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Unique Identity Number

The process to assign a unique identity number to each Indian has been started under the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Nandan Nilekani (in picture left) to formally assume UID.
(See http://uidai.gov.in/ for more details)
It is expected that a unique identification number (UID) that can be verified and authenticated in an online, cost-effective manner, and which is robust enough to eliminate duplicate and fake identities, will help to bring about transformation in the lives of many Indians, who struggle daily to access and rightfully use resources that are available for them. Do you agree?
Now is the time to give suggestions and inputs on how this UID Project can be designed and implemented to be people-friendly, useful and easily doable for
government.
Some examples:
a) what are simple and effective ways to prevent misuse?
b) is biometric identification the most suitable method to adopt in India?
c) how can UID be used to benefit groups such as migrant workers, street children, etc.?
d) should the UID be integrated with other existing I/Cards such as the Pan Card, Voting Card, etc.? How?
e) have you heard of experiences of similar initiatives in other countries, companies, etc.?
f) what are the experiences of NGOs which have been working with groups of all types and sizes, and how such persons could use and benefit from a UID.
Karmayog will compile and forward all suggestions received to the UID Authority, as well as display all these on our website for others to read and respond.

Thanks
Aditya Bikram
www.karmayog.org/uid -- bringing out your unique identity

Insensitive Humor

"A person born with a mental condition and therefore has to work a million times harder to be able to do simple things (such as learn and communicate) that we take for granted. On top of this, a retard will usually suffer a lot of ridicule from society because people fear what they do not understand. The people who choose to make fun of the mental retarded tend to be complete morons and cannot comprehend that these people have feelings and emotions just like anyone else.

I find it amusing that saying somebody has cancer would not be taken as a joke and yet, using another disease such as mental retarded as an insult is common among society, and many do not realize that it is very offensive and that there is something seriously wrong about it."

'Retardation' is a condition that people are born with and hence cannot help.

According to me, any casual use of and jokes involving terms such as retard constitute highly insensitive humor.

Not cool at all.

And speaking of insensitive humor, yo-mamma jokes are no less.

Number Gossip : Get digitized

It wrote this post simply as a timepass. If you are really a number geek. you can vist this website which is just like google search engine for numbers, figures and every thing related to digits.

Website : http://numbergossip.com


0 s the additive identity.
1 is the multiplicative identity.
2 is the only even prime.
3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in.
4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps.
5 is the number of Platonic solids.
6 is the smallest perfect number.
7 is the smallest number of integer-sided rectangles that tile a rectangle so that no 2 rectangles share a common length.
8 is the largest cube in the Fibonacci sequence.
9 is the maximum number of cubes that are needed to sum to any positive integer.
10 is the base of our number system.
11 is the largest known multiplicative persistence.
12 is the smallest abundant number.
13 is the number of Archimedian solids.
14 is the smallest number n with the property that there are no numbers relatively prime to n smaller numbers.
15 is the smallest composite number n with the property that there is only one group of order n.
16 is the only number of the form xy=yx with x and y different integers.
17 is the number of wallpaper groups.
18 is the only number that is twice the sum of its digits.
19 is the maximum number of 4th powers needed to sum to any number.
20 is the number of rooted trees with 6 vertices.
21 is the smallest number of distinct squares needed to tile a square.
22 is the number of partitions of 8.
23 is the smallest number of integer-sided boxes that tile a box so that no two boxes share a common length.
24 is the largest number divisible by all numbers less than its square root.
25 is the smallest square that can be written as a sum of 2 squares.
26 is the only number to be directly between a square and a cube.
27 is the largest number that is the sum of the digits of its cube.
28 is the 2nd perfect number.
29 is the 7th Lucas number.
30 is the largest number with the property that all smaller numbers relatively prime to it are prime.

31 is a Mersenne prime.
32 is the smallest 5th power (besides 1).
33 is the largest number that is not a sum of distinct triangular numbers.
34 is the smallest number with the property that it and its neighbors have the same number of divisors.
35 is the number of hexominoes.
36 is the smallest number (besides 1) which is both square and triangular.
37 is the maximum number of 5th powers needed to sum to any number.
38 is the last Roman numeral when written lexicographically.
39 is the smallest number which has 3 different partitions into 3 parts with the same product.
40 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
41 is the smallest number that is not of the form |2x - 3y|.
42 is the 5th Catalan number.
43 is the number of sided 7-iamonds.
44 is the number of derangements of 5 items.
45 is a Kaprekar number.
46 is the number of different arrangements (up to rotation and reflection) of 9 non-attacking queens on a 9x9 chessboard.
47 is the largest number of cubes that cannot tile a cube.
48 is the smallest number with 10 divisors.
49 is the smallest number with the property that it and its neighbors are squareful.
50 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 2 squares in 2 ways.
51 is the 6th Motzkin number.
52 is the 5th Bell number.
53 is the only two digit number that is reversed in hexadecimal.
54 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of 3 squares in 3 ways.
55 is the largest triangular number in the Fibonacci sequence.
56 is the number of reduced 5 x 5 Latin squares.
57 = 111 in base 7.
58 is the number of commutative semigroups of order 4.
59 is the smallest number whose 4th power is of the form a4+b4-c4.
60 is the smallest number divisible by 1 through 6.

