CULTURAL QA 08-2022-30 BEING A COMPILATIONTHERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 WhichIndian temples offer a free meal? A1 Naman Atolia, Lives in Jaipur,Rajasthan, India (2005–present)Sat It's nearly impossible to name all but naming just a few ofthem:- 1 Golden TempleAmritsar 2 The Sri SaiSansthan Prasadalaya, Shirdi, Maharashtra 3 Jagannath PuriTemple Odisha 4 The DharmathalaManjunatha Temple, Karnataka 5 ISCKON Temples 6 Tirupati BalajiTemple Tirupati Andhra Pradesh 7 Kukke Subramanyatemple, Karnataka 8 Vaishno DeviTemple, Jammu 9 Guruvayur Temple,Kerala 10 Salasar BalajiTemple, Rajasthan Q2 Why arepassenger trains faster than freight trains? A2 Subhasis Dutta Roy,20 years in Indianrailways (including15 yrs as Loco Pilot)Updated 1y Something that runs has to stop when needed. Do you travel onthe highway? There you can see the passengers carrying vehicle moves fasterthan goods carrying vehicle. Do you remember themomentum? It is applicable here. Momentum is mass multiplied with velocity. For the same velocity a goodscarrying vehicle has more momentum than a passenger-carrying vehicle. High momentum meansmore effort need to stop. So to equal the stoppage distance velocity may bereduced. So it is safe to runat a lower velocity for good carrying vehicle. Sometimes it isseen on the highway that a good carrying vehicle moving much faster speed thanit should be. Because there is no particular speed regulation for all goodscarrying vehicle. All vehicle are own by the individual owner. The phenomenon ofmomentum applies to railway movement. But the railway is organised and have a special designsector(RDSO) to look after the speed of trains in every part. Theycalculate the maximum speed of every category of trains in Indian railways asper design band safety aspects. All the speed regulations are introduced as per safety.Railways always keeping the factors of safety in the mind of passengers whencalculation the maximum speed limit. Passengers train to have less momentum as it carrying onlypassengers. A freight train is longer than passenger trainand carrying more mass than a passenger train. So freight train has moremomentum than a passenger train having same speed. Now the railway can increasethe speed of passenger train in respect of momentum. So passenger train can runat faster than a freight train. But for some special freight trains their maximum speed is100 kmph. Normally freight trains maximum speed variesfrom 65 kmph to 75 kmph as per section. Trains or any othermoving vehicles stop through application of brakes. Here an importantdifference between the brake power of freight train and passenger train. Passengertrains run with 100 % brake power. In passengers coaches brakes applies at bothends of every wheel. like this. Freight trains run on not less than 85 %brakes power and brake applies on one side of every wheel like this Here you can seebrakes apply on one side of the wheel, free on another side. Passengers train will not run on the line if the traindoesn’t have 100 % brake power. Freight will runon minimum 85 of brake power. So as per needspassengers trains runs faster than freight trains. Q3 Do greenvegetables lose their nutrients when cooked? A3 Truvia Wellness,We have been into thehealth space for a while now. Aug 23 You're not the onlyone who has ever questioned if boiling veggies eliminates their nutrition. Yes,in a nutshell, but it gets trickier when you pick different approaches. It's crucial to consider each cooking method and how itimpacts the nutritional makeup of food in order tobetter understand how veggies lose nutrients when cooked. Boiling, Blanching and Steaming Cooking techniquesinvolving water include boiling, blanching, and steaming. In order to boilvegetables, they must be thoroughly submerged in boiling water for a shortperiod of time. Blanching is the technique of quickly boiling orsteaming food for a few seconds before stopping the cooking by immersing it inice water or cold running water. Vegetables are cooked by steam when they are steamed. These water-basedcooking techniques cause the loss of nutrients including vitamin C and Bvitamins, which are water-soluble. However, not all water-based cookingtechniques are the same. More than any other cooking method, boiling causes the greatestloss of vitamin C. In fact, study published in theJournal of Zhejiang University in August 2009 found that boiling broccoli,spinach, and lettuce might cause them to lose up to 50% of their vitamin Ccontent. While some vitaminC is lost during the blanching process, it is less