CULTURAL QA 11-2022-22 BEING A COMPILATIONTHERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 What is something that is absolutelyworth the money? A1 Shaunak Bhattacharjeee, softwareEngineer | Traveller | Foodie Nov 13 I hate eating fruits. My dadwould bring fruits for me and they would simply rot in the fruit basket. But recently, I have beendiagnosed with Vitamin C and Vitamin D deficiency and the doctor has advisedeating fruits. Natural source of vitamins cannot be replaced bymedicine. So I have to have fruits now, but the problem was, I don't likeeating them. That's why I purchased this juicer and everydayin the evening, I prepare juice from whatever fruit is available in the houseand drink a glass of it. The device acts as a mixer, grinder and ajuicer, but since we already have a mixer at home, I solely use it as a fruitjuicer. This also helps me with tackling the hunger pangs that I get in theevening in a healthy way and no longer rely on Swiggy. It saves me time, but more than that, I don't feel fussyanymore to have fruits. That ensures my daily intakeof vitamins in the natural way. I purchased it for 1,800 rupees but this was aone-time investment and I am reaping the benefits out of it now and I think itis absolutely worth the money spent. The best part about this is, I can addapples, grapes, pineapples and oranges and create a mixed fruit juice. I canexperiment and enjoy fresh juice whenever I like. My note-Drinking is different from cutting andeating fruits biting them with teeth. However whenblood sugar is low with diabetics, fruit juice is best. Eating requires energy. I keep fruit juiceor cool drinks in refrigerator, and whenfeeling blood sugar goes down, I drink it Q2 What are the benefits of eatingAjwain? How does it work and what kind of food can be prepared using this seed? A2 Laura Bailey,Get Fit. Get Healthy.Get Results!16h The Ajwain seed(Ayamodakam in Malayalam) isoften used in Indian cuisine, and it has a number of benefits. Ajwain can helpwith indigestion, gas, and bloating. It can also be used as a remedy for coldsand coughs. Additionally, Ajwain can be used to help treat respiratory problemssuch as bronchitis and asthma. So how does Ajwain work? Ajwain containsthymol, which is an essential oil that has antispasmodic, antibacterial, andanti-inflammatory properties. This oil helps to relax the muscles in the digestive tract, which canrelieve indigestion and gas. Additionally, theoil can help to clear the respiratory tract and promote easy breathing. Ajwaincan be used in a variety of dishes, including soups, stews. Q3 What is the shortest flight that youhave ever taken? A3 Shaunak Bhattacharjeee, Lives inKolkata, West Bengal, India (1996–present)Nov 13 The shortest flightwould be between Kolkatato Bagdogra airport and I have taken a flight on this route multipletimes. The standard flight timeis 1 hour 10 minutes on this route, but mostly you will arrive within 45minutes if the runway traffic is clear. If you travelled by train, it would take you close to 10hours to reach Bagdogra from Kolkata, but you wouldsave a lot of time if you travelled by flight and, since my leaves at work are limited, Iprefer to spend a few thousand rupees extra, but that saves me a lot of time,saving probably one day's travel. However, ifyou are not in a rush, it doesn't make sense to spend 5,000 on a flight whenyou can reach there for 1,000 rupees on a train. Q4 If Maharashtra is not interested in abullet train, then why doesn't the Modi government shift the bullet trainproject to Tamil Nadu? A4 Balaji Viswanathan, observes the TNpolitics.2y It is primarily oneconomic feasibility. Mumbai-Ahmedabad route connect 5 of the 20 largest citiesin the country — List of cities in India by population — with #1, #5, #8,#15 and #20. No other alternative route connects so many large cities. A goalof a train route is to find as many passengers to go enroute. It also involves an extremely rich populace. A diamondmerchant in Surat can take the train and get home in the fastest way possible.The inclusion of Mumbai provides the sufficient level of people who can affordan expensive train trip. The third is theadvantage of the route being a part of the busy Mumbai-Delhi corridor. Mumbai-Delhi is the world’s 3rdbusiest air route (Do You Know What The World’s Busiest Flight Route Is With 180 DailyFlights? and at capacity.The bullet train to Ahmedabad could be potentially extended to Delhi someday,thereby significantly adding new customers. And of course, thepractical challenges of finding land [where Gujarat government has been quitegood] and the terrain being flat. Chennai-Bengaluru doesn’t involve large cities in between[Vellore is only town and it is the #252th largest town in India] and acquiringany land in Tamil Nadu is a big headache as the highway to Salem has shown.And it involves anelevation around Krishnagiri that