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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
-- Martin Buxbaum

thodu phodu

It looks like it is thod phod season here...

When the match was abadoned in Guwahati... what resulted?
When the mandal II came in the news... waht resulted?
When the govt didn't do it right in meerut... what resulted?
When Mr. Rajumar died... what resulted?
When India lost the 6th ODI... what resulted?

and there are many more such incidents..... I wonder if the public is taking the Thodu phodu add with Saif n Rani too seriously :)

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A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
-- Bo Bennett

Hmmm ... read it and make up ur own mind

Christ Among the Partisans from NYTimes

The Jesus of the Gospels is not a great ethical teacher like Socrates, our leading humanitarian. He is an apocalyptic figure who steps outside the boundaries of normal morality to signal that the Father's judgment is breaking into history. His miracles were not acts of charity but eschatological signs — accepting the unclean, promising heavenly rewards, making last things first.

He is more a higher Nietzsche, beyond good and evil, than a higher Socrates. No politician is going to tell the lustful that they must pluck out their right eye. We cannot do what Jesus would do because we are not divine.

It was blasphemous to say, as the deputy under secretary of defense, Lt. Gen. William Boykin, repeatedly did, that God made George Bush president in 2000, when a majority of Americans did not vote for him. It would not remove the blasphemy for Democrats to imply that God wants Bush not to be president. Jesus should not be recruited as a campaign aide. To trivialize the mystery of Jesus is not to serve the Gospels.

Surfing without connecting... Intresting

Surf the web without logging on to Internet from Indian Express

Ever thought of surfing the web when you are not connected? Well, that is the latest offering from Rakesh Mathur. Mathur, who co-founded Junglee — that was later taken over by Amazon — has developed a software ‘Webaroo’ that will make this possible.

Webaroo servers scour the web, analyse web pages and automatically select the subset of pages with the most content value in the least storage size. These pages are then assembled into topic specified ‘web packs’.

These webpacks can be downloaded on a laptop or a mobile phone. Once downloaded, the webpacks or web sites can be accessed anytime.

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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
--Emily Kimbrough

And ofcourse

How can I not mention that I have been enjoying my frist few days in india just trying to keep up with all the cricket :) 4-0 not bad isn't it!!! I would love to see 6-0 :)))

India is proud that you are an Indian

Paes to India's rescue again from The Hindu

MUMBAI: Leander Paes, two sets up in the fifth and decisive reverse singles against Aqeel Khan, turned around a script that had gone bizarre after an attack of cramps in the third.

The Indian captain played through pain, held his nerve and game together somehow for two more sets before riding a wave of public support to fashion a thrilling victory in the decider.

India won 3-2 after being stretched beyond the limit in the BNP-Paribas Asia/Oceania Group I play-offs at the Brabourne stadium on Sunday.

"I'm proud to be an Indian today," he said, wrapping the tricolour around the shoulders.

Prakash Amritraj, consumed by stage fright in the first reverse singles against a rampaging Aisam Qureshi, recovered a little of poise under extreme pressure but not enough to prevent Pakistan draw level 2-2.

Back on track :)

Will be back on tack

I think some time after 6th of April this blog should be back on almost its normal frequency(I hope). Till then do keep droping by :)

The Argumentative Indian

I finally got hold of this book and have just completed the first chapter it is worth a read.

some tit-bits

I have not abandoned this blog I will be back soon.
till then...
The most shocking tag on the back of autos in Munmbai is "Women Enpowerment"(more on tags on the back of autos later :))
There are two parts of mumbai one that is underconstrutcion and the other that is not.
Keep smiling!!!

Home -- I am going to miss

Yesterday I went to place that I have called HOME for the maximum duration in my life. Everything looked the same, same set of decoration, same set of photos of family n friends hanging on the wall. But everything had a thick layer of dust... two thoughts struck me. One was that even though not a lot of time has passed but life is not the same and second it felt that even after so much has changed once u "dust it cean" it will be home again. But this time when I dust it clean it will be to pack up things n set of to a new journey.
I met friends who asked me y don't I work here... why am I going back to India. All I tell them is that I want to-- how else do I explain. At this point after I leave Thailand I will not have a place that I will call home. I will have to make a home and strat over again.

I will miss Bankgok. I will miss my friends here.

Wonder how this will work out...

Two-way channel for The Hindu's readers from The Hindu

THE READERS' Editor of The Hindu will be functional from March 1, 2006. The key
objectives of this appointment are to institutionalise the practice of
self-regulation, accountability, and transparency; to create a new visible
framework to improve accuracy, verification, and standards in the newspaper; and
to strengthen bonds between the newspaper and its millions of print platform and
online readers.
The Readers' Editor will be a two-way channel for readers'
suggestions and grievances relating to accuracy, fairness, standards, good
taste, and the highest values of journalism in whatever is published in The
Hindu . Complaints will be enquired into and follow-up action taken by
publishing corrections or clarifications; by replying to the complainant; and by
enabling corrective action to be taken, as needed.

This experiment will depend on how responsible readers are.

Time to leave

Few hrs from now I will set on to something new. I don't know what awaits me but I do know that I am leaving some precious friends... and as sad as that makes me I am sure that we will manage to keep in touch.

To meet and to part is the story of life,
To part and to meet is the glory of life.