Me and dancing

Though I like dancing a lot, I purely suck at it :). Something like
This

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Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Charity

Am not a big fan of Microsoft windows or Dairy Queen ice cream, but am a fan of their owners. That 'fan following' just got intensified with the announcement by both Gates and Buffet about their dedication to charity. Forbes had interviewed the world's two richest men and good friends last year, and both of them had indicated their willingness for charity. Gates and Buffet have been ruthless businessmen, tranforming small companies to billion dollar entities. However, their spiritual and philanthrophical ideologies are taking them in a course that is shunning other businessmen. A total commitment of nearly 40 billion dollars to charity by Warren Buffet alone is indeed the greatest contribution the world probably has ever seen. Charity has been plagued by corruption all these years and though millions have been invested - only a small portion of the money have been reaching the end recipients. Now there is a new 'non-corrupt' leadership at the helm which will give the much needed respite for charity.

Apple again

A few months back I had written about Apple getting into the movie download business. Well Forbes has an article which hints at the same. Jobs is indeed in talks with movie studios to offer movies at a flat download rate of 10$ ( I predicted much lesser , 6$ ). More details in the article.

Its been almost 2 weeks since I blogged. No am not busy at work, just bieng lazy I guess and theres nothing eventful happening to blog about. I did go on a 3 day trip to Malheur national wildlife refuge, one of the best places in the world for an enthusiast birder. 3 days just flew by, and before I could realize I had to head back home. Obviously the main agenda was to take some pictures, and even though I shot about 4 gigs worth of pictures, hardly any of them were worth keeping. I was quite disappointed. Heres is one picture that I liked but the sharpness literally killed me.

The reservataion saga

Finally the government won their reservation battle and introduced 27% for OBCs in all national institutions. Hope they will increase the total number of seats in order to satisfy all sections of the society. All the peaceful attempts by students to avert this decision failed. Its possible that violent protests, communal clashes would have helped in pushing back the government but even in that case, government would have still won by using the army. However the latter attempt would have hampered the country's secularist reputation.
I can't believe Dr.Singh supported this reservation policy. I guess for the vote bank the congress government will stoop to any levels. Also I would have loved to see the technology companies oppose the move as they are the ones to be ultimately affected. Hardly anyone mentioned the issue. There are some sections of the society who were against the reservation protests. This snippet from yesterday's issue of deccan herald which indicates such a move is pretty frustrating.

"The All India Minorities Front has called for “social boycott” of anti-reservation agitators from June 1 as a “tit for tat” measure.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, AIMF National President S M Asif said the anti-reservationists are acting on behest of “communal forces and education mafia”. “Their protests are an insult to the whole nation, as 85 per cent of the population is pro-res-ervation. We will stop co-operating with those who are against the quota policy,” Asif threatened. Muslims have welcomed the quota proposal as “85 per cent of the OBC are Muslims.”
Arjun Singh absolutely deserves no respect. Literally he was smashed by Karan Thapar in his interview on IBNLive
The interview depicts his complete allegiance towards reservation like a blind belief.
May be the OBCs can make it to the elite institutions, but am sure the profs will make sure that only the deserving candidates pass out.