Noggyisms

Can I say the words ‘I want’ without immediately saying ‘in the broader interest’? Man things that to be selfish is to be terrible. I think that its terrible that man has such a low opinion of himself, has so little self respect that he thinks that being selfish entails that he lie, cheat, deceive, murder, grovel and beg. I think most men are the most selfless creatures. They cheat, grovel, beg deceive and do not care how much it hurts the I in them. The virtue of selfishness - David Kelly - The pride of knowing that u are good. The exaltation of reaching the highest in you. For fulfilling your purpose in life. There is this story of a lady suffering from an ailment for too long. When a drug called Prozac was invented, it freed millions. Excited, she traced the inventor and asked him how does it feel knowing you had helped millions. Barry molloy said, "I don’t know, I am amazingly happy at that fact that I could do it, it was a new high to achieve it. Does that make his cont...

A recent article on the 3 leading women in the Bollywoodesque thriller, that the political scenario in the country has become, led to this post. The article concentrated on Behenji, Amma and Didi (Mayawati, Jayalalitha and Mamta to the uninitiated). It talked about each of their individual strengths and what appeals about them to the voting populace. But while the political nuances were spot on, the article did touch upon a very interesting tidbit of information which I quote below from 2 different paragraphs. While Indian men have made it fairly difficult for ordinary women to feel comfortable as equal participants in the political domain, they tend to succumb easily to the demands of women who have the shrewdness and determination to grasp some dynastic or other leverage that provides them with the crucial opportunity to demonstrate that they are stronger and more resilient than the entire range of men in our politics …’ This is a variation of our family scene wherein ...