सावंत-वाणी : Blog-Na Zarooree Hai

Quote Unquote - VI

2011-08-21T09:35:00.000-07:00

Just because you're paranoid, Don't mean we're not after you --Kurt Cobain
If you are not an Idealist at 20, there is something wrong with your heart. If you are still an Idealist at 40, there is something wrong with your head -- Anonymous
You can argue, only with someone who is at-least, half right -- Arnab Ray
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon -- Susan Ertz
We fight for our right to say and do whatever we wish, by telling others what they cannot say and do -- Samir
If your sons grow up badly, there is no amount of power and money on earth that can make that right -- Rashmi Uddhav Thakrey
The people who take religion most seriously are atheists -- Anonymous
Every age gets the rich people it deserves -- Siddhartha Deb
Where did he get his money? And, where did he go to college? -- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Doctors prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing -- Voltaire

Career Planning (55 Word Fiction)

2011-08-06T00:24:00.000-07:00

"So, what are you planning to do in your life, Son ?"
"All your friends are already helping their fathers in their work."
"And you are wasting time, drawing those stupid paintings, on my home wall."
"What use is of, taking to Arts anyways ?"
"You are shaming us by going into that field."

- Bhimbetkaa, 90000BC

My Invented Proverbs - Part VI

2011-06-18T01:57:00.000-07:00

It is scarier when power doesnt remain a pre-requisite for corruption.
If you want to think out of the box, dont ask the size of the box in the first place.
If you are not Smart enough, then you are not Smart enough to realise that you are not Smart enough.
The refusal for introspection is the first sign of Decay.
The single most reason for most problems of the world is bad parenting
Bad Parenting is Hereditary
The worst of people are those who do not deserve to have truth spoken on their faces
Not only is life Unfair, it is unfair to different people in Unfairly different Proportions
Corollary to Godwin's Law : As an online discussion involving Indians grows longer, the probability of discussing Modi and/or Gujarat approaches 1
All philosophies/strategies of life sound nice to hear about, so long as you are not on the receiving end of them.

Quote Unquote - V

2011-04-22T10:04:00.000-07:00

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words -- Sadia Sarfaraz
Marxism is not a substitute for Intelligence -- DD Koshambi
Idealism is little more than a form of prejudice -- Patrick French
How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died? The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind -- Bob Dylan
Pay attention to advice from people who have a stake in your happiness, and not a stake in your success -- Sidin Vadukut
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body -- Elizabeth Stone
Sacred cows make the best hamburger -- Mark Twain
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater -- George Bernard Shaw
What is true of Families and Communities, is true of Nations. There is no reason to believe that there is one law for Family and another for Nations -- Mahatma Gandhi
If a chance that comes up only once in a century is wasted, it takes another century to make up for that loss -- Hamid Dalwai

Quote Unquote - IV

2011-01-31T06:55:00.000-08:00

The more populous the category, the less it tells you about any individual within it -- James Fallows
The world is a beautiful place, and worth fighting for -- Ernest Hemmingway
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it -- Master Oogway (Kung-Fu Panda)
The first law of decency is to preserve the liberty of others -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page -- Saint Augustine
Democracy and Freedom have little to do with majorities, and everything to do with individual rights -- Girish Shahane
Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Na Milya Koye, Jo Mann Khoja Apna, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye (I sought the wicked ones, but found none, And when I looked within myself, I found none more evil than me) -- Kabir
Utopias kill; radical universalist utopias, kill radically and universally -- Yehuda Bauer
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn -- Anand Jadhav
Every revolution begins with noble intentions and ends up by devouring its own children -- B Raman

Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani

2011-01-16T02:50:00.000-08:00

कुछ तो कमि रखी होती उसके ईमान में,
थोड़ा तो सब्र होता, रुख-ए-आसमाँ में |
होंगे कई मसीहा ऐ खुदा तुम्हारे पास,
एक छोड़ दिया होता हमको, इस जहां में |
ईमान है आधा खुला, आधा ढका पडा,
एक पूरा कोई इंसान नही आता ध्यान में |
सुनता नही है कोई यहाँ सच्चाई की सदा,
यकीन कौन करेगा, अब इन बद-गुमानों में |
यह सोच नहीं बाकी, क्या अच्छा है, क्या बुरा,
तकसीम करते है कुछ तो, है वो इंसानों में |
करते रहेंगे वो ही, जो हुआ है उनसे पहले,
तोलेंगे नहीं किसी को, वक़्त की ढलान से |
जहालत कहे इसे हम, या किस्म संग-दिली की,
रोया नहीं है कोई, अब तक तेरे बयान से |
दिखला दिया है नीचा, बुलाके हम को काफ़िर,
एक बार पूछा होता उन्हने मेरे इमान से |
एक दूजो को देते है, तोहमतो के नज़राने,
गढ़ती नहीं है नज़रें, खुद अपने गिरेहबान में |
मानता है हर एक आदमी को खलील तुम्हारा,
क्यूँ छोड़ दिया हमको फिर युहीं दरमियाँ में |

- खलील सावंत (~2004)

Harry Potter, The Defense Against Dark Arts and the Seven Unwanted Vices

2010-09-17T22:52:00.000-07:00

For those who have been following the "Harry Potter" series (books/movie) religiously, would be well versed with the fact that Harry and friends had a subject called "Defense Against Dark Arts" all along their education. Also the fact that the job of the "Defense Against Dark Arts" teacher was jinxed , and hence no Professor remained in the position for more than one year. This meant that each year we had a new Professor for the position and consequentially the scope of introduction of a new charachter each year/book.

I realised a small observation regarding the people who took up the post each year. Apparently each of the seven people, were charachteristically different from each other, and exhibit some charachteristic unwanted vices (unwanted in the sense that we wouldnt want it in ourselves) .

Quirrell, in the first year, is some-one who is cowardly and spine-less
Lockhart, in the second year, is some-one who is boastfull and fraudulent.
Lupin, in the third year, is some-one who is miserable.
Moody, in the fourth year, is some-one who is cranky, Vichitr and actually deceitfull(no more spoilers)
Umbridge, in the fifth year, is some-one who is corrupt and un-just.
Snape, in the sixth year, is some-one who is vengeful and un-courteous.
Slughorn, in the seventh year, is some-one who is lazy and nepotistic.

Just an observation, although some vices apply to others also.

Quote Unquote - III

2010-09-08T07:38:00.000-07:00

The 20s are designed for failure, so fail all your can. Because in 30s there is no room for making mistakes -- Dustin Hoffman
Animals do smart things with their pea-sized brains, and humans do animal things with their smart-sized brain -- Gaurav Patil
Jumping off of a 200-foot cliff is a lot of fun for 199 feet, That final 12 inches is a bitch -- Sam Davidson
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into -- Henry Beecher
Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you do not need an appointment -- Catherine Aitken
There is always room at the top, but there is no lift -- Jaswant Singh
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness -- Mark Twain
I believe that parents also want their kids to chase their dreams, but they know from their own life experiences how hard it is know which dream to chase. -- Amit Singh
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. -- Adam Smith
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. -- Anand Jadhav

My Invented Proverbs - Part V

2010-02-13T05:39:00.000-08:00

People are too lazy to specialize, hence they generalize. They hence do not work on facts, obtained through specialization, but rather on perceptions, obtained through generalization.
Xenophobia is selective Mis-Anthropy.
Your popularity is directly proportional to the ratio of your twitter-followers-count to your twitter-followings-count.
GOD is a placebo for Human fallibility.
90% of people within any group, resent the fact that they are not 100%
History may be written by victors, but Archaelogy is not.
I am not an atheist, I am just GOD with retrograde amnesia.
I am not on bench, I am suffering from a "Programmers block".
There is a whole range of gray shades between pride and shame.
If we cannot have consensus on current affairs, why do we expect different people to have a consistent view of history, for today's current affairs are tomorrow's history.

Logical Grouping of Devanaagari Baaraakhadi

2010-02-07T04:39:00.000-08:00

Came across this interesting realisation about the arrangements of the Baaraakhadi in Devanaagari.

This is about how you use your tongue and mouth cavity to articulate a particular sound.
There is a sort of logical grouping and progression about the arrangements.

