Shekhar Kapur on Indian Media...

Relationship between Indian media and society it nurtures is Schizophrenic. Indian media nurtures itself, creates its own hype, both in terms of its content and its value. It stands on a flimsy house of cards. It’s a like a political candidate that keeps turning up the volume of the loudspeaker for his fear is the audiences would walk away if he did not. It’s noise with little content. And it’s nurtured by itself, not by the society. The system creates its own hype and perpetuates its own myth, and lives with the incest. But it is flimsy, can fall anytime.

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Deism and Theism

Deism is the belief that a supreme being exists that created the universe, but doesn't govern it. Theism on the contrary is the belief that such supreme being exist and also governs the universe.

Rajan's Case in God's Own Country...

http://vishumenon.com/2014/11/05/how-they-fed-young-rajan-to-pigs-in-emergency/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajan_case

A hot summer afternoon...

The reds

Twin flowers...

Overinterpretation of Indian Cultural Practices...

Years ago, we spent countless hours in English class trying to understand the essence of William Wordsworth's Lucy Gray. Without getting into who or how it was taught, reading, re-reading it, and trying to interpret its various nuances made me feel we were trying to over-interpret it. Seeing things in context that the poet may not have thought of. We will never know it's indeed so. Same was the case with P.B. Shelly's Ozymandias.

Wordsworth's or P.B. Shelly's may not be so cryptic as to embody concealed or hidden meaning, and hence the need for multiple interpretations. But to my young mind, it may have appeared so.

Gems from Manusmriti

https://indianhomemaker.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/some-gems-from-manusmriti/

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/manu/manu09.htm

Fundamental Particles...

S4 Pics

Dandelion against blue sky

Flower On Gate

Flower sunlit

Hammer

Win Hands Down...

Several years ago, I read a Reader Digest collector's edition on Word Roots. Since then, the idea of Root has prodded me to discover the genesis of new words and phrases I came across. Knowing the roots greatly enhances a person's vocabulary. It also helps to remember the meaning of words with little effort, so one does not have struggle to learn them by rote.

"Hands Down" therefore for obvious reasons led me to uncover why the phrase is so called. Winning hands down is commonly used to refer to the fact that someone has won something with little effort. It appears the phrase is from horse racing where jockeys who have a comfortable lead, slacken their reigns ("Hands Down" - not nudging the horse to run at the same pace any more) as they approach the finishing line for an easy win.

White Flower