Stunned by serial condemnations, terrorists vow to stop serial blasts

Stunned and shocked by the spate of condemnations coming from several quarters after serial bomb blasts in Assam left over 77 people dead, terrorists from all over India vowed to put an end to mindless acts of violence. Coming together under the umbrella of United Terrorists Alliance of India (UTAI), they issued a joint statement expressing remorse for their activities and pledged not to perpetuate any more terrorism on the nation.

Yesterday, a series of carefully coordinated bombings shattered the midday bustle of markets in Guwahati and other areas of Assam killing 77 people and injuring over 400 people.

Soon after the terrible incident which left the people of Assam appalled and dismayed, condemnations flew thick and fast.

Sonia Gandhi described the serial blasts as a 'mindless and heinous crime, felt tremendous distress and called for a united fight against terrorism. "I condemn this mindless and heinous crime perpetuated by those who are inimical to our country. Terror shows its ugly face once again in our country and we should unitedly combat this menace in a sustained and comprehensive manner," she said. Home Minister Shivraj Patil too joined Sonia Gandhi in condemning the blasts.

To the great dismay of terrorists, the surge of condemnations didn't stop with Sonia Gandhi and Shivraj Patil. President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too couldn't resist condemning the attacks and described the blasts as barbaric and cowardly. "Such barbaric acts targeting innocent men, women and children only highlight the desperation and cowardice of those responsible,'' Singh said in a statement yesterday. `

As if the series of serial condemnations emanating from the mouths of Indian politicians was not enough, United Nations (UN) too joined the condemnation spree with its General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon strongly condemning the 'act of targeting civilians' and adding emphatically that there can be 'absolutely no justification for such indiscriminate violence'.

To add to the misery of the terrorists responsible for the Assam blasts and the recent blasts in Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and New Delhi, even terror-sponsoring Pakistan condemned the blasts. Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said in a statement that 'terrorism and extremism in all forms and manifestations need to be eradicated'

Clearly, the bagful of condemnations coming from all over the world has had the desired effect on the morale and drive of terrorist groups and has left them bereft of the desire to indulge anymore in acts of terror.

"We are distressed and saddened by the series of condemnatory statements issued by eminent dignitaries of the world and as a result feel compelled to put an end to our acts of terrorism" said Sadiq Khan, spokesman for the newly formed United Terrorists Alliance of India.

"We feel tremendous hurt that our well-calculated acts of terror have been called as 'mindless' by congress chief, Sonia Gandhi. It comes as a huge shock to know that our Prime Minister considers our acts as barbaric and feels that we are cowards acting out of desperation. And to make matters worse, UN secretary-general has robbed us of our desire to continue perpetuating terror on the people of India by saying that there can be no justification for indiscriminate violence "

"These statements of condemnations has left us feeling shamefaced, remorseful, demoralized and dispirited. With so much disapprobation, disapproval and strong pressure on us to quit, we feel that it is no longer possible for us to continue indulging in acts of wanton violence and terror. Harsh words used against us by the leaders of the world has broken our spirits, destroyed our motivation and made us realize how unloved we are and how unwelcome and unpopular our acts of violence have been. Sadly, we have been left with no other option but to quit" the statement said.

Indian Scientists Debate: Is Flying Spaghetti Monster for real?

Inane surveys ought to be banned. They are generally a cause of great deal of futile debates and purposeless controversies. Another pointless survey featuring Indian scientists has indicated that over half of them believe in the existence of Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) and has very predictably raised howls of protests from several quarters who believe that there is some inherent contradiction in scientists believing in invisible, scientifically unverified flying noodle monsters.

The survey conducted jointly by The Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture of Trinity College, Connecticut and India's Centre for Inquiry, Hyderabad has thrown up results that confirm that India is the headquarters for invisible monsters. Only 12 percent of the 1100 respondents were categorical that they didn't believe in monsters; 13 percent weren't sure since they have been haunted by monsters they didn't believe in. As many as 26 percent had no doubts that flying monsters do exist while 30 percent did not believe in flying noodle monster but in a higher power that is capable of creating invisible flying monsters.

