i've always hated people who compare one place to another, especially dissing the place they are in. especially when comparing that place to a firang location.
however, after seeing public transport that WORKS, dammit, and streets where a pedestrian does not feel like a bottom trawler...
ah well.
saare jahan se (k)accha
brave new india?
sometimes i wish i were richer. could afford more. like a fancy education from a really good arts school...
i tell my trainees how things are so much better. how we no longer have to wait to get a mobike, telephone connection, job...
and then i see an article. that talks of how the number of hungry people in the country are increasing. and how this number grows, just as the sensex does. and how it does not make the news the way the sensex does.
and i wonder. is it really that important that i get a telephone connection fast? are "naxalites" really the 'bad' guys? what part do i play in ensuring the continued poverty of millions? can i make a difference? do i dare?
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/10/26/stories/2007102653981200.htm
at least the sunset is
the evenings here are quiet and long-
the dying strains of a sad grand song
heard on a cheap transistor.
munnar's hills are far away
and i cannot hear gokarna's beaches
and though i cannot be where i would
at least i know the sunset is,
at least the sunset is.
cheers!
actually enjoyed that last 20-20 match. both teams played well (i think) and the whole thing had that on the edge feel i normally associate with world cup football finals. hell yeah, i even cheered for the indian team (regardless of the fact that 1. i've never particularly liked cricket, and 2. i sent out a rather 'logical' SMS on why we should support pakistan). was a good game.
even better? i was expecting headlines this morning on how the indian players showed 'disrespect' to the indian flag by first pouring champagne all over it and then by not knowing which side was up. (i'm still not sure myself). no news, however, of any protests of that sort breaking out. hope this wave continues-cricket actually manages to turn interesting, the indian team actually manages to win something that matters, and the indian flag (and players) can get a drink once in a while!
cheers!
page 88, ISBN 0-553-27747-2
"To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as "the system" is to speak correctly...They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose...But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible."
~Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
and he then continues (later on in the book) to attack the 'foundation' of reason. and then defends it. and then attacks it again. seen that way, a little confusing, but it ties up.
zen. and motorcycle maintenance
people ask why i ride a yezdi. think this quote answers part of that.
""What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?", a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream."
~Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
maybe i really should think of getting that bullet.
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