This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi ….. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
I have never gone back to this one orphanage .. its run by Mother Teresa’s sister team in gurgaon and houses some 30 little girls and boys. I have visited them a couple of times with some of my friends from work. The last time I visited was during Christmas and we had taken a … Read more
Yesterday all the news channels had news about the boat capsizing in the North East and 103 people dead. Just a couple of weeks back approximately 130 Pakistani soldiers were buried under an avalanche in the Siachen glacier, the world’s highest battleground. Before I started to write this blog, I checked online to see if … Read more
President Pratibha Patil has decided not to retire in Pune !! The army land will not be used to build her a palatial retirement home. Times Now rightfully believes its because of public pressure … Her OSD has mentioned that President Patil was pained by the media glare. I would like to apologize to her … Read more
Everytime I saw news about “Antilla”, Mukesh Ambani’s gargantuan home of 24 or 26 floors that cost some 350 crores to build, I wondered what if he had used the money to help 10000 students get educated or setup 10 sports stadia with state of the art facilities to groom our athletes or renovated all our … Read more
A mother is revered and one can’t imagine a mother harming her child – boy or girl. Today’s next headline challenged this age old belief. Bibi Jagir Kaur got acquitted of the murder charge but was indicted in the forced abortion case…. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Bibi-Jagir-Kaur-acquitted-of-murder-charge/articleshow/12468907.cms A mother forcing her daughter to abort a child because she didn’t … Read more
Today the first piece of news on many news channels was how a minor 13 year girl was locked up in a Dwarka house with food and water for just two days. Her employers are doctors and they left her behind as they have gone on a trip to Thailand. They have placed CCTVs in … Read more
Last Thursday we lost baby Falak, the little girl who got bitten by her 14 year old care taker and had her head banged against the floor. She had suffered two heart attacks and the third one killed her. On Jan 30, 1948 some 63 years back one man shot at the father of our … Read more
In Mahabharata, Gandhari ties a piece of cloth over her eyes, going blind voluntarily because her husband Dhritarashtra was blind. Great ! She is much revered and the Gods gift her with special powers since she did this. The question though is, what if she had been blind ? Would Dhritarashtra have tied a cloth … Read more
I had to look up the meaning of two words – barbaric and civilised. barbaric adjective 1. brutal, fierce, cruel, savage, crude, vicious, ruthless, coarse, vulgar, heartless, inhuman, merciless, bloodthirsty, remorseless, barbarous, pitiless, uncouth a particularly barbaric act of violence 2. uncivilized, wild, savage, primitive, rude, barbarian, barbarous a prehistoric and barbaric world uncivilized cultured, … Read more