61 is the 6th Euler number.
62 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 3 distinct squares in 2 ways.
63 is the number of partially ordered sets of 5 elements.
64 is the smallest number with 7 divisors.
65 is the smallest number that becomes square if its reverse is either added to or subtracted from it.
66 is the number of 8-iamonds.
67 is the smallest number which is palindromic in bases 5 and 6.
68 is the last 2-digit string to appear in the decimal expansion of .
69 has the property that n2 and n3 together contain each digit once.
70 is the smallest abundant number that is not the sum of some subset of its divisors.
71 divides the sum of the primes less than it.
72 is the maximum number of spheres that can touch another sphere in a lattice packing in 6 dimensions.
73 is the smallest number (besides 1) which is one less than twice its reverse.
74 is the number of different non-Hamiltonian polyhedra with minimum number of vertices.
75 is the number of orderings of 4 objects with ties allowed.
76 is an automorphic number.
77 is the largest number that cannot be written as a sum of distinct numbers whose reciprocals sum to 1.
78 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 4 distinct squares in 3 ways.
79 is a permutable prime.
80 is the smallest number n where n and n+1 are both products of 4 or more primes.
81 is the square of the sum of its digits.
82 is the number of 6-hexes.
83 is the number of zero-less pandigital squares.
84 is the largest order of a permutation of 14 elements.
85 is the largest n for which 12+22+32+...+n2 = 1+2+3+...+m has a solution.
86 = 222 in base 6.
87 is the sum of the squares of the first 4 primes.
88 is the only number known whose square has no isolated digits.
89 = 81 + 92
90 is the number of degrees in a right angle.

91 is the smallest pseudoprime in base 3.
92 is the number of different arrangements of 8 non-attacking queens on an 8x8 chessboard.
93 = 333 in base 5.
94 is a Smith number.
95 is the number of planar partitions of 10.
96 is the smallest number that can be written as the difference of 2 squares in 4 ways.
97 is the smallest number with the property that its first 3 multiples contain the digit 9.
98 is the smallest number with the property that its first 5 multiples contain the digit 9.
99 is a Kaprekar number.
100 is the smallest square which is also the sum of 4 consecutive cubes.

101 is the number of partitions of 13.
102 is the smallest number with three different digits.
103 has the property that placing the last digit first gives 1 more than triple it.
104 is the smallest known number of unit line segments that can exist in the plane, 4 touching at every vertex.
105 is the largest number n known with the property that n - 2k is prime for k>1.
106 is the number of trees with 10 vertices.
107 is the exponent of a Mersenne prime.
108 is 3 hyperfactorial.
109 is the smallest number which is palindromic in bases 5 and 9.
110 is the smallest number that is the product of two different substrings.
111 is the smallest possible magic constant of a 3 x 3 magic square of distinct primes.
112 is the side of the smallest square that can be tiled with distinct integer-sided squares.
113 is a permutable prime.
114 = 222 in base 7.
115 is the number of rooted trees with 8 vertices.
116 is a value of n for which n!+1 is prime.
117 is the smallest possible value of the longest edge in a Heronian Tetrahedron.
118 is the smallest number that has 4 different partitions into 3 parts with the same product.
119 is the smallest number n where either n or n+1 is divisible by the numbers from 1 to 8.
120 is the smallest number to appear 6 times in Pascal's triangle.

121 is the only square known of the form 1+p+p2+p3+p4, where p is prime.
122 is the smallest number n>1 so that n concatenated with n-1 0's concatenated with the reverse of n is prime.
123 is the 10th Lucas number.
124 is the smallest number with the property that its first 3 multiples contain the digit 2.
125 is the only number known that contains all its proper divisors as proper substrings.
126 = 9C4.
127 is a Mersenne prime.
128 is the largest number which is not the sum of distinct squares.
129 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of 3 squares in 4 ways.
130 is the number of functions from 6 unlabeled points to themselves.
131 is a permutable prime.
132 is the smallest number which is the sum of all of the 2-digit numbers that can be formed with its digits.
133 is the smallest number n for which the sum of the proper divisors of n divides phi(n).
134 = 8C1 + 8C3 + 8C4.
135 = 11 + 32 + 53.
136 is the sum of the cubes of the digits of the sum of the cubes of its digits.
137 is the smallest prime with 3 distinct digits that remains prime if one of its digits is removed.
138 is the smallest possible product of 3 primes, one of which is the concatenation of the other two.
139 is the number of unlabeled topologies with 5 elements.
140 is the smallest harmonic divisor number.
141 is a Cullen number.
142 is the number of planar graphs with 6 vertices.
143 is the smallest quasi-Carmichael number in base 8.
144 is the largest square in the Fibonacci sequence.
145 = 1! + 4! + 5!
146 = 222 in base 8.
147 is the number of sided 6-hexes.
148 is the number of perfect graphs with 6 vertices.
149 is the concatenation of the first 3 positive squares.
150 is the smallest n for which n + n times the nth prime is square.

