Done with my graduation today... Not that feels much different. Bachelors was more satisfying feeling!
Dec 11, 2005
Dec 9, 2005
anonymuncule
Kinta sare hain jasbaat, kitne he armaan, machalte hai jo dil se hoto tak aane ko.
Per na jane kyo kabhi main unko shabd nahi de pati aur kabhi awaaz.
--शोभना
Per na jane kyo kabhi main unko shabd nahi de pati aur kabhi awaaz.
--शोभना
Dec 7, 2005
Highway all the way...
All Roads Lead to Cities, Transforming India from NYTimes
Hmmm what I am wondering after reading the articles in NYTimes is that there is nothing in India except the highways? It seems to project that everything else was in a complete state of mess adn the highwys are changing this... not sure how much of this is true and how much is just hype sourrounding the highways. But why so much hype about this?
Hmmm what I am wondering after reading the articles in NYTimes is that there is nothing in India except the highways? It seems to project that everything else was in a complete state of mess adn the highwys are changing this... not sure how much of this is true and how much is just hype sourrounding the highways. But why so much hype about this?
India found its niche in the cutting and polishing of low-cost diamonds for the global middle class, and today more than 7 of 10 diamonds in the world are polished in Surat. It has created close to 500,000 jobs here alone.
That is nearly half as many jobs as India's entire information technology industry.
Bangalore, the symbol of India's knowledge economy, may be a global buzzword, but the fate of India's rural poor depends more on industrial cities like Surat.
Together, the cities' dominance means that India will never return to a farming-based economy. The urban portion of the gross domestic product is roughly double the urban population, a fact not lost on Mr. Santoki or his boss, Savji Dholakia.
Women of Al Qaeda from MSNBC Newsweek
THis is not the summary nor the most interstin part of the article. But I simply could not decide which part to pick to took the introduction and quoted it. Never have I understood it nor do I think I will ever understand it how can people kill and on top of that the reasons sound well unreasonable.
Jihad used to have a gender: male. The men who dominated the movement exploited traditional attitudes about sex and the sexes to build their ranks. They still do that, but with a difference: even Al Qaeda is using female killers now, and goading the men.
THis is not the summary nor the most interstin part of the article. But I simply could not decide which part to pick to took the introduction and quoted it. Never have I understood it nor do I think I will ever understand it how can people kill and on top of that the reasons sound well unreasonable.
Trucks Highways India and AIDS
On India's Roads, Cargo and a Deadly Passenger from NYTimes
Some 80 percent of truckers' wives who came in for voluntary testing and counseling tested positive, she said, usually because by the time they came in their husbands were on their deathbeds, and denial could no longer be sustained.
G. Karuna, 24, was another woman who fell prey to the peregrinations of her husband, a long-distance driver from a family of truckers. When they both sought treatment for tuberculosis or opportunistic infections at hospitals, they hid his occupation, since many private hospitals now turn truckers away.
After her husband died, his family blamed her, a cruel vengeance some in-laws inflict on the widows. They have made treatment and prevention that much harder.
She was forced to sleep on the path outside; the family refused to share even a loaf of bread that she had touched. Soon their whole village had ostracized her.
Ms. Karuna cried as she told her story, but that story also conveyed an uncommon
strength. She had left her husband's family and her village to start a new life on her own. She became an activist with the Social Educational and Economic evelopment Society, an advocacy group in Guntur, trying to save other truckers'
wives.
She showed women pictures of her handsome husband before he sickened, and after.
She told the wives to know what their husbands were doing outside the home, to negotiate the use of condoms with them, to get treated for sexually transmitted diseases. Her husband's relatives still teased her: "Why are you working so hard? You also will die."
Dec 4, 2005
thought
What is achievement?
quote
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
-- Author Unknown
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
-- Thomas Carlyle
-- Author Unknown
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Indian view on HWYs
Impoverishing roads from The Hindu
Analysis of Indian HWYs
Mile by Mile, India Paves a Smoother Road to Its Future from NYTimes
It is tooo long (7 pages) but then it covers all bases of what happens when we have to construct highways in india. Really complete analysis and I found it unbiased though I would have prefered to have read in an Indian newspaper. Good read with how moving the temples or mosques could be an issue or cutting pipal trees etc. and lots more.
It is tooo long (7 pages) but then it covers all bases of what happens when we have to construct highways in india. Really complete analysis and I found it unbiased though I would have prefered to have read in an Indian newspaper. Good read with how moving the temples or mosques could be an issue or cutting pipal trees etc. and lots more.
Dec 3, 2005
Science
The changing identity of the scientist from The Hindu
I always felt that science and a scientist was pure persuit of knowledge where other "benifits" were just by products of the process.
Point to ponder about--- has such kind of thought bought about theories like ID in the scientifice domain? Surely it does "benifit" some people. Has science become business much like everything else?
I always felt that science and a scientist was pure persuit of knowledge where other "benifits" were just by products of the process.
Point to ponder about--- has such kind of thought bought about theories like ID in the scientifice domain? Surely it does "benifit" some people. Has science become business much like everything else?
The individual has slowly become part of a collective. "A single instrument is replaced by an orchestra, with each individual striving towards the same goal. Of course, in science, as in any respectable orchestra, there will always be a couple of virtuoso soloists". It is these that the Nobel, Lasker, Dan David, Fields and such prizes go to.
Such shifts in science policy by governments and international communities, has led to a new model — that science should ultimately serve society. Industry wants science to make money. Governments want science to enable development. Citizens want science to clean the air, the water and make life healthier, safer and enjoyable.
All of these are possible only through ideas — ideas that need to be thought of, that need to be tested, found working and then applied to achieve the ends. And ideas come from individuals; this cannot change. Therefore the individual scientist cannot be replaced. It is him that we need to make more and more of.
And a sure way to do so is through schools, colleges and universities. It is these that we need to sow, nourish and multiply.
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It looks like the rain Gods don't want cricket in chennai!!
On second thoughts it might be that they might be taking the lead away from the moral police for being the disruptive force.
On second thoughts it might be that they might be taking the lead away from the moral police for being the disruptive force.
Dec 2, 2005
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Nopes it does not ... if anyone know how to save last sesion on firefox let me know.........
Dec 1, 2005
FireFox 1.5
The one thing that I missed in firefox has been fixed.
They can remember sessions!!!! Maybe I will switch to FireFox now :)
They can remember sessions!!!! Maybe I will switch to FireFox now :)
Scientific analysis of Buddha incarnate
Scientists to check Nepal Buddha boy from BBC
A meditating teenage boy in south-central Nepal is drawing the attention of scientists after attracting huge crowds in the past six months and earning
himself the name Buddha-reincarnate.
They are mulling over how to examine him without disturbing his meditation.
quote
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero