What did you think of President Obama's inaugural speech?
posted by DK Matai on January 20, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Dear Friends, what did you think of President Obama's inaugural speech? Love, DK and Family
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President Obama: Dialogos and Soft Power?
posted by DK Matai on January 20, 2009 at 03:18 AM
Dear Friends, it would be useful to have your considered input in regard to the following: as we look forward to President Obama's inauguration, we are conscious that the quantum jump originates from Dr King, Mandela, Gandhi & Lincoln... are we embarking on dialogos and an emphasis on soft power over hard force?
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Happy New Year!
posted by DK Matai on December 31, 2008 at 04:00 AM
Dear Friends, we wish All-in-One a very peaceful, joyful and more enlightened 2009 with the Grace of the Supra Universal Consciousness!
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Leadership Lies
posted by Sarah Maria on December 24, 2008 at 07:12 PM
Here is an article I wrote on Leadership - I would love to hear any thoughts or feedback you have on my theory!
The Secret to Successful Leadership
Most people believe that leadership is primarily about your relationship to other people. How effective are you at motivating people, connecting with people, and marshaling support for your vision? How adept are you at getting other people to do what you want and need them to do?
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Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Glitter Glass Whats His Face (updated)
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 04, 2008 at 09:16 AM
In one sentence, Elizabeth Hasselbeck refers to Glitter Glass What's His Face to light a bowl of incense and then proceeds to say the United States does good work around the world. A completely racist comment that demonstrates the deeper cultural issues the US faces around the world.
update: Here is Elizabeth Hasselbeck's recent apology-last 10 seconds of the clip
Look its a bird it's a Palin, uh Plane
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 03, 2008 at 09:57 AM
Is it just me
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Projection and Internalization
posted by Sarah Maria on October 30, 2008 at 05:36 PM
People often ask me what causes Negative Body Obsession, this all-too-prevalent condition where people do not feel thin enough, beautiful enough, or attractive enough. They have some belief that their bodies are just not quite right, that they are not ideal. They should be taller, younger, thinner, darker – the list goes on and on. These beliefs help to fuel the diet industry, beauty industry, tanning booths, and cosmetic surgery practices.
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From mood making to authentic expression
posted by Max Simon on October 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM
"Authentic people allow themselves to be seen."
This phrase kept coming up during my meditation today
and I feel like it's particularly relevant to the mood making
conversation we've had over the last week.
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How to stop mood making (part 2)
posted by Max Simon on October 18, 2008 at 04:43 PM
In my last letter, I spoke about the first step in moving away
from mood making by being real with your emotions. Now,
let’s get into the next part of the process – taking
responsibility.
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What are people struggling with most?
posted by Max Simon on October 17, 2008 at 04:19 PM
I have a question for you.
From your perspective, what are the people of today struggling with most? Come up with your top THREE answers and get really specific. Can you answer in one sentence each? For example:
“Stress from an overly active mind” is clear and concise.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts....
Love,
Max
How to stop mood making (part 1)
posted by Max Simon on October 16, 2008 at 09:19 PM
“How do you think positively without becoming a phony
who just refuses to accept negative emotions in yourself
and those around you?”
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US Supreme Court Sends Troy Davis to his Death
posted by Kavita Chhibber on October 14, 2008 at 12:29 PM
" Hi Kavita
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Just Say "No" to Any Immediate Bailout - Don't try band-aids to keep the Tower of Babel Standing
posted by Rabbi Lerner on September 29, 2008 at 03:37 AM
Rabbis of antiquity interpreted the attempt by humanity to build a Tower of Babel that would allow people to storm heaven as a symbol of human hubris and technological power gone crazy. It was globalization for the sake of power, not for the sake of kindness or goodness, so, according to the Bible, God ensured that the whole thing would collapse.
Between Life and Execution
posted by Kavita Chhibber on September 12, 2008 at 08:45 AM
His name is Troy Anthony Davis and he is a Black man from Savannah Georgia on death row for close to 20 years.
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Global Cures
posted by Kanika Sethi on August 29, 2008 at 06:48 PM
Some of you may have caught Deepak Chopra's show on Syrius/XM radio a few weeks ago when he spoke with Vikas Sukhatme, a renoun physician and cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School. Vikas and his wife Vidula have started a brilliant organization called Global Cures.
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Is Palin supposed to attract the women vote?
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 29, 2008 at 08:38 AM
In choosing 1st term Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his VP pick, McCain and his advisors have demonstrated how thick headed they are when it comes to women. Do they honestly believe women are so stupid to vote purely for a woman? I supported Hillary because she was a smart, experienced woman who supported and has spent her life fighting for the issues I believe in, and I felt confident she would be a great American President.
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Is infidelity a sin? Forgiveness a Virtue?
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on August 14, 2008 at 01:54 PM
From my experience of the world, through my own eyes and those I have observed closely, I have reached the conclusion that an unfaithful or promiscuous man (most of the time) does not believe he is doing any wrong. His desire to spread his seed and devour beauty is something he sees as a primordial fundamental right. The prize for being born male.
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Aafia Siddiqui – Terror Mastermind or Victim of Mistaken Identity?
posted by Tori Roy on August 14, 2008 at 11:39 AM
What struck me as interesting in the Aafia Siddiqui story is NOT that she is considered the most important wanted woman in the world right now - OR the fact she graduated from MIT a venerable American Institution, but the fact that the two news agencies sounded so divergent in their reportage of the story. It broke on Wednesday over the NPR (National Public Radio) airwaves – a small but intriguing story about the woman who is accused of being an al-Qaida operative, a fixer for the terrorist organization and perhaps one of the missing links in the chain of command in the 9/11 attacks. The mainstream media picked it up a day later coming up with an entirely different focus.
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140 Clergy Appeal to Obama to be Obama and reject the Inside-the Beltway Logic
posted by Rabbi Lerner on August 13, 2008 at 05:38 AM
Dear Senator Obama,
As strong supporters of your campaign to become President of the U.S. in our own personal lives and as leaders in the religious communities in the U.S., we understand well the pressures you must be facing to tone down your message so that you can win the election and then later be more courageous in challenging major assumptions in American public discourse that have been inserted there by a powerful conservative assault for the past thirty years by conservatives and champions of the elites of wealth and power in this country.
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The Enduring Universal Theological Relevance of the 9th of Av:
posted by Rabbi Lerner on August 12, 2008 at 03:07 AM
and the Prophetic Warnings about the Coming Potential Destruction of Human Life and Perhaps All of Life on the Earth!
The Contemporary Prophetic Perspective
Jewish tradition unequivocally says that "because we sinned we were exiled from our land." The fate of the Jewish people, in other words, is a direct reflection of the level of our ethical behavior and our degree of holiness in the world.
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Russia-Georgia Confrontation: Global Implications
posted by DK Matai on August 10, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Dear Friends, it would be useful to have your considered input in regard to the global implications of the Russia-Georgia confrontation...
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Stampede in India
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 03, 2008 at 09:08 PM
The death of 140 people, including over 30 children, is utterly tragic. What shocks me is how fast the news cycle seems to have shifted.... When I first read about the stampede, I immediately had a bodily sensation imagining the chaos and tragedy of the scene.
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My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them
posted by Rabbi Lerner on July 21, 2008 at 09:47 PM
I had expected the World Conference on Dialogue convened by the King of Saudi Arabia July 16-18 in Madrid to be little more than a photo op for the King, a cheap way to buy good public relations for a regime that has refused to increase production of oil as a way to reduce the current surge in the price, provided haven and support for the Wahabaist stream of Islam that has fostered extremists like
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Anand Jon is rotting in Hell
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 10, 2008 at 07:59 PM
I first met Anand Jon about five years ago. A mutual friend was getting married in Miami and it was quite the swank affair. She was of an Indian high society family and as such it was quite the scene, including a Friday night soiree at the famed Versace mansion on Ocean Avenue.
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Pressing the RESET button
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 09, 2008 at 09:21 PM
When I was a kid I used to fantasize about the possibility of being a superhero and if so, which one would I want to be? Which superpower was the coolest to have?
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Interdependence Day Celebration
posted by Rabbi Lerner on July 07, 2008 at 07:01 AM
Faced with July 4th celebrations that are focused on militarism, ultra-nationalism, and "bombs bursting in air," many American families who do not share those values turn July 4th into another summer holiday focused on picnics, sports and fireworks while doing their best to avoid the dominant rhetoric and bombast.
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Making fun of peoples' sexuality
posted by Grace Wilson on July 07, 2008 at 06:42 AM
Someone at work sent me an e-mail with a music video. The video was of a middle-aged white male hanging out on a farm singing a country song about how being gay is wrong. So I watch it for maybe 20 seconds or so, and I’m kind of puzzled.
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What Kind of a President Does America Need?
posted by Rabbi Lerner on June 30, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Lets start with what America does NOT need: It does not need a President who is deemed (by the media, the pundits, the chattering classes, the owners of capital, and the mavens of the Democratic and Republican party) "realistic," "pragmatic," "knows how government works," "not too partisan," or "savvy."
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I Resent that
posted by Debra Condren on June 26, 2008 at 02:49 PM
As a woman, how can we deal with male co-workers who are socially inept and make inappropriate comments, but aren’t harassing us, per se?
One great tactic is humor.
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A Perfect Circle, like a Ring
posted by Rabbi Lerner on June 17, 2008 at 05:26 AM
What do we understand about desire? Other than being led around most of our life by desire, we have a hard time attempting to undestand it, and harness it. A popular teacher has built an entire career around explaining and analyzing it;
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Zappy and Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO together in Washington DC
posted by Zappy on June 16, 2008 at 02:04 AM
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer predicts that 100% of all media will be consumed on the Internet.
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This Omnivore's Dilemma
posted by Kanika Sethi on June 15, 2008 at 11:51 AM
I consider myself a "foodie" in every sense of the word. I LOVE to eat good food, fresh food, home cooked food, gourmet food, food that I've tried from many different parts of the world, even fast food (well, some of it...). One of my favorite activities is deciphering the ingredients in a dish served at a restaurant. Was that lemongrass in my curry? A little bit of dried coriander? Was it honey that made the dish sweeter or brown sugar?
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Women in indian media...
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on June 05, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Okay-so the Indian woman is heading towards emancipation. Atleast in select urban pockets. Or so say the culture vutures and the chatterati … when they are five glasses of champagne down…
‘Don’t you know? We are a progressive society…Women are free to do and be as they please’
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Existing Alongside Others' Opinions
posted by Grace Wilson on May 23, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Despite recent (difficult) events in my life, things are working themselves out really well. I think most of us here at IB know, intellectually, that anything is possible, but turning lemons into lemonade doesn’t come as second nature to all of us.
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Pro State or Anti National?
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on May 18, 2008 at 10:35 AM
I have never understood politics –not even at the classroom or dressing room level. At the State and Central level it interests me even less, and that is only because it has never directly affected my life. But it is now. I’m not even sure I can find the words for what my mind and my heart is trying to express but I am going to give it a try.
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Greens for Mom: 10 Tips
posted by Danny Jensen on May 11, 2008 at 10:36 PM
This mother's day as we celebrate the wonderful women in our lives, let's not forget to give thanks to Mother Earth as well. Why not do both at once and buy mom an eco-friendly gift to show her your love, or if you're particularly crafty, make something yourself (Mom's love homemade goodies).
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Being a mother is not always pretty
posted by Susan Kaiser Greenland on May 11, 2008 at 04:46 AM
The place where I get my car washed also sells greeting cards. While waiting for my car last week, I went inside to buy a birthday card for a friend. When I first saw the mother’s day cards on display my reaction was to turn away and look at something else. I had no idea that I have an obvious aversion to Mother’s Day cards.
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To save lives, is it justified to invade Myanmar?
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 10, 2008 at 09:21 AM
Time Magazine asks, Is it Time to Invade Myanmar? With reports of up to 100,000 people dead, and no signs of relief from the after effects of the cyclone, the humanitarian crisis is unraveling. Meanwhile, the government is blocking aid because of fear of letting foreign entities in. "If we let them get away with murder we may set a very dangerous precedent,"
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Current Feelings
posted by Grace Wilson on May 09, 2008 at 02:03 AM
Anybody else feel like giving up? I’m going through some major unpleasantness in my life, and I’m just tired of it. I’m so uncomfortable; it really sucks to be me. I’m missing all of my deadlines, can’t keep up with my blogs, etc. I’m completely distracted.
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Myanmar Cyclone - 15,000 Dead
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 05, 2008 at 09:56 PM
The latest numbers from Myanmar, formerly called Burma, are more thant 15,000 people dead and the number is rising. As I was reading various reports this evening, I could not help thinking about how the human desire for power and control can paralyze and have such drastic consequences for thousands, millions, of people.
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Why Americans & Israelis Should be Thanking Jimmy Carter
posted by Rabbi Lerner on May 02, 2008 at 12:15 AM
On the Absurdity of Refusing to Talk to our Enemies
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has received public scorn and derision from the spokespeople of the State of Israel and leaders of American Jewish communal institutions for having met with the leadership of Hezbollah and Hamas in Syria.
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Guru Maurice Pitka, and his very first blog on this site
posted by Guru Pitka on April 25, 2008 at 01:42 AM
Hello, my children. It is I, Guru Maurice Pitka, and this is my very first blog on this site.
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Gordon Brown Endorses and Widens the Framework for a Global Marshall Plan
posted by Rabbi Lerner on April 24, 2008 at 04:22 AM
Great Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown Endorses and Widens the Framework for a Global Marshall Plan. Now it's time for YOU to get involved. While the media's attention focused on the exchanges of put-downs between Clinton and Obama, or on the papal visit to the U.S., they wildly underplayed a very significant event:
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Drinking at Lunch
posted by Grace Wilson on April 18, 2008 at 05:24 AM
My office is about two blocks from the edge of campus (University of Texas), and recently I’ve taken to walking through campus on my lunch hour. I do this for two reasons:
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Obama's Error - and What It Would Really Take to Rectify It
posted by Rabbi Lerner on April 17, 2008 at 02:54 AM
A continuing irony of American politics is that the candidates of the ruling elites have been able to convince many Americans that the candidates who seek to redistribute wealth to the less fortunate, provide health care for all, and provide jobs and housing for the poor are the real elitists.
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Pangea Day
posted by Kanika Sethi on April 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Just caught this online -- a moving rendition of Indian's National Anthem sung by a Kenyan choir. (They also have a video of a Japanese opera singer singing for Turkey, Australians doing the Lebanese Anthem and the French singing The Star Spangled Banner.)
Here's the link. Enjoy! I really love this kind of thing.
Obama's Error... and Ours
posted by Rabbi Lerner on April 13, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Seeing religion as a substitute gratification grabbed on to by people who are otherwise oppressed is an insight that has been part of liberal and progressive culture for at least 150 years. Unfortunately, Senator Obama got it wrong because he identified the needs that are being systematically denied as purely material, thereby falling into the deep "It's the economy, stupid" mistake of the Left.
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To Sir, with love
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 07, 2008 at 04:44 AM
The story of an award-winning, upper-caste Geologist who is silently changing the lives of underprivileged children, most of them from lower castes, in a remote corner of India. Read Here.
Secrets
posted by Grace Wilson on April 03, 2008 at 10:19 PM
My friends gave me this book about a year ago; I can’t remember the name. The author asked for people around the country to send him anonymous postcards containing whatever secret they wanted to tell. The book is full of those postcards.
An airport and some mercenaries
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 02, 2008 at 08:51 AM
My friend, Neelesh Misra has sent me this thought-provoking story. Read it here.
Jesus, self-knowledge, and compassion
posted by Rex Weyler on March 31, 2008 at 04:40 PM
I’ve been absent from Intentblog while writing a new book: The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message
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4000
posted by Mallika Chopra on March 24, 2008 at 07:59 PM
4000 US soldiers dead. The number of Iraqi's - citizens, children - not even quantified. I challenge you to type the numbers... I almost gave up at 282, thinking this is a waste of time, then reminded myself that each one was an individual, with a family, who had dreams and aspirations. Who was 1483, 2567, 321, 3999? What was their story? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Can't wait to go to bed tonight!
posted by Grace Wilson on March 20, 2008 at 11:59 PM
This is a difficult day for me, communication-wise. I was trying to have a conversation with someone at work and even though my inner voice was screaming at me to just shut up and let it go, I didn’t (of course).
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Time
posted by Intent on March 20, 2008 at 12:18 PM
The Love Field Expands; News from the Human Forum in Costa Rica
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on March 20, 2008 at 07:39 AM
The notes of the symphony started to gather, as each heart responded to this primeval call that reverberates surreptitiously in profundity, beyond mind and understanding. We all came, along with our exquisite mosaic of role, personality, ego and purpose. A bouquet of quarks, a possibility of expression, we were, congregating Being.
