Comments for The Eastern Horizon

Comment on Hoax – “Giant Skeleton Found In India” by Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:56:19 +0000

its funny how these skeltons have not made world wide news. i think the head is far 2 big surport the body

Comment on Evolution of Kennedy Dynasty by swimanog

swimanog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:49:59 +0000

Before you judge the Kennedys, read Prof. Dallek’s biography of JFK. Joe Kennedy was a wheeler dealer but in many ways he was just shrewd not as corrupt as you suggest (though he certainly tilted that way politically). Joe made money from early film, then by buying short on a falling stock market. Plenty of people have done that. What of those who profited from the Iraq war? How immoral is that? The point about the Kennedy sons that you miss is they developed a sense of social and political justice independently of their father, perhaps because of him, but apart from him. John Kennedy is quoted as saying during the 1930s they were truly super rich, just when the rest of America were suffering – perhaps inspiring his sense of social justice. As well John Kennedy had physical problems all during his childhood – those who suffer something tend to think of others – FDR. JFK showed great bravery saving his colleagues in WWII. He didn’t like two things, above all else: the generals, who he thought were stupid and out of touch (from his experiences in WWII) and the oil industry who he considered were taking an unfair tax rebate in the form of the oil depletion allowance. The Kennedys, John and Bobby and Ted did more for social justice (Johnson put through the agenda, again I suspect in part out of guilt) than any other political family in 20th century U.S. history. And John Kennedy looked to the world and other countries as partners not countries to dominate or exploit. A revolution in advanced political thinking was lost with John Kennedy.

Comment on Hoax – “Giant Skeleton Found In India” by Shaunak

Shaunak — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:39 +0000

Really, it sometimes frustrates me to see how most people believe that a forwarded email is the word of god.

Comment on Hoax – “Giant Skeleton Found In India” by Sunfighter86

Sunfighter86 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:24:15 +0000

While these “giants” are not necessarily against Darwin’s theory, Christians in the US & Australia use these types of pics as proof positive that the biblical myths are historical documents and not morality tales.

Comment on How Shivaji Tackled Afzal Khan by Saurabh

Saurabh — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:17:42 +0000

gr888 article … !!
raje was truly perfectionists…!
are thrr pdf files jadunath sirkar or mujumdar ??

Comment on How Shivaji Tackled Afzal Khan by Amit Verma

Amit Verma — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:22:03 +0000

Great Post. Salutations to the Maharaj.

Can you also please expand on Shivaji’s policy on State-Craft.

Comment on How Shivaji Tackled Afzal Khan by Shaunak De

Shaunak De — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:02:21 +0000

This post made an awesome read.

The fourth point is especially thought provoking. Truly, a little foresight goes a long long way.

Comment on The Engineer Must Be Shot Dead !!! by GS

GS — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:08:46 +0000

And once the engineer was shot dead there was no one to actually fix the washing machine either. Strange obsession with hard-stops (a very western obsession btw)? No continuous processes?

Yes, I actually get the general import of the article. Good blog.

Comment on How Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar converted a lemon to a jackpot by Vamanan

Vamanan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:12:30 +0000

Dr. Biswas…I do agree with ur views…The public mind works overtime in building up the heros of the past….I would like to see this letter of Vidyasagar…I cannot imagine what actuated him to write such a letter…

Comment on How Shivaji Tackled Afzal Khan by Sanjeev Nimkar

Sanjeev Nimkar — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:39:58 +0000

Hi ,

I read this article today and was amazed to see the corelation with stong management principles . Any high quality organisation is build up only on strong visionary leadership and hands on understanding of the environment. Nothing can be better example than the whole life span of Shivaji and his process of building up the “Swaraj”

Thanks for putting the things together the way you have done .