"So far nobody has shown me any monster, leave alone a spaghetti monster . The only monsters I believe in are monsters-in-law" is the blunt response of Nitin Nightsure, leading mathematician ith the Institute of Mathematical Sciences attached to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.

Narisetti Innauah, chairman of the Centre for Inquiry, an outfit that believes in following the rational spirit (whatever it means) is a worried man. He is worried about the insufficient level of "scientific temper" among the researchers. "Scientific temper is something that comes from having unquestioning faith in supernatural stuff revealed by leading super-scientists of the world - stuff like how a big blast created our universe or how invisible strings that are at the core of all matter determine how universe works. Scientists having faith in supernatural stuff revealed by priests or charlatans is a clear contradiction that is unacceptable and will hamper the country's effort to become a scientific superpower."

(Interestingly, the present day superpower of the globe, United States of America became a superpower only after developing and testing the "atomic bomb".  Robert Oppenheimer, the American  physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb believed in supernatural Indian gods like Krishna and quoted him "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" while enjoying the beautiful mushroom cloud generated by the first ever nuclear test.)

Not all scientists agree with Narisetti. "I know several scientists who believe in the flying noodle monster, yet produce excellent science papers" says Physicist Suresh Chandvanker of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, TIFR. "Flying Spaghetti Monster being the creator of life is just an unproved theory. There is no contradiction simply because scientists are also very much human beings and also believe in unproved theories like time travel, black holes or parallel universes. If its acceptable for a scientist to believe that its possible to travel into past or future without provable ability to travel in time, why should a believer in FSM be ridiculed for his beliefs?"

Chandvankar himself believes in flying spaghetti monster, but not in the form of an idol or a stone statue of his noodly appendage. "My concept of FLM is complex. It could be drawn from nature and the hundreds of tentacles of the monster may be symbolic of the hands of nature affecting every field of life.

Cell biologist Satyajit Mayor, Dean of the National Centre for Biological studies in Bangalore, puts it differently. "You don't need to believe in FSM if you can understand a little bit more about the natural world around us. If I hold faith that Flying Spaghetti Monster is responsible for the way the world works, why would I want to understand the natural world at all? he asks, "My search is over if I accept that the cell is created by FSM"

Chandvankar counters his argument by saying, "If I believe that a cell is created by chance and not by FSM, it would mean that chance is more intelligent than me, since I don't yet know how to create a cell. I would rather believe that some flying monster created life than believe that I'm more stupid than chance."

But another top scientist theoretical physicist Asoka Sen, professor at Harish-chandra Research Institute at Allahabad doesn't mince words expressing his scorn for the noodly monster. "I work on the string theory that involves looking for invisible strings that only string theorists like us can conceive, see, understand, believe and accept. Since all matter in all of the universe is made up of these invisible strings there is no room for invisible spaghetti in this," says Sen unequivocally.

Quite interestingly, the oxford dictionary definition of 'spaghetti' is pasta in the form of long strings. Do scientists and religionists believe in the same noodly higher power, the only difference being that while the former believe that the universe is made up of edible noodles while the latter believe that edible noodles made our universe?

There are some nutcase scientists who believe that we are all noodly monsters pretending to be humans which would explain the paradox of noodles being the minutest form of all the matter of the universe and yet also being the generators, operators and destroyers of the universe. According to these screwballs, the tiny, undetectable “strings” that make up all matter, energy and forces in the entire universe are not strings vibrating and wiggling to ultimately determine what force or energy or bit of mass each string becomes,  but tiny, undetectable flying spaghetti monsters and the different forms of energy and matter are formed by how many and in what manner they wave their noodley appendages.

The maverick scientists believe they have a unified theory of everything in their appendeges..er..hands, a unified theory that not only unifies gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces, but also unifies the string theory of scientists with the flying spaghetti monster belief of the religionists.

But because these maverick scientists are regarded as fruitcakes by the rest of scientific establishment, they are never included in any survey of importance. They sit back and laugh at the infantile delusions of the two groups of scientists on either side of the debate - one bunch that has never seen any spaghetti monster yet believes in its existence, the other bunch that cannot even come to a definite conclusion whether chocolate is good or bad for health, but fancies that they have discovered how the universe was created 14 billions years back without the assistance of spaghetti monsters.

