My Secret in Silence
- Lorelei Pablo
You came into my life
Quietly, Simply, Placidly
And my words stood still...
I couldn't express in words
Or even simple gestures
The secret I kept in my heart.
So I loved in silence
Admired you from a distance
Dreamt of you afar.
I wanted to say I love you...
I wanted to say i care.
But cowardly, maybe, you'll laugh at me.
In silence then I will love you...
In silence then I will care...
2009 ഒക്ടോബർ 26, തിങ്കളാഴ്ച
2009 ഒക്ടോബർ 17, ശനിയാഴ്ച
Life!
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will.
Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
15. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
16. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
17. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
18. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
19. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
20. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
21. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
22. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
23. The most important sex organ is the brain.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
26. Always choose life.
27. Forgive everyone everything..
28. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time time..
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
32. Believe in miracles.
33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
35. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young..
36. Your children get only one childhood.
37. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
41. The best is yet to come.
42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
43. Yield.
44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will.
Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
15. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
16. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
17. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
18. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
19. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
20. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
21. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
22. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
23. The most important sex organ is the brain.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
26. Always choose life.
27. Forgive everyone everything..
28. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time time..
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
32. Believe in miracles.
33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
35. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young..
36. Your children get only one childhood.
37. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
41. The best is yet to come.
42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
43. Yield.
44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
2009 ഒക്ടോബർ 8, വ്യാഴാഴ്ച
നമുക്കു പാര്ക്കാന് മുന്തിരി തോപ്പുകള്.
"നമുക്കു ഗ്രാമങ്ങളില് പോയി രാപ്പാര്ക്കാം. അതി കാലത്തു എഴുനേറ്റു മുന്തിരി തോട്ടങ്ങളില് പോയി മുന്തിരി വള്ളി തളിര്ത്തു പൂവ് വിടരുകയും മാതള നാരകം പൂക്കുകയും ചെയ്തുവോ എന്ന് നോക്കാം. അവിടെ വെച്ചു ഞാന് നിനക്കെന്റെ പ്രേമം തരും..."
നമുക്കു പാര്ക്കാന് മുന്തിരി തോപ്പുകള്
ഒരു അതി ഗംഭീര പത്മരാജ ചിത്രം
ലോറി ഓടിക്കുന്ന നായകനും അതി ഗംഭീര തിരക്കഥയും...
മോഹന്ലാലും തിലകനും അഭിനയ മത്സരം
നമുക്കു പാര്ക്കാന് മുന്തിരി തോപ്പുകള്
ഒരു അതി ഗംഭീര പത്മരാജ ചിത്രം
ലോറി ഓടിക്കുന്ന നായകനും അതി ഗംഭീര തിരക്കഥയും...
മോഹന്ലാലും തിലകനും അഭിനയ മത്സരം
2009 ഒക്ടോബർ 7, ബുധനാഴ്ച
WHY SOME ENGINEERS ARE TERRORISTS
SHASHI THAROOR , 30th March 2008 Times of India
An IIT graduate — so the story goes — is walking near a pond one day when a frog speaks to him. "Kiss me," it says, "and i will turn into a beautiful princess." The IITian does a double-take, turns back to check if he has heard right, and sure enough, the frog repeats itself: "Kiss me and i will turn into a beautiful princess." He looks thoughtfully at the frog, picks it up and puts it into his pocket. A plaintive wail soon emerges: "Kiss me and i will turn into a beautiful princess." He ignores it and walks on. Soon the frog asks, "Aren't you going to kiss me?" The IIT guy stops, pulls the frog out of his pocket, and replies matter-of-factly: "I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend. But a talking frog is cool." No prizes for guessing what a literature graduate would have done in the same situation! Such is the self-image of the engineer in India: rational, hard-working, self-disciplined, steady, focused on the results of his work. Parents pray for the smartest of their kids to become engineers. Any child with better than average marks in science at school is pushed towards the profession, sustained by peer pressure