No more sleepless nights!!

"Eleven fools playing and eleven thousand fools watching" is a classic quote from George Bernanrd Shaw regarding the game of cricket. What would be surprising for him is that the fact that the number of fools watching have reached millions and a advertisers delight!! And i being one of those fools almost had a heart attack watching Indian team playing a total lack lusture One Day International and ultimately saving me of many sleepless nights i had prepared myself for.
So i decided to come up with my own conspiracy theory ;) and here goes my theory: Some Indian players after learning about the Bob Woolmer murder is now worried that some of them who are heavily involved in the betting racket would ultimately get exposed at the end of the murder investigation. And so they decided to lose the match soon and come back to the safe confines of their homes. Well after formaulating this conspiracy theory i could sleep better and also feel happy about the fact that i could now sleep happily at nights and watch the highlights in the mornings without having to worry about who wins and who loses!!

Dalai Lama...

Another interesting topic that i have been reading offlate is about the Dalai Lamas from the Tibetan Buddhism. It is very intersting to note how they arrive at a 'spiritual teacher' and how he is trained to take the qualities by the other Lamas(equivalent of Gurus in India). There is also the concept of the Panchem Lama whose primary responsibility is to come up with the Dalai Lama.
In short the story goes like this. After the People Republic of China(PRC) took over Tibet which used to be administered by the Dalai Lama they started electing the Dalai Lama using a process unacceptable to Tibetans. And so there arose a conflict as the Dalai Lamas elected by either parties where different and the Tibetan Dalai Lama(14th one in the picture) had to escape and seek asylum in India. So here he is fighting for more rights for the Tibetan Buddhist ideas against a fairly huge opponent which is the government of Peoples Republic of China(PRC)!!!


Dont limit yourself to this - get more information from the link below. Happy enlightenment!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_lama

Albert Einstein - The genius

It is no secret that Einstein is one of the greatest scientist of the modern era, be it his works on Theory of Relativity or the Photoelectric Effect he is held with high regard even to this day. So i picked up this book called "Ideas and Opinions" when i saw it on the shelves. Whats notable is that this book is a collection of articles of Einstein on varied topics like war, religion and lots more and so it automatically picks itself up as a window to his personality.

But then what surprised me a lot is the deep understanding of the cultures that he could write about back in an era when the media was limited to just the print version. Also considering the fact that he is a notable scientist with serious accomplishments his interest and opinions on a wide range of topics astonished me. I was recently in conversation with one of my German friend and he reflected on how big a loss it is for Germany to have lost a great personality just because he was a jew born during the Hitler era!! Well thats what makes history interesting