CULTURAL QA 05-2022-08 BEING A COMPILATIONTHERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Whatexactly is wrong with the Hindi speaking states of India? Why aren't they ableto make cities like Jaipur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Indore, Patna, Bhopal, etc. IThubs or business hubs like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad? A1 Balaji Viswanathan follows governmentpolicies closely. May 5 Mumbai, Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata are all next to ocean andhave great trading ports. Bengaluru has the advantage of a good climate andthus attracted the tech industry that in the early days needed a lot of cooling.Hyderabad was behind the rest of the south for a long time and then was able toattract foreign investment through its expats as well as some good governance.Both Bengaluru and Hyderabad were ruled by important local kings who broughtsome infrastructure to their city. Northern cities arefar from the ocean and most of them don’t have the pleasant weather advantageof Benglauru. During the British era they were not cared about as much and keyUniversities such as the Univ of Madras, Univ of Bombay and Univ of Calcuttawere built in the Presidency capitals in the coasts — far away from the reachof an average northerner. Delhi was a small city until 1911 and only after thenationalism grew in Bengal, did the British care about the north and build thecity of New Delhi in the last decades of the British colonialism. The new Republic once again focused on the coasts and theearliest IITs — in Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras were also situated next to the oldPresidency capitals. Same with the good RECs (NITs) such as Trichy, Surathkaletc. India’s “north” has over 50% of the population butsubstantially fewer infrastructure and metropolis to carry that population. The north gotattention only in the last 3 decades with the rise of the OBC movement andeconomic liberalisation. The growth in cities like Lucknow, Patna and Jaipurhave been quite impressive within this time period. Despite the geographicaldisadvantage (far from the coasts) they have been able to build fast economicgrowth. A couple of decades ago people from the south would bevery scared to go to northern cities — even large ones such as New Delhi. Theythought these places were lawless, poor and dangerous.That is no longer true. We cannot change centuries of misgovernance in just 30years.But, the north is getting there. If they can elect better leaders at the local governmentand take great pride in uplifting their state they would overtake the southerncities in no time. Q2 Iflight bulbs are smarter, why haven’t sockets changed in over 140 years? A2 Jim Skelton B.S. in ElectricalEngineering, North western University (Graduated 1982)Fri The Edison lightbulb screw socket, invented 1881 for the first commercial incandescent bulbs inthe US, came to be the international standard. Sockets range in size, but theabbreviations are E (for Edison) followed by the diameter in mm, such as thecommon E26. Socketsrange to very small and very large for different uses. It keeps the bulbfrom falling out due to vibration, has low resistance and high currentcapability, and keeps the hot wire safely at the tip of the bulb. There hasbeen no reason to change. Q3 Whatis a photon? Is it a cell, or is it a particle? What does it do? A3 Ken Saladin I know nothing about thissubject Fri It’s a wave and a particle. It’s aquantum of energy. It goes fast, but slows down in air and glass. It can bendaround corners. A small range of them are visible. The rest is for listening tothe radio. That’s most of what I remember about my high-school physics class.Later I learned it’s a boson. Q4 Whenwill Amaravathi in Andhra Pradesh become a developed city like Chennai in TamilNadu? A4 Gopala Krishnan Former SeniorOperation Engineer Sat Sri. Surya Surya. Madras city was developed by British people. It is a portcity.Local trains were started in British period. So many other things were alreadydiscussed in different answers. So no comparison between Chennai and Amaravathi. It is afutile attempt. Chennai could becompared with Mumbai. Amaravathi could be compared with Chandigarh or Gandhinagar. Q5 Isthere any evidence to suggest that autism is caused by a child’s brain notbeing allowed to grow & experience things? Everyone I've met with autismwas hyper-babied, sheltered, & coddled during their formative years. Couldthere be a correlation? A5 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper16h I know a guy who seems to be mildly autistic and who grewup with violence, abuse and neglect. Also two ditto whogrew up in homes that weren’t abusive but were chaotic and with their parentsalways fighting. I think you’reconfusing cause and effect. *Caring* parents tend to coddle their autisticchildren a bit because they are afraid the child is having trouble with life,and sometimes they overdo it to the point of interfering with their lifeexperience, as happened e.g. with Susan Boyle. But this is the result ofautism, not the