that convinces him there could be no higher aspiration. And no doubt for some there isn't. But that clearly isn't the whole story. Disturbing new research at Oxford University by sociologists Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog points to an intriguing — one might say worrying — correlation between engineering and terrorism. If that doesn't raise eyebrows at the IITs, nothing will. But consider the evidence: Osama bin Laden was a student of engineering. So were the star 9/11 kamikaze pilot Mohammed Atta, the alleged mastermind of that plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and their all-but-forgotten predecessor, the chief plotter of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef. The Oxford scholars, after putting together educational biographies for some 300 known members of violent Islamist groups from 30 countries, concluded that a majority of these Islamist terrorists were not just highly educated, but a startling number of them are engineers. Indeed, according to Gambetta and Hertog, nearly half had studied engineering. A summary of their research in Foreign Policy magazine remarked that "across the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the share of engineers in violent Islamist groups was found to be at least nine times greater than what one might expect, given their proportion of the working male population." Is there something about engineering that makes its most proficient graduates vulnerable to the temptations of violent extremism? Gambetta and Hertog seem to think so. They have no patience for the more conventional possible explanation — that engineers might be sought after by terrorist groups for their technical expertise in making and blowing up things. Instead, they argue that the reason there are so many terrorist engineers is that the subject helps produce a mindset that makes one prone to radicalisation. Engineers consider themselves problem solvers, and when the world seems to present a problem, they look to engineering- type solutions to solve it. Engineering, Gambetta and Hertog suggest, predisposes its votaries to absolute and non-negotiable principles, and therefore to fundamentalism; it is a short step from appreciating the predictable laws of engineering to following an ideology or a creed that is infused with its own immutable laws. It is easy for engineers to become radicalised, the researchers argue, because they are attracted by the "intellectually clean, unambiguous, and all-encompassing" solutions that both the laws of engineering and radical Islam provide. According to Gambetta and Hertog, surveys in Canada, Egypt, and the US have proved over the years that engineers tend to be more devout, and more politically conservative, than the rest of the population. I'm not suggesting one should buy wholesale the conclusions of the Oxford researchers; I know a few engineers who wouldn't harm a fly, so i'd be wary of making any sweeping generalisations about an entire profession. But the study does seem to me to open the door to make a nowadays unfashionable case: the argument in favour of studying the humanities. I have always believed that the well-formed mind is preferable to the well-filled one, and it takes a knowledge of history and an appreciation of literature to form a mind that is capable of grappling with the diversity of human experience in a world devoid of certitudes. If terrorism is to be tackled and ended, we will have to deal with fear, rage and incomprehension that animates it. We will have to know each other better, learn to see ourselves as others see us, learn to recognise hatred and deal with its causes, learn to dispel fear, and above all just learn about each other. It is not the engineering mindset that facilitates such learning, but the vision of the humanities student. The mind is like a parachute — it functions best when it is open. It takes reading and learning about other peoples and cultures to open (and broaden) minds. Ignorance and lack of imagination remain the handmaidens of violence. Without extending our imagination, we cannot understand how peoples of other races, religions or languages share the same dreams, the same hopes. Without reading widely and broadening our minds, we cannot understand the myriad manifestations of the human condition, nor fully appreciate the universality of human aims and aspirations. Without the humanities, we cannot recognise that there is more than one side to a story, and more than one answer to a question. That, of course, is never true in engineering. Perhaps the solution lies in making it compulsory for every engineering student to take at least 20% of his courses in the humanities. Maybe then he might even kiss the frog.
