by Keats on March 22, 2008
Laughter is the best medicine for depression. It is not only a human being who has sense of humour but even our Darwinian ancestors have it, as shown by many scientific experiments. Laughter reduces pain & worries become lighter.
Students can remember scientific facts & enjoy grammar if it is put in a more humorous way. Doctors make patients laugh to make them feel that their problems are not so much serious.
But the facts reported in Times Of India under the column “The Speaking Tree” by Anurag has to be taken seriously. It is the case of Norman Consins, editor of the Saturday Review, who was given up by the doctors when he had an acute problem of degeneration of tissues. Once he was told that he did not have much time to live, he left the hospital to live in a hotel & enjoyed life by regularly watching cartoons such as those by Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin & episodes from Candid Camera. He slowly recovered & returned to work. When he had a heart attack after 15 years, again he just laughed himself back to health.
When children do not laugh, parents should search for the problem & seek a remedy first. A person who has the ability to laugh takes the joy of life seriously & the person who cannot laugh takes the burden of life seriously.
Laughter is a gift of love from God. It is a medicine without side effects, a champagne without intoxication, an accident without injury, a disease without fear.
It is an expression of the will to live.
by Nipon on March 17, 2008
If not for the similarity in name, Tara Tiny is priced at Rs. 99000! Tata Nano has a price tag of Rs. 1 lakh. And both the cars are coming from Bengal! The Tara factory is located at Palta near Kolkata. So much for the similarities. Now the main difference – the Tara engine is powered by electricity, making it truely economical and environment-friendly. The battery-operated car needs 8 hours of charging to travel 80 kms which translates to a running cost of 40 paise per km. Kolkata-based Tara International, headed by Tara Ganguly, has teamed up with China’s $1.5-billion Aucma, a leading player in the electrical vehicles and appliances segment, to manufacture these green cars. With a maximum speed of 50 km/hour the car is ideal for city riding. The company plans to set up charging units in shopping malls. The four Tara variants to be rolled out in Indian market in the next few months are Tara Tiny, Tara Titu (two-seater), Tara Shuttle and Tara Carrier. Also in the pipeline are bikes which will cost between Rs. 12000 and Rs. 33000. Here is a Tara Tiny specs list:
# No of seats: 4
# Net weight: 850 kg
# Wheel base: 2150 mm
# Maximum speed: 50 km/hour
# Maximum grade ability: 15%
# Motor power: 3 kw
# Battery voltage: 6V*10
# Recharge duration: 8 hours
# Driving charge: 120 km
# Ground clearance: 150/mm
# Running cost: 40 p/km
# Battery capacity: 200/Ah
Tara S Ganguly, chairman and CEO of Tara International, did his managment degree from Columbia University and is the grandson of Colonel Dwijendra Bhattacharya. The Colonel had set up Bengal Enamel in 1921 with Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy (the acclaimed Bengali academician who championed entrepreneurship and founded Bengal Chemicals) as its chairman.
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