Indian Railway King

Quite a nice article on how Lalu turned the railway from elephant to cheetah, do read it

TKDL Traditional Knowledge Digital Library

TKDL, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is a mammoth effort by indian goverment to save the bio-piracy battle. India home of ayurvedic, unani and siddha medicines and has history that traces back to more than 5,000 years ago.

These This knowledge has generally been passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation. A part of this knowledge has been described in ancient classical and other literature, often inaccessible to the common man and even when accessible rarely understood. Documentation of this existing knowledge, available in public domain, on various traditional systems of medicine has become imperative to safeguard the sovereignty of this traditional knowledge and to protect it from being misappropriated in the form of patents on non-original innovations, and which has been a matter of national concern.

India fought successfully for the revocation of turmeric and basmati patents granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and neem patent granted by European Patent Office (EPO). As a sequel to this, in 1999, the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy-(AYUSH),erstwhile Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homoeopathy(ISM&H) constituted an inter-disciplinary Task Force, for creating an approach paper on establishing a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL).

The project TKDL involves documentation of the knowledge available in public domain on traditional knowledge from the existing literature related to Ayurveda, Unani,Siddha and Yoga, in digitized format in five international languages which are English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish.

Under normal circumstances, a patent application should always be rejected if there is prior existing knowledge about the product.But in most of the developed nations like United States, "prior existing knowledge" is only recognized if it is published in a journal or is available on a database - not if it has been passed down through generations of oral and folk traditions.

But now we have TKDL

Hotel Taj : icon of whose India ?

I came across this post by Gnani, Tamil writer. His points are correct and gives other view which is the most important truth about the people of India

Some of the points are here

The terrorists have learnt that the ordinary Indian is unperturbed by terror. For one whose daily existence itself is a terror of government sponsored inflation and market sponsored exclusion, pain is something he has learnt to live with. The rich of Mumbai and India Inc are facing the pain for the first time and learning about it just as the middle classes of India learnt about violation of human rights only during emergency, a cool 28 years after independence

To read more about this click here

Mumbai Attacked

Mumbai the finical hub of India was attacked by terrorists yesterday, there were 86 casualties at the time when i am writing this. I came to know this news only morning. It was yesterday night some of the news channels and websites were telling this attack is well planned. They aimed mostly foreign nationals till now there were couple of terrorist hiding in Taj Hotels.


India is very long standing victim of these kind of acts. In order to take control of the situation strict rule like POTA act must be ruled again.



We can't go silent on these kind of attacks. We will not sit back as ducks nor silent. We will come back (move ahead) on these terrorists. Indian government should take very very serious steps regarding this issue. Come on guys start acting no more victims for terrorist attack