Awesome Photo Blogs
Thanks to Raapi, I bounced upon Pradeep Raghunathan‘s fabulous collection of photographs, which left me awestruck. Seeing this, I feel obliged to mention about the other two photo blogs I regularly see & admire – Shyamal & Rajesh Krishnamurthy. Visit them all and have a visual treat!
Orbits
Borrowing Dr. A P.J. Abdul Kalam’s words, “I have completed 28 orbits around the sun and have just entered the 29th. It is an insignificant event, compared to the dynamics of universe.”
Mera Bharath Mahan!
Recently, a colleague of my friend had visited the High Commission of India in London to obtain a Tourist Visa to India. To his surprise & shock, he found that one had to grease the palms of the visa officer with ten quid to get the visa stamped.
Accidents do happen
By hook or crook, I have been elected as Student Representative for the MBA – Distance Learning @ Durham Business School. I would get to represent my peers in the Board of Studies, which is the highest decision making body in the B-School comprising of academecians & other whos who of the university. Also, I have a voting rights when they put important decisions to ballot. This, I am sure would provide me good experience and lot of contacts. But, how did I get there in the first place? As I said before, … read the title of this post.
On the personal front, my wife would undergo a minor surgery tomorrow. It is nothing but wisdom tooth extraction but she has to be given anastecia since the last attempt complicated things a bit. I would be in the hospital lounge tomorrow and am planning to carry some books for company.
No more political posts.
Unless some important turnaround happens in India (as I write this, looks like there would be some surprises), I have decided not to talk about politics for a while. Not that I got bored of politics, I feel that I would be beating the same bush, time and again. There are lot many good things to talk about.
Outsourcing at its best
I got this mail forwarded by my friend. Thought that its worth sharing here.
Hello Friends,
As India begins its new thrust in outsourcing, it will become the first country in the world to outsource the job of a prime-minister. Perhaps US, UK and other European nations should learn a thing or two from us about job losses.
Vajpayee has just lost his job and to an Italian. But then, it’s his mistake, nobody asked to remain a bachelor, he could have married any of the presidential daughters. After all, what better qualification do you need to run a country than to be an xyz of someone special? He could have easily found a job elsewhere.
Seriously, I never hated the Congress party for anything, but now they have just destroyed the pride and the faith in the country. Economics, development and FDI’s and the rest of it – is all fine, deep down I strongly feel, India should be ruled by an Indian.
The trend is really worrying because, next Rahul could land up marrying his Colombian girlfriend and she could well be a future PM. It amazing, that great national leaders like Patel, Rajaji wanted to get rid of dynastic rule, a view strongly supported by late Mrs. Gandhi and now, this family that once opposed dynastic rule is caught in its own web.
I am neither a historian nor am I trying to be one. But to me, its really unfortunate that this trend looks well and truly imbibed in the Congress blood. This so called ‘knowledgeable’ Kapil Sibal once called Priyanka’s new born as the leader of Congress Sishu…. something. If Priyanka and Mr. Vadhera can produce national leaders at will, I think the congress should insist that they have more kids, without any further delay. This could solve many of their problems and also stop people like me from writing such mails.
Barring the Godhara incident, the BJP’s effort at the centre wasn’t bad by anymeans. Going by the Congress benchmark….
To me personally, it is really disappointing to see someone like Vajpayee leave the scene – this way. At the end of the day he did deserve something better.
Regards
Just another depressed Indian!