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suni51 said thank you to Kalyani Nandurkar for his/her reply to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
Very rigid rules concerning forum will result in dullness as spontaneity is also necessary.
So what I feel is that,
1. Initial cap of 5 threads by a single member each day should be imposed again. If felt necessary, it could be brought down to three than five.
2. Repetition is a serious bane because there are some members who keep repeating the same thing again and again in different ways, so capping the number of posts to a fixed one say, 40 or 50 is okay.
3. There should be no fixed time as to when a thread may be started, because it really is not the way a person might condition himself or herself and it might deter forum activity. but there should be restrictions on how long a thread can be carried further. It so happens that a thread may remain idle for a week or two until a new member comes in or even an old member may find something new related to the topic. So in that case, he or she may ask for the said topic to be reopened.
4. Contests related to writing articles should be started, that is where the major focus of our site lies and will also help bring a competitive edge back.
These are all I can think of, for now.
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
Very rigid rules concerning forum will result in dullness as spontaneity is also necessary.
So what I feel is that,
1. Initial cap of 5 threads by a single member each day should be imposed again. If felt necessary, it could be brought down to three than five.
2. Repetition is a serious bane because there are some members who keep repeating the same thing again and again in different ways, so capping the number of posts to a fixed one say, 40 or 50 is okay.
3. There should be no fixed time as to when a thread may be started, because it really is not the way a person might condition himself or herself and it might deter forum activity. but there should be restrictions on how long a thread can be carried further. It so happens that a thread may remain idle for a week or two until a new member comes in or even an old member may find something new related to the topic. So in that case, he or she may ask for the said topic to be reopened.
4. Contests related to writing articles should be started, that is where the major focus of our site lies and will also help bring a competitive edge back.
These are all I can think of, for now.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Make your dreams real..
. I came to know about this through local news paper. I'm thinking of using it for my Art website. I enquired and waiting for a reply.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
Gandhiji's views on women may not be an entirely new concept. But Gandhiji, led by example. Kasturba and GandhiJi together worked for cleaning the public toilets.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
I agree.Amended Domestic violence law did not help the woes of women to fullest amount. Though the law reduced the instances of abuse, But as you said women's sufferings and woes did not come to a grinding halt. There is much to be done to give succor to the suffering lot of woman
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
This just came to my mind , apparently Sarojini Naidu once joked saying that it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhiji in poverty ! Gandhiji was no doubt a simple man with simple habits but now people seem to want to make a saint out of him, who seems like a dull uninteresting person whereas I am sure there are many more interesting facets to his life rather than his diet and dress !
I believe that simplicity just meas that you remain usual self and do not do anything that invites othes' intention. Glamourous life style attracts peoples' intention and thus this is not simple. But if you een make a show of simplicity, you are not simple. To elicidate, Kejriwal andothers attempted to show their simplicty by travelling in metro rail and other gimmicks. This is not simplicity. simplicity means that you live in a manner others placed in your position would do. By this yardstick, Gandhi was not so simple. He ate simple food including goat milk. It is widely believed that the goat ate dry fruits so that the milk is very rich.
After all he was human and I am sure he did have some faults like any of us but he was also a visionary in his own way especially where women's issues were concerned ..In Paris he said, "I have no doubt that women can do infinitely more than men against war." He elaborated his argument to the women there. "Answer for yourselves what your great soldiers and generals would do, if their wives and daughters and mothers refused to countenance their participation in militarism in any shape or form."
He no doubted respected dignityof women but he also held the view that a woman's proper place is home. He did not favor women sorkinh outside. Bread winning is man's job and housekeeping and upbringing children is women's.
I guess his views on women mirrored the trend during those times...He also said ' Educate a man you educate an individual, educate a woman and you educate a generation ' which shows that his idea of woman was not entirely ancient. I have heard many highly educated men saying the same thing , they feel that nature meant woman to make a home and take care of children and man to fend for his family and protect them.Times have changed and roles have changed but I often wonder at what cost ??
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Sound Sleep, health benefits..
We can immediately see the results of sleep deprivation in small children. They become restless, irritable and very cranky and unless they have sufficient sleep their growth too can get stunted since they need double the amount of sleep we adults do .
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Make your dreams real..
Yes I know about the site through many of my friends and students who say it is very good and helpful...In fact i have also registered for the site on the recommendation of one of the moderators there , although I have not used it so far ..
9 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
This is what I wanted to highlight @vijay He should be admired for his contribution but presenting him as God in every walk of life is not acceptable to me. I have seen my father who was a simple man in every sense of the term but he was not a popular name, so what, Should the definition of simplicity change? Like my father there are numerous simple and honest beings but we don't love to follow them rather we try to follow those about whom we are only superfluously aware. What Gandhiji did in the name of Bhramacharya, if such is practised by any man in the present era, won't he be punished. So, it's better that let Gandhi as a freedom fighter be treated on a different pedestal from Gandhi, the man. Even in his freedom struggle he was also a biased man. He was against Subhash Bose and a simple man cannot be a biased man.
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
Shampa Sadhya wrote:
@usha manohar I am not saying that women are not subjected to domestic violence. That percentage is high but that does not mean, men and their families are not getting ruined by such false cases. That percentage is less but growing day by day. They only can understand who have seen their loved ones getting falsely implicated and leading them to a shattered life. In the urban educated society it is becoming a routine problem and if we say that women are not selfish at all then it will be hilarious. I agree illiterate and poor women are the huge sufferers of domestic violence but in urban society women are misusing it with the help of their biological family. I have witnessed many such case. The men avoid to speak about domestic violence that does not mean some of them are not victims. As @rambabu said about the new law, that is very true or else earlier the boy's family were not even given a chance to present their side of the story. Thus, they land up into jail, loss of job, honour shattered, death of the aged people due to shock and what not. Both the parties are sufferer maybe males are less in number but if its not controlled then one day every young men would be behind the bars and the world is controlled by fake women.
We all form opinions going by our own personal experiences ...From what I have seen, earlier a woman had to put up with both physical and mental abuse by husband and his family and not speak about it whereas now they come out in the open ! This new found freedom might at times backfire n them because they may use it at the slightest provocation and this is bound to happen ...However, it is still a very imbalanced society that we have where women's rights are concerned.. Rambabu's case , although I don't know the details is really sad, because of the suffering it has caused him and his family.
But there are thousands of women out there silently suffering because they have no one to support them either by giving them the right advise nor do they have the financial means to file a case against their husbands who badger them day in and day out! Of course I am all for the amendment in the law because any law should be equal to all the citizens !
9 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic Make your dreams real..
I have dreams but unfortunately my dreams cannot be funded by Wishberry.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
@Shampa : Yes he did indeed try out the experiment with young girls to try to test his brahamacharya and this and some other experiments are generally not highlighted out of respect to him. He was after all a human being with many faults. Also goes to prove that food has no effect on a person's conduct as is being propagated by some vested interests. Gandhijis leadership of freedom movement is a grand contribution worth admiring.
9 years ago
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani answered the question How health is making the world a better place?.
Food, physical and mental exercise, environment and cleanliness affect health. An individual and society both have their roles. An individual needs regular habits of cleanliness and mental/ physical activity. The society or government is to look after good clean environment and ensure that food and mdicines are not adulterated and the medical faculitiesare adequate and proper.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
It is true men can also be victims of domestic violence but the ratio of women suffering domestic violence is far far more then men to the extent of 90 to 95 % women suffer. Thus laws tend to favor women.
9 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
I cannot follow anyone blindly but always appreciate the good qualities. Gandhi is one whom I definitely respect for his contribution to the freedom struggle of India. My respect got a little blow recently when I read about Gandhiji's method of experiment to control himself among the young girls. That was ridiculous and I would say that no men would approve of such a deed even if they are die hard supporters of Gandhi. I won't discuss it further but the more we will dig inside then there will be some or the other revelation that may shock us extremely.
9 years ago
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
usha manohar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
This just came to my mind , apparently Sarojini Naidu once joked saying that it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhiji in poverty ! Gandhiji was no doubt a simple man with simple habits but now people seem to want to make a saint out of him, who seems like a dull uninteresting person whereas I am sure there are many more interesting facets to his life rather than his diet and dress !
I believe that simplicity just meas that you remain usual self and do not do anything that invites othes' intention. Glamourous life style attracts peoples' intention and thus this is not simple. But if you een make a show of simplicity, you are not simple. To elicidate, Kejriwal andothers attempted to show their simplicty by travelling in metro rail and other gimmicks. This is not simplicity. simplicity means that you live in a manner others placed in your position would do. By this yardstick, Gandhi was not so simple. He ate simple food including goat milk. It is widely believed that the goat ate dry fruits so that the milk is very rich.
