Peace begins with a smile #Colgate360GoldMornings

When we look back at the years, which has slipped away, it brings in all the sweet memories to our mind. But these years also tell us that we have crossed some key milestones & we are getting older year after year ...

I am in my early 30 with a new role, 'mother' & a heart stopping challenging career in which I am still struggling!

All this is prompting me to look back what I missed and sometimes, scares me of an unimaginable tomorrow.

 

It's a fact that we need to be prepared for; but is scare an answer? 

Of course not..

From the time I have known myself, I have always tried to follow a thumb rule, "tomorrow is an aspiring day"...

What we missed today, we can try it tomorrow. And in those tomorrow the most positive hours are the morning. These mornings are always clean, smart and as an engine which ignites when we start the key; it's that pleasant push  which when starts well, always ends well. I always believe that morning ray of light which falls on my bed makes me kick myself into my life however worst was my last dark night.

 

Golden Morning -

These simple good morning now has changed to golden morning due to my sweet son. He has been energetic ever since he was born & it only motivates me to be more and more active. Ever since his arrival, it has made me even more aspiring as its not only my husband's duty, but mine too in teaching & guiding him to become a good human being. Its a hard job indeed but when I see his innocent face, it gives in the power to complete it. 

Also, I can say utterly coincidence that his name is after the creator of morning i.e. Aditya.

 

Mantra on #Colgate360GoldMornings -

Major set back in this world is the missing of unconditional kindness. Hence, for a few of us, at times, as small as a smile can make a morning 'gold'.

We need to come half away by having a good heart, mutual respect and unbiased sacrifice. The other half is done by the golden toothbrush by Colgate called the 'Colgate 360 Charcoal Gold' which shines your teeth and make you look even more adoring. 

Another factor which relates to  #Colgate360GoldMornings is my blogging spirit. Ever since I have started working, its been a materialistic life. Blogging just makes life to be simple and relaxing. It also allows me to be kind and tender which unfortunately is not allowed in this real life. 

Hence my mantra, comparing the Gold standard of Colgate is to be kind and keeping smiling as "Peace begins with a smile"

 -Prathi



image source - Colgate page

Swachh India starts from you...

Our PM, Mr Narendra Modi Ji has started a national campaign called "Swachh Bharath Abhiyan"; the objective being to clean the roads, streets & infrastructure of our India.

 Cleanliness has always been a target in India as compared to Other countries. Ever when any NRI or Foreigner arrives in India, they always make a visual comment on it and also when we travel abroad we always appreciate other country's road, safety, health and discipline compared to India. Hence to eradicate this thought this campaign has been initiated. But where do we start?

A home, a cosy place to live; be it your own or rental, a place where we all stay most of our life, it brings security & luxury; to express yourself and when stayed with our loved ones; creates togetherness.We say "house turns to home when there is love and warmth" but along with that when thought practically we need to include "sanitation & hygiene" too for better health & better life. Why not start from home!!!

For me, cleanliness is a must. Before writing this post, I made sure I have cleaned my home and then sat to write. It creates a sense of relief , peace & in this case, encourages me to write :). I would like to address the 2 important area where we need to fit cleanliness. I believe if you act on it, it in-turn can influence 40-50% Clean India

• Toliet & Bathroom
• Dustbin

Tolilet & Bathroom:

Before addressing cleanliness, there are many houses without toilet/Bathroom. Shocked!! Yes,when we search for a house for rent or sale, people search for western commode or Indian; but consider if there are houses for rent/sale without toilets, will you stay!!

• People in such houses go to open fields to urinate or shit. 
• This creates diseases as flies which sit in these shit sit in the food they eat. 
• This also creates embarrassing situation especially to women who have to urinate & shit in-front of other people.
• And in some parts as open fields are getting exhausted, there are people to collect shits who are treated as untouchables.
• What happens when ladies are menstruating!!
• Bathing in river or pond can be even more embarrasing, pollutes water with your body dirt & if it is the same pond which is used to drink; you can imagine water diseases which invade!!!

Even when we have toilet, few of our men want to urinate in Public. This is so common in roads where there is open drainage. Why does this happen??

• This is because when we were young, like 4-6 years, we were taught that if by any case toilets are busy or not available, you can urinate in open drainage or fields where nobody is seen and if the same habit is carried, the same practice will continue with our young generation.

Even when there is toilet and bathroom available in houses, Few kids urinate/shit/bath in Public. Considered Why?? 

