other credit checks, bank branches, customer contact points, but also energy production. His current project with Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway scooter, is about developing village-based micro-power plants, fuelled by cow manure. Two are currently running in villages providing power for 20 businesses. The project combines access to micro-credit with low-cost energy generation technology to see if rural entrepreneurs can manage mini power plants in villages. "Some breakthrough in energy would be fantastic," he said. "Just imagine if solar panels suddenly become much cheaper. It would reduce the authorities' hold on electricity. "If you bring electricity to villages, you can bring jobs. Electricity is half the problem," he said.

THE NEWS IS FROM BBC