Blog-O-mania

Have you ever wondered how the term or rather genre of  Weblog  came to be in existence ? Weblogging is certainly of recent origin, but how recent ? Let me tell you that it was sometime in mid 1990’s while India was still reeling with few computers or say computers still seemed as a novelty, [...]

Illusion of Wealth

I found a very interesting quote on Wealth and the illusion it creates on the minds of people, here it goes:
Yasyasti vittam sa nara: kulina:
Sa pandita: Sa shrutavanguNjna: (1)
Sa evam vakta: San guNajna;
Sarve guNaha kanchanmashratye (2) [ Neeti Shataka-artha padhati]
A wealthy person is considered as to belonging to civilized family; Is eloquent; is all nobility [...]