Nation's Wealthiest

India's Richest

1.Mukesh Ambani
54 Years
Reliance Industries Ltd.


$22.6 bn

2.Lakshmi Mittal
61 Years
Arcelor Mittal


$ 19.2 bn

3.Azim Premji
66 Years
Wipro


$13 bn

4.Shashi & Ravi Ruia
67/62 Years
Essar


10.2 bn

5.Savitri Jindal
61 Years
OP Jindal Group
$ 9.5 bn







6.Sunil Mittal
54 Years
Bharti Enterprises


$8.8 bn

7.Gautam Adani
49 Years
Adani Group


$ 8.2 bn

8.Kumar Birla 

44 Years
Aditya Birla Group


$7.7 bn

9.Pallonji Mistry
82 Years
Shapoorji Pallonji Group


$7.6 bn

10.Adi Godrej
69 Years
Godrej Group


$ 6.8 bn

•  $ 241 bn combined wealth of India's richest 100 people.

• 20% fall in the combined worth of India's Wealthiest over a year due to many factors like inflation,falling stock and currency prices.

• Anil Ambani lost the most.His net worth is at $5.9 bn,down from $13.3 bn last year.

• There are 14 new faces in Forbes magazine's list of India's richest this year

Disclaimer: Following report is based on my research. Net worth figures as on October 12 2011.

Everyone is Singing

Two Popular Latest Bollywood Songs

Movie- Ra One
Song- Chammak Challo
Singer- Akon

                                                                                    Movie- Rockstar
                                                                                Song- Kun Faaya Kun
                                                                                 Singer- A.R Rahman
                                                                                         
                                                   

Interesting !!!

• Top 10 Greatest Songs of the 2000's

                                                                    In a poll conducted by VH1

1. Beyonce Knowles (Feat. Jay-Z) - ‘Crazy In Love’
2. OutKast - ‘Hey Ya!’
3. Lady Gaga - ‘Poker Face’
4. Eminem - ‘Lose Yourself’
5. Kelly Clarkson - ‘Since U Been Gone’
6. Kanye West (Feat. Jamie Foxx) - ‘Gold Digger’
7. Justin Timberlake (Feat Timbaland) - ‘SexyBack’
8. Jay-Z (Feat. Alicia Keys) - ‘Empire State Of Mind’
9. Mariah Carey - ‘We Belong Together’
10. 50 Cent - ‘In Da Club’

• Denmark has imposed a 'fat tax' on food such as butter and oil as a way to curb unhealthy eating habits.

Rare Pictures

Disclaimer : All the Pictures in this post have taken from public domains & copyright of these belongs to respective owners.

Darbaar Sahib (Golden Temple),Amritsar,Punjab,India

This is a picture taken from directly above these camels in the desert at sunset. It is considered to be one of the best pictures of the year. When you look closely, you can see that the camels are the little white lines in the picture.
The black images you see are just the shadows! 

Rain Fall In Bangalore(India) As Seen From Nandi Hills

The day niagara froze ,1911

This was how the Taj Mahal was protected from bomber jets in 1942 during world war.
It was covered with huge scaffold, to make it look like a stockpile of bamboo and misguide bombers.
I think the covering is still incomplete in this photo. It seems the whole of Taj Mahal was covered but this picture shows only the main dome covered. Maybe the govt didnt allow any photographers later to shoot the final scaffold cover.

During the India-Pakistan war in 1971, it was protected by covering it with a green cloth and making it almost invisible i.e camouflaged within the greenery around it.
Even in 2001, after the Sep 11 attack, Archaeological Survey of India took up the precautionary measure to cover it with cloth and it took them more than 20 days to do that!!

A Highway through a Building !!!! 
Gate Tower Building is a 16-story office building in, Osaka, Japan. And what makes it notable is the highway that passes through the 5th-7th floors of this building. 

