At The Edge

Got this 'One' word using Wordle run on the entire text from twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead (1949). Why The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged remain one of the most widely read, or pretended to have read, books in India?

Word cloud created using Wordle , run on text from Quran, translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali , returning 10 most frequently used words in the scripture. Message, precise! -0-

Dhoop packets for those thick, black and oily incense sticks (usually in a pack of 10 or 20) used to have small orange pamphlets inside. Those pamphlets offered essence, the saar , of Gita, in Hindi and in English,  in 10 simple lines.Those lines, in English, usually went something like this - Do what you have to do, Work is God and it's He who is doing it all. -0- Word cloud created using Wordle , run on text from The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold (1900), returning common English words used most frequently in the scripture.

Wordle is a smart little Java based on-line service that creates tag clouds based on usage frequency of words in a text document or a website. I ran Wordle on 15th Lok Sabha Elections(2009) Manifestos of the three biggest Indian political parties and here's what I got: Based on 31 page Manifesto of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Based on BJP's 2009 election manifesto. Based on election manifesto of the Indian National Congress