How much does a captain of the Indian Army get as a salary?
The biggest perk is Respect and Honour.Other common perks include:Housing with minimal Rent(It's around 200 Rs)And yeah, that house is a fully furnished house with furniture like Bed, Cupboards, Sofas, Couches, Dining Table set, and Sprawling Gardens)Discounted items in CSD(Canteen) starting fom basic packaged food items, toiletries, cosmetic goods, luggages, footwear, and the list goes on( We sometimes get as much as 60–70% discount on MRP)Economically priced Liqueur. ( For the nth time, Liqueur is not free)In established army cantonments we have facilities that only the very rich can afford). These include Olympic Size Swimming Pool, Squash, Tennis, Basketball Courts, Football grounds and running tracks.Also in some stations we have Horse Riding (Equestrian Club), Golf Course, Croquet, etc.Indian Army provides well for the army officers in terms of Institutes( You would call it a Club or Lounge) where the officers can meet, greet and relax. The institutes have excellent Bars, Smoking Rooms and Superb RestaurantsTravel in Indian Railways at 50% cost.When on duty in other city, army officers are authorized accomadations in 5 star hotels.Passes to special events like Republic Day, etcSpecial access to the remotest of the locations( One such is on India Gate's top).Free vacation and Air Travel every alternate yeat to any part of India.Special Area allowances.These perks are nothing compared to the duty they do, and the lives they sacrifice for our nation.Lifestyle is such that most of the perks are not even taken or used by most of the officers.Quartered in snow, silent to remain. When the bugle calls, they shall rise and march again.” -The scroll of honour at the Siachen base campIf death strikes before I prove my blood, I swear I’ll kill Death” – Capt Manoj Kumar Pandey PVC 1/11 Gorkha RiflesJAI HIND!!
Which are some really useful psychological tricks and facts?
Yes, of course :) These are comparatively less glamorous than most of the ‘popular tricks’. But, these rest on science and are more accurate and reliable. Let’s get started. Some are direct research insights, some are deduced tricks.Your reading speed increases when you use sans-serif fonts instead of serif fonts.Moving your eyes left and right for 30 seconds can temporarily improve your memory for recently learned content. But only when you are right-handed.Desserts served in round plates are perceived as sweeter than other types of plates.Coffee is expected to be more aromatic when served in narrow mugs as compared to wide mugs. Wide mug coffees are expected to be sweeter. People are willing to pay more for wide and tall mugs even if the actual quantity of coffee is unchanged.Neurons undergo a recruitment process where some neurons win and represent information. The recruited neurons stay and the others die.If you are unable to maintain eye contact, you can look between the eyes. It does not feel overwhelming. So the anxious can be a lot more comfortable with it.We perceive pain and heat by very similar sensory mechanisms. Sometimes we cannot differentiate between the two.Multitasking is possible as long as one of the tasks you are doing is highly automatic and you are excellent at switching quickly between the 2. However, this is not true multi-tasking. It is task switching. It is possible to automate complex tasks through practice. Such as, playing 2 guitars at the same time.Cross-modal congruence is when people feel information from one sense matches with information from a different sense. People like faces that kind of match their name more than faces that don’t match their name. This, sometimes, is the basis of naming pets and babies.Studying 2 or 3 similar topics in parallel in small chunks is more effective than full blown hours of study on a single topic. This applies to school and college level content.Sources:Food psychology: Coffee does taste different from different cups! | Cognition Today11 Psychological hacks using fonts | Cognition Today… and misc. articles from the same site. All information has been sourced from original academic publications except for point 6. I’ve written the articles myself and can confirm none of these are pop sci myths and shallow facts.
Whats the best way to lose weight in two weeks?
In college this use to be me every month. “OMG, I have this [Insert Event]! I have to lose weight right now!”I would crash diet down (more on that below). Lose the weight, feel really good. Then the next month I was right back at the weight where I didn’t want to be and miserable with myself.Once I learned how to maintain a healthy lifestyle I stopped the stressful unhealthy ups and downs. Yes, those crashes are not healthy.If you need the motivation of big weight loss to jump start a healthy lifestyle then this is how to do it. But most people who do crash diets don’t stick with them because it sucks. Mentally it sucks. You’re hungry, moody, and don’t want to be around anyone.Disclaimer: I do not promote this for health. This is what a fitness model would do 1-2 weeks out from a fitness shoot. (I’m leaving out the muscle ‘fullness’ steps that a fitness professional would do on the day before and day of a shoot since that is not what the question was about.)Drink a lot of water (At a minimum a gallon per day)Your body weight times 8 or 9 for daily calories (150 lbs x 9 = 1350) NEVER BELOW 1200 no matter how small you are.No carbs… not even fruitOnly Protein and veggiesGreen tea or Coffee (If you’re not a caffeine drinker be very cautious)Brisk walking - a lot (ideally more than an hour per day, brisk walking is walking with a purpose)No weight lifting or intense exercise. You won’t have the energy.That’s it. This isn’t sustainable. This is miserable.I want to show you something….That’s me year round on the left now. I eat 1800-2000 calories per day. I drink alcohol. I have fun with friends. I have an intense work schedule that requires me to be ‘On’ all the time. I workout 4 times a week for about an hour. I dance.On the right that’s me in college when I would be crash dieting constantly.I use a healthy diet plan that works for me year round. Never once have I had to crash diet since I learned about living a healthy lifestyle.I wrote in detail about building your healthy diet here.
Why did Japan enter World War II?
Japan's industries need raw materials, but it's natural resources are nil. She had to import iron scrap and petroleum from U S A. The nearest country which has vast resources was China. However English, French and Duch monopolised exploitation, and vast areas were under the rule of their governments. So Japan occupied Manchuria. In the process vast stretches of China was occupied.To maintain occupational force they need more material, steel and fuel were very much necessary. In this context Japan's line of thinking was that while she was being starved of fuel and raw materials, companies of far of countries are getting the same dam cheap by exploiting vast resources.By the same time Nazis rose to power in Germany and by 1941 - 42 they successfully defeated France remains unstoppable. So the powers that were ruling some Asian countries themselves were defeated. This, Japan thought was the right time to join hands with victorious forces, viz. Nazi Germany and Italy.These developments troubled US. They told Japan to stop aggression on China and announced halt of iron scrap.This infuriated the Japanese government, headed by Tojo, a military general. As the Europe was in turmoil, the attention of US diverted to help UK, it was the right time to destroy American naval ships and air craft carriers at Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack.On the face of it Japanese are in serious discussions with American Government. But Tojo covertly planned a surprise attack. This they did in December.But the attack did not yield desired results as US Air craft carriers were not there.As the American industrial might is is several times of Japanese, eventually they won the war. However a small Asian nation stunned the most powerful nation writing a day of infamy in it's history.