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CM instructs cabinet colleagues against courting unwanted controversies

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Karnataka chief minister, Siddaramaiah, being a seasoned politician, took time to brief his ministerial colleagues how to conduct themselves till the assembly election is held and stay clear of unwanted controversies, in view of the fact that election model code of conduct has come into force.

The cabinet meeting on Tuesday was expected to approve certain projects. In view of the announcement of the election by the commission, the meeting confined itself to just ratifying the decisions taken at the earlier meeting.

Siddaramaiah, while exuding confidence that Congress will spring back to power in Karnataka, gave some suggestions to the ministers. He told them about the necessity to be very choosy and careful when delivering speeches or issuing statements. He asked them to desist from making any controversial statements which could harm the party’s chances in the election. He also wanted issues between party leaders to be settled among themselves instead of referring them to state level leadership.

The chief minister is learnt to have told his colleagues that anti incumbency factor is not in play in Karnataka now. He asked the ministers to remain upbeat and spread awareness among the people about the people-friendly programmes of the government. He said that district in-charge ministers will have the responsibility to ensure that the party comes out victorious in as many constituencies as possible in their respective districts. He wanted revenue minister, Kagodu Thimmappa, and rural development and panchayat raj minister, H K Patil, to convene a meeting to assess about the drinking water situation in the state in view of increasing temperature and summer season.

Addressing media persons later, law and parliamentary affairs minister, T B Jayachandra, stated that several ministers discussed the issue of worsening drinking water situation in different districts. He mentioned that the issue of drinking water does not fall under the ambit of model code of conduct. He said that the meeting wanted to assess the fund needed to attend to water requirement like supply of water and digging of borewells. He added that the government has also taken up with the centre the need to grant four month extension to state chief secretary, Ratna Prabha, as she is scheduled to retire on March 31. He said that if the centre does not permit extension of her service, then alternative measures would have to be looked into.

A Unique Opportunity for City Students to Participate in The Doon School’s Summer Leadership Programme

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The Doon School – Dehradun, India’s pre-eminent boarding school, has announced its residential ‘Summer @ Doon Leadership Programme’ from 2nd to 16th June 2018. The programme is open to all aspiring girls and boys in Grades 9-12 who are passionate about making a positive impact on the world around them.

Application for this programme closes on April 30th, 2018.
This dynamic and thought-provoking leadership programme will be a blend of creative experiential learning, leadership case studies, design thinking, motivational lectures, outdoor adventures, self-reflection and group interaction. The programme will allow students to expand their horizons across many disciplines and learn through the lenses of psychology, history, geography, philosophy, and economics.
A critically important element will be the relationship between leadership, social service, and environmental responsibility. This programme will ensure that boys and girls develop a deeper understanding of what successful leadership is all about and what is required to demonstrate it in the 21st Century in the context of a developing society in an increasingly globalized world. The programme will be taught by many of the school’s experienced staff as well as by Doon School alumni and other special guests.

“The Doon School has long been associated with innovative thinking and leadership and is passionate about being at the forefront of educational opportunity for its students”, said Mr. Matthew Raggett, Headmaster. “Summer @ Doon seeks to create a very special experience that will enable a wider student body of girls and boys to discover essential qualities within themselves that will help them on their journey of action, leadership, service, and fulfillment.”
“The two-week long programme will be an adventure that promises to be challenging and intellectually demanding, enabling students to meet and make like-minded friends, and to learn from each other and the adults leading Summer @ Doon”, added Mr. Raggett.

The course opened in 2014 and has received rave reviews. Some past students have said, “I’ve become more confident and done things that I would never have dared to do before.” Palak Mehta
“All the outdoor activities were meaningful and taught me about endurance. It was a very intellectual, interactive and fun experience.” Zoravar Singh Paintal
For more details about the Summer @ Doon Leadership programme,

ABOUT THE DOON SCHOOL
The Doon School aims to be an institution of excellence, dedicated to finding and developing exceptional students from all backgrounds to serve a meritocratic India. Founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, The Doon School has had a long and distinguished history on India’s tradition-enriched soil. It offers programmes that lead to the Cambridge IGCSE, ISC and IB Diploma to 560 boys between the ages of 12 and 18 in a fully residential environment. A significant number of students, who come from every socio-economic background and from 26 Indian states, receive scholarships or bursaries as part of the school’s mission to attract exceptional boys irrespective of their religion, caste or economic background.