क, ख, ग, घ, and ङ sounds are all articulated by the tounge against the back of the ceiling of the mouth cavity
For च, छ, ज, झ, and ञ sounds, we move forward and use tounge against the centre of the mouth cavity's ceiling
ट, ठ, ड, ढ, and ण are produced more forward behind the gums of incisors
त, थ, द, ध, and न are produced with the tounge against the teeth
and प, फ, ब, भ, and म are produced by the lips alone.

Considering the expertise on grammar that stands 2.5 millenia, this phonetic formalism is not a surprise.

The curious case of the missing Bania

2010-01-25T09:46:00.000-08:00

Disclaimer : Academic post, not meant to be normative, the word "Bania" is used bona-fide.

One of the undeniable realities of Indian history has been the caste system. A little thought on the same(induced by formal history reading) would lead one to conclude, that this social stratification had not been uniform throughout the country. The caste divisions as seen in Uttar Pradesh are different from those in Tamil Nadu.

One of the more peculiar things regarding this that I realised in hindsight was the absense of the trading stratum within the Maharashtrian caste heirarchy. There are Brahmans, there are Kshatriyas and Shudras and there is a "warrior+peasentry" mix in the Marathas, there are Dalits, but no Vanika. Such an absense of the Vanika is not seen starkly in any other place, which have their fair share. I think I can safely argue that on an average, having business sense(or business shrewdness) has never been the common man Maharashtrian's strength. This is also shown by the absense of any big Maharashtria names in the field of business, (specifically as business owners).

I think that one of the outcomes of this was that trading people from other places, came in and filled this vacancy. As much as different strata of the society have a varying degree of influence on the society in general, it can be argued that the "having" of economic clout goes a long way in determining the political (and other) clouts. Consequentially there is absence of Marathi clout specifically on the economic front in Mumbai. The popularity of people like MNS and SS could be attributed to this resentment.

Having said all this, it is possible that my observation may be incomplete and hence flawed.

Quote Unquote - II

2009-12-23T01:13:00.000-08:00

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber -- Winston Churchill
Stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones -- Ahmed Zaki Yamani
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke
A country is known by the proverbs it keeps -- Anonymous
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go -- Abraham Lincoln
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them -- Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself -- Mark Twain
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors -- Elbert Hubbard
Most people have no knowledge of their history. They only live it. -- Bhishm Sahani
A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Well Done Major Khan (55-word Fiction)

2009-12-22T06:49:00.000-08:00

1965

"Well Done Major Khan, that was a brave show", said Brigadier Singh, "But you look upset".
"Nothing, Sir".
"One of the enemy soldiers killed was his cousin", explained Colonel Khanna.
"Uncle had migrated during 1947, father chose not to".
"Oh".
"Jai Hind, Sir".
"Jai Hind, Dismissed".

आंखे

2009-11-19T09:30:00.000-08:00

बोहोत कुछ युं ही केह जाती है आंखे लेकिन,
निभाई दिल से दोस्ती तुम्हारी आंखों ने ।
मै सोचता हूं तुम्हारी सीरत के बारे में,
नेकी इतनी दिखा दि तुम्हारी आंखों ने ।
एक हसीन चीज खुशी होती है जिंदगी भर की,
क्यूं कहा जाता है, जताया तुम्हारी आंखों ने ।
- खलील सावंत

Eyes generally say a lot about a person,
Not to betray your heart, your eyes though, chose.
I think about your good character,
Goodness, so much your eyes have shown.
A thing oof beauty is a joy forever,
Why it is said, your eyes have made me realise.
- Khalil Sawant

Rozaa (55 Word Non-Fiction)

2009-10-31T10:36:00.000-07:00

Disclaimer : The following post contains Explicit Language. Reader's Discretion advised.