is not as suitable for the Bullet train. My note- Till I was posted to Krishnagiri, I did nottravel to the place. When I started my journey from Salem, I never thought itwas a steep rock cut road at manyplaces. However the placewas somewhat hot, though close toHosur and Bangalore Q5 Why should a person in India takemuch more care to prevent heart disease? A5 Narayana Health, PromotedHealth forall. All for health.22h One should takemore care of the heart to prevent a heart disease as: Globally, the incidence of heart disease is rising, andin India, the disease is in epidemic form. Indians are genetically morevulnerable to a heart attack. For a healthyheart, we must first be careful of what we eat. Reduce oil content in the diet. Include less fat. Avoid red meat. Eat more vegetables and fruits. No smoking. Avoid alcohol consumption. Red wine is supposedto be good for health, but I do not see how. Exercise isnecessary particularly for Indians, at least for 30 minutes to one hour a day. Source: NarayanaHealth[1] Q6 How do railways manage to keep theirtracks level, despite the fact that the ground underneath them is alwayschanging? A6 John Laidlaw,Lives in Victoria, BC14h It's called “maintenance of way”. The first thing onehas to understand is that railway tracks are laid on a very stable base, builtup, preferably, from solid rock. So - how do you build tracks across unstable,boggy ground? First, you don't, if you have any chance. Next, the base of the tracks must godown to stable ground, stable enough to carry the designed load withoutdistortion. What we see as a track laid on anembankment of gravel often began life as a low trestle, on pilings driven untilthey can carry the load. The gravel comes later - sometimes severalyears after the line went into service - packed around the tops of the pilingsto protect them, carry additional load, and channel precipitation away from thetracks. Q7 What are some fascinating monumentsnot many people know about? A7 Sean Kernan,Financial analyst turnedwriter. Nov 12 This one: It is the talleststatue in the world and nearly twice the height of the statue of liberty. It iscalled the Statue ofUnity. It portrays Indianstatesman and activist, SardarVallabhbhai Patel. It’s incredible to see some of the construction wehave done in rececent decades. I do wonder if we go extinct— if some other humanrace will later discover these statues and wonder what we did with them. They’ll probably overthink itand assume we could make these monuments walk and go fight in battles somehow. If I become amega-billionaire, I will set a new record and build a Godzilla statue. My note-The location is not told, it could be near Vindhya mountains. Q8 How do high-speed trains compare toplanes in terms of energy efficiency? A8 Jerry Roane,CEO TriTrack Motors&CEO Roane Inventions Inc. (2017–present)11h High speedtrain tracks use so much diesel energy to build that they could never come outas a clean solution to transportation. This question hasno solid answer because of ridership. When the disastrous chicken out inAfghanistan happened they crammed hundreds of people onto those cargo planeslowering their energy cost per mile per passenger. The last high speed train Irode had about 50% of the seats filled in the most populous country in theworld going between the two biggest cities. High speedtrains only serve a densely populated corridor with any chance of a potentialprofit. The rest of the nation cannot support ahigh-speed train but they are expected to pay the bill for the elite corridor. In China a 777carries 388 seats and because of aggressive real time ticket pricing typicallyrun nearly full. Amtrak data is trains use 2,936 BTU per passenger mile in realservice. An airplane trip was at 3,892 BTU per passenger mile back in 2014. Amtrak top speed for passenger service is 90 mph so high speed trains willwaste more fuel going much faster. The increase in fuel burn is afunction of the square of the velocity. We don’t have any high speed trains inthe US with real ridership to get any real data. Because of theinitial energy losses of construction I am sure at this point high-speed trainsare many multiples of an airliner ride. Self-driving guide way EVs areat 124 BTU per seated passenger mile at 180 mph. If you consider that highspeed “rail. Q9 Howcome Italians do not get fat, consuming so much carbohydrate, pasta, anddelicious food? A9 Clive Gordon,Lives in London(1965–present)Nov 16 Becausethey don’t eat as much as you seem to think. How much do you think is “somuch”? Italians actually have quite a healthy diet. 75g or 3 ozis considered to be a reasonable portion of pasta. Pizza is a snack, not theenormous things seen in the USA - an Italian pizza is thin and with minimaltoppings. And these aren’t the main part of the diet -the main part of dinner will be meat and vegetables, and dessert will mostlikely be