6000 Donkeys and 2 Cars!

Yes, it is a fact. Lamu, off the coast of Kenya has 6000 donkeys for its population of 24000. The Republic of San Marino has got 1263 motor vehicles per 1000 population. While Lamu is close to nature and Marino  chooses to be away from nature.

Though still we use animals for transporting goods and passengers across the world, civilizations have moved far away from bullock carts/horse drawn carriages/ camel caravans/ donkey squads resulting in considerable damage to our environs.  Our city roads are flooded with mechanized vehicles which compete for space.  The suggestion is to retain the bovine breeds' creed for our benefit. 

We humans use the term 'derogatory' and 'abusive', donkeys are the closest to the humans helping them survive for generations. They are silent and hardworking. Their cousins (horses) who do not do much work are raised and praised for their height, beauty and courage. Every dull fellow in the world has been called as donkey' and every donkey in the world is  ill treated. 


Watch the donkeys in action at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M63zBSAfjiA
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2014/06/donkey-island-20146157413125571.html

Lamu Donkey Sanctuary

'Mann Ki Baat' with PM Narendra Modi and US President Barrack Obama

The Modern Marconi Who Reinvented Radio: hear, they are here.

Hear the Great Men of History!

PM Modi's Radio Interaction with the Nation on 'Mann Ki Baat'

Modi sings 'America se aaya mera dost', welcomes Obama

Republic Day Parade - 26th January 2015 - LIVE

66th Republic Day Celebrations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buPvrN14Q7c

China elephant calf rescued from water storage pit

114 Years on...still we are unable to fulfill Gandhiji's Dream

ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, SHRI PRANAB MUKHERJEE ON THE
EVE OF THE REPUBLIC DAY OF INDIA 2015
New Delhi: Jan 25, 2015

My Fellow Citizens:

1. On the eve of the 66th Republic Day, I extend warm greetings to all of you in India and abroad. I convey my special greetings to members of our Armed Forces, Paramilitary Forces and Internal Security Forces.

2. Twenty Sixth January holds an everlasting place in our national memory because it is the day when modern India was born. Under Mahatma Gandhi’s moral and political leadership,
the National Congress passed the Purna Swaraj resolution demanding complete independence from British rule in December 1929. Gandhiji organized nationwide celebrations on 26 January 1930 as Independence Day. From then on, the Nation took a pledge on this day every year to carry on the freedom struggle till we attained it.

3. Exactly twenty years later, in 1950, we adopted our charter of modernity, the Constitution. Tragically, Gandhiji had been martyred two years before, but the framework of a Constitution
that has made India a role model for today's world was constructed out of his philosophy. Its essence lay in four principles: democracy; freedom of faith; gender equality; and an economic upsurge for those trapped in the curse of dire poverty. These were made Constitutional obligations.  
Gandhiji’s talisman for the country's rulers was simple and powerful and I quote: "Whenever you are in doubt...recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have
seen and ask yourself...will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?" (unquote). Our resolve to eliminate poverty through inclusive development has to be a step in that direction.

Fellow Citizens:
4. The past year has been remarkable in many ways. Particularly because, after three decades the people have voted to power a single party with a majority for a stable government, and in
the process freed the country’s governance from the compulsions of coalition politics. Outcome of these Elections has given the mandate to the elected government to fulfill its commitment to the people by using its majority for formulating policies and making laws to implement those policies. The voter has played her part; it is now up to those who have been elected to honour this trust. It was a vote for clean, efficient, effective, gender-sensitive, transparent, accountable and citizen-friendly governance.

Fellow Citizens:
5. There can be no governance without a functioning legislature. The legislature reflects the will of the people. It is the platform where progressive legislation using civilized dialogue must
create delivery mechanisms for realizing the aspirations of the people. It calls for reconciling the differences amongst stakeholders and building a consensus for the law to be enacted. Enacting laws without discussion impacts the lawmaking role of the Parliament. It breaches the trust reposed in it by the people. This is neither good for the democracy nor for the policies relating to those laws.

