Mahatma - education - India

I was watching 'Making of the Mahatma' by Shyam Benegal. It shows the human side of Mr.Mohandas. He was no doubt a great man but more than anything else he was human. Maybe we shouldnt have called him Mahatma. We dont even want to understand him for being human.
I think there is a good case study to be made of how he was a bad father and probably a bad husband. In India as part of my education I am just taught of Mr. Gandhi as the father of the nation, the person who lead the Indian cause in the struggle for independence.
Maybe I was too young to understand the subtleties when I was in school. So now, is all this information just for me to voluntarily grab when I grow older. How many of use dont even expose ourselves to such thoughts. By not making such elements part of our educational experience we are just produing literate youth as compared to educated youth. Only those who have an environment of tolerance to different thoughts would turn out to be educated.

As an unrelated thought. If you havent seen Magdalene sisters you should.

Techtree.com India > News > Hardware > IBM Develops Xbox 360 CPU

Techtree.com India > News > Hardware > IBM Develops Xbox 360 CPU: "This chip features a customized version of IBM's 64-bit PowerPC core. It includes three of these cores, each with two simultaneous threads and clock speeds greater than 3 GHz. The chip features 165 million transistors and is fabricated using IBM's 90 nm Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology to reduce heat and improve performance. Its 21.6 GBps Front Side Bus (FSB) Architecture was customized to meet the demanding throughput and latency requirements of the Xbox 360 gaming platform software.
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How new words become part of a language

New Scientist Breaking News - How new words become part of a language: "While Steels and colleagues hope to develop more complex models capable of evolving grammar, they already see potential applications in computing. For instance, programmers currently have to establish standards to get commercial or scientific databases to communicate effectively. It may soon be possible to get computers to talk to one another by letting them evolve a common language on their own."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - A&E: Esquire names Jessica Biel sexiest woman

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - A&E: Esquire names Jessica Biel sexiest woman: "NEW YORK -- Jessica Biel has been proclaimed 'the sexiest woman alive' by Esquire magazine. The actress is featured on the cover of Esquire's November issue, following last year's honoree, Angelina Jolie.

The 23-year-old Biel, who began as a teenager on the family TV series '7th Heaven,' plays a supporting role in the upcoming 'Elizabethtown' and starred earlier this year in 'Stealth.'"

Have you ever heard people call anyone the smartest person alive. Or the most generous person alive. These other adjectives are usually qualified. why then are beauty describing adjectives so superlative and unqualified ??

In Good Company - Women and Leadership - Newsweek - MSNBC.com

In Good Company - Women and Leadership - Newsweek - MSNBC.com: "Her status as a female officer would make her a rarity at many companies, but not at Xerox. The $15.7 billion document-management company is one of only nine in the Fortune 500 with a female CEO, but its gender diversity extends far beyond the corner office. Of Xerox's 32 corporate officers, eight are women. So are 800 of its middle managers, more than 30 percent of the total. The company is routinely ranked among the best places for women to work. Inside its Connecticut headquarters, female employees describe a culture where no one hesitates to reschedule a meeting to take a child to the pediatrician. Managers are judged—and compensated—on meeting diversity goals. At Xerox, 'people really believe this—this is not cosmetic,' says David Nadler, chairman of Mercer Delta Consulting, who worked with Xerox for 20 years. 'They don't see diversity as somehow in conflict with meritocracy.'"

Lightning Strikes Everyday

Lightning Strikes Everyday: "We have all heard Arjunan refer to Lord.Krishna as Madhusudanan. Interesting thing if you read Mahabharatha is the names that Arjunan etc use to refer to Krishna. In fact each name Arjunan calls Sri Krishna like Madhusudanan etc. depends on the context of the situation in which Arjunan talks to Lord.Sri "

Great Idea

As we know more and more its going to be more and more difficult to come up with an innovative idea. Is that true ?
Well ideas would be innovative but the perceived impact that they would have, would be limited.

Phass gaya

Feel like being stuck in a vortex. bachaaaoooo !!
Really strong monday morning nausea I guess :)