A Paean To The City Of My Life from Intentblog writen by Rahul Bose
Excellent write up on bombay/mumbai.
Aug 14, 2006
Bombay as is...
Aug 9, 2006
Home grown terroist in INDIA??!!???
India Fears Terrorism May Attract Its Muslims from NYTimes
It is an intresting... NO it is a serious matter. It will be so much more difficult to fight these terror attacks if the "terroist" we were killing or being killed by were our fellow countrymen/women. This probelm if not dealt soon will result in many more blasts like the once in the recent past. Wonder what can be done... politician will do nothing other than make it a vote bank issue.
friendship....
Friendship Among the Intellectuals via ALDaily
“It is painful to consider,” wrote Samuel Johnson about friendship, “that there is no human possession of which the duration is less certain.”
Too true. Some friendships die on their own, of simple inanition, having been quietly allowed to lapse by the unacknowledged agreement of both parties. Others break down because time has altered old friends, given them different interests, values, points of view. In still others, only one party works at the friendship, while the other belongs to what Truman Capote called (in a letter to the critic Newton Arvin, his ex-lover) “some odd psychological type . . . that only writes when he is written to.” And then of course there are the friendships that end when one friend betrays or is felt to betray the other, or fails to come through in a crisis, or finds himself violently disputing the other on matters of profoundest principle.
Book I want to read...
"The Felmale Brain" came accross this book via the following article and the article is worth a look too.
FEMME MENTALE via ALDaily
San Francisco neuropsychiatrist says differences between women's and men's brains are very real, and the sooner we all understand it, the better
Aug 7, 2006
Aug 4, 2006
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...
Aug 2, 2006
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.
Jul 17, 2006
Tsunami warning issued in Andamans
Quote
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Jul 12, 2006
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".
Jul 1, 2006
Jun 30, 2006
Quote
We all have our time machines.
Some take us back, they're called memories.
Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
-- Jeremy Irons
Jun 29, 2006
Quote
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
-- Hugh Prather