Excerpt from Dale Carnegie’s “How to make friends and Influence People” Often parents are tempted to criticize their children. You would expect me to say “don’t.” But I will not, I am merely going to say, “Before you criticize them, read one of the classics of American journalism, ‘Father Forgets.’ ” It originally appeared as [...]
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To the Editors of Hindu – a letter RE MF Hussain
This is a very thought provoking letter that arrived in a forward-mail in my inbox. I find it presents an extremely interesting point of view and deserves to be shared on the web with others who may not receive this email in their inbox: This is a Letter to the Editor of The Hindu, from [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Onions and Flu — Beneficial or not?
There’s no doubt that onions can be extremely beneficial for health when eaten. Some of the benefits are: anti-inflammatory anti-carcinogen anti-cholestrol anti-oxydant (they contain quercetin, an antioxydant, other major sources of quercetin are tea and apples) Aphrodisiac (in fact some sects in India don’t consume onion due to that reason) Can be used to treat [...]
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Here’s an interesting dialogue for everybody to consider: Krishnamurti: “So where does silence begin? Does it begin when thought ends? Have you ever tried to end thought? Questioner: “How do you do it”? Krishnamurti: “I don’t know, but have you ever tried it? First of all, who is the entity who is trying to stop [...]
Read the rest of this entry »2012 — What’s up with that?
Three youtube videos on the documentary “Everything 2012″ sure do make you go “hmmm.” So what is the truth and what is going to really happen, I guess we will have to see. Why is it that prophecies always tell us what bad is going to happen to the world, how about the good things? [...]
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Another video showing you the magic of information technology. Look at the girl carefully in the beginning and at the end.
Read the rest of this entry »Heer-Ranjha — The BILZ & Kashif
The BILZ & Kashif have come out with two new tracks recently, one of which was written by me (the Punjabi Lyrics that is), so ideal to post the song here and .. voila: You can go ahead and buy the tune on iTunes, in fact get on it right now and buy it! Oh [...]
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Some movies teach you a lot about life, although they are meant for entertainment, movies are a great way, in my humble opinion, to escape reality for a few hours, just like video games, and I believe everybody needs that escape, people have different ways to make that escape, some like to listen to music, [...]
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An excellent movie to watch: A line that caught me was a question from a reporter directed towards President Bush Jr. “Is US credibility on line with respect to the WMDs in Iraq?” Reply: “I’m not exactly sure what that means” LOL
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