It seems there is some confusing about finding the option to delete one's Facebook account; since the menu path does not show it at all. In order to delete your Facebook account, you can go to below link:
If you want you can only deactivate the account instead of deleting it; or else choose permanent deletion. Many users deactivate their account fearing loss of data and connections in case of permanent deletion; but end up remaining 'enslaved' to Facebook since they tend to return back and log in again after a few days/weeks. Hence, ponder over pros and cons of permanent deletion, take necessary backup beforehand and then make your final decision of deleting the account.
Remaining logged into Facebook and its excessive usage has taken a toll on many people's mental and personal wellness. And the recent privacy concerns and instances of users data being sold to third party apps and businesses for making commercial gains has dinned the credibility of Facebook a lot. This is why #Delete Facebook is a live and progressing trend on Twitter for long.
I watched a documentary on National Geographic on Pablo Escobar, a drug-lord from Colombia in the Investigates series. There are several such videos on YouTube and I am not able to locate the exact one which I watched on TV, but here is one pretty close and may be even better:
Nat Geo Investigates: Hunting Pablo Escobar
Nat Geo website mentions: "In the cocaine capital of the world, violence is the law. One man, more than any other, holds the country in a bloody death grip Pablo Escobar, the worlds most notorious drug-baron. With US support Colombias President fights back, but Escobar is too strong. In a desperate bid to bring peace, the President resorts to offering a tempting deal if the drug-lord serves just a few years, hell emerge with a clean slate. Escobar surrenders, but his luxurious prison offers him a safe place to keep running his business as usual, and even commit murder. When the government decides to act, after a year of humiliation, Escobar simply walks past the guards and disappears. An elite Colombian force, backed by top-secret US military technology, finally get their man following one of the biggest manhunts in history."
After watching the documentary, the most interesting thing I could notice was the state of total "defiance" in Pablo Escobar. He did not fear the cops, he did not fear the government, he did not fear the President of the country and he did not even fear the American troops who went down there to eliminate him. I wonder how could be have such kind of absolute defiance and fearlessness in him.
Another interesting aspect was how Pablo helped his local community and supported the poor and needy people in the time of their need. Pablo was also a "family man" and he loved his family immensely; including his wife, children and his sister. Since he loved his family too much, government tried to use that against him and indeed in the end his weakness for his family was exploited in tracking him down and killing him.
I watched that in the end, the police and armed forces were able to track him down by putting a "trap" for him by forcing him to call up his son and his family who were kept captives by the police. He talked to his son for a long time over phone, answering questions which were supposed to go to the press; without a hint that due to the phone call he was being tracked down by the police. I don't think there was something wrong in it, may be even from ethical point of view, if I think of the menace he had become and the number of lives lost due to his bombings and shootings.
Still, as the documentary showed in the end; when Pablo Escobar was killed, his rival groups soon took up the position vacated by his group and Colombia still produced 75% of coke supplied illegally into the US. Then the question rises that what was really gained by killing him? It tells that often the war is too difficult to be won and the only consolation is the occasional small battles that can be won.
You must have heard about a book for children written by our PM Narendra Modi. It is named "Exam Warriors". You can check about it on Penguin's website and it is also being sold on e-commerce websites like Amazon and Flipkart. And lately it is also being sold by NaMo Merchandise website.
It is really amazing to see how India's Prime Minister cares about our children and young students. I had never imagined that a Prime Minister would think of such a matter which is considered mundane and yet, is very important. Yet, a Prime Minister should care about such a matter of examination related stress, still bewilders me...
Then I remind myself of the first time Narendra Modi went to Lal Quila for flag hoisting. In his speech, he talked about need for sanitation and launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a cleanliness drive. Similarly, one of his pet projects is to provide cooking gas to poor women. Looking at his initiatives, it is clear where his ideas are coming from. He is a man on the ground and he thinks for the welfare of the poor and downtrodden and from there, his thinking is taking shape into policies and initiatives.
I am really proud of having such a Prime Minister who cares about such matters related to the life of Indians. Kudos Modi ji.
"पथ के दावेदार" शरत चंद्र चटोपाध्याय की एक उच्च कोटि की रचना है जो उन्होंने स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों के ऊपर लिखी थी। इन सब के बीच ये एक विचित्र प्रेम कहानी भी है - अपूर्व और भारती की। इस कहानी का नायक सही मायने में सव्यसाची, जिसे सब डॉक्टर पुकारते थे, ही माना जाना चाहिए। अपूर्व भी नायक है पर शायद उन थोड़े नायकों में से एक है जो "दोषरहित" नहीं है। एक पढ़े लिखे धनाढ्य वर्ग के पर अपनी ही चुनौतियों से जूझता उसका एक विचित्र किरदार है।
कहानी में एक रोचक बात ये है कि भारती जो कि क्रिस्तान हो गई थी (अपने माँ के पुनर्विवाह हेतु किये धर्म परिवर्तन के कारण), उसका ब्रिटिश और यूरोपियों के लिए सहानुभूति रखना। इसी कारण बहुत से लोग ईसाई मिशनरियों को यूरोपी साम्राज्यवाद को छद्म रूप से बढ़ाने का माध्यम ही मानते हैं। इस बात को कहानी के कई मोड़ों पर देखा जा सकता है।
ये कहानी इस लिए भी रोचक है क्योंकि इसका अंत पूर्ण नहीं होता - पाठक सोचते रह सकते हैं कि अपूर्व और भारती की शादी हुई होगी या नहीं।
कुल मिलकर "पथ के दावेदार" आजादी की लड़ाई, साम्यवाद (कम्युनिज्म) की विचारधारा, युरोपियन उपनिवेशवाद, ईसाई मिशनरियों के काम इत्यादि पर रोचक टिपण्णी करती है और शरत चंद्र चटोपाध्याय की एक उच्च कोटि की रचना है।
दो बालक-घुड़सवार सुबह-सुबह कहीं चले जा रहे थे। साथ चल रहा था उनका सफेद पालतू कुत्ता। अचानक एक जगह घोड़ों को रोक कर ठहर जाने पर कुत्ता पीछे मुड़ कर देख रहा था और सोच रहा था कि "यहाँ क्यों रुक गए - अब आगे क्या?"
