CULTURAL QA 09-2022-09 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Why don't North Indians and Tamillabours leave Kerala? A1 Nandakumar Balasubramanian Studied in Tamil medium andproud of it Tue There might be below reasons whyNorth and Tamil labours are in Kerala Kerala people don’t have the capability to do those works Kerala people arelazy to do those works Kerala people loveto keep those labours Kerala benefitsfrom those labours and laboursare earning nicely there. It’s mutual And speaking as perthe constitution any person from India can live anywhere and nobody has a rightto say them to leave. Consider the sameway if Karnataka and Tamil Nadu decide to keep the Kerala labours out of theirstate and Dubai also does the same will Kerala sustainwith its limited Industries? By the way BiknessDerberb I'm from Coimbatore/Tiruppurarea and yet to meet a single person from my region who went as a labour toKerala. In contrary myregion has good number of Malayali labours who work in Industriesand a good number of Malayali women will serve food in most functions here! Everything ismutual and ask a better question next time! My note- One reason for other state people inKerala and Tamilnadu is, they get more wages in these states and are more skilled than Keralitesand Tamilnadu people in granite, marble and tile works. Q2 What are some amazing facts about theIndian Railways? A2 Shriya Chaubey Hodophile Tue Some of the amazingfacts about the Indian railways are: 1. Ib Railwaystation of Odisha and Od Railway Station in Gujrat has the shortest name of allstations on the Indian Railways system. 2.First Railway Workshop Established in Bihar Did you know thatthe first railway workshop of the British government was established atJamalpur, near Munger, Bihart was established before Indian independence in1862 3.The world's longest station platform is atHubbali Junction in Karnataka, India at 1,400 metres (4,600 ft). 4.As of 2021, thefastest train of India is Vande Bharat Express with a top speed of 180 km/h(110 mph) , while the fastest operating train is the Gatimaan Express with atop operating speed of 160 km/h (99 mph). Vande bharat runsfrom New Delhi to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra and the other from New Delhi toVaranasi. Gatimaan expressruns between Delhi and Agra. 5. The first train in India ran on 16th April 1853 fromBombay to Thane which ran over a stretch of 21miles. 6.Highest RailBridge The Chenab Bridge is a railway steeland concrete arch bridge under construction between Bakkal and Kauri in theReasi district of Jammu and Kashmir in India. When finished, the bridge willspan the Chenab River at a height of 359 metres (1,178 ft) above the river,making it the world's highest rail bridge. Chenab bridge that is expected to be 35 metres tallerthan the Eiffel Tower. 7. Toilets ontrains were first introduced in 1891 (1st Class) & 1907 (lower classes) 8.Railway Staff Indian Railways isthe 7th largest employer in the world. It has approximately 1.5 millionemployees. 9.Sivok Railway Station located in Darjeeling district inWest Bengal. It is painted on the theme of railway coaches. 10.The VivekExpress travels 4273 km making it the longest run in terms of total time anddistance. On its way, thetrain crosses a total of 9 states with 58 stops. The train goes through Assam,Nagaland, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, andTamil Nadu. It runs between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari. The train No:15906starts from Dibrugarh at 10:45 PM and reaches Kanyakumari at 09:50 AM on thefifth day of journey. 11.The New Delhi Railway Station has the world's largestRoute Relay Interlocking System, an achievement that haswon the station a place in the Guinness Book of Records. 12.The record formaximum number of stops by an Express/Mail train is held by Howrah - AmritsarExpress 115 halts, followed by Delhi - Howrah Janata Express 109 halts andJammu Tawi - Sealdah Express 99 halts. 13.Indian Railways(IR) carries over 25 million passengers daily which is perhaps more than theentire population of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania put together. AnnuallyIndian Railways ferries 7.2 billion passengers (nearly 6x India's currentpopulation). 14.India’s oldest working locomotive is the fairy Queenmanufactured in the year 1855. 15.Trivandrum -Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani is the train with a longest distance between 2consecutive halts, covering a distance of 528 kms between Vadodara and Kota, in6.5 hours. 16.Sikkimis the only Northeastern state which is not connected to a rail network. NH10is the only road thatconnects the state with the rest of the country. 17. The Nilgiri Passenger, which runsbetween Ooty and Mettupalayam, is the slowest train in the world with anaverage speed of 10 kmph. 18.Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta,in Andhra Pradesh, is the station with a longest name in India. 19.India has five luxury trains namely– Royal Rajasthan onWheels, Palace on Wheels, The Golden Chariot, The Deccan Odyssey, and theMaharaja Express. Palace on Wheels is the oldest one and the Maharaja Expressis the most expensive. These luxury hold an eminentposition amongst the luxury trains in the world. 20.Surekha Yadav née Surekha Shankar Yadav(born 2 September 1965) is a female locopilot (train driver) of the IndianRailways in India,. Shebecame India's first female train driver in 1988. 21.Indian Railwayshave always been the backbone of our country’s public transport system with 16zones which cover a route of 65,808 km with 7,112 stations. 