Pranam
A My main task itself is when a lot of things are available
original here itself, why would one seen foreign style of life which does
not suit Indian condition? Even in the foreign land 9 out of 10 leads only
an Indian style life. >50% relate to answers as provided by some tom dick
or Harry; and the same question if reviewed here, similar facts may hold
different answers too, which would help our readers to know about ourselves
better. For example the pros and cons of living not only in Germany, but
even in Chennai or Trivandrum or USA or France may have factors , for and
against , if so, why would one need the answer of some one else who is a
patriot of that side?.
Q1 Why do people prefer RO water instead of tap water
nowadays?
Q7 Why does UV in my home RO system make the output water
hot for only a few seconds?
R O system is not new to this land though we after tall education and
false prestige, started installing the marketed RO system, even though for
a lesser cost, local people were willing to provide, we rejected and drove
them out of their place. In 60s we were drinking direct from well or even
Tap or even from vessels, and pots. Why we were taking water in sombu from
known and unknown homes, without even thinking of good and bad health. Did
we not fall sick then? After the R O are we not easily catching the
bacteria and spend more money to doctors? Do we know that the R O system if
it is perfect, why would one be asked to boil it again and drink? And if we
boil any water and cool and filter wont that water be perfect? Our immune
system had comedown because of the habits insinuated by the marketeers and
sellers, to adopt their unsafe system, asking the body not to fight and
produce more immune system.
1 Sanskrit language has got many Nyayas (analogies or similes) and one
of them is jala katakarenu nyaya. The nyaya is used to illustrate that
dirty things can be purified by mixing with good
<http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/nature/good> things. If you mix
the kataka powder (Clearing nut powder), then the water gets purified- is
the message. This is used by great people like Sri Sathya Sai baba to bring
out the sacrifice one makes in community service. He used to say, “bring
out the good in the society and disappear like Kataka powder. Once it
purifies the water it dissolves in the water and loses its shape. A social
worker also should sacrifice his name, fame and identity when he serves the
community like the kataka powder” -- is the message, he gives.
2 Drumstick tree is used in African countries for water purification.
3 Varahamihira on Water purification Brhat Samhita – Chapter 54
“A mixture of antimony, and the powder of Bhadramusta ( a kind of grass)
bullbs, andropogon, Rajakostaka and myrobalan combined with Kataka nuts
should be dropped into a well.
4 Clearing nut (Strychnos potatorum = Thetraang Kottai in Tamil):
Anjanasusthosariirai: saraajakosathakaamalakachurnai- :
Kathakafalasamayukthairyoga kuupe pradhaatavya:
(Kataka = Strychnos potatorum- Clearing Nut tree. Cilliya mara ,
Tettamaram in Tamil and Malayalam; Anjana is translated as antimony; but
it has other meanings in Sanskrit). Even the water that is muddy, bitter,
saltish, bereft of good taste, and of bad odour, will become clear/pure, of
good taste and good smell and endowed with other qualities”.
5 It is a common sight in South Indian houses that a corner is allocated
for a mud pot. There the mud pot is placed on a heap of river sand and in
the water pot they put Vettiver or pathiri flower for fragrant and cool
drinking water. There is a verse hitting at pretenders in naladyar
connecting this pot system; Naladiyar is an anthology of 400 verses in
Tamil. It is dated to eighth century CE. One of the verses says about the
unlearned people,
“Though they be unlearned, if they move in the society of the learned, the
former will grow wise and learned just as the new earthen pot by its
contact with the bright coloured “Paathiri” flower, imparts its fragrance
to the water deposited in it”.
6 Reshma Ravishanker, DHNS, Bengaluru, SEP 17 2018, A group of
engineering students have shown that purifying water is as easy as buying a
few grams of bhindi or okra. Improbable as it seems, okra seeds can help
bring down the turbidity of water and reduce contamination, the students
have found.
7 https://youtu.be/rqOe6eGlH4k Boondi kai kottai uses in nature.
Therefore we were very much civilised without copying any one and had
health science from the nature.
B Q3 In the early Roman Empire, what would regular
citizens have used to light fires? I'm thinking along the lines of how we
would buy a box of matches or a lighter in the present day. Would it have
varied a lot across geographical regions?
