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Mili’s Mother


Mili, her father and her mother had come to Bombay when Mili was 3 years old. Her parents were of the weaver clan of Murshidabad district in Bengal. Their forefathers had woven even for the queens of Murshidabad, it was said. Times had changed and they were reduced to weaving towels, called gamchas and low-cost saris. But that too was not good enough anymore to sustain a family. That is when Mili’s father started frequenting Bombay to look for work along with a few others from the village. It was the year after Mili was born. He used to go to Bombay and work in construction sites and sometimes in some factories. He came back only after he had saved some money, which usually happened once in six or seven months. When her grandfather died, Mili was three years of age. It was then that they moved to the outskirts of Bombay into a chawl. Mili’s father had found permanent work at a factory and took a local train from the Mira road station early in the morning. And Mili’s mother then went to work as a maid to four nearby houses. Mili stayed with the neighbors and so, naturally, Hindi became her natural language.

But this never happened with her mother. She insisted that they speak Bengali at home, and in the typical dialect of Mushidabad. Her father mildly protested at times that they should speak Marathi or at least Hindi properly, rather than Bengali, to get along with the local people better. But he always succumbed to her logic of ‘you can do whatever you like outside’.


In fact, it seemed that she not only spoke Murshidabadi Bangla but she still lived there in Murshidabad. She still talked of the places there, the crops that grew in each season, the flowers and fruits and the birds that came for them and even the insects that were typical of the land. She talked of the Jalangi river and the streams that magically appeared during the monsoons to the chorus of the toads. She talked of the Shyama insects that flew in just before Kali Puja and mysteriously disappeared with the immersion of the Goddess. She loved to tell Mili all the stories of the jatra plays she had seen, sitting wide eyed all through chilly winter nights. And she longed for the people she knew – her ailing mother, her Munshi didi, her Kanai mama. Mili had woken up many nights to find her mother crying secretly.


Mili had almost no memory of the time she had been in Murshidabad. She did not understand what was it in Murshidabad that made her mother shed tears. She could not understand why her father did not feel the same even though he was from the same place. When Mili was younger, she used to cry with her mother without knowing why. As she grew older, she did not cry with her anymore but she still did feel sad for her nevertheless.


But Mili rarely liked it when her mother spoke in her broken, Bengali laced Hindi. It embarrassed her. She felt ashamed when others laughed at her pronunciations, sometimes behind her back. Like the times she went to her school. She still remembers when she was admitted to the school nearby at the age of seven. Mili towed her mother as they went into the school. Her father never had any time for any of this. Mili’s mother went to the peon first, the first person that came in sight. With the little broken Hindi she spoke, where ‘aa’ is replaced with ‘ao’ and ‘hain’ sounded like ‘haey’, she managed to get the direction to the Principal’s room. The peon had a bemused look on his face. By the end of the day when she left with Mili tagging along, she left a host of bemused expressions behind. But she left only after Mili had been admitted.


Mili saw less of her mother from that day onwards. Not only because she spent increasingly more time at her new school and with her new friends. Mili’s mother had taken work at two other houses. Mili felt embarrassed to say that her mother worked as a housemaid to her school friends. Although it was not the kind of school where children of rich people went, not many had mothers such as hers. She tried to dissuade her mother from coming to her school. Mili used to get very angry when she came during exams sometimes, with a chapatti wrapped in a piece of newspaper and sat among the other women. She disliked it that her mother wore a sari torn at the edges. Mili used to run to the other side of the school, where her mother would not be visible, while her mother would tire her eyes looking for her, craning her neck.


She remembered that when she was about eleven, she found her friends at her neighborhood imitating her mother, mimicking her Hindi and her mannerisms. Mili was very hurt and ran inside. She couldn’t hold back her tears as they flowed freely. She couldn’t understand why her mother could not be like other mothers. Why did she have to face this ridicule on account of her mother? When her mother returned tired after taking care of the several houses later that night, Mili had shouted and misbehaved with her, but didn’t give any reason why. Mili’s mother was unsure and puzzled, but tried to calm her down. She tried to hold her close to her, but Mili pulled herself away and ran out into the night. Later, Mili was woken in the middle of the night to her mother’s muffled sobs. Strangely, Mili did not feel bad at all that night.


