Gandhi saint or politician???

Reflections On Gandhi by George Orwell

nice critical essay.

culture dominance on the net

French answer to Google library from bbc

"The French, concerned that the internet is in danger of becoming the exclusive preserve of the English language, are responding to Google's project to put 15 million books and documents online with their own French version."

reservation

A flawed move in Aligarh from frontline

i have never understood how reservation ever helped anyone let it be SC/ST or women or muslims. it is like instead of giving these people the opportunity to come up to the standards we are saying it is ok to be idiots(and i am not saying that they are idiots). don't worry u will get a job in a govt office so as to messup the already messed up system. or be a doctor and kill few more of ur fellow countrymen. or whatever else u do.
if they really want to help bring up these section of the society then we have to start at the bottom. open up free primary education in the remote areas. instead of paying these professor to teach below par student, pay them to go out and teach students so that when they sit in the exams they r ready to take up the challenge. educate the society not to be biased against them. give them help or 'bheek'(can't find the english word for it).

Car Nicobar... post tsunami

Car Nicobar's resilience from frontline

"Community participation, strengthened by the tradition of tribal solidarity, is a key element in the UNICEF's tsunami rehabilitation interventions in Car Nicobar, which have proved successful despite logistical problems. "
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"Unlike the settlers, the Nicobarese seem completely `demonetised'. "They have an organic link with their habitat and live off it. They keep pigs for meat, but there is no cattle-rearing. They do backyard poultry farming so that they can have eggs to eat. But you can be sure that the extra eggs will not be sold. The mainland concept of bank balance, property and private ownership is non-existent. The community comes first, and everything belongs to the community," explained Vivek Kumar Porwal, the new Deputy Commissioner of the Nicobars district. "
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"We do not have such a word as `orphans' in our vocabulary" says Thomas Philip, captain of Mus and secretary of the Tribal Council. "We treat them like our own and look after them. We do not have orphanages here!"
This may be yet another reason why the travails of Car Nicobar have not been as palpably felt by the world as the pain of the other regions of Asia that are grappling with the aftermath of the tsunami. The strong bonding between the people of Car Nicobar is helping them survive their pain and loneliness. "

a ray of light in the tsunami disaster...

child labor

291 children rescued in Mumbai

when will it stop...

quotes

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
--J. K. Rowling

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
--Robert Fritz

thought

if laws were to fix the problems, then we should be living heaven by now.