November 2011
2 posts
‘Rockstar’ : A ‘My World Perspective' Review
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, a 13th century mystic poet, once wrote:
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.”
And the first part of this verse is what binds the Movie discussed here...
October 2011
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April 2011
14 posts
We, the thieving people.
Some questions can have only one answer. For example, is corruption a bloody awful thing? Are you sick and tired and outraged by recent scandals? Shouldn’t the perpetrators of all these be thrown into jail? Is the process of catching such thieves in high positions too slow, too compromised and, actually, a joke? Does India need to set up a new, effective mechanism to not only catch and convict the...
This happened over the office IM client today.
Nijeesh : So, i am thinking, after Dhoni hit that six into the stands, there would be someone around there who would have that ball with him right now.
Anamol : haan!
Nijeesh : How to trace him down and rob him off. Must. Device. Plan. Start thinking.
Anamol : maybe somebody has already done that!
Nijeesh : So we do that to him. We have the Late Movers Advantage here...err.
Anamol : but how?
Nijeesh : Sab kuch mein hi sochoon? Problem Statement bhi aur solution bhi.
Anamol : you're the CEO. I am merely a cog in your vast empire.
Nijeesh : B-)
Nijeesh : ( Okay, got carried away there.) Think. Think.
Anamol : yes thinking.
Nijeesh : ( Man, serious Cricket hangover is happening.)
Anamol : maybe we could.. buy a replica and pretend its the real thing.
Nijeesh : Dude! L.A.M.E.
Anamol : No come on. The easiest and the best way.
Nijeesh : To quote Dhoni : "We don't have to prove a point to anyone else but ourselves."
Anamol : how'll we share the ball once its ours?
Nijeesh : That's no point of discussion. It'll stay with me ofcourse.
Anamol : of copurse not. once you've done it to that guy i'll do it to you and it'll be all mine
Nijeesh : Your covert plan won't spring out of the blue-print. It will thwarted by my rajniesque kickassery once we get to the ball. Thou shalt not breathe. Guahahaha.
Anamol : hey. what if the ball is with rajnikanth?
Nijeesh : ZOMB! Then this chat never happened. Delete. DELETE!
Anamol : how do you know you're not talking to rajani right now?
Nijeesh :
Anamol : Muahahahaha
“You, more than me I presume, would truly appreciate the importance of living...”
– In response to someone somewhere someplace.
March 2011
13 posts
Why I am an atheist?
— Bhagat Singh (1930)
A new question has cropped up. Is it due to Vanity that I do not believe in the existence of an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God? I had never imagined that I would ever have to confront such a question. But conversation with some friends has given me, a hint that certain of my friends, if I am not claiming too much in thinking them to be so-are inclined to...
A Nation Consumed By The State.
Let me begin with two epiphanies. A few years ago, I visited a book fair held on the seafront in Kochi. The local publishers were represented, as were Indian and foreign firms. In between the stall of Oxford University Press and a shop stocking Malayalam translations of the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, I came across a man selling, of all things, pickles from Bikaner. His wares were contained...
The Trickledown Revolution.
The law locks up the hapless felon who steals the goose from off the common, but lets the greater felon loose who steals the common from the goose.
—Anonymous, England, 1821
In the early morning hours of July 2, 2010, in the remote forests of Adilabad, the Andhra Pradesh state police fired a bullet into the chest of a man called Chemkuri Rajkumar, known to his comrades as Azad. Azad was a...
Galaxy has 'billions of Earths' →
The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Risk is involved in every great opportunity in life. It it isn’t risky, then everyone would be doing, thus making it ordinary and not “great.” Separate yourself from the crowd as one who not only can take risks, but enjoys doing so. Certainty in life can only be so comforting until it gets boring.
2. When you...
February 2011
66 posts
“You, sovereign queen of my heart, Regina, hidden in the deepest secrecy of my...”
– Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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