CULTURAL QA 02-2021-06 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 What are unknown/little known facts about Karnataka? A1 Shreya Neela October 9-2021-B.E in Computer ScienceEngineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University (Graduated 2020) The Karnataka comes from the word‘Karunadu’. Which means the land of elevated soil. Karnataka khadi gramodyogasamyukta sangha in hubbali is the only unit in india that has officialpermission to manufacture and supply Indian flags. World's oldest rocks are found inmaradihalli, Chitradurga. Mysore Palace is one of the mostspectacular royal palaces in India. Mysore Palace is the tourist attraction inIndia. In Mysore, Tipu Sultan and HyderAli made the artillery of rocket (made of the iron) in 1780. Kempegowda, ruler of vijaynagaraempire was the founder of Bengaluru. He initially named the city as bendakaluru - meaning “TheCity of Boiled Beans”. The Bangalore city of Karnatakahas become the hub of IT industry with its growing presence. Madras Engineering Group startedthe oldest army engineering regiment in Bangalore in the 1770s. The Victoria Hospital ofBangalore was formally inaugurated by the Viceroy of India and Lord Curzon on 8December 1900. The hospital was constructed in honor of Queen Victoria’s 60years of completion. More than 7.85% of raw silk isproduced in the state of Karnataka in India. In Karnataka, 59% of India’scoffee and 47% ragi are produced. The Mysore paints and varnishltd. in mysuru is the only place India that is authorised to manufacture theindelible black ink used for all elections in India. Gomateshwara statue atshravanabelagola is the world's largest Monolithic stone statue. Gersoppa(Jog Falls), the secondlargest waterfall in the country. Karnataka has many popular personalitieslike Prakash Padukone, Bhimsen Joshi, HD Deve Gowda, K.V. Putappa, ShakuntalaDevi, and Girish Karnad. The father of Karnataka music, Purandra Dasa, arranged the whole systemof teaching of Karnataka music, which is going on till date. India’s oldest library, which is known as the Oriental Research Institutewhich is in Mysore. The first Kannada weeklynewspaper was published in 1859 in Mysore city. In 1935, MV Gopalaswami startedthe station for India’s first private radio broadcasting service. The name “Akashvani” was Coinedby MV Gopalaswami. Later it was adopted as AIR's (All India Radio)on-air name after independence. Karnataka is associated with 6states’ borders, Goa and Maharashtra in the west, Andhra Pradesh in thenortheast of Telangana in the north, Tamil Nadu in the east-southeast andSouth-west of Kerala. Karanji Lake in Mysore is known as Butterfly Park. Before the fourth century BC, Karnatakawas part of the Great Mauryan Empire. Satavahanas ruled this region foralmost 300 years. Also later it is said as kadambas were the earliest rulers ofKarnataka, majorly ruling the north Karnataka region. The soap and sandalwood oil ofKarnataka is famous. The major rivers of Karnataka are Kaveri, Tungabhadra, Krishna, MalayPrabha and Sharavati. The highest point in Karnataka isthe Mullayan Giri Mountains of Chikmangalur district. Shankar Nag's “Ondu muthina kathe” is the first Indian movie to be shotunderwater. Karnataka is a popular place inIndia in terms of tourism. Here you can see a large range of ancient and oldtemples, attractive mountains, modern cities, vast beaches, and large jungle. The state emblem of karnataka is gandaberunda. Which is two headedmythological bird. Q2 What are the health benefits of tamarind? Tamarind Health Benefits: A2 Elena Watson February 2-2021-Studied at Western Universityof Health Science (Pomona, CA) (Graduated 2013) We got great news and a source ofrelief to end your suffering from excessive weight gain, fungal infection, diabetescontrol, and lots more. And this source of comfort is called tamarind. Yes, it'spossible and proves quite useful for men's health. The tamarind's sweet and sourtaste made it very famous among women, but men can also ripe its benefits withits juicy pulp. I was wondering if tamarind health benefits for men, right?Yes, it's 100% true and useful too. Found in various delicious dishesaround the world, it serves many medical benefits too. This tropicalfruit is the native of Africa but isnow found in multiple corners of the world. The fruit's pulp is green and sourwhen young, and later when ripened, it becomes juicy and tastes moresour-sweet. Without wasting much time, let'sdig more into tamarind health benefits for men: Boost Digestive System With the