Fellow Citizens:
6. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, Rabindranath Tagore, Subramanya Bharati and many more - the vocation and the approach might have been different but they all spoke the same language of patriotism. We owe our freedom to these great warriors of nationalism. We also salute the unsung heroes who have died
securing the liberation of Mother India. But it pains me to see that Mother India is not respected by her own children when it comes to the safety of women. Atrocities of rape, murders, harassment on the roads, kidnapping and dowry deaths have made women fearful even in their own homes. Rabindranath Tagore saw women not only as the deities of the household fire, but also the flame of the soul itself. Where have we failed, as parents, teachers and leaders, that our children have forgotten all tenets of decent behaviour and respect for
women? We have enacted many legislations but, as Benjamin Franklin had once said and I quote: “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who
are” (unquote). Every Indian must take a pledge to protect the honour of women from violence of any kind. Only a nation that respects and empowers its women can become a global
power.

Fellow Citizens:
7. The Indian Constitution is the holy book of democracy. It is a lodestar for the socio-economic transformation of an India whose civilization has celebrated pluralism, advocated tolerance and promoted goodwill between diverse communities. These values, however, need to be preserved with utmost care and vigilance. The freedom inherent in democracy sometimes generates an unhappy by-product when political discourse becomes a competition in hysteria
that is abhorrent to our traditional ethos. The violence of the tongue cuts and wounds people's hearts. Religion, said Gandhiji, is a force for unity; we cannot make it a cause of conflict.

Fellow Citizens:
8. Much is said about India's soft power. But the most powerful example of India's soft power, in an international environment where so many countries are sinking into the morass of
theocratic violence, lies in our definition of the relationship between faith and polity. We have always reposed our trust in faith-equality where every faith is equal before the law and
every culture blends into another to create a positive dynamic. Wisdom of India teaches us: unity is strength, dominance is weakness.

Fellow Citizens:
9. The multi-nation conflict has converted boundaries into bloodlines, and turned terrorism into an industry of evil. Terrorism and violence are seeping across our borders. While peace, non-violence and good neighbourly intentions should remain the fundamentals of our foreign policy, we cannot afford to be complacent about adversaries who will stop at nothing to disrupt our progress towards a prosperous and equitable India. We have the strength, confidence and
determination to defeat architects of this war against our people. Repeated violations of the ceasefire along the Line of Control and terrorist attacks must get an integrated response
through incisive diplomacy and impregnable security mechanisms. The world must join India in fighting the menace of terrorism.

Fellow Citizens:
10. Economic progress is also a test of democracy. Year 2015 is a year of hope. Key economic indicators provide for much optimism. Strengthening of the external sector, move towards
fiscal consolidation, moderation in price levels, early signs of rebound in manufacturing and record agricultural production last year augur well for our economy. Achieving five percent
plus growth rates each in the first two quarters of 2014-15 is a healthy sign for an early reversion to the high growth trajectory of 7-8 percent.

11. The success of a society is measured by both survival and strengthening of its values, institutions and instruments of governance. Our national narrative has been shaped by the
principles of its past, triumphs of today and is now ready to own the future by powering its latent potential.

Fellow Citizens:
12. Our national ambition is to raise the quality of life of Indians by quantum leaps and raise generations enlightened by learning, patriotism, compassion, honesty and a sense of duty.
Thomas Jefferson had said and I quote: “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty” (unquote). We must
strive for the highest quality in our educational institutions so that we can take our place, within a visible future, among the knowledge leaders of the 21st century. I would urge, in
particular, that we lay special stress on the culture of books and reading, which takes knowledge beyond the classroom and frees imagination from stress of the immediate and the
utilitarian. We must be a creative people, nourished by innumerable, interlinked rivers of ideas. Our youth must lead the way to mastery of technology and communication in a universe where the cloud has become a library without frontiers, and vast opportunity awaits within the computer in your palm. The 21st century is within India's grasp.