We played the first notes of a symphony, creating a love field woven with our own fragility, our deep recognition of oneness. It spilled in embraces, in garlands of smiles and kisses, to adorn the hidden Beloved who in silent song invited us, to become aware for a moment, of the unified field of existence we really are, and to rejoice at the infinite possibilities of creating from this vision field, a new world.
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ONE PROCESS
posted by Intent on March 19, 2008 at 05:55 PM
Obama's Speech on Race
posted by Mallika Chopra on March 18, 2008 at 04:36 PM
I just listened to Obama's speech on race, I was touched, inspired and impressed. And, what he did today, solidified my slow conversion to wholeheartedly support him. Today
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Attacks on Spitzer Reveal America's Ethical Perversity
posted by Rabbi Lerner on March 14, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Why are Sexual Crimes the only ones Americans Really Seem to Care About? The cross-the-political-spectrum attacks on Elliot Spitzer and demands that he resign his office show just how far the combination of Right-wing sexual moralism and counter-cultural sexual-correctness have been able to trump any other kind of ethical reasoning in American society.
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Murders at a Yeshiva in Jerusalem
posted by Rabbi Lerner on March 09, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives unequivocally condemn the killings of students at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem today. Just as last week we prayed for a speedy recovery of Israelis and Palestinians wounded in the fighting in Gaza and the bombings of Sderot, so today we pray for a speedy recovery for those who were injured in this ghastly attack.
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Weight Loss Doesn't Equal Health
posted by Joe Kelly on March 07, 2008 at 06:16 PM
"The debate over whether the health risks of obesity are exaggerated seriously detracts from the real question: what should we prescribe for our health in any case? Weight loss or management is constantly recommended—disregarding the fact that weight is not a behavior, and as such it is not ours to “control.”"
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Electromagnetic Fields
posted by Grace Wilson on March 06, 2008 at 09:53 PM
I’m close to someone who is sensitive to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). She has noticeable, physical discomfort when exposed to any number of things: cell phones, wireless routers, cordless telephones, digital clock radios …
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Giving back, the new high
posted by Max Simon on February 29, 2008 at 09:58 AM
A good friend of mine invited me to come teach meditation at a youth facility that houses run away kids who have left because of abusive or unsafe living conditions. From what they described, I was expecting to show up to a house full of angry, pissed off, rebels. Haha....fooled me!
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Deepak Chopra / In the Vanguard of Antichrist
posted by Intent on February 22, 2008 at 11:03 AM
This article appeared in the Catholicism.org News Portal:
Deepak Chopra / In the Vanguard of Antichrist
By Brian Kelly
Chopra said the Jesus created by the Catholic Church was confusing because although the religion had done a lot of good in the world, it had also taken part "in the Crusades, in witch hunts, in burning people on the stake, homophobia, ...
full article here
How do you let it flow when what's flowing doesn't work?
posted by Max Simon on February 22, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Over the last few months, I have noticed a shift in myself. Situations where I once felt totally comfortable make me a little nervous. Circumstances where I would normally feel afraid don't phase me. I've found myself feeling out-of-sorts more often then usual lately.
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You Can't Say That Out Loud
posted by Grace Wilson on February 22, 2008 at 02:03 AM
Recently my friend Tracy & I were talking about our boyfriends. We’re in similar circumstances, being older, not married, no children. We’ve both been divorced, so marriage is not a top priority for either of us.
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Global Warming: Livestock, worse than world's cars!
posted by Zappy on February 14, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Livestock production is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent, a share 38 percent higher than that emitted by all the world's vehicles. Domesticated animals worldwide are the source of 37 percent of all human induced methane, with most of that coming from intestinal fermentation of ruminants. They also are the source of 65 percent of human-induced nitrous oxide, the great majority from manure.
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The Feminist Debate on Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama
posted by Rabbi Lerner on February 06, 2008 at 05:09 AM
While the media portrays the selection of a Democratic Party presidential candidate as pitting women against men, over 100 feminists--including Katha Pollitt of The Nation, Kate Michelman chair for 20 years of NARAL Choice for Women, and Ellen Bravo, former director of 9to5, the National Association of Working Women—have endorsed Senator Barack Obama.
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Obama's Jewish Problem
posted by Rabbi Lerner on February 01, 2008 at 10:23 PM
In the days leading up to the Super Tuesday presidential primary sweepstakes, the Obama campaign has been making a special effort to reach out to Jewish voters. Representatives of the campaign have been visiting Jewish retirement homes, synagogues, and wherever else they can find a willing audience. Faced with Clinton campaigners making charges that he is not sufficiently pro-Israel, Obama himself wrote a letter to
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Wanted: Kickball Players
posted by Grace Wilson on January 31, 2008 at 09:03 PM
I sent an e-mail to all of my work mates to see if anyone wanted to get together one night a week and join an adult kickball league for the ten-week summer season. Fun, right? No, apparently not. No one even mentioned it until I ran into “Bobby” hours later in the break room – someone I’ve rarely even interacted with on the job, so I was surprised.
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On suicide, Wandhama and, perhaps, everything else in life
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 25, 2008 at 09:51 AM
This evening, a middle-aged man with receding hairline jumped from the top floor of my office building and died on the floor, next to a promotional board of Johnie Walker which reads: Keep walking. His one shoe lay near his motionless body.
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Contemplating My Navel
posted by Grace Wilson on January 24, 2008 at 09:21 PM
I think my favorite yoga pose is a lazy-person’s version of plow (halasana). Instead of having my legs and spine straight I like to slump into it, round my back and let my knees hang down by my ears. (This could be a proper yoga pose on its own, I’m not sure.) I just really like it and could easily hang out in that position for five minutes or more.
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Listening to Inner Guidance
posted by Grace Wilson on January 17, 2008 at 09:08 PM
I’m making progress! Is anyone else?
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Body Beautiful
posted by Sarah Maria on January 14, 2008 at 08:52 PM
What is beauty, and how do we find it?
We live in a culture where feeling beautiful has a profound impact on one’s self-esteem and self-confidence, particularly for women. This culture would have us believe that there is a particular “look” that is beautiful, namely thin, young, and blemish-free.
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Opps! think before that zipper goes down!
posted by Vijay Sappani on January 12, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Having sex after false promise of marriage is rape according to a court in India.
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How Much Change Does It Take?
posted by Grace Wilson on January 10, 2008 at 11:50 PM
I often remember the expression “Insanity is wanting your life to change, but doing nothing differently.” So how big (or how small) of a change must I make to effect change in my life?
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It’s no longer Okay
posted by Kavita Chhibber on January 09, 2008 at 04:55 PM
To be a woman and
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Zappy hosts Grateful Dead Television Show “The Long Strange Trip Continues”
posted by Zappy on January 06, 2008 at 11:19 PM
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Help me understand the value of emotional contrast…
posted by Grace Wilson on January 03, 2008 at 09:55 PM
My girlfriend Jennifer and I have a fantasy where the two of us get married and live together while her husband and my boyfriend live in the house next door to us. We love our guys and we’re not into each other, if you know what I mean.
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Happy New Year
posted by Vijay Sappani on January 01, 2008 at 09:09 AM
2007 was a year marked with events that will determine the the fate of many things in the world in 2008
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The Female Orgasm
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on January 01, 2008 at 05:44 AM
Is there a connection between the development of a society and its people and the female orgasm?
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Happy New Year!
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 31, 2007 at 11:50 PM
To all my friends around the world!! Best wishes for a healthy, happy, and fulfilling 2008.
Love Mallika
MERRY CHRISTMAS
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 24, 2007 at 07:58 PM
Merry Christmas from all of us at Intentblog. I know I have a lot to be grateful for this year. How about you?
hmmm....what to call it?
posted by Max Simon on December 22, 2007 at 09:41 AM
Hi friends,
I would REALLY like your input on this post.
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A Soul Question
posted by Max Simon on December 19, 2007 at 10:37 AM
This morning, I woke up with a question in my consciousness. It came from when I saw the Dalai speak a couple of months back. It's funny how these things spontaneously pop back into awareness....isn't it?
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Mother Earth: How the Earth Was Born
posted by Environmental Graffiti on December 17, 2007 at 09:07 PM
Why are we here?
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Why can’t we talk about money?
posted by Grace Wilson on December 13, 2007 at 09:14 PM
It seems to be easier for people with less money to talk about their lack than it is for people with more money to talk about their abundance. If it’s so shameful to have lots of money, why do we want so much of it?
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Explore the frontiers of intention
posted by Stephen Dinan on December 13, 2007 at 03:35 AM
Until Dec. 24th, the Institute of Noetic Sciences is extending a special Jubilee offer in which their entire library of audio and video is available for free, including 25 interviews with scientific and spiritual pioneers such as..
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Violence in School
posted by Nandita Kathpalia Baig on December 12, 2007 at 09:40 AM
Yesterday, two 13 year old boys shot dead a schoolmate as he had been bullying them and acting like a 'don'. One of the boys took his fathers gun out of the tv trolley, went to school and hid it in the bathroom. When school got over and the victim was waiting to board the school bus, he was called out and 6 bullets were pumped into him.
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Sweet...
posted by Saira Mohan on December 10, 2007 at 05:52 PM
As Above So What?!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on December 08, 2007 at 06:59 PM
Did you feel ambivalent about the hard-sell, materially-driven style of “The Secret”? If so, check out the new book by my friend Maja D’Aoust (Co-edited with Adam Parfrey), The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One of Seven Hermetic Laws: Here Are the Other Six
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Zappy and Barack Obama
posted by Zappy on December 04, 2007 at 03:45 AM
I had the chance to meet Barack Obama this morning and found him to be very likeable.
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Akshardham and Sonu Niigaam symbolize Unity in Diversity
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 28, 2007 at 09:21 AM
Its beauty and majesty inspires an awed silence,
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Meditation isn't for everyone
posted by Max Simon on November 25, 2007 at 09:35 AM
This comment was made in my last post and I can honestly say that I nearly fell out of my chair when I read it. I was momentarily speechless....until I realized that I've got plenty to say about that.
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I'm back just in time to give thanks
posted by Max Simon on November 21, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Hi everyone. I know I've been away for way too long....but I can explain. Who's up for a story?
As you may or may not know, I have been working at The Chopra Center for the last four years running the products division. I have also had the good fortune of traveling the country teaching meditation, yoga, and Ayurveda at the Chopra Center's wonderful events. Yet in the beginning of 07, I stepped back and realized that there was an absence of young people at these workshops. Maybe it was because they just couldn't afford it.....or maybe it was because it just didn't resonate.
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A Hundred Dollar Holiday: Give the Environment a Break
posted by Rabbi Lerner on November 20, 2007 at 05:20 AM
This Year Don't Buy Things For Holiday Gifts
Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on holiday gifts that will quickly be discarded or put into a closet where it will be little used. Many will end up in a junk pile sometime in the next few years, further polluting our environment.
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Star Canyon
posted by Saira Mohan on November 18, 2007 at 01:10 PM
Have you ever read a menu like this?
My Battle with the Raccoons
posted by Mallika Chopra on November 16, 2007 at 08:58 PM
While monkeys are terrorizing people in New Delhi, I am being harassed by raccoons in Santa Monica, California! Four big raccoons
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Writing Muse
posted by Monica Bhide on November 07, 2007 at 01:29 AM
I have spent a large part of my writing life waiting to fall in love. I have read relentlessly - the classics, the contemporary novels of great writers, short stories, memoirs… I have read endlessly. While I had great respect for the writers and their works, I had not found one whom I wanted to emulate, to be like.
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Amazing Illusion
posted by Zappy on November 05, 2007 at 11:00 PM
What You Believe Is What You Will See.
This is without a doubt one of the coolest PC-Illusion, I have seen so far.
Follow the instructions:
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A CAT-Scan of the Global Brain
posted by Deepak Chopra on October 29, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Someone e-mailed me a link to a 6-minute video that summarizes where the world is heading. Like any snapshot, it gives a limited view of a moment in time. Even so, these emerging trends are global and yet mostly overlooked by the average person in the U.S.
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Mayberry RFiD
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on October 25, 2007 at 01:13 AM
I vant to be alone!
I love my privacy! Hell, I love YOUR privacy. And chips.
Casino chips, poker chips, tortilla chips, potato chips.
But I draw the line at Radio Frequency IDentification chips!
They suck with salsa! And I don’t want one in my body!
If I wanted implants, I'd call Dr. 90210!
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A Letter
posted by Rustum Roy on October 23, 2007 at 01:43 AM
Letter to the Editor, Centre Daily Times, Oct. 13, 2006
By far the most valuable outcome for the nation from the recent horror in one of our Amish communities was that the true meaning of the Christian life – in practicing forgiveness even in the most extreme situation - was given some appropriate visibility at least on public television.
God’s Warriors - Stumbling towards the truth
posted by Rustum Roy on October 15, 2007 at 01:24 AM
Christiane Amanpour will no doubt garner many honors and plaudits for her brilliantly produced 6 hour series entitled, “God’s Warriors” which captured the engaged, intelligent TV viewer, August 21-23, as few shows have recently. But I think she should be honored even more for a much deeper insight -
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The Vocabulary of Numbness
posted by Deepak Chopra on September 17, 2007 at 09:02 AM
War is about loss, destruction, and the price a society has to pay. The final reckoning of the Iraq war can't be predicted, but we are paying a high price in an area most people don't consider: language. When Pres. Bush coined a new phrase in his speech last week, "return on success," the crudeness of his verbal ploy made one wince. "Success" is a hollow buzz word, open to endless revision and by now totally empty of meaning. The slogan's purpose
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Anita Roddick
posted by Mallika Chopra on September 10, 2007 at 09:54 PM
It is with tremendous shock and sadness that I read, just now, about the death of Anita Roddick. Although I never met her, I was a great admirer of hers and she knew my father well. She set the precedent for socially responsible and environmentally sound businesses - and her work with the Body Shop provided one of the first case studies we did in Business School. When Anita agreed to share some of her blogs on Intentblog, I was giddy.
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Chit Happens!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on August 30, 2007 at 12:35 AM
Art or Arson?
The Man, symbol and center of the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert was burned by another man. Performance artist Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco was arrested by local authorities in connection with the blaze of 40-foot structure, which is traditionally burned down on the final Saturday night of the weeklong event of Radical Self-Expression.
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Remembering Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997)
posted by Salman Ahmad on August 10, 2007 at 02:37 AM
Long before 9/11 and the subsequent drum beat of a war on terror and talk of a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistan's greatest musical export, sang ecstatically about the Oneness of God and love for humanity.
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Having Travelled The Green(er) Mile, I Am Exhausted
posted by Catherine Connors on August 08, 2007 at 10:43 AM
I am privileged to live in a country, and a city, where living green is made very, very easy. There are two recycling receptacles for every single trash bin on nearly every street. Compostable materials are collected from every household, every week. Rebates are granted by the government for using energy-efficient appliances.
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Things!
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 07, 2007 at 11:05 AM
My baby daughter drew a picture. Its a circle with a line in it. Red and blue. Its one of hundreds of pictures. Its just a circle with a line in it. Its in a pile of papers that I never look at. But my baby drew it. Why can't I just throw it away?
Jihad and Suicide in Islam
posted by Salman Ahmad on August 04, 2007 at 03:07 AM
JIHAD
Prophet Muhammad described armed struggle against tyranny and oppression as a LESSER JIHAD. He also warned against the dark whisperings of the Nafs (ego) and called the fight against the lower self,the GREATER JIHAD.
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South Asia Crisis: Millions Flee 'Worst Ever' Floods
posted by DK Matai on August 03, 2007 at 10:20 AM
After USA, UK, China and Pakistan, it is India, Nepal and Bangladesh's turn: 100s have died & millions have been left homeless by floods across South Asia. 35 million are affected. Hope for humanity? YES!
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Bridge Collapse: 70,000 similar; Repair Cost $188bn
posted by DK Matai on August 02, 2007 at 01:39 AM
Update 5: This is one horror story of a "structurally deficient" bridge out of 70,000. Total estimate of repair is USD 188 billion per the American Society of Civil Engineers, ie, USD 9.4 billion pa for 20 years.
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20th Anniversary of the arrival of IPKF falls today
posted by Bandula Jayasekara on July 29, 2007 at 01:05 AM
Will Sri Lanka take another twenty years to construct memorial?
Twenty years ago the Indian Peacekeeping Force came to Sri Lanka. Their mandate was to uphold the Indo-Lanka Accord signed between President J.R.Jayawardane and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who was later assassinated by the LTTE in Southern India.
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Climate Chaos, Capitalism, Cosmopolitics & Energy
posted by ATCA on July 24, 2007 at 10:57 AM
We are grateful to Prof Barbara Harriss-White, based in Oxford, UK, for "Climate Chaos, Capitalism, Cosmopolitics and Energy Policy Coherence;" and John Menzies, an Australian national, who operates between Sofia, Bulgaria, and Vancouver, Canada, for "Climate Chaos or a Chaotic Climate?
