George Floyed death verdict

 

The unity of the state 03-26

 

Prominent Bengali artistes have joined hands to release a video projecting the unity of the state.

The video, christened, 'Nijeder mote, nijeder gaan' (Our song as per our choice), delivers a powerful message asking the people of Bengal to resist, stand against hate.

Narendra Modi Vs Sardar Patel : The Renaming Game | Motera | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar

Rahul Gandhi's interaction interaction with Prof Kaushik Basu @Cornell University

 

I have dream speech 02-13

 

"I Have a Dream," Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Author: 

King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

Date: 

August 28, 1963

Location: 

Washington, D.C.

Genre: 

Audio

Speech

Topic: 

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

Details

In his iconic speech at the Lincoln Memorial for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King urged America to "make real the promises of democracy." King synthesized portions of his earlier speeches to capture both the necessity for change and the potential for hope in American society.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [applause]

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves [Audience:] (Yeah) who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. (Hmm)

But one hundred years later (All right), the Negro still is not free. (My Lord, Yeah) One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. (Hmm) One hundred years later (All right), the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later (My Lord) [applause], the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. (Yes, yes) And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (Yeah), they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men (My Lord), would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. (My Lord) Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. [enthusiastic applause] (My Lord, Lead on, Speech, speech)

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (My Lord) [laughter] (No, no) We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. (Sure enough) And so we’ve come to cash this check (Yes), a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom (Yes) and the security of justice. (Yes Lord) [enthusiastic applause]

We have also come to this hallowed spot (My Lord) to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. (Mhm) This is no time (My Lord) to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. [applause] (Yes, Speak on it!) Now is the time (Yes it is) to make real the promises of democracy. (My Lord) Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time [applause] to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time (Yes) [applause] (Now) to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent (Yes) will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. (My Lord) 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. (Yes) And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. [enthusiastic applause] There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: in the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. (My Lord, No, no, no, no) [applause] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. (My Lord) Again and again (No, no), we must rise to the majestic heights (Yes) of meeting physical force with soul force. (My Lord) The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people (Hmm), for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny [sustained applause], and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” (Never) We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. (Yes) We can never be satisfied [applause] as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. [applause] We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. (Yes) We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating for whites only. [applause] (Yes, Hallelujah) We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. (Yeah, That’s right, Let’s go) [applause] No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters (Yes) and righteousness like a mighty stream. [applause] (Let’s go, Tell it)

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. (My Lord) Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. (My Lord, That’s right) Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution (Yeah, Yes) and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith (Hmm) that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi (Yeah), go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities (Yes), knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. (Yes) Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. (My Lord)

I say to you today, my friends [applause], so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow (Uh-huh), I still have a dream. (Yes) It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. (Yes)

I have a dream (Mhm) that one day (Yes) this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed (Hah): “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” (Yeah, Uh-huh, Hear hear) [applause]

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia (Yes, Talk), the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream (Yes) [applause] that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice (Yeah), sweltering with the heat of oppression (Mhm), will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream (Yeah) [applause] that my four little children (Well) will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (My Lord) I have a dream today. [enthusiastic applause]

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists (Yes, Yeah), with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” (Yes), one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. [applause] (God help him, Preach)

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted (Yes), every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain (Yes), and the crooked places will be made straight (Yes), and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed [cheering], and all flesh shall see it together. (Yes Lord)

This is our hope. (Yes, Yes) This is the faith that I go back to the South with. (Yes) With this faith (My Lord) we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. (Yes, All right) With this faith (Yes) we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation (Yes) into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. (Talk about it) With this faith (Yes, My Lord) we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together (Yes), to stand up for freedom together (Yeah), knowing that we will be free one day. [sustained applause]

This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God’s children (Yes, Yeah) will be able to sing with new meaning: “My country, ‘tis of thee (Yeah, Yes), sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. (Oh yes) Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride (Yeah), from every mountainside, let freedom ring!” (Yeah)

And if America is to be a great nation (Yes), this must become true. So let freedom ring (Yes, Amen) from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. (Uh-huh) Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. (Yes, all right) Let freedom ring (Yes) from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. (Well) Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. (Yes) But not only that: (No) Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. [cheering] (Yeah, Oh yes, Lord) Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. (Yes) Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. (Yes) From every mountainside (Yeah) [sustained applause], let freedom ring.

And when this happens [applause] (Let it ring, Let it ring), and when we allow freedom ring (Let it ring), when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city (Yes Lord), we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children (Yeah), black men (Yeah) and white men (Yeah), Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics (Yes), will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last! (Yes) Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” [enthusiastic applause]

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I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American history.