151 is a palindromic prime.
152 has a square comprised of the digits 0-4.
153 = 13 + 53 + 33.
154 is the smallest number which is palindromic in bases 6, 8, and 9.
155 is the sum of the primes between its smallest and largest prime factor.
156 is the number of graphs with 6 vertices.
157 is the largest number known whose square contains the same digits as its successor.
158 is the number of planar partitions of 11.
159 is the number of isomers of C11H24.
160 is the number of 9-iamonds.
161 is a hexagonal pyramidal number.
162 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 4 positive squares in 9 ways.
163 is the largest Heegner Number.
164 is the smallest number which is the concatenation of squares in two different ways.
165 = 11C3.
166 is the number of monotone Boolean functions of 4 variables.
167 is the smallest number whose 4th power begins with 4 identical digits
168 is the size of the smallest non-cyclic simple group which is not an alternating group.
169 is a square whose digits are non-decreasing.
170 is the smallest number n for which phi(n) and sigma(n) are both square.
171 has the same number of digits in Roman numerals as its cube.
172 = 444 in base 6.
173 has a square containing only 2 digits.
174 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 4 positive distinct squares in 6 ways.
175 = 11 + 72 + 53.
176 is an octagonal pentagonal number.
177 is the number of graphs with 7 edges.
178 has a cube with the same digits as another cube.
179 has a square comprised of the digits 0-4.
180 is the total number of degrees in a triangle.

181 is a strobogrammatic prime.
182 is the number of connected bipartite graphs with 8 vertices.
183 is the smallest number n so that n concatenated with n+1 is square.
184 is a Kaprekar constant in base 3.
185 is the number of conjugacy classes in the automorphism group of the 8 dimensional hypercube.
186 is the number of degree 11 irreducible polynomials over GF(2).
187 is the smallest quasi-Carmichael number in base 7.
188 is the number of semigroups of order 4.
189 is a Kaprekar constant in base 2.
190 is the largest number with the property that it and its ditinct prime factors are palindromic in Roman numerals.
191 is a palindromic prime.
192 is the smallest number with 14 divisors.
193 is the only known odd prime n for which 2 is not a primitive root of 4n2+1.
194 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of 3 squares in 5 ways.
195 is the smallest value of n such that 2nCn is divisible by n2.
196 is the smallest number that is not known to reach a palindrome when repeatedly added to its reverse.
197 is a Keith number.
198 = 11 + 99 + 88.
199 is the 11th Lucas number.
200 is the smallest number which can not be made prime by changing one of its digits.


201 is a Kaprekar constant in base 4.
202 has a cube that contains only even digits.
203 is the 6th Bell number.
204 is the square root of a triangular number.
205 is the largest number which can not be writen as the sum of distinct primes of the form 6n+1.
206 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 3 positive distinct squares in 5 ways.
207 has a 4th power where the first half of the digits are a permutation of the last half of the digits.
208 is the 10th tetranacci number.
209 is the smallest quasi-Carmichael number in base 9.
210 is the product of the first 4 primes.

211 has a cube containing only 3 different digits.
212 has a square with 4/5 of the digits are the same.
213 is a number whose product of digits is equal to its sum of digits.
214 is a value of n for which n!! - 1 is prime.
215 = 555 in base 6.
216 is the smallest cube that can be written as the sum of 3 cubes.
217 is a Kaprekar constant in base 2.
218 is the number of digraphs with 4 vertices.
219 is the number of space groups, not including handedness.
220 is the smallest amicable number.
221 is the number of Hamiltonian planar graphs with 7 vertices.
222 is the number of lattices on 10 unlabeled nodes.
223 is the smallest prime which will nor remain prime if one of its digits is changed.
224 is not the sum of 4 non-zero squares.
225 is an octagonal square number.
226 ???
227 is the number of connected planar graphs with 8 edges.
228 = 444 in base 7.
229 is the smallest prime that remains prime when added to its reverse.
230 is the number of space groups, including handedness.
231 is the number of partitions of 16.
232 is the number of 7x7 symmetric permutation matrices.
233 is the smallest number with the property that it and its neighbors can be written as a sum of 2 squares.
234 ???
235 is the number of trees with 11 vertices.
236 is the number of Hamiltonian circuits of a 4x8 rectangle.
237 is the smallest number with the property that its first 3 multiples contain the digit 7.
238 is the number of connected partial orders on 6 unlabeled elements.
239 is the largest number that cannot be written as a sum of 8 or fewer cubes.
240 is the smallest number with 20 divisors.

