Test
March 28, 2007
October 4, 2006
June 21, 2006
Reservations – PC VS Karan Thapar
Check this out…http://www.ibnlive.com/news/devils-advocate-pc-quotaunquote/12758-4-single.html
June 1, 2006
Cypress – சைப்ரஸ்
இது ஒரு தமிழ் பதிவு…நேற்று என் கணிணியை நோண்டிய பொழுது கிடைத்த ஒரு
கவிதை. கிட்டத்தட்ட ஒரு வருடத்துக்கு முன்னால்
மொழிபெயர்த்தது….
நெருப்பு
சைப்ரஸைப் பார்த்து சொன்னது
என்ன ஒரு
அமைதி
ஒரு அழகான
கர்வம்
வெறி கொள்ளச் செய்கிறாய் நீ!
எப்படி
முடிகிறது உன்னால்?
ஒரு மெல்லிய கிறுக்குத்தனத்தோடு,
கற்பனை
கனவு
விடுதலை
பொங்க
ஒரு இறுகிய பழங்
கர்வத்தோடு வாழ
வாழ்கையே
உனக்கு வசந்தமா
என்ன?
என்னால்
மட்டும் முடியுமானால்…
காலங்களைக்
காணாமல் செய்வேன்
உன் சார்புகளைச் சுட்டெரிப்பேன்
பூமி, மழை, வெயில், காற்று, பனி அனைத்தையும் பொசுக்கிவிடுவேன்!
சைப்ரஸ்
மௌனம் காத்தது!
நெருப்பின்
கிறுக்குத்தனம் தெரியும் அதற்கு
அதன் விடுதலை, கற்பனை, கனவு
எதையும்
நெருப்பு புரிந்து கொள்ளப் போவதில்லை
அவற்றை
நெருப்பால் நம்பக் கூட
முடியாது!
The Original:
TWO
ELEMENTS
Theflame says to the
cypress:
“When I see how calm,
how full of pride you are,
something inside me goes wild –
How can one live this awesome life
without a touch of madness,
of spirit,
of imagination,
of freedom,
with only a grim, ancient pride?
If I could, I would burn down
the establishment
that we call the seasons,
along with your cursed dependence
on earth and air and sun,
on rain and dew.”
Thecypress
does not answer.
He knows there is madness in him,
and freedom,
and imagination,
and spirit.
But the flame will not understand,
the flame will not believe.
May 31, 2006
Graduation, Poem, Reservations and Narayana Murthy
Well, well. Its high time something is written in this blog and here we go. I have finally graduated from NUS and that was the news of the last week other than kicking some NTU ass at NTU (cricket, ofcourse). I am typing this blog entry using this cool online word processor called zoho writer. Its quite brilliant. Versatile. Can type in unicode tamil effortlessly. And it has a slick interface. I like it.
I would like to start off with a beautiful poem I came across this week. It is written by a tamil poet, Prameel. It goes like this,
“சிறகிலிருந்து பிரிந்த
இறகு ஒன்று
காற்றின்
தீராத பக்கங்களில்
ஒரு
பறவையின் வாழ்வை
எழுதிச் செல்கிறது”
Translation:
“A feather detaching itself
From the wing
Render on the
Pages of the
wind
The life of a bird” – the english translation is not so good.
Flicked from : http://kumizh.blogspot.com/2005/03/1.html
Just to say, atleast that, it is my life’s dream to come up with a few of
such brilliant stuff.
Another thing, I am proud to anounce that I have become a hardcore admirer of Lollu Sabha Manohar and I think he should become the next chief minister of TamilNadu.