An IIT graduate — so the story goes — is walking near a pond one day when a frog speaks to him. "Kiss me," it says, "and i will turn into a beautiful princess." The IITian does a double-take, turns back to check if he has heard right, and sure enough, the frog repeats itself: "Kiss me and i will turn into a beautiful princess." He looks thoughtfully at the frog, picks it up and puts it into his pocket. A plaintive wail soon emerges: "Kiss me and i will turn into a beautiful princess." He ignores it and walks on. Soon the frog asks, "Aren't you going to kiss me?" The IIT guy stops, pulls the frog out of his pocket, and replies matter-of-factly: "I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend. But a talking frog is cool." No prizes for guessing what a literature graduate would have done in the same situation! Such is the self-image of the engineer in India: rational, hard-working, self-disciplined, steady, focused on the results of his work. Parents pray for the smartest of their kids to become engineers. Any child with better than average marks in science at school is pushed towards the profession, sustained by peer pressure that convinces him there could be no higher aspiration. And no doubt for some there isn't. But that clearly isn't the whole story. Disturbing new research at Oxford University by sociologists Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog points to an intriguing — one might say worrying — correlation between engineering and terrorism. If that doesn't raise eyebrows at the IITs, nothing will. But consider the evidence: Osama bin Laden was a student of engineering. So were the star 9/11 kamikaze pilot Mohammed Atta, the alleged mastermind of that plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and their all-but-forgotten predecessor, the chief plotter of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef. The Oxford scholars, after putting together educational biographies for some 300 known members of violent Islamist groups from 30 countries, concluded that a majority of these Islamist terrorists were not just highly educated, but a startling number of them are engineers. Indeed, according to Gambetta and Hertog, nearly half had studied engineering. A summary of their research in Foreign Policy magazine remarked that "across the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the share of engineers in violent Islamist groups was found to be at least nine times greater than what one might expect, given their proportion of the working male population." Is there something about engineering that makes its most proficient graduates vulnerable to the temptations of violent extremism? Gambetta and Hertog seem to think so. They have no patience for the more conventional possible explanation — that engineers might be sought after by terrorist groups for their technical expertise in making and blowing up things. Instead, they argue that the reason there are so many terrorist engineers is that the subject helps produce a mindset that makes one prone to radicalisation. Engineers consider themselves problem solvers, and when the world seems to present a problem, they look to engineering- type solutions to solve it. Engineering, Gambetta and Hertog suggest, predisposes its votaries to absolute and non-negotiable principles, and therefore to fundamentalism; it is a short step from appreciating the predictable laws of engineering to following an ideology or a creed that is infused with its own immutable laws. It is easy for engineers to become radicalised, the researchers argue, because they are attracted by the "intellectually clean, unambiguous, and all-encompassing" solutions that both the laws of engineering and radical Islam provide. According to Gambetta and Hertog, surveys in Canada, Egypt, and the US have proved over the years that engineers tend to be more devout, and more politically conservative, than the rest of the population. I'm not suggesting one should buy wholesale the conclusions of the Oxford researchers; I know a few engineers who wouldn't harm a fly, so i'd be wary of making any sweeping generalisations about an entire profession. But the study does seem to me to open the door to make a nowadays unfashionable case: the argument in favour of studying the humanities. I have always believed that the well-formed mind is preferable to the well-filled one, and it takes a knowledge of history and an appreciation of literature to form a mind that is capable of grappling with the diversity of human experience in a world devoid of certitudes. If terrorism is to be tackled and ended, we will have to deal with fear, rage and incomprehension that animates it. We will have to know each other better, learn to see ourselves as others see us, learn to recognise hatred and deal with its causes, learn to dispel fear, and above all just learn about each other. It is not the engineering mindset that facilitates such learning, but the vision of the humanities student. The mind is like a parachute — it functions best when it is open. It takes reading and learning about other peoples and cultures to open (and broaden) minds. Ignorance and lack of imagination remain the handmaidens of violence. Without extending our imagination, we cannot understand how peoples of other races, religions or languages share the same dreams, the same hopes. Without reading widely and broadening our minds, we cannot understand the myriad manifestations of the human condition, nor fully appreciate the universality of human aims and aspirations. Without the humanities, we cannot recognise that there is more than one side to a story, and more than one answer to a question. That, of course, is never true in engineering. Perhaps the solution lies in making it compulsory for every engineering student to take at least 20% of his courses in the humanities. Maybe then he might even kiss the frog.