• The reason being room not clean. Fungus or stinking odor causes people not to use toilet or bathrooms. 

Solution: Have Toilet/Bathrooms & Clean them regularly

• Build Toilet & Bathroom
• Practice each and every one to use it
• Say No to Urinate or Bathing in Public
• Clean the rooms at-least once a week
• Use some toilet freshener

Encourage to 

• Build Toilets in homes and Public.
• Keep Clean Public Toilets.
• Give free Cleaning agents & toilet fresheners to people who can't afford
• Use Toilets & Bathroom.

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Dustbin:

Dustbin hear represents the waste, be it liquid or solid. Waste gets accumulated everyday; be it from cooking, washing or cleaning. But what do you do about the waste?

• Throwing outside to others compound?
• Wrapping in a plastic bag and throw it in a open drainage?
• "I don't have dustbin, I just throw all my waste  in near by open field. It will get decompose" attitude
• Feed it to animals which includes Plastic and other dangerous waste.
• water wastage drain to open pond creating stagnant water
• If waste is not treated well, you can invade cockroach, rats, bed bugs and flies!
• What about hair fallen when you comb!!

 Even when we are far away from home, don't we need to throw the waste in a trash bin. Do we follow it!!

• When we get down from a bus, where do you throw your bus ticket?
• Eating Banana/Potato Chips when we travel is good but what do you do about the waste covers?
• Spitting Pan or Sticking Chew Gums is a habit?

Why does this happen??

• The discipline which is taught at home encourages the way we treat it in the future and also our act outside. Hence the correct approach should start from a home.

It is not only a family responsibility which can nullify when society is considered, but of all the neighbors. For example, if there is anything which is stinking, lying in the road, people ignore and go about on their own way. Specific action should be initiated by everyone in that society as anything under Public environment is the responsibility of each one of us.

One more discrepancy is heard about nowadays, on the cleaners who come to clean this waste. Be it's the cleaners, who come to collect your daily dustbins or the road sweepers, yes, they are meant to carry out their job but that doesn't mean they should be treated badly!!.

Also Government is not encouraging them. No safety measures are given to them like proper gloves, boots, clothes nor is there any stable salary. Hence they seek with us, the public, for some tips ( money), resulting difference.

Funny, but real, cleaners consider those of who give tips as favorable.

Also I see in many outskirts of the city, dump of waste accumulated for treatment. This can result in dangerous diseases affecting public even if they have followed all sorts of cleanliness procedure.

Solution: Accumulating waste and disposing it in a right manner is very important.

• Have a dustbin @ home to collect the waste
• Utilize it regularly & encourage others to do it
• For Liquid waste, proper connectivity from home to drainage should be arranged
• Seek help from government & other sector which work on this
• Plastic can be dangerous to animals, Please avoid throwing them.
• Government also should look on to the sanity of the waste accumulated

There is a great deal of Government support needed in this case not only in cities but in small towns and villages.

• Sewage treatment
• Drainage blockages
• Waste disposal procedure
• Cleaners wages and safety 
• Helpline facility
• Public awareness program
• Public disposal facility

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During the Swachh talk I have put a stress on the 2 topics which affects cleanliness. But there are more, all which conveys --> how we have disciplined at home, how we act towards daily routine and also how we mimic our elders. Many of us can avoid this mistake by regulating @ our home. But there are people who don't have homes, who don't have anyone to guide. For those, we are the ones to guide them. 

Finally at Home we can control few of our actions and can also rewind.It may not be a big headache. But the same if effected India, rewinding something done can be devastating or impossible.

So Better think twice!!

This Blog is written as a part of a contest held by Indiblogger & Dettol India collaborates with NDTV to make an awareness of how sanitation and hygiene play a role in our daily routine life @ home which in turn affects our beautiful land, India

You can get more details on it http://swachhindia.ndtv.com/

Lets put our hand together for #SwachhIndia

-Prathi

Downloading HIV antivirus

HIV, a virus which infected allows it to control a human body & an Introduction of which causes fear throughout the world. When such a dangerous virus invades a traditional country like India, It can create a tsunami. This is what had happened in 1986.

The reason behind the invade has explained to be by migrated people or foreigner travelers, transmitting into sex workers but once it had entered, there has been a disturbance in each and every individual of India.

Disturbance is mainly because of the tradition which was carried in India due to which awareness was unreachable, as there were difficulties in circulating messages during the early 1990's. I can reside an incident which happened during those early times wherein the couple who got married ended up horribly such that the husband was left to die with his lonely mother & only after a few years that it was known that it was AIDS which killed her son and was due to her daughter in law. Such was the case during 90's as awareness events were not conducted vigorously or never reached the common citizens.