growing age, men'scommon problems are the problem in the digestive system. You can benefit fromit in the form of the starter as it has good laxatives, which helps in bowelmovements and excretion. Add it to protect the stomach lining and furtherprevent ulcers and other inflammations. High dietary content helps the stool topass quickly, which also keeps the system clean and healthy. You can alsofollow the winter weight loss diet. Weight Loss Booster Overweight leads to a rough andchallenging path of : High blood pressure Kidneyproblem Type 2 diabetes High bloodpressure Heart diseases and stroke chances Sleep arena-The risk of differenttypes of cancer And many more. If you weigh morethan the average weight, then the chance to face the above trouble isrelatively high. Even more alcohol and age can be a significant contributor toweight gain. Avoid all bad habits and start the intake of tamarind. The increased presence of hydroxycitric acid in the tamarind reduces the enzymes that store fats in the body. Immunity Booster The high content of Vitamin Chelps in preventing free radicals in the body system. Free radicals also leadto a specific type of cancer. The properties of tamarind boost the immunitysystem and thus prevent and fight various types of problems. Infection Fighter If you are facing a fungalinfection, then it's high time to intake the tamarind regularly. Itsantimicrobial and antiseptic properties help in fighting fungal infection. Italso prevents the intestinal worms from growing and spreading in small kids andeven grown-up ones. Great for Nerve Function One of the essential requirementsfor the development of muscle and nerve functioning is B vitamin Thiamine,which is hugely found in tamarind. So go and buy it today available in a nearbysupermarket to include tamarind in your food list. Start a Healthy Way Nature is a faithful ally to stayhealthy. We hope this post has equipped you with the tamarind health benefitsfor men. The most beneficial way to include tamarind is raw or as an ingredientin savory dishes. Keep yourself fit with the wealthy benefits of naturalremedies, and don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comment section below. These were a few of the besttamarind health benefits for men that you need to check out and also you cantry out tamarind, and also you can find more at Health Club Finder. Source: https://healthclubfinder.org/tamarind-health-benefits-for-men/Stay Fit, Stay Healthy! Q3 Why should a Brahmin wear Janeu? Is there any scientificreason or basis behind it? My note- I have added this QAonly for the different views expressed A3 Venkata Rao, Discoveredmore about India by staying abroad 9-2-2021 I think it was an identificationmark. The Avestan people of Persia had a similar Janeu custom. Snehal Madaye9-2-2021 Saurabh, non-brahmins don't wearjaneu…so is it a sufficient reason for you to consider it in the first place(for brahmins ofcourse)? It is wrong to think thatonly Brahmins wear Yagyopavitam. This is worn by a broad section of people.Will come to this part later Why is this needed-Veda ordains that in order forone to perform a Vedic rite, one should wear a cloth from the right shoulder uptill belly around the body. This ordainment let to the practice ofVedic people wearing this sacred thread. You can treat this as an initiationceremony to perform Vedic rites/Study Vedas. People who do not do Vedic ritesor Vedas are not required to wear this [it should not be interpreted in such away that only a certain section of people should wear this]. For those who dowho perform Vedic rites it is mandatory and for those who do not it isoptional. Why would someone do something ifthere is no purpose to it. So people who were not involved in Vedicrites stopped wearing this over a period of time and today only Brahmins wearthis mainly. This in no way means thatnon-brahmins do not wear this. I personally know of several non-brahmins who wearYagyopavitam. Apart from Kshatriyas andVaishyas, people belonging to Potter, Carpenters and gold smith communitieswear this. Within the parayar (dalit) community, theastronomers and Pujaris wear this thread. (this happens even today). Conversion of non-brahmins tobrahmins had always happened. I know of such instances in the recent past. It is kind of hard to believethat the brahmins who there today are a pure brahminical race without any mix. Aravind Sammy, former Artificer at Indian Navy (1997-2017) AnsweredAugust 15, 2018 The poonool is rightly said as anID card. The ID card which shows that