One day, when Mili was of twelve years, her father disappeared. With him disappeared all the money saved over the years and some of his clothes. Some said he went away with another woman. Mili’s mother would have none of this break her down. The woman, who cried many nights for a home she left behind, refused to shed any this time. In fact, Mili would never see the tears of her mother until many years later.


It is said that a woman’s life after marriage is an altogether new chapter in her life; some would say it is the first chapter. In that sense, Mili’s mother had more or less refused to read that chapter and kept re-reading the chapter of her previous life at her village over and over again. But once Mili’s father left them, leaving all the responsibilities on her, she not only turned a new page in her book, but wrote her own chapter. Mili discovered a different, defiant face of her mother.


She took on the role her father should have taken. She cajoled, pushed and made Mili work hard at her studies. She made Mili promise that she would do her best to stand on her feet. She worked herself dizzy but never let Mili do more than some of the household work. She always made it clear to Mili, that it was her job to earn and Mili’s job to meet the grades. She wanted Mili to do what she hadn’t been able to do – make something of her life.


Mili found that too hard to have been asked of her. She had felt the determination and the underlying strength of her rustic mother in the beginning and applied herself well. She tried to keep the promise she had given. She was able to cross the sixth and seventh grades comfortably but faltered in class eight. She was fifteen and there were more things worrying her than her studies. The way Mili’s mother shielded her from the hardships of their existence also made Mili oblivious to the reality of their lives. She started to feel the need to maintain appearances. She wanted lipsticks and nail polishes and shampoos and moisturizers. She wanted to be more like the other girls without understanding that they were of better means. She wanted to be noticed. She wanted attention. She started to feel that she deserved a better life than the one her mother was able to provide her with.


At the age of seventeen, Mili ran away with Ramzan, a boy from the chawl. Mili’s mother was shattered. She did not go to work for the next two days as she slowly learnt what had been going on while she had been wiping the floors of others and washing their soiled clothes and cleaning their utensils. To compound the tragedy, Mili’s mother was hauled up into the police station on the charge of marrying off an under-aged daughter. She was put in jail for a two long nights. The police station in itself is a place which is best avoided at the best of times by the best of people with means. What it is to the one without means is known only to the one who is caught up in unfortunate circumstances to be in one. Mili’s mother too found it out soon enough.


When she came out after two days, she looked dazed and was startled and terrified at every little noise. She tried to rejoin her work at all the houses she worked at, but finally realized that she could now only manage some. She talked less and less each day. She started forgetting little things once in a while. It seemed she had grown old already. She tried to gather herself. But there was just not enough to gather it around. She started falling ill frequently. The last time she fell ill, she hallucinated that Mili was calling her, that she had come back. Mili eventually returned – three days after she died.




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-- "That's inches away from being millimetre perfect."



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- "I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right."



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- "I can't tell who's leading. It's either Oxford or Cambridge."


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- "The Queen's Park Oval, exactly as its name suggests, is absolutely round."


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"And here's Moses Kiptanui, the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago."


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- "Its a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs"


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- "We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite."


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- After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: "We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought."


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- On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy: "It was like being in a foreign country."




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- "I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost."




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- "There is Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people." David Coleman








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- "The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical."




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"January 1, 2000, is a Saturday. So if the world comes to an end for a couple of days, it'll be OK. We've all had weekends like that." -- Reed Hundt, former Chairman of the FCC











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CONFUSION OF WRIST WITH BREAST



This is a Real Story. .. . . . . . . .

Once in Madhya Pradesh we recruited a teacher for recitation for the Nursery & Kinder garden classes.

