Monthly Archives: August 2009
માણસનાંકૌટુંબિક દુશ્મનો!
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Posted by Valibhai Musa on August 25, 2009 in Article, લેખ, Character, Culture, gujarati, Human behavior
Tags: લેખ, family, Honor-killing, life, Social
A Humorous Folktale on Stupidity
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Before proceeding on for my humorous post today, I’ll pass on the credit of the marvelous theme of the story to be represented below to a local weaver of my village from whom I had heard it in form of simply a joke many years ago. At this juncture, I’ll disclose one more suspense that the same folktale in different episodes was traced out by me before I started to write this post while chatting on I-net. Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark (1805-1875) who was the son of a shoemaker had written the similar story titled as ‘The Emperor’s New Robes’ in his book “Fairy Tales”.
I wonder how and through which source the narrator of this tale to me had collected it though he was illiterate. How strange we feel that no frontiers come across the way of literature to spread globally! Literature is like migrating birds that can fly East to West and North to South with no any hindrance or prohibition. The tale below is a ‘Remix’ of the two above with omissions and additions from my end. According to Lawrence Lessig, a law Professor of Stanford University, California, USA; ‘Remix is a Cultural Right’. Here, I don’t claim any right but merely say that I have enjoyed a little freedom in my humble endeavor here. Please, go on to read the tale.
Posted by Valibhai Musa on August 18, 2009 in Article, લેખ, Human behavior, Humor, Miscellaneous
Tags: Akbar - the Great, Albert Einstein, લેખ, Denmark, Fable, Folktale, genius, Hans Christian Andersen, improvisator, Knighthood, Lawrence Lessig, Literature, Mogul, Parable, poet, Remix, Stanford University, story, Weaver
Friends are our destiny, either ill or good!
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Recently a week ago, the Friendship Day was celebrated in the most of the countries of the world. Western countries emphasize on some social days besides the religious ones. The first Sunday of August was declared as the Friendship Day by US Congress in 1935 and now many countries follow the same and celebrate it. This day is not limited to youngsters only. The people of any age and gender celebrate it with great zeal and enjoy the day valuing friendship as an indispensable part of life.
In my some earlier post, I had written that Relatives have been gifted by the God by our birth in a certain family to His wish whether they suit us or not. But, we must thank Him in case of our friends for whom we have at least a chance of choice. The friend is the new-comer in our life like the wife. Here, I would like to express my views on friendship with supporting quotes of some noble and learned people wherever certain points come to be emphasized in my Article.
‘Friends and Friendship’ is such a profound subject which cannot be discussed with proper justification in this precise Article. Its various aspects are such as ways of knowing a friend, boundaries of friendship and its continuity or termination, proper motivations of friendship and guidelines of associating with friends, rights of friends mutually agreed upon and to be observed honestly and lastly testing a friend prior to its commencement, within its continuity or before its termination. I am not going to go deep in the subject here, but discuss some points in general just to guide my valued Readers how to deal with friends and develop true friendship.
Posted by Valibhai Musa on August 9, 2009 in Article, લેખ, Character, Culture, Human behavior
Tags: Arabic, Aristotle, લેખ, Friendship, Friendship Day, life, Social, Socrates, Spanish, Swedish, The Holy Prophet



