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Quotes - 10 / 5 / 05 : August 22, 2003

Incensed Politician : August 22, 2003


Ireland : Altar boys and girls are being exposed to danger, according to an Irish government minister, and it isn't the usual problem.

* Jim McDade, who is a former family doctor, said the children were at risk because they inhaled the carcinogenic smoke produced when incense is burnt close by.

* Here you have quite a thick billowing type of smoke. Sometimes you see the children with this instrument which is down normally around their ankles, and the smoke just keeps coming up, Dr McDade said.

* And sometimes I cringe when I see them literally inhaling this, because sometimes there is an aroma of it and all I was trying to do was making people aware.



The burning of incense is popular in Roman Catholic Churches

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Quotes - 11 / 5 / 05 : August 22, 2003

Special Quotes



Personally, I think we all don’t even start to climb out of the murky depths until we’ve fully explored them

The cocoon represents their lives and their being wrapped up by their pain and hopelessness. The butterfly represents their freedom from the pain

To look to the future when the past still haunts us is a daunting task, but what other choice do we have? We can’t change the past, we are stuck with it, all we can do is try to live the best we can and to make the best of it.

Losing a child is like a broken down car. To go in reverse brings painful memories. To go forward is too scary without your child. So we sit in neutral with our hands clutched to the emergency brake, hoping someday to find a way to run again

Small things matter so much to me now - the sunsets, perfume of flowers, smiles on faces, laughter, etc. They are all things I took for granted before but now I see them differently


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Quotes - 12 / 5 / 05 : Sonia Defends Manmohan Singh

Sonia Defends Manmohan Singh

New Delhi, May 11
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today came out in stout defence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

“Not even our most bitter critic can accuse our Prime Minister of being arrogant, subjective and or inconsiderate," she told the Congress Parliamentary Party’s general body meeting today.

The Congress President also went out of her way to congratulate the Prime Minister for his “dignified and effective leadership” of the UPA government which is completing one year in office. She said the government will present a specific progress report about its achievements at its first anniversary on May 22.


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Quotes - 15 / 5 / 05 : Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington

"I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization--that is, in spiritual civilization."

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Thirteen is embarrassed by the beginnings of a new colthood; the child becomes a youth. But twelve is the very top of boyhood.

"Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman . . . "


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Quotes - 16 / 5 / 05 : Deputy Leader of the German State of Bremen Resigned

He 'misinterpreted' the situation... Fri May 13, 2005

BERLIN (Reuters) - The deputy leader of the German state of Bremen resigned after pouring sparkling wine over the head of a homeless man in an apparent joke that went wrong.

Peter Gloystein of the center-right Christian Democrats was caught on camera pouring a magnum of the wine over the head of stunned Bremen local Udo Oelschlaeger at the launch of German wine week Wednesday evening.

Oelschlaeger was standing next to the podium at the public, open-air event from where Gloystein poured the wine.

Gloystein, Bremen state economy and culture senator, said late Thursday he deeply regretted the incident and apologized to his victim. He said he had "misinterpreted" the situation but did not explain what he meant.

"I had a long and intensive talk with Mr Oelschlaeger the same evening. He explained his difficult life. We departed on friendly terms ... If possible, I would like to help out Mr Oelschlaeger," Gloystein said in a statement.

A Bremen culture ministry spokesman confirmed Gloystein had resigned from his various posts.

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Quotes - 17 / 5 / 05 : QUIET Quotes

Quiet Quotes

Truth hath a quiet breast - William Shakespeare

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder - Thomas Fuller

The good and the wise lead quiet lives - Euripides

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye - Austin O'Malley

Friends are people you can be quiet with - unknown

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Quotes - 18 / 5 / 05 : Wonder Quotes

Wonder Quotes

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. - Anais Nin

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.- Maureen Hawkins

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.- Monica Baldwin

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. - Rachel Carson

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. - Rachel Carson

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Quotes - 19 / 5 / 05 : City Boy Invited for US Meet

City Boy Invited for US Meet

Hyderabad: Nikhil Acharya from the city has been selected to participate in the Global Young Leaders Conference from June 19 to June 30 to be held in Washington DC in the US.

GYLC is a unique development programme for secondary school students from around the world who have demonstrated leadership potential and scholastic merit.

Nikhil is among 400 students from across the globe to attend the conference. Nikhil is the son of Managing Director of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board Mr B. P. Acharya.

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Quotes - 22 / 5 / 05 : Go Outside and Play!