Fellow Citizens:
13. This future will remain both visible and elusive if we do not discover the ability to continually cleanse ourselves of retrograde habits and social ills. Over the past century, some
have died, others have faded, but many still exist. We are celebrating, this year, the centenary of Gandhiji's return to India from South Africa. We can never cease to learn from a
Mahatma. The first thing he did in 1915 was to keep his eyes open and his lips sealed. It is advisable to follow his example. While we are, rightly, focused on 1915, perhaps we should
cast a glance on what Gandhiji did in 1901, the year when he returned home for his first break. The annual Congress session was held that year in Calcutta, then the capital of British India. Gandhiji was a delegate. He went to Ripon College for a meeting. He discovered that the whole place had been dirtied by fellow-delegates. A shocked Gandhiji did not wait for any allotted cleaner. He picked up a broom and cleaned the area. No one followed his example in 1901. 114
years later, let us follow his example, and become worthy children of a magnificent father.

Wedded to Democracy.

A Republic Celebrating Her 66th Birth Day

Come on India!
The wake up calls are over now.
Now no more you are a babe,
Walk up straight and right,
The terrible darkness is over;
No more dark clouds threaten us,
Our skies are full of stars glittering in mirth,
Our sacred  rivers gush with fresh water,
The gentle breeze is back with us,
The spirit of freedom is smiling,
No more poverty remains our property,
The growing prosperity is for all.



We are big, we are ancient,
We are kind and nothing binds us
Let us celebrate the  voices of our people,
Let us celebrate the peace that surrounds us,
Let us celebrate the love that overflows,
Let us celebrate the spirit of freedom and democracy!

PM and Obama in Ceremonial function at Rashtrapati Bhawan

President Obama Visits India

Obama Arrives in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7bWkxvvr_M

Violence Today

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I'm burdened with the man's burning desires  to possess all he is obsessed with;
From womb to tomb  he combs the earth for his selfish ends,
He chains his comrades with the shackles he was fastened with for years.
He blocks the free air from reaching the nostrils of his fellow countrymen,
For which he had a valiant fight with all his might.
He stops the pen from inking further the plight of the poor,
For which he spent pots of ink that can sink many ships.
He freezes the people who fight against the  suppression of expression,
For which very breeze he longed and waged a valiant  battle.
He hesitates not to divide his countrymen for his cruel rule,
For whose unity he had fought with  his blood, flooding the streets.
This brave man fills  his  court with  his kith and kin,
Which he considered a  very grave sin till he was in.
He eradicates people who set their mouth against corruption,
A disease - he wanted to eradicate with all dedication. 
I know why birds remain caged.

Fuel Price: Fuels Growth or Decay?

The falling Crude prices to lower levels raises some questions. There was a slump in car sales across the world for the last two years. Now the falling prices of crude  tempts people to go for cars which may boost up the sales and see more industrial activity. Once the cars are purchased  they have to be used at any cost. None would keep his/her car in garage permanently. I think once the sales rise up and meets the industrialists' expectations the price of petrol would shoot up. The trap may be to net in more to make them consume more. 

Another flip side of this slip is the rising levels of pollution.

  Tips to save fuel.

STOP IDLING

It wastes and wastes and gives you nothing in return

Idling — it does nothing for you, but it —

• Wastes Fuel
  Hundreds of Rupees for small cars and vans and thousands of Rupees for trucks.
• Pollutes the Atmosphere
  Your exhaust, together with everyone else's, is destroying the air you breathe.
• Shortens Engine Life
  If your engine is running and you are going nowhere, what sense does that make? None, it just wears out the engine quicker.
• Burns Up Money
  Fuel costs money, so going nowhere costs fuel and money.

What can you do to stop Idling

1. "Turn it off" when your vehicle isn't going anywhere — except when stopped in traffic.
2. For trucks, use the latest automatic shut-off devices or install other equipment to run your cab heater and air conditioner in the most economical way.
3. Ensure your vehicle is well maintained so you don't have the excuse, "if I turn it off, it won't start again."

Who will Bell the Wild Cat?

According to the latest tiger census, the tiger population in India  rose from 1,706 in 2011 to 2,226 in 2014.

100 years ago 100 thousand tigers were there. Today their number is mere 3200 the world over. When the biggest animal or the smallest in the food chain decline it is a danger sign for the eco system. Climate change is partly responsible for the decreasing habitat of  tigers. 

Gone are the days of Maharajas with their hunting expeditions and counting of carcasses of the powerless tigers shot in the jungles of India. The turbaned and urbanized Rajas in the company of their European counterparts would pose for photographs with pride overflowing their chests. The heaps of bodies would be laid by the jeeps and guns would proudly show their  musketry faces in mirth. 

