Miscellanea [01 Jan. 2019 – 31 March. 2019]
6 Jan 19
Harvard alone accounts for 18 times more top scientists that the whole of India
More devastatingly, until last year only 5 figured amongst the world’s top. A redefinition raised this number to 10!
While just about 15 years ago China equaled India, today it beats India 48 times over occupying the global 3rd slot behind only USA and UK.
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES FELLOW INDIANS?
AREN’T YOU SHAKEN AT THIS ABYSMAL FALL?
17 Jan 19
Don’t be afraid of your opinions because you are alone.
Remember: most #truths were initially opposed by the #majority!
22 Jan 19
The rich that hold on to their #wealth in the midst of poverty appear no less than #criminals
22 Jan 19
One of the best pleasures that money can earn you is the joy of #giving.
But, alas! the miserly must remain miserable!
22 Jan 19
Isn’t #HELL in every religion admission by its #God that even He can’t reform everyone?
22 Jan 19
IRRATIONAL ENSLAVEMENT
We CHOOSE our pen, purse and phone with care.
We SELDOM choose our #Faith or #Nation
Yet we DIE and KILL for the latter.
22 Jan 19
Show me one that demands unquestioned obedience and #sycophancy, and I will show you a deeply empty and hollow person
22 Jan 19
Celebrating #success is intuitive but learn to be graceful in #failure,
for you fail far more often than you succeed
31 Jan 19
Don’t sacrifice for your family, you are below animals; don’t look beyond your family, you are not beyond animals!
6 Feb 19
Jealousy and rivalry seep through scriptures. Why so much jealousy against other #Gods and #Faiths?
6 Feb 19
When some people wildly praise rabble-rousing as oratory, I wonder if they even know the criteria for a #speech to be called good
7 Feb 19
PAINFUL, SORDID REALITY.
NO, not because Sweeping is an ignoble work, but because of such a colossal waste of education, money and time, these youth spent acquiring all those degrees.
ALL BECAUSE OF THE FANTASTIC PAY THE BABUDOM GETS.
7 Feb 19
If my ‘Next Life’ depends upon what I do now, what is my Present #Life the result of?
8 Feb 19
DISTURBING NEUTRALITY
The glaring contradictions of govt version on Rafale must disturb all patriots.
Silence no more possible.
13 Feb 19
Was India ever so #polarized simultaneously along political, economic, communal and caste lines?
14 Feb 19
Your being has enriched many a life. May you stay healthy for long – so that many more are empowered. And may you stay happy always, which you so richly deserve.
22 Feb 19
Masturbation, Lesbianism, Homosexuality are all commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sinful or Natural? Is a creature or Creator responsible?
3 Mar 19
If false #news and bravado are made cognizable offences we will sleep in peace as most of our #anchors would be in jail
5 March 19
WHAT SHOULD GUIDE THE TRUE JOURNALIST?
TRUTH? OR NATIONALISM?
I seek answers
6 March 19
END OF ISIS
To hell with #ISIS Khilafat led by Abubakar! Where else? Not in merciful God’s Paradise!
This hideous ideology is being extinguished in Eastern Syria even as I write this.
By the weekend the #Khilafat may be finished
7 March 19
SAHEEH BUKHARI IN ISLAM
A friend sent this link and sought my opinion.
I know very little about the man in the video but I do understand that Saheeh Bukhari enjoys much respect in the large mass of Muslims. Therefore I viewed this video and am perplexed.
I also then looked around and found a lot of criticism of this Imam.
As a rationalist, I am only concerned with reason and scientific temper, not with Sunni, Shia, Ahmedia, or for that matter any other school and matter of blind faith.
I invite the opinion – sp of Muslim members – strictly
– about the content of THIS Video
– role of Saheeh Bukhari in the life of Muslims
Under no circumstance will we allow posts casting uncivil aspersions or personal attacks on any member, any community at large and any communal comments.
8 March 19
Can’t you be a #good person without being #religious?
Aren’t religious people #bad, too?
10 March 19
CRAMPS IN THE LEG?
PUT A SOAP IN YOUR BED!
This makes little sense to me. Indeed, the author and my friend Manoj Pai who led me to this link both suspect placebo effect.
Try with due caution.
12 March 19
The more I see of a problem, the more I see some faith behind, or beneath it.
12 March 19
When we begin to like dishonest #compliment better than honest criticism, we are beginning to drown
12 March 19
We wisely #advise our leaders on how to run the nation & it’s institutions even as we stupidly ruin our own tiny enterprises
12 March 19
The more
I judge others
the less
I #introspect within
23 March 19
It is a lot easier to live without faith in God than living without faith in humanity
25 March 19
When the powerful do the WRONG, with impunity, and with many, these are perceived as RIGHT
27 March 19
The quality of the #Condolence indicates the status of the bereaved, rather than that of the dead!
29 March 19
Many of us have the arrogance to believe that we rightfully deserve all that we have. Conversely: The have-not aren’t as smart!
