Came across a nice news item. Here is an excerpt.
‘They do it because everyone else is and they feel they should, too. Information isn’t guidance. Telling people they can have contraceptives in school or giving them sex education at five just isn’t enough. What young people need is moral guidance - that is what is missing.’
To read the entire article, click here.
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar has recently written a wonderful article listing out the 12 deadly sins Indians are committing and which will seriously jeopardize our future.
I read this interesting post about how a strong willed man overcome his disability and regular, able-bodied athletes are using every dirty trick in the book to ensure that this man without any legs is ineligible for participation in the Beijing Olympics.
Well they should be scared, Oscar Pistorius, the 21-year-old South African paralympic, can run 400m in just 46.34 seconds (against the 8 year old world record by Michael Johnson of 43.18 seconds).
Livemint today published a wonderful article emphasizing that NGO need to be accountable to the donors and there is a need for rating them. Their argument that when people know that their money is being well spend, they like to give more. Hence rating agencies like GiveWell can really transform the way NGOs manage themselves.
The entire world knows that Reliance power IPO was overpriced. Even the promoter admits that he made a mistake and that his folly caused the January 2008 stock market crash. He even tried to correct his folly by offering shares for free. Then why does our Finance ministry have to lie about it?
Today our junior finance minister Pawan Kumar Bansal lied openly in the parliament that Reliance power IPO was not oversubscribed.
A month ago his boss P Chidambram tried to fudge the data by not taking into account the Oil Subsidy and the Loan waiver into the fiscal deficit calculations. Do these people think that they are the only smart guys and rest of the world is stupid?
PS: Our Prime minister is perceived as a lap dog who knows when and how to wag his talk and as Ram pointed out, now even our President is not taken seriously.
And Prax forwarded a nice article detailing how the real fiscal deficit is 4 times what is being claimed by PC.
Photo courtesy: BBC news
The above pictured in the BBC website.
I felt very sad looking at the photo.
The Woman was collecting rice that was spilt on the
ground. Its really heart breaking to see somebody
lowered to such a state. 
Whether this Woman is a terrorist, muslim, Iraqi etc., etc., she is a Woman first. She is so caring that she
picks up rice for her family.
To top all this, the Photographer thought that it was appropriate to photograph her. Dear Photographer, do
the words “Photography ethics” tell you something? Shame on you.
And a soldier is happily posing for the photo without even a shade of shame or pity for the women.
Cross posted from Sri’s views
