Linda Polman’s “The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?” takes you through the world of humanitarian aid through the eyes of a journalist as it makes stops at various points of distress on the world map. Stops where we can see how good intentions find it so tough to reach the right people and don’t always produce the same best results as people believe. … Continue reading The Crisis Caravan – Book Review and Questions
Though it is true that we are often stressed by the information overload; the internet has also given us the technology tools to filter and selectively absorb what we want. I think this makes a significant change in the way we view and approach the world. While the emergence of technology, social networking, online news and sharing methods has made it easier for news to … Continue reading Breaking our restricted world of likable realities
Though I would love to believe it is thin, I think it is more like a vast space where each and every one of us falls in at various instances in life. There are things, situations and people we love and there are those that we love to hate, but in between there are also a lot many items to which we are quite indifferent. … Continue reading Between Love and Hate there is a thin line of indifference
Yesterday I posted that I was unsure if I should support Baba Ramdev in his fast against corruption in india and the post had people from the for and against camps comment in. Unfortunately I am still unsure even after reading the comments and seeing the government used force on the individuals assembled there (which I personally condemn). Force on the common man should always … Continue reading Let Baba do his part; Let us do ours!
What are our duties as individuals? How do we recognize our responsibilities without them being enforced? People growing up in different parts of the world and under different cultures grow up to look at world differently. Even though now there is much more evenness in the generic idea of an individual’s responsibility, society’s function differently giving its people varied levels of freedom and restrictions to … Continue reading Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it!
It is so beautiful to see that so much can be done in life if you look at it as a complete creation of oneself. If you were to plant something, you get the joy of doing so, the relaxation and happiness of continuing to nurture it and as it grows you can be sure that it will contribute positively to the environment. Your actions … Continue reading It is your responsibility to make a difference!
My recent post “An open letter to my teachers” did raise a few comments where people mistook my intention and message and I felt it was important to write a clarification. It is also my feeling that many of the folks who read did not read the post completely and got stuck on some of the verbal usages I lovingly added in there. First thing, … Continue reading Clarifications on my recent post “open letter to my Teachers”
He picked it up from the floor it lay Looked straight into its beaten face That still bore marks of its broken past He said to all “This is finished, find a new one” Born to wander in the open wild It was caught and caged by clogged minds They flogged and bruised the life in it Till it appeared born again and half dead … Continue reading Echoes of Captivity
To be independent has been the goal of every man and women, be it financially or emotionally, but the facts are far from that and we turn out to be both emotionally and financially dependent on others and the system. Not just financial and emotional dependence, but also technology, processes, situations, lifestyle. We are a bunch of closely held ‘Can’t exist alone’ group of life … Continue reading Be Independent, but understand your dependency
This is an important time not just for us Indians but everyone who thinks that corruption eats into our values like a cancer sickening and weakening the very foundation in which our nations and societies are built. As an Indian I bow my head to the man who dedicated all his life for the betterment and upheaval of the downtrodden and then at seventy one … Continue reading Support Anna Hazare; Fight Corruption; Enact the Lokpal Bill
Vinod Narayan 