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Folklore Museum of Kerala

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What a man with 25 years in hand can do, the answer depends on various factors, but here is a story of a man, who not only have done something truly incredible, but at the same time made us all proud, capturing the history of Kerala and adding an important chapter to the history of India.  Meet the guy Mr. George J Thaliath; he is a post graduate in his early 50s.  In his early age he joined his father Jacob.V.Thaliath, in dealing with Indian art. Gaining experience for evaluating antiquities and other art objects. He travelled extensively around the Indian sub-continent – ranging from ancient cities to remote villages, royals to tribal huts, religious to ritual experiences gaining expertise in knowledge about traditional art. Together with his wife Annie George, this museum is a trip to history. This museum is unique in a way that it is work of a single man who dedicated his life to preserving the rich tradition and culture of Kerala. Right from entering the ga...

Kalaripayattu : Ancient Martial Art Of India

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हिंदी में पढ़े - कलारीपायट्ट-भारत की सबसे पुराणी युद्ध शैली Kalari Shethra During my stay in Kerala, I was privileged enough to visit Kalarishethra (Ground for  Payattu ). For those of you, who don't discern what  Kalaripayattu  is; it is one of the ancient form of martial arts which was originated in Kerala.   It is practiced as defense art but rather has an aggressive form as well where a warrior uses multiple weaponries against its adversary. The key of this martial art form, like any other is swiftness and dexterity together with the form. Kalari means Battleground or Arena and Payattu derived from payattuka which means to fight or to exercise or to put hard work into. Origination Some chronological references associate Chinese kung fu with Kalarippayattu, through the Pallava prince named  Bodhidharman  who voyaged to china and reached Shaolin temple. It is said that  Kalaripayattu  gained its p...

QR Codes

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Have you noticed the strange looking square shape, checker like pattern code, which is given at some places to visit websites or to avail offers or even access information? If you have seen one than you are not new and if you don't know about it than also you are not new either. Chances are you might have seen QR code. QR Code is short form of  Quick Response Code. It is similar to bar code but with added extra dimension making it two dimensional code. This adds more information to the code.  "It  is the trademark for a type of  matrix barcode  (or two-dimensional  barcode ) first designed for the  automotive industry in Japan ." - Wikipedia  By Definition - It is a type of machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. It uses four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric, byte/binary, and kanji ) to efficiently store data. QR codes have recently increase their pene...

How to Get Respect at Work

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Most of the time in our current stressful environment, we tend to forget our boundaries and this happens with all of us sometime or the other. Respect is one aspect of our personality which can make or break the situation. It can actually change the relation from avoidance to  interdependence .  So, how we should be in our professional environments to get maximum benefit out of it and its not a one way road. Respect others : Show your coworkers that they matter. Respect the authority of your bosses and treat underlings well. Do your job and do it well: Don't make anyone carry your workload, be on time and offer to help coworkers when possible.  If you do not understand something or cannot handle a task do not be afraid to seek help or partner up with a coworker. Have dignity: It's great to help out others but don't let yourself be the office pushover either. Don't do everyone's work for them.  Tell the boss, "I can take one ...

Aerial Seed Bombing

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हिंदी में पढ़े :  एरियल सीड बॉम्बिंग Seed Bombs Being environmentalist from heart , I try to contribute as much as I can to reduce my environmental footprint. Apart from individual contribution the globalization has tipped the scale of demand and supply. In the past decade we have seen acceleration in world wide environmental issues like Global Warming, Glacier Melting, Weather Cycle Change, Ozone Depletion, Increase in Green House Gases. Our future looks quite dim. Somebody rightly said that  And the way we are going we don't have much time left before these problems become irreversible.  Pixabay: Deforestation Deforestation is one of the major cause of these  issues, our flora is actually the provider of many benefits like Oxygen, Lumber, Medicines, Shelter etc. to name a few. And we have mistreated, exploited our providers to an extent that we may not be able to reverse the impact in time. I was reading about the upcoming technologi...