After all he was human and I am sure he did have some faults like any of us but he was also a visionary in his own way especially where women's issues were concerned ..In Paris he said, "I have no doubt that women can do infinitely more than men against war." He elaborated his argument to the women there. "Answer for yourselves what your great soldiers and generals would do, if their wives and daughters and mothers refused to countenance their participation in militarism in any shape or form."
He no doubted respected dignityof women but he also held the view that a woman's proper place is home. He did not favor women sorkinh outside. Bread winning is man's job and housekeeping and upbringing children is women's.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
The number of participating members in the forum is limited. Therefore it does at times appear that a thread is getting dragged as same members are commenting versus each other. Some could be doing for points others for coaxing others to join in. I would suggest as follows :
1. The Threads should be started on fixed days every week, say. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
2. All threads will close on, say, Sunday 12.00 pm.(midnight) (There will be no carry over).
3. Administration can also initiate threads.
4. The total number of posts in a thread should be capped at , say, 50 and it will then close.
5. A member can initiate maximum two threads a day.
6 A post should not be more than 160 characters in length.
6. A member can contribute max. five posts per topic per day maximum.
7. The Admn. can carry over a post to next week if the topic is interesting or extend it in the running week if participation touches 50 posts fast enough
The above can be used to develop guidelines if found worthy of consideration.
9 years ago
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani replied to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
I agre with the suggestions. Additionally, there should be time limit after which a thread would be locked. No threadshould continue for more than a week.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
True. The new law pertaining to Domestic violence based on the charges of a woman has completely undergone a change. According to the new law there will not be any arrests.Why these changes were done because law itself realized how Domestic violence is being abused.. I experienced it and how I had nightmarish time for a period of 4 years.
9 years ago
suni51 said thank you to Kalyani Nandurkar for his/her reply to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
Very rigid rules concerning forum will result in dullness as spontaneity is also necessary.
So what I feel is that,
1. Initial cap of 5 threads by a single member each day should be imposed again. If felt necessary, it could be brought down to three than five.
2. Repetition is a serious bane because there are some members who keep repeating the same thing again and again in different ways, so capping the number of posts to a fixed one say, 40 or 50 is okay.
3. There should be no fixed time as to when a thread may be started, because it really is not the way a person might condition himself or herself and it might deter forum activity. but there should be restrictions on how long a thread can be carried further. It so happens that a thread may remain idle for a week or two until a new member comes in or even an old member may find something new related to the topic. So in that case, he or she may ask for the said topic to be reopened.
4. Contests related to writing articles should be started, that is where the major focus of our site lies and will also help bring a competitive edge back.
These are all I can think of, for now.
9 years ago
Kalyani Nandurkar replied to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
Very rigid rules concerning forum will result in dullness as spontaneity is also necessary.
So what I feel is that,
1. Initial cap of 5 threads by a single member each day should be imposed again. If felt necessary, it could be brought down to three than five.
2. Repetition is a serious bane because there are some members who keep repeating the same thing again and again in different ways, so capping the number of posts to a fixed one say, 40 or 50 is okay.
3. There should be no fixed time as to when a thread may be started, because it really is not the way a person might condition himself or herself and it might deter forum activity. but there should be restrictions on how long a thread can be carried further. It so happens that a thread may remain idle for a week or two until a new member comes in or even an old member may find something new related to the topic. So in that case, he or she may ask for the said topic to be reopened.
4. Contests related to writing articles should be started, that is where the major focus of our site lies and will also help bring a competitive edge back.
These are all I can think of, for now.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic Make your dreams real..
. I came to know about this through local news paper. I'm thinking of using it for my Art website. I enquired and waiting for a reply.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
Gandhiji's views on women may not be an entirely new concept. But Gandhiji, led by example. Kasturba and GandhiJi together worked for cleaning the public toilets.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
I agree.Amended Domestic violence law did not help the woes of women to fullest amount. Though the law reduced the instances of abuse, But as you said women's sufferings and woes did not come to a grinding halt. There is much to be done to give succor to the suffering lot of woman
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
This just came to my mind , apparently Sarojini Naidu once joked saying that it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhiji in poverty ! Gandhiji was no doubt a simple man with simple habits but now people seem to want to make a saint out of him, who seems like a dull uninteresting person whereas I am sure there are many more interesting facets to his life rather than his diet and dress !
I believe that simplicity just meas that you remain usual self and do not do anything that invites othes' intention. Glamourous life style attracts peoples' intention and thus this is not simple. But if you een make a show of simplicity, you are not simple. To elicidate, Kejriwal andothers attempted to show their simplicty by travelling in metro rail and other gimmicks. This is not simplicity. simplicity means that you live in a manner others placed in your position would do. By this yardstick, Gandhi was not so simple. He ate simple food including goat milk. It is widely believed that the goat ate dry fruits so that the milk is very rich.
After all he was human and I am sure he did have some faults like any of us but he was also a visionary in his own way especially where women's issues were concerned ..In Paris he said, "I have no doubt that women can do infinitely more than men against war." He elaborated his argument to the women there. "Answer for yourselves what your great soldiers and generals would do, if their wives and daughters and mothers refused to countenance their participation in militarism in any shape or form."
He no doubted respected dignityof women but he also held the view that a woman's proper place is home. He did not favor women sorkinh outside. Bread winning is man's job and housekeeping and upbringing children is women's.
I guess his views on women mirrored the trend during those times...He also said ' Educate a man you educate an individual, educate a woman and you educate a generation ' which shows that his idea of woman was not entirely ancient. I have heard many highly educated men saying the same thing , they feel that nature meant woman to make a home and take care of children and man to fend for his family and protect them.Times have changed and roles have changed but I often wonder at what cost ??
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Sound Sleep, health benefits..
We can immediately see the results of sleep deprivation in small children. They become restless, irritable and very cranky and unless they have sufficient sleep their growth too can get stunted since they need double the amount of sleep we adults do .
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic Make your dreams real..
Yes I know about the site through many of my friends and students who say it is very good and helpful...In fact i have also registered for the site on the recommendation of one of the moderators there , although I have not used it so far ..
9 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
This is what I wanted to highlight @vijay He should be admired for his contribution but presenting him as God in every walk of life is not acceptable to me. I have seen my father who was a simple man in every sense of the term but he was not a popular name, so what, Should the definition of simplicity change? Like my father there are numerous simple and honest beings but we don't love to follow them rather we try to follow those about whom we are only superfluously aware. What Gandhiji did in the name of Bhramacharya, if such is practised by any man in the present era, won't he be punished. So, it's better that let Gandhi as a freedom fighter be treated on a different pedestal from Gandhi, the man. Even in his freedom struggle he was also a biased man. He was against Subhash Bose and a simple man cannot be a biased man.
9 years ago
usha manohar replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
Shampa Sadhya wrote:
@usha manohar I am not saying that women are not subjected to domestic violence. That percentage is high but that does not mean, men and their families are not getting ruined by such false cases. That percentage is less but growing day by day. They only can understand who have seen their loved ones getting falsely implicated and leading them to a shattered life. In the urban educated society it is becoming a routine problem and if we say that women are not selfish at all then it will be hilarious. I agree illiterate and poor women are the huge sufferers of domestic violence but in urban society women are misusing it with the help of their biological family. I have witnessed many such case. The men avoid to speak about domestic violence that does not mean some of them are not victims. As @rambabu said about the new law, that is very true or else earlier the boy's family were not even given a chance to present their side of the story. Thus, they land up into jail, loss of job, honour shattered, death of the aged people due to shock and what not. Both the parties are sufferer maybe males are less in number but if its not controlled then one day every young men would be behind the bars and the world is controlled by fake women.
We all form opinions going by our own personal experiences ...From what I have seen, earlier a woman had to put up with both physical and mental abuse by husband and his family and not speak about it whereas now they come out in the open ! This new found freedom might at times backfire n them because they may use it at the slightest provocation and this is bound to happen ...However, it is still a very imbalanced society that we have where women's rights are concerned.. Rambabu's case , although I don't know the details is really sad, because of the suffering it has caused him and his family.
But there are thousands of women out there silently suffering because they have no one to support them either by giving them the right advise nor do they have the financial means to file a case against their husbands who badger them day in and day out! Of course I am all for the amendment in the law because any law should be equal to all the citizens !
