1st September to 15th September 2015 varied events of social relevance

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Volume 2015, Issue No.9a,   Dated 1st September 2015, Time: 10h50m A.M.

September  1st  to 15th, 2015 varied
events of social relevance
by

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,

(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)

17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,

Maharanipeta.P.O., Visakhaptnam 530002, AP. 

Mobile: 9491902867
Emails:  kotcherlakoa_l_n@hotmail.com
   lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com
 

ABSTRACT

                       Rushikonda beach  in Visakhapatnam has moved forward by about 8 meters and carved away the Sand. This led to the exposure of 20 years ago Umbrella places of relaxation by people. The waters entered, nearly 100 feet inside, the beach shore located shopping malls got affected. Marine Watch tower being touched by the ocean waves. The night of 5th September was without wind and extremely hot the night sleep of many people got disturbed till 2A.M. on the 6th morning. It is a great feat by the two Electrical engineering students, Eswara K Vikas CEO, and Sudeep Sabat COO, under of Mukund Foods, who made and sold about 250 machines since August 2014, at a  cost of Rs.1.50lakh,  abroad to GERMANY and CANADA. At least 20 people were killed due to lightning in different parts of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday as heavy rains lashed the state under the impact of low pressure area. While six people died in Nellore district, four each died in Krishna and Prakasam districts. Three deaths were reported from Guntur, two from East Godavari and one each from Anantapur and Srikakulam districts. The traditional methods of building mud walls in Germany were not different from those at Buruguchettu. Multi-storeyed buildings built up to seven storeys in Germany with just mud walls.By combining designer quantum dots light emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, scientists created solar cells that collect BLUE photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar cells. 08 Sep 2015 17:27 GMT Unseasonable sandstorm affects two countries, killing 12, limiting visibility and sending hundreds to hospitals. Downtown Los Angeles had a high of 101 degrees while the airport in suburban Long Beach hit 103, breaking the old record for the day of 98 set in 1990, according to the National Weather Service. In San Diego County, Chula Vista's high of 99 was eight degrees above the 1990 record. After hitting parts of Syria on Monday, the dust spread to larger areas of the country on Tuesday morning. Parts of Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and Cyprus were also affected. A deluge of water overwhelmed a residential neighbourhood in Northern Japan on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th, bringing in strong winds and caused travel chaos. Forcing desperate residents onto their roofs tops, after a levee along a nearby river breached. In nearby Shikanuma, at least one person was missing in heavy rains after a landslide swept through the first floor of a two-story home, according to local media reports.  On early Saturday of 5.2R earthquake, at 57 km deep was centred in Tokyo Bay near Haneda Airport, struck at 5h49m A. M. (i.e., 2h19m A. M. IST). It caused landslides. A quick check of the undergrowth on the two hills of Bavikonda and Thotlakonda threw up some 30 different herbs that were traditionally used as medicines in the region. The writings of ancient sages like Charaka and Vakbhata need to be verified. Brahmins would read the Sanskrit text verbally translating it into Hindi, a shared language with Mughals and then translated into Persian. Jains and Brahmins assisted the Mughals with astrology. Banana leaves also contain polyphenol oxidase, an enzyme that produces L-DOPA, a treatment for Parkinson's disease.

       Rainfall in AP somewhat favoured the cultivators and in Rayalaseema also rains of the second week of September gave some promise of crop returns. Avanigaddha and Chalapalli no rain at all. By 15th September the pipe water would be supplied to Rayalaseema from Godavari and Krishna Rivers virtually linking the two major rivers of Andhra Pradesh a great achievement of the present CM. Visakhapatnam area is blessed with heavy rains in the last two weeks of September 15th. An African Country people discovered a BEER that has no side affect of a hang over and have been supplying it to Germany other places the excess BEER they have for more than a few thousand people in their country.

 

Key Words: Brahmins, Sanskrit, Japan Earth quake and rain, Rainfall in AP state, Food snacks machine, Mud wall super-complexes,  Banana leaves wonder,   BEER with no hang over.