241 ???
242 is the smallest number n where n through n+3 all have the same number of divisors.
243 = 35.
244 is the smallest number (besides 2) that can be written as the sum of 2 squares or the sum of 2 5th powers.
245 is a stella octangula number.
246 = 9C2 + 9C4 + 9C6.
247 is the smallest possible difference between two integers that together contain each digit exactly once.
248 is the smallest number n>1 for which the arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means of phi(n) and sigma(n) are all integers.
249 ???
250 ???
251 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of 3 cubes in 2 ways.
252 is the 5th central binomial coefficient.
253 is the smallest non-trivial triangular star number.
254 is the smallest composite number all of whose divisors (except 1) contain the digit 2.
255 = 11111111 in base 2.
256 is the smallest 8th power (besides 1).
257 is a Fermat prime.
258 ???
259 = 1111 in base 6.
260 is the number of ways that 6 non-attacking bishops can be placed on a 4x4 chessboard.
261 is the number of essentially different ways to dissect a 16-gon into 7 quadrilaterals.
262 is the 9th meandric number.
263 is the largest known prime whose square is strobogrammatic.
264 is the largest known number whose square is undulating.
265 is the number of derangements of 6 items.
266 is the Stirling number of the second kind S(8,6).
267 is the number of planar partitions of 12.
268 is the smallest number whose product of digits is 6 times the sum of its digits.
269 ???
270 is a harmonic divisor number.

271 is the smallest prime p so that p-1 and p+1 are divisible by cubes.
272 is the 7th Euler number.
273 = 333 in base 9.
274 is the Stirling number of the first kind s(6,2).
275 is the number of partitions of 28 in which no part occurs only once.
276 is the sum of the first 3 5th powers.
277 ???
278 ???
279 is the maximum number of 8th powers needed to sum to any number.
280 is the number of ways 18 people around a round table can shake hands in a non-crossing way, up to rotation.
281 is the sum of the first 14 primes.
282 is the sum of its proper divisors that contain the digit 4.
283 = 25 + 8 + 35.
284 is an amicable number.
285 is the number of binary rooted trees with 13 vertices.
286 is the number of rooted trees with 9 vertices.
287 is the sum of consecutive primes in 3 different ways.
288 is the smallest non-palindrome non-square that when multiplied by its reverse is a square.
289 is a Friedman number.
290 has a base 3 representation that ends with its base 6 representation.
291 is the number of functional graphs on 8 vertices.
292 is the number of ways to make change for a dollar.
293 ???
294 is the number of planar 2-connected graphs with 7 vertices.
295 ???
296 is the number of partitions of 30 into distinct parts.
297 is a Kaprekar number.
298 ???
299 ???
300 is the largest possible score in bowling.

Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts

 Butterflies taste with their feet.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ...... but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years..

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left-handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Facts about Bill Gates... Don't miss the last one...

 

1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollar, he won't even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back.

3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.

5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US.If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he hs to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven.

Last but not the least:

If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years!!!!!!!

 

 

Republic Day Special

National Anthem 

The National Anthem of India is played or sung on various occasions. Instructions have been issued from time to time about the correct versions of the Anthem, the occasions on which these are to be played or sung, and about the need for paying respect to the anthem by observance of proper decorum on such occasions. The substance of these instructions has been embodied in this information sheet for general information and guidance.

The National Anthem - Full & Short Versions

The composition consisting of the words and music of the first stanza of the late poet Rabindra Nath Tagore's song known as "Jana Gana Mana" is the National Anthem of India. It reads as follows:

Jana-gana-mana-adhinayaka, jaya he
Bharata-bhagya-vidhata.
Punjab-Sindh-Gujarat-Maratha
Dravida-Utkala-Banga
Vindhya-Himachala-Yamuna-Ganga
Uchchala-Jaladhi-taranga.
Tava shubha name jage,
Tava shubha asisa mange,
Gahe tava jaya gatha,
Jana-gana-mangala-dayaka jaya he
Bharata-bhagya-vidhata.
Jaya he, jaya he, jaya he,
Jaya jaya jaya, jaya he!

Download National Anthem (817 KB, 0:52 Sec.)

The above is the full version of the Anthem and its playing time is approximately 52 seconds.
A short version consisting of the first and last lines of the National Anthem is also played on certain occasions. It reads as follows:

Jana-gana-mana-adhinayaka, jaya he
Bharata-bhagya-vidhata.
Jaya he, jaya he, jaya he,
Jaya jaya jaya, jaya he!

