Arbit Scratchpad

Currently Reading ' The Magic of Thinking Big ' by David J Schwartz, an amazing book aimed at increasing motivation levels . . .

India in bad shape and reeking of corruption - Tasty Teasers Someone was telling us that a carpet seller from Kashmir visits them frequently says that the Kashmir problem is kept alive from both sides - he says that BSF and other armed forces on the Indian side and soldiers take lakhs from the terrorists to allow inflitrators sneak inside India across the LOC paving the way for massacres and mass killings. How far this is true I do not know, but certainly a person from the very epicentre of the troubled state wouldnt be blatantly lying .... Calcutta, the intellectual and literary capital of India once upon a time now is the capital of corruption and mindless violent politics - the politicization of everything from schools to hospitals and everything in between. Also the work culture seems nil in that state. People themselves dont trust the health and education apparatus in West Bengal. Someone was relating an incident wherein a poor lady had kept some small amount of rup...

Reading Thresholds of Motivation: Nurturing Human Growth in the Organization by V.S. Mahesh An analysis of how companies can effectively nurture human growth and potential that combines Western thinking with Eastern philosophical traditions. The examples used are both Indian- and US-oriented. The Indian case studies present fairly common problems, but unique solutions. A great book full of indepth insight on the inherent perfection in humans and how organisations can tap and nurture it in its employees - full of anecdotes and real-life examples. At times each and everything seems so strikingly similar to what he writes A must read. Got the book by chance at work in our library, when I went to browse through some of the books Also reading Honour Among Thieves by Jeffrey Archer . . . Not a great story - borrowed it from a colleague ! Also trying to start Alice in wonderland and Don Quixote (unabridged) in e-book format on MS Reader ! READ THE HECK OUT OF IT, EH! Was...

INDEPENDENCE DAY The Intellectual Scene in Post-Independence India - A critical review of strengths and weaknesses "But this is not the image of America. The image of America is a technologically advanced country etc. etc. Ours is the only country where the mobile citizens of India have transformed the problems of India into the image of India-its identity. Go to any country and the same negative stereotype is echoed that India is suffering from poverty and malnutrition. India has no drinking water. Indian women are all burnt. If they are married, they are burnt, if they are widows, they are burnt. See the image that has been built about this country. Who did this? The English educated Indian." - S Gurumurthy (Read more)

I was thinking, with all the attempts at information gathering by US agencies against terrorism, is such a thing possible ? Presenting : The 'Info Sensory Monitor Organ' By Shamit Bagchi Trying to add a whole new feature to the human being, that of embedded genes to communicate with associated nano-agents that receive signals and transmit to the nearby grids or nodes, powerful towers linked up with satellites orbiting in space to transfer the data between locations on earth for data capture, storage and monitoring. They become an integral part of the human body unlike cyborgs who voluntarily embed themselves with sensors and other such devices this one is fissioned into the human chromosome as ISM genes and specific DNA sequences which actually get transmitted in the genes as an act or pact of coordinated activity between the humans and nano-agents. An individual (two to be precise) once introduced with the gene will get an agent (nano-bot) activated by mea...