I would like to write about reservations and stuff. Insah Allah, I will. Here are a few links to reflect on.
http://bseshadri.blogspot.com/2006/05/letter-iit-k-professors-wrote.html
http://bseshadri.blogspot.com/2006/05/iit-k-letter-and-my-comments.html
http://www.ambedkar.org/News/News051707.htm
“India must be the only country in the world, where people fight to be called backward”
- Narayan Murthy
Just received this one through e-mail. Noone is fighting to be called backward nor there is any pride in being backward. It is about recognising that a section of a society had been denied the right for education and equal oppurtunity and embracing them on India’s progress. I am not sure about the context in which the statement was made or if it was made at all. Assuming that Mr. Narayana Murthy of Infosys said this and taking this line at its face value, I would like to register my disappointment on such short-sighted, shallow and stupid remark. Mr. Murthy, you built a billion dollar company from scratch. You should know better, really. I am curious to know what Mr. Murthy think about the whole reservation issue. Any links?
I was thinking of writing a review of Pudhupettai, a latest tamil movie, will reserve it for later.
February 13, 2006
End of Tendulkar??
“As a wicketkeeper, Sachin’s controversial dismissal also reminded me of a few batsmen who preferred walking off the pitch on their legs rather than being carried away on stretchers when the great Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were at their brilliant best. I wish I am wrong in my assessment of Sachin, but, at least, that is the impression he has left after his Faisalabad outing”.
Thanks, Moin Khan. It feels good to laugh.
Link to original article : http://in.rediff.com/cricket/2006/jan/27moin.htm
technorati tags: Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, Moin Khan
February 9, 2006
God’s Debris – 2
As I had mentioned in one of my previous posts, I was reading this book called God’s Debris by Scott Adams. The book is a very interesting read. Anyways, the part I want to talk about here is the final part when the avatar, the old man to whom the narrator is discussing, talks about the five different kinds of awareness in people. It goes like this, you attain the first level when you are born. You are aware of existing. The second level is when you become aware that other people exist too. You start believing stuff told by authority figures and you trust in the belief system in which you are raised. There is a third level, where you believe that humans are often wrong in things they do and you even recognize that you do a few wrong things too. But then you have no idea how to change yourself and you find comfort in what you believe in. The fourth level is skepticism, you believe science has answers to everything. You are logical enough to understand and comprehend your actions and most of the stuff happening around you. You are arrogant about your knowledge and tend to look down upon people with awareness levels two and three. The fifth level is, I quote
The fifth level of awareness is the Avatar. The Avatar
understands that the mind is an illusion generator, not a
window to reality. The Avatar recognizes science as a belief
system, albeit a useful one.
understands that the mind is an illusion generator, not a
window to reality. The Avatar recognizes science as a belief
system, albeit a useful one.
So which level are you?
You can get the free version of God’s Debris at http://images.ucomics.com/images/pdfs/sadams/godsdebris.pdf
technorati tags: God’s Debris, Scott Adams, Books
February 8, 2006
Bharatuday Mission
I received this message in orkut from some random bloke. The message is:
to: Captain – The saviour of India from: Gopal Krishna [ignore]
subject: a new mission for a developed India
message:
Dear friend,
I am a IIT Kanpur 4th year student. Some students from
various iits & other engineering colleges have started a
socio-political organization Bharat Uday Mission
(BM)- http://bharatudaymission.org
It is an ideal political organization, which aims to
attain political power only through social service and only for
social service, with final goal of a developed and prosperous
India. I am a part of Bharat Uday Mission. The purpose of this
mail is to inform all like-minded patriots about this
nationalist movement.
“Be a great man and make Bharat a great Nation” – does these
thunderous words of Swami Vivekananda inspire deep
nationalism in you ? If yes, then you are most welcome to be
part of this extremely noble and equally challenging mission -
kindly join us and help us in spreading this Mission to your
institute/location. If no, then
treat this message as a spam and forgive me for the same.
You can also join our yahoo-group by mailing to
bharatudaymission-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Hope we all show courage and conviction to move from
pleasure-centric to principle-centric life,
from hypocrisy to heroic efforts and from
selfishness to selflessness, so that we all
breathe in a developed India.
Jai Hind
Yours Sincerely
Gopal
Also see : http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/01/25/new-political-parties/
I don’t want to register my comments on these efforts right now. Don’t seem to find too much information online. If you happen to read this and wanna discuss, do leave a comment.
technorati tags: BM, bharatuday mission, politics, india
