Republic?

On the eve of Republic DayI watched Shyam Benegal's 'Welcome to Sajjanpur'.

I found therein.. a message for the Republic of India.

And then on NDTV 24x7 footage of women being beaten up by goons on camera

the women were dragged out of a beer bar in Mangalore

where they went to enjoy a pint.

NDTV termed these anti-socials as 'moral police'.

What's MORAL about beating up women?

What's Moral about snatching away a woman's right to have a beer?

These lunatics are neither 'moral'

nor they are 'policemen'

They are cultural terrorists who want to talibanize India.

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY

Stuff

Jaswant Singh at the Golf Club : its an exclusive. When he was in Patna recently he spoke to a select gathering of citizens.
Hope : Something I wrote on the day Obama was sworn in

Ritual

Every morning
The computer calls
Morning veneration
At the altar of Babble
The need for constant updates
News that broke during the night
Emails that slid in under the covers of Lethe
Scraps of electronically designed emotion from the FaceBook congregation
I sit in contemplation
Unwashed, unfed and often constipated
Utterly enmeshed in spidersilk
The monitor - Cyclops eye- staring unblinking into mine
This hypnotic meditation, cyberspace addiction
As time sneaks around me and slips away
never to return ......

O happy day

Early on a Sunday morning one reads of a boy being sacrificed in Chattisgarh.

Tonsured. Hand severed. Beheaded.

The economy comes down crashing around your ears

So how does one appease one's fears?

A thousand jobs are going to be lost today.

Yet, those lucky to have good jobs demand more pay.

Transporters are on strike

Veggie Prices artificially hiked

It's time to jettison that SUV

And take to pushing pedals on a bike

Learning is endless

Once in a while, somebody sends you pearls of wisdom. For the following, I am obliged to Allen Johanness, the invertate e-mail forwarding maniac.

ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOUR: A place where women curl up and dye.
CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
HANDKERCHIEF: Cold Storage.
INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
MOSQUITO:An insect that makes you like flies better.
RAISIN:Grape with a sunburn.
SECRET: Something you tell to one person at a time.
SKELETON: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
TOOTHACHE: The pain that drives you to extraction.
TOMORROW: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.
YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed.
WRINKLES: Something other people have, similar to my character lines.

Truckers and more

Truckers are once again holding the nation to ransom by going on strike.
The Great news is that the truckers of Bihar have chosen to take a brave stand....

Bihar truckers not to join all-India strike
"The Bihar Motor Transporters said they would not join the strike,saying the strike would affect the development of the state, where roads, bridges and culverts are being constructed at a great pace.
The state is on development path where roads, bridges and culverts arebeing constructed at a great pace, going on indefinite strike at thisjuncture would affect Bihar's development particularly in the eventof Kosi deluge, said Bihar Motor Transport Federation president UdayShanker Prasad Singh."
This should be applauded by all residents of Bihar

!!!!!

The most irritating and exasperating things according to me

People asking why I am not married.

People offering to get me married.

People who suggest names of other people whom I should marry.

and the most exasperating of all:

Females who insist that I should marry them!

These types send you gifts even if you don't want them....

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts is an old Trojan saying

When a woman sends you gifts for no reason at all, look out!

The gifts are Trojan horses full of mercenaries.

It's a ploy to tie you up in knots and then to conquer you.

To pulverize your ego to pulp and force you to surrender your independance at the altar of marital monotony and nuptial nonsense.

No thank you, ladies, I'm not stupid like THAT!

I'd rather be most willing for a dentist to be drilling than to have a woman in my life. .......

2009 begins

Another year is past.
Lest Auld Acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind
Lest Auld Acquaintance be forgot
For the sake of Auld Lang Syne
I breathed a prayer to the Universe
And lit the fire
And after it was over
Felt the usual rush of sadness
As I sat in the darkness
Listening to mellow music from years gone by

New calendar
The usual ‘resolutions’
Looking over past year’s ‘must do’ list
Happy to see some things actually completed

I resolve to live life more fully
In the coming year.
How about you?