Around 200000 square kilometers of reserve forests are there for conserving the beautiful beasts. But the exploding population needs land and resources shrink the space available for these wild cats. Each tiger requires around 500 animals in its territory for  a food bank. 

Steps to be taken to conserve and preserve these big cats' tribe for future.

• Stop poaching if persists with an iron hand
• Add more buffer zones around the reserves
• Reduce their habitat loss
• Compensate the villagers with alternate livelihood plans/monetary support
• Release the tigers in captivity
• Do not domesticate/tame  tigers for humans' cruel pleasure
• Promote the breeding of their preys and ensure the tigers have ample prey.
• Appoint more guards and go for massive awareness creation
• Ban/confiscate products made of tigers
• Try to eradicate the myths around the tiger products( Tiger meat increases the potency)
• Go for stricter legislative measures to control poaching
• Reduce the human tiger conflict to nil level.
• Promote researches in tiger conservation and support them

The 12 Tiger Landscapes:

1. Amur-Heilong – China and Russia
2. Kaziranga–Karbi Anglong – India
3. Satpuda-Maikal – India
4. Western Ghats-Nilgiris – India
5. Greater Manas – Bhutan and India
6. Sundarbans – Bangladesh and India
7. Terai Arc – India and Nepal
8. Forests of the Lower Mekong – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
9. Dawna-Tennaserim – Myanmar and Thailand
10. Banjaran Titiwangsa – Malaysia
11. Central Sumatra – Indonesia
12. Southern Sumatra – Indonesia

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And What shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? 

William Blake

One % Owns and The Rest Owes....

Click at the image  to get an enlarged picture.

It is tragic that the mere 1 % of the world owns this earth and the rest mourns the dearth.  It is cruel that the Economists have succeeded in marginalizing the marginalized of the world and enriched the Rich of the world.  The rich fly, eat,dress, dance and drink  at the cost of the working class the world over. What ever be the tax structure, the rich's economic structure is quite intact. Inequalities continue to grow at a faster pace than ever. Also the ironical part of this tyranny is that the poor also  thinks like the Rich once he is in the company of the elite. 

For  instance the monthly assured income of a laborer in India ( if he gets 25 days job under MNREGS is 50 U.S. dollars where as the salary of a corporate leader is around 1 million U.S. dollars apart from the innumerable allowances. The taxing system is not prudent enough to generate enough income to meet the needs of the deserving. 

But for air nothing is common between the poor and the rich. They eat more, spend more, drink more, occupy more living space, consume more energy and so on. The world economists have to come out with ways to minimize the widening gap.  


Ways to narrow down the gap between the rich and the poor.

• Make land the property of the state
• Allow not e-trading in Markets
• Let cash or any banking instrument get passed and shares transferred to the buyer.
• There is no need to have daily transactions/ tradings 
• The artificial or virtual money  is the reason for inflation
• Give the power of fixing the cost of produce to any one who produces it.
• Provide 50% seats/beds in educational institutions /hospitals free for the poor.
• Pay equal pay to all. Let seniority decide their increments.  

"The combined wealth of the richest 1 percent will overtake that of the other 99 percent of people next year unless the current trend of rising inequality is checked, Oxfam warned today ahead of the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

The international agency, whose executive director Winnie Byanyima will co-chair the Davos event, warned that the explosion in inequality is holding back the fight against global poverty at a time when 1 in 9 people do not have enough to eat and more than a billion people still live on less than $1.25-a-day.

Byanyima will use her position at Davos to call for urgent action to stem this rising tide of inequality, starting with a crackdown on tax dodging by corporations, and to push for progress towards a global deal on climate change.

Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More, a research paper published today by Oxfam, shows that the richest 1 percent have seen their share of global wealth increase from 44 percent in 2009 to 48 percent in 2014 and at this rate will be more than 50 percent in 2016. Members of this global elite had an average wealth of $2.7 million per adult in 2014.

Of the remaining 52 percent of global wealth, almost all (46 percent) is owned by the rest of the richest fifth of the world’s population. The other 80 percent share just 5.5 percent and had an average wealth of $3,851 per adult – that’s 1/700th of the average wealth of the 1 percent.

