I bet………Find me someone who doesn’t like the place he is brought up. You will rarely find one. Everybody has that biased feeling towards their city because of the emotional connect they have with the city, with the people they have spent time, with the locations whose pictures strike them often.

Yes, you guessed it right. I am going to talk about my place, Mangalore which is more often called as Kudla. I am from Mangalore, a coastal city of Karnataka.

Now I am not going to give some “gyan” on Mangalore. (Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalore)

I would now want to tell about my city which is not mentioned in so called “Wikipedia”.

Firstly let me talk about the people. Even though the local language being Tulu, people here are completely fine with Kannada (obviously, it’s the state language), Konkani (Goan language), Malayalam (As Kerala is very nearby), Hindi (the effect of Bollywood movies) and English. You go to any businessman, labor, drivers, shopkeepers and talk to them in any of the above mentioned language, they would surely understand and respond to you in the same language back (may not be very fluently ever time).

Another aspect which I really want to mention is the importance given to education. The pass percentage in 10^th or 12^th is very high. The number of education institutes ie schools, colleges, tutorials are huge. People have a mindset that Class 12 is the minimum education one should definitely acquire irrespective of financial status, which is amazing. Being frank, I have rarely seen a slum or illiterate from my place.

There are many other things like Food, Religious places, beaches (especially the International kite festival), Greenery, which are magnificent and mesmerizing about which you can easily find in google.

These are few things other than my childhood which comes to my mind when I think of Mangalore (recently changed to Mangaluru).

Leaving you at this high point, I would like to end this blog with a quote that is dear to me

                Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

                                                     -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pollution degrades the ecosystem by introducing external body directly or indirectly. Human health, ecosystem quality, aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity may be affected and changed permanently by pollution.

Pollution occurs when environment cannot get rid of substances introduced into the ecosystem. The capacity to naturally remove substances is compromised and the balance of the ecosystem is affected.

The sources of pollution are numerous. The identification of these different pollutants and their effects on ecosystems is tortuous. They can come from natural disasters or the result of human activity, such as chemical spills, oil spills, and nuclear accidents. These can have terrible consequences on people and the planet where we live. Destruction of the biodiversity and natural habitat, damage caused to the quality of soil, water and air.

For preventing pollution and protecting the environment it is necessary to apply the principles of sustainable development. We should satisfy the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This means that we should find solution for existing problem, but also anticipate and prevent future pollution sources. Any environmental damage must be punishable by law, and polluters should pay penalties for the damage caused to the environment.

I would like to start my blog with a positive quote –

       “The Mind is everything. What you think you become”

                                                                        -Gautama Buddha

“Think Positive”- these two words are so important in my life that I fear if I wouldn’t have thought positive, how my life would have been !!!!!!

People always assume positive thinking is searching for the second option, when you fail the first one. But it’s not always true. It is all about accepting failure, staying calm without getting depressed, understanding the reason for failure and working on it again and again until you are successful.(with a smile)

Let me take an example from my life. I started my career in an organization (IT servicing Industry) and I had to work as a software tester, which I felt had no value addition to the goal which I had set (Will talk about my life goals in other blog). As my organization had lots of projects, I wanted to switch to another project, which was related to management or sales (my point of interest). I kept on requesting manager for change in project but I wasn’t able to convince him many and failed a lot of times.

Now comes two scenarios

1. Assuming that I am incapable of switching the project and stay in the same testing project blaming my destiny. (Negative thinking)
2. Think of what went wrong, change the way of approach and try some other way of convincing the manager. (Positive thinking).

Fortunately, I believed in positive thinking.

Everybody, in their life might have come across such similar situation where the way they handle it decides their future.

Positive thinking is the only way to sort things out………………………. 🙂