A new start.
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-->old supporters are mad at the party for having diluted its pro-hindutve image. Badly dented and very nearly destroyed is the cultivated new image of the bjp.
-->on the contrary, the youth are being taught that secularism[read suckin up to the minorities] is supreme, so bjp campaigned with emphasis on other developmental activities rather than hindutva....
-->is it proper for the party to revert back to its old principles[read image]?
-->is it "doomsday" for the second largest party in this democratic country?
-->are there tall leaders to head the gen-next bjp wagon[the BJP's succession problem has proved intractable] ?
is this decline irreversible?
www?[wot went wrong] for the bjp?
is dominiue francon larger than life?
We were discussing "is dominique larger than life?"...
Dominique’s beauty and strength of spirit make her a perverse, unusual woman and the perfect complement to Howard Roark. she is convinced of the world’s rottenness and believes that greatness has no chance of survival. She surrounds herself with the things she despises to avoid watching the world destroy the things she loves. Dominique does not initially believe that roark can survive in a selfless and irrational society. The thought that a man like Roark needs society in order to build pains Dominique, and she tries to destroy him before the rest of the world can. Yet Dominique wants to fail in her bid to destroy Roark, because if she fails it means absolute good and genius can survive even in an evil world.
Dispassionate, cynical, and cold, Dominique nurses a masochistic streak..there isn't a larger than life thing bout her. i personally abhore altruistic streaks n second handers n nurse a masochistic streak at times...she is perfect priestess...if roarks real...dominique is!
review!!review!!
the book is about an architect named Howard Roark who gets kicked out of school for refusing to do any design work that insults his creative genius.Roark pays his dues, gets laughed at a lot, seldom gets any credit for anything, but lives with the knowledge that his precious integrity is intact, its bout keating who uses Roark’s ideas to gain success in the world of architecture, its bout Ellsworth Toohey, a famous social worker and columnist who preaches altruism merely to keep people subservient to his wishes,its bout dominque,a perfect priestess, a perfect match to howard, its bout gail wynand...ma favorite character in d book...
what i like most bout the book is the pardafaash it does bout altruistic damn oafs on earth.[ellsworth tooheys]...our world is crammed with ppl like him. bloody double standard klutzs.collective thinking sucks. it kills the creator in ppl and lowers the bar of humans level....
....a magical book..i used 2 stay awake it till 4 in d morning readin d book...a real classic!
reticence=!pride [lets pretend I care..]
agreed i ain't the most gregarious dame in the world...but y label it as pride....???
Reticence in itself is a subject of varied interpretations..which are governed factors in perspective...
Anger...Peace...Pride...Modesty...Thoughtfulness...
helplessness...the list goes on...
Ppl who speak,to any extent of their denial,mean what they say, at some level...
that makes it very easy for an interpretation....
silence has many interpretations...
when they are so many choices..humans by their nature to err,easily make the wrong one...
Well what ppl percieve of you is totally indepndent of how much you try to change their perception...
There is no point in pushing yourself into something where the entire consequence of what is to happen is totally governed by the perception of another mind...
Even if you do make an impression...it would jus be transient...it will just ripple off...
jus like diamond cuts a diamond...only antidote for silence is.... silence
well thats wot i've told myself....
outsourcing
the overseas staff that handles the company's internal functions on pay gains the most and so does the company that outsources(better financial management with higher money save, improved quality, and...most importantly buying goods or services instead of producing them in-house frees the company resources for other activities.) the native staff of the country suffers but as has been rightly said above.. the effect is negligible in countries like the U.S....
outsourcing is the wave of the future. It implies a degree of managerial control and risk on the part of the provider. only it can be better managed!!!
cultural amnesia
Our cuture has too strong a heritage and history for it loose its identity..forget this generation...am talking abt another 5-6 generations to come..The cultural amnesia might not be all that negative in its aftermath..maybe its jus an indicator of an evolution.If this is a mutation then we should take pride in being the mutant generation...cos we are the significant contributors in the maintanence of such a culture..."Nothing is permanent but change"..
the meek shall inherit the earth
"Inherit the earth”—what an exciting prospect! But can we be sure that this is not just another crafty scheme designed to deprive people of something? Yes, we can.
