my email to an obnoxious journalist

Hi, i have certain issues with your article http://www.tehelka.com/story_main43.asp?filename=Ne300110abominable_books.asp

1)What are your qualifications for a person to be a philosopher?a PhD- then i think every second unintelligent, herd mentality person is a philosopher or is on the way to becoming one.

2)whoever told you that the fountainhead is the philosophical el dorado( lost city of gold????) is deluding himself.Rand's philosophy is about living an ideal life on earth.

2)i would like to know wht you mean when you say people are not made of cardboard, that is obviously a fact and your reiterating it dosent make your writing cool.

3)also the argument for freedom is made with reason in all her books. Maybe you dont believe in reason. I suggest reading Aristotle.

4)"philosophy begins with an acknowledgment both of the complex world we live in and the paradoxes of the human condition."- that phrase is making an absolute statement while denying absolutism- wonderful contradiction of modern indian journalists.

5)"Rape is not the same as passion" - haven't you read a single Mills and Boon book- is fascist samrat going to ban them too?.you have absolutely no respect for people who indulge in rough sex.believe me every woman i know has had a fantasy of submitting sexually to the man she loves.

6)"ambition is not the measure of man"- then what exactly is the measure?His level of education in a foreign college, the amount of money he steals from the middle-class to give to the poor and the rich like most politicians of the world, banning fish pedicures, furs,cigarettes, industries and eating animals in the name of "saving our mother planet", or is it the number of Nobel peace prizes he wins on no objective basis?

7)an aggressive, no-holds-barred individualism as a personal philosophy is particularly attractive during years of heightened hormonal confusion.- so u are one of those people who beleives humans are a product of their hormones, genes, past life karma etc?nice.u probably support sodomites and the true kind of unthinking rapists then. Josef Fritzl is waiting for you to defend his hormones.

I would like an explanation for your words- is it caused u studied for free in some government run college in India or elsewhere?or is it your inability to realise that most humans other than you would rather live for their own long term rational self interest and Ayn rand's books are an inspiration to such individuals , especially those who live in Socialist- welfare state hellholes like India.

Regards
Puneeta

haunting lyrics

do pal ruka khwabon ka karavan aur phir chal diye tum kahan hum kahan!!do pal ki thi yeh dilon ki dastan aur phir chal diye tum kahan hum kahan.

Transalation:

For just two minutes did I stop this caravan of dreams, after which the both of us continued in seperate journeys.
The fate of these two hearts was that their story lasted for just two minutes, before we seperated them in continuing our journeys!

Awww :(

hmmm am so high on twitter dont have the inclination to actually blog!!

but still would like to talk abt my favorites who generally dont contradict each other!!

ayn rand- the person who though dead told me that what i think is right!!

murray rothbard- like some of his theories

albert einstein- admire him for his singular acheivements

madame curie- amazing woman!not in the feminist sense though

adam smith- born on my bday!!which dosent really matter cause i admired him even before i knew this!!(but its a cool fact)

clark gable- the only time a movie version of a character fleshed out the character in my imagination(referring to gone with the wind)

angelina jolie-beautiful,deadly- as a woman should be-recently voted by 58% as the woman most likely to launch a war a la helen of troy!!

howard roark and fransisco d'aconia-characters from atlas shrugged and fountainhead - who i wish were alive.

frank.l.wright- love his architecture.

cox and farkum -cartoonists i discovered through the internet!!

finally my dad-the almost perfect person in my life who inspires me all the time!!

Maa Tujhe Salaam

This song is most amazing .Still remember getting the cassette as a gift when i was 13 from my paternal uncle.really don't know how he knew of the perfect gift.an inspiration to all of us who love INDIA AND of course the incomparable AR Rahman.

Living In India

There is a flyover being built on the outer ring road near my place.My office is at domlur inner ring road and i live at banaswadi.The logstics involved in just travelling are mind boggling.When I have the time, i cross the road and take a bus to shivajinagar and another one from there to domlur layout after which its a walk of about 15 mins on a steep incline. Today,I did'nt have the time .So I hailed Bus going towards Kr puram got down,crossed the heavily jammed road near the hanging brdge,and then another bus,but the journey dosent end here.This bus takes me to the end of 80 feet road indranagar throgh the really small railway underpass(again jammed),and deposits me near the church where again, surprise,surprise, there is a traffic jam.cause of the metrp construction.I ask a lady about getting to the inner ring road and she says the bmtc buses are infrequent and if I am in a hurry i shoud take one the tempo travellers or cabs going that way.sounds good to me .a cab comes. i get in and we navigate this last leg if my journey very very slowl,owing to multiple factors,my driver talking on the phone,meeting some friend on the way and having a conversation with him,many stops,and of course,traffic.finally reach off 15 mins late and remember that i havent had breakfast.I prmise my stomach a large lunch and get o with work.