Aug 15

We are a great nation. Pretty much all other nations are great, too. 

On this Independence Day, let us be grateful for all that has made us what we are. Jai Hind!

http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/hinduism/macaulay.html

Traitor

We ridicule them about their 70 virgins. To die for your God - or for anything at all - takes great strength of character. We forget that. No one wins unless we understand them. And when we begin to understand them, we realize, they are not all that different from us. - Thoughts from watching 'Traitor' one more time. :(

'കേരള ജനതയെ ധന്യമാക്കുവോ?!'**

Mr. Advani's apology to Mrs. Gandhi, over his accusation on her (family's) alleged Swiss-bank accounts, is perhaps the only political news-item in the recent past, that seems to suggest that everything might not be wrong everywhere, after all.

However, that most media soundbytes and columns on the apology portray Mr. Advani as less-than-clever, or even downright clueless; and that the BJP itself, instead of taking pride that it has a gentleman of impeccable integrity at the helm, has gone on the defensive; bear testimony to the degeneration of modern-day political and social life, where common decency, politeness and good-manners are looked upon as shortcomings.

We deserve the kind of leaders we get!

**Header courtesy : "കേരള ജനതയെ ധന്യമാക്കുവോ?!" - Jagathy Sreekumar, as a slick manipulator in an otherwise-forgettable & cliched Malayalam movie on Keralam's Central-Travancore Christian politics.

2011!

Are we programmed to deny the utter meaninglessness of how we live out our lives? 

Or is it that we over-glorify human life, to realize that we really are no different from worker ants or cabbage plants?