Comedy and Parody songs

 

Namaste Bapu : I Need Your Response || Dr. Parakala Prabhakar 30-01-2021

 

Shyam's response to Dr. Parkala Prabhakar .....

Gandhiji was felled by Nathuram Godse only once. But for the last more than seventy years, he is being felled by politicians of different hues almost daily.

People visit Raj Ghat to impart legitimacy to their political thought process and may be some credibility to their character.

If Gandhiji really had the mechanism to converse, he would convey a lot, and even ask unanswerable questions. His India has betrayed him badly.

I at least do not have the courage to stand, look into his eyes and speak.

If you have, please go ahead, all the best....

 

Shri. Parkala Prabhakar has shared the video of his interaction with Sardar Montek Singh Ji. Kindly share your intellectual and economic insight on this interaction. 

 It will take sometime for me to analyze the interaction and share my views on various social media platforms. 

 In an era, where economic views are driven by one's political thought processes, an apolitical conversation on the economic aspects was almost like "gush of fresh". Please excuse me for my literary misadventure, but, I insist on sharing this quote to express my feelings, and that of the audience, when they view this video. 

 "A gush of fresh AIR is what i get when i exit this glutton world through some beautifully carved stories with words placed rhythmically" Roshni. 

 I think, we should thank the organizers for giving freedom to Dr. Parakala to transform the conversion into a meaningful dialogue.

 I suspect, the conversation is not impromptu. There is a faint smell of the content being discussed beforehand back stage. It does look like a backstage planned conversation, or possibly, I am getting a bit nosey. even if it is true, it does contribute positively to the quality of the conversation. 

Hope, I have done my job as an "Usher"

Wielding a laser beam deep inside the body 19-01

 

Responding to an unmet need for a robotic surgical device that is flexible enough to access hard to reach areas of the G.I. tract while causing minimal peripheral tissue damage, 

Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a laser steering device that has the potential to improve surgical outcomes for patients. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University. 

Robotic engineers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have developed a laser-steering microrobot that can be integrated with existing endoscopic tools, which are used in minimally invasive surgeries. Their approach was reported in Science Robotics.

The ends of endoscopic tools must be highly flexible to enable visualization and manipulation of the surgical site in the target tissue. In the case of energy-delivering endoscopic tools, which allow surgeons to cut or dry tissues and stop internal bleeds, a heat-generating energy source is added to the end of the device.

Currently available energy sources, delivered via a fiber or electrode, limit surgical precision and can cause unwanted burns in adjacent tissue sections and smoke development. While laser technology would be an attractive solution, the laser beam needs to be precisely steered, positioned and quickly repositioned at the distal end of an endoscope, which cannot be accomplished with the currently available relatively bulky technology.

Led by Wyss Associate Faculty Member Robert Wood, the Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and postdoctoral fellow Peter York at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and SEAS, the laser-steering microrobot, in its miniaturized 6 by 16 millimeter package, can operate with the necessary high speed and precision required for minimally invasive surgeries.

“To enable minimally invasive laser surgery inside the body, we devised a microrobotic approach that allows us to precisely direct a laser beam at small target sites in complex patterns within an anatomical area of interest,” said York, the first and corresponding author on the study and a postdoctoral fellow on Wood’s microrobotics team. “With its large range of articulation, minimal footprint, and fast and precise action, this laser-steering end-effector has great potential to enhance surgical capabilities simply by being added to existing endoscopic devices in a plug-and-play fashion.”

The team needed to overcome the basic challenges in design, actuation, and microfabrication of the optical steering mechanism that enables tight control over the laser beam after it has exited from an optical fiber. These challenges, along with the need for speed and precision, were exacerbated by the size constraints — the entire mechanism had to be housed in a cylindrical structure with roughly the diameter of a drinking straw to be useful for endoscopic procedures.

“We found that for steering and re-directing the laser beam, a configuration of three small mirrors that can rapidly rotate with respect to one another in a small ‘galvanometer’ design provided a sweet spot for our miniaturization effort,” said second author Rut Peña, a mechanical engineer with micro-manufacturing expertise in Wood’s group. “To get there, we leveraged methods from our microfabrication arsenal in which modular components are laminated step-wise onto a superstructure on the millimeter scale — a highly effective fabrication process when it comes to iterating on designs quickly in search of an optimum, and delivering a robust strategy for mass-manufacturing a successful product.”

