Meh.
A: Meh.
My dad and his friends lived in a time when India was not the way it is now. When transportation was not all that developed and communication was primarily through postcards and inland letters, because telephones were gadgets of affluence and luxury. At a time when kids could not attend school because the family made less than Rs 5 a month. If you had traveled to a distant land, the only assurance the family got that you have reached safely is not a missed call, but is when they received a postcard from you a couple of weeks later.
Life is a lot simpler now. And for some reason I have a complaint to make. LIFE’S NOT CHALLENGING ENOUGH! What stories would I tell my children as they grow up? His stories (and my late grandfathers’ as well) are so exciting! They talk of their struggles which were about getting through the ride of life… it has not been nearly as challenging for me. Even now, I am 25, and I love to listen to my dad tell stories of Naxal attacks, droughts, floods – all in the absence of today’s comforts… My late maternal grandfather was a doctor and he owned a horse. He used to ride his horse from village to village to treat ailing people. He was a respected man. The story sounds so inspiring…
I am currently going to graduate school and my life stories are neither interesting nor groundbreaking. Neither is my research life-changing. I HAVE NO STORIES TO TELL. The only stories I can tell my children are of how much I try to save money to buy a good camera accessory for myself. Not nearly as exciting. The story has no repeat value. My children or grandchildren are not going to demand of me to tell the story again.
thought provoking discussion with me.
WHAT IS THE POINT??!
Want something bright and shiny for your bathroom?
A Swarovski crystal studded commode. Price tag of $75,000. It has gone one lucky owner. Coming soon – studded sinks and studded bath tubs, may be.
Here’s some perspective:
Number of homeless in India – 78,000,000
Price to have one decent meal in Mumbai ~ 50 cents.
Something I saw in Ads of the World -
Click for enlarged viewSanta asked not to Ho Ho Ho
Calling someone a ‘Ho’ and Santa Claus’ classic “Ho Ho Ho” have been put on the same footing. Ouch.WHAT?!
Yes, it is true, and therefore, the new Santas are being trained for using “Ha Ha Ha” – some have quit. I wonder why. Santas are now rebelling against this ban because they all feel (quite strongly) that kids wouldn’t understand what ‘Ho is! Moreover, it’s destroying something traditional, something which we all have heard all our lives.
In my opinion, if a kid is aware what a ‘Ho is, he is too old to sit on Santa’s lap.
Santa Claus image taken from www.clipartguide.com
Kokipedia
by Gaurav Bhardwaj
The crowd was upbeat and believes that it may be answer to all the confusion in the world due to Wikipedia and all and this knew knowledgebase may hold answers to all the people’s problems. It’s just a matter of meeting or calling Koke now. As D said, “Koke knows it all” and frankly this has been the general perception for a decade or so now. When questioned about his huge knowledgebase, Kokonad Sinha modestly said, “It’s all due to instruction manuals!!” Koke’s affection towards instruction manuals is a well known fact. He holds the record for reading most number of instruction manuals in a year. Another related record that Koke holds is for assembling maximum number of furniture items in a year. Earlier this year, Koke also raised the issue of making the instruction manuals of APOLLO 11 public. The issue generated lot of public attention and had caused quite a storm in senate.
“There was no need for a Beta version, we all agree about the soundness of our knowledgebase” replied the Kokipedia Team when asked about the need of releasing a beta version first.
None of us can actually fathom the depths of this knowledgebase as of now but one thing is sure that this day will be remembered as the day when attrition of Wikipedia started.
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
This is what PhD does to people!
Like, I didn’t see it coming!
Ok, some awesome dude from Delhi searched in Google for “show me photo gallery of sexual intercourse” and got my blog as one of the results.MY BLOG!
He didn’t visit it, but Google returned my blog as a result nevertheless.
(Source: My account in Google Analytics)
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Educationalists suffer from dementia
The CBSE syllabus in India has decided to mellow down the sex education in their syllabus. Wait a minute, did they have one to start off with? Or was I not paying attention in class when they were covering sex education?
While words like masturbation, arousal and sexual intercourse have been deleted from the revised version of the training manual for teachers, diagrams which describe the journey from puberty to young adulthood have been done away with. This modified version is set to reach schools in a few weeks.Source: Times of India
This is what the “educationalists” have been saying in defense. My reaction to each of them was “What the…?”
[...] Don’t impose degenerate western culture on Indian schools [...][...] India has not given HIV/AIDS to the world. If the world had followed the Indian tradition of one wife or one husband, this disease would not have developed at all. [...]
[...] if the sex education was introduced in any form, episodes like Nithari village would repeat in every school and locality of the country. He said just withdrawing students from the schools where sex education is being introduced is not enough, we need to firmly ensure that it is not introduced at all in any school
[...] [...] It is claimed that the objective of imparting sex education is protecting the students from HIV/ AIDS, but the syllabus prepared for it is so much indecent, damaging and obscene that it will increase the disease on a much higher speed. We don’t want that abortion centres should be opened in schools like that in Britain, morning pills need to be given to teenage girls like that in France, increase in number of unmarried mothers like that in America and teachers sexually exploit their students like that in New Zealand [...]Source: Organiser
Face the nation (hosted by Sagarika Ghose, CNN-IBN) has the script of the debate between, as I put it, realists and educationalists.
To put it mildly, I am outraged. Are these “educationalists” idiots or are they idiots? More importantly, in their childhood, did they look down at themselves and figure out there was a “branch” growing out of them that stiffened on its own accord?
UPDATE: Sree narrates an incident in her life that took place recently. Death of someone because of AIDS – her husband was infected. May be it could have been avoided if people knew more about HIV/AIDS than they do now. How unfortunate.
The stray and the astray
I wonder if it will extend the same thing to the millions of people who are homeless.