2009 ഒക്ടോബർ 6, ചൊവ്വാഴ്ച
New words- Part 3
New words- Part 3
Abridge – shorten a text or film
Abrogate – cancel
Abrogated –cancel or do away with the law
Affront – offend
Anathema – something you hate
Apogee-highest point reached
Apposite – appropriate
Avowedly – openly state / confers
Beacon – a fire lit on the top of a hill as a signal
Blot – thing that spoils something good
Boorish – rough and bad memories
Cavalier – showing lack of real concern
Cohorts – a large band of people
Construed – interpret something in a particular way
Despised – hate or feel disgusted
Despotism – unlimited power
Diffidence – not having much self confidence
Eerily – strange & frightening
Elucidate – make clear, explain
Espionage – practice of spying
Eulogizing – praise someone high
Fang – tooth with which a snake injects poison
Flabbergasted – be greatly surprised
Flagrantly – very obvious and unashamed
Fulminations – protest strongly
Gross – vulgar
Harbinger – signal the approach of something
Haughtiness – arrogant & contemptuous of others
Heralded – publicly describe or announce
Hermit – saint
Hobgoblin – mischievous importance
Iconoclastic – a person who attacks established customs & values
Ignoble – dishonourable
Impunity – freedom from being punished or hurt
Inexorable – impossible to stop or prevent
Inexorably – impossible to stop or prevent
Insinuations – unpleasant hint or suggestion
Livid – furiously angry
Malady – disease or illness
Paranoia – a mental condition by which one feels that others are waiting to harm them
Penance – punishment given by a priest for having done wrong
Perched – sit or rest somewhere
Pernicious – having a harmful effect
Perpetuate –cause something to continue indefinitely
Phony – not genuine
Preposterous – outrageous
Promulgate – announce the official beginning of a new law
Propensity – tendency to believe in a particular way
Quash – put an end to
Rancour – bitter feeling / resentment
Rapacious – very greedy
Renascent – revival or re-birth
Repudiate – refuse to accept or support
Schism – division between 2 groups or within an organization
Scoffed – speak about something in a scornful way
Sordid – dishonest or immoral
Soured – unpleasantly stale
Temerity – excessive confidence or boldness
Temerity – excessive confidence or boldness
Tersely – using few words
Trammel – restrictions
Untenable – not able to be maintained
Upbraided – scolded
Venerated – respect someone highly
Verbiage – excessively detailed speech
Abridge – shorten a text or film
Abrogate – cancel
Abrogated –cancel or do away with the law
Affront – offend
Anathema – something you hate
Apogee-highest point reached
Apposite – appropriate
Avowedly – openly state / confers
Beacon – a fire lit on the top of a hill as a signal
Blot – thing that spoils something good
Boorish – rough and bad memories
Cavalier – showing lack of real concern
Cohorts – a large band of people
Construed – interpret something in a particular way
Despised – hate or feel disgusted
Despotism – unlimited power
Diffidence – not having much self confidence
Eerily – strange & frightening
Elucidate – make clear, explain
Espionage – practice of spying
Eulogizing – praise someone high
Fang – tooth with which a snake injects poison
Flabbergasted – be greatly surprised
Flagrantly – very obvious and unashamed
Fulminations – protest strongly
Gross – vulgar
Harbinger – signal the approach of something
Haughtiness – arrogant & contemptuous of others
Heralded – publicly describe or announce
Hermit – saint
Hobgoblin – mischievous importance
Iconoclastic – a person who attacks established customs & values
Ignoble – dishonourable
Impunity – freedom from being punished or hurt
Inexorable – impossible to stop or prevent
Inexorably – impossible to stop or prevent
Insinuations – unpleasant hint or suggestion
Livid – furiously angry
Malady – disease or illness
Paranoia – a mental condition by which one feels that others are waiting to harm them
Penance – punishment given by a priest for having done wrong
Perched – sit or rest somewhere
Pernicious – having a harmful effect
Perpetuate –cause something to continue indefinitely
Phony – not genuine
Preposterous – outrageous
Promulgate – announce the official beginning of a new law
Propensity – tendency to believe in a particular way
Quash – put an end to
Rancour – bitter feeling / resentment
Rapacious – very greedy
Renascent – revival or re-birth
Repudiate – refuse to accept or support
Schism – division between 2 groups or within an organization
Scoffed – speak about something in a scornful way
Sordid – dishonest or immoral
Soured – unpleasantly stale
Temerity – excessive confidence or boldness
Temerity – excessive confidence or boldness
Tersely – using few words
Trammel – restrictions
Untenable – not able to be maintained
Upbraided – scolded
Venerated – respect someone highly
Verbiage – excessively detailed speech
