Hastinapur, the city of wisdom, in Argentina

Hastinapur has a total area of twelve acres. Its population consists of a dozen Indian gods and an equal number of Argentine human beings. Some of the Indian gods reside in authentic temples filled with the scent of Indian agarbatties while others stay outdoor enjoying the fragrance of the flowers from the garden. Some are sitting or standing on the pedestals and others hang on the sides of walls and pillars. The gods who have their own temples include Ganesh, Krishna, Surya, Narayana and Siva. Since it is Hastinapur there is a temple for Pandavas too. Hastinapur is clearly a place fit for the gods ...who should be pleased with the cleanliness of the place, the serene surroundings and the green garden with Rosewood trees. The only noise comes from the hundreds of birds nesting in the trees. Then there is the soft music of the devotees who sing Bhajans. It is indeed a divine place which inspires sacred thoughts and holy spirit.




Ganesh is standing out in white against the greenery of the garden in the picture below.



The dozen Argentines who live there look after the gods and the place. During weekend, the human population increases to over one hundred. The Argentines do not go there seeking favours as many Indians do in Tirupathi. They go there for wisdom. This is why Hastinapur is called as the City of Wisdom (ciudad de la sabiduria). Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning blesses the students through the sculptures all around the compound. The Argentines learn philosophy, read in the library, practise yoga and meditation and sing Bhajans.
On the other side of the fence, there are cows grazing and occasionally staring at the Indian gods. The cows are relaxed and free from fear because they know that they will not become food at the dining table in Hastinapur, which is a vegetarian place. The inmates cook vegetarian food and share it with the children from poor families in the neighbourhood.
Hastinapur does not have any godmen seeking fame and fortune and flaunting wealthy followers. It is an instituition to pursue pure wisdom, peace and divinity. Neither in the city nor in the website names of those who run the place are given. The founders and directors of the Hastinapura Foundation do not seek publicity. They are humble but devoted people. They have their professions as company managers, engineers or professors. They volunteer their time and talents for the foundation.
Nor is Hastinapur the work of some overenthusiastic drum-beating Hare Krishna types or faith-lead Saibaba followers. Hastinapur respects all the religions and beliefs. Their ten temples include one for Buddha, one for Virgin Mary, one for the Greek god Demeter and another one called as the the Temple of All Faiths. Their library has books of all religions and schools of thought. Hastinapur seeks true wisdom, going beyond the boundaries of established religions. The City of Wisdom is not the ultimate destination. It does not prescribe wisdom doses. It simply helps people to seek, find and pursue their own path to wisdom. They give classes in yoga, meditation, philosophy, devotional singing and sacred drama. They organise workshops, seminars and retreats. They also provide community service. They celebrate festivals such as Ganesh Chathurthi and Baishaki. Their next project is to broadcast through radio.
Hastinapur temples do not have priests or other middlemen between the gods and worshippers. There is no money collection, like in Tirupathi. Worshippers pray, recite mantras and sing devotional songs individually or in groups.


Meditation Hall



Hastinapur has a post graduate course in yoga which takes three years to complete. The classes are held in the weekends only. There are 2500 students studying yoga and philosophy in the Hastinapur centres. The students are being taught by 100 teachers on philosophy and 120 teachers on yoga.

Many Argentines go to Hastinapur as a retreat from the hectic city of Buenos Aires which is just fifty kilometres away. They practise meditation in the quiet natural environment. They do yoga, read books from the library, discuss philosophy and join the singing of bhajans. Hastinapur is an authentic Ashram.

Hastinapur Foundation has published a number of books on Indian philosophy and translated Bhagwat Gita, Bhakti Sutras, Upanishads,Srimad Bhagwatam and Yoga Sutras. Their latest publication is Mahabharatha in Spanish. They have so far published three volumes and plan to do a total of twelve volumes in the coming years. Each volume is over 500 pages. The founder Alda Albrecht and other members of the Foundation have also written a number of books.





main entrance to the Hastinapur city


Hastinapura Foundation was established by Ada Albrecht in 1981. She introduced Indian philosophy and became a Guru for the Argentines seeking wisdom. She wrote a number of books such as ¨The Saints and teachings of India¨ and ¨The teachings of the monks from Himalayas¨.
Gustavo Canzobre was one of her students, who is now the Director of the Hastinapur college of professors. He was seventeen years old when he became interested in Indian wisdom. During the Third Festival of India organised by the embassy in Buenos Aires in November 2010, he gave a talk on the templearchitecture of South India. He has agreed to give a talk on Indian philosophy in the forthcoming Fourth Festival of India in December 2011. He is a manager in a local company for living and dedicates rest of his time to Hastinapura Foundation. He is knowledgeable about Indian vedas and upanishads and is going to India on his second visit in August this year.




