Tag: Family

  • Warranty For Interior Decoration Carpentry

    Many of us, after spending a lot money on purchasing a New House, entrust the carpentry work/Interior Decorations to some carpenters or some people styling as Interior decorators.

    We do not enter into any Warranty.

    The Carpenter, Interior decorators tell you that the raw material they have used is the best and the Wood will last for Ten years, other things like door handles, Fittings will last Five Years.

    There seems to be no format available.

     

    I am providing a Format, which may be customized.

     

    This may be cross checked with your lawyer.

     

    Stamp paper of Rs 25 will do.

     

    But gentlemen do not need agreements, but others can  break it at will, whatever the Clauses!

     

     

     

    Warranty.

    This Agreement of Warranty is executed between,

    ……., S/o ……., Aged  years , residing at  …………………………………….                      ,hereinafter called Party of the First Part,

    And

    Mr./M/s ………S/o , engaged in the business of Interior work/decoration of Homes.’ Residing/located at,……………………………………………

    Hereinafter called Party of the Second Part,

    Whereas party of the Second Part approached party of the First Part to do Interior decoration, Carpentry work of the residence of party of the First Part, described in detail in the annexure and  Party of the First Part having agreed to give him the Work for a consideration of Rupees  /- ( …….. ) as per specifications of the Party of the First Part,

    And the Party of the Second Part, having completed the work  and Party of the Second Part , having paid the agreed consideration of Rupees…….,in full, to Party of the First part

    Now enter into an Agreement of Warranty on the Following terms and conditions.

    1. Party of the Second part shall replace without any cost, damaged, defective wood used in the work done at the property of the party of the First Part, for period of Ten Years.

    2. Cost here includes the cost of replacement of such wood that might need replacement and the labour cost involved in carrying out this work.

    3.This replacement of parts used in the work such as Doors, Handles, Faucets ,Door Knobs, Latches, Hinges, Padlocks, springs  and this warranty for these items will be for a Period of Five Years, bells, shelves, screws, hangers, hydraulic equipment, fixtures and kitchen baskets.

    4. This Warranty includes ,

    4. During such period, the Party of the Second Part shall replace, without any cost, the defective, malfunctioning components, items, to the Party of The First Part.

    5. Here Cost denotes cost of the material replaced and the labour charges involved therein.

    6.In such an event the party of the Second Part , not being able to fulfil this Warranty, Party of the Second Part, shall pay to party of the Second Part ,a sum equivalent to the cost of the material/s to be replaced and the labour charges involved in repairing/installing the same.

    7.The Cost ,in such cases, will be determined by the party of the First part , at market rates, including labour and party of the Second Part shall ay the Party of the  First Part the amount on the claim made by Party of the First Party prior to replacing, reinstalling of such components, products .

    8. Limitations.

    Limitations: Materials/Components

    Laminates, Veneers / Finishes / Hardwoods – 10 years

    Electrical lamps, Ballasts, Transformers – 5 years

    Fabrics, pneumatic lifts, foam – 5 years

    Custom products built to customer specifications – 5 years

    Seating foam padding – 5 years

    Seating metal accents glides – 10 years

    Seating wood frame – 10 years

    Seating High Use Items – 5 years

    (High Use Items include, but are not limited to, table arms, electrical components, ganging mechanisms, pneumatic lifts, and polymer based components)

    9. The Warranty will come into Force effective September 1(First of September), 2013.

    10. Any dispute arising out of this agreement is subject to ………….Jurisdiction.

    11. Parties of the   First Part and the Second Part hereby affirm the aforesaid agreement and sign this Agreement,

    Dated , …….,……,….

    Annexure.

     

    Party of the First Part.                                                                                                                                                                                    Party of the Second Part.

    (                                       )                                                                                                                                                                                           (                                                )

    Witnesses.

     

    1.Name and Address.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Signature

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    Place.

    Date.

  • Seven Types Of Tamil Marriages

    There are eight types of Marriages described in the Sanatana Dharma , the Vedic way of Life, as sanctioned by the Smritis.

    What are the types of marriages allowed in the Tamil Culture which is as old and rich as Sanskrit and Sanatana Dharma.?

    A study of the ancient Taml work Tholkappiyam, which is regarded as the most ancient Tamil work that deals with Tamil Grammar apart from dealing with Tamil way of Life.

    It defines Tamils’  way of Life.

    The Vedic Hinduism lists

    kalitiogai Poem
    Tamil Literature Poem kalotogai

    Seven types of Marriages.

    1.Brahmah Vivaah

    2.Prajapatya Vivaah.

    3.Arsha Vivaah.

    4.Daiva Vivah.

    5.Asura Vivaah.

    6.Gaandharva Vivaah.

    7.Raakshsa Vivaah and

    8.Paisaacha Vvaah.

    Tamils also list Seven Types of Marriages.

