Counting people, discounting their worth

Link to an intersting article on the inclusive notions of development in the society

Supreme court veridct nd aftermath

Link I understand that the rationale for the start of the instituions
is that the state felt that it cannot carry the complete burden of the cost involved
in imparting higher professional education and wanted the private players and the
public(through self financing) contribute to the cost of it. But J.Jayalalitha
has a point that this cannot be just viewed strictly as a legal issue(though she argues it
for the limited perspective on the issue of reservation).

Hope this situation leads to a meaningful debate on the question of fundamental role
of the state in the running of the private sector maintained professional institutions.
Hindus
editiorial also focuses on this issue.

Tribute to P.K. Srinivasan

Link from The Hindu a tribute to a mathematics teacher. Though I think
the elite urban schools were the most beneficiaries of the programme even the stateboard schhol
students who had done their 12th during late 80s and 90ś(the phase am familiar with)
had benefited a lot with his Question bank book an effort realised by the Association of Mathematics Teachers of India.

A hindu article link

Link

Aside magazine..

Hit upon a very interesting interview by the editor of now defunct magazine
Aside through a link from a blog by someone called Tilottama.
I used to read the magazine Aside regularly during my school going days..nd have many a times wondered what has happened to that magazine..particularly like in the current times where we see a mushrooming of city centric publications(most of them r terrible but just survive due to advtsing patronage by the local business community)..I think Aside was one of the first of its kind..but at that time i was not aware who the editor was nd all..

But thanks to the link got a chnace to read a very nice interview nd know him..

Interview


Also wanted to mention about an intersting view point on the movie Anniyan
in a review posted in the current issue of the magazine Theeranathi(a literary magazine
from the Kumudam group..www.kumudam.com)..have nt seen the film myself..

This I believe show in NPR

I have listened to quite a few good number of episodes in this programme This I belive
in National Public Radio NPR. This
story that I listened to really stuck me a lot particularly the following lines..
which I belive applies to a whole range of situation we encounter in life.

""Always go to the funeral" means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don't feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don't really have to and I definitely don't want to. I'm talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy. You know, the painfully under-attended birthday party. The hospital visit during happy hour."

Challenging situations in life

Listen to the
story an interview with a mother who lost her daughter during the daughters
pregnancy and is now raising the child born. It was a heart wrenching situation and choices to
deal with.

At one stage of the interview..it appears that she had lost her husband 3yrs before this tragedy..she had to mention this as a response to a query whether the father was part of the decision at that time..nd the next thing she said is am 53yrs old and am doing OK..
that single line said a lot..

She also had to say some words of comfort to the parents who had recently
had a baby born to a mother on life support.

Link to RajaMohans article

A Link to his latest article in Express.

Book Review

A critical review of the book THE WORLD IS FLAT — A Brief History of the Globalized World in the 21st Century: by author Thomas Friedman

The book title is a favourite tag line of the proponents of the Globalisation. I personally felt
the reviewer could have offered more insight on the opposite idea.

Got a personal anectode about the there will not be a war betwen 2 countries which has got a
McDonalds..hope to post it next.

First Post

I start with a couple of nice articles i got to read in the last cuple of days..
A nice article by P. Sainath on the recent Honda incident in Gurgaon(http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/28/stories/2005072806201000.htm)

I also partly agree with the views of the letter by M.S. Suresh from Singapore
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/30/stories/2005073002591001.htm

ofcourse its debatable the analogies used in the letter nd how much are they alike..

Its a pity that C. RajaMohan has stopped contributing to the pages of The Hindu. Guess the reason is that he does not include the mandatory 2 line hindutva bashing statements needed to get published in The Hindu..Thankfully, we have access to him at the Express..a nice article
with lot of insight on the recent nuclear deal with America..http://iecolumnists.expressindia.com/full_column.php?content_id=75079

A couple of other things..

Hit upon these lines from the harry potters latest novel..i think the truth of the statement is very striking..i was not reading the book..hit upon those lines while reading something else which had nothing to do with the book

..a line from the latest book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 'It is our choices, Harry, that show what we really are, far more than our abilities.


'Saw a very nice ad awareness campaign for Alzhemiers(http:://www.alz.org) in the train station today..Muthumaiyin suvadugalai prethipalikum surukam vizhuntha oru Muthiyavar/l in ullam kaiyil.." Ich heisse Iva Lampke "(en peyar Iva Lampke) enru penaval ezthi vaithrunthathu..it was very moving and at the same time very illustrative of the disorder..