Gustavo Canzobre in the picture


The architectural and scuplting work of the Hastinapur complex has been done entirely by Argentines. The architects and sculptors have studied Indian temples and have done their work professionally and aesthetically. Even now they are constructing some more buildings with Indian sculptures and statues.
Pillars of the entrance to Ganesh temple below:


The pond in front of the temple has fresh water and fish:

A small outdoor Ganesh temple in the garden

Hastinapura Foundation has sixteen centres in Buenos Aires and three more in the rest of Argentina. They have also established centres in Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia. Information on the Foundation and its activities can be seen at their website
http://en.hastinapura.org.ar/

Lord Siva is sitting majestically in the large garden guarded by Ganesh on the four sides:

Latin Americans are, of course, known for fun and fiesta. At the same time, there are thousands of Latin Americans who take Mahabharatha and Meditation more seriously than many Indians....

...Unconditional Love.......

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Franciso.
"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me"
"Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him." "There's something you should know the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us." "Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live his own."
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few a days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police.
Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide.
The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son.
They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know.
Their son had only one hand and one leg.

DIARY OFA BABY

15th jun :- I got attached with ovary
17th jun :- I’m a tissue now
30 Jun :- Mom said to dad, “ You’re going to be a father”
MOM AND DAD ARE VERY HAPPY
15th Sept :- I Can feel my heartbeat
14oct :- I have Little hands, legs head and a stomach.
13Nov :- Today i was in a Ultra scan
WOW ! I m a girl
14Nov : I was DEAD!
My mom and dad Killed me.
WHY?
Is it just Because I was a girl?
People love to have a Mother , AWife, and of course a girlfriend too
Then why not a daughter !!!
If You’re a Human..... Pass it to Everyone by copy this message
Pls
“SAVE GIRL CHILD"..

dnt kill me plzzzz.........i wana live :(

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The Value of a Drink





"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink
I feel a shame. Then I look into the glass and think
about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes
and dreams .. If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out
of work and their dreams would be shattered.
Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this wine and let their
dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
~ Jack Handy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they
wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're
going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people.
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"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

~ Henny Youngman

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.

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"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
I think not."
~ Stephen Wright

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can sing.
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"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk,
we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all
get drunk and go to heaven!"
~ Brian O'Rourke


WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause pregnancy.

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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~ Benjamin Franklin


WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a retard.

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"Without question, the greatest invention in the
history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the

wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does
not go nearly as well with pizza."
~ Dave Barry

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them.
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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!

~ Dave Howell

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may make you think you can logically converse with members of the opposite sex without spitting.

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And saving the best for last, as explained by Cliff Clavin,of Cheers.

One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the BuffaloTheory to his buddy Norm.
Here's how it went:

"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not

A practical example of how the human mind works

*A practical example of how the human mind works*

Analysis of the Below picture can tell us a lot about how different people think.
- For young men, it's a picture of a lady with a nice arse but only the most observant will notice that she is crossing a street.

- The really observant will notice that she is wearing a thong.

- For older men, she appears to be a respectable woman - with a nice arse - on her way to work.

- The perverts among them will imagine her naked.

- Wiser men will ponder the presence of mind of the photographer to take the shot in the face of such beauty and be grateful that they shared it with humanity.

- For half of the women, this is an ordinary woman who should not have left home dressed that way.

- The other half will think she is a slut but wonder where she bought that blouse.

- Older women will imagine the misery that the woman's arse will cause by the time she reaches 50.

- But only children, the extremely intelligent and the celibate will notice that the taxi is being driven by a dog.

i used to like Premji until i read this..

