"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals."

The title of this post is a quote by Marie Curie, who dedicated herself for physics and more over donated herself to the mankind. She was not a mere scientist but a valuable human being.

She suffered a lot from the radiation from the radio active materials with which she was doing her research. Not only she, but, the whole family - Pierie, her husband, Irene and Eve, her daughters paid heavily for the radiation after effects.

The most important decision in Curies' life I felt was to give away the method of extracting radio active elements without patenting it, the time when radio active materials were in great demand. They would have become multi millionaires if they patented it.

There are countless people who dedicated their lives to the human race, but today in our country and in many other parts of the world, we are fighting each other, segregated by virtual walls like religion, state, caste and colour. Here comes the importance of history, people like our father, Mahatma Gandhi, lived and died for others; we are here quarrelling each other, selfish and greedy!

If you want to read more about Merie's life, go get it here http://www.hypatiamaze.org/marie/curie_bio.html.

49(0) - Caste your vote for no one

Rule No. 49(O) in the Conduct of Election Rules 1961 says:

"Elector deciding not to vote - If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form 17 A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as required under sub-rule (1) of rule 49L, decided not to record his vote, a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry in Form 17A by the presiding officer, and the signature or thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark."

Steps for doing this :
1. while registering the name at the time of voting, convey to the booth officials that you want to go for 49'O.
2. Fill the 49'O form available there.
Done.

Now, for the best part: If the number of 49'O count is larger than that of the winning candidate's total vote count, then a re-election is called there.

Here's an example. Say there's a candidate standing in City A.

Say out of 100 people only 40 people turn to vote and out of that the candidate recieves 30 votes. Then by rule, he's been declared as elected. But say, if out of the 100 people 70 turn to vote and 30 people vote for the candidate and the other 40 people use section 49(0), to say "i am not interested in any of the candidates" - then if the candidate's vote(30, in this case) is less than the vote against him (under section 49(0) - which is 40), then by rule he would not be elected as winner and in turn he would not be able to participate in any further elections. And the election for City A will be re-held with fresh candidates.

- received in an email from paritranaites group