CULTURALQA 03-2024-22 Allthe below QA are from QUORA DIGEST tome on 22-03-2024.
SelectedQuora answers by scholars generally interesting are included. Still they need not be 100%correct answers.. Compiled and posted by R Gopalakrishnan, 80, on 22-3-2024 Q1 Whatis the interesting incident of God sending food to an aged women? A1 LuciaB.1y “A very poorwoman called a radio station asking for help from God. A non-believer who was also listening to thisradio program decided to make fun of the woman. He got the woman's address fromthe radio station and told his secretary to carry a large amount of foodstuffto the woman. However, he gave the following instruction, "When the woman asks who sent the food, tellher that it's from the devil.'' When the secretary arrived at the woman's house, thewoman was happy and grateful for the help received. She started putting thefood packets inside her small house. The secretary then asked her, ''Don't you want to know who sentthe food?'' The woman replied,''No, I don't care because when GOD orders, even the DEVIL obeys! Q2 What'sthe smartest thing you've ever seen someone did? A2 DhruvChauhan, PG Diploma in Advertising andMarketing (college major), Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai(Graduated 2018)Updated 6y The Guest speaker took away the phones of more than 100students without a single protest. So this happened yesterday, It was our orientationfor the first day of college in XIC, Mumbai. The hall was filled with at least 150 studentsbelonging to different courses. A guest speaker who was the head of department ofNeuroscience had to deliver a speech. The chance of grabbing attention of everyone was slimas people were busy looking at their phone screens. So this is what he did: Before starting his speech, he said he was going to conduct a funactivity to make his speech interesting. He asked everyone to put up their hands and wavetheir phones in the air. Everyone did. Then he asked every person to exchange his/her phone witha person sitting atleast 4–5 seats away. Everyone did. Now noone had their own phone and everyone had someone else's phone. We all were anticipating an interesting game. The speaker then continued with his speech and gaveus a nice 20-minute speech. Everyone was listening attentively because they had nothingto fidget with.They didn't have their own phone with them so now everyone was extremely lessdistracted. We were stillhopeful of the pending game. But the speaker finished his speech, said thank you, and finished withthe question, “How didyou feel when your biggest distraction was taken away from you? You may nowexchange your phones back.” That's when we knew we were brilliantly scammed bythe speaker so that we would give our full attention to him. Genius isn't it? Have A Beautiful Day! Edit:-A lot of people are asking for the speaker’sname. He is Doctor Father RoyPereira. He heads the department of Chemistry and Neurosciences at St. Xavier’sCollege, Mumbai. Q3 Whydid Gandhari blame Krishna for war instead of Shakuni, Duryodhana, andDhratrashtra? A3 SeemaBharti, Author of Mahabharat's Stories14h Seeing the destruction, in the battle at Kurukshetra,with all her sons dead along with close relations, Gandhari curses Vasudev, “ The cousins,Pandavas and Kauravas slaughtered each other. The destruction followed by theenemity could have been avoided. But you chose to ignore. Your sons too shall die in a similarmanner accompanied by friends and relatives. You too shall have apainful end. The women too will suffer just like the Bharata women.” Vasudev asks Gandhari, to not blame him for her ownand that of her sons crimes. They were cruel, evil and jealous. Duryodhan refused to honour the wisecounsel of the seniors in the kingdom. Inspite of the transgressions, shealways honored Duryodhan. He further added, that her curse would not be negated and the Destiny ofthe Vrishnis has already been predetermined by him. The Yadavs would bekilled by each other and no one else. >From online source My note- I recollect the first linesof Gandhari Vilapamstudied in the first year of my degree course- “Veenithallo kitakkunnu Dharaniyil,sonithavum aninju ayyo siva siva” Q4 Whatare some interesting facts about highways in India? A4 AmitSingh,21h How do you know if a highway, you are travelling on,is a national highway, a state highway or a district/city road. You would have noticed the different colors of themilestones alongside a road. In India, on administrative basis, there are 3 kind of roads - the onemaintained by the Central Government bodies like NHAI, the respective stategovernment and the district administration. So. the nationalhighway has a white and yellow milestone. A state highwayhas a white and green milestone. And a city road has a black andwhite or simply white milestone. A road constructed under "Pradhan Mantri GramSadak Yojana" will have orangeand white milestone. Profile photo for Tiny Nair Q5 Whatincident made you cry in public? A5 TinyNair, Cardiologist at PRS Hospital, Trivandrum Updated 5y I studied for my graduation (MBBS) at Calcutta and usedto travel to Kerala during vacations. During one such I was returning to Calcutta and got downat Howrah (Calcutta) railway station. As I was jostling towards the exit, avoice called out sir sirmalayali ano ( sir are you a malayali?). I turned back to see someonelike this. (Photo from Google) “Sir I am a malayali and got downfrom this train. I got my handbag burgled with my money gone. All I need is Rs100 to go to my brothers place (she showed me the address). I asked many people for help and everyone thinks I amtrying to make up a story. Ican ask my brother to come and return the money tomorrow” I looked at her. With a baby in arm, a travel bag onher shoulder, and a mineral water bottle in the other hand she was no cheat. Can't it happen to mysister tomorrow? I paid the money. I told her I am a medicalstudent staying at the medical college hostel. Told her not to bother about returning it. Shegently thanked me and left. Suddenly there was irritation in my eyes, must be the kolkata dust. The story doesn't end there.I came back to the hostel I told my friends what happened. Before my story wasover one of the locals burst out laughing ….. “ohh you too. We thought you aresmart and won’t fall for such stuff. She is a regular in Howrah station”. Two days later I triumphantly came back to my hostelroom and broke the unexpected news. The lady's brother did come back and return the money. My friends weresurprised. PS - No one returned the money. I told a lie to myfriends. Not to prove that I am not a fool but to make sure that no deserving human be labelled as a cheat.Iam happy to be cheated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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