Brown Motion

I am a fan of the Charlie Rose show on American Public Television.  I record all of them and then selectively watch them as I vegetate. On couple of recent interviews with the accomplished citizenry that he invites to talk, I heard a lot about resumes vs. eulogies.  The thought is that people often work hard at building an image of who they are when they are alive but often forget to think beyond. Now truth be told that the very accomplished end up in an ideal spot where they effectively give away all that they made when living, which sets them up for a nice eulogy.  But the message was clear.  We need to pay attention to more Living and less Chasing. When our electronic devices remind us that there is only critical amount of juice left to perform critical tasks (not text your latest hobby to your thousand friends but make that all important phone call you have been putting off), we seem to go on a panic attack and want to find the nearest charging temple ...

I know you can guess what P C stands for. Well, I recently watched the Finance Minister of India on American Public Television. His initials are P C for P Chidambaram. And yes the whole interview with Charlie Rose was an awesome display on Political Correctness. He is visiting the States this Spring of 2012 to garner foreign investments for his country. While steeped in money matters from a historic (grandparents founded banks and father was a successful businessman) context he went on to study law and was a corporate lawyer representing the likes of Enron in India. Not sure of his true alignment with the Indian politic but clearly he is a man that comes across as very shrewd and highly intelligent to navigate the world stage. I have been away from India for the most part (at least during my thinking years) so have no direct context on how if any of his policies have helped or hurt the growth in India but if some of the media were to be believed it is apparent that he has had an...