She was a hardworking but not very good in English.

As the job responsibility she was suppose to recite poems and names of month, week, vegetables and body parts.

One fine day, while she was reciting the names of different Body parts it happened so that the wrist was being recited and she started it ….

"These are my Breasts" "These are my Breasts" followed by the students reciting the same aloud and audible to the entire campus

What the…!!!!

That was the reaction of the in charge around

Curious she went straight to the source of the sound and what does she see…..

To her surprise she saw that the Rimi (the teacher) was showing her hand at the children and was reciting “This is my breast” “This is my breast” and her ignorance of the fact resonated throughout the campus due to the innocence of the crowd which followed….

She actually meant her wrist and not the B _ _ _ _ _






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The following scene took place on a BA flight between Johannesburg and London.

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A White woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a Black man.
Obviously disturbed by this, she called the air Hostess.

"Madam, what is the matter," the Hostess asked.

"You obviously do not see it then?" she responded.

"You placed me next to a Black man.

I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group.
Give me an alternative seat."

"Be calm please, " the Hostess replied.

"Almost all the places on this flight are taken.
I will go to see if another seat is available."

The Hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later.

"Madam, just as I thought, there are no other available seats in the Economy class.

I spoke to the Captain and he informed me that there is
also no seats in the Business class.

All the same, we still have one seat in the First class."

Before the woman could say anything, the Hostess continued:

"It is not usual for our company to permit someone from the Economy class to sit in the First class.
However, given the circumstances, the Captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting."

She turned to the Black guy, and said, "Therefore, Sir, if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits you in First class."

And then at that moment, All the other passengers who were shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded.






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Father- Son, when Jawahar Lal Nehru was of your age,he was the monitor of the class in his school


Son- promptly,and father do you know when he was of your age, he was the prime minister of India.




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The Substitute Tooth Fairy

I was leaving for a two-day conference, and my seven-year-old daughter, Katherine, was becoming overly clinging and teary. I was mystified at her emotional reaction until I heard her say to my husband, "Daddy, I have a loose tooth. If it falls out while Mommy is gone, do you know how to handle this tooth fairy thing?"





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A small girl sat in front of the television watching a news program on teenage run away. "Mommy," she asked. "Why do people run away?" The mother thought for a moment about the numerous reasons that teens run and then proceeded to try and explain in a way that her young daughter would understand. After the first few moments of explanation the small girl interrupted. "No Mommy, why do people RUN away? Do they have to run or can they walk away too?"

A young man driving his convertible car with his loud music and cool demeanor pulls up to a stop light next to this young mother and 4 year old son. The little boy looks at the man and turns to his mom and says; “poor man his car is broken.”





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The parents of a difficult boy were discussing what to give him for a birthday present. The mother said, “Let’s buy him a bicycle.”

“Well,” said the father, “maybe – but do you think it will improve his behavior?”

“Probably not,” said the mother, “but it will spread it over a wider area.”


A young man driving his convertible car with his loud music and cool demeanor pulls up to a stop light next to this young mother and 4 year old son. The little boy looks at the man and turns to his mom and says; “poor man his car is broken.”





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The comments of a young mother: Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.



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My wife decided to meet some of the children residing at our emergency shelter. Realizing that she was the wife of the Development Coordinator, a young child asked if we were husband and wife to which my wife said "Yes” Without missing a beat, this particular girl remarked how short I was. This sweet child's next statement said it all when she asked thoughtfully, "Wasn't he taller when he married you?"


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Two kids talking: “Have you noticed, if you pass your exams everyone says you get your brains from your parents, but if you fail your exams everyone says you’re stupid.”


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Kate Moss’s Interest :- Politician David Cameron was delighted when Super Model Kate Moss asked for his number : until he realised that she thought he was plumber.


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Fill And Forget :- A sixty three year old German forgot his car after paying to have it filled at a petrol station. He came back and collected the car after the police contacted him.

