GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.!

[Sudhaama]

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. HEALTHY & RICH Thoughts..!!!

Dear Friends,

Most of the GK Messages we know... some others may not know.

And we too would like to refresh and replenish our Knowledge...

... on this vast expanding arena...

.... of FAST ADVANCING Scientific World.

Besides such an approach can direct our Sharp Wisdom...

...towards a HEALTHY MIND... and PROGRESSIVE DIRECTION.!!!

..Is it not.?
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[Sudhaama]

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. South Indian Temples.. comparatively much AIRY.!!!

In large Temples in South India.... normally we do not feel much sultry or congested comparatively even during the hot Summer... even in the midst of heavy crowd....

..including the small Store rooms wihout Windows or Ventilators....

...as well as the Sanctum Sanctorum (Garbha-griham)...

...far away from Open spaces of free Wind-flow.

How and Why.?

Dear Friends,

Please speak out your Thoughts...

I will come to reply at last.

Welcome.!!!
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[pavalamani pragasam]

The 'granary of Tamil Nadu',Tajore's Big Temple's store rooms for grains along the outer wall come to my mind immediately.

I feel the building material stone has a special quality of coolness. All public buildings, big, spacious ones like my old college, are big stone buildings too! Even in houses of our ancestors stones had a major share. I fondly remember the stone ledge, a finely chiselled shelf in my grandma's house for keeping water pots, specially, smoothly carved semi-spherical pits on which the pots sit well. I have heard elders explain to me that the stone shelf helps water to remain cool even in the hottest summer. Ingenuous methods when fridge was unknown!

Our ancient architects, artisans who designed & erected those beautiful structures called temples had excellent, incomparable, engineering skills, knew aesthetics, symmetry, acoustics, wind flow & every other detail connected with architecture. Temples were not only places for worship but communal, social, educational, entertaiment centres too, all wound in one package. A place where people converged. Mathematical precision vied with poetic imagination seen in the sculptures.

Waiting for interesting, illuminating explanations from a veteran!

[nirosha sen]

Hi everyone,

Good thread to start. I'd like to solicit help from those in the know, here.

Would anyone know of a particular website on the topic of "how the Brits. spread their language to the rest of the world." Of course, we all know it was through colonisation. But of particular interest is the ramification of how they stamped their language to the point of usurping the native languages, to the point of becoming the World's No 1 lingua franca. A feat which other colonisers hadn't been quite as successful. Or am I wrong?

I'd welcome your 2 sen's worth on this topic.

[pavalamani pragasam]

No other colonising country succeeded so extensively for so long. So English prevailed out of sheer necessity for communication. A basic superiority trait also must have helped to overpower its undeerlings which we were shamelessly for centuries, looking upon the white man as a saviour, redeemer, wellwisher & what not. We lapped up the language out of compulsion & admiration!!! :oops: Now it is an undoubted tool of convenience & facility.

[nirosha sen]

Truly a complex language which breaks its own grammar rules!Without a context, the language gives a whole new meaning!! Despite all hardship not to mention the tag of the coloniser, we do indeed lap it up. Without the sanctification of having learned and mastered the language, one is not even considered as being genuinely educated!

Wouldn't you all agree?

[pavalamani pragasam]

Shamefully, yes!

[Shakthiprabha.]

Without the sanctification of having learned and mastered the language, one is not even considered as being genuinely educated!

Wouldn't you all agree?


I feel the scenario is DEFINITELY changing.
People have started treating english AS JUST MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. Gone are the days when ENGLISH was synonymously associated with KNOWLEDGE.

Another welcoming change is PEOPLE ARE TAKING PRIDE in talking their own tongue.

The change is mildly visible, but definitely getting bigger and making a marking effect.

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[Sudhaama]

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. What is going on here now.?... GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.?

My Dear Friends,

While I thank you all and appreciate your curiosity for exchange of Knowledge...

