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My Poems - Collage of Life

Collage of Life : On the canvas of life,
I made a collage,
Of my desires and dreams,
From heart and mind,
And soul,

The scenes of joy & sorrows,
Hopes and despair,
Melancholy and laughter,
Appeared frame after frame,

There were images I did not make,
But yet appeared,
From the lives of the people,
Whose destiny intertwined with mine,

The imprints of time , space and beyond,
Casted the silhouettes,
Rendering the meanings ,
Which would only be known later,
When the dots would finally connect

And so I continue adding color,
and watch others do the same,
the picture keeps changing,
with its myriads looks every time,

And this collage transcends,
Many lifetimes,
As the journey continues till,
Eternity…
- Pakhi -

My Expressions- Appreciation , Encouragement & Gratitude

My Expressions- Appreciation , Encouragement & Gratitude

Appreciation and encouragement has the power to unleash the unlimited potential latent with in all of us - potential to fill every moment of life with joy and true happiness. Appreciation from heart brings out the best of a person and encourages him to do better with a sense of fulfillment. Criticism and sarcasm leads to resentment and bitterness and leaves behind a rancour that seeths with in to give rise to negative tendencies.

Each of us are unique human beings with our unique traits, habits, and behaviours. Many a times we do not like people who are not like us which is fine. But the moment this dislike start turning into resentment and criticism, it sets in seemingly irreversile self destruction on account of somebody else. We must remember that we are responsible for our own self and so are others. Breeding any negetaive emotions with in us is like holding coalfire in hand which burns nobody but us. It also rarely results in change in others.

Instead, positive pursuasion makes people accept the limitations and appreciation makes it easier for them to evolve. So please appreciate, encourage and express copius gratitude to all in your life and see your life change...there are many people fulfillng some purpose in your life and all these like people are not bound to have the same nature as yours by the law of the universe..

Forgive if you can, forgive even if you cannot..because nobody likes a complaining person..

It is difficult but CERTAINLY POSSIBLE..

My Expressions - Global Warming and Economic Melt Down

My Expressions - Global Warming and Economic Melt Down

All Scientific, economic and political pursuits of mankind in the last few decades had been devastitingly directed towards consumption of the vast resoureces nature provided us. Consumption became the focal point of the development and the

economic activity centered around the converting natural resources into finished products at profits which surged as the consumption grew. To sustain growths in profits, the best brains of the world devised various instruments to fuel up consumption further. Fundamentals were compromised - Fundamentals of Life, eqaulity and all round growth. People & organisations grew on the artificial purchasing powers with compromised and camouflaged collaterals. Hypes were sustained until the faultlines had tectonic shifts to engulf the whole world into and unprecendented crisis - The crisis of resources...

Each unit of consumption produces 10 times of waste which go unnoticed. ..this waste is remains inefficiently managed or unmanaged..the wastages in the form harmful emissions, Toxic chemicals & Non biodegradable by products derail the ecosystem which jerks and reacts with vanishing greenlands, Icecovers and extreme weather changes.

Todays both Eco system and Economic systems are in turmoil. Both are results of ravaging human tendencies of Greed and selfishness. The modern day euphemism for greed is growth and for selfishness is competetiveness, yet the phraseology cannot hide the casuses being created and consequences being manifested..

What is needed to save the earth, save the mankind and save the humanity before we are on the point of no return..to nourish, preserve and enhance the ecosystem..the natural order ....

My Expressions - Leadership

Expressions - Leadership

Leadership is perhaps one of the most enigmatic

subject. Many people try to become good leaders
but very few succeed in acquiring a real stature.

In Management terms there are different nuances of

leadership namely Autocratic, Participative ,

Democratic ,Consultative or Situational. Most these
theories barely explain the charisma or pull a leader
create..

Kennedy, Barrack Obama, Martin Luther king,
Mahatma Gandhi, Jack Welch ....the list is endless..
What made them great leaders?

