Yet they do it again



fans celebrate - thanks to Times Of India



An inspired India on Saturday night regained the coveted World Cup after 28 years as they suppressed Sri Lankawith a six-wicket victory in a nerve-wrecking final to script a glorious newchapter in their cricketing history.

3 possible Indians for Nobel Prize, 2008

3 possible Indians in the list of Nobel Prize for Economics, 2008

1. Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati

2. Avinash Kamalakar Dixit

3. Partha Sarathi Dasgupta

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (born in 1934) is a economist indo - American, contributor major with the news theories of the international business since the Années 1950. He currently teaches with the University of Columbia. He frequently publishes books of popularization on the Libre-échange. He puts in particular forward the concept of “growth impoverishing” like fruit of the Dégradation of the terms of trade, theorized by the Argentinian economist Raul Prebisch. That one lies within the scope of free trade and corresponds to a reduction in the purchasing power available to a country thanks to its exports. Consequently, this country will have to export more to be able to import as much as before. In that there is “impoverishing growth”; a country exhausts more resources to import as much because according to the Effet of pawl, the imports of a country cannot appreciably decrease.

Awards and praise

• In 2006, he was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star.
  
• He was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Chamber of Commerce in 2004.
  
• In 2000 he was awarded Padma Vibhushan award.
  
• He received the Seidman Distinguished Award in International Political Economy in 1998.
  
• In 1974, he was awarded the Indian Econometric Society's Mahalanobis Memorial Medal.
  

Other awards include the Bernhard Harms Prize (Germany), the Kenan Enterprise Award (United States), the Freedom Prize (Switzerland), and the John R. Commons Award (United States). He has also received honorary degrees from the University of Sussex and Erasmus University, as well as others.

Avinash Kamalakar Dixit

Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 1944 in Bombay) is an Indian-American economist. Dixit is Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests include microeconomic theory, game theory, international trade, industrial organization, growth and development theories, public economics, political economy, and the new institutional economics. Also, Dixit's book on real options (co-authored by R. Pindyck) is considered a major contribution in financial economics. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and was a Vice-President in 2002 and is the President in 2008 of the American Economic Association. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

He has written a new book, Lawlessness and economics, which is contribution to NIE. He is the co-author of the books Games of Strategy,Thinking Strategically with Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management, as well as Investment under Uncertainty with Robert Pindyck.

Partha Sarathi Dasgupta

Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, FBA, FRS, is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was born in the sacred city Varanasi (Benares,Kashi), India.

Research

Research interests have covered welfare and development economics; the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; the theory of games; and the economics of undernutrition.

Education

He did undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Delhi, India and then did a B.A Mathematics at Cambridge. This was followed by a PhD in Economics at Cambridge

Affiliations

Dasgupta is a fellow of St. John's College, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the British Academy, foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary fellow of the London School of Economics, honorary member of the American Economic Association, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences and patron of the Optimum Population Trust. He is a past president of the Royal Economic Society (1998-2001) and the European Economic Association (1999). From 1991 to 1997, Dasgupta was chairman of the scientific board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and, from 1989 to 1992, professor of economics and philosophy, and director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University.

Honours

Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 in her Birthday Honours List for services to economics and was co-recipient (with Karl Goran Maler) of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2004) and a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 2005).

Love, Religion & Politics

Hi Friends, today I am here to talk about the three extremes of life- Love, Religion & Politics.

Why this topic?

Simple I found them to be very interesting enough to discuss. Love is something that rules people. It starts from the core of heart and ends up with affections. We name mass affections as religion. Religions are a composite mixture of beliefs & superstitions. Common people have always needed a support to make them feel that they are doing the right thing or moving in the correct direction (actually they always believe in any force). So religion is a force of huge communities. The differences in views create annoyance & therefore we employ people from us to look after our own selves. They are politicians and the job they are involved in is called politics (sometimes they are misspelled as poly-tricks). These three topics have a common bare line of heart (Actually they all start from the same point, deep inside the red dreamy valley) in them.

Love

Now this is a feeling. According to the resources in wikipedia  it is as follows

 “Love represents a range of emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept love usually refers to a strong, ineffable feeling towards another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Spiritual love, or longing for God, is highly valued and sought after by many religions of both Eastern and Western origin.”

So how does it sound like, a dilemma, an energy source or just passion? It’s different for different people. Anyways as always feelings can only be felt and never described.


Religion

I don’t know what exactly is a religion. I have seen Hindus do it in their temple, Christians in church and Muslims in mosques. I have seen it when anybody is very serious before exams. I have seen it in the very close moments of life. Believe apart from many others I have seen it when we have cricket matches in India. So what is religion? It’s the gush out of any community of people who think more or less alike (or at least they are bound to think alike).

Lets find out what wikipedia say.

A religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.

So it tells us something related to the almighty. Have we seen him (Normal guys/ gals never have the enough trust to see him)? So there is a lot of unanswered questions in between.

Politics

This is the last energy beam we are left with. People in this profession are strategic more enough to handle common people’s demands (Sometimes they only understand what their heart have to say, for them). They are there to think about common people, take decisions for them, feed them, and make them believe about what is good and what is bad. They are dictators. All the work they perform is known as politics. Some time they make poly tricks to perform.

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.

Now this is the most close to us position among the three. But in today’s world the word meaning nurturing is destroyed by something called gangster-ism. We are in dilemma.

We had always believed that we can beat them ....

Wow....

We had always believed that we can beat them .....

Now this is an even story for all Indians in every categories of sports. We had never crossed the mark. We don't have any discipline in sports for which we can say, we are the best. Not in cricket too. When we start to believe that we are good in this sport, the sudden loss, may be the law of average, we again start believing that no we were up against some mighty opponents and that is the reason we lost again. Come on, how many years more we spend with this capacity full of resource/ people like this.

Yesterday was the day, when every other thing came down to blush and it was all India show again. It felt good being a soccer fan. It always felt good being an Indian.

Today I am not discussing the soccer, but let myself write something for my country. We always talk of showering goodies on to people who has won the tournament, but we always forget the sport which has made them rich, our country proud. We get satisfied with the performance of one of our gems and forget that the money could be spent on the sport. We believe in our heroes out in Colosseum but forget the trainer or the training ground. We want to spend on the total flower with nice and wonderful colours, but we forget about their budding ground.

No, I am not taking any bit away from our heroes, They have made us proud. What happened eventually has made us believe, no they are not aliens. They are great because what they have done has at least started the in flow of money.

They had made someone in our country believe that the sport they are from need some light. Money cannot buy us everything but it can buy the best infrastructure. Money cannot give us pleasure but at least it can give us the place where we can rest. Money cannot buy a life, but at least it can provide the safest and strongest nursery for the same.

Let me share with you an event which made me feel like anything. I am not disclosing whom i am talking about. Presently i am not at my hometown, I am on national roaming nowadays. I always remembered that the AFC Cup final is scheduled the same day. After my work when i checked the score in Internet from the mobile device, I found India was leading by 3-0. Believe me, I couldn’t believe the score. When I felt it was the real I was happy and started praying India don’t lose. I reached my resting place and saw someone seeing Olympics. Hockey was being played between Holland and some other country. I said him we need to see the football coverage, the finals, India is leading, he was least moved and was not interested.

If this be the condition of any sport in our country how can we move up. What we need is money spent for good cause of infrastructure. This will give us a good nursery for the buds and the bloomed stuff. Then we need the talents. They don’t come like that. We need strong comprehensive talent search programs. Then we need good trainers. Inprofessionall ground, there is no difference betweenIndiann & foreign trainers. What must be the parameter must be the quality of their training. The next thing must be the exposure to the arena they need to enter. These words are very hypothetical, and the top bench must know what to do. He last but not the least thing must be the modern awareness programs. Intoday'ss world we call the same as sports marketing.

The only reason for me writing this article is to see our heroes again, again and again lifting the pride of our country. We want to make ourselves believe, yes we can do it, not once because there was weaker competitors, but because we are the best. We don’t need super-heroes to help us, but we need people who may call themselves heroes in their discipline.

When I see the Olympics medal tally, I think when will we be like them. When I see the Football world cup, I start to think when will we play like them. When I see anyone lifting pride of their own country, I feel good for their devotion, and start expecting maybe me or any of my country men/ woman will have the chance of sharing the same joy. I live in future, and dream of future.

“And God said, Let there be light; and there was light…..”

Jai Hind…..!!

My Tours : Kalingpong District

200+ For Sourav Ganguly : Three Cheers for DADA ....

Sourav Ganguly struck an epic 239 and fellow left-hander Irfan Pathan hit his maiden century as India tightened the noose around Pakistan in the third and final cricket Test in Bangalore on Sunday.

Ganguly stole the show on the 2nd day with his vintage batting as he made a magnificent 239, hitting 30 boundaries and two sixes in 361 deliveries.

In the absence of Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistan found it really hard to make any sort of impression against the left-hander, who looked in absolute command. Debutant Yasir Arafat was the most successful bowler for Pakistan as he took five for 161 in his 39 overs.


Irfan Pathan also his outing with the bat as he posted his maiden Test century. Pathan, made 102, added 178 runs for the seventh wicket as India made the most of batting on a good wicket.
Yuvraj Singh smashed a magnificent 169 on day one, adding 300 runs for the fifth wicket with Ganguly as India recovered in quite after being reduced to 61 for 4.