"Main Kya Idhar B**C** Baitthaa Hun Tera Sun Ke Leney Ke Liye", said one.
"Bh***D**, M**C**giri Tuney Chaloo Ki Thi", replied the other
...
...
I finally couldnt take it anymore.
I got up to the window and had a nice look down at both of them.
"Ek Meharbaanee Kariye", I shouted. "Kal Se Rozaa Mat Rakhnaa"

Sach

2009-10-10T08:02:00.000-07:00

लगता है डर सच से, लोगों को इसलिये,
उनको भी शायद उसकी अजमत पे यकीं होगा ।
- खलील सावंत

Truth is feared, by people because,
they too perhaps trust its strength.
- Khalil Sawant

Conflict of Interest

2009-09-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

Humans are in a fundamental conflict of interest

It is required for them for their daily food that they sell themselves (as we call it)
It necessitates for every individual, the need for showing how he/she is good with what he/she is
Gradually this even takes/took the help of falsehood

It is required for them to maintain peace with each other, for a successful society in general
It necessitates the need for humbleness and mutual respect, lessening of the importance of how good you are, for bragging (honest or otherwise) and peace with others cannot go hand in hand

Humans are in a fundamental conflict of interest

On Krishna and Achilles

2009-07-10T22:15:00.000-07:00

Was watching Troy yesterday on HBO
Achilles killed by his heel
One more person died similarly, Krishna, an arrow through his foot
Then something struck me
Achilles and the Trojan war was around 12-11 century BC
Krishna and the Mahabharata was around 11-10 century BC

Two legends, two historical wars, two similar deaths, nearly the same time
The connection ends there :)

Hariyanvi Mehta

2009-06-13T09:32:00.000-07:00

Had known a guy, junior in college for some time now, around 10 months now, is a Mehta.
Came to know that he is a Hariyanvi from around Sirsa.
Weird, I thought Mehtas were supposed to be only Gujaratis.
Anyways :)

On Politicians and Religion

2009-05-27T21:29:00.000-07:00

Came to know from across here
YS Raj Shekhar Reddy, the current chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is Christian, not that it matters
And Narendra Modi, like Atal Bihari Vaajpey is unmarried.

My Invented Proverbs - Part IV

2009-05-23T06:48:00.000-07:00

True randomness is one whose long term statistical properties are also truly random
Excessive Theoretical Idealism causes Hypocritical Reality
People in general are in a Grand Illusion of False Dichotomies
If 9 people out of 10 do something, it does not mean it is right, it only means it is popular
Error by consensus is better than error by directive
Humans are meta-hypocrites, they would be hypocritical, without allowing others the same freedom, thus being hypocritical about hypocrisy
Just because I do not know the solution, does not make your solution right
There are only two types of people in the world, those who value other people's life and those who dont. There are is no third types.
People who do not support democracy, generally, have never been nor would like to be, on the receiving end of what they support
If there is something worse than Blind Hatred, it is the supreme confidence in the theory that the Hatred is not Blind in the first place

Daud

2009-04-16T09:14:00.000-07:00

"Yaar tu naa roz daud lagaane jaayaa kar, sehat ban jayegee isse", said he.
"Theek hai, dekhtey hai, ghar jaaoongaa to appetite waise hee sudhar jahyegaa", I replied.
"Daud lagaa lenaa"
"Kahaan lagaaoon, jagah nahee hai ghar ke paas daud lagaaney ke liye, park ya kuchchh bhee, chalney kee aadat hai, lekin daud nahee lagaa saktaa"
"Arey Bambai mein to waise hee sab log jaldi mein hotey hai"
"Bambai mein log bhagtey bohot hai, legin daud nahee lagaa saktey"

Water Marking my Photos

2009-03-28T23:37:00.000-07:00

Learned a simple thing today
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/12/12/how-to-watermark-an-image-using-gimp/
Water-Marking my photos, I put up on Flickr
Since I use Linux, had to find some way to do it in GIMP

My Invented Proverbs - Part III

2008-10-08T13:34:00.000-07:00

People fear confrontation, not because it requires courage, but because it could give them answers to their problems and then, there would be nothing to rant about
Of all things "Made in China", I like their "Proverbs" the most
Never judge a decision by its results
Be context sensitive in making judgments, but your commitment to "context sensitive"-ness should be context free.
One of the biggest truth of life is Peer Pressure. Check yours to see if it is positive or negative.
Blind Faith is better than False Rationality. It is obvious better to believe in something with a reason than believe blindly. But it is better to believe in something blindly than believe something with a reason that is downright false or concocted to rationalize the belief.
There is one thing common between Cute Kids and Dirty Politics -- Redundant Adjective
GOD's purpose with creating religion would be complete the day, footwear stops getting stolen from outside places of worship
The biggest damage done to public images of historical figures is by their over zealous followers
True sense of justice lies not only in ability to chose between right and wrong, but also in realizing that in some situations, such a choice need not or should not be exercised

