Where Real Life and Dreams Collide

 Just like YOU.

So much for "Love in every heart".

People change & friends stop talking. Just like that. It is quite sad.

SJI tries for IP


Hahahahah!

 

The man looked unmoved. In a firm voice, he replied, “You are an Indian and therefore a foreigner.” The words struck me deeply. I realised in spite of the similarities in our dress, language, food and even love for Bollywood movies, Partition had divided us forever. It had made us strangers in each other’s lands…

She took a handful of soil from the little patch of garden in front of the hotel and said, “This is my land. This is my soil. My ancestors made this their home. They were born and burnt here. The land, the trees, the air, the water…everything was ours. We knew the customs, the culture and the food. One day, some person drew a line and created two nations. And suddenly we became foreigners in our own land. We had to leave and adopt some other place whose language, food and culture were alien to us. A single line made me a stranger to my own land. People who have been uprooted have a special pain which no one else can understand.”

-Extracts from Sudha Murty’s The Old Man & His God: Discovering the Spirit of India

Partition does not mean the same to the people who are affected and the people who initiated it. Oh the impact of “a single line“.

"Maoists will not be arrested if they come for census"

How interestingly MASSIVE.

[Read it @ timesofindia.com]

The goal shouldn't be to eliminate failure; it should be to build a system resilient enough to withstand it.

It sounds like a dubious aspiration, bu one of the most pressing priorities for America this decade is to preserve the cherished freedom to fail. This freedom to fail may not have made it into President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous declaration of the four freedoms that define America - it would have been bad karma on the eve of World War II - but it has long been one of

the pillars of the country's exceptionalism. Call it the fifth freedom.

[Read more @ Time.com]