The police create dacoits in Chambal: Paan Singh Tomar's son

Shruti Tomar, Hindustan Times Bhopal, March 23, 2012

Pan Singh Tomar with his wife Indira and their children.

His father's name once spelt terror and respect in Chambal, where death comes as a whistling bullet, or in the form of crocodiles teeming in the local river.

But Souram Singh Tomar — son of Paan Singh Tomar who  has inspired the popular movie of the same name — doesn't go back there after his father's death for fear of being killed by his father's old enemies or the police. Instead, Souram Singh, a 53-year-old retired Army subedar, lives with his 75-year-old mother and his family at Babina in Jhansi district.

Paan Singh was an armyman and an international award-winning athlete who became a dacoit (locals prefer the term 'baagi' or rebel) after alleged oppression and violence against his family. The movie on him was made by director Tigmanshu Dhulia with Irrfan in the lead role.

Uhmmm… king who??

Sperm Facts Every Woman Should Know

Sperm, as teeny weeny as they are, can affect us in a HUGE way. There are about 200-500 million of those little guys in the average amount of semen produced each time a man ejaculates.

• Sperm are produced in the (Ladies, we've got to arm ourselves with knowledge so we can overcome the mighty sperm)
  man's testes - it takes 10 weeks for a single soldier to reach maturity.
• Mature sperm can wait up to 2 weeks for their big day - they hang out in the epididymis - the coil like structure that runs across the top of each testicle.
• If they are not ejaculated, those poor little sperms are broken down and reabsorbed by the body.

12 Coolest Facts About Dreams

Dreams have always intrigued us since time immemorial. It is also said there were specific dream interpreters in the courts of kings in early civilizations. However, in the 1800s the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and subsequently, his successor Carl Jung, revolutionized the world of dreams. Since then a lot has been studied in this field but dreams astound us with varied meanings and interpretations every time we witness them. Some of the most interesting facts about dreams in the trailing paragraphs are sure to take one by surprise.

01. While dreaming we become temporarily paralyzed.

Not many of us are aware that we become temporarily paralyzed in the dream state. This can be attributed to the fact that sometimes we may be so moved with certain dramatic dreams as to fall and hurt ourselves, thus, as a natural response the body goes into a temporary inactive state physically. 11 more after the break...

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Bureaucrats Around The World: Photo Series by Jan Banning

Bureaucratics by Dutch photographer Jan Banning is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents. Jan traveled to Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, Yemen and the United States to snap photographs of civil servants – from fiscal authorities to police, from governors to local clerks – seated behind his or her desk. The result is a fascinating look at the lives of bureaucrats.

Jan Banning said in an interview to The New Yorker, that it started with “the most horrible assignment” he had ever received. Banning’s editor had asked him to shoot pictures for a story on the decentralization of the administration of Dutch development aid. “It seemed to be un-photographable,” Banning recalls. But what started as a tedious project ended with an introspective reflection into bureaucratic methods around the world. 

Food Consumption Statistics By Country Per Family Weekly

Last Supper 'is commemorated a day late'

Sydney, Apr 17' 2011 (ANI): A new book by a Cambridge University physicist claims that Jesus Christ's last supper - the final meal that he shared with his 12 Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion - is commemorated a day late.

Prof Colin Humphreys, who was knighted last year for his contribution to science, argues that the last supper Jesus Christ shared occurred on Wednesday, April 1, AD33, rather than on a Thursday as traditionally celebrated in most Christian churches, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Differences between Male and Female

Differences between Male and Female

"We are hundreds to paycheck. Take half, and buy products, which would be enough for a week "

In this case, a woman will try to buy the allocated amount of cereals, vegetables, chicken ... In short, something inexpensive that can stretch for several days, not hungry, but do not spend too much.

A man brings the supermarket liter of beer, a pound of shrimp and a pack of cheap biscuits. At the just indignation of a woman he replied that he had bought her favorite cookies, so can not say that he was not thinking about the family. More after the break...

“Butt Drag” Wrestling Move Drags Sexual Battery Charges (2 Photos)

Preston Hill, a 17-year-old Buchanan High School student from Clovis, California, used the Butt Drag move on one of his teammates at a school-sponsored event and now faces sexual battery charges.

