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ACTION: DEEDS MATTER MOST (SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE) A fat plump person endowed with a lot of fat is treated in a dismal manner - laughs, jeers, stifled giggles and smiles. How does he cope, either he chosses to ignore the barking lot or reacts in an agressive manner or in an emotional manner. He certainly may choose to think he is hurt humiliated (subjective) as against seeing the true cause of the problem(objective) and ignore it as a wrongful action from the otherside. Every person who chooses to tease or bring down another person, is himself suffering from some discrepancy or deficiency - he tries to react in a manner so as to show that he has everything under control - whereas he is trying to gloss over his weakness at the expeense of someone else. Provocative actions should not provoke negative reactions - then the wrong thoughts of both the provoker and the provoked would suceed. The Mind should be under perfect control for this and to achieve this end meditation I think wi...

Interview with Brian Kernighan CYBORG RIGHTS - the World Transhumanist Association conference at Yale University in late June. International academics and activists, they met to lay the groundwork for a society that would admit as citizens and companions intelligent robots, cyborgs made from a free mixing of human and machine parts, and fully organic, genetically engineered people who aren't necessarily human at all. A good many of these 160 thinkers aspire to immortality and omniscience through uploading human consciousness into ever evolving machines.

SUPRAMUNDANE : On Second Thoughts... Survival of the fittest - was this concept right in the first place? - because everything depends on the behaviour of the species or individual. There is this stunted person I see everyday who is always laughed at either in smiles or stifled giggles and must be feeling the ignominy . . . However this in turn makes the person I am referring to timid and more shy and unable to cope, submitting to the public - or is it the 'meek shall inherit the world' syndrome playing in here - is the person becoming humble so as to be a victor inthe later stages of life. Handicapped men and women have reached great heights but thats totally based on the attitude and the behaviour they adopted - no inherent fitness genes or inbuilt or inate abilities! Assume a burly strong guy - surely in a place of shallow people he will thrive become the bully and the domineering type - successful in his own right making use of his brute chauvinism. However in a more ...

THE BHARATEEYA BLOG MELA #22 Another blog mela for me is due This time the entries have been few But none have been rejected Nor would they have been if plenty Whereas I am not exactly dejected Am I supposed to get senti? DRAGON - 'yoni ki baat?' Discussions on a play and the related issue of abuse against women ... Ram Duraikannu - Embedding Amazon Products in your webpage On Automating Amazon wishlists (Indian connection ? anyway... I have a dearth of entries u c) Using the Amazon.com web services and PHP (amazing must be a linux junkie PHP Hmmm!), he has written a small script which makes it easier for users to embed wish lists, list mania, and other keyword items into their webpage RAVIKIRAN - Troops to Iraq - comments on sending Indian troops to patrol Iraq ... RAVIKIRAN NOMINATES : An entry from Jivha - the Tongue Ground duty, after Fifty - on the recent Indian Supreme Court's decision allowing the government-owned air...

Hey whats wrong with everyone - no entries in this time's Blog Mela after a Kumbh last time ??? I REPEAT (SHOUT) BLOG MELA #22 - On 23rd July RIGHT HERE at BLOGMIND's Blog . . . Entries SINCE 17th from your or someone else's blogs can be submitted PLEASE Send it in to shamitbagchi@yahoo.com OR POST THEM AS comments on this blog With the subject line as BLOG MELA ENTRY ... So what are you waiting for WHAT THE HECK? NOTE : SOME THINGS All kinds of mails except personal entries are welcome. You should be an Indian or the post must be about India or Indians. Posts must be dated between 17 July 2003 and 23 July 2003 will be considered for my version of the Bharateeya Blog Mela - Ver. #22 Send in URLs (permalinks) of the particular post (not the blog URLs please) by 23rd Blog Kumbh Mela Irony - (INDIAN BLOG FEST 21-22) Dont you hear my hue and cry, As I shout, my throat goes dry, I try and try and try and try, Yet no posts and en...

RACISM, AFRICA AND CIVILIZATIONS Nelson Mandela is now 85 - and to mark this a portion of the daily current affairs programme on DD National at 10:30 pm 'Worldview India' (a very good programme - I am reminded of my younger days when watching 'The World This Week') was dedicated to him on 16th July. It had poignant footage from history, of the African national struggle against the imposition of Apartheid by the British. Mandela and his comrades were imprisoned decidedly taking the struggle on the path to success. The foucus was on how the Indians helped throughout in the struggle - also India was the first country to cut off diplomatic and international links with the then SA's racist goverment and the last to resume it. Saeed Naqvi the first to interview Mandela when he was released from prison after twenty seven years, recounted on the show how he had managed to enter SA because of contacts in high places during those troubled times and was assisted by one ...

[BLOG MELA UPDATE] : You should be an Indian or the post must be about India or Indians maybe even remotely associated ... no problem I might actually attempt a winner or best entry kind of thing - just my choice is that OK?. . . thats all. [UPDATE ENDS]

[[the bharateeya blog mela #22]] - [[ early info ]] On 23rd July here at BLOGMIND's Blog Any interesting entries after 16th July from 17th ie - from your or someone else's blogs can be submitted Send it in to shamitbagchi@yahoo.com OR as comments on this blog With the subject line as BLOG MELA ENTRY or something of the like... So what are you waiting for - Oh yes, of course 17th I guess . . . ;-) NOTE : Specific Points All kinds of mails except personal entries are welcome. You should be an Indian or the post must be about India or Indians. Posts must be dated between 17 July 2003 and 22 July 2003 will be considered for my version of the Bharateeya Blog Mela - Ver. #22 Send in URLs (permalinks) of the particular post (not the blog URLs please) by 23rd noon THE MELA IS HELD EVERY WEEK & THE MIRRORS CAN BE FOUND HERE: