How to tackle criminal activities in Salt Lake City Kolkata?

To solve the criminal activities in Salt Lake City Kolkata there are very few simple steps the government can take. They are: -

Figure 1 (Block AA of Salt Lake City)

1) Salt Lake City is divided into several blocks namely AA, AB, AC, AD blocks and so on.
2) Each block is separated by another another block with a main road. (as shown in the figure 1 above)
3) There are few entrances for entering every block. (as shown in the figure 1 above)
4) Cover all the blocks with boundaries (as shown in maroon colour in the figure 1 above)
5) In every entrances install big iron gates to stop influx of anti-socials during night. (as shown in green colour circles in the figure 1 above. Here there are 3 gates in AA Block of Salt Lake)
6) Close these gates from 11pm at night to 7am in the morning.
7) Add at least 2 security personnel in each gate with walkie-talkie devices that has contacts with the other gates of the same block and with other blocks as well as local police station and Lalbazar Police Station. The security personnel will be registering name / address / phone no / ID proof of anyone entering or exiting the gates.
8) Keep at least 4 security personnel who would be roaming inside the block in their cycles (provided to them) every half an hour.
9) In the main roads between two blocks security personnel with bikes and walkie-takie devices should be kept to keep a watch of antisocial activities.
10) Salt Lake city consists of people from high income group to middle income group and if they pay 100 rupees per house for security then there would be enough money to hire security personnel with 10,000 rupees per head.

If these measures are taken proactively then the day is not far when stealing of necklaces, precious items, mobiles from morning walkers and burglary of houses in Salt Lake would be a thing of past.

Note: These measures are taken in Magarpatta City, Pune where I currently live and the security system here is a model system for all the complexes all over India to follow.

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Darao Bongo-Shontaan ! (Stop ! Son of Bengal)

Darao Bongo-Shontaan ! (Stop ! Son of Bengal)
What will you get by these fightings?
Fighting in the name of your party and politics !
Fighting for Red, Fighting for Green, Fighting for Orange...
What have you got?
Mother has lost her son! Wife has lost her husband! Child has lost her father!
Shame on you, O, Son of Bengal, Shame on you !

Darao Bongo-Shontaan ! (Stop ! Son of Bengal)
What will you get by these fighting-s?
Fighting for the throne and fighting for the money !
What will you do with these money?
Money will make you more greedy,
And one day your greed for more shall invite your end...

Darao Bongo-Shontaan ! (Stop ! Son of Bengal)
What will you get by these fightings?
Think of Tagore, Think of Vivekananda,
Think of Vidyasagar, Think of Ram Mohan,
Think of Ramakrishna, Think of Loknath,
They were great people because they had sacrificed their lives,
For the well-being of our own countrymen...

Darao Bongo-Shontaan ! (Stop ! Son of Bengal)
What will you get by these fightings?
Come to Maharashtra, Come to Gujarat, Come to Karnataka...
And watch the Sons of these Soil working hard for Her development.
If they can they why can't you O, Son of Bengal ???
Its time to change yourself, time to rise,
Time to awake Time to bring about development...
Else you shall never be forgiven by you Mother Bengal !

So awake, rise and stop not till the goal is reached and achieved,
According to Swami Vivekananda, rub off the tears,
From the innocent eyes of you brothers and sisters,
Only then you Mother, will Bless you,
And you will be a True Son of Bengal, O, Son of Bengal !

(NB: This above creation is a protest against the killings of innocent brothers and sisters of Bengal in the name of party and politics in recent times)

by A Son of Bengal, on the175th Birthday of Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Pune, Maharashtra
23rd February, 2012

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Future India - Highway Guidelines

The golden quadrilateral project was a landmark in the history of Indian highways. Since then no such big project was implemented for Indian Highways. In India the highways though efficiently built are in a very pathetic state. These highways should be categorized into national highways (connecting metropolitan cities), state highways (connecting second class cities), district highways (connecting towns and villages). These highways should never criss-cross one another in a X-ing manner to prevent slowing down of traffic by one type of highways to the other. They should meet at certain points efficiently so that the traffic speed does not get hindered.