India leads the three-match series 1-0. They won the first Test in Delhi by six wickets, while the second Test in Kolkata ended in a draw.


All Courtesy : Rediff

Follow the words of HEART

You follow your heart when it comes to friends and family


Do You Follow Your Heart or Your Head?

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President Pratibha Patil's first address to the nation

President Pratibha Patil Tuesday advocated reforms to ensure that the benefits of economic liberalisation reach all people so that the dream of freedom fighters of all-round prosperity is achieved. In her first address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day, Patil said: "We have to take special care to bring in egalitarian reforms to ensure that the full benefit of economic liberalisation reaches people at all levels.
"Growth, when unevenly spread, dwarfs overall prosperity. Only through socially inclusive growth can there be sustained consistency in our growth rates," the 72-year-old President said in her maiden address after assuming office in July.

She said that the country has "to ensure equitable growth for all. The fruits of economic development must necessarily touch, especially, the living and working conditions of our toiling masses and people below the poverty line."

With this, she said, the dream of the freedom fighters of transforming political freedom into a vehicle for attaining the goal of equality and prosperity for all would be achieved. She pointed out that the "empowerment of our economically deprived section of the society still remains unaccomplished". "Progress must relate to the lives of the people and we have to conscientiously discharge our responsibilities towards uplifting the socially and economically disadvantaged and weaker sections of society," she said.

The President said there was a need "to weld" the entire nation into a strong, unassailable entity in which there was no room for distrust between people. "For any nation and its people to become great, there is a need to pursue the path of collective vision," Patil said. She said the more developed should inspire and enthuse the less developed to race ahead on the road to development and there should be an endeavour to fostering an environment of "cooperative federalism and collective pursuit of national goals".

As the country's first woman President, Patil did not forget to mention the contribution of the fairer sex in building the nation. She said "history bears sufficient proof that our womenfolk have excelled themselves not only as able home-makers but in devoting themselves to the noble task of nation building".

"Let us resolve that they are not left marginalised in our society," she said and stressed that women should be made harbingers of sustainable development. While stressing on increasing the reach of representative institutions to the common man, she said: "Our endeavour should be to stamp out the imperfections and entrench democratic decentralisation to ensure participative decision-making of the people in the planning process at the grassroots level to build a vibrant India.

"Along with such decentralisation, it is equally important to provide a morally superior and clean administration," she said.

In her speech, she touched on various sectors including agriculture. Patil said in the coming years, the country would "need to ensure that agriculture becomes more rewarding with formulation of appropriate policies, measures and technologies".

She also stressed the need for holistic education, saying: "While we foster an atmosphere conducive to promoting higher standards of academic excellence, we should not overlook the need to nurture a system of holistic education that teaches positive values and makes good citizens."

Pointing to the need to intensify cooperation to fight the global challenges of terrorism, poverty, ignorance and disease, Patil said: "We stand for friendship with all nations and will continue to work for international peace and security.

"Today, India is poised to take flight into this open sky of success and perfection, and as loyal citizens of this country, it is our duty, as individuals and as a nation, to ensure that we do not let this unprecedented moment in time to go unutilised for the dream of a strong, robust and prosperous India," she said.


Taken from Rediff

Threat to Nokia Customers (Matsushita Battery)

To all Nokia Customers

A product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. This product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia battery.

Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with relevant local authorities to investigate this situation.

Nokia has several suppliers for BL-5C batteries that have collectively produced more than 300 million BL-5C batteries. This advisory applies only to the 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. There have been approximately 100 incidents of over heating reported globally. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported.

Consumers with a BL-5C battery subject to this advisory should note that all of the approximately 100 incidents have occurred while charging the battery. According to Nokia's knowledge this issue does not affect any other use of the mobile device. Concerned consumers may want to monitor a mobile device while charging that contains a BL-5C battery subject to this product advisory.

While the occurence in the BL-5C batteries produced by Matsushita in the time-period specified is very rare, for consumers wishing to do so, Nokia and Matsushita offer to replace for free any BL-5C battery subject to this product advisory.

The BL-5C batteries which are subject to the product advisory were used with the following Nokia models or separately as accessories:

Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60


“Nokia” and “BL-5C” are printed on the front of the battery. On the back of the battery, the Nokia mark appears at the top, and the battery identification number (consisting of 26 characters) is found at the bottom. If the battery identification number does not contain 26 characters, it is not subject to this product advisory.

If you are interested to know if your battery is part of this product advisory, please follow the two steps below:

1) Switch off your mobile device and check the battery model. If your battery is not a BL-5C model, you are not included in this product advisory and your product will not be replaced.


2) If your battery is a BL-5C model, remove the battery and check the 26-character identification number from the back of the battery. Enter the identification number (http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/) in the field below and you will be advised if your battery may be replaced.

Text taken from Nokia