Again, did we not light anything in this land?. Did Roman learnt from us or
vice versa? Rig Veda speaks on agnisthoma in Yajurvedam how to raise fire
for yagnam.
1 Dec 2, 2020
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/79521759.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
New evidence pushes back by 30,000 years first use of fire I India. About
80 km from Prayagraj, in the Belan river valley, scientists have found
evidence of that point in India, pushing back the first known controlled
use of fire here by 30000 years back. For this study, scientists from
IISER-Kolkata looked at macro-charcoal (larger than 125 micron) from six
archaeological sites in the valley — Deoghat, Koldihwa, Mahagara, ,
Chopani-Mando and Main Belan. They found charcoal from buried soils, which
were dated 50,000 years old. But that did not necessarily imply they were
the result of human activity. Then, they reconstructed the climate
patterns for the last 100,000 years. It turned out that the period the
charcoal samples date back to was one of very high rainfall. “Besides, the
vegetation was characterised by trees. Both factors are not very conducive
to forest fires. You can have a natural forest fire only in dry and arid
conditions,” Sanyal explained. “We concluded that the charcoal in these
archaeological sites came from human use of fire.” Which means the human
brain was developed enough to control fire.“This is the time that the
cognitive abilities of prehistoric humans developed. This coincided with
the period when they started creating different types of tools,” Deepak
Kumar Jha, lead author, told TOI. Once acquired, this knowledge — how to
harness fire — was one that was transferred. “The use of fire was
persistent from to Neolithic … from the earlier prehistoric This is now the
13th oldest evidence of the use of fire in the world. The oldest is from
1.6 million years ago, at Koobi Fora in Kenya. Sanyal said, “If you see
China, human-controlled fire has been discovered from 400,000 years ago. Why
this gap? Maybe we have not studied Indian sites enough,”. (KR Hence we are
aghast with the foreign stuff).
Tabun/Hayonim Oumm Qatafa, Israel
200,000-100,000 years ago
Pinnacle Point, South Africa
164,000 years ago
Grotte XVI, Dordogne, France
60,000 years ago
Belan Valley, India
*55,000-50,000 years ago*
So Romans were tardy.
C Q6 What are the pros and cons of Indians living in Germany?
NaNDRUM THEETHUM PIRAR THARA VAARA; ALWAYS THERE ARE PURUSHA AND THE
PRAKRITHI IN ANY LAND.
D Q8 How were clothes washed before the introduction of chemicals?
Washermen were known as RAJAKA; Yagnavalkya smrithi 1. 187 says, KARUHASTHA
SUSHI: IT IS ESPLAINED AS, “KARISHILPI RAJAKA THAANTHUVAAYAADI, MEANING
hand workers include washermen also respected in the society as pure.
VASISHTA SMRITHI: clothes made of fiber and tantu thread, become white,
when washed with the WHITE MUSTARD SEEDS PASTE. BUTTER MILK, VALMIKAM SAND
OF ANT-HILL WERE THE WASHING MATERIALS. SRIPHALA OR BILVA FRUIT WAS ALSO A
WASHING MATERIALAND A DISINFECTANT. Manu smirithi, 8.396, 2.283, & 5.120
detail the washing materials. Taitriya Samhita 5 2 3, Amara kosha part 2
and many smritis and puranas have washing cloths of ancient Indian details.
White clay of the sandy river washed bright non-infective; tambraparani
water had so much elements, a simple wash would be so effective.