  

INTRODUCTION

 

Assam floods

 

          The flood situation remained critical in Assam, affecting over 7.35 lakh people from 1,597 villages in 56 revenue circles spread over 18 districts where one lakh hectares of cropland have been inundated by the surging waters of the swollen Brahmaputra and its tributaries. Over 1,100 villages and localities are reeling under the flood waters in Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Sonitpur, Barpeta, Jorhat, Goalpara, Morigaon, Cachar, Golaghat and Nagaon districts, according to the daily flood bulletin of the Assam state disaster management authority.

OBAMA GLACIER CONFERENCE

                   Obama is using the three-day GLACIER conference, it stands for Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience, as a way both to highlight the perils of global warming and to cement his environmental legacy. He directly attacked politicians who argue that climate change isn't real, saying they "are on their own shrinking island."

 
Visakhapatnam Dt. 1^st September 2015.

       Rushikonda beach ocean has moved forward by about 8 meters and carved away the Sand.  This led to exposure, of 20 years ago Umbrella places, of relaxation by people. The waters entered, nearly 100 feet inside, the beach shore and the located shopping malls got affected. Marine Watch tower being touched by the ocean waves. HUDHUD cyclone (thoofan) modified ocean sea shore, people feel the shore still being affected. Electric poles got damaged and many have fallen down. The mud road along the beach coast got destructed.           

       The Visakhapatnam also witnessed a heavy down pour of rain from 6h30m to almost 7h45m P.M., on the 1^st September and weather has become very cool. During the night also it rained i.e., on the 2^nd morning till 5.30A.M. But in the evening on the 02 September it rained heavily from 4.30PM to almost 5h30m PM.

        On the 3^rd September 2015 there was early morning very thick fog that engulfed the morning scenario at Muaralinagar in Visakhapatnam.

COAST AND TELANGANA DISTRICTS RAINS

                   Till Monday morning 31^st August, Palakurthi, Mehaboobabhada 8cm, Veeraghatam 7cm, and  Nagireddypeta,  Medak, Ellareddi 6 cm rainfall was recorded. On 1^st September Cheepurpalli 5cm, Bapatla, Visakhapatnam 4cm, and in Gurugubilli, Bhmvaram, Parvathipuram, Navipeta, Asifbad 3cm rainfall was recorded. On 2^nd in Balijipeta 6cm, Pusapatirega, Palvancha 5cm, and in Bheemili 4cm rain fall was recorded.

A MINUTE 12 VINAYAK VIGRAHA

               Just in one minute Peeka Madvik, 14 years old in Karimnagar studying in 8^th standard made 12 Vinayaka idols on November 24^th, 2015 and a video sent to Gunnies’ world record. 

DATED 3rd September 2015 Brahmaputra River in spate.

 

 September First Week

            Through out the days there was no rain at Visakhapatnam on 3rd, 4th (I went out to the city to collect my monthly post office payment of Rs.1470/-at Dabagardens area and  returned by 10.30AM but I  felt the Sun extremely hot,  possibly due to the reflected heat from the cloudy weather and the  heat is a result of the Far IR emission) and 5th, though sky cloudy with scorching heat of the Sun. The night of 5th September was without wind and extremely hot the night sleep of many people got disturbed till 2A.M. on the 6th morning.   

IRREGULAR DRINKING WATER SUPPLY

           Andhra Pradesh facing acute drinking water shortage report dated 4^th September 2015. Srikakulam municipality supplying water in tanks with no proper chlorination. Palasa and Icchapuram municipality having water supply in three to two day time. Vijayanagaram district water supply only on alternate days.  Narasipatnam supplying water once in three days. Machilipatnam also having water supply on alternate days. Pedanna municipality in Vijayanagaram district has supply from Tarakatoor Summer storage which would lst till month end. Nandigamma, Kanchikarla hving supply once in every ten days. Macherla having supply of drinking water once in four days. Sattenapalley, Chilakuripeta, Macherla, and Pidugurallu towns facing acute water problem. In Guntur every day 14 tanks water is being supplied. Out of 25 reservoirs about five are not working. Chittoor with population of 2.70lakhs daily 27.56 MLD required water 13.09 MLD only being supplied. Out of 410 bore wells 90 bore wells dried up. Madanapalle being supplied water once in five days. Vanganur once in four days water being supplied. Palamnery having supply once in eight days! Tirupati (kailasha giri wter reservoir is at dead storage level) and Kalahasti would face the problem after one month. Royal  seema  with no underwater source drinking water problem is enormous. Anatapur out of 13000 hand wells only 6000 are working. Dharmavaram, Hindupuram (once in ten days), Tadipatri, Kadiri, Rayadurgam, Madakasira, Puttaparti, Pamidi and Gutthi municipalities facing drinking water problem.   Private people selling water at the rate of Rs.4 to 5 a single BINDHE (water storage vessel). In Kadappa and Badvel they are supplying water once in three days. Main storage tanks reached dead end in Kurnool district  and facing problem of drinking water.       

