What is India’s unique court case?

 Indian courts have always been unique in delaying justice to the people.

Meet Mr. Lal Bihari who fought for 18 years from 1976 to 1994 to prove to the law that he is “Alive”

If you have read The Cop and the Anthem by O Henry where a poor man tries desperately to commit a crime to get imprisonment, this man also did the same- trying to.commit crime to get his name in police records.

So the story begins in 1976 when Lal Bihari tried to establish a loom machinery setup in the land he inherited from his father. When he went to SDM to get the necessary permissions, he was denied the same. Reason- He was d**d in the government records!! Apparently his uncle took advantage of his father's d**th and bribed a government official to declare him d**d and usurp the land!!

Now Lal Bihari decided to fight his battle. He appealed against the case but how can one prove that one is alive!! After his initial attempts failed, he tried to commit some crime to get his name in the criminal record. He kidnapped the son of his uncle not to blackmail him but to force him to file a complaint against him. But his uncle refused to press charges and Lal Bihari returned his nephew back. Then he tried to bribe a government official and asked a cop to arrest him for bribing but the cop and government official both refused. He even tried to apply for widow pension for his wife in case he is declared “d**d” in government records!!

Next he started an organisation Mritak Sangh in 1980 to fight the cases of people who were declared d**d by the administration. Hundreds of people joined this group. His case attracted the attention of local media and they took his interviews. Lal Bihari decided to up the game by contesting elections against National leaders like V.P. Singh, and he got 1600 votes because of rhe publicity. He added Mritak to his name and called himself Lal Bihari Mritak. He barged into the UP Assembly shouting “Mujhe Zinda Karo” (Make me alive). This attracted the attention of Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Eventually in 1994, the court asked to probe the matter and removed the tag of “d**d” person and finally he was declared alive after 18 years. He filed a case of compensation of 25 crores for his “d**d” person status for 18 years. And this case finally came to the court in 2018 after 24 years!! Also his Mritak Sangh has 21000 cases of people fighting for their identity and existence.

A few years ago a film was made on his life- Kaagaz starring Pankaj Tripathi.

Have you seen or heard of a unique airport in India that is built on a hill top?

 The Runways that are built on the top of a hill, by levelling it off, to create plain area to make the landing strip, are typically known as ‘table top runways’. Quite a few are there in India.

These runways leave little space for an aircraft, in case of late touchdown and poses problems particularly during bad weather times.

They also pose danger of optical illusion to the landing pilots, making it difficult to estimate the distance from beginning of runway.

01) Mangalore Airport, Karnataka

02) Kozhikode Airport (Calicut), Keralam

03) Shimla Airport, Himachal Pradesh

04) Pakyong Airport, Sikkim

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What are some unique scientific facts that everybody should know?

 There are basically two kinds of substances in the universe — matter and anti-matter.

Matter is what we see in the universe — protons, electrons, etc.

Antimatter particles have opposite electric charges to their matter counterparts.

They share identical mass.

When they meet, they instantly destroy each other in a process called annihilation, releasing energy — Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc2

Laozi may have known this. Maybe that’s why he has a yinyang theory!

The theory is that matter and antimatter are produced during the big bang, and they are theoretically produced in equal amounts.

If that is so, then we shouldn’t be here — neither does everything else. The universe would then be just energy — can you imagine that (anyway, there won’t be any you or me or John Lennon to imagine anything).

So why are you (or me) here?

Answer: breaking of symmetry

AI: “The imbalance between matter and antimatter, known as baryon asymmetry, exists because early universe conditions allowed matter to slightly outnumber antimatter, violating perfect symmetry. For every billion antimatter particles, a billion-and-one matter particles were created, leaving a small surplus of matter after mutual annihilation, forming the universe.

Who imagined such a thing as violation of the law of physics?

Two Chinese scientists (who later rightly got their Nobels)

Chen Ning Yang, along with Tsung-Dao Lee, revolutionized particle physics by proposing in 1956 that parity (P) symmetry—the assumption that nature acts the same in a mirror image—is violated in weak interactions. This groundbreaking work, confirmed experimentally by Chien-Shiung Wu, directly led to the recognition of Charge-Parity (CP) violation, explaining why matter dominates the universe.

So, here we are….

