quotes

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
-- Mark Twain

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
-- K.T. Jong

:)

Sania on Time cover from IE

Art of story telling

From BBC. There photos too not just dance(ocourse I liked thoes the best), nice collection.

Another one totally lost it!

Sangh’s Dandia song: no Muslims, please from IE

"Male garba participants in Indore better watch out. Their Hindu credentials will be checked before they are allowed to dance. This is the Bajrang Dal’s idea of screening Muslim participants, who, it believes mingle with Hindu girls and elope with them at the end of Navratri.
A week before the festival begins, Dal’s Indore unit has asked organisers of commercial garbas to ban Muslim men from venues, or face consequences. "We will ask participants to chant the names of Hindu gods or eat tulsi leaves. Hindus won’t mind, Muslims will. We will thrash them and also teach the organisers a lesson," warned Pradeep Nair, Dal’s Mahanagar Sanyojak.
Said Dal’s Bhopal chief Devendra Rawat: "It’s a festival of Hindus, why should those from another religion take part? Only Hindu youths should be allowed because Muslim boys run away with Hindu girls." "

I want to scream... Someone please get hold of these idiots Pleeeaaaaaase.

quote

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
-- Nan Fairbrother

Global warming

Report: Ice-free Arctic summers possible by 2100 from CNN

"One Arctic variation, known as Arctic Oscillation, an atmospheric circulation pattern that can push sea ice out of the area, had become less of an influence in the region since the mid-1990s, the report said.
Inuit hunters threatened by the melting of Arctic ice plan to file a petition in December accusing the United States of violating their human rights by fueling global warming. The Bush administration has opted out of the Kyoto Treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Inuit number about 155,000 people in Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia.
Scientists say the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe because water or bare earth, once uncovered, soaks up more heat than ice and snow. That process means melting can spur even warmer temperatures and more melting."

Now what reason will he give?

Pakistani women march in rape row from BBC

"Mr Musharraf said that rape in Pakistan had become an opportunity to make money and emigrate, but also insisted his government supported womens' rights.

He initially denied making the remarks, until an audio recording was released. "