The crucial question, then, is, How will that promise come true? Everywhere we look today, it seems that the aggressive and the high-minded are gaining the upper hand and are taking what they want. Where do the meek come into the picture? In addition, the earth is plagued by serious problems and its resources are being exploited by the greedy and the shortsighted. Will there even be an earth worth inheriting?..a small post this...but had to keep you engaged...
EAMCET blues
I’ve always been sanguine about myself, been this cocky lil’ girl, going around with a smug look on my face[I'm told so, all the time], from my childhood. Narcissism…nah!!!! But yeah...from the day I was born I must’ve strongly believed that self-deprecation was a damn sin (and my lanta I did live up to that or what?)With God’s grace, my parents have never worried about my grades…nor did I…'Results day' was always ‘celebration day’.
My first shocker:
My brother aced his CBSE tenth wid 95.4%. and it is to be assumed (naturally) that my only goal in life then was to drub his score… nothing else mattered to me those two years(annayya is 2 yrs senior to me). I did the best of my ability in the exams and my teachers were quite certain I’d make mincemeat of his score…but then...call it ill luck, poor correction, wrong choice of Second language or destiny..Whatever!, I put up a pathetic 87 odd%...nothing close to what I’d call SUCCESS in my book….my people explained tome about reaping the fruits of past karma...it really didn't make a difference. This sure was a defeat but it couldn’t break me down..or more fitting wud be -couldn't break my ‘EGO’(ah I said it) down…like my brother says I was still drunk in(/with) ego.
My second blow:
Now I had resolved if 10th was not my best year, I’d do the trick in EAMCET(engineering entrance)..between…. my brother scored 949/100 in his intermediate board(11th n 12th) and I skunked him..(ha ha) but only by a whisker..scoring 951/1000[ the changed pattern has minimal choice so 951 is commendable]. But I had competed for EAMCET…
…after slogging for two years, this time, with what I’d call an obstinate resolve and fist clenched determination, with brio and drive and a very very very very illustrious record in the infinite internal assessment exams I had given in those 2 years…I sat for the exam…if it was to be a normal day, I’d be tensed to death..but surprisingly,(I’d rather use shockingly here), I was as cool as a cucumber..very very not like me..i knew this was odd but what the heck, my records were very assuring…n my immense faith in The Almighty kept telling me- this war I wasn’t going to close…
The three hours of the exam: I started with chemistry.(I always did math first…),did well ... then….theres a sudden blankout..i can’t solve this problem on probability, an area I was considered to be a champ, there I start loosing my grip, forgetting all formulae in integration(I vividly remember, I cunt even remember integral of tan X), I screw up few questions in math…math turns out to b a damp squib(my strongest area in inter) n I head for physics. I hadn’t 4 some reason ever liked the chapter ‘Sound’ in physics, didn’t study it 4 d exam n yup ..the first 4 questions from ‘Sound’...
Though I had not given my best performance, I thought I’d get a rank almost like my brother’s(my brother’s EAMCET experience was even worse: EAMCET- his only failure, if losing to me in intermediate(he sez he’s glad I beat him) isn’t one). Come May 12th EAMCET results are announced and destiny wasn't fair at all. My worst nightmare was getting a rank of 667, I had screamed waking up my parents, brother and my cousins that night! This was ‘THE BIGGEST FAILURE OF MY LIFE’. My ego took a severe beating; I wasn’t going to say a word for the next few days. I learnt the biggest n most valuable lesson of my life. My failure in my dream exam taught me more than what I’d learnt in 16 yrs of my life…..I was from then going to be ‘MYSELF MINUS EGO’.
I’m happy, I’ve had no more such jolts after my EAMCET, (touch wood), been doing pretty well in engineering. Talking of ego….I’m no bloody selfless altruist now, but yes I’m no smug looking ego-maniac anymore (I was never that..anyway!)
raison d'etre
This blog is a reply to the 5 feet 10 inches brother of mine.
