We wish you a Health and Very Happy New Year.

It’s been a long time we have posted any article. It was a very busy and eventful year.

This year we will try to keep up our effort to blog consistently and contribute to our society.

What are you going to contribute to the society and our country? Here are a few obvious suggestions for New Year resolutions which will help us to make a better society.

Environmental

• Say NO to plastic
• Reuse and recycle
• Conserve water
• Keep your place clean
• Conserve electricity
• Don’t waste food
• Walk as much as you can
• Use public transport
• Don’t smoke at public places

On Road

• Don’t jump signals
• Follow the Lane system
• Don’t overtake
• Don’t overspeed

Delhi Metro

• Stay in queue
• Don’t stand at gate
• Use stairs
• Don’t spit
• Use Escalators wisely

Tell us what are your resolutions for year 2011.

The Common Wealth Games are going to start this year in October 2010. It is changing everyone’s live in the capital. Somethings are getting better and somethings are getting worse. One of the badly affecting things is animals’ life.

There was a rally held in Defence of Animals at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on April 24, 2010 from 4.30pm to 9pm. This rally was mainly focused on the violation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960 and other laws in force in the country.

A number of municipal bodies capture stray dogs in the most cruel manner. It causes serious injuries to them. They are either killed or released outside the city. They die a horrible death there because of unfamiliar to the area and they don’t know where to find food. They are also killed by local dogs.

The rally was focused on five specific issues:

1. The need to give a massive, countrywide boost to the canine birth control program – the only effective method of sharply reducing the presence of stray dogs in streets and public places, and the provision of enough funds for expanding infrastructure, training personnel and meeting all other expenses connected with the program.
2. The need for strong and effective action against illegal slaughter houses.
3. The need for strict implementation of Cattle/Livestock Transport Rules.
4. The prevention of atrocities on street animals and the promotion of the emerging trend toward people taking to feeding and/or caring from them.
5. The need for strong police action against people who assault, harass, abuse or intimidate those feeding and taking care of stray animals.

We at WECONSCIOUS wish our readers a very happy and prosperous New Year 2010. Weconscious resolute for working towards it’s motto to make people conscious of things happening around them.

We would like to recall posts through which we have tried to create awareness:

• Wastage of food in weddings
• Roads for 21st Century Delhi
• Terrorist attacks & We the people
• 11 things we should not do at traffic signal
• Yeh Dilli hai meri jaan
• Safe Pedestrian Drive by Delhi Traffic Police
• How Racist are We?
• Swine Flu: Symptoms, Precautions & Treatment Centers
• Escalators in Delhi Metro
• MRP – an essential information for packaged goods
• Homosexuality and our society

Winter is also known as the season of marriages in several sub-Indian cultures. Come winter, and the roads are flanked by coloured lights and processions of dancing people. Our houses are filled with invitation cards, party clothes, clashing dates and the best of food.

We all have attended Indian wedding parties but how many of us realize how much food goes into waste during such parties? There are no official or unofficial estimates, even though we unanimously agree that wastage can be unimaginably massive. Here are a few tips to minimize, if not stop wastage completely during Indian weddings.

1. Since most weddings are turning into buffet system, it’s the responsibility of the guest to help the size of the servings according to their apetite.
2. If you aren’t sure, which dish you are actually going to eat; take spoonfulls of each to taste and decide, instead of filling the plate with every dish.
3. Many Indian weddings have gone completely vegeterian and there are others, which serve both vegeterian and non-vegeterian dishes. It is our responsibility to fill our plates according to our eating habits. Its sheer waste to fill one’s plates with dishes that we do not eat, only to realize later and discard the food in the bins.

Wasted food in the bin

No matter how much noise we make about the economic development in India, we can never deny the fact that India also hosts one of the biggest armies of starving people in the world. The food that we waste will inevitably land in the garbage bins. But if we play our roles a little carefully and take only as much as we intend to eat, the saved food will find its way into the empty stomach of those, who cannot afford to fill theirs.

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Diwali wishes to all the readers of the Weconscious.

Diwali - the Festival of Lights

Diwali is a festival of prayers to Lakshmiji and Ganeshji, sweet and celebration of festivity with diyas and candles. One more thing that is a synonym with Diwali is crackers.

The festivity with crackers during the global warming damages our environment and increases the pollution in a single night manifold. In addition to the pollution of air, sound and the environment damages us for long term.

The pollution from crackers is something that effects the environment but affects the individuals to quite an extent. Ask those who suffer from heart ailments or the people suffering from asthma. The noise pollution affects almost everyone. The harmful gases & the loud noise that the crackers emanate not only affect human beings but adversely affects also the animals and birds.

With this article we do not intend to hurt the religious feeling of any one. It’s just that we want each one of us to be aware of the disadvantages of the crackers and it’s ill effect on us.

Lets make a point and celebrate a Bright, Green and Calm Diwali. Lets say no to Crackers.

We have listed a few reasons of not to use fireworks.

• It can cause serious injuries
• Generate noise and air pollution
• Pollution caused by fireworks creates a major problem for asthmatics, sick, old and animals
• It’s toxic

Happy Diwali and say no to CRACKERS.

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The Ring Road is hardly a circle and the Capital’s civic reputation, seldom exemplary. Yet, no matter how you abuse and where you curse, this city is perfectly livable and enjoyable. We enjoy the Blue Lines on laid back Sunday mornings and curse the smelly passengers standing alongside on another working day. The gubbaras hit our face and get us into a rage while the next hour we aim gubbaras at others to celebrate Holi. And long before you realize you have become a part of the city. This realization knocked me on a warm summer day in Kolkata in 2002. I exited from the Howrah station and looked around for an auto. To my surprise, I could spot none. It came to me in a flash that autos in Kolkata are not the ‘yellow and green’ of Delhi. I found swarms of black autos around me.

Yellow-Black Autorickshaw

The bone rattling experience inside the yellow-green autos is the Dilliwallah’s unique nouveau culture. While one would fleece you to the bone, another will be the guardian of morality calling you to return your lost cellphone. Pimped to the teeth with streamers, distorted images of Bollywood’s queens, stereo and a dysfunctional fare-meter, auto-rickshaws in Delhi are a class apart. My experience with auto rides in the city has been vivid and extreme, much like my confrontation and assimilation with the rest of its cultures. I narrate here the most bizarre of them all.

A decade removed from the hustle bustle of the city is a sleepy locality called Gandhi Vihar. Local auto wallahs ply on the dusty route between Kingsway Camp and Gandhi Vihar on ‘fixed, fare and share’ system. I had gone to meet an old friend at Gandhi Vihar and I boarded this shared-fared auto on my way back home. Three sit at the back and two on the driver’s flanks; left and right.

With some reluctance, I occupied the last remaining seat on the driver’s left flank. We were soon speeding down the deserted street that connects Gandhi Vihar to the rest of Delhi. It overtook a cyclist and something curious buzzed around us. Within a few seconds it erupted again trying to overtake a pedestrian, “hat ja tao panache ne, naachan de jee bharke”.

‘Is that the horn?’ I asked hesitatingly and the driver beamed, ‘Ha. yeh haran hai’. We soon landed on the concrete road towards Batra Cinema and the street lights greeted us back to the city. The horn buzzed incessantly, snaking its way through the flood of people. I wonder if they realized what this was. Everything made way for our green and yellow war horse. The war horse advanced with its war cry and its soldiers poking their heads from the flanks.

Public transportation has its own drawbacks (read charms). The list of drawbacks hitherto included is over charging, bargaining and time consumption. I added ‘muscial horns’ to the list.

We Conscious has shifted to weconscious.com (instead of .info). There is no other change at the moment. You will keep getting all the updates as before.

WECONSCIOUS is part of such an effort to give back society something everyday. It’s an effort to highlight the illegalities we suffer on day to day basis. It will not be illegalities but also about the goods & bad’s we come across in the society. It is an effort to make We Conscious a platform where in each one can come and put forward their issues & look forward for a from legal point of view & otherwise. It’s an effort to make everyone conscious about their rights & duties in the society amicably by healthy discussions. No We Conscious is not moral police. It’s about what we deserve to know. We all know our rights, but tend to forget at times. Lets all come together to make We Conscious a reminder to all those rights and duties we tend to forget in our busy schedules.