Need of the hour

The moment I told my friends that I am going to write an article about Dr.M.Natarajan, their first reaction was, “is this person a relative of your friend Preethi natarajan?”. Well, they went a step beyond by asking if this scientist is her dad (No offence intended). Subsequently I was arguing with my friends that the news about the Sir C.V.Ramam birth centenary award for this year, he got should have come in the first page of Hindu. When the news about the death of Sir Edmund Hillary was carried on the first page, I am sure that this news is worth being published on the cover page. We as Indians should be proud of his service towards the technological advancement of our country. India has rode on the tall achievements of such faithful government servants who work tirelessly to make India technologically self reliant.

               Dr.Natarajan Manthiram has a B.tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and M.tech degree in mechanical engineering with specialization in engineering design from IIT Mumbai. Both are one of the most prestigious institutions in the country for which over 10 lakhs students compete for 4000 seats. After this he joined the Defense Research and development organization in the year 1970. Later he obtained Master of Science degree from the RMCS, United Kingdom in 1975. Shri M.Natarajan has worked for over 30 years on several important project assignments relating to the design and development of tracked vehicles. He was an integral part of the MBT(main battle tank)Arjun program and later became its project director in the year 1987. He later assumed charge as the director of Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment(CVRDE), Avadi,Chennai  in the year 1989. The continued hard work and dedication of the highest order shown by Shri Natarajan and his team for over 2 decades resulted in India having an indigenous state of the art MBT-Arjun and self propelled gun system BHIM (http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Images-Bhim-SPG.html  , refer this site for additional information on BHIM tanks). Shri Natarajan received the best scientist award  for the year 1994 from the hon’ble minister of state of defense Shri Mallikaarjun, for his contributions for the success of MBT Arjun tanks.

                  Added to this, his laboratory was selected as the Best Systems engineering laboratory for the year 1995, for which he received the Rolling silicon Award in 1996 for outstanding professional excellence by the Institution of Engineers (India). He was made Distinguished Scientist in DRDO w.e.f. 12 Mar 1999. He has served in the capacity of CCR&D (ACE) at DRDO HQ looking after Armaments, Combat Vehicles and Engineering equipment w.e.f. July 2000. During this period, he ensured acceptance of Pinaka MBRLS (motorized howitzer technology), developed by ARDE (Armament Research & Development Establishment), by Army through exhaustive field tests. He became a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engg. with effect from Dec 2001. He received the award of Padam Shri from the Honorable President of India in 2003 for his contribution to the design and development of Combat Vehicles. He was awarded Technology Leadership Award for 2003 by DRDO for his contributions to the design and development of Combat vehicles and Mechanical Systems. He has been awarded Distinguished Alumnus of  IIT Madras in Dec 2003. Shri M. Natarajan has taken over as Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri 31^st August 2004.

                 Dear readers, in the preceding paragraphs I have highlighted few achievements of Shri M.Natarajan. I am sure that his outstanding achievements make every  Indian proud. No wonder all the multinational companies are competing to hire Indian brains especially from the IIT's and NIT's. It feels bad when achievements by people like him are not made aware to the public by newspapers. They ought to carry his article on the first page of the newspaper rather than some unidentified corner of the paper. A little consolation one can take is that his achievement has atleast been recognized by the media. Thousands of achievements by our countrymen go unrecognized every year. This can seriously affect the morale of the person and badly bruise his ego. In the nation's point of view, achievements of such people if highlighted by the media can inspire so many youngsters to work hard and bring laurels to the country. Also new state of art technologies will become known to youngsters and fire their imaginations.

                        We should never forget that today’s youngsters grow to become citizens of the country and rule it. So its important that they grow up in the right frame of mind and ward off all the negative thoughts. To become a super power, our country needs a good government and unbiased media. I am sure that we will never fall short of manpower in our country. And the booming economy of ours will never explode. To achieve Sir Abdul Kalam’s target of becoming a developed nation by 2020, some serious measures have to be taken by India. A trend which is recent heartwarming is the reverse brain drain. The government has indeed done lots of things to woo these techies back to India but it can’t afford to be smug.

Adam and Eve

Wishing all the readers a pleasant day. Today i am going to write about Adam and Eve, the first persons GOD created on earth. Adam and Eve find mention in sacred textbooks of all religions in the world(showing that all religions are same). Most of us know only literary interpretation of the story but now i would like to share the symbolic interpretation of this story which i read in the book written by Paramahamsa Yogananda. He was enlightened with this knowledge by his esteemed guru Paramahamsa Yukteswara Giri.
The story of Adam and Eve is described in the book of Genesis, chapters 1,2,3. I am sure everyone in the world hasp pondered over the mystery in creation of the first human beings. As a child i have. The answer is simple but profound. None other than God had power to create Adam and Eve. God created them by his sheer will power. Scientists all over the world are trying to prove that man evolved from monkey. God did create man from animals but he gifted them with the thousand petalled lotus ie the brain which give us an edge over the animals and other life forms. apart from the brain man has an erect spinal chord with 12 nodal centres which are the centres of energy. he also infused divine thoughts into them for the advancement of the race. Adam symbolized reason and eve emotion.
Book of genesis says "The serpent tempts eve into eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and she gives the fruit to adam too. God expels them both from the garden of eden and curses them". the literary interpretation of this verse is that god planted the tree of good and evil in the midst of garden of eden from which god directly forbade adam to eat. a serpent later tempted eve, who was aware of the prohibition, to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree. adam also ate and they became aware of their nakedness. having proven themselves untrustworthy, they presented a risk that they would also eat the fruit of tree of life and become immortal.to prevent this they were banished from the garden and forced to survive on earth. according to paramahamsa Yogananda, the tree of life is nothing but our own spinal chords with hair as the roots and nerves as the branches. the fruits of the trees are nothing but the senses(sight, sound,smell,taste,feel, intuition???) which we enjoy through our nerves.(when god created Adam, he gave him the power of intuition along with the 5 senses we enjoy.) what God forbade from Adam was enjoying the fruit at the center of the tree(body),ie serpent or our penis. putting it in simpler words, god forbade sex which only the lower forms of life ie the animals enjoy. as i had earlier said, Eve symbolizing emotion was tempted by the serpent and she enjoyed the fruit which God forbade. Adam being the reason was overcome by emotion and he too succumbed. thus both of them were banished to the earth from the casual world or the garden of eden. on earth Adam and Eve became aware of their nakedness and wore clothes. tree of knowledge and evil represents represent the duality or the maya principle which every person on earth is subjected to. additional proof for the duality principle is the life and death phenomenon. no living creature can escape death.also man is subjected to alternating phases of joy and pain in their life span.
Adam and Eve using God's gift of reproduction, multiplied and occupied the earth. dear readers remember that God always cares for us and in every creation of his,he does'nt leave any proof to show that he created it. in this way he urges all men to rise above the materialistic desires and ego and realize the power of God or unity and be in communion with him.

Intro

hi world. finally i have found time to create an account and blog. wanted to start it in previous semester holidays but unfortunately could not. thanks to my dear younger brother srinath. but i am sure my brother dint relish my stay at home for a month. i made him do things he hates the most.any guesses? ask any 15 year old. u will know.(i am straight :))