The team demonstrated that their laser-steering end-effector, miniaturized to a cylinder measuring merely 6 mm in diameter and 16 mm in length, was able to map out and follow complex trajectories in which multiple laser ablations could be performed with high speed, over a large range, and be repeated with high accuracy.

To further show that the device, when attached to the end of a common colonoscope, could be applied to a life-like endoscopic task, York and Peña, advised by Wyss Clinical Fellow Daniel Kent successfully simulated the resection of polyps by navigating their device via tele-operation in a benchtop phantom tissue made of rubber. Kent also is a resident physician in general surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

“In this multi-disciplinary approach, we managed to harness our ability to rapidly prototype complex microrobotic mechanisms that we have developed over the past decade to provide clinicians with a non-disruptive solution that could allow them to advance the possibilities of minimally invasive surgeries in the human body with life-altering or potentially life-saving impact,” said senior author Wood, who also is the Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS.

Wood’s microrobotics team together with technology translation experts at the Wyss Institute have patented their approach and are now further de-risking their medical technology (MedTech) as an add-on for surgical endoscopes.

The study was funded by the National Science Foundation under award #CMMI-1830291, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

This was adapted from a press release by Benjamin Boettner of the Wyss Institute. 

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hyderabadi Urdu interview of Moh. Siraj with Sridhar enjoy Hydrabadi Lingo

 Hyderabad: For all pucca Hyderabadis, watching apna Team India fielding coach R Sridhar in conversation with fellow Hyderabadi and Test debutant Mohammed Siraj must have been a zabardast delight. The typical Hyderabadi dialect commonly used in Irani hotels, play fields or among teammates brought smiles among the citizens from the land of the Musi.

The conversation went somewhere on these lines:

Sridhar: Aaj shaam mein mere saath hain Mohammed Siraj joh hamara Hyderabad ke ek dam ustad fast bowler pehle Test match MCG Boxing Day Test mei. VVS Laxman ke baad tum pehle Hyderbadi ho jo Hyderabad mein paida hua aur India ko debut kiya. Aap ka aaj kya maholl thaa aur kya lagrah thaa? (Today we have Hyderabad ustad and Hyderabad fast bowler. That too on Boxing Day at MCG. After Laxman you are the born and brought up in Hyderabad to make debut for India. How is the atmosphere and how are you feeling?)

Siraj replies: Mero Ko tho bahut hi acha lag rah thaa. Jaise ground mein utra aur jaise cap milee debut mein matlab sabse life mein bada achievement tha. Aur jaise mein ground mein utra, lunch tak ball nahi milee aur jaise drinks hua uske baad bowlers ne bahut acha kiye aur mere koh bhi Ajju bhai mujhse baat kar ke confident deh rahe the ke acha laaga aur mere baaju mein Jesse bhai the confident deh reh the. (I am feeling very happy. As soon as I entered the ground and when I made my debut it was my life’s biggest achievement. I entered the ground but I didn’t get bowling till lunch. The bowlers bowled beautifully. Ajju bhai (Ajinkya Rahane) gave me confident and so was Jesse)

Sridhar: Doosra sawal yeh pooch na tha, lunch tak ball nahi haath laga toh dimag mein kya chaal rah tha? Haatha khujara thaa kya?(Second question, till lunch you couldn’t get the ball. What was going through your mind and were your hands itching?)

Suraj: Haatha tho khujara rah thaa. Ajju bhai bolre the ki end mein aana. Uske ke baad bolthe toh aur warm up kiya. Mein bhi socha thaa theek hai wicket mein moisture hoga tho spinner ko helpful hain. Uske baad mein mai socha thaa run out mein kuch contribution karunga and confident bhi thaa. Uske lunch ke baad aya tho mera ek plan tha tho dot ball jaada dalun aur pressure build karoon kyun ki uske baad pressure mein wicket mileage (My hands were itching. Ajju bhai told me I would come from this end and I was warming up. I thought I would contribute by making a run out. After lunch, I had a plan to bowl dot balls and build pressure and then get wicket).

Sridhar: Aacha yeh pahle batao mujhe pehle cheh ball swing nahi hoh raha thaa uske baad doosra spell aap dono taraf idhar udhar swing kar reh the. Kya toh bhi woh kissa? (You didn’t swing the first six balls but in the second spell you could swing the ball both ways. What was this about?)

