Thursday, June 29, 2006

Indian law makes an ass of itself

Indian law of teh same fame as:
Jessica Lal and a million different scams and scandals has fallen to a new low:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5128250.stm

Sunday, June 25, 2006

A New World

I have always wondered about what made "people to go to new places, to find new worlds and civilisations-to boldly go where they have not gone before." I now think that there are atleast two reasons for it:
1. The Ideal One:
the human being wants to find out whats beyond the next hill. (early man stage)
the human being wants to find whats different between his valley and the next one.(Classical Greek)
the human being wants to come back, write a book on what was there beyond teh next hill and become rich. ( The age of empire and information).

The human being wants to leave a legacy-for blah-blah reasons.(ubiquitous)

2.The Real one:
The human being wants to start his own kingdom (stone age)
The human being wants glory for himself for blah-blah and blah reasons(Age of empires and empire builders,see Alexander and Livingstone)
The human being wants to make money in a land where honey flows free and not reserved( India Today)
The human being is pained by most other human beings around him (ubiquitous)


ps- i realised that the points regarding legacy and glory are both real and ideal-dependent on teh perspective in question.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

BUSH TELEGRAPH

Bush says:

we believe in the equality of life.
"Killing" of embryos is not right. FINE!
Euthanasia is not right.FINE!
Three dead men,not proved guilty, are a PR stunt!
Some people are more equal than the others.