Malnutrition among children in India

Recently I came across an article in Frontline on malnutrition among children in India.It revelaed the truth about the failure of our plans and it is shocking to hear that around 2 million children die below the age of 5 in India.Its a shame on us on boasting about economical growth and ignoring such issues.Malnutrition reveals the household income and poverty of the family.The malnutrition among children is more prevalent in rural areas .Contrarily In urban section , over weight and obesity is three times more compared to rural areas.The poorer section are not fully benefitted with governmental schemes.As per UNICEF Report 2009 , India has largest number of underweight children in the world.Both in Sikkim and Madhyapradesh more than 30% of the population lives below poverty line.Interestingly I have read an article ealrier when government planned to implement mid day scheme meals , a lobby of biscuit manufacturers suggested to give biscuits instead of meals.Thank God their intentions did not get positive nod from Government.India has integrated Child Development Services Programme for tackling under nutrition but the programme has not reaped valuable results.I feel more attention is not given to such issues and insignificant issues like cricket is presented in media for discussions.

Trip to Mahabaleshwar & Panchgani

Myself and few of my friends planned to visit nearby tourist spot of Mumbai last year and we finally decided to go Panchgani & Mahabaleshwar.One of our Senior colleague , Santhosh Sir has offered to bring his car , and transporation problem was solved.With little planning , we started our journey.
It was difficult to wake up early in the morning.But we managed and started our journey.It was uncomfortable for us in the back seat because 3 of them were finding space to sit and we didnt realise that it will be uncomfortable for 3 persons to sit in the back of maruti 800.It was not a problem when sleep overpowered us.Santhosh Sir was showing his skill riding at more than 100 kmph.He is an expert in driving.
Our plan was to go through Pune Goa Highway and reach Panchgani.We enjoyed the scenery and on that day due to some blockage , the traffic was diverted to some other road which was a narrow one. It was a thrilling drive on that road.
We were not sure about the route and we were searching for the mile stone on the road to see the direction for Panchgani.We got it and we were on the right way.After refreshment we reached Panchgani.

Santhosh Sir was more energetic, may be he came alone .Pawan was exploring the new poses for photos.Thanks to Digital Camera, otherwise we may shortage of film roles because of Madhumohan. Vishnu performed some acts while posing.



Everyone got the curse of horses too.We have horse ride , ofcourse with the support of horsemen .Each one of us have taken a photograph showing us controlling and commanding horse. Not only Santhosh Sir, the horse too rode with atmost fear while Sir was riding.
After some time we went to see a lake nearby and it was a wrong decision from myself.Others blamed me since we could not find lake , it was around 4 pm and we didnt have our lunch.I can say that we enjoyed the ride through villages since it was a break for us from the city .No pollution, no crowd.After having our lunch very late , we decided to move on to Mahabaleshwar.



We reached Mahabaleshwar in the night.I had a good sleep in the car.We tried to take room in departmental inspection quarters.We told the staff on duty that our Santhosh Sir is a DGM and he has to be allotted room. But unfortunately , there were no rooms.Finally we got one .It will be better to enquire about rooms , charges and fix the trip rather than searching at the last moment as we did.Any how it was an unplanned trip .


In the morning we had a boating ride.If one sees pedalling boat , it creates enthusiasm to ride.Since most of us have rode these pedal boats already , we opted for a row boat with a boatman.Also it is difficult to ride on a pedal boat for long period.A half an hour ride is enough.Otherwise it will make u tired. We tried our skill by rowing the boat one by one.





Mahabaleshwar has certain sceneries which are unique.By visiting all the hill points , one may get bored.The one hill point which comes to my mind is the one in which you can see the birds eye view of the dam .We had a visit to Strawberry farm and had strawberry juice.Pawan enjoyed the trip very much.Madhu Mohan too knew driving , and he had driven for around 50 kms.We departed very late from Mahabaleshwar and Santhosh Sir, rehearsed well so that he can convince bhabhi about being late.

About Blogs and my interest in blogs

Generally I dont read blogs because they usually contain the copy and paste information.Contents are taken from somewhere else , decorated with images and presented in coloured fonts.But indeed , some contain valuable information and Im sure they can create some impact mostly in positive manner on the readers.
I used to search blogs of popular writers of magazines since they are very interesting to read and informative too.In India , Magazines do follow the blogs of film icons and their blogs do share equal space with the columns of magazines.Sure, this has prompted many to follow blogs and to write blogs.In my opinion, blogs may replace the habit of writing in diaries and it is one of the way to present ourselves to the outer world.I dont know whether writing about one's passage of a day will be interesting for others to read.But it can be presented in a readble way.
I do find that certain issues which are not covered in magazines are dealt well in blogs .Thanks to those who write those blogs.They write certain issues from grass root level,but I must be frank that they are uncensored.This is also a drawback of blog where some persons write their views without confirming the truth of the subject .Its upto the readers to confirm and verify the authenticity.Blogs are a boon to the introverts , who may pour their thoughts and views through blogs.
Im sure , in future for the need of fair information , one may have to refer blogs.