HE WAS A HERO!!

The problem with India is that we remember our heroes occasionally, like for their birthday or on some event related to them. I believe heroes must be remembered not on some occasion, but always, their journey must be taught in school books, but it does not happen (exceptions are there). Such a hero is – Major Dhyanchand who is also termed as ‘WIZARD OF HOCKEY’, who played for India (under British rule) for consecutively three Olympics and clinched the gold every time. His superb footwork, ball control and exceptional talent gave him the attention and respect of people worldwide.

He played hockey for 25 years and scored more than 400 goals, but why am I talking about this? You can get any information related to Major Dhyanchand from the internet, as India celebrated its sports day yesterday and "Major Sahab" is the biggest sports icon in the nation. Any other hockey player could never repeat what he accomplished for the nation. He started his hockey in poverty and I am ashamed to say that he ended in poverty. What he actually deserved, he never got and the Indian political system failed him. Politicians never showed the respect he deserved when he was alive. Yes, after his death some stadiums, some awards and some sports authorities got his name, but that is not enough.

Major Sahab has done a lot for the nation, but the respect and financial security that designated for him he never got that. He never requested any assistance from the Govt. instead, he said that my job was to play for the nation-I did that, now its Govt.’s duty to take my care. He died due to liver cancer believe me! His last days were too alone and terrible, in poverty, got no medical treatment and other facilities, no one paid any attention towards him. He was a patriot; no doubt on that, he served his nation really well. I use to respect his spirit and his never give-up spirit. I usually imagine that history and the nation never did justice to him. From Sir Donald Bradman to Adolf Hitler, everybody were included in his fan following. He never left the nation for money; he never played for money or fame. He played because he loved the game!

Here are some of the lesser-known facts about Major Sahab:-

   

     1. There is a sports academy/club in Vienna that has a statue of Major Dhyanchand having four arms and four hockey sticks to demonstrate just how magical his skills were.

·        2. The authorities in the Japan & Netherlands broke his hockey stick to see if there was a magnet inside.

·       3. Great Australian batsman Sir Don Bradman met Dhyanchand in Adelaide in 1935. After watching him play, Bradman remarked, "He scores goals like runs in cricket".

·     4. After an inspiring show at the Berlin Olympics, Hitler offered Dhyanchand German citizenship and a position in the German Military, which he declined.

·       5.  He joined the Indian Army at the age of 16 and took up hockey while he was, still admitted. Since Dhyan Singh used to practice so much during the night, he was given the nickname "Chand" by his fellow players; his perform sessions at night always coincided with the moon rise. ‘Chand’ means moon in Hindi.

·        6. Once, when he was not able to score in a match, he argued with the match referee about the dimensions of the goal post. To everybody’s astonishment, he was correct; the goal post found to be in contravention of the official minimum width offered under the international rules.

I hope now Government would not do any injustice on any player, what Major Sahab felt. I hope his hard work and his life inspire a number of young players to play hockey for the nation. I hope Government of India honor him with the highest civilian award "BHARAT RATNA" soon. May new generation players learn the rules of will power and dedication from his life! I hope I expressed my views in a better way.

Thanks for reading!

SPIRULINA - A SUPER FOOD!

There are so many ways to provide shape and size of a human body. No, I am not talking by some medical procedure, I am talking about the food/plant by which we can change our physique, and you may say some protein supplement can do it, but I am talking about a food, which provides more protein than all these protein supplements that food known as Spirulina. Spirulina is a micro alga that appeared on Earth there are over 3.5 billion years, which puts it among the oldest terrestrial beings. It grows in both fresh and salt water, 100 grams of Spirulina provides 1213 KJ (290 K cal) of energy, 24 g of carbohydrates, 7.72 g of fats, 57.47 g of proteins and many other essential vitamins.

Spirulina is termed as, “super food”, it contains high amount of protein, minerals and vitamins, it is capable of curing many deficiencies, and diseases even cancer. Yes, it is capable of fighting against cancer too, because it contains the tendency to increase the interleukin-12 in the body, which has the power to fight against the carcinogenic agents.

This super food can help in gaining the weight, a number of skinny people use various protein supplements, which are available in the market, and they should know that these supplements would not give them the weight, which they desire, because they do not work for everybody. Spirulina is a natural supplement, which works for everybody, it increases the appetite and which results in improved digestion, and subsequently it leads to the improved excretory system. When the system of a body is good and healthy, it results in great physique. Likewise, Spirulina helps in losing the weight.

It has beta-carotene, which is an antioxidant, which improves the glow on the face and subsequently results in anti aging, many people of the age 30-40, but their face shows a different story, this super food is essential for them to fight against aging properties.

Spirulina has many health benefits, if I write each and every, one of them you may be tired of reading. In addition, I believe, in the 21^st century, many countries are suffering from poverty and their people facing malnutrition, for those countries this super food can provide enough nutrition. They would not suffer from malnutrition and hunger, if they provided enough amount of Spirulina. It is available in flakes, tablets and capsules and the cost of this is not much.

