Do you know what is the sexiest and ugliest thing in the world is?

“ You really dont know that. Even if you do, you didn't realise it's power!!

White lie or misleading truth?

What is right, what is morally correct? A lie or a misleading truth? To understand this, I am taking two examples. Paula Jones brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton while he was president.

Justice - What's the right thing to do

Some days ago, I started to watch an interesting Harvard lecture series on Law. In this lectures, Mr. Michael Sandel has come up with the cool philosophy which everyone of us can digest easily on many interesting issues.

Free to choose

Having physical relationship with opposite gender is so important, then why we have so much romanticized celibacy?

harvey saved me!!

Today I had my breadth subject exam – ‘Effective learning techniques of professional development'. Oh wait! Don’t horrify about the course name. It has got only long title but nothing special in it.

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

No offence, please!!



I must say, this elections season is most exiting since last 2 elections. Use of social media increased, volunteer’s of each party coming up with different strategies to get people’s attention whether it is from Facebook, twitter or YouTube.

But what I found most interesting is increased use of this phrase- No offence, please! Supporters of different parties posting anti-news on each other’s facebook profile writing this phrase. (Namo supports posting Kejri's ‘Bahot hi Krantikari’ video on AAPtard’s profile and AAP supporters posting unfinished interview of Namo with Karan Thapar or things like that) and giving a caption to it, no offence please.

Are boss, if your clear intention is to offend someone or his beliefs then why are you trying to be sophisticated by writing this phrase, no offence.

Why we use exactly opposite phrases to the emotions? In Hindi, when you are going to tell something bad news, you first ask that person- ‘promise me ki tum bura nahi manoge.’

Tell me, how someone could tell you how he will not feel bad even before listening to the story. Ironic huh! Maybe you are trying to make his mind to hear bad thing. And if his face become fill with shadow of grief after hearing your story, then you tell him that I already ask you to not fell bad.

Do you thing when he gives permission, he actually meant it? Or he is just eager to hear your damn story.


Do you actually think to change the game by saying these silly words? If yes, then no offence but you'r a stupid asshole.;-)

Thursday, 24 April 2014

A Wish a Day for a Week

This is a speech by  Indian economist and a Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. I found it interesting, hope you would enjoy too.



Friday 17th January 2014, ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, Diggi Palace

On being invited to the Jaipur Festival, I was naturally nervous about attempting an opening address to such an elite gathering. However, about ten days ago I saw in the newspapers, indeed in all of them, that India has entered triumphantly into the “elite club” of the world. The Times of India’s headline said: GSLV-DV launch successful, India joins elite club”. As an Indian citizen, I immediately lost all fear about not being able to get into the elite club. However, I had a problem in not knowing what GSLV-DV is. Or does. On probing I found that GSLV-DV is famous because it carries a GSAT-14 communication satellite. That seemed just what I needed. And so I decided to use the GSAT-14 communication satellite to communicate well beyond my station in life.

High above the clouds I came across a figure who looked very impressive, who explained that she was the Goddess of Medium Things. “ Gosh,” I said. ‘Medium you may be, but you look very impressive.” “You should see,” she replied, “ the goddess of LargeThings.” “You could please introduce me to her,” I said, “but are you sure that you are really a goddess?” “Yes I am,” she responded firmly, “I am – as I told you – Goddess of Medium Things. But, you are right, I am very informal, and you can call me GMT – that is my pet name.” “Isn’t GMT some kind of time?” I asked her. “Yes,” she said, “ I can give you the correct time, also one of my specialties, but more importantly I can grant you a wish – in fact more that one wish- for your country.” “ How jolly,” I said, “May I have seven wishes – a wish a day for my country for a week? Please, let us get on with it!”



“Sure,” GMT said,” but why are you in such a hurry?” I explained, “ I am going to the Jaipur Literature Festival. You have heard of the famous Jaipur Literature Festival, my goddess?” “Yes,” GMT said, “but it is really so big now that it has been moved from my care to the care of the Goddess of Large Things. Still, I will try to help you. Make a medium-sized wish about literature.”

