Jatinga...Phenomenon..!

Nature's another mystery which is yet to decode...!

As usual while surfing I came across with a nature's strange phenomenon which touched my heart in an unusual way. Thought it may interest many so posting it on my blog..

Jatinga, a beautiful tribal village in the North Cachar Hills district (Assam), is famous for the bizarre phenomenon of annual ritual of migratory "birds committing mass suicide". Unbelievable ? This phenomenon remains a mystery at Jatinga, that has baffled ornithologists for more than a century now.

At the end of monsoon months, mysterious behaviour of birds takes place. During moonless and foggy dark nights between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. the flocks of birds plunging to their deaths by crashing from sky to the ground with no prior warning whatsoever..This phenomenon is not confined to a single species. Tiger Bittern, Black Bittern, Little Egret, Pond Heron, Indian Pitta and Kingfishers all being affected.

Popular Hypothesis :-

The weather conditions make changes in the electro-magnetic characteristics of the Jatinga ridge. The ridge is bounded nearly on all sides by fault planes. This combined with the mineral content of the valley with its high magnetic properties could be responsible for certain geo-physical changes in the atmosphere here. These are enhanced during the monsoon months of September and October when the ground water comes up almost to the ridge top of Jatinga. All these are believed to cause certain unusual changes in the gravitational pull around the region. The cause of it is likely to be disorientation at high altitudes and high speed winds due to the widespread fog characteristic at the time and disturb the physiological rhythm of the local birds and they start behaving abnormally towards the sources of light lit by villagers. Conservation groups and wildlife officials in India have taken steps to prevent this wanton killing of the birds, creating awareness in the illiterate villagers. Since then, the amount of birds killed have decreased by about 40 percent.

However, no single hypothesis comprehensively explains the Jatinga mystery and research still going on to unravel the real cause behind this un-natural phenomenon. Whatever the reason, now Jatinga is one of the hot tourist spot because of this rare happenings..

Courtesy by Wikipedia and various sites

Life's Tip...!

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts..

The great art of life is to have as many of them as possible...!

Jai Hind...!!

In our day to day life most of us used to get irritated of even the slightest discomforts which we face and end up complicating and exaggerating about it to our capacity. Our tolerance and patience has gone down to such an extend that unknowingly we make our life more miserable... Many at times what we dont realise is what really is worth a complain.. Here is an article I happened to read recently which touced me deeply and helped to me to see life in a different perspective..So thought I would post it in my blog which may like many as I did..

Vinodh Pradhan was not a happy man. Even the plush comfort of the air-conditioned compartment of the Shatabdi express could not cool his frayed nerves. He was the Project Manager and still not entitled to air travel. It was not the prestige he sought, he had tried to reason with the admin person, it was the savings in time. As PM, he had so many things to do. He opened his case and took out the laptop, determined to put the time to some good use.

"Are you from the software industry sir," the man beside him was staring appreciatively at the laptop.

Vinodh glanced briefly and mumbled in affirmation, handling the laptop now with exaggerated care and importance as if it were an expensive car.

"You people have brought so much advancement to the country, Sir. Today everything is getting computerized."

"Thanks," smiled Vinodh, turning around to give the man a look.

He always found it difficult to resist appreciation. The man was young and well built like a sportsman. He looked simple and strangely out of place in that little lap of luxury like a small town boy in a prep school. He probably was a railway sportsman making the most of his free traveling pass.

"You people always amaze me," the man continued, "You sit in an office and write something on a computer and it does so many big things outside."

Vinodh smiled deprecatingly. Naiveness demanded reasoning not anger. "It is not as simple as that my friend. It is not just a question of writing a few lines. There is a lot of process that goes behind it."

For a moment, he was tempted to explain the entire Software Development Lifecycle but restrained himself to a single statement. "It is complex, very complex."

"It has to be. No wonder you people are so highly paid," came the reply.

This was not turning out as Vinodh had thought. A hint of belligerence crept into his so far affable, persuasive tone.

