The problem with euphoria is that people expect immediate results. The people that elected Barrack Obama in a huge emotional outburst will no longer accept their houses being foreclosed only because they are unable to pay their mortgage. Mothers with sons and daughters fighting in Iraq will be quietly celebrating as they expect them to [...]
Welcome President Obama, and congratulations on winning the Presidency of the United States
Let me be the first to congratulate you, President Obama on becoming the most significant man of our troubled times. Significant not only because you are the first Afro- American President of the USA, but also because you carry with you the hopes and aspirations of billions of people on this planet who have grown [...]
Paani : rain water harvesting : beautiful short
”time’ does not fly ?
and so said 'time' "you have for so long watched me go by, now come aboard and through my porthole watch yourself go by for I have been still for as long as I have known myself"
waving to myself
i sat in the speeding train and watched the platform go by and fleetingly saw myself watching the train flash by waving to myself
Over $2 Billion – cost of electing a US President ?
Why does it take over $ 2 billion for the people of the US to decide who their next President will be ? Or conversely, is attention span so limited now, that people need to be bombarded by the media campaigns to constantly be reminded that Obama is a better candidate than McCain or Hilary [...]
The Politics of Hatred
Once again the people of India, the ordinary citizen, has suffered the politics of hatred. Whether it be the 60 people killed in the awful bomb blasts in Gawhati, or the innocent people attacked and killed in the trains in Mumbai. How do the politicians who provoke such actions to further their own selfish political [...]
Is the world heading to class struggle ?
Obama is being accused of being a socialist, and I think that is right, though I do not think of it as an accusation at all. For the people f the US actually are asking for a change towards a far more regulated capitalism, which is really the definition of socialism. What we are seeing [...]
Hyper Economy : a socialist veiw of capitalism
So is Capitalism inherently flawed ? Not inherently, but as all things it works very well in theory, but in practice Capitalism needs a lot of help ! One thing the theory of truly free market economies assumes is just that - a free market with equal access to information so that everyone is making [...]
Diwali,Laxmi and the Global financial meltdown
First a very happy Diwali to everyone, and I thought that we should remind ourselves of why there is a tradition to gamble over this festive and religious season. It is so that we all understand the nature of wealth, the nature of the Goddess Laxmi, who cannot be owned/procured for ones own greed. Wealth [...]