    They are,

    1. மரபு வழி மணம்
    2. சேவை மணம்
    3. போர் நிகழ்த்தி மணம்
    4. துணங்கையாடி மணம்
    5. பரிசம் கொடுத்து மணம்
    6. ஏறு தழுவி மணம்
    7. மடலேறி மணம்

    1.Marapu Vazhi Manam, The Traditional Marriage

    In this the bridegroom’s parents visit the bride’s parents, seek the bride and on approval the marriage is performed.

    2.Sevai Manam.

    In this type of marriage, the man serves the bride’s father, pleases him and on his approval gets married.

    3.Por Nigazhthi Manam, Engaging in Warfare and getting married.

    The man who loves a girl goes to war, if any, returns victorious and the brides parents are obligated to marry their daughter to him,

    4.Thunangaiyaadi Manam, Winning in a type of Martial warfare and getting married.

    It is a game engaged both by men and women(Men Vs Men,Women Vs Women)) .

    This is also a part of Tamil Art.

    On an auspicious day the game will be played.

    Both the hands are made immobile and one should play by nudging with the Elbows and other pats of the body(Parts below the waist are not to be used.

    Some times wars may be fought on these days.

    Both men and women engage themselves in this game and if both the girl and the man win, individually they are allowed to get married.

    5.Parisam Koduthu Manmudiththal, Paying a an amount, like dowry, and getting married.

    The difference between the present custom of demanding money from the Bride was not in vogue.

    In Vedic times also the Dowry was to be paid by the Bridegroom and not by the bride.

    In Tamil Culture., the Parisam, Dowry, may be movable or immovable assets and the Brides parents determine this.

    6.Eru Thazhuvudahal,Fighting against a Bull , overpowering it and getting married.

    7.Madaleruthal.

    The man who is unable to get married his loved one, smears ashes over his body,wears flowers not used generally, like ‘Erukku’-Calotropis gigantea or Calotropis makes a Horse out of Palm  leaves , gets onto a horse and rides slowly through the city. crying aloud his Love’s name.

    This was regarded as the worst type of Marriage.

    This can was done only when the love was mutual, one-sided affairs do not lead to this.

    There was Polygamy, one man married many women.

    Polyandry, woman marrying many men,is not seen.

    Inter-caste marriages took place.

    Traditionally marrying from one landscape in another landscape was not allowed.

    One belonging to a particular landscape, say like Mountainous regions(Kurinji) marrying  one from  a different landscape like Mullai-Forest and the adjoining region.

    However exceptions were made.

    There were also case where men and women got married without parents’ approval.

    Illicit affairs were also known.

    These come under Kalavozhukkam, Tami literature deals separately on this subject.

  • Marriage Is For You

    I received an email from WordPress informing me of a WordPress.com site becoming viral, with over 26 Million views ans the site had even crashed unable to handle such a heavy traffic.

    This is the message.

    On November 2, 2013, Seth Smith hit publish on an article entitled Marriage Isn’t For You. Within a few hours, his self-hosted WordPress site couldn’t handle the tens of thousands of visitors reading the post. He moved his article and then his entire site over to WordPress.com, where the WordPress.com team did some additional tweaks to keep his site up and ready for the ten million visitors who would end up visiting his site in a single day. The article has since received 26 million total views. We talked to Seth about going viral on WordPress.com.”

    I read the post, found it interesting.

    The gist is that Love is not about what you get  when you love some one,

    It is the happiness that you bring or impart to that person.

    So, in that sense Love and Marriage is not for you.

    Though the logic seems to be good ,there seems to be a slight difference in analysing Relationship.

    The article says that marriage is for raising a family .

    True.

    But you do not divest your interest in raising your Family.

    You too are interested in a Relationship for you expect it to bring you happiness

    You do things because you expect them to bring you happiness or at least that which does not bring you grief.

    It is human Nature to be happy and seek happiness through gratification.

    This may be physical ,emotional,mental,spiritual or all these combined.

    Though sounds cynical it is a fact there is no such Love as an Altruistic one.

    The trick is to balance your happiness and other’s happiness and ensure that you get more happiness out of other’s happiness.

    Sounds easy, but is not.

    But practice shall make it easier and it would become a routine.

    PS. Do not confuse this with Hypocrisy.

    As happiness is what every one seeks Marriage, with all its warts, is for everyone..

  • Indian Food Cuisine Unity In Diversity

    With Twenty-eight States and Seven Union Territories(2013), India has a wide yet distinguishing Vegetarian cuisine .

    Cuisine of India
    Indian Foods

    The Food in India is varied ,at the same time there are certain elements that are common.

    Let us look at what is common among these Cuisine.

    1.Seasoning in Oil is mandatory for food preparations.

    2.Spices are used in every dish.

    3.Pepper,Mustard,Fenugreek,Cumin seeds,Coriander are the three elements that are used daily in all the States.

    4.Curry and Curry leaves are the most used in preparations.

    5,Dhals ,Ghee,Papads,Pickles and Curds are essential .

    South Indians, especially the Tamils love Fire roasted(direct roasting) Papads.

