Archive for August, 2008
Goals – Sep ‘08 … Wealth
Many have come to ruin because of gold and their destruction has met them face to face.
When goods increase, they increase those who eat them, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes.
Who ever accumulates by depriving himself, accumulates for others. If a man is mean to himself, to whom will [...]
Prem Kukreti II … a sordid, shameful story …
Prem fought right upto the Chief to undo the damage of this imbroglio and clear the family name. But this was much too serious a matter …
Very briefly, Prem’s brother had joined the same regiment and was the second in command of his unit. The CO had gone on leave when his pet officer returned late from leave. Kukreti as [...]
Barack Husein Obama …
This name is flooding the news, so why add it here? … Well, just to see what may have got him here …
1. Come rain or shine, his most oft repeated remark to himself, “I need to get better”.
2. Does not wear his heart on his sleeve. His iron self control enables him to keep his [...]
Prem Kukreti … as colorful as they come …
It was the latter half of ‘64, when a goof up by the sentry had me go over to the entrance gate and mollify a much disconcerted young Prem Kukreti. He informed me that he had served in the ranks in our Regiment before obtaining his commission and was now going for the Staff Course on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Did anyone use the word ‘excoriate’? …
Hamlet, thou thy father has much offended ___
Mother, my father thou has much offended.
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue ____
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
Hast thou forgot me? ___
You are the queen, your husbands brothers wife, and – were it not so, you are my mother. ….. Come, come sit you [...]
The Day Nehru Died …
It was the day that we heard, over the radio, that Nehru had died.
As I dressed for dinner and listened, without much guilt, to the popular Radio Ceylon music, Sateh, the unit Havildar Major, who was officiating as the Jemadar Adjutant (the rank has since been changed to Naib Subedar), was ushered in by Bakthawar. I was sombrely informed that [...]
Goals – Aug 08 … Self Control
Life is a mass of energies and these permeate from head to foot. These energies must not be allowed to run wild.
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Left to nature, all these energies are at war and in confusion. The aim must be to master and marshal these energies. Indeed, by preventing waste and loss of vitality, the natural accumulation of [...]
Steven Paul Jobs
“I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates”.
“Being the richest man in the cemetery does not interest me. Going to bed at night thinking that I have done something wonderful is what gives me satisfaction”.
“The only thing which kept me going is that I loved what I did. You have got to find [...]
Financial Literacy
Annamaria Lusardi, professor of economics at Dartmouth College and author of a working paper, “Financial Literacy: – An Essential tool for Informed Consumer Choice”
The professor says that were she President of the US for a day, she would have the following taught in High School -
1. Basics of how markets work. Things like supply and demandt [...]
Goals – Aug ‘08 … Simple Theory of Personal Power
It has been asserted that the human body is a collection of millions and millions of little energies. These energies furnish the general basis of power. Though these energies are separate and individual, yet at times they act in some degree of unity and harmony and the result is personal power.
Normally the human body is a drifting [...]
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