"Everyone just sees the money. No one sees the amount of hard work we have to put in". Indians have such a narrow concept of hard work. Just because we sit in an air-conditioned office, does not mean our brows do not sweat. You exercise the muscle; we exercise the mind and believe me that is no less taxing." He could see, he had the man where he wanted, and it was time to drive home the point.

"Let me give you an example. Take this train. The entire railway reservation system is computerized. You can book a train ticket between any two stations from any of the hundreds of computerized booking centres across the country. Thousands of transactions accessing a single database, at a time concurrently; data integrity, locking, data security. Do you understand the complexity in designing and coding such a system?"

The man was awestuck; quite like a child at a planetarium. This was something big and beyond his imagination. "You design and code such things."

"I used to," Vinodh paused for effect, "but now I am the Project Manager."

"Oh!" sighed the man, as if the storm had passed over, "so your life is easy now."

This was like the last straw for Vinodh. He retorted, "Oh come on, does life ever get easy as you go up the ladder. Responsibility only brings more work. Design and coding! That is the easier part. Now I do not do it, but I am responsible for it and believe me, that is far more stressful. My job is to get the work done in time and with the highest quality. To tell you about the pressures, there is the customer at one end, always changing his requirements, the user at the other, wanting something else, and your boss, always expecting you to have finished it yesterday."

Vinodh paused in his diatribe, his belligerence fading with self-realisation. What he had said, was not merely the outburst of a wronged man, it was the truth. And one need not get angry while defending the truth. "My friend," he concluded triumphantly, "you don't know what it is to be in the Line of Fire".

The man sat back in his chair, his eyes closed as if in realization. When he spoke after sometime, it was with a calm certainty that surprised Vinodh.

"I know sir, I know what it is to be in the Line of Fire." He was staring blankly, as if no passenger, no train existed, just a vast expanse of time.

"There were 30 of us when we were ordered to capture Point 4875 in t cover of the night. The enemy was firing from the top. There was no knowing where the next bullet was going to come from and for whom. In the morning when we finally hoisted the tricolour at the top only 4 of us were alive."

"You are a...?"

"I am Subedar Sushant from the 13 J&K Rifles on duty at Peak 4875 in Kargil. They tell me I have completed my term and can opt for a soft assignment. But, tell me sir, can one give up duty just because it makes life easier. On the dawn of that capture, one of my colleagues lay injured in the snow, open to enemy fire while we were hiding behind a bunker. It was my job to go and fetch that soldier to safety. But my captain sahib refused me permission and went ahead himself. He said that the first pledge he had taken as a Gentleman Cadet was to put the safety and welfare of the nation foremost followed by the safety and welfare of the men he commanded...his own personal safety came last, always and every time." "He was killed as he shielded and brought that injured soldier into the bunker. Every morning thereafter, as we stood guard, I could see him taking all those bullets, which were actually meant for me. I know sir....I know, what it is to be in the Line of Fire."

Vinodh looked at him in disbelief not sure of how to respond. Abruptly, he switched off the laptop. It seemed trivial, even insulting to edit a Word document in the presence of a man for whom valour and duty was a daily part of life; valour and sense of duty which he had so far attributed only to epical heroes.

The train slowed down as it pulled into the station, and Subedar Sushant picked up his bags to alight. "It was nice meeting you sir."

Vinodh fumbled with the handshake. This hand... had climbed mountains, pressed the trigger, and hoisted the tricolour. Suddenly, as if by impulse, he stood up at attention and his right hand went up in an impromptu salute. It was the least he felt he could do for the country.

The incident he narrated during the capture of Peak 4875 is a true incident during the Kargil war. Capt.Batra sacrificed his life while trying to save one of the men he commanded, as victory was within sight. For this and various other acts of bravery, he was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the nation's highest military award.

'Live Humbly' ...There are many great people around us, let us learn that..!!!!

Topic Worth A Debate...!

Do Ghosts exist?..Or do you believe in their existence..? I know, this is quite a weird question to be asked. Was debating with myself, whether to put up this subject on my blog or not. But finally decided to go ahead with it as I always do wonder on this question..

