World Lazy Day

Lazy Day is celebrated on 10th August. It's a day to chill out and be lazy for a day - a perfect chance for a hot summer day. Laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. Related terms for a person seen to be lazy include couch potato, slacker, and bludger.

Despite Sigmund Freud's discussion of the pleasure principle, Leonard Carmichael notes that "laziness is not a word that appears in the table of contents of most technical books on psychology... It is a guilty secret of modern psychology that more is understood about the motivation of thirsty rats and hungry pecking pigeons as they press levers or hit targets than is known about the way in which poets make themselves write poems or scientists force themselves into the laboratory when the good golfing days of spring arrive."

A 1931 survey found that high school students were more likely to attribute their failing performance to laziness, while teachers ranked "lack of ability" as the major cause, with laziness coming in second

Lazy Day is celebrated on August 10, 2015. It's a day to chill out and be lazy for a day - a perfect chance for a hot summer day. Laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. Related terms for a person seen to be lazy include couch potato, slacker, and bludger.

Despite Sigmund Freud's discussion of the pleasure principle, Leonard Carmichael notes that "laziness is not a word that appears in the table of contents of most technical books on psychology... It is a guilty secret of modern psychology that more is understood about the motivation of thirsty rats and hungry pecking pigeons as they press levers or hit targets than is known about the way in which poets make themselves write poems or scientists force themselves into the laboratory when the good golfing days of spring arrive."

A 1931 survey found that high school students were more likely to attribute their failing performance to laziness, while teachers ranked "lack of ability" as the major cause, with laziness coming in second. (With material from: Wikipedia) The text Lazy Day has been taken from www.cute-calendar.com.

National First Handloom Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced August 7 as National Handloom Day to mark the 1905 Swadeshi movement.

Modi also launched the 'India Handloom' brand at a function in Chennai. The brand will help weavers cater to more global markets, he added.

The PM also called for increased use of handloom products, saying a 5% increase in comsumption will increase revenues by 33% for the sector.

“The handloom sector has inherent strengths that we need to market. Can we not enhance use of handlooms in our daily lives,” he said in his speech. “We should enlarge the scope of e-commerce for sale of handloom products."

The PM landed at Chennai airport at 10.35 am and was received by Tamil Nadu governor K Rosiah, J Jayalalithaa and her five senior cabinet ministers. Later the Prime Minister and governor left for Madras University, where the Prime Minister officially announced the day.

It was on August 7, 1905 that the formal proclamation of the Swadeshi Movement was made in a meeting at the Calcutta Town hall. The movement involved boycotting British products and the revival of domestic products and production processes. 

Around 3,000 handloom weavers from various parts of the country attended the function at the Madras University Auditorium today. 

Tamil Nadu CM, however, gave the function as miss, without providing an official reason. Jayalalithaa had not attended former President APJ Abdul Kalam's funeral earlier due to health reasons.

The Prime Minister also conferred the Sant Kabir awards and National awards for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 to handloom personalities.

"The observance of National Handloom Day and honouring of handloom weavers will not only provide an impetus to India's handloom industry but would also serve to promote handloom as a genuine international product of good quality," an official statement said.

Handloom weaving provides direct and indirect employment to more than 43 lakh weavers and allied workers. The sector is responsible for nearly 15% of cloth production in the country and also contributes to export earnings. Around 95% of the world's hand woven fabric comes from India.