Litter-ate India: We dont need no "educational exercise"

Recent comments made by a local councillor blaming Indians for the litter crisis in the city of London has caused tremendous heart-burn amongst litter-ate Indians residing in the British Isles.

Miss Ivimy, 53, who sits on the Tory-run Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London, outlined her concerns in an email to Nick Johnson, chief executive of H&F Homes housing association. “I know that in India throwing rubbish out of a window and total disregard for the cleanliness of a public area is normal behaviour and I dare say a number would change behaviour if firmly told that in London this is not acceptable behaviour,” wrote Lucy Ivimy.

Though the Tory councillor later apologized for her comments after being accused of racism by Indians (who when in India treat all Africans as drug-peddlers), it has also brought into focus the habits of vast majority of Indians who firmly believe that every inch of open public space outside the door-steps of their homes is part of huge garbage dump built exclusively for the purpose of littering.

While Lucy may have erred in blaming couple of Indian families for the litter around the garden at Woodford Court, she certainly doesn't deserve to be called a racist. At the very most, she deserves only a mild rebuke for her ignorance of the glorious Indian culture, her lack of sensitivity in assuming that we need "an educational exercise" and her inability to understand the philosophical foundations of all our activities (and also inactivities).

Yes, Madam Ivimy, it is perfectly normal in India to have total disregard for the cleanliness of public areas and completely acceptable to throw garbage at every available place. But we don't disregard cleanliness out of sheer apathy or laziness as you perhaps believe. There is a reason behind everything we do and if you were aware of the complex set of factors that lay beneath our seeming acceptance of dirt, filth and garbage, you would have at least been very sympathetic, if not appreciative of the uniqueness of our culture.

We Indians being philosophical in nature have the unique ability of amalgamating philosophical propositions into our day-to-day existence. Long before the chaos theory became fashionable in western scientific circles, we had not only understood the principles behind this theory but also decided to apply them in our lives to appreciate the theory better. According to the chaos theory, chaos and disorder is the natural condition of our universe and all material things are in a state of constant decay and ruin. According to one prominent Indian philosopher-cum-televangelist Asaram Bapu, we should be like a leaf or a twig floating in a river going along graciously with the flow of the water rather than a rock who resists the current of the water but eventually breaks up into pieces under the relentless pressure of the strong currents.

 

While western societies struggle to maintain order and work hard to prevent natural decay of their institutions, towns and cities, we believe in taking the path of least resistance and letting the universe take its own course. We also don't mind helping the universe with whatever means available to us. Since garbage is the only thing that a poor nation like us can afford to throw away freely, we throw garbage all around and help the universe in its quest for chaos and disorder.

A mark of greatness is not just the ability to embrace philosophical axioms into our daily lives, but also to effortlessly merge contradictory ideologies into a holistic whole. Quite many westerners who visit India find it odd that while the general landscape of our country is dilapidated, yet most of the homes of people in the middle and upper class income bracket are clean, appropriately chic and well-maintained. The contradiction in the spruceness between the public and private spaces of the country can easily be explained if we take into account another ancient axiom that we believe strongly in - that our body is our temple and hence should be well-maintained. Since we treat our homes as extensions of our bodies (both being our private domains where we are kings and all that), we take great care to keep our interiors in good condition and leave the chaos theory to take care of the exteriors. Quite ingenious, right? Greatness comes naturally to us.

But every once in a while, universe throws to us people or situations that complicate matters for us. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was one such fellow who was dropped down from the heavens to make our lives difficult. This queer little fellow didn't understand the chaos theory and insisted that we should keep both our private and public space free of garbage. Not just content to sweep the streets (despite being a high caste hindu) to show people the way, he went ahead and proclaimed that 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness'.

Since we take our godliness very seriously and since destiny forced us to take this queer fellow seriously, we were forced to take the alien concept of cleanliness very seriously.  But being clever folks, we found a brilliant way out that allowed us to bestow equal respect both the theories - the chaos theory and 'cleanliness is next to godliness' theory. We decided to keep our towns and cities clean symbolically.

