“It is dangerous to be right on a subject on which the established authorities are wrong.” — Voltaire (via Asit) With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Education’s purpose is to replace an [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Quotes This Week : 20-02-2010
Posted in Quotes on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Critical Corner Feb 2010
Posted in CC on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Vancouver is the best city to stay in the world and Mumbai is ranked 117th. Australia had 4 cities in the top 10. Shiv Sena can take the mandate to improve this ranking. All of a sudden Shiv Sena chief decided that the Australians were welcome to play IPL-3. May be his think tank pointed [...]
Hare Krishna Mandir Road
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Only in Pune!… This road is hardly 500 meters in length, but has 3 major historical events associated with it. India’s no. 1 IT company Infosys was founded here, India’s no 1 yoga brand B.K.S. Iyengar was founded and operates from here. We also have the ISKCON temple here. So dense, coincidence ? destiny ?
Culture and Civilization
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was always troubled by the paradox that Indians say what is right and generally do what is wrong. But I could not articulate why ? (via Aakar Patel in Livemint) in a brilliant article about Parsis, articulates the subtle in a brilliant fashion. Culture is our attitude to beauty and ugliness, to power, to [...]
A Billion Idiots
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am getting more and more convinced everyday that we are country of a Billion+ Idiots. The press is giving massive coverage that Rahul Gandhi took a fast local to Dadar yesterday. Btw even I was in mumbai and took a train from Dadar to Parel, so whats the big thing he did. With all [...]
