Tumbi: 2011

http://www.lifesip.com/sports-quotes.html
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

-- Mark Twain

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you wil l gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs said it in his speech at Stanford.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Life and Ideas of Revolutionary Bhagat Singh

Life and Ideas of Revolutionary Bhagat Singh: Quote From Revolutionary Bhagat Singh - On Terrorsim

http://www.iosworld.org/The%20Idea%20of%20Bhagat%20Singh.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=bG9lA6CrgQgC&pg=PA32&vq=inquilab+zindabad&sig=FYPPU91-0bFYEuWPgaJmmQ4tZJ4#v=onepage&q=inquilab%20zindabad&f=false
http://www.shahidbhagatsingh.org/index.asp?link=problem_of_pb
http://books.google.com/books?id=fSezgPlshGUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bhagat+singh&hl=en&ei=2ReJTayXBamR0QH-pLX5DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Without-Fear-Life-and-Trial-of-Bhagat-Singh-Kuldip-Nayar-ntpntrotsm
http://www.indialawjournal.com/volume3/issue_1/book_review.html
The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Rare documents on Bhagat Singh's trial and life in jail
http://www.marxists.org/archive/bhagat-singh/index.htm witings of Bhagat Singh
http://revolutionary-flame.blogspot.com/2010/09/bhagat-singh-eternal-source-of.html Quotes
http://www.iosworld.org/The%20Idea%20of%20Bhagat%20Singh.htm
http://tamilnation.co/ideology/bhagat.htm - 23 years and counting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh
http://www.pragoti.in/node/2114 - letter to father
http://www.news24online.com/BlogDetail.aspx?blog_id=140,7 Gautam Gambhir's idol
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/savarkar-didnt-utter-a-word-about-bhagat-singhs-hanging-while-nehru-bose-tried-their-best-to-save-him?fbclid=IwAR19bAt7uszKcKGCBIoRJ3g1I5THjw_VdawrErqJ3wjmUibXdckaNlFtIeg

The story of cricket balls. - Itsonlycricket, is only cricket!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Best form of Government=Mass people management ???

Is democracy the best form of government in all situations ? Inherently it seems that way, it seems sacrilegious to suggest another/alternative form. How does one have a meaningful conversation/discussion/argument over this...Is this also a matter of faith, does one have to have a etched in stone view of this, akin to religious faith or are there caveats and special considerations, but this form at this time or some other allowance. Here is an attempt to look at contrarian views to democracy and see if there is any merit to such views, and if yes what are the pitfalls ?

Democracy
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Democracy Excellent compilations of quotes on democracy

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als/from_george_orwell_to_vaclav_havel.html...read article on democracy

"When I examined my political faith I found that my strongest belief was in democracy according to my own definition. Democracythe essential thing as distinguished from this or that democratic governmentwas primarily an attitude of mind, a spiritual testament, and not an economic structure or a political machine. The testament involved certain basic beliefsthat the personality was sacrosanct, which was the meaning of liberty; that policy should be settled by free discussion; that normally a minority should be ready to yield to a majority, which in turn should respect a minoritys sacred things. It seemed to me that democracy had been in the past too narrowly defined and had been identified illogically with some particular economic or political system such as laissez-faire or British parliamentarism. I could imagine a democracy which economically was largely socialist and which had not our constitutional pattern."

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/john-buchan-1st-baron-tweedsmuir#ixzz1OBazugN8

Government is "an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself"

Interesting Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/20/world/middleeast/middle-east-voices.html

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracies

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Hiring, management etc

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/whom-to-hire-at-a-startup-attitude-over-aptitude/

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Lord Tennyson & other such...

Twinkle twinkle yaaran di car, khadkey glassi at the bar chicken tandoori te fish fry always talli never dry.....

Friday, February 25, 2011

The Last Drop

A total of 1,347 bottles created. Last two bottles available in MA ...worth it ?

http://www.luxist.com/2008/09/15/tasting-the-last-drop-scotch-whisky/

http://scotchhobbyist.com/2010/05/10/the-last-drop-a-one-of-a-kind-blended-whisky/ Interesting blogger on scotch

http://bostonist.com/2009/05/27/the_last_drop_scotch_whisky.php

http://robbreport.com/The-Last-Drop-1960-Blended-Scotch-Whisky

http://www.luxury-insider.com/Current_Affairs/post/2008/10/18/The-Last-Drop-A-Blended-Scotch-Whisky-48-Years-in-the-Making.aspx

Monday, February 21, 2011

Drugs In Punjab

http://vimeo.com/19815617

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Corruption in India

Corruption in India...must be fought against. A revolution looming large or will this lead the country to decay and disorder ?

4.7.11
Recent Jan Lokpal movement reminds me of one of my favorite movies: Satyakam (written by Narayan Sanyal, Dialogue: Rajinder Singh Bedi & Directed By Hrishikesh Mukherjee) depicting one man's improbable & fatal fight against corruption.

Can the cozy and powerful nexus among Politicians-Criminals-Business be broken ? It has become all-pervasive and permeates through all layers of society including the once cocooned army. Hopefully the Jan Lokpal movement retains societal support and breaks through the shackles corruption and not fall into a bureaucratic morass.

relevant links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12740213

http://india.5thpillar.org/

http://www.informationactivism.org/en/news/5thpillar

http://www.nobribe.org/tag/fight-corruption

http://blogs.worldbank.org/paying-zero-public-services

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/soutikbiswas/2011/01/indias_black_money_hoodwinking_the_people.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12768908