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| The Indian war on drugs - the beginning of the end? |
[Oct. 7th, 2008|12:58 am] |
The Mumbai police have detained more than 241 people after raiding a "rave party" in Juhu area. This comes after a similar raid in Bangalore 2 months ago, and in Pune sometime last year.
I have been horrified by these acts of our police, with the backing of the State. I believe people have a right to take and sell drugs. And government has no right to stop them from it. Drugs might be ultimately harmful to the individual, but that does not justify using taxpayer money and government force to make people give up their desires. I don't see any harmful externalities as far as drugs go.
How can you watch this below video of fun-loving youngsters being terrorised and traumatized by the State (not to mention jailed) and not feel for them?
How casually the policeman in the above video speaks about taking blood tests and urine samples! This older news report of the Bangalore raid haunts me every so often. Even last month, Deccan Herald reported some Vietnamese woman was found selling drugs.
I hope the media gives this issue blanket coverage and stirs up a debate (though my friend Kandarp might disagree ;) ). And that's why I am hopeful that this could be the beginning of the end of our police's war on drugs.
I wish the media would stop saying that someone is "peddling" drugs instead of just "selling" it. They are probably playing to please the audience I guess. |
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| The ten sentence post! |
[Oct. 7th, 2008|12:14 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | gyaan, lyfe | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
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| [ | mood |
| | not so sleepy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | rain outside | ] |
Gyaan straight from my experiences till now:
* Lyfe is good!
* Choose your problems you would like to live with after due consideration of the goodies that are packaged with them and you will do just fine as you are then OK with both.
* Fear is good and bad depending on how you use it!
* Always progress or stop but don't take the foot backward. Sidewards are OK too!
* As of this day - it certainly takes (some) effort to stay where you are at present.
* My own generation cares less about values and I feel bad about it.
* The lesser the falsity more truth-ful you are. I want to speak truth but it is really difficult these days.
* The more data you store higher is the probablity that you won't visit that data again. Hint of emacs eh!
* I love my mobility and I value it.
* There are compromises to make as well. Just choose them well, voluntarily, you will not regret!
More later!
-n
PS: All thanks to darkch0c0lat3 that I am now exercising my freedom to write again. I really hope to get back to normal! :-) |
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| Trying to get back to my god old days of blogging! |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|11:51 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | lyfe | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Bangalore | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | not so sleepy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | roar of the CPU | ] |
Firstly, what I wanted to make a copy available for myself
Ten Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
I found the above here.
More I will continue in the immediate post!
Coming soon!™
-n |
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| m17n and documentation |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|09:50 pm] |
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| | creative | ] | Everybody talks of i18n/l10n and code. Everybody also talks of code documentation (at least at a public API level. Now here is the problem that I face: I need m17n for API documentation. I can't think of doxygen/javadoc/M$ .net nonsense/POD or any such thing that has a notion of m17n. In fact, the problem is that it would be unwieldy to have documentation in even as little as 3 different languages along with source code.
I say here is an opportunity for the next big thing in language tools. |
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| Agony... |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|08:51 pm] |
Sometimes, the most intense agony is the one that has to be borne silently...my prayers are with someone who is suffering terribly right now.
I was struck by the serenity and peace of this scene on the first floor of "Dodda Mane", the 108-year-old house where "Malgudi Days" was shot. The books speak of reading, the chair at the window, of contemplation, peace, and a quiet pace of life....

A quiet scene, beautiful in its stillness...no TV, no video games, no hectic action. A place where a human being is not a human doing. |
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[Oct. 6th, 2008|04:23 pm] |

