<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="1.0"><channel><title>Diary of thomas jacob</title><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/</link><description>Diary of thomas jacob</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Inheritance</title><description><![CDATA[<BR><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">"I am not a selfmade man.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">For, generations have lived</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">In the planes I live.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Their foot prints I trample</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">In the roads they made.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Their fire I preserve in my hearth.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">yet these I do not own.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Only have use and leave.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Death hall never thrive</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">For life is passed to posterity</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">An unbrocken chain of inheritance.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">To them I leave my rights.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">The vallies and planes to till.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">My joys and pains to their history."</span>           </font><font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thomas Jacob</span></font><font style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" size="4"></font><br><br><BR>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:49:50 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/01/17/Inheritance.html</link></item><item><title>An Epitaph to me</title><description><![CDATA[<SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)">Humble dreams of a wandering wind</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)">Lay sumothered and silenced </SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)">By the hands of destiny</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)">Here benethe this heape of sand.</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)">Write this on my tomb stone</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)">And leave me to the bliss</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)">Of eternal Oblivion.</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Thomas Jacob</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,255)"><BR><BR><br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home4/700/a7b4ad7f4b920663fd069e1988a46714/homep/images/1200196048">]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:07:41 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/01/13/An-Epitaph-to-me.html</link></item><item><title>The Pain</title><description><![CDATA[<BR><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">Only I know the pain</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">When a Rainbow leaves my sky.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">Rain and thunder swallow my gaze.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">Fate and time fill the sky with gray.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">And I know I must forget,</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">O rainbow,</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">Your ravishing beauty</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;">Not merely corporal.            <font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><br><br> Thomas Jacob</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br>(11/01/2008)</span></font><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;"></span></font><br><br><br><BR><br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home4/700/a7b4ad7f4b920663fd069e1988a46714/homep/images/1200029807">]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:55:47 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/01/11/The-Pain.html</link></item><item><title>Unrest in Pak, its implications for India</title><description><![CDATA[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The untimely demise of Benazir Butto has thrown shades over the pak political Drama.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Let us not be engrossed in the debate who did it.Because only speculations are possible about it in the given circumstances as the forces behind the deed have been successful enough in confusing the globe about the reality.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My Question is: </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Is the potential political and economic unrest in Pakistan desirable for India?</span></span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">This is a question, I believe, that must be debated.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear friends I would strongly  advocate that there must be political and economic stability in Pakistan. As a nation it should be our intrest. Some you may be wondering as to if I am on the other side of the border psychologically. To them I should say that I am verymuch here. Keep apart the humanitarian cinsiderations. Let the history have its own course. I would still say that there must be stability in our so called(potential) enemy nation. I say this because they have something very dangerous to offer to the world. We should remember that <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Pak today is a</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">nuclear nation.</span> Imagine what will happen if those leathel weapons reach forces that look forward to destroy India some other part of the civilization. If it should not happen we need economic and political stability in Pakistan.</span></span><br style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><BR><BR><br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home4/700/a7b4ad7f4b920663fd069e1988a46714/homep/images/1199101485">]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:40:12 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/12/31/Unrest-in-Pak-its-implications-for-India.html</link></item><item><title>Happy Xmas</title><description><![CDATA[<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">He came to the world with a message of peace and love.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">We live here in this world with Bitterness and hatred.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">May this Christmas make the beginnig of the much needed change.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">JOY TO THE WORLD THE SAVIOR IS BORNE</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">.</span><br><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">M</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">E</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">R</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">R</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Y</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255); 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background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> <font style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">t</span></font></span><font style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">o</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);">a</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">l<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">l</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">m</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">y</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);"> f</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">r</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">i</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);">e</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">n</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">d</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">s</span></font><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span><br><BR><BR><br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home4/700/a7b4ad7f4b920663fd069e1988a46714/homep/images/1198304846">]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:26:13 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/12/22/Happy.html</link></item><item><title>The Dream</title><description><![CDATA[<BR><font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">In amoon lit night</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">I was dreaming</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">Under the shades</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">Of a golden tree</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">Heavens came down</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">Stars sang for me</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">A song of love,</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">Charm and beauty.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">When I was awaken</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">I knew not only the dream</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">But ........</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">The entire night had vanished.                     <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Thomas Jacob</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"></span></font><br><BR>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:40:47 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/12/14/The.html</link></item><item><title>Red Rose</title><description><![CDATA[<font style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" size="4">Charmed by her smile<br>That held my heart detained<br>I floated in the horizons of dream<br>Never once before.<br>Never once Again.<br>But for a transient moment <br>The red Rose<br>Her shades and shadows.<br>                         <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);">Thomas Jacob</span><br></font><BR><BR><br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home4/700/a7b4ad7f4b920663fd069e1988a46714/homep/images/1197372353">]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:53:08 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/12/11/Red.html</link></item><item><title>Shame</title><description><![CDATA[<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Words left untold </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In the vague scheme  </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Of light and Night</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Mock me hard </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">As if they caught me red</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In a failed attempt </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">To kill the self.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Smotherd words in revolt</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Strip me in the mob.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> I lack is not words</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">But courage.</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lest the glass should drop</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">And pieces scatter </span><br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I bear this shame.</span><font style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" size="4">Thomas Jacob</font><br><BR><BR><br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home4/700/a7b4ad7f4b920663fd069e1988a46714/homep/images/1196852638">]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:22:06 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/12/05/Shame.html</link></item><item><title>wet?</title><description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><font style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">Dear Friends....</span><br>I was walking down the slopes of a hill for my cricular activities.There was a stream going past the way. As I did not want to make my leg wet I tried jumping accrose it. But unfortunatly I landed in the extreame end of the stream. Water splashed and my dress was wet from my knees. I looked at my friends. They were all laughing. I too laughed.As we proceeded the dress got dried up as the sun was shining bright.As water was splashed on my dress it was wet.So the adjective wet is used to describe an object with the presence of water.<br></font></div><br style="background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><span style="background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">The question in my mind was :</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"> IS WATER WET OR IT JUST MAKES OTHER OBJECTS WET?</span><br style="background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><BR><BR><br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home4/700/a7b4ad7f4b920663fd069e1988a46714/homep/images/1196516321">]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:37:04 +0530</pubDate><link>http://thomascholikara.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/12/01/wet-.html</link></item></channel></rss>