So I jumped in: “Classical education in language, literature, music and the arts are being seriously neglected in India. Very few people study Sanskrit anymore. Nor do they study ancient Persian, or Latin, or Greek, or Arabic, or Hebrew, or Old Tamil. We need serious cultivation of classical studies for a balanced education. In India’s increasingly business-oriented society, there is generally far less room today for the humanities, and that is surely a problem, is it not, goddess?” “But,” said the goddess, “ Rabindranath Tagore in your village, Santiniketan, used to grumble that science education was being neglected. So how can you say the opposite?” “That was then, madam,” I said,” and this is now. Rabindranath was right in his day, but bright students now, everywhere in India, go for science and technology, and look down on humanities.”

“So,” asked the goddess, “you wish to have a greater role of humanities in Indian education?” “ Something like that,” I said. “What a vague statement: ‘something like that!’, GMT said, ”you must have clearer ideas.” “ Clearer? Do you mean more precise, dear goddess?” I asked. “No,” said GMT, “you are making the common mistake of assuming that a clear statement needs to invoke precise magnitudes. A good statement of an inherently imprecise concern – and most important concerns in the world are imprecise – mustcapture that imprecision, and not replace it by a precise statement about something else. You should learn to speak in an articulate way about ideas that are inescapably imprecise ( as a man called Aristotle put it more that two millennia ago). And that is one of the reasons why the humanities are important. A novel can point to a truth without pretending to capture it exactly in some imagined numbers and formulae. Okay then, now go on to your second wish.”

“Well,” I said, “may I go into politics?” GMT looked unsurprised and said, “ I think I can guess what you are going to ask, knowing your left-wing views – you are on the left in India, aren’t you?” “Nothing escapes you goddess, “ I replied, “ I am. But my big political wish is to have a strong and flourishing right-wing party that is secular and not communal.” “Why?” asked a slightly puzzled goddess. “There is a an important role,” I explained, “ for a clear-headed pro-market, pro-business party that does not depend on religious politics, and does not prioritize one religious community over all others.” GMT said, “Surely there was such a party in India, led by some very smart people, wasn’t there?” I said, “Yes, madam, there was – it was called the Swatantra Party, and among its leaders was Minoo Masani, an extremely smart fellow indeed – but the party died. I wish it would be revived.” “Let me recollect,” GMT said, “this Minoo Masani – was he really in favour of non-communal politics and did he believe in the brotherhood of all people, what the French revolutionaries call ‘fraternity’? I seem to recollect that he said some unflattering things about fraternity in one of his public speeches.” “Yes, goddess,” I told GMT, “he was staunchly secular and very much in favour of fraternity. But in a light-hearted remark in 1946, Masani said that he adored fraternity but given the misuses of the word after French Revolution, he did not use it. He went on to say in the Constituent Assembly of India on December 17th 1946, “When I introduce my brother, I call him my cousin.”

“Would that be your favorite party then?” asked the goddess. “No, absolutely not,” I said. But I would very much like such a party to be there, giving Indian voters the choice of supporting a secular, pro-business point of view – it would be very good for Indian politics. The support that a right-wing pro-business point of view receives should not have to be parasitic on making an alliance with religious politics.”

“Okay,” said GMT,” but can you make your explanations short- we don’t have much time. Let me remind you that you are speaking to me and not lecturing at the Jaipur Festival. What’s your third wish?” “ I would like the parties of the left to be stronger, but also more clear-minded and much more concentrated on removing severe deprivations of the really poor and downtrodden people of India.” “ But what about the priority that is attached to their dedication to fighting against American imperialism?” GMT enquired – and then went on, “ Now that the Soviet Union is gone, the Chinese are beating the Americans in the market economy, the Latin Americans and the Vietnamese are racing ahead with their own economic and social progress, surely the Indian Left is the only remaining political group in the world on whom the mantle of fighting American imperialism has fallen. And in giving priority to their dedicated pursuit of that philosophical priority, they have made various Parliamentary moves that have reduced the number of seats they themselves have in Parliament. It is not easy for me to make them politically stronger until they themselves think afresh”.

