Life cycle of a street dog !

Lifecycle of a street dog starts with STRUGGLE and ends with same.

In India the street dogs are facing a very horrible life. They are dodging traffic, getting rocks thrown at them. They have no reliable source of food or water and no way to keep clean. They fight with each other and often if they get hurt nobody appears to help them.

The Indian Pariah dog (street dog) is commonly known as desi dog. They are extremely alert and are very social.

When female gives birth to 4-6 puppies after mating she gets no clean place and birth is done where the female thinks her puppies are protected. But due to bad conditions only 50% of them survive rest die die in 2-3 days. The problem is still not over , rest of the dogs keeps on fighting for their survival. Food and Water are the main problems which they face. They drink water from severs and dirty polluted places. Because of these problems they get infected and die because of small health problems which can be treated if monitored.

The biggest problems for the dogs which they face through their entire life are the ROAD ACCIDENTS. It not only injure/kill the animals but human's also face problems during these road accidents. A street dog's life starts and ends with struggle for their existence.

Dog's are most loyal friends which can give their life for their owner/parents. One real incident happened in Delhi.

A pet dog came to the rescue of his master after he was attacked by eight men with knives in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri on Thursday. The dog suffered knife wounds but chased away the attackers and helped in catching two of them. 

Police officials said that Rakesh Singh (58) was attacked by eight men outside his house and a case under section 307 (attempt to murder) and 34 (act committed by several persons) of the IPC has been registered. Cops have also arrested two accused, identified as Rahul and Prince. Singh is undergoing treatment in a hospital. 

Please stop hitting dogs with stones, they are also like one of us but they can't communicate and understand everything. Let's take a small step and from today, everyday feed one of a street dog who stays in front of your house, colony or nearby area.

" SAVE A LIFE ! ADOPT A STREET DOG "

There are some Indian animal welfare organisations that are working for our street animals. 

• People For Animals (PFA), Banglore
• Compassion Unlimited Plus Action (CUPA), Bangalore
• Stray Relief And Animal Welfare (STRAW), New Delhi
• Plant And Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Mumbai
• Help Animal India (HAI), USA

Sports in India - Cricket !

The clear problem is that Indians do not have a wider perspective.

We know that cricket is just played amongst a handful of commonwealth nations where the Britishers enforced this slow paced game for their leisure. For those who think that we are world beaters in cricket & that's why the focus should be on cricket, let me tell you that it's not the correct way of thinking.

Neither are we world beaters (our record in overseas conditions) nor it is a big deal to be on top where there only 9 competing countries (at the test level).Australia has been world champs for 5 times but have they stopped playing any other sport! Have they invested all the time, money & Human resource in Cricket? The answer is no.

Australia in Sports:

Ranked 2nd in hockey

4th in Squash

Amongst the top teams in Swimming & Rugby43rd in Football

They finish in the top 10 in Olympics

India's population is 6 times that of Australia but we as a sporting nation have failed to back our athletes in the times they have required our support. The media has played a great role in demoralising the other sports by completely ignoring their victories.

The problem with India is that even when other sports are being telecasted at some level we do not take the pain to watch them. The result is no TRP, No sponsors, No money for Infrastructure development & than the whole country wakes up at the time of Olympics ready to criticize the players whom they don't even know. They don't know their struggles to reach that point.

There have been reports where the World Cup winning Kabaddi team had to take rickshaws to go back home after their return. Players who once were medal winners for us, forced to sell Pani Puri or vegetables to earn a living.

I can go on about the many other reasons but I will conclude it by saying that it's the people who can help India develop at the world level sports. Please start following other sports as well.

Indian education - weakening the base

A strong education system is the cornerstone of any country’s growth and prosperity. Over the last decade, India has made great strides in strengthening its primary education system. The District Information System for Education (DISE) reported in 2012 that 95% of India’s rural populations are within one kilometer of primary schools. The 2011 Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), which tracks trends in rural education, indicated that enrollment rates among primary-school-aged children were about 93%, with little difference by gender.

However, behind the veil of such promising statistics, the learning outcomes of India’s children show little progress. The country ranked 63 out of 64 in the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, with some of its best schools ranked about average among those surveyed. The 2011 ASER stated that only 48.2% of students in the fifth grade can read at the second grade level. The number of students completing their primary education with inadequate numeracy and literacy skills is startling. To see this manifest in an economic sense, one may attribute India’s productivity growth — lagging behind that of East Asian economies — to a lack of progress in the foundational elements of countrywide, high-quality education.

India’s private-schooled, English-speaking urban elite may attract global attention, but they are in the minority. The vast majority of Indian children attend government-run primary schools in rural areas. In 2008-2009, rural India accounted for more than 88% of India’s primary-school students, of whom over 87% were enrolled in government-run schools.  This is where we see some of the nation’s toughest challenges.

Governmental Efforts

The Indian government at every level recognizes the need for educational reform and has made a conscientious effort to achieve it.

The midday-meal plan, for example, is a highly publicized nationwide program through which government school children across India are provided with a midday meal every day of the school week. The program is largely considered a success. A study in 2011 by Rajshri Jayaraman and Dora Simroth found that grade one enrollment increased by 20.8% simply if a midday meal was offered.

