கீதாசாரம் By Rudyard Kipling

IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Hear Dennis Hopper recite this Poem on YouTube here

A Mischief Called Wardrobe Malfunction

It can happen once. It can happen twice. But with regular periodicity the wardrobe seems to malfunction at all kind of places. The trick was started by the iconic Janet Jackson during Super Bowl with millions of Americans glued to their TVs. Then on, this has become a routine. But did you notice the malfunctions happen only to significant audience , mostly on the ramp and always when the cameras are rolling. This cant be coincidence. Now malfunction repeats itself last week at the Wills Life Style India Fashion Week by FDCI in New Delhi.
Well even since the Janet incident I have been watching with wide open eyes both in the news columns and in real life if ever this happened to anybody else. Nope. The only occasion was the knicker slipping down for a 12 month toddler.
Given my technical education & my mechanical bend I sit & wonder how they manage this malfunction at the right moment at the right place to the right audience invariably facing the camera. Could it be triggered with wireless remote control. Or is it some simple mechanical contraption & the model pull a thing or two... BOOM it pops out into instant Nirvana oops I meant Salvation.
But however they do this, it seems to work with surgical precision and they have perfected this into a fine art. Do this a few more times guys and this too becomes stale. Try something new.

Emergency Number

You can try this at home or at work. Even in the loo. With the keypad locked try dialling 112 or 911 the 2 international emergency numbers. Just hit Call, the handset will start dialling. It will work with the key pad locked, without any balance in your account and even without a SIM card inserted.
This is a emergency system built into all GSM handsets by default. ( CDMA - I dont know ) But in India we have an elegant way of screwing up things. At last count there were 27 different emergency assistance numbers as per DriversDay.IN . So when you dial any of the two numbers where will it land ? AirCel & CellOne have configured it to land on 100 ( a simple redirect at the switching level ) This I have tested but other operators ?
These are simple things but of critical importance & costs nothing. But the issue is who's ambit it falls in , home department, telecom ministry or health ministry.
What ever its time this simple thing is done.
Anybody listening ?