MY POSTS

WE...THE PEOPLE The funniest and disgusting   passive behavior of the INDIAN PUBLIC and the hyper active behavior of Indian Media has always perplexed common persons like me.     Two years ago, the word "intolerance" was used by many intellectuals to criticize some dogmatic or dominant behavior  of a select few. Every other TV channel was flocking with unknown expert speakers from various fields. They appeared to be working overtime / round the clock, in using their freedom of speech in the most liberal manner, thus leading to noisy chaotic scenes. Our mythology and history have innumerable instances proving how tolerant we were. Lord Krishna killed his cousin Shishupal only after making allowances and forgiving his first hundred crimes .The other classic example is ....the great King Prithviraj Chauhan who let go of the invadar   Mohammad Ghori more than half a dozen times. In fact, it would seem as if the over...

FLYING WITH DIGNITARIES be Other day I was traveling in GO Air flight   traveling from Delhi to Nagpur.The Flight was at 19.20 hours from T2. Terminal and the boarding gate number was 29.  I was given seat number 18 D and I had a very bad experience in the flight particularly ruthless and ignorant behavior of one of the Air hostesses. I wonder whether they are given any training or not but certainly they have no sense of how to behave  with their customers.  Since last two years I have been giving preference to Go Air over Indigo as I observed  Indigo in its attempt to be always on time have ignored many other things today I have however concluded that it has nothing to do with Air lines but theo individuals whom you come across matters. On 18 E and 18 F Magassisi award winners Dr  Prakash Amate and his wife Dr  Mandakini Amate were sitting. I felt great  to sit next to such a divine couple. Prakash Aamate was thirsty and was required to...

Breakfast Items In most of the homes where no eggs  or bread are consumed the universal problem is what should be prepared for the breakfast in the morning. In our childhood we used to eat something in the morning before early lunch  but we never used to call it  breakfast ! l came to know about  'breakfast' word much later. I remember many delicious items like " Sattu" (Ata of  dry fried grains mixed with milk and sugar or "Gud")some sweet " Laddu",Pulverised fried bread ("phodnichi poli")or fried rice.  Sometime we used to take "pohe" mixed in curd 'suger and a very tasty "masala mirchi " which I consider delicacy even today. Another  item called "Dhirade" was my favorate which this new generation must not have even heared. Most of the times we directly used to take lunch and   two Biscuits or a piece of toast  and a banana was quite frequent in our so called BF. Things have changed now .Breakfast and w...

In the year 1977 , when I was in IIT Powai my Guide Dr Parmar used to regularly bring an Umbrella while another Professor Dr Banerjee used to bring Umbrella depending on the predicted weather  forecast. One day it so happened that it was raining and  prof. Parmar didnot have his Umbrella while Prof. Banerjee had and he proudly stated that he checks weather report before starting from home...Prof Parmar then jokingly commented. " Actually He brought that umbrella not for rains but for the  hot Sun as he wanted to go home for lunch !  Since then the things have not changed much  for another 30 or 35 years. " Even today when the weather persons  predict  that ""In Delhi  there will be  storm like condition " not a leaf of any tree moves ! Off late l and many others , who have faith in the prediction  say that "this is Calm before the storm!' !! .For the  last several years predictions of meteorological department were never tak...