"Eye of God" is staring at us from Space!

Last updated on: February 26, 2009 at 4:36 pm By Desh Kapoor

This is the "Eye of God". It is a cloud of stellar dust and gases of the Helix Nebula. This picture was posted on NASA's Website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003. It shows a dying star and the gases around it. One day our own sun will look like this .....and "we" - earthlings, and our scriptures, Gods, Churches, Mosques, Temples - will be less than a speck in that dust!! So much for our obsession with "Day of Judgments" and the "End of the world" 🙂 End of the "world" is not even worth fretting about in the "Eye of God". In fact many billions of "worlds" are ENDING as we speak!! 🙂 So, big deal! Read more

Genda Phool by Rekha Bharadwaj, Sujata Majumdhar, Shrradha Pandit & V N Mahathi

Last updated on: February 25, 2009 at 10:36 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is one song a UP folk that I think is perhaps the most beautiful I have heard in a long time! All the songs of this movie are great, but this one (and the Aarti) are amazing in the way they just get into your heart. For all the noise about his "Jai Ho" song from Slumdog Millionaire, that song is nowhere near this in quality and standard! Take a listen. Read more

Officers in Pak Ministry of IT were Phone Guides of Mumbai Attackers

Last updated on: February 25, 2009 at 9:40 pm By Desh Kapoor

In the 26/11 chargesheet, India has pointed specifically to a serving Colonel rank Pak Army official and a civilian with operation of the VoIP communication that guided terrorists along. They are Colonel R. Saadat Ullah and Khurram Shazad - both with Special Communication Organisation operating under Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Technology. They had opened a VoIP account with Callphonex, US using Kharak Singh as the name. It was opened on Oct 21, 2008. And first payment of $250 was made on October 27 via a Moneygram from Paracha International Exchange a moneygram agent in Lahore. A second payment of $229 was made on November 25, 2008. A day before the terrorist team reached Mumbai. Read more

Churn in the World of brands!

Last updated on: February 25, 2009 at 12:51 pm By Desh Kapoor

This is a very interesting study! The barely 10-year-old Google is the world's most powerful brand, followed by General Electric and Microsoft, according to a s urvey conducted by Millward Brown's BrandZ index (attached). The survey assigned values to various brands based on their financial strength and consumer sentiment. The survey is a bit dated.. but its message is very clear! Life changes. World changes and people find different things more attractive. 1. Google Read more

Cricketers ka Sauda by Desh

Last updated on: February 25, 2009 at 7:04 am By Desh Kapoor

It just struck to me that there was an interesting parallel between the trading of the cricketers from around the world, and the little trading that we used to do in our childhood of the cricketers then. Times have changed.. but the destiny of the players is still that of a commodity. The thought was intriguing! Read more

How to be Happy?

Last updated on: February 24, 2009 at 8:02 pm By Desh Kapoor

Was reading through Psychology today and came across this very fine article on "Pursuit of Happiness". It brings together learnings from various research inputs in the Psychology field. Worth reading each one of them. Suggestion print this article out! 🙂 Some are born Positive: Some always see opportunity and beauty in everything and can challenge their own fearful thoughts internally. Fulfilling Desires doesn’t bring Lasting Happiness: No matter what we get and what we want, we invariably jump back to our previous levels of happiness once it is done, except for some exceptions like loss of a job or a loved one (only these events permanently bring people's happiness levels) Pain and Happiness go together: It is meaningless to imagine happiness without its contrasting pain. Pain makes us realize Happiness. Awareness, not Judgment is Happiness: Psychology Today says it beautifully "Mindfulness, A Mental state of relaxed awareness of the present moment, marked by openness and curiosity toward your feelings rather than judgments of them, is a powerful tool for experiencing happiness when practiced regularly." Chasing, and not reaching brings Happiness: University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson has found that "working hard toward a goal and making progress to the point of expecting a goal to be realized, doesn’t just activate positive feelings - it also suppresses negative emotions such as fear and depression". Read more

The Happiest Man in the World

Last updated on: February 24, 2009 at 5:49 pm By Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

Dear friends, brothers and sisters suddenly this Sunday morning came to my mind an image long time remaining in this brain. How one day as I was about only seven years old thought that the luckiest profession on this planet was the one experienced by a simple street vendor candy man. I told this one evening while having dinner with my parents my exact words were: "Mom and dad I now know what I want to be when I grow up" My parents very surprised by this unexpected statement made they ask me : Son, that's a wonderful news, do you wish to become a doctor or a teacher or an engineer"? I didn't answer this question right away, because to be it was very obvious that to become a street vendor candy man was the most amazing job of all! Read more

Adding some magic to our lives!

Last updated on: February 24, 2009 at 4:46 pm By Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

SHAZAM! : A POWERFUL MAGICAL WORD Once again, a striking childhood moment wake up in my total memory regarding the fascinating world of fantasy experienced before I was seven years old. In my child’s mind everything was possible! I believed that just by pronouncing this magi word I would be immediately transformed into s super hero. I could fly, become invisible, have super strength, posses x ray vision and so on. I saw myself as a smiling super hero always helping people and solving all humanity’s great problems. Now I know that it wasn’t due to my fertile imagination, no sir! It was my master within using my altruistic emotions and brain to teach me that by pronouncing SHAZAM! My soul personality would take care of whatever problem I had to face. Much later on after spending many years immersed in esoteric teachings and also being devoured many books about Metaphysics and related themes I reached to the conclusion that every human being has his/her sacred personal magic word. If he is lucky enough to find it he will be amazed! Read more

Jai Ho! Slumdog t-shirt

Last updated on: February 24, 2009 at 6:19 am By Desh Kapoor

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Islamic Rule vs Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Last updated on: February 23, 2009 at 5:33 pm By Desh Kapoor

It is often said that the best way to conquer a place and YET look like a savior is to "First create Chaos and then bring Order - YOURS". British used this wonderfully and then solidified their position by furthering a new concept of "Divide and Conquer". Taliban (and its allies - Al Qaeda etc) has quickly learnt all both the techniques. It has turned its gaze to Islamabad lately. In reply to the Pak Army's operations against the Taliban in the Swat area, they have started painting messages on the walls with threats and also sending personal messages to religious scholars to choose between Pakistani administration and Taliban. The Choice that Taliban offers is clear - Islamic Rule vs Islamic Republic of Pakistan. If that sound ironic and confusing then let me help you a bit. Read more