    4.In Sweets Kheers,Mysorepak,Jilebi are common.

    5.Use of Pulses.

    The South uses more Thur dal, the North prefers Moong dal and Bengal Gram.

    Now to the differences.

    1.Rice is used as staple food in the South,East and North east while Wheat is used in the north and north-east.

    West(Maharashtra and Gujarat) use a combination of Rice and Wheat.

    More of wheat and Jowar.Maize in the northern parts of Karnataka.

    2,Vegetable cooking come under to broad heads, one dry,deep-fried

    Deep fried Ladies Fingers,Potatoes,Baingan are common to all the States

    There is yet another type of cooking vegetables, making vegetables as a sort of Gravy, Koottu in the South.

    3.Eating Rice with Curds is popular in Tamil Nadu,Kerala and Karnataka, to a limited extent in Andhra.

    Rice is used extensively in West Bengal ,Orissa,Assam and the North east.

    Kerala  and North Karnataka,abutting Kerala uses Coconut Oil extensively,North Groundnut oil ,the East and North east, Mustard Oil and Tamil Nadu Sesame oil.

    West ,Maharashtra and Gujarat uses more of ground nut Oil.

    Here I have excluded the use of Sun Flower oil as I am posting on traditional cooking.

    4.North indian foods have more of fat and Protein while the South has more of Carbohydrates to suit the climate.

    5.Normally in the South people take a full meal in the morning and, in the North breakfast(now the South has changed by switching over to meals at noon)

    6.In North India chillies, saffron, milk, yoghurt, cottage cheese and ghee (clarified butter) are hot favorites while in the South, folks love pepper, tamarind and coconut.

  • Nehru Family Tree Muslims

    Now there is a lot of talk of Article 370 of The Indian Constitution, applicable to Jammu and Kashmir.

    This has become loud after Narendra Modi declared that he will rethink on the Article 370 for Kashmir if he becomes the PM.

    I remember having asked my Father, (who is no more) as to why this provision was applied to Jammu and Kashmir and why Sheikh Abdullah was not imprisoned in a tough Jail instead of a resort for his anti India utterances.

    He replied that Sheikh Abdullah was Nehru‘s half-brother!

    I recalled this when I read a news item that the Congress has decided(meaning Sonia Gandhi has decided) to move a fresh Bill to legalize Gays.

    The paper declared that this was in keeping with the progressive outlook of the Nehru clan.

    Without going into the merits of granting Gays Rights( my readers know what my views are on this), I wanted to check on the Nehru family‘s myth of Brahmins from Kashmir and that despite being orthodox Brahmins the Nehru’s have been progressive( does not mean that Brahmins are not progressive)

    This is what I came up with.

    The Family of Nehru.
    Nehru Family Tree

    “The Nehru family starts with the Mughal man named Ghiyasuddin Ghazi. He was the City Kotwal i.e. police officer of Delhi prior to the uprising of 1857, under the Mughal rule. After capturing Delhi in 1857, in the year of the mutiny, the British were slaughtering all Mughals everywhere. The British made a thorough search and killed every Mughal so that there were no future claimant to the throne of Delhi. So, the man Ghiyasuddin Ghazi (the word means kafir-killer) adopted a Hindu name Gangadhar Nehru and thus saved his life by the subterfuge. Ghiyasuddin Ghazi apparently used to reside on the bank of a canal (or Nehr) near the Red Fort. Thus, he adopted the name ‘Nehru’ as the family name. The 13th volume of the “Encyclopedia of Indian War of Independence (ISBN:81-261-3745-9) by M.K. Singh states it elaborately. The Government of India have been hiding this fact…

    JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU:—Jawahar Lal’s father was Moti Lal and Moti Lal’s father was Gangadhar Nehru. His wife was kamala Kaul, who died in Switzerland of tuberculosis. M. O. Mathai in his book– “Reminiscences of the Nehru Age”– which opens secret of Jahawarlal Nehru relationship with a Beneras girl. His relationship with several teens , Nehru was a playboy type , drinking wine, smoking with Edwina Mountabattien & others secretly. (Link:–http://www.sikhsundesh.net/nehru_dynasty.htm )..

    Also Nehru had love affair with Sarojini Naidu’s daughter Padmaja Naidu, whom Nehru got appointed as the Governor of Bengal. It is revealed that he used to keep her portrait in his bed room, which Indira would often remove. It caused some tension between father and daughter.

    Also Nehru had an affair with a sanyasin from Benares named Shraddha Mata  in 1949, in a convent in Bangalore. A son was born and he was kept at a Christian Missionary Boarding School. His date of birth is estimated to be 30th May, 1949.

    In 1929 Nehru father Motilal made a report , after that Muslims in India demanded new country.Then Jinnah who was in Congress Party was forced to join Muslim League.Nehru was so eager to take position of Prime Minister,created differences with Jinnah.Nehru even didn`t thought of poor people who died in civil war between Hindus Vs Muslims.

    (Link: http://nehrufamily.wordpress.com/)