Some of the main points we should keep in mind for highways: -
1) There should be separate highways for private cars / buses and trucks (freights).
2) Speed limit should be fixed and in no case should be brought down or up unnecessarily.
3) There should be bye-lanes along the highways near towns and cities so that the daily traffic of these places should not get inside highways.
4) If possible the highways should be elevated if it passes through a city or town to prevent traffic.
5) Proper bus services should be introduced connecting big cities, small cities and towns.
6) No political / social demonstration should be allowed on highways.
7) Slow moving traffics should not be allowed in highways.

If these basic points are followed properly (there are many more), only then we can introduce big projects like bus and other transport systems that can travel through these highways at speeds close to 400 kms / hr. Similarly dedicated elevated lines for rapid transit of trains between big cities can be introduced if given a proper thought. (according to my last to last post)

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Future India - Clean India

We often find it very difficult to walk through the streets of India because of the filth and smell that emanates from the different lanes and by-lanes, road sides and other public places be it railway stations or bus terminus. The main reason for the filth and smell is improper dumping of waste materials and human excreta or human urination on roadsides.

If we follow certain basic steps, India would be a much better place to live in.

1) Free public government aided toilets (including urinals) every after half a kilometer in all major cities should be constructed.
2) Proper dumping of household / office / factory waste materials and proper recycling of the waste by the government / municipalities.
3) Concrete roads with no potholes.
4) Footpath at every road / lanes / by-lanes / small roads so that they do not entertain unnecessary accumulation of dust on roadsides.
5) Roads should meet footpaths through proper interfaces just like the British styled roads of Kolkata.
6) Proper drainage systems and no open drains.
7) Awareness among citizens to follow the above steps strictly.

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Future India - Connecting Indian Metropolitan Cities

Indian Metropolitan Cities should be connected by rail and road in such a way so that people can travel between even the farthest of cities within 6 hours. Delhi and Chennai / Bangalore should be covered in 6 hours. Kolkata and Mumbai / Pune should be connected in 4 hours. (say if distance is 2000 kms and it has to be covered in 4 hours. So the speed should be 2000/4 = 500kms/hr) It is achievable. Trains in Japan and China can travel as fast as 800kms/hr. So why should we not have trains in India that can travel in 500kms/hr. Currently an aeroplane covers Pune / Mumbai to Kolkata directly within 1 and a half hour.

Similarly Delhi to Mumbai should not take more than 3 hours. Mumbai to Bangalore / Chennai in another 3 hours. Chennai to Kolkata in another 4 hours. Kolkata to Delhi in another 3 hours. It is achievable. I have dreamt of this possibility and it is now up to the infrastructure planners and engineers to make this dream get converted into reality.

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2011 Cricket World Cup Champions - INDIA !!!

Congratulations Dhoni, Team India and every single Indian around the globe for lifting the Cricket World Cup 2011 !!!

We Indians are the new champions for the next 4 years.

We have now done it after 28 years after Kapil Dev's 1983 World Cup Win !!!

Each one of you are worth 1 crore rupees.

We all have been a part of this historic win either through television or giant screen or in person at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

Vaijayanta
Pune
2nd April, 2011

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AMAKE AMAR MOTO THAKTE DAO... a realization

AMAKE AMAR MOTO THAKTE DAO...

Amake amar moto thakte dao,
ami nijeke nijer moto guchiye niyechi,
jeta chilona chilona,
seta na paoai thaak,
shob pele noshto jibon...

Tomar ei duniyar jhapsa alo,
kichu sondher buro howa kaancher moto,
jodi ure jete chao,
tobe gaa bhashiye dao,
doorbin-e chokh rakhbo
naa naa naa naa....