New words- Part 2
New words- Part 2
Abhorrent – unappealing
Naiveté – lack of experience, wisdom or judgment
Benevolence – well meaning & kindly
Cogency – logical, convincing
Sundered – split apart
Contemplation – look at thoughtfully, think about
Acquiesce – accept something without protest
Incarcerated – imprisoned
Malevolent – wishing to harm other people
Harrowing – very distressing
Incognito – having your true identity concealed
Firmament – heavens /sky
Cloak – cover or hide
Albeit – though
Annals – historical records
Intransigent – refusing to change views or behavior
Probity – honesty and decency
Abhorrent – unappealing
Naiveté – lack of experience, wisdom or judgment
Benevolence – well meaning & kindly
Cogency – logical, convincing
Sundered – split apart
Contemplation – look at thoughtfully, think about
Acquiesce – accept something without protest
Incarcerated – imprisoned
Malevolent – wishing to harm other people
Harrowing – very distressing
Incognito – having your true identity concealed
Firmament – heavens /sky
Cloak – cover or hide
Albeit – though
Annals – historical records
Intransigent – refusing to change views or behavior
Probity – honesty and decency
Some new words
Some new words:
Allude – mention in passing
Compendium – collection of information about a subject; collection of similar items
Innate- natural, in born
Erudite – showing knowledge gained from reading and study
Debilitating – severely weaken
Dichotomy – separation
Annulled – declared a law. Other legal contract to be no longer valid
Promulgation – announced the official beginning of a new law
Venerable – given great respect of age, wisdom or character
Sanctified – make something holy
Edifice – large imposing building
Envisaged – saw something as a possibility
Denouement – final part of a play / narrative in which matters are explained / resolved
Constellation – group of stars forming a recognized pattern
Candour – quality of being open & honest
Fervently – intensely passionate
Camaraderie – trust and friendship between people
Squalor – extremely dirty and unpleasant
Desolate – very unhappy
Tardy – late
Iniquitous – unfair
Milieu – social environment
Tumultuous – very loud, up roaring
Festoons – decorative chain of flowers
Enigma – mysterious person
Delude – flood
Connivance – inspire to do something wrong
Allude – mention in passing
Compendium – collection of information about a subject; collection of similar items
Innate- natural, in born
Erudite – showing knowledge gained from reading and study
Debilitating – severely weaken
Dichotomy – separation
Annulled – declared a law. Other legal contract to be no longer valid
Promulgation – announced the official beginning of a new law
Venerable – given great respect of age, wisdom or character
Sanctified – make something holy
Edifice – large imposing building
Envisaged – saw something as a possibility
Denouement – final part of a play / narrative in which matters are explained / resolved
Constellation – group of stars forming a recognized pattern
Candour – quality of being open & honest
Fervently – intensely passionate
Camaraderie – trust and friendship between people
Squalor – extremely dirty and unpleasant
Desolate – very unhappy
Tardy – late
Iniquitous – unfair
Milieu – social environment
Tumultuous – very loud, up roaring
Festoons – decorative chain of flowers
Enigma – mysterious person
Delude – flood
Connivance – inspire to do something wrong
2009 ഒക്ടോബർ 3, ശനിയാഴ്ച
My Country, My life – L.K. Advani – Part 2
My Country, My life – L.K. Advani – Part 2
What are you? Which in a more straight forward way meant ‘What is your caste’ – LKA
About 1957 election:
Of the 3 places I contested from, I forfeited my deposit in one (Mathura), lost by a thin margin in another (Lucknow) and won handsomely in the third (Balrampur)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
If a political leader wants to succeed in conflict prevention and resolution,he or she should develop six basic qualities. Keeping one’s ears to the ground through constant interaction with the masses, impartiality, sincerity, patience, fairness and firmness
- LKA
Free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad – Albert Camus, Nobel Laureate, French Novelist
The pursuit of happiness is linked not to one’s rights, but to one’s duties. The first duty that is enjoyed on an adult individual is to take care of one’s parents – LKA
No, I cannot do it. For there will be too much of ‘I’ in it which I dislike – Deendayalji
I will write about issues, not about myself – Deendayalji
Deendayalji’s utter inability and unwillingness to think about himself was of a kind that is unimaginable today – LKA
Communist mentality – “ Who ever is not with them being against them”
I (Nehru) will crush Jana Sangh to which Dr.Mookerjee retorted “And we will crush this crushing mentality of the PM