But as we progressed to 2000's & now to 2014's, we have seen a remarkable downsize of this monstrous, nevertheless as all hope, even India seeks to nullify it. But based on the latest survey even though percentage looks very small, when compared with the population it is at a range of 2.1 million people affected.

Source : pixabay/ shutterstock

To Tackle this we need innovative ideas compared to the traditional approaches.Some major part of India is on the step to change from traditional boundaries to modern approach, where in Traditional approach are not sufficient but others are Bound with Regional & Culture, hence we need to understand the mindset on Indian's when tackling such complex events. 

1. Spread/Awareness: As in any country, Awareness & its communication are key. But the mode might differ. A simple television advertisement cannot awake everyone. We need to bring ideas which can reach the people who are in the minute part of India. Key people who attracts should be studied like sex workers, travelers; their presence in India must be calculated and education should be directed to them.Schools & Collages also have started up educating the young Indians on AIDS & HIV and its consequences. This will gain modern approach system. But a major part of the India is the villages and as they are the least who get the exposure, awareness should always start from them. But they are not only the last people to be heard but also the difficult people to be convinced. They prefer to be in their own traditional approaches and hence doesn't intend to blend, unless some major circumstances arise. The team which goes to tackle, should understand and respect their traditions but also able to convince them. These set up of people need to do a lot of research & homework even if it is just a visit. 

2. Tackle Anxiety: People are not only materialistic but also emotionally bound. Hence when such a dangerous situation arises people tend to generate fear within a community and due to which consequence can be unfruitful. Even if a person is suffering from AIDS, he may not be willing to come forward and express his concern. This can be seen in many of the countries but I believe in Indian it is more. We need to make sure when we conduct awareness, we need to remember the Anxiety faced which might send different waves all together. Understanding the crowd can aid us in achieving 25% of the problem but we need to answer each and every question elaborately as some of the Indians are bound by traditions & illiteracy and some are modern & intellectual.

3. Involve Key Delegates: While this approach is Tradition, but few Indians listen to Key people only. Delegates in India can fall under the category from Actor to Actress to Politicians to Religion leaders. During our awareness events, when involved key delegates, can attract huge audiences and also can make the voice heard even more quickly.We can also ask these delegates, with due own interests, to contribute in such awareness.

4. Stories/Facts: Discrimination is seen wide spread in India and they blame the few innocent to be the primary initiator & also they are the ones who are targeted the most. When Real stories & facts are published, we can at least try to reduce the innocent to be the victims.

5. Help 24/7 - Fund & Support: There are 24/7 Helplines but are they given the visibility, sponsors & support.No, not in India. India due to lack of support tend to fall and doesn't successful in the task of doing something beneficial. Because of corruption, or instability there has been many Help centers which can't do their work legally. This can only be done when the government of India takes such activities seriously & support not only financially but also in action.

6.Target the Carrier: As already mentioned, there has been significant deduction of HIV but there are a couple of people such as the sex workers, Transgenders, truck drivers, migrants, injectors who act as a carrier of this infectious disease. We need to focus our attentions on such people who can prevent expanding further.

7.Free Treatment: As aware India is still in its developing phase; there are people who don't have money for their survival hence treatment if it is cost effective can attract as many as possible and if enrolled free treatment we can nullify this infection forever. 

These are the few key areas through which we can prevent the rise of HIV in India & if followed with 100% effort can be successful in eradicating.

Indian Aviation, from Bigger to Better.... a step to connect

Indian Aviation is one of the key which connects India to the world but still questions arise...

 

Why Bigger??

*Traveling: 

Most of us express Traveling as one of our hobby. Be it for some work scheduled or to meet our loved ones or mere for luxurious enjoyment, people travel from one place to another. Few commute reasons can be vague or some special occasions, people have woken up to explore new places or revisit old places just to see few changes.

During my grandma's time, there were arguments and misjudgments on the same topic. I can give you an example where in my granny after completing her X, wanted to do a 3 month Teacher Training course which was 10KM far away from their home town and was not allowed as there were no transportation. But she did managed to get it through by some other means, is some other story to reside. Comparing that, now day's schools in cities/villages are far away from the hub and mostly, are more than 10KM, and we do have school buses.

Conclusion, demand for traveling has commenced. I have even heard parents sending their children to abroad just to complete their higher studies in reputed international schools.