cause of it. It’s also the case that autism is genetic in origin, soan autistic person will often have more or less autisticparents who may be a bit obsessive in their parenting. Q6 Whyis around 50 percent of the population of Dharavi (Mumbai slum) Tamil whenTamil Nadu itself is a developed state? A6 Ahareen Saha(অঋণসাহা)cultural nationalist Updated 21h This has nothing to do with Tamil Nadu being the mostdeveloped state. Tamils have beenmigrating to Bombay for 200 years for various reasons which I will mentionseparately. Now,What is the history of Dharavi? Mumbai initiallywas made of seven fishing islands(similar to Shenzhen, China), Bombay,Mazagaon, Parel, Worli, Mahim, Little Colaba or the Old Woman's Island, andColaba. The originalinhabitants of these islands were called the “agri” and “ kolis” who were afishing community. When the British came and started industrialising thisregion, most of these agri kolis were then restricted to this small villagewhich became “Dharavi”. Bombay later becamea hub of small industrial units producing leather goods, steel fabrication,textiles, printing, pottery etc. All this happened in the late 19th century. This attracted manymigrants from different parts of the British raj like the Pathans fromAfghanistan,Gujaratis and the tamils. But mostof these migrants were initially temporary migrants.They stayed in Bombaytemporarily and went back to their hometowns. The first migrantsfrom the Tamil community were the tamil muslims.The infamous don of Bombaycalled Haji Mastan was a tamil muslim. These tamil muslims established tanneries in Bombay .Theythen brought many lower caste Tamils(farmers,dalits etc) to their tanneries. These lower castetamils migrated to Bombay in the late 19th century in large numbers because ofthe caste discrimination they suffered back in their hometowns. Because Bombay wasa cosmopolitan city,they thought it to be better than their towns whichsuffered from caste discrimination. Mainly farmers and unskilled labourers from regionsaround Tirunelveli went to Bombay and permanently settled in regions which wenow call Dharavi. Another major reason why they migrated to Bombay wasbecause they were traditionally used to working with animal skins and werehated for this profession. Later,theirbackgrounds diversified and people from OBC background also joined them. One thing uniqueabout these tamil migrants is that they keep their surnames unlike inTN(Periyarist movement). They kept their surnames like Nadar,Thevar etc and formedtheir own communities and held elections. Many years later,some tamil Brahmins also migrated toDharavi and now live mainly in Sion and Matunga. Earlier,when tamilsof so many different backgrounds came to Bombay, they still practiseduntouchability among themselves but today, those practices are not that popularanymore. A famous tamil donwho was the favourite of the tamil community in Dharavi(in the 1970s-80s) wasVaradarajan Mudaliar. Today,Tamil Nadu is a relatively developed state and themigrations are much lesser now than before, Q7 Howdo people who rely only on public transport bring things like groceries home? A7 RobertHill Lives in Mullingar, Ireland (2022–present)Sun Living in Mullingar, I don't even have the benefit ofpublic transport! If I want to do thefood shopping (and I regularly do because I like buying, cooking and eatingfood), I have to walk. There's an Aldijust at the top of our estate. I walk there in less than five minutes, or tenminutes if I'm also pushing the kids in the buggy. Aldi isn't my favourite ofsupermarkets, but this one is handy and, to be fair, their fresh produce isdecent. If I'm not going to Aldi, I have to walk 1.5km into townand go to one of Dunnes (my preference), SuperValu or Tesco. The walk into townis fine, but the walk back can be a bit of a struggle, againespecially when pushing the kids in the buggy, as it's all up hill and along afairly busy road (I'm very conscious of us breathing all that pollution). ButI'm in decent shape, so I manage it. What makes it manageable though is that I do little shopsregularly. As in, I might buy enough for the next two dinners,or sometimes just the one dinner. This means I'm rarely overloaded with food. I just buy what Ineed, which is typically fresh produce. I'm sure that's how people have beenbuying stuff for dinner for as long as we've been buying stuff for dinner. I'm sure some wouldfind the monotony of the supermarket run day in day out unbearable, but, as Isay, I'm quite happy doing the food shop, so for me it's not such a big deal. My wife does driveand so she might insist on doing a big shop from time to time as she sees thewhole thing as work rather than something enjoyable, but 75 to 80% of the time,I do the shopping and I do it by walking and not buying huge amounts. I am beginning torealise how dull this answer is, but, to be fair, you did ask… All the above QA are from Quora website on 10-05- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 10-05-2022 -- 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/725210188.1015929.1652163491331%40mail.yahoo.com.