The curriculum is broad and provides a balance of intellectual challenge, creative problem solving and adventure in addition to a strong sporting tradition and love of the arts. Service, social responsibility and leadership are part of the school’s curriculum and are embedded in its ethos.

Since its foundation, the school has produced many distinguished alumni in all walks of life, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, many chief ministers of Indian states, ambassadors and luminaries in the world of arts and letters such as sculptor Anish Kapoor and authors Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Ramachandra Guha. Doon is a member of the Round Square Organisation, The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) and the International Boys’ School Coalition (IBSC) and is also an IB World School.

S. Africa to investigate Indian family’s citizenship

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South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs said on Tuesday it will institute a full-scale inquiry into the Indian Gupta family’s citizenship.

Terms of reference for an inquiry will be drawn up once all information has been gathered from the Home Affairs Department and Parliament, said Acting Committee Chairperson Donald Gumede, Xinhua reported.


Members of parliament prepare to vote for or against the motion of no confidence against South African president, Jacob Zuma in the South African parliament, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Cape Town, South Africa. While the president has survived several such votes in the past, this is the first to be conducted by secret ballot. (AP Photo/Rodger Bosch Pool Photo via AP)

“The decision really is to collect all information to decide whether we need a full investigative inquiry or not. In principle, we are not against it,” Gumede said.

This decision drew immediate applause from the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).

The DA had requested that the committee launch an investigation into the controversy surrounding the naturalization of the Gupta family, which is accused of collaborating with former president Jacob Zuma and some senior government officials in looting from the state coffers, known as state capture.

South African police have launched a manhunt for some of the Gupta family members, whose whereabouts remain unknown.

The DA reveals that more Gupta family members have been granted South African citizenship than previously known.

This information was never revealed or reported to Parliament, as is required by law, the DA said.

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba and his department only explained the circumstances surrounding the naturalization of five Gupta family members granted South African citizenship and registered as voters on the Independent Electoral Committee database, according to the DA.

The DA will ensure that Gigaba and the Guptas have no opportunity to dodge accounting to Parliament, said Haniff Hoosen, DA Shadow Minister of Home Affairs.

“We look forward to this inquiry and ensure that those found guilty of any corruption will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” Hoosen said.

Also on Tuesday, Gigaba refused to take the responsibility for granting citizenship to the Gupta family members.

He told MPs that former ministers of his portfolio should also go to Parliament to account for the naturalization of the Guptas.

The Guptas entered South Africa in the early 1990s, therefore the ministers of home affairs at that time should be called here to answer what were the reasons provided to grant them citizenship, Gigaba said.

The Guptas were naturalized between 2002 and 2006.

The ministers of home affairs at that time must come and answer questions about what were the conditions at the time, said Gigaba.

Gunfight starts in J&K’s Rajouri district

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A gunfight started on Wednesday between the security forces and militants in Sunderbani area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, official said.

“Following suspicious movements in Sunderbani area on Wednesday morning, a search operation was launched by the security forces,” police said.

“As the security forces closed in on the hiding militants, they fired at the security forces triggering an encounter which is underway,” a police officer said.

Police also said suspicious movements were first noticed by the sentry of a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalion headquarters in the area who fired in the air after which army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police started a search operation during which the hiding militants were spotted, police said.

SC junks plea for fresh probe into Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea seeking fresh investigation into the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

The bench of Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao dismissed the plea by Pankaj Phadnis, who had sought re-investigation of the assassination on the basis of fresh material which he said was not available earlier.

The amicus curiae Amarinder Sharan, who had examined the material brought by Phadnis, too did not favour any re-investigation into the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.

Senior counsel Sharan was appointed amicus curiae by the court and was asked to examine the material produced by the petitioner Phadnis and give his opinion.

RBI special measures on March 31 for government accounts

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced special measures for transaction of central and state government business by banks handling government accounts on March 31 in view of the closing of the financial year on that day.

In a release late on Tuesday, the RBI also said special arrangements have been made to conduct special clearing operations on March 31 in order to facilitate government receipts and payments.

“With a view to providing greater convenience to tax payers, it has been decided that RBI offices and all designated branches of agency banks conducting government banking will keep their counters open up to 8.00 p.m. on March 31, 2018.