“I hope they will,” I said. “What the left really has to concentrate on is reversing the terrible state of the really poor people of India, rather than nursing an antiquated understanding of imperialism, or joining the other political parties in agitating for cheaper amenities for parts of the middle classes.” “Another lecture!” said GMT, “But I am a patient goddess, and ready to listen to your grumble about your own friends; so go on – what’s the fourth wish?”

“I would like the media to be more responsive to the needs of the poorest people, and less single-minded in their coverage of the world of glitzy entertainment and shining business opportunities. They are right to grumble about the way subsidies waste economic resources, but largely fail to denounce subsidies for the better off, in the way subsidies for the unemployed and the hungry are savaged in the press. Reading the papers or listening to media on fiscal irresponsibility of supporting employment schemes and food subsidies, you would scarcely guess that many times as much governmental money is spent on subsidizing electricity for those who are lucky enough to have power connection (a third of the Indian people have no connections at all), subsidizing diesel, cheapening fertilizers, offering low cost cooking gas (most Indians have no instruments into which these inputs would go) than on supporting food and employment schemes for the poor. The latest figures are the following: Subsidies on food 0.85 percent of GDP; employment guarantee scheme (NREGA) cost 0.29 percent of GDP. Compared with that the power subsidies, in various forms, for those who have electric connections amount altogether to more than one full percentage of the GDP, possibly closer to 2 percent, to which should be added 0.66 percent on fertilizer subsidy and 0.97 percent on petroleum subsidy (diesel, cooking gas, etc). So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 percent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 percent, and possibly closer to 3.63 percent of GDP – more than three times what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.”

“Yet,” I continued, “reading the papers and hearing broadcasts you would tend to think that it is subsidy for the poor – food and employment – that strains India’s public resources, even though two to three times as much governmental funds are spent in subsidizing the better off. In fact, since the Government spends only a miserable 1.2 percent of the GDP on health care (unlike in China where the percentage is nearer 3 percent) the total government expenditure on health (in all forms), food subsidies and employment subsidy is much less than what the government spends on subsidizing the consumption of power, diesel, cooking gas, fertilizers, etc, for the relatively rich – and much more vocal – people.

It is sad that the most vibrant media in the world is so silent on the needs and predicaments of the poorest. A third of Indians have no electric connections. The media made such a fuss – quite rightly in its context – about 600 million people not having power on a day in July two years ago when there was a terrible administrative bungle about power supply, but neglected to report the fact that 200 million of those 600 million people never had any power at all – a perpetual black-out – because they were not even connected to electricity.”

“Enough, enough,” said the goddess, “go on.” “My fifth wish is easy to speak about,” I said, “since it concerns persistent deprivations I have been nagging about for decades: all children must have decent schools to go to; every person must have medical care beginning with preventative care; women should not have to lead more deprived lives than men; the country should not be full of undernourished children (not to mention the most undernourished in the world); every child has to be fully immunized (rather than a third of the children being left out); everyone should have a home with a toilet (rather than half the population having to defecate in the open, even as India supposedly joins the elite club of the world); and there should be generally good higher education and a sustainable environment.” GMT said, “You ask for a list of different things as parts of one wish. However, I will not be small-minded, since I am medium-hearted.

