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Policy Guidelines for setting up Community Radio Stations in India

Gyan Darpan 9/23/2012 0

In December 2002, the Government of India approved a policy for the grant of licenses for setting up of Community Radio Stations to well established educational institutions including IITs/IIMs.

The matter has been reconsidered and the Government has now decided to broad base the policy by bringing ‘Non-profit’ organisations like civil society and voluntary organisations etc under its ambit in order to allow greater participation by the civil society on issues relating to development & social change.

Click here to read more about The detailed policy guidelines in this regard .

WISE BROTHERS

Rajasthani Traditional Story

Gyan Darpan 9/02/2012 0

Once in a city there were four brothers. All the four were very wise. Each one was better than the other one. They were extremely brainy so much so that their stories were well known in villages and cities nearby. People started calling them “Wise Brothers”. One was Ann, the second was Bon, the third was Cod and the fourth one was Deb.

One day all four decided that they should go to some big city to earn money and by struggling for their livelihood they would get chance to test their wisdom also periodically. It is said that lazy Lawrence sit at home and eat whereas wise people work to add fame and wealth in their lives. All got ready with their horses to move to some big city.
After travelling a lot and covering a big distance they saw footprints of a camel that passed from the way before them.
“These footprints are of a female Camel and not of a male” said the first brother Ann.
“You are right Ann. This is a female Camel and is one eyed” said Bon.
Cod said” You both are correct. However, I have an observation that says out of the two riders one is male and other is female.”
Deb added and said” your surmise is in right direction and I think the lady rider is pregnant.”
Post inspecting the area and footprints on sand all four ran their horses in the direction of footprints to check if their surmise is correct or not. They wanted to chase the camel riders and reach them to test their wisdom.
Soon they were near ere near camel rider. Camel rider got scared when he saw four horse riders chasing him. He thought he has been surrounded by dacoits and punks who are following him now. He ran his camel with full speed and entered a city. All four brothers also entered the city chasing the camel. As as camel rider entered the town he complained about the incident to police inspector of the city in the nearest police station.
He said” Four horse riders are chasing us. Please help us.”
The inspector started interrogating the brothers to know if they are dacoits. While interrogation they disclosed that they left their city in search of some work. If they will get something there in the city they would stay the inspector observed their dalliance and personality and thought they can be useful for the king. So, he took them all to the king. He presented brothers in front of king and described the camel following incident.

King expressed the scarcity and need of good workers in his kingdom and said that he needs good people and at the same time asked them the reason for following the camel rider.
Firstly, Ann spoke and said” your highness, the moment we saw foot prints we all concluded that it should be of a She-Camel. The Camel should be one-eyed and should have been ridden by two riders, one male and other female. The female rider should have been pregnant.
After hearing them king became anxious to know more about what happened next. He called the camel rider and asked him “Where were you coming from and with whom?”
Camel rider said “Oh Provider! I went to bring my wife from her maternal house and was coming back from there.”
King asked again “okay, tell me if your camel is one eyed and is missing the left one.”
Camel Rider” Yes God! My camel is one eyed.”
King was shocked to know it. He asked in surprise- “How did you guess so accurately. Please explain in detail.”

Ann replied- I saw urine drops along with foot prints and recognized the smell of it, I concluded that the camel should be female.
Bon said” The camel was eating plants and leaves form the right side of the road only and not from left. So we concluded that it was one- eyed.” It did not even touch a single leaf from left.
Cod says- “The camel riders got down on the way. We inspected their footprints which were clearly saying that one is male and other is female.
At the end Deb said that foot prints of lady had some extra weight by which I concluded that she is pregnant.
King acknowledged their wisdom and hired them for a handsome salary n his court. While offering them the jobs he politely asked “What all skills do you all have?”
Ann said –“If I decide and sit somewhere I intentionally then nobody can move me from there by any effort.”
Bon-“I have skill of recognizing edible products by their smell.”
Cod- “I have skill of identifying good bedding.”
Deb- “I can make any provoked or sad person happy with in fraction of seconds and with ease.”