This is also taken from world's tallest building 'Burj Dubai'
Look at the edge (uppermost right corner) of the picture, you can almost see the turn of the earth
The persons who are working on the upper most Girders can see the 'ROTATION OF EARTH'

Read instructions 

Shake your heads seeing this picture! Amazing illusion!!(Indian Actor -  Rajinikanth )

Raghav Sharma
New Delhi,India

1043.54914 weeks Old

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. —-Walter Bagehot

 This is what I am determined to live my life by in the 20th year.
I am 20 today.

Oh its 2011 special year that ended my teenage.
One thing I see on birthdays is so many notifications blowing up on  Facebook account No matter that only about 20% of these notifications are from people who actually know my birthday – I appreciate it anyways!

Honestly, let’s take a second to think about how much Facebook has changed “the birthday.” Because of Facebook birthday reminders, people are now able to pretend that they actually care about other human beings.Ask yourself: How many friend's birthdays do you know, as in know for real? Three? Four?

Today marks the day that I first drew breath in this beautiful, awful, wonderful and messed-up world.

Everything I have, God has given to me, and everything that I have lost, God has taken from me - all according to his will, and I thank him for both.

Every opportunity I have, every person in my life, every skill or talent I have is from God. I want to thank him from bottom of my heart.I thank God for the friends and people that he's brought into my life. I ask God for wisdom and tactfulness in dealing with the people in my life that I may not exactly enjoy being around. But God has given them to me, He has put them in my life, and that in itself is enough for me to see that there is a reason. There may not be many things that I am exceptionally talented in, but nonetheless I still love to do. God has given me the ability to do these things, and I will use them to give back to Him what I can.
But I will not only rejoice in the things that God has given to me, I will also praise Him for the things that He has taken.
It seems to me that God does not take away without giving something back.


Please God Bless me and help me to accept everything you do in my life.

Raghav Sharma
New Delhi, India
8 October 2011

Dussehra : Symbolizing the victory of good over evil

The month of September/October holds significant importance in Indian culture as almost all major festivals like Deepawali (festival of lights),Dussehra,navrartis and many more are observed in this period.So any one who wants to visit India this is the best time. 

During this in north India navrartis’ are celebrated with great fervor.

In the east it’s the Durga Puja and how i can forget the dandiya and garba dance associated with the festivities in west. 

Well, this time i am  focusing on the other aspect of this period which is mostly prevalent in northern India - Dussehra that is staging of Ramlila’s(Rama's play).Rama is considered to be the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu.Vishnu  is  the Supreme god according to hinduism . Well it’s hard to say that how and when the staging of Ramlila started but according to popular belief it was started to preserve the Indian cutlture and moral values.   

The staging of the Ramalila  is based on the Ramacharitmanas (Ramayana). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being the Mahabharata. Ramlila, meaning “Rama’s play”, is a performance of the epic Ramayana in the form of a series of scenes that include song, narration and dialogue. The most representative Ramlila's is of Ayodhya (Birth place of Lord Ram).

Ramlila(Rama's play) at Ramlila Ground-Delhi

Ramlila 

On the tenth day of the play(Dussehra), the image of Ravana is burned, symbolizing the victory of good over evil.(Ravana was a king of ancient Lanka and the primary bad person in the Ramayana. Ravana kidnaps Rama's wife Sita, to claim revenge on Rama and his brother Lakshmana for having cut off the nose of his sister Surpanakha{ because she attacked to kill Sita}). The Ramlila brings the whole population together, without distinction of caste, religion or age.People celebrate Dussehra with Ramlila mela(play and fair). During Ramlila, the scenes from Lord Rama's life are depicted, where they especially show the reunion of Ram and his brother Bharat, and the destruction of the demon Ravana.

Effgies(Images) of   ,Kumbhkaran, Ravan  and son Meghanath burning
Website for this image connect.in.com 

Some more picture of fair and Rama's Play 

 In the capital city of Delhi Ramlila is staged  in almost all corners of the city. But the most famous Ramlila’s of the capital are those staged by the Shree Ramlila Committee at Ramlila ground and many  personalities including  prime ministers visit to watch the play and is believed to be the oldest running Ramlila of Delhi. Other important Ramlilas are the once staged by the Luv Kush committee at red fort grounds and Dharmik Leela Committee, which stages Ramlila at Subhash Maidan opposite Red Fort.

