Facebook Timeline could mean a lot of things for many but for me it means that Facebook is taking a step to ensure that every person on Facebook has a Personalized Web Page that they can show off. It is moving the common user from a simple single wall to a real home. From the early days when making a Website used to be rocket … Continue reading Facebook Timeline – From a single wall to a Real Home
I had the pleasure to read the poems of Marjorie Agosin, poet and Human Right Activist. When you read a varied set of subjects that pertain to your interests you often stumble upon something that sticks with you. Something that leave you wanting more and makes you think such that you are forced out of your own self. That is what Marjorie’s poems did to … Continue reading Marjorie Agosin and her Poems
I surrender to you Bind myself in the locks of your hair and tell the world to go away As they search for me in your fallen veils You hide me between your eyelids Smile lasciviously at the world Distract them The world slowly withdraws Leaving me alone Lost somewhere in you Unarmed, Weak but protected Continue reading Surrender
Tampered by his own soul His Body lay senseless Imprisoned The Soul struggling to set itself free Body trying to run for safety They both know Finally the Soul will win the battle When time crosses an unaware second Somewhere in the future The Soul will win and the body will lose But now is not the time The Body starts moving Frees itself and … Continue reading Body and Soul
Bahman Ghobadi’s “Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh” titled in English “No One knows about Persian Cats” is a wonderful indie movie that looks at the importance of freedom to do what you love. Here it is music, Not just music but the glimpses of the underworld Rock scene in Tehran. The movie follows two musicians Negar and Ashkan who after being released from Prison … Continue reading No One Knows About Persian Cats – A Review
Mustafa Akyol’s “ISLAM without Extremes” is a must read for every muslim and non-muslim. A relevant and important book for our times that takes you through the historical and political terrain on which many interpretations have been made. I hope this book will be followed by more strong voices from the liberal camp that will emerge and bring forth the needed harmony in thought and … Continue reading Islam Without Extremes – Book Review
I want to give promises that will never be broken. I want to smile whenever I am free to frown. I should choose to love when I can also make a choice to hate. I should make a difference than being indifferent. I must feel the time as it passes through my life and realize what is important. I should get happiness in being selfless … Continue reading My Resolution for the year 2012
As 2011 comes to a close you naturally look back and see how the year went by and then look forward (without any sense of the blind alleys and surprise appearances you might have) at the year ahead. I had penned down a few resolutions and then as always forgot about it and let life take its course. Now it is time to look back and then … Continue reading How did my 2011 go?
“Your Reputation defines who you are and it is your responsibility to protect and manage it” Your Reputation has become more important than it has been ever before, not because you have just become a celebrity. But because now there are so many ways in which it can be damaged. Without you knowing your name or your reputation would be in discussion, Now at this … Continue reading Your Reputation
David Sloan Wilson’s “The Neighborhood Project” is his attempt to study and change his neighborhood, his town of Binghamton in New York. As an evolutionary biologist and the professor of Biological sciences and Anthropology at the Binghamton University he has been in the forefront of the concept of Group Selection or multilevel selection in evolution which argues that though genes are the means of how … Continue reading The Neighborhood Project by David Sloan Wilson
