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Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo

Close Encounter

It is these people I saw yesterday on mumbai local train... Frequent travelers know the rush at Kurla. So as usual at Kurla people poured in and I heard a shrill voice screaming at someone "Randi hat saath mae bachha hai" The lady must have been 70 something with a baby girl of 7 in front of her. After forging her way in she settled herself few paces away from where I was standing and asked the little girl to move to the side. I was shocked that after screaming at another women to make way for the kid she is asking her to move away. But then a girl of at most 15 or 16 moved into my view. She was holding a another baby girl of 3 who was crying in burst and to top it she was pregnant. I had this sudden erg to slap someone and say what the hell were you thinking. All I could was move a little away. After a while someone got up and gave her seat to this "women" and someone gave the crying baby some biscuits and she stopped crying.

People might have given her food or a place to sit but the fact still remains "A girl of 15 with two kids, one crying of hunger and third on its way." And all I can do is write about it and then get on with life. Do we get immune to such things and let it pass? I wish that i never do...

Test Blogger Via email

Since Bloggger is still not loading the page to let me log in I am
testing publishing blogs via email... hopefully this will work as
well.

Tsunami warning issued in Andamans

Quake triggers Tsunami in Java, at least six killed

India on alert, Tsunami warning in Andamans
from IBN Live

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Bombay blast

Life seems to be really exciting here in b'bay... First there were rains that would not atop then there was a riot and now blasts. You will never get bored living here...

Well now on a more serious side... The response was not bad mostly from the people of the city. But what one desires is that this was prevented since the city has experienced this before. As the days will pass things will unfold but blame has already been laid on the "terrorists".

Off I go to Turkey... so absolute quiet for the next 9 days

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We all have our time machines.
Some take us back, they're called memories.
Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
-- Jeremy Irons

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If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
-- Hugh Prather

Anbe Sivam (finally got the lyrics)

Yaar yaar sivam? Nee naan sivam,
Vaalvae dhavam, anbae sivam,

Aatthigam paesum adiyaarkellaam sivamae anbaagum,
Aatthigam vaesum nallavarukkoe anbae sivamaagum,

Anbae sivam, anbae sivam, endrum,
Anbae sivam, anbae sivam, engum,
Anbae sivam, anbae sivam, endrum,
Anbae sivam, anbae sivam, engum,

Idhayam enbathu sathaithaan endraal erithalal thindruvidum,
Anbin karuvi idhayam endraal saavai vendruvidum,

Yaar yaar sivam? Nee naan sivam,
Anbin paathai saernthavanukku mudivae illaiyadaa,
Manathin neelam edhuvoe, athuvae vaalvin neelamadaa,

Secret of India's booming economy

The India Model from Foreign Affairs via ALDaily

Summary: After being shackled by the government for decades, India's economy has become one of the world's strongest. The country's unique development model -- relying on domestic consumption and high-tech services -- has brought a quarter century of record growth despite an incompetent and heavy-handed state. But for that growth to continue, the state must start modernizing along with Indian society.

This article has lambasted the Indian bureaucracy and points out that we should still be hopefull of achieving something big inspite of such a system. A very well written article must read.

trying to get the momentum going...

Taken for granted....

These are the mystries of life... At times there is nothing worse then being taken for granted and at time there is no better relationship than the one that is taken for gratend...

World War III has began....

(this is title is applicable to other places too)
i couldn't help but put this up....

GOOGLE vs MICROSOFT battle has picked up pace

Google guns for Microsoft from CNET

google spreadsheet???!!!!!

now back to hibernation........

Hibernating

But I will be back...