MARVELOUS TIFFIN MAKING MACHINE

               It is a great feat by the two Electrical engineering students, Eswara K Vikas CEO, and Sudeep Sabat COO, under of Mukund Foods, who made and sold about 250 machines since August 2014, at a  cost of Rs.1.50lakh,  abroad to GERMANY and CANADA for preparing India and especially Andhra snacks like Vada, Dosa, Samosas and auto-turn Idlis.

 

            

                                                      MACHINE FOR ANDHRA SNACKS

 FEAT OF TWO ENGINEERS

6^th September 2015 SINGLE DAY RAIN

                          At least 20 people were killed due to lightning in different parts of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday as heavy rains lashed the state under the impact of low pressure area. While six people died in Nellore district, four each died in Krishna and Prakasam districts. Three deaths were reported from Guntur, two from East Godavari and one each from Anantapur and Srikakulam districts. The state government has announced Rs.4 lakh ex-gratia each for the families of those killed due to lightning. Parts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana received heavy rains under the impact of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal. The rains led to flooding of low-lying areas and inundated roads, affecting the movement of traffic. Hyderabad also experienced heavy rains. The vehicular traffic was thrown out of gear as roads in several busy areas were inundated. 

 
            At least 22 people were killed due to lightning in different parts of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday 6th as heavy rains lashed the state under the impact of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal. While six people died in Nellore district, four each died in Krishna and Prakasam districts. Three deaths were reported from Guntur, two from East Godavari and one each from Anantapur and Srikakulam districts. The victims in Nellore districts include a father and his son. Household electronic goods in a building in temple town of Tirupati were damaged due to lightning.

                               

                   On 6^h the twenty thunderbolts falls experienced in Andhra Pradesh in Vijayawada about 22 people died excessive flow of electricity within a short span of just 1 second carrying 20 amperes electric current, the electric field formed is about 2 lakh volts almost extends to about a kilometre distance. Between two clouds the distance would be around 7 to 140km.

                Women cricket teams of Andhra Pradesh and Tripura had a narrow escape when lightning struck during a match at Perecharla in Guntur district. A palm tree outside the Andhra Cricket Association cricket ground caught fire. Parts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana received heavy rains under the impact of the low pressure, leading to flooding of low-lying areas and inundated roads, affecting the movement of traffic.   Hyderabad also experienced heavy rains. The vehicular traffic was thrown out of gear as roads in several busy areas were inundated. People saved six people from a car which was caught in swirling waters in Champapet area in Hyderabad. Locals used a tractor to prevent the car from being washed away. Some parked vehicles including cars were almost submerged in the rain water at few places in the city. The met office has forecast more rains in both the Telugu states over next two to three days.

               It rained 37.8mm in Nellore recorded around 5PM. In Chittoor, Pileru, Madanapalle, Rajyampeta, Railway Koduru, Pengalur heavy rains were recorded. Avanigaddha and Chalapalli had no rainfall at all. Krishna Zillah heavy rain occurred. Both the Godavari districts received rains. From afternoon till late night on the 6^th September   rains have occurred in Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram and Visakhapatnam. 

   
7th afternoon heavy RAIN

          Several cities in Andhra Pradesh had heavy rains in the afternoon of 7th September, and in Visakhapatnam, very hot till 3PM suddenly cooled and  heavy shower occurred from 3h30m P.M till 4.30P.M., with light rain from 4h30mPM to 5PM.  
 

WEATHER IN VISAKHAPATNAM

         Surprisingly after the afternoon heavy rain Y’ day, today 7^th September morning is hot, in spite that the weather is partly cloudy but extending over the entire city. But in the evening it rained heavily.