“Electronic transactions can be done till the midnight of that day,” it said.

“To facilitate government receipts and payments, necessary arrangements have also been made to conduct special clearing operations across the country. Centralised payment systems such as the RTGS and NEFT will also be operational with the above extended business hours.”

“As far as April 2, 2018 is concerned, since it has been declared as a holiday to enable the banks to close their yearly accounts, although RBI offices will work on that day, centralised payment systems such as the RTGS and NEFT will not be operational on that day,” the statement added.

(IANS)

How fossil fuel-producing nations can turn into infrastructure investors

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The “Global Energy & CO2 Status Report”, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), states that “renewable energy saw the highest growth rate of all energy sources in 2017 and met around a quarter of global energy demand growth” — a significant statistic by any standard and one that clearly points to the fact that renewable
This has serious ramifications for fossil fuel-producing nations. While fossil fuels still contribute a large part of the global energy needs, the fact that a “structural shift” is in process is clear. It is clear that over a medium- to long-term horizon, fossil fuel-dependent nations will have to rethink their strategy to boost and manage their economies.

A quick look at the largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the world tells us that approximately 50 per cent of them are fossil fuel-based economies. Significant pools of capital are available with these SWFs and it should not be a surprise to see them diversify into various asset classes.

The next few decades may see fossil fuel-dependent countries go from being providers of energy and capital to focusing significantly more on being a source of capital, i.e., an investor. This switch towards investing is a visible trend, with SWFs being a source of significant capital across asset classes such as equity, private equity and infrastructure. The key takeaway is that SWFs, especially those from fossil fuel-producing countries, can be significant financiers of infrastructure.

Infrastructure as an asset class has two elements that make it attractive for SWFs: Fixed cash-flow profile and large market. Infrastructure assets, by their very nature, are highly regulated assets with fixed income type of cash flows. Such a structure works well for SWFs that are looking to match liabilities, i.e., cash outflows, on their balance sheets. In addition, infrastructure needs that countries face are large enough markets for SWFs to invest into in meaningful size to generate returns.

The large fossil fuel-driven SWFs are of significant size. Estimates by the Sovereign Wealth Funds Institute say the top 10 SWFs globally are managing more than $200 billion each, and four of these are fossil fuel-driven. Therefore, given the long-dated investment horizon of the SWFs, the nature of liabilities on their balance sheets, and the large size of capital that needs to be deployed, infrastructure as a broad sector is attractive.

For fossil fuel-producing countries, switching from being an energy supplier to a supplier of capital lets them reduce their exposure to fossil fuel price volatility in the short term and play a larger role in boosting trade ties with other nations through infrastructure creation in the long run.

For nations that need financing for infrastructure creation, the global shift towards renewables and its consequent impact on fossil fuel-producing countries to turn investors is an opportunity not to be missed.

There are also important lessons to be learnt by both investors and infrastructure destination nations from the Norwegian government’s decision against allowing unlisted infrastructure investments by its Sovereign Wealth Fund. The reason given was that the fund wasn’t equipped to deal with the risks involved, especially from a political and regulatory perspective.

This points towards the urgent need for infrastructure destination nations to, one, improve regulations around unlisted infrastructure assets and, two, create mechanisms that allow for listed infrastructure assets to grow.

The issues faced by the Norwegian Sovereign Fund are generic issues that all SWFs face. It is important that in a highly competitive global capital market, countries expedite the creation of an enabling environment for infrastructure creation.

Clearly, the global changes in the energy markets also have significant ramifications on the financial markets.

The energy transition from a world dependent on fossil fuels to one driven by renewables does not necessarily need to have winners and losers. In a global economy besieged by the fear of “trade wars”, switching roles for fossil fuel-producing nations from major energy suppliers to large providers of capital is worth considering.

(IANS)

The French Novelist Who Fought For Justice – And The Price He Paid

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By Vikas Dutta
It is an over-century-old scandal that may seem familiar today. A country that prided itself on its ideals of liberty and justice uncovers an embarrassing espionage case, but matters are so orchestrated that an innocent, conscientious officer is accused and convicted — just because of his religion. This polarises society, but things come to a head only when an influential author jumps to defend the scapegoat — and suffers for it.

