Some off beat reads for a lazy Sunday:
Spoof: Arnab Goswami forgets wedding anniversary.Wife outraged (UnrealTimes)
Movie Review:Bol Bachchan (VigilIdiot)
Of wolves and humans, colony dogs and other beastly tales (JaiArjun)
Book Review:Poor Little Rich Slum (MumbaiBoss)
Travelogue: All the way to Badrinath (Ghumakkar)
Sex in the Olympic Village (ESPN)
Sleeping with cannibals (Smithsonian)
Why are Muslims powerless?
Because we aren’t producing knowledge.
Why are Muslims powerless?
Because we aren’t diffusing knowledge.
Why are Muslims powerless?
Because we aren’t applying knowledge.
And, the future belongs to knowledge-based societies.
Interestingly, the combined annual GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion. America, just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12 trillion; China – $8 trillion, Japan – $3.8 trillion and Germany – $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis).
Oil rich Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services (mostly oil) worth $500 billion; Spain alone produces goods and services worth over $1 trillion; Catholic Poland – $489 billion and Buddhist Thailand – $545 billion. Muslim GDP, as a percentage of worlds GDP, is fast declining.
So, why are Muslims so powerless?
Answer: Lack of education!
All we do is shouting to Allah the whole day and blame everyone else for our multiple failures
–wrote Dr. Farrukh Saleem in the Bangladeshi weekly Blitz
Interesting that he compares JP Morgan’s derivative losses with what happened to AMEX in the 1960s.
Interesting reads for the weekend:
That girl next to Sania (Open)
How Parvez Tak lost his head (Tehelka)
In the Ministry of External Affairs (SashiTharoor)
Bollywood’s most boring secret (Newslaundry)
Neeraj Monga:India is an immature market (ForbesIndia)
The Money Empathy gap (NyMag)
The little known story of how modern Olympics got their start (Smithsonian)
WB has been one of my heroes and its true that role models play a huge role in how we think.One of WB’s statements “Don’t risk what you have and need for something you don’t have and don’t need” saved me from taking disastrous (in hindsight) decisions.