A lot of people and particularly Indians feel that non-violence is cowardice. I believe its important to note that according to the below article, Gandhi has said that violence is better than cowardice. Non-violence is not cowardice, it takes far greater courage and strength to be non-violent than it takes to be violent!! 🙂 Gandhi…
Was passing by the Gandhi Bhavan in Malleswaram on an evening walk with my wife and noticed a notice outside of some lecture going on inside. I’d sort of taken for granted that any lecture there was probably for old people who had nothing else to do, but Vijetha went over and had a look…
Part of a forwarded email that was quite nice…
I’m not really one for poetry but came across some that I quite liked. Any more of your own… you’re welcome to post it here (even in HTML if you like). One was in a comment that someone had left on Nipun’s site on the day he was about to leave for his trip to…
This link just happened to come up in a google ad… just bookmarking it for reading some other day – the first page seemed to be interesting…
Orangutan Originally uploaded by Mr. Bird Brain. Just a quick post… some really cool pictures from a friend.
This is from a colleague (with minor editing), she’ll be able to keep track of any responses here…
blorgmancy the state of a blog being blorgmant – derived from dormant, which dictionary.com describes as being Latent but capable of being activated – or here’s a more sophisticated explanation – In a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes 😉 Trying…
I’m a tennis non-fan, i.e. in general I enjoy watching tennis but its somewhere in #7800231 in my list of priorities… Still, loved this really cool article Winning by Scott Adams. Having had a discriminated against background, he had every reason to get irked by the situation. But he took it so impersonally and resisted…
Recently watched the movie A Beatiful Mind (Russel Crowe) for the second time, following it more closely. There’s an interesting scene of a blonde girl, where they’re discussing about famous economist Adam Smith’s theory that “individual ambition is for the common good”. When a blonde girl enters the scene, Nash comes up with a thesis…
