ಭಾರತ ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕಿದೆ

(ಇದು ನಡೆದಿದ್ದು date Aug 03, 2010.)

            ಈ ದಿನ ಎಂದಿನಂತೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮುಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಮನೆಗೆ 201 ಬಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮರಳುತ್ತ ಇದ್ದೆ, ಒಂದು ಕಿಟಕಿಯ ಪಕ್ಕದ ಸೀಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಳಿತು ತೂಕಡಿಸುತ್ತ  ಇದ್ದೆ. ದೇವೇಗೌಡ ಪೆಟ್ರೋಲ್ ಬಂಕ್  ಸ್ಟಾಪ್ ನ ಸಿಗ್ನಲಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಕೂಗು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಬಡಿದು ಎಚ್ಚರಿಸಿತು " ಭಾರತ ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕಿದೆ " , ಬಸ್ ಹೊರಗೆ ಹುಡುಗರು ಕೂಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. " ಭಾರತ, ಭಾರತ, ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ೩೦ ರೂಪಾಯಿ". ಏನಪ್ಪಾ ಇದು 250  ವರ್ಷಾ ಬ್ರಿಟೀಷರು ದೋಚಿದ ಭಾರತ ಈಗ ಬರೀ 30 ರುಪೈಗೆ ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕಿದೆ!!!

         ಗಾಂದೀಜಿ ಬಹಳ ಕಷ್ಟ ಪಟ್ಟು ಒಂದು ತೊಟ್ಟು ರಕ್ತ ಹರಿಸದೆ ತಂದು ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಕೇವಲ 63 ವರ್ಷ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೀ  30 ರುಪೈಗೆ ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕಿದೆ. ( ಬರೀ ಗಾಂದೀಜಿ ಅಥವಾ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಮಾತ್ರ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋರಾಟ ಮಾಡಿದಲ್ಲ, ಲಕ್ಷಾಂತರ ಜನ ತಮ್ಮದೇ ರಣತಂತ್ರದಿಂದ ನೆತ್ತರು ಹರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಅಥವಾ ನೆತ್ತರು ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಮನೆ ಮಟ ಕಳೆದು ಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇವರನ್ನು ಭಾರತದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಇತಿಹಾಸ ಮರೆತು ಬಿಟ್ಟಿದೆ ಅಥವಾ ಮರೆತಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿದೆ. ಇತಿಹಾಸವನ್ನೂ ತಿರುಚುವುದು ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ )

      ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಸಮಯದ ನಂತರ ನನ್ನ ಬುದ್ದಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿದ ವಿಷಯವೆಂದರೆ, ಓಹೋ! ಇದು ಭಾರತ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರವಾದ ತಿಂಗಳು ಅದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಹೊರಗೆ ಮಾರಟಕ್ಕೆ ಇರುವುದು ಭಾರತದ ಪ್ಲಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಬಾವುಟ ಮತ್ತು ಅದನ್ನ ಇಡಲಿಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ಲಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಸ್ಟ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ( ಮೇಡ್ ಇನ್ ಚೀನಾ).

ಭಾರತ ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕಿದೆ !!!!

Friends and Friendship

1. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

~Bernard Meltzer

2. "There are three faithful friends, an old wife,an old dog, and ready money."

~Benjamin Franklin

3. "Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy."

~Spike Milligan

4. "A true friend stabs you in the front."

~Oscar Wilde

5. "Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police."

~Anonymous

6. "An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body."

~Jim Hayes

7. "Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods."

~Esther M. Clark

8. "Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice."

~Anonymous

9. "I have lost friends, some by dath, others through sheer inability to cross the street."

~Virginia Woolf

10. "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."

~ Thomas Jones

11. "I got a lotta best friends. Some o' them  I don't even hardly know!"

~Archie Bunker

12. "It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

~John Leonard

13. "We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately."

~Benjamin Franklin

14. "Friends are God's ways of apologizing for our families."

~Anonymous

15. "This the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

~Charles Lamb

16. "You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

~Winnie the Pooh

17 "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

~Mark Twain

18. "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

~ C.S. Lewis

Interesting Facts

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 
3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English
language.
13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs -
Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They
are all invented by women.
20. This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? It is Honey.
21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
22. A snail can sleep for three years.
23. All polar bears are left handed.
24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
25. Butterflies taste with their feet.
26. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
29. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.
31. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
38. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like chocolate.
40. Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue.
41. Both Humans and Giraffee have the same number of bones in the neck.
42. And finally 99% of people who read this would try to lick their elbow now.

45 lessons of the LIFE

45 lessons

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer,Cleveland, Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:"

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy clothes. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words. "In five years, will this matter?".

26. Always choose life.

27. Forgive everyone everything.

28. "What other people think of you is none of your business."

29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.

30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

31. Don't take yourself so seriously... No one else does.

32. Believe in miracles.

33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

35. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

36. Your children get only one childhood..

37. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

41. The best is yet to come.

42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

43. Yield.

44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

45. LIVE LIFE KINGSIZE

Health tips - time to drink water

Correct timing to take water, will maximize its effectiveness to Human body.

Two (02) glasses of water - After waking up - Helps activate internal organs 

One (01) glass of water - 30 minutes before meal - Help digestion

One (01) glass of water - Before taking a bath - Helps lower blood pressure 

One (01) glass of water - Before sleep - To avoid stroke or heart attack