Posted on September 26, 2009 by shivanandpb
Pyramids have always amazed me. Pyramids are built by different civilization Egyptians, Incas and Mayans.
I can possibly do some reading on pyramids and probably some day I’ll be able to visit each of them.
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Posted on September 22, 2009 by shivanandpb
A Thousand Splendid Suns is Khaled Hosseini’s second book. His first book Kite Runner is a classic. I regard him to be one of the best storytellers I’ve read. Kite Runner is a must read, for any book lover.
I do not regard A Thousand Splendid Suns to be as good as Kite Runner, but [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by shivanandpb
I stumbled upon this very very interesting topic in Wikipedia The God Delusion. I now am really dying to read this entire article and the book obviously, will read it sometime when I’m free.
The concept is kind of true. Anything that is abstruse for humans to understand, something that defies the known or understood logic [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2007 by shivanandpb
This is an amazing picture, it tells a story. A Google Reader feed pointed me to this article by G Willow Wilson. Let me pull out couple of the excerpts from article, before going ahead.
Excerpt – 1
When non-Muslims look at this picture and cry “Contradiction! See, she’s only pretending to be pious” I look and [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2007 by shivanandpb
Last week the Dalai Lama said, “I knew a Tibetan monk for a long time. He was taken away to a Chinese gulag and kept there for 18 years. When he was released he fled to India, along with other Tibetans, for refuge”.He continued calmly, “I met him and asked him about his experiences in [...]
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