所以一定要小心。一定要記住：You never really know a person, until you know! 太多人用外表和言語來演戲，很多時候就算是和他一起生活了幾年，十幾年，可能都無法真正了解一個人的真實面目。而在與人交往的過程中，最重要的事情就是要去了解一個人的內心，內心是否善良真誠，是否可靠可信。
Kali 女神在不同的神話裡有不同的形象和意義，就連她的起源也有不同說法。在一些地方 Kali 女神被奉為是宇宙萬物的母親和起源，是宇宙裡最高端的存在。具體地講 Kali 女神被認為是時間與死亡的母親，時間指的是在時間的無限長河裡，所有的一切都會被摧毀與創造，而 Kali 女神代表的就是時間的無限性而產生的力量。
另外一個比較廣為流傳的說法是 Kali 是 Shiva 的女性化身，Kali 產生於 Shiva，是 Shiva 所創造的。他們同為終極摧毀者，可以用舞蹈來摧毀舊的世界。當世界墮落腐化需要變化時，Shiva 會用他著名的 “Dance of Shiva” 來摧毀舊世界，使新世界獲得生命。Shiva 以皮膚黑著名，因為摧毀世界的時候他是生氣的，生氣的時候臉都氣黑了。Kali 女神具有一樣的天質，她以黑色和藍色膚色出現，她的黑色比黑夜還黑，她長長的舌頭伸出來露在外面，脖子上掛著被她砍下的惡魔頭串成的項鍊，裙子由被砍下的惡魔的手臂構成。Kali 是邪惡的終極摧毀者，所以她是一個像杜迦女神一樣的與邪惡戰鬥的女神。
Kali 女神最著名的神話故事是殺死了惡魔神 Raktabija。Raktabija 這個惡魔神可以將自己的每一滴血變出一個分身，Rakta 是血的意思，Bija 是種子的意思，他的名字意思就是他的每一滴血都可以成為種子。於是 Kali 女神把他的血吸乾，並且把他所有的惡魔克隆吃掉，以此將他制服。很多 Kali 女神的畫像裡，她砍下了 Raktabija 的頭提在手裡，脖子上掛著的頭來自於 Raktabija 的克隆，裙子上的那些手臂也來自於 Raktabija的 克隆的。
另外還有的地方流傳的是，Kali 是 Shiva 的妻子，而 Kali 的脾氣比 Shiva 還更暴躁，需要 Shiva 來安撫她。所以很多畫像 Kali 踩著 Shiva 神的胸口，或是在 Shiva 身體上跳舞，這其實是表明 Kali 和 Shiva 之間的關係。
在孟加拉文化裡，Kali 無可厚非是最重要的神之一，從中世紀以來湧現出了很多關於 Kali 女神的神話創作，體現出了孟加拉文化對 Kali 女神的熱愛，以及孟加拉文化對女性和女神力量的推崇。
於是惡魔神 Mahishasura 想盡辦法獲得更大的能量，他故意向超級巨神 Lord Brahma 示好，對他祭拜，表示虔誠，最終獲得 Lord Brahma 的信任。Mahishasura 想要獲得的終極力量是長生不死，但是不死違背了天地創立的根本（古印度神話一個最大的基本就是任何事物都不可能不死，都有終結的一天）。於是 Lord Brahma 給了 Mahishasura 接近於長生不死的特殊力量：任何神、人和惡魔都殺不死他。
在 Mahishasura 獲得了不被任何神、人和惡魔打敗的神力之後，變得肆無忌憚，張狂自大，認為他終於有了統治所有三個世界的力量，並且開始向三個世界開戰。世界一片混亂，給了 Mahishasura 特殊力量的 Lord Brahma 也無能為力。於是 Lord Brahma 向 Lord Vishnu 求助，Lord Vishnu 向 Lord Shiva 求助。
最後 Lord Shiva 集結了所有三個超級巨神和諸神，把所有神的力量結合起來，創造了一個新的、擁有女性力量的神。這個集所有神力為一體的新神就是杜迦女神，她長著十隻手，拿著諸神送給她的各種武器，騎著威猛的獅子，擁有戰勝最可怕惡魔的終極戰鬥力。
I have pictured the beginning that finally started
I have fantasized about all possible paths to get there over and over again
I have dreamed of a painful but hopeful recovery that might last for decades even centuries
But I might most probably not live to see any of it unfolds
It’s OK
For whatever last bits of connections that left in me
Has been fading away day by day
If a home is filled with love and warmth like homes supposed to be
Who wants to ever leave home but to wander in despair?