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Boss & sub-ordinate are discussing about some unofficial matter, in between they got an idea to choose a topic and start discussing on it. they have dicided car as topic.

Boss told now-a-days cars are very cheap & very good for travel.


Sub-ordinate yes sir, you are right but to purchase a new car i have to get a job in good & reputed organisation.

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MY FATHER, when he was a police officer, was manning the radar device one day. Suddenly a car came whipping down the highway. Spying the police car, the driver stomped on the brakes and screeched to a halt. He leapt out and ran to the cruiser, threw a cigar in the window, and then tore back to his car and took off in a cloud of dust. On the cigar was printed, IT'S A GIRL.





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OUR small town was recruiting for the police force, and women were encouraged to apply. Since I had studied criminal law in college, I considered applying. My husband was not enthusiastic. One day when we were in the car, still arguing about whether I should apply, my husband spotted an officer directing traffic. "Officer!" he shouted. "Will you please tell my wife why the police force is no place for a lady?" The traffic officer turned around and strode purposefully toward us. "Tell your wife what?" she asked, removing her hat to reveal a cascade of curls. I submitted my application that same afternoon.





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A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing.
She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked
what the drawing was.

The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."

The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl
replied, "They will in a minute."






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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to "honor" thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family)
answered, "Thou shall not kill."






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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"

Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and
make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then
said, "Then why are ALL of grandma's hairs white?"




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The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

"Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the
teacher, she's dead."





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A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."

"Yes," the class said.

"Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary
position the blood doesn't run into my feet?"

A little fellow shouted,
"Cause your feet ain't empty."






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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.
The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:

"Take only ONE. God is watching."

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples.


A little fellow shouted,
"Cause your feet ain't empty."






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Spotted in a toilet of a London office:

TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW







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In a London Laundromat:


AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT








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In a London department store:


BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS









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In an London office:


AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND
STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD









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Outside a London secondhand shop:


WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES,
ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?










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Notice in London health food shop window:

CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS










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Spotted in a safari park:

ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR










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Seen during a London conference:

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE
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Notice in a field:

THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE,
BUT THE BULL CHARGES





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Message on a leaflet:


IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO
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On a repair shop door:


WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR
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People in other countries sometimes go out of their way to communicate with their English-speaking tourists. Here is a list of signs seen around the world:

At a Budapest zoo:

PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS. IF YOU HAVE ANY
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People in other countries sometimes go out of their way to communicate with their English-speaking tourists. Here is a list of signs seen around the world:

Doctors office,


Rome: SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.







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People in other countries sometimes go out of their way to communicate with their English-speaking tourists. Here is a list of signs seen around the world:

Hotel, Acapulco:

THE MANAGER HAS PERSONALLY PASSED ALL THE WATER SERVED
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In a Nairobi restaurant:


CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE SHOULD WAIT AND SEE THE MANAGER.









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After digging to a depth of 100 metres last year, Russian scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.

So, not to be outdone, in the weeks that followed, American scientists dug 200 metres and headlines in the US papers read: "US scientists have found traces of 2000 year old optical fibres, and have concluded that their ancestors already had advanced high-tech digital telephone 1000 years earlier than the Russians.

One week later, the Indian newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 500 metres, Indian scientists have found absolutely nothing. They have concluded that 5000 years ago, their ancestors were already using wireless technology





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What is Wheat allergy?

Celiac disease is a condition caused by a permanent intolerance to gluten, Gluten is a protein present in wheat, barley, rye, oats. In some people gluten reacts adversely with the intestinal lining, thus reducing its ability to absorb food or more precisely nutients. Wheat therefore is poison for patients suffering from celiac.

Typical symptoms of celiac are chronic diarrhea, vomiting, listlessness, recurrent abdominal pain, malnutrition, stunted growth irritability, anemia and weight loss. It’s a disease that manifests itself in children (cases range from 18 months to 12 years) and while a drastic diet therapy cures the attendant problems the allergy is a life long ailment.