Playing time of the short version is about 20 seconds. The following is Tagore's English rendering of the anthem:

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,
Dispenser of India's destiny.
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sind,
Gujarat and Maratha,
Of the Dravida and Orissa and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas,
mingles in the music of Jamuna and Ganges and is
chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise.
The saving of all people waits in thy hand,
Thou dispenser of India's destiny.
Victory, victory, victory to thee.

The occasions on which the full versions or the short version will be played have been indicated at the appropriate places in these instructions.

Playing of the Anthem

1. The full version of the Anthem shall be played on the following occasions:
   
   1. Civil and Military investitures;
   2. When National Salute (which means the Command "Rashtriya Salute – Salami Shastr" to the accompaniment of the National Anthem is given on ceremonial occasions to the President or to the Governor/Lieutenant Governor within their respective States/Union Territories;
   3. During parades – irrespective of whether any of the dignitaries referred to in (ii) above is present or not;
   4. On arrival of the President at formal State functions and other functions organized by the Government and mass functions and on his departure from such functions;
   5. Immediately before and after the President addresses the Nation over All India Radio;
   6. On arrival of the Governor/Lieutenant Governor at formal State functions within his State/Union Territory and on his departure from such functions;
   7. When the National Flag is brought on parade;
   8. When the Regimental Colours are presented;
   9. For hoisting of colours in the Navy.
   
   
2. The short version of the Anthem shall be played when drinking toasts in Messes.
3. The Anthem shall be played on any other occasion for which special orders have been issued by the Government of India.
4. Normally the Anthem shall not be played for the Prime Minister, though there may be special occasions when it may be played.
5. When the National Anthem is played by a band, the Anthem will be preceded by a roll of drums to assist the audience to know that the National Anthem is going to be played, unless there is some other specific indication that the National Anthem is about to be played, as for example, when fanfares are sounded before the National Anthem is played, or when toasts are drunk to the accompaniment of the National Anthem or when the National Anthem constitutes the National Salute given by a Guard of Honour. The duration of the roll, in terms of marching drill, will be 7 paces in slow march. The roll will start slowly, ascend to as loud a volume as possible and then gradually decreases to original softness, but remaining audible until the seventh beat. One beat rest will then be observed before commencing the National Anthem.

Mass Singing of the Anthem

1. The full version of the Anthem shall be played accompanied by mass singing on the following occasions:
   
   1. On the unfurling of the National Flag, on cultural occasions or ceremonial functions other than parades. (This could be arranged by having a choir or adequate size, suitably stationed, which would be trained to coordinate its singing with the band etc. There should be an adequate public audition system so that the gathering in various enclosures can sing in unison with the choir);
   2. On arrival of the President at any Government or Public function (but excluding formal State functions and mess functions) and also immediately before his departure from such functions.
   
   
2. On all occasions when the National Anthem is sung, the full version shall be recited accompanied by mass singing.
3. The Anthem may be sung on occasions which, although not strictly ceremonial, are nevertheless invested with significance because of the presence of Ministers etc. The singing of the Anthem on such occasions (with or without the accompaniment of an instruments) accompanied by mass singing is desirable.
4. It is not possible to give an exhaustive list of occasions on which the singing (as distinct from playing) of the Anthem can be permitted. But there is no objection to the singing of the Anthem accompanied by mass singing so long as it is done with due respect as a salutation to the motherland and proper decorum is maintained.
5. In all schools, the day's work may begin with community singing of the anthem. School authorities should make adequate provision in their programmes for popularising the singing of the Anthem and promoting respect for the National Flag among students.

General

1. Whenever the Anthem is sung or played, the audience shall stand to attention. However, when in the course of a newsreel or documentary the Anthem is played as a part of the film, it is not expected of the audience to stand as standing is bound to interrupt the exhibition of the film and would create disorder and confusion rather than add to the dignity of the Anthem.
2. As in the case of the flying of the National Flag, it has been left to the good sense of the people not to indulge in indiscriminate singing or playing of the Anthem.

Source: India 2009 - A Reference Annual

Blogal Warming

Introduction: With the number of blogs increasing exponentially, the blogosphere is under a severe threat. The writing has always been on the wall (and I’m not just talking about facebook). Too many blogs and too many heated discussions have led to the inevitable – Blogal Warming.

Of course not everyone is aware of this affliction, but it is all around us. Its tentacles have already engulfed our community and it is only a matter of time before it squeezes the life out.

As a responsible citizen of the blogosphere, I consider it my duty and privilege to inform the ignorant of this great malady.

Blogal warming broadly refers to the increase in the average temperature of systems the world over, in the past decade, caused by excessive blogging, mindless link forwarding, blog whoring, blog rolling etc. The more specific problems associated with BW will be discussed later on.

