Changing Guard....

As we near the Republic Day, tensions somehow, as always, are building up. By now, most of you would have heard about the BJP's Ekta Yatra to unfurl the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, Srinagar on 26th Jan and I believe every person who calls him/herself a child of this great country must be happy that finally someone in the political class are willing to demonstrate that they have guts !!

The fact that the ruling party and the Jammu & Kashmir Government have opposed it just affirms their fear that Bhaarat is changing.

The Real Coffee....

"Shrink Wrap" is a material made of polymer plastic film which shrinks or contracts upon itself when heat is applied to it. It is a wonderful metaphor which I encountered a few days back while reading the article The Shrink Wrapping of India in Times Crest.

We as a nation are crazy about anything which is Western. Western clothing, food, aesthetic styles, life and the list goes on and on. While there is nothing wrong about choosing the very best when it comes to buying comforts, it certainly is a problem when one is not detached from it and gives his/her mind to it. As Swami Vivekananda puts it, "Detachment from the material world is living in the midst of it all but not being influenced by it."

The Next Chapter....

What a 31st !!
A Cyberspace quest, a peaceful sleep, a beautiful dream and some great news the next morning !!
Happy New Year to all of you, my friends!
I wish that all of you strengthen the essence of excellence further and go on to discover much more about life and freedom !!

Firstly, Dalit Entrepreneurs would be attending a pre-budget meet in New Delhi on 3rd Jan 2011. In my blog Reloading Renaissance, I had spoken about the drive for excellence to be prevalent in all castes. I had said that the passion to succeed and the merit alone must be the decisive factors which lead to promoting independence and self belief. Guess what, this report certainly indicates it!

'System'atically 'Common'ed!

Finally, Done with the Exams!!
13 days, 7 exams - 2 MBA entrance and 5 Engineering Semester End !! Quite some challenge!! Hell ya!
Now, Back to Business!

Well, I have started writing this blog pretty late; late by nearly 2/3 hours. When I first logged in, I had a few comments awaiting me. Livin' Free has finally got the much awaited criticism! After 8 months of appreciation and strong support from the Truth Team, a person named Mar Dezie has shot a salvo at me via 2 comments on the blog Irom, Iron and Ironic. Please do go through them and my reply and let me know your thoughts.

As of today, I am sure all of you have heard by now (Thanks to Wikileaks) the charming prince speaking of a bigger threat to the nation in form of Hindutva, the very culture of this nation, as compared to the LeT! My focus is not on that as I have impressed upon this hocum time and again. My focus is on what Prince charming said 2 days back. He touched that beautiful, dynamic and the most common phrase on every 2 faced thief's lips - 'Common Man or the Aam Aadmi'.

Not doing Nothing....

I am in one of the most hectic Decembers of my life with MBA entrance and Engineering Semester end exams moving on parallel tracks. It is quite a challenge and I nearly messed up big time in my last paper yesterday; if not for God's intervention in pricking me to check my answer sheets I might never have realised my blunders and undertaken corrective measures. When is such a prick going to hurt our 'home grown' terrorists I wonder.

A Freedom Tribute....

A barrage of scams and scandals hitting on ha! May it be the Adarsh, the 2G, CWG or the news about Bangalore being the most corrupt city, we just have our news full with it during the regular dinners. The news channels are doing a pretty good dissection; now let us see whether they can channel that power into ensuring conviction in any of the corruption cases. (Talking of conviction, has anybody noticed that SPS Rathore has walked scot free in the Ruchika case? There was great hullabaloo in the media when he was jailed, what about following up the injustice to Ruchika's family and the insult to the nation's pride? )