I am sorry and much UPSET to find all of you my dear Friends.. have transgressed the bounds and relevance to this Thread Topic GK.

Thus, I am sorry to say... You all are factually... OBSTRUCTING the due and APTLY RELEVANT discussion...

... on the Topic INTENDED.

Is this current Trend dragged towards a Language... is considered GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.?

What is the purview of General Knowledge?

If I am correct... the GK means the Elementary Knowledge required for any Commonman...

..irrespective of Career, Education, Professional background and all other aspects of different purviews in Life involved.

Such a specific purview under GK... covers the RUDIMENTARY ANSWERS... on various subjects

...to appease the Hunger of Curiosity for any COMMONMAN.

So to say Scientific answers based on Reasoning.

Does English Language History, Culture and such other backgrounds involved...

...fall under General Knowledge.? Can we say that such discussion is necessary for even an illiterate on basic life.?

If that be so... all the subjects under this Forum fall under GK.?

Anyhow.. for your convenience... I have opened a new Thread as below. Please continue your discussions there.

I too will join with you there on the Topic on English...

...furnishing several interesting messages and hidden truth behind.

Thus we can ensure discussions parallelly alongside this Thread on GK.

Welcome my dear Friends.!!!

.ENGLISH Language.. PREDOMINANT. !!. How.?. Why.?
http://forumhub.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=11325

PLEASE ALLOW us to discuss on GENERAL KNOWLEDGE only here.

Dear MODERATORS,

Please transfer the above irrelevant parts of this Thread... to the relevant Thread on English Language issue

Affectionately, With Best Wishes,
Sudhaama
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[Sudhaama]

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. South Indian Temples.. comparatively much AIRY.!!!

In large Temples in South India.... normally we do not feel much sultry or congested comparatively even during the hot Summer... even in the midst of heavy crowd....

..including the small Store rooms wihout Windows or Ventilators....

...as well as the Sanctum Sanctorum (Garbha-griham)...

...far away from Open spaces of free Wind-flow.

How and Why.?
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The 'granary of Tamil Nadu',Tajore's Big Temple's store rooms for grains along the outer wall come to my mind immediately.

I feel the building material stone has a special quality of coolness. All public buildings, big, spacious ones like my old college, are big stone buildings too! Even in houses of our ancestors stones had a major share. I fondly remember the stone ledge, a finely chiselled shelf in my grandma's house for keeping water pots, specially, smoothly carved semi-spherical pits on which the pots sit well. I have heard elders explain to me that the stone shelf helps water to remain cool even in the hottest summer. Ingenuous methods when fridge was unknown!

Our ancient architects, artisans who designed & erected those beautiful structures called temples had excellent, incomparable, engineering skills, knew aesthetics, symmetry, acoustics, wind flow & every other detail connected with architecture. Temples were not only places for worship but communal, social, educational, entertaiment centres too, all wound in one package. A place where people converged. Mathematical precision vied with poetic imagination seen in the sculptures.

Waiting for interesting, illuminating explanations from a veteran!

There are Three Reasons for such an Incredible NATURAL effect... even with LARGE CROWDS and Scanty Windows and Ventilators.

(1) The Tall Gopuram in front of the Temple... followed by the series of small Gopurams on the way upto the Main Temple Building causes an ARTIFICIAL WINDFLOW... from outside the Temple towards the innner Temple Sanctum Sanctorum...

..since the Gopurams are constructed so, to force the high altitude Cool-Wind downwards and driven through the wide and tall Gateway just beneath the Gopuram.

Such an artificial draught constantly agitated and thrust inwardly... keeps the whole atmosphere of the Temple premises contained within the Tall outer Boundary walls all around the Interior.

When we stand just beneath the Front Gopuram so called Rajagopuram...

...we can conspicuously feel the heavy gush of Cool-wind inwardly...

...far lower in temperature than that of the wind outside.

