Quo Vadis?

“The pornography of politics gets a new variation as Deve Gowda looms over the ruins of a coalition experiment. The reckless patriarch with his dynastic impulses is not alone. There are a few others who excel in political harlotry in the name of social justice. They are united by the depravity of power.” The opening lines of an article by the India Today in its latest issue. Unfortunately I could not scan the accompanying image which was a delightful combination of the faces of Deve Gowda, M.Karunanidhi and Devi Lal (I think). There is nothing much to be said about the farce that is played out before us in the political scene. Every politician worth his salt wants his son / daughter to take up the family business. Frankly I think that is a normal paternal attitude and I fully support it. Why would I decline the directorship of a firm my dad runs or a kingdom he rules? (Pity he does neither!) Hereditary accession to the throne is historical and has been handed down from the early days.

Was tagged by Chriz , so here goes... 1. Name one person who made you laugh last night? Steve Martin in Pink Panther 2. What were you doing at 0800? I was pondering the meaning of life. (just shitting man) 3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Began browsing 4. What happened to you in 2006? Life 5. What was the last thing you said out loud? Lisa! (trying to find my dog) 6. How many beverages did you have today? 1, H2O 7. What color is your hairbrush? 1 blue,1 green. 8. What was the last thing you paid for? Petrol 9. Where were you last night? Home 10. What color is your front door? Brown 11. Where do you keep your change? In my wallet and often it becomes a pain in the butt. 12. What’s the weather like today? Cool. 13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor? Vanilla 14. What excites you? I aint telling u 15. Do you want to cut your hair? Yup, I was trying to find my face yesterday and failed. 16. Are you over the age of 25? Y

The fires in Kolkota have consigned two other news articles to the back pages. Two articles that caught my eye before the violence in Kolkota took over. The first article was about the wife of an NRI in the USA who was beaten up and thrown put of a running car due to the lack of dowry. The second was concerning the conviction of the accused in the Uphaar fire tragedy. If these articles have passed you by here’s a quick read. Article 1 Dowry or groom price for the unknowns is prevalent in some cultures. I know for a fact (courtesy my classmate from Uganda) that in Uganda the grooms pay a price for their prospective brides. Often this payment was made by giving X heads of cattle. If such a practice was present in India women would not have to suffer thus. From female infanticide to husband abuse the root cause tends to be dowry or rather the lack of it. Personally I think that a groom who demands dowry is like a prize stud bull. They do nothing and have to do nothing except reproduce and

Was just bored sitting in my hotel room in Hyderabad, I had exhausted my call list and my next appointment was a couple of hours ahead, looking through a folder of snaps on my laptop taken last month and voila, I had a new post. Last month on Gandhi Jayanthi to be precise my gang of friends from church (we actually grew up together for the better part of a decade) decided to go on a picnic on the holiday. Picnics and timeouts are so rare that even a single day outing was a real godsend and so we decided on a single day trip to the Golden Sand resort outside Mahabalipuram. The van left late as usual and we had the medley of songs and loud jokes spicing up the journey and we hit the venue 2 hours behind schedule. I must digress to mention that D got up early in the morning and made yummy biriyani for us for the trip and we had a good quantity of junk food too. So when we landed there the first shock that awaited us was that the prices had gone up 50% since our telephone call two days ago

Disclaimer: This post is not intended to hurt the religious sensibilities of anyone but just a social comment Driving down Chennai, I came across a hoarding about a religious discourse by a holy man. Though there are many such hoardings what caught my eye was the title of the holy man. He was addressed a Sri Sri Sri ........ (My attempt to catch a pic failed twice) How would it be if somebody calls me Mr. Mr.Mr. Jollyroger? I would probably die of laughter. You may have heard of his holiness Sri Sri .... so is this simply a "holier than he" stunt? I always believe a mark of holiness is humilty and I try to maintain a distance from those spiritual gurus who preach but apparently have a problem in practicing the same. On a different tangent when i was searching for cartoons on gurus, I came upon some absolutely hilarious ones. So just enjoy......

I was wondering what to shoot for my contri to the 3:11 event. I came out from my house (short break from work) looking around I spotted nothing remarkable till I saw the sky and a profound thought occured "Good, bad or ugly, we are all under the same sky" Nature is a great leveller.