CULTURAL QA 07-2022-08 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Isit safe to eat pumpkin skin? A1 Lucia Garcia,Worked at Hospitals Mon Pumpkin peels are edible.Like other fruits and vegetables, many nutrients are concentrated in the skinitself. Even when edible,pumpkin skins are often peeled or scraped off. However, removing the pumpkin peels may mean removing the mostnutrient-rich part of the pumpkin. The cobalt contentof pumpkin skin ranks first among all kinds of vegetables. Cobalt is one of thetrace elements necessary for the body. Cobalt in pumpkin skin can dilate blood vessels,lower blood pressure, prevent fatty liver, promote hematopoietic function, andparticipate in the synthesis of vitamin B12 in the body. Pumpkin skin is an excellent source of dietary fiberand pectin, which can promote gastrointestinal motility, protect intestinalflora, and absorb and eliminate toxins and waste. The skin of thepumpkin is the part that receives the sun's rays. It has much higher levels ofantioxidants than the pulp. Pumpkin skin is abit tough and not very appetizing when raw，and needs to be cooked to soften the skin. My note- In preparing dish Olan, slightly tenderpumpkins with skin are used. Especially people from Udupi use cucumber,pumpkins etc. with skin. Q2 Docrocodiles have a common ancestor with dinosaurs? A2 Claire Jordan, Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Mon Ultimately. everything has a common ancestor witheverything else, but yes, crocodilians and dinosaurs are closely related.The only group that aren’t considered dinosaurs but that were more closelyrelated to dinosaurs than crocs are was the pterosaurs, and they’re extinct. All three were inthe group Archosauria, and they were the only occupants. Basically that meansthat the only living archosaurs are birds (=dinosaurs) and crocodilians(crocodiles, alligators, caiman and gharials) and they are each other’s closestliving relatives outside their own group. Q3 Howdoes an electric train operate during rain? A3 Mausamjeet Khatua, PhD Student atCornell University Updated 4y This is an intriguing question. At first sight one might think with rain and flood there will be watereverywhere and since this water is full of electrolytes this could potentiallylead to short circuit. Then how do thetrains run during heavy rain and floods so comfortably. The answer lies in spotting the two terminals fromwhich the train draws its electricity. The positive terminal (High voltage) The positiveterminal(live terminal) comes from the overhead conductors whereas the negativeterminal comes from the steel tracks. The tracks are grounded so thatyou don’t get shock when you touch them. The negative terminal(Grounded and low voltage) Now coming back tothe question. Even if the tracks are flooded the positive and negativeterminals are wide apart for any kind of possible short circuit to happen. Hope this answers thequestion Edit : There has been someconfusion about the usage of the terms positive and negative terminals. I have used positive andnegative considering HVDC lines. However in general the power supplycan be DC or AC. So incase of AC please consider phase instead of positive and neutral in case ofnegative. But the basic idea still remains the same though. My note- Veryclear answer in basic technical terms Q4 Whatare the different types of houses found in Tamil Nadu? A4 Gautham Sampath, Knows Tamil Sun Nowadays mostpeople in Tamil Nadu are living in concrete houses and almost all the housesare constructed using bricks , steel and concrete just like elsewhere in Indiaand we all live in such type of houses!- In cities and towns people live inindividual houses or rented or in Apartments but in villages people live inindividual houses. But before some30 years ago, all people didn’t live in concrete houses cause of the socialstrata and the wealth was undistributed but everything has changed due to theIT boom, industries and economic change. So to make theanswer more interesting lets go back and see what were the type of houses werepresent in this Modern Tamil Nadu! I am going to speak about the caste and people of TamilNadu just to give a good perspective! If I am wrongcorrect me in comments(Suggestions are welcome) 1.Tamil Brahmin Houses Tamil Brahminhouses were neither big nor small-They were average in size and all the houseshad roofed tiles. Brahmin always livenear the temples of the town or near rivers because they used to work in thetemples and thus it is easy for them to commute. In Tamil Nadu, the templeshave 4 Mada veedis or 4 Mada streets and these streets had Brahmin houses(Called asAgraharams). Brahmins live very close to each other and they live incommunities(Now also in few towns like Kanchipuram or Kumbakonam or Sri Rangamwe can find them living just like in olden times-I heard even in some areas ofPalakkad they live like this.) Brahmin houses havetwo doors-one in front and one in back and they had space in the back forwashing clothes ,planting few flowering plants and they had wells. In front ofhome there is no place and the houses had Thinnais( a platform to sit and talk in evenings). The houses had acentral place which had a Tulsiplant with open roof. Brahmin houses were mostly ground level homes inTN (There was no 1 or 2and level) There are many moredetails of Brahmin houses and to know about their houses you can read thispost-The unique charm ofAgraharams 2.LargeLand Owning Community Houses. There are many landowning communities in Tamil Nadu and some of them hold huge tracts of land likethe Some Mudaliars, Pillais,SomeGoundars,Some Thevars,etc and the Telugu castes of TN like Kamma Naidus, Naickers, Balijasand Reddiars( Land owned ranges from 20 to 50 acres and few of themfrom 50 to 100 acres, Jamindarsand their relatives lived in Bungalows and small palaces and had more land from 100 to even 3000acres but after Independence 90% of land was taken back by thegovernment) These people houseswere bigger in area and space as the name tells they are land owning communitythus they had ample space to construct houses . They also had a Mattu Thozhuthu or Cattle Shed. Houses had 1 or 2levels and the rooms were bigger with lot of space. There was enoughspace in all the four sides of the house and hence plants and trees were grown. Also these houseswere constructed in their respective lands and were not congested-These houseswere far from each other. All these castes are classified as OBC castes(except few)and I guess-Nearly 20% of the OBC castes belong to this category. 