AAP selling women's rights short

Long ago, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar warned of eulogising the local, when in response to the Village Panchayats Bill, which sought powers for Panchas, he said: “A population which is hidebound by caste; a population which is infected by ancient prejudices; a population which flouts equality of status and is dominated by notions of gradations in life; a population which thinks that some are high and some are low — can it be expected to have the right notions even to discharge bare justice? Sir, I deny that proposition, and I submit that it is not proper to expect us to submit our life, and our liberty, and our property to the hands of these Panchas.” (Bombay Legislative Council debates, October 6, 1932)

http://m.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article5610259.ece/

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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Chang-Rae Lee - On Such a Full Sea

The NewYorker has a good review of this book - "On such a full sea ". Hopefully I'll get to it soon.

Apparently he named it after a shakespeare dialogue from Julius Caesar.

Soch mat ch.... !!

If you are a part of a whole, then don't you need to know your role,

Be the observer, but do not form impressions,

Rid yourself of existing impressions and you will be indistinguishable from the whole,

how now will "I" play a role,

and without me is there a whole ?

I am whole

what I do has relevance at a scale beyond my ken

I don't worry about the role

I thrill in the mysteries of the whole

wear them like shades and

take them off when I get home. 

Navier Stokes Problem - Millenium Prize

Good video to explain what the problem is :http://claymath.msri.org/navierstokes.mov

via slashdot:

"Kazakh news site BNews.kz reports that Mukhtarbay Otelbaev, Director of the Eurasian Mathematical Institute of the Eurasian National University, isclaiming to have found the solution to another Millennium Prize Problems. His paper, which is called 'Existence of a strong solution of the Navier-Stokes equations' and is freely available online (PDF in Russian), may present a solution to the fundamental partial differentials equations thatdescribe the flow of incompressible fluids for which, until now, only a subset of specific solutions have been found. So far, only one of the seven Millennium problems was solved — the Poincaré conjecture, by Grigori Perelman in 2003. If Otelbaev's solution is confirmed, not only it might be the first time that the $1 million offered by the Clay Millennium Prize will find a home (Perelman refused the prize in 2010), but also engineering libraries will soon have to update their Fluid Mechanic books."

Sarah Marquis - Adventurers of the Year 2014 - National Geographic

"After six months of an expedition, the noise stops in my head," Marquis explains. "I just go back to a basic animal connection.
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventurers-of-the-year/2014/sarah-marquis/

Language Log | Because syntax

Many people will be somewhat surprised that the American Dialect Society's "Word of the Year" choice was because in its use with a noun phrase (NP) complement (though the Megan Garber's Atlantic Monthly article on it nearly two months ago should perhaps have been a tip-off).
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9494&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Mama (2013 film)

I didn't like it when I watched it yesterday. But then thinking about it today makes me think it wasn't that bad an idea and was executed well. It somehow doesnt seem to fit well in an american setting - a latin american setting or an Indian setting would have made it more enjoyable. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_(2013_film)

Arvind Kejriwal Explained 'Why power/water rates should be very low in D...

Learning to form habits

Learning how to form habits :

1. Start exceedingly small.

2. Be Mindful of negative thoughts.

3. Savor the habit.

4. Have a plan for when you falter.

via Manshu @onemint