Go Outside and Play! Sunday, May 22, 2005

There's a really interesting book review in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch of Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, which "offers creative ways of getting children outdoors." From the review, it sounds like the book is mainly concerned with childhood obesity and ADD, and offers ways to address these problems by getting kids into natural spaces. I also think (and I'm saying this without having read the book) that this is important for getting kids to recognize the interconnectedness of the "environment" and human life. While I don't have any kids at home in the age range described, I think this is an important concept for parents with kids that not only spend a lot of time in front of the TV or computer, but also parents that drive their kids from one enclosed, regulated space to another.

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Quotes - 23 / 5 / 05 : MERRY MONDAY

MERRY MONDAY! 25 April 2005

A man goes to the doctors. The doc checks him over, and says "sorry mate, but you have yellow 24, a nasty virus, so called as it turns your blood yellow and you only have 24 hours to live. There's nothing I can do for you - just go home and enjoy your final precious moments on earth."

So he trudges home to wifey, and breaks the news. Distraught, she asks him to accompany her to bingo that evening so he can experience her idea of a night out, as he's never been there before.

He gets his 1st card, and wins 4 corners - prize £350, and then gets any line and wins £3200. He also calls for a full house - and wins a grand. The national grid comes up and he wins a further £380,000.

The bingo Caller gets him on stage, and says "son - I've never seen you in here in all my life, but you won 4 corners, any line, full house & the national grid - I've never met anyone so lucky."

"Lucky??" he screamed, "lucky? I'll have you know I've got yellow 24."

"S-d me," says the bingo caller. "You've won the raffle as well"!

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Quotes - 24 / 5 / 05 : How Tunes Get Stuck In Your Head

How Tunes Get Stuck In Your Head Wednesday, 9 March, 2005

Scientists may have found what makes a tune catchy, after locating the brain area where a song's "hook" gets caught.

A US team from Dartmouth College, reported in the journal Nature, played volunteers tunes with snippets cut out.

They scanned for brain activity and found it centred in the auditory cortex - which handles information from ears.

When familiar tunes played, the cortex activity continued during the blanks - and the volunteers indeed said they still mentally "heard" the tunes.

Catchy Songs

Researchers have previously argued that catchy songs work by causing a "brain itch" that can only be scratched by repeating the tune. ...

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Quotes - 26 / 5 / 05 : A Man Everybody Loved

Sunil Dutt : 1929-2005

A Man Everybody Loved Thursday May 26 2005

MUMBAI: Everybody loved Sunil Dutt.

In a film industry riddled with petty jealousies and rival camps, the actor-turned-politician was a rare breed.

When the country's Sports Minister and five time MP passed away after a sudden heart attack on Wednesday morning, top politicians - including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi - and film personalities showed up in full strength.

“He was the only committed and honest man I knew,” said poet Gulzar. Dutt saab would have turned 76 on June 6. He is survived by his children Sanjay, Namrata and Priya.

Dutt's life spanned an unusual width of tragedies and achievements. He lost his father when he was five, then lived through the trauma of Partition, his wife Nargis' untimely death due to cancer in 1981 and his son Sanjay's arrest after the Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993.

Yet through it all he was a man on a mission - embarking on innumerable peace walks, fighting for communal harmony, donating furiously to all causes including the one that was closest to his heart-cancer aid.

“He had a rare quality,” Gandhi said. “Wherever there was a problem, he was there first. All his life he stood for secularism.” During the 1993 blasts, Dutt's house was a camp for all those who wanted to help.

Mahesh Bhatt recalled an incident, after the Bombay riots, that reflects these convictions. “Naseeruddin Shah was really worried and asked Dutt saab if he should leave the country. Dutt saab told him that he would make sure we built back the nation together.”

Family members said Dutt complained of feeling uneasy after a recent visit to Kanpur where he suffered a heatstroke. They were worried when he didn't wake up at the usual hour of 7 am. At 11 am, they summoned the family physician who declared him dead.

As news of his demise spread, the well-wishers could not be restrained. ...
Dutt's Bollywood colleagues were all there. “I saw him just now. His face still has the glow,” said Shabana Azmi. “He looks so peaceful because he lived an honest life.”

Dutt's story is vintage Bombay. Born in 1930 in Khurd village in Jhelum district, now in Pakistan, Dutt grew up as Balraj Dutt. The teenager came to the country's entertainment capital wanting to be a movie star.

After a clerical job in the Bombay Bus Service and a stint with a radio station, Dutt finally got his break when director Ramesh Saigal offered him the hero's role in his Nalini Jaywant starrer Railway Platform (1955).