“If a child shows symptoms like these, the first and most important thing to do is to see a specialist and get them diagnosed. An endoscopy and a biopsy is a must as that is what determines the diagnosis. It is dangerous to stop wheat and its by-products on your own. Self medication is also a big nono.”

Celiac is not a major problem at the moment. There is o need to be alarmed just a need to be careful and conscious. The problem is completely treatable and one needn’t lose hope. Of course, a strict diet is necessary and that may seem like a monumental task while dealing with kids.

Compliance is important to prevent complications. An increased appetite, decreased malabsorption, increase in height and weight and improved sense of wellbeing are the signs of good compliance,” adds Agarwala.

As an alternative to wheat diets, nutritionists and doctors advise a diet dominated by rice, arrowroot, potato, soybean, dal, sago, tapioca, maize, cornflower, besan and buckwheat flour. Fresh fruits, juices, salads, fresh vegetables, idlis, dosas, roasted corn are some of the other food items that can make a menu interesting. Doctors also advise against an occasional intake of glutenous food as it may cause relapse




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WHICH WAY OUT? MEN AND WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENT ANSWERS

Chalk one up for the Y chromosome: According to a new study, men who get lost can often find their way out of unfamiliar places better than women.

The findings add a biological counterpart to prior research that indicated men and women tend to use different strategies to navigate. The new work suggest they use different parts of their brains, too. Researchers scanned the brains of 12 men and 12 women as they tried to escape a three-dimensional virtual-reality maze. The volunteers pushed buttons to move their virtual selves left, right or ahead.

In the real world, that might be like trying to find a specific place in an unfamiliar city, said neurologist Dr. Matthias Riepe of the University of Ulm in Germany. The mengot ut of the maze in an average of two minutes and 22 seconds, vs. an average of three minutes and 16 seconds for the women. That fits with previous studies in animals and people that suggest males navigate better in an unfamiliar environment. The brain scans found that while both sexes used some of the same parts of the brain for the task, there were also some differences. Riepe and colleagues describe the results in the April issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience.

One difference involved the hippocampus, a banana-shaped structure deep in the brain that is crucial for navigation. People have a hippocampus in each side of the brain. Riepe’s study found that both sexes used the right hippocampus in negotiating the maze. But only men used the left hippocampus. Conversely, women used an outer part of the brain called the right prefrontal cortex, while men in the study didn’t. That might reflect differences in how men and women handle information about the space around them. Riepe and colleagues said. Prior work suggests that women rely mostly on landmarks to navigate (“Turn right at the drugstore, then left at the grocery”) while men lean toward using geometry, as one would figure from a map (“The museum should be over that way”). The women’s activity in the cortex reflect the effort of keeping landmark cues in mind, while the hippocampus activity in the men might be needed for the geometric approach, the researchers said.

Riepe said his study could not explore whether the brain differences are larned or biologically programmed. But he said he suspects the latter, because they also appear in rats. Diane Halpern, a psychologist at California State University in San Bernardino and an experton gender differences in thinking, noted that sex differences in brain activity have been observed for other tasks, such as reading.

So it’s not surprising to find another example, she said. Such differences probably result from both experience and programmed influences, because the brain changes in response to experience, said Halpern stressing that women generally outperform men in some mental tasks - such as creating of a list of words that begin with a given letter - so one can’t say that menare generally smartern than women. Riepe said his study couldn’t explain the popular notice that men are more reluctant than women to ask for directions when lost. “That’s a different story, I think, “ he said.





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DOCTORS ADVISE AGAINST VITAMIN C WITH CANCER THERAPY

Taking high doses of Vitamin C while undergoing traditional cancer therapy may interfere with radiation or chemotherapy treatments and, in a perverse way, possible protect the very cancer cells that treatments are designed to destroy, doctors said yesterday.

Vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, has long been taken by both healthy people and those who are ill in hopes that its antioxidant properties will work to destroy harmful substances in the body known as free radicals. The common oxidation process that results in these free radicals may play a part in causing cancer. Supplemental tablets containing Vitamin C is just one of many types of alternative and complementary therapies that cancer patients turn to, either out of desperation simply in a desire to feel better.

A high dosage of Vitamin C would be roughly 1,000 milligrams a day, researchers said.

Dr. David Golde, physician-in chief at memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, said it is not unreasonable for healthy people to supplement their diets with Vitamin C, they should be aware that most tumours are known to posses a high concentration of the chemical already.

“we don’t know what the cancer cell is doing with the Vitamin C,” Golde said. “ My experience as a biologist would suggest that it’s no accident. “ The use of Vitamin C as an alternative therapy has been coming back into vogue after a hiatus following a study by Mayo Clinic researchers that showed it had no benefit, said Barrie Cassileth, head of the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

Cassileth and Golde were speaking at an annual seminar here sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Their latest research showed cancer cells transport a version of Vitamin C called dehydroascorbic acid through cellular channels normally used to admit the energy source glucose. Cancer cells are also known have many more glucose transport channels than normal cells. “Overall, we need to think about the nutritional needs of tumour cells, as well as those of normal cells, in formulating answers to patient questions regarding taking supplemental Vitamins C,” he said.

While prudent advice for cancer patients is to have very good eating habits, Cassileth said alternative therapies that have not been adequately studied may in fact be harmful. She said patients may inadvertently interfere with their treatment, with anaesthetic agents and even trigger cardiac arrest. “That’s the last thing we want to happen in oncology,” she said.






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PHYTASE IN FEED CAN BOOST PRODUCTION IN POULTRY

Enzymes can play an important role in poultry nutrition or feeding. Phytase is one among them. It acts on phytates present in feed stuffs. Phytate is present mainly in cell walls in association with pectate. It is an inositol-phosphoric acid, occurring as calcium and magnesium salt. It is considered an anti-nutrient. It is said to reduce protein digestion with the formation of phytate-protein complexes. It decreases the availability of certain minerals like phosphorus, zinc, magnesium and iron. In these phosphorus is very important. Along with pectate, phytate hinder the entry of digestive enzymes into the cells.

The enzyme phytase hydrolyses or destroys phytate of the cell walls. Hence, digestive enzymes enter freely into the cells, resulting in improved cellular digestion. Added to it, cell walls are also digested and their nutrients are available in the gastro-intestinal tract for poultry.

These include, some proteins, fats and other minerals, mostly phosphorus and calcium. Moreover, phytase is said to reduce phosphorus excretion from the gut, leading to its conservation.

Phytase is formed in seeds, when they sprout or germinate and it is helpful to the young growing plants to have more nutrients from the seeds. Phytase is also present in appreciable amounts in the young growing parts of plants and its concentration slowly gets reduced as the parts mature.

It is also present in growing media of microorganisms including fungi. A few feed stuffs like wheat bran also contain a little in them. Thus, phytase in the gastro-intestinal tract originates from plant feed sources, the growing gut microflora and to a little extent endogenous production by the intestinal mucosa.

Feeding experiments indicated that, phytase is effective in improving the nutrient utility and mineral availability of feed stuffs, particularly phosphorus. This resulted in increased feed conversion rate, leading to enhanced growth rate and performance.

Phytase is relatively stable at higher temperatures of feed processing to some extent. It is also economical to produce it, as compared to many other enzymes, such as cellulase and lignase. Thus, to improve the nutritive value of feed stuffs and to minimise wasteage phytase is used in poulty feeds. At present, enzyme supplemented poultry feed are more common in western countries.





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INVADING MARS


ARE WE ALL SET TO COLONISE THE RED PLANET?

