By SI Blog reader Racer44 (Parts 1 to 3) (For SI readers Boopalanj and Shadowfax_Arbit who first mentioned this tour de force) Note to SI Readers: I have used the word “Sozha” which I have verified with scholars as being the phonetically correct spelling, as opposed to “Chola”. Caveat: Before delving into the review of […]
The man who said “I’d rather be lucky than good” saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, […]
To deny that Shakespeare’s plays could have been written by a man of relatively humble background is, after all, to deny the very possibility of genius itself—a sentiment increasingly attractive in a democratic culture where few harsh realities are so unpalatable as that of human inequality. The mere existence of a Shakespeare is a mortal […]
What can be sweeter in life than the after-taste of extracting vengeance on those who have wronged you. Revenge, vendetta, vengeance, just desserts, comeuppance, retribution – Sure, all these may be ugly words with their foreboding of “there will be blood” but they are an essential trait of all humans. If only the hypocritical humans […]
Apple this morning boasted that it sold some 300,000 iPads in the U.S. as of midnight Saturday, April 3. The figure for the newly launched tablet devices include deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores. Wonder how many of the units shipped to channel partners like […]
Seldom do we deign to watch a movie for the second time. Our time on the planet is finite and there’s so much virgin terrain to explore. Right? So why waste time on where we’ve traveled before. But some movies are different. There’s a Karmic connection between the movie and us. They beseech us to […]