A few days ago I started a hashtag on my twitter account shekharkapur@twitter. It was #adswedontbuy. I was basically pointing out : a. Cola's that are draining India's ground water to bottle and sell the water either as fizzy drinks or as bottled water. In the process farmers, to whom the ground water resources have [...]
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Is Social Media making Nations Sates irrelevant ? The rise of Blogistan
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was one of the longest ruling dictators in modern history. A ruthless Secret Police, huge military, billions of dollars in cash and the might of the US Military and Diplomatic power allowed Hosni Mubarak to suppress his people for 32 years. But then a revolution was enabled by new technology that [...]
A female American Soldier’s letter from Afghanistan who was in Kandahar when Robert Bales killed 19 innocent civilians.
Written in response to my blog on the killings by Sgt Robert Bales and whether Afghan lives are less important than Western ones. She was in Kandahar at that time and took care of the those wounded by Sgt Robert Bales. Please read as there is pain, patriotism, understanding compassion and questioning in this letter [...]
The Great ‘Who Me ?’ Dancing Master.
Early every morning all the Jungle would wake up to the distant wail 'whooooooooo meeeeeeee ? 'whooooooo meeeee' ? It was time for the great dance to begin. The wind would whip up to the call of "Whooooooo Meeeeee" and the trees would begin to sway to the opening rhythms of the thundering tapping of the animals [...]
Are Afghan lives less important than Sgt Robert Bales ?
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales faces murder charges in the US, defended by a famous US attorney who promises to humanize Bale's crimes. I am assuming that means 'Diminished Responsibility' due to combat stress as he had been to combat zones 4 times. I guess there will never be any questions of the responsibility of the [...]
Why would you want to be merely you?
A looked at my teacher, the tree, outside my window and it said to me : You have travelled and listened to the wise ones. Have worshipped with them. Loved them. Been their best friends. Have seen compassion, yes. But also Ego. Ego is fear. Fear of loss of individuality. Who am I in this [...]
Did Strindberg denounce Miss Julie’s actions himself ? How is Miss Julie relavant to India today ?
Has the west finally achieved the egalitarian society it boasts about? Does the class and gender war only exist in Asia and Africa? In that context, is a 19th century Swedish play, relevant to 21st century India? Social preoccupations and prejudices find a place in August Strindberg’s most popular play, Miss Julie. The daughter of a count, living in a [...]
95 yr old artist defines passion creativity life and defies age
My encounter with Robert Amft, the 95 year old American artist : by Horst Vollman. As I rang the doorbell to Robert Amft’s home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on a sunny January afternoon in 2012, I knew that I was about to meet an American icon, an artist whose versatility is unmatched in the art world. [...]
And God said Let there be light .. fibre optic light
And then God said there be light .. ....fibre optic light The world now changes at the Speed of Chaos . The changes are non-linear. The year before is not a portend of the trends in the current year. Yet we are caught in an addiction to linear analysis. Why ? Because once the trends [...]
Who is this S & P that can plunge nations into darkness by changing ratings ?
Its a wonder to me that a privately owned financial organization called S & P could alter the way the world looks at economics, and pressurize governments of ( say the Eurozone) to take steps that could destroy their social systems and radically alter the lives, security and future of millions of people. Why would [...]