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Mesmerizing
I keep discovering some amazing music through You tube. If you are interested in fusion music (one component being carnatic) then this is a nice piece of music to try. This is a song in an album 'Colors of India' by the violin duo Ganesh-Kumaresh. Apparently this was released in 2004 but I have never heard of it before. You can catch the full album ( Read more... ) -
Captivating
I am going to quote a few sentences from a short story of Hermann Hesse titled The City(1910). Mostly for posterity and some so others can see if they like it. So here it goes.....fyi: I am going to pick only one sentence that I think conveys the message. Ofcourse the story has lot more. Also my editing can lack continuity. Nothing to be done about ( Read more... ) -
Misleading
Ban to press for peace in Darfur
Ban to visit Antarctica, Amazon forests next week
This wouldn't be the first time I am fooled by UN Sec general Ban Ki-Moon's name on the headlines. -
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming
Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish Philosopher as quoted in the book Leaving Microsoft to Change The World -
Milton Freidman
I came across this brilliant argument by Milton Freidman, the late Nobel prize winning economist, on a sleepy sunday afternoon. Follow the link limited Government to catch the interview on youtube. A warning, it is 30 mins long and economics.
Here is a quote by MF which I thought makes lot of sense. There are four ways in which you can spend ( Read more... ) -
running......
Every day in the deserts of Africa all gazelles wake up with the knowledge
that they have to be faster than the swiftest of lions to survive the day,
while every lion wakes up knowing it has to be faster
than the slowest of Gazelle's to get a meal.
and so is life that all must run: how fast, depends on who you are. always, every moment is ( Read more... ) -
I have to
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
- Virginia Wolf -
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Too often we don't realise what we have until it is gone..
Too often we wait too late to say, "I'm sorry"
Sometimes it seems we hurt the ones, we hold dearest to our hearts..
And we allow foolish things to tear our lives apart.
For too many times we let unimportant things into our minds...
And then its usually too late to see what made us blind-