Vijay For Victory

Indian music maestro A.R.Rahman bagged two Grammy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.

Following are the categories for which Rahman was given two Grammy Awards.

• Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture
• Best Song Written For Motion Picture

Let us all wish him best of luck to bag more Double Awards.

One fine day in London, a Sikh was walking down the road and he passes by the Indian embassy, as he was passing by he saw the Indian flag hoisted on the high pole right in front of the embassy.

Now as patriotic Sardars are, he saluted the Indian flag and was about to walk away when a British standing by stopped him and asked him why he saluted Indian flag.

The British told the Sikh, the Indian flag does not represent any colour of Sikhism in the flag; the saffron is of Hindus, Green for Muslims,White for Jains, the Dark blue circle for Buddhists.

As to why he was saluting, the answer was quite simple because it took lots of sacrifices by the Indians including Sikhs to gain the freedom and the right to hoist the flag of Independent India anywhere.

As to what represents the Sikhs, the Sardar asked the British, “Do you see that 20 foot high pole with the help of which the Indian flag is strutting high in the air ? ”

The British said, Yes… So ?

Well Mate, the Sardar replied, that Pole Represents Us !!!

Source : VJ

The above story is given by VJ in the comment section of “History of Indian Flag”. I thought it would be better if I published in a separate post.

Design Indian Currency Symbol

Most of the countries have identification symbols for their currency. $ is for U.S Dollar, £ for GBP, € for Euro etc.,

But Indian currency, Rupee, does not have a unique identification symbol. So for, Rs has been used to denote the Indian currency and there is no official symbol to identify the Indian Currency.

Recently Government of India – Ministry of Finance announced Competition for Design to finalize an official identification symbol for Indian currency.

This would be a great opportunity for all artists and designers to take part in this historical competition.

Are you not an artist? No worries, still you can take part in the historical event.

Economic Times came up with a set of currency designs that are designed by it’s designers. This has been released to public to select the best design out of the set.

All these designs along with the public view will be sent to Ministry of Finance.  Visit the following link to select your own symbol from the set.

Select the rupee symbol  by Economic Times

Last date for submitting your own designs to Ministry of Finance is 1:00 pm IST – 15 Apr 2009.

The number system what we use today (1,2,3,4,5…) is called Arabic Numbers System. We also have Roman Numbers System (I, II, III, IV, V, …) which is rarely being used.

Have you ever thought WHY One is 1, Two is 2, Three is 3 … and so on?

It is all because of Angles. Yes, it is the number of angles in each letter.

The following image has ancient Arabic numbers. All the angles that are formed in these letters are mentioned by the letter o.

Ancient Number System - Arabic Letters

The number of angles gives meaning to each letters.

Number 1 has one angle
Number 2 has two angles
Number 3 has three angles
….
and so on.

Observe the letter Zero. It has no angles.

Interesting. Isn’t?

First Indian who won two Oscars

Indian composer A R Rahman created history by becoming the first Indian to bag two Oscars for his work in British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s much acclaimed “Slumdog Millionaire”.

He ended the acceptance speech by saying “Ella pugazhum Iraivanuke! – God is great!” in Tamil, something he says after winning every award.

“All my life I had a choice between hate and love. I chose love and I am here,” said Rahman after receiving his second golden statuette here.

Have you ever seen the calendar for the year 1752?

This year is so special in the history as this is the year when British Empire shifted to Gregorian Calendar from Roman Julian Calendar.

You can observe from the above image that the Wednesday, 2 September was followed by Thursday, 14 September in this year 1752; 11 days missing.

All the employees are given full salary for the month having just 19 days.

Thus we have got the first “Paid Leave”.