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Change education system to improve humans’ inner quality: Dalai Lama – The Times of India
The Dalai Lama was speaking at the first-ever Abdul Kalam Seva Ratna awards organised by the Madras Management Association in association with Abdul Kalam Vision India Movement at Music Academy. Lamenting that people of his generation had created a lot of problems on the planet, he said it was up to members of the present generation to find solutions and build a happy 21st century. “Man made the problems but we also have the ability to reduce them and eventually eliminate them. We need a sense of oneness. Different views, faith, and things like race/caste are minor issues. What we need to remember is that we all are humans and have the same right to achieve a happy life,” he said. Recalling his first few visits to the city in the 1950s and 1960s, he pointed to the sharp increase in the number of constructions this time. “There is extreme modernisation in the world but people should also have a peaceful mind. People live in big houses but there is a lot of tension within them. Material development provides only physical comfort but modernisation does not necessarily bring us inner peace.” Saying India had the potential to bring about this peace, he said it was the only country where all major traditions live together and the 3000 years of Indian culture was rooted in non-violence and religious harmony.
Source: Change education system to improve humans’ inner quality: Dalai Lama – The Times of India
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Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Please Hear Me
I cannot breathe in this atmosphere
Let’s run away from here
I cannot live with an old man
Let’s go out of here together
Hey… you are my love
I want to live with you
Not with an old man
Our love is like a pure dove
Oh… no
There are people searching for us
They want to kill us
Hurry up…Just run …
I found them
Let’s kill them
Why did you run away with a boy?
We know you felt all the joys.
Come take stones
They should not go back
Alive to their homes
They are sinners
Don’t throw the stone
Let me go back home
I am not a sinner
I am just a lover
I love that boy, I want to get married
I am honest, that is not a sinto break the vow
I am engaged in
I ran away with my love
Don’t throw the stone
I didn’t do wrong
Please hear my sound
Please remember your own past
Didn’t you commit the wrong?
Didn’t you commit the sin?
Please don’t throw the stones
Let me go back home
By Zahra H.
William Shatner sets sights on Star Trek musical
Captain Kirk actor says he would like to be involved in 50th anniversary celebration and suggests it could be a musical or variety show
William Shatner hopes to arrange a show to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek – and it could even be a musical.
The 84-year-old, who played Captain Kirk when the television series launched in 1966, is trying to organise an show for Star Trek’s half century anniversary next year.
56 Rare Historical Vintage Photos You May Never Seen Before
Rare historical vintage photos that you may never seen before.
2. An airman being captured by Vietnamese in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain.
3. Samurai warriors taken between 1860 and 1880.
4. A shell-shocked reindeer looks on as war planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941.
5. Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.
Heartbreaking photo shows human-orangutan conflict as fires rage in Borneo
As the Indonesian fires rage on, a photograph of the moment an orangutan and her baby were saved from an attack by frightened villagers captures the world’s attention, illustrating the human-orangutan conflict in the region.
Australia under fire at UN over asylum seeker policies
Australia’s stance on asylum seekers comes under fire during a three-hour session of the United Nations’ peak human rights body in Geneva, with countries including the US, Britain and Norway criticising offshore detention and the treatment of women and children.
Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
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