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• 11:12 A final goodbye to firefox. Chrome now comes with extensions. including flashblock and google wave notifier. #

just had an interesting realization.

The most thought about yet the least talked about subject in the world is - sex
The least thought about yet the most talked about subject in the world is - god!!

if they interchange the world might have answers for some of its problems.

Am finally back to office, back to blore, back on internet after a loooong break of 4.5 months :) Its mixed feeling though, I feel awful to leave my lil son behind at home and come to office so soon and at same time I feel so energetic and fresh in office environment :)
Here'z how my lil prince Tarun looks in his 4th month...

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• 10:55 Kooli Kelsa begins. #

This weekend, I invested a lot of time talking to a broader set of friends whom I never get to talk to usually and the discussions revolved around the way I badly handle relationships. I do not know why I havent written much about any serious relationships here.. either bcos nothing took off very seriously in the first place except my feelings, or may be I feel embarrassed to write about how low I treat myself to make relationships work and how I never learn from getting hurt repeatedly.

Every relationship requires a lot of hard work from either parties and more of forgiving yet not forgetting. Not forgetting so that you dont hurt the other person again by doing the same mistake again. All this applies after knowing a person well and when you have committed yourself to the relationship.

What I fail to understand is how do you measure how much you can forgive a person when you are just getting to know the person. Every time somebody hurts me, I blame it on the premature going-to-be-a-relationship phase and tend to forgive the person, only to be hurt again. I think I love myself when I am being patient with people without knowing that I am doing more harm to me than any good to myself or the person. I set an impression of being a door mat where one could dust off his frustrations and temper on me. And who knows the person may not be taking me as seriously as I take him or the relationship. May be most of my getting to know people is based on online acquaintances and I shouldnt be reading between the lines, fishing for love or emotions ! Who knows the mistake is on my side, getting emotional with people who are just looking to spend some online time together.

Every person, every relationship is different, but I am angry with myself for not being able to identify the pattern of getting hurt over and over. The only good I can do to myself is by not giving anyone the power to hurt me( which I will be soon forgetting). Rather than getting sad about people not understanding me, I should learn to discard them off my emotional bandwidth ! There is already too much to deal with in life... Respect and treat yourself the best :)

And its good to have friends to talk to. Atleast you know not everyone thinks you are bad :) Thank you my dear friends :)

The Jihad mentality of intolerance is spreading the whole world as described in their interpretation of scriptures. Converting christian Europe to Islamic Eurabia seems not very far if you see the christian (almost atheistic / agnostic) population receding and folks from Turkey and other Islam dictated countries migrating. The Secular Turkey seems to have come under pressure from hardliners. The Imam of Turkey claiming "If the west has atom bomb, we have human bomb" shows the imminent threat to the world but who is listening? Kanchan Gupta gives a wide and contemporary review of the dynamics involved about Islam vs European culture here: http://kanchangupta.blogspot.com/2009/12/mosques-as-barracks-minarets-as.html

Switzerland bans on islamic minaret buildings. And how does the Indian media react to this? It will ask the totally ignorant Indian muslims the completely suggestive question: What is the threat to Indian Muslims from the Swiss ban on minarets? And display their words as Breaking News posing as the feeling of Indian people!
The Sandeep's article correctly captures this with instances from NDTV: http://www.sandeepweb.com/2009/12/07/vishnu-minarets-and-labelling

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• 12:28 Reached Sunnyvale #

RSS definition of" hindu" is very secular though it gets attacked by business-minded english media guys. It is not a narrow minded definition of one who is not buddhist, not muslim, not christian, not jew, not jain, not sikh. The defintion says all those people of India who have inherited and follow the ancient Indian culture and knowledge. So, the current buddhists, jains, sikhs are all hindus. So what about christian and muslim? Since traditional Indian knowledge allows one to worship the Parabrahman in whatever one feels happy about (Ista Devata), they also are very much hindus. So, when next time RSS says hindus do not be under the impression of the narrow definition.

The new RSS Sarasangchalak visited Bangalore. Read http://www.sanghparivar.org/photos-and-report-of-manya-mohanjis-programme-in-banglore for a report.

Video: http://www.sanghparivar.org/

RSS also shackles the narrow definition of India and upholds the true definition of India and address as Bharat. Bharat stands for "Vishwa Bharati". RSS has a tagline of "Vasudaiva Kutumbam": the whole world is one family. Isn't this any sane person's delightful thought?

Hey! Thought this would amuse you. It certainly amused the hell outta me :D



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