April 9th

Facts
361 homemakers committed suicide in Mumbai 2005


4 to 12 per cent is the rape conviction rate in India


257 female pilots are working in civil airliners in India


148 is the rank of Delhi in quality of living survey by mercer Human resource consulting


36 million dollars has been raised by Hillary Clinton for her presidential election campaign


Quotable quotes


I don't speed on the roads, neither do I get impatient… But like everyone else in India I want to tear my hair when I'm stuck in traffic-- Narain Karthikeyan Formula one driver


My approach has been, I admit careful. I admit I've not been willing to try for the big bang. I don't think that's where we are-- Condoleezza Rice


Nowhere else in the world is there competition to assert backwardness and then claim we are more backward than you-- A Supreme Court bench staying the 27 % reservation for OBC's in higher educational instructions


Snippets


Kerla


Do not drink and drive. Do not use mobile phones when behind the wheel. And if you are in Kochi, do not scratch while driving. Recently a policeman fined a man for scratching his neck while riding his bike. The offence : he was driving with one hand-- Ravana -- you are damn lucky !!


Delhi


Paternity is a belief and motherhood is a reality they say. Not so, proved Sunita Pawar, a nurse who faked pregnancy and has herself admitted in a hospital. Sunita then stole a two day old baby, placed it in a pool of blood near her bed and gave the alarm. The cat got out of the bag when staff noticed that the baby was much more cleaner than a new born. Sunita will now have to serenade poliemen with lullabies


Mutkti
On Saturday April 7th , thanks to my Rotary club, visited this Ngo organisation at Meenambakkam to donate callipers and artificial limbs--
Mukti is for freedom from Crutches and is a unit of M.S. Dadha foundation. It was founded in 1986 with the mission to alleviate the suffering of amputees and polio victims. It has provided mobility to more than 80,000 victims-- It is supported by other NGO's like the Rotary , Lions , Jaycees , Round table etc.,. It makes callipers and artificial limbs at its facility and these are made by people who are physically challenged and use artificial limbs. Callipers themselves.
Do visit
www.muktiindia.org to learn more and see if you can help
Our club donated 10 callipers to 10 needy people

I had earlier written about Balaji Sampath-- See article that was published in the Hindu of April 8th 2007


Mutkti
On Saturday April 7th , thanks to my Rotary club, visited this Ngo organisation at Meenambakkam to donate callipers and artificial limbs--
Mukti is for freedom from Crutches and is a unit of M.S. Dadha foundation. It was founded in 1986 with the mission to alleviate the suffering of amputees and polio victims. It has provided mobility to more than 80,000 victims-- It is supported by other NGO's like the Rotary , Lions , Jaycees , Round table etc.,. It makes callipers and artificial limbs at its facility and these are made by people who are physically challenged and use artificial limbs. Callipers themselves.
Do visit www.muktiindia.org to learn more and see if you can help
Our club donated 10 callipers to 10 needy people

I had earlier written about Balaji Sampath-- See article that was published in the Hindu of April 8th 2007-- See attachment in the blog

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