Why we exist

Usually what theist argue as proof for existence of god is how intricately and precisely designed, everything in the universe is.

For example - The availability of a complicated pumping system, the human heart,  A multitasking super computer, the brain,  and various other factors, like being endowed with all the essential number of muscles and nerves. It all seems like  intellegent design, like how a mechanic designes a car, and even the accuracy of the laws of nature (a small change in gravitational force would cause the collapse of the universe), have also been used to support for their cause, how did something as complicated as the universe, that has millions of probabilities of going wrong, from its creation till now working without an all powerful entity?,  is their question. 

People like Richard Dawkins have argued that, only because these seemingly "perfect" situations exist,  we do,  it makes perfect sense.

For example.

An algae cannot grow if there is no moisture.

We would not have existed if there was no oxygen or water or carbon were already here.

They were not put here for us, we exist because they are here. If there weren't here, some other species might have evolved or earth would have remained barren like mars or Venus.

If it is all intelligent design why are there defects in babies,  if it is intelligent design then all the babies would be checked and tested before they are sent to this world, like how we check our cars.

We exist, because we have all necessary conditions for us to exist, not the other way around. There were millions of species which have failed to survive, because they weren't good enough to survive here.  In the same way there might have been millions of failed planets, failed galaxies, failed universes and failed big bang, but we don't know because we weren't there. We are just a probability of some mysterious event, which also has multiple other probabilities, which caused many random probable sequences, not because of an all powerful organism living in the clouds. .

Ringing bell stop taking orders (freedom 251)

The new "Make In India",  flagship phone which is the priced at Rs. 251,  took the world by storm, as it had received an overwhelming response of about 6 lakhs requests in a second, so overwhelming that the company had to close its page for the next 24 hours. Don't lose you hearts because there is still hope for us who have not been able to buy it,  as they have taken this little hiatus with the sole purpose of upgrading their system, to allow more traffic.

The newshour debate by Arnab Goswami

Newshour debate airs on Timesnow, this particular debate was on the subject of JNU student's anti national statements, and being unfamiliar to Arnab's hosting methods, I was in the for a big shock, because the whole episode was not a debate, it was an angry man shouting at the students without asking for any explanation (reminds me of my student days), actually he did ask for explanations,  he just didn't let them explain.

For instance
In the first minute Arnab asks Mr. Lenin of the  DSU (democratic students union) to speak, the second he starts talking, he was interrupted by Arnab who went on a 5 minute rant on how they (students of JNU) were neither democratic nor leftist, the DSU leader did try to explain something, I just couldn't hear anything admits all the noise that Arnab was making, then he asked a BJP member, Ms. Nupul, to speak, she was't interrupted for a minute,  I thought Arnab being biased on the issue would at least let her talk, as BJP had similar opinions as his,  but I wrong,  he went on a similar rant cussing the JNU students for another 5 minutes, calling them anti National and terrorist, and this went on till the end of the show, he would ask someone to speak,  give them a false hope and gobble it under their throat, there were certain parts in the show where everyone kept shouting their side of the story (think of 8 of them shouting different things all at once) it was a disaster, and I thought he was being particularly aggressive against a Muslim JNU student Umar, who was with him in the studio, when the show was over, I was irritated, angry and had learned nothing new.

So I decided to send a dissent tweet expressing my dissatisfaction on twitter, but he is not on twitter. So I thought I would at lest make a blog post out of it.

Indian reservations

It's about time we did our reservations based on some other criteria, though it sounds similar to most right wing lunatics, misinformed general category citizens, my reasons are different, its not because it gives them an "unfair" advantage, as that is the whole point of reservations, is to give them a head start, to give them a walking stick to balance themselves as centuries old system of discrimination has visibly lamed them, so it is not in anyway unfair, but dosen't reservation based on castes propagate castes, the system that put them there in the first place?.

If the whole idea of the reservations is to try to erase their economical, cultural, and social disadvantages, can't they be based on those criteria alone, for eg: 1)people from poor background, 2) people living in slums, 3) people with illitrate parents, people having all three criteria as the most underdeveloped and with one of these as comparitively underdeveloped, this will include all the people from the castes, who need real help, we are not taking away their reservations just scrubbing out the dirty caste identity, that the unfair system had previously given them. So there is no way racist and castist elements to distinguish us, we all become more closer.

There will still be people crying unfair, but atleast we will have with us an resonable argument and statistics, as to why it is done and how it will improve them, not just references to history.

Governments should also stop giving caste and community certificates,  it actually makes an unfair system look official, and communities and castes are personal preferences, why install them in to governments? (We are supposed to be secular ), and should also raise taxes monstrously for matrimonial organization, that provide caste based martial services. If we want to destroy the system effectively, we should actively try to destroy it.

Story of the Indian currency - The Indian rupee.

              
             Today money is everything, it is this Indian rupee which  determines who gets to rule, who gets to survive in India, but do we really know it's history?, it's significance?, reason for its existence?, I am here to tell you that, so let me take you on a journey just sit back and read.

Where does it get its name?
              The word  Rupee comes from the Sanskrit word
Rupya meaning wrought silver.

The evolution

Before the British Colonial era.
          India is a very old civilization, many mediums of exchanges have prevailed here before the "modern" rupee came in to being. One of them was the barter system, the problem with the barter system was that all the goods were not in demand in all seasons, for example - tomatoes were only in demand in summer season so the tomato farmers could  eat their stomach full only during that season. So other mediums like peppers, rice, cows and gold replaced it, gold being one of the most widely and universally used currency before the coins showed up.
         The use of coins as a medium of exchange is considered to have come in to being in India around fifth century BC, in Dwaraka at least that is the oldest know evidence we have. Then Greeks invaded us, gave a unique square shape  and animal symbolism to our coins, though the square shape soon got left behind, but animal symbols stuck, significant roles were also played by Mauriya dynasty in giving denomination to the coins,
they made copper, silver, gold coins. The first king to have engraved dates on the coins was the Muhal emperor Akbar,  these were called Alf coins.

During the British Colonial era-

               The British introduced paper currency in the country during the middle of the 19 th century (1861), Bank of Hindusthan which was the first bank to be created in India issued these notes.
             The values of the denomination of the rupee during British rule were:

1 rupee = 16 anna
1 ardharupee = 8 anna,
1 pavala = 4 anna, or ¼ rupee
1 beda = 2 anna,
1 anna = 1⁄16 rupee.
             There were also many variations of the Indian rupee that existed during the sane time like the Danish rupee, the French rupee, the Hyderabad rupee.

Post Independence.
               All the annas and andharupee were stripped off and each rupee was divided in to 100 paisa. Notes in circulation come in denominations of ₹1, ₹2, ₹5, ₹10, ₹20, ₹50,₹100, ₹500 and ₹1000. Rupee coins  available in denominations of ₹1, ₹2, ₹5, ₹10.
              
Countries which use Indian rupee.
          
                  Previously the Indian rupee was an official currency of other countries,                                                 including Aden, Oman, Dubai, Bahrain, the Uganda, Kenya the Seychelles and Mauritius etc....But soon the countries replaced it with their own currency during the later periods of 20th century. Now it's still an official currency in Bhutan.

Design.
               Currency notes are printed at the Currency Note Press in Nashik. The Indian currency has 17 of the official Indian languages in it's notes. The notes now in use called Mahatma Gandhi series of notes have an image of mahatma Gandhi in it. The symbol (₹)
designed by Mr. Udaya Kumar  Dharmalingam is the official symbol of indian , which has its origins from the devanagari script. They were made with paper but the bank had rolled 10 crore 10 rupee notes made by polymer which is said to last longer and difficult to counterfeit.