There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Achilles dragging Hector's lifeless body
Messenger Boy: Are the stories true? They say your mother was an immortal goddess. They say you can't be killed.
Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man I’ve ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
Achilles: That’s why no one will remember your name.
Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man I’ve ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
Achilles: That’s why no one will remember your name.
Delhi High Court reserves order on unauthorised schools
22 November 2007
The Delhi High Court has reserved its orders on a petition, filed by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Social Jurist, seeking directions to the Delhi government to curb the menace of unauthorised schools, mushrooming in the capital.
A bench comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, after hearing arguments of the petitioner Ashok Aggarwal, who had sought directions to be passed to Delhi government to monitor the unauthorised private schools in the capital, reserved its judgement.
Ashok Aggarwal and Anuj Aggarwal of Social Jurist had approached the court to regulate all the unauthorised schools running in the capital. There are more than 10,000 schools which are running without any approval or permission of the government and about six lakh students study in these schools.
These schools have not any monitoring system or guidelines and proper fee structure nor proper teaching staff. Every school should be regularised and follow some guidelines which are uniform for each school, said Ashok Aggarwal.
(UNI)
The Delhi High Court has reserved its orders on a petition, filed by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Social Jurist, seeking directions to the Delhi government to curb the menace of unauthorised schools, mushrooming in the capital.
A bench comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, after hearing arguments of the petitioner Ashok Aggarwal, who had sought directions to be passed to Delhi government to monitor the unauthorised private schools in the capital, reserved its judgement.
Ashok Aggarwal and Anuj Aggarwal of Social Jurist had approached the court to regulate all the unauthorised schools running in the capital. There are more than 10,000 schools which are running without any approval or permission of the government and about six lakh students study in these schools.
These schools have not any monitoring system or guidelines and proper fee structure nor proper teaching staff. Every school should be regularised and follow some guidelines which are uniform for each school, said Ashok Aggarwal.
(UNI)
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Alexander the Great (July 20, 356 BC – June 10, 323 BC)
While in India, Alexander took ten of the Brahmins prisoner. These men had a great reputation for intelligence, so Alexander decided to give them a test. He announced that the one who gave the worst answer would be the first to die, and he made the oldest Brahmin the judge of the competition.
Which are more numerous, Alexander asked the first one, the living or the dead? "The living," said the Brahmin, "because the dead no longer count."
Which produces more creatures, the sea or the land? Alexander asked the second. "The land," was his answer, "because the sea is only a part of it."
The third was asked which animal was the smartest of all, and the Brahmin replied: "The one we have not found yet."
Alexander asked the fourth what argument he had used to stir up the Indians to fight, and he answered: "Only that one should either live nobly or die nobly."
Which is older: day or night? was Alexander's question to the fifth, and the answer he got was: "Day is older, by one day at least." When he saw that Alexander was not satisfied with this answer, the Brahmin added: "Strange questions get strange answers."
What should a man do to make himself loved? asked Alexander, and the sixth Brahmin replied: "Be powerful without being frightening."
What does a man have to do to become a god? he asked the seventh, who responded: "Do what is impossible for a man."
The question to the eighth was whether death or life was stronger, and his answer: "Life is stronger than death, because it bears so many miseries."
The ninth Brahmin was asked how long it was proper for a man to live, and he said: "Until it seems better to die."
Then Alexander turned to the judge, who decided that each one had answered worse than another. "You will die first, then, for giving such a decision," said Alexander. "Not so, mighty king," said the Brahmin, "if you want to remain a man of your word. You said that you would kill first the one who made the worst answer." Alexander gave all of the Brahmins presents and set them free, even though they had persuaded the Indians to fight him.
- http://www.e-classics.com/ALEXANDER.htm (source)
Aim of life
“The aim of life is no more to control mind, but to develop it harmoniously...not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below...and not to realize truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in-the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of all... Democracy or universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity in the social, political and individual life."
(Page 124 of Jail notebook)
-Bhagat Singh
(Page 124 of Jail notebook)
-Bhagat Singh
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Teachers should not perform election work in duty hours: HC
New Delhi | Wednesday, Nov 7 2007 IST
The Delhi High Court today directed the Directorate of Education not to send primary school teachers to collect field information relating to electoral work during teaching hours.
Hearing a petition claiming that teachers were spending most of their time in performing election duties, the court said the teachers should only be assigned tasks, such as collecting information for electoral rolls, after office hours or on holidays and must be paid renumeration for the work.