 In Delhi and other neighboring states, huge effigies of Ravana, his brother Kumbhkaran and son Meghanath are burnt in Ramlila mela which is organized by different communities.

Dussehra is a very important festival of the Hindus celebrated all over India especially in North India with loads of fun and zest.

Happy Deepawali and Dusshera to all my readers.
Raghav Sharma
New Delhi
India

The International Day of Non-Violence

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.   Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.     

                                                                                        Mohandas Gandhi 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October , the birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
October 2 let us re-interpret Gandhian thought of non-violence to make it relevant for all times to come by paying our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his birthday. One message from Gandhi comes in my mind which our economy teacher repeats in our class every weak that " we possesses enough to satisfy our needs and not our greed"  is relevant in all aspects of global economic crisis which is the consequence of greed as admitted by U.S. President Obama. Richness does not mean more wealth. It does not mean more saving but it means we need no more.

Gandhi showed it to world that non-violence could work. I also want to share one lovely poem in Hindi on a great legend also known as the Father of Nation.


                                                                  साबरमती के संत
                                                     दे दी हमें आज़ादी बिना खड्‌ग बिना ढाल
                                                     साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल

आंधी में भी जलती रही गांधी तेरी मशाल
साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल

धरती पे लड़ी तूने अजब ढब की लड़ाई
दागी न कहीं तोप न बंदूक चलाई
दुश्मन के किले पर भी न की तूने चढ़ाई
वाह रे फकीर खूब करामात दिखाई

चुटकी में दुश्मनों को दिया देश से निकाल
साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल

शतरंज बिछा कर यहां बैठा था ज़माना
लगता था कि मुश्किल है फिरंगी को हराना
टक्कर थी बड़े ज़ोर की दुश्मन भी था दाना
पर तू भी था बापू बड़ा उस्ताद पुराना

मारा वो कस के दांव कि उल्टी सभी की चाल
साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल

जब जब तेरा बिगुल बजा जवान चल पड़े
मजदूर चल पड़े थे और किसान चल पड़े
हिन्दू व मुसलमान सिख पठान चल पड़े
कदमों पे तेरे कोटि कोटि प्राण चल पड़े

फूलों की सेज छोड़ के दौड़े जवाहरलाल
साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल

मन में थी अहिंसा की लगन तन पे लंगोटी
लाखों में घूमता था लिये सत्य की सोंटी
वैसे तो देखने में थी हस्ती तेरी छोटी
लेकिन तुझे झुकती थी हिमालय की भी चोटी

दुनियां में तू बेजोड़ था इंसान बेमिसाल
साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल

जग में कोई जिया है तो बापू तू ही जिया
तूने वतन की राह में सबकुछ लुटा दिया
मांगा न कोई तख्त न तो ताज ही लिया
अमृत दिया सभी को मगर खुद ज़हर पिया

जिस दिन तेरी चिता जली रोया था महाकाल
साबरमती के संत तूने कर दिया कमाल

With the widespread violence and corruption in various parts of the world, it's up to us  that we only keep the portrait of MAHATMA GANDHI on our wall and his statue on roads or we should walk in the footsteps of M.K Gandhi.

USEFUL LINK 1.- www.mkgandhi.org

USEFUL LINK 2. - Wikipedia


Thank you Mahatma Gandhi for your wonderful words of wisdom, relevant for all times to come for making India known for non- violence.

Raghav Sharma
New Delhi
India

Recent News
United Nations has certified Delhi Metros as the first metro rail-based system in the world to get carbon credits. It said that metros have played significant role in the fight against climate change by reducing pollution levels in the city by 6.3 lakh tons every year.

Congratulations Delhi