Current capabilities worldwide seem set to invade our planetary neighbor in the coming two decades. A number of missions are planned by several countries to send either orbiting or landing spacecraft to Mars. Mars has always intrigued the planet watcher more than any other object in the sky. Its reddish angry hue led to its christening as a war god. No less fascinating is its to know that the hue arises from the presence of rust in considerable quantities among the rubble lying on its surface, a rubble which turns out to be highly magnetic!

Many intricate channels visible on its surface lead one to suppose that water in a liquid form must have once flowed. Evidence exists for events of catastrophic flooding in the past. Currently, of course, no liquid water exists on Mars. However, frozen water is present in the polar caps of the planet and as water of hydration in the soil minerals and perhaps, as a permanent frost in the sub-surface layer.

We know water exists on Mars in small quantities. We also know that much larger quantities must have flowed on the surface in the past. We do not know what processes might have heated the planet in the past, if at all, and kept it in a wet and warm condition. It seems the most pressing questions which need to be answered regarding Mars, is not so much about its present as its past. Was it wet and warm in an earlier epoch? Did such epochs happen periodically? Were the conditions on the surface and the atmosphere at that time such as to have supported life of some kind?

One of the missions planned in the immediate future is the Mars Surveyor 2001 scheduled to be launched by NASA on April 10, 2001. It will land on Mars on January 22, 2002. However, many Mars missions have failed in the recent past.

Whenever this missions scheduled and launched, on arrival at Mars year later, it can only propel our digging up of Martian history throught a gaint leap. Mission planners will choose the landing site close to the Martian equator after looking at high resolution images of the surface, which will provided by an orbiter accompanying the landing instrument. The planners have to take into account whether the landing sit might be too rocky, too steep or be a region with too much dust flying around. An engineer would select the safest possible site, while a scientist where the most interesting scientific experiments might be performed!

The instruments on board this mission are the Marie Curie Rover instruments, which include a camera and an Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), and a robotic arm of the rover meant to scoop up Martian soil and rock samples for experiments. The APXS can determine which elements are found in rocks and soils beyond the reach of the Lander’s robotic arm. It will be used to analyse the chemistry of soils that stick to a magnet mounted on one of the Lander’s legs.

The APXS will bombard its target with alpha particles (helium nuclei), and examine any reflected alpha particles, protons or X-rays scattered from the target. Since each chemical element present in the sample will scatter these particles in different ways, this will give such an instrument a handle in finding out the chemical content of Martian soils. In addition, the mission is equipped with other technology experiments crucial for future human missions to Mars. For example, existence of fine dust in the Martian atmosphere might clog astronaut equipment. One would also need to know the radiation risk for human explorers.

“Two worlds, one Sun” will be inscribed on the sundial that will be set up on the Martian surface by the robotic instruments. The Lander’s panaromic camera (pancam) can image the sundial and the shadow cast on it by the Sun. We can be aware of the time at this site on Mars, whenever we wish to know its!

The final sundial design was arrived at after sifting through many student suggestions. The sundial will include inscriptions in 24 languages, representing three-quarters of the earth’s people.

These are only some of the instruments and some of the experiments that can be performed by robotic instruments on board any such mission to Mars. There is a lot we would like to know about this planet and we have only started digging as yet!





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SNORING DURING PREGNANCY LINKED TO REDUCED FETAL GROWTH

Pregnant women who snore are more likely than non-snorers to have pregnancy-related high blood pressure and are at increased risk of having an infant who is considered small for gestational age, researchers report.

Overweight women may be at particularly high risk, according to Dr. Karl A. Franklin of University Hospital in Umea, Sweden, and collegues.

“Women who reported habitual snoring were heavier before pregnancy and gained more weight during pregnancy,” they report in the January issue of the journal chest.

Snoring is a common problem in pregnancy. The study of 502 women who had just given birth found that 23 per cent snored during pregnancy while just 4 per cent snored before they became pregnant.