Wipro chairman Mr. Azim prem ji's comment on reservation:

* I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC /ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an SC/ST/OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by a SC/ST/OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An SC/ST/OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century. We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our SC/ST/OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an SC/ST/OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal. Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an SC/ST/OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters. There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and politicians (that can really help the country.. ) Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers and other politicians. (Another way of saving the country..) Let's be creative and think of ways and means to guide INDIA forward... Let's show the world that INDIA is a GREAT country. Let's be proud of being an INDIAN.. May the good breed of politicians long live.. *

Government wants to bail out kingfisher airlines

Government wants to bail out kingfisher airlines !!!!
why not ask mallya to sell his stake in Force India and RCB !!
why not ask him to curb his outrageous lifestyle by few steps !!
Government should focus on bailing out common man of the inflation , corruption and non-governance!!!

PLEASE SHARE THIS .... FOR HUMANITY AT-LEAST..

PLEASE SHARE THIS .... FOR HUMANITY AT-LEAST..


Q:Do U know Katrina Kaif ?
Ans:...Ohh know very cute girl.........
Q:Do U know Kareena Kapoor?
Ans:arey yaar she is my Dream Girl...
Q:Do U know who is She(In the picture)?
Ans:haaaa..........once saw her in news bt dont know.....


This is our LIFE
okay!!!
she is Irom Sharmila Chanu....has been fasting for the past 11 years...(the Manipur govt giving liquid food through her nose from 11 yrs )
She has not eaten anything since November 4, 2000 demanding the Government of India
to withdraw the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) from Manipur.A law that gives Army the power to shoot anyone at their will,A draconian law with many other inhuman provisions ..
Just Think?????........
we doesn't know much about her because of "NO PUBLICITY",
Even Nautanki's like Rakhi Sawant or Punam Pandey's are known to everybody but not a Brave woman like her who sacrificed herself for humanity..
NOW am ready to give publicity to her...
What about U???????????????????.

The AFSPA 1958: A Review From Nagaland After 52years

A long fifty two years have passed since the AFSPA was first introduced into Nagaland in April 1958. This Act was first introduced into Naga soil in order to crush the Naga struggle to defend their declared independence which was declared on August 14, 1958. The political and historical situation in which the Act was introduced was therefore, a situation of war. This was clearly described by the then Director of the Indian Intelligence Bureau B.N. Mullik in his book,”My years with Nehru.” Mullik wrote:

“Troops moved into Tuensang by Oct. 1955, and the war with the Nagas started from then.”

About the number of troops deployed at this stage of the war, he wrote:
“Ultimately, nearly two divisions of the army and thirty five battalions of the Assam Rifles or armed police were in operation in the Naga Hills and Tuensang Frontier Divisions and in the adjoining areas.” (BN. Mullik, My years with Nehru, pp308, 312)

About this number of troops deployed; two Divisions means 18000 troops and thirty five Battalions means 35000 troops which totals into 53000 troops. These troops were assisted by the Indian Air Force, heavy artillery and light armored tanks.
Very soon, more then six hundred Naga villages were burned to ashes and hundreds upon thousands of Nagas died from bullets, bombs, starvation and disease.

The Indian Government however, desperately tried to project the war as a law and order break down. But it was very much a war in which tiny Nagaland was desperately trying to defend its declared independence while India tried its best to impose its declared independence on the Nagas. This was done through brutal military might.

In this war, this draconian law was preceded by the equally heinous Assam maintenance of Public order Act of 1953 and the Disturbed Area Act of 1955.These acts would later on be followed by similar Acts like the Nagaland Security Regulation Act of 1962 and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967. But however hard India had tried to stamp out Naga nationalism and Naga Independence from the face of the earth, it has failed so far. This is because the national identity of a nation is indestructible and unchangeable.

The ASPA which gives the Indian soldiers sweeping powers like searching without search warrants, arresting without arrest warrants, and even shooting to death on mere suspicion is a most illegal act enacted in the annals of human legal history. In fact it is an Act that negates and even nullifies the very concept and principles of law. This is because here is an act that says a person can be shot to death on mere suspicion when the Law says “A person is innocent until proven guilty.” This extra judicial law is sanctioned by Indian Law, protected by Indian Law and is even immune from legal prosecution- “except with previous sanction of the Central Government.” This Act in short is an act that amounts to state sponsored terrorism. And the sponsorer of this heinous law is the central Government of India through its Parliament.

