Well ..Well

How smart are congress politicians. I mean Modi was in charge when Godhra riots took place and he is tattooed as a villain for life (and rightly so!). But Rajiv Gandhi presided 2 riots. Yes, one riot of killing Sikhs (for assassinating Indira Gandhi) and the Bhopal tragedy. His government allowed Henderson to run away. Negotiated a pittance as liability*. But well for 15 years nobody cared about. I would love to know how congress runs their publicity machinery so well. Stunning, or should I say !@#$$^&* unbelievable!

All those educated folk who vote for Congress and stand against BJP because BJP flaunts Narendra Modi (a villain), Please answer this: How can you vote for a party which allowed such tragedy to happen in the first place, and allow the perpetrators to run away in a state owned plane? OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE OF INDIA. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES. YOU ARE GETTING LOOTED BY THE SAME FAMILY FOR YEARS AND IT WILL NEVER STOP.

*BTW he was also awarded the Bharat Ratna (may be for doing these things so smartly!).

Sidharth Monga

has a nice piece on how cricketers try to handle heckling here
An excerpt on how Dravid manages to hold his ground!

Dravid's way is pretty effective too. 'From the team bus, when I put the curtain down, I often see there are people lined up waiting for you, waving at you,' he says. 'There is a young kid on the road, selling magazines. He smiles at you, recognises you through the tiny window, waves at you, does a cricket action for you. That's passion. That's what it is about. I always look at it and say, that's the world game. The whole world's got to be grateful for that. And when I came across the rare idiot of the other kind, that kid is what I think of.'

You can't help but respect this man immensely. He is not only a talented, hard working cricketer but a geneuinely wonderful human being.

What can you say?

A piece by Annie Zaidi requesting Obama to look into the Union Carbide case. Well, as long as it not American lives I don't see anybody from the White House giving a damn!

Reading books

There are days where I wish I read books for a living. These books I read transport me into a different world allowing me to feel different emotions in different ways. Somehow, reading a sad story gives me an outlet for my own suffering. Similarly, a happy ending makes me joyous about my own good fortune in life. It is as if I am connected to a different world through the books I read. I am grateful for acquiring the habit of reading books. Two contemporary authors have touched my life so much that at different moments in my life they have given me solace, provided me with context to my pain and allowed me to understand life a little bit better. Jhumpa Lahiri and Khaled Hosseini - Thank you.

Just finished reading Unaccustomed Earth. It's a nice book. Nothing really great, but there is a connection I feel that makes it wonderful, really wonderful for me!

Hmmmm

Well, its been a longtime since I posted on my personal life. So many things have ironed out over the last 1 month its hard to imagine. There will be some new beginnings, some old baggage and of course optimism for the future. Lets see how things turn out!

Greatbong has

sensible piece on the flotilla incident here.

An experiment in teaching

working great!

Sal Khan at Gel 2010 (founder, the Khan Academy) from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

Link via (Rajesh)