22.Mamata Banerjeewas the first female to become a Railway Minister in 2000. Also, in 2002 shebecame the first female minister to present the Railway Budget. 23.There are total 6 Rail Museums in India. They are– Chennai RailMuseum, Chennai Joshi’s Museum ofMiniature Railway, Pune National RailMuseum, New Delhi Railway HeritageCentre, Tiruchirappalli Railway Museum,Mysore Rewari RailwayHeritage Museum 24. Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmiris the longest railway tunnel in India with a length of 11.25 kms. and manymore…. My note- A few information are repeat butrefreshing Q3 What are some advantages of buildinghouses with mud and straw instead of concrete or wood? A3 Brian Good, Acting Assistant DeputyDirector, Ministry of Moot PointsSep 2 The advantage is that you can probably find the materialson the site or nearby at low cost. The disadvantage isthat you may be trying to re-invent the art of adobe on your own, ignoring thousandsof years of technological experience. Africans have been building mud homes for millennia. Q4 Why is it that the more we use airconditioners, the more heat increases? A4 Andy Duffell,Armourer, engineer,nerd.Tue Because air conditioners don’t create “cold”, all they dois move heat from one place to another. All the heat they pump out of your house or car ends up in the airoutside. Ontop of this, no machine is 100% efficient, so they generate some waste heat. So in the end the atmosphere contains all the heat you moved out frominside the space you’re cooling, plus the waste heat from runningthe air conditioner. Q5 Can we eat apple and milk together? A5 Lucia Garcia,Worked at Hospitals8h Apples and milk arerecognized as the top 10 healthy foods in the world, they can provide manyessential nutrients for your body. However,many nutritionists believe that Apples and Milk Are Not a LegitimateCombination. Milk is rich inhigh-quality protein, and its digestibility is as high as 90%. Milk is anexcellent source of protein for the human body. Apples contain a lot of acidic substances such asmalic acid and ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Clinicalexperience has shown that the protein in milk and the acid in the apple meet inthe stomach and Will Coagulate into Lumps, damaging the nutrients in the appleand milk. If you eatmany apples and milk together, it may cause indigestion.Severe cases can also cause gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea andabdominal pain. It isrecommended not to eat apples within 1 hour before and after drinking milk Q4 Why is an air conditioner costly? A4 Gopala Krishnan, Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004) Feb 16 Because of the mostimportant part compressor. Designing internal and external unit in split AC.The running capacitor, high quality copper tubing also costs. Normally a good compressor for 1.5 ton AC costs above15000–00 during replacement. I have replaced onecompressor before 4 years. Q5 Where do doctors eat in the hospital? A5 Khengchat Ng, Self Employed(1986–present)Mon Those whosedepartments allow them to have regular meal times ( e.g. pathology, radiology,general outpatients ) havethem in the canteen. The hospitals I worked at provided a diningarea only for doctors. It sounded apartheid until one realizes a lot ofsemi-informal meeting work is done there, like discussing common patients. Theinformation was all subject to confidentiality and hence the restriction onnon-medical staff dining there. Doctors were allowed to dine in the general areas but they wereadvised not to discuss work there. Other doctors may get the chanceto dine in the doctor dining area sometimes, but often, it will be grabbedsandwiches over overdue paperwork. Q6 If I am Gujarati, can I call myself aNorth Indian? A6 Bhuvana Rameshwar, Lives in India(1989–present)5h No.You are a Gujarathi.Youdo not need to group yourself with the north Indian states. Nor do you need tocall yourself a West Indian. So call yourself a Gujarathi proudly. In South India wecall Guajratis as Gujarathis. We do not group them with Rajasthanis although both thesestates are West Indian states to be precise. This is because of our awarenessof the contrast in Gujarat and Rajasthan.. in Culture, language, topography andnatural resources. Weassociate Rajasthan with Thar desert, Rajput forts, palaces and Hawamahalalthough now Rajasthan is doing very well in agriculture too thanksto the Indira gandhi canal. We also know marble for our floors and walls comesfrom Rajasthan, so do many of the migrant labour for construction work,carpentry and tile work. Gujarat stands, ahead of Rajasthan in agriculture andrelated produce but is also famous as the stateof Modi and the large number high level business men not only in India, butthroughout the world. We associate Gandhi, Sabarmati, Statue of Unity, Dwarka,Rann of Kutch and Gir forest with Gujarat. We in southernparts of India thus easily differentiate between the Gujrati community from the Jain or marwaricommunity. They both are found in large numbers in all parts ofsouthern India especially in cities and bigger towns of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,AP, Telengana and Pondicherry. They are in lesser numbers in Kerala thoughprobably due to strong communist affiliations. So we do not groupthem together as west India while talking general about them but may be if weteach or learn the physical features of India in geography or in geology. My note- In Chennaithere are number of Rajasthan origin andGujarat origin people bornin Chennai and studied southern languages and speak them fluently Q7 Why Indian Railways is planning tointroduce hundreds of Vande Bharat trains capable of 160 to 200 kmph speed in 2to 3 years but most of routes have speed potential of 110 to 120? A7 Prasanna Bhalerao, Knows about trains.Aug 18 They may have slightly higher average speed then rajadhani. Rajdhani trains(latest Tejas rakes) also capable of travelling at 160 kph. But capacity is one thing,tracks and congestion is another thing. Try asking yourselfthe question: Why am I buying/bought a car capable for 120–140 kph when Icannot travel more than 50 kph, mostly 30 kph in the city? But the answer to that is ifyou travel on an expressway, an empty one, you can zoom at 120 kph.