3.Medium LandOwning Communities. Some TamilCommunities which own medium amount of lands like from 3 to 20 acres.communities like Mudaliars,Thevars,Goundars, few Vanniyar subcastes,few Devendra Kula Vellalars,etclive in villages next to each other and these people had houses just likeAgraharam houses but with many rooms and the houses were mostly constructed in Rectangular shape withbreadth side towards the front. Some people had Mattu Thozhuthu or Cattle Shed. In Case of thespace, instead of a centre space, front side had a space -Back side didn’t havespace and also roofs were tiled. Some houses had aspace in the walk way and had rooms on either sides.( In certain Tamil films wecan notice this). These people alwayslive together within the villages and thus it is little bit congested-Houseswere either had 1 level or just ground level.-Nearly 30% of OBC castes come under this category. 4.Small Landowning communities. Small land owningcommunities like few Devendra Kula Vellalars ,few Vanniyar sub castes, few Thevars, Konars, Nadars,Edigas,etccome under this category who hold just 1 to 2 acres of farm. These people livedin simple mud houseswith thatched roofs made up of coconut or palm leaves and again invillages-That means just ground level homes with just 1 to 2 rooms at max. Little space isgiven on four sides and people lived very simple- Nearly 50% of the OBC castescome under this category. 5.Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes/Fishermen Houses SC, Fisherrman andST castes didn’t own any lands and many of them neither had land nor house and the place or area where thesepeople lived were called as “Chaery” . As they had to movefrom one place to another place, they just lived with movable things and the houses were mostly buildusing simple materials like coconut leaves or dried grass that growsalong the rivers. Special House Types Not to forget ,that certain communities in Tamil Nadu had special type of houses. 6.Natukottai Chettiar Houses Chettiar Housesare the biggest houses of Tamil Nadu and they were constructed just likeJamindar houses. There is a regioncalled Chettinad in Southern Tamil Nadu which consists up of 96 villages wherethese type of houses can be found and there many more details in these type ofhouses. I have written anseparate answer about their houses-Gautham Sampath's answer to What are someinteresting facts about Nattukkottai Chettiars? Gautham Sampath'sanswer to What's so special about chettiar community in india? 7.Weaver/Craftsman/Trader Houses/24 Telugu Manai Chettiars The style and formof this house is common to many communities who do trading, weaving, goldsmith,etc. The traditionalcraftsmen, including the weavers, do not separate their workspace from theirhome and that means there was a space for these people to work . These spaceswere even used to do functions at times. 8.Potters Houses The houses ofpottery caste are very simple and these houses were constructed either in mudwith roofed tiles or were thatched with 1 or 2 rooms. There was somespace left in front of the house such that potters can do pots and stock them. 9.Basket weaver’s houses Basket weavershouses are more simpler houses with thatched roofs build using mud. Note:- Onlyfew people still live in such houses in Tamil nadu and nowadays most peoplelive in concrete housesandmany things have changed from past 30 years. Sources:- Tamil Nadu MerchantHouse Tamil NaduTraditional House Designs - HomeLane Blog Traditional Homesof South India, Culture of Generations Tour traditionalhouses of the aristocratic Chettiars community - ELLE DECOR https://housing.com/news/south-indian-traditional-house-decor/ Q5 Arethere any legendary singers like Lata Mangeshkar in other countries? A5 Arin Saha(অঋণ সাহা) culturalnationalistUpdated Wed There is a singerwhom I would consider at par or even better than Lata didi(no offense to her)in India itself who is neglected by many. When we already have legendarysingers other than Lata Mangeshkar in India itself, then why go for othercountries? She is theunderrated nightingale of India yet a very popular singer in south India:- Sheis…..S.Janaki Amma She could sing foranyone and she has sung in 17 languages including telugu, Kannada, tamil,Malyalam,hindi,sanskrit,odia and even Urdu and Japanese. Some of myfavourite songs sung by her include:- singara velane deva pagale venella(telugu) annakili unnatheduthe(tamil) senthoorapoove(tamil) oru sanam(tamil) Sandyekaneerithende(malyalam) Aemalarkanyakal(malyalam) donisaagali(kannada) Ponmeni uruguthey Thaniye Thaniye Sadly she has not got a Bharat Ratna yet. She deserves a Bharatratna! There are many morelike P Susheela, Suman Kalyanpur,Usha Timothy,Vani Jayram,Sandhya Mukhopadhyaywho were of the same calibre as Lata Mangeshkar. Q6 Whichwater heater is the best for hard water in India? A6 G Punjabi,Owner (2011–present)2y the best geyser forhard water in india Top 10 geyserbrands that you can buy which suit to hard water - below are the best waterheaters rated by numbers based on lower maintenance costs due to highsedimentation in hard water areas, quality of heating, star ratings (onlystanding loss calculation), manufacturing standards. FERROLI - best for hard water - glasslinetank for all models RACOLD - enamel and glassline tank HAVELLS - enamel tank VENUS - enamel tank AO SMITH - glassline tank BAJAJ - enamel tank Q7 Whyis Africa the birthplace of humankind? Other animals trace their earlyancestors to different parts of the world, so what makes Africa so unique tohumans? A7 Claire Jordan,Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Tue Er - it just is.It’s where apes got started, and where most of them stayed, And the savannahenvironment in Africa happened to be more conducive to developing bipedalismand tool use than any of the environments in Asia, so humans ended up evolvingfrom a recent common ancestor with chimps. If we’d evolved from something closer to orangutans wemight have turned out nicer. You might as wellask, why is North America the birthplace of the camel, or why did one of theearliest-known tetrapods live in Scotland? They just did. 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