The grounds on which this Act can be promulgated is of course based on the Disturbed Area Act of 1955. According to the procedure, when a State Government has declared an Area to be disturbed, then the AFSPA can come into operation. (This was amended in the 1972 AFSPA amendment and now the Central Government can bypass the concerned state and declare the Act from over the State’s head.)

Now, since all these heinous Acts and regulations were promulgated from the context of a war situation in Nagaland in the 1950’s, let us go back to 1955 and ask the question, Who disturbed who in 1955? Did the Naga National Council (NNC) or the Naga army go down to the plains of Assam and started burning Assamese villages and killing Assamese villagers in 1955 to necessitate the promulgation of AFSPA? So far as the verifiable records go, Nagas were simply defending their declared independence from within their ancestral territories. They were simply fighting against the 53,000 Indian invasion forces that had come into their land with the totally false claim that Nagas were Indians and Nagaland was Indian Territory. Prior to this spirited defense of their rights, all historical, political and cultural facts showing that Nagas were not Indians and would not join the Indian Union of 1947 had been furnished to both the departing British government and the incoming Indian government before 1947. This was done in the form of submitting six memorandums to the British Government and ten memorandums to India right from Jan. I, 1929 to 14 August 1947. (For details read the book, The Naga Saga.)

In all these peaceful endeavors, all that the Nagas had asked was that India and the rest of the world leave the Nagas alone so that they could politically and economically develop themselves according to their own genius. Who then was disturbing who in 1955 that that the Indian Government was compelled to promulgate acts like Disturbed Area Act and AFSPA to check law and order breakdown with tanks aero planes and artillery???

In the subsequent years, when the Naga nation took up arms to protect their houses from being burnt and their sisters from being raped and their people from being butchered, another act called the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act of 1967 was again slammed on the Nagas. Now, Nagas would like to ask the Indian government this second question: Is self defense activities against invasion, domination and persecution- unlawful activities in your legal understanding? If these activities are unlawful activities according to you, then your whole struggle against British imperialism and colonization from 1857 to 1947 were also unlawful activities.

Now in review and conclusion, allow me to state the following:
1. In 52 long years of implementing and exercising this heinous AFSPA, all that the Indian Government has achieved is alienating not only the Nagas but all the peoples of the whole North east region of India. This work of alienation is now being extended to the people of Jammu and Kashmir where it is also in operation now.

2. A second achievement of the AFSPA is that it has insulted as well as shamed Mahatma Gandhi and all the good people of India. Consequently, in the annals of human history, it will be recorded that the Indian government used this most unlawful law to persecute and kill people for over half a century. With its renewal on Oct. 20, 2010, it remains to be seen how much further the GOI wishes to extend this black record to smear India’s democratic face before the world for all times to come.
As for the Nagas and Meiteis as well as other North Eastern peoples who have all suffered under this inhuman law, it will also be recorded in the annals of history that they had done all that they could do to oppose this law. Their record will be written in the following manner:

1. They first took up arms to defend themselves against this life nullifying act. For more then a century, they fought against it in their villages and also in their jungles and were hunted like animals all their lives. They even marched across international boundaries into Pakistan and China to carry on the fight. Yes, their men folk did what a man and a father was supposed to do to defend their national honor as well as their family’s honor.

2. As for their womenfolk, they even stripped naked before the Indian soldiers to protest against this heinous law because under its protective umbrella thousands of women had been raped. One of their women even resorted to hunger strike and went for a fast on to death for ten years. But even these desperate actions were all ignored by the government of India.

In the end, the people who have suffered under this cruel law are only left wondering as to whether the Indian government is trying to force them to become human suicide bombers. On their part, they do not want to resort to this kind of protest because if a people are reduced to a state of hatred, then hatred destroys both “The hater” as well as “The hated.”

