Having an independent spirited attitude, though I admire a great number of people, I’m generally a sceptic and rarely go to the extent of idolising anybody. [On the other hand, I believe there’s always something to appreciate and learn from each and every person we come across.] I’ve been been following Nipun & his wife…
There are so many things that influence our lives. I just made a list here, I am not recommending any of them, some of them may sound superstitious or ridiculous to some, but may be very strongly believed by others. This is merely a listing of things that I’ve come across so far.
Are multinational companies helping or harming India’s development? I don’t know the answer and haven’t come to any conclusion of my own, I’m just putting some pieces here, any more are welcome… 🙂 … or even any differences in opinion!
When I was a kid and used to grow vertically I used to stand straight against a wall where my Dad had drawn a vertical line. He’d hold a ruler above my head to mark it with a dash and write the date inspite of my mom’s complaints about not dirtying the wall. So later…
Recently there was the Kannada serial Muktha (discussion) on E TV Kannada channel. One of the scenes (an excerpt) they showed was that of the inspector who in all her fortrighness and idealism was incriminating her own mother and was always talking very condescendingly about her.
This quote is pretty interesting… We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
Like the hibiscus plant, one can never imagine what can teach us what… sometimes even some random television scene can become a teacher! Recently was watching TV with my mother and doDDamma (mother’s elder sister) and while flipping through the channels stopped at a Hollywood movie. It seemed to be an interesting scene where people…
This is just an idea that’s been in my mind for the past week or so… that what I really want to do is make some resolutions for this year – considering there’s still a bit of it left! Resolutions that have to be executed before the year gets over. Some items on my list…
Apart from some ad-hoc stray incidents of violence, Bangalore had so far seemed to be a relatively safer city so far. The call center employee’s gruesome murder was a pretty sharp shock to the illusion of security, it was like a cold water ruining everybody’s sound sleep! This news article… was definitely a tight slap……
Of course limited ability, or challenged, are nowadays gentler substitutes for the word handicapped, but I hope to write about something beyond mere courtesy or terminology, so I’m just using what’s convenient to me.
