God knows we have rarely been in such dire need of a president with some trace of a moral compass. (Not “moral” in the Christian right sense; it basically uses “morality” as a cudgel to promote its biases). So I was interested to hear John McCain’s answer at Rick Warren’s forum the other night when […]
The best is mine : The worst is yous
This is human being’s basic instinct to always search for the better for himself. But when it makes harm to others it become an animal like tendency. Not even an animal normally harms another without any cause. But being the best of all creation we don’t feel bad to do that kind of thing. In […]
Tahader Kotha : The tale of a Fisherman
The matter environmental pollution is a hugely discussed topic now a day throughout the world. The Sociologists, Environmentalists, Economists, Politicians all around the world are crazy about these matter and making thousands of seminars, symposiums, workshops, meetings everyday. I barely think a single person of them is really aware or concerned about how the people […]
Seventeen Snakes Found in Hotel Room
In Fairfax City , Virginia, seventeen snakes have been found in a hotel room. Twelve of the snakes were poisonous. Police think the snakes belonged to a man who had kept 100 exotic snakes in his home until he was told to get rid of them by July first. No one knew the snakes were there […]
A Buddhist perspective on the Bush disaster
Here’s a radical thought for the day: Stop blaming Bush. Oh, it would be easy to gaze at the wreckage of democracy of the past seven years and point a finger at the perpetrator-in-chief, but blaming Bush, I now realize, would be like blaming, well, a rock. How did I achieve this newfound enlightenment? […]
Learning to Document the Victims of Conflicts
Sarajevo seminar attempts to draw lessons from different countries’ approaches to identifying the victims of rights abuses. By Lara Nettelfield in Sarajevo When the call to prayer sounded at 10:45pm on a balmy Sarajevo night, Muhammad Jafar of Banda Aceh knew all of the words flowing from the city’s mosques. But he was in Bosnia […]
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