As both Preston and his father assert the “butt drag” is a move that his coaches taught him ever since he was in middle school, the boy’s family doesn’t understand why such a common move brought such dire consequences. As coaches describe it, the “butt drag” is a move which involves grabbing the butt cheeks of the rival and inserting your fingers inside his anus, as to obtain better positioning and leverage.

Although it has been used for years in many wrestling matches, Preston has been suspended until his expulsion hearing. He has also been charged with sexual battery and the trial was to begin on Thursday, 9th of Dec.

On the other hand, Ross Rice, the assaulted boy’s father, claims it was an intentional aggression,as Preston was looking to get revenge on his opponent for standing up to him in school. “Preston took it beyond a wrestling move. He crossed the line.”

This is not a first. In 2007, an also 17-year-old wrestling champion from South Dakota was charged with rape and attempted rape, as there were six other wrestlers that testified against him, saying that he penetrated or tried to penetrate their anuses. He was found guilty…

Source : odditycentral.com

Interesting facts-Most expensive

1. Saffron, a spice grown worldwide, is derived from the saffron crocus flower. A pound of dry saffron (0.45 kg) requires 50,000–75,000 flowers to make, meaning an entire football field of these flowers. Requiring so much resources and labor, prices for the spice go around US$500/pound to US$5,000/pound (US$1100–US$11,000 per kilogram).
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2. The most expensive nut in the world is the Macadamia nut. The macadamia tree produces nuts only after it’s 7-10 years old, requiring fertile soil and heavy rainfall. These nuts have a very hard seed, but once it’s open it reveals a creamy white kernel containing up to 80% oil and 4% sugar. The cost of a kilogram of these nuts exceeds 30$.
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3. The most expensive caviar in the world is not the black one, but the almas caviar! The word ‘almas’ is Iranian for diamond. Beluga caviar comes from a fish over 100 years old, that is virtually unchanged for 120 million years. The luxurious caviar comes from the oldest survivor of the Dinosaur era. Beluga caviar ranges in price from more than $5,000 per kilogram in the United States
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4. The most expensive mushroom in the world is the white truffle. The mushroom has its origins in the Langhe area of the Piedmont region in northern Italy, it can reach 12 cm diameter and 500g.. These truffles are sold at a amazing price of €2,000 and €4,000 per kilogram ($1350 - $2700 per pound). The record price for this truffle was paid last year, in December, when Stanley Ho, the owner of the Macau casino paid $330,000 for 1.5kg of truffles.
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5. The most expensive potato in the world is a French one, “La Bonnotte”. Annually, only 100 tons of this top quality potato are cultivated and collected only on the island Noirmoutier. The potato fields require to be fertilized only with seaweed in a climate shaped by the nearby sea. The cost of one single kilogram can reach €500 since this type of potato is almost extinct.
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6. The most expensive beef in the world is the type of beef coming from the Wagyu cows. These Japanese cows are fed the best grass and provided the best treatment. That is why the meat is especially tender and particularly expensive. 200 grams of a fillet cost in Europe more than 100 dollars.
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7. The most expensive sandwich in the world is the club sandwich from Essen aka von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. This triple-Decker delicacy contains the finest chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails’ eggs and white truffles and it’s currently sold at Cliveden, Berkshire. The chicken (poulet de Bresse) is referred to as the ‘fourth gastronomic wonder of the world served with a topping of white truffles, sold at over a thousands ponds a month. At 1,182 calories, with 1.8oz of fat, it’s not the healthiest dish but certainly one of the most expensive. Costing 100 pounds (almost 200 dollars), this is a must-try for the food fanatics.
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8.The most expensive pizza in the world, valued at 8300 Eur can be tasted in Italy. With generous toppings of caviar and lobster, the pizza has a diameter of 20cm and Louis XIII Remy Martin cognac poured all over it.
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9. The most expensive omelet in the world can be tasted at the Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York. The $1,000 omelet consists of 10 ounces of sevruga caviar, a whole lobster, and six eggs. To make it in the privacy of your own home, the cost will be only $700.
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10. Off to something sweet now with one of the most expensive deserts in the world, served at Serendipity 3, a popular restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The $1000 sundae was introduced in 2004 and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive dessert. It’s made up of 5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23K edible gold leaf and one of the most expensive chocolates in the world, Amedei Porceleana.