9 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic Make your dreams real..
I have dreams but unfortunately my dreams cannot be funded by Wishberry.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
@Shampa : Yes he did indeed try out the experiment with young girls to try to test his brahamacharya and this and some other experiments are generally not highlighted out of respect to him. He was after all a human being with many faults. Also goes to prove that food has no effect on a person's conduct as is being propagated by some vested interests. Gandhijis leadership of freedom movement is a grand contribution worth admiring.
9 years ago
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani answered the question How health is making the world a better place?.
Food, physical and mental exercise, environment and cleanliness affect health. An individual and society both have their roles. An individual needs regular habits of cleanliness and mental/ physical activity. The society or government is to look after good clean environment and ensure that food and mdicines are not adulterated and the medical faculitiesare adequate and proper.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
It is true men can also be victims of domestic violence but the ratio of women suffering domestic violence is far far more then men to the extent of 90 to 95 % women suffer. Thus laws tend to favor women.
9 years ago
Shampa Sadhya replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
I cannot follow anyone blindly but always appreciate the good qualities. Gandhi is one whom I definitely respect for his contribution to the freedom struggle of India. My respect got a little blow recently when I read about Gandhiji's method of experiment to control himself among the young girls. That was ridiculous and I would say that no men would approve of such a deed even if they are die hard supporters of Gandhi. I won't discuss it further but the more we will dig inside then there will be some or the other revelation that may shock us extremely.
9 years ago
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani replied to the topic What Did Mahatma Gandhi Like to Eat?.
usha manohar wrote:
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
usha manohar wrote:
This just came to my mind , apparently Sarojini Naidu once joked saying that it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhiji in poverty ! Gandhiji was no doubt a simple man with simple habits but now people seem to want to make a saint out of him, who seems like a dull uninteresting person whereas I am sure there are many more interesting facets to his life rather than his diet and dress !
I believe that simplicity just meas that you remain usual self and do not do anything that invites othes' intention. Glamourous life style attracts peoples' intention and thus this is not simple. But if you een make a show of simplicity, you are not simple. To elicidate, Kejriwal andothers attempted to show their simplicty by travelling in metro rail and other gimmicks. This is not simplicity. simplicity means that you live in a manner others placed in your position would do. By this yardstick, Gandhi was not so simple. He ate simple food including goat milk. It is widely believed that the goat ate dry fruits so that the milk is very rich.
After all he was human and I am sure he did have some faults like any of us but he was also a visionary in his own way especially where women's issues were concerned ..In Paris he said, "I have no doubt that women can do infinitely more than men against war." He elaborated his argument to the women there. "Answer for yourselves what your great soldiers and generals would do, if their wives and daughters and mothers refused to countenance their participation in militarism in any shape or form."
He no doubted respected dignityof women but he also held the view that a woman's proper place is home. He did not favor women sorkinh outside. Bread winning is man's job and housekeeping and upbringing children is women's.
9 years ago
vijay replied to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
The number of participating members in the forum is limited. Therefore it does at times appear that a thread is getting dragged as same members are commenting versus each other. Some could be doing for points others for coaxing others to join in. I would suggest as follows :
1. The Threads should be started on fixed days every week, say. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
2. All threads will close on, say, Sunday 12.00 pm.(midnight) (There will be no carry over).
3. Administration can also initiate threads.
4. The total number of posts in a thread should be capped at , say, 50 and it will then close.
5. A member can initiate maximum two threads a day.
6 A post should not be more than 160 characters in length.
6. A member can contribute max. five posts per topic per day maximum.
7. The Admn. can carry over a post to next week if the topic is interesting or extend it in the running week if participation touches 50 posts fast enough
The above can be used to develop guidelines if found worthy of consideration.
9 years ago
Gulshan Kumar Ajmani replied to the topic Best 2 Ideas get Rs 20 each.
I agre with the suggestions. Additionally, there should be time limit after which a thread would be locked. No threadshould continue for more than a week.
9 years ago
rambabu replied to the topic What a girl should do before marriage.
True. The new law pertaining to Domestic violence based on the charges of a woman has completely undergone a change. According to the new law there will not be any arrests.Why these changes were done because law itself realized how Domestic violence is being abused.. I experienced it and how I had nightmarish time for a period of 4 years.
9 years ago