“But all that you have asked for should be very easy to achieve if your countrymen start making intelligent use of the resources that economic growth generates. And this will work both ways: The advancement of human abilities resulting from these supportive changes will, in turn, help to sustain high economic growth in long run, because nothing, ultimately, is more important for economic growth than having a healthy and educated labor force (ask the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and other Asians and they will tell you). That is the biggest lesson of East Asian development that India has missed. “

“Since we agree on that, may I put in a wish, dear goddess,” I said,” which concerns a peculiar judicial decision in India, which has recently recriminalized homosexual personal behavior. The British rulers had made that a criminal offence in 1861, and made many people vulnerable to black-mail by the police and to penalization. That Article 377 of the Penal Code was overturned by the Delhi High Court as being contrary to personal rights guaranteed by the Indian constitution, but then the Indian Supreme Court – represented by exactly two judges – has reversed the reversal, and made a strictly private behavior, once again, a social crime. Can you reverse the reversal pf the reversal, dear Goddess?” “Let me see,” said the Goddess, “How I can persuade the Indian Supreme Court to think again – may be they will listen more to the voices of the Indian people than to the plea of a goddess above the clouds.”

“Let’s go on, “continued GMT. “Do you really want another wish?” “May I? I wish we in India will recognize our strength because of the nature of the country as well as the opportunities given by India’s democracy, which has been skillfully used recently by Aam Admi Party (even though they have a lot to learn about on what their programs should really be). We have a lot of corruption, but it has become a major electoral issue, which, in a democracy, is the best way for a long run solution, which will require many administrative reforms. But there are many achievements already, and it is not the case that nothing happens here other than what the business community does, and the state, in particular, cannot achieve anything (as many people go on repeating) . India was the country of families until the empire ended, and we haven’t had a real famine since independence, thanks to public action, India was expected a few years ago to have the largest concentration of the AIDS epidemic, but the public attention and social engagement has removed that threat. Since polio eradication became a politically sensitive issue, things have happened and India is now polio-free. We had a super-cyclone in the fall coming from the Bay of Bengal, many times the size of Katrina in the USA, but the government moved a million people off the coast in a good time, and predicted disaster did not happen. Even though India’s record of social achievements is low, wherever they have tried hard to make a change – like in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh – education and health care have surged ahead and so have economic growth, so that these erstwhile poor states are now among India’s richest. We can do things if we put our mind to it.

“Take gender inequality”, I went on. “There is a lot of attention that is right now being given to the incidence of rape in India, which is an improvement. But some recognitions are missing still. The reported rate of rapes in India is low (it is 1.8 per hundred thousand in India compared with 27 per hundred thousand in the USA and 29 in UK). There is surely a huge underestimation here, particularly when the victims come from the poorer and less privileged classes. But even after raising the Indian number ten-fold, the rate of rape in India would still be lower than UK, USA and most countries in the world. The main problem is not the high incidence of rape in India, but the difficulty in getting the police to cooperate and help victims, and for the society to take greater interest in sexual assaults on vulnerable women, particularly from the poorer and less privileged classes and castes. Some steps are being taken right now to change this, including stopping sexual trafficking of girls from very poor families. But much more needs to be done, and indeed can be done if we try.”

“People are very worried – and rightly – that selective abortion of female fetuses is so common and makes the female-male ratio at birth much lower in India as a whole than in the range for European countries. But nearly half the Indian states – in fact all the states in south and the east in India (from Kerala and Tamil Nadu all the way to West Bengal and Assam) – have female-male ratios at birth that are well within European range, and it is the fact that all the states in North and West have much lower female-male ratios than in Europe that makes the Indian average come out to be so low. So there is much learn from within India itself. Can you help in this, GMT, in making Indians less defeatist?” I asked.

“I can’t do that”, said the goddess, “it has to be the Indians who change their defeatist mind-set.” “That’s a letdown,” I said with frustration. “Not at all,” remarked the goddess. “I am telling you that you can solve these problems yourself – you don’t need anybody’s help. You have to know what the problems are, and how they can be solved.” “But, “I complained, “ even if it becomes clear what our problems are and how they can be solved, how can we share this knowledge, and make all Indians take an interest in our real problems?” “Well,” said GMT, “the social media can help, and – very importantly – you must read more books.”

“And,” GMT added, “the time has come for you to go to the Jaipur Festival – good reading! “ As the good goddess suddenly vanished beyond the clouds, I returned to my little GSAT-14, launched by the world famous GSLV-DV, to come straight to the festival. And I am grateful that you are all here. Thank You!”

