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Its not only for timepass !

At first I thought its only for watching video and can be used to upload home-made videos. But youtube is more than that.As it provides the space to upload videos whatever people want to upload, netizens actually shown their creativity in uploading videos.

If you miss a serial, by next day it will be uploaded in youtube by someone. (My aunt watches her serials in youtube when she misses them on tv)

If you dont know how to do a thing, search it in youtube , like 'how to straighten your hair' , how to wax polish the shoe, knot a tie etc etc

Whenever a product is released in market like mobile their 'out of box' videos will be uploaded in it and the same guy gives a review about it. I used it when i could not open the back cover of my mobile, i learned it from youtube :)

And there are many videos (in fact audio files with album art) teaches you how to learn a new language. Tamil, malayalam, spanish ...almost every widely spoken language could learned from it. I started malayalam and Portuguese.

And there are many videos on solving computer issues ..these are few uses of youtube i found. Still digging it for more things :)

Mosquitoes and Tigers

Lets consider a scenario where all the mosquitoes in the world are dead. They become extinct. Is it going to bother us? The extinction of mosquitoes going to hurt us? or our sentiments? are we going start a campaign saying "save mosquitoes" ?? No , in fact we would be happy when they go extinct. Because the death-toll of malaria will be zero at that time. We dont eat mosquitoes, so its not going to affect food-chain, and if they are extinct we dont have to waste our money on buying mosquito killers.

And now i wonder , how the extinction of mosquitoes isa different scenario than extinction of tigers in India. We dont eat them, no part of India is economically dependent on them like rajasthanis use camels for their daily life. We dont use tiger in that sense....except few gods in Indian mythology nobody used tigers for transportation. No body part of tiger could be used in medicine, like the poison of snakes is used. Tigers are not amicable , they are not docile. Nobody can afford to have one as a pet. They dont help to build a healthy environment like a bunch of trees do.

In-fact tigers are mean man-eaters, who kill villagers nearby the forest. Why a bunch of animal lovers from the cities who never live in forest shout to save them? Villagers are the ones who live nearby them, go and ask a person from a tiger-hit village, if he wants to save them or not, probably he will say 'kill them all with a bomb'.

But the people of city dont want it happen, they love to watch about them in national geographic channel, they love to watch them in a tiger safari ....once in 10yrs. They want to show to the world that they care about indian tigers, but they wont go near a tiger nor they live in a village next to a tiger reserve. They love to wear those save-tiger t-shirts. They are more or less equal to bunch of youth from banjarahills protesting the killing of street-dogs in slums.

Imagine the costs to maintain 27 national tiger reserve parks, and for their census, what is the use? Why dont we care about people instead of animals.

oooh, dont tell me that we have to give more importance to national animal instead of people of the nation. Till 1973 our national animal is lion, then they changed it to tiger, we can always change it to something else.

Why dont we give more importance to the fact that , the villages have bad roads, no hospital equipment, schools without proper rooms and black boards, no proper education for them and they still believe in black magic stuff , the girls are malnutritioned and Police stations are ill equipped.If govt takes proper care of these issues, the villagers will have faith in govt and probably stop helping Maoists who tries to throw out Indian state.

Why put animals before people, its not humanism. We are humans, and lets take care of fellow humans first. Tigers become extinct ....so what? Probably genetic technology advances and we can breed them artificially like they have showed in the movie Babylon A.D, are the tigers in zoos are not sufficient to go and watch? Do we have to maintain a tiger reserve and go there to watch them?

Is it helping?

I woke up early in the morning and started watching CNN-IBN, they have got a special survey kind of thing....which is really irritating.

The result of the survey is that people in metros are not willing rent their houses to muslims. We dont know how far it is true!! And this survey is coming just few days before ayodhya verdict (RSS already kind of threatened muslims to support ayodhya, and everybody is tense about the aftermath of ayodhya verdict) and SIT ( special investigating team ) is still working on godhra riots, Ramzan is just over and ganesh festival is still going on , so both hindus and muslims are kind of immersed in the religious rituals, do we have to get that survey now?? Which is bound to disturb whatever friendly feeling that exists between hindus and muslims. I hope TV channels show some common sense when dealing with such things.

Common sense Vs Economics

There was a classic fight between common sense and economics when SC released its verdict on about-to-rot-food-grains. Its not foolish to think that when lakhs of tons of food about to rot , why not distribute it for free to the poor. Why waste food like that in the warehouse.  This was the logic of SC and NGO'S.

But Government has to think it in economic point of view also (After all our PM is an economist ). And their explanation goes like this " If govt distributes free food grains, demand for food grains goes down and then the price of food grains will drop, that will affect the farmers who producing now". I think its right. Because food grains wont go for suicide when are rotten. but farmers do when they go bankrupt. So the primary concern should be farmers.

But this whole issue raised the clash between legislature and judiciary.

And.my answer would be ........'none'

Cabinet approved for the cast based senses next year. Worst part is both congress and BJP are happy about it. So no opposition for this one.

Well, the results of the census would be interesting. Now we can actually fight among over selves and feel conceit about caste based on population too. That's going to make the dream of caste -less society a daydream for some more decades.

Now the political parties will have statistical data on number of people belong to a particular caste in a constituency . So they will ticket to a candidate from the majority caste. Not that its not happening now, but political parties will have the actual data with them once senses is over.

But one good thing about this census is ...we are going to have an option "no caste". So now we get to see how many Indians wants a caste-less society.

But why this caste based census? That too after so many decades? Lets say its becoz of the reservations govt offer people???

Since so-called 'golden age' of India, the khastriayas used to rule the kingdom so they have got money. The vyshyas used to take care of the business and they got money. And brahmins by flattering the kings or terrorizing the people in the religion and vedas got it. The last strata does not have power and did not have any money. So lower caste is equated to lower economy class. But is this true in the modern times?

Now economic status of a family is not so much based on the caste of the family. There are many brahmin families which are poor, same with khsatriyas and vyshyas...and there are many rich people from the lower caste!!

When supreme court gave its verdict about creamy layer in OBC reservation case.....another question raised... Should govt provide reservations based on caste or based on economic class?

Why should son of a MLA who belongs to OBC class should get the govt scholarship and why should not a son of a poor brahmin should get it?

Why still we equate lower castes with lower income class? cant we provide reservations based on economy of the family only? Just like now we have but instead of caste ...If your family income is up-to a level you will get certain % of reservation if it exceeds you will get different % of reservation. Is it hard to achieve? Anyway even in the present system students has to provide their caste certificate and income certificate to get the scholarship....if it changed then they had to provide only the income certificate.

Anyways if the caste census really happens then sociologists and anthropologists will have a lot to study about Indian population.