SAS Newsletter: "It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results.
- The Mother [CWMCE, 14:173]"
Monday, January 04, 2010
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Pakistan's educational system
http://www.himalmag.com/Still-terminally-ill_nw3965.html
Himal South Asian's Zakia Sarwar discusses the problems in the educational system in that country.
thanks to 3qd for the link
Himal South Asian's Zakia Sarwar discusses the problems in the educational system in that country.
thanks to 3qd for the link
Friday, January 01, 2010
and the pursuit of happiness
Maira Kalman has a wonderful photo, drawing and writing essay about George Washington and Obama. I love her colors and thoughts..
Savor the moments Happy New Year
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Indians are reading...,
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?263464
Here is a list of Indian famous people are reading...
Here is a list of Indian famous people are reading...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Justice at last
This case has been bothering me. I heard NDTV's Barkha Dutt debate the issue last sunday. It is indeed amazing that Rathore molested a 14 year old girl and has been on the loose ever since. No jail nothing. He in fact caused this aspiring tennis star to kill herself. Her brother was put in jail and abused. Now he is finally getting his much due jail time.
Ruchika Case: Rathore's Bail Plea Rejected
PANCHKULA Dec 30, 2009
Apprehending arrest following fresh FIRs against him, a cornered SPS Rathore today moved a sessions court for anticipatory bail but failed to get any immediate relief and the Haryana ex-DGP could soon be slapped with abetment to suicide charge.Parallely, the Haryana police set up a seven-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by an IGP for the two fresh cases registered on the basis of complaints of father and brother of molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra against Rathore and others for allegedly tampering with the post-mortem report and on abetment of suicide charge.The Centre stepped in with Home Minister P Chidambaram discussing with Ruchika's family and lawyers in New Delhi the possibility of re-opening the 19-year-old case by adding abetment to suicide charge on Rathore. The 67-year-old former top cop was convicted for molesting the 14-year-old budding tennis player who committed suicide three years after the incident in 1990.Ruchika's family is likely to file another FIR -- the third in two days -- in Panchkula soon against Rathore for abetment of suicide, Home Ministry sources said after Chidambaram's hour-long meeting.With the noose tightening over Rathore, there was a pronounced change in his demeanour in sharp contrast to the broad grin he sported the day he got away with a lighter sentence of six months imprisonment early this month.A grim-faced Rathore even had a run-in with the media.He mocked at the media when asked for his comments after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected telling them, "the day you can satisfy me you are a constitutional power on judicial matters, I will speak (to you)".Abha, the lawyer-wife of Rathore, submitted before District and Sessions Judge S P Singh which heard his anticipatory bail plea that "fabricated, twisted and forged" facts were being presented by Ruchika's family.The judge also issued a notice to the state for a reply to the anticipatory bail plea on January one. In a 40-page petition, Abha Rathore alleged that her husband was facing a "nothing but a trial by the media" and sought protection of the court.The judge first adjourned the proceedings, saying he would have to go through the details and later issued notice to the state for a reply on January one. The court however did not grant Rathore any immediate relief on his bail plea.The judge earlier directed Rathore to present all the documents on January 1 so that the issue could be decided after going through the documents.In the absence of exact nature of FIR it will not be appropriate for the court to pass any order, the court said.In New Delhi, Chidambaram discussed with family members of Ruchika and their lawyer the possibility to reopen the molestation case by adding abetment to suicide charge and sought more documents relating to the matter.Advocate Pankaj Bharadwaj accompanied by Ruchika's father Subhash and her friend Aradhana's father Anand Prakash met the Minister and apprised him of the caseAfter the hour-long meeting, Bharadwaj told reporters, "there are so many ways to reopen the matter under section 306 (abetment to suicide). We are still thinking as to which is the best line to reopen the case".Bharadwaj said the Home Minister sought more documents which he would be providing to him by tomorrow. He said the ministry has the power to take up any matter to its logical end and can streamline the whole process.Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said his ministry is contemplating asking the National Commission for Women to move the Supreme Court seeking "intervention" for an enhanced punishment for Rathore.Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said he has given orders that everything should be revisited and none of the guilty people be spared.
