“The Man Who Planted Trees” is one of those inspiring stories that I have re-read dozens of time and I still get goosebumps while reading it.
Month: June 2013
The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them . . .
The good is oft interred with their bones. Shakespeare, that great observer of the world that fallible humans inhabit, was right on the mark. Being imperfect creatures trying to survive in this material world, we end up doing a mix… Read More ›
Northern Summer Solstice Greetings
First day of Summer is here as today is the Northern summer solstice. Here’s a video nicely explaining the solstice. (Of all places, from the Kurdistan Planetarium.) The description below the video is taken from YouTube. The Summer Solstice occurs… Read More ›
The Reasons that the Congress Survives
The Congress has been arguably extremely successful in maintaining its stranglehold on India despite — and perhaps because of — its evident failures of governance. At the time of India’s political independence from British rule, the Congress inherited a very… Read More ›
Justice for Preeti Rathi #acidattack #cbimustinvestigate
Preeti Rathi was the victim of an acid attack on May 2nd at Bandra Station in Mumbai. After excruciating pain and suffering, she died on June 1st. I signed the justice for Preeti Rathi petition. Please consider adding your support…. Read More ›
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves — Revisited
Two quotes (hauled from this Dec 2012 post) that are worth remembering. “Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them . …. Read More ›
Market Structure, Political Parties and Collusion
Political parties are like firms in the marketplace. The same principles that drive the behavior of firms drive the behavior of political parties. They collude if they can, and gain from their collusion at the expense of the consumers. Here… Read More ›
Markets are the Greatest Invention
Markets I maintain that the idea of markets ranks amongst the greatest inventions of humankind, up there with the wheel, fire and zero. It is also among the most misunderstood and underappreciated of ideas. That’s unfortunate since the misunderstanding of… Read More ›