(An important part of being Indian is belief in value of symbolism. Symbolic tokens often serve as good substitutes for the real thing in our country. The symbolic value of, say a Nobel prize won by an Indian often exceeds our interest in knowing the reason why the prize was conferred and allows us to feel pride in the achievement of a fellow Indian without the hard work of having to understand the mind of the genius to whom the prize was bestowed.)

Realizing the importance of symbolism, our government found an easy solution - as a mark of respect to Gandhi's beliefs, our government started naming everything after his name. Statues of his bust were erected at every corner and every third road of the country was named MG Road. A splendid way of honoring Gandhi's cleanliness mantra without actually doing the dirty work of keeping our corners and streets clean.

In conclusion, it needs to be stated resolutely. We don't need an "educational exercise" to prevent us from throwing our stuff out of our windows. But arrogant western lawmakers and citizenry need an educational exercise to understand how admirably India manages to straddle conflicting worlds, philosophies, ideologies and beliefs without falling apart.

India to teach white people how to walk

AS the price of crude oil continues to jump upwards towards $150 a barrel, India has offered to teach Americans and Europeans how to walk on streets for distances longer than half a kilometer. Several enterprises offering training in walking have sprung up all over the country. With millions of western commuters in a state of panic, walking instructors from India are now preparing for a surge in demand for their services.

Ramdevi Sherpure, a walking consultant, born and brought up in Shevagram taluka, Latur, Maharashtra said: "I first learned to walk when my mother tugged me along with her to fetch water from the well 10 miles away from our jhopdi"

"Walking 20 miles a day carrying pots filled with water on my head has made me an expert in long-distance walking. I'm very keen to share my skills and teach underprivileged commuters from western countries how to use their legs for walking."

"Walking is relatively simple and much easier than driving. Also a lot less riskier. You start by first putting one foot in front of the other and then slowly increase the rate until you have reached a steady pace. You should then continue in this way until you arrive at your chosen destination. This is the key to successful walking." said Ramdevi, who has been hired by Chalte-Chalte Walking Solutions to train white people how to walk their way to work and back.

"If you feel tired, you may stop along the way for a cup of chai or vadapav, but remember: you will have to start walking again."

Mrs. Sherpure also has handy tips to offer to alleviate fatigue and boredom suffered while walking long distances. "Walking is quite similar to zen meditation and should be done with awareness, focus and concentration. When I used to walk for miles carrying water vessels on my head, I was so fearful of the water dropping that I would focus my complete attention on the vessel I was carrying and had no time to feel bored or tired."

Mr Ramarao Athavale, proprieter of Chalte Chalte Walking Solutions added: "In order to encourage and motivate whites to learn walking, we will be also teaching them about the multiple benefits of walking. Trainees would be taught how walking your way to work apart from being good for the environment and saving money on gas, can also help fight obesity, lead to better health and save more money which otherwise would be wasted on medical bills or gymnasium charges."

"We have produced a booklet with diagrams and an introduction to advanced walking. We will also release DVD's which will feature live demonstation of the art of walking by our expert walker Mrs. Ramdevi Sherpure."

Sharon Stone: Did Ghandi put his foot in his mouth too?

Sharaon Stone, famous for doing naughty stuff with her long legs like crossing and uncrossing them in a mini-skirt without wearing anything else, did more naughty stuff with her legs by putting not just her foot, but her entire leg in her mouth so deep that it went all the way down and touched her heart. Her heart could have hurt badly by the impact, but didn't because it is made up of stone, her doctor said.

On Tuesday night at Cannes Film Festival, Stone earned some bad karma for herself by saying that the recent earthquake that hit China and killed over 70,000 people was caused by the bad karma of Chinese people's repression of Tibetan people. Suffering from side effects of yet another Botox injection that migrated to the brain, the aging star had said ""I’m, you know, not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so, I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like … that. And then I’ve been, this, you know, concerned about, oh, how should we deal with the Olympics, because they’re not being nice to the Dalai Lama who is a good friend of mine. And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?"

She reaped instant karma, when her stupid remarks resulted in strong backlash from Chinese people and ridicule from everyone else. Forced to apologize for her flippant remarks, the 50 year old Stone said, "During the interview I made inappropriate remarks and for any harm created towards the Chinese people I am extremely sad and apologise. But please try and understand my situation. Its so tough for us celebrities to be asked such intense questions and be expected to come up with an unscripted and unrehearsed reply, you know like reply made up of my own words in a few seconds considering the little amount of brain that I have. And most of you have seen where it is." She crossed her legs as she said that.