Murphy's Laws

2008-08-26T22:38:00.000-07:00

Murphy's Law : If something can go wrong, it will.
Murphy's Second Law : If something can't go wrong, it still will.
Corollary to Murphy's Law : If something can go wrong in multiple possible ways, it will go wrong in the worst possible way.
Silverman's Law : If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

Election Time

2008-08-14T10:24:00.000-07:00

Election time in my university. Lucky that the elections are at a Hostel level alone (max stake of 400 people), else it could be nastier.

Had read somewhere before that, there is no such thing as a rational buyer, so goes the case with election candidates trying to sell themselves to the constituency, their cant be rational voters, just issues touching the emotional strings of the voters.

In an election scenario, accusing someone of Nepotism is like buying a lottery ticket, losing money and crying "It ain't fair, I do not deserve it".

For I always thought that Politics is nothing different from Nepotism, albeit legalized and at a much grander scale.

Wings

2008-08-10T09:30:00.000-07:00

Left - Wing ?
Right - Wing ?
What Am I ?
I do not know.
My Wings got clipped long back.

Quote Unquote - I

2008-08-04T12:44:00.000-07:00

The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off -- Gloria Steinem
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you do not mind, it does not matter -- Mark Twain
Loyalty with an expiry date is an oxymoron -- Rashmi Bansal
To have and to not give is often worse than to steal -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages -- Jacques Deval
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing the right thing -- Isaac Asimov
The reasonable man adapts to the world, while the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to suit him. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man -- George Bernard Shaw
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. -- Walt Streightiff
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth, not going all the way, and not starting -- Gautam Buddha
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all -- Anonymous

Weird Facts

2008-07-26T01:48:00.000-07:00

The screenplay of MahaBharat TeleSeries (BR Chopra's) was written by Dr Rahi Masoom Raza
The first national anthem of Pakistan was written by Pandit Jagannath Azad
Shivneri, the birth-place of Shivaji, contains two mosques atop the fort
Shivaji's father and uncle were called Shahaji and Sharifji, were named after a Muslim saint Shah Sharif, who blessing was sought by Shivaji's grandfather

My Invented Proverbs - Part II

2008-07-25T08:38:00.000-07:00

There is no such thing as Practicality, there is only Idealism. Idealism, if not absolute but is context sensitive, is what we called Practicality.
There is no such thing as a Data Issue, there is only a compromised DataBase design
Every Human will continue in its state of Prejudice or Perpetual Ignorance, unless acted upon by an External Unbalanced Education
Economics may be more primitive than Theology, for the CaveMan first learned to hunt then to pray
Technology is a convenience for Humans, Humans are generally the biggest inconvenience for Technology
The catch with a Win-Win situation is that, there would be compensatory concept of a Loss-Loss situation as well
Poverty doesnt sell, for if it could, it wouldnt be that poor
Life is less a battle of good versus evil, it is rather a fight between different shades of gray
Life should be a controlled mix of things you want done and things that you let happen to yourselves
When you are in a Loss-Loss situation, You actually have nothing to Lose

Good Better Than None Better Than Bad

2008-04-28T00:53:00.000-07:00

Just a thought that crossed my mind during the start of last semester, when I had the option to choose my room (consequentially my roomie) that

A good roomie is better than living alone, but living alone is better than having a bad roomie.

