01 January, 2019

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 animal kingdom. Sinful or Natural? 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElY8sRu9Hi0
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!

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