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Toronto Globe and Mail In-depth Online Interview with Deepak
posted by Deepak Chopra on July 23, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Dear Friends,
Here is an interview that Deepak did in Toronto yesterday.
The Globe and Mail online interview with Deepak Chopra
Enjoy,
Carolyn
Crisis: UK Floods cause Large Scale Devastation
posted by DK Matai on July 22, 2007 at 03:53 PM
One million victims... Where to go at the crossroads?
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The Green(er) Mile
posted by Catherine Connors on July 20, 2007 at 11:45 PM
To be perfectly honest, when the idea of organizing a road trip as a means of transporting six Toronto mommy-bloggers to the BlogHer conference in Chicago at the end of this month first occurred to me, I was not thinking green.
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Extreme Weather: Flash floods Cause Chaos
posted by DK Matai on July 20, 2007 at 03:37 PM
Flash floods have caused chaos across the UK as emergency services went into meltdown. RAF helicopters are being used as major roads are under water with a month's rain falling in less than a day...
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What Have They Got Against Girls' Sports?
posted by Joe Kelly on July 19, 2007 at 04:51 AM
A dad named John Humphreys recently wrote to me upon learning that the Department of Education is weakening Title IX, the federal civil rights law granting fair access to sports for girls and women. He asked “Why ever should there be any darn sex discrimination at all?” Like John, I’m stumped, too. But the fact of the matter is that discrimination still exists—which means we parents and others who care about girls need to do something about it.
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Brazil's Worst Air Crash: 200+ Dead; Probe Begins
posted by DK Matai on July 18, 2007 at 12:48 PM
All 186 people on board TAM Airlines Flight 3054 died as well as 14+ on the ground in Sao Paulo. President Lula da Silva has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of Brazil's worst air disaster.
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Hoare: Destructive Creativity, Leverage, Derivatives
posted by ATCA on July 16, 2007 at 08:44 AM
We are grateful to Alexander Hoare, CEO, C Hoare and Co, Private Bankers, based in the City of London, for "Destructive Creativity, Leverage and Derivatives."
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A Musical Mission from Allah
posted by Carter Phipps on July 16, 2007 at 02:09 AM
Can a Pakistani rock star strike a new chord in the hearts of Islamic fundamentalists?
The most important battle in the world right now may not be between radical Islam and the West but between Islam and itself. The fourteen-hundred-year-old religion has hit a crossroads.
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Sicko
posted by Kavita Chhibber on July 13, 2007 at 05:47 PM
Stirring Quite a Pot!
Dr Malmgren: The Fear of Central Bankers
posted by ATCA on July 12, 2007 at 02:11 PM
We are grateful to Dr Malmgren from Washington, DC for "The Fear of Central Bankers -- Flight from Illiquidity and Heightened Risk of Contagion."
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Severe Dollar Decline: Markets Warning of Trouble
posted by ATCA on July 12, 2007 at 02:34 AM
News that Standard & Poor's may cut the ratings of 612 residential mortgage-backed securities backed by US sub-prime loans -- worth an estimated USD 12 billion -- began the US dollar's further decline...
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Inner debate in Pakistan about culture, religion and politics
posted by Salman Ahmad on July 11, 2007 at 09:32 PM
Check out this video...
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Chatter
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 10, 2007 at 09:02 PM
I've tried to google Jihadist websites so I could see the chatter myself but I've never quite found anything that I can say even rivals the type of trash talk I see bwtween Sox and Yankee fans on sports blogs. That not withstanding, apparently the real Jihadi blogs are atwitter with chatter.
Chopra: Changing Perception; Carlson: Other & Me
posted by ATCA on July 09, 2007 at 02:17 PM
We are grateful to Dr Deepak Chopra, based in California and New York, USA, for "Case of the Evil Doctors: Changing Perception" and Aurora Carlson, based on the West Coast, Sweden for "The Other and Me" in response to The Lord Desai of St Clement Danes, based at The Palace of Westminster, London, UK, for "The Roots of Terror: Islam or Islamism?"
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Terror and Transition
posted by Dave Sidhu on July 05, 2007 at 01:19 PM
"One day after the British police discovered what they called a double car-bombing plot in London, two men slammed a Jeep S.U.V. that caught fire into the departure doors at Glasgow Airport," the New York Times reported last week. 
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Mango Madness
posted by Mira Kamdar on July 04, 2007 at 11:52 PM
Nothing more deliciously evokes memories of home to expatriate Indians than mangoes. I remember how my grandfather, my Bapuji, used to coddle a crate of Alphonsos during mango season in Bombay, turning each blushing fruit in its nest of straw with great respect and affection, doling out the ripe ones to us waiting kids to carry into the kitchen where my grandmother or aunt sliced them up for us to slip into upturned mouths.
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The Powerful Positive Of A Thousand Small Green Steps
posted by James Boyce on July 03, 2007 at 05:47 AM
The awareness phase of the campaign to stop global warming has reached a crescendo, which may also be a plateau. With the exception of front groups sponsored by oil companies, it is becoming more and more accepted that we, in fact, are the cause of global warming.
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The Luminous Numinous
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on July 02, 2007 at 11:08 PM
To paraphrase the great Rudolf Otto, the Numinous can be described as a distinctive experience of God, ineffable and transcendent, the primary source of beauty and love. Feelings of awe, fascination and elements of overpowering-ness, urgency, and that which is "Wholly Other" are present in the numinous experience.
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UK at Highest Level of Terror Alert post Attack
posted by DK Matai on June 30, 2007 at 02:59 PM
Two men rammed a flaming Jeep into the main passenger terminal of Glasgow airport...
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What's your definition?
posted by Max Simon on June 25, 2007 at 07:34 PM
If you were to describe consciousness to someone who had never heard the word before, what would you say?
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help save our friend
posted by Sandeep Sood on June 25, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Meet Vinay Chakravarty. He went to college with me and is a close friend of my sister's.
He has two weeks to find a bone marrow donor.
Since Vinay is a South Asian, the probability of finding a donor is best within our community. There is a staggeringly low number of South Asian donors currently registered.
Here is how you can help:
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The Mind Outside the Brain (Part 5)
posted by Deepak Chopra on June 18, 2007 at 10:06 AM
With the discovery of mirror neurons, another piece of the puzzle was added, the puzzle being how we learn and understand others. Learning occurs in the animal world largely by imitation, it is thought. Recently whale researchers were startled
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Gaza: What Just Happened and What It Means for Us and the World
posted by Rabbi Lerner on June 17, 2007 at 10:32 PM
For many years, Tikkun has argued that a goal of Israeli policy has been to strengthen Hamas sufficiently so that it's power in Palestine could be used as an irrefutable 'proof" to the West that Palestinians couldn't be trusted to run a state of their own, and that therefore all it could be allowed would be the bantistun version of a state--little Palestinian enclaves cut off from each other by a sourrounding Israeli Army and the Israeli settlers.
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World Peace Begins With Your Neighbor
posted by Richard Flyer on June 15, 2007 at 09:56 PM
Why does it take a disaster to bring us together? Recent tragedies like 911, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tsunami remind us of who we are deep inside--- a spiritually connected part of a large extended family, a web of living beings, sharing a tiny biosphere, on a small planet.
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BIG PAPA DOG
posted by Gotham Chopra on June 12, 2007 at 07:16 AM
That's right - I'm gonna be a dad! But here's the thing: I just bought a new XBOX so I could get back into video gaming. I still will plan my days around being able to get home to watch the Red Sox play. And when the doctor
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World Awakened: One Community; One Neighborhood; One Street at a Time!
posted by Dr A T Ariyaratne on June 10, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Dearest Brothers and Sisters:
We envision a worldwide network of villages, communities, and cities--a global commonwealth of “village republics”. This is our common dream of what we call Vishvodaya, or global awakening.
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Fathering
posted by Joe Kelly on June 08, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Why do so few fathers and stepfather's father with intention? Most men in our culture take only a marginal role in the day-to-day rearing of children, while getting caught up in the traditional (and too narrow) role of dad as provider of money.
DO LESS, LET GO! Conscious Return to Simplicity
posted by ATCA on June 07, 2007 at 08:56 AM
We are grateful to Aurora Carlson, based on the West Coast, Sweden, for "DO LESS, LET GO! Conscious Return to the Simplicity of Intent" in response to Richard Thomas Gerber, based in Michigan, USA, for his submission to ATCA, "The Deadly Interplay of Nature's System Architecture -- Red Flag Warning!"
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Deadly Interplay of Nature's System Architecture
posted by ATCA on June 06, 2007 at 05:22 PM
We are grateful to Richard Thomas Gerber, based in Michigan, USA, for his second submission to ATCA in June, "The Deadly Interplay of Nature's System Architecture -- Red Flag Warning!" which follows from "Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- Mysterious, Massive Death of Bees in the US -- Are bees the Canary in the mineshaft?" submitted in February.
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The Mind Outside the Brain (Part 2)
posted by Deepak Chopra on June 04, 2007 at 02:17 PM
If it is true that intelligence arises in a "mind field" that surrounds us on all sides, we must all be participating in it. Almost a century ago Carl Jung proposed that our participation takes place in a "collective unconscious,"
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Things That Annoy Me
posted by Mallika Chopra on June 01, 2007 at 12:52 PM
People who talk on their cell phones while driving (even though I am guilty of doing so).
Salespeople who are really slow, incompetent or unhelpful.
Warrantees that are a pain to deal with. (Remember Sears Sucks.)
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Battle at Kruger
posted by Saira Mohan on May 31, 2007 at 12:48 AM
Battle at Kruger...
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Do you have a minute to save the world?
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 29, 2007 at 01:07 PM
Every time I walk out of my local Whole Foods, there is a young, wide-eyed, optimistic activist asking for signatures on a petition. It just takes a minute to save rainforests, whales, protect the ozone, etc. Just sign here! Likewise, I get
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How does one overcome anger and hatred?
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on May 19, 2007 at 10:01 AM
It’s all very well to talk about love and its healing power. Infact I and everybody else at intentblog do that all the time.And we really mean it-well i certainly do :-)
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On the Air with CNN Larry King Live
posted by Intent on May 18, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Dear Friends,
Deepak is scheduled to appear tomorrow - Saturday, May 19th at 9pm ET and 6pm PT on CNN's LARRY KING LIVE to discuss his New York Times Bestseller, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
WFC: IntentBlogger -- Dr Vandana Shiva -- elected
posted by DK Matai on May 16, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Dr Vandana Shiva, renowned Indian environmental campaigner, founder of Navdanya, an IntentBlog contributor, and a good friend, has been elected an executive member of the World Future Council...
Vandana at The World Economic Forum, Davos
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WFC: Optimism, Practical Action and The Dream
posted by ATCA on May 15, 2007 at 02:36 PM
We are grateful to Dr Anthony Grayling, Co-director of The Global Values Project & Prof at Birkbeck College, London University, for "The World Future Council gives cause for Optimism"; Mehmood Khan, Global Leader, Unilever Innovation Process Management, based in London, for "Need for Practical Action at a Local Level to Build a Better World"; and Dr Wolfgang Somary, Chairman, Heim Foundation, based in Zurich, Switzerland, for "The Dream of the Uninvited Guest."
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Dr James Martin -- The Meaning of the 21st Century
posted by ATCA on May 15, 2007 at 12:56 AM
We are grateful to the world renowned philanthropist, pioneering information technologist and distinguished ATCA member, Dr James Martin, for his welcome submission in response to the think-piece, The Hamburg Call to Action -- World Future Council Appeals to G8: Listen to the Voice of Future Generations submitted by Jakob von Uexkull.
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WFC to G8: Listen to Voice of Future Generations
posted by ATCA on May 14, 2007 at 12:36 PM
We are grateful to our distinguished ATCA contributor and initiator of the World Future Council, Jakob von Uexkull, for submitting The Hamburg Call to Action, which appeals to G8 leaders ahead of their June summit to "face up to their unique responsibilities ... and not allow outdated rules and economic dogmas to endanger our common future."
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World Future Council: The Hamburg Call to Action
posted by DK Matai on May 13, 2007 at 04:35 AM
Dear Friends, The Hamburg Call to Action has been released by the WFC Inaugural Congress to the world's media and heads of major government, corporate and NGO organisations after three days:
"We promise to do everything in our power to help sustain life on earth with all its beauty and diversity for future generations, and to speak up for comprehensive peace and true justice between the world’s peoples and countries."
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World Future Council International News Coverage
posted by DK Matai on May 12, 2007 at 01:22 AM
Dear Friends, Greetings from Hamburg from the World Future Council´s Inaugural Congress.
Founding Councillors at Hamburg City Hall at the invitation of the Mayor
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It’s Not Easy Bein' Green
posted by Chris Case on May 09, 2007 at 07:21 AM
Okay, I have to admit something. For the last few months, I’ve been driving an SUV. It’s my wife’s fault. She had one and she got a different car and I got stuck with it. But after driving it for a few months, I’ve been overcome with guilt. I’m giving it back, even though it’s going to cost me a lot of money.
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WFC: The Future Starts This Week in Hamburg!
posted by ATCA on May 08, 2007 at 12:16 PM
ATCA's mission of building a wisdom based global economy -- whilst adhering to the doctrine of non-violence -- will be strengthened further this week by The World Future Council (WFC)...
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PEACE
posted by Deepak Chopra on May 08, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Dear Friends,
What will you do for peace today?
Love, Deepak
Learning from the Past, Moving Forward Together
posted by Dave Sidhu on May 06, 2007 at 04:34 PM
"It is difficult to comprehend senseless violence on this scale." These words, stated by Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine in reference to last month's shootings at Virginia Tech, also could apply to another national tragedy still fresh in the hearts and minds of Americans, the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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The Face of HIV/AIDS
posted by Christy Turlington on May 04, 2007 at 09:55 PM
I caught my first glimpses of Swaziland through the windows of a propeller plane coming over from Johannesburg this morning. The land seemed rich and sparsely populated. The climate is perfect, warm and breezy.
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On Turbans
posted by Dave Sidhu on May 04, 2007 at 07:36 PM
As someone who is very interested in civil rights and the post-9/11 climate facing turbaned Sikhs in particular, I was very disturbed and saddened to learn personally that negative views of men with turbans still persist over five years after 9/11 and exist in major metropolitan areas.
Hamburg: World Future Council Inaugural Summit
posted by DK Matai on May 04, 2007 at 03:08 PM
Dear Friends, soon we will be attending the Founding Congress of the World Future Council...
Jakob von Uexküll (1944 - )
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Time to Reconnect
posted by Kavita Chhibber on May 03, 2007 at 11:34 AM
In a world filled with Violence
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Picture Postcard from Swaziland
posted by Tamsin Smith on May 03, 2007 at 09:15 AM
Swaziland may be the smallest country in the southern hemisphere, but it seems to burst with more than its share of wonders. Lush mountains, waterfalls, and unique rock formations shelter a rich variety of indigenous flora, all manner of wildlife and some very colorful, cheeky birds. Some particularly noisy members of this latter group apparently serenaded Nicole, our videographer, through the wee hours of this morning.
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Growing awareness of Cancer
posted by Jeremy Geffen on May 02, 2007 at 07:17 AM
Although cancer, and all its trials and tribulations, have been with us for a long time, recently there has been an extraordinary burst of awareness and attention about cancer and how we are learning to live with it.
On March 23, 2007 Elizabeth and John Edwards publicly announced that Elizabeth’s breast cancer had recurred and spread to her bones.
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Black Swans
posted by Saira Mohan on April 25, 2007 at 07:15 AM
Deepak Chopra after the Virginia Tech Shootings
posted by Intent on April 24, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Watch Deepak Chopra on CNN after the VT bombings...
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The Super Girl Phenomenon
posted by Kanika Sethi on April 24, 2007 at 07:46 PM
About a year ago, I had written about "Girls' Inc.", an organization I truly believe in and about being a feminist. I recently attended another luncheon by this amazing organization. Much of the discussion at this event was of the new "Super Girl" phenomenon.
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I'm back...
posted by Kanika Sethi on April 24, 2007 at 07:17 PM
Ok, so I've been on a 5 month hiatus from Intent Blog. Sorry, had a baby. (For those of you who care, we named her Mira!) Guess I'll consider it my "maternity leave". Did you miss me? Wait, don't answer that yet....
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35 Years in Solitary Confinement
posted by Anita Roddick on April 24, 2007 at 07:42 AM
Today, two of my best friends will spend a day as they do every other – 23-plus hours alone in a 6-by-9 foot cell, with poor ventilation, little human contact beyond the blurred cacophony of the prison tier beyond. The hour or less they will spend on the other side of their cell doors they may spend exercising in a tiny cage by running in tight circles under the razor wire, or showering. All that will make this day different is that it marks the 35th anniversary of their placement in solitary confinement, a fact I still cannot fathom.
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Reports from the Edge of Evolution. Or Something.
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 23, 2007 at 07:49 AM
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
I am amused and shocked @ what ire was raised, simply by stating I'm attending the SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS conference in Sante Fe.