you are born in a certain caste. Poonoolis a symbol of divisions in human society based on birth. Presently poonool ismostly worn and associated with born-Brahmins. However, castes like Aasaaristoo wear it. Warrior castes or business castes in TN mostly don't follow thispractice. But, north Indian kshatriyas and Vaisyas wear it. Since, we live in a society whichdecides many things based on birth and wearing a poonool is a casteist practice, only certain castes follow itand others don't. I am very happy, content and feellucky that I am not born in a family which follows this practice of awarding IDcards to mark me different from others. Subhashish Borah, lives in India Answered May 6, 2018 The custom of wearing sacred thread by so-called Brahminsis a non-Rig Vedic convention. Sacred thread is a symbolic identity affirmationby converted (Dravidian Shudra) neo-Aryans ( basically an upstart Brahmin) whomonopolized the ritual of 'Yagna' , thus it is called 'Yagnopavitam' ( circleof those who are participators and performer of 'Yagna'). Later on , Kshatriyas andVaishhyas gradually departed from mandatorily observing 'Yagna' ceremoniesunder Brahmin priesthood but Brahmins retained performing it and thesacred thread consequently turned into a hereditary token of Brahmin casteidentity. Srinivasaraghavan Sridharan, lives in India Answered August 10, 2018 The ‘poonool’, or the crossthread is symbolic of a person having been inducted into the studies of VEDasunder the tutelage of a Guru. This is not only worn by those in the professional group of BrAhmaNaalone, but also in the professional group of administrators and warriors(KshaTriya), and business and agriculture (Vysyas). Only in the professional group ofservice providers have not been in the tradition because, they are in heavywork-load, they will not have the time to study. Remember, being in a particularprofessional group is the choice of individuals according to their own aptitudeand it can’t be by birth. Q4 What brands were once popular but now have been forgotten?What were their mistakes? A4 Dev Kumar September 18 2020 Former Teacher Most youngsters born in the 21stcentury wouldn't even be aware of this brand, let alone trying or using it. But this is a legendary productwhich ruled the roost throughout the 20th century, and kept all dentalailments at bay. The origins of it lies in the vision of the Wodeyar Royal Family of MysoreKingdom who promoted ancient Indian Sciences including Yoga & Ayurveda. Way back in the 1890s, Wodeyars,as part of their long term plansto revive Hindu traditions, had established Mysore Ayurvedic College whichproduced several Practitioners and Entrepreneurs who brought Ayurveda closer tothe masses. BV Pundit was one such Scholar who graduatedfrom the very first batch of Mysore Ayurvedic College and had made it hislife's mission to utilize the knowledge towards welfare of the public, notlimited to Mysoreans alone but to every Indian from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. That's how BV Pundit started Sadvaidyasala more than a century ago, wherehe launched a series of Ayurvedic products, including the legendary NanjangudTooth Powder, named after his hometown Nanjangud (Apopular Temple town near Mysuru City), which went on to become a household namein India. Such was the popularity of the brand throughout the 20th century that theMysore-Nanjangud train was fondly referred to as "Tooth PowderTrain". However, by late1990s, due to effects of liberalisation and changing trends, Nanjangud ToothPowder's sales started plummeting. The brand which used to witnesssales of 10 lakh wholesale boxes per month throughout the 20th century, fell tojust 1 lakh boxes per month in 21st century. Despite repeated advices fromexperts to introduce "tasty" flavors and change its packaging toflashy plastic cover to compete against the attractive MNC counterparts, the company refused and retained their original 100+ year preparationwith Ayurvedic ingredients, and the same eco-friendly paperpacks, stating that their primary aim is not to just make money but to promoteAyurveda and protect the environment as well. As they say, fashion changes overtime and trends tend to repeat. With more awareness aboutAyurveda among youngsters nowadays, there has been a noticeable rise in demandfor all Ayurvedic products, including Nanjangud Tooth Powder. Interestingly, the same expertswho had suggested the company to switch to flashy plastic covers, are nowhailing them for sticking to eco-friendly packs. The company