Sunday, December 16, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Strange Coincidences
- Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."
- Oregon's Columbian newspaper announced the winning Pick 4 lottery numbers for June 28, 2000 in advance. The newspaper had intended to print the previous set of winning numbers but erroneously printed those for the state of Virginia, namely 6-8-5-5. In the next Oregon lottery, those same numbers were drawn.
- Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella Futility had many parallels with the RMS Titanic disaster; the book concerned a fictional state-of-the-art ocean liner called Titan, which (like the Titanic) eventually collides with an iceberg on a calm April night whilst en route to New York, with many dying because of the lack of lifeboats. Various other details in the book coincide with the Titanic disaster. Later, she wrote a book, Beyond the Spectrum, that described a future war fought with aircraft that carried "sun bombs". Incredibly powerful, one bomb could destroy a city, erupting in a flash of light that blinds all who look at it. The war begins in December, started by the Japanese with a sneak attack on Hawaii.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Firdaus for me
- India
- Smell of earth after the first rain
- Smell of Fog on a winter morning ( Not in a city)
- Assi Ghat in Varanasi ( sunset on ganga)
- Thandai
- Pani Puri
- Samosa
- Food
- Chocolates
- Tea on a very cold night
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Upgrading your Camera won't help
Had been thinking about upgrading my camera for some time, after extensive research i have realized that you need the vision and hands, not an expensive SLR.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Chede Dao
This has been till date the most interesting piece that i have ever read. Never imagined people doing that to Robindra Da. Sick, funny & hilarious to imagine.
Beethoven’s contemporary, Goethe, is reported to have said, famously, "more light" as he lay dying: these words created a lasting impression, to the extent that Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his niece Indira, "How I cherish light and space! Goethe on his death-bed wanted ‘more light’. If I am capable of expressing my desire then, it will be for ‘more light and more space’." (11) Indeed, it is Tagore’s "space" that, in his final moments, was being violated by his admirers: as they tugged at the poet’s beard, so that each might get a specimen of the great man’s hair, Tagore is described as imploring and admonishing them with the words, "Chede dao, Chede dao", "Leave me alone! Leave me alone!"
source: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/HeRam_gandhi.html
Beethoven’s contemporary, Goethe, is reported to have said, famously, "more light" as he lay dying: these words created a lasting impression, to the extent that Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his niece Indira, "How I cherish light and space! Goethe on his death-bed wanted ‘more light’. If I am capable of expressing my desire then, it will be for ‘more light and more space’." (11) Indeed, it is Tagore’s "space" that, in his final moments, was being violated by his admirers: as they tugged at the poet’s beard, so that each might get a specimen of the great man’s hair, Tagore is described as imploring and admonishing them with the words, "Chede dao, Chede dao", "Leave me alone! Leave me alone!"
source: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/HeRam_gandhi.html
Many Ramayanas
Many Ramayanas
A list of languages in which the Rama story is found makes one gasp: Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khotanese, Laotian, Malaysian, Marathi, Oriya, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Santali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan—to say nothing of Western languages. Through the centuries, some of these languages have hosted more than one telling of the Rama story. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty-five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres. Add plays, dance-dramas, and other performances, in both the classical and folk traditions, the number of Ramayanas grows even larger. Camille Bulcke, a student of the Ramayana , counted three hundred tellings.
Subtle differences in Ramayanas:
Valmikis - Ram is not god, as this is a human avatar he is bound by certain rules
Kampan/Tulsidas - Ram is god
Jain Ramayana - Ram is a sage and will not commit any evil. Hence Ravana is killed by Laxman and laxman goes to hell for this.
Source: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/
A list of languages in which the Rama story is found makes one gasp: Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khotanese, Laotian, Malaysian, Marathi, Oriya, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Santali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan—to say nothing of Western languages. Through the centuries, some of these languages have hosted more than one telling of the Rama story. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty-five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres. Add plays, dance-dramas, and other performances, in both the classical and folk traditions, the number of Ramayanas grows even larger. Camille Bulcke, a student of the Ramayana , counted three hundred tellings.
Subtle differences in Ramayanas:
Valmikis - Ram is not god, as this is a human avatar he is bound by certain rules
Kampan/Tulsidas - Ram is god
Jain Ramayana - Ram is a sage and will not commit any evil. Hence Ravana is killed by Laxman and laxman goes to hell for this.
Source: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/
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