Dear friends, I have posted the copy to the groups especially for the answer to QA 3 and my note about my official details Gopalakrishnan
CULTURALQA 05-2026-20 Q1 What happens to a beehive if thehoney is not harvested? A1 Jhony, May6 The bees will eat thehoney they have collected. Well, actually it's a bit more complicated than that. Bees collect nectar from flowers and make honey from it. Honeyis what they eat, along with pollen, and bees need to store enough honey tofeed themselves during the honey-gathering season, as well as during the wintermonths when the colony cannot go out to forage. So, when abeekeeper harvests honey from a hive, they are stealing the foodthe bees have worked hard to collect. At first, that might sound cruel. However, fortunately forus, a healthy bee colonycan collect more honey than it can consume on its own. A wise beekeeper will knowhow much honey the colony needs to survive and will only collect the excess forthemselves. Furthermore, most of the honey harvesting takes place in midsummer so thebees have enough time to rebuild their honey stores. But there's another reason to collect honey from the hivebesides having something tasty to put on your toast. If the bees collectenough honey to completely fill the hive, two things can happen. First, the bees may decide their space is too small and swarm, leavingthe hive in search of a larger home. The second thing that can happen is that the bees don't leave the hive but beginstoring honey in the comb they usually use to raise young bees. Thisis also bad, as the colony won't be able to raise new bees. The bees and the colony willbecome very weak and may collapse as the existing bees age and die. Both situations are also bad for the beekeeper. A full hiveof bees can represent an investment of several hundred dollars. Therefore, don't feel badabout taking honey as long as you don't become too greedy. Always leave enough for your bees. Q2 Does Valmiki Ramayana mention Ramahad multiple wives? Bhanu Kiran, Admires the stories of Ramayana May 1 The misconceptionarises due to a dialogue from Manthara. Rama's wives will get delighted. Your daughters-in-law will beunhappy because of Bharata's waning position. Source: Valmiki Ramayana AjodhyaKanda Sarga 8 The term 'Rama's wives'doesn't imply that Rama had multiple wives. Manthara was suggesting a potential future scenariowhere, as a king, Rama might marry additional women.During that time, it wascustomary for kings to have more than one wife. King Dasharatha says toRama that he along with his wife must observe fast. Nowhere has he used theword ‘wives’ which indicates that Rama was married only to Sita and no one else. "That is why, with self-control, you along with yourwife should observe fast for this night from now onwards, and sleep on a couchmade of Kusha grass." Source: Valmiki Ramayana Ayodhya Kanda Sarga 4 Later Ayodhya Kanda has a verse saying Rama worshipped LordVishnu along with his wife Sita. Nowhere plural word for wife is used. After Vasistha left, Rama took bath and meditated on LordNarayana with undistracted mind along with his wide-eyed wife, Seetha. Source: Valmiki Ramayana Ayodhya Kanda Sarga 6 Q3 What will Brahmins do if thereservation cap is removed and introduced reservation even in the privatesector? A3 PoorvishaRavi, Assistant Director at Tamil Nadu Forensic Sciences Department(2026–present) May 4 I'm a Brahmin. Let me tellyou about my family. My father didmedicine and joined the Army. My second aunt and her husband (uncle), both worked in the Parliament. Yes theymissed some seniority rankings because of affirmative action, but they livedwell and retired well. My third aunt was with SBI and her husband (uncle) worked with BHEL. My oldest cousin is in the private sector (telecom) and has donewonderfully for himself - even though because of reservation policy, he didn'tget his desired college. He owns a nice large flat in Bengaluru in a gatedcommunity and their family is comfortable with just his single income. The second cousin long ago immigrated to the USA for his education and hassettled there. His family is also a single income one but they're comfortable.Bought a home. The third cousin did Mass Communication and worked in media for a while butlater got married and immigratedto the USA as well. My older nephew just got admitted into an integrated PhD program inBiophysics. The fourth cousin is a Chartered Accountant. His wife is also CA. They live in aposh locality in Delhi in their own home. I don't want to expand onits net worth. My older brother did his PhD and Post Doc, is married to a Bulgarian German lady andis settled in Germany. The fifth cousin worked in telecom, got married, moved to the USA and found asuitable job some years later. Now they own a nice home in California and livecomfortably. The last one, I, cleared TNPSC for Forensic Sciences Subordinate Servicesdespite the reservation policy (I was my batch topper) and was placed 7th inseniority. Later, someone filed a case for the rearrangement of seniority asper merit (the petitioner was a Muslim, not a Brahmin) and the case was ruledin favour so I was placed third in my batch (the first two were carry-over vacanciesof SC/ST from previous year). Today I'm probably the youngest Assistant