The petition said that MCD teachers were spending time on election duties at the cost of education of students in the primary schools.
Taking exception to the ''pathetic condition'' of MCD-run schools, a bench, comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice R S Sodhi, told Director, Education Indra Yadav to take immediate steps to improve the situation. ''Why do you have to wait for people to file complaints and shed their grievances about the pathetic condition of the schools? Why can't you take timely action on your own,'' the bench said.
Ms Yadav told the court that as the MCD was a large institution with many departments, it could not devote much time to its Education department. ''There is a proposal to merge the MCD schools with the Schools run by the Delhi administration,'' she said.
The petitioners -- Ashok Agarwal and Anuj Aggarwal of an NGO Social jurist -- had placed before the court photographs of schools showing the bad condition of the toilets, blackboards, classrooms and other infrastructure. Although the MCD had pumped in money in primary schools, there was no proper infrastructure, Aggarwal contented before the court.
Ms Yadav said that her department had recently formed a public grievances cell to address the problems faced by the schools.
The court said the MCD should mend matters on its own and there would be no need for a grievance cell.
-- (UNI) -- 07DI53.xml
The Delhi High Court today directed the Directorate of Education not to send primary school teachers to collect field information relating to electoral work during teaching hours.
Hearing a petition claiming that teachers were spending most of their time in performing election duties, the court said the teachers should only be assigned tasks, such as collecting information for electoral rolls, after office hours or on holidays and must be paid renumeration for the work.
The petition said that MCD teachers were spending time on election duties at the cost of education of students in the primary schools.
Taking exception to the ''pathetic condition'' of MCD-run schools, a bench, comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice R S Sodhi, told Director, Education Indra Yadav to take immediate steps to improve the situation. ''Why do you have to wait for people to file complaints and shed their grievances about the pathetic condition of the schools? Why can't you take timely action on your own,'' the bench said.
Ms Yadav told the court that as the MCD was a large institution with many departments, it could not devote much time to its Education department. ''There is a proposal to merge the MCD schools with the Schools run by the Delhi administration,'' she said.
The petitioners -- Ashok Agarwal and Anuj Aggarwal of an NGO Social jurist -- had placed before the court photographs of schools showing the bad condition of the toilets, blackboards, classrooms and other infrastructure. Although the MCD had pumped in money in primary schools, there was no proper infrastructure, Aggarwal contented before the court.
Ms Yadav said that her department had recently formed a public grievances cell to address the problems faced by the schools.
The court said the MCD should mend matters on its own and there would be no need for a grievance cell.
-- (UNI) -- 07DI53.xml
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Ensure no function at parks without sanction: HC to MCD
Press Trust of India
Posted online: Monday , October 15, 2007 at 12:00:00
Updated: Sunday , October 14, 2007 at 11:07:48
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New Delhi, October 14 The Delhi High Court has asked the MCD to ensure that no social and religious functions, including the ongoing Dussehra, are organised without its permission in a Shalimar Bagh park in north-west Delhi, which was recently declared as an ornamental park.
“The MCD shall ensure that no function is conducted on the central park (in B-block) without its permission,” Justice Gita Mittal said, while admitting a petition filed by a residents welfare association.
“In case the MCD is approached, permission would be considered for conduct for same in any appropriate place as per policy,” the court said.
The RWA, in its petition, alleged the park was declared as an ornamental park by the civic agency last year, and no socio-religious function could be allowed there.
Anuj Agarwal, appearing for the RWA, submitted that ‘Mata Bhagwati Durga Puja Samiti’, which had been organising Dussehra in the park for five years, distributed invitation cards containing the name of the park as venue for the puja.
The court, on being informed by MCD that the Puja Samiti did not seek permission from it, asked the civic agency to ensure that no such activities are carried out without its prior sanction.
-Indian Express
Posted online: Monday , October 15, 2007 at 12:00:00
Updated: Sunday , October 14, 2007 at 11:07:48
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New Delhi, October 14 The Delhi High Court has asked the MCD to ensure that no social and religious functions, including the ongoing Dussehra, are organised without its permission in a Shalimar Bagh park in north-west Delhi, which was recently declared as an ornamental park.
“The MCD shall ensure that no function is conducted on the central park (in B-block) without its permission,” Justice Gita Mittal said, while admitting a petition filed by a residents welfare association.
“In case the MCD is approached, permission would be considered for conduct for same in any appropriate place as per policy,” the court said.
The RWA, in its petition, alleged the park was declared as an ornamental park by the civic agency last year, and no socio-religious function could be allowed there.