Looks as if the philosophy could extend onto all other things, like project mates, even professors (a bad professor could be a deterrent to education)

Lastly choose a spouse you like or stay single :D

वो पूछते हैं

2008-04-05T04:19:00.000-07:00

वो पूछते हैं कि क्या देखा है मैने तुम में,
सुकून जो चाहा था, देखा है मैने तुम में ।
तुम्हारा गम मुझे मेरे गम जैसा लगता है,
कि एक हमदर्द सा देखा है मैने तुम में ।
मैं तुम से ये नही कहूंगा, कि मैं तुम पे मरता हूं,
एक सबब जीने का, देखा है मैने तुम में ।
मैं नही जानता ले जाऊंगा कहां तक इनको,
ख्वाब ता-उम्र का, देखा है मैने तुम में ।
किसी दिन और मिल के सोचेंगे, तुम क्या हो मेरे,
एक बेनाम, हमारा, देखा है मैने तुम में ।
तुम्हारी याद मुझे रखती है गुनाहों से परे,
खुदा के राज सा देखा है मैने तुम में ।
ये डर लगा ही रेहता है, कि सब बिखर न जाए,
अपने खुदी पर का यकीन देखा है मैने तुम में ।
इस से ज्यादा मै और क्या देख सकता था,
कि एक खलील सा देखा है मैने तुम में ।

- खलील सावंत

Woh !!

2008-02-02T23:20:00.000-08:00

चंद साल के हालात पे आंसू बहा रहे हैं हम,
न जाने कितने सालों से सब देख रहा है वो ।
है ये नाज जिनको कि खुदा है साथ उनके,
नहीं जानते, मालिक है, शाहिद नही है वो ।
क्या जान मांगती है एक बदला जान ही का,
शर्मिन्दा खडे होंगे, जो हक सुना रहा है वो ।
- खलील सावंत

Chand saal ke haalaat pe aansoo bahaa rahey hai ham
Na jaaney kitney saalon se sab dekh raha hai Woh.
Hai yeh naaz jinko kee Khudaa hai saath unke
Nahee jaantey, Maalik hai, Shahid nahee hai Woh.
Kyaa jaan maangtee hai ek badlaa jaan hee kaa
Sharminda khadey hongey jo haq sunaa rahaa hai Woh.
- Khalil Sawant

Hum bat gaye

2008-02-02T08:59:00.000-08:00

हम बंट गए तो हमने मुर्दो को भी ना छोडा,
गालिब ले गया कोई, कोई इकबाल ले गया ।
- खलील सावंत
Hum bat gaye to humne, murdo ko bhi na chhoda
Galib le gaya koi, koi Iqbal le gayaa !!!
- Khalil Sawant

My Invented Proverbs - Part I

2008-01-27T09:05:00.000-08:00

There is no such thing as less work or more work. It either works or it doesn't work.
People refuse to ask questions for the fear that, they may get an answer they don't want to hear.
I believe in the Self and Humanity. Anything in between is Nepotism.
It's not about mismatched frequencies. It's about the plane of polarization.
The truth of life lies midway between stupidity and villainy.
You are only as brave as the one behind you.
An ideal mind is GOD's workshop.
The problem with the world is that, they expect functional answers for decidability problems and decision answers for functional problems.
Variety + Equality = Unity, variety is not a deterrence to unity, inequality is.
Practically Idealism is the opposite of Practicality, Ideally they both are same.

How do we decide ? :O

2008-01-05T04:44:00.000-08:00

When a good person is successful/happy, GOD is rewarding him/her.
When a good person is unsuccessful/sad, GOD is trying him/her.
When a bad person is successful/happy, GOD is giving him/her time for redemption or allowing for complacency to worsen punishment.
When a bad person is unsuccessful/sad, GOD is punishing him/her.

So if a person is successful/happy/unsuccessful/sad, can we judge him/her to be good/bad ?
Do our goodness/badness dictate our success/happiness ?

A Little Day Of Joy

2007-10-26T11:43:00.000-07:00

A little day of joy, A little day of sorrow.
Has gone by. Another is going to come tomorrow.
Live every day that comes, the way you lived today.
You would very soon discover, Life is going your way.
If but by any chance, your day doesn't go so straight,
Don't get disheartened by it, for another you wait.
A little extra effort more, in the day that comes to you,
The back log of the previous days would then have gone through.
But instead of trying patience, will you fume and fret,
The chance of rehabilitation, you might as never meet.
So if you have that hope that GOD should forgive you,
At the mistakes that you make, YOU forgive yourselves too.

- Khalil Sawant