rushdie on imrana's case

Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom medievalist institution: Rushdie from hindu

original article India and Pakistan's Code of Dishonor from nytimes

thought

sometimes we do not see things coming, for somethings in life we can never be prepared.
no matter how much we prepare ourselfves for some things we will never be ready when it actually hits us.

namesake

has almost left me speachless. fantastic book, must read.
how u can build a world, a home for urself in places that u never thought was possible. how the longing of going back seems to strong yet what u build with the people u love can be so much more precious. how u fight to be different or simlar to people around u. how difficult it is to understand things unless u have to go through them. how eventually u discover wht is important to u.
and in the end u only belong with the people that u love and thoes who love u.

passage from namesake

"As their lives in New England swell with fellow Bengali friends, the members of that other, former life, thoes who know Ahima and Ashoke not by their good names but as Monu and Mithu, slowly dwindle"

stirkes a cord.......................................

i do not understand

Harry Potter in the classroom from cnn

i started reading this article becuase it had harry potter in the heading and i would have happily dismissed it after reading it but
"Parents Against Bad Books in School, which is based in Fairfax County, ranks the Harry Potter series 48th on its list of the 100 books that have sparked the most complaints. But it's far behind such classics as Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye.""

thought

what do u do when u make a decision, that is, if not horribly wrong, it is certainly not right. but then u still have to go ahead with it.

and the point of this research is?

Do pretty people earn more? from cnn

""Good-looking men and women are generally judged to be more talented, kind, honest and intelligent than their less attractive counterparts," Patzer says. "Controlled studies show people go out of their way to help attractive people -- of the same and opposite sex -- because they want to be liked and accepted by good-looking people.""
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"Despite what the research says, some of the world's most successful people have been ordinary looking at best, and you would never mistake the faces in Fortune for those in Esquire or Entertainment Weekly."

i always find it difficult to decide if a person is 'beautiful'(or not) by just looking at them. the personality of a person is so entwined with 'looking good' that i can't separate it. and to tell the truth i do not want to seperate it.