King decided to test them someday. One day it so happened that everybody was sitting on a very big carpet together since a very long time along with four brothers. King ordered to dust the carpet once. Everybody shifted away from the carpet area when it was being dusted but Ann was sitting at the corner of the carpet. So he pulled it and released the carpet for dusting. King saw it and got that he would not move from his point now.
The same evening King invited all four brothers for dinner and asked them to comment on food. Everybody present in the arena appreciated the food but Bon said “I am sorry you highness. However rice had smell of cow urine in it. King the very same moment called his cooks and asked how rice had cow urine smell.
The head cook replied “sir, While bringing rice from village It started raining heavily. So to save ourselves from being drenched in water we took shelter in a dairy farm. There a cow passed urine on our rice bags. We washed rice thoroughly but could not remove this smell.
King was pleased by Bon’s skill and he awarded them bedding from his palace to sleep. Brothers took rest and slept there at night.
In the morning Cod said to the king” Bed had rabbit’s tail which kept pinching me the whole night and I could not sleep well.” King ordered his men to tear the bedding and check. The bed really had a tail in it. King was amused with Cod’s skill. However, he wanted to test Deb also.
For him he called the queen and said, “We want to test Deb. You please act to be annoyed and go out of town in the garden. I will send Deb to bring you. Ensure not to come along with him for whatever he does.”
Queen went out of the city and became annoyed. King called Deb and asked him to bring queen back to the palace. Deb bought gifts and various marriage related articles from market and while returning passed from the front gate of the same park where queen was waiting. He decided to meet queen before going back.
When Deb met queen she asked “Where are you coming from and what this material is for? It seems it’s for somebody’s marriage.” Deb replied “King is doing second marriage today. I am taking this to palace.”
Queen asked in shock if king is really getting married again.
Deb said “Yes. It is correct. That’s why may be he has sent you out of town.” Queen got scared when she heard it and suspected king for it. She asked her maid to get a chariot ready and started for palace the same moment.
Deb saluted king after reaching palace and said “Oh Lord! Queen is back in palace and is happy.”
King saw that queen was coming to him in annoyance and after reaching started fighting with him for lying.
“You are trying to ditch me? You cannot marry again till I am alive.” King tried to convince her for his innocence. In this way all four brothers were successful in their tests.
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DESTINY

Rajasthani Traditional Story

Gyan Darpan 9/02/2012 0

A king had two sons. The elder one was Jack innocent and simple and the younger one was Brad, sharp intelligent and very efficient. After king’s death elder son became his successor. However all the load of state’s work was carried by the younger one Brad. Brad used to handle everything with full interest which was not happily acceptable to Jack’s wife. She was an opportunist and used to look for all moments to complain about brad to Jack. One day she became successful to throw Brad out of the state.

Brad received black clothes and black horse sent by the king. He took it as majesty’s order and left the state without asking any question. He started working under a merchant in nearby state. Merchant hired him assuming that he is a warrior and handed over his son to him teach him.