Over the next five decades, he acted in 102 films including Mother India, Waqt, Humraaz, Milan, Mujhe Jeene Do, Padosan and Gumraah.

His raw portrayal of a rebellious younger son in Mother India propelled him into the big league.

It was during the making of this film that he rescued co-star Nargis from a blaze that got out of control on the sets. They were married after the film's release.

Later, Dutt directed six films including the memorable Reshma aur Shera. His last screen appearance was with son Sanjay in the 2003 blockbuster Munnabhai MBBS.

From the 1962 war with China to the 1999 Kargil conflict, Dutt was always there to lend cheer to Indian troops.

Dutt was a champion of peace too. During the height of terrorism in Punjab, he walked from Bombay to Amritsar to pray for peace at the Golden Temple.

Ironically, Dutt was taken for cremation in one of the ambulance that he had donated a fortnight back to the Sneha Sagar Association of Bandra.

Director Govind Nihalani, who accompanied Dutt on his 1988 Shanti Yatra from Nagasaki to Hiroshima for world peace and nuclear disarmament said, “He always spoke about the country. I never heard him speaking about himself.”

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Quotes - 27 / 5 / 05 : A Man Everybody Loved

AP Tiger Census Anantapur, May 25:

The wise Birbal would have had a good laugh had he learnt of the tiger census conducted by the forest department. Akbar’s legendary courtier, when asked to count the crows in Agra, gave a figure to the Emperor and warned him that number was flexible since many crows flew to other places to visit their relatives. Even this common sense folk wisdom was neglected by the forest officers who conducted the bi-annual census of tigers, ignoring the fact that the animals roam throughout the forests.

The census, which was launched in the Nandyal division of Nallamala forest on May 10 and concluded on May 22, may not give people the exact count of the animals in the forest, which has four divisions, each divided into different ranges.

Instead of taking the entire Nallamala forest as one unit, the forest authorities conducted a division-wise census. Sources stated that around 62 tigers were present in the Rajiv Gandhi tiger reserve, spread across 3,568 hectares. However, the 1998 census shows just 42 tigers. No study has so far been taken out to assess the extent of depletion of tiger habitat in Nallamala forest. “The increased movement of extremists and the consequent rise in combing operations by police had a disturbing impact on the solitary tigers,” said the expert. “Neither has there been any study on poaching.”

“This is faulty,” said a wild-life expert of the State Forest Service. “It does not take into account the pertinent fact that felines roam from one place to another.” There are three accepted methods to ascertain the number of tigers in an area. Tiger roars are taken into account, the cadavers left half-eaten by the animals are examined and most important, division-wise census. Obviously, the tigers are not bothered about the divisional jurisdictions of the forest department and roam about freely in the forest. So the same tiger could have been counted twice or even thrice.

“In all, 19 enumerators were deployed in the Nandyal division,” said a wild-life expert. “There is strong likelihood of confusion as different groups took census in different divisions. The results would not be comprehensive.” [/i][/b]

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Quotes - 28 / 5 / 05 : 3 Q

3 Q


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"When you earnestly believe you can compensate for lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do."

Despair Inc.

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"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Nelson Mandela


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Quotes - 29 / 5 / 05 : The Aim and "Why" of Rastafarian Faith

The Aim and "Why" of Rastafarian Faith


We must look to the almighty Jah, thank God who has raised man above all creatures and endowed him with reason and intelligence.
We must at all times put our trust and faith in Him and he will not desert us or permit us to destroy ourselves or humanity that He created in His image. We must examine ourselves and look deeply in our souls. We must become something we have never been before. We must become bigger that we have been, greater in spirit, more courageous, and larger in our outlook.
As His majesty said, we must overcome our petty prejudices, even if the weight of history is heavy, owing our ultimate dedication or allegiance not to any nation or country, but to our fellow men within the human community and become member of a new race, the true race: the human race.

