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          A world famous item from the days gone-by are the MECCANO sets. It was truly a gem, giving hours and hours of bliss to youngsters.                courtsy - meccanoindex.co.uk They were beautifully made assemble yourself toy sets, with parts in steel plate, painted green and red. The screws were made of brass, wheels with rubber tyres etc, etc. You could make hundreds of mechanical things from the diagrams supplied or from your imagination. Since they had wheels, winches, pulleys, cranks etc., they worked like the real things, giving no end of enjoyment. We used to show our made items to all adults with pride, and discuss new ideas with friends at school. Later on just dismantle and make something new. No wastage !!                       The sets were numbered 0 (smallest having less parts) to 9 (having maximum variety of parts). There were in-between sets numbered with an A to upgrade to a higher level (example - number 2A added to 2 made your set equal to number

The dictionary gives the meaning of the word ‘realignment’ as - the act of changing to a previous or different position Realignment can be of various kinds – affecting us individually, our family, our society or the country. Why does realignment happen ? If you probe about it, the findings are astonishing. In most of the cases it is seen that it is induced by outside forces – who force it to happen to serve their own purpose and interests. A COUNTRY may align itself to any power block, ideology or claim to be neutral. But realignment of countries is a slow process and it takes several decades to happen; or come out of. The period of the Cold war was the most prominent, and the world has seen countries realign with this or that Power or Ideology. Usually it is the Leader who does the process, and it is not in the power of the population to decide such realignments ! This is a vast subject of Political Science and better left to its experts. YOUNG PERSONS specially