Brad used to teach his master’s son horse riding, fencing, archery etc. Merchant’s son was a handsome guy. King’s palace and merchant’s mansion was nearby. King’s daughter used to watch merchant’s mansion was nearby. King’s daughter used to see the beautiful princess through the same. Brad noticed it all and informed merchant about it. He said “sir, please take control of your son else you would blame me that I taught him all.”
Merchant asked Brad to keep closed eye on him son and started thinking to get rid of this problem.
One day princess wrote a letter for merchant’s son and before the son could see it, Brad read it. Brad got worried when he read what is written in letter and he handed over the letter to the merchant.
Merchant read princess’ message for his son- “We will run away from here at midnight today. I will wait for you outside main gate of the state on a horse. Please come after clock strikes 12.”
Merchant after reading the letter said to Brad-“Gentleman, please think of some way else my house would be finished.
Brad-“Sir, I ate for so many days with you. Being a Rajput I will do everything that you will ask me to do to save your family and house.
Merchant arranged a beautiful horse for Brad. He filled horse cloth with precious stones, old and money so that he will have plenty of it always.
The moment clock struck 12, Brad reached the place where princess was waiting.
Princess ran her horse the moment she saw him from a far away point. Brad kept following her. None of them rested anywhere the whole night. In the morning princess realized that instead of merchant’s son its Brad but what she could do then. She could not go back to her home as left her house for ever. Brad was equally handsome as merchant’s son was and was brave also. Princess decided to marry brad. Both decided to stay together and reached city Paatan. Princess also carried a lot of money & Jewels with her and so did Brad. So both started living in Paatan city. Brad told princess to avoid gelling up with ladies nearby and always keep the doors closed. That’s how they keep themselves safe.

One day a barber saw her closing the door. She had not seen such a beauty in her whole life. She thought she is beautiful that’s why her husband had kept her in lock. The lady knocked the door for princess and the moment she opened the door lady asked-“Don’t you feel suffocated alone?” Allow me to come in and I will wash your hairs, your clothes, trim your nails, oil your hairs. Lady started combing her hairs then trimmed her nails. She saw princess’ golden nails. She neither saw nor heard about such beauty.

Princess told the maid to give the nail cuts back to her only. Lady said “Okay, I will. What would I do with your nails?”
But Lady kept some cut out with her and showed it to her husband. Barber got amazed when he saw golden nails. His eyes widened in shock. The next day when barber went to palace to trim King’s hairs he took the nails along and showed it to the king and said “You have such a beauty in your state majesty, even her nails are golden.”
King was also amazed to see golden nails. He thought if this lady can have such beautiful nails then how beautiful she herself would be. He thought to see her once. King asked barber to show him the beauty that has such beautiful nails.
Barber suggested king “Oh Lord! Please call his husband in palace and keep him here for some days then seldom ask him to show his wife.”

King called Brad in his palace and played along with him, spent time with him, went for hunting and they ate together. One day king asked him to have dinner at Brad’s home. Brad could not avoid it or deny king for anything. Brad invited king at his home for dinner.

When Brad told princess about king’s request, she understood that it all has been done by the barber. What she could do then. She decorated house well to welcome king, prepared different types of food for him. King and Brad sat together for food. Princess started serving. While arranging plates she came in a red colored dress.
When she came to serve food wore a green colored dress and thus she appeared in seven different colored dresses in front of king for different purposes. King got confused and had seven wives but which one has golden nails. How to see her? He could not understand that which one out of seven has golden nails. He came back to his palace from Brad’s home with a sad heart. He called barber and told him everything. He also complained that he should have told him about Brad’s seven wives. If he would have known this fact would have concentrated on nails.
Barber said” Oh Lord! He has only one wife”.” Now how can I see her? Suggest some plan.” King asked expressing his anxiety.
Barber-“Lord, Holi is coming. You can invite him in holi celebration in your garden with his wife. You will yourself get to know how many wives he has.
King liked barber’s suggestion and started waiting for holi to see beautiful lady with golden nails. On colorful festival of holi, king made arrangements to play holi and invited Brad along with his wife.
Princess again took use of her clever mind. She joined seven chariots together. Each chariot had a small door to enter the other one. She kept seven different colored dresses in each chariot along with seven different colored syringes. She sent message to the King, “I have brought colored water drums along with me so please send all queens to my chariot to play with me.”
As soon as queens reached near chariot princess threw water through her syringe from first chariot. Queens filled their water guns with water in the meanwhile princess quickly entered the second chariot and wore other dress and held a new syringe in her hand. Then she threw water from second chariot. She changed her dress post entering a new chariot to look like a different lady altogether. Queens then informed king that Brad has seven wives and they played holi with all of them.
This was how they played holi with king and came back. When princess reached back she saw that her diamond ring is missing from her finger. She then realized that it might have dropped there while playing holi. It was her favorite.
She insisted Brad to go then only and search for it in the garden, in spite of the fact that it was night. Due to her obstinacy, Brad went to look for ring in king’s garden. He was searching for the ring in grass when Brad’s hand touched snake and snake bit Brad. Due o sting Brad became incautious and laid there for hours till morning.
In the morning, gardener’s daughter came in garden and saw Brad lying there incautious. She then saw that he has been stung by a snake. She immediately sucks the sting out from his body and brought him back to the cautious condition. Before he could wake up she tied some blessed thread around his neck due to which Brad became a parrot. Now she took that parrot to her home. At nights she used to remove thread from his neck and make him man. Brad used to get his original phase the moment thread was removed from his neck. Now on one side princess was worried for Brad and on the other side Brad was also concerned for her.