If hometown is still a place that holds up memories of the ones you secretly admired and daydreamed
Who wants to ever be far away from that intense heartbeats?
If motherland is a land who nourishes you with rich culture and traditions, who allows you to find your own path, either back to her or higher in the sky
Who could ever escape that land?
I’m letting myself go, by cutting myself into pieces
Most of the pieces I leave them behind
For the new me, I do not need much
I do not need much
I lost count of the times that my heart was ripped apart
When I look down, all I can see is an open wound
That might never be able to heal
When my grandparents’ house where my parents got married, where I grew up in and hoped to bring up my children
Was taken, to build a majestic courthouse or a tenth mall in the town or whatever it was that I don’t give a damm about
My heart was ripped open
When the hill behind my grandparents' house where my grandpa was buried, where I spent many of my youth days hanging about by myself, where I found solace sitting next to my grandpa’s resting bed
Was cut to flat to make a highway or overpass or whatever it was that I don’t have the slightest interest in
My heart was ripped open
When the streams we used to cool our feet in, to wander around and pick up wild mugwort leaves for grandma’s special dessert
Vanished with the hills where my grandpa was put to rest, dissipated with my grandparents’ community that once lived and thrived for a rather short period of time but carried a certain amount of traditions
My heart was ripped open
When the deepest mountains we used to explore, immerse and felt the ultimate sense of belonging
Were looted all of their wild lives and all of their trees but replaced with deadly stillness, finger-thin-bamboos, and less-than-ten-year saplings so to be harvested in the tenth year mark
My heart was ripped apart, cold
When the streets I used to linger, parks we used to gather - yes, that park, with that basketball and football fields, emerged in many of the fantasies
Has been torn down one by one, because they were in the way of newer and profitable projects that also for the look and his/their political performance
My heart was ripped apart
When the neighbors and our most amazing pack in the whole universe, we once thought was stronger than blood
Was dismantled and scattered like lego pieces, in such an unhappening and remote town, who would have thought
My heart was ripped apart
When the sweet-bitter youthfulness that we planned to preserve and nostalgize after we get old
Turned into a decaying nasty taste in the throat, too fast too soon, didn’t escape the inevitable fate to most of the cherishable
My heart was ripped apart
I thought truth was the one they took away
But memories too, memories that define one and keep one warm
Stripped away in front of one’s eyes
Piece by piece
Some might still be ok to live without truth
But no one can live without one’s own existence
You wouldn’t call that living
The dispersed memories is taking the life out of an individual
Just like the disappeared culture and traditions took the life out of a civilization
In the eerie dusking when darkness is asserting in silence
印度这个国家名，在英文里叫 India。但是在其它很多更古老的语言里，比如希伯來语和波斯语，不是India，而是Hindu。包括在中文、日语和韩语里，印度并不由英文单词 India 直译而来，叫印地亚（India 这个词语的来源于古希腊的旅行家 Megasthenes 所著的印度游记 - “Indica”，公元前300年）而是叫印度，这就与 Hindu 更像，可以说是 Hindu 谐音翻译而来。韩语和日语发音都是 Indo，他们这样發音是因为受汉字的影响。
那么 Hindu 这个单词是什么意思呢？在现代社会，Hindu 这个单词的意思是印度教徒，因为 Hinduism 是印度教。那么中国当时翻译成“印度”的时候，指的是印度教徒吗？不是的。因为 Hindu 是一个有着非常古老历史的单词，这个词的意思在每个历史时期也有区别。在古代，Hindu 只是一个地理性和文化性的单词。
