response to comment on – “can we be wiser than our parents” May 31, 2007
Posted by Ken in life, opinion.Tags: discussion, Experience, Expression, life, opinion, View
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This is in response to comment, I got on my previous post “can we be wiser than our parents.”
Darshana,
I agree with you that expression is missing in the quest. One primary reason is that we believe and do certain things on face value, blindly, bind either by faith or basic cultural values.
We never question our rituals which are thousand year old. I have nothing against system of caste, language, religion and class. In fact at time I support it. It was required and was necessary when it was created. There was rational thinking and logical reason involved. It had its own advantage. It was created in time when survival was primary concern of any living being including humans. Caste, clan, class, religion and language bound people in groups, and these groups worked together for the welfare of each other.
can we be wiser than our parents May 29, 2007
Posted by Ken in after thoughts on articles, opinion.Tags: discussion, Experience, Expression, life, opinion, View
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This is not my new post. It is just paragraph I lifted (or wanted to share with all) from an great essay by Paul Graham. The original essay is on very different subject and has title “Why Not Not To Start A Start Up“
The parents who want you to be a doctor may simply not realize how much things have changed. Would they be that unhappy if you were Steve Jobs instead? So I think the way to deal with your parents’ opinions about what you should do is to treat them like feature requests. Even if your only goal is to please them, the way to do that is not simply to give them what they ask for. Instead think about why they’re asking for something, and see if there’s a better way to give them what they need.
Note: People who do not know Steve Jobs; can think of Bill Gates, Laxmi Mittal or Warren Buffet.
halwawala aa gaya May 22, 2007
Posted by Ken in movie reviews, opinion.Tags: Fun, humor, movie reviews, time pass, Travel, View
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Last Friday I was traveling to Bombay (Mumbai) from Pune in MSRTC Volvo bus. This days traveling between Pune and Bombay, has become really comfy. Air conditioned Volvo coaches, push back seats, video on the go, free news paper and bottle of water. It is very much like flying. I am waiting for the days, when drinks will be served on board (coach).
Some times these things can actually become a problem, like ACs, at times they are extremely cold for an Indian. Music played can be unbearably loud remix, and crap movies on poor pirated prints. Usually they show cheap comedies, recent flops flicks, or if you are lucky one of the Hindi version of Priydarshan’s (self grinded) Malayalam movie.
choice, perspective, spirit called life May 18, 2007
Posted by Dreamer in guest bloggers, life, opinion.Tags: life, opinion, perspective, View
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I was toying with this idea for sometime. I was not able to put a post in place for long now. Last one was more of scribble then post. I wanted something new and real. This great idea came to my mind. I do remember a friend of mine has used this idea. He invited friends to write post for him.
Since then I had this on my mind, I was wondering whom should I invite. First few who came to my mind could do good job, but they had their on blogs. Hence it would have become perfect example of copy and paste. We IT guys are very famous for and in awe with copy and paste.
Finally I zeroed on in my most dedicated reader. Some one who is first to read and comment on almost all my posts. Invariably she praises all my post, I am not sure why.
Here it is……