A leader inspire the followers to believe in
their dreams ...A true leader assure the followers of
his unflinching support come what may without
betraying their trust..A leader does what
is right...A leader does not discourage sincere hearts
A leader does not resort to superficial opportunism
or cowardice...A leader pushes his followers to
enable them to realize their potential rather
than making them handicapped and dependent...

Leaders have to be careful who they side with,
befriend or patronise.... Most leaders not vigilant in
this respectvlose their credibility ..Leaders lacking in
compassion are renounced by their followers.

Leadership is position of responsibility

rather than authority... Leaders must be aware
that they would be circled by the cunning people
to curry favor ... Such cunning people collude and
distance the sincere and genuine people from him...
In such situation the subtly influence the ego needs
of the leader to make him arrogant...
This is the start of decline of actual leadership..

On the contrary , a true leader never encourage
wrong practices despite all criticism and never
fail to insist on highest standards...

Compassion, Humility, Responsibility and Capability

makes a Leader ....

A Genuine and conscientious Leader.....

- Pakhi-

Happy New Year - 2009

As we usher in the new year of 2009,the heart is filled with new hopes, aspirations & dreams.

Warm wishes for happiness fill the air with an upbeat alacrity and in this backdrop of joy and optimism I humbly unveil the Blog Delta-to-Sigma to all of you.....

Delta denotes Differentials and gaps  and Sigma represents the integration and completeness...

Our life too is journey through the plains of Deltas and Sigmas driven by the inspirations we pick and drop..

To me this space is an  extraordinary milieu to connect to millions of hearts ....a bit thru my self expressions in the form of My poems, My Artshade and My Expressions..and much more thru learning and sharing by all with all..Brave Hearts, Whiz Hearts and Zoom Hearts and many more to discover......

My Favourite songs - Imagine

My Favourite songs - Imagine

.....Imagine all the people living life in peace...You may say i am a dreamer, but not the only one...

On October 9th, Lennon's life was celebrated in a brief ceremony, called Imagine All the People, at the United Nations. After being welcomed to the UN — "this House of Peace" — by Marcella Pérez de Cuéllar, the wife of UN secretary general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Yoko Ono read a prepared statement, played a tape recording of Lennon, in which he urged the world to recognize "the choice we have in front of us: war or peace" and then broadcast the song "Imagine" over more than 1000 radio stations in 130 countries to an audience of approximately a billion listeners

My Favourite songs - One Moment in Time

My Favourite songs - One Moment in Time

Whitney Houston's unforgettable song....A day to give , the best of me...I am only one but not alone, My finest day is yet unknown..Give me one moment in time.....and all my dreams are a heartbeat away and the answers are all upto me.. 

What more can be said for the fighting spirit and moments of Glory 

My Favourite songs-Sandstorm

My Favourite songs-Sandstorm

Sandstorm is a  song with powerful beats with Arabian touch and can actually make you feel standing in the middle of a raging sandstorm. The Lyrics .. fly with the clouds, from the winds, in the desert there is sandstorm,...no where to run or to hide from the fury of the sandstorm..can well apply to the dunes of life as well..

MY FAVOURITE SONGS-HEAL THE WORLD

An excellent composition on world peace sending out the appeal to all to contribute to the humatarian bonding and propogate freindship and fraternity in a borderless world forever to come.

My Favourite songs - Another Day in Paradise

My Favourite songs - Another Day in Paradise

Phil Collins could not have been better. Besides other favourites like Groovy Kind of love, Easy Lovers, In this song Phil Collins  brings  out  the insensitivity that we all carry without regrets living in our own paradises what is called in Michael Jackson's words - WHO AM I , To be Blind , Pretending not to see their needs"... The songs depicts the strongly held emotions and scorn towards the apathy so common today..

My Favourite songs - Vincent

My Favourite songs- Vincent

Vincent from Don Mclean is a wonderful tribute to the famous painter Vincent Von Gogh. The fusion of Lyrics, Music and the Paintings of Vincent Von Gogh is Breathtaking. The paintings are nostalgic and have the power to transport you in  the realm of Tranquility.