The French Revolution brought the ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity into modern political discourse, but the Dreyfus scandal of the 1890s raised the question whether these had permeated into their homeland. As this book tells us, the case exposed faultlines between France’s monarchist, religious and anti-Semitic right and the liberal, republican, and (later) socialist sections — a rift which would haunt the country in the coming century and cripple it in the face of aggression.

If Dreyfus was eventually exonerated and the country remained a liberal democracy — however imperfect — it was in no small measure due to the energetic efforts of Emile Zola. But he didn’t emerge unscathed and may have also lost his life due to it, as Michael Rosen shows in this book.

There were several attempts to persuade authorities hear the Dreyfus matter on the basis of proper evidence, instead of anti-Semitism. Among these was Zola’s famous open letter beginning “J’accuse”, accusing the state of a deliberate miscarriage of justice — which earned him a case for libel (in France then, it was also institutions, not only individuals, that could be libelled).

It was this case’s consequences for the writer, his country and the world — as well as literature — that are revealed here.

Noting that very few people outside France know much about Zola’s life, Rosen says they would have heard little or nothing about this particular but significant episode of his exile in London as the Dreyfus case raged.

“… Strictly speaking, it wasn’t exile, it was flight. The world-renowned novelist — as he was even then — fled from France, having been fined and given a prison sentence. This was not due to any of the usual writer’s transgressions — duels, crimes of passion, dissolution, immorality or indecency in their writing. It was a political offence. On behalf of the disgraced army officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Zola took on the highest courts in the land and lost.”

But this was no simple scandal, for “these events split France down the middle, brought the fundamental nature of the French state into question, and have left their marks on France ever since”. And Zola himself was in personal danger, with a rightist newspaper attacking him in terms that seemed, as the author says, an invitation to a lynching, and passions were so inflamed that he could have been shot dead on the street.

But the cost was also personal, as this book shows, for Zola had a uniquely delicate task of balancing the two women in his life — the mother of his children, and his wife — as this book brings out in detail.

Drawing on the author’s correspondence with his family and friends, his own writings about his exile, contemporary newspapers and other accounts, Rosen, otherwise known as a children’s author, poet and broadcaster, uses Zola’s nearly year-long enforced stay in London and around to sketch an unforgettable picture of him at a period of “turmoil, change and stress on three fronts: political, literary and personal”.

In the process, he also focuses on some of Zola’s considerable corpus of work — not well received by all sections due to its “naturalness”, or frank explorations of sex as well as descriptions of childbirth among other things — as well as the era’s social, literary and journalistic mores, and the Dreyfus case itself.

But this book is more than a tragi-comic account of Zola’s stay in London — initially hampered by the fear of discovery given his triumphant visit five years ago and his lack of English, as well as his measures to get his “wives” and his family to him. It is also a signal recognition of how literary creativity can flow even in unfamiliar climes and of a writer’s bravery in going against entrenched, unreasonable, yet popular, attitudes and prevailing over them — eventually.

India Condemns Missile Attacks on Saudi Arabia

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India today strongly condemned renewed missile attacks targeting civilian areas in Riyadh and other cities of Saudi Arabia, and reiterated its resolve to fight terrorism and violence in all its forms.

According to Saudi authorities, one person was killed after seven missiles were fired from Yemen by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday.

“We strongly condemn the renewed missile attacks targeting civilian areas in the direction of Riyadh and other cities of Saudi Arabia. We are deeply concerned about the escalating situation threatening the lives of innocent civilians. We reiterate our resolve to fight terrorism and violence in all its forms,” the External Affairs Ministry spokesperson said.

The missiles were fired at four targets, including the capital city of Riyadh, and all were intercepted and destroyed, said spokesman of the Saudi coalition forces for supporting the legitimacy in Yemen Colonel Turki Al-Malki in a statement yesterday.

Fragments from the intercepted missiles killed an Egyptian resident, the statement added.

WATER – ELIXIR OR POISON?

