Category Archives: philosophy

Ghalib’s heritage endangered

By nistha | Published: December 30, 2009
Unfor­tu­nate is the land that can’t uphold it’s own legacy. To have been blessed with the affec­tions of the peer­less Mirza Ghalib is suf­fi­cient alone to make Delhi spe­cial but Delhi has decided to hand the honor over to the obliv­ion. In recent news arti­cle from TOI, the Delhi govt. or the archae­o­log­i­cal depart­ment had [...]
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Letter to an MBA

By nistha | Published: December 24, 2009
I have to share this. It’s a long yet inter­est­ing read on the topic — ‘What to expect and what to aim for as an MBA’. It can be extrap­o­lated along more generic lines of pro­fes­sional suc­cess as well. Read the full post here by Jul­lien Gordon. I am just quot­ing few punch lines here [...]
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The moving finger writes

By nistha | Published: July 21, 2009
The Mov­ing Fin­ger writes; and, hav­ing writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to can­cel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. –Edward Fitzgerald’s trans­la­tion of the poem The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, 1859 Essence: What­ever one does in one’s life is one’s own [...]
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