Dr V Shanta

Chennai doctor wins Ramon Magsaysay award from NDTV

"In Chennai, there's a sense of quiet pride. The city has thrown up its fifth recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award - Dr V Shanta, an institution herself within the Cancer Institute in Adyar.

A day after winning the Magsaysay award for Public Service, Dr Shanta has been performing surgeries from 8 in the morning with hardly any time for congratulatory telephone calls.

The 78-year-old cancer specialist, this year's only Indian recipient, considers it an honour, not for the individual, but for the 428-bed hi-tech institute of oncological research and treatment, once a 12-bed cottage in Chennai. "

looks and good looking people

Looks Do Matter [via indiauncut]

are we really that hard wired? i don't agree.
but the more i read abt genetics or the functioning of the brain, the more i tend to think that we r preprogramed, we do not make the decisions it is all set in our heads and just do not know how the logic works.

i guess i need to read abt nurture not just nature.

quotes

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-- Isaac Asimov

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao-Tzu

in the top 50 - rank 47th

Sania breaks into top 50, ranked 47

where as our smart indian cricket team lost again to Sri Lanka :(

orwell's home in india

Makeover for Orwell's India home from bbc

i have read his work but never knew George Orwell was born in india that too in BIHAR... oops!

creation vs evolution (they r back at it)

Bush Remarks Roil Debate on Teaching of Evolution from NYtimes

"Intelligent design, advanced by a group of academics and intellectuals and some biblical creationists, disputes the idea that natural selection - the force Charles Darwin suggested drove evolution - fully explains the complexity of life. Instead, intelligent design proponents say that life is so intricate that only a powerful guiding force, or intelligent designer, could have created it."

it is one thing to not agree with the theory of evelotion as being able to explain all facts, but it is totally differnent matter to teach another theory just due to the imcompletness of the first.

religious policing in Pakistan too!!!!!!!!!!

Staunch Islam and Its Many Foes (Including Apathy) from NYtimes

in one sentence
i hate the idea of religious policing, irrespective of the religion.