KR IRS 7821
On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 at 08:04, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 <
[email protected]> wrote:
> *CULTURAL QA 08-2021-07*
>
> *Being a compilation there may be errors*
>
> *Q1 Why do people prefer RO water instead of tap water
> nowadays?*
>
> *A1 Gopala Krishnan , former Assistant General Manager
> 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now*
>
> *As far as Chennai, India, there are no tap water provision to flats and
> many homes. Within city many homes have river water purified and supplied
> through taps.*
>
> *With covid 19 for the last one year, more people prefer RO water for
> drinking. RO water is at least 70% purified water. Even RO water is boiled
> and consumed in most homes*
>
> *Q2 Who owns the most expensive licence plate in India?*
>
> *A2 Chaitanya Agrawal Lives in India April 13*
>
> *India’s most expensive number plate costs Rs 34 lakhs which is more than
> the cost of the vehicle that holds the number plate. This number plate is
> registered in the name of Ashik Patel from Ahmedabad, who is a James Bond
> fan and got the iconic “007” for his Toyota Fortuner.*
>
> *A Toyota Fortuner, according to the ex-Delhi showroom price, would set
> you back by Rs 30 lakh.*
>
> *The auction for this particular numberplate had begun via an online
> portal, and the starting amount was just Rs. 25,000. The price escalated
> quickly though, and Ashik made his winning bid just minutes before the
> auction ended.*
>
> *Q3 In the early Roman Empire, what would regular
> citizens have used to light fires? I'm thinking along the lines of how we
> would buy a box of matches or a lighter in the present day. Would it have
> varied a lot across geographical regions?*
>
> *A3 Matt Riggsby MA Archaeological Studies, Boston
> University August 1*
>
> *Ideally, they’d keep coals going in a hearth. With something just hot
> enough already going, it wasn’t too hard to stoke up a new fire with a
> little bit of kindling. In the embarrassing instance of somebody letting
> the fire go out completely, someone might run next door to get a light from
> the neighbors, that being pretty easy as well, though it added an extra
> step.*
>
> *As a last resort, they’d use flint and something with iron, whether metal
> or pyrite crystals. They’d have to strike sparks onto particularly dry and
> fine kindling to get a brand new fire going. This was a pain in the ass,
> but it wasn’t nearly as much of an effort as earlier, friction-based
> techniques.*
>
> *Q4 Why don’t doctors and nurses let you sleep until you
> wake up naturally from anesthesia? Wouldn’t that be less traumatic? Why do
> they force you to wake up so quickly?*
>
> *A4 Amanda Huggins Owner Operator/ My Design
> (2014–present) July 14*
>
> *I volunteered at the hospital my dad worked at when I was younger. A few
> times I stopped in at recovery to meet him for lunch. He's an
> anesthesiologist so I got to witness him “waking" a patient after surgery.
> It's not sudden or done in a hurry. He hung with the patient until they
> came to enough to make sure the anesthesia was no longer affecting them,
> often asking what the last thing he said to them before they went under.
> The answers were hilarious! He said such off the wall stuff! He told me the
> reason he did it was to make sure there were no complications from the
> anesthesia. If they answered correctly he knew everything on his end went
> perfect. If not he knew he needed to stick around just in case something
> had gone wrong. After he was done getting them safely back he didn't care
> if they went back to sleep for a bit. Just that first wake up mattered.*
>
> *Q5 Why do batteries need distilled water?*
>
> *A5 2 answers Chandramohan Panakkal, former Amateur
> Astronomer for 40 Years. Answered Mon*
>
> *lead acid cells require an electrolyte and it is distiiled water
> negertive ions pass from negative to positive through this electrolyte.*
>
> *2nd answer**- Gopala Krishnan, former Assistant General Manager
> 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered just now*
>
> *Lead acid batteries would loose water from electrolyte in course of time
> due to evaporation. This is true even to the UPS battery. Distilled water
> is almost pure water because it is steam condensed of good water. It is
> added to electrolyte.Distilled water would get mixed up with electrolyte
> and make up for the water lost by charging the battery ON. If water loss is
> more, distilled water may be added TO CERTAIN LEVELS and not fully. After a
> week balance can be added.*
>
> *Q6 What are the pros and cons of Indians living in Germany?*
>
> *A6 Arun Mahajan Lives in Germany (2014–present) Updated
> July 31*
>
> *I have been living in Germany since 2014. During this time, lived in a
> small city, Heidelberg and 2 big cities - Berlin and Munich.*
>
> *Coming from India and having spent sometime in Singapore, the following
> are the pros n cons of living in Germany.*
>
> *Pros :*
>
> *Visa rules : The German visa rules are the simplest and most** humane.
