Articles that Amaze you

We all read and come across various articles. Some of them are gems and get us thinking anew. And of them fewer still are the ones that help us reevalute ourselves and our beliefs. Let this thread be a quest to hunt out those articles.If you com…

We all read and come across various articles. Some of them are gems and get us thinking anew. And of them fewer still are the ones that help us reevalute ourselves and our beliefs. Let this thread be a quest to hunt out those articles.

If you come across any article that shakes you to your core, mesmerizes you or even gets you thinking, please feel free to post and help us broaden our horizon.

It might be a a good way to improve our reading skills, at the same time finding our way in this abstruse world.

For starters, 

http://chronicle.com/article/When-Pornography-Pays-for/147987/

Do you think this is a great example of feminism or Is it another example of objectification of women? 

although this article isn't as sensational  😁 as the one posted earlier on this thread, I believe it can come in handy during interviews/GDs


http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/labour-laws-that39sone-killing-mfg-morgan-stanley_1158604.h...


That Hashtag Was My Colleague



an overview of the issue of 'indigenisation' of the military as promised by the Modi government:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/20/india-defence-idUSL6N0QI32P20140820


http://observer.com/2014/08/did-an-artwork-solve-a-decades-old-nyc-crime/


I guess you all know abt this... Still found it interesting.. as I heard abt this paradox a long way back and hence became excited after reading


In the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 feet. If we suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed (one very fast and one very slow), then after some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 feet, bringing him to the tortoise's starting point. During this time, the tortoise would have run a much shorter distance, say, 10 feet. It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, by which time the tortoise will have advanced farther; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead. Thus, whenever Achilles reaches somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has farther to go. Therefore, because there are an infinite number of points Achilles must reach where the tortoise has already been, he can never overtake the tortoise.

The recent price war among the airlines attracted a lot of media attention.Prices of air tickets have been slashed, offers galore on Yatra and Makemytrip. Kingfisher Airlines went bankrupt, Jet Airways hasn't made a profit since 2007.  What has befallen the Indian aviation industry? Is it only the Indian carriers that are suffering or is it a global phenomenon? And why is AirAsia still so keen on starting operations in India? Read on to find the answers to some of these questions.


http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/why-asias-airlines-arent-delivering-profits_1164051.html

This is probably among the most influential speeches that an Indian gave. Can you identify who, when and where gave it? 

Sisters and Brothers of America,

It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.

My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings: "As the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."

The present convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever held, is in itself a vindication, a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: "Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me." Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.


The World's Parliament of Religions has become an accomplished fact, and the merciful Father has helped those who labored to bring it into existence, and crowned with success their most unselfish labor.

My thanks to those noble souls whose large hearts and love of truth first dreamed this wonderful dream and then realized it. My thanks to the shower of liberal sentiments that has overflowed this platform. My thanks to this enlightened audience for their uniform kindness to me and for their appreciation of every thought that tends to smooth the friction of religions. A few jarring notes were heard from time to time in this harmony. My special thanks to them, for they have, by their striking contrast, made general harmony the sweeter.

Much has been said of the common ground of religious unity. I am not going just now to venture my own theory. But if any one here hopes that this unity will come by the triumph of any one of the religions and the destruction of the others, to him I say, "Brother, yours is an impossible hope." Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid.

The seed is put in the ground, and earth and air and water are placed around it. Does the seed become the earth, or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant. It develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth, and the water, converts them into plant substance, and grows into a plant.

Similar is the case with religion. The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth.

If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance: "Help and not fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension."

Editorial from Pak daily on recent civil unrest. 

Not amazing exactly but worth a look !!

hilarious as well as informative 😃 The best kind 

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html


Conversely, some people in the distant past naively thought they could sit all of the millions of monkeys down and say, "Okay, everybody go pick the bananas, then bring them here, and we'll distribute them with a complex formula determining banana need! Now go gather bananas for the good of society!" For the monkeys it was a confused, comical, tree-humping disaster.

Later, a far more realistic man sat the monkeys down and said, "You want bananas? Each of you go get your own. I'm taking a nap." That man, of course, was German philosopher Hans Capitalism.

http://www.caravanmagazine.in/essay/dangling-conversation?page=0,1

One of the best turnaround stories you will ever read. The fact that it concerns a brand we all recognize just makes it more interesting:


http://www.business-standard.com/article/management/book-extract-balancing-act-114092100687_1.html

http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/indias-mars-orbiter-mission-the-frugal-innovation/1301279/3