Helping people help themselves – is it the solution to our world’s problems? 2005 is the International year of Microcredit and rightly so. The importance of microfinance for the underdeveloped or developing world is not often understood well enough. There is an old adage that says give a man a fish and he eats for …
If you had to substantiate in a 10-minute argument that India is a great country, what would you say? I was frantically trying to finish my presentation for tomorrow, when my Polish colleague decided he needs to know more about India, and that too, NOW. The usually peace loving person that I am, I found …
After a very hectic week, followed by a fabulous weekend with no access to Internet, I am back. It feels like its been such a long time.. ..may be because it is spring now. The winter is finally over and after a few days of hovering between both sides of 0 C, we are now …
– do an “undo” when I take the wrong turn and end up in an unknown street.– cut one bean and do a click&drag for all the beans to cut according to the same formula.– upload my clothes and shoes to a central location before I travel and download them from wherever I am, when …
I just watched the latest episode of Joey and its laughs and guffaws all the way. The series started started off slow, but I think after about the eleventh episode, the comedy really picks up. I was one of those who were skeptical when they canned Friends and started Joey. Afterall Chandler was my favourite. …
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but numbers tell a thousand stories. Thanks to the number of people who get dooced, this post will be intentionally vague. And I will reflect on a slightly off tangent, yet related topic – the joy I find in numbers. There are various reasons why humans have …
The immortal words of Kahlil Gibran: They say to me, “A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush.”But I say, “A bird and a feather in the bush is worth more than ten birds in the hand.”Your seeking after that feather is life with winged feet; nay, it is life itself.
Lets do our best, be it big or smallLet there be no poor, once and for all. My German teacher is back from his holiday in Peru. Eager to show off what I had learned in his absence, I excitedly quipped: “Wie war Ihre Urlaub?”. The man was obviously shaken by his trip, because what …
Overheard: “Smile. People will wonder what you are smiling at.” Now thats a good reason to smile.
There are certain things that most people take for granted that I have to think for a moment. Like for example, the floor that I need to go to – do I count the ground floor as 1 or 0? I rem when I was a kid, we used to count ground as 0, and …