Another question: is antimatter of any use?

AI:

Yes, antimatter has significant practical uses in medicine and scientific research.

The most common medical application is Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use positrons (the counterpart of electrons) to detect cancers, brain disorders, and heart issues.

In science, antimatter is used for probing material defects and in fundamental physics research.

I’m so happy that whatever the theory, we can get antimatter to do some good.

I’m writing, not as a physicist (my last lesson in physics was in high school in the later 1960s), but as a (pediatric) oncologist. A few days ago, I’ve just ordered a PETCT scan for 12-year old boy with lymphoma in the chest. The scan shows clearly that it is confined to the chest and hasn’t spread anywhere else. I’m so happy.

This is thus a stage 1 lymphoma, and this boy will very likely be cured.

Positron, antimatter — what a wonderful thing to have

What were some unique celebrity wedding gowns?

 Yami Gautam — Her wedding was the most Simple wedding of all time,she wore her mother's saree and did her own makeup, I don't think any celebrity have ever done this. Not a larger-than-life, glamorous wedding,Instead, they wanted the ceremonies to be conducted in a natural and traditional way, as it happens in their hometowns. They got married in front of a deodhar tree.

• Dia Mirza- she made sure to get a garment that she could reuse and wear again and again and chose a red benarsi saree. Not her dress but her wedding was also unique, as you remember her Female priest and eco friendly wedding.

• Kareena kapoor khan - Bebo wore the same bridal outfit that her mother-in-law Sharmila Tagore had worn at her wedding. It was a traditional wear heavily embroidered with gold zari.

• Priyanka chopra - Ralph Lauren had only created three custom wedding dresses—all of which were for members of his family and now PCs wedding dress is also on the list.The show-stopping dress was paired with an equally over-the-top accessory and a 75-foot veil.

• Isha Ambani - It wasn’t just the exquisite craftsmanship that made her lehenga special, but Isha Ambani’s special tribute to her mother, Nita Ambani that made for the biggest talking-point. She incorporated her mother’s wedding sari as part of her bridal attire, by draping it as a dupatta. The red bandhini sari, draped as the second dupatta, was reinvented by the duo with zardozi borders

What are some places that are hard to believe exist, until you visit them?

 I see most of the places have already been mentioned here before, but I would like to add on a few

The Hidden Beach, Mexico

Bridal Veil Falls, Telluride, Colorado

Bernese Alps, Switzerland

Amazing Petrified Sand Dunes, Arizona

What are the most unique pieces of art?

 I don't know if this is weirdest piece of artwork in human history; but I can legitimately claim that it's the weirdest I've ever encountered in my lifetime.

Here's the story.

It's morning of October 29, 1966. In a few days, I would be turning 10 years old.

One of the things I loved to do was draw and paint. So my ears perked up when the local TV news on every channel carried stories about a giant painting of a woman that had mysteriously appeared literally overnight above the southern entrance to the tunnel on Malibu Canyon Road.

Most of the news channels only showed the head and shoulders of the painting, which was 60 feet tall from the bottoms of her bare pink feet to the top of the brunette hair on her head. This was 1966, and nudity was very much a taboo on TV.

Most of the news stories presented the painting as an obscene act of vandalism, obviously created by some dirty-minded man or men. It was lewd. It was obscene. It wasn't art, it was vandalism!

And it needed to be covered.

Through the next few days, the news reported on attempts to sandblast or wash away the pink lady, efforts that failed because the artist(s)/vandal(s) had done an absolutely flawless job of cleaning the rock surface before applying the paint, and had used heavy-duty house paint.

So when efforts at removal failed, the people in charge of the removal effort announced they were going to paint over the pink lady with brown paint.

This proved to be too much for the person who created the pink lady to stand. The dirty-minded sex-crazed vandal came forward.

….And the shock in the news media was palpable when the perpetrator of this obscenity proved to be a woman, and a mother of small children to boot!

Lynne Seemayer was a 31-year-old paralegal with small children, who had plotted and planned the pink lady for months. Here are a couple of sites where you can learn more about her.

Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon: 50 years ago

Pink Lady (art) - Wikipedia

For me, the fascinating thing was to observe the way the news coverage of the pink lady changed once it became known the artist was a woman. All the prior coverage had treated the painting as something referenced from a male point-of-view: it was a naked woman, after all; that's the sort of thing men can paint, and do paint. But women? A woman painting a nude woman?