than during boiling becauseof the shorter cooking period. According to the Academy of Nutrition andDietetics, blanching also aids in reducing the rate at which other vitamins andminerals are lost from vegetables. Blanching removes dirt and certain germs thatmight be harmful to your health from the vegetables and may even help block theenzyme activity that leads to product spoilage. Given that the food isn't completely submerged in water,steaming is regarded as one of the greatest methods for preserving andenhancing the nutrients in vegetables, including thewater-soluble ones. For instance,steamed broccoli, spinach, and lettuce may only have a 9 to 15% reduction invitamin C concentration, citing study published in Nutrition and Food Sciencein September 2013. Roasting and Grilling According to the Mayo Clinic, roasting and grillingvegetables are excellent methods of preparationsince they don't require the addition of fats like butter or oil and are cookedusing dry heat (either the oven or the grill). These techniqueswill preserve more of the water-soluble nutrients, such as vitamin C and Bvitamins, than boiling, even if heat will still result in some nutritionalloss. Q4 Is thebitter melon (Momordica charantia) poisonous when ripe? A4 Lucia Garcia, Worked at Hospitals Sun Bitter melon(Momordica charantia) originated in India and is now widely cultivated intropical to temperate regions of the world. Bitter melon isrich in nutrients and has been used as a food and medicine in many countriesfor thousands of years. Bitter melon can beused in cooking or eaten raw. Bitter melon is a common vegetable in Asiancuisine. Bitter melon is great to eat when it's green or earlyyellowing stage. At this time, bitter melon have a pleasant bitter andastringent flavor. As bitter melonripens, it turns orange and then red, splitting into segments, revealing seedscovered with bright red pulp. Fully ripe bitter melon loses many nutrients, and the pithbecomes sweet and edible, but the flesh of the melon will befar too tough to be eaten anymore. Accordingto clinical reports, fully ripe bitter melon seeds are toxic and should NOT beeaten. Q5 Whichcity will be the next IT Hub after Bengaluru and Chennai (India)? Why do youthink so? A5 Shankar,Assistant at Unemployed MenOrganization (2014–present)Sat Chennai andBangalore don't have future and Chennai is small city and there is less IT andthe people are not good and arrogant . Bangalore is concrete dumpster with meanminded migrants . Hyderabadior Pune will surely beat Bangalore . My money is on Pune,Pune would have better future and will definitely develop in higher rate. Q6 Is itworth it to spend more than 1 lakh crore rupees on a bullet train rather thanbuilding airports? A6 Deepesh Deomurari. Senior Art of LivingFaculty, Pune, India Updated 2y Yes - Very Very worthy. Bullet train has capacity of 1250 passenger and 12 bullettrains can make it run - 1 bullet train every hour.30,000 people per day or in one month it can move an entire city to newlocation! plane capacity is200 so it is just 15% of train capacity. Airplane is two timesexpensive than Bullet Train! In future, it will be made in India, generatingatleast 2 million employment! Further, time is same - You have to go Airport 2 hoursbefore time and departure also take 30 minutes. Soeventually it is the same time. In 6 hours you can travel 1000+ km in bullettrain at 320 km/hour. Further train route can have 8–10 stations while planes canhave only 1–2 stops. India is a bigcountry and bullet train is very much needed. For example, If I travel fromBangalore to Jabalpur, it takes 36 hours! In bullet train it will be 6 hours(including stoppage). So, I can go to hometown whenever i want. Fare of Bullettrain will be near AC II tier. So most of us will be able to affordoccasional/urgent unavoidable travel. We are already verylate in introducing bullet trains. It will give very heavy boost to Tier II andTier III cities; which are deprive of very heavy investments due toconnectivity limitations. Also remember,Japan has given soft loan and considering inflation, Bullet Train is almostFree for India as it is under Public Private Partnership. Lets connect andhelp in making India a superpower – Q7 IndianRailways: How's it decided to keep x number of seats in RAC & thenintroduce the wait list after the x number of reservations is exceeded? A7 Prashant Tiwari, Indian RailwaysEnthusiast3y Reservation AgainstCancellation (RAC) is a type of ticket which ensures certainty of travel, it does not guarantee a berth. Aberth is split into 2 seats for 2 RAC