Anuj Agarwal, appearing for the RWA, submitted that ‘Mata Bhagwati Durga Puja Samiti’, which had been organising Dussehra in the park for five years, distributed invitation cards containing the name of the park as venue for the puja.
The court, on being informed by MCD that the Puja Samiti did not seek permission from it, asked the civic agency to ensure that no such activities are carried out without its prior sanction.
-Indian Express
Thursday, October 11, 2007
my poison is my poverty!
My father is dead...my mother keeps crying...I have one younger brother who doesn’t even cry anymore...and I a man of 8 years of age...
When I went to school the teacher opposed me-"You have not paid your fees, Go home!"...
I worked in a plastic factory at the age of six...I lost one arm in the gas furnace, so sahibji said they do no require me anymore...
Now a days I am begging on the streets...Police wala says, “you are not allowed to beg in my area”...so I regularly pay him a share of my income...
I was sent to a factory because I was poor...but i will always remain poor...i will always be unwanted...“not allowed”...
When I went to school the teacher opposed me-"You have not paid your fees, Go home!"...
I worked in a plastic factory at the age of six...I lost one arm in the gas furnace, so sahibji said they do no require me anymore...
Now a days I am begging on the streets...Police wala says, “you are not allowed to beg in my area”...so I regularly pay him a share of my income...
I was sent to a factory because I was poor...but i will always remain poor...i will always be unwanted...“not allowed”...
I am dying since the day i was born...and my poison is my poverty!
Monday, October 01, 2007
a true story
A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment.
When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital. Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands.
When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, " Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?"
The father went home & committed suicide.
--by Anonymous
When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital. Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands.
When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, " Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?"
The father went home & committed suicide.
--by Anonymous
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
but make allowance for their doubting too...
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or being hated, don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master...
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim...
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and treat those two impostors just the same...
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools...
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings,
and never breathe a word about your loss...
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"...
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you...
If all men count with you, but none too much...
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
and, which is more, you'll be a Man, my son!
....by Rudyard Kipling
are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
but make allowance for their doubting too...
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or being hated, don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master...
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim...
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and treat those two impostors just the same...
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools...
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings,
and never breathe a word about your loss...
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"...
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you...
If all men count with you, but none too much...
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
and, which is more, you'll be a Man, my son!
....by Rudyard Kipling
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Another irony of life...
We crave for the worthless...
We contempt the precious!
We condemn show off...
We promote the same!
We want to be a crusader...
We look for others to lead!
We think to change the way we behave...
We change the way we think!
We perceive the hypocrisy in society...
We nonetheless find another irony of life!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
When all is said...
“When all is said and done, no matter what you have achieved, no matter how many summer homes you own, no matter how many cars sit in your driveway, the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.”
--The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
--The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
“yes !! i m an atheist”
@ VIDHI
“Peace of mind” is serenity.
“Some force which helps us stand by the difficult times” could be an impulse, an emotion or determination.
“Commitment to stand like a man with an erect head to the last, even on the gallows" is a pledge/promise.
“YOU” could be anuj or vidhi or something/someone which exists and marks its presence in realistic world.
There is a particular word for everything that is known and there will be a word for everything that is still unknown.
I believe that there are two ways of unveiling the unknown. One is by knowing (insight) and the other one is by having a short cut i.e.. naming every thing unknown to be GOD, just because it is unknown/unveiled.
Categorizing the known things like “peace of mind”, “some force”, “commitment”, “you” as GOD is something against pragmatism…. And categorizing all the unknown/unexplained things under the head of “GOD” is something which should not be done because of the very nature of the connotations flowing from the word “GOD”…omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience…
@ VIDHI
“Peace of mind” is serenity.
“Some force which helps us stand by the difficult times” could be an impulse, an emotion or determination.
“Commitment to stand like a man with an erect head to the last, even on the gallows" is a pledge/promise.
“YOU” could be anuj or vidhi or something/someone which exists and marks its presence in realistic world.
There is a particular word for everything that is known and there will be a word for everything that is still unknown.
I believe that there are two ways of unveiling the unknown. One is by knowing (insight) and the other one is by having a short cut i.e.. naming every thing unknown to be GOD, just because it is unknown/unveiled.
Categorizing the known things like “peace of mind”, “some force”, “commitment”, “you” as GOD is something against pragmatism…. And categorizing all the unknown/unexplained things under the head of “GOD” is something which should not be done because of the very nature of the connotations flowing from the word “GOD”…omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience…
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