Category: Current Events

Hi Shekhar, Just wanted to drop a note to say it was your uncle Dev Anand's 85 birthday yesterday. A truly amazing man purely for his unputdownable spirit and his ability to do what we keep discussing on this blog.. to seperate effort from fruits. To work with a sense of detachment to the outcome. [...]

How many people need to pay with their lives for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre ? What started as a hunt for the few people involved in that attack to bring them to justice has ignited into a fire that has spread and threatens to gradually engulf half the populations of the [...]

The headlines everywhere, over dramatic as usual herald the end of an era. Perhaps this is the end of an era. But the era of what ? What was so different here from the few times it has happened before ? Like the Great Depression ? or Black Monday (or was it Tuesday ?). I [...]

I remember playing three card brag, where no one was sure of their cards or strategy, and so everyone played blind. The stakes got higher. And yet the 'bank' got richer, and the players, too afraid to now open their cards just n case, decided to keep bluffing their way through, and kept adding complex [...]

Scientists have named the so called 'God' particle as the most elusive particle in existence. It is the particle that scientists need to explain the fundamental connection between that which is illusory and matter. Between anti matter which no one can find or state, and matter which you can touch and measure to your great [...]

This appeal was posted by Abhay : Dear Shekharji I have just returned from my home in Saharasa ( Bihar) and could not locate my village easily, forget about exact location of my house. Its just an array of diseases, hunger and depression prevailing in population. Please do something for us. I know you are [...]

Sitting a thousand mles away in Mumbai I was fighting back my tears as I heard Obama speak at the acceptance of his nomination. And as the crowd cheered I wanted to get up and cheer myself at this new inspirational messiah that has come to the world. Boy ! can the world do with [...]

I recieved this request from survivorcorps.org to publish this message, with an appeal to people to help ban cluster bombs that are killing and maiming civilians especially children even long after they have been dropped. "If you haven't heard, Russia has been dropping cluster bombs on innocent civilians in the Georgian republic. Cluster bombs leave [...]

The last time I saw one nation plunge into a stunning outpouring of grief was when Princess Diana died. I could understand that. England at that time clung to the princess as their one great icon. Now Liu Xiang's inability to run the 110 m hurdles has plunged the whole of China into a grief [...]

Anna,an actress from Georgia and a regular visitor to our blog, is caught up in the war in Georgia's capital Tblisi, and has sent us this note : Stop Russia! Say No To War!!! It’s 4 AM at night and a frightening nightmare wakes me up. I am wearing outdoor clothes, that is not very [...]