Year: 2009
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When You Look Back At The End…
Life whizzes past you so quickly that you forget to do or get what you really want to. You go school for years and finally there will be a day of farewell and you suddenly feel you missed to do something. You spend your youth, your winged days and finally when you start slowing down…
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Is An Amoeba Conscious Of Its Existence?
Just think of living things and non-living things. We know that we are conscious of ourselves. But what is this consciousness? Where does it come from? Think in terms of atoms. There are atoms and molecules in our body. They are certainly not conscious. We have many carbon, oxygen, etc. combined to form proteins, carbohydrates,…
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Who Must Start Blogging? – People Like Nishan
Anyone can start a blog. But some people must start a blog. If you are any one of the following and haven’t started a blog yet, you should immediately start one, for the sake of the blogosphere. Travelers: If you travel. Be it anywhere. Your own city, foreign countries. Any time, any number of times.…
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Imagining Nothing
What if there was nothing? No me, no you, no blogs, no people, no life, no planets, no stars, no universe, no nothing. It is beyond imagination. Imagine nothing. (What? Imagine OK but nothing? How do I imagine nothing?) Of course you can imagine the lifeless planets. But you will have to remove them from…
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What if the PM directly orders the District Collectors? (and technology assists them)
I just found a solution for corrupt politics. If I can get one great Prime Minister, I have made a plan to rescue India. Consider: There are only around 600 districts in India. Assuming that all of them have one and only district collector we will have around 600 district collectors. All of them are…
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Gandhiji Best Expressed
I am really really busy today, but I have to make a post to mark this very special day too. So I thought rather than telling about Gandhi, I will tell what Gandhi told. Here are my favourites among His quotes: A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.…
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Pale Blue Dot
Can you see a tiny little dot in the above picture. That is our good old earth. Just that it was photographed 3.7 billion miles away from the home of anyone reading this. And the famous Carl Sagan gave the following words relating to that little speck: “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s…
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Dare to Think Beyond just Google, Gmail, Facebook, Youtube and Wikipedia
The internet is the best thing that human beings have invented (at least until 8 pm tonight). But still, millions of internet users all over the world do not visit more than 5 websites on an average day. (Those being google, gmail, facebook/orkut, youtube and rarely wikipedia too). Considering the fact that there is probably…
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The Golden Rule in Social Life
The best thing about being a kid is that you can be frank in your opinions, blurt anything out to anyone and live a carefree life. But the moment you break out of the childhood shell, you gather a lot of cobwebs. Then you can no longer talk like you talked when you were a…
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It is not about your age, it is about your inclination
Fun and Fun Only sent me a thought provoking mail yesterday. 3 stupid stages of life We have 3 stupid stages of life……….. Teen age: Have Time + Energy …but No Money Working Age: Have Money + Energy …but No Time Old age: Have Time + Money …but no Energy This is an accurate description…