What is actually killing - Pollution or vegetables ?

It's not just pesticides-a toxic mix of sewage and industrial effluents may be contaminating what's grown on the bed of the Yamuna. The quality of the fruits and vegetables-that feed most of Delhi's population-may thus stand severely compromised, according to two applications filed in Delhi high court and National Green Tribunal, one pleading for a ban on artificial colours and waxing of produce and the other dwelling on how the river's pollution is risking the lives of people who eat greens grown on its soil. 

The department of food safety, Delhi, too, recently released an advertisement asking consumers to clean their fruits and chemical vegetables in various solutions to do away with chemical residues. 

Several consignments of fruit and vegetable exports from India have been rejected for quality issues in the recent past-the European Union banning the import of mangoes and four vegetables starting May 1 after fruit flies were detected in 207 consignments. Even Saudi Arabia banned import of Indian chillis earlier this month due to presence of high pesticide residues. 

The recent plea in NGT by Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan suggests large scale pollution of Yamuna from industrial effluents and sewage that has led to groundwater pollution and soil pollution. Vegetables irrigated by this contaminated water are laced with heavy metals and chemical residues, the application says. It quotes various studies including a 2012 The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) study that found the level of toxic metals like nickel, lead, manganese, chromium and zinc high in many water samples. At one locations, lead levels were 10 times more than those anywhere else in the river and at another location near a thermal power plant, mercury concentration was about 200 times more than United States Environmental Protection Agency standard.

Activist Manoj Misra, who filed the application, said it that the application shouldn't be misunderstood as a complaint against farmers. "The application is not against farmers. They have no choice but to use polluted water. It is the fault of pollution agencies and industries who failed to control it," said Misra.

The other application in HC says the department of food safety in Delhi is doing nothing about polished food grains and coloured vegetables and fruits containing hazardous substances that are being sold in wholesale and retail outlets. Ananthoo, coordinator of a civil society group on food safety, said "middlemen and retailers usually inject colours in fruits like watermelon and pomegranate. Waxing of apples is also common around the country where petroleum-based wax is used ". Waxing is usually done to retard shrinkage and make the produce appear fresh.

TODAY’S YOUTH - TOMORROW’S TERRORIST

While there is a great deal of debate on what constitutes terrorism and who is a terrorist, there is little doubt that youths are beginning to play a significant role in this particular arena. Structured and deliberate strategies have been formulated by terrorists to radicalise and recruit young people into committing acts of violence. The advantages in targeting the youths into joining terrorists groups are many and terrorists are displaying increased capability and capacity in enlisting them. This coupled with the growing exploitation of technology such as the Internet has allowed the terrorists a far and wide reach.

The Mumbai attacks in 2008 that left 165 civilians and security personnel dead was a series of ten coordinated attacks orchestrated by ten individuals. What was chilling was the common thread that bound them together – they were all young. Besides the eldest terrorist, Nazir/Abu Umer who was 28 years old, the average age of the other nine terrorists was only 23 years. The leader, Ismail Khan was just 25 years old. 

Why the Youth?

Youths with no prior police records (or ‘clean skins’ as the Real IRA called them) allow the terrorist group more operational freedom as the involvement of youths would reduce the likelihood of arrest of the more senior terrorist leaders. Such youths also have the added advantage of allaying suspicion on the part of the security and enforcement authorities.

Where do They Get the Youths?

Prison, ironically, provides a contributory environment for terrorist recruitment. They are said to be the breeding grounds for radicalisation and are ‘places of vulnerability’, which, due to the environment, produce ‘identity seekers’, ‘protection seekers’ and ‘rebels’ in greater numbers than in any other environment. 

Conclusion

The ability of the terrorists to identify, indoctrinate, recruit and utilise youths for political violence has been both systematic and widespread. They have also demonstrated great sensitivity in crafting out their message to the youths and creativity in exploiting the various technological mediums in reaching out to them.

Modernisation leading to DEPRESSION !

If the 20th century ushered in the Age of Anxiety, its exit is witnessing the dawn of

the Age of Melancholy. The first international study of major depression reveals a steady rise in the disorder worldwide.

In nations as diverse as Taiwan, Lebanon and New Zealand each successive generation is growing more vulnerable to the malady. Although rates of depression rise with age, the study found increases among young people. In some countries the likelihood that people born after 1955 will suffer a major depression -- not just sadness, but a paralyzing listlessness, dejection and self-deprecation, as well as an overwhelming sense of hopelessness -- at some point in life is more than three times greater than for their grandparents' generation.

The experts acknowledge that some of the increase may be due to greater willingness to discuss mental illness or more efficient reporting methods. But they say these factors do not come close to explaining the entire increase. They can only speculate about why one price of modernity should be the spread of melancholy. Competing explanations range from a loss of beliefs in God or an afterlife that can buffer people against life's setbacks, to the stresses of industrialization, to the distress created in women by the spread of unattainable ideals of female beauty, to exposure to toxic substances.

The search for an explanation is rendered more difficult by the lack of any universally agreed on cause for major depression. Indeed, there is unlikely to be any single cause.

Not all the news about depression is bad. "The good news is that research and treatments are keeping up with the problem"For adults, the overall effectiveness of antidepressants is 80 percent or greater, with the right combination of medications.