Active and reactive power

I have found nice paper that explains the difference between active and reactive power.
You can get it here

Whats the cost of a human life?

I know, the answer to the question above will be priceless. But still, people laugh when they are asked to shell out a 1000 bucks for their life. Confused?
This is what happened when I tried to convince a friend of mine to buy a helmet. He rides a bike worth Rs. 50000 and drives like he has inherited the soul of Rossi but does not want to spend 1 percent of the cost of his bike for something that can actually save his life.
Oh yes, people are intelligent and do not need to be taught but how can wake a person who acting to be asleep?

Bikes going bigger.....but are our brains???

Recently, I came across a kid who was so tiny he could barely get his foot on the ground from his Scooty Pep and was racing a similar kid, on a Pleasure. He entered a blind turn at......you won't believe......50kmph.
This is sight not too uncommon. A boy, 16 years old, I heard crashed his new bike; a 225cc; on an SUV at 60kmph and rest is too gory to tell.
Where is this taking us? Bikes that are as fast as anywhere in the world are landing in India but one can still get driving license without showing their face to the authorities and worse still, nobody cares if you have license or not. We want bikes as big as the ones abroad but can we learn even half skills of those drivers? Till then, many such reckless riders, and worse still, the fellow riders who by their ill fate fall prey to these killer machines will fill up the hospitals, queue up the insurance agencies and put precious human lives to waste.

India Rising: Despite politics

'Same Language Subtitling', a brainchild of Dr Brij Kothari, a social entrepreneur and an IIM Ahmedabad professor, is a simple but powerful idea which is proven to improve literacy among adults and children. Here, the lyrics are subtitled on film songs, and words appear in sync with the actor's voice. Between 1997 and 2002, he made countless attempts to persuade Doordarshan allow him to subtitle film songs on TV. Each time he was thrown out of their offices. In 1999, a new director at the Ahmedabad Kendra agreed to experiment with subtitles on four episodes of the Gujarati programme, Chitrageet. It created such a sensation that they had to continue it for a year. Now it has become a regular on the Chitrahaar and Rangoli, telecast every morning on Doordarshan. This he funded with $250,000 global innovation prize from the World Bank.
A Nielsen-ORG study, conducted in 2002 and 2007 to assess the impact of subtitling, showed that only 25% school children could read a simple paragraph in Hindi after five years of schooling. However, this jumped to 56% if they were also exposed to subtitling for 30 minutes a week on Rangoli. Equally dramatic results were found among adults.
Hats off to these true Indians!!!!

The Great Indian IPL Tamasha

It has begun, it has picked up the pace and it has become much more than cricket.
IPL; Indian Premier League; is not just about cricket. In fact, some have gone to distances to say that it has nothing to with cricket. Laughable.....But here's a pick :-
1. How important are those cheerleaders in raising the standard of cricket?
2. Can't the people and players alike survive without Strobe lights?
3. What do you say when spectators are glued to the sights of celebs than cricketers?
4. The way players were "sold", it looks as if they are goats. But the goats are sold by some benchmarks and these Stars were sold by eh.......benchmarks?? Laxman; a splendid player and skipper of a team; was actually playing the only player in the team playing his "debut" match.....
5. You find stars performing stunts before match and that makes headlines........
6. Two cricketers are caught in skirmish. One says: "He slapped me"....
Other: "I didn't".....
Is this a "Saas-Bahu" melodrama??
These are very few observations that I have made. Is this what cricket fans expect? No doubt there are great matches as well but are these things necessary to pull an average cricket fan???

It's a new beginning...........