Ei, jahaj mashtul chharkhar,
tobu golpo likhchi baachbaar,
ami rakhte chaina aar taar,
kono raat dupurer apdaar,
tai chesta korchi baar baar,
saatre paar khojaaaaaaar...

---a song by Anupam Roy

I had heard about the success of this song in Kolkata from movie Autograph during the last months of 2010, but never thought that this song would be so famous among the non-Bengalis too. I downloaded the song on 8th of Jan, 2011 at my office workstation for some entertainment during the boring hours at office. Moreover I downloaded this song on the request of one Marathi guy called Suresh Gaikwad at my office. He heard this song from the caller tune of a guy from Kolkata Idea office. Suresh liked the song so much that he immediately asked me the meaning of the song and asked me to download the song “Amake amar moto thakte dao…” for him. I did so and copied the song from my workstation to his and he immediately made the song his ring tone and started hearing the song again and again.

When I reached office next day early in the morning around 7am and to bear the boring hours I played the song in my workstation with a low volume so that people who are sitting next to me from my team can hear the song as well. Two Marathi friends Suhas Pharande and Swapnil Band were sitting next to me and they even liked the song so much that they agreed that the composition of the song, the music and the singer Anupam Roy did a great job in making the song. In the meantime when I went to the washroom the song was over and when I came back I saw the Marathi guys play the Bengali song and enjoying every part of it. Suhas was even trying to sing the song. That time I felt that for liking good music one does not need to learn the language and good music is above any language barrier. Good music has no boundaries or limitations. It can attract anyone anytime.

Later another friend, Mudit Shukla from Chattisgarh also appreciated the beauty of the music from the song “Amake amar moto thakte dao…”. This shows that the song is famous not only in Kolkata among the Bengalis but also among non-Bengalis from all over India and the world. This song has so much potential and it shows the success of singer, composer and lyricist Anupam Roy (Anupam-da). Thanks a lot Anupam-da for creating such good music.

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Handsome Pakistani and Indian Cricketers

Recently there has been a controversy on the news media over Pakistani Cricketers accepting money from people to get matches fixed. I have no idea whether they are correct or not. I do not want to know anything about it. What I want to say is that about 2 to 3 decades ago, the Pakistani Cricketers were much more handsome lookwise compared to the present day Pakistani Cricketers. For example think of cricketers like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and so on. They were much more ‘handu’ compared to the present day cricketers like Salman Butt or Mohammad Sami.

Cricketers like Imran Khan and Wasim Akram were so much famous among the Indian girls. Nowadays you will hardly find Indian girls talking about their liking for present day Pakistani Cricketers. Once reason could be present day Indian cricketers like Irrfan Pathan or Yuvraj Singh are more handsome in looks and looks much better than their Pakistani counterparts. So we can assume that popularity of present day Indian Cricketers have risen compared to the popularity of present day Pakistani Cricketers.

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Rupashi Bangla Channel Video - Model Bidita Bag - Singer Anwesha

An awesome song / jingle at the end of the video featuring the Durga Puja of Kolkata and West Bengal. Have a look at it, you will get the touch of Durga Puja and Kolkata. Really a nice jingle.

The female model is Bidita Bag and the singer of the song is Anwesha.

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VAJRA - VOLVO BUS - BENGALURU

Vajra Volvo Bus (air conditioned)

Last month I visited Bengaluru and I had the good opportunity to travel by AC Vajra Volvo Buses that Bengaluru Transport Department has launched in the city for safe and hassle free transportation of commuters from one part of the city to another. The above is the photo of the air conditioned red colour Vajra Buses that ply across the city from Bengaluru Inernational Airport (BIA) to different parts of the city.

Such buses are a real need in our city Kolkata too. Our transport department should look forward to launch such buses in Kolkata so that people can have easy transportation in AC Volvo buses across the city. These buses are not only big and spacious but they take sharp turns even through the narrowest of lanes and they are so fast that they travel from one place to another in half the time that other buses do.

