Finally managed to see the movie Lage Raho Munna Bhai last week! In summary I’d say it was not just a case of a ghost or schizophrenia or a new label ‘gandhigiri’, but a simple matter of discovering within ourselves… an elegant and creative possibility of living non-destructively ! 🙂
Category: info
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sky's the limit
The sky in general is a beautiful thing, the biggest canvas in the world with the most unlimited colors! And best part is… its free – available 24 hours a day! All we need to do is take time to look 🙂
Try this experiment…
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another exhibhition of corpses
Now there are a great deal of buses from different IT companies, that run from Electronics City to the main city. The journey is typically around 1.5 hours one way, and sometimes the road is bumpy (and that’s an understatement 😉 ).
When another IT company bus passed me and I looked at the inmates and I was quite jarred…
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the ergonomic scientist
One of my colleagues had sent a
scary mail of photos of carpal tunnel surgery. That was definitely a mail to wake
up to 🙂 However I'd say the mail is a bit of exaggeration just to use fear as
a motivator 🙂 Whatever I'd found out with a good deal of research, carpal tunnel
though a very serious thing, is very rare along the same risk as being struck
down by lightning (and we know that it could happen and we read that
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a sustainable health habit
Here are some simple habits from my journal which got me good results. I’m not a medical guy – reader discretion mandatory. And they’re not shortcuts for instant reduction.
A more natural sustainable approach is the key. The more independent we become the better, independent of devices and gadgets and chemicals and circumstances (access to a sport or depending on weather, a group of people, etc).
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making a paper aeroplane
While searching for some good simple physics puzzles to help out my wife in her class quiz tomorrow… came across a site to build a pretty sophisticated looking paper aeroplane!
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how to deal with anger?
There is no dearth of philosophy/literature talking about why anger is a bad thing and we must deal with it, and musn’t do rash things that we will regret later, and so on. Its nice to hear about that when things are nice and everything’s fine, but when there’s actually a bad situation then an angry man dosen’t have time to think about rationality. Not idealistically but practically speaking, we may know what the right thing to do is (jaanaami dharmam…!), but the scope for making the right choice becomes less! 😛
I had written these notes many years ago, and it still makes sense. So I e-unearthed it since I came across a quote recently, so posting it here after some editing.
It must be noted that I am only a common man, a very ordinary fellow and I try to write here whatever is applicable for me in my everyday ordinary life, not for some idealist.
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about douglas adams
I’d read the book Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy during college days as well and had a laugh riot. But reading them recently after a many years I laughed again, but the books had an astonishing depth I’d never perceived before! I wondered why…
Found some explanation for it in this article Lament for Douglas by Richard Dawkins which is more than just a lament. Apart from other things, it also reveals some things about the author… for example this part when Dawkins met Douglas:
> Obviously I knew he would be funny. What I didn’t know was how deeply
> read he was in science. I should have guessed, for you can’t understand
> many of the jokes in Hitchhiker if you don’t know a lot of advanced
> science.To “summarise the summary” – if one’s knowledge of science has improved over
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[article] The Alternative Hypothesis
Some very interesting ideas are voiced in this beautiful article by Navadarshanam…
Midway through life, Eknath Easwaran says: I was beginning to sense that there was nothing in the industrial world�s endless whirl of new products and pleasures that would compensate for the things receding ever further into the distance: our hope for a peaceful world; the knowledge that our children will inherit a healthy earth; the feeling of having a high purpose; the experience of being a blessing rather than a curse on the rest of life.
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Gandhi says, “It’s not too late at all. You just don�t yet know what you are capable of.” People do not have to become something they are not; they need to learn who and what they really are.
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plastic in the microwave
[Date of this entry only an approximation]
As a result of the previous post, just out of curiousity to find the real answer, I looked up google and found some interesting things…