What is Rastafari

Rastafari is a movement of black people who know Africa is the birthplace of mankind, all mankind. It is a twentieth century manifestation of God that enlightened our pathway towards righteousness and is therefore worthy of reverence.
Rastafari recognizes Africa as the central origin of religious history, culture, science and technology. Africa, symbolized in the scriptures by Ethiopia (I-thiopia) is an emotional magnet for many Africans, that is calling us home to the continent which our ancestors were taken by force from more than three hundred years ago, during slavery, the black holocaust.
That call has never been felt more deeply than by members of the Rastafari faith. Rastafari wants all people, especially black people, to know that we are Africans and to develop a sense of pride and integrity in ourselves, knowing that our heritage is of the noblest of mankind and that we are in fear of no man.
All people, especially Black people, are Africans and Africa is the birthplace of mankind. We must re-culture ourselves so we can have a sense of pride, in the turning from Occidental culture, and taking into ourselves the power of our African culture, which has been hidden from us for so long. As it is written, Africa awaits the creator and Rastafari.
See I and I selves as positive warriors in the battle for redemption and reconstruction of our mother continent. See I and I selves as Jah masons, who build and don't destroy like Babylon do..
To accomplish this, we cannot confront the occident with there armonition to win, our only hope is for us to use the mental power of our African culture to unite ourselves and overwhelm the negative aspects of Occidental culture where ever it impedes our progress and enlightenment. It doesn't mean that europeans or whites or any color are bad, as we are all Jah creatures, but people shall know that Babylon is going wrong and will deceive them.
Creating divisions, ie among races, is the rule of Babylon. So racism has nothing to do with Rastafari. "United we stand, divided we fall".

History and Prophecy

The birth of the movement of Rastafari can be officially fixed in Ethiopia during the coronation of the prince Ras Tafari Makonnen (Haile Selassie) on November 2, 1930. This was no ordinary event in Jamaica because a year earlier Marcus Mossiah Garvey had a prophetic vision, seeing a king be crowned in Africa.
After the coronation of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I (Power of the Trinity), several individuals searched the Bible for confirmation and found it in the Psalms: "A Prince shall come out of Egypt, and Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hand unto Jah". The prophecy was fullfilled and these people were the first Rastafarians.
Apart from carrying the legal title "King of Kings, Lord of Lords, conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah" that is written in Revelations, Haile Selassie is the 225th descendant of King Salomon, son of David, and the Queen of Sheba.

Many times people have asked what proof does Rastafarians have to point to Haile Selassie as our Savior. Look at Revelations 5 verse 5, Revelations 19 verse 16, Revelations 22 verse 16 and Psalms 87:4, Ezekiel 30, Epistle to Timothy, Revelation 19, 22, Psalms 9,18, 68, 76,and Isaiah 9.


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Quotes - 31 / 5 / 05 : No Deadline For Report On Telangana: Minister

No Deadline For Report On Telangana

Hyderabad, May 30: Union Rural Development Minister Dr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and his junior Minister A. Narendra are at loggerheads over the Telangana issue. Dr Singh is a member of the three-member UPA sub-committee on Telangana.

Dr Singh asserted on Monday to media persons that there was no deadline for the committee to submit its report on Telangana. Mr Narendra said they were expecting a report by June 30 or latest by July 30 and if not they would “rethink” (over their support to the UPA government).

“Deadline kai ko? Gaadi chut rahi hai kya (Why a deadline? Is a train leaving)” Dr Singh remarked in typical Bihari bhasha even as Mr Narendra, who was sitting beside him, stared at him at Lake View Guest house.
Dr Singh was in the city to participate in the regional collectors’ conference at National Institute for Rural Development (NIRD). However, Mr Narendra did not agree with his senior Minister’s observation and said they were expecting a report by June 30. “If it’s not before June 30, it may go up to July 15 at the latest. We are confident AICC president Sonia Gandhi will make an announcement.” When asked what the TRS would do if the report was not submitted even by July 15, Narendra quipped: “We will think it over and take appropriate steps.”

Earlier, Dr Singh said the committee would seek the opinion of not only the members of the UPA but also other political parties. The committee had met only once during which TRS leaders K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Mr Narendra made their presentations, he said. When a reporter pointedly asked if Telangana would be a reality before the end of UPA government’s five-year term, Dr Singh chuckled: “Why five-year term? UPA government will rule for 10 years.” Will Telangana take another 10 years, he was asked.

Dr Singh said Telangana was part of the UPA’s Common Minimum Programme but there was no deadline whatsoever. Asked to comment on Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s opposition to the bifurcation of the State, he said it was that party’s (Telugu Desam’s) line of thinking.


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Quotes - 4 / 6 / 05 : Quotes For All Seasons

Quotes For All Seasons

"IT is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations," the young Winston Churchill used to say, dreaming perhaps of the day when his own lines would fill out their columns. The volume on which he was weaned was Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, dating from 1855. But successive compilers have made up, amended or reversed the rules of admission to books of quotations, ending up with an entertaining blend of reference tool, book and self-educator. So it would seem with Robert Andrews (Ed.) The New Penguin Book of Modern Quotations, that would serve at least two purposes. The first, to be a work of reference; to tell us, should we want to know, that the person who said, "We're up to our necks in shit, it's true, and that's why we walk with our heads held high," was the Italian playwright and Nobel Laureate, Dario Fo in "Accidental Death of an Anarchist". The second is to entertain: to tempt the reader to dip into the book at random, by unearthing interesting and obscurely derived phrases, like:

"What ho!," I said.

"What ho!," said Motty.

"What ho!, What ho!"

"What ho!, What ho!,What ho!,"

After that it became difficult to go on with the conversation.

(P.G. Wodehouse in My Man Jeeves)

But first, the scope of the book. It consists of some 8000 of the pithiest and most telling quotations since 1914 - the book's point of departure - that have been taken from comedians and politicians via literature, film scripts, song lyrics, journalism, even occasional pieces of advertising slogans and graffiti. ...

The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, Robert Andrews (Ed.), Penguin Books, Special Indian Price £11.99.


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Quotes - 5 / 6 / 05 : Quotes For All Seasons

Dr K.V. Sivayya : A Professor of Professors

Loyalty is the function of future expectations

Colour and shape of feathers weigh more than the meat

Circumstances measure the man

Insure against evil spirits

Hardware is politics - software is research and teaching

Access to power is perishable

Expansion in the number of academic departments of the university through cell division resulted in loss of integrated inter-disciplinary thinking

Distance education is becoming the milch cow

We have to keep a keen eye on monitoring uncontrollable factors.

Make any of these statements before Andhra University people; they will imstantly recall that these are some of the quotable quotes of Kolla Venkata Sivayya, who initiated the era of expansion in commerce and management education in AU after chairing its Department of Commerce and Management Studies for over 15 years.Described as 'Junior Joeldean' those days and affectionately called 'professor of professors', Prof. Sivayya was also the Chairman of the Faculty of Commerce and the chief of the post-graduate board of studies. With vision and foresight, he steered business education with courses in commerce and management studies at PG level, inspiring the affiliated colleges also to expand commerce education likewise. He was instrumental in starting the M.Com. course in some affiliated colleges ...

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Quotes - 7 / 6 / 05 : From the Blurb - The Cambridge Guide to English Usage

From the Blurb - The Cambridge Guide to English Usage


'THIS book is an indispensable new A-Z reference to English usage for the 21st Century. It covers more than 4,000 points of word meaning, spelling, punctuation, grammar and style on which students, teachers, writers and editors regularly seek guidance... '


The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Pam Peters, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 608, Rs. 375.


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Quotes - 8 / 6 / 05 : Pot Calling Kettle Black

Pot Calling Kettle Black


Sir, - This refers to your Editorial, `A cautionary note' ... We hear the chorus that every thing is right with the Indian Constitution; it is sacred, inviolable. But still those who are to be governed and guided by it and who are to implement it can ignore it. This is the Constitution which has allowed government after government to perpetuate social and economic inequalities, corrupt and criminalised politicians to take the seat of power, a government to fall for the lack of one vote and burdened the people with a Rs. 7000-crore election expenditure. It silently watches the judiciary which at times denies even delayed justice; the rich and powerful politicians have made a mockery of it.

Again, the Constitution provides no relief to the people when Parliament is stymied and smittened by irresponsible MPs, and is helpless when a President shares the make-believe world of an Opposition leader who claims to conjure up a magical number of 272 MPs. Is this the democracy validated by an inviolable and immutable Constitution?

The proliferation of political parties, the musical chairs the political leaders play and the heavy burden suffered by the taxpayer for providing security to the politicians who themselves are a risk to democracy have made the President's warning, in his Republic Day-eve address, "beware the fury of the patient and long suffering people'', true and ominous.

But the Congress(I) and its secular comrades make it look as though his warning was directed only against the present government. That it was against a 50-year history of betrayal of the people and hence the guilt must be laid at the door of the party which ruled the country the longest is lost on the Congress(I). The 24th and 42nd Amendments authored by the Congress did more than `tinkering'; it dented the foundations of the Constitution.

Of the 25-odd Directive Principles not one has been comprehensively implemented even after 50 years. Take, for example, the Directive Principle that the state shall endeavour to secure for its citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India. The governments of the past pretended that it never existed in the Constitution! Now when the NDA Government speaks of it, the `secular forces' are up in arms and brand it anti-minority.