fruit. They also have a variety of soups. They are getting fatter though, probably due to a moresedentary life these days.Actual Italian food is nothing like what you get inItalian-American restaurants. Q10 How do high-speed rail systems work,and how fast can they realistically go? A10 Chris P Wilson,Former Retired atNational Health Service (NHS)20h Someoneexplained this to me once. I'll try and remember. Electricity flows at a topspeed of 186 mph. I think. So withoutforcing the lecky down the line the limit would be 186mph. You need adecent distance between stations (100 miles?) to make any real savings in time.The track needs to be fairly straight or heavily banked to prevent trainsfrom flying off. In UK its hard to justify the expense so they've gonefor shorter dwell time. So faster acceleration and less time spent at thestation. If you're getting on or off you'd better not dither. Q11 Does India need a second nationalcapital? A11 Balaji Viswanathan,Center-right,moderate conservative.3y Yes. Delhi is choking. It is the world’s most pollutedcapital and it is truly hazardous at this point — AQI touches ‘HAZARDOUS’category; outdoors turn toxic for humans Populationexplosion has turned a beautiful city into a monster. And it is a pooradvertisement for India as a whole as diplomats, businessmen and foreignpoliticians arrive in Delhi before they see other parts of India. More importantly,the effectiveness of our bureaucrats and law makers will be low if they have toput through with a smoke chimney — and their poor health will lower theeffectiveness of the central government. Among the dozens of things we could do to fightpollution, we have to take the government off Delhi and reduce some of thestress. Move it anywhere else - with a much cleanerair. There are plenty of good candidate locations across India — with muchcleaner air, water and transportation access. That would allow our governmentto be more productive and the foreign visitors to appreciate an India that isnot all haze. As the government exits Delhi, its population andvehicular traffic will go down and provide sufficient time to cleanup the city. Unless we take adrastic measure, the city and the governments therein face a massive calamitydue to the pollution. My top choices would be in India’s center: Near Paradip in Odisha. Access to ports, fresh waterand room for expansion. It has the basic infra necessary for a capital. Onlyconcern is its ongoing industrialisation might bring in pollution. Near Bhedaghat in MP. Close to Narmada andserene environs of Mahadev hills. Plenty of history around. Jabalpur airport can be madeinto an international airport and other basic infra can be built. If we plan foreco-friendly capital and a strong focus on nature friendliness and cleanlinessfrom day 1, it could set the blueprint for a new India. My note- I have read/heard Calcutta was the capital ofIndia and later shifted to New Delhi. With respect totelecom, first telecom factory, training centre etc. were in Calcutta.Later it was changed to Jabalpur. For a long period Jabalpur remainedthe telecom training centre as TTC and later RTTC were introduced. I was 27thbatch Junior engineer from Trivandrum RTTC, just after 3 years it was startedon lease from Old Engineering college, Trivandrum. Q12 Can a train leave a station before thetime mentioned on your ticket? (Please check my comment for related screenshot) A12 Prashant Tiwari, Moderator, IndianRailways Space Sat Yes, It can happenonly in one condition i.e., If the time table of that particular train has beenrevised/changed. We generally book our train tickets 2–3 months before ourjourney and the possibility is very high that the departure time we got whilebooking the ticket and the actual departure on the date of journey is not sameand has been revised by some 5–10 mins. Indian Railways is continuously upgrading the tracks& coaches to LHB and increasing the max permissible speed of trains whichultimately changes the time table of those trains. So, do check the departuretime of your train one day before your journey. Note: It is the responsibility of the Train Manager toensure that his/her train leaves the station not before its scheduled departuretime. Hope thisinformation was helpful to you. My note- I haveread elsewhere that onlytime to start was from the reservationstations. In between stations they may travel at any time. Similarlytime of arrival was early stipulated and trains came before arrival time waitedin previous stations. For the last few years, it is waived. Normally night trains from Bangalore to Chennai most days arrive even 20 minutes-30 minutes earlier. All the above QA are from Quora website on 22-10-2022 Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan,former ITS, 79 years, on 22-11-2022 -- 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/589869178.1999763.1669101219862%40mail.yahoo.com.