Reasons: Studies conducted over the past few days by this astute observer have helped in identifying the root of the problem. As can be readily imagined, the trouble starts when a layman decides he should start a blog. There are various reasons which can be ascribed to this.

1) Green House Effect – Sidin Vadukut says “Everyone and their mother-in-laws think they can write”. A statistical survey conducted on young bloggers has brought to light the reason for this belief – Almost 90% of the subjects admitted that this belief stemmed from having won a prize for creative writing in some inter-house competition at school.

Since the majority of our subjects happened to represent the “Green House”, we’ve dubbed this the green house effect.

In anomalous cases, winning a second prize in flower arrangement in 5th standard has also been deemed as reason enough to start writing a blog.

2) CFCs – The mere feeling that one can write would not have generated so much blogal warming. There had to be a secondary reason. This is of course well known to all of us. The glitz and glamour and the charm of blogging is a feature called comments. The number of comments obtained on one’s blogposts has become a status symbol of sorts. CFC or Craving For Comments is the major driving force behind increased BW.

Effects: The effects of Blogal Warming can readily be guessed. Some of these have been discussed.
1) Temperature Rise – As discussed before, the major effect of BW is the rise in temperature of systems. With the increasing number of blogs, the 35th tab of Mozilla Firefox (a feat once deemed impossible) has become the standard for an average browser. This devil-may-care attitude towards browsing has put immense strain on the system, causing it to heat up more than usual.

2) Holes in the Awe-zone layer – About 5% of the blogosphere consists of readable material and among this close to 1% of the bloggers are particularly awesome. This one percent, called the Awe-zone, occurs at the top of the Blogosphere. Its function is to keep out aspiring bloggers by instilling a feeling of inferiority in them.

However the rapid increase of blogs coupled by inactivity of some bloggers in the awe-zone layer, have caused holes to start appearing in the awe-zone layer. The gap between the awe-zone layer and the rest of the blogosphere has reduced.

This in turn has caused more people to take up blogging as there is someone (whose level) they can relate to in the blogosphere. (The analogy is similar to a person setting out to buy a phone for 6000 rupees. The salesman convinces him that if he can afford 6000, he can afford 7000 and get a much better phone. Once the customer agrees to this, he convinces him that he can get an 8000 rupee phone…. Finally the customer ends up buying a phone worth 13000.)

Holes in the awe-zone layer cause skin trouble. The most commonly observed affliction is an itch to blog.

3) Blogal warming as defined in the Oxford dictionary, also has a secondary meaning – “The delusion that Blogs can be used as a way to warm up to hot chicks”. The first casualty of this delusion was Paul George Tharian. Given below is the photographic evidence of this claim- a screenshot from the Orkut Scrapbook of a blogger. Start reading from the bottom and proceed to the top.

Although this can at best be defined as delusion, it is only fair that this should be included at least as a theoretical effect of blogal warming. We will call it Paul George Tharian’s ice-breaking with girls or simply melting of the Paul-ar ice ;)

Remedies:
1) The only way to combat Blogal Warming is by restoring the Awe-zone layer and putting the rest of the blogosphere way out of reach. You can all help this cause by pouring out your unbounded admiration for this blog.

2) Some people out there think that they can land chicks by blogging. It is of vital importance that we prove them wrong. This can be achieved if all girls out there fall for a single guy and tell the rest of the world that they are not available. To save the blogosphere, I’m willing to take up the cause of being that single guy. :D

FUN : Faceoff between Pritish Nandy and Rakesh Jhunjhunwala on Twitter

Hell broke loose on Saturday when the Faceoff between Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (@jhunjhunwala, Not the real one silly )  and Pritish Nandy (@pritishnandy, who was sporting enough to take part) took place.  Some serious issues and some jokes with Pun intended were traded off between the two of them. The official moderators for this faceoff were @surekhapillai & @netra and @ashumittal voluntered to make a quick poll to know who survived the knockout. For all those who missed the tweets and the conversation, here is a select few in the Q and A form picked up for your convenience.  This Faceoff was for entertainment purposes only and is not intended to hurt anyone. Take it with the right ’spirits’ guys!

@jhunjhunwala
And here we go. ITS ON BROTHER. We start now. …………………………………………………….

@pritishnandy
I am here. Dont make me fall asleep …………………………………………………….

@jhunjhunwala
You called me FAT.Is this publicity to promote your upcoming film Fatso? ………………………………………

@pritishnandy
My apologies. You are not fat. You are linearly challenged. But you are cool. I like cool. Fatso is cool.

@jhunjhunwala
Everyone is on twitter including Out of work actors.Why then is Mayawati not tweeting.I smell a conspiracy.Is this your fault?

@pritishnandy
No, there’s not enough space on twitter for Mayavati, you and Jayalalitha. You have to get a bigger server.

