Oh my darling son! How do I explain this...

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He is 21, has never voted, is frankly more interested in Quentin Tarantino than Narendra Modi and yet was moved to pronounce Narendra Modi's ascension to the Gujarat de Gaddi as "a terrible event and a precursor of a holocaust". I thrilled when he said this. Why you might ask? Am I a closet commie you might ask or have the jehadis' been chatting me up you might ask. Well no! I am a normal namby pamby hindu female and I find all this slaughtering of people, muslims, hindus, sikhs, isaai whether in Gujarat or Iraq extremely offensive. But I am equally appalled by the mumbling Manmohan Singh talking of the poor, the oppressed and the laggard muslim as deserving of a better deal from his minority government while retaining absolute silence and seeming inaction on the terrorists attacking innocent Indians all over the country.....

Ram... Hey Ram...

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Ram... Hey Ram, please send us by land or sea by air or through simple materialization the following: 1.An inspirational, honest, pan-Indian leader who can become ten times his size or be microscopic just like your mentor Vishnu... 2. 28+7 (one for each state & UT) decent, visionary state leaders who love there state if not there country... 3. 100's of sensitized, hardworking bureaucrats who love their job more than their private bank accounts and Raj Sinhasan. 4. A PM who tells the truth... currently the nuclear and unclear deal have got mixed and mis-matched! 5. A Home Minister who articulates the security plans for his security agencies, a version of the Gabbars, "Kitne aadmi maare" rather than, "Itne Admi mare"... 4. An Agricultural Minister who doesn't play cricket... in any case Subhash Chandra II as the classic 'Quisling' is queering that pitch. 5. A Defense Minister who will protect....

Is CNN-IBN waiting for Pt... & Smt To die? Or...

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(A lament on Luciano Pavarotti and Pandit Jasraj in the times of 24X7 television) I mean before you will deign to feature him/her on your news channel with 24 hour programming and an incredible appetite for politics / cricket and films...? Luciano Pavarotti alive and kicking on my home CD player till Sunday night died on Thursday, 6th September to rapturous world obits, including one by the impeccable Vidya Shankar Aiyar on CNN-IBN. My point is he had to die to be noticed... this great publicly loved and obviously unwell practitioner of a classical art, had to die before we could spare a few somber seconds. Before he died... 3 mentions in 3 years on CNN-IBN and now this outpouring of love and praise! Too little too late. This brings me to my Question of the day. How many of the Indian great....

Life began for this school teacher at 66 yrs

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66... Life began for this school teacher at 66 but his entire life was a preparation for this beginning. "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt... Frank McCourt, was born in Brooklyn, US and lived for the first two decades of his life poorer than your average Indian maid and driver, some of it in Limerick in Northern Ireland wracked by starvation and cold. 'Teacher Man' is his third book published in 2006, about his 40 years of a lugubrious, mostly uninspired teaching career in New York. But this is an inspired work and may do for teachers what "Angela's Ashes", his first book did for mothers.... reveal the mind and heart, the brawn and the brain drain of a lifetime of teaching....and deliver the ultimate reward...satisfaction at a job well done. As Frank McCourt says in his introduction, " So what took me so long to....

Lal Krishna Advani and the Mount Mary Fair

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Mount Mary Festival starts on 7th September as it does every year in Heavenly Bandra. AND CNN-IBN reports on 31st August THAT Lal Krishna Advani may be let off lightly for the Babri Masjid demolition. How do they connect? Well... Mount Mary Church stands on the mount, splendid, delicate, self possessed in a gravel filled ground, full of repose and good feelings. Picture perfect against the blue sky, with gorgeous soaring coconut trees in front and of course the basilica of mother Mary across the street beyond which lies the Arabian Sea, not visible but there. And I think of all the churches of my life and some temples and what they have finally taught me: At age 4 yrs and 9 months I entered my first church and the school attached to it. In Bombay, fresh out of Moradabad, UP,....

Lal Krishna Advani and the Mount Mary Fair…..

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Lal Krishna Advani and the Mount Mary Fair..... Mount Mary Festival starts on 7th September as it does every year in Heavenly Bandra. AND cnnibn REPORTS on 31st August THAT Lal Krishna Advani may be let off lightly for the Babri Masjid demolition. How do they connect? Well.... Mount Mary Church stands on the mount, splendid, delicate, self possessed in a gravel filled ground, full of repose and good feelings. Picture perfect against the blue sky, with gorgeous soaring coconut trees in front and of course the basilica of mother Mary across the street beyond which lies the Arabian Sea, not visible but there. And I think of all the churches of my life and some temples and what they have finally taught me: At age 4 yrs and 9 months I entered my first church and the school attached to it.....

Lal Krishna Advani and the Mount Mary Fair...

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Lal Krishna Advani and the Mount Mary Fair..... Mount Mary Festival starts on 7th September as it does every year in Heavenly Bandra. AND cnnibn REPORTS on 31st August THAT Lal Krishna Advani may be let off lightly for the Babri Masjid demolition. How do they connect? Well.... Mount Mary Church stands on the mount, splendid, delicate, self possessed in a gravel filled ground, full of repose and good feelings. Picture perfect against the blue sky, with gorgeous soaring coconut trees in front and of course the basilica of mother Mary across the street beyond which lies the Arabian Sea, not visible but there. And I think of all the churches of my life and some temples and what they have finally taught me: At age 4 yrs and 9 months I entered my first church and the school attached to it.....

The Sickle & the Trishul

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I have a dream....in which the sickle and trishul have morphed..._and become a TRI-SICKLE of eminent use to a child or a rickshaw puller or to a new Indian paradigm (big word, sorry I used it) a new symbol of unity (that sounds clever but what to do), holding no threat to those the individual symbols seek to protect (Gosh this is straight from the editorial pages, beg-your-pardon)! This dream is a Lucid Dream, which is defined by Wikepedia as "a dream in which dreamers realize that they are dreaming, and are sometimes capable of changing their dream environment and controlling various aspects of the dream". This Lucid Dream is the opposite of a nightmare which is defined by Wikepedia as " nightmare refers to a dream which causes the sleeper a strong unpleasant emotional response. Nightmares typically feature fear or horror etc." and an inability to break out of....

Mother do you think they will break my balls

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Mother do you think they will try to break my balls Roger Water's the great British skeptic of past and future generations crooned on "The Wall". "Mother do you think they will drop the bomb Mother do you think they'll like this song Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls Oohh Baby! Oohh Baby! Mother should I run for president Mother should I trust the government?" I think the the Hyderabadi Terrorists heard Mother India sing "Hush now baby baby don't you cry Mamas going to help you come through Mamas going to put all her Fears into you Mamas going to keep you under her Wing She wont let you Fly She wont let you Sink She will keep you Cosy and warm Oohh baby, Oohh baby" And Bharat ma will continue to croon, "Of course they....

Swinging Couples

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The 21st August, Times of India, Mumbai has a half page article on swinging couples in the United States! There are at least 1,00,000 of them, could be twice the number or many more, says the article not pretending to know what it does not. Swinging Couples? Sounds intriguing, if not downright interesting. And naughty! Very naughty! Actually licentious. I mean I bet all you unswinging/part swinging or thinking of swinging couples out there, I bet you have at least wondered what forbidden fruit, just swinging out of your reach, if not your vision would be like? I was fascinated and quizzed a few friends who all claimed to not know a single swinging couple in person . Such prudes we seem to be! Some said "Swinging Couples"? Whats' that? For those who think it means couples on trapezes with safety nets....