Mahant!

Attacks on Mumbai, oh, such a ghastly thing. There are so many things running I could criticize, lampoon, pontificate on everything and everybody for a long time. But I don't want to do that. But I want to say something for sure. I am proud of the police and paramilitary officers who have taken part in this operation. And also many nameless / unnamed people who have worked on this situation at ground level. Hats off to them. They have proven themselves to be real heroes. People of Mumbai are heroes and have again proven that they can keep their heads in the crisis situations.

There are positive forces and counter forces. And this keeps entities in check. The bearish forces keep bullish forces in check and vice versa. The exuberance is countered by panic and vice versa. When this system of natural checks and balances are displaced, you have a unnatural growth, a malignant growth. This could be in markets, political sphere or similar. Any system that rises without respect for gravity would ultimately would have to face the realities. This is same for the markets in general and so for American hedonistic tendencies. It is so for the mighty investment banks, as well as its mighty corporates. The loss of prudence, in the temporary phase of 'good times', an illusory phase in this case, on part of corporates and governments, led to a real rout of common-sense. Now, that the effects of smoking crack is waning off, people are realizing gravity exists even on cloud-nine. Its a reality check. The checks and counter-checks are essential for progress. As wise me...

A civil war that, in many ways, began at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861, ended 147 years later via a ballot box in the very same state. For nothing more symbolically illustrated the final chapter of America’s Civil War than the fact that the Commonwealth of Virginia — the state that once exalted slavery and whose secession from the Union in 1861 gave the Confederacy both strategic weight and its commanding general — voted Democratic, thus assuring that Barack Obama would become the 44th president of the United States. Source

We want people to read our diaries… or we wouldn’t be writing them We want people to read our minds… but we confuse them with words Silence speaks… but we cut it in between for random conversations We day-dream… but we are scared they might just come true The obvious for you… is sitting on my blind spot Like energy, love can neither be created nor destroyed… it can only be transformed from one kind to another and be transferred from one thing (read: person) to another…

Lifeclever gives this nice question, which it terms as Jedi hack. We have been thinking something similar to this in many ways. But it is very good to have a name for it.