by Kuldeep IN
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1 Comment | 1,472 views I have been following wikileaks for a long time now. This website has given journalism a new image. Website launched in 2006 has gained a lot of popularity. Website won a lot of awards as well. Everything funded by people around the world.
More about Wikileaks : WikiLeaks (sometimes Wikileaks) is an international organization that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents while preserving the anonymity of sources. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press. Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.
The organization has described itself as having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Newspaper articles and The New Yorker magazine (June 7, 2010) describe Julian Assange, an Australian journalist and Internet activist, as its director.
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by Kuldeep IN
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10 Comments | 2,823 views Let’s see the scene of tobacco and smoking in India first. OK, some facts and figures about Smoking and Tobacco in India.
- In India, tobacco use causes nearly 40 percent of all health problems and 50 percent of all cancers, according to Health Minister, Anbumani Ramadoss.
- In India The tobacco contributes to 56.4% and 44.9% of cancers in men and women, respectively.
- India ranks 2nd in smoking cigarette in top 10 countries.
- Nearly 17 percent of students in India, aged 15 and under, use some form of tobacco, mainly cigarettes, according to a survey conducted by the World Health Organization.
- India has the largest number of oral cancer cases in the world which is due to tobacco.
- In India, an estimated 120 million people smoke. But the problem is that smoking in India is on rising side unlike Western countries.
- Cigarettes compromise just 19 percent of tobacco consumption in India however Bidis account for 53 percent, according to the Bidi Smoking and Public Health report by the Union Ministry of Health and Family.
- Around 1 billion Bidis are sold in India every year. Bidis contain more tar, nicotine and other toxic substances but less tobacco than traditional cigarettes.
- Tobacco smoking accounts for 82% of Chronic obstructive lung disease in India.
It’s been around 1 year now that Indian Government imposed ban on smoking in public places including government and private offices. You might not know but this act was in existence for 2 years before our government thought of implementing it seriously. Seriously, imagine. We create acts, put them in files, make a pile out of it, put them in a room somewhere and then don’t look at them for 3-4 years. Then suddenly you wake up and try to enforce everything. And I’ll tell you some facts about this so called smoking ban in public places today. Well, I think I don’t really have to tell you anything as most of you already know it to some extent.
Alright let’s first discuss what the ban exactly is. As per the government, no one is allowed to smoke in public places including public transportation and public offices etc. As per the rules, smoking is banned in shopping malls, cinema halls, public/private work place, hotels, banquet halls, discotheques, canteen, coffee house, pubs, bars, airport lounge, railway stations. Public places cover all government, private and public sector offices as well. I work with an MNC and believe me there people adhere to the regulation. People go out of the offices for smoke. Earlier employees could smoke in the office premises but ever since the smoking ban everyone is prohibited to smoke inside the office premises. Also, any employer found to be letting its employees smoke inside the office premises are supposed to be penalized. Moreover I think people working with big MNCs in India are mature enough to understand what it means for our country. We tell clients coming from abroad that there are restrictions on smoking inside the premises, so we don’t want them to see us smoking in there.
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by Kuldeep IN
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3 Comments | 447 views Well lets just once assume in this world. I mean let the person kill someone if he wants to. Let a person rob someone if he wishes to. Let anyone become a suicide bomber or a terrorist if he/she wants to do it under someone’s influence. What a world would that be. It would be horrific, right. No, It would not be horrible, It would be great because the way I look at it is that if we use the technology to an extent where all these bad activities would not even be remotely possible. I would want to live in a world like that.
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by Kuldeep IN
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10 Comments | 1,899 views I just started my day in anger, grievance and shock today. I was chatting with one of my old friend yesterday night. He is in UK for study and while chatting he asked me to download a documentary on Mumbai Terror attacks. The documentary revolves around eye witnesses and their interviews just after the attack. It has rare videos shot just after the attack. The most amazing are the never heard calls which were made by terrorists and their commanders. There are security camera videos as well from Taj, CST and other places.
I can’t even begin to explain how bad I felt after watching the documentary. The guy whose whole family died is haunting me till now. His words “I don’t understand why they kill people” is what I can’t forget. I don’t think I will ever be able to. In the documentary there was a video which shows Policemen running away from CST as soon as they saw the terrorists. Well, I know people get scared of these kind of things. But then what is the difference between Police and Civilian. I am still not convinced that if there is anything that we have learnt from the Mumbai Attacks. I think we will never be.
My observation of the whole movie is :
Mumbai Police : Yes some fought bravely but some really did show that they are in a Govt. job not in a life saving job.
Indian Media : The most fucking and shitting media ever. They just show anything and everything. I just can’t tell you what I am feeling right now while writing this. They don’t even care what will happen if they show everything live. Our media is like If someone is dying, they would interview it first. Show it live and display EXCLUSIVE on their News Channel and the report back and the person will die in the back..
People : Here in India, people are so fond of Camera that they forget where they are. They just want to appear in front of Camera. No matter if anyone is dying just before them. They just want to be there and get interviewed.
I would recommend you all Indians, in fact every one in the world to watch this movie. There are some footage which are rare and not seen ever. See the people speaking. See the Indians talking about that devastating day when they lost their loved ones.
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