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Breaking Down the Wall of Compassion
posted by Intent on April 22, 2007 at 08:52 AM
The following editorial by Deepak Chopra appeared today in the the Baltimore Sun.
While listening to the flood of coverage about the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, I caught a comment from an English professor, Lucinda Roy, who taught the student gunman. Ms. Roy spotted that Cho Seung-Hui was extremely disturbed. She had read
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Greetings from the Science and Consciousness Conference in Sante Fe!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 20, 2007 at 08:30 PM
A paradigm-shifting gathering of minds is commencing this evening,
4/20
in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
The exploration of consciousness is a new frontier for the psychonaut. The conference is bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of experts who will share their knowledge through lecture, discussion and experiential sessions.
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Simran Sethi on Oprah April 20!
posted by Mallika Chopra on April 19, 2007 at 10:01 PM
Friends, I wanted to let you know that my dear friend, Simran Sethi, will be on Oprah tomorrow, April 20th! I am so proud of Simran -- many of you may have seen her, looking absolutely fabulous, in the current green issue of Vanity Fair. As a spokesperson
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Virgina Tech Shootings
posted by Mallika Chopra on April 16, 2007 at 02:59 PM
Shock and sadness as I read the news about the shootings this morning at Virginia Tech College. Latest reports say 32 people were killed, and the shooter killed himself. What can one say? What drives an individual to do something like this?
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Numb
posted by Saira Mohan on April 16, 2007 at 05:28 AM
I just watched something that left me completely numb...
Loose Change
Materialism to the Pipes o' Panpsychism: What is your TRUTH?
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 15, 2007 at 05:45 PM
A few years ago, I was wonderfully lost, wandering around the streets of Paris. Trying to get my bearings in a beautifully historic neighborhood, I’d stopped by chance, in front of a row of lovely old homes. Turning around, I noticed a small plaque on one wall, claiming the house was a former home of famed French philosopher Rene Descartes.
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The Life and Times of an Author
posted by Mallika Chopra on April 14, 2007 at 09:55 PM
Or I should say, "The Life and Times of a frazzled, overwhelmed, wanna-be successful, mommy author!"
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Struggles are necessary
posted by Heiko Faass on April 13, 2007 at 12:25 PM
When a friend asks you for help, when do you say yes and when you don´t?
If you see somebody struggle or suffer, when do you help and when just stay put?
Last night I saw by chance an episode from the animal world on TV which illustrates perfectly why most of the times one helps the most with not helping at all.
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OUCH!
posted by Rahul Khanna on April 11, 2007 at 08:52 AM
Money Has Gotten Cheaper
posted by Anand Shah on April 09, 2007 at 07:15 AM
A few weeks ago, I went to see a dear friend - a very well known artist that is a sharp as a man 70 years his junior- and he sparked a whole lot of interesting thoughts that have generated incredible internal contemplation and numerous conversations with people around me. Here is one of them: as I walked into his home, he observed, "They tell me my apartment is now worth 20 times what I paid for it.
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Oscar Wilde said, "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." What do you think?
posted by Deepak Chopra on April 08, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Asked by Deepak Chopra.
From Ectoplasm to EVP: a skeptic's seance
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 06, 2007 at 08:56 PM
My skepticism in contact with the afterlife started as a child over a piece of silky, black fabric.
Snatching it off my parent’s dresser, I asked what it was. My father, local magistrate and upstanding real estate broker had acquired the cloth sample as “evidence”.
“That, my dear, is ectoplasm” he said.
Ectoplasm?!
It was the seventies.
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British Soldiers Released -- UK-Iran Crisis Lessons
posted by ATCA on April 04, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Both London and Washington DC have cautiously welcomed Wednesday's announcement that Iran is releasing the 15 British soldiers and sailors it has held for nearly two weeks. We are grateful to The Lord Howell of Guildford from The Palace of Westminster for his submission to ATCA, "UK-Iran Crisis Lessons -- Giving Soft Power Some Teeth."
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The cowards never start
posted by Heiko Faass on April 02, 2007 at 06:18 AM
Did you ever see your life in relation to a bigger picture? Would any of us have survived if born 200 years ago? What motivated the people in Northern America to move westwards, into the unknown, through a long and often painful journey?
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Good vs. Great
posted by Heiko Faass on March 30, 2007 at 07:19 AM
Some days ago, I read a story about an obviously famous Baseball player, that I never heard of before, as I have never been specifically interested in Baseball. His name is Babe Ruth. And his story illustrates perfectly the transition from being good to being great.
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Can a blind guy climb the Mount Everest?
posted by Heiko Faass on March 28, 2007 at 05:07 AM
Especially if your first thought was "No", read on. Be confirmed that most people answer stuff like "Hell no, this is too dangerous, way too difficult" or other crap like that. My first thought was "Why not?" - and despite being a professional optimist, I do not wear pink eyeglasses or see only positive aspects:
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Where do you talk about it?
posted by Max Simon on March 23, 2007 at 05:53 PM
As we begin to develop selfcenteredtour.com - a website that will act as a portal for young people around the world to connect about deeper issues like meditation, spirituality, fear, etc, I started to wonder what else was out there.
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CCC: Celebrities, Climate Chaos, Carbon Footprints
posted by DK Matai on March 22, 2007 at 06:58 PM
Whilst wishing the newly weds felicity, longevity and sustainability, The Philanthropia is picking up strong signals across Europe that environmental groups...
Hurley, Nayar and 200 tonnes of Carbon
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The new definition of Self Centered
posted by Max Simon on March 16, 2007 at 07:10 PM
As I have started to spread the word about the coolest new movement to hit the spirituality scene, well....ever, some people have had a knee jerk reaction to the name - Self Centered Tour.
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Real Time with Bill Maher
posted by Deepak Chopra on March 07, 2007 at 01:57 PM
Dear All, Please check your local cable listings (HBO) and watch me this Friday, March 9th on Bill Maher's Real Time program. It will be airing at 8pm.
Love, Deepak
Bogni: Excessive Liquidity, Self-Indulgence & Deceit
posted by ATCA on March 01, 2007 at 05:11 AM
We are grateful to Rudi Bogni based in Basel, Switzerland, and London, England, for "Excessive Liquidity, Self-Indulgence and Self-Deceit."
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mi2g marks 11 years by naming Global Big-20
posted by DK Matai on February 27, 2007 at 04:53 PM
mi2g is honoured to celebrate its eleventh birthday and marks the occasion by naming the Global Big-20 interlinked risks and opportunities of 2007.
The World as One from Outer Space
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2007 US Fruit harvest at risk; CCD endangers Crops
posted by ATCA on February 27, 2007 at 04:50 AM
US commercial beekeepers from at least 22 states are now reporting that bees have either mysteriously died or disappeared in huge numbers affecting their livelihood and hampering farmers that count on bees to pollinate their crops.
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Meeting Salman Rushdie
posted by Kavita Chhibber on February 26, 2007 at 09:41 AM
So this weekend was spent talking and listening to Salman Rushdie and
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Painting and Meditating
posted by Nandita Kathpalia Baig on February 25, 2007 at 07:40 PM
This last Saturday, Youthreach, an NGO I work with organised a painting and meditating afternoon in Lodhi gardens. This was organised under the Youthreach spirit programme, which facilitates processes that create deeper reflection on the self, social reality and change.
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AIDS - What's that?
posted by Mallika Chopra on February 23, 2007 at 02:47 PM
The enormous challenge of AIDS education in India is highlighted by a study that indicates that more than 40% of women in India have not heard of AIDS. 80% of Indian men are aware of the disease. With 5.7 Million people living with AIDS in India,
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Disposable Commodity?
posted by Kavita Chhibber on February 21, 2007 at 02:41 PM
The Shame of Female Infanticide
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Thomas Gerber: Mysterious, Massive Death of Bees
posted by ATCA on February 19, 2007 at 12:51 PM
We are grateful to Richard Thomas Gerber, based in Michigan, USA, for his seminal submission to ATCA, "Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- Mysterious, Massive Death of Bees in the US -- Are bees the Canary in the mineshaft?"
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China & ME: Eastern Alchemy for Global Harmony?
posted by ATCA on February 17, 2007 at 07:30 AM
We are grateful to Andrew Leung based in London for "China & Middle East: An Eastern Alchemy for Global Harmony?" in response to the ATCA think-piece, "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) convening in Paris has issued an Urgent Warning in regard to Global Warming."
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The Holy Fool
posted by Velcrow Ripper on February 17, 2007 at 12:58 AM
Let me don my clown wig and big shoes, and tell you a little bit about the wisdom of the fool. In the tarot there is always a dog biting at the heels of the fool. That dog represents the constraints of society. The fool does not notice-she continues merrily on her way, with a grin that says, ‘If I can’t laugh in your spiritual revolution, then count me out.’
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Losing my religion
posted by Nandita Kathpalia Baig on February 16, 2007 at 07:50 AM
To begin with, to be honest, I don’t know if I would have ever thought so deeply and been so concerned regarding what I am going to write about if my husband’s great grandfather hadn’t been a Muslim, due to which, my children today have Muslim surnames.
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What's in a name?
posted by Velcrow Ripper on February 15, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Recently a poster took offense to my name - Velcrow Ripper. In fact, became quite rude. This does happen on occasion, though rarely. I've found that my name serves as an excellent idiot filter. If someone is unable to get past something as simple as a name, which was given to me, and I've kept for some twenty years, then my message of radical inclusion has gone over their heads.
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The Young Generation
posted by Saira Rao on February 08, 2007 at 10:36 PM
By way of proper introduction to the esteemed Intentblog community, my name is Saira Rao and I am a lawyer-turned-writer. My first book, Chambermaid
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Anna Nicole Smith
posted by Mallika Chopra on February 08, 2007 at 01:48 PM
I just got home, and read the breaking news about Anna Nicole Smith's sudden death. This woman was a controversial personality, but had recently
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Spiritual Sexual Healing
posted by Mallika Chopra on February 06, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Reverend Haggard, who resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals last year after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced, has been deemed "completely heterosexual". One of his "healers" proclaimed
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Dr Davis: Countering Nuclear Weapons & Climate
posted by ATCA on February 06, 2007 at 09:17 AM
We are grateful to Dr Ian Davis, Co-Executive Director, British American Security Information Council, based in London and Washington DC, for "Countering Nuclear Weapons and Climate Chaos."
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We, the Parents
posted by Nandita Kathpalia Baig on February 05, 2007 at 04:14 AM
In the end, we will conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are taught.
-Baba Dioum (Senegalese Ecologist)
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where the mind is held high
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 03, 2007 at 06:44 PM
Yesterday I dropped by my Lohar (gypsy)friends. My conditioned being expected to be greeted by long and sad faces as their homes had been raised to the ground just a few hours before that.
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Climate Chaos: Freak Storms kill 14 in Florida
posted by DK Matai on February 02, 2007 at 07:49 AM
On the day of the release of the IPCC report on climate chaos in Paris, freak storms have killed at least 14 in Florida and left 100s homeless.
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My experience and reflections on the D.C. peace march and rally
posted by Rabbi Lerner on January 31, 2007 at 10:25 PM
I want to give you a bit of the flavor of the peace demonstration in D.C., particularly since the media coverage was so predictably inaccurate. It was immense (the "tens of thousands" described by the media was closer to a good 150,000 people—at the least), joyous, hopeful, sad, and exhilarating. I'm going to describe the experience of those of us who went as spiritual progressives, a subjective account that will highlight our experience.
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MEETING EACH OTHER, FOR PEACE’S SAKE
posted by Chat the planet on January 30, 2007 at 02:13 PM
For the past several years, we have been working with (and becoming close friends with) many young Iraqis. Some of them are filming and working on “Baghdad: Stay or Go,” our film about the terrible decision young adults have to make in Iraq: Should they flee their country or stay and risk their lives? Last week, one of the Iraqi participants of a previous Chat the Planet show, “Bridge to Baghdad,” came into our Manhattan offices.
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Watching a Master at Work
posted by Zappy on January 29, 2007 at 09:55 PM
A few years ago I got the chance to watch Quentin Tarantino direct an episode of the hit TV show CSI.
I snapped this photo of Quentin setting up a scene, using his hand as a view finder.
Where was he drawing his vision for the scene from?
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Holistics: Embracing Science, Art and Spirituality!
posted by DK Matai on January 23, 2007 at 03:01 AM
Dear friends, we recently initiated a Socratic Dialogue in which a number of IntentBloggers have taken part in regard to Unified Force, Sub-nuclear Physics & Love of Rumi. We are now being told in no uncertain terms "what is being discussed here in the name of science is not only bad-science, it is pseudo-science, bad-science, non-science or rather non-sense." [#97] Are we in the realms of going beyond science, art and spiritual philosophy towards Holistics?
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Gates Foundation: Contradiction in Philanthropy?
posted by ATCA on January 18, 2007 at 11:41 AM
About ten days ago, the Los Angeles Times published a two-part investigative report in regard to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Is there a Contradiction in their Philanthropy and Investment Strategy?
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Dr Martin Luther King, Jr: I have a dream...
posted by DK Matai on January 15, 2007 at 05:26 AM
Today is the birthday of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, who started his I have a dream speech by stating, "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation..."
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A Mother's letter from Nithari
posted by Shekhar Kapur on January 14, 2007 at 10:39 AM
I was told that they found my daughter's body. Not the whole body, just the legs, arms and severed head. The agony now ends. For a year I have been begging the police to help find her. They would humiliate us, and sneer. " She must have run away with a boy" they laughed.
My daughter was 9 years old when she went missing....
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Addicted
posted by Kavita Chhibber on January 14, 2007 at 05:12 AM
I went back to India again three weeks ago
A Crisis in Work Ethic?
posted by Dave Sidhu on January 13, 2007 at 10:26 AM
In the New York Post, Saira Rao offers this excellent article on young lawyers leaving large firms and generous salaries because of the demanding lifestyle associated with working at a major law firms. This topic interests me not only as a young lawyer, but also as a South Asian.
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Vox populi, vox Dei: Voice of people, voice of God
posted by DK Matai on January 12, 2007 at 12:01 PM
There is an old Latin saying "Vox populi, vox Dei!" The voice of the people, is the voice of God! Two out of three Americans oppose US President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, according to the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll published this morning. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Blair has said UK must continue to fight wars as reported by the BBC.
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Some of our intentions
posted by Chat the planet on January 09, 2007 at 01:27 PM
Let's start by saying that everyone at Chat the Planet wishes every one of you a happy new year.
The beginning of a new year is a time to resolve to be better, to do better, and to make the world a better place. It is a time to put intentions into words and to put time and energy and love into making these resolutions into reality.
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Identity Crisis
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 09, 2007 at 04:46 AM
I spent this last weekend down in Miami attending a South Asian Students Association conference where we were spreading the word on our new company Virgin Comics. In part, our mission is to redefine and re-invent the mythologies of India and South Asia and make them relevant for South Asians in the teens and 20's.
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2007 Full Analysis of Global Risks & Opportunities
posted by DK Matai on January 04, 2007 at 03:28 AM
Dear friends, Happy New Year to you and to your family! Here is the 2007 full analysis of global risks and opportunities encompassing: spiritual awakening and consumer activism; countering climate chaos; radical poverty and micro-finance; geo-politics, organised crime and extremism; new technologies; pandemics; demographic skews; and financial markets.
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Spectacular!
posted by Vijay Sappani on January 01, 2007 at 06:27 PM
That's what I will say if you asked me to put 2006 in one word.
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Mmmoooooo-wwwaaaaaaah!
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on January 01, 2007 at 02:16 AM
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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to walk on the earth
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on December 31, 2006 at 10:33 PM
My intention for 2007 is to follow and old chinese proverb that says: the miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth. and just take time to savour these very miracles.
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The Muslim prophet born in Bethlehem
posted by Intent on December 31, 2006 at 10:22 PM
Our friend, Ashie, at Heart In Action Enterprises have sent us this story.
The story of Jesus held a special place within early Islam. There is no need for a clash of civilisations
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Happy 2007!!
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 31, 2006 at 09:29 AM
A Very Happy New Year to Our Intentblog Friends!! We would love to hear your intentions for 2007! Also,
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DISGUSTED AND COMPLICIT
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 30, 2006 at 08:35 AM
DISCLAIMER: I reserve the right to evolve my opinion as I gather more info and process it. Also as I get some sleep.
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Kabalist "Zappy" at Stevie Wonder's house Xmas Eve
posted by Zappy on December 28, 2006 at 11:45 PM
I was blessed this year to be able to spend Xmas Eve at Stevie Wonder’s house, partying, philosophizing, and laughing.
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Prof Esty: Better World through Global Exchange
posted by ATCA on December 21, 2006 at 02:33 AM
It was a great pleasure to meet Prof Dan Esty recently from Yale University, USA, who is the Director of the Yale World Fellows Program. When he outlined the objectives of the World Fellows Program, it was heart warming to note that step by step, Yale was seeking to build a better world through a grass roots diplomacy initiative based on global exchange, dialogue and emerging leaders' education.