Nehru did not show Dr. Rajendra Prasad the respect he deserved both on account of the high constitutional office he held and his significant contribution to the freedom movement
Kosygm said to Shastri- You will have to give up Hajipir & Tithwa. Shastri had even retorted, In that case, you would have to talk to some other Prime Minister
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right – Confucious 551-479 BC
The only CM who sent me back empty handed without contributing any amount to the Rock Memorial Fund (at Kanyakumari,Vivekananda Smarak) was the then Kerala CM, EMS. I can say this much about my abortive interview with him. It was like conversing with a sphinx. It was monologue all the way on my part. Only an empty stare from the other side – Eknath Ranade
I do not want to rest & rust. Life without work is like death to me – God will keep me as long as He wishes, let me work – Eknath Ranande
Let every man make known what kind of Government would command his respect and that will be one step toward obtaining it – Henry David Thoreau
Lord Macaulay’s remarks in his address to British parliament on 02 Feb 1835 –
I have traveled across length and breadth of India and I have not seen one single person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think that we could ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her cultural & spiritual heritage and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign & English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them – a truly dominated nation
In life, we shall find many men
that are great, and some men that are good, but a very few men that are both great and good – Charles Celeb Cotton 18th Century English Writer
There is a quotation that says: “ The younger generation these days has no respect for elders. They are not carrying forward the traditions of the past. They are getting corrupted. Things were so good when we were young – Socrates
“So now you see that this complaint against the younger generation has been going on since the past 2000 yrs and it will continue in the future too”
A monotonous life lived without any purpose or direction, is not worth much. To achieve anything big in life, you should be prepared to risk your all and take a leap of faith for whatever they believed in – Deendayalji
A flower is what it is because of its petals, and the worth of the petals lies in remaining with the flower and adding to its beauty
Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers - that be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers that ought to be
- James Russell Lowett, an American Poet
Change is the only constant
Conscience in the singular is a virtue where as, in the plural, it is a conspiracy. It is tantamount to indulging in collective indiscipline
The map of Indian subcontinent was redrawn with the birth of Bangladesh,the delivery being mid-wifed by India
History repeats itself first and second time as a farce – Karl Marx
India’s victory in 1971 war was quite simply the grandest hour in the annals of our Armed forces
Today, politics has ceased to be a means. It has become an end in itself. We have today people who are engaged in power politics rather than aim at political power with a view to achieving certain lofty social and natural objectives – Deeddayal Upadhyaya
Youdhishthira commanded Arjuna to go for the rescue of the Kauravas saying “ Between ourselves we are five and they are hundred. But before the enemy, we are hundred plus five”
Autocratic power everywhere entrenches itself and tends to perpetuate itself in the name of public good. History records that abuse of constitutional despotism inevitably leads to absolute despotism
- K. Subba Rao, Ex- Chief Justice of India
Freedom became one of the beacon lights of my life and it has remained so ever since. Freedom with the passing of years transcended the mere freedom of my country and embraced freedom of man everywhere and every sort of trammel- above all, it meant freedom of the human personality, freedom of the mind, freedom of the spirit. This freedom has become the passion of my life and I shall not see it compromised for bread, for security, for prosperity, for the glory of the state or for anything else.
-Jayaprakash Narayan
Article 352 of Indian constitution – Clause for Emergency
I could not believe my ears when Indira Gandhi said that the country needed to be saved from a massive conspiracy by the opposition – LKA
Nation is more important than democracy. We felt that the country has developed a disease and if is to be cured soon, it has to be given a dose of medicine. The child may sometime cry and we may have to say “ Take the medicine, otherwise you will not get cured.” So we gave this bitter medicine (emergency) to the nation. Now when the child suffers, the mother suffers too. Thus we are not very pleased to take this step. We were also sad.
