thought

never have i tried so hard to understand something, and understood so little abt it.

quotes

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
-- James Russell Lowell

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
-- Garth Brooks

I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
-- Unknown

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

who is responsible????

J-K again: Mistaken for militants, three boys are shot dead from IE

is it a good question?

'Islamic' terrorism: media's role from hindu

"Every community has its share of radicals who indulge in violence for a cause, imagined or real, that they believe in. However the terror attacks of the Irish Republican Army were never called Catholic or Christian terrorism; the sarin gas attack of Aum Shinrikyo, which derives inspiration from Hinduism and Buddhism, was never associated with its mother religion. Why is not the mindless violence unleashed by supporters of the Sangh Parivar in Gujarat called Hindu terrorism?
Violence by the Palestinian Hamas is called Islamic terrorism. By the same logic, the bombings of Gaza by the Israeli army that kills and maims innocents everyday should be called Jewish terrorism. Together these groups have been responsible for the killing of thousands of innocent people. Why then has only Islam been singled out for this indignity? Everyone talks of the 'Islamic bomb.' Ever heard of a 'Christian bomb,' 'Hindu bomb' or a 'Buddhist/Shinto bomb'? "

quote

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and with the discords of families.
--Pythagoras

state and religion

Banish religion from public life from hindu

"All religions are prone to it, given the right circumstances. Intense belief, incantations, secrecy and all-male rituals breed perversions and danger, abusing women and children and infecting young men with frenzy, no matter what the name of the faith.
Enlightenment values are in peril not because these mad beliefs are really growing but because too many rational people seek to appease and understand unreason. Extreme superstition breeds extreme action. Those who believe they alone know the only way, truth and life will always feel justified in doing anything in its name. "
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"It is time now to get serious about religion - all religion - and draw a firm line between the real world and the world of dreams. Tony Blair has taken entirely the wrong path. He has appeased, prevaricated and pretended, maybe because he is a man of faith himself, with a Catholic wife who consorts with crystals. But never was it more important to separate the state from all faiths and relegate all religion to the private - but well-regulated - sphere."
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"All the state can do is hold on to secular values. It can encourage the moderate but it must not appease religion.
The constitutional absurdity of an established church once seemed an irrelevance, but now it obliges similar privileges to all other faiths. There is still time - it may take a non-religious leader - to stop this madness and separate the state and its schools from all religion. It won't stop the bombing now but at least it would not encourage continued school segregation for generations to come. And it might clear the air of the clouds of hypocrisy, twisted thinking and circumlocution whenever a politician mentions religion."

delhi safe?!??!

Squarely blaming the Central Government, led by her own Congress Party, for the deteriorating law and order situation in the Capital, especially when it comes to crimes against women, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday complained of lack of power to deal with such crimes. "I know that the citizens, especially women and the elderly, are feeling unsafe. I cannot do anything about it as the police is under the direct control of the Central Government,'' she said.


my question when was the last time anyone referd to delhi as a safe place?