(You shouldn’t but that is a different issue). Same way when the new tracks are built, congestionreduced (alas! a pipe dream), signal systems improved,etc., then these trains will be able to travel at 160 kph (hopefully). But atrain capable of 120 kph only will never be able to travel at 160 kph eventrack, traffic, signalling system, etc., favours it. Finally, the number of Vande Bharat trains (Train-18sitting-only type) will be limited, not hundreds.When sleeper enabled Vande Bharat trains (Train-20) are introduced, the numbermay jump significantly. Q8 Why aren't trains built with two deckslike most buses? A8 David Moe,Lives in Canadian Rockies(2006–present)3y Outside of the UK trains often have double decker passengercars.The UK is the onlycountry I know of that allows double decker buses but not double decker trains.In most other countries, the railway gauges are sufficiently tall that thatthey can operate double decker trains, but often low clearances under bridges and wires incities prevent the operation of double-decker buses. See: Bilevel railcar - Wikipedia Double decker trainin the Canadian Rockies: One of the reasonsrailways in other countries have much higher loading gauges than the UK is thattheir railways werebuilt much later. By that time, railways realized that they wantedto be able to carry double decker carriages and much taller cargo than UKrailways allowed, and they built their tunnels and bridges to allow it. The UK railway system would haveto be rebuilt to handle it in the UK. Double stackedcontainer train in the US:You can’t double stack cargo containers in most ofEurope, but you can inNorth America, India, and China because of the high loading gauges. Q9 What stones along raliway track means? A9 Subhasis Dutta Roy,20 years in Indianrailways (including15 yrs as Loco Pilot)Updated 1y Trains move on therailway track. The wheels of a train are also rigidly fixed with axles. Sorailway tracks must be in a fixed position where they should be. It is directlyrelated to trains movements. If anything very small portion of railway tracks, is mismatched ordislocated at any portion of railway track, it turns to an accident. The image showedabove of a railway track that dislocates from its original position. It is veryvery dangerous for a train movement. Railway tracks placed on the sleeper. These sleepershold the railway track. So it is most necessary Railway tracks must not bedislocated.How could it possible? It is notpossible economically, to make a concrete base throughout the railway track. So the next optionis railway track must be placed on something that can hold the railway track inproper place irrespective of heavy loaded trains movement on the railway track. So engineersinvent this ballast stone foundation around 200 years ago and still, itcontinues. But railway tracks not placed on ballast only. A solidfoundation makes before laying ballast on that. This foundation has threelayers. Herewith this picture, you can understand this. On the naturalground, a subgrades foundation made. If you see the new railway tracks building then you alsosee the huge soil foundation building up for long days. Then the first layer of ballast and a secondary layer ofballast foundation build. Lastly at the top final layer of ballast and sleepers laid.Then on the sleepers, railway tracks lay. So that ballast is very very important for moving trainswith safety. Railway has adepartment named permanent way department is looked after the railway trackthroughout the year. If you travel on a train you can see trackmen wearing anorange dress working on railway tracks. They are the key person to ensuring the safety of Railwaytrack subsequently railway passengers like you. Q10 Did all humans originate fromAfrica? If so, why did some humans leave Africa? A10 Claire Jordan,Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Wed Yes, all groups of humans came from Africa ultimately.The Neanderthals and Denisovans evolved outside Africa, but they evolved inEurope and Asia from groups of Homo heidelbergensis or Homo antecessor whothemselves had come from Africa. The latest thinking, at least according to the BBC, is thatthe first people to leave Africa did so from the Horn of Africa to what is nowYemen. The mouth of the Red Sea is narrow enough that on a clear day theywould be able to see that there were hills and trees over there. As to why theycrossed over, maybe there was a drought on the African side.Maybe they were just curious and wanted to explore. Maybe they were fishingfrom a canoe and got blown across. Maybe there were too manypeople on the African side and they wanted to get away from their inlaws, orthey’d quarrelled with the local chief. Maybe they weretraders looking for a source of new trade goods. Maybe their gods told them tocross. We don’t know and will probably never know, since writinghadn’t been invented yet. All the above QA are from Quora website on 08-09- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled andposted by R. Gopala krishnan on 09-09-2022 -- 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]. 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