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50 Years On: Looking to the Future - Horizon Scans
posted by ATCA on December 20, 2006 at 07:43 AM
50 Years Ahead: Looking to the Challenges of the Future with Horizon Scans. From Artificially Intelligent Robots to Ethics & Civil Rights; from Demographic Skews to Environmental Protection. Within 50 years we might find ourselves standing alongside the next generation of sentient machines -- artificially intelligent robots -- in the voting booth.
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Congrats!
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 17, 2006 at 11:30 AM
YOU are the Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Dignity to the dead
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 15, 2006 at 02:31 AM
"How old is this?," the young labourer asks me. I take the plastic can filled with water from his hands without answering him. I'm still looking at the gravestone. I splash some water on the stone, removing layers of mud and dead leaves. The name is clear now: The Michaels. Died 2 July, 1868.
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The "As If" Zone
posted by mindyourmind.ca on December 14, 2006 at 12:53 AM
In 2003, mindyourmind.ca emerged from our belief that youth mental health was not being taken seriously. Suicide was the second highest killer of youth between the ages of 16 -24 and this age group also had the highest experience of mental health episodes. At the same time, we all knew that youth were not coming for professional services and when they were, the drop-out rate was staggering for things like maintaining medications. But for all that, there was little funding for mental health education.
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Who are you deep down inside?
posted by Saira Mohan on December 12, 2006 at 02:28 PM
"Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are
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Landless in Punjab
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 09, 2006 at 06:25 PM
The real face of the Green Revolution in Punjab.
My Gadar is totally off
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 05, 2006 at 11:33 PM
I don't really do anything these days but work. Occassionally I'll take a few minutes off to walk to starbucks or fight with my wife but I'm quickly back at the computer working away. All this work is really starting to blunt some of my super-powers as well - including what was once a very refined gadar.
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Malmgren: Falling Dollar - Good news or Bad news?
posted by ATCA on December 03, 2006 at 02:44 PM
Dr Harald Malmgren presently touring the Far East -- having just flown from Seoul, South Korea, to Tokyo, Japan -- and based in Washington DC, USA, comments "Falling Dollar: Good news or Bad news?"
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$115 / night
posted by Saira Mohan on November 30, 2006 at 10:47 AM
Look what kind of hotel room you can get for $115-per-night in some parts of the world...
Normandy, France
BA: 33,000 passgrs & 3,000 staff in Radiation Alert
posted by ATCA on November 30, 2006 at 02:35 AM
British Airways is trying to contact 33,000 passengers and 3,000 staff after radioactive traces were found on two of its aircraft. A third aircraft, currently in Moscow, is to be flown back to the UK for tests. The low grade radiation was found by scientists investigating the death of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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The Yellow Wiggle
posted by Mallika Chopra on November 29, 2006 at 09:56 PM
Amidst today's headlines -- Bush snubbed by the Iraqi Prime Minister, the Iran Iraq alliance, the Iraq panel report, Britney Spears under the influence of Paris Hilton (I kid you not this was a headline on CNN today) -- the shocking news of the night is that Greg Page, the Yellow Wiggle, is retiring!!!
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A Special Post from Desh Kapoor
posted by Intent on November 27, 2006 at 10:13 PM
In October of 1927, Born, Dirac, Heisenberg, and Pauli, and Bohr came together and expounded as well as accepted "an" interpretation of the new quantum world that was reeling in the aftermath of Schrodinger's Wave Collapse experiments. They called it the Copenhagen Interpretation.
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The Value of Human Life
posted by Anand Shah on November 27, 2006 at 12:49 PM
This evening, at home in Ahmedabad, India, a colleague living in a nearby village called to say he wasn't coming to work tomorrow. The reason: the pregnant wife and child of a childhood friend in the same village died during childbirth at the Government hospital. This may not be a total shock, but knowing full well that the world has the knowedge and ability to save human lives, it hits close to home.
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When Worldviews Collide
posted by Deepak Chopra on November 27, 2006 at 12:35 PM
Dear Bloggers,
Here's the link to this week's Time Magazine (Nov 26th) Letters section on the debate between God vs Science.
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The God Delusion? Part 5
posted by Deepak Chopra on November 27, 2006 at 09:21 AM
Science has progressed through experiments that convince people about the truth through verified results. If it's true that consciousness is everywhere in Nature--a basic tenet if you want to prove that God exists--there needs to be an experiment to prove it. Materialists argue
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"Essence of Kabala" Animated Film (5 Minutes)
posted by Zappy on November 24, 2006 at 08:45 PM
I'm excited to be able to share this animated intoduction to Kabala with you. I created it with a group of amazing artists, and by the power of youtube it is available for everyone to view, absolutely free. Please share it with anyone you think it might interest.
Click the link below and enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9dYvoou1g
Peace. Zappy
Thanksgiving Meditation 2006
posted by Rabbi Lerner on November 23, 2006 at 09:07 PM
To the Force of Life and Love in the Universe:
Thank you for all the goodness in my life. How amazing it is to be blessed with the ability to see and take in the magnificence of the universe.
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The scarecrows of Kolezari
posted by Rahul Pandita on November 19, 2006 at 10:10 PM
A travel into the Vidarbha heartland, where a village hoped to open its heart in front of the Indian Prime Minister but never got a chance. Here is how.
TASER TROUBLE
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 19, 2006 at 07:41 PM
Courtesy of youtube, the 6 minute video of an Iranian American student getting repeatedly "tazed" by UCLA campus police is all blazing its way around the globe.
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A nation addicted: Cocaine - Britain's deadly habit
posted by DK Matai on November 19, 2006 at 07:28 AM
A major new report shows that 1.75 million young adults in the UK use a drug that most think is harmless. But 171 people have died from its use last year, an increase of 300 per cent in five years. The views of Paul Bettany, Rod Stewart, Mike Skinner, Naomi Campbell, Tracy Shaw, Jay Kay, Patsy Kensit, Richard Bacon, Darren Day, Justin Hawkins, Frank Bruno, Sophie Anderton, Shaun Ryder, Liam Gallagher, Robbie Williams, Kate Moss, Tara Palmer-Tompkinson, Daniella Westbrook, Pete Doherty and Elton John, are worth noting.
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Heads I win, tails you lose
posted by Rahul Pandita on November 17, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Radhakrishna Dhanlal Hemahe, Dona Damadu Raut, Baba Kisan Warhekar, Madhav Ramaji Kotewar and 2,097 other farmers are dead. Who is responsible? Read on...
Telling The Killers Story
posted by Mallika Chopra on November 16, 2006 at 10:04 PM
Judith Regan has issued a statement regarding her decision to publish Why I Did It, by OJ Simpson. Her statement is riveting, as she describes her own personal history with an abusive partner. She refers to OJ as the killer.
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Dr Tharoor: What kind of UN should we build?
posted by ATCA on November 16, 2006 at 08:35 AM
We are grateful to the United Nations Under Secretary General, Dr Shashi Tharoor, from New York for his submission to ATCA, "What kind of United Nations should we build for the future?"
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Indians are the biggest racists, bigots and snobs
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 14, 2006 at 07:09 PM
His dark eyes were flashing fire, as I sat next to him at a get together, when he said that to me.
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Nairobi: United Nations Climate Change Conference
posted by ATCA on November 14, 2006 at 03:25 PM
As discussions at Nairobi reach their climax it is important that we reach consensus in dealing with the very real threats climate change poses communities in both developing and developed economies.
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Let's Not Forget the People of Iraq
posted by Chat the planet on November 14, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Hopefully, the results of the midterm elections in the US will help stop the downward spiral. Hopefully, they'll mitigate some of the worst abuses of power. Hopefully, more peace will come into this world.
The new Democratic leadership in Congress will surely bring some change to the United State's policy on Iraq. While it's hard to know the best course of action at this point, we at Chat the Planet do know that we must not forget the people of Iraq.
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Time and Headspace
posted by Rahul Bose on November 10, 2006 at 10:18 PM
One of the great new pleasures of my life is to watch a movie with my niece, Alya, in the theatre on a Sunday. Alya is nine and her cinematic tastes run from Ice Age to the Harry Potters. As movies go, the ones she and I watch are fantasy-adventure films that fabulously use every single tech tool to entice and enrapture their core demographic – girls and boys like Alya. They do their job superbly. Each time I step out squinting into the afternoon light after a show, my head still echoes with the drama, the thrill and even the humour in these films.
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The Buckeyes sing the "Blues"
posted by Rini Das on November 07, 2006 at 07:00 PM
The melodic sounds of a Blue state come out in votes.
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Bill Clinton called us today
posted by Rini Das on November 06, 2006 at 06:51 PM
9:14 pm: It is quiet here in Columbus. Dense grey clouds covering the high skies. One can hear each leaf slowly fall to the ground, as the top branches of the trees gently rustle. Nothing ominous, but the weather folks predict 50% chance of rain. If one is cynical, this means Republicans will win big in Ohio, maintaining the 2004 calamity.
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China takes lead in establishing New World Order
posted by ATCA on November 04, 2006 at 08:26 AM
The Third Forum on China-Africa Cooperation started today. The leaders of 48 African countries have arrived in Beijing. Economic observers are already talking about the triumph of Chinese diplomacy and African state leaders are praising Beijing's rapid economic development, saying they wish to imitate it.
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Why Ohio is the new Black?
posted by Rini Das on November 02, 2006 at 06:00 PM
This November, in less than a week from today, Ohio will perhaps redeem itself of its image from 2004.
As you know, we folks at Ohio are just spectacularly average.
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What are you breathing in airplanes?
posted by Rini Das on November 02, 2006 at 02:43 PM
October 22, 2006 Jeff Bailey of New York Times wrote an article about the cleaning of airplanes. It was titled "That Squish Behind the Jet Seat May Be an Open Ketchup Pack".
For those of us who are not amateur travelers, I wonder how many of us are more concerned about tomato ketchup versus the oxygen in the cabin.
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Can we shush the SUS?
posted by Rini Das on November 02, 2006 at 01:28 PM
Few weeks ago, on a sunny autumn Saturday afternoon, we ventured out to the Columbus Zoo. The new baby gorilla Umande had arrived from Cheyenne looking for a foster parent in Columbus. We had to meet the baby.
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Where are our tears?
posted by Chat the planet on November 01, 2006 at 09:37 AM
There is so much violence and bloodshed and suffering happening in the world right now. The news out of Iraq is heartbreaking. Two percent of the Iraqi population has been killed in this war. Two percent. Two percent of the entire population of Iraq. How can we even begin to comprehend this? How can we go on? Why aren't we crying our eyes out? We are trying to work for peace and global understanding, for sure, but isn't it time for some tears as well?
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The Grave Crisis of Globalisation
posted by DK Matai on November 01, 2006 at 01:02 AM
How can we regenerate the momentum? By addressing the Big-10 global risks through a shared sense of community and humanity's common future...
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Climate: Economist Sir Nicholas Stern's Views
posted by ATCA on October 29, 2006 at 10:20 AM
The dramatic findings of Sir Nicholas Stern's report, due out tomorrow, have increased the pressure on the British Prime Minister to act decisively in regard to countering climate chaos.
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HRH: Tackling the Poverty of Opportunity
posted by DK Matai on October 26, 2006 at 12:03 AM
The founders of The Philanthropia were invited recently to meet His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales -- Prince Charles -- at St James's Palace and Clarence House to find ways to work together in the area of leadership for the younger generation.
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Acceptance of Misogyny in US Culture
posted by Kanika Sethi on October 20, 2006 at 01:07 PM
Some of you may have caught this editorial by Bob Herbert in the New York Times earlier this week. I just came across it and thought I'd share for those of you who also may have missed it. Found it very powerful and pertinent, in part because it was written by a man and also because I'm about to have my second daughter any day now..... thanks for reading. Hope it provokes some discussion.
K.
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Andrew Leung: Negotiating Global Equilibrium
posted by ATCA on October 19, 2006 at 03:14 PM
"The mess in Iraq, the less than optimal outcome of the recent war in Lebanon, the festering of the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian issue, and now the threat of unmanageable nuclear proliferation triggered by North Korea, are beginning to see the emergence of a re-think that there may perhaps be a more durable alternative to economic or military coercion."
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Super Mamo
posted by Gotham Chopra on October 18, 2006 at 08:39 AM
While my sister is suffering from the thought of separation anxiety in preparation of her and her husband's first vacation in 10 years sans children, I am suffering from plain old anxiety.
Gimme another break!
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on October 17, 2006 at 08:26 PM
She's doing it for the kids
the voice on the phone gushes
I'm calling from her office
We would love for you and kaveri to join us
So I am sending you some signed passes
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Vedanta University to rewrite history of academia
posted by DK Matai on October 15, 2006 at 02:14 PM
One of the hot subjects discussed at the peripheries of The Evian Group conference in Montreux, Switzerland, was Vedanta University. Vedanta University's motto is to "Rewrite the history of academia." The university, which is a "not-for-profit" venture, is being endowed with USD 1 billion from Anil Agarwal's personal funds.
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just start on the inside and work your way out
posted by radhika on October 11, 2006 at 12:03 PM
Yesterday, in between reading everyone’s posts on peace, I was lying on the couch, Pandora rocking the soundscape around me, when one of my favorite songs by ani difranco came on.
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If everyone knew everyone, world peace would be closer at hand
posted by Chat the planet on October 11, 2006 at 10:56 AM
We at ChatthePlanet like to ask the question "What if everyone knew everyone?"
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Blogging on PEACE for the Yahoo! Time Capsule.
posted by Intent on October 10, 2006 at 11:38 PM
Intentbloggers are joining the Yahoo! Time Capsule by writing about PEACE.
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Peace of A$$
posted by Gotham Chopra on October 10, 2006 at 08:15 PM
I just really wanted that as a title to my blog more than anything. Now I have to come up with something somewhat relevant to blog about.
Ah...but I have.
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Entelechy Arts: London’s cultural peacemongers
posted by Aladin on October 10, 2006 at 03:59 PM
This remarkable arts company and charity sprang out of everyday encounters almost 20 years ago between people who would not ordinarily come into contact with each other.
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The Pen is Mightier...
posted by Rish Sanghvi on October 10, 2006 at 12:40 PM
Force a pen upon me and I will wield it like a deadly weapon of warfare.
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Peace, not Pieces
posted by Anupam Kher on October 10, 2006 at 10:26 AM
Peace has a lot to do with individual effort. Over a period of time, bad news has become a part of our psyche. Peace has become a very personalized feeling-
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Seven Practices for Peacemakers
posted by Deepak Chopra on October 10, 2006 at 09:53 AM
How to end war
One person at a time
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Life's Breath of Peace
posted by Salman Ahmad on October 10, 2006 at 09:22 AM
how many miles must we travel
how many lives must we squander
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Peace and War
posted by Dave Stewart on October 10, 2006 at 09:12 AM
"Between the slabs of gone civilisations the grass grows"
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On Peace
posted by Dave Sidhu on October 10, 2006 at 08:42 AM
The human race has witnessed a number of positive developments over the course
Peace or Else!
posted by Rex Weyler on October 10, 2006 at 06:22 AM
Yesterday, North Korea exploded their first nuclear weapon. Of course, they claim this weapon will help them secure peace in Asia.
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A Change of Heart
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 08, 2006 at 08:03 AM
True love is unconquerable and irresistible. It goes on gathering power and spreading itself until eventually it transforms everyone it touches. Humanity will attain a new mode of being and life through the free and unhampered interplay of pure love from heart to heart. Meher Baba
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PostSecret
posted by Saira Mohan on October 06, 2006 at 01:23 PM
Check out PostSecret.com. It will affect you.
Threat to Politicians from Internet Truth Predictors
posted by ATCA on October 04, 2006 at 12:25 PM
Imagine being able to check instantly whether or not statements made by politicians are correct. That is the sort of service Google's Eric Schmidt believes the Internet will offer in less than five years.
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No Courtesy Flush
posted by Gotham Chopra on September 22, 2006 at 07:53 PM
It was interesting this week to watch Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad roll through nyc like a couple of West Coast rappers and steal the show from the natives.
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Eyes of Fire & Greenpeace at 35 years
posted by Rex Weyler on September 15, 2006 at 07:24 AM
Today is the 35th birthday of Greenpeace. Thanks to Mallika and Deepak and everyone at Intentblog for inviting me to contribute. And thanks to Dave Stewart for his many years of support for Greenpeace and the environment. I keep in my memory Irving Stowe,
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Dr Guinness: Living with our Deepest Differences
posted by ATCA on September 11, 2006 at 02:27 PM
The twentieth century was the most murderous century in history, and it ended with an orgy of ethnic and sectarian violence that raised a number of important issues: first, that "living with our deepest differences" is one of the most urgent questions in today's world;
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Climate change, soy beans, and bacon
posted by Rex Weyler on September 11, 2006 at 09:56 AM
My friend and colleague Paul Watson sent me Dr. James Lovelock’s most recent assessment of the global ecology. Fifty years ago, Lovelock designed the electron capture device that provided Rachel Carson with the data to show that DDT had contaminated bird’s eggs and mother's milk. He uncovered the effects of CFCs, alerted the planet to the hole in the ozone, discovered the exponential CO2 build-up in the atmosphere, and wrote the Gaia Hypothesis in 1978, changing the way biologists look at the natural world. Lovelock brought common decency, urgency, and good science to the discussion about our environmental future.
