Few ladies toilets in India

Have you ever wondered why there are few ladies toilets in India? Even the cities have less facilities for women to answer the call of nature in slum area. It can be very embarrassing and humiliating. The fault lies with the authorities who are taking a casual attitude to construction or maintaining of public toilets for ladies. Also most women generally prefer to restrain themselves from using public loos and relieve themselves in the comforts of their homes rather than use a public facility, unless it is urgent. The civic authorities also take this perspective and have adopted a casual, lethargic attitude to constructing public ladies toilets. Also women hesitate using them because the condition of the public loos in India, even the metros; are in a dismal, unhygienic state. Plainly said, since users are less, even the authorities are maintain a casual stand and do not do much to maintain the condition of these loos. Holding back on the call of nature can be detrimental to the health if the journey is long and there is not public facility in the vicinity In fact, Shahrukh Khan, the popular Bollywood actor has publicly stated that he would like to create a lot of hygienic public toilets for women as one of his future endeavors.

Why Indians should drink less alcohol

There is no universal limit for safe alcohol consumption. Cardiologists may recommend 2 pegs a day for a healthy heart but that applies to the West and not to Indians. We have relatively smaller built compared to the people in the West and also our bodies do not appear to have the capacity to absorb as much alcohol as Westerners do. Ideally we should consume a peg a day or less. This kind of prescribed limit is applicable to men but for women, there are no specific recommendations. Also bear in mind that Indians generally have poor nutrition, we do not eat the right food after drinking.

Is India heading the Iraq, Bosnia way? bomb blasts in 2008?

If barely a day goes in Iraq or Bosnia without military attacks and car bombings, you can assume that it is a peaceful day for them. India, one of the peaceful countries is the world is suffering from the highest number of terrorist attacks and bombings the country has ever seen in 2008.

Flashback to the serial bomb blasts on March 12’ 1993 in Mumbai which gave rise to the term ‘serial blasts’. Since then intermittently, there has been terrorist attacks in various parts of the country, mainly in Mumbai, the commercial capital of the country, the second biggest one being the one on July 11, 2006 where bombs exploded in the first class compartments of suburban Mumbai trains, resulting in heavy loss of life and limb.

Two years later in 2008, India been plagued with bomb threats and bomb blasts by terrorists who resort to emailing TV stations before and soon after commuting the act. Though the terrorist call themselves Indian mujahedeen, Indian police have deciphered IM as a non entity working under the garb of SIMI(Students Islamic Movement of India. Take IM of SIMI and you get Islamic Mujahadeen. The police are taking bomb threats very seriously and are on the massive manhurt to nab the terrorists of the Delhi blasts At the time of writing, an email has been sent to media organizations in Mumbai to blow up three railways stations before the end of the day. As a result, Mumbai is witnessing the highest security check, it has ever witnessed in its history today. Even if it is a prank, the police cannot afford to take any chances.

Here are the recent ten bomb blasts and terrorist attacks that shook the country in three years (sourced from DNA and Outlook India)
September 29, 2008:
A series of powerful explosions ripped through crowded market areas in New Delhi, killing at least 50 people as shoppers in the Indian capital were gearing up for a major Hindu holiday.
July 26, 2008:
Serial blasts in Ahmedabad kill close to 45 and injure over 100
July 25, 2008:
Seven blasts strike the IT city of Bangalore killing at least two people and wounding at least 20.
May 2008:
Eight serial blasts rock Jaipur in a span of 12 minutes leaving 65 dead and over 150 injured.
January 2008:
Terrorist attack on CRPF camp in Rampur kills eight.
November 2007:
15 people killed in seven well-synchronised explosions near court premises in three cities of Uttar Pradesh -- Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad.
October 2007:
2 killed in a blast inside Ajmer Sharif shrine during Ramadan, in Rajasthan.
August 2007:
30 dead, 60 hurt in Hyderabad 'terror' strike.
May 2007:
A bomb at Mecca mosque in Hyderabad kills 11 people.
February 2007:
Two bombs explode aboard a train bound from India to Pakistan, burning to death at least 66 passengers, most of them Pakistanis.
September 2006:
30 dead and 100 hurt in twin blasts at a mosque in Malegaon.
July 2006:
Seven bombs on Mumbai's trains kill over 200 and injure 700 others.
March 2006:
Twin bombings at a train station and a temple in Varanasi kill 20 people.
October 2005:
Three bombs placed in busy New Delhi markets a day before Diwali kill 62 people and injured hundreds.