Stone explained further why she put her foot in her mouth. "See, I know this really cool word called Karma which I think happens when bad people do bad things to good people. And as my friend Dalai Lama tells me, that Tibetan people are good people and Chinese people are bad people doing bad things to his people. My friend Dalai also told me that there was a big earthquake in India at a place where Buddha was born and Ghandi had claimed that it was result of god's punishment for bad upper caste hindoos doing bad things to good lower caste hindoos."

"So I thought I was saying something very cool and intelligent by blaming karma of Chinese people for the quake. But now people are asking me even more tough questions like why did Tibetans too die in the earthquake if it was meant only for bad Chinese. And they are saying things like China is not one big-fat-meanie where every bad thing done to Tibetans is done with full support and approval of each and every Chinese"

"Now I'm so confused. I thought Ghandi was one wise guy. Did he too put his foot inside his mouth when he said upper caste hindoos got karmic retribution through earthquake? I think I will ask Dalai about that. I'm sure he will have answers that will satisfy all of you." As she sashayed out of others' mike range she pulled out her cellphone and spoke into it and the mike we had hidden in the ear stud, " Heyy!! Dalai? How you doing out there in Dharamshala? You know what? I prattled the same way you had coached me. I think it went off well. Really well. Huh, now get me my Dior set back on the contract. And, ha, make them double the payment with retro effect. What??...I said retro as in retrospective effect, dude" 

I want the nation to serve me: CBSE Bottomer

 

"I want the nation to serve me" said an elated Ravi Garg, a student of Delhi Public School, who has bottomed this year's CBSE class 12 exams scoring just 2.27 percent.

This year's Central Board of Secondary Education results came as a 'beautiful surprise' for the family of the Delhi bottomer. "We always knew that our son had the ability to hit rock bottom. He is a true 'star on ground' and has made all of us proud with his achievement" said Prakash Garg, father of the proud son, loosely translating the title of the movie 'taare zameen par' to depict the incredible feat of his son.

"We were expecting bad results, but we had not imagined that Ravi would reach hit bottom of CBSE charts" added the father.

The son of a script writer father and TV soap editor mother, Ravi is keen at taking a shot at film direction. An overjoyed Ravi says he owes his total failure to his parents who encouraged him to spend all his time watching third-grade bollywood movies and TV serials.

"It wasn't easy to escape the peer pressure" said Ravi, "With all my friends spending 10-12 hours doing nothing but study, study and study, I felt tempted to open my books and study too. But I resolutely refused to cave in to the temptation"

Ravi has decided to follow the footsteps of his parents and join the entertainment industry. His aim in life is to become a third-rate film director and make pots of money. "I have already written script for Dhoom 4 with the help of my dad. It will have no plot or story but lots of bikes and bikini babes. If Yash uncle gives me a break, I will give him the blockbuster of the season" said Ravi confidently.

Apart from the script he has written, he also plans to make remakes of several hollywood movies. "I've got DVD's of hundreds of hollywood hits which can be Indianised" said Ravi excitedly.

Ravi has many other back-up plans if he fails to get a break in bollywood. "I'm planning to start an Indian version of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) which will provide gainful employment to hundreds of bodybuilders, amateur wrestlers and failed bollywood villain-wannabes."

"If that doesn't work out, I can always fall back on reality shows." One of the original concepts he has in mind for a reality show will have class 12 students locked up in the studio for four months, preparing for mock CBSE exams along with a bunch of failed students who will try their best to distract them from their studies.