now has plans toreach out to the youth, through e-commerce and future plans includeinternational shipping, to cater to not just Indians but Americans &Europeans as well Q5 What are some of the best rare natural phenomena that occuron Earth? A5 Azher Mohammad dated February 1-2021 Network Engineer (2020–present) Everyone dies, But it's so rarethat it only happens once in a lifetime of any person/thing. I think death is the rarest ofphenomena that can happen to an entity. Like in humans death is so rarethat once it happens to you, you are erased from the face of the earth but Ithink we are simply transformed into some other energy.Nature has a phenomenonof destroying things and taking things back to it, same what happens to us. Things that get left out, naturetakes them back and they become a part of it. They don't die, they are simplytransformed to adapt. Nature wastes nothing, not even the waste.I think deathis one of the best phenomena that happens in nature. Q6 What are some amazing facts about theMoon? A6 R J Holland January 4-2021-FormerProfessional Drummer Session/studio and Bands The moon is slowly moving away from earth at the rate of 3.8 centimetres a year. That means whenJulius Caesar was looking at the moon, it was about 257 feet closer. There is water on the moon in the form of ice. When Apollo 12 deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage of its Lunar Moduleonto the Moon's surface, it was claimed that the Moon rang like a bell for an hour, leading toarguments that it must be hollow like a bell. Also seismologists statedthat during some moonquakes, they left the moon ringing like a bell. Where did the moon come from? Themost widely-accepted explanation is that theMoon was created when a planet sized rock named Theia, about the size of Mars,slammed into Earth shortly after the solar system began forming about 4.5billion years ago. This gargantuan collision ejecteddebris from earth flinging it out into space only to be captured by the earth’s gravitational pull and slowlyforming into our rather large moon perfectly placed in the heavens, not toobig, not to small and at just the right distance to effect the earth with lifefriendliness. If the moon was further away, ormuch closer, or not there at all, we might not be here either. It’s as if someone or something placed themoon in exactly the right spot. Deep below the moon's South Pole -Aitken basin (the largest preservedimpact crater anywhere in the solar system), researchers have detected a gargantuan"anomaly" of heavy metal lodged in the mantle that is apparentlyaltering the moon's gravitational field. Gold, platinum and other metals known as highly siderophile("iron-loving") elements are far more abundant in Earth's crust thanthey are in its natural satellite. That may seem odd, given the two worlds'shared history as a Mars sized asteroid slammed into the earth ejectingmaterial that later formed the moon. The moon stabilizes the earth’saxis. If earth had no moon, its axis would be unstable. Ours is a moon with two faces: the nearside boasts a thinner and smoothercrust, while the far side crust is thicker and dotted by impact craters left nearly undisturbed by lavaflows. Lately, researchers used models to explore what may be possibleexplanations for the stark differences. They argue that those distinctive sidescould be the result of giant asteroid slamming into the moon and leaving amassive crater across the entire nearside. So there are some amazing factsabout the moon. The early solar system was not a nice place and extremely hostile. Fewplanets were safe from great chunks of rock slamming into them. A huge heavenlybody smashed into Uranus knocking it on its side, so compared to the otherplanets, Uranus is laying down. It also has rings and rotates from east to westas does Venus while the other planets rotate west to east. Another odd sequence of events isthat Uranus and Neptune actually switched places about four billion years ago. How do they know that? The sameway that they know that Jupiter has a fluffy core instead of a solid one. Mars was also slammed into by agiant asteroid hitting its South Pole and giving Mars a rather odd shape.Yes the moon, in fact our own solar system is a strangeplace. ll the above QA are based on Quora digest to me on 09-1-2021. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiledand posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 09-2-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/260957633.3559892.1612887562385%40mail.yahoo.com.
