Bicycles for a Greener and Healthier Tomorrow.

Sitting on a bike or in car in the peak hours of traffic in the city only thing that keeps running in my mind is "What is the future of this city going to be?"  The number of cars on the road has gone up exponentially over a decade and still rising, making the roads more congested than ever. If this continues then we are going to spend substantial percentage of our life sitting in cars burning out fossil fuel which ultimately burns our pocket. The locality which we once called our neighbourhood no longer seems to be so with the traffic and the time taken to reach there.

Its time to look at a transport system which could give us a future which makes transport easier, greener and also goes easy on our pockets. Its time that we get back to cycling, the most Eco-friendly way of transport and the cheapest one. However it is difficult to go around the entire city on bicycle, but certainly if the distance is considerable enough we could avoid vehicles cutting down the traffic in our neighbourhood and burning those extra calories instead of burning them at a gym and end up paying a lot more.

To encourage more people to take up bicycling, the infrastructure of the city could also be developed by having seperate lanes for bicycles and also rengineering the traffic system to be more bicycle friendly. We could learn from a city like Amsterdam which is the most bicycle friendly city in the world. The officials from around the world are constantly visiting Amsterdam to learn the best practices seeing the need for the future. However for a country like India and the population so huge its very difficult to have such a transition in a short time but after all its a country like India which has a greater need to take up this practice and tackle this issue.
Please take a look at this video which shows the bike culture of the most bike friendly city of the world.

Lets take up bicycles for a greener and a healthier tomorrow.
Cheers!

India- Pakistan Match: The Most Happening.

It was March 18, 2012. Sunday and I was as excited as everyone else. It was the day when India played Pakistan in Asia Cup 2012. Later in the day as the match started I was watching the match in a crowded room where there was hardly any room to breathe.

There was never so much crowd in our hostel TV room for previous matches. As the match was going on I started wondering why is India- Pakistan match was given so much importance. I know if I asked any of my friends they would say it because Pakistan is our rival in cricket. However, I would believe that countries like Australia or South Africa are much stronger teams and matches against them are likely to be more interesting and tough for the World Champions (India).

However, when I asked myself honestly and thought about it for sometime, I realised that its the hatred which we still have somewhere in the corner of our hearts against Pakistan which makes this match so interesting and we want our home side to win so desperately. I really wonder why do we still have this hatred in our hearts? Is it because we had two wars with that country? Or is it because the government there is providing base to the terrorists who are responsible for most of the attack in India? Then if I start measuring on that scale then I hate India more than any other country. It is due to our Government servants' irresponsibility that many of the common men are loosing lives in Government Hospitals, more than the number of people Ajmal Kasab has killed. It is due to irresposibility of some Indians there are many rapists and murderers among us. Even today in this country there are many doctors who reveal the sex of child before they are born, which results in killing of a girl even before she is born. So its upto to us to decide who is better Ajmal Kasab or the ones I metioned above.

I am not justifying Pakistan's support towards terrorism or Ajmal Kasab but I find no reason to have any hatred towards our neighbours when our country itself is so messed up. At least from the educated youngsters I hope to have a positive perception towards Pakistan, who have been the victims of the terror attacks more than India in recent past.

I look to have some criticism on this post, I believe everyone has a  right to have an opinion so feel free to comment.

Global Warming and Food Habits

Ever wondered how our food habits can effect the environment, never did I untill I watched this interesting video of Graham Hill. I always felt the guilt of a life being lost whenever I had meat in my plate but that guilt was always defeated by the taste. After watching this video I realised that it wasn't only me who always thinks of being a vegetarian  one day which never comes. This short 4 minutes video is interesting and inspiring, do have a look at it.