Sunday, August 27, 2006

Lord Mahavir

"A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool."

- Lord Mahavir.
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Michchami Dukkadam to all of you.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Stephen R. Covey

"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their ownefforts. Interdependent people combine their own effortswith the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
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- Stephen R. Covey
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Relevant Article: Contradictions Galore

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Martin Luther King

"It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social change is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the silence of the so-called good people."

- Martin Luther King.

Relevant Article: 3rd Mumbai Meet (13th August 2006)
(This was attended by 50 affected Families)

Reach in 11 months
1st Meet: 7 Families; 2nd Meet: 25 Families

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Kulbhushan on 498a

"Filing a non-bailable dowry case under IPC 498A is easier than ordering a meal. But while a restaurant can refuse service, the police normally arrest the groom and the in-laws."
"While the Indian media is flooded with reports of dowry-related bride torture, it hardly mentions the horrific cases of suffering husbands at the hands of cunning wives."

- Kul Bhushan.
(A media consultant to a UN Agency, Kul Bhushan previously worked abroad as a newspaper editor and has travelled to over 55 countries. He lives in New Delhi.)