Additionally, Facility of traveling also has modified over the few decades. People prefer Buses with sleeper facility rather than seating. Metro Trains have taken over Traditional Trains. So What about in Airlines?

 

There has been drastic increase in  the numbers of Planes and different aviation industry have opened up, offering great discounts to attract not  only business class individuals but also people who travel in economic class. Due to this amazing impact, there has been a large engulfment of other industries getting involved in the Airlines sector.

Consider this, Being in one of the Top Indian City, I see en number of taxi cab and its co. working hard for providing the best reasonable fare, to and fro, to Airports. Back in 2007, HAL airport infrastructure was nothing compared to what is now in 2014 KIA & we do have different shopping sector opening up in airports which gives guests provisions to shop & spend their leisure time in airport more profitable. These are the few instances, on the large collection of impact of Aviation.

Outcome is obvious, Infrastructure, Technology, Job Opportunity in airline industry and its dependency is also becoming key entities; making it a bigger collaboration as a whole.


***Indian Diversity***:

Along with others, we do have the most major and might be Primary contribution for better aviation i.e. peoples itself.

We Indians need a bigger platform in any case; as being the 2nd largest population in the world, the resource count is the highest here. To add, we have different culture and religion, and further down, each individual have different aspects from life.

So when it comes to traveling there might be a mix culture of people/ customers for an airline and the perspective, expectation differs from one customer to another. When such wide varieties of people board a plane, this increases the expectation as an airline company which in turn increases their services.

For an example, a family of 4 may demand for entertainment and a traveler for his own privacy. A Brahman would prefer a vegetarian cuisine and Bengali a fish.


"India", as a word is difficult to adjust in a small confide book, as it has the most out busted culture, so can an aviation sector be small for India???

Never........

Bigger moving to Better!?

To be frank I haven't explained Infrastructure, Technology & Jobs in the earlier section, in detail, as we need Better opportunity for it.

Most of the Indians fall under Middle and lower Class Family. When it comes to aviation industry it is more of the opposite, being expensive and stylish. Chethan Bagat himself, on one of his book, has mentioned that Airlines is the most Stylish & Expensive Company to own and no unskilled person can engulf and not get drenched in it.


Not so long ago, there came news of flights cancelled and air service staff wages delayed due to debt issues. People not only see the vision in traveling wiser & more in an entertainment level but also aspire comfort ability and security.  When traveling through air these expectations are higher. When such stories arise, they unbolt the trust in airlines and get insecurity behavior towards aviation industry.

This in-turn loses the Investors, Skill-set resources & Jobs.

Indian Aviation should concentrate on 'people trust building activity'. Opportunity should be given not only to the CEO of an aviation industry but also to its staff to follow this motto.

Also new technology should be encouraged, by establishing non-Indian airlines to participate and give an opportunity. This can be made by utilization of Indian resources, communicating them with non-Indian airlines such as Lufthansa and play a role in elevating the Indian Aviation sector.

Lufthansa is one of the largest airline sectors in Europe; we can imagine the 3 key things it brings when it comes to India. 'Infrastructure, Technology & Jobs'

When Such Airlines comes into India, be it any kind of people i.e. investor, customer or staff puts an effort of trust and gives opportunity to make bigger better.

On such reason is #LufthansaA380

 To add more on A380 advantage, some days ago, Our PM, addressing in Australia, expressed that India has a key which other country doesn't have, "Resource". Once we train them in the opportunistic skills, they can be the powerful Indian guns to be fired. These skilled resources are in much demand in Developed Countries.

When such demand increases the frequent traveling to international locations will be the key and #LufthansaA380 can deliver it in far more better than others.

A mere presence from Nov 8 2014, to its departure/arrival on Delhi, Capital City of India,  can bring so much credibility of India on many other countries.


To Talk about It has the best engine , remarkable technology & maximum storage with wide spread cuisine facility and to add, carries maximum passenger across the journey. You can find this in most of its achievement list:  Lufthansa Indian Website  (http://a380.lufthansa.com/TAKEPART/#/DE/EN/home)

But to India, It will bring the 3 Key Opportunity 'Infrastructure, Technology & Jobs', 2 Advantages, one to India 'Traveling in comfortable & secure environment', to Lufthansa 'Understanding Indian diversity' and the ultimate Shine A380 presence itself.

Check Out: A Video Clip on its arrival on November 8th 2014

Post by Lufthansa India.

- Prathi