> The rules do not change overnight. Expat talent (professional n students)
> are appreciated and retained in the country. With an aging population, this
> is also fast becoming a necessity for the country,*
>
> *Work life balance : Unlike most of the world, work life** balance is
> enforced in Germany. Couple of my friends who used to work really long
> hours (they loved n enjoyed the work), were called in by HR to be told to
> take more time off,*
>
> *Easy life : Life on a daily basis is just more easy and relaxed.** On
> normal summer days, people take time to visit lakes and do outdoor picnics
> to take a break from routine and connect with friends n family,*
>
> *Long term residency : Getting a long term residency in** Germany is a
> matter of following the process. If one meets the required social
> contributions and time spent in the country, getting a PR (permanent
> residency) and citizenship is not a subjective process.*
>
> *Genuine people : Germans are some of the most genuine** people I have
> come across. While to a new comer to the country, they might seem too
> direct, over a period of time it is easy to recognise that they are honest
> and genuine,*
>
> *Travel : I can access the whole of Europe, without worrying** about
> getting a visa to travel, even with an Indian passport. The travel (pre
> Covid) used to be quick n cheap, with Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France,
> Portugal, Italy within short flight away.*
>
> *Kurzarbeit : This became very popular in the current Covid** situation.
> Under this, when the companies could not pay the employees their salaries,
> the German government stepped in to pay some part of those salaries.
> Employees were not left to fight for themselves due to the current
> pandemic.*
>
> *Education : For the most part, the education is very high** quality and
> relatively affordable for all. This is a breath of fresh air, compared to
> most countries, where education is a big business. In Germany, education is
> a fundamental right for all who are interested, the same rules apply for
> expats too.*
>
> *Cons :*
>
> *Language & culture : For all those who dont take the effort **to learn
> the language, German life and career can be challenging. While they survive
> in Germany, such people are no where close to experiencing the real culture
> of the country,*
>
> *Food : The Indian food options are somewhat limited in **Germany. This
> might have to do with the fact that the Indians do not have a very
> significant presence as an overall % of the country’s population. This is
> changing slowly but surely though,*
>
> *Weather : For most of the Indians, who are not used to the **cold
> weather, this is a challenge. The winters are long and grey. If it snows in
> the city one is based in, then its still better. Winters in Berlin has been
> grey, dark n cold.*
>
> *Friends : It takes time to make friends with Germans. In big **cities,
> one can find people from all across the globe to make friends with. It
> takes time to build relation and rapport with the Germans, but once you do,
> they are friends for life.*
>
> *Jobs : If some one comes to Germany looking for English **jobs, then
> they will be in for a shock. While such jobs exist, the vast majority of
> jobs are in German. More so, if they are in core technical fields or
> customer facing roles. This is mainly a fallout of the fact that learning
> German is not a priority for most expats.*
>
> *The above list is based on my personal experiences in the last 6.5yrs in
> Germany. A lot of them are also observations from my social circle. Of
> course, it is in no way an exhaustive list.*
>
> *Q7 Why does UV in my home RO system make the output
> water hot for only a few seconds?*
>
> *A7 3 Answers** Benjamin Klein, Deals with water
> quality issues as part of my job. Answered July 1, 2017*
>
> *The UV is constantly on and is a heat source. When the tap is off, the
> water in the UV reactor vessel gets slowly heated by the bulb until it
> reaches a state of thermal equilibrium (the rate of heat radiating from the
> exterior equals the rate of heat being dissipated by the UV bulb). Think of
> it like a pot of water over a fire: the water serves as a heat sink
> absorbing heat from the heat source. As long as it sits in contact with the
> heat source it will absorb heat.*
>
> *When you turn on the tap, the water that was in the UV reactor will be
> warm, but the UV bulb doesn't generate enough heat to warm the flowing
> water. flowing water. To go back to the pot of water analogy, if you put
> flame on a pipe that has water flowing through it, neither the pipe nor the
> water will get hot because the water carries away the heat faster than it
> can accumulate (on-demand water heaters are specially designed to heat
> water as it flows through the unit and require tremendous amounts of
> power/fuel to work).*
>
> *Those few seconds of warm water represent the volume of water sitting in
> the UV reactor.*
>