Kama Sutra -Interesting Facts

Kama Sutra -Interesting Facts

• The exact origins of the Kama Sutra are vague, but it was written between the 1st and 4th Centuries AD by a man called Vatsyayana, who lived in the North Indian city of Benares - now called Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh,India.
• It was first translated into English by the 19th Century British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton in 1876.Born in 1821 the adventurer, who spoke 25 languages, came across the Kama Sutra in Bombay in 1842 and became fascinated with Indian erotica. Following a visit to a prostitute, Burton, who had three Indian mistresses said: "We British never knew of this kind of love-making. Had we known, we would not have ruined the lives of so many British virgins." 

• In 1883 Burton risked prosecution and imprisonment under the Obscene Publications Act after publishing 250 copies of the Kama Sutra privately in Britain. The book did not become legal in Britain until 1963. 

• It was written in the ancient Sanskrit language. In Sanskrit,Kama means desire and Sutra means rules. In the context of the book "desire" includes singing, reading, poetry and dancing as well as sex. 

• The Kama Sutra contains a total of 64 sexual positions. Vatsyayana believed there were eight ways of making love, multiplied by eight positions within each of these. In the book, they are known as the 64 Atrs. 

• Only about 20 per cent of the book is devoted to sexual positions. The remainder gives guidance on how to be a good citizen and insights into men and women in relationships, a bit like Men Are From Mars & Women Are From Venus. 

• The Kama Sutra describes making love as "divine union". Vatsyayana believed that sex itself was not wrong, but doing it badly was sinful. 

• Lovers who suffer from medical complaints such as back pain and arthritis are warned not to attempt some of the Kama Sutra's positions. Vatsyayana states: "They predispose for rheumatic pains and sciatica." 

• After Burton published the Kama Sutra the prudish British Raj banned the book in India. At the same time they also stopped temple prostitutes and child marriages. 

• The Kama Sutra may have originated in India, but in 1996 the authorities there clamped down on the film "Kama Sutra-A Tale Of Love and demanded that 14 explicit scenes were cut before it was fit to be shown to Indian audiences. 

• Code breakers also find the Kama Sutra fascinating as it contains instructions  for making messages unreadable - one of the earliest books to do this. The Kama Sutra included encryption as an art a woman should study, presumably to help her make secret meetings with her lovers. 

• Kama is the Hindu god of love. The word also refers to the pursuit of love or pleasure, one of the four aims of life in Hindu traditions. Kama is always depicted as a handsome youth, shooting arrows of love that produce love. His wife is Rati. 

• According to the book a man becomes irresistable to women if he ties the bone of a peacock or hyena which has been covered in gold to his right hand. 

• It recommends both biting and scratching as ways of improving love-making, but insists on high standards of cleanliness. It states: "The qualities of good nails are that they should be bright, well set, clean, entire, convex, soft, and glossy in appearance. The defects of teeth on the other hand are that they are blunt, protruding from the gums, rough, soft, large, or loosely set." 

• The Kama Sutra also gives tips on the best ways to arrange a house. It suggests that people will be happiest if they have a pot for spitting in, a lute hanging from an elephant's tooth, a soft bed and pots of flowers 

• A chapter is devoted to methods of seducing and getting away with sleeping with other men's wives. But at the end Vatsyayana does admit that men shouldn't make love to married women. 

• The book contains an early recipe for Viagra. It suggests that sparrows eggs boiled in milk and then mixed with clarified butter and honey will do wonders for a man's love life. 

• There are 10 methods of kissing in the Kama Sutra (including) - the nominal kiss, the probing kiss, the touching kiss, the straight kiss, the bent kiss, the turned kiss, the pressed kiss and the greatly pressed kiss - and four ways to administer the kiss. That gives a total of 40 different ways to kiss a lover. 

