Comic Strips

I have been reading the e paper version of Times of India these days and yesterdays Bangalore Times supplement had two wonderful and the most beautiful cartoons under Calvin & Hobbes and Between Friends.
Calvin complains how time has flown quickly and that he does not want to go to school and that he wants to hoard his freedom and have more fun

In Between Friends. Susan tells Maeve that she did not find her in Facebook.Maeve replies saying that she is not on facebook. Why ? asks a surprised Susan one should be on Facebook so as to stay in the loop. Maeve replies that does not make any sense to her and Susan wonders when did being relevant ever make sense to anybody !!

I wish I could post the cartoons on the blog I do not know how. Try reading them and you would realise that sometimes things that are meant to be laughed at teach you the most relevant lessons about life itself.

Obsoletely Male

I borrowed the heading from Sunday Times of India ( 12 july 2009) article titled WATER COOLER moment - it was supposed to be a pun on the news that scientists have invented a procedure to create sperm cells from stem cells and that would mean the men would not be needed anymore.

Almost all the articles that I have come across on this topic laments this fact or rather grumbles on this fact but not this one.
The article- pun in cheek -writes that women traits are happening - better EQ so better team players ,better listeners so better managers and even better shoppers and then suddenly the article counter argues that a girl cannot choose all the lovable features of a particular man from stem cells and eventually we all need love .

The article is brilliantly written with everything so subtly put into a single precise column - hats off to the thought process and the editing !!

India after Gandhi

I have finally finished reading this book - it took me more than two months to finish it though. The book is a good read especially if one wants to know how India shaped up after Independence .Beginning with Nehru to 2003 the author Ramachandra Guha captures everything- the Partiton the Kashmir issue, secessionary tendencies in North East , war with China, Indira Gandhi and the war of 1971 with Pakistan. It touches on even movies and even the evolution of All India Radio
The book ends with something a very interesting insight - "so long as Hindi movies are watched and their songs sung,India will survive."