Accepting Denying and Defying
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Ocean did you see the fish fly?
The oceans were very important at one time and those who could master it ruled the world. Today, the mastery has paled and the masters have no value, and life has moved on. How things change and we fail to take note of it. How edifices erode and wither away with no one to care
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Attitude can never be acquired without the right purpose in life.
“Rarely I failed because I did not get the right skills. Often I failed because I did not acquire the right attitude” – Vineet Raj Kapoor We think that people notice our lack of skills, but people are quicker at noticing the lack of attitude. Did we care what skills our parents had? We let them handle us even
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Wanna Innovate? Go get a sabbatical! (pic: Steve Jobs on a Sabbatical)
The Power of a Sabbatical (pic: Steve Jobs on a Sabbatical in India) Sabbatical is an often misunderstood word. Let us first understand it’s meaning and then rediscover what understanding this word can give to us. this is what the various dictionaries give us sabbatical sab·bat·i·cal (sə-băt′ĭ-kəl) also sab·bat·ic (-ĭk) adj. 1. Relating to a
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Diwan e Ghalib – Bazeecha-e-Atfal (translation)
My desire to bring the nuggets of the best Urdu Poetry to the world starts with this translation. The best picture to draw out the spirit of this poem was the cover page of “homo ludens” by Jose Huizinga. No poem can be interpreted without thinking about what may have been happening in the poet’s
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Passion Never Ends – how to use the long rope
Go haath ko jumbish nahin, aankhon mein toh dum hai Rahne do abhi saaghar-o-meena meray aage – Mirza Ghalib My Translation Though my hands can no longer feel, my sight is still alive Let this sea of lights (entrapments of life) remain before me – Vineet Raj Kapoor (this post prompted me to a full translation of the
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How to push the envelope farther than anyone else!
How to push the envelope and succeed at everything you do! Well Charles Darwin, Albert Einstien, CV Raman, Walt Disney all were labeled as failures while at school. These people took time to absorb everything which seemed too slow for school. They chose what they wanted to learn, again, unacceptable to any school. But, when
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