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Saturday, 12 April 2014

This video could make some people tear up from the happy feelings!!

After seeing this video on YouTube, I could not resist myself from posting it here. It is a Thai commercial of an unsung hero.  I don't now what I should  write about this video. Really, I don't have any words. If you find some words to describe this ,share it on Facebook, Twitter or message it to your friend. (See the social plugins to the left side of the blog)


We talk big things, write big things, debate big things, criticize government policies to remove poverty, but hardly do anything in that direction. This guy took an initiative to change the world around him. We are smart people, we know mathematics, we know how to increase profit and minimize loss. but problem is, we, the practical men , 'only' know these things. He knows something beyond these things which is more sacred, more moral, more noble.


Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Do you know what is the sexiest and ugliest thing in the world is?


It is the seductive and destructive power of neatly placed words. It has heavenly and dreadful powers of being sexy and ugly at the same time.  

It can change minds, souls, and people. It can spread love, blossom the atmosphere of warmth, and cherish the likelihood. It can create war, hate among communities, envy and wrath among people.



Look what Mark Antony is saying. Look at the eyes of the crowd. How color of their eyes changing from white to red while listening to his speech.

Look carefully, what Alexander is addressing to his disheartened army. The army who was just talking about rebellion against him is now calm. They were angry, even now they are angry, but reason has been changing. Now they are ready to fight immortal.

Look at the Hitler; he is giving a speech in Germany. I am telling you, I didn't understand a single word from his speech. But that enthusiasm  made a goose bumps on my hands. Someone just told me that he talked something about winning the world. I know this is disastrous but I still want to believe in what he just said.

I am listening to the speech of Winston Churchill on radio. All my Englishman wants to end this war and surrender. But see, what magic is happening. They now want to fight till the last man lives on the land Of England.

Look, Abraham Lincoln is announcing the emancipation Proclamation. I can see the confidence and freedom in the eyes of my slave negro brothers.

Look, what Barack Obama is saying in presidential campaign. I can clearly see hope in eyes of people.

Look at the Charlie Chaplin, he is not even speaking, he is showing some expressions. But I don’t know why I am getting attracted towards him? I am the slave of the words, but he is not even speaking. Why I am feeling that the world’s most beautiful words coming out from his expressions.

I am going to catch these words. Will you come with me? I will put them in world’s safe locker and hide them in the deep ocean of books to hand over to future generations.

I am a true believer of God, but what just Mark Twain said, changing my beliefs. Am I atheist now? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

I like to hear war history, stories of the great warriors, their Hugh empires, their beautiful queens, astonishing palaces and uncountable wealth. But oh God! Suddenly I lost my all feelings about these materialistic things. Is this a impact of Gautam Buddha’s book I read yesterday night?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  

Please someone come and release me and my brothers from prison of the words. The more I want to come out of it, the more and more it is seducing me to stay. I am the victim of this seduction. I am telling you stay away from it. It will swallow you too.

After all the experiments on my life now I am learning what is sexy and what is ugly. I am realizing the seductive power of neatly placed words and destructive power of neatly placed foul words.

At the end of the day, oh lord, I am asking for only one thing. Give me power to differentiate, virtuous and evil, good and bad, heaven and hell, true and false.
Amen!!


(If you found value in this, it would mean a lot to me for you tolook at the side bar and hit the like button. Thanks so much for reading!)
~Digvijay Sanjay Patil.

Sunday, 6 April 2014

AAP launches new software to find corrupt people: Political sixth sense

To get the new bust to the election campaign, Aam Aadmi Party has come up with mind-blowing software named as political sixth sense. This software is inspired from Pranav Mistery’s (MIT Scholar) sixth sense, but AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal told that it was his idea to make such software and filled a RTI against Pranav.
Kejri asking back his software from Pranav Mistry
This software can identify corrupt people. Not only this, it can also give criminal records, cases filed against that person, even over speeding charges. So everyone now fears to face Arvind Kejriwal. Our topmost sources said that, even Kejriwal is afraid to stand in front of mirror wearing this software.
Features of this software include:
1) You can dial emergency helpline number (which is not working from last 3 years) by keypad on your palm.