Staggering inequality

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, said: “Do we really want to live in a world where the one percent own more than the rest of us combined? The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast.

“In the past 12 months we have seen world leaders from President Obama to Christine Lagarde talk more about tackling extreme inequality but we are still waiting for many of them to walk the walk. It is time our leaders took on the powerful vested interests that stand in the way of a fairer and more prosperous world.  

“Business as usual for the elite isn’t a cost free option – failure to tackle inequality will set the fight against poverty back decades. The poor are hurt twice by rising inequality – they get a smaller share of the economic pie and because extreme inequality hurts growth, there is less pie to be shared around.”

Business must act

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chief Executive Officer of E.L. Rothschild and chairman of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, who is speaking at a joint Oxfam-University of Oxford event on inequality today, called on business leaders meeting in Davos to play their part in tackling extreme inequality.

She said: “Oxfam’s report is just the latest evidence that inequality has reached shocking extremes, and continues to grow. It is time for the global leaders of modern capitalism, in addition to our politicians, to work to change the system to make it more inclusive, more equitable and more sustainable.  

“Extreme inequality isn't just a moral wrong. It undermines economic growth and it threatens the private sector's bottom line.  All those gathering at Davos who want a stable and prosperous world should make tackling inequality a top priority."

Why only Ganga?

ALL PHOTOS  COURTESY: AFP



It is a river of 2525 kilometers sustaining 400 million people. The literate and the illiterate; the educated and the elite; the religious and the irreligious  have got their own ways of polluting the river. The industries and factories too contribute their mite and these things go on for centuries. Expecting  a sea change in  matter of months is just a dream.

Till this minute the propaganda team is not doing what it has to do. All agencies involved are working with their own plans and targets. The easiest way is to take the help of the Sadhus/
sanyasis or the people who matter in religious matters and propagate the need to keep the river sacred and the ways to do so.

But for their cooperation the lofty aim is going to remain a pipe dream. We have to note that the majority who have not voted i.e., 69% openly asking the need/necessity  to keep the country clean. The magazines which are against the PM keep reminding their readers that this government has got the support of only 31%. And the holiest newspaper tells through its intelligent readers  'It is the work of corporation workers'.  And the media in India can not come out of Politics and Cinema. Some people with clean hearts ask the PM to clean up the dirt in his mind before entering  the Ganga Cleaning programme or Clean India. 

With all these handicaps/conditions  put forward by the hardcore patriots of different nations  and many more how are we going to accomplish the task in mere months? 

Also the government has to go for propagating the need to keep all our water bodies clean, including  rivers , ponds,lakes  and oceans as some people have already started talking of 'communal rivers'. 

Right to pollute.

We strongly believe that we have got a Right to Pollute. There are millions who may ask to make this as their right. But for my flat or house the entire earth is a garbage dumb yard. Unless we change our attitude our altitude is going to remain the same.

Intellectual Terrorism is More Dangerous than International Terrorism

   mightier than                                      



'Theeyinal suttapun ullarum aradhae
navinal sutta vadu'

The great saint Poet Thiruvalluvar declared 2000 years ago that a wound inflicted by a flame would heal from within but a wound inflicted by a word wouldn't heal for good. 

The words are silently but steadily causing immeasurable damage to the humanity. 'Words are good but deeds are bad' is a bad concept. 'Thoughts are good but actions are bad' is also  not in good taste. A Tamil axiom says that the tongue would speak the unspeakable but it is the head that has to bear the brunt. Similarly Pens are creating troubles the world over. The damages they cause, the hurt they inflict, the pain they cause are immeasurable and unfathomable.

The holiest views magazines continue to propagate, provoke, incite,persuade and corrupt  gullible people and the youngsters in particular to rise against people and communities. Their Divide and Ruin policy is not noticed by their readers as they are tuned to their thinking over a period of time. Truth is buried deep and lies are packed brightly and presented buoyantly. None can act against them as they are soaked and cloaked in the garb of 'freedom of expression'.The thinker is praised and the doer is punished. This is the global drama that goes unchecked. 