Siraj: Woh toh natural hai sir. Mein yeh try kar rah tha ki matlab thoda close stumps aah raa thaa and uske baad mein wide off stumps daal raa tha. Mera angle natural in swing tha and aur bhi swing hoh raha tha. (It is natural for me sir. I was bowling close to the stumps and then bowled outside the off stump. I have natural in swing)

Sridhar: Cameron Green ko zabardast set kiye aur uske baad zabardast catchaan pakde outfield mein? (You set up Green nicely and took fine catches in the outfield)

Siraj: Cameron ghiri tika tho jab mera bahar bhi acha aur andar bhi acha aah rah thaa. . Usko andhar andhar dala thaa uske baad do over usko bahar dala but eek dum eek ball andhar daala thaa. Bahut acha laga set kar ke. Jaisa fielding ki tension nahi thi woh yeh cheez ki. (I was bowling outswingers and I bowled with inswingers but I brought one in nicely. There was no tension while fielding).

The Hyderabadi lingo brought memories to many past cricketers. Former fast bowler Rajesh Yadav and former wicketkeeper Youraj Singh said it was always fun when we talk in Hyderabad dialect. Words like haule, chillar kahin, dimagh hi nah hai, bewakoof.

P Harimohan, echoed the same feeling. “The lingo is so unique that whoever hears it can’t help laughing. It’s so typical of our happy go lucky culture.’

Where does India stand in fight against Covid, Rahul Gandhi asks global health experts 05-28

#ThePrintUncut After his interaction with former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke to global health experts Ashish Jha of Brown University School of Public Health & Johan Giesecke of Karolinska Institute on handling Covid-19 in India.

Covid-19 Facts for patients with Cardiovascular diseases - 05-20

Cardiologist Erin Michos discusses who is at higher risk for complications due to COVID-19, how COVID-19 impacts the heart, supportive therapies for patients with the virus and infection prevention strategies.

Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Abhijit Bannerji

A conversation with Nobel Laureate, Prof.Abhijit Banerjee on the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. In this video, the subjects covered are NYAY, direct transfer of cash to accounts of Indian citizens, PDS, Aadhar, the Welfare State, migrants, farmers, MSMEs, Government policies, UPA era policies that still work and many other subjects linked to dealing with the economic crisis the country is facing.

Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Dr. Raghuram Rajan 05-01

Madhushala recited by amitabh Bacchan

Madhushala Recited by Dr. Kumar Wiswas

Coronavirus was created in lab compelling evidence.

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Coronavirus was created in a lab. There seems to be compelling evidence to show the likelihood of this possibility.
The study said the virus likely escaped by accident from either Wuhan Center for Disease Control or Wuhan Institute of Virology. The virus may have infected human beings after accidentally escaping from the lab.
Sensing this the Chinese government has stopped the publication of papers related to the research into the origin of the virus. Any research paper on this topic has to be submitted to the ministry of science and technology for clearance.

State-run China Daily in 2018 called the latter "Asia's largest virus bank." It deleted its 2018 tweet—screenshot below. The video clearly explains the genome sequencing of the virus.
It is very clearly apparent from the video that the chromosomal sequencing has been altered to include the genes from HIV virus, some genes from the human cells, to make it lethal.

Layman without genomics background may not be able to understand the video. However I have found the structure to be so perfect that, it can be only be created in a lab. The structure does not suggest the virus to be an evolved structure.

Interview with Dr. Pavan Panchavati on Zesty Nimbu

In this video, Dr. Pavan Panchavati talks about the frequently asked questions about CoronaVirus. He talks about Persons being affected because of this, Hydroxychloroquine, Ibuprofen, Testing for Covid-19, how doctors and their families are managing the Stress and Fatigue. He also talks about the importance of Social Distancing. Please share it. Dr. Pavan Panchavati is an MD in Family Medicine, Masters in Public Health (MPH), Fellow in Hospital Medicine (FHM), Fellow of American academy of Family Practice (FAAFP), Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM). He has an Award Named after him: “The Pavan Panchavati” “Stop complaining & be Grateful for such Learning Opportunity” award by University of Alabama at Birmingham, Huntsville Family Medicine Residency program: Awarded to outstanding graduating residents. He has been the Chairman of Department of Family Medicine, Huntsville Hospital Health System from 2016-2019 (Third largest public owned health care system in USA). He is a Clinical associate professor UAB family medicine residency program.

Microdroplets pose coronavirus risk 04-05

An NHK experiment found that microdroplets emitted while sneezing and coughing and during conversations stay in the air for longer than normal droplets, potentially posing a uniquely dangerous risk for coronavirus infection.

Chemical sprayed 03-30