SUPER SOLAR CELLS COLLECT HIGHER ENERGY PHOTONS
      By combining designer quantum dots light emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, scientists created solar cells that collect BLUE photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar cells.

INDIAN TRADITION OF EATING ON BABANA LEAVES

             Banana leaves also contain polyphenol oxidase, an enzyme that produces L-DOPA, a treatment for Parkinson's disease. 

7^th and 8^th September

      On Monday 7^th September it rained in Vijayawada, from 5.30P.M., to 7.30 P.M traffic disturbed and lower areas flood water drowned. In Tirumala Monday early before sun rise from 3A.M., to morning 6 A.M., it rained heavily. Anathapur from midnight on Sunday to early morning on Monday it rained causing 13 lakes lost the boundaries. In Kadapa Zillah at Railway Koduru on Sunday night ghastly winds of rain destroyed 150 acres of Bananas, 70 acres of Bopai fruit cultivation. Andhra and Karnataka boundary Holigundha mandalam based Vedavathi River overflowed prevented Karnataka and Andhra traffic. Mantralayam Nalla vague river overflowed, from Sunday to Monday traffic got halted. Out of 670 mandalalu in AP except 16 mandalalu it rained considerably. About seven more people lost their lives due to this second set of local rains in Andhra.  Jurala dead storage thrashed and only 7TMC water received. Last two days rain added 4000 cusecs water in Jurala project. Monday evening Jurala project with 355.55 meters storage about 4240 cusecs water turned out to be inflow. From left canal Rampadu drinking water project received 50 cusecs water from Jurally. In Bangalore also it was raining heavily since Saturday.

          In Visakhapatnam it was cloudy throughout the day on the 8^th September and it was drizzling continuously but with a heavy shower in the afternoon from 2PM to 3.30PM.  On Tuesday it rained Sriramsgar 19cm, Suryapeta 5cm, Sarangpur, Miryalaguda and Komarad 7 cm.  Adoni/ Mahababunagar  and in Karnataka it rained last three days, as a result the Tungabhadra dam reservoir is brimming with water scenario. Sunkhesula barrage the water flow was witnessed. Authorities lifted 20 gates to allow the water flow into Srisailam and K canal received 2500 cusecs water. And from Vedavathi 95 cusec water RTS dam crossed and a total of 34000, cusecs water flowed to Sunkesula.   By evening around 6h30m P flood reduced to 27000 cusecs, it resulted lifting of 5 gates at Sunkeshala, by a meter height resulted 13900 cusecs water only.          

            The weather was cloudy since the morning. But it cleared off very fast and by 10.A.M, there was scorching Sun. A great achievement by the CM is to have the Polavaram right canal within nine days Godavari waters reached the Janampeta aqueduct, covering a distance of 114km. Another 54km run along this canal would result in the joint meet of Godavari River waters with Krishna River waters. By 15^th of this month, morning around 9.A.M., this would be achieved, and turns out to be a great achievement of the present CM. Total expense is about 13000 crores of Rupees.  

FOEIGN NEWS

            08 Sep 2015 17:27 GMT Unseasonable sandstorm affects two countries, killing 12, limiting visibility and sending hundreds to hospitals. Sending hundreds to hospital with breathing difficulties. Reduced visibility prompted the Syrian government to call off airstrikes against rebel fighters in a central province, local media reported, and threatened a planned protest by Lebanese activists over the government’s inability to deal with the country’s rubbish crisis. The storm reached Beirut on Tuesday, a day after it engulfed Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. Residents were advised to stay indoors, while many of those who ventured on to the streets wore surgical masks. Sep. 07, 2015 | 01:33 PM (Last updated: September 07, 2015 | 09:06 PM).  A sand storm hit the northern district of Akkar and areas in the north Bekaa,

                        
                     A large dust storm has hit western parts of the Middle East, putting dozens of people in hospital and leading to public health warnings. After hitting parts of Syria on Monday, the dust spread to larger areas of the country on Tuesday morning. Parts of Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and Cyprus were also affected. Lebanon's state news agency said two people died - one an elderly man found on a roof. The pro-government al-Watan newspaper said (in Arabic)  government helicopters were prevented rom flying because of the dust. The poor weather was down partly to a low-pressure system over the entire region and sand blowing in from the east, Syria's stat news agency, Sana, said (in Arabic). Poor visibility may last until the end of the week.

