Friday, November 24, 2006

Why the need for Secrecy?

One little thing that matters most,
Never disclose your secret thoughts.
The seeds of any grand vision,
Mature unseen for their great mission.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Need Some Inspiration?

It is a Sunday and I slept all day today. In the evening had to have some inspiration to start the perspiration going. Here is a poem by Douglas Malloch that has given me the needed boost.
"If you can't be a pine on top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley - but be
The best little shrub by the side of the rill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be the bush, be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass.
But be the liveliest bass in the lake.
We can't always be captains,
We've got to be crew.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the Sun, be a star.
It isn't by size that you win or you fail.
Be the best of whatever you are!"

Friday, November 17, 2006

True then. What about now?

"... many Englishmen and Indian officials honestly believe that they are administering one of the best systems devised in the world, and that India is making steady, though slow progress. They do not know that a subtle but effective system of terrorism and an organised display of force on the one hand, and the deprivation of all powers of retaliation or self defence on the other, have emasculated people and induced in them the habit of simulation.
... .
In my opinion, the administration of law is thus prostituted, consciously or unconsciously, for the benefit of the exploiter."
- Prabhu, R.K., (ed.), Two Memorable Trials of Mahatma Gandhi, Navajivan, Ahmedabad (1962), at p. 67.

Examination Bloomers

Here are some gr8 ones.
1. "Passing away of property means handing over the ownership over any goods or property after sale."
2. "To be a judge of the Supreme Court of India a person must be an opponent of the President or a distinguished jurist."
3. "The Recorder's Court consisted of a Recorder and Aldermen. The Recorder was to be a barrier of five years standing."
4. "The Supreme Court is a court of record with the power to condemn and punish itself."