It can also provide revenue to the people who harvest Spirulina in their fields, majorly ponds. It can grow there and I believe it can transform the economic condition of those farmers. It may be a super food, but I believe it should be termed as “Super-Boon”.

CRUSADER AGAINST CHILD LABOUR !

Today, I am going to talk about an issue, which is a big challenge among the 21^st century. A challenge where many children face a heavy load of work, they should have books in hands, but they hold heavy machinery, they should play in playgrounds but they do labour. I am talking about “Child Labour” issue. I know there is poverty in our nation and in many countries too. Nevertheless, it is a harsh truth that many contractors, who are working in various sectors, use these poor family children for their personal benefit. They gave them less wage, less food, no proper accommodation, and no proper time to sleep but a huge load of work. These children face a serious life-ending situation in these firms every day. However, there are many people, who behave like an angel for these children, such an angel is – Kailash Satyarthi.

He is an Indian children’s right activist who was born on 11 January 1954 in Vidisha, M.P. He was an electrical engineer, but besides having a lustrous career ahead, he chooses to be a social worker. In 1983, he started “Bachpan Bachao Andolan” where he rescued over 80,000 children from various forms of slavery and helped them in rehabilitation, re-integration and education. Satyarthi campaigned many social issues concerning children. Being a social worker, especially in India, he faced so many life-threatening attacks his life is not easy. Every day, being a child savior, he faced many such threats, but he did not give up and for the last 25 years, he is continuously working for betterment of children.

"If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes,"

Today, he got the noble prize for peace with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan. Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore to him, there is only seven Indians who have achieved this accolade until now. He is the second person from India who will get it for peace, before him Mother Teresa got this in 1979. He made a social awareness of this issue, due to which number of child labour has decreased in our nation, which is 4.3 million until now. I hope he will succeed in his mission.

“One life saved, is as equal, of saving generations”

I hope our Government will make a strict law against child labour and a serious punishment for those who treat these children like their slaves. I hope he achieves success in his mission, which he has set for himself. May this savior free every slave child of this word! Saviors like Satyarthi are required in every place. He talks about “GLOBALIZATION OF COMPASSION”, I wish his agenda, will be acquired by every nation and I hope people will not see poor children as slaves from now, but like their own children.

Jan-Dhan Yojana

28/08/2014, ThursdayToday our Prime Minister launched a scheme termed as “Jan-Dhan”. As the name suggest it means everyone has the right to have money in his pocket, this scheme is basically focussed on the welfare of poor and needy people who can’t afford easy life, who don’t have good financial conditions, who struggles  with the daily life for small-small needs, who wants a good and respectable life but they don’t get. This scheme will be beneficial for them and this will help them to do a fresh start. A poor person can imagine comfort, good food, good health care etc. only in his dreams, but after implementation of this scheme in grass root level every poor person will observe a change in his life. This initiative by Mr. Narendra Modi will do a great change in the life of millions of millions poor people.A tea vendor, a vegetable vendor, a newspaper seller, a waiter, a sweeper, a ice cream seller and many other persons, who does small scale work or labour deserves  a respectable and comfortable life but they don’t have it. They try too much in their life to change their financial conditions, but they are not successful in doing this. I hope this scheme will make them self dependent and I hope poor class of our country will stand up for their betterment.In this scheme, Govt. Have a target to provide free bank account for two persons of every poor family. They says they are going to enroll 7.5 crores poor family, it means near about 15 crores will get direct benefit from this. All the enrolled people will get benefit of Govt. Subsidies directly into their accounts. Whenever any Govt. starts a scheme or an initiative to change lives of poor, the benefit is never reached towards those poor due to a big corrupt chain of politicians, bureaucrats etc. But after this scheme I believe the poor will get their right, and in term of emergency they will get loan from the Govt directly means no roll of money lenders and intermediates. Govt to poor JNow I want to discuss the benefits of this scheme. The Govt of India will enroll people within few minutes without any form problems, attestations etc. using Aadhar card, Driving license, Ration cards etc. if they don’t have these, they required only one letter from Sarpanch (head of a village) or pradhan (head of all wards). After opening account they will get a Ru-Pay atm card and a health insurance of one lac rupees through it. A rich person or a person from middle class background can afford a health insurance, if they face a physical problem, they can consult any hospital - any doctor but a poor can’t get this attention throughout his life. Now he will feel secure in this department, he will get proper medical care and with full expenses, doctors will take care of them.This scheme will open new banks for a population of 2000 in a village. The villagers won’t need to run to city for their benefits, in short they won’t need to suffer anymore. Banks will run towards them. The woman of the family will get a credit card, which they can use when they have urgency. Today many records were created and many were broken 1.5 crore account were opened and never in the history of insurance sector 1.5 crore person were given accidental insurance in a day.This step will include all the poor people in the mainstream of nation’s development. I wish this scheme will help to eradicate poverty of poor people and help their life to move ahead towards betterment. They will check their bank account by just dialling *99# and they can check it from top to bottom, really it’s a great step to eradicate poverty, and I hope the depth between poor and rich will be filled by it.