Bengaluru has launched around 500 such buses and so I request Kolkata to launch at least 100 such buses. This would definitely change the transportation scenario of Kolkata. People would reach their destination early and the journey would be hassle free. Though the fare is a bit expensive in Bengaluru, in Kolkata we could devise pass systems or bring down the fares for making more common people especially regular commuters travel through such buses.

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Yeh Hain Maidan, Meri Jaan

I have some good memories of the Maidan of Kolkata. It was called Gorer Maath then which meant Field of the Fort. Gor means Fort in Bengali and Maath means Field. By fort we refer to Fort Willam which is present on the western side of the Maidan.

As a child, I used to go to the Maidan with my Guggy (my maternal grandfather) in his kochi kolapata (light green) colour Fiat (Premier Padmini) in the 1980s. We used to set off for Maidan from our house at Bowbazar at around 5pm. People who accompanied us were Dilu, Ratan, Ludu-da, Tepi and many more. They used to be my co-players at the limited overs cricket match we used to play at Maidan.

On reaching Maidan we used to get so much excited that after getting off from our car, we (Dilu and me) used to somersault as many times as we could till we used to get exhausted. On being tired we used to refresh ourselves with Thums Up, which was the only option for cold drinks at that time (Coke had long left India for USA and Pepsi was not born then in India). We also used to have phuchka and jhalmuri / bhelpuri.

When we wanted to plant the stumps (reminds me of the famous saying by Tony Greig - "From stUmp to stUmp and from wickIt to wickIt") on the ground, mounted police officers (who were actually army men on horsebacks) used to come and used to break our stumps or threaten us to remove the stumps from digging on the ground. Actually the army men were there to look after the safety of the Maidan and thus they used to do rounds and keep a strict vigilance inside around the Maidan to keep a watch on the big Maidan.

There was a triangular field in the middle of the big Maidan where there used to be 3-4 small golf courses with many holes (not the hole of Mint with the Hole) for beginners I guess. I don’t know who used to play golf there but whenever I went there along with cricket kit, I used to take my hockey stick there and tried to hole the ball with my hockey stick and once I did that I had to pick the ball from those holes using my hand after a lot of difficulty as the holes were quite small. I feared if there might be many snakes or rodents which might bite my fingers.

I also used to visit the Maidan with my mummy and daddy from our Park Circus flat on a cab or by our car. As we approached the Maidan from S.N. Banerjee Road, the evening sun from above the Eden Gardens used to shine on our eyes thus making it difficult for us as well as the person who is driving the car to look in front.

As we approached the Maidan, we used to enter the Maidan from Red Road approach (which was both ways then), we felt like we have reached a place filled with fresh air very much comparable to heaven. The whip of fresh air on us made us breathe out lungs out to the fullest. It made us get free from all our tensions and forget all our sorrows and pains.
Thus the visits to the Maidan was so much enriching for us that we used to visit the heavenly place once a week and sometimes twice or thrice a week during vacations.

Thus I could never think of a place in Kolkata better than the Maidan to get myself rejuvinated.

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I wish my name was Kaushik or Debasish or Amitava or Shantanu

I hope most of you know that I am a Software Engineer by profession. The current recession worries me. I believe on the best can survive in such a situation and even the mediocre will be a target of this recession ghost. 

I have always been the best in whatever I did. Be it studies, competitions, blogging, photography or even jharifying / pataofying girls / women, I have always been the Best. But I think I am still not the best when it comes to professional life. I see many around me who are remarkable in the skills when it comes to Software Development. I have acquired many skills in these 3 years of my working but still I believe I need to be the Best to survive this fierce completion and recession. 

So after a lot of thinking, I have come to the conclusion that it is my name which plays the x-factor. I strongly believe that Vaijayanta is the best name a guy like me can have as the name starts with V and by numerology it lies on the Number 1. Still the name Vaijayanta does not suit the guys who are into software development. 