Filed At: Dec 30, 2009 11:39 IST , Edited At: Dec 30, 2009 11:39 IST
Ruchika Case: Rathore's Bail Plea Rejected
PANCHKULA Dec 30, 2009
Apprehending arrest following fresh FIRs against him, a cornered SPS Rathore today moved a sessions court for anticipatory bail but failed to get any immediate relief and the Haryana ex-DGP could soon be slapped with abetment to suicide charge.Parallely, the Haryana police set up a seven-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by an IGP for the two fresh cases registered on the basis of complaints of father and brother of molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra against Rathore and others for allegedly tampering with the post-mortem report and on abetment of suicide charge.The Centre stepped in with Home Minister P Chidambaram discussing with Ruchika's family and lawyers in New Delhi the possibility of re-opening the 19-year-old case by adding abetment to suicide charge on Rathore. The 67-year-old former top cop was convicted for molesting the 14-year-old budding tennis player who committed suicide three years after the incident in 1990.Ruchika's family is likely to file another FIR -- the third in two days -- in Panchkula soon against Rathore for abetment of suicide, Home Ministry sources said after Chidambaram's hour-long meeting.With the noose tightening over Rathore, there was a pronounced change in his demeanour in sharp contrast to the broad grin he sported the day he got away with a lighter sentence of six months imprisonment early this month.A grim-faced Rathore even had a run-in with the media.He mocked at the media when asked for his comments after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected telling them, "the day you can satisfy me you are a constitutional power on judicial matters, I will speak (to you)".Abha, the lawyer-wife of Rathore, submitted before District and Sessions Judge S P Singh which heard his anticipatory bail plea that "fabricated, twisted and forged" facts were being presented by Ruchika's family.The judge also issued a notice to the state for a reply to the anticipatory bail plea on January one. In a 40-page petition, Abha Rathore alleged that her husband was facing a "nothing but a trial by the media" and sought protection of the court.The judge first adjourned the proceedings, saying he would have to go through the details and later issued notice to the state for a reply on January one. The court however did not grant Rathore any immediate relief on his bail plea.The judge earlier directed Rathore to present all the documents on January 1 so that the issue could be decided after going through the documents.In the absence of exact nature of FIR it will not be appropriate for the court to pass any order, the court said.In New Delhi, Chidambaram discussed with family members of Ruchika and their lawyer the possibility to reopen the molestation case by adding abetment to suicide charge and sought more documents relating to the matter.Advocate Pankaj Bharadwaj accompanied by Ruchika's father Subhash and her friend Aradhana's father Anand Prakash met the Minister and apprised him of the caseAfter the hour-long meeting, Bharadwaj told reporters, "there are so many ways to reopen the matter under section 306 (abetment to suicide). We are still thinking as to which is the best line to reopen the case".Bharadwaj said the Home Minister sought more documents which he would be providing to him by tomorrow. He said the ministry has the power to take up any matter to its logical end and can streamline the whole process.Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said his ministry is contemplating asking the National Commission for Women to move the Supreme Court seeking "intervention" for an enhanced punishment for Rathore.Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said he has given orders that everything should be revisited and none of the guilty people be spared.
Filed At: Dec 30, 2009 11:39 IST , Edited At: Dec 30, 2009 11:39 IST
thought from the mother
The more you give yourself to the Divine the more He is with you, totally, constantly, at every minute, in all your thoughts, all your needs, and there's no aspiration which does not receive an immediate answer; and you have the sense of a complete, constant intimacy, of a total nearness. It is as though you carried... as though the Divine were all the time with you; you walk and He walks with you, you sleep and He sleeps with you, you eat and He eats with you, you think and He thinks with you, you love and He is the love you have. But for this one must give himself entirely, totally, exclusively, reserve nothing, keep nothing for himself and not keep back anything, not disperse anything also: the least little thing in your being which is not given to the Divine is a waste; it is the wasting of your joy, something that lessens your happiness by that much, and all that you don't give to the Divine is as though you were holding it in the way of the possibility of the Divine's giving Himself to you. You don't feel Him close to yourself, constantly with you, because you don't belong to Him, because you belong to hundreds of other things and people; in your thought, your action, your feelings, impulses... there are millions of things which you do not give Him, and that is why you don't feel Him always with you, because all these things are so many screens and walls between Him and you. But if you give Him everything, if you keep back nothing, He will be constantly and totally with you in all that you do, in all that you think, all that you feel, always, at each moment.
- The Mother [CWMCE, 7:247]
- The Mother [CWMCE, 7:247]
Sunday, December 27, 2009
3 idiots
Aamir Khan has done his magic again in the three idiots. This movie was wonderful, it was about 3 engineering students and the choices before them. Kareena Kapoor did a good job sans make up sometimes. The movie's message was uplifting live your life king size, money will follow if you follow your dreams and passions not what other people have planned for you.
The setting of the film was magnificent from imperial Delhi to Shimla and the vast barren beauty of Ladakh.
Aamir is fast becoming my favourite actor and director!
Saturday, December 26, 2009
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main43.asp?filename=Ne090110letter.asp
Do check out Tehelka's annual fiction issue.
Do check out Tehelka's annual fiction issue.
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