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5 Years Post 9/11 -- Schizmogenesis: Asymmetry
posted by ATCA on September 11, 2006 at 12:58 AM
We are grateful to Dr Charles Hampden-Turner for his deeper analysis of 9/11 effects with a new addition today as Post #19. Our thoughts and prayers are with the innocent victims of 9/11 and subsequent tragedies across the globe and also with the innocent victims of the subsequent War on Terror.
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Men Smarter than Women?
posted by Kavita Chhibber on September 09, 2006 at 06:15 AM
so says this
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Hawking -- Can humans sustain 100 more years?
posted by ATCA on September 06, 2006 at 03:11 PM
It has been an unusual move for one of the world's most eminent scientists. Having built a career shedding light on the darkest secrets of the universe, from the essence of space-time to the complexity of black holes, Professor Stephen Hawking has turned to the Internet for answers to the latest conundrum occupying his thoughts.
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ATCA and Intentblog
posted by Mallika Chopra on September 05, 2006 at 01:24 PM
I am excited to formally announce our relationship with ATCA. Through them, we will bring you informed opinions and dialogue from distinguished leaders around the world. I have been voraciously reading their daily e-letter, and am thrilled that they have chosen to collaborate with us. Following is a formal announcement:
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11 "Open ATCA" Socratic Dialogues @ IntentBlog
posted by ATCA on September 01, 2006 at 05:00 AM
To kick-off the return to work in September, we have initiated a series of 11 Open ATCA Socratic Dialogues at IntentBlog on The Hydrogen Economy, Climate Chaos, Einstein-Russell, New Orleans, Buddha, Blended Value, Iran, Advaita, Social Entrepreneurship, Unity and Non-Violence.
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New Orleans Anniversary & Ernesto hits Florida
posted by DK Matai on August 27, 2006 at 06:59 AM
Excerpt reproduced with permission of the ATCA Council: On the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which battered the US Gulf Coast and swamped New Orleans last year, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Officials and residents are mindful of nature's force a year to the day since Hurricane Katrina flooded most of New Orleans, killing 1,500 people and causing over USD 80 billion in damage.
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When does a good leader listen?
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 25, 2006 at 12:29 PM
HuffingtonPost headlines this story about President Bush's conversation yesterday with a widow whose husband is a soldier who recently died in Iraq. The private meeting
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The Macaca Fracas--Senator George Allen
posted by Subodh Chandra on August 24, 2006 at 06:21 PM
Cross-posted here, along with a fun photo, is an article I wrote for The American Prospect about Virginia Senator George Alen's derogatory comments toward an Indian-American staffer for his opponent.
If you're a believer in karmic facilitation as I am, you can facilitate Allen's just rewards by helping his opponent out as best you can.
The News on Pluto
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 24, 2006 at 01:04 PM
Well Pluto is no longer a planet. This is interesting news. Debunked of planetary status after a vote by the International Astronomical Union. I wonder what happened with the astrological charts that were under the influence of Pluto (negative as I remembered). Anyhow, our solar system now has eight planets, and so many books, manuals and old minds need to be corrected.
I am dreading to look at the night sky tonight with a lesser Pluto.
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NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 23, 2006 at 10:43 AM
My sister is pretty much a better person than me. More patient, more caring, more compassionate, smarter, more focused, more everything really. I'm pretty impatient, have low tolerance, get frustrated easily, can't focus, etc.
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Acting Smart or Acting Paranoid?
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 22, 2006 at 04:30 PM
Or, perhaps after you read my story, you will think I was acting dumb and paranoid...
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NICE QUOTA
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 20, 2006 at 03:38 PM
Been traveling around India the last few days doing some work and meeting lots of folks in the creative industries.
Close encounters of the wrong kind
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on August 16, 2006 at 12:16 AM
It was a withheld number. The voice on the other end of the phone line sounded inoccous enough.
"This is Rajesh Madam.Your are Suchitraji na? "
"this is she"
I'ts for an advertisement for diamond jewellery madam. The party is very keen on you. Very big party-international madam. From out of town. It wont take up much of your time & it will be all done in one evening"
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Quick: Get your bombs in!
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 13, 2006 at 08:17 PM
There are now only a few short hours left to get your licks in if you play for either Hezbollah or the IDF as the UN approved cease-fire kicks in soon! Time is of the essence to fire off a rocket, perhaps get lucky and hit a school in Northern Israel if your an Islamic militant. Alternatively, there's still a chance for the IDF to launch so-called precision guided missiles and destroy an entire Lebanese neighborhood on the off chance that you'll nail a miltant.
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Is non-violence out-of-fashion in the 21st century?
posted by DK Matai on August 13, 2006 at 08:01 AM
Mahatma Gandhi said, "Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man." Ahinsa is a concept which advocates non-violence and a respect for all life.
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MacGyver hired as consultent by Uncle Osama
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 10, 2006 at 10:48 PM
Word is that combing gatorade with some common peroxide liguid gel makes for a pretty powerful bomb that can be triggered using an ipod or cell phone. Wow - really? MacGyver is totally working with Osama Bin L. Remember MacGyver, the dude who could make pigs fly with a clotheshanger and a match? Well he's apparently back and doing no good for the folks at gatorade. Allow me to explain:
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Homeless...
posted by Derrick N Ashong on August 10, 2006 at 01:35 PM
I know bloggers are all about the most current thoughts on the most current issues, but I am either old school or just plain lazy. In the interests of self-esteem I'm going to posit that my continuing appreciation for things I wrote sometime before today is not in fact reflective of my being the "worst-journalist-ever," (I'm a musician...sue me) but rather the start of a new trend towards archival reporting, making me in fact SO old school I'm actually "new-school."
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The view from here
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 08, 2006 at 12:28 AM
In America, we are so self-involved with everything. We dug ourselves in deep in Iraq and are all tangled up in everyday's tragic events. We have a long history and alliance with Israel and so have to reflect with each day's violence how we are complicit in it.
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Procrastination
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 05, 2006 at 03:38 PM
I am a queen of procrastination. Why is it
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India - Day 1
posted by Gotham Chopra on August 03, 2006 at 06:57 PM
Been in India at home in Delhi all week. A mix of nostalgia, fascination, frustration, familarity, and excitement consumes.
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Me
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 26, 2006 at 11:49 PM
Sorry for the disappearing act. I've been around and been reading but have def had some serious blogstipation of late and not dropped pen in a while (I just made that up, meaning not written). Most of my time has gone to our new Virgin venture. Check it out: http://www.virgincomics.com
Who should we blame for this attack?
posted by Rahul Bose on July 26, 2006 at 10:17 AM
12 July, 2006. I board the 11.05 slow from Churchgate to Borivali. The second class bogey is half empty. But then it’s past rush hour, and we’re traveling against the traffic.
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Cars vs. Bikes
posted by Ayesha Hakki on July 21, 2006 at 02:09 PM
In an effort to save gas, the environment and my life savings (what with these lovely prices), I’ve resorted to riding my bike wherever I can. Since I live
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Letter from a "friend of a friend" in Lebanon...
posted by Kanika Sethi on July 19, 2006 at 01:00 PM
I recently got this email from an Egyptian-American friend of mine. I know that there is a lot of skepticism about
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Intentblog - Typekey, Aliases and Comments
posted by Mallika Chopra on July 19, 2006 at 11:14 AM
To deal with alias comments, increased junk mail, and the slowness of the site, we've enabled TypeKey authentication on Intentblog. This will not
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Bombay
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on July 11, 2006 at 11:47 AM
Bombay
For Free -- if You Are a Celebrity
posted by Mallika Chopra on July 10, 2006 at 03:54 PM
I just got something for free -- why? Because I am Deepak Chopra's daughter.
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The World Isn't Ending, Now What?
posted by Deepak Chopra on July 10, 2006 at 01:38 PM
In a old post on the seduction of apocalyptic thinking, my emphasis was on fundamentalist Christians and others who feel enticed by the notion that the world will soon come to an end. But the tendency reaches deeper than that. Apocalyptic thinking is motivated, in large part, by an inability to come to grips with life's challenges, and one turns to metaphysics as an escape from lurking feelings of guilt, anxiety, and despair.
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WORLD CUP, BABY!
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 09, 2006 at 10:00 AM
BRING IT ON! Somewhere in Rome or Paris, there are fans of their respective futbol teams that have drunk too much during the pre-partying for today's final and will wake up only in time to see the final score. That's what happens when you get too swept up in the excitment.
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Key to fixing world's problems is spirit, not amount, of giving
posted by Deepak Chopra on July 07, 2006 at 02:17 PM
Dear Friends,
Here's a new Op-Ed that was printed today in the Mercury News: LINK
Love,
Deepak
Let me ask you. . .
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on July 05, 2006 at 05:28 AM
Let me ask you. . .
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World's Rudest City?
posted by Rahul Bose on July 01, 2006 at 07:44 AM
Two days ago, the Indian editor of the Reader’s Digest, Mohan Sivanand, refuted allegations that his magazine had labeled Bombay as the world’s rudest city. He said, “…we’ve never said Mumbai is the rudest city. It’s just that it ranks the lowest in matters of courtesy.” A free trip to the world’s most courteous city, New York
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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
posted by Dave Sidhu on June 30, 2006 at 07:02 PM
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued one of the most important decisions of our generation, one that vindicates the American constitutional design and, in particular, the judicial check on executive wartime authority.
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40 BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Bharat Chopra on June 29, 2006 at 04:07 AM
Warren Buffet just gave 40 billion dollars in cash and equity to the Bill Gates Foundation. He initially had planned on leaving the money with his wife to distribute but she unexpectedly passed away before him. He has begun the process of giving the money to Bill Gates to manage, who has very quickly become the world’s most admired individual in terms of donating to charity and ensuring the causes he donates to uses the money appropriately.
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Peace One Day?
posted by Mallika Chopra on June 28, 2006 at 08:41 PM
With the abduction of Gilad Shalit, a 19 year old Israeli solder, it seems that a series of events, like a stack of dominoes toppling down, may throw the Middle East into all out war. Meanwhile, a number of us from Sundays Virtual Panel have been in engaged in a dialogue online about peace. I ask
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Why Is Cruel and Unusual Getting Crueler?
posted by Deepak Chopra on June 26, 2006 at 09:57 AM
I celebrated inwardly when it was revealed that a single hold-out juror prevented the so-called twentieth hijacker from 9/11, Zacarias Moussaoui , from receiving the death penalty. This juror gave no reason, but I hope it was conscience pure and simple.
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The Task at Hand; becoming a new humanity
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 24, 2006 at 04:38 AM
A heart wave is surreptitiously, increasingly and tenaciously surging in the world, as we meet and relate, in glances, smiles, embraces, e-mails, chats and blogs, in spite of our cynicism, and the seeming chaos magnified by a shortsighted and hyperbolic media and our ever excitable minds.
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Class in Edmonton
posted by Dave Sidhu on June 19, 2006 at 10:17 AM
Tonight, the Stanley Cup -- the National Hockey League's championship trophy -- will be awarded to the Carolina Hurricanes or the Edmonton Oilers. This post is not about hockey -- regrettably an unpopular sport in the United States and presumably with most Intent readers -- but about something increasingly rare in sports: civility.
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Peace treaty
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on June 13, 2006 at 02:16 PM
Peace treaty
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The Ravana of Kashmir
posted by Rahul Pandita on June 09, 2006 at 11:54 PM
Ravana died yesterday for the first time for me.
It had to die around twenty years ago. But they did not let him die in Kashmir and so he weighed heavily on my consciousness for twenty extra years.
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: a piece of dough goes a long way
posted by Vikas Khanna on June 08, 2006 at 07:55 PM
“Did you put the first piece of dough in the fire, before you started making the breads.” yelled my senior chef at Mughal Sheraton Hotel, Agra.
I was young and working in the heat of June in 1995 and I still remember the time when these chefs explained to me the significance of these actions. “Fire is a purifier, and considered auspicious in Hindu religious ceremonies.”
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666!
posted by Gotham Chopra on June 06, 2006 at 08:15 AM
I'm generally averse to doing the back-to-back blog thang but could not resist as I started to contemplate the date today. It's 6-6-6! Ottawa take cover!!!
Seriously a lot of people - and I mean A LOT - really believe that the apocalypse is gonna take place today. If traffic on the 405 counts, I am with them. Otherwise, if I were a betting man (and I am), I'd bet that life will find a way today...
Canadian Terrorists
posted by Gotham Chopra on June 05, 2006 at 10:55 PM
Yeah I am not really sure what I am supposed to say about this. Mallika emailed me earlier that "I should blog about this [Canadian Terrorists]" and so I am. You see, when it comes to terrorism (the violence part - she and my dad do the peace pipe thing) or sports or strippers, that's really my domain and I am expected to speak up - I think.
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The Man
posted by Rahul Bose on May 29, 2006 at 11:34 AM
It took evolution 500 years to move us from Neanderthal Man to Rennaisance Man. And only five years from New Age Man to Metrosexual Man to Retrosexual Man to Thinking Man. First we were informed it’s cool to be in touch with your feelings, then it’s like tooo New Age. Next,
Earthquake Victims
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 28, 2006 at 08:21 AM
The death toll is rising -- more than 4300 now -- from the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia. Over 200,000 are homeless. Please provide links to organizations that can help. Here is the Red Cross.
Memorial Day
posted by Kanika Sethi on May 26, 2006 at 12:13 PM
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend in the United States and everyone seems to be hanging up their freshly laundered American flags and getting ready for parades and commemorations of brave American soldiers who have fought and died for their country. In preparation for the days ahead, I’d like to tell you about a trip to the park I took just yesterday….
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Should Women be Blamed For Sexual Harassment and How women are treated in general?
posted by Kavita Chhibber on May 24, 2006 at 06:55 AM
I recall being around ten or twelve
Nightmares
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 23, 2006 at 09:50 PM
I had a gut wrenching nightmare.
BAGHDAD ER
posted by Gotham Chopra on May 22, 2006 at 10:55 PM
Tonight flipping channels, I came across a doc on HBO called Baghdad ER filmed by a few guys I used to work with some years ago. The film follows a Medic Unit from tje 86'th Airborn as they spend their days and months based in Baghdad's Green Zone - the central command center for the US military stationed in IRAQ.
The little book and me
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on May 21, 2006 at 11:06 PM
The little book and me
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Colours of own disability
posted by Vijay Sappani on May 20, 2006 at 07:46 AM
while we attempt to teach them something, we might have a lot to learn from them.
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Europe and environment
posted by Vijay Sappani on May 18, 2006 at 07:56 PM
When health care is free, should smokers and non smokers be treated the same?
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New Direction for Intentblog
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 15, 2006 at 08:27 AM
Gotham, Shekhar, my dad (Deepak) and I recently decided to take Intentblog in a new direction. We are going to expand our contributor base to global friends and family, not just those of South Asian origin.
Why? Because we realized that on this site, we are all global citizens, and what we write and think about are global issues.
We are excited to annouce the brilliant, creative, and prestigious
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Power... Whats love gotta do with it?
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on May 14, 2006 at 11:54 PM
Watched TV yesterday after ages. There was Oprah Winfrey and Pink sitting on a white couch-talking about woman/girl power. Made a lot of sense to me –except for some parts. There were many psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, swimsuit models, acheivers etc etc too in the audience who put forth their points of view.That made a lot of sense too -except again for some parts.
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"America, you lose, and I won."
posted by Dave Sidhu on May 04, 2006 at 07:55 PM
The words of a defiant Zacarias Moussaoui, who yesterday was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Twelve jurors deliberated for seven days before reaching this decision. What may be going through the minds of many Americans is the following question: what would I have voted for -- life or death -- if I was on the jury?
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Indecisive or Enlightened?
posted by Gotham Chopra on May 03, 2006 at 07:21 AM
In my new role of creative head of a creative company, I have all sorts of new responsibilities that I've never had before. Chief amongst them is managing people.
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On Immigration
posted by Dave Sidhu on May 01, 2006 at 10:17 PM
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of America today, marching in support of immigrants' rights and in a dramatic display of solidarity. Some of those taking part were illegal immigrants who left work to expose the void that would exist if the immigrants were not in the country. In this sense, the demonstrations were not just about rights, patriotism, and unity, but about sheer economic power.