• In April 1998 former president Bill Clinton was handed a copy of the Kama Sutra as he did a walk-about with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Cretien after the Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile. 

• And finally......A racehorse owner named his horse Kama Sutra. The two-year-old colt was sired by Pursuit Of Love and out of Note Book.

Strange facts-Drunken

Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs, worried about the "despairing" levels of accidents.

The 10 bright red signs were erected by worried road safety officials in popular areas of the town of Pecica. Photo: CEN

Officials in Pecica, a village 13 miles from the Hungarian border, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase “Attention - Drunks”.

The 10 road signs, which also show a person crawling on their knees while clutching a glass in one hand, were erected in popular nightspot areas close to the city's bars and restaurants.




Peter Antal, the Mayor, said the idea came after he visited an unnamed town in Germany, which had installed similar signs.

He said officials took action after a “despairing” number of accidents in the town, which has a population of about 13,000, caused by drunken revellers, with some even resulting in fatalities. He said it was not motorists’ fault but blamed the town’s pedestrians, many of whom were not able to look out for themselves as they staggered or crawled around the town.

Smartest Man in China Zhou Baokuan

Smartest Man in China Zhou Baokuan - With nine educational diplomas under his belt, Zhou Baokuan can definitely claim the title of “smartest man in China.” and this man also got the title as the man with most diplomas in the world.

When it comes to education, we all want the best for our kids, but I think Zhou Baokuan’s parents might have pushed him a little to far, when he was a child. I mean, the man started studying and even though he is now 53 years old, he has no intention of stopping. Wow this man should be a genius!!.

In recognition of his incredible desire to study, an organization known as China World Records Association decided to award Zhou the title of “man with most diplomas in the world.” Over the course of 35 years of intense studying (sometimes without sleep) the man earned a total of nine diplomas, including three doctoral diplomas and two masters degrees. Zhou, a resident of Shenyang City, admits it wasn’t easy getting this many diplomas, and reckons he spent around 126,500 hours studying for them

Strange facts-Drunken

Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs, worried about the "despairing" levels of accidents.

The 10 bright red signs were erected by worried road safety officials in popular areas of the town of Pecica. Photo: CEN

Officials in Pecica, a village 13 miles from the Hungarian border, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase “Attention - Drunks”.

The 10 road signs, which also show a person crawling on their knees while clutching a glass in one hand, were erected in popular nightspot areas close to the city's bars and restaurants.

Carla Bruni branded 'prostitute' by Iran after she campaigns for woman threatened with stoning

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been branded a ‘prostitute’ by Iran after she publicly attacked the country for threatening to stone a woman to death.

France’s First Lady is part of a campaign to save the life of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two.

She is accused of cheating on her husband and then helping to kill him, and is now facing capital punishment for her crimes.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who became President Nicolas Sarkozy¿s third wife two years ago, has signed a petition calling for Sakineh¿s release

10 Ways India is Changing the World:-

10 Ways India is Changing the World:

1 - Spending More
Since 1996, the number of Indian passengers on airlines has increased sixfold, to about 50 million travelers a year. Sales of cars and motorcycles have doubled.

2 - IT Farming
India's Internet-technology industry (which includes other outsourcing services) generated $36 billion in 2005. That's up 28% from 2004.

Haven't fallen in love with India yet,

India!  Land of contrast and opportunity.
 If you haven't fallen in love with India yet,
 let us help you get to know this incredible country.

Background: 
The Indus Valley civilization is one of the oldest in the world and dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.  Their merger with the earlier inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arabs started coming around the 8th century and Turkish in the 12th. This was followed by European traders from the later 15th century. Britain essentially had political control of India by the 19th century.  Nonviolent resistance to British colonialism under Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU led to independence in 1947.

General Info:
The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. In 1971 a third war between the two countries resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Major concerns in India include the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife. Yet India has impressive gains in economic investment and output.

Bizarre facts-Blood falls

Blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular.

Roughly two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist in a place with no light or free oxygen and little heat, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

Interesting facts you should know

-Scientists say the higher your IQ the more you dream

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

-You use 200 muscles to take one step.

-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.

-A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.

-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.