aarushi more. there are dreams little one when the stars go out on those dreams there will still be stories
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| slon |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|04:27 pm] |
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[Oct. 6th, 2008|02:28 pm] |
Harald from the House just won a Nobel Prize for medicine this year.
Well, to be exact, Prof Harald zur Hausen, from DKFZ where I am at, won the Nobel prize. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
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| A bad cold.. |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|04:42 pm] |
.. is one that starts off exactly when a long weekend and the holiday season is beginning.
I had all sorts of plans for the long weekend that primarily included shopping, movies and hanging out. I caught a cold, and sulked at home almost the entire weekend. Yesterday, I was feeling better and headed out right away - K and I went to FabIndia to exchange a kurta, and came back with a dhurrie, 4 cushion covers, 1 small cushion, 1 kurta, 1 shirt and a bottle each of crushed strawberry and papaya-ginger jam.
I was feeling so much better after that...
.. but the cold is back, and am on my second box of tissues at office today :( |
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| yay me again... |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|01:40 pm] |
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| | surprised | ] | I'm in a roll in making friends on Facebook. I thought I wouldn't fare much in that kind of a social networking site since I usually hated such sites. But then...I've actually made quite a few friends and one lives in India and is a contact in my msn id!!
She lives in Kolkata and I am thinking of dragging her into fanfiction.net too....I'm online a load of times but am just too lazy to post anything up here....and life's kinda boring, just sitting in my home with having nothing to do since I've got brief holidays...it pisses me off!! And I think I ought to chage my name in Facebook 'cause it's always Sakura Kuinomoto everywhere...I gotta change into something else...something nice, sweet and which exposes my loner side. But I just don't seem to get anything of that sort in my head though.... |
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| Holiday! |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|01:11 pm] |
After a long time, finally went on a holiday with the family. We went to GRT Temple Bay in Mamallapuram - which is 40km south of Chennai. The resort itself is fantastic - its so close to the sea, that they have had to build a retaining wall. The ambiance is out of the world and the weather was perfect for soaking in the pool or the sea. The rooms, and the service, is great. The food was ok - not gourmet, but not bad either. If you're a fish eater, the choice is much wider - although i was surprised at the lack of south Indian dishes on the menu. They have a swanky specialty restaurant specializing in Tandoor, grills, and pasta. Go figure.
I had always been a hill-station holidayer, but this holiday has converted me. Plus, my daughter had such a grand time at the beach!
We drove to get there. Driving on Indian highways is - interesting. The cretins are out in full force. Mofos change lens at the drop of a hat without checking if someone is coming fast down that lane. This is exacerbated by the cleaners on lorries and buses, whose main job is to stick their fucking hand out before, after, or during the lane change. Idiots cross the road in front of you, even when there's no one behind. Particularly dumb in-bred SOBs drive on the fast lane of the highway with their headlights on - but going the wrong way. This is so that they can avoid going an extra km or two to make a u-turn. Avoiding death is of course not important.
Net-net, it was a BP neutral trip - what came down in the resort came right back up on the roads. |
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| walk |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|06:49 pm] |
Walked along the Glebe foreshore - nice walk even with some rain. Discovered a restored non-working version of an incinerator for garbage designed by Walter Burley Griffin. Enjoyed looking at the water and bridges and dogs. |
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| Most People & You |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|11:09 am] |
- Most people are overweight - they eat poorly and don't exercise. You adopt a healthy lifestyle with a proper nutrition and regular exercise.
- Most people seek happiness from their external circumstances - money, material goods, and relationships. You know that happiness comes from your internal world - an optimistic outlook and an attitude of gratitude.
- Most people want the quick fix magic pill. You take a long term approach to creating the change you desire.
- Most people never read a book again after graduating college. You make reading a regular habit.
- Most people are looking for what they can get from a relationship. You focus on what you can give in a relationship.
- Most people blame - other people, their parents, the government, evil corporations etc. You take responsibility.
- Most people seek approval and permission. You go after what you want without hesitation.
- Most people want a get rich quick scheme. You provide massive value for a period of time to accumulate wealth.
- Most people don't know what they want from life. You have your goals written down.
- Most people complain. You take action to make things the way you want or accept them as they are if you can't change them.
- Most people compare themselves to others. You compare yourself to your personal standards.
- Most people are limited by their fears. You breakthrough fears with courage.
- Most people give their power away to authority figures. You are the ultimate authority in your life.
- Most people hate their jobs. You find a way to make money doing what you love.
- Most people spend hours in front of the television. You spend time doing what really inspires you.
Taken from aivalli (Originally from here) |
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| Sparrows |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|11:07 am] |
Was testing out the new 70-300 Sigma Lens.
©2008 stonethestone |
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| Arachnophobia |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|11:01 am] |

Took this shot at a coffee estate in Coorg.
©2008 stonethestone |
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| Very nostalgic... |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|10:58 am] |
http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Search for Qt, KDE etc and look at the cached versions of the search results. Brings back the gool ol' days to memory.
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[Oct. 5th, 2008|09:46 pm] |
It’s been so long, that I haven’t seen your face, I’m trying to be strong, but the strength I have is washing away, it won’t be long, before I get you by my side, & just hold you, tease you, squeeze you, tell you whats been on my mind,
I wanna make up right now I wanna make up right now wish we never broke up right now we need to wake up right now
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| oh my God.. once again.. |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|09:53 am] |
Oh my God, what an amazing weekend it was. Thinking about the fun I had over the last 4 days, its tough to move into a new week. I am happy to be back here but then I am missing Dandeli. I think every trip of mine needs a crazy ending. We had a crazy day again yday. We left Dandeli at 10.30 in a rented trax to Dharwad yesterday morning. Our train was at 2pm from Hubli and its about 22kms from Dharwad. Our plan was to reach Dharwad, pick up some delicious Dharwad Peddas and head to the station. 15 mins into the road, the driver started making a fuss saying that we have to pay him more. He wasted 15 mins discussing it and finally we reached a compromise. Then 1 hr later, the jeep broke down. We waited for 15 mins hoping that the jeep would start running again but it didn't happen. Thankfully we stopped a truck and got onto it. We had amazing fun on the truck. But when it was nearing Dharwad (it was already 1.10pm and we had lost hopes of picking up the sweets), we found that the road was blocked for some construction work and had to take an alternate mud route. Damn ! We were losing our hopes of catching the train and were already making plans for the afternoon. We finally reached Dharwad at 1.25 pm and got onto a taxi. The taxis there have a speed limit of 40 Km/hr (toooo less !) and our car was an old Ambassador car. We were just hoping to make it. Somehow we finally reached the station and it was 2pm sharp. The clock at the station said 14:00 hrs and the train would be leaving any second. I quickly rushed into the train which was thankfully was on the 1st platform itself and went looking for the emergency chain so that I could stop the train incase any of my friends miss the train. Ah.. now we were finally on the train. We had an amazing time at Dandeli. Amazing sightings. Trip and Sightings report will follow soon.. |
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