The Congress (I) has no moral right to oppose the review proposal for, as Mr. Mukund Padmanabhan says, "the sorry truth is that no other party has contributed as much to the ad hoc alteration of the Constitution'' ....


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Quotes - 9 / 6 / 05 : Devotion - Sadhu Sundar Singh

Devotion - Sadhu Sundar Singh


Once, as I traveled through the Himalayas, there was a great forest fire. Everyone was frantically trying to fight the fire, but I noticed a group of men standing and looking up into a tree that was about to go up in flames. When I asked them what they were looking at, they pointed up at a nest full of young birds. Above it, the mother bird was circling wildly in the air and calling out warnings to her young ones. There was nothing she or we could do, and soon the flames started climbing up the branches.

As the nest caught fire, we were all amazed to see how the mother bird reacted. Instead of flying away from the flames, she flew down and settled on the nest, covering her little ones with her wings. The next moment, she and her nestlings were burned to ashes. None of us could believe our eyes. I turned to those standing by and said:

"We have witnessed a truly marvelous thing. God created that bird with such love and devotion, that she gave her life trying to protect her young. If her small heart was so full of love, how unfathomable must be the love of her Creator. That is the love that brought him down from heaven to become man. That is the love that made him suffer a painful death for our sake."


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Quotes - 10 / 6 / 05 : Get the Best Out of Your Team

Get the Best Out of Your Team


MANY HANDS make light work. ... In today's corporate environment, teamwork plays a crucial role in an organisation's success. According to Katzenbach and Smith, "a team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, and have an approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable" or as Helen Keller once said, "alone we can do so little, together we can do so much".

Very true! ... Specialists from different fields are knitted into a team to tackle problems that one person cannot handle alone.

Team forming is the easy part, but how does one turn a combination of individuals into a winning formula? These pointers should be of help.

Clear Objectives

Communication

Team Spirit

Team Dynamics

Strengths and Diversity

Leaders

The most important rule a leader should bear in mind is to be equal in the way he treats people. Give them the respect they deserve, the opportunity to prove themselves, the training they need and a pay that is fair.

Shruthi Sagaram


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Quotes - 11 / 6 / 05 : SSLC Toppers Spell Out Priorities

SSLC Toppers Spell Out Priorities


* What to do in future was a question that every student had in mind after the results of the Matriculation and SSLC examinations ...

# First Ranker said that he wanted to study aeronautical engineering in IIT ...

# Second Ranker, a girl, says that she wants to study MBBS and then become an IAS officer!

"I want to finish both before I become 30 years old. My sister is presently attending her MBBS coaching and I am also catching up.''

ALL THE BEST ... Dreamers!


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Quotes - 12 / 6 / 05 : Educating Young Minds

Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (Spicmacay)


MANY a time you would have heard classical swaras pouring out of classrooms in schools and colleges or hear the sound of ghungroos and an enraptured audience of youngsters glued to the programme. Or a doyen and maestro explaining the nuances of classical music and dance to an interested young audience which interacts with them. How often can a student meet doyens and imbibe nuggets of the rich cultural tradition of the country? It is a welcome change from the Western beats which pelt from youngsters' walkmans and Cds or the foot-tapping steps one sees in a disco today. It is heartening even in this generation of MTV and Channel V where youngsters are clued in to rock, trance, hip-hop and other kinds of music to see them evince interest in classical music and dance. This can be attributed to the efforts of Spicmacay (through its different chapters), which has in the last 25 years, spread the awareness of Indian culture in educational institutions.

Spicmacay sounds like a multinational corporation to those of us who have not even the faintest idea of what it is all about. Those who have heard the name still feel it is some society backed by a foreign corporate. Spicmacay is none of these. It is an acronym for the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth. And it is seriously into what it stands for. Spicmacay Hyderabad Chapter ...


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Quotes - 13 / 6 / 05 : Sydney Quotes

Sydney Quotes


Sydney's several such wharves and quays, given such vibrant new life, draw huge crowds.

There are also here the panhandlers and buskers.

* One young tight-rope walker provided me one of the best quotes of my holiday. As his derring-do and slick patter, came to an end, he had one last word as he and his pretty partner passed the hat around: "Don't feel shy, it's your donation that keeps me on the street!"

# Almost as memorable were the words on a billboard 'selling' the opera further down the quay. "LIVE DANGEROUSLY. Live life to the full. Escape the everyday and succumb to the romance of opera."


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