Everything's gonna be alright - "Rap" part

I searched on the net for the rap part from the song "everything's gonna be alright (from the movie JUMBO") ... Lyrics of the song was available but the "rap" part was missing :(

So i had no option but to listen to the part many times over and write down the lyrics word by word :) This is what it seems to be:

" Stepping through my wing
Do u feel my floor
I have been there & done
More than you'll ever know

And now I've got a message
For those who give a damn
I am not preaching
Just stating where i stand

I've had girls & hotties
been messed up with parties
Screaming from my lungs
Swearing from my tongue

Never did i think
That I'll stop to sing
My value my culture
My history

So i tell you
Keep the faith
It's hard to love
Or cease it a hate
But love is all you need
Not guns & knives
I don't mean to draw sword
I've got life !! "

and then the song lyrics come up

" Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
Jab tak hum side by side
Everything's gonna be alright

Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
Jab tak tu hai mere side
Everything's gonna be alright "

King & Queen !! - Beautiful chess pieces

John Stuart Mill - Appreciation of military; Women's rights

Mill demonstrated a deep appreciation for the military, noting in his essay "The Contest In America":

"But war, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a nation can suffer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice – a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice – is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."

Simply put, what he means is that war is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I find his articles and essays exceptional, full of original thought and expression. His deeds speak a lot about his vision and strength of character. He was the first person in British Parliament to call for women to be given the right to vote. Mill became a strong advocate of women rights and such political and social reforms as proportional representation, labor unions, and farm cooperatives.

Under the guise of having gained gender equality and liberation and all the freedoms which humans being humans deserve, women shouldn't forget the contributions of men like John Mill in giving a direction to women's movement and equality. It was because of such visionary men like Raja Ram Mohan Roy & John Stuart Mill that women got the direction to further their causes. It is but the nature of people to forget support and contributions. However with the rise of such movements as "feminism", there is a deliberate effort to undermine their contributions which i feel is far more outrageous than just ignoring them.

John Stuart Mill - Value of the natural world

John Stuart Mill's writings spoke of so many core ideas which i have always believed in. His insight into the value of the natural world struck a very knowing chord in my heart. To quote him from Book IV, Chapter VI of his 'Principles of political economy' written in 1948,

"I confess i am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress."

Mill expressed the value of 'nature' itself, and that the destruction of 'solitude' and the natural world does not amount to progress.

" Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature; with every rood of land brought into cultivation, which i capable of growing food for human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of improved agriculture. If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, i sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compel them to it."

Every concern of his has come true today. And we still dont understand or comprehend our actions, be it environment degradation or population production. I find it really amazing that humans consider their ability to do a thing to be their right. So till the time they are capable of doing something, they will do it. And people like me who have unwittingly and against our wishes been brought into this world will have to perennially suffer.

Beautiful Sketches - Hollywood Stars !!

Angelina Jolie - After a mad rush of adopting children, she seems to have run out of steam. She expressed the desire to stay away from the children and husband for some time. Even one child is hard to manage. Adopting children across continents as collectibles is something which makes a mockery of motherhood. Hope she gives them the promised ray of hope.

Brad Pitt -Love makes a person blind. It has made him insane. Unwittingly he has become hand-in-glove with angelina in adopting children. And we don't even know whether he likes to have so many children or not. The cap here is terrific. I will buy such a cap as soon as i find one !!

Heart throb of millions

Keira Knightly - I liked her acting in " Bend it like Beckham" . Even now she needs to improve a lot. Also she needs to build up a good body. She evokes no sex appeal. To me she looks malnourished.

Meg Ryan - Dreamy Eyes ! Just imagine her age though. She was born in 1961 which makes her all of 48 !! Maintains herself well. I loved her movie "IQ" in which Albert Einstein plays the cupid !!

Sean Connery -He came third in the 1950 Mr. Universe Competition !! Soon he became "Bond, James Bond" !! At age 60, in 1989, he was voted the sexiest man alive. His comment, " Well there aren't many sexy dead men, are there?" !! i loved him in the movie "The Rock"

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 - All articles

Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.

(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.

(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.

(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.

(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Fees Hike in management education

Hike in fees charged for providing management education seems to be the new buzzword. Last year some IIM's had upped the fees to aorund 10 Lakhs for the two year course. IIM Kolkata has announced rise in fees to around 9-9.5 L.

The trend seems to have percolated to the next level too. Narsee Monjee is all set to hike the fees to " atleast 8 Lakhs" in the words of the admission office !

When i told my mom about this trend, she was shell shocked. Her first reaction was,families like ours would never be able to afford MBA. This simply echoed my own thoughts. For me it seems impossible for a candidate like me to do MBA. I couldn't even think of doing engineering because at that time we couldn't even afford that. For that prime reason i took up commerce. Commerce stream was offering the cheapest courses. Later after post graduation i took up a part-time management course offered by Mumbai University. I had to drop out after first year as i couldn't even afford the 2nd year fees of Rs 15 k.

For the current fees of MBA(2007-09) in Narsee Monjee which is around 3.5 L for 2 years, i had to run from pillar to post. MY loan application was rejected by all banks applied to. My cousin gave me the money at the last minute and hence i could do MBA. 8 -9 lakhs for education is simply not within my range.

2 years ago HRD ministry had tried to take over control of the IIM management board to thrust OBC quota down the country's throat. The intention was serpentine. And i was revolted. But now it seems that the government needs to step in. If not for reduction of fees, atleast for making sure that the deserving candidates do get loan for pursuing higher education. If not, MBA will become the domain of the deserving candidates of the well-to-do & rich class only. There is then a fundamental flaw in the system, because education has always been the only hope for the rest of the classes to get out of the circle of deprivation. If that is snatched away from us, then we will lose our only hope.