No one leaves here alive.
So please stop treating yourself as an afterthought
Eat delicious food
Walk in the sun
Jump into the sea
Speak the truth that you carry in your heart like a hidden treasure
Be silly. Be good. Be weird
There is no time for anything else
- British film actor Anthony Hopkins
Wise words. Very few of us have the courage to follow through on every one of his prompts but we can keep this mantra in our hearts as we breathe through our days and pursue our goals.
Eat delicious food
Walk in the sun
Jump into the sea
Speak the truth that you carry in your heart like a hidden treasure
Be silly. Be good. Be weird
There is no time for anything else
- British film actor Anthony Hopkins
Wise words. Very few of us have the courage to follow through on every one of his prompts but we can keep this mantra in our hearts as we breathe through our days and pursue our goals.
Rape case protest
(Rupak De Chowdhuri / NurPhoto via AP)
As I write this editorial, many cities in India are still protesting and holding candlelight vigils as a response to the horrific attack on the medical trainee at RG KAR hospital in Kolkata on August 9. The soul-numbing rape-murder occurred in the middle of the night when the 31 year old was resting in the hospital's seminar hall. The incident has since turned political and updates and revelations are emerging every day.
(Rupak De Chowdhuri / NurPhoto via AP)
As I write this editorial, many cities in India are still protesting and holding candlelight vigils as a response to the horrific attack on the medical trainee at RG KAR hospital in Kolkata on August 9. The soul-numbing rape-murder occurred in the middle of the night when the 31 year old was resting in the hospital's seminar hall. The incident has since turned political and updates and revelations are emerging every day.
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Yeah. Nice quote of actor Hopkins. And your admiration for the quote. Coming to think about it, have you read translations of what are know. As Subhashitam — I am sure I can not read the Sanskrit original with similar quotes wtoytem several centuries ago when English was not even a sophisticated language.
ReplyDeleteOr have U read the poems of Tamil poet Kalamegham, or others written a few centuries ago by unknown Tamil poets along similar lines? I am reasonably sure you have not.
By the way, several decades ago, I had to meet your father, Mr R Ratnam, at his spacious mansion on Cenetoph Road in the Trynsmoet area in Chennai.
Growing up in a poor working class neighborhood in Purasawalkam, I could not even imagine that such spacious mansions are in Chennai for people to live!!
I write this from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Kollengode S Venkataraman
Note: decades ago I wrote an article in your Narthaki magazine on Indian performing arts. ,