January 2012
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December 2011
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September 2011
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Gulp!
$3,350 required now. I have no clue how I am going to raise that kind of money. I did feel a moral obligation to commit that amount.
I have had this sinking feeling before; To feel startled and scared everytime I hear the doorbell or the phone ringing, praying that it isn’t a debtor.
:-(
I have only myself to blame for not saving money over the years.
July 2009
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““To reconstitute political life in a state presupposes a good man, whereas...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli from The Prince and The Discourses
May 2009
2 posts
“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you...”
– Ogden Nash
The Zen Master & Success
I saw a movie named “Charlie Wilson’s War” in which these lines are spoken at the very end. For me, these lines changed my perception of being successful.
There was a little boy. And this boy, at his 14th birthday, gets a horse. And everybody in the village says, “how wonderful, the boy got a horse!” The Zen master says, “we’ll see.”
Two years...
March 2009
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A letter from my Uncle
I received a very fascinating letter from my uncle, Mr. Mohan Rao, from Mumbai. He has been around books all his life and his love-affair with all things to do with literature continue. I thought I will share this rather pleasant e-mail with all of you. I hope his best wishes for me stay with my always. :-)
“My dear Rahul,
I recall talking to you about a very interesting person called...
January 2009
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“India is not an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its...”
– Shashi Tharoor, in his ‘The Great Indian Novel’
December 2008
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