One day gardener’s daughter forgot to close the cage and Brad got chance to fly away. It sat on King’s palace and there was caught by king’s daughter. She saw a thread around her neck. She cut it down and threw it away. As soon as parrot was released from the thread it got its original face and body. King’s daughter did not allow him to leave his room for several days. 5-6 days passed in such way and then one day guards in palace heard male voice from princess’ room. They informed king about it and king sent guards to check princess’ room. Now, Brad was caught. He got scared and jumped out of the window in terror. At that time some merchant was passing by with his carts of jute. Brad hid himself in the cart and wet along with them.

Now, Brad reached the trader’s home before he could run from there the trader saw him. Brad requested trader to save him from king’s soldiers. They were following him. Trader hid the young man in the nearest room where her daughter was sleeping. When soldiers came for checking he told them that his daughter and son- in-law are resting in the room. They checked for couple and went away. Trader gave Brad some work to help him at his shop. Brad was working at his shop when gardener’s daughter passed by. The girl caught him and asked “why did you run away from home? Let’s go back.”

The girl was trying to drag Brad by his hand and was stopped by trader’s daughter who shrieked, “Oh! He is my husband, where are you taking him?”
By this both the ladies started fighting. One said he is my husband, the other one said he is mine. Their fight attracted crowd which had two maids of princess also. They asked Brad,” Oh Sir! Let’s go home your wife princess is not eating anything without you. Please come with us.
People gathered saw this spectacle scene that three women are fighting for one man. State policemen also arrived there. He caught all and produced them before king. When king’s daughter saw three women fighting for brad she also came down and stood by him. King asked all “whose husband is he? Tell me the truth only.” His daughter answered that he is her husband. King fell in dilemma now and said, “Oh Brad! I forgive all your sins. You tell me the truth who is your wife?”
Brad told him the complete story in detail. King heard it patiently and said you have all four of these with Brad, so all four are yours. King ordered to marry all four ladies with Brad. Brad married all and brought them to his home.

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Real Estate Dealing Goes Online; RealEstateDealStreet.com Launches Today

RealEstate

Gyan Darpan 8/09/2012 0

Mumbai, July 28, 2012: With the thriving real estate industry and larger number of people dealing in this space, few IIT and Harvard alumni have garnered their resources to cater to the booming market. However, they intend to do so with taking Real Estate dealing to the World Wide Web. The online portal focuses on property dealings primarily in Mumbai and the team is based out of Nariman Point.

Explaining the rationale behind the launch of this innovative concept, Mr Shri Hari:, said, “The founders have worked with Multinational Consulting, Private Equity, Venture Capital firms, Investment Banks and Stock Broking firms in India and US. We came across several difficulties while setting up offices for their respective organizations in India.

They further emphasized on how they wasted most of their time dealing with brokers, who would take them to places not as per their liking, required area, location and budget. While interacting with prospective Owners / Landlords, they further learned that their ordeal was no different. Brokers brought prospective clients who did not meet any of their criteria and there were always hassles with the budget, required area or the duration of lease period required and availability never matched.

