How often we hear this phrase " Learn from your mistakes". But no one tells us what to learn from these mistakes. Thats why we learn to do the same mistake all over again. I am referring to the incident of tying a 10 year old to the horse he shooed away as a part of his daily chore. This incident happens within a week of another such incident where a petty thief was beaten mercilessly for over three hours by a mob which included a policeman.
Hence, we should go back and revamp out moral lessons and change the phrase from "Learn from mistakes " to " Learn from mistakes not to do them" for more clarity.
And I thought Indians were one of the sharpest brains around!!!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Bar Camp 4
As promised in one of my previous blogs, I am back with a blog about BCB 4, though late.
This happened to be my first BCB. I had some pre-conceived notions about BCB thinking it might be a place where we are enlightened in a very formal and organized way. Also, I had not registered till the previous night. So this was how I ended up reaching IIM-B at around 9 AM on both days. Climate on both of these days turned out to be at its best. Frankly and honestly I did not expect to see what I saw there. A record crowd of close to 500 people and a total informal environment. I mainly attended blogging collective talks . Apart from some sessions in start up,start up,photography and biking (cycling) collective.
Overall it was a en lighting experience and on thing is sure, I won't need anyone to call me for Bar Camp 5.
Lesser the words , the better it is.
Go thru the album.
This happened to be my first BCB. I had some pre-conceived notions about BCB thinking it might be a place where we are enlightened in a very formal and organized way. Also, I had not registered till the previous night. So this was how I ended up reaching IIM-B at around 9 AM on both days. Climate on both of these days turned out to be at its best. Frankly and honestly I did not expect to see what I saw there. A record crowd of close to 500 people and a total informal environment. I mainly attended blogging collective talks . Apart from some sessions in start up,start up,photography and biking (cycling) collective.
Overall it was a en lighting experience and on thing is sure, I won't need anyone to call me for Bar Camp 5.
Lesser the words , the better it is.
Go thru the album.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Google Desktop...Simply Rocks!!
Friday, August 17, 2007
Sub: Mercy petition for our Munnabhai Sanjay Dutt
Respected Madam President,
This is a humble request on the behalf of all the bollywood fans to grant presidential pardon to our own munnabhai. After all what crime has he done? Just had an AK56 for "self protection". So what if people in Iraq and Afganisthan also don't carry AK56 for self protection , our own Bombay is more dangerous than war torn Afganisthan and Iraq and any other such place. So what if he got those ammunitions from his underworld links, he is our own munnabhai preaching gandhigiri. So what if he used all his influence and destroyed the evidence of the guns he had. He still is our own lovable goon, who was the son of a MP and a minister and now is the brother of another.
Entire film industry is right in saying that the judgment is harsh on him because they might not have lost any lives during the riots or the Bombay blasts. And because many of them like Salman Khan might be having loads of such cases pitted against them.
So, hereby I request you pls consider our humble request and grant pardon to Sanjay Dutt so that this comes out as a lesson to others like Afzal who can do whatever they want and then shed some tears and ask for presidential pardon.
Thanking you,
Munna"bhai" fans
Respected Madam President,
This is a humble request on the behalf of all the bollywood fans to grant presidential pardon to our own munnabhai. After all what crime has he done? Just had an AK56 for "self protection". So what if people in Iraq and Afganisthan also don't carry AK56 for self protection , our own Bombay is more dangerous than war torn Afganisthan and Iraq and any other such place. So what if he got those ammunitions from his underworld links, he is our own munnabhai preaching gandhigiri. So what if he used all his influence and destroyed the evidence of the guns he had. He still is our own lovable goon, who was the son of a MP and a minister and now is the brother of another.
Entire film industry is right in saying that the judgment is harsh on him because they might not have lost any lives during the riots or the Bombay blasts. And because many of them like Salman Khan might be having loads of such cases pitted against them.
So, hereby I request you pls consider our humble request and grant pardon to Sanjay Dutt so that this comes out as a lesson to others like Afzal who can do whatever they want and then shed some tears and ask for presidential pardon.
Thanking you,
Munna"bhai" fans
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
India the SUPERPOWER
We hear this so often. India has come of age. India is a globally known super power these days and no one can ignore India anymore. But have we ever wondered how true is this?
Take some recent instances which prove this to be wrong. First, the episode of Shilpa Shetty and Jade. This incident still goes to prove that Indians are still facing racist remarks all around the world. This piece of news got all the attention as it was involving a big bollywood star like shilpa shetty. What if it was you or me?
Next, we can take the episode of Mohd. Haneef, who was framed by the australian authorities and when they released him due to mounting international pressure , we see an arrogant Australian Govt. who is refusing to apologise. They fail to recognize this as an insult to to a country and a community rather than an individual. At least, their co-citizen Ponting was reasonable enough to aplogize to Sharad Pawar after the incident during the finals of champions trophy.
And last, the present England-India cricket match, where England are unable to register the fact that they have both the luck and weather Gods pitted against them in the favor of India and are involving in sledging and all other unparliamentary behavior on the field. And to add to this the umpires don't seem to take notice of that at all.
All this makes me beleive that India still has a long way to go. For me, we have not gone much ahead of the station where Gandhi was thrown out of the first class compartment in South Africa more than a hundread years ago.
Take some recent instances which prove this to be wrong. First, the episode of Shilpa Shetty and Jade. This incident still goes to prove that Indians are still facing racist remarks all around the world. This piece of news got all the attention as it was involving a big bollywood star like shilpa shetty. What if it was you or me?
Next, we can take the episode of Mohd. Haneef, who was framed by the australian authorities and when they released him due to mounting international pressure , we see an arrogant Australian Govt. who is refusing to apologise. They fail to recognize this as an insult to to a country and a community rather than an individual. At least, their co-citizen Ponting was reasonable enough to aplogize to Sharad Pawar after the incident during the finals of champions trophy.
And last, the present England-India cricket match, where England are unable to register the fact that they have both the luck and weather Gods pitted against them in the favor of India and are involving in sledging and all other unparliamentary behavior on the field. And to add to this the umpires don't seem to take notice of that at all.
All this makes me beleive that India still has a long way to go. For me, we have not gone much ahead of the station where Gandhi was thrown out of the first class compartment in South Africa more than a hundread years ago.
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