And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanized men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy.
- Herman Hesse in Steppenwolf

Ted Video - Sheryl Sandberg

Ted Video - Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/article1511940.ece

Pretty Paradoxical!!

My mother would be surprised if she found out that in our generation we setup the internet in a new house much before we setup the kitchen. And to take it a step further, I blog too before I open up the five cartons and the three suitcases.

Singapore!!

The use of 'Can':
"Can you pick me up from the bus stop?"
"Can"
[Okay]

"Let's see what the apartment looks like"
"Can"
[???]

At the end of a meeting... "Can"... [Weird!!! Can is not Okay, alright or anything similar!!!]

The woman at the cafeteria, when I ask for coffee: "Sugar - 3?"
I look at her confused. After I've explained I want 1 sugar.. "You are so long that's why I thought you want 3 sugar" [Long!?!? and the relation to sugar!?!?]

Cab driver: "Are you from Mumbai or are you from India?" [Hmmm.. we always thought only the Americans were ignorant]
"Mumbai is in Punjab right?" [Maybe I was actually really weak in geography!!]
"So are you white Indian? People from Mumbai, Punjab are white Indians right?" [I have absolutely no idea what he was smoking!!]

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotes:

To enjoy something, it's essential to guard it with the fence of leisure.

It's difficult to know a person until he turns twenty-five---difficult to say what would happen to him ... but it is easy to recognise a twenty seven years old--- it can be said he's become what he's supposed to be, and from now on this is how his life would be guided, there isn't left anything in his life to get astonished.

I believe in the true meeting of the East and the West.
It hurts me deeply when the cry of rejection rings loud against the West in my country with the clamour that the Western education can only injure us.

I say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature. I would give everything to be one with my surroundings. I love my fellow beings and I prize their love.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

I have become my own version of optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.