Fourteen per cent of women who snored had high blood pressure compared with only 6 per cent of non-snorers, while preeclampsia developed in 10 per cent of snorers compared with 4 per cent of non-snorers, the researchers note. Preeclampsia is a dangerous condition characterized by elevated blood pressure, swelling in the hands, feet and face, and the presence of protein in the urine.

Examining the weight-for- gestational - age of babies born to women in the study, the authors report that fetal growth was slowed in 7.1 per cent of infants born to snoring women compared with 2.6 per cent born to non-snoring women.

Overall, habitual snoring during pregnancy was associated with double the risk for high blood pressure, and nearly 3.5 times the risk for slowed fetal growth, compared with non-snorers.

It is not clear if pregnancy-related high blood pressure leads to snoring by causing fluid build-up in the throat that narrows the airway or if snoring itself can actually lead to complications. The finding suggests that “upper airway resistance during sleep may affect the fetus and supports the previously suggested relationship between sleep apnea and intrauterine growth retardation, “ Franklin and colleagues write.





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SYMPHONY OF SILENCE



FROM THE immemorial, sages, seers and thinkers in India have found in silence a luminous pathway for spiritual enlightenment and mystic realisation. Lilting, melodious voices of silence are rarely heard by ordinary mortals given to purposeless chatter. Silence and solitude are veritable possessions of a realised soul. From yogi Vasistha of yore to sage Ramana of modern times, Indian sages and philosophers have laid emphasis on silence, dynamic and vibrant, for attaining the transcendental state of mental sublimity.

Sage Ramana of Arunachala whose life was a radiant study in divine splendour based on dynamic silence stressed on the point that silence spoke louder than the words. As both the eastern and western devotees of Ramana testify, he believed that there would be unalloyed happiness when the mind merges with the self in the crucible of silence.

According to Ramana, silence was of four types: Silence of speech, Silence of the eye, Silence of the ear and Silence of the mind. As he points out, only the last one is pure silence and is the most important.

Touching upon the nature and dimensions of silence, Ramana, observes, “Silence is like the even flame of current. Speech is like obstructing the current of lighting and other purposes. However, much a Jnani might talk, he is still the silent one. However, much he might work, he is still the quiet one. His voice is an incorporeal voice. “

Eleanor Pauline Noye graphically explains her first encounter with Ramana, “When he smiled, it was as though the gates of heavens were thrown open. I have never seen eyes more alight with divine illumination. It is not necessary for him to talk. His silent influence of love and light is more potent than words can describe.” Duncan Greenlees, a theosophist, sketches his meeting with the sage of Arunachala, “That stillness of eternal depth had somehow seeped into my heart. The stormy nature I brought into life with me met a master who could quell the waves with a silent word.”

Obviously, sage Ramana belonging to the long and glorious line of spiritually illumined souls, was a master craftsman who experimented with the ‘dynamics of the inner self’ with the unheard melody of silence.

In the symphonic silence of Ramana was the fragrance of joy and starry splendour of self-realisation. For in his close proximity, none could escape the electrifying impact of his steady silence.

Like sage Vasistha, Ramana too believed that self-realisation helped us recover our full divine consciousness - a veritable state of impersonality, timelessness, causelessness, egolessness, freedom and peace. Ramana never spoke of the ‘elusive heaven’ of ‘grace of the supernatural’.

On the other hand he was clear in his perception that it was the human mind which was the cause for joy and misery, heaven and hell, good and evil as well as god and the devil. Therefore, he laid emphasis on self-realisation through the path of self enquiry.

Says he, “Seek the seeker, find out who you are. You are blessed. But your suffering is due to your identifying yourself with your body. The source of everything is the self. Merge your mind in the self through self enquiry. Then you will be able to function in this world happily. When the ego is lost in the self, the self will shine in all its splendour and glory.”

Thus Ramana’s gospel is a practical expression of the self-the reality and ultimate bliss. Indeed his very life was a practical demonstration of the reality of the Supreme Self.







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