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The Earth As It Is
Leonardo Boff

Is it possible to live in peace and happiness when you know that two-thirds of human beings are suffering, hungry and poor? To be human we have to have compassion. This solidarity is really the defining factor of our humanity and is gradually being lost in a culture of material values. It’s not only the cry of the poor we must listen to but also the cry of the earth. The earth and human beings are both threatened. We must do something to change the situation...
There won’t be a Noah’s Ark to save only some of us. To meet people’s fundamental concerns change is needed. The world as it is does not offer the majority of humanity life but rather hell. I believe that change is possible, because I cannot accept a God who could remain indifferent to this world, but only one who cares about the poor and the suffering.

thought

it is letting ur gaurd down and giving someone else the right to hurt you...
and they do.
there is no other way

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"aathigam paesum adiyaarkelaam sivamae anbaagum
naathigam paesum nallavarukelaam anbe sivamaagum"
(meaning as per shethra
for believers "GOD IS LOVE"
for atheists "LOVE IS GOD ")

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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
--Gail Pool

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--Mark Twain

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).