The damage has been extensive.. like a friend was telling me that a Pakistani family he knows lost 52 of their family members! An entire battalion has been buried! Pakistan needs at least $5.2bn to recover from last month's earthquake, President Pervez Musharraf has said. He called funds received so far from international donors "negligible" and said he hoped to raise the money needed at an Islamabad conference on Saturday. Read more
I can say unabashedly that I am a Starbucks fan.. but about the only drink I go for at Starbucks in Tazo Chai - or Chai Latte. And it has to be "NO Water.. NO FOAM" chai! When I started out with this Chai thing.. Starbucks used to mix some water with their Tea + Spices concoction to make it easy on the American palatte.. but heck it diluted the Chai a great deal.... and foam really is air with a lot of bubbles.. Now, if I pay for the FULL CUP.. I better GET THE FULL CUP! Read more
The head was throbbing as the cell phone alarm woke me up this morning I went over to look out of my windows - FOGGY! Hmm.. So its another of those days! Breakfast was a modest cereal and fruits - I need to get a handle on my weight. Meanwhile India lost the match to South Africa.. which was bit of a shock... since they had been doing well. The interesting thing about the Indians is that the seniors are not coming out with any contributions.. while the young guns have been left to fend for the team! After being 35 for 5 in around 11 overs... Yuvraj stuck it out and scored a century to take India to a respectable 249 in 50 overs. South Africa made it will Kallis coming through. Pathan got a beating this time! Read more
Subhash Bose - The truth.... and the myth Subhash Bose (Jan 23, 1897 - ????) Jan 23rd was Bose's Birth Anniversary. This is an exceptional story and investigation on the disappearance of Subhash Bose. Bose was one of the leading freedom fighters of Indian Independence... who went on to actually raise an Army and fight the British. He could have done wonders but his army lost and he disappeared.. announced as dead in an aircrash.. but never confirmed! this investigation details what probably did happen: Read more
"But Iraq has—have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future." —Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005 Read more
These days they are talking about intercepting the meteorites by sending some satellites that can use the natural gravitation attraction between bodies to push the meteorite off its path! In 1908 a meteorite exploded over Siberia's barely populated Tunguska River region with a destructive force of 10 to 50 megatons of TNT. It flattened forests and killed reindeer herds, but only a few people died. It took years to diagnose what'd happened. Once we knew, we shrugged it off as too rare to worry about, even though that same explosion over a big city could kill ten million people. Read more
The other day I was listening to a Guru giving his discourse... and he was praising the importance of a "true" Master and how the enlightened who came - he cited Budhha, Guru Nanak, Christ etc - were PURE and "PERFECT". "They were Gods in human form!" .... and that "No Master or Enlightened Guru came to earth to start a religion... its their followers who did that! These enlightened beings all gave the same philosophy of love and compassion.. and stated the same principles of Spiritual success" .. and in that he chided the followers saying "How many Masters must you read or listen to before you get the message!?" Read more
The more you resist things.. the tougher they will be. Stop resisting .. and the friction ends. Stop trying to "Change" the situation.... accept the "What is"!! Fulfillment of heart does not bring peace, .. Contentment does. And if you really look honestly.. Contentment occurs when you are "COMPLETE" with your situation - the "what is". Whenever you were in the "change" mode mentally... you were always stressed. Work to change stuff... but accept what IS. Nothing more. Nothing else. Read more
(Request: If you have come here from Jagadguru.in or Krishworld, then please look at this post to read my rejoinder.) ============ Read more
read the article below as well as the investigations done by the Hindustan Times staff.. and you get a surreal feeling that something was not quite right with all this! At more than one place and by more than one people in this investigation, it has been said: that if the news of Subhash Bose being alive came out or he came out of his hiding.. India would have burnt and relationships with some prominent countries would have gone sour! Something that started with Gandhi's Hitler-like undemocratic and self promoting resistance of Bose.. ended in a quiet and unsung death of a hero... and I believe in which some of his friends and foes were equally complicit! Read more
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