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The Greatest Salesman in the World
posted by Bharat Chopra on May 01, 2006 at 01:31 AM
Everyone, whether they realize it or not, is in sales. Not necessarily as a revenue chaser, but each of us are eternally trying to influence others and affect outcomes in favor of our causes. A few years ago I read a great book called “The Greatest Salesman in the World". There are some great messages in this book relevant to people of all walks of life, starting with: “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
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MIA
posted by Gotham Chopra on April 26, 2006 at 05:23 PM
That's what I have been in recent days and weeks. In part because I have been traveling overseas again and also trying to get my leg right. Working harder than ever on the new business trying to get it up on solid and sturdy legs.
Kaavya Viswanathan: Frey-in her way to the Top
posted by Kavita Chhibber on April 26, 2006 at 05:21 AM
Till three weeks ago the 19 year old Harvard student was the toast of the town.
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Maya Rajhans
posted by Mohit Rajhans on April 24, 2006 at 10:04 AM
I wanted to thank you all for the advice during our pregnancy and let you know that on Saturday, April 22nd, 2006, Maya Kate Rajhans was born in Toronto.
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he has a boat named after him.. and no home to go to..
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on April 20, 2006 at 06:04 PM
Last year when we needed a name for a fishing boat that was to be given to a small village in T Nadu, Utpal is the name we all thought of..
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Teenage Mutant Suicide Bombers
posted by Gotham Chopra on April 19, 2006 at 12:09 AM
Remember back in the day - circa earlier this decade - when suicide bombing was still in vogue and got a lot of attention? These days there's just too much competition for the headlines between TomKat's kitten being born and Rumsfeld screwing up the war.
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9/11 Conspiracy Documentary
posted by Avantika Shahi on April 18, 2006 at 11:06 AM
In general I am not a believer of conspiracy theories, but this documentary does raise some rather interesting questions (if the facts mentioned in this documentary are indeed accurate). It’s an hour plus documentary but makes for an interesting watch.
Humorous internet ads from Chandra for Attorney General campaign
posted by Subodh Chandra on April 15, 2006 at 08:53 PM
Please enjoy these humorous internet ads from my campaign for Ohio attorney general.
The first is a Simpsons spoof that compares me to Apu and my primary opponent to Homer.
The second is a puppet show about Ohio's current corruption scandals that I performed for my triplets and other children (and adults) at a fundraiser.
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Hang him/her because he/she is rich and famous
posted by Kavita Chhibber on April 12, 2006 at 07:25 PM
Or is that how it really is?
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Tavalon Tea Bar
posted by Dave Sidhu on April 12, 2006 at 08:25 AM
This month, a good friend of mine opened up Tavalon Tea Bar in New York City -- a lounge that sells gourmet loose-leaf tea along with tea accessories. I invite you all to visit Tavalon, not only because of its tea products and the cultural importance of tea to many of us, but also because of the spirit and vision that led to the birth of Tavalon.
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An Utter Disaster
posted by Mallika Chopra on April 11, 2006 at 09:43 AM
Tara was playing a game on the computer, and I heard her snap, “Oh Shit!”
“Hey!” I called over, “We don’t use words like that.”
“But, mom,” Tara replied, “You use that word sometimes.”
“No I don’t!” I replied instantly. “I use the word, Shoot, not that word.”
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in evewry city lies a village..or more
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on April 09, 2006 at 05:55 PM
In Gregory David Roberts's novel Shantaram, the protagonist is given the following advise: Go to the village.. every city in the world has a village in its heart, you will never understand the city, unless you understand the village..
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Televising the Supreme Court
posted by Dave Sidhu on April 07, 2006 at 01:43 PM
This week, two Supreme Court justices testified before a House subcommittee and specifically argued that Congress should not get in the Court's business regarding the televising of Court proceedings. While the Justices justified their resistance to televising the Court with fancy and lofty words such as "deference" and "etiquette," the real reason may be the difference between the Court and more popular jurists, such as Judge Judy.
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donkeys better than..
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on April 06, 2006 at 07:45 AM
"A donkey is like a housewife ... In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents' home, you'll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master," the newspaper reported, quoting a Hindi-language primer meant for 14-year-olds.
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The Ties That Bind
posted by Kavita Chhibber on April 04, 2006 at 06:26 AM
"During the heated immigration debate on Capitol Hill, some Republicans have portrayed immigrants as invaders, criminals and burdens to society, but
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Help Stop Global Warming
posted by Mallika Chopra on April 03, 2006 at 09:33 PM
by signing this petition.
It seems that every time I walk out of the local Whole Foods, there are several young people (probably recent graduates from a well respected liberal arts school) standing with a clip board, asking for a signature to stop some major catastrophe. I usually avoid them to be honest, saying I have already signed it or dont have time. Once in a while,
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a strong enough why
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on April 02, 2006 at 06:10 PM
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how, said the often misunderstood Friedrich Nietzsche
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Coming this Sunday - Weekly Intent
posted by Mallika Chopra on March 30, 2006 at 09:48 PM
Intentblog is a very liberating and fun project for me. Unlike most of my projects where I have to deliver or produce something and am accountable to others, this site has grown organically, with very little direction or need for cultivation. It is such a contrast
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something is terribly wrong..
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on March 28, 2006 at 04:52 PM
When children are sold by parents, it is time to stop and think..
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Why People Get Sick
posted by Deepak Chopra on March 24, 2006 at 01:09 PM
Most people assume that germs and genes cause disease. The germ theory has brought us a long way, and genetic theory promises to take us even further. But there is still a mystery surrounding why certain people get sick while others don't.
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H for Hitler
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on March 23, 2006 at 05:01 PM
H for Hitler, A for arrogant says the ad for an employment portal..
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funding fantasy
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on March 21, 2006 at 05:18 AM
Went to what at best could be called a funding fantasy.
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For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats
posted by Kavita Chhibber on March 18, 2006 at 06:00 AM
Last night I sat at the house of a Muslim couple, as their son, and a few other boys were playing together, and this 12 year old boy-a prodigy of sorts, turned to her son and asked-why does Islam
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Sears Sucks!
posted by Mallika Chopra on March 16, 2006 at 04:40 PM
I am using my power as a blogger who is read by thousands every day to say Sears Sucks!
I threatened the Sears woman on the phone that I would do this -- went into a whole tirade about the power of the new consumer -- and I dont think she cared or understood a word of what I said.
So, THERE, I said it in the blogosphere! Sears Sucks!! Of course, that wont solve my dishwasher problem!!
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C for Creator
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on March 16, 2006 at 02:15 AM
C for Creator
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will milk ever taste the same..
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on March 12, 2006 at 05:45 PM
not to me.. after hearing the chilling story aired on a news channel yesterday.
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chilling reality
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on March 09, 2006 at 04:52 PM
Another exam suicide.. screamed the morning paper..
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Damn Bitch
posted by Gotham Chopra on March 06, 2006 at 07:25 PM
It's kind of a family joke about how pissy and frustrated I get. Son of Guru and all, there are some days that I feel the LAW OF LEAST RESISTANCE is spitting in my face.
cause to celebrate
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on March 06, 2006 at 05:53 PM
This dropped by in my mail box this morning
"We're planning a programme tomorrow on BBC world service radio to discuss what everyone is talking about with the Jessica Lal case. I noticed you have blogged about this issue. We also want to talk about the middle class reaction. "
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Expecting
posted by Mohit Rajhans on March 06, 2006 at 06:59 AM
I am pregnant, well my wife is pregnant but the more fashionable way to put it these days is that WE are pregnant. I do not really get it because I am not feeling any of the changes my wife is except for the fact that my spare room has turned a soft green and has a crib in it in anticipation. The experience has been NOTHING like everyone has said it would be. From old wives tales from India to What to Expect When Expecting, I have heard the oddest pieces of advice from everyone from Aunties to strangers in the mall.
I do not really know why people feel compelled to give advice to us.
In Baby Boomlet, Preschool Derby Is the Fiercest Yet
posted by Kavita Chhibber on March 05, 2006 at 05:42 AM
And you thought you’d be doing it only when your kid applies for college
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A Bachelor's cookbook
posted by Shekhar Kapur on March 01, 2006 at 03:50 PM
Living a bachelor's existence in London. And to this spoilt Indian male the base problem seems to be food. Too cold to step outdoors to go to a restaurant everyday. So have been trying various experiments on my taste buds and on my poor stomach. Any quick, healthy, tasty ideas on offer here ?
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How sports change the world - one person at a time
posted by Bharat Chopra on February 27, 2006 at 06:48 PM
Whether or not you like sports, you will surely find this story inspirational. It is the true story of an autistic boy from Rochester, NY, who dresses up for the teams final game; and makes the impossible a reality.
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'Men and women chasing each other is what produces the human race' -Mark Beltaire
posted by Kavita Chhibber on February 27, 2006 at 02:44 PM
But what is this thing called love?
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who killed jessical lal..
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 24, 2006 at 09:13 PM
jessical lal died 7 years ago.. shot in front of 100 persons, many of them page 3 celebs.. three days ago a judge freed all the presumed assassins for want of sufficient evidence..
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Forward with Organisational Art!
posted by Aladin on February 24, 2006 at 12:52 PM
The merging and swapping of roles are opportunities in waiting, inherent in any context where apparently unlike elements, processes and parties may be even temporarily cohabiting. Organisational Art (OA) can play a powerful role in actualising all this through its traffic of ideas and ownerships. aladin
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"Im single because I was born that way" - Mae West
posted by Kavita Chhibber on February 24, 2006 at 06:30 AM
Perhaps nothing consumes the South Asian community more than the obsession with marriage.
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Happy Birthday GOTHAM!!!!
posted by Bharat Chopra on February 22, 2006 at 06:21 PM
Gotham,
It is February 23rd where I am, so..... Happy birthday!
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Mohammed Cartoon Controversy
posted by Monica Mehta on February 22, 2006 at 10:56 AM
Okay, I've been trying to make sense of this controversy that's stemmed from the cartoons of Mohammed that have cropped up in the West. On the one hand I understand Muslims consider it blasphemous to show images of Mohammed and the cartoons portray him in a disrespectful light. On the other hand I can't believe dozens of people have died in protests -- over a cartoon.
But wanted to get all your thoughts on it. What do you think?
there is something about India
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 22, 2006 at 06:17 AM
Read mallika's come back blog.. and her raves - barring the airport - about her trip.. was thrilled to learn that the little ones loved it too...one of the comments did mention the fact that normally children who live outside, 'hate' India..
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Go Slow
posted by Mallika Chopra on February 21, 2006 at 09:19 AM
I am BAAAACK! Returned from India yesterday, and will be more present here soon.
We had an amazing trip to India. Spent time with the family, my daughters were in heaven with all the attention, had a blast at the wedding, was amazed as always by the beauty and history of India (Udaipur), met interesting people (including Anouradha, Rahul P, Rakesh M and his lovely wife). Couldnt have been a better trip, until we reached the airport to leave that is...
Affair to Remember
posted by Gotham Chopra on February 20, 2006 at 09:15 PM
Sorry for the long absence. Very hectic last few weeks in India. The first revolved around work - the new venture down in Bangalore and just getting to know the place a little bit better. The latter (week) involved attending one of my very good friend's weeklong wedding bash.
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THE FUTURE IS NOW!
posted by Bharat Chopra on February 20, 2006 at 05:43 PM
Friday afternoon came early for me this week. But at the same time, it feels like a Monday morning. I just made a major career move, and for the foreseeable future, there is going to be a serious blurring of the line that separates work and play, and my work life from my personal life. I’m going to be a sports agent!
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Vikas Khanna: The Man with all the Masala!
posted by Kavita Chhibber on February 15, 2006 at 09:03 AM
Vikas Khanna and I must have some telepathic connection.
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India Update
posted by Gotham Chopra on February 14, 2006 at 08:40 PM
The whole fam is traveling through India and having a great time. Highlights:
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happy babaday
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 14, 2006 at 07:47 AM
Funny how the 'poor' emulate the 'rich' in everything.. so this morning S our creche worker who is a little simple minded carried a bunch of cellophane wrapped roses..
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love heals
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 12, 2006 at 06:38 AM
It is valentine's day this week.. It's mind boggling how commercial these erstwhile unknown 'days' have become
blogBonding
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 11, 2006 at 06:42 AM
read pallavi's post with interest and today I experienced another side of blogBonding.. when some of us met over a cup of tea.. and met as if we knew each other.. it was just a bunch of friends picking up where they had left..
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roars and screams
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 09, 2006 at 05:22 PM
do read this post
I think time has come to move out of our comfort zones and do something..
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GOOD TIMES
posted by Gotham Chopra on February 09, 2006 at 10:21 AM
Disclaimer: two glasses of wine and cognac later...
rumbles and roars
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 08, 2006 at 05:08 PM
The mess in which our capital city finds itself today is worrying.. after years of allowing irregular and unauthorised contsruction, suddenly it seems the silent arm of the law has caught up with all culprits.. and if the destructions of thousands of homes of the poor went unnoticed, when the bulldozer falls on page *3* celebs, the rubble rumbles and roars..
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Food for thought
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on February 07, 2006 at 08:16 AM
Food for thought
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Swear By The River
posted by Rahul Pandita on February 06, 2006 at 12:38 AM
Dariya ki kasam/maujon ki kasam/ ye taana baana badlega
Swear by the river/ swear by the waves/ this pattern will change
Madan sings these lines for the third time. He is on his knees, swinging back and forth like a man possessed by a spirit. He is surrounded by people. Men donning colourful turbans, veiled women with bright gaghras and kohl-eyed children.
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Superbowl Pick
posted by Gotham Chopra on February 03, 2006 at 04:14 PM
Running out the door so I can catch my India flight so that I can get to Bangalore in time to catch kickoff early Monday AM.
That's globalization!
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Red Sea Tragedy
posted by Mallika Chopra on February 03, 2006 at 08:59 AM
An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast, officials say.
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Man who didn't play the violin
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on February 02, 2006 at 11:10 PM
When I was in Vienna last winter, I did not leave my room for a couple of hours on the first day. My room on the third floor, over-looking one of Viennas busiest monument, the Stephanplatz Church, had unknowingly introduced me to a strange sight amidst the tourist hum.
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unlikely classrooms...
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on February 02, 2006 at 03:09 AM
I remember that one of the persons I cut off my 'social' list was the one who declared smuggly.. "I know all.. and do not need to learn anything, anymore' How pitiable he looked!
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A Child's Profound Question
posted by Mallika Chopra on February 01, 2006 at 08:03 AM
My uncle from India sent me this picture and email.
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a little big man
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on January 31, 2006 at 06:33 AM
I had a moving encounter today.. one that has filled me with questions..
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Indian Sports
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 29, 2006 at 09:37 PM
It's not often (ever) that I get to blog about Indian athletes dominating on the global stage. And while "dominating" may not be the best term, it's the future folks.
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Don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what is wrong with me..
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on January 29, 2006 at 04:58 PM
Read all the comments on my previous posts dealing with hospitals.. to me it all goes back to what was written in the first post: taking responsibility..
There is a huge abyss between what should be, and what is in India.. On paper there are schools, and medical centres and much else for which even the very poor contribute each time they purchase a simple packet of biscuit or a box of matches.. There are rights guaranteed by the constitution and duties that many are not aware of...
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Passion
posted by Bharat Chopra on January 28, 2006 at 04:15 PM
I have a confession to make. I have a mistress. Well it is not that bad; cause I am not married and I do not have a girlfriend. But I am over my head in this relationship.
a hospital ward
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on January 28, 2006 at 06:38 AM
For the past few days I have been a regular at the children ward no 18 of safdarjung hospital.. visiting nahne who has been in hospital for 28 days.. these visits have been an eye opener on many realities.. some heartwarming others disturbing..
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Totally Alone...and loving it
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 26, 2006 at 12:46 AM
The last few days have been really hectic as my biz partner and I have run around town schmoozing and selling our wares and generating buzz around our new company Virgin Comics. I've not had much time to do much of anything or even see anyone.
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Are we alone?
posted by Mallika Chopra on January 25, 2006 at 04:22 PM
Its been a crazy day for me, but I couldn't resist putting this up. Huffington Post links to an article about Planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, the most earth like planet discovered beyond the solar system.
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The choice of Choice
posted by Pallavi Guptaa on January 25, 2006 at 10:20 AM
Big thank you to those who generously wrote in and now contribute to the possibility of round 2. I have been trying to buy a car. And what I face is the simple decision to pick one from the others.
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mad love
posted by Sandeep Sood on January 23, 2006 at 12:31 AM
I want to send a BIG thank you to all the Intentblog readers who sent kind words and congratulations to my wife and me. Your comments and emails were awesome!
Since Dhruva only has five years before I send him off to the forest to meditate, I am going to end this post and go watch him sleep.
