Dr Rajiv Desai
An Educational Blog
CORRUPTION AND BLACK MONEY IN INDIA
CORRUPTION AND BLACK MONEY IN INDIA: Corruption is defined as an abuse of public power for private gains in which an official transfers a benefit to an individual who may or maynot be entitled to the benefit; in exchange for an illegal payment/gift/favour which is known as the bribe. Black money is defined as a money which is not accounted for in the official records,either earned through legitimate sources without paying income tax or through illegal activities. Sources of black money: 1)corruption 2)drug trafficking 3)arms trafficking 4)gambling 5)counterfeiting 6)prostitution and pornography. Corruption are of 2 types;petty corruption and grand corruption. Petty corruption means common people have to pay bribe to small officials to get security,justice,health,education,water,electricity,ration etc etc…Almost 100 percent indian people pay for petty corruption. Grand corruption means involvement of Ministers,MPs.MLAs,Bureaucrates and big businessmen who are involved in award of big contracts. Why corruption??? Corruption basically means dishonesty which is […]
THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION: The universe has billions of galaxies and every galaxy has billions of stars and the SUN is also a star and our Earth is one of the planets of the sun.Only the earth in the solar system has life because of water,oxygen rich atmosphere and suitable temperature.Atmosphere has many gases including nitrogen-N(78%);oxygen-O2(21%);carbon dioxide-CO2(0.03%)etc.. The sun-energy is trapped by the photosynthesis in plants. Plants——-Co2+water+sun-energy=O2+sugar Animals——O2+sugar=CO2+water+energy…. ENVIRONMENT is defined as the sum total of all external factors,both living and non-living; to which an organism is exposed and which affects the growth,development and survival of the organism. Living factors to the human being are viruses,bacteria,plants,animals,fellow humans etc. Non-living factors are air,water,soil,sound,temperature,light,etc. Pollution is defined as undesirable changes in the natural environment brought by the human beings which adversely affects the living organisms. Pollutions are of many types including air pollution,water pollution,soil pollution,thermal pollution,radioactive pollution,noise pollution etc. Climate change is defined […]
THE POPULATION EXPLOSION (OVERPOPULATION)
THE POPULATION EXPLOSION (OVERPOPULATION): The population explosion or overpopulation for human species is defined as the number of people in the given area exceeds the resources and the carrying capacity of it’s environment to sustain the quality of life which would have existed ; had the lesser number of people inhabited the same area in the same environment. Overpopulation is when the number of people cannot be maintained without depleting resources and degrading environment with lowering standard of living.The quality is sacrificed at the cost of the quantity.As per the above definition,the earth is overpopulated and almost all countries are overpopulated. Many environmental,social and economic problems stem from overpopulation.The earth is a ‘closed system’ means we have limited environmental/ecological resources like water,air,land,food,shelter,energy etc to be consumed by the population and to be replenished by the earth. If the rate of consumption of resources by the population is less than the […]
THE CELL PHONE
THE CELL PHONE : The Cell Phone(CP) also known as mobile phone/mobile/cell/hand phone/wireless phone etc is defined as a mobile electronic device which is used in voice/data communication within a specific geographical network area known as CELL,which are interconnected to increase coverage area to a very long distance. CP is basically a sophisticated Radio which emits micro/radio waves which are known as RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION(RFR) which is a part of the spectrum of Electromagnetic Waves.Microwaves are a subset of Radiowaves with the wavelength between 3mm to 30 cms.The strength of RFR is inversely proportional to the square of distance from the source.The key word is ‘DISTANCE’. In contrast to CP, other devices like Radio/TV/Microwave-oven are not held close to the body and hence their RFR exposure is much less than CP. There is a worldwide epidemic of CP with 4 billion users by the end of the year 2008,and 25000 new […]
THE FOOD
THE FOOD : The health of a human being is dependent on his nutrition which is dependent on his diet(Food).The healthy diet is defined as a diet which maintains/improves the health and prevents disease. The diet choice is dependent on family tradition,eating habits,religion,culture,food availability,food taste,socio-economic factors,nutritional value,animal love,doctor’s advice,etc. Vegetarianism is defined as a practice/habit of diet which avoids/prohibits eating meat/poultry/fish etc.(no flesh). Non-vegetarianism means eating food from animal sources plus plant sources.Even plants have life like animals albeit with lesser consciousness than animals and therefore the issue is not cruelty on animals as far as meat eating is concerned.WHO has classified milk as vegetarian.I believe that eggs are vegetarian because there is no flesh in it.Pure Vegans avoid all animal products including dairy products,eggs,honey etc.Generally speaking,vegetarian diet means eating cereals,pulses,fruits,vegetables,nuts,milk/yogurt etc. 2.8 % Americans and 11 % Britons are vegetarians.30 % Indians are vegetarians which constitute 70 % of […]