- Indira Gandhi on Emergency
If a person jailed during the Emergency is shot down by those in the authority for personal reasons, do you mean to suggest that his associates have no judicial remedy?? The attorney General is said to have replied,” I don’t feel happy saying this, but legally Lordship, that is precisely the position
A vigorous opposition, a free press & an independent judiciary are the three essential features of democracy
The hallmark of every dictatorial regime is that it is never honest and transparent with its own people
The relationship between the assassin and the victim is deep and enduring. Death only openly and finally brings them together. Of course, there are tyrants who turn virtually everyone in a country into a prospective assassin and leaders who build bastions against their assassination in the minds of men, there by reducing the circle of prospective assassins to the microscopic group of psychopaths & the mentally ill – LKA
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there is only one way to do that, he must also fool himself _ William Somerset Maugham
I think the public sector should function only in competition with the private sector and where it cannot function in competition with the private sector,it should be allowed to die a natural death – Sanjay Gandhi
What are you? Which in a more straight forward way meant ‘What is your caste’ – LKA
About 1957 election:
Of the 3 places I contested from, I forfeited my deposit in one (Mathura), lost by a thin margin in another (Lucknow) and won handsomely in the third (Balrampur)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
If a political leader wants to succeed in conflict prevention and resolution,he or she should develop six basic qualities. Keeping one’s ears to the ground through constant interaction with the masses, impartiality, sincerity, patience, fairness and firmness
- LKA
Free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad – Albert Camus, Nobel Laureate, French Novelist
The pursuit of happiness is linked not to one’s rights, but to one’s duties. The first duty that is enjoyed on an adult individual is to take care of one’s parents – LKA
No, I cannot do it. For there will be too much of ‘I’ in it which I dislike – Deendayalji
I will write about issues, not about myself – Deendayalji
Deendayalji’s utter inability and unwillingness to think about himself was of a kind that is unimaginable today – LKA
Communist mentality – “ Who ever is not with them being against them”
I (Nehru) will crush Jana Sangh to which Dr.Mookerjee retorted “And we will crush this crushing mentality of the PM
Nehru did not show Dr. Rajendra Prasad the respect he deserved both on account of the high constitutional office he held and his significant contribution to the freedom movement
Kosygm said to Shastri- You will have to give up Hajipir & Tithwa. Shastri had even retorted, In that case, you would have to talk to some other Prime Minister
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right – Confucious 551-479 BC
The only CM who sent me back empty handed without contributing any amount to the Rock Memorial Fund (at Kanyakumari,Vivekananda Smarak) was the then Kerala CM, EMS. I can say this much about my abortive interview with him. It was like conversing with a sphinx. It was monologue all the way on my part. Only an empty stare from the other side – Eknath Ranade
I do not want to rest & rust. Life without work is like death to me – God will keep me as long as He wishes, let me work – Eknath Ranande
Let every man make known what kind of Government would command his respect and that will be one step toward obtaining it – Henry David Thoreau
Lord Macaulay’s remarks in his address to British parliament on 02 Feb 1835 –
I have traveled across length and breadth of India and I have not seen one single person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think that we could ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her cultural & spiritual heritage and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign & English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them – a truly dominated nation
In life, we shall find many men
that are great, and some men that are good, but a very few men that are both great and good – Charles Celeb Cotton 18th Century English Writer
There is a quotation that says: “ The younger generation these days has no respect for elders. They are not carrying forward the traditions of the past. They are getting corrupted. Things were so good when we were young – Socrates
“So now you see that this complaint against the younger generation has been going on since the past 2000 yrs and it will continue in the future too”
A monotonous life lived without any purpose or direction, is not worth much. To achieve anything big in life, you should be prepared to risk your all and take a leap of faith for whatever they believed in – Deendayalji
A flower is what it is because of its petals, and the worth of the petals lies in remaining with the flower and adding to its beauty
Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers - that be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers that ought to be
- James Russell Lowett, an American Poet
Change is the only constant
Conscience in the singular is a virtue where as, in the plural, it is a conspiracy. It is tantamount to indulging in collective indiscipline
The map of Indian subcontinent was redrawn with the birth of Bangladesh,the delivery being mid-wifed by India
History repeats itself first and second time as a farce – Karl Marx
India’s victory in 1971 war was quite simply the grandest hour in the annals of our Armed forces
Today, politics has ceased to be a means. It has become an end in itself. We have today people who are engaged in power politics rather than aim at political power with a view to achieving certain lofty social and natural objectives – Deeddayal Upadhyaya
Youdhishthira commanded Arjuna to go for the rescue of the Kauravas saying “ Between ourselves we are five and they are hundred. But before the enemy, we are hundred plus five”
Autocratic power everywhere entrenches itself and tends to perpetuate itself in the name of public good. History records that abuse of constitutional despotism inevitably leads to absolute despotism
- K. Subba Rao, Ex- Chief Justice of India
Freedom became one of the beacon lights of my life and it has remained so ever since. Freedom with the passing of years transcended the mere freedom of my country and embraced freedom of man everywhere and every sort of trammel- above all, it meant freedom of the human personality, freedom of the mind, freedom of the spirit. This freedom has become the passion of my life and I shall not see it compromised for bread, for security, for prosperity, for the glory of the state or for anything else.