During my childhood after watching some horror movies, I used to get scared by having some bizarre thoughts or remembrance from the movie. Though I try to convince myself saying that, I am not scared of ghosts and I dont believe in their existence.Well, amidst all these my conscious & rational mind says that there is nothing known as ghost or spirit & such things don’t exist at all. On the other hand my same rational mind debates that if we can believe in God then why can’t in Ghost? For such a thought I do have my own logical points, as in this unviverse everything exists in 2 extreme conditions and that's how universe balances each things..like white/black, summer/winter, glad/sad, heaven/hell, god/devil etc..

Now one side of this debate..

I hapened to read/hear that many do believe that there exists Good and Bad spirits..It says there are worlds surrounding us but we can not see them with our naked eye same as we can not see air/micro organism with our eyes..Those who died in accident/murder and left with many unfinished tasks to perform when they were alive became ghosts. Some even says places like Gangotri, Gomukh, and deep interior Himalayas we can even experince the existence of these spirits..

And some scientific revelations..

'GHOSTS' are spirits of people that have been caught between this plane of existence and the next. They are intelligent beings, often capable of interacting with the living. "A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not aware usually of his/her true condition. We are all spirits encased in a physical body. At the time of passing, our spirit body continues into the next dimension. A ghost, on the other hand, due to trauma, is stuck in our physical world and needs to be released to go on." says veteran ghost hunter Hans Holzer.

'HAUNTINGS' are recordings of an event on an environment, means it is a fragment or portion of an actual event. A traumatic moment in time leaves an indelible impression on the area, 'replaying itself for eternity'. This could be anything from a 'glimpse of the past' - a recreation of some traumatic or emotion-laden event to footsteps up and down a hallway, or laughter is heard echoing in a specific surrounding. What causes these recordings to be made and how and why they are played back is a mystery, says Strange Nation.

Now as conclusion I am not agreeing or disagreeing the existence of Ghosts as there are many phenomenons in this universe which is beyond our understandings and I would like to leave this subject to each of your own beliefs..

'Human Aura'

Today's post is about Human Aura..We all know that our bodies are more complex than we can perceive with our five senses. Basically our body is composed of various particles and waves of energies.

Its discovered that human body have a luminous magnetic energy field that surrounds the body is known as HUMAN AURA. Though this aura extends several feet out from it but people cant see the aura with the naked eye. However, it says that with training anyone can see the glimpses of it.The aura might be explained scientifically as an electromagnetic or a biomagnetic field that extends some distance around our physical being. But whatever it might be, there is strong evidence that an aura exists around each of us and each one's aura is different from one another. Believers say that the colors of the aura can reveal a person's nature and each color of the aura has a precise meaning, indicating a precise emotional state. According to our moods, health, emotional state and spiritual power the colour changes too.

Here is some examples.. Sometimes when we enter into a room we may feel some kind of uncomfortableness. What we are sensing at that moment is the inherit energy that exudes from the room and the energy in other individuals' auras. It may explain why we tend to be drawn to some people and put off by others.We are always surrounded by energy coming from everything, including plants, man-made materials, human beings, animals even from various thoughts .

Four important auras which we have are Etheric Aura, Emotional Aura, Mental Aura, Astral Aura. The nearest to our body is Etheric Aura which is about 2 inches from our body and denotes the physical condition(health) of body. Next is Emotional Aura which is within 2 inches to 4 inches associate with our feelings .Then comes Mental Aura which is between 4 to 8 inches which shows the thought process and comes Astral Aura which is about 8 to 12 inches from physical body shows the spiritual power of each person.

Buddha, Krishna, Jesus and some saints are known to possess powerful personal energy fields with their spirituality and emanating a splendour of glorious light.

Semyon Kirlian, a Russian electronics expert, discovered a technique in the late 1930's that enabled him to photograph the human aura known as Kirlian photography.Here is a Kirlian Photography of fingers showing aura.

Courtesy by wikipedia & various sites.