@jhunjhunwala
You were a Rajya Sabha MP,that’s the upper house.Is there a lift in Parliament from the Lok Sabha to the Rajya Sabha?

@pritishnandy
No, we just strolled across. But since neither LS nor RS worked more than 60 or 70 days a year, we were largely unemployed.

@jhunjhunwala
If you wanna say ‘Cattle Class’ U should probably say it now.Not saying it implies you disrespect cattle.

@pritishnandy
I love cattle. I love all species barring corrupt politicians n celebs who say Yo bro.

@jhunjhunwala
Free porn is available all over the net,still people are searching for the ND Tiwari Sex Tape. Don’t they need a psychiatrist?

@pritishnandy
They want to see the gumption of a 84 year old man who can take on 3 (or was it 4) babes before a camera. I confess I cant.

@jhunjhunwala
Did you know that Pritish Nandy rhymes with ‘Free Dish Handy?’

@pritishnandy
You have missed your true calling, Firaq Gorakhpuri. You are blessed with a sense of rhyming

@jhunjhunwala
The WELL-ness partner of Raat Gayi Baat Gayi is Moksh,3 idiots has a song = ‘All is WELL’.Why are U film guys lovers of WELLS?

@pritishnandy
@jhunjhunwala I grew up watching Citizen Kane by Orson Welles.  …………………………………..

@jhunjhunwala
Our government keeps saying Pakistan must act,Kasab says he came to India to act in films,hmmm,what’s going on?

@pritishnandy
Kasab began as a villain. Is now pretending to be a Marathi manoos. He has learnt his lines well.
His handlers have played their role badly. They are no actors. Just plain jokers.

@jhunjhunwala
Why are Indian filmstars more interested in premiering their films abroad, instead of premiering it first to us,the Indians?

@pritishnandy
Coz Indian films sell almost 3 times more theatre tickets in a year than Hollywood films. Amazing but true

@jhunjhunwala
Your company is called PNC but many Indians urinate on roadsides.So they basically Pee & See.Will the Peeing&Seeing ever stop?

@pritishnandy
Only voyeurs pee n see. Normal folks pee n go. Get your habits checked out, mate. 2 much watching is psychologically damaging.

@jhunjhunwala
I just made you say ‘Pee’. ………………………………… …………………………………..

@pritishnandy
And I shall soon make you pee in your pants, hot shot fake stock broker.

@jhunjhunwala
I’m not for the politics of sport but 10 Pakistani players aren’t picked by the IPL.Their media raises a shitstorm
Why isn’t the same media outraged when they violated the ceasefire at the LOC 10 times alone this month?

@pritishnandy
Simple. Pakistani players are our rivals, not our enemies. The Pakistani army is our enemy.

@jhunjhunwala
Ruchika kills self after being molested.19 years later,case still in high court,Rathore still out on bail.Money+Power=Justice?

@pritishnandy
People power eventually ensures justice. Jessica Lal. Nithari. Rathore. You cant escape once we know what you did last summer.

@jhunjhunwala
This is THE LAST QUESTION:  Hemant Karkare’s jacket can’t be found,is it with you?

@pritishnandy
Karkare’s jacket is hidden by those corrupt people who made money buying such useless jackets. Its our shame.

The Best Twitter Apps for your Mobile Phone

If you try accessing Twitter from the browser of a mobile phone, Twitter will automatically serve you the mobile-optimized version of their site. However, if in case Twitter fails to recognize your smartphone, you can manually type m.twitter.com to directly access the mobile site of Twitter from your phone.

The Best Mobile Applications for Twitter

Now that’s one way to use Twitter from your mobile phone. You also have a wide variety of mobile apps for Twitter that not only offer a much better experience than Twitter’s mobile site but they also integrate with some of your phone functions like the built-in camera. Have a look!

1. Twitter Apps for BlackBerry

1a. OpenBreak – Originally known as TwitterBerry, OpenBreak is one of the most popular Twitter apps for BlackBerry. You can take a picture with your BlackBerry camera and directly post it to Twitter via TwitPic or yfrog using TwitterBerry.
The app will automatically recognize #hashtags in the tweets and a notification icon will show you the number of new messages in your Twitter timeline just like your BlackBerry displays notifications for unread emails or missed calls.
1b. UberTwitter – Another popular Twitter client for BlackBerry, UberTwitter is location-aware so it can automatically update your location based on the cell tower information even if your BlackBerry phone doesn’t support GPS (like Google Latitude). The latest beta of UberTwitter also includes support for Twitter Lists.
1c. Seesmic – With Seesmic, you can track all your saved searches and Twitter lists inside your BlackBerry phone. Just like most other BlackBerry apps, Seesmic can run in the background and notify you of new direct messages and @replies via the famililar notification icons.

