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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed

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“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life

tags: beauty, butterfly, childhood, human, human-nature, india, life, love, peace, ruskin-bond, war

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“...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: clarity-of-thought, fragility, internet-addiction, modern-values, modernity, modernity-is-a-sickness, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, robustness, wisdom-vs-nerdiness

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“How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.”
― Ruskin Bond - Delhi is not far

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“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
― Ruskin Bond

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“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

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www.merakipatrika.com Meraki is a Greek word that means anything done with love...or a work in which you have put in your soul...a part of yourself. M www.merakipatrika.com Meraki is a Greek word that means anything done with love...or a work in which you have put in your soul...a part of yourself. Meraki is an attempt to bring literature to the common man. Your entries are invited for the magazine. मेराकी ग्रीक भाषा का एक शब्द है,एक विशेषण जिसका अर्थ है रचनात्मकता से किया गया कोई भी कार्य। कोई भी कार्य जिसे हम अपनी आत्मा से करें, पूर्ण समर्पण और प्रेम के साथ करें। यह वेबसाइट “मेराकी” एक अंकिचन प्रयास है ऐसे युवाओं को एक प्लेटफॉर्म देने का जहां उन्हे बेहतर साहित्य पढ़ने को मिले जो उनके विचारों को आकार देने में सहायक सिद्ध हो सके। साहित्य, कला जैसे तत्व जो उनके जीवन से विलुप्त होते चले गए हैं, वह उनसे फिर जुड़ पाएँ और एक बेहतर समाज के निर्माण में अपना सक्रिय योगदान दे सके क्योंकि जीवन बस एक अच्छा करियर बना लेने और पाँच अंको की सैलरी पा लेने में ही नहीं सिमट जाता। जीवन के मायने इससे कहीं बढ़कर हैं, जीवन इससे कहीं आगे जाता है .... कहाँ तक और उसका लक्ष्य क्या है बस इस खोज की ललक भर पैदा हो जाए तो मैं समझूंगी कि मेरा उद्देश्य सफल हुआ, “मेराकी” का उद्देश्य सफल हुआ.... ...more

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