India Together: Making news in the Northeast - March 2009

http://indiatogether.org/2009/mar/med-northeast.htm

Sharmila has been on an indefinite fast for over eight years, demanding an end to the imposition of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, in her state. The controversial law (AFSPA), which gives sweeping powers to the military, has been in force in Manipur more or less continuously since 1980. This is despite long-standing popular opposition to it within the state and the recommendation in 2005 by a central government appointed committee chaired by Justice B P Jeevan Reddy that it be repealed. She has spent most of this period incarcerated in the security ward of the government-owned Jawaharlal Nehru hospital in Imphal (officially in the custody of the Central Jail, Sajiwa), being kept alive through force-feeding.

The Village (2004)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/
Fascinatng movie that I watched this weekend.

For One More Day - Mitch Albom

Read this last weekend. Its a fairly good and quick read. Good story telling.

link to emails from unix.

we should have ways to link to emails from comments in source code files. It will make documentation a bit more interesting in the so called "execution driven" companies.

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Delhi prison art

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7939470.stm
Very nice pictures, arent they ?

A painting by convicted prisoner Pawan

Why TF

Why are we stupid enough to give credence to the myth of community.
The same person can also talk of being yourself.
They dont go together for the most part.

tobleralone

feeling alone
recently I heard about alone = all + one.
I can see its unhealthy
I cannot help being alone.
company seems to be just another garnment.

David Bodanis - E=mc2

I am half way through it and I am loving it.
they made a documentary too : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/

http://www.davidbodanis.com/pages/emc2_pg.html


By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will...feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study. I didn't know I could know so much.
- Fay Weldon, Book of year, Washington Post

aaaaaaaaaaa

I need a patent office job in Bern !!

standing down on principles

I am troubled by the fact that standing up for principles, can become a hindrance to effective relationships.
If you stand up in an uncompromising fashion for a principle that you believe in, you can and maybe will not be able to take advantage of some good opportunities.
When you have a conflict of principles even with someone as close as your nearest family, should you just make them happy. Wont the principles become meaningless if you did.
I am still not willing to compromise on them. I dont think I'll be able to live it down.