2. Twitter Apps for Nokia Phones

2a. Tweets60 – As the name suggests, Tweets60 is a native Twitter client for Nokia S60 smartphones that is available in both free and pro versions. This application is primarily for users who just want to quickly update their own status on Twitter as well as follow what their other friends are saying on Twitter.
The pro version supports additional features like the ability to post images to TwitPic and follow search terms on Twitter.
2b. Gravity – Gravity is a hugely popular and powerful Twitter client for Nokia S60 smartphones. With Gravity, you can manage multiple Twitter accounts, save links from tweets to your delicious account, post pictures to any of the Twitter-friendly photo sharing site like TwitPic of YFrog and it obviously supports all the other Twitter functions like retweets, direct messages, favorites, etc.
You can download a 10-day trial version of Gravity from the Ovi Store.
2c. Snaptu – Snaptu is an all-in-one application that lets you manage your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and even your Google Picasa account from the mobile phone. Snaptu’s Twitter application provides all the basic Twitter functionality – status updates, direct messages, @replies – while their Facebook component lets you update statuses and you can also read and write messages using Facebook email.
Snaptu works with any Java-enabled mobile phone including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola models.

3. Twitter Apps for Windows Mobile

3a. Tiny Twitter – This is a free Twitter application for Windows Mobile that provides all the basic Twitter functionality. One of the unique features in Tiny Twitter is that you can temporarily suspend a Twitter user so that his tweets won’t appear in your timeline though he would still remain in your follow list.
3b. PockeTwit – This is another popular Twitter client for Windows Mobile with support for multiple accounts. You can take a picture from your camera and post it directly to Twitter via PockeTwit. The application features a nice sliding interface so you can drag the tweets to the left to see all the actions that you can take on that tweet. PockeTwit is free and open-source.
3c. Twikini – The app integrates with Windows Media Player so you can tweet the name of the song that you are currently listening to. Twikini can shrink URLs using Bit.ly or TinyURL so you have more space for text and it also displays Twitpic images inline. If you have a GPS enabled mobile phone, you can also add your location to the tweet with Twikini. The app costs $4.95 though a 14-day trial is available for free.

4. Twitter Apps for Android Phones

4a. Twidroid – This is probably the most popular Twitter app for Android phones – the basic version is free but you’ll have to get the PRO version in case you want to manage multiple Twitter accounts from the same application.
Twidroid supports all features of Twitter including Twitter lists. You can shake your Android phone to fetch the latest tweets but this again requires the pro edition.
4b. Seesmic – With Seesmic for Android, you can capture photos or record videos and share them on directly Twitter via yFrog. The app will also let you share you current location on Twitter. You can configure Seemic to notify you with a custom ringtone (or a blinking light) when there’s a new @reply or direct message for you on Twitter.

5. Twitter Apps for iPhone and iPod Touch

5a. Tweetdeck – TweetDeck is a brilliant application that you may use to manage both Facebook and your multiple Twitter accounts from the iPhone or iPod Touch.
The app will automatically sync with TweetDeck Desktop so if you have created any custom search columns on the desktop, they’ll also become available inside the mobile app (and vice-versa). Just shake your iPhone to check if there are any new updates.
5b. Tweetie – This $3 app is one of the most popular Twitter client for iPhone with a very impressive UI. There’s an offline mode so you can do things like reading past tweets, following new people, replying to tweets, etc. even without a data connection. You also get a bookmarklet that lets you post links from Safari directly to Twitter via the Tweetie app.
5c. Twittelator – One of the unique features of Twittelator is that it lets you record and tweet both audio and video clips from your iPhone. You can even tweet the name of the song that’s currently playing on your iPhone. The basic version of Twittelator is available for free on the iTunes store.
5d. Echofon – This is light-weight Twitter client for the iPhone that is free and supports nearly all the basic function of Twitter. The $5 pro version of Echofon supports push notifications so you’ll get an alert when another Twitter user sends you a direct message or mentions you in his or her tweet.

Screenshots of Twitter Mobile Apps

More ways to use Twitter on mobile phones

If you can’t find a decent Twitter application for your mobile phone, you should check out Dabr. This is like an improved version of Twitter’s mobile site.
Dabr will display a more detailed profile of Twitter users so you can quickly decide whether or not to follow a particular user. It will auto-convert Twitpic and other picture URLs into thumbnails so you can view images directly in your Twitter timeline without having to click the click. And since Dabr is a mobile website, you can use it from just about any mobile phone, not just a smartphone.

Another option is email. Just associate your Twitter account with Posterous and then you’ll be able to post updates on Twitter by sending emails to twitter@posterous.com. Whatever you put in the email subject will be converted into your Twitter status.
This email to twitter option will be quite handy if your phone plan allows unlimited email but you need to pay for every extra byte that you download on the phone (lot of BlackBerry plans are like this).