Realizing the need to cater to these pain areas, they launched RealEstateDealStreet.com. “RealEstateDealStreet.com is the only site in India that lets Sellers/Landlords deal directly with Buyers/ Tenants and helps both parties with negotiations, legal assistances and fulfilling of all regulatory requirements in India’s unregulated real estate market.”

The core idea of the portal is to evade the middleman and help you connect with prospective Buyers, Tenants or Property Owners. RealEstateDealStreet.com also has been tying up with several MNCs, Banks, Corporates, Educational Institutions, NRIs and HNIs who provide a regular demand or supply of flats, offices, shops, land etc.

About RealEstateDealstreet.com :- RealEstateDealStreet.com is an online real-estate service dedicated to help you take right decisions related to buying, selling and renting of properties in and around Mumbai. It allows Buyer/Seller and Owner/ Tenant to deal directly with each other, without involving the Broker/Agent, thus saving the Brokerage/ Commission and most importantly your precious time. To complete a real-estate deal in Mumbai you have to deal with several allied parties, hence to make it easier for you, RealEstateDealStreet.com provides with the support from experts to help you in negotiation, legal work and various other formalities involved. You can end your search for not only Apartments, Flats, Offices but also properties involved with short-term rental like Service Apartments, B&B, Paying Guest Accommodation and Business Centers by registering here.
RealEstateDealStreet.com endows the users an opportunity to avail the deal with ‘No Broker, No Brokerage’.

For more information Sanjay at info@RealEstateDealStreet.com

Why Use an Matrimonial Site to Get Married?

Rajput Matrimony

Gyan Darpan 11/10/2011 1

Author: sanjayseoexpert

Indian marriages have become the most complex institutional structures of our times. Its quite true that the earlier marriages happened because both the parties looked for the groom and the bride. But, now the tradition has significantly altered and the boy and the girl want to find a match themselves. They have started questioning the decision made by their families. This has led to the rise of the matrimonial sites. Such matrimony sites allow you membership for a nominal fees and you get the privelege to view the biodatas and photographs of so many people who are eligible for marriage.

Earlier divorce rate was quite low in India. However this is not desired with modern couples who don't want to make wrong choices in their lives.

These marriages provide solutions to Indian people who want to get married by methods using other than arranged marriages. Also, they have huge scope while using these sites. They can talk to a large number of prospective partners and then settle things accordingly. These sites also provide the services of astrologers so that the groom and bride don't have to go elsewhere. The groom can talk to the bride which makes him relieve his worries. The bride also has similar chances of interaction with the groom.

Such websites also provide chances to people to find partners belonging to other countries, states and castes. This has widened the choice before people. Now, they can easily marry someone who lives in an another state. Such websites also provide one with the contact numbers of their partners. Such contact numbers allow them to easily acquire all the information about a person whom they find a suitable candidate for their marriage.

Over time, the need for such an Indian matrimonial website was being felt because pandits could no longer fulfill all the duties of marriage. They were unable to find a marriage partner as per the choice of a person. The educated youth of today also does not want to be married to someone whom he/she does not know at all before marriage. This happened earlier and the couple married even before knowing someone before marriage. Such decisions were taken by parents because they only married their children for arranging dowry.

Through such interaction, both the partners get to know the views of each other about different things. Marriages have become private affiars through such websites that provide a couple to get to know each other in a better way. Earlier they faced problems since they got married to complete strangers as per the wishes of their parents. But the youth of today aspires to have a partner who shares the same views about life as them.

They also want to find someone with good educational background. This has made it necessary for them to consult such a matrimonial site. Also,such websites provide authentic information about people. Such authenticity of information is not ensured with a marriage pandit. The users can also ensure the credibility of sites by reading reviews of people who got married through such websites. There are many success stories shared on the website itself.