Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Fiat Strada - AutoBlog
Will Chrysler Fiat launch this small pick up as its Italian Cousin ?
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/20/2013-fiat-strada-first-drive-review/
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/20/2013-fiat-strada-first-drive-review/
CNG Versions of Chrysler 300 and RAM Trucks
Natural Gas-fueled Cars and Trucks Elude Market for Now - Going the Italian way to make the world a better place
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The All-New 2013 RAM 1500 Light Duty Truck
Does The 2013 RAM Truck Finally Have The Ammo To DO SERIOUS Damage To Ford's F-150?
Why not - Read on. Ram Truck is back in contention to be the "Best in Class" in the Light-Duty Truck Category
Link - http://goo.gl/7CCGS
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Make this World a Better Place
The question I ask myself before I start this blog –Am I
trying to be a NRI or Am I asking for too much from others??
Gone are those days, those rainy evenings, May flowers, lost
in the eternal beauty of Bangalore! No more a pensioner’s paradise. The
traffic in Bangalore was the most disciplined I had ever seen. There was abundant
patience in the way people travelled around; there were “Uncles” on Bajaj
scooters who would never turn without that out-stretched hand indicating where
they were heading to. I would remember the route to school we took, because we comeback
every day in the same way. Bangaloreans were more concerned about others when I
was a kid, because every passerby would stop by if someone was injured or met
with an accident. The roads looked so neat with all vehicles parked in a
uniform manner. But thanks to the growing Bengaluru and development – things never
seem the same anymore. Commuting in Bangalore is like walking on tight rope
today. You do not know when you can get ejected off your vehicle.
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| Make his work a little easier !! |
If you come to think of it, there are certain things that we
can do to help make Bangalore a better place to live and let live. For all my
friends and family who know my work profile – I am not preaching my work ethics
and even I was, think again, it will make more sense to every one of us.
- The most important rule – Follow the Lane rules. Do not
try to jump lanes unless it is safe for you and others. Also use the blind
spot concept. The LDW (Lane Departure Warning systems in India are light
years away)
- Don’t park your vehicle out of the designated line
obstructing movement of other vehicles.
- When you intend to stop, use your rear view mirrors and
ensure only you are stopping and not others along with you
- Use indicator signals to indicate where you are going.
- Please wait for your turn at cross roads where there are
no signals, don’t stop a speeding vehicle or a number of vehicles just for
you. At the same time, keep in mind to be courteous to pedestrians
crossing roads.
- If there is heavy traffic don’t start moving is wrong
direction till you getting clearance to move on to the other side. Do not
use foot paths while driving or riding - they are for pedestrians.
- Buses, cabs and autos can do their little bit, take an
extra minute and park vehicles to the curbs when passengers alight.
- Two-wheelers must try to stay in the slowest left lane.
- Use Google maps to get to new places. They are getting
better everyday
- When waiting for your turn for green signal in long
traffic, please don’t jump the queue of vehicles causing trouble and
traffic jam.
- Basics – Use Seat belts, helmets. NO MOBILE PHONES while
driving/riding, NO DRINK & DRIVE.
- You are not the only one on the road. Don’t make the
roads unsafe for others.
Since Bangalore has the highest number of traffic signals in the
country, you need to have more time and planning your route.
Please remember • If you give way, you will get yours quicker
• Smile often & have patience while driving. • Its simple to keep it
simple, follow traffic rules. • If you have made a mistake while driving, be
the first to apologize • Never indulge in road rage • If things go like today,
we will continue with the Swalpa Ajdust Maadi attitude
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Henri Dunant - The Unknown Swiss
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime" - Ernest Hemingway
Henri Dunant, 30 yrs old, was a very wealthy Swiss banker and financier. His life would have probably have continued as much as it had except for that fateful day, 24th June 1859, that changed everything for the rest of his life. Henri had been sent by the Swiss government to speak with Napoleon III. He was to discuss a business deal between the Swiss and French that would benefit both countries.
But Napoleon was not in Paris; he was on the plains of Solferino (present Italy) about to battle with Austrians. Henri Dunant tried to read the scene before the battle started, but he was too late. His carriage reached the hill top that overlooked the battlefield. Suddenly trumpets blared, muskets cracked, cannons boomed. The two cavalries charged ahead and the battle was on. Henri Dunant, as if in a front seat of a movie theatre, sat transfixed. He could see the dust rising, hear the screams of the injured, the dying. Dunant sat as if in a trance at the horror below him. But the real horror was later - when he entered the small town after the battle was over. Every house, every building was filled with the mangled, the injured, the dead. Driven by pity at the suffering he saw all around him, Dunant stayed in the town for three days doing everything he could to help the people who survived. His life was never the same again.
The War was barbarous. He felt the world should abolish it. This was not the way to settle differences between nations. And most of all, there had to be a International organization to help people in times of suffering and chaos.
Henri Dunant returned to Switzerland, but in the next few years he became a fanatic on the subject of peace and mercy. He began to travel all over Europe preaching his message. Eventually his business suffered in the effort and he was soon broke. But he persisted. At the first Geneva conference, he carried on a one-man assault against war. As a result, the Conference passed the first international law against war - a movement that was to give birth to both the League of Nations and the U.N.
In 1901, Dunant was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize. And though he was penniless and living in a poorhouse, he gave the entire prize to the worldwide movement he had founded. Henri Dunant died in 1910 almost totally forgotten by the world. But Henri no monument to mark hid grave. As a symbol of the organization he had fathered, he had taken the Swiss flag, a white cross on a red background and reversed it: a red cross on a white background. The organization that became his everlasting monument was the "Red Cross".
Henri Dunant, 30 yrs old, was a very wealthy Swiss banker and financier. His life would have probably have continued as much as it had except for that fateful day, 24th June 1859, that changed everything for the rest of his life. Henri had been sent by the Swiss government to speak with Napoleon III. He was to discuss a business deal between the Swiss and French that would benefit both countries.
But Napoleon was not in Paris; he was on the plains of Solferino (present Italy) about to battle with Austrians. Henri Dunant tried to read the scene before the battle started, but he was too late. His carriage reached the hill top that overlooked the battlefield. Suddenly trumpets blared, muskets cracked, cannons boomed. The two cavalries charged ahead and the battle was on. Henri Dunant, as if in a front seat of a movie theatre, sat transfixed. He could see the dust rising, hear the screams of the injured, the dying. Dunant sat as if in a trance at the horror below him. But the real horror was later - when he entered the small town after the battle was over. Every house, every building was filled with the mangled, the injured, the dead. Driven by pity at the suffering he saw all around him, Dunant stayed in the town for three days doing everything he could to help the people who survived. His life was never the same again.
The War was barbarous. He felt the world should abolish it. This was not the way to settle differences between nations. And most of all, there had to be a International organization to help people in times of suffering and chaos.
Henri Dunant returned to Switzerland, but in the next few years he became a fanatic on the subject of peace and mercy. He began to travel all over Europe preaching his message. Eventually his business suffered in the effort and he was soon broke. But he persisted. At the first Geneva conference, he carried on a one-man assault against war. As a result, the Conference passed the first international law against war - a movement that was to give birth to both the League of Nations and the U.N.
In 1901, Dunant was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize. And though he was penniless and living in a poorhouse, he gave the entire prize to the worldwide movement he had founded. Henri Dunant died in 1910 almost totally forgotten by the world. But Henri no monument to mark hid grave. As a symbol of the organization he had fathered, he had taken the Swiss flag, a white cross on a red background and reversed it: a red cross on a white background. The organization that became his everlasting monument was the "Red Cross".
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