Speech on Food adulteration

           The age of Kali is the age of adulteration. Adulteration is a very serious problem posing serious health risks to many in India.

           What is food adulteration? Food adulteration is an act of adding or mixing of poor quality, inferior, harmful, substandard, useless or unnecessary substances to food. This act of spoiling the nature and quality of food items is considered food adulteration. There are many types of adulteration such as food items, medicines, vegetables, paste, creams, and products of famous brands and so on. I can say more than 20 per cent patients who visit a doctor or any clinic or any hospital are those who had consumed such adulterated food and food products

          Food is one of the basic necessities for sustenance of life. Pure, fresh and healthy diet is most essential for the health of the people. It is no wonder to say community health is national wealth. The worst part is some adulterated food even causes cancer, the most life threatening disease. After the arrival of fast food concept and online order practices, the consumers really do not bother what type of food is being served to them. They totally forget the health aspect and only concentrate to get their order served at their doorsteps on time.

          The central government, on its part, is trying everything possible to control this “crime”. In India, the ministry of health and family welfare is completely responsible for providing safe food to the citizens. The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, has laid down guidelines to provide pure and wholesome foods to consumers. But the government is planning to enforce harsher punishment now.

         The FSSAI has issued the draft amendments to the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act; it has proposed to include a new section to crack down on food adulteration.

         People need to be very cautious when they buy products from stores and malls. They should check for standards like ISI standard mark, Agmark for quality products, FSSAI standard mark, date of packing and date of expiry etc. If none of the prescribed standard marks is there, then they should totally avoid buying such products. The government must focus on dealing strictly with those who engage in food adulteration.

    Finally I conclude my speech by saying that It is equally important to regularly check food stuff for adulteration and ensure speedy trials through specific fast track courts. Eat healthy, live long!

Thank you.

Importance of Feb 10th

                 Importance of February 10^th-  Charles Lamb’s Birth Anniversary

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            Good morning one and all. Have you ever heard the names of the famous children story books –“Tales from Shakespeare” and “Essays of Elia”? These were written by the greatest English writer Charles Lamb. On account of his birth anniversary I would like to speak a few words about him.

             Charles Lamb was an English author, critic, and minor poet.             

 He was born on Feb. 10, 1775, in London. At the age of 7 he entered Christ's Hospital, a free boarding school for sons of poor but genteel parents. After beginning a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a fellow student, Lamb left school in 1789. In 1792 he was hired as a clerk in the East India Company and worked there for the next 33 years. Lamb's literary career began in 1796, when he wrote four  sonnets  on Various Subjects. By 1801 Lamb had begun to contribute short articles to London newspapers.  Lamb had a great association with many  famous authors like Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, William Hazlitt, and Hunt.

          Charles Lamb is best known for the essays he wrote under the name Elia. They were written in the structure of short stories.. From 1820 to 1825 he contributed a series of essays to the London Magazine which were immensely popular. Though he wrote under the pseudonym Elia, these essays are intimate revelations of Lamb's own thoughts, emotions, and experiences of literature and life. He touches on few disturbing subjects. He prefers instead to look to the past for a sense of calm, stability, and changeless. Apart from the wit, humor, and humanity one can also  find a gentle nostalgia and melancholy in his essays like "Witches and Other Night-Fears," and "Dream Children"

           Lamb’s essays focus on the theme of temperament and consciousness of man. Employing personal experience in his writing, Lamb uses simple language that is effectual and that the ordinary man can easily understand and apply to his life. His humorous and leisurely approach to his writing make the reader wants more. Lamb’s intention was to enable the average person to internalize his concept and thus make the essay universal. Widespread truths represent the greater portion of Lamb’s work. Lamb’s simplistic approach to the natural world both entertains and sends the reader to another place and time. Lamb breathed his last on Dec. 27, 1834.

       We all know that a writer is immortal, so as Charles Lamb. He lives forever through his greatest works of English Literature.

Thank you all for having given me this wonderful opportunity.

The nightingale of India

           Lightly, O lightly we bear her along,
          She sways like a flower in the wind of our song;
          She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream,
          She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.
          Gaily, O gaily we glide and we sing,
          We bear her along like a pearl on a string.
          
 Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!

WEAVERS, weaving at break of day,
Why do you weave a garment so gay? . . .
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,
We weave the robes of a new-born child.

Bangle sellers are we who bear

Our shining loads to the temple fair...

Who will buy these delicate, bright

Rainbow-tinted circles of light?

Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,

For happy daughters and happy wives.