HERE IS A TINY BIT OF WHAT THE DRACONAIN AFSPA IS ALL ABOUT

The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), was passed on September 11, 1958, by the Parliament of India. It conferred special powers upon armed forces in what the act calls "disturbed areas" in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. It was later extended to Jammu and Kashmir as The Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act, 1990 in July 1990

When India presented its second periodic report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 1991, members of the UNHRC asked numerous questions about the validity of the AFSPA. They questioned the constitutionality of the AFSPA under Indian law and asked how it could be justified in light of Article 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ICCPR. On 23 March 2009, UN Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay asked India to repeal the AFSPA. She termed the law as "dated and colonial-era law that breach contemporary international human rights standards."

The Attorney General of India responded that the AFSPA is a necessary measure to prevent the secession of the North Eastern states. He said that a response to this agitation for secession in the North East had to be done on a "war footing." He argued that the Indian Constitution, in Article 355, made it the duty of the Central Government to protect the states from internal disturbance, and that there is no duty under international law to allow secession.

The act has been criticized by Human Rights Watch as a "tool of state abuse, oppression and discrimination".
The South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre argues that the governments' call for increased force is part of the problem.
"This reasoning exemplifies the vicious cycle which has been instituted in the North East due to the AFSPA. The use of the AFSPA pushes the demand for more autonomy, giving the people of the North East more reason to want to secede from a state which enacts such powers and the agitation which ensues continues to justify the use of the AFSPA from the point of view of the Indian Government." - The South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre

A report by the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis points to multiple occurrences of violence by security forces against civilians in Manipur since the passage of the Act. The report states that residents believe that the provision for immunity of security forces urge them to act more brutally. The article, however, goes on to say that repeal or withering away of the act will encourage insurgency.
In addition to this, there have been claims of disappearances by the police or the army in Kashmir by several human rights organizations.
A soldier guards the roadside checkpoint outside Srinagar International Airport in January 2009.

Many human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch (HRW) have condemned human rights abuses in Kashmir by Indians such as "extra-judicial executions", "disappearances", and torture; the "Armed Forces Special Powers Act", which "provides impunity for human rights abuses and fuels cycles of violence. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) grants the military wide powers of arrest, the right to shoot to kill, and to occupy or destroy property in counterinsurgency operations. Indian officials claim that troops need such powers because the army is only deployed when national security is at serious risk from armed combatants. Such circumstances, they say, call for extraordinary measures." Human rights organizations have also asked Indian government to repeal the Public Safety Act, since "a detainee may be held in administrative detention for a maximum of two years without a court order.".

The act has been cricised by many non governmental organisations and human rights activists. In J&K only, hundreds of people have been killed by security forces. Many cases of fake killings, binded labors, rapes and other atrocities have come in light.


Activists who are working in J&K for peace and human rights include names of Madhu Kishwar, Ashima Kaul, Ram Jethmalani, Faisal Khan, Ravi Nitesh, Swami Agnivesh, Dr. sandeep Pandey and many others. They all accept that people to people communication and development of new avenues are the only way for peace, however laws like AFSPA are continuously violating human rights issues there.

hearth touching......

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his
7-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON:"Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
DAD:"Yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man.
SON:"Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD:"That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"
the man said angrily.
SON:"I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD:"If you must know, I make Rs.100 an hour."
SON:"Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON:"Daddy, may I please borrow Rs.50?"
The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that Rs.50 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.
"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier" said the man.
"It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you.. Here's the Rs.50 you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He yelled.
Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.
The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.
"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father grumbled.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.
"Daddy, I have Rs.100 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?
Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you."
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.
It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.

Do remember to share that Rs.100 worth of your time with someone you love.
If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days.
But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.

WORLD’S EASIEST QUIZ!

( Passing requires only 3 correct answers out of 10! )

1) How long did the Hundred Years’ War last ?
2) Which country makes Panama hats ?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?
5) What is a camel’s hair brush made of ?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?
7) What was King George VI’s first name ?
8) What color is a purple finch ?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?

Remember, you need only 3 correct answers to pass.


Check your answers below.
ANSWERS
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last ? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats ? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ? November
5) What is a camel’s hair brush made of ? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ? Dogs
7) What was King George VI’s first name ? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch ? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ? Orange (of
course!)