I am in you or in what you guys call ‘dream’. It’ll last for an hour tonight and as soon as I gather the information about your languages and whatever I want, I’ll be back to my planet which you call Jupiter. Our leader found me gathering information about your planet, your people, their discoveries …
Category: Reflections
Avoidable Problems
Certain recent not-so-pleasant political developments were flooding my mind with similar events and reactions but my lazy mind was succumbing to silly reasons to skip the issue indefinitely. Anyway I was lent a helping hand by the oft used proverb, “If there is a will, there is a way”. As far as India is concerned …
Long years ago…
A couple of books which I borrowed from the Nilgiris library last week still lay on the table unopened and undisturbed. I remember having read them more than a decade ago but when, at last, I took one of them ‘Prison and chocolate cake’ by Nayantara sahgal, Pandit Nehru’s niece or rather Vijayalakshmi Pandit’s daughter, …
Lest you forget…
Largest human nose ever recorded was that of an Englishman Thomas weders in the 18th century” 19cm long. A visit by the world’s shortest man named Ping Pong brought sidewalk traffic on Manhattan’s busy 42nd street to a halt. The 20-year old Chinese man in all of 74.6cm tall. The Oxford University considers Indian students …
Thank you!
Friends, ‘Bloggers’ and well wishers, lend me your ears. I dedicate this to all of you. But for my limitations, I would have responded to your valuable comments and encouragements individually. Not that I was silent all these days but it was between me and me! “How nice of you! Really?†At times, I find …
Have some patience, please
Freedom of expression is one of the jealously guarded rights in a democratic country. We don’t have to swallow the government’s version of any issue. The rejoinder from the affected party pops up almost immediately. Maybe both are misleading but you are at liberty to accept or reject either of the two versions or both. …
Of moons and planets
“She walks in beauty… like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies…†Amateur sky gazers create such immortal lines. Their affairs with Sun, Moon or Stars come in handy when they recollect emotions in tranquility. It is a riot of colors when the Sun announces its arrival in the morning or takes leave in …
Hitch your wagon to the stars!
Smaller than the smallest and bigger than the biggest. Yes that is what the creator is [Anoraniyan… Mahatomahiyan… I don’t remember those Sanskrit words which gave us an idea of the almighty]. When you tend to boast of your abilities, your status etc at the expense of lesser beings, just think of planet earth which …
The need of the hour is…
“If music be the food of ‘peace’, give me excess of it…†be it classical or film songs, the best among them could lift you to great heights. Such songs, like the gentle breeze sweeps away the dry and useless leaves [thoughts] from our minds! Everyone loves peace but something or the other pollutes one’s …
Old order changeth…
Whatever may be the impact of globalization, it has created certain ‘look-alikes’ all over the world, despite the fact that the nations the world over could still be divided into developed and developing and underdeveloped countries. What used to be the monopoly of the rich and the upper middleclass are no longer so. Apart from …