  These melodious poems were penned by the queen of Indian English poetess who has been acclaimed the world wide popularity as the nightingale of India. she is none other than the great woman  freedom fighter of our country Smt.Sarojini Naidu. On account of her birth 

anniversary I would like to speak a few  words about her'

   Sarojini Naidu  was born on February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad. Her father, Dr. Aghore Nath Chattopadhyay was a scientist, philosopher, and educator. He founded the Nizam College of Hyderabad. Her mother, Varada Sundari Devi was a poetess in the Bengali language. Since childhood, Sarojini was a very bright and intelligent child. She was proficient in multiple languages including English, Bengali, Urdu, Telugu and Persian.Sarojini was initiated into the Indian political arena by iconic stalwarts of the Indian freedom struggle, Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Gandhi. She was deeply affected by the partition of Bengal in 1905 and decided to join the Indian freedom struggle.

    she completed her early studies in Hyderabad. she went to London and completed her graduation. In her early life, she was not writing poems, but her younger brother Virendranath used to write poems, and by this, she got inspired by her brothers writing so because of this she also started to write poems, and by this, she has become a great poet later.While she was taking her graduation in London, she met a physician named Govindarajulu Naidu, and she  married him. She shared a very warm relationship with Gandhiji and used to call him "Mickey Mouse"..She played significant roles in each and every movement arranged by Gandhiji and was always in the lead with men.Mrs Sarojini Naidu holds pride of a place among women-freedom fighters of India. In 1925 she was elected as the first female President of the India National Congress.".She awakened the women of India. She brought them out of the kitchen. She traveled from state to state, city after city and asked for the rights of the women. She re-established self-esteem within the women of India.After Independence, Sarojini Naidu became the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She was India's first woman governor. Sarojini Naidu left this materialistic world  on March 2 ,1949. Yet she lives forever in the hearts of all the admirers  of Indian English Poetry.Her collections "The golden threshold ", "The bird of time", and "The broken wing " attracted huge Indian and English readership.
      Finally I conclude my speech by saying that Sarojini Naidu was a true Indian in the real sense of the word she was the embodiment of Indian culture and tradition.

Srinivasa Ramanujan --Legendary Genius

                              Speech on--Srinivasa Ramanujan

                  It was the year 1898. A teacher was teaching arithmetic in the Town higher Secondary School in Kumbakonam. The teacher asked the students, “We have three bananas and three boys. How many bananas will each boy get?” A boy replied, “Each will get one.”

“Right,” the teacher said. “Now, If 1,000 bananas are distributed among 1,000 boys each will again get one. Isn’t that so?”

“Sir,” another boy asked, “if no banana is distributed among no one, will everyone still get one banana?”  All the students laughed at him but the teacher was astonished and appreciated the boy because he asked the question logically that if  zero divided by zero is zero. The boy who asked the intriguing question was none other than the greatest Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan whose birth anniversary is celebrated as National Mathematics Day every year on 22nd December. On this great occasion, I …………….. of class ………….. would like to speak a few words about the wizard of mathematics Srinivasa Ramanujan.            

     Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan was born in 1887 at Erode in Tamilnadu to extremely poor parents. He always passed his examinations with high marks. Despite the fact that he had no University education he applied for the post of clerk in Madras port trust. He married Janaki Ammal in 1909. Ramanujan made incredible contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. His contribution to the theory of numbers brought him worldwide acclamation. Prof. Julian Huxley called Ramanujan “The greatest Mathematician of the century.” E.TBell, the renewed historian of mathematics described him as a “Gift from heaven.” Prof.G.H Hardy, a mathematician and a close associate of Ramanujan has compared him with Euler and Jacobi. One of his striking discoveries was concerning partitions of the natural numbers. Ramanujan number is a curious number. The number is 1729.

In the short span of 33 years, Ramanujan brought pride to India. The government of India issued a stamp in honour of this mathematical genius.

Indian National Science Academy and many other scientific institutions in India have established various medals and awards in the memory of this great personality. He was elected for fellow of the Royal Society in 1918 and the same year he was elected as the Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A movie, 'The Man Who Knew Infinity', starring actor Dev Patel was filmed on his life.

                  In conclusion Ramanujan has been compared to significant names including some of the masters of mathematics such as Newton and Einstein. His intelligence led him to move away from a poor town in India into Cambridge. One of his great stories that is shared with us took place while he had a conversation with a friend named Sandow. Sandow got curious and so asked why Ramanujan had ‘rough and black’ elbows. Ramanujan replied “My elbow has become rough and black in making a genius of me! Night and day I do my calculations on slate. It is too slow to look for a rag to wipe it with. I wipe the slate almost every few minutes with my elbow”. Sandow was amazed but still questioned why he wouldn’t use paper instead, Ramanujan answered “When food itself is a problem, how can I find money for paper? I may require four reams of paper every month”. Ramanujan revealed the true definition of ‘passion’ and proved a great theory that no obstacles can stand in the way of our dream.

             Ramanujan has been an inspiration for generations and his work is carried on until this moment throughout several technologies, most importantly, computers. Ramanujan left this materialistic world at the young age of 37 leaving us a great history in mathematics. He was indeed a mathematical phenomenon of the twentieth century.

     This legendary genius of India shines forever in the galaxy of Mathematical universe. Thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity and wish you all once again Happy Mathematics Day