Entries Tagged as 'Time and Place'
We are the World – beautiful remake!
February 13th, 2010
Tags: Culture and Society · Time and Place
How to hack your own travel channel life by Adri
November 22nd, 2009
Tags: People Profile · Time and Place
I have the fortune to know Adri as a friend and listen to adventures for nearly 4 years now.. her slides that she presented during the BarCamp
old Versailles
February 2nd, 2009
Tags: Time and Place
i love looking at places from the old era and then compare it with the exact place today… Versailles is one such amazing example.

first dance
January 20th, 2009
Tags: People Profile · Time and Place
Barack and Michelle… congrats!
Map of Iran
December 11th, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
I want to go to Iran. The land of Persian, ancient history, Persian poetry and Tehran.
Barack Obama’s acceptance speech
November 12th, 2008
Tags: People Profile · Time and Place
on 4th November 2008, the historic win…
Sophie Scholl
November 7th, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (May 9, 1921 – February 22, 1943) was a member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.

growth of UN member states
November 2nd, 2008
Tags: Business & Finance · Time and Place
An interesting picture from wiki which depicts the growth of the UN member states in a timeline.

Packing and travelling
November 1st, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
one good amazing website on packing when travelling! -onebag.com
Map of Middle East
October 22nd, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
Countries of Middl East includes…
Algeria , Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Dubai Mega Projects
October 21st, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
Wow! Dubai has been spinning some very interesting Mega Projects:
- Dubai Waterfront
- Hydropolis
- Dubailand
- The Palm Islands
- Burj Dubai
- The World
- The Lagoons
- Business Bay
- Dubai Marina
New Zealand map
October 15th, 2008
Tags: Time and Place

8 largest cities of New Zealand include:
- Wellington (capital)
- Auckland (largest)
- Christchurch
- Hamilton
- Dunedin
- Napier-Hastings
- Palmerston North
- Tauranga
Australia map
October 13th, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
The top 5 cities in Australia…
- Brisbane
- Perth
- Melbourne
- Adelaide
- Sydney

Prime Ministers of Israel
October 6th, 2008
Tags: People Profile · Time and Place
Prime Minister of Israel is the most powerful political person of Israel.
- David Ben-Gurion
- Moshe Sharett
- Levi Eshkol
- Yigal Allon (acting)
- Golda Meir
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Menachem Begin
- Yitzhak Shamir
- Shimon Peres
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Ehud Barak
- Ariel Sharon
- Ehud Olmert
the trial of Socrates
October 5th, 2008
Tags: People Profile · Religion and Philosophy · Time and Place
Socrates. Statement at trial condemning him to death, 399BC, Athens.
I need to read this. It is a puzzling even till today as to why a Greek society which was democratic would sentence a 70 year old philospher to death and that philosopher had been teaching for life. One excerpt from his speech…
I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as I go, Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
Here/s also a link to the trial and death of Socrates
Great Speeches of Modern India
October 3rd, 2008
Tags: Culture and Society · Time and Place
Book Title: Great Speeches of Modern India
Author: Compiled by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: here
Summary: A collection of 49 speeches by many great oersonalities of Indian history since the 1885
My Comments: The collection of speeches is excellent. I shall not summarise all these speeches into this entry. Hence, i’ll go into each speech individually because they are important to be studied in detail one by one.
Contents page: Some speeches includes…
- Lord Curzon – On conserving ancient monuments in 1889
- Swami Vivekananda – Sisters and brothers of America in 1893
- Bal gangadhar Tilak – Free is my brithright in 1917
- Gandhi – Trial Speech in 1922
- Iqbal – Muslims of India in 1930
- Nehru – Tryst with Destiny in 1947
- Godse – Why I killed Gandhi in 1949
- Satyakit Ray – Education of a film maker in 1982
- Salman Rushdie – the Fatwa in 1993
- JRD Tata – Rekindling of enthusiasm in 1982
Some extracts: from the Preface of the book written by the compiling author…
speeches…
Speeches are meant to be spoken – and heard. For this reason, a speech is fundamentally different from other forms of written text, for it is not simply dependant on the words alone…
on speech writing…
The style of the speeches too changed. Nehru and his contemporaries and almost certainly the generation preceding him has all written their own speeches. This cannot be said for the politicians of the post-Nehru era. Most, if not all, the major political figured from Indira Gandhi onwards had their own team whose members works on the speeches and wrote them.
None of the great orators, during the 2nd WW and the period preceding it, employed speechwriters. Churchill wrote his own speeches and rehearsed them again and again.
on Sharda Prasad who used to write the speeches for Rajiv and Indira Gandhi…
Sharda Prasad was once asked why he, who had seen 2 prime ministers at such close quaters, did not write his memoirs. He reportedly quipped, “A man can become a ghost, but a ghost cannot become a man.”
4 yugas
September 29th, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
Hinduism talks about the 4 ages of man or the Yugas
- Satya Yuga or Krita Yuga – 1,728,000 years
- Treta Yuga – 1,296,000 years
- Dvapara Yuga – 864,000 years
- Kali Yuga – 432,000 years
The great Ages
September 26th, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
The ages defining the human evolution and civilisation of mankind statrting with the Ice Age whcih ended at about 10,000 BC. The other 3 great ages defining the Pre-history of mankind are..
- Stone Age - Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic (ended at about 2500 BC)
- Bronze Age (ended at about 500 BC)
- Iron Age (ended at about 200 AD)
Tags: ages, bronze, history, iron, mankind, stone
north east india
September 25th, 2008
Tags: Time and Place
North East India is made up of 7 sister states along with Sikkim…
Jai Hind
August 15th, 2008
Tags: Culture and Society · Time and Place
Happy Independance Day to India… 51 Years of Independance since 1947. I love these kind of videos of India… it really shows how diverse this country is – bustling with vibrancy!
Tags: 15, august, day, independance, india