Ravi's mom, Vinita Garg, too isn't worried about his son's future and believes that his failure in clearing CBSE exams is a good omen. "If none of his grandiose plans succeeds, he can try directing TV soaps. Almost all the directors that I've worked with have failed to clear class 12 exams. Those who are enjoying the highest pay packets were unable even to clear their matriculation exam. I'm sure my son would become one of highest paid directors in television industry, if he tries his hand at directing TV soaps"

"I want the nation to serve me by watching all the C-grade stuff I plan to produce and direct in future." pronounced Ravi

Looking at the state of India's entertainment industry, it appears that the nation is in the mood to oblige this young bottomer from New Delhi

HONOR-ably Hacked to Death

In Balah, a village from district Karnal, a goddamned part of rural Haryana, a family regained its lost honor by killing their daughter who had dared to elope with a guy from her own village. The reason proffered by the family was that marrying someone from the same village is as good as marrying one's brother or sister.

Most of the villagers of Balla, Karnal have never heard of the national pledge (which has a funny line somewhere in between that goes 'All Indians are my brothers and sisters"), since in India every village is a nation in itself and has its own national pledge. But some educated villagers of Balah who have been exposed to our national pledge have adopted it, replacing the word Indians with Balahians. Being dedicated village patriots, unlike the rest of Indians who often get confused between national anthem, national pledge and national song, they follow seriously the dictum "All Balahians are my brothers and sisters" and don't take kindly to anyone from their village engaging in non-brotherly or non-sisterly activity with any member of the opposite sex of the village. Anyone daring to do so brings immediate dishonor to the entire family and needs to be immediately bumped off to restore back the lost honor. In order to carry out the dastardly deed, the brotherly/sisterly love that every Balahian feels for every other Balahian is temporarily forgotten. Once the dirty and violent deed of hacking to death the eloping couple is done, Balahians regain the brotherly/sisterly feelings for every other Balahian. And also the lost honor.

What does the word honor mean?

Honor as is universally understood represents respect, dignity, character of a person and a cocktail of many other things depending upon the geographical location where the person is achieving or losing his honor. Honor in most of the backward parts of India means a lot more than respect or esteem earned in society. In these parts, honor is the ultimate possession - more important than life itself. If you lose your honor, you either kill the person responsible for your lost honor or kill yourself.

Honor, as per backward India's definition is a mysterious possession which can be lost in the following cases:

- If your son or daughter marries or elopes outside of your caste, you lose it
- If your son or daughter marries or elopes outside of your religion, you lose it.
- If your son or daughter marries or elopes inside of your (gotra) sub-caste, you lose it
- If your son or daughter marries or elopes inside of your village, you lose it.

In all such cases, you can regain the lost honor by killing your son or daughter along with the person with whom he or she has eloped.

But there are also situations where you lose honor because of your own misdeeds. For example, if you take a loan from your friendly, neighborhood shylock for purchasing seeds and fertilizers needed for planting a crop, but are unable to pay back the loan due to crop failure, then you lose your honor. In such case, you kill yourself rather than continue living dishonorably as a loan defaulter.

In India, lacs of small farmers routinely kill themselves every year after losing their honor due to their inability to pay back their debt to local shylocs. Their deaths are falsely misrepresented by media, government, rural activists and bleeding-hearts as suicides, when in reality they are just a different version of honor killings. To be more precise, honor self-killings. Only that can explain why the indebted farmers of India never chose any other option of escaping the loan sharks, like running away from their village and becoming anonymous, migrant laborers in big towns or declaring themselves as 'bankrupt' as indebted people from less backward parts of world do when they are left with no money to pay back their debts. Another option the 'dishonored' farmers rarely exercise is killing the shylock who is tormenting them before killing themselves. Preoccupation with matters relating to their honor prevents them from exercising saner, more rational ways of evading the grip of money-lenders or avenging their future death before honor self-killing.

If the government of India properly understood the nature of farmer suicides, it wouldn't need to grapple with the issue by ad-hoc measures such as waiving of farm loans. It can simply declare all farmers ending their lives as criminal offenders guilty of honor self-killing.

Conclusion:

Honor is a dangerous, a heinous, life-threatening conferment by society that should be avoided at all costs by every sane person. Since there is no clear-cut, acceptable-to-everyone definition of the word, what constitutes 'honor' often depends upon crazy whims and fancies of the society. If the society surrounding you is as mentally retarded as the society surrounding poor, dead Sunita and her equally dead lover, you will be totally doomed all your life walking on tight-ropes, ever in danger of falling and losing your honor. Hence its better to live without honor. Live your life lightly; live your life dishonorably.