I have noticed that people who are good in software development share some common names. These names include names like Kaushik, Debasish, Amitava, Shantanu and so on. I know many people who share these names and are the Best in Software Industry. So I wish my name was Kaushik or Debasish or Amitava or Shantanu and so on. These are the most Popular Names of Software Industry today. They are the Future. They are the Best…

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Slumdog Millionaire

There happens to be a particular slum in a very congested part of a major city in USA. In this city there are many slums as there are big houses. Many people live in these slums. In such a slum, many people live. Among these people a particular man lives. He is a man who is fond of dogs. He feeds dogs and all the dogs from the nearby slums comes to him to eat food. At one point of time, this man has been feeding many dogs and hearing this all the dogs from other slums came to him in expectatinon of food. Thus dogs kept coming to him and one point of time it was counted that the about a million dogs comes to eat food from this man. 

What will such a man be called by others in the slum?

A SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

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KALKI Avatar : The last Avatar of Lord Vishnu.

In KALKI Avatar, Lord Vishnu will incarnate himself as KALKI, the machine-man, who will come riding his white horse and with his blazing sword in his hands. This is supposed to be a future avatar of Lord Vishnu. At the end of Kali Yuga. (present eon) He will punish all evil doers in this world, destroy this world supposedly and recreate a golden age again. He will behead all individuals who have evil intentions in their mind with his sword.

KALKI is the last of the avatars of Lord Vishnu.

Some sites on him: -

1) http://www.geocities.com/baalzephon999/hindu/KalkiMaitreya.html

2) http://www.hindunet.org/avatars/kalki/index.htm

3) http://members.tripod.com/~srinivasp/mythology/kalki.html

4) http://www.stephen-knapp.com/kalki_the_next_avatar_of_God.htm

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Rising Commodity Prices

Impressed by the new advertisement on television AEGON Religare Pension Plan (see above) starring Irfan Khan, I thought of writing this post in my blog. 

First of all, let me write the prices of commodities that have been shown in the ad. It has been made to appear as if it has been fully shot at Kolkata and Irfan Khan’s impressive way of speaking made the ad really popular among masses.

In the ad, the price of Cooking Gas is Rs 1248/-, the cobbler charges Rs 60/- for a shoe polish, a tablet for headache is Rs 144/-. No it is not a joke. It will happen after twenty years and believe me it is really going to happen. Research has proved that cost of daily commodities have increased 20 times in the last 20 years.

So, the amount has been projected 20 times in 20 years. Deliberately the cost of cooking gas has been kept low because of the plan of massive use of the cooking gas in the next 2 decades.

What else might happen is: -

1) You board a bus the conductor might charge you Rs 80/- for a fare that costs Rs 4/- now.

2) You go to the multiplex cinema hall. They will charge you Rs 4000/- for a ticket that now costs Rs 200/- now.

3) You go to your office by cab which charges say Rs 300/- now will take Rs 6000/- after 20 years.

4) You go to the Amusement Park (Nicco Park); they charge you Rs 100/- for 5 rides now. After 20 years they will charge you Rs 2000/- for the same number of rides.

5) You pay for your son Rs 4000/- his school fees per month now, your son will need to pay for his son Rs 80,000 per month for his school fees.

6) You buy a trouser for Rs 1200/- now, it will cost Rs 24,000/- after 20 years and your Rs 1500/- official shirt will cost Rs 30,000/- then.

7) You go to the disc now and pay Rs 500/- per night dance for you and your partner. Then you will need to pay Rs 10,000/- per night for the same no of people.

8) You pay Rs 3000/- bill for a dinner at the most expensive restaurant at Park Street now for say 4 people. After 20 years, it would amount to Rs 60,000 for 4 people.

