Makeover of showcase

I thought my showcase looked really awful and disorganised. So I did a little rearrangement & here are the before and after pics! A great change.

The showcase before the rearrangement

The showcase after the rearrangement. Looks neater now.

This is my kitchen, which really needs a makeover

This is my Drawing Room, which looks nice, with the croton growing well.                                              

India Demographics

The demographics  of India is briefly given below

Population	1,220,800,359 (July 2013 est.)
Age structure	0-14 years: 28.9% (male 187,236,677/female 165,219,615) 15-24 years: 18.2% (male 117,385,009/female 104,516,448) 25-54 years: 40.4% (male 253,642,261/female 239,219,931) 55-64 years: 6.9% (male 42,307,170/female 41,785,413) 65 years and over: 5.7% (male 32,992,850/female 36,494,985) (2013 est.)
Dependency ratios	total dependency ratio: 52.4 % youth dependency ratio: 44.3 % elderly dependency ratio: 8 % potential support ratio: 12.4 (2013)
Median age	total: 26.7 years male: 26.1 years female: 27.4 years (2013 est.)
Population growth rate	1.28% (2013 est.)
Birth rate	20.24 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Death rate	7.39 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Net migration rate	-0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Urbanization	urban population: 31.3% of total population (2011) rate of urbanization: 2.47% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major cities - population	NEW DELHI (capital) 21.72 million; Mumbai 19.695 million; Kolkata 15.294 million; Chennai 7.416 million; Bangalore 7.079 million (2009)
Sex ratio	at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.13 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.12 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 1.06 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female total population: 1.08 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth	19.9 (2006 est.)
Infant mortality rate	total: 44.6 deaths/1,000 live births male: 43.28 deaths/1,000 live births female: 46.08 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
Life expectancy at birth	total population: 67.48 years male: 66.38 years female: 68.7 years (2013 est.)
Total fertility rate	2.55 children born/woman (2013 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate	54.8% (2007/08)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate	0.3% (2009 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS	2.4 million (2009 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths	170,000 (2009 est.)
Drinking water source	improved:  urban: 97% of population rural: 90% of population total: 92% of population unimproved: urban: 3% of population rural: 10% of population total: 8% of population (2010 est.)
Sanitation facility access	improved:  urban: 58% of population rural: 23% of population total: 34% of population unimproved: urban: 42% of population rural: 77% of population total: 66% of population (2010 est.)
Major infectious diseases	degree of risk: very high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria water contact disease: leptospirosis animal contact disease: rabies note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2013)
Nationality	noun: Indian(s) adjective: Indian
Ethnic groups	Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
Religions	Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
Languages	Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9% note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language and primary tongue of 41% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2001 census)
Literacy	definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 62.8% male: 75.2% female: 50.8% (2006 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)	total: 11 years male: 11 years female: 10 years (2010)
Child labor - children ages 5-14	total number: 26,965,074 percentage: 12 % (2006 est.)
Education expenditures	3.3% of GDP (2010)
Maternal mortality rate	200 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	43.5% (2006)
Health expenditures	3.9% of GDP (2011)
Physicians density	0.65 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
Hospital bed density	0.9 beds/1,000 population (2005)
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	1.9% (2008)

                                      

Unemployment Figures in India :

1. India has 40 Million Unemployed people

2. Current unemployment rate is 9.4%

3. Unemployment rate is 10.3% in rural and 7.3% in urban areas

4. Agriculture is the predominant occupation employing more than 50% of the population. Service sector            accounts for more than 25% while industrial sector employs more than 10%

5. Per capita income is touching Rs 54,835 per annum in 2010-11

6. Towns and cities make more than two thirds of the Indian GDP, even though less than a third of the        population live in them.

7. In 2010, Indian emigrants are estimated to be sending home remittances totaling $55 billion, the most of    any country, constituting about 4.5% of GDP.

8. Various sectors falling under the India GDP includes food processing, transportation equipment,      petroleum, textiles, software, agriculture, mining, machinery,chemicals, steel, cement & many others

9. The share of services in India's GDP is 58.5% in 2011. The share of agriculture and industry are 13.5%      and 28% respectively.

The Right Road

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

Robert Frost

This is the famous poem by Robert Frost, which has influenced many people including me. But I would like to lead my life on a different principle - That of choosing the right path, the correct path, always - to see how this turns out, or if at all there is such a thing as the right path. Till now I have tried to walk the right path & do the right thing by everybody near and dear to me. I may have slipped once or twice & punished more than enough for it as far as I could judge.

        I read an interesting article in today's times of india by Gurcharan Das 'Modern marriages arn't made in heaven'. Superb insight into the psyche of men. The movie Waitress with Nathan Fillion was also good. Learnt about the Johari  window from Sum. He attributed my qualities as 'quiet', 'introvert', 'independent', 'organised' & 'logical'. I would have preferred 'kind' , 'loving', 'warm', 'witty' & 'spontaneous'. I will now make spontaneous efforts to change myself .