This news comes as a surprise, seems its too early to give this accolade. As a presidential candidate, Obama really impressed whole world. Definitely, his speeches were quite reassuring to the US and world citizens. But this seems a little too early. Its like gifting a bicycle to a kid based on his monthly exams, before he actually writes his final exams. I still wonder whether there are any great achievements from Obama administration but the US economy, that too has its root in the overall world business environment.  Anyway, Nobel prizes have their share of controversies as always. May be they didn’t find any other suitable candidate

Read the story here

Just returned after a vacation and still trying to catch up with the backlog.

But imagine this, a beautiful morning sun, climbing up the hills in a nice cool morning breeze. Imagine a hot cuppa of tea, and you just listen to the sound of flowing water in the nearby canal. Also, if you just relax and trust your ears (which are more attuned to the city traffic noise) you will hear chirping of birds and all so different. Now, observe the thin fog that is all around hills, and sun rays are trying to penetrate them. So that is how, my days used to start. You feel you are at your nest.

here, it is, not so great but if I take in to account my earlier prep, looks really good…

Just finished this book, though it has dramtic start, and tries to put forth the idea of living ones true passion and living life to one’s true call…

but end could have been better…

Still wondering why the title include ‘decides’ rather ‘wants’….

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I stumbled on below link and was surprised to see the impact on Internet on Hindi. I think same is true for all the Indian languages and all the other world languages.

Internet has impacted the lives and the times on how things were learned and shared; Hindi poetry is not an exception to this revolution.

here is the link first:  http://www.kavitakosh.org/

kavitaKosh

Internet portals have become the practical and viable examples of content collaboration and it is evident from this initiative.  Initially, our regional news papers became accessible and kavitakosh is the next in list.

Nevertheless, it has at least given a Hindi poetry reader an opportunity to step back in the past, recall and relish the poetic subtleties that one might be used to in paperback era.

So why hindi poetry became stagnant?

I finished reading ‘The Alchemist’ second time.  I read it in 2006 but wanted to chew some more lines of the book and to read the end again. So I did.

Here are the excerpts from the epilogue:

The boy reached the small, abandoned church just as night was falling. The sycamore
was still there in the sacristy, and the stars could still be seen through the half-destroyed roof. He remembered the time he had been there with his sheep; it had been a peaceful night…except for the dream.

“You old sorcerer,” the boy shouted up to the sky. “You knew the whole story. You even left a bit of gold at the monastery so I could get back to this church. The monk laughed when he saw me come back in tatters. Couldn’t you have saved me from that?”

“No,” he heard a voice on the wind say. “If I had told you, you wouldn’t have seen the Pyramids. They’re beautiful, aren’t they?”

Its all about fulfilling one’s heart’ desire, isn’t it?

Here is the blog of Paulo Coelho.

create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Just finished Randy Pausch’s – Last Lecture. Its mostly a personal account of his life and his legacy. But I liked some of his views around time management, family values and the team skills.