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Ever since childhood I had always been inspired by this song composed by Swami Vivekananda as a prayer for Sri Ramkrishna http://www.belurmath.org/arati_video_belurmath.htm Sri Ramakrishna Aratrikam (Vesper Service) ------------------------------------------------------------------- After establishing the main monastery of the Ramakrishna Math at Belur, Swami Vivekananda introduced certain rituals which have now become a tradition in all the branches, too. One of these is a short worship to Sri Ramakrishna at dusk, followed by waving of lamps and other puja materials before the deity to the accompaniment of music. Swamiji himself composed the text of the song and also set it to music. It has now become well known as the Khandana-bhava-bandhana-stotra, and is sung all over the word in the monasteries of the Ramakrishna Order, during the evening service. To know more detail visit :  http://www.belurmath.org/arati_belurmath.htm http://www.belurmath.org/pdf_files/arati_songs_text.pdf

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  http://www.inyourpocket.com/estonia/tallinn/Spirits-of-Estonia_56060f 1 For some of our readers, vodka might just be some colorless liquid that tastes like rubbing alcohol but goes great mixed in a cocktail. In Estonia however, hard liquor is pretty serious stuff.  Spirits can be made from many raw materials including grapes, potato, and grain. These days in Estonia the vast majority of vodka is made using high quality rye grain. First the raw material is fermented using yeast, which creates a weak alcohol or mash. Next this product is distilled creating a much stronger alcohol. Finally the impurities are filtered off, and water is added to bring the percentage from about 96 to about 40.And that is how you make vodka! Of course there is much to be said about quality and it certainly varies from brand to brand. The world’s best vodkas are made from the finest grains, the purest waters, multiple distillation & special filtration techniques.    A little history   Alcohol wa

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/world/asia/13iht-letter13.html?_r=0   When Verghese Kurien demanded an autopsy on a dead fly, it was to protect the honor of his milk. Did the fly drown in the milk, or was it dead before it landed there? Was the fly planted by his foes? It was the 1950s, and Mr. Kurien, a young engineer who had returned to India  from Michigan State University, was the improbable chief of a cooperative society of impoverished dairy farmers in the western state of Gujarat. Under his leadership, their milk production had increased dramatically, and with success came bitter enemies — and the discovery of the fly in the milk that the society supplied to a vital wholesale buyer. Mr. Kurien’s ludicrous demand for a postmortem to determine whether the fly had indeed drowned in the milk, according to him, made the scandal vanish. It was among the many tricks he was to play in the decades to come as he turned India from a milk-deficient nation into the world’s

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It is interesting that new towns are being developed in India & China . Although Africa has potential there are issues on jobs and purchasing power coming in the way of development .Unlike the West in India people are setting up new towns to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and in search for peace.  Paradoxically, many of the new cities under development in Asia have been initiated and designed by Western firms. Contemporary offices like KCAP and Kuiper Compagnons from the Netherlands, Atkins, Foster, and HOK from the UK, GMP from Germany, and offices like SOM and KPF from the US, take up an enormous number of the jobs being offered by the most recent wave of New Towns built between Saudi Arabia and Korea, Azerbaijan, and the Philippines. Has Western planning become endemic in the East, just like so many other technologies originating in the West? This article provides a few answers  http://volumeproject.org/2013/03/why-build-a-new-town/