Idle musings

    For more than 20 years, I have been writing quotes to begin the working week. My working week begins with some time dedicated to find the quote. I like to ascertain the source of the quote and the context in which it was made, as much as possible. Often, while reading the quote, I am struck by its insight or relevance to today's time or to my life, in general. On Twitter and LinkedIn, these quotes can be found by searching for the hashtag #onmywhiteboard. On 12-Jul-2022, NASA's James Webb telescope delivered an image of a galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 whose light emerged 4.6 billion years ago, available at https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet for viewing, a historic image. On 18-Jul-2022, I searched a quote that that would suit this historic event and finally selected this quote: "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. The ...

THREE REMARKABLE SPEECHES     NOTE: This blog was updated on 04-Sep-13. It was originally published on 27-Aug-13. I added a couple of details more about Dr. R. Balasubramaniam in the first paragraph. I had mis-spelt "this" as "thos", which I corrected. I added the word "which", which was missing in the last sentence of the paragraph that introduces Ms. Madhu Kishwar. I also changed the font to "Verdana".     On Sunday, 25-Aug-13, I attended a seminar organized to commemorate Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary this year. The website http://vivek150.org/ has information about the celebrations. The theme of the seminar was "Intellectual Meet for Vision and Thought Leaders". The speakers were Manohar Parrikar, the Chief Minister of Goa; Madhu Kishwar, the Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), based in Delhi and founder editor of "Manushi" (more information is available at http...