 MY BLOG REPORT

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INDIA WEATHER ON 9th and 10th

            Since 3h30mPM on 9^th September to 12h30m P.M, in the afternoon 10th September there was no wind flowing in Muralinagar, the place of residence of Dr. Lalitha Kumari. M.D. (USA). Both the days were quite hot though on 10th weather was a bit cloudy. There was no wind on the 11th also.

SUN GOD TO ENERGISE HOLY GREENS

 

         Simhachalam, Dwaraka Tirumala, Srikalahasthi, Kanaka Durga, Annavaram, Kanipakkam, and Srisailam the seven temples in Andhra Pradesh are directed to use solar power for lighting and heating with immediate effect. Solar water heaters in place of electrical geysers in guest houses and choultries are planned. Solar energy for cooking in Anndana Satrams and Prasadam-making kitchens are planned with immediate effect. Seven temples would form a consortium and set up a power plant.  News 10th September 2015.

 

 SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

            California had record-breaking heat on Wednesday as triple-digit heat struck inland areas even as lightning closed beaches and mountains and deserts were drenched by fierce, fast-moving storms.

MEXICO ERRATIC WEATHER

                The sweltering but erratic weather was caused by a high-pressure area coupled with a plume of moisture from Hurricane Linda heading off Mexico.

 

INDONESIA VOLCANO ERUPTION

 

      

          

LOS ANGELES

           Downtown Los Angeles had a high of 101 degrees while the airport in suburban Long Beach hit 103, breaking the old record for the day of 98 set in 1990, according to the National Weather Service. In San Diego County, Chula Vista's high of 99 was eight degrees above the 1990 record

 

JAPAN : TOKYO: 

                      A deluge of water overwhelmed a residential neighbourhood in Northern Japan on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th, bringing in strong winds and caused travel chaos. Forcing desperate residents onto their roofs tops, after a levee along a nearby river breached. In nearby Shikanuma, at least one person was missing in heavy rains after a landslide swept through the first floor of a two-story home, according to local media reports. Rescuers were able to pull out a 65-year-old man but they have not been able to locate his wife, NHK reported, he breach and landslide came after Tropical Storm Etau tore through Japan, bringing more than 20 inches of rain within a 72-hour period with 700 people awaiting rescue and 23 found missing. This prompted an emergency warning and the forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 people. Flooding 32 sq. km and inundated 6500 houses. At 11.00AM local time still 690 people to be rescued. Joso was about 60 km from Tokyo which was also hit by localized rain. Tochigi prefecture about 90,000 people were evacuated another 116000 advised to leave home. Retreating waters on Friday September 12^th, washing away houses especially in Joso. Three people were killed due to a house collapse due to a land slide and another when a car was carried away.  Flooding complicated contaminated water from Fukushima Nuclear Plant sending radiation tainted water into the ocean.

Strong Earthquake jolts Tokyo

   On early Saturday of 5.2R earthquake, at 57 km deep was centred in Tokyo Bay near Haneda Airport, struck at 5h49m A. M. (i.e., 2h19m A. M. IST). It can cause landslides.

ASSAM FLOODS

                     Guwahati reports Assam floods on Thursday 10thSeptember killed about 48 people in 21 districts. Water is receding in 10 districts out of 21. 36000 hectares of cultivating lands submerged in 11 districts with Brahmaputra River flowing over danger level. 118 relief camps supplying essential elements. About 5.16 lakh people affected after 10 hours the levee burst.

                            
 
11^th September 2015: JURALA FULL. September 10^th

       North Andhra coastal districts registered more temperatures in the last three days, with Tirupati recording about 35.4C. Srisailam and Jurala rivers received flood waters, due to rains in Krishna River surroundings. First time Jurala recorded 1045 feet water. Tungabhadra also recorded 8110 cusecs water and reached 1825.22 with 73.613TMC water reserve. Friday the Sukeshavula barrage registered 56000 cusecs water retaining 291.21 feet water rest released t 53000 cusecs water to Srisailam. But Nagarjunasagar has no water beyond the 510feet.  Prakasam barrage has reached 55.75 feet water with the maximum at 57.05 feet.