What is right is based on one's 'might'  and the weak and the meek can not even squeak about their plight. This is time that we stop tinkering with the minds of the people with poison. Let their ink spread the message of love and peace for all and always.

The Amount of Food consumed is Wasted too.

Feeding the planet’s ever-expanding population while dealing with climate change will require a new way of thinking about agriculture. Current farming methods are depleting the earth’s resources and producing alarming quantities of greenhouse gases—agriculture operations currently produce 13 percent of human-based global GHG emissions. The environment is paying a huge price in biodiversity loss and deforestation, while the global economy leaks billions of US dollars per year on conventional agriculture’s economic side effects.

Turning agriculture a brighter shade of green will not only ease pressure on the environment and help cope with climate change, but will also create opportunities to diversify economies, increase yields, reduce costs, and generate jobs—which will in turn help reduce poverty and increase food security. Increasing farm yields and improving ecosystems services will be a boon to the 2.6 billion people who depend on agriculture for a livelihood, particularly in developing nations where most farmers live on small parcels in rural areas.

Huge gains can be made for a greener future by simply reducing agricultural waste and inefficiency. Nearly 50 percent of food produced is lost through crop loss or waste during storage, distribution, marketing, and household use. Some of these inefficiencies—especially crop and storage losses—can be addressed with small investments in simple farming and storage technologies.

Greening agriculture will require investment, research, and capacity building. UNEP’s contribution to this global effort includes the following innovative programmes

Do not Produce Waste.

 As countries’ economies grow, so does the volume of their garbage. According to estimates, some 11.2 billion metric tonnes of solid waste are currently being collected around the world every year, and the decay of the organic portion is contributing around 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). What’s more, rubbish is becoming increasingly complex. The fastest growing waste stream in both developing and developed countries is electrical and electronic products, which contain hazardous substances that make disposal even more of a challenge. Human health and the environment are increasingly at risk, particularly when dumpsites are uncontrolled or volume becomes unmanageable. Illnesses and infections, ground water pollution, GHG emission, and ecosystem destruction are just some of the impacts of our overfilled global dustbin.

Turning the waste stream a brighter shade of green, however, can actually create economic opportunities. Managing waste, from collection to recycling, is a growing market, currently estimated at US$ 410 billion per year, not including the substantial informal segment in developing countries. Recycling, in particular, will grow with a greening of the waste sector, and actually creates more jobs than it replaces. Investment in greener waste management can produce many environmental and economic benefits, including resource savings, nature protection, and employment and business opportunities.

Of course, the best way to manage waste is to produce less of it, and minimizing waste is the first essential step towards greening the sector. The goal is to produce as little waste as possible, recycle or remanufacture as much as possible, and treat any unavoidable waste in a manner that is the least harmful to the environment and humans—or even as a source of sustainable energy.

AK-47

Nigeria: 2,000 feared killed in Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre'

Amnesty International calls the killings ‘a disturbing and bloody escalation’ and a local defence group says its fighters have given up trying to count the bodies.

The latest to hit the world news channels but for  India. Here this news won't get highlighted or occupy  front page as the news from Paris did yesterday as reasons known to them. Because 12 is bigger than 2000 for them. Agreed. No issues.

The need of the hour is elimination of arms. Simple. To bring peace, war in the minds of people must go. For that people have to read and the History too is replete with wars and its horrors. Then how to bring in peace now.  None is ready to accept none. To take up a wrong cause there are millions; the right cause is patronized by only a minuscule persons. The huge imbalance causes severe friction,conflicts and loss of lives.

The world has eradicated  Blake,Cholera, Malaria,Small pox and many more diseases. What is the  problem for them to stop manufacturing arms? Not all nations do this. Only a few can do. And they are doing.With the sale of arms, they buy bread and survive. Can't the world stop this?

O.K. Not possible permanently.  Why not a moratorium on arms' production for a  year at least! Let us begin today.

Instead of asking warring groups to stop firing, let us stop manufacturing and selling them. If possible we can collect arms all types and destroy them- which may seem a far-fetched idea.

If we can eliminate deadly diseases, why not this deadlier disease called 'guns' that harm us?

"No gun has ever saved  a life. Stop their production"