WhiZ Hearts-Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei 

WhiZHeart Estimated IQ>185

Born: February 15, 1564
Death: January 8, 1642

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. He was the oldest of seven children. His father was a musician and wool trader, who wanted his son to study medicine as there was more money in medicine. At age eleven, Galileo was sent off to study in a Jesuit monastery.At age twenty, Galileo noticed a lamp swinging overhead while he was in a cathedral. Curious to find out how long it took the lamp to swing back and forth, he used his pulse to time large and small swings. Galileo discovered something that no one else had ever realized: the period of each swing was exactly the same. The law of the pendulum, which would eventually be used to regulate clocks, made Galileo Galilei instantly famous.Galileo was a devout Catholic who seriously considered pursuing a career in the priesthood. Instead, at his father's urging, he enrolled at the University of Pisa to study medicine, but switched to mathematics. He was appointed the chair of mathematics in 1589. In 1592 he moved to the University of Padua, teaching in the fields of mathematics, geometry, and astronomy until 1610. Among other things, Galileo has been called:

 ·  The father of science ·  The father of modern physics ·    The father of modern astronomy

·         The father of observational science 

Some of Galileo's most significant work was in the field of kinematics, identifying that the total distance covered is proportional to the square of the time. He also identified the parabola as the ideal trajectory for uniformly accelerated motion in a plane. In 1608, the telescope was invented in the Netherlands. Over the next year, Galileo had heard about it and crafted his own improvements. With the improved telescope, he was able to observe the heavens more closely than ever before and identified three of Jupiter's moons. This, along with observing the phases of Venus, provided support for the Copernican heliocentric model of the universe over Ptolemy's geocentric model. In addition, he made many other significant observations. He was the first to observe sunspots, the rings of Saturn and lunar mountains and craters. Galileo's Imprisonment sentence had three parts:

·         He was required to recant his heliocentric views

·         He was imprisoned (though this later got commuted to house arrest at his estate near Florence)

·         His Dialogue was banned, and all other works written by him were forbidden, though this latter part was not enforced.

While under house arrest, Galileo wrote Two New Sciences, which outlined his earlier work in kinematics and the strength of materials.Galileo died of natural causes in 1642, after having gone blind. He was reburied at Santa Croce, sacred ground, in 1737. 

WhiZ Hearts-Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

WhiZ Hearts : Estimated IQ >187

Robert James Fischer was born on 9 March 1943 in Chicago.

Bobby Fischer started playing chess at 6, and from a very young age he attended the Brooklyn Chess Club and was coached by Carmine Nigro, the club's president.

Fischer was so preoccupied by chess that his mother, Regina, took him to the Children's Psychiatric Division of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital; but the doctor there, Harold Kline told Mrs. Fischer he thought there were worse preoccupations and Bobby Fischer's zest for the game continued unabated.

 In 1955, Fischer joined the Manhattan Chess Club and then the Hawthorne Chess Club where he was mentored by Jack Collins.

In July 1956, Bobby Fischer won the US junior championship - the youngest player to do so.

At 14 years and 9 months Fischer became US Champion, a title he was to gain eight times.

As his playing continued to thrive so did his personal life grow more difficult. He fell out with his mother and his disagreements with tournament organizers were escalating.

In the mid-1960s, Fischer became involved with a sect called the Worldwide Church of G-d, which led him to refuse to play during the sect's Sabbath.

Fischer's run-up to the World Championship against Spassky in Rejkavik, Iceland in 1972 was extraordinary. In the Candidates quarter-final Fischer whitewashed Mark Taimanov 6-0 and then repeated the feat with a 6-0 victory in the semi-finals against Bent Larsen. To polish it off Bobby Fischer defeated former world champion Tigran Petrosian in the Candidates Final with five wins, three draws, and just one loss.

Against the backdrop of the Cold War Fischer defeated Soviet Boris Spassky in what became known as the "chess match of the century". During the match Fischer complained about the site, the prize fund, the organizers, FIDE; even to the extent of the match having to be postponed.

Fischer lost the first game and forfeited the second and then refused to play the third on the stage and insisted on playing in an ill-furnished back-room - Spassky lost the game and eventually the match.