9) You pay Rs 2400/- for your electricity bills now. Then you will be paying Rs 48,000/- for your electricity bills.

10) Your post paid monthly bill for your cell phone amounts to Rs 800/- now and that would be amount to Rs 16,000/- then.

After reading this post, one question is bound strike your mind. Will my salary increase 20 times in the next 20 years? No one knows. It is only for time to answer.

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Retirement & Farewell Video of Sourav Ganguly - Dada - from youtube

DADA, WE WILL MISS YOU FOREVER IN CRICKET FIELD.

YOU ARE ROYAL BENGAL TIGER 

AND 

GOD OF THE OFF SIDE.

Nagpur Test, Retire, Retirement, Farewell, vs Australia, India, Dada, Sourav, Ganguly, Maharaj, youtube, video, 

Other Videos: -

http://www.truveo.com/Farewell-Sourav-Ganguly-Some-winners-do-quit/id/2504923586

http://ishare.rediff.com/filevideo-Farewell-Sourav-Ganguly-id-463389.php

http://www.chalo.net/News/Farewell_Sourav_Ganguly_Some_winners_do_quit

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First Ever Kolkata Blogger Meet

Scheduled for 21/09/2008 at 16:00 City: Kolkata

Description:

Kolkata's first ever Blogger Meet is going to happen! 

Bloggers all over India (and of course..Kolkata) are cordially invited to the Kolkata Blogger Meet, on September 21, 2008. 

Help us Spread the word about the meet too! You can use this short URL just in case: http://tinyurl.com/BloggerMeet

Venue:

Heera Hotel Inn

51 Elliot Road, (Adjacent Park Street)

Kolkata- 700016

West Bengal, India

PH: +91.033.40111642, +91.033.22291642

Landmark: Near Assembly of God Church School

Proposed by Archit T, a blogger from Kolkata

Website: http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=14

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Learn Bengali - Part 00001

To learn Bengali u need to know these Phonetic Romanizations (just pronounce them): -
Swarvarna:-
Aw, aa, hroshoi, dirghoi, hroshou, dirghou, ri, li, aye, oi, o, ou

Banjanvarna:-
Kaw, khaw, gaw, ghaw, ooaw,
Chaw, chhaw, jaw, jhaw, eaaw,
Ta, tha, daw, dhaw, moddhennaw,
Taw, thaw, da, dhaw, dontennaw,
Paw, phaw, baw, bhaw, maw,
Untushto-jaw, raw, law, baw, taliboshaw,
Pet-kata-moddhenno-shaw, donteshshaw, haw, untushto-aw,
Doy-shuno-raw, dhoy-shuno-raw, unnu-shar, bishargo, chandrabindu

For more details refer: -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_script

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10 Marketing Strategies of Kolkata Knight Riders: -

1) Have a great confidence on players by the management.
2) Have a nice coach like John Buchanan.
3) Eating less fired foods to keep healthy.
4) King Khan as our entertainment boss.
5) Win all the matches against all opponents.
6) Properly use the marketing channels and strategies.
7) Have unity among the teammates.
8) Make team members believe in themselves and other teammates.
9) Obey the rules of the game and give our best on the field.
10) After a match is won, party hard, eat well and sleep well.
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Highest Paid Corporate Woman in 2008

Indra Nooyi

• PepsiCo's India-Origin Chief ($39 billion food and beverage giant)
• 12th highest paid corporate woman in the US
• Annual pay package of over $12.7 million (Forbes magazine)
• She is a 52-year-old chairman

Margaret C. Whitman

• 1st highest paid corporate woman in the US,
• Chief executive of eBay
• Annual package of over $120 million dollar (10 times that of Nooyi)

Angela Merkel (preceding Nooyi)

• Chancellor of Germany

and

Sheila C. Bair

• Chairperson of Federal Deopist Insurance Corp

Source: - http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080911/838/tbs-nooyi-12th-highest-paid-woman-in-cor_1.html

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