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Researched & Written by: Dr.Parmeshwar Arora

Drinking water in excess can harm your health:
While, at present everybody is inclined for drinking maximum possible water for keeping healthy, our ancient Ayurvedic texts & Vedas surprisingly direct us to drink minimum possible water to remain healthy. There are certain diseases where water has been contraindicated or is allowed in very minimum quantity.
These days it is a common practice that if you have to fix your digestion – drink lots of water, if you have to detox your body – drink lots of water, if there is burning while passing urine – drink lots of water, if you have to lose weight drink lots of water etc.
But when we try to understand as to how drinking water in abundance help in these conditions, the reasoning which surfaces up is something completely beyond our understanding. For example, for all the problems related to digestion like – Constipation, Acidity, Gas formation and even IBS , the cause is our sluggish digestion power. Even the modern science says that for all these conditions the reason is decreased secretion of digestive enzymes.
Hence, we can get rid of these conditions by improving our Jatharagni i.e. digestive fire. In such a case, how would the excessive intake of water, which is the worst opponent of fire, increases digestive fire and how would it help in fixing the problems, is totally beyond understanding. Is it not possible that this excess quantity of water consumed by us to resolve our digestive issues actually make these conditions chronic which eventually become incurable? Same is the case for other conditions also. Please do think about it.

Drinking too much of water at a time, even when thirsty, can make you ill
As per Ayurveda, a generally healthy person should drink adequate amount of water in summer (Mid May to Mid July) and Autumn (Mid September to Mid December) and minimum possible amount of water in rest of the seasons. If someone has a tendency to drink too much of water at a time even when thirsty, this can become a cause of ‘Pitta’ and ‘Kafa’ related diseases like indigestion, bloating, nausea, vomiting, over-salivation, heaviness in the body and even cold-cough and respiratory issues. Especially, the fever patients should only drink small quantity of water slowly and with patience.
Modern science does not have any specific guidelines about consumption of food while Ayurveda which has been written with the main motive of maintenance of good health, talks about food/drinks in detail. So if we go by the deteriorating levels of health, the time has come when we should drop the common beliefs and adopt the food habits directed by our Shastras which will eventually help us in keeping healthy like our ancestors and keep away from diseases.
Water is ELIXIR only when taken correctly, can be POISON if consumed otherwise :
As per Ayurveda whether water has to be taken on its own or after medicating it with suitable herbs or taken after boiling it or taken in cold form or taken as just warm water, deciding this on the basis of state of body and when taken in right quantity at right time & in right way, then only acts like Elixir else it acts like Poison if used otherwise.
There is almost opposite opinion about drinking of water when present trends are compared with the directions of our ancient Ayurvedic texts. Whereas there is no authentic & detailed book about correct diet and life style of present era, Ayurveda was written with the primary intention of maintaining health by correct diet and correct life style. For the same every dietary item including water has been explained in detail in Ayurvedic texts.
Drinking water in excess can complicate or produce diseases like Indigestion, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure & Kidney diseases :
Anyone who tends to consume water in excess or at wrong time or in wrong manner initially weakens his Digestive fire (Jatharagni) and subsequently fire at tissue level (Dhaatvagni) & cellular level (Bhutaagni). It gives rise to a condition of Ajeerna (Indigestion) & Aama (Undigestive Food) at various levels in the body. Ajeerna & Aama are supposed to be the root cause of almost every disease, including Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Kidney Diseases & Heart Diseases etc.
How drinking excess of water complicates or leads to Indigestion Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Kidney Diseases etc. has been explained in detail in the book, “Water-Elixir or Poison ?”. Various other important facts about water consumption have also been explained in the book.
Recommended Quantity of Water can not be defined:
The common recommended quantity of water consumption can’t be defined for every person. The adequacy will vary based on the physical work done by that individual, environment around them and status of body health.
Right Quantity, Right Time & Right Way of drinking water:
In general, a healthy person should consume between 1 to 1.5 litres of liquid in a day which includes water, milk, juice, tea, coffee etc. To put it more precisely, we can assume a person to be consuming enough quantity of liquid if he/she is releasing ½ to 1 litre of clear urine in a day.
General recommendations are as follows:
For Intestinal Cleansing: Consume 250-300 ml or a full glass of warm water, sip by sip on empty stomach in the morning.
For Helping in Digestive Process: Water with Meal: a cup (i.e. about 150 ml) of warm water should be consumed, sip by sip while having meal. After Meals, consume a small cup (150-200 ml) of warm water every hour or two, even when not feeling thirsty.
On Feeling Thirsty: Drink a small cup (i.e. 150-200 ml) of water, patiently. It is best to drink warm water or boiled water kept for less than 24 hours.
Drinking too much of water at a time can lead to indigestion:
The excess water consumed, being a good medium of transportation, pushes the food down ahead of time irrespective of digestive stage. Due to this hurry, the digestion-process of the prior stages is missed out and hence the digestion remains incomplete. This results in a condition of indigestion. Even in summer season, consuming small quantity of water at regular intervals, when feeling thirsty, helps in maintenance of better health. Consumption of more water in summer season is usually the reason behind our digestion fire becoming sluggish and hence we feel less hungry and also there is trouble in digesting consumed food.
Always Drinking Boiled Water is beneficial for health:
Consumption of un-boiled water increases the possibility of different types of infections in the body. Water is the only liquid food which is neither cooked before consumption nor it is processed by our digestion fire. So, it is clear that if water is contaminated, it can reach out blood streams and become the cause of infections. In general this contamination is removed by boiling process. Hence it is recommended to consume only boiled water, even in Summers.
Special contribution of this research besides providing better health:
This research papers about water would not only give us better health by avoiding the possible damages from drinking excess water, but it would also help in coming out of the misunderstanding about consumption of more and more water. This will also help us in reducing the need of scarce potable water resources and would also help in its conservation.
If one fourth of the population of India comes out from the myth of drinking excess water and reduce just 1 litre of water intake, then there will be saving of about 500 crores litres of clean drinkable water everyday. Calculations about this figure have also been explained in the book.