But then Fischer withdrew from competition, and three years later, the World Chess Federation stripped him of his title for failing to defend it against Anatoly Karpov.

Since then, apart from a bizarre Fischer-Spassky rematch in Yugoslavia in 1992, which Fischer won 10-5 with 15 draws that provoked the wrath of the US government as it defied their sanctions against Yugoslavia, Fischer has not actively played chess (unless as some people including Nigel Short have posited - on the internet).

Fischer disappeared. He apparently spent several years in central Europe before moving to Tokyo.

Totally reclusive he emerged only to utter anti-Semitic rants in radio interviews and his support for the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.

Fischer said of 'September 11' on a radio show in the Philippines: "This is all wonderful news. It is time to finish off the US once and for all."

His anti-semitism was nothing new, although his mother was Jewish. In 1962 Fischer was quoted as saying: "There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class from the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like."

In 1984, Fischer wrote an open letter to the Encyclopedia Judaica, asking that his entry be removed, saying: "try to promote your religion on its own merits - if indeed it has any."

In 2004, Japan arrested Bobby Fischer, wanted by the US for breaking international sanctions (his Yugoslavia re-match with Spassky).

Fischer was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport, apparently with an invalid passport.

Eventually Bobby Fischer was released by the Japanese and taken in by Iceland. Bobby Fischer News contains an update on Bobby Fischer's departure to Iceland.

There have been recent disclosures about Fischer's background, with the release of FBI files on Fischer's mother Regina. The documents seem to suggest that Fischer's actual father was a Jewish man, Dr Paul Felix Nemenyi, and not as had been assumed a German biophysicist named Gerhardt.

It seems the most savoury thing to do is to end up by concentrating on Fischer's great chess skills. Garry Kasparov states in his foreword to Agur's "Fischer - his Approach to Chess":

"Fischer's achievement is unsurpassed - the gap between him and his rivals was the widest there ever was between a World Champion and the other top-ranking players at the time. He was some 10-15 years ahead of his time in his preparation and understanding."

At his peak, Bobby Fischer was the strongest chess player of all time.

In January 2008, Bobby Fischer died after suffering from a long-term illness.

 

WhiZ Hearts-BLAISE PASCAL

BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662)

WhiZ Hearts-Estimated IQ>195

Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. He was a mathematician of the first order. At 16 he wrote the Essai pour les coniques which was published in 1640. In 1642 he invented a calculating machine to help his father, who served as Royal Tax Commissioner at Rouen. Pascal is often credited with the discovery of the mathematical theory of probability and he also made serious contributions to number theory and geometry.

1623-	June 19, born in Claremont the son of Etienne Pascal a minor noble and government official.
1626-	Mother dies.
1631-	Etienne moves to Paris and directs his children's education based on the pedagogy of Montaigne. Blaise proves to be exceptional at mathematics.
1638-	Etienne goes into hiding after opposing a fiscal measure of Richelieu but leaves the children in Paris.
1639-	Blaise's sister, Jacqueline, appears in a play before Richelieu after which he not only pardons Etienne but appoints him tax collector at Rouen.
1642-	Blaise begins to work on his calculating machine to assist his father in the computation of taxes.
1646-	Etienne is injured and is cared for by two Jansenists who convert the family to this strict form of Christianity.
1647-	Visits by Descartes and discussion on atmospheric pressure and the function of the barometer.
1648-	Pascal returns to Claremont. Writes treatise on conic sections.
1650-	Returns to Paris.
1651-	Etienne dies and Jacqueline joins the convent at Port-Royal.
1654-	November 23, a two-hour ecstatic vision leads to his conversion. The account of this vision is kept in the lining of his coat at all times.
1655-	January 7, takes a retreat to Port-Royal where he defends Arnauld against the Jesuits who sought to expell him.
1656-	Appearance of the first of the Provicial Letters.
1658-	Lectures on his apologetics to the leaders of Port-Royal.
1659-	Comes down with the illness that will lead to his death. Works in brief periods of relief from suffering.
1661-	Jacqueline dies. Port-Royal closed after official condemnation of Jansenism.
1662-	August 17, Blaise Pascal dies in the house of one of his sisters.
1670-	Publication of his Thoughts which he had worked on sporadically the last four years of his life.