> *2ND ANSWER Lizbeth Braun, Own at Selfemployed** Freelancer
> (2017-present)Answered April 11, 2020*
>
> *Hello,In my own little knowledge about why UV or RO does not keep water
> warm for long. The UV does not store water. The UV is only a source
> to generate heat as water pass through it.*
>
> *The UV depends on electricity to work so if the source of heat is put off
> there is no way it warm water that pass through it .*
>
> *As water is passing through the UV light tube, heating and sterilization
> is taking place , once the water passes through it will keep cold in few
> seconds.*
>
> *3RD ANSWER Fred Bruan, Linux Software Developer (1996-**present)Answered
> July 1, 2017*
>
> *I would assume that the UV sterilizing is the final stage. The lamp gets
> hot. The water carries away the heat rather quickly. After a few seconds
> the lamp is cooled, so the water no longer feels warm.*
>
> *Q8 How were clothes washed before the introduction of
> chemicals?*
>
> *A8 Alice TwainLives in İtaly (1971–present)July 30*
>
> *With chemicals, just not synthetics. Just to make it clear, water is a
> chemical too, a natural one. Up until the early XX century clothes used to
> be washed with ash, for instance. Wood ash would leached in water to create
> lye. Lye is the precursor of soap, combined with rendered fat it indeed
> turns into a pretty harsh soap. Clothes and linens would be used for longer
> than we do, then soaked in hot water with some lye, and the lye combined
> with the fat in the soiled clothes and remove it. After the clothes were
> soaked in this mixture of water and lye, they were rinsed in fresh running
> water and often laid on a stone or bench and beaten with a paddle: this
> created pressure that made water literally spray out removing even more
> dirt. For whitening clothes they used several different products, one was
> ammonia, obtained by aging urine.*
>
> *Q9 Why do cetaceans die if left out on land? Don’t they
> breathe air? I understand starvation but other than that, what kills them?*
>
> *A9 Claire JordanDegree in biology and folklore;
> programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaperTue*
>
> *They’ve evolved to have their weight supported by water, and the big ones
> are *very* heavy, so if they’re not lying at exactly the right angle their
> ribs can’t expand properly and they soon suffocate. They also dry out very
> easily. When dolphins have to be moved by humans, either to refloat them or
> to take them to a new home, they have to be supported so they are lying on
> their bellies, not on their sides, and are constantly sprayed with water.*
>
> *Q10 Did Hitler know that Nazi Germany was going to lose
> the Second World War against the Allies?*
>
> *A10 Gordon Allen BA followed by JD in Economics & European
> History (college major), Columbia University (Graduated 1970) 19h ago *
>
> *He knew they weren’t going to win the war militarily probably as soon as
> September 1942, and definitely by March 1943 as he openly admitted to Milch
> and Rommel separately that month. The hope was to “hold on” long enough to
> outlast the Alliance against him, which he thought was certain to collapse,
> as it did(too late for Germany though).*
>
> *I think both the irresistible Allied Air Assault, especially on his
> (Hitler’s)synthetic fuel refineries, and the successful invasion, by June
> 1944 made it clear that only a miracle could save Germany. ala the “death
> of the Czarina” which saved Frederick the Great in the seven years War.*
>
> *As he had long decided he was going to fight on “until midnight
> “regardless.*
>
> *Q11 Making bread is quite the involved process. How did
> people find that out?*
>
> *A11 Matt Riggsby MA Archaeological Studies, Boston
> UniversityJuly 25*
>
> *No, it’s not. You mix flour and water, go away for a while to let it
> ferment, then throw it in an oven for a while or slap some of it down on a
> hot stone to cook. It’s not going to be great bread, but it’s bread.*
>
> *Now, over time various different societies have come up with more
> complicated ways of making bread, because there are all manner of ways of
> improving it and making better bread, but those aren’t strictly speaking
> necessary. Rather, they’re the product of thousands of years of
> technological development, just as advanced modern alloys are the product
> of a process of technological development going back to the first smelting
> of copper.*
>
> *Q12 What are the upcoming bathroom faucet trends in 2021?*
>
> *Gopala Krishnan, former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 at Department
> of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered 11h ago*
>
> *More perfection. Self cleaning the water spraying end. Durability and
> more flexibility*
>
> *All the above QA are based on Quora digest on 06-08- 2021/**Answered by
> me**. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers *
>
> *Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 07- 08-2021*
>
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