Even at just turned 10-years-old, it was apparent to me that there was a difference in the way the news media treated the story when they knew a woman was the creator. They were perplexed; they didn't know what to say or how to deal with her as the perpetrator of this painting.

That was the first time I can remember having it made crystal clear and apparent that men and women were regarded in different ways, with different expectations for the ways they were expected to behave.

And I felt that this was intrinsically unfair, in a way that I didn't yet have the words to describe. Why shouldn't/couldn't a woman paint the pink lady of Malibu Canyon? Why did everyone treat this as something that was wrong in a way that made the woman artist seem like someone weird and unnatural?

That, for me, was the weirdest thing about the pink lady.

But as I got older, and learned more about the history of women as artists and in the art establishment, I understood: the narrative of women was being told by men, controlled by men, and represented what they thought, judged and felt. And that was, and still is, the weirdest part.

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What are some unique Odia festivals?

 

These are the unique festivals from my state Odisha.

Have a look,

• Ratha Yatra: World Famous Ratha Yatra has originated from Odisha and it is the biggest festival Of Odisha. It is also celebrated in other Indian states and outside of India. But you can find a huge crowd here during this festival.

• Raja: Raja is famous festival of Odisha. Raja is primarily observed for three days and this is the famous festivals among Odia girls.

• Pana Sakranti or Maha Vishubasankaranti: (The new year of Odia’s): This is the day called as Odias new year and on this day Odias make a famous Pana that is called as Bela pana.

• Nuakhai; It is one of the famous festival of Western Odisha. It plays a pivotal role in the lives of farmers and the agricultural communities.

• Kumar Purnima: Odia unmarried girls worship to the Sun and Moon on this puja to get handsome Husband like Kartikeya. They keep fast on this whole day after finsihing the puja they take prasad as food.

• Kartika Purnima/Rasa Purnima or Baliyatra: Bali Yatra starts on Kartika Purnima and in Cuttack Bali Yatra Field.It is the largest fair of Odisha and it normally continues for a week. You can find all your household chores here and also you can taste different types of delicious food here.

• Prathamastami: Prathmastami is being celebrated on the name of elder child of home. They wear new dresse on this day and a famous pitha you can find on this day in every Odia houses that is Enduri pitha or Haladi Pitha.

• Manabas Gurubara: Manbasa is the puja of Laxmi maa and it is being celebrated by Odia married women. And the main attraction of this puja are Jhoti chita.

• Sabitri Brata: Odia married women keep fast on this day and worship god for their husband’s long life.

• Khudurukuni: It is observed by Odia unmarried girls in Odisha. This festival has its own rituals. Goddess Mangala is worshiped in this puja and unmarried girls worship for their brother’s safety and happy life.

• Sitala Sasthi: It is the most famous festival in Sambalpur and it is the marriage ceremony of Lord shiv and Goddess Parvati.

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Which Bollywood movies have made it to the Guinness Book of World Records, and what unique achievements did they have?

 The World record held by Bollywood films include -

Yaadein (1964)- Guiness book of record for least number of characters in a film. The film only features one actor throughout its runtime. Only Sunil Dutt features in the film as he remembers his life. In the end we see shadow of a woman (played by Nargis) but there is no other character in the film.

Bahubali (2015) had the record of having the largest poster of size of 4793 metre square which was equal to 12 tennis stadiums. It broke the record previously held by a Turkish film.

Actor Prem Nazir of Malyalam Cinema has multiple world records to his name. He has acted in most number of films in a year (30 films in 1973 and 77), most number of films as a lead actor (720), most number of films with a single actress (130 films with Sheela).

During the promotions of the film Selfiee Akshay Kumar created a Guinness World record of clicking the most number of selfies in 3 minutes. He clicked 184 selfies which broke the earlier record of 168 selfies

Abhishek Bachchan made the World record of attending 13 promotional events in 12 hours while promoting his film Delhi 6 which broke the record of Will Smith with a huge margin.

The Odia film of 1984 Basanta Raga has the record of most songs in a film with 81 songs. The previous record also belonged to India with Indradabha having 76 songs.