2) You can do sting operation by secret video recording.
3) It contains lie detector. It goes red every time Kejriwal coughs. Also you can have experience ofSach ka Saamna with Kejri. (Rajeev Khandelwal must be very unhappy, because that show was only way of income. He is planning to complain against Kejriwal to Lokpal )
Khaap phanchayat supported that Software but don’t want kejriwal to use against them. Aghories didn’t have any idea what is going on, but they supported him as they don’t have anything to hide.:P 
‘This software is not secular as it is showing most of the corrupt people from minority community’, Diggi Raja said to our senior correspondent in grief.
Rahul baba is happy with this software as he can watch Chota Bhim live show in-between any rally but giving serious look at public event he told that, ‘this software is of no use as it is not able to estimate Jupiter’s escape velocity.”
“Rahul baba can wake-up at night in morning, he has anti ageing formula, and he can empower any women that come in his way. Kejriwal is jealous of Rahul baba’s super natural powers. So he comes up with this bullshit software. This is big conspiracy theory”, Rajeev Shukla added in anguish.
This comment war reached to its peak when Dr. Subramaniam Swami tweeted on micro blogging site that, ‘this software should only used against Muslims.’ Rajnath Singh kept mum after Swami’s comment as he is contesting from Lukhnow.

This software can also able to detect the 'maa-behen' galiyan, so Raghu is in confusion whether to support this or not. According to him this function is completely against the Aam Aadmi behavior.  He is finding future of Rodies is in danger if he supports this.

From some days, no media noticed Sharad Pawar. Fearing this software, he might be in underground floor of Swiss bank.

(This article is submitted in Faking news website. Hope it will get published.)
~Digvijay Sanjay Patil

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Are we ready for open debate?




I have just seen a video of debate between the candidates contesting Bangalore South loksabha constituency. This debate was organized by Bangalore Political Action Committee (BPAC) - an initiative of citizens aimed at building a better Bangalore and to give an opportunity for the candidates of political parties to highlight their development agenda for the city to an invited audience.

I am extremely glad that they have taken the initiative and all candidates agreed to come together on same platform to discuss their vision. That usually doesn’t happen in India. Our leaders are more interested in commenting on someone’s character (rather than policies) behind the camera. But the people were not come to hear but to make chaos.


Even today, we are not interested in their development agenda, their plans but we are more interested in what language he is speaking, why he is not speaking in mother tongue. Why we are so much aroused when someone says that your community is in danger, your language will vanish in next 50 years but we did not get aroused when we are seeing our pathetic situation with our own eyes. We need to get our priorities right.

Look at the presidential debates, normal senate member’s debates in U.S. Even if they are no better than our leaders on throwing mud on each other’s character but at least people show interest in development policies and maintain a gentle decorum.

It is extremely good that candidates from Bangalore came on same platform. It didn't satisfy the purpose fully but at least they took precedence. Not only M.P.s but Prime ministerial candidates should also come together and discuss their self proclaimed progresses in debate. Even Indira Gandhi had not accepted Atal Bihari Vajpyee’s invitation for debate.

Open debate before election should be done in each and every constituency. Many times supporters, party make hugh bubble of their candidates. These open debates will poof the bubble or will grow bigger. Also more visionary and educated people will have chance.

So the purpose of writing this is, we need to be gentle to hear entirely opposite thoughts to our beliefs. Healthy democracy needs patience. If you have freedom of speech, then your political rivals too have that freedom.

Sad thing is- more than healthy discussions, we love verbal war and controversies. Most T.V. channels show whole day what one speaker told about another and what another one was replied.

Seriously? Grow up media and it is time for us to introspect.
~Digvijay Sanjay Patil