Dr. Arora’s questions for the Doctors recommending consumption of more and more water:
1. While giving commandments of drinking of more and more water, is not it their moral responsibility to also mention the deadly effect of this on diseases related to heart, digestion, kidney and hundreds of issues related to hormones?
2. Can I ask those water healers who are associated with either Allopathy, Ayurveda or Naturopathy, as to how does consumption of excess quantity of water help our body? Do they have a scientific, textual or research based evidence to support their process?
3. I would like to ask these water healers who simply quote Ayurveda in their lectures on consumption of high quantity of water, that have they even touched the original text books of Ayurveda like Charak Samhita, Sushruta Samhita or Ashtang Sangrah by Acharya Vagbhatt? Can they quote even a single line from these texts which recommend consumption of excess water? If not then what action should be taken against these people who are spreading the wrong trend and creating health hazards for millions of people?
4. These water healers should explain to the society if a patient of kidney problems or blood pressure or diabetes which impacts the kidneys negatively or diseases which bring swelling in different parts of body – should drink excess water? If yes, then please explain how as otherwise it is well known to have adverse effect on the health condition. You can read about scientific and Vaidic analysis of this subject along with references in my book – “Water – Elixir or Poison?”.

Follow the correct way of Water Consumption even in Summers:
A person should consume water on the basis of the condition of their body in right quantity, at right time and in right process. The time has come when we should come out of the jugglery of over consumption of water as it can lead to several health conditions. This is the reason that our texts have called it even a ‘poison’ if water is consumed in a wrong way. We should consume water patiently and in right process even in Summer. You would notice that in the summer oriented seasons i.e. even in rainy season a person feels less hungry and the possibility of issues like indigestion and other digestive problems also increases, a person may feel low energy levels and anxiety and restlessness. If you observe closely, these things happen to a person more he/she consumes more and cold water.
Same way winter dominated seasons like Autumn, Fall and Winter a person feels comparatively more hungry and chances of diseases also reduce, energy levels are better and one finds self in better mental health too. Please notice that these are the times when we usually consume lesser amount of water and certainly not cold water.
So it is quite evident that the hunger, better digestion and good mental health are all dependent on our digestive fire i.e. Agni and not on consumption of water. Is it not possible that the because of effect of summer we consume excess water that makes our Agni sluggish which in turn makes our digestion worse resulting in indigestion, lack of hunger etc. and we feel physically and mentally weaker.
A person should drink adequate quantity of room-temperature water patiently and slowly in small quantity as per the need of our body to maintain our digestive fire properly.
Not drinking increased quantity of water in Summer – is not the reason behind Diseases:
Please note that most of the dehydration issues found during summer are not because of lack of water intake but they are caused by consuming contaminated water resulting in indigestion and diarrhea. The issues like headache, bad throat, cold and cough etc. are caused by drinking cold water after coming from high temperature environment. Hence it is recommended to consume only adequate quantity of water at right time and in right way as per the requirement of one’s body.

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