I did some article search on the topic whether chicken eggs are good for health in general or not. I would summarize my learning and conclusions as follows.
There is 100% unanimity that eggs contain high levels of Cholesterol. But most of Cholesterol is found in the white portion of an egg. And hence if one has to eat eggs, one should eat only white portion of egg and not the yellow portion.
Pointer: Throwing the yellow portion of eggs would mean food-wastage and also money-wastage; because when you buy eggs you pay for the whole egg and if everyone starts throwing away yellow portion, at an overall level there would be huge amount of food-wastage. Does it not make sense just to avoid eggs instead of getting into this buy and throw half business?
Some articles suggest that poultry eggs have bacterial infection which cause health issues like Salmonella poisoning.
"Salmonella is the leading cause of food-borne illness related death in the United States. More than 100,000 Americans are poisoned by salmonella-tainted eggs per year. So whatever you do, make sure you stay away from conventional eggs at all costs. Even if you don’t die from salmonella, the symptoms even from just getting sick are quite unpleasant. That being said, the risk lies mainly with conventional eggs". https://breakingmuscle.com/healthy-eating/the-great-egg-debate-4-reasons-you-need-to-stop-eating-eggs
Pointer: Can one ever be sure which egg is poultry produced and which one is it? There will always be doubt. And hence does it not make sense to avoid eggs altogether instead of taking it and being in the risk-zone?
Several articles also mention that if we have to eat eggs, we should eat "infrequently" and not in large quantity. Regular consumption of eggs increases health risk. And this is contrary to the sponsored advertisements which appear on Television in India, asking people to eat eggs daily, "Sunday ho ya Monday roj khao ande".
I also found a lot of pro-eggs articles. But a general rule of thumb says that egg and poultry might be influencing or funding a lot of such studies, research and articles which could persuade people to consume more eggs and hence all of such pro-egg articles should not be trusted.
What is your take on this?
Btw, eggs are commonly consumed for their proteins; but there are plethora of food items which have more protein per gram than eggs. For example check out this link:
This picture is from a tea shop near my office. The shopkeeper and his wife run the shop preparing tea, pakoda and other snack items; while their kids watch TV. Their TV is an LCD TV with big screen (at least 32 inches). Perhaps not satisfied with the sound volume because of noise by customers and the surrounding, they have even installed a sound system which you can see in above picture on the left hand side of the TV. The brand of the sound system is Sony.
This picture is from the first days I had gone there. The boys were watching Motu & Patlu cartoon. The other day I went there, they were watching some 'item songs' of latest movies; in full volume. The volume was deafening and then their mother came near the TV and I guessed she would reduce the volume a bit. But to my surprise, she adjusted the direction of speakers in order to make it even better. This family must be a Bollywood fan! But I kept wondering if the transition from Motu Patlu cartoons to the latest Bollywood dance numbers has been for good or for bad. Most probably, it was just a mood-changer for them. I plan to notice their channel of choice next time around, in order to conclude finally. :)
While the images may look great; and in fact I am still in awe of these beautiful food courts; the menu of most of the vendors is something to worry about. The menus are mostly filled with junk food. Young folks can be seen piling up their plates with oily, fatty, processed and junk food. How long are they going to take to wake up to the health hazard of junk food?
The reason we never find home-like food in outside restaurants is that the restaurants believe that when people have gone outside to buy food, they must be looking at some "fun". Health takes back seat and taste is the top most priority. In order to bring out best of the taste, experimentation is the key. And hence I have seen chefs in TV shows adding sugar to salty dishes, adding curd to hot food items, adding tea granules in normal dishes and things like these. No one knows for sure what all went into a dish in order to prepare it. There is no "ingredient list" when it comes to restaurant cooked food. You ask for a good tea and the vendor will add some kind of 'masala' into it; to give it a distinct flavor.
Are all ingredients going into the dish safe for health? Are combinations of different items safe together? No one knows. Occasionally we keep hearing rumored stories of restaurants using unhealthy, adulterated, stale and unsafe items into the food; just to increase their profitability. There is no guarantee anymore if you eat outside.
And the situation is going worse because of the convenience brought in by numerous 'food-ordering apps'. You do not need to even make a phone call in order to get outside-cooked delicious food; made of only God knows what ingredients.
I wish our young generation could be more health conscious. As they say, devil is in the details. We should go into details even if it kills the instant fun a bit. Because in the end, there is nothing as precious as health.
Little Musketeers - bundle of joys - there are five of them. Most of the time they are hiding below the parked cars in our office space. If we go too close to their "spot", they would then emerge and rush towards us; expecting something to eat. Looking at their faces, it feels like sin not to go there with something for them to eat.
