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"The painting in Göring’s hands is not, as you assume, a Vermeer, but a Van Meegeren!” he told police in May 1945. “I painted the picture!"

#history

### Skateboard… real slow. ###

O’ you piece of poetry. I could watch this montage for hours together.

#beautiful

"It's complicated."

#politics

### 'Dived' ###

My end of the weekend jam by Balmorhea.

Go see them live whenever possible.

#music

### The league (and Ted Lasso) is upon us! ###

"I think I literally have a better understanding of who killed Kennedy than I do, what is, offside."

It really is not that hard.

#football

### Pyongyang in 3 minutes. ###

I will be honest. This is not how I pictured Pyongyang.

#cities

### Mandate ###

We like taking things for granted. We expect a world class civic system but stiff on taxes. We are ceaseless in our complains about our government(s) but cannot come to terms with the fact that we are part of the government. The list goes on. It's high time we accept the fact that we are actually part of the problem.

That does not let our masters of the past, the present & the ones to be, go scot-free. Being apathetic towards people's mandate usually does not go unpunished1. Just look at the Delhi assembly elections. The party that won the mandate decided to throw it away in a fit of immaturity and a bout of anarchy. People decided put them in place in a span of the next few months2.

In the same vein, I hope the current clique of the ruling class won't misuse the very same mandate. Getting elected does not mean every policy or legislation will be well received by the populous who voted for them. It also means they are responsible to serve the people who did not vote for them3. Painting constructive criticism towards the government as an agenda against the mandate is as insulting as being apathetic.

And as I have mentioned a few times, apathy, is for _douchebags_.

Albeit it might take its own time.

And rightly so, to the dismay of this writer.

India, for all its idiosyncrasies, has been a harmonious plurality for the most part. Let's try to keep it that way.

#india #politics

What a run! Sad to see it end.

Update: Maybe not.

#cinema

### Germany - 2014 World Cup Champions. ###

Be it the fact that they were head & shoulders above the next best team in the tournament, or that the Bundesliga mandates that at least 51% of every club is owned by the supporters and not by corporations, or that they don't try to profit off of the fans by keeping ticket prices low (as low as ~$12! a game) enabling them to have the highest average attendance over a season of any football league around the world creating an atmosphere bar none, a football fan could not have asked for a better result.

And yes, they tend to play a very elegant brand of football!

#football

### Barcelona GO! ###

A beautiful flow-motion film of the city of Barcelona.

#travel #cities

There is something immensely poetic about this xkcd entry.

### Icons - The Sunday Times ###

A fantastic TV spot for The Sunday Times recreating 6 pop-culture icons in about 50 seconds.

#ads

Before I get pulled into a flame war, take some time out of your day, read the complete piece while trying not to win an argument with the screen in front of you.

The first is the Congress party. Playing politics, it refused to question a culture that prevents Muslims from buying houses in middle class Ahmedabad, a local bureaucracy that sees Muslims as trouble, and an RSS and VHP machinery that exploits this social consensus for political ends. For crying out loud, the current leader of the Congress in Gujarat, Shankarsinh Vaghela, helped create the RSS network in Gujarat (as did then pal Narendra Modi).

One of the very few eloquent pieces I have read about this very sensitive topic which does not digress to a vitriolic rant.

(Source: Sebastin Kolman)

#india #politics

### "Why shouldn't I work for the NSA" ###

Matt Damon called it right 17 years ago. Also, such a Boston movie!

#cinema #Boston

The much hyped debate between "the science guy & the creationist guy" (which was as pointless as using a spoon to shovel snow) had some of the commentators expressing that scientists rarely appreciate the "beauty of the world"; which reminded me of Feynman deconstructing a flower with ease.

I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is. I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

#science

### A spot of reading ###

A "break in hiatus" with a spot about whisky & a book. How apt.

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### The Grand Budapest Hotel. ###

O' Mr.Anderson how do you manage that cast?! Now only if March could come faster.

#cinema

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