At The Edge

Wordle Word tag based on the usage frequency of words from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (in English: My Struggle) Volume I: A Reckoning and Volume II: The National Socialist Movement. Hitler actually wanted to name it Viereinhalb Jahre (des Kampfes) gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit , or Four and a Half Years (of Fighting) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. His publisher suggested the much shorter " Mein Kampf ," often translated as "My Struggle," "My Challenge," "My Campaign," or "My Battle." Mein Kampf remains another widely read book in India . According to a Telegraph report dated 20th April 2009 , Indian management students think of Hitler as management Guru. Talk about world domination, a failed joint venture! According to the report, in the management category, readers think Hitler's Mein Kampf is at par with Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese". Talk about 'Who Moved my Motherland!

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?

Man cannot live for ever on walks however charming and however fascinating his companion may be.His soul yearns for a ball of some kind whether it be a polo ball, a cricket ball, a tennis ball, a golf ball, or even a croquet ball. Until he has a ball of some description to play with he is never really happy. Sir Francis Younghusband came up with this revelation in his book Kashmir (1911). He was describing the beautiful meadows of Gulmarg and explaining how, since his previous visit about nineteen years ago, the Golf courses and the Polo grounds had sprung up in place of woods and swamps. According to Younghusband, all this because the soul of a man forever yearns for the ball. Is balloon a ball? According to Bollywood, and countless movie song sequences bear witness, a man's soul also deeply yearns for balloons, particularly helium filled ones. In Bollywood, balloons were not just a prop. Hrikesh Mukherjee directing the song zindagi kaisi hai paheli for his film Anand (1971) ...

In year 1949, Dev Anand, along with brother Chetan Anand, started a film production company called Nav Ketan films . Year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the film company. The company that introduced artists like Guru Dutt, Jaidev, Johny Walker, Sahir Ludhianvi. Zeenat Aman and Tabu. Beginning was great with Chetan Anand directing Afsar (1949) based on Nikolai Gogol's play The Government Inspector . Next came Guru Dutt's directorial debut Baazi (1951). Then within next decade some of fine films, mostly thanks to Chetan and Vijay Anand. In 1961, people heard the great music by Jai dev for the film Hum Dono. A film later in 1965, Vijay Anand directed path breaking Guide (1965) adapted from R. K. Narayan's novel The Guide and  then he went on to direct the brilliant thriller Jewel Thief (1967). Dev Anand turned director with Prem Pujari (1970) and on screen played a butterfly chasing peacenik. Then in 1971,  he directed the phenomena called Hare Rama Hare Krishna and Ze...

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