Sunday, November 16, 2008

Indian Democracy at its worst best!

Two toons that tell the true tale behind India's so called 'Democracy'. My toon was inspired by this original toon by musicmom...




Friday, November 14, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Gurupurab



Guru Purab means 'festival of the Guru' and denotes the Birthday of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh faith. Besides being the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak was also a great poet, philosopher, humanist and a powerful social reformer, a teacher of mankind.

Here are some words of wisdom from him...



Guru Nanak also attacked the vicious tentacles of corruptions in society. He strongly protested against formalism and ritualism and carried the message of peace and of love to everybody. He was very liberal in his views and tried his level best to rid people of superstitous beliefs. Also, he firmly believed that there are no barriers of race, class, caste, creed or color which check the progress of any in reaching the goal. He realized the great truth of the brotherhood of religions and preached the universal brotherhood of man.

A beautiful summary of his teachings is contained in one of his hymns:

Love the saints of every faith:
Put away thy pride.
Remember the essence of religion
Is meekness and sympathy,
Not fine clothes,
Not the Yogi's garb and ashes,
Not the blowing of the horns,
Not the shaven head,
Not long prayers,
Not recitations and torturings,
Not the ascetic way,
But a life of goodness and purity,
Amid the world's temptations.

Gurupurab is the most important festival of the Sikh calendar and is celebrated with great zeal by Sikhs from all over the world.

Read more from
wikipedia on how we celebrate this festival of Gurupurab

Happy Gurupurab to all!

Meera

Go ahead and make those faces!



I've heard many such warnings too when I was little! But now that I'm older and know better, I wanted to tell all the kids out there...go ahead, have your fun, make all the faces you want and don't worry about such warnings!

Calvin making faces

Monday, November 3, 2008

Play on

A few of my favorite lines by Ronnie D. Laing...





These words seem to make perfect sense. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Lets play on...

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