WhiZ Hearts-Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan

WhiZ Hearts- Estimated IQ>190-210

Indian mathematician who was self-taught and had an uncanny mathematical manipulative ability. Ramanujan was unable to pass his school examinations in India, and could only obtain a clerk's position in the city of Madras. However, he continued to pursue his own mathematics, and sent letters to three mathematicians in England (which arrived in January of 1913) containing some of his results. While two of the three returned the letters unopened, G. H. Hardy recognized Ramanujan's intrinsic mathematical ability and arranged for him to come to Cambridge. Because of his lack of formal training, Ramanujan sometimes did not differentiate between formal proof and apparent truth based on intuitive or numerical evidence. Although his intuition and computational ability allowed him to determine and state highly original and unconventional results which continued to defy formal proof until recently (Berndt 1985-1997), Ramanujan did occasionally state incorrect results.

Ramanujan had an intimate familiarity with numbers, and excelled especially in number theory and modular function theory. His familiarity with numbers was demonstrated by the following incident. During an illness in England, Hardy visited Ramanujan in the hospital. When Hardy remarked that he had taken taxi number 1729, a singularly unexceptional number, Ramanujan immediately responded that this number was actually quite remarkable: it is the smallest integer that can be represented in two ways by the sum of two cubes: 1729=1³+12³=9³+10³.

Unfortunately, Ramanujan's health deteriorated rapidly in England, due perhaps to the unfamiliar climate, food, and to the isolation which Ramanujan felt as the sole Indian in a culture which was largely foreign to him. Ramanujan was sent home to recuperate in 1919, but tragically died the next year at the very young age of 32.

Ramanujan published some of his results in journals, and many are beautiful indeed. However, his working notebooks contained much additional unorganized material which remained uninvestigated until the sustained efforts of Berndt and his coworkers who systematically examined and proved Ramanujan's sometimes vague or ambiguous statements. For anyone with a little knowledge of number theory, Ramanujan's notebooks make absolutely fascinating reading. It is therefore a great pity that their publisher, Springer-Verlag, has chosen to price these slim volumes at the ridiculous price of about $100 apiece.

 

Whiz Hearts -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    WhiZHeart Estimated IQ>210   THE boy, Goethe, was a precocious youngster. At the early age of eight he had already acquired some knowledge of Greek, Latin, French and Italian. He had likewise acquired from his mother the knack of story telling; and from a toy puppet show in his nursery his first interest in the stage. Goethe’s early education was somewhat irregular and informal, and already he was marked by that apparent feeling of superiority that stayed by him throughout his life. When he was about 16 he was sent to Leipzig, ostensibly to study law. Finally, in 1770 Goethe went to Strasburg, this time really intent on passing his preliminary examinations in law. Along with his study of law, he studied art, music, anatomy and chemistry. In 1771 Goethe returned to Frankfurt, nominally to practice law, but he was soon deep in work on what was to be his first dramatic success, Götz von Berlichingen,the story of a robber baron of the 16th century that represented Goethe's youthful protest against the established order and his demand for intellectual freedom. Its success made its hitherto unknown author the literary leader of Germany. Goethe’s invitation in 1775 to the court of Duke Karl August at Weimar was a turning point in the literary life of Germany. He became manager of the Court Theater, and interested himself in various other activities. The writing of Faust, however, that best known of Goethe's works, extended over practically the whole of Goethe's literary life, a period of 57 years. It was finally finished when Goethe was 81. Faust is in reality a dramatic poem rather than a piece for the stage. While based on the same legend as Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, it far transcends both its legendary source and the English play. The latter is little more than a Morality illustrating the punishment of sin; Goethe's work is a drama of redemption. Others of Goethe's works which have stood the test of time include: Clavigo, Egmont, Stella, Iphigenia in Tauris and Torquato Tasso.