DESI - NEWS LETTER (March 22)

March 22, 2004 NEWS LETTER Vol. 020304

Innovations can be of various kinds. In this wonderful article, Arun Shourie (Union minister for Disinvestment, Communications, and Information Technology, India) talks about the kind of innovations that come from the heart. The article originally appeared in the Indian Express on March 01, 2004. MORE

Science from the Heart

By: Arun Shourie

What is it that differentiates Arun Shourie from many other columnists? It is the positive constructive attitude and the ability to find and write about good things. Arun Shourie is a regular columnist with the Indian Express and his articles are always a treat to read.

Dasavataras

By: Ananda Tirtha Dasa

In Sanskrit, dasa means ten, and avatara means descent, or incarnation. The ten principal incarnations of Krishna are collectively known as the Dasavataras. In the Bhagavad-gita (4.8), Krishna gives the reasons He descends to this world: "To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium."

The first nine of these incarnations have already appeared. The tenth, Kalki, is scheduled to appear at the end of this age, about 427,000 years from now. Some historians hold that Buddha is not one of the ten incarnations. But the followers of the Vedic culture point out that the appearance of Lord Buddha is mentioned in Vedic scriptures predating Buddha by centuries. MORE

Use a cockroach to catch a cockroach

By: B. Raman

It would be a mistake to identify Osama bin Laden as the principal or the only source of threat to the international community. The principal threat is the new kind of International Terrorism as advocated and propagated by the so-called jehadis from the soil of Pakistan and Afghanistan for the last 20 years.

The advocates of Jehadi Terrorism hold that the jehadis have an extra-territorial right and obligation and a religious duty to wage jehad anywhere in the world against any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, and against any Government. They also hold that they recognise and respect only the frontiers of the Ummah and not national frontiers.

These were the most pernicious ideas to have come out of the human mind after the Second World War. Unless these ideas are countered and its advocates in Pakistan and Afghanistan defeated by the international community, more September 11s are likely. Bin Laden is a product of these ideas and a leading terrorist, who seeks to have these ideas enforced, but there are many others who have taken to terrorism for the same purpose, with equal cunning and ferocity. Unless they are neutralised too, the battle would have been vainly fought. MORE

Editor & Composer: Saurabh Jain

Develop Empower and Synergize India, College Park, MD 20742, USA


March 22, 2004 NEWS LETTER Vol. 020304
Innovations can be of various kinds. In this wonderful article, Arun Shourie (Union minister for Disinvestment, Communications, and Information Technology, India) talks about the kind of innovations that come from the heart. The article originally appeared in the Indian Express on March 01, 2004. MORE Science from the Heart By: Arun Shourie What is it that differentiates Arun Shourie from many other columnists? It is the positive constructive attitude and the ability to find and write about good things. Arun Shourie is a regular columnist with the Indian Express and his articles are always a treat to read.
Dasavataras By: Ananda Tirtha Dasa In Sanskrit, dasa means ten, and avatara means descent, or incarnation. The ten principal incarnations of Krishna are collectively known as the Dasavataras. In the Bhagavad-gita (4.8), Krishna gives the reasons He descends to this world: "To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium." The first nine of these incarnations have already appeared. The tenth, Kalki, is scheduled to appear at the end of this age, about 427,000 years from now. Some historians hold that Buddha is not one of the ten incarnations. But the followers of the Vedic culture point out that the appearance of Lord Buddha is mentioned in Vedic scriptures predating Buddha by centuries. MORE	Use a cockroach to catch a cockroach By: B. Raman It would be a mistake to identify Osama bin Laden as the principal or the only source of threat to the international community. The principal threat is the new kind of International Terrorism as advocated and propagated by the so-called jehadis from the soil of Pakistan and Afghanistan for the last 20 years. The advocates of Jehadi Terrorism hold that the jehadis have an extra-territorial right and obligation and a religious duty to wage jehad anywhere in the world against any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, and against any Government. They also hold that they recognise and respect only the frontiers of the Ummah and not national frontiers. These were the most pernicious ideas to have come out of the human mind after the Second World War. Unless these ideas are countered and its advocates in Pakistan and Afghanistan defeated by the international community, more September 11s are likely. Bin Laden is a product of these ideas and a leading terrorist, who seeks to have these ideas enforced, but there are many others who have taken to terrorism for the same purpose, with equal cunning and ferocity. Unless they are neutralised too, the battle would have been vainly fought. MORE
Editor & Composer: Saurabh Jain
Develop Empower and Synergize India, College Park, MD 20742, USA