ticket holders. A RAC ticket holderis given an empty berth if: If there are anylast minute cancellations. If anyquota remains unsold. If any confirmedticket holders are given a free upgrade according to seat availability in upperclass. If this happens theother RAC ticket holder can then convert the 2 seats into a berth. RAC8/RAC2 meansthat when the ticket is purchased, it was the 8th such ticket under RACcategory, which has moved 6 places after 6 cancellations. Only Side Lower Berths are allotted to RAC ticket holders. Let us know with anexample How RAC is decided? Let us assume anICF coach train has 11 sleeper class coaches. There are 72 berths in an ICGcoach. i.e., 72 × 11 = 792berths. A coach contains 9side lower berths so No. of side lower berths in all coaches are 11×9 =99 berths Now, 35 % of 99 berths are reserved for the preferences ( seniorcitizen , divyang , pregnant women etc.) = 35 berths(appròx). Now, we have 99–35 = 64 berthsremaining. For the 64 berths, total no. of 128 RAC tickets will bebooked and then first waiting list ticket will be issued. Note: This data isan approximate data and it may differ in every train. It also depends onthe number of Quotas available in the train. My note- What about Thatkal quota of 30% of births? And thatkal w/l. Ithink the answer did not considerit.The calculation has to be done after deducting 30% tatkal quota. Q8 Why doplanes have to wait for other planes before taking off from the airport, eventhough they are not going in the same direction? A8 Andrew McGregor, Flown several types oflight aircraft. Aug 20 If they’re using the same runway… wake turbulence: The airplane may belong gone, but its wake can be sitting right in the middle of the runway, justwaiting to turn a departing airplane upside down into a very bad day. So, ATChave a timer running, and departures have to wait for the timer to expirebefore they can leave. It’s set to a time that depends on the weight of thedeparting aircraft and the weather. Two parallel runways can be close enough that wakeseparation is needed between them, although this issomewhat reduced because usually one would be used for arrivals and one fordeparture… so if there is any crosswind at all, you put the arrival runwayupwind, and it’s no longer a problem. Q9 Whathappens if the stabilizer of an air conditioner is not working? A9 Gopala Krishnan,Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now Call the stabilizercompany. They will rectify the defects and put back, In the mean while if theAC has to work one canconnect the circuit breaker output with AC Unit directly connectingthe cables from the equipment together by a qualified technician Q10 Whatare some of the interesting facts about India? A10 Akshay Jain,Founder at Custombaba(2016–present)Updated 7y At Sri VenkateswaraTemple in Tirumala, better known as Tirupati, the laddu is superceded only bythe lord. The taste and aroma of these besan (gram flour) confections—saturatedwith ghee, raisin, nuts, cardamom, and edible camphor—draws millions ofdevotees to this temple town in Andhra Pradesh, eager for a bite of the holyspirit. In 2009, itreceived country-wide fame when it was given the Geographical Indication. As with allenterprises associated with large temples, the laddu’s vital stats arespectacular. More than 2.78lakh sweet balls are rolled out every day by an all-male, all-Brahmin potu(kitchen) staff of 350. The kitchen uses around 10,000 kilos ofghee, 12,000 kilos of besan, 2,000 kilos of cashewnuts, 1,000 kilos of raisins,300 kilos of cardamom, 600 kilos of sugar crystals, and 25,000 kilos of sugardaily. Over the years, the production of the sacred sweet hasundergone many changes in size, protocol for distribution, and cookingtechnology. The recipe however, has remained the same formany years (some say 300). The laddu even overshadows the other prasadamsdistributed by the temple management trust, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams,including pulihora (tamarind rice) and chakkara pongal (sweet rice), which areserved in small leaf bowls. Given that this is the world’s most visited Hindu shrine,the sale of laddus is rationed: Only two aregiven per darshan token, except in the case of certain paid rituals. Even VIPdevotees have to request for extra laddus above their quota—sometimes, with thehelp of recommendation letters. All the above QA are from Quora website on 29-08- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 30-08-2022 -- 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/1926808074.1040312.1661815046526%40mail.yahoo.com.