The Author Who Got A Big Boost From bin Laden
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 21, 2006 at 07:42 PM
Explicit Enemies equal implicit allies. Love this article:
Historian 'Glad' of Mention As Sales of Book Skyrocket
By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 21, 2006; C01
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Shekhar, where are you?
posted by Mallika Chopra on January 19, 2006 at 03:02 PM
For those of you wondering where Shekhar disappeared, here is an email he sent me.
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Anouradha's First Post
posted by Anouradha Bakshi on January 19, 2006 at 10:36 AM
As I sat deciding what to write in the very first post on this rather daunting blog, I browsed through it and was touched by the title of Mallika's book: 100 Promises to My Baby.
That was my cue...
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Give Culture a Chance
posted by Aladin on January 17, 2006 at 01:32 AM
I sometimes work on 'cultural policy', so I have adapted below a couple of polemics I wrote for my fellow specialists. These ruminations resonate for me still, although written 4 years ago under a pall whose consequences we are all too familiar with these days. I hope they make sense to you, the non policymaking, real audience. My next piece will be easier to read, I promise!
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Proliferation of Plagiarism?
posted by Mallika Chopra on January 12, 2006 at 10:14 AM
I was reading this article from the Christian Science Monitor about how local carpenters in India are copying designs from IKEA catalogs. It got me thinking about the rampant plagiarism of designs, in general -- jewelry, clothes, etc.
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You're Annoying...and I'm taking you down for it!
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 10, 2006 at 11:46 PM
Yeah that's right all your misogynists and hurtful commenters and jerky jerks out there who come into our blog and leave your wicked mean comments and do it under the cover of aliases - we now have the means to come after you - hard. Courtesy of my boy Dubya, a new law is in effect.
(btw - Thanks to Krish for the Heads up on this)
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Climb High!
posted by Gautam Patil on January 10, 2006 at 02:43 PM
Hello Everyone,
On Thursday Jan 5th, I left for Punta Arenas (Chile) for the expedition to Mt Vinson in Antarctica. As many of you know, I hope to be the first from India to climb the 7 Summits - the tallest point on each continent. I also hope to be the first person from India to make summit on Vinson, the tallest peak in Antarctica, and claim my 5th of the 7 Summits.
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2006 Bloggies Awards
posted by Vijay Sappani on January 06, 2006 at 07:48 AM
Nominations for the sixth annual bloggies awards will start on January 10th, 2006.
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Did He or didn't She?
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 04, 2006 at 09:03 AM
Looks like God, Anderson Cooper, and the other News Nets need a do-over...
Here's the 101: Over the past two days, drama gripped a small American town in West Virginia where 13 coal miners were trapped in a mine shaft after an explosion occurred within it.
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
posted by Anjali Adukia on January 02, 2006 at 09:09 AM
Happy New Year, everyone!
Have you ever opened your eyes, caught your breath at the vision before you, and suddenly thought to yourself, "Wow, this is my home. This is my world!"?
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Long Time, No Blog
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 02, 2006 at 08:55 AM
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you and yours had a great one!
I'm feeling great and still in that 48-72 hour glow where all resolutions seem doable. Alas, reality will soon set in. Carbs, fine wine, and Conservatives will soon rear their ugly heads, temptation will beckon, and all will go for naught!
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Year End Reflections on Intentblog
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 30, 2005 at 09:16 PM
As 2005 comes to an end, I would like to thank all of you for making Intentblog such a wonderful space. For me, this site has become an integral part of my life, a space where I have learned, questioned, explored and made new friends.
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Tsunami - One Year Later
posted by Rahul Bose on December 30, 2005 at 06:54 AM
As I stand here on the balcony of the Bay Island hotel in Port Blair, my mind goes back to almost a year ago to the day, to a conversation I had with a civil servant in the Andaman & Nicobar administration. It was December 29, 2004. I had flown in the morning before with Amitav Ghosh, the writer. He had been commissioned by The Hindu to write a piece on the tsunami and I, well I was there just to help. Or so I thought.
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The Death of Cricket
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 30, 2005 at 05:46 AM
Why Sunil Gavaskar was forced to write 'India' with Srinagar... and how cricket got wounded and then died later... in front of my eyes.
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Divinity Sells
posted by Kavita Chhibber on December 27, 2005 at 05:40 PM
When packaged well!!
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SPAM!!!!
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 25, 2005 at 05:38 PM
Yes, we are getting assaulted by Spam and we're on the case. Please bear with us as we try to break out of the Matrix.
Happy Whatever
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 24, 2005 at 04:09 PM
Happy XMAS...Merry HOLIDAYS...Good HANUKKAH...Blessed KWANZA..and everything else from Intentbloggers to everyone.
See you on the other side.
Dear Mr. President,
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 18, 2005 at 10:51 PM
I know that you (or your staff/secret police) monitor emails, private correspondences, and blogs so I thought, why the formality, I may as well just address you directly.
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ALLIANCE FOR THE NEW HUMANITY
posted by Deepak Chopra on December 15, 2005 at 06:06 PM
Dear Friends,
I have just returned from Puerto Rico after attendng the meeting of the Alliance for the New Humanity. We are preparing an extended report on what happened and our future plans.
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Integrity
posted by Bharat Chopra on December 14, 2005 at 11:41 PM
In 2005, 'integrity' was looked up at Merriam's online dictionary more than any other word. Perhaps this is a positive sign that America (and the rest of the English speaking world) is doing some collective soul-searching regarding its ethics and values. On the flip side, it might also be an indication that less people understand the meaning of the word, and serves as empirical evidence of the decline of integrity in today's world.
See below for the full list of top ten words searched in 2005.
Torn
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 14, 2005 at 05:07 PM
Here's the deal: One of my bestest bestest friends in the whole wide world has just gone back to work for his father who runs a small technology company.
Killer Day
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 12, 2005 at 01:38 PM
Sorry but I'm not in the mood to laugh (see Kavita's blog below). Not because I don't believe in laughter as medicine or appreciate the thought but because I just read word that Governor Shwartzneggar has denied Tookie Williams appeal for clemency and his execution will go ahead as planned at 12:01 tonight/tomorrow morning.
Money Buys Happiness?
posted by Rayman Mathoda on December 10, 2005 at 08:42 PM
The role of money in creating or facilitating happiness is a subject of great interest to me. I find every individual has their own unique relationship with money. Here are some fascinating excerpts from a recent Wall Street Journal article on this topic:
"During the holidays, we will give thanks for the important things in our lives. For most people, money is not one of these things -- at least this is what we would like others to think. We are after all constantly reminding each other that "money doesn't buy happiness." Economists aren't so sure.
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THE TRUTH BEHIND TRASH TALK
posted by Kavita Chhibber on December 09, 2005 at 12:39 PM
Okay guys I have a confession to make
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For the Record
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 08, 2005 at 10:07 AM
I hate doing back-to-back blogs and hogging up too much real-estate on the page but desperate times call for desperate measures. Felt the need to address some of the fire spawned by Kavita's blog below entitled TRASH TALK.
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it is Past Midnight Here so Happy Birthday Shekhar!
posted by Kavita Chhibber on December 05, 2005 at 09:03 PM
Some one once said that there are moments of glory that go beyond
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Translating Enthusiasm Into Action?
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 05, 2005 at 08:37 PM
Yogi Sellah, Krish, Desh and many others have posed how we can take the discussions that take place on this site -- around social rights, poverty alleviation, political injustice, conflict resolution, etc. -- to the next level. While we virtually debate here, do the worlds problems just continue to grow? Are we several thousand people, privelaged to have the time and resources to surf the net, just spouting hot air with each other. Does our discussion matter? Or, does it only matter to ourselves?
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For Norm and all the posters who are special and precious
posted by Kavita Chhibber on December 02, 2005 at 04:52 PM
I read some where that home is a place where you catch a dream
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NORM!!!!!
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 02, 2005 at 04:21 PM
Say it ain't so!!! Unfortunately I am not computer sophisticated enough to cut and paste Norm's farewell email from the comments section of Heavy D's ode to Jesus blog. Please go check it - the comment, that is. Norm - a most active commenter - has left us :(
Tookie
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 01, 2005 at 01:16 PM
California is abuzz with the debate over the execution of Tookie Williams, convicted killer of four, and founder of the infamous LA born Crips gang.
Cut and Pasted
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 29, 2005 at 11:07 PM
As Mallika noted in her latest entry on Indian Blogs, she, Shekhar, adn I had a great meeting on the vision for Intentblog. I suspect that all of us - as well as my dad who is on the road right now - have been scanning all of the comments to Mallika's blog to gauge people's thoughts, reactions, and ideas. I couldn't help but notice that one of them - Desh - was calling us out on the litany of contributors that we have added with very dispirit and (perceived) irrelevant voices.
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Indian Blogs
posted by Mallika Chopra on November 29, 2005 at 09:45 AM
Yesterday, Gotham, Shekhar and I spent some time discussing our identity and plans here at Intentblog. Then, inspired by Sudha Koul's post, I spent some time surfing the internet trying to figure out how we are different from other South Asian blogs, what is a South Asian blog, and why do we call ourselves one. Here are some random thoughts...
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Bad Taste
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 27, 2005 at 06:43 AM
Why stop at just this: US SOLDIERS REMPRIMANDED FOR BURNING BODIES? I mean come to think of it the administration and armed forces may as well come out and say it now: this whole War on Terrorism and the way its been handled has been in pretty bad taste and now we have precedent for dealing with it.
Rediscovering the Mahatma
posted by Nandita Das on November 26, 2005 at 08:59 PM
I have been hopping from one city to another for the launch of an audiobook adaptation of Mahatma Gandhis autobiography, 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth'.
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CALLING ALL THOSE WHO POST ON THIS BLOG
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 26, 2005 at 01:20 PM
On August 29th of this year I had posted a blog called Calling All bloggers and had asked all of you the following questions
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Greed
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 25, 2005 at 07:53 AM
My wife and I have been on the Thanksgiving movie catch up tour. Two thumbs way up for WALK THE LINE. Absolutely go see it - you don't have to be a Johnny Cash fan to love this film. But the latest entry into my list of must-sees is Syriana.
The Height of Insensitivity
posted by Bharat Chopra on November 24, 2005 at 05:50 PM
Last night I was switching channels and came across Fox and Friends. Sadly, this is one of a few American channels broadcast in Singapore. They were showing what the American troops were eating in Iraq for Turkey Day. What else... but... a pig roast?
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HE SAID SHE SAID
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 21, 2005 at 10:59 AM
How do you deal with malicious intent and destructive tale bearing?
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Why Is rape the woman's shame ?
posted by Shekhar Kapur on November 19, 2005 at 10:46 AM
The good news is that on an appeal, the Supreme Court of India increased the sentence of Asha Ram to life imprisonment on charges of raping his minor daughter. The disturbing part were some of the words of the judgement such as ".. burdening (his daughter) with a 'deathless' shame as long as she lves". Why is it her shame ?
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Children Will Listen (Alas and Hurrah)
posted by Deepak Chopra on November 16, 2005 at 09:51 AM
Today's teenagers and college students--the soc-called "echo boomers"--have been bred into conformity.
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ISRAEL, GOTHAM CHOPRA, RAHUL KHANNA AND MORE
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 15, 2005 at 03:45 AM
And I am sure the people on this blog will post their responses in higher numbers and make mine the most accessed blog, now that we have prominent bloggers begging for hits! Shame on you Gotham:)! and yes I'm soliciting hits too..after all you are about to begin an enchanting journey and all because of me!:)
Jokes apart..
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Thinking about the way we think...
posted by Anand Shah on November 12, 2005 at 07:35 PM
Inspired by GC's shot at those who haven't posted to the blog in a while, I went through the hundreds of recent posts to catch up and just get a sense of what we write about (and did the same with several other blogs I read). In some ways, this blog, given its enlightened sense of content, is an interesting experiment in thinking about what we, as people, think about...
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Ahmed Kathrada - A Hero of Peace
posted by Mallika Chopra on November 11, 2005 at 09:32 AM
In June 1964, Ahmed Kathrada, along with Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to life in prison during the famed Rivonia Trial for sabotage against the South African government. He was the only Indian among the famed Rivonia 7 convicted. Kathrada is a major figure in the history and shaping of the new South Africa. On Wednesday night, I had the honor and privilage of co-hosting a reception to launch Ahmed Kathrada's new book, Memoirs.
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O JERUSALEM!
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 10, 2005 at 12:17 PM
I'm in Israel this week and tonight I drove in to the holy and historic city of Jerusalem and
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The Terrorista (and other random thoughts)
posted by Monica Mehta on November 10, 2005 at 11:38 AM
I might as well piggy-back on Sandeep and Gotham's blogs, considering racial profiling of us brownies is as good a topic as any. Okay, I've met both SS and GC, and neither of them look to me like hardened criminals who are about to blow up planes or buildings.
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Inspired by Sandeep the Terrorist
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 10, 2005 at 09:33 AM
I read Sandeep's blog this morning and it really got me thinking. I, like him and a lot of us on this site am a brownie, born and bred here in the states but still very often in this War on Terrorism climate profiled as potential trouble - i.e. suicide bomber. Anyway here's a short but relevant story...
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World Gone Wild
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 08, 2005 at 10:20 PM
The war on terror is a complete and total assault on logic and rationality. You are far more likely today to find yourself the victim on a vehicular accident than you are to be the subject of some Islamist gone wild.
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Please Bear With Us
posted by Intent on November 08, 2005 at 10:47 AM
Hello from the Intentblog.com Admin team. The site has grown by leaps and bounds of late, and as such we were not prepared for the influx of traffic we recieved in the past three days -- thank you Shah Rukh! We had a minor database problem last night, and lost some of your comments, probably about 40 in all.
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You've got to find what you love
posted by Bharat Chopra on November 04, 2005 at 01:00 AM
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO spoke at Stanford's graduation in June. I only read this piece yesterday and found it interesting and thought provoking. He breaks it up into three pieces: connecting the dots, love and loss, and death. He finishes the lesson by telling the graduates to stay hungry, and stay foolish! Exactly what every college grad wants to hear, right?
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Happy Diwali!
posted by Mallika Chopra on November 01, 2005 at 08:19 AM
Wishing all of you a happy, peaceful, prosperous, healthy and fulfilling year! Happy Diwali!
The American People need to be put down
posted by Gotham Chopra on November 01, 2005 at 05:15 AM
I find it to be the most annoying expression in American Politics. Every time the president or other US politiican finds themselves backed into a corner, they revert to "turning their attention back to the issues the American people really care about."
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Forcing Hindus into exile
posted by Kavita Chhibber on October 30, 2005 at 11:09 AM
A thought provoking article by Geoffrey Clarfield of the National Post
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The other side of here
posted by Gotham Chopra on October 27, 2005 at 10:05 AM
Checking in from Florence, Italy. Great city. So full of life, culture, history, and white people from all over Europe and America.
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Building One's Nation
posted by Ashok Khosla on October 27, 2005 at 09:11 AM
"Go West, young man" was the slogan heard all over the eastern seaboard of the U.S. a hundred years back. The same refrain, with or without implied gender bias, is heard in many Third World countries today.
Are we to infer that history repeats itself? Or that the India or Ghana or Philippines of today resemble the America of the last century? Not at all.
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SCREAM
posted by Kavita Chhibber on October 26, 2005 at 05:40 AM
Another heart breaking email was sent to me yesterday as a follow up to the one I posted earlier about the aftermath of the earthquake in Pakistan. Please read this and find a way to help...
WE LOVE TO HATE
posted by Sohaila Kapur on October 25, 2005 at 08:27 PM
Something's been bothering me. For years now. It's the colour of my skin. I thought brown was beautiful, until I visited Europe. I was only 18 then. And now, again, many years later, in North America.
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Excellence and Relevance, Part II
posted by Ashok Khosla on October 24, 2005 at 10:16 AM
This is such a rich and rewarding conversation, that I am only able to touch a few snippets of it. I am very grateful to Kails, K, Peter Pan and others for reminding me that I do tend to go on a bit, pontificating about what needs to be done to make the world a better place for all rather than getting on with the job of just doing it.
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Excellence and relevance: Building With Hands, Mind And Heart
posted by Ashok Khosla on October 23, 2005 at 02:48 PM
At no time in history has there been a need for radical change as great as that of today.
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THIS IS TO HONOR ALL FATHERS
posted by Kavita Chhibber on October 21, 2005 at 04:26 AM
Especially mine.
I see a lot of posts by mothers, on motherhood, and about their own mothers but I’m yet to see one honoring fathers. I have been fortunate enough to have a truly remarkable one so this is dedicated to him and many other special dads I see around me in different age groups.
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Knowledge Creation
posted by Rayman Mathoda on October 20, 2005 at 07:26 PM
I just received my latest edition of the McKinsey Quarterly, a pretty interesting business journal mailed regularly to me by my former employer. I get about 6 a year, which I loyally place on a bookshelf at home for future knowledge seeking moments. But this one caught my attention: Fulfilling India's Promise.
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