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The Hope Full

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I promise to unite India and Pakistan with the power of Love and Peace and strengthen the bond between various religions by the force of Advaita. I will persuade China to give up its claim on Tibet and place the peace-loving Dalai Lama in the seat of her power. I will send bouquets to the military leaders of Myanmar and pray to them to voluntarily make Aung San Suu Kyi their leader and reinstate Human Rights. I will abolish AIDS from this world and suck all the harmful bacteria, protozoans, fungi and viruses from the earth and stick it into the moon along with NASA's probe. I will send diplomatic peace missions across the universe and ensure that the Star Wars remain a silver screen phenomenon. Phew, that was tiring. I will now collect my Nobel Peace Price. Thank you. [Click on image to Enlarge it] Source: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/0000/500/526/526.strip.gif If promises are all that are needed to win a Nobel, our Indian Politicians sh...

The Hero Worshippers

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[Click on image to Enlarge it] Courtesy: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ " We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." Will Rogers How often have we felt a sense of great satisfaction, a moment of grandeur when we read a column on our favourite hero. Be it a Mahatma Gandhi or an Albert Einstein or a Sachin Tendulkar or for that matter (in the more literal sense) Kamal Hassan . For some reason it makes us feel good about ourselves. This hero of ours is not necessarily confined to being a member of our community, our nation or our race. Ha, how the world celebrated the victory of Barack Obama . This is in essence the celebration of the Human Spirit. Every man rejoices his Hero because he knows that he too is capable of being that person. (He merely chooses not be.[;)]) Man always takes more pride in his potential than in his work. Tell a child that he is not hardworking. He will probably shrug it off. Tell him that he...