Mental Floss http://www.navinharish.org/blog/ Mental Floss is the life of a communication designer Navin Harish. Here you can read articles written by me and daily observations of this world. en-us navinh@gmail.com 2005-07-12T11:59:23+05:30 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Reservation - shaking our foundation http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/reservation.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2007/10/images/manu_doctor.jpg" >Being a doctor is not child play
If a life depends on it, the person to be trusted is the one who is the best, not the one who became a doc because of reservation.
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Reservation is against the rule of natural selection. I magine if a herd of buffaloes or a pride of lions selects its leader like this. This will lead to the extinction of group.

The government has asked for reservation in jobs for locals. A local is a person who has spent more than 15 years in this state. Currently the reservation is mostly in manufacturing and blue collar jobs and the service industry has been spared. The question is till when? Best way do implement an unpopular policy is by announcing it so people are outraged.

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]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/reservation.html blog Mental Floss Blog Navin Harish 2008-11-21T13:08:00+05:30 Splitting the Indian atom http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/splitting_india.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2006/5/images/dont_walk.jpg" >Photograph : Picturejockey

Any political leader with a microphone is trying to get his share of the division, whether it is Mayawati dividing the dalits from the rest of the nation or whether it is Raj Thackery who is dividing them as Marathis and non marathis.

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]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/splitting_india.html blog Mental Floss 2008-11-14T11:59:00+05:30 I am too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my nightie, toooo sexy for my boxer shorts http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/toosexy.html <img src="http://www.picturejockey.com/pblog/2005/6/images/love_daddy.jpg" width="337" height="253" >Manu's shorts saying I love my Daddy.
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The other thing that initially shocked me but now looks natural is the women in their night gowns. You may say that it is hardly shocking. Well, it is shocking if the woman in the nightgown is buying vegetables, talking a walk in the morning or traveling in train. In Bombay I found that a nightgown is a completely acceptable dress for many places other than a bed room...

]]> http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/toosexy.html blog Mental Floss 2008-11-12T12:29:00+05:30 Is it finally time to be nice to Anil Kumble? http://www.navinharish.org/blog/blog/2008/11/anil_kumble.html “Thinking about, he created a form of bowling that didn't exist before and how good it was is proved by the number of wickets he has taken and yet all we saw was that he can't spin the ball like Shane Warne.”

Cricket may be a glorified sport in India but there is one cricketer who has not found anything glamourous about it.That man is Anil Kumble. I am not very good with facts but I don't remember any captain retiring mid series and by not playing the Nagpur test, Kumble has done just that...

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