Because the Wind-flow towards the interior is the down-driven right from the full height of the Gopuram

(2) Besides as per the Agama and Vasthu Sasthras prescribed for Temples... there always used to be wide Open space all around the Main Temple, almost centrally situated.

Such a Windy Open-space all around... maintains the constant balancing of the atmospheric air temperature in between the Buildings of the premises.

(3) In large sized temples... there used to be four or more number of Gopurams.. on all sides.. one on each direction... ensuring unfailing drawal of wind from all directions around.

This provision improves the Cooling effect more effectively and predominantly.

At Srirangam, after raising the main Rajagopuram in Front... facing the South... not only the Temple... but also the whole Srirangam town has become much cooler and more comfortably airy than
before...the people feel.

Because of the Southern windflow called THENRAL (Very pleasingly Coolest wind) in Tamil...

...the Cool-atmosphere and free natural Wind-flow is more effective.
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[Sudhaama]

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. Trash Paper SHRUNK.?

When we throw the Trash / Waste paper towards the adjacent Trash-Box...

We Shrink and Squeeze the paper to a Ball-shape or Tear off to Pieces. Why.?

And the Aim of direction is more perfect... PROPORTIONATE with the amount of paper Shrunk to as Small in size as possible.

Why.? What causes such an effect.?
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[anbu_kathir]

Of course, the lesser the area of surface, the lesser the air resistance. For a given volume, the spherical shape has the least area of surface among all possible shapes.

Ultimately this leads to better precision towards reaching the target along the direction of force. I guess for the same reason aircraft tips and bullets are shaped so ( or anything that requires good aerodynamic properties).

Love and Light.


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. Trash Paper SHRUNK.?

When we throw the Trash / Waste paper towards the adjacent Trash-Box...

We Shrink and Squeeze the paper to a Ball-shape or Tear off to Pieces. Why.?

And the Aim of direction is more perfect... PROPORTIONATE with the amount of paper Shrunk to as Small in size as possible.

Why.? What causes such an effect.?
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[Sudhaama]

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. Trash Paper SHRUNK.?

. ANSWER.


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When we throw the Trash / Waste paper towards the adjacent Trash-Box...

We Shrink and Squeeze the paper to a Ball-shape or Tear off to Pieces. Why.?

And the Aim of direction is more perfect... PROPORTIONATE with the amount of paper Shrunk to as Small in size as possible.

Why.? What causes such an effect.?
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Of course, the lesser the area of surface, the lesser the air resistance. For a given volume, the spherical shape has the least area of surface among all possible shapes.

Ultimately this leads to better precision towards reaching the target along the direction of force. I guess for the same reason aircraft tips and bullets are shaped so ( or anything that requires good aerodynamic properties).


.Our Friend "anbu kadhir" has touched the right tip of the berg.

Yes. When the paper is wide open or not shrunk at all...

...there are several ANTI-FORCES... to the maximum Magnitudue (Extent /Content)... working on that Paper thrust by the force of throw towards the Trash box.

Out of all such forces.. the most predominant force is... the Friction with Air around. ..

...PROPORTIONATE with the Area of Paper Surface of contact with Air.

So... the more the Area of the Paper in contact with the Air... will cause the more Counter-force against the Thrust force towards the Trash box...

Depending upon the shape and folds of the paper... the Air force works upon it from various directions.

Consequenty... it forces the paper in a different direction from the one directed by the person.

Besides since the extent of counter-force is proportionate with the Surface area of Air-contact...

...the speed of the paper-throw gets reduced commensurate with the area of contact.

So we reduce the Area of outer Air-contact by shrinking its size...

..as also reshape it to as spherical as possible...

....since it causes maximum reduction of forces from different directions.

Thus our Aim of direction as well as positive drop within the Target we decide to...

...by SHRINKING to the maximum extent towards a Non-resistent SLIPPERY Outer-Surface...

...alongside the FASTEST REACH... to the Target is..

...practically achieved...
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