-Jayaprakash Narayan
Article 352 of Indian constitution – Clause for Emergency
I could not believe my ears when Indira Gandhi said that the country needed to be saved from a massive conspiracy by the opposition – LKA
Nation is more important than democracy. We felt that the country has developed a disease and if is to be cured soon, it has to be given a dose of medicine. The child may sometime cry and we may have to say “ Take the medicine, otherwise you will not get cured.” So we gave this bitter medicine (emergency) to the nation. Now when the child suffers, the mother suffers too. Thus we are not very pleased to take this step. We were also sad.
- Indira Gandhi on Emergency
If a person jailed during the Emergency is shot down by those in the authority for personal reasons, do you mean to suggest that his associates have no judicial remedy?? The attorney General is said to have replied,” I don’t feel happy saying this, but legally Lordship, that is precisely the position
A vigorous opposition, a free press & an independent judiciary are the three essential features of democracy
The hallmark of every dictatorial regime is that it is never honest and transparent with its own people
The relationship between the assassin and the victim is deep and enduring. Death only openly and finally brings them together. Of course, there are tyrants who turn virtually everyone in a country into a prospective assassin and leaders who build bastions against their assassination in the minds of men, there by reducing the circle of prospective assassins to the microscopic group of psychopaths & the mentally ill – LKA
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there is only one way to do that, he must also fool himself _ William Somerset Maugham
I think the public sector should function only in competition with the private sector and where it cannot function in competition with the private sector,it should be allowed to die a natural death – Sanjay Gandhi
2009 ഒക്ടോബർ 2, വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച
Gandhi Jayanthi
Gandhi Jayanthi
Belated Gandhi Jayanthi wishes to all my friends!!
“My life, My message” – Gandhiji.
Can any of the Modern Gandhi or any politician bravely make a statement like what was mentioned by the one & only Gandhiji.
I happened to visit one of the Mont blanc stores in a shopping mall adjacent to my home and happened to notice “Gandhi Limited Edition Pens”. The external finishes look like “khadi cloth texture” and in the nib engraved Gandhi’s face and the cost of the pens are as follows:
BallPoint pens “Gandhi Limited Edition” – AED 10,000.00 (IRS 130,000.00 approx)
Fountain pens” Gandhi Limited Edition” – AED 13,500.00 (IRS 175,000.00 approx)
Where as the cost of normal Mont blanc pens ranges between AED 1000.00 to say AED3, 500.00
Gandhiji too become a very expensive sellable brand name in this Global market
- Hey Ram………
Belated Gandhi Jayanthi wishes to all my friends!!
“My life, My message” – Gandhiji.
Can any of the Modern Gandhi or any politician bravely make a statement like what was mentioned by the one & only Gandhiji.
I happened to visit one of the Mont blanc stores in a shopping mall adjacent to my home and happened to notice “Gandhi Limited Edition Pens”. The external finishes look like “khadi cloth texture” and in the nib engraved Gandhi’s face and the cost of the pens are as follows:
BallPoint pens “Gandhi Limited Edition” – AED 10,000.00 (IRS 130,000.00 approx)
Fountain pens” Gandhi Limited Edition” – AED 13,500.00 (IRS 175,000.00 approx)
Where as the cost of normal Mont blanc pens ranges between AED 1000.00 to say AED3, 500.00
Gandhiji too become a very expensive sellable brand name in this Global market
- Hey Ram………
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