Swami Vivekananda was perhaps one of the clearest thinkers in the past 200 years. He said ‘take responsibility for your actions’. We all know it, but do not always take responsibility for our current affairs….no clue why. I met a dietician friend who said ‘people are what they eat’ and most fat people are fat […]
George Orwell. Not a name that many of today’s kids are familiar with. This guy George wrote two books – both became famous. One was a satire on Russia – ‘Animal Farm’. The most famous dialogue in that book was ‘All pigs are equal. Some pigs are more equal than others’. Last week (mid Aug) […]
Well Anna Hazare is a tough nut to crack…and we have seen that: Manish the great spokesperson of Congress says: Anna should stand for an election if he wants to do something for democracy, OR HE IS ANTI democracy. I will let my brilliant readers decide between Manish, Kapil Sibal, PC and Amika Soni on […]
A few decades ago…the great Jawaharlal Nehru said…’when the world sleeps…India wakes up to her freedom’ I was wondering (see the world time map) which part of the world was sleeping at 12am Indian time? The early birds in the east were awake…Europe and US was awake…i guess Nehru meant ‘now that you are awake…please […]
Yesterday a few people were screaming on Times Now….volume was down – I was watching cricket – so just saw a glimpse. I recognised Kiran Bedi..none of the others. It looks like Indians are losing patience with the government – and the government is not bothered. Be it the arrogance of Kapi Sibal, Pranab Mukherjee, […]
From time to time the definition of what is a ‘good job’ keeps changing. In the 1970s it was a job in the American Oil companies. When people said they were working in ‘Esso’ or ‘Caltex’ – it was a great job. Esso was an acronym for ‘Every Saturday and Sunday Off’ – quite unheard […]
This article is not really about Anna Hazare but a link that I have attached talks about him…. The USA and the small country of Singapore deal with the same problem in a very different manner. One has solved the problem, the other has not and will not. In Singapore if you are caught with […]