swachh bharat abhiyan - open letter to narendra modi Politics 

स्वच्छ भारत अभियान – मोदीजी के नाम खुला पत्र

स्वच्छ भारत अभियान मोदी जी द्वारा उठाया एक साहसी कदम है जो स्वच्छ और स्वस्थ भारत का सपना पूरा कर सकता है। इस अभियान को सफल बनाने हेतु कुछ सुझाव।

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Politics 

Why is MufflerMan still trending? – An analysis

Why is MufflerMan still trending on twitter? – a question that surely is trending on thousands of brains. Supporters of #MufflerMan are rejoicing this pleasant surprise, while the hashtag is giving headache to his rivals. Even the media has been wondering and reporting on the same issue. Popular media houses like BBC, Hindustan Times and DNA have already run a story on #MufflerMan. The hashtag has been trending in India at the top on twitter charts for more than a week now. It becomes quite significant because during this period,…

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Andolan 

24 नवम्बर 2012 – एक ऐतिहासिक दिवस

आज से ठीक 2 साल पहले 24 नवम्बर 2012 को करीबन 330 आम आदमीयो ने मुख्य चुनाव आयुक्त को लिखकर दिया था की हम सब मिलकर एक राजनैतिक पार्टी बना रहे है। नाम रखा गया – आम आदमी पार्टी। इन संस्थापक सदस्यों ने पार्टी का संविधान सर्वसम्मति से पारित किया और सर्वसम्मति से पार्टी की राष्ट्रिय कार्यकारिणी का चयन किया। चुनाव आयोग की औपचारिकता इन संस्थापक सदस्यों ने पूरी की लेकिन यह पार्टी देश भर के लाखो आंदोलनकारियो ने मिलकर बनाई थी। पार्टी की स्थापना के लिए संविधान दिवस 26…

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Politics 

केजरीवाल का इस्तीफा -परदे के पीछे की चाल

केजरीवाल का इस्तीफा – कारण क्या? क्या वो अपने वादे पुरे कर पाने में सक्षम नहीं थे? क्या उन्हें अब प्रधानमंत्री बनने की जल्दी थी? क्या सरकार चलाना उनके बस की बात नहीं थी? क्या है अन्दर की बात?

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Basics of Diabetes – What is diabetes?

India is known as diabetes capital of the world, simply because India has the maximum number of diabetic patients worldwide. In addition to the huge population of 1.25 billion, India has a very high prevalence of Diabetes. Every 8th Indian above the age of 40 years is diabetic. On this World Diabetes Day, I intend to start a series of articles that would make it easy for you to understand what diabetes is, how to prevent it and how to take care of a patient who has developed diabetes. Starting…

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Understanding Insulin Resistance – The key conspirator

Don’t be scared about the highly technical terminology. I would make it easy for you to understand what it means and how to remain healthy. Human body, though a very complex machine is not that difficult to understand. I have made it easy for you to understand in my earlier article – Simplifying the most complex machine – human body The body has an inbuilt mechanism to maintain energy balance. Any interference from our end leads to weight gain and the same is explained in another article – Why am…

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Maharashtra Politics – Can Modi afford to cheat people of Maharashtra?

Last year BJP took a high moral ground in Delhi by not going for government formation, though it came out as the single largest party. BJP was short of numbers for forming government in Delhi and refused to explore any further options. Kejriwal effect was at pick those days, everyone wanted to play fair politics. BJP was very careful and didn’t want to take any risk that can have repercussions on upcoming general elections. A year later BJP again stood out as the single largest party, this time in Maharashtra.…

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Politics 

There’s a lot in the name – Salim Yadav

The article सलीम (योगेन्द्र) यादव का सच received overwhelming response from readers. A lot of them demanded it to be rewritten in English. One of the twitter friends Manasi Gandhi volunteered to translate it in English. Below is the edited version of the same. On 3rd Aug 2012, Anna Hazare called off the ongoing fast and protest at Jantar Mantar, and announced that we would now go political and provide a political alternative to people of India. A lot of volunteers including me were not happy with this announcement. What made…

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The rich control the poor brains

  Are you sure you are in control of your own brain? If the answer is “yes”, I strongly feel you must introspect at this stage. Did you ever get emotional while watching a daily soap on TV or some movie with a tragic story? Did you ever get scared watching some horror movie or a TV show? The answer is yes, more than often. Didn’t you know that its just a TV show or a movie and is far from reality? You knew it. It happened because you got…

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