Director in the services in thestate if not the country. I also own a 3BHK apartment in Chennai. As you can see, we've thrived even with the reservationpolicy in place. That's not to say that the policy in itscurrent form is absolutely cool - it's obviously not and needs a seriousoverhaul. It's that peoplewho work hard will find a way to thrive. If the country doesn'treward that work, they will simply emigrate to greener pastures - just how fourof us seven have already done. My note-I have a special reason to add this QA. I had a high rank in BSc. Physics and graduated in 1964 from Kerala University. I wasstudying with Travancore Devaswam board Scholarship and on passing immediatelyjoined in their High school near Kothamangalam as a High School Assistant . I had long back applied while studying in 2nd yearBSc, just like that for a clerical post in P and T Department in Tamil Nadu onseeing an advertisement in Hindu paper. I was selected in September 1964 to clerical post. Being Central Government job with pension,I was advised by elders to join the Telecom department… Within a year I appliedfor Junior Engineerpost on seeing newspaper advertisement inHindu and got selected for TamilNadu Circle in 1966 and aftertraining in Telecom Training Centre atTrivandrum, joined in 1967 end. In 1974 itself I passed TES class II examination inthe first attempt. Since promotion was due to seniority I got selected as Assistant Engineer in 1979. In addition to my normal duties as AssistantEngineer Iwas Enquiry officer(Vigilance) while working inTamilnadu circle I joined as senior lecturer in Trivandrum Telecom trainingcentre in 1991.I continued there till my promotion in 1996. I got promoted to TES Class 1 as Divisional Engineer(Technical maintenance andinstallation in Calicut) in Kerala Circle in 1996 and retired as Assistant General Manager, Kerala Circle in 2004 end. I was also Guest lecturer on new Technologiesin Training centre at Trivandrum till my retirement with additional Honororium. Availing opportunities without looking in to the position selected, irrespective of qualification was theprinciple I followed in my career. Q4 What is a brain teaser that is veryshort and extremely hard for adults? A4 Riki Smah, Studiedat John Marshall High School (Graduated 2020)7y This is an old riddle my 5th grade math teacher gave us wayback in the day, but it still gets people whenever I share it. Here goes. Two fathers and two sons get together one Saturday morningand head out to a lake nearby to spend the entire day together. They do all thethings a normal reunion entails: they have a picnic, they play kickball, andthey end their reunion with fishing. And guess what? They’re each able to catcha fish of their own! The day goes by splendidly, and by dusk they were all home. Upon arriving, they count the number of fish they caught backin the pond. Three fish. They caught three fish in total. How is this possible? EDIT: I forgot toput in some crucial ground rules. No fish was lost. They all each caught a fish, andthey brought the same amount of fish home. There’s no “complex”way they could have caught the fish. For example, two people didn’t mysteriously catch the samefish. ← Fun fact. This was the theory Iproposed to my 5th Grade math teacher, who just laughed it off. ANSWER IS BELOW. There was a grandfather, a father, and a son. My note- Change thebackground colour who cannot read the answer above. Q5 What is the funniest clean joke youhave ever heard? A5 RobertFarnsworth, Apr 29 A man died. His wife died a few years later. When she arrived in heaven she asked St. Peter to let her husband know she arrived sothey could be together again. “What has his name?” asked St. Peter. “Joe,” She replied, “Joseph Smith.” “Hmm,” said St. Peter, “we have a thousand Joseph Smiths uphere. Let’s narrow it down a bit. Tell me, what were his last words?” She thought for a moment, and then said, “Julie, if you waste any of my hardearned money, I’ll turn over in my grave!” “Oh,” said St. Peter, “we don’t need to go any farther. Weall know him, we call him ‘Whirling Joe’ up here.” A5-2 Amelia (Amè), 2y A businessman was interviewing job applicants for theposition of manager of a large division. He quickly devised a test for choosingthe most suitable candidate. He simply asked each applicant this question, "What is two plus two?" The first interviewee was a journalist. His answer was, "Twenty-two". The second was a social worker. She said, "I don't know the answer but I'm very glad that we had theopportunity to discuss it." The third applicant was an engineer. He pulled out a slide rule and came up with an answer"somewhere between 3.999and 4.001." Next came an attorney. He stated that "in the case of Jenkins vs. the Department of the Treasury, twoplus two was proven to be four." Finally, the businessman interviewed an accountant. When he asked him what two plus two was, the accountant got up from hischair, went over to the door, closed it, came back and sat down. Leaning across the desk, he said in a low voice, "How much do you want it tobe?" He got the job. All the above QA arecompiled from Quora Digest. R.Gopalakrishnan, 20-05-2026 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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