I found these lines quite scary, and depressing:
Neend bhi khuli na thi
ke hai dhoop dhal gayee
Paon jab talak uthe
ye zindagi phisal gayee
I hadn’t even opened my eyes and the sun was already going down; by the time I took my first steps the life had slipped away. A great song, sad, but great.
Another great sample:
Haath the uthe ke zulph
chaand ki sawar doo
Honth the khule ke har
bahaar ko pukar doo
Dard tha diya gaya
ke har dukhi ko pyar do
Aur saans yun ke swarg
bhumi par utar do
The hands had risen as if to touch the moon’s tresses; the lips had parted as if to summon every spring on earth; I was given pain so that I could love the ones in pain; and what to say about the breath that wanted to call the heavens on earth.
Breaks my heart. I wish I could write something so beautiful.
Police said Bobby Brewster raped Williams, forced her to lick blood and drink from a toilet, and told his mother to kill Williams if she tried to escape.
Authorities previously said Williams was also forced to eat rat and dog feces.
According to criminal complaints filed in the county, Williams was assaulted, stabbed in the left leg, choked with cords and beaten for at least a week. When she was found, big parts of her hair had also been torn off of her scalp.
Williams says that Alisha Burton 22 cut her ankle with a knife while saying, “That’s what we do to Niggers around here,” police records show. [ the Facebook link ]
This reminds of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie. In that movie too they had a similar family that abducted their victims and then tortured them to death.
Sometimes the world becomes such a scary place, and we often wonder how to teach our children to be wary of such psychopaths. Incidentally, the mainstream media in the US has been playing down the incident because it’s a crime against a Black, not a crime by a Black.
A while ago I was reading Alka’s post on a racist remark by a Radio FM RJ. I don’t think the RJ would like to physically torture the Gurkhas (whom the RJ considers only good for guards) but even such small feelings, when not attended to in time, eventually turn into race and class based hate crimes.
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The sound is not clear but the song is a sure sizzler. Love the first line: jaagi re badan me jwala saia tune kya kar dala (a flame has awakened inside my body, o my beloved, what have you done).
Kenji Nagai of APF tries to take photographs as he lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon’s city centre September 27, 2007. Kenji, 52, a Japanese photographer, was shot by soldiers as they fired to disperse the crowd. Kenji later died.
Source: Reuters (you can see more images on this link).
And this is the video of the same incident:
Some relevant links on how blogging and the Internet is playing a crucial role in exposing the atrocities in Burma:
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That component, called Writeprint, helps combat the Web’s anonymity by studying thousands of lingual, structural and semantic features in online postings. With 95 percent certainty, it can attribute multiple postings to a single author.
From there, Dark Web has the ability to track a single person over time as his views become radicalized.
The project analyzes which types of individuals might be more susceptible to recruitment by extremist groups, and which messages or rhetoric are more effective in radicalizing people. [ link ]
Obsessive consumerism is the bane of our times. An article titled 19 Ugly Things You Didn’t Know About Materialism aptly asks these questions:
- Are you a wage-slave, working at a job you hate so you can afford things you don’t need?
- Are you more focused on remodeling your kitchen than developing relationships?
- Are you more interested in how you’ll look in a bathing suit than in your actual health?
It’s hard to believe people actually run behind material gains rather than developing themselves as human beings and achieving their optimal physical and intellectual potential. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, you should only have sufficient money and above that it is merely a nihilistic pursuit. You should live to earn, you should earn to live. So does that make Bill Gates bad, as he has billions of dollars. No I don’t mean that.
Bill Gates, or people like him, earn money from what they do, because of what they do. Money in that case is an outcome, a consequence. The problem arises when money no longer remains a consequence, it becomes a pursuit, an obsession. It becomes a problem when it’s not the functionality of the car that matters, but how rich it makes you look.
Excessive materialism is a sign of low self-esteem. You are always seeking acknowledgement from the others, and you always fear their scorn for not having certain things.
There is a strong positive correlation between materialism and several mental and physical maladies. In other words, people who pursue money and things at the expense of relationships and other meaningful endeavors are more likely to suffer from these 19 problems:
Read about these 19 problems.
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This is a great way of showing a contrast. A nice way to drive in a point.
Source.
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Isn’t it tragic? And the US and its allies say they are there to avoid such large-scale deaths.
When those responsible for the American war in Iraq face a public reckoning for their colossal crimes, the weekend of September 15-16, 2007 will be an important piece of evidence against them. On Friday, September 14 there were brief press reports of a scientific survey by the British polling organization ORB, which resulted in an estimate of 1.2 million violent deaths in Iraq since the US invasion.
This staggering figure demonstrates two political facts: 1) the American war in Iraq has produced a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions, with a death total already higher than that in Rwanda in 1994; 2) those arguing against a US withdrawal on the grounds that this would lead to civil war, even genocide, are deliberately concealing the fact that such a bloodbath is already taking place, with the US military in control.
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The real motivation for the war was spelled out by former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan in a newly published book of memoirs, in which he wrote, “Whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the world economy. I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil.”
Read the whole story.
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I love this line:
Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula disapproves of sunlight.
Read the rest of the article.
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