 

BURUGUCHETTU: MUD HOUSES: GERMANY

 

            Ms Maria Dau (27 years) built sample walls when older members of the community in Buruguchettu in Paderu Agency area of Visakhapatnam, tested the strength of the walls contrary to the traditional built. The traditional methods of building mud walls in Germany were not different from those at Buruguchettu. Multi-storeyed buildings built up to seven storeys in Germany with just mud walls. A community centre and a schoolbuilding are being planned in Buruguchettu village.  Modernization making people forget the traditional old art of building temples and houses, of outstanding proven safety standards and lasting over several years.

ANCIENT TWIN CAVES IN NALGONDA

           200 meter deep caves couple of km away from Nagarjunasagar back waters, and close to Dindi Rivulet. Twin caves have 15 meter radius at the entry point, one of the twin caves is 50 feet down and the other 200 meters. No paintings were observed. News Dt. September 12^th.

TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING

           In Hyderabad two women 60 years old from Tudidkurti and another 35 years old hailing from Peddapur from adjacent villages in Nagarkurnool Mandal died of burns when hit by a bolt of lightning at around 3h30mPM n Friday 11^th afternoon. Balaiah who was severely injured was rushed to Hospital and undergoing treatment.  

12th September

             Lightning claims one life in Padugudi village on Saturday evening 12^th September, Gavudu Mohan aged 50 years at Vamsadhara River that killed him on the spot.

UNUSUAL RAINFALL IN ANDHRA

             Highest rain fall in Bhmavaram 8cm, Seethanagaram and Bobbili 7cms, and Visakhapatnam 5cm. Visakhapatnam it rained on 12^th September early morning i.e., in the night from 1AM to 2.30AM and again in the morning from 4.30AM to 6AM, with 4.7cm followed by the afternoon rain around 2.30PM that lasted up to 4.30PM. Narasapur and Kaligapatnam recorded 21.1cm each. On 12^th September Bheemavaram and Seethanagar received 8cm, Bobbili 7 cm, Tanuku and Konakanamiti 6cm, Cumbum, Srungavarapukota and Macherla 5cm, Maruteru, Paleru Bridge and Ranastalam 4cm,Anakapalli, Markapur Gudivada and Garividi 3cm rainfall was received. Srisailam received 5cm, other places like Kanekal, Kurnool and Gorantla received 2cm rainfall.

                 

             Srisailam water level has risen by seven feet from 815.3 feet to 822.3 feet in the last 24 hours on the Saturday 12^th September, 2015 its storage went up by from 37.55tmcft to 42.6064tmcft on Saturday evening.800 cusecs  From Jurala 35900 cusecs, from Roja 25866 cusecs, and from Hundri 800 cusecs water reached Srisailam. Pennar got an inflow of 5180 cusecs at Adinimmyapalli anicut in Kadapa district, received good rainfall in the last four days and Kundu River got inflow of 2750 cusecs at Rajoli. Tungabhadra has not increased its water level on Saturday it has only 12506 cusecs water.

              

              On Sunday 13^th September forecast of heavy rainfall in Arunachala Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, South Odisha and Coastal Andhra. Again on 13^th it rained in the afternoon from 2PM to almost 4.30PM, the internment rain is very peculiar for the city people, but are glad it rained heavily. It’s raining on 13^th evening from 8.30PM at Muralinagar in Visakhapatnam.

 

ZIMBABWEAN DISCOVERY OF ALCOHOL

                  
                   Zimbabwean boarding schools are cracking down on breakfast cereals after learning students used them to make homemade alcohol.

                   An African State people found out a type of BEER that does not give a hang over.

BRAHMINS OF MUGHAL DICTUM

              Brahmins assisted with Mughal translations of Sanskrit texts into Persian. Brahmins would read the Sanskrit text verbally translating it into Hindi, a shared language with Mughals and then translated into Persian. Jains and Brahmins assisted the Mughals with astrology. Brahmins cast Sanskrit based horoscopes for the Mughal royal families. At one occasion Jains performed a ceremony to counteract an astrological curse on Jahangir’s new born daughter. It was in 17^th century Sanskrit was slowly giving way to Hindi. 

RAINFALL IN ANDHRA         

            Bheemavaram 11cm, Bapatla 11cm, Maruteru 8cm, Palakoderu 8cm, Dowleshwaram 6cm, Rajahmundry 6cm, Tiruvuru 5cm, Jangamaheswarapuram 5cm, Yellamanchili 5cm, Peddapuram 5cm, Karamchedu 4cm, Tadepalligudem 4cm, Bhimadole 3cm, Ambajipeta 3cm, Atchapeta 3 cm, Pidugurallu 3cm, Nandhigamma 3cm, Koyyalagudem 3cm, Icchapuram 3cm, Cheepurupalli 3cm, Amalapuram 2cm, Prakasam barrage 2cm, Nuzivid 2cm, Bheemunipatanam 2cm, Srungavarapukota 2cm, Tiruvuru 2cm, Garividi 2cm, Repalle 2cm and Avanigada 2cm rainfall has occurred on the 13^th September.

 

           Heavy rain occurs in isolated places in Odisha, Coastal Andhra, Marathwada, Madhya Maharashtra and Konkan & Goa on the 14^th September.

 

           On 14^th September it rained Bhimvaram 8cm,Penumantra 7.93cm, Achanta 7.68cm, Narasapuram 7.37cm, Yelamanchili and Palaarru 7.42cm, Unguturu 4.1cm, cole 5.5cm eah, Pengonda  6.6cm, Veeravasram 6.5cm, Ganapavaram 7.5cm, Pentapadu 6.6cm, Tanuku 6cm, Nidamarru 7.42cm, Unguture 4.1cm, Kovvuru 3.6cm, Chagallu 3.07cm, Attilium 4cm, Iragatvaram 4.5cm, Bhimadole 3.4cm, Tadepalligudem 2.9cm, Devarapalli 1.98cm, Nallajerala 3.72cm and Jangareddipalem 1.2 and other places recorded only below 0.9cm rainfall.  Narasapur division was worried about poddy crop due to excess rainfall.  Palacole town witnessed 5.54cmrainfallduring the last 24 hours. River Godavari has not received the floodwaters so far. Nidadavole received highest rainfall of 10.1cm.

 

THOTLAKONDA MONKS AND THEIR MEDICINES
 

           A cistern was probably used for therapeutic purposes supported by the Ph.D. thesis given to University of Michigan, in 2003. Crops grown were medicinal herbs, and the slicks were used for pasting those herbs into balms, poultices and decoctions. Many kinds of ptions, decoctions, ointments, poweders and oil made out of roots, the fat of animals, leaves, fruits, gums, chunam, dry dung and salts were used for curing ailments. Dung and Urine used as emetics. Storerooms of medicines known as Kappiya Bhoomi. A quick check of the undergrowth on the two hills of Bavikonda and Thotlakonda threw up some 30 different herbs that were traditionally used as medicines in the region. The writings of ancient sages like Charaka and Vakbhata need to be verified.  In Pompeil, the Roman city buried by volcano Vesuvius about 200 years ago a whole garden of medicinal value was recreated with the help of Science. Ranisarma2010@gmail.com  first of the articles on Thotlakonda.

 

Thotlakonda in Visakhapatnam by ranisarma2010@gmail.com

 

 15th September 2015
                      

                      It was raining continuously in Visakhapatnam since Y' day evening with a drizzle and occasional showers. Today seems to be a full rainy day.  Visakhapatnam since Monday 14th evening to date in several bouts rained heavily through out the two days.

 

                 Krishna Projects have decreased flood waters. Narayanpur received scanty rainfall. Srisailam reservoir, the water level crossed the crest level. Taliperu achieved 73 feet water reserve. Pedavagu is full to its brim. Vaira project water level is just 15.02 feet. Penna basin the water flow to Somasila project is about 2186 cusecs. Hindri is flowing at 200 cusecs water. Last week rains gave Telangana about 25% water but decreased now to 22%. Till Monday 44% places the water is low, 50% average water fall due to the rains and  6% places had a full rainfall. Rains would decrease in the next one week as per the Skymet predictions. 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

           The author is deeply indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. ( Madras) D.Sc. (London) of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam for his gracious encouragement that sustained the interest of the author in the natural calamities.