Eco-friendly-crackers (?) to celebrate the festival-of-lights, Deepotsav
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A book on rock blasting
This book is a ready reckoner and handy guide to the purchasers of ammonium nitrate and manufacturers of explosives (containing ammonium nitrate). It is written to facilitate understanding the nature of technical specifications in finalizing purchases of ammonium nitrate. The contents will help the purchasers in emphasizing and asking for the correct parameters of AN from the AN sellers. The book is released on 25th October 2020, in the formats of eBook and paperback, for purchase. It may be downloaded from kindle unlimited free. A specification refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material. It is a technical standard. The specification is important to understand the quality of a material. Customers review the specifications to decide the purchase. There are different types of technical, engineering, product, process, and services specifications, and the term is used differently in a variety of technical contexts. Many product development me...
लम्हे: Flashbacks of moments in one Monday evening
Sitting in the armchair in the lounge and sipping the hot coffee I was enjoying nature's showering gentle raindrops from the cloudy sky into the carpet of lush green grasses. The lazy hour flashed back some incidents. I jotted down these experiences today morning and sharing these with you all, my fraternity of earthmovers. These incidents are related to explosives manufacturing and thus you will be able to relate these and maybe these will tickle your funny bone. Take these in the lighter spirit. Just enjoy and forget. At the same time, please bear with me if you find these stale. Observations of actions and persons help build or destroy beliefs and learning systematically. An SME explosive pump truck operator with keen observations of the practices of top-loading of blastholes by his blasting supervisor systematically made him follow the incorrect practice of top charging of blastholes as the correct method, contrary to the SOP of down the hole charging. ...
Give solutions, not rhetoric: references Stubble Burning, Green Fireworks
One more year has passed since we last cried foul for the adverse impact due to stubble burning. It was last November there were hues and cries that air pollution or AQI has fallen drastically in the NCR and northern India. Debates in social media, promises by leaders, and scientists made headlines, but the pain is repeating itself. Stubble burning